~~The other Dimension~~
Usagi lay, unconscious, in the middle the queen's lair with three figures, not including the queen, standing around her and sneering down at her. The queen, however, was not sneering. She was overjoyed, and laughing hysterically, that she had FINALLY caught Usagi. After so many years, the annoying rabbit had been caught. "Finally, I get the senshi of the moon! The holder of the greatest power! She is mine! After so many years of planning I finally have it!" She raised her hand and snapped her finger. "Boys, do your work. Extract her moon energy and then dispose of her. She beat my minion when I sent him after her, I don't want that to happen again. Send someone down to earth to find the other senshi on earth. I don't want them to be running free."
The same woman from when Cell was running free kneeled before her queen. "It shall be done, your majesty. Though, I don't believe we should proceed with extracting this girl's energy quite yet."
The queen looked down at the woman with a slight frown. "And why not? We need to do it while we have the chance."
"Your majesty, we have just put the child through a lot of activity. We had to drain her of her power to bring her here. But the way we were forced to do it prevented it from being energy we could use. It would be pointless to do it while she is still drained, as we wouldn't get a sufficient amount of power from her. Might I suggest that we wait until she has regained her energy so we may extract it while she is at her best."
The queen thought about it for a while. "What are a few days? Go ahead. I can wait until she is fully recovered. Just make sure she is fully guarded. I don't want her getting out. Take her down to the dungeon."
~*~*~
Little did any of the people in this lair of hate know, the same black figure that had jumped through the portal with the anguished Usagi, had run out of the room before the portal had disappeared on this side. Now, that same black figure sat at the doorway that led out of the room as it poked it's head around the corner and kept its eye on everyone, Usagi most of all. She knew her secret, as well as the dark queen.
~*~*~
A male with long bristly hair down to his ankles nodded as he bowed before his queen. "As you wish your majesty. I will personally take her down to the dungeon and make sure she does not escape." He stood back to his feet and walked to Usagi, sneering at his sister as he went by her. He bent down and grabbed Usagi by her tail. "Damn these Saiyans of earth! They've caused more trouble than we ever did."
By her tail, the man dragged Usagi out of the room, not caring if she lost any power from it or not. Though, she didn't because of Hotaru's nifty healing trick that she taught her. He grumbled more about Saiyans as he dragged her down a long corridor, with the black figure close behind.
~*~*~
Once the man arrived with Usagi at the dungeon, he kicked a cell door in and violently threw her in. He laughed as her head was bashed into the wall. "Serves the brat right!" He slammed the door shut behind him as he backed away from the cell. He continued to laugh at the top of his lungs as he peered down at Usagi, who was still very unconscious. She had a deep gash across her forehead from where she hit the wall just now. "I don't think I'll have to worry about her waking up any time soon. I don't even have to worry about the brat when she does wake up. She wont be able to break free. Even if she is a super Saiyan." He let out a sigh of victory as he walked out of the dungeon all together. "I'll come back to toy with her mind when she does wake up." He smirked as he continued to walk away. He couldn't wait to see the face on Goku's face when he told him that his precious daughter was disposed of.
The black figure found a dark corner near Usagi's cell and curled up in it. 'I hope she wakes up soon. We need to get out of here before he comes back.'
~*~*~
~~Back on Earth~~
Goku grabbed his wife as he scrambled to his feet. Even the force of him violently thrashing her around as he ran back to the house, still in Super Saiyan three mode, didn't wake her up. She was just too out of it. He didn't even bother looking for his dropped keys. He just kicked the door in and gently placed his fainted wife in the reclining chair by the hallway. "Shit!" He pressed his fingers to his forehead and first concentrated on his Gohan's room to teleport to him.
~*~*~
~~Gohan's House~~
Goku, still powered up and very pissed, appeared in his son's bedroom, where someone was sleeping in the bed. Without thinking that someone other than his son could be sleeping in it, he angrily walked to the bed and shook the person, who was asleep, awake. "WAKE UP!"
"Huh?" Came a groggy woman's voice. The voice happened to be coming from Videl. She rubbed her eyes and noticed that the room was very brightly lit. "Gohan...?" She sat up, letting the covers fall to her waist to reveal her pretty much see through nightgown. Once she realized that it wasn't Gohan, but his father, her father-in-law, she screamed at the top of her lungs. "GOHAN!!"
Seeing his son's wife almost half naked, Goku immediately covered his eyes with his hands as he turned away, blushing. "For god's sake Videl! Put some cloths on!"
Videl lay back down, holding the covers over herself very firmly, and covered her embarrassed face with a pillow. "Well maybe you wouldn't have this problem if you wouldn't just TELEPORT to our house in the middle of the night!"
At that point, Gohan came rushing into his room at his wife's cries for help. He frowned when he saw his father standing in the same room as his wife, who was still too afraid to show her face. "FATHER! What the HELL are you doing in my house with MY wife in the middle of the night!?" He didn't over look the fact that his father was still powered to his fullest, but at that moment, he wanted answers and he wanted them then. "Don't you try anyth.."
Goku uncovered his eyes and frowned at his son for even thinking such a thing. "Don't you EVER think I would try anything with her! I didn't teleport here to look at her! Maybe she should learn to wear some cloths!"
Gohan was a little on the shocked side to hear his father talking to him that way. He had never in his life been yelled at for such a trivial thing. Normally, he would have just laughed in both of their faces. "What is it dad? What's the matter? Why are you all powered up? I didn't feel anything?" He moved his head to look at his hidden wife. "Did you feel anything Videl?"
"ONLY EMBARRASMENT! NOW GET OUT! BOTH OF YOU! And Goku, we will talk about who the HELL you think you are with telling me what to wear in the privacy of MY OWN HOUSE. YOU JERK WAD." Videl could feel her face redden with anger.
"Come on." Goku, still with his back turned to Videl, grabbed his son by his arm and led him out of the room. He didn't want to risk making her even angrier than she already was, knowing he was wrong to have said what he had. "Gohan, you didn't feel it, I know. Neither did I. But I think there's something you should know about. It's about your sister."
Gohan frowned. "Yeah. Mr. Satan told me about what happened today. About how she humiliated him by trying to prove how much stronger than him she is. I'm going to have to give her a little talk again about not humiliating him in fro..." He stopped when he saw the frightened look in his father's eyes. "What's the matter? Is she all right? Did she run away from home or anything?"
"No, she didn't run away. I wouldn't be powered up to find her, now would I!?" He could see the fear that he was creating within his son. "I'm sorry. I'm just upset right now. You see, she's been acting kind of depressed for the past two weeks. Your mother and I asked her what was wrong earlier today and she said that she felt an evil coming but she didn't know what it was. She also said that she felt empty or something along those lines. So your mom and I took her to the city for the day. Just to have fun. She seemed fine up until we started our drive home. That's when she started going back into her shell. That's not even the worst part." Goku dropped his head in misery as he tensed his fists. "You're not going to believe this, but when we got home tonight, the moon was back."
Gohan widened his eyes with more fear. "WHAT?! HOW!?"
Goku calmly shook his head. "I'm not sure. She started to look at it and..."
"Did she turn into a giant ape? Is that's what's wrong? Did you have to cut her tail off?"
"Would I be here if THAT'S all it was? No, nothing like that happened. She started to glow silver. I think she was about to turn into one. But then something came and grabbed her from behind. I tried to save her, but I wasn't strong enough. She cried out for us to help, but we let her down." Goku let his fist fly into Gohan's hallway wall, creating a huge hole in it and making most of the sheet-wall inside crumble. "DAMN IT! We could have tried harder! We should have tried harder! She was counting on us for help! But we couldn't produce the help needed! And now she's GONE!"
"WHAT'S GOING ON OUT THERE!?"
"Nothing!" Gohan, seeing his father's pain, put his arm around his shoulders. He too was upset. He couldn't imagine the fear that must have been flowing within his parents, let alone his poor baby sister. "Father, we will get her back. We have to. We can't go down without a fight."
Goku turned to his son with a smile. "That's right! We won't loose her! That's why I came here. I want you to help me get everyone so we can find out what we're going to do. So far, our best bet is the Dragon Balls. But, before that, we can try to talk to Dende as well and see if he knows where she could have been taken to."
"Where's mom?"
"She's at home. She couldn't really hold her shock and fainted right after Usagi left. I should probably go there and make sure she isn't freaking out because I'm not there. Let's meet at Dende's. Gather everyone while I get your mom. I can't believe it, she knew about this all along, yet, she didn't tell us until today after we made her."
Gohan nodded. "Right." He hoped that his little sister was all right, wherever she was.
~*~*~
~~Five hours later~~ (In another dimension that is)
Usagi softly groaned in pain as she began to regain consciousness. "Wh..." She grabbed her chest, which was throbbing with pain, as she carefully sat up against the cell wall. "Mommy...daddy? Uhhh..." She bent over as a rush of severe pain shot through her entire body. "Where am I?" Her whole body shook with horror. She had no idea where she was and worse yet, she didn't know why she was there.
"How long was I asleep?" The only thing that she remembered was looking at the moon and then being grabbed from behind. After that it was a blur, she vaguely remembered looking down at her father with immense fear. The one thing she DID remember about looking down at him was his fear and anger combined, which scared her more, especially since he was not able to help her. He had powered up all the way and still, not been able to anything.
She looked around her environment and immediately became more frightened. She had just realized that her captors were holding her prisoner. "I knew that something was going to happen...I just knew it." She laid her head into her knees, which were pressed up against her body. "I want to go home."
"Do you, little girl?" The same man who had thrown her in her cell came walking back into the dungeon. "I thought I smelled fear coming from here."
Usagi cowered herself into the corner of her cell as she stared up at the man in fear. He looked oddly familiar. Not only in appearance, but his power felt familiar, as well. She wanted badly to question him, but was too frightened to do a thing. She wished badly that one of her family members were there to protect her, but now, she was helpless in a world that no one ever knew anything of. A world that only Usagi saw coming. Her reasons for being scared were now being justified.
The man smirked as he threw an apple at Usagi. "Here, you need your strength back for your queen."
"MY queen? I don't have a queen."
The man quirked his eyebrow in interest. "You do now and that power of yours belongs to us." He grinned when nothing came from her. "Well, your father will be happy to hear of how you died, well at least how you're soul as of now died. You're lucky. The dark queen has decided to use your body for her plans, since it would be a waste to throw out such a powerful one. We will begin procedures after we extract your other energy."
Usagi lifted her head just enough to look at her guard. "You won't get away with it! My daddy will save me!" The man got a good laugh at that. "Don't laugh! He's stronger than you'll ever be!"
"Well little kid, is that why he couldn't save you when the queen pulled you in? You're father is a weakling, a low class fighter just like you are. You all may think that you're Super Saiyans, but the power of the Super Saiyan, even level three, is no match for our dark power."
Usagi looked around the room. For the first time, she sensed the energy that was arising from the area. "You're the people who sent Cell, aren't you? You revived him and everything!"
"Such a smart little thing, aren't you? Yes, you've figured us out, we're the ones who revived and sent Cell out after you. We got some of your hidden energy, but that wasn't enough. He failed us so we took the dark energy from his son, Cell Jr. I guess that made it easier for Goku to beat him. But don't worry; it won't be that easy for him to beat the things we send out again. This time we will have your energy. And once we have control of your body, you're going to be the first one we send out to destroy your good for nothing family." He laughed, almost to the point of cackling, as he turned around and walked out of the room. "Eat up little Saiyan! Your queen needs your energy."
Usagi jumped to her feet and grabbed a hold of the bars after running to them. "I wont ever let you take me or my..." She stopped for a moment as she thought about what he said. "Hidden energy? What's he talking about? Do I have more power that daddy isn't telling me about that needs to be brought out?" She shook off her thoughts as she jumped back to the wall. "I'm not staying here!" She quickly powered up to HER level of Super Saiyan. "I won't kill my family!" With that, she fired a series of silver Ki attacks at the bars in front of her until she was nearly drained, which produced a large cloud of dust in front of them.
She stopped and waited for the smoke to clear with a grin. "I'm outta here! Home free! I just have to find a way home..." Her jaw dropped when the smoke did finally clear. "WHAT'S GOING ON!?" She ran to the bars, which were still very much in tact without a single scratch on them. "What the..." She rubbed her fingers on them to see if it would crumble, but unfortunately, the bars seemed to be untouched. "Maybe the Kamehameha will work. It never failed anyone before."
Usagi jumped back to the wall again and powered up for the Kamehameha wave in which she was about to produce. "KA-ME-HA-ME-HA!!" She pushed her hands in front of her and fired her massive blast at the bars. The blast was so gigantic that it backfired on her and injured her more than she already was, causing her greater pain and the gash in her head to become larger. "Owe!"
She didn't even bother to take the time out to heal herself. She was more interested in seeing if her attack had done anything at all. She, once again, dashed to the bars to see if anything had happened. "NO!" She pulled back in more fear than before when she saw that nothing had happened. "NO! NO! NO!"
"There's only one thing left to try!" Without further thought, and absolutely no hesitation, she pressed her fingers to her forehead and concentrated on her father's energy. He had been able to teleport in and out of dimensions, why couldn't she? "Come on! Come on! WORK!" Her body disappeared from the cell it was being held in, only to reappear back in the same spot. "WHAT?! THAT CAN'T BE!" She tried it again, only to get the same results. "NO! I WON'T BELIEVE IT!" She tried it again and still, again, got the same results.
Usagi dropped to her knees, feeling utterly defeated, as her hair and tail went back to their normal colors from loss of power. "I'm...stuck...here...FOREVER! MOMMY! DADDY!" She tried to hold in her tears in fear that if she cried that someone would come down and kill her for it, but she couldn't help it. She had lost. There was no way to get out. She had tried everything within her power to get herself out. Even the combined efforts of her mother and father at their strongest had done nothing. She was out of ideas as well as energy. "This is worse than being stuck in the past. At least then I was with family! MOMMY! DADDY! GOHAN! GOTEN! CAN YOU HEAR ME WHERE EVER YOU ARE!?" She dropped her head to the ground and cried harder than she had ever cried before. She cried to the point of making her chest ache. "I don't want to kill my parents and brothers. I DON'T WANT TO DO IT!" She slammed her fist, hard, against the ground as she let her agony be heard throughout the whole castle.
The black figure walked out from behind the shadows, to reveal itself as a cat, and watched as Usagi cried. It couldn't help but feel sympathy for the child. It had just witnessed the girl try everything that she had, yet, it all failed. Things did look pretty grim at that point, but there was still hope. The cat raised its paw and began cleaning itself off. "This is the dirtiest place I've ever been in. How is a girl supposed to keep clean in a place like this?"
Usagi slowly lifted her head from the ground, still very much in tears of lost hope. She was startled by the black cat just outside her cell, who was cleaning itself. Usagi stood up and ran to the bars that were keeping her prisoner and gasped. "Now I'm hearing things. I could have sworn that that cat just TALKED!" The small cat turned her head to Usagi and kitty smiled. Usagi backed away from the bars in shock just after she looked down to the cat's forehead, which had a small golden crescent moon on it. "YOU'RE THE CAT FROM MY DREAMS! I MUST BE DREAMING! I'M ASLEEP!" She screamed when she pinched herself as hard as she could. "Wait a minute! I'm NOT sleeping! What's going on!? Why is that cat here? I thought she was just a fictional character I made up!"
The cat calmly stood to its feet and walked into the Cell with Usagi. "Yes, I guess I would be in your dreams considering the long history you and I have. But that isn't quite important yet. Getting you out of here is."
Usagi once again dropped to her knees, as she knew there was no way to do it. She wondered what the cat met by 'long history' though. She would have asked her, but she knew how important it was to break free of her prison. "I've tried, believe me. I'm totally drained of any power that I had left because of it. It's no use to even try anymore."
Usagi perked up with excitement. "WAIT!" She slowly raised her power level and concentrated all of her energy. 'Girls! Girls! Can you hear me!? This is Usagi! I've been kidnapped by that queen who wanted me dead! That queen who sent Cell after me.' She smiled as she waited for them to answer. 'Hello? Girls? Are you there?' No answer came in response. "Hey cat! Why aren't they answering?"
"There is a dimension of dark energy. Regular power doesn't work against dark energy. That's why you couldn't teleport. That's also why that man said that the power of the Super Saiyan wouldn't work."
Usagi disappointedly looked down to the cat beside her. She didn't exactly find it too strange that she had met a talking cat. For one reason, it was the same cat from her dreams, and for the second, she kept in mind what her father had told her to not be surprised when strange things happened. This had to be one of the strangest things ever. "You were there when that bad man was here? Then you were here when I drained myself of my energy."
"I know, but you had to learn on your own that it wouldn't work. You wouldn't have believed me otherwise."
Usagi calmly nodded. "I guess you're right. But what do you mean by 'regular power'? And what did that man mean by my 'hidden power'? Is my dad not telling me of a power that I have like he didn't before?"
The cat shook her head. "No, your father does not know of this energy, this sacred power, that you hold."
Usagi let her mouth fall in awe. "Sacred power?"
The cat nodded. "Yes. The only power in the universe strong enough to fight off the dark energy."
Usagi wasn't sure if she understood anything that the cat was trying to tell her. "Dark energy? You mean that stuff that Cell had?"
"Yes. Dark Energy, the energy in which you have been fighting for thousands of years."
Usagi couldn't help but let out a small laugh. That was absolutely outrageous. "What are you taking about? I'm only eleven years old. My parents aren't even a thousand years old."
The cat shook her head in annoyance. "Same old inquisitive girl as always. We mustn't worry about such tedious things now. First we must get you out of here. Here, take this." A small pink light, about the size of the cat's head, appeared before the cat. "This is a gift." The light disappeared and left a small pink item.
Usagi stood up. "I'm not taking anything from you! You may be...one of them." She exclaimed with paranoia.
The cat rolled her eyes. "I am not. I am on your side. Now if you pick this up and yell out moon crystal power Make-Up, it should work."
Usagi snickered. "Moon Crystal power Make-Up? What kind of corny saying is that?"
"A very good one. Now we don't have much time. You are strong enough to go to the second level of Sailor Moon." Distant footsteps could be heard. "They're coming back."
Usagi giggled. "Sailor Moon?"
"Yes. You ARE Sailor Moon. You have the power of the moon. That means that YOU ARE Sailor Moon. Now pick it up and attack this Cell and who ever is coming down here before they get here!" The cat nervously looked over her shoulder to see what was happening down the hall.
Usagi crossed her arms. "And why should I do this?"
"BECAUSE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT! The only way one can fight dark energy successfully is with planetary power. You have the strongest planetary power of them all. The power of the Moon."
"I have the power of earth and the planet Vejita, where the Saiyans come from. I am Son Usagi, Super Saiyan! Not Sailor Moon!"
"JUST DO IT! DO IT FOR YOUR PARENTS! I SAW HOW FULL OF FEAR THEY WERE! You love you mother and father DON'T YOU?! You love your brothers DON'T YOU?!"
Usagi backed up from the cat's outburst. It was true, she did love her family with all of her heart. She didn't want to become a puppet for the dark side and kill her family for them. Usagi nodded, knowing what she had to do, and bent down to pick up the transformation brooch. She held it high above her head with pride. If she was going to do this, she was going to do it right. "Fine. But only because I love my family." She braced herself for whatever may happen next. She knew it was time to get down to business and get out of there. "MOON CRYSTAL POWER...MAKE-UP!" The room was overtaken with light as bright as the moon as Usagi's cloths disappeared and her body became wrapped with ribbons, which soon turned into a dazzling new Sailor Fuku. Her energy was also regenerated to its fullest, to her liking.
Usagi examined her new outfit from. She could hardly keep her laughter in. "This is it? It looks ridiculous! How am I supposed to fight in THIS? It's too frilly. Not that frilly is bad, but frilly is not good for fighting. I can't fight in this, CAT!" She went to move her arms to build up for an attack, but found that she had terrible restraints holding her back. "This wont do at all. Is there something else we can work with? I mean really, look at this bow in the back. What if an enemy grabs it? I mean, yeah, my tail got in the way a lot, but that couldn't be helped. This bow has got to go, too." She looked down to the cat, who didn't seem to be listening to a word she was saying. "Cat! Hey CAT!"
A man, other than the one before, soon took her attention as he stood in front of the cell with a gun. She backed away for she knew that if it shot anything, it would be pure black energy. "Uh-Oh."
"SHE'S TRANSFORMED! QUICKLY GET HER!"
The cat turned around with a frown. "DO SOMETHING SAILOR MOON!"
"SURE THING CAT!" Sailor Moon pulled herself together and extended her arms out in front of her body towards the bars of the cell as well as the man in front of her. "Hey freak!" The man turned to Sailor Moon in fear as she built up for another massive Ki attack. He was too stunned to say anything. Sailor Moon smirked a Vejita smirk. "Yeah you! I'm talking to you. Wanna see a fire work show?" Without letting him say a single word, she fired her ball of silver moon energy at her enemy. To her surprise, it ate right through the bars and immediately eliminated her enemy. The power even ricocheted off of the wall bounced directly to the enemies down the hall that were quickly approaching. "Wow, cat. This moon stuff really works great." Sailor Moon brought her hand up to face in amazement. 'Wow, I did that?'
"I told you, now we must make haste and get out of here as soon as possible." The cat ran out of the cell. She turned around when Sailor Moon didn't follow. "What's the matter now?"
"Wait, I want to thank you for bringing me this power and saving me. I guess I was a little rude to you before too. I just wanted to say that I'm sorry."
The cat smiled. 'She's different here.' "You did all the work."
"Don't be modest...Sorry, I didn't get your name."
"The names Luna."
Sailor Moon smiled as she emerged from her Cell, which she had been wanting to do all along. "Well Luna, nice to meet you. I guess that's a good name for you considering the fact that you're a moon cat, right? I mean, that is the deal with the moon on your forehead." 'Wait a minute, a crescent moon on her forehead, I'm Sailor Moon, the crescent moon earrings from mom. These are ALL connected. I understand the cat and Sailor Moon, but the earrings, how did mom get them?'
Luna nodded. "Yes. I am a moon cat. We can talk later though, Sailor Moon. Right now we need to get you out of here before Beryl catches you."
Sailor Moon curiously looked down at her kitty companion as she followed her down the hallway that led out of the dungeon. "Beryl? Is that the lady that has been chasing me for all this time?" Luna nodded. "Well, why don't I just blast her with a Kamehameha wave using this moon power while I'm powered up to Super Saiyan?"
Luna looked over to Usagi. "You can't just do that. Only the Moon Princess can do such a thing."
"Moon Princess?" Usagi turned a corner after Luna.
"Yes, the Moon Princess. The one that you are sworn to protect. You are the Senshi of the moon. Leader of the Sailor Senshi and guardian of the Moon Princess. Listen, I'll explain all of this in more depth later. Right now we REALLY need to get out. You need to stay alive."
"Don't worry about me, Luna. I can protect myself."
"Don't be so confident. Not even your father could keep you out of trouble this time. Don't think that your Moon power will always be able to help."
Usagi sheepishly looked down to the floor as she thought of her parents. She hoped that they weren't freaking out TOO much. Though, knowing her mother she was probably already gathering the Dragon Balls to wish her back home. 'I just want to get home to be with mommy and daddy...'
Luna turned around in worry once she had not heard any response from the Senshi of the Moon. "Look, Sailor Moon, Usagi, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to..."
Usagi tried to put on a smile. "It's all right, Luna. I know you didn't mean to make me think about them. I'm just wondering what they're doing back on earth. We've all been given such a scare today. I guess I haven't really been thinking about their feelings just sitting around and doing nothing. I've been worrying them so much lately. All because I felt this coming."
Luna stopped in her spot. "You felt that this was going to happen?"
Usagi looked down. "Yes. For the past two weeks. It has been scaring me senseless. I haven't known what to do at all. I've been so confused."
~*~*~
The dark queen, Beryl, jumped off of her thrown with severe anger. "Usagi has awakened as Sailor Moon. I TOLD YOU NOT TO LET HER ESCAPE!" She hissed as she glared over to her female guard, who approached her with less fear than of her than the rest. "How did this happen!?"
The female guard kneeled before her queen and bowed her head. "You have summoned us, our liege?"
Queen Beryl looked at her minions in the same contempt she had for all. "Sailor Moon has shown herself in MY castle. She is running around and killing off everyone I send at her. I want you to ALL to go fetch her and bring her to me at once! You there!" She pointed at the man who had taken Usagi down to the cellar. "Tell that damned scientist to send his least creation down to earth to find the other Senshi. No sense of wasting the most powerful ones on such weaklings. They must not be allowed to wake, though. They must not be allowed to protect the princess of the moon. While you're at it, program the thing to steal their planetary power, as well."
All of her minions looked upon their queen with hatred and fear, but they still responded to her will. They all bowed to show their respect, having learned the hard way what it meant to disobey her. Together, they turned around and walked out of their queen's lair.
Beryl walked away from her thrown with her anger rising every moment that Sailor Moon was left to run free in HER castle of dark energy. "I don't trust those fools to do anything. I'll have to make sure that she is stopped." With that, she hurried out of her lair in search of the one person who could stop her. Just before she left, though, she stopped with an evil smirk on her face. "Wait a minute. Why bother getting HER power? Little Senshi of the Moon, there is more than one way to get your power."
~*~*~
~~Back on Earth~~
It was the middle of the night, yes, but that didn't mean that things were as peaceful as they should have been. Two different parties gathered in two different areas with one objective, each unknowing of the other.
Five girls gathered in 'Sanctuary', all with fear of what was going on. They had all been wakened up by the power that they felt coming from Usagi's house. It was much too intense to sleep through, or even ignore when they had wakened. They all knew exactly what kind of power it was too. It was too evil to not remember. Well, all but one remembered for little Hotaru had never felt the power before. But her link with her friends had let her understand exactly what she was up against.
So there they sat, on the top floor of their meeting place, all wondering what they were going to do. They knew that they were the only ones who could feel the dark energy that was being emitted at the time of Usagi's kidnapping, aside from Mamoru and his gang of friends.
"You guys, what are we supposed to do? Usagi is GONE. We can't talk to her, even through the link." Minako had tried numerous times to talk to Usagi, but the same thing happened over and over again, nothing. From the moment that she first felt the dark energy, she tried, as well as the other girls.
Rei walked to one of the windows that overlooked the waterfall and sighed as she gazed up to the newly formed moon. "I don't know. I wonder why the moon is back." She widened her eyes with fear as she looked back to Hotaru. "Hotaru...I just remembered what happens when Saiyans look at the moon. Umm...why don't we, uh, cover this window with a curtain or something so Hotaru doesn't feel tempted to look at it."
Hotaru smiled as she bounced over to Rei. "Don't worry about it. I already looked at it and nothing happened."
Rei cautiously backed away from Hotaru, who was starring at the moon, herself. "Uh...if you say so." She relaxed her muscles when nothing happened to the younger child, only to re-tense herself. "You guys...I'm sensing an evil nearing this location!"
Makoto, startled, turned her head to the west with fear written all over her face. "It's them! That's the same power that we felt earlier!" Without needing to be convinced any further that she would have to fight, she powered up to her fullest power.
Hotaru pulled herself away from the sparkling moon and powered up as well. "Man that's a really hate filled power!"
Ami stepped in front of the youngster and powered up, along with Minako and Rei. "Tell me about it. It's JUST like Cell's power from the past. This MUST be them trying to strike back on us for beating him. But why are they coming here?"
Minako ran to the west window and frowned. "We didn't kill Cell Jr. Goku did, but it was our combined attack that kill off the REAL Cell. They're probably just mad at us for it. They must hold really big grudges."
Rei jumped to Minako's side and saw the monster that was fast approaching them. She smirked. "Well, I guess we'll just have to do it again, wont we?"
Ami grabbed Hotaru by the arm as the others flew out the window. "Well Hotaru, let's put all your hard training to the test. Did you bring you weapon with you?"
Hotaru nodded as she ran to pick up her staff. "You bet your marbles I did!"
Ami smiled. "Great! Let's go show that thing whose boss!'
"RIGHT!" Hotaru wrapped her tail around her waist, not wanting it to get in the way, and jumped out the window with Ami. "HERE WE COME!" Hotaru could hardly wait to tear into her enemy and put her skills to the test. For once, she could go all out and not worry about hurting anyone.
( ::grin:: SAILOR MOON IS HERE SAILOR MOON IS HERE SAILOR MOON IS HERE!!! ^_^ Did I not tell you that Chapter 100 was going to be big?! Well, I know it took a while for me to post this, but FF.Net was still being a pain. So, what did you think? I'd love to hear. Thanks. Ja Ne! )
Usagi lay, unconscious, in the middle the queen's lair with three figures, not including the queen, standing around her and sneering down at her. The queen, however, was not sneering. She was overjoyed, and laughing hysterically, that she had FINALLY caught Usagi. After so many years, the annoying rabbit had been caught. "Finally, I get the senshi of the moon! The holder of the greatest power! She is mine! After so many years of planning I finally have it!" She raised her hand and snapped her finger. "Boys, do your work. Extract her moon energy and then dispose of her. She beat my minion when I sent him after her, I don't want that to happen again. Send someone down to earth to find the other senshi on earth. I don't want them to be running free."
The same woman from when Cell was running free kneeled before her queen. "It shall be done, your majesty. Though, I don't believe we should proceed with extracting this girl's energy quite yet."
The queen looked down at the woman with a slight frown. "And why not? We need to do it while we have the chance."
"Your majesty, we have just put the child through a lot of activity. We had to drain her of her power to bring her here. But the way we were forced to do it prevented it from being energy we could use. It would be pointless to do it while she is still drained, as we wouldn't get a sufficient amount of power from her. Might I suggest that we wait until she has regained her energy so we may extract it while she is at her best."
The queen thought about it for a while. "What are a few days? Go ahead. I can wait until she is fully recovered. Just make sure she is fully guarded. I don't want her getting out. Take her down to the dungeon."
~*~*~
Little did any of the people in this lair of hate know, the same black figure that had jumped through the portal with the anguished Usagi, had run out of the room before the portal had disappeared on this side. Now, that same black figure sat at the doorway that led out of the room as it poked it's head around the corner and kept its eye on everyone, Usagi most of all. She knew her secret, as well as the dark queen.
~*~*~
A male with long bristly hair down to his ankles nodded as he bowed before his queen. "As you wish your majesty. I will personally take her down to the dungeon and make sure she does not escape." He stood back to his feet and walked to Usagi, sneering at his sister as he went by her. He bent down and grabbed Usagi by her tail. "Damn these Saiyans of earth! They've caused more trouble than we ever did."
By her tail, the man dragged Usagi out of the room, not caring if she lost any power from it or not. Though, she didn't because of Hotaru's nifty healing trick that she taught her. He grumbled more about Saiyans as he dragged her down a long corridor, with the black figure close behind.
~*~*~
Once the man arrived with Usagi at the dungeon, he kicked a cell door in and violently threw her in. He laughed as her head was bashed into the wall. "Serves the brat right!" He slammed the door shut behind him as he backed away from the cell. He continued to laugh at the top of his lungs as he peered down at Usagi, who was still very unconscious. She had a deep gash across her forehead from where she hit the wall just now. "I don't think I'll have to worry about her waking up any time soon. I don't even have to worry about the brat when she does wake up. She wont be able to break free. Even if she is a super Saiyan." He let out a sigh of victory as he walked out of the dungeon all together. "I'll come back to toy with her mind when she does wake up." He smirked as he continued to walk away. He couldn't wait to see the face on Goku's face when he told him that his precious daughter was disposed of.
The black figure found a dark corner near Usagi's cell and curled up in it. 'I hope she wakes up soon. We need to get out of here before he comes back.'
~*~*~
~~Back on Earth~~
Goku grabbed his wife as he scrambled to his feet. Even the force of him violently thrashing her around as he ran back to the house, still in Super Saiyan three mode, didn't wake her up. She was just too out of it. He didn't even bother looking for his dropped keys. He just kicked the door in and gently placed his fainted wife in the reclining chair by the hallway. "Shit!" He pressed his fingers to his forehead and first concentrated on his Gohan's room to teleport to him.
~*~*~
~~Gohan's House~~
Goku, still powered up and very pissed, appeared in his son's bedroom, where someone was sleeping in the bed. Without thinking that someone other than his son could be sleeping in it, he angrily walked to the bed and shook the person, who was asleep, awake. "WAKE UP!"
"Huh?" Came a groggy woman's voice. The voice happened to be coming from Videl. She rubbed her eyes and noticed that the room was very brightly lit. "Gohan...?" She sat up, letting the covers fall to her waist to reveal her pretty much see through nightgown. Once she realized that it wasn't Gohan, but his father, her father-in-law, she screamed at the top of her lungs. "GOHAN!!"
Seeing his son's wife almost half naked, Goku immediately covered his eyes with his hands as he turned away, blushing. "For god's sake Videl! Put some cloths on!"
Videl lay back down, holding the covers over herself very firmly, and covered her embarrassed face with a pillow. "Well maybe you wouldn't have this problem if you wouldn't just TELEPORT to our house in the middle of the night!"
At that point, Gohan came rushing into his room at his wife's cries for help. He frowned when he saw his father standing in the same room as his wife, who was still too afraid to show her face. "FATHER! What the HELL are you doing in my house with MY wife in the middle of the night!?" He didn't over look the fact that his father was still powered to his fullest, but at that moment, he wanted answers and he wanted them then. "Don't you try anyth.."
Goku uncovered his eyes and frowned at his son for even thinking such a thing. "Don't you EVER think I would try anything with her! I didn't teleport here to look at her! Maybe she should learn to wear some cloths!"
Gohan was a little on the shocked side to hear his father talking to him that way. He had never in his life been yelled at for such a trivial thing. Normally, he would have just laughed in both of their faces. "What is it dad? What's the matter? Why are you all powered up? I didn't feel anything?" He moved his head to look at his hidden wife. "Did you feel anything Videl?"
"ONLY EMBARRASMENT! NOW GET OUT! BOTH OF YOU! And Goku, we will talk about who the HELL you think you are with telling me what to wear in the privacy of MY OWN HOUSE. YOU JERK WAD." Videl could feel her face redden with anger.
"Come on." Goku, still with his back turned to Videl, grabbed his son by his arm and led him out of the room. He didn't want to risk making her even angrier than she already was, knowing he was wrong to have said what he had. "Gohan, you didn't feel it, I know. Neither did I. But I think there's something you should know about. It's about your sister."
Gohan frowned. "Yeah. Mr. Satan told me about what happened today. About how she humiliated him by trying to prove how much stronger than him she is. I'm going to have to give her a little talk again about not humiliating him in fro..." He stopped when he saw the frightened look in his father's eyes. "What's the matter? Is she all right? Did she run away from home or anything?"
"No, she didn't run away. I wouldn't be powered up to find her, now would I!?" He could see the fear that he was creating within his son. "I'm sorry. I'm just upset right now. You see, she's been acting kind of depressed for the past two weeks. Your mother and I asked her what was wrong earlier today and she said that she felt an evil coming but she didn't know what it was. She also said that she felt empty or something along those lines. So your mom and I took her to the city for the day. Just to have fun. She seemed fine up until we started our drive home. That's when she started going back into her shell. That's not even the worst part." Goku dropped his head in misery as he tensed his fists. "You're not going to believe this, but when we got home tonight, the moon was back."
Gohan widened his eyes with more fear. "WHAT?! HOW!?"
Goku calmly shook his head. "I'm not sure. She started to look at it and..."
"Did she turn into a giant ape? Is that's what's wrong? Did you have to cut her tail off?"
"Would I be here if THAT'S all it was? No, nothing like that happened. She started to glow silver. I think she was about to turn into one. But then something came and grabbed her from behind. I tried to save her, but I wasn't strong enough. She cried out for us to help, but we let her down." Goku let his fist fly into Gohan's hallway wall, creating a huge hole in it and making most of the sheet-wall inside crumble. "DAMN IT! We could have tried harder! We should have tried harder! She was counting on us for help! But we couldn't produce the help needed! And now she's GONE!"
"WHAT'S GOING ON OUT THERE!?"
"Nothing!" Gohan, seeing his father's pain, put his arm around his shoulders. He too was upset. He couldn't imagine the fear that must have been flowing within his parents, let alone his poor baby sister. "Father, we will get her back. We have to. We can't go down without a fight."
Goku turned to his son with a smile. "That's right! We won't loose her! That's why I came here. I want you to help me get everyone so we can find out what we're going to do. So far, our best bet is the Dragon Balls. But, before that, we can try to talk to Dende as well and see if he knows where she could have been taken to."
"Where's mom?"
"She's at home. She couldn't really hold her shock and fainted right after Usagi left. I should probably go there and make sure she isn't freaking out because I'm not there. Let's meet at Dende's. Gather everyone while I get your mom. I can't believe it, she knew about this all along, yet, she didn't tell us until today after we made her."
Gohan nodded. "Right." He hoped that his little sister was all right, wherever she was.
~*~*~
~~Five hours later~~ (In another dimension that is)
Usagi softly groaned in pain as she began to regain consciousness. "Wh..." She grabbed her chest, which was throbbing with pain, as she carefully sat up against the cell wall. "Mommy...daddy? Uhhh..." She bent over as a rush of severe pain shot through her entire body. "Where am I?" Her whole body shook with horror. She had no idea where she was and worse yet, she didn't know why she was there.
"How long was I asleep?" The only thing that she remembered was looking at the moon and then being grabbed from behind. After that it was a blur, she vaguely remembered looking down at her father with immense fear. The one thing she DID remember about looking down at him was his fear and anger combined, which scared her more, especially since he was not able to help her. He had powered up all the way and still, not been able to anything.
She looked around her environment and immediately became more frightened. She had just realized that her captors were holding her prisoner. "I knew that something was going to happen...I just knew it." She laid her head into her knees, which were pressed up against her body. "I want to go home."
"Do you, little girl?" The same man who had thrown her in her cell came walking back into the dungeon. "I thought I smelled fear coming from here."
Usagi cowered herself into the corner of her cell as she stared up at the man in fear. He looked oddly familiar. Not only in appearance, but his power felt familiar, as well. She wanted badly to question him, but was too frightened to do a thing. She wished badly that one of her family members were there to protect her, but now, she was helpless in a world that no one ever knew anything of. A world that only Usagi saw coming. Her reasons for being scared were now being justified.
The man smirked as he threw an apple at Usagi. "Here, you need your strength back for your queen."
"MY queen? I don't have a queen."
The man quirked his eyebrow in interest. "You do now and that power of yours belongs to us." He grinned when nothing came from her. "Well, your father will be happy to hear of how you died, well at least how you're soul as of now died. You're lucky. The dark queen has decided to use your body for her plans, since it would be a waste to throw out such a powerful one. We will begin procedures after we extract your other energy."
Usagi lifted her head just enough to look at her guard. "You won't get away with it! My daddy will save me!" The man got a good laugh at that. "Don't laugh! He's stronger than you'll ever be!"
"Well little kid, is that why he couldn't save you when the queen pulled you in? You're father is a weakling, a low class fighter just like you are. You all may think that you're Super Saiyans, but the power of the Super Saiyan, even level three, is no match for our dark power."
Usagi looked around the room. For the first time, she sensed the energy that was arising from the area. "You're the people who sent Cell, aren't you? You revived him and everything!"
"Such a smart little thing, aren't you? Yes, you've figured us out, we're the ones who revived and sent Cell out after you. We got some of your hidden energy, but that wasn't enough. He failed us so we took the dark energy from his son, Cell Jr. I guess that made it easier for Goku to beat him. But don't worry; it won't be that easy for him to beat the things we send out again. This time we will have your energy. And once we have control of your body, you're going to be the first one we send out to destroy your good for nothing family." He laughed, almost to the point of cackling, as he turned around and walked out of the room. "Eat up little Saiyan! Your queen needs your energy."
Usagi jumped to her feet and grabbed a hold of the bars after running to them. "I wont ever let you take me or my..." She stopped for a moment as she thought about what he said. "Hidden energy? What's he talking about? Do I have more power that daddy isn't telling me about that needs to be brought out?" She shook off her thoughts as she jumped back to the wall. "I'm not staying here!" She quickly powered up to HER level of Super Saiyan. "I won't kill my family!" With that, she fired a series of silver Ki attacks at the bars in front of her until she was nearly drained, which produced a large cloud of dust in front of them.
She stopped and waited for the smoke to clear with a grin. "I'm outta here! Home free! I just have to find a way home..." Her jaw dropped when the smoke did finally clear. "WHAT'S GOING ON!?" She ran to the bars, which were still very much in tact without a single scratch on them. "What the..." She rubbed her fingers on them to see if it would crumble, but unfortunately, the bars seemed to be untouched. "Maybe the Kamehameha will work. It never failed anyone before."
Usagi jumped back to the wall again and powered up for the Kamehameha wave in which she was about to produce. "KA-ME-HA-ME-HA!!" She pushed her hands in front of her and fired her massive blast at the bars. The blast was so gigantic that it backfired on her and injured her more than she already was, causing her greater pain and the gash in her head to become larger. "Owe!"
She didn't even bother to take the time out to heal herself. She was more interested in seeing if her attack had done anything at all. She, once again, dashed to the bars to see if anything had happened. "NO!" She pulled back in more fear than before when she saw that nothing had happened. "NO! NO! NO!"
"There's only one thing left to try!" Without further thought, and absolutely no hesitation, she pressed her fingers to her forehead and concentrated on her father's energy. He had been able to teleport in and out of dimensions, why couldn't she? "Come on! Come on! WORK!" Her body disappeared from the cell it was being held in, only to reappear back in the same spot. "WHAT?! THAT CAN'T BE!" She tried it again, only to get the same results. "NO! I WON'T BELIEVE IT!" She tried it again and still, again, got the same results.
Usagi dropped to her knees, feeling utterly defeated, as her hair and tail went back to their normal colors from loss of power. "I'm...stuck...here...FOREVER! MOMMY! DADDY!" She tried to hold in her tears in fear that if she cried that someone would come down and kill her for it, but she couldn't help it. She had lost. There was no way to get out. She had tried everything within her power to get herself out. Even the combined efforts of her mother and father at their strongest had done nothing. She was out of ideas as well as energy. "This is worse than being stuck in the past. At least then I was with family! MOMMY! DADDY! GOHAN! GOTEN! CAN YOU HEAR ME WHERE EVER YOU ARE!?" She dropped her head to the ground and cried harder than she had ever cried before. She cried to the point of making her chest ache. "I don't want to kill my parents and brothers. I DON'T WANT TO DO IT!" She slammed her fist, hard, against the ground as she let her agony be heard throughout the whole castle.
The black figure walked out from behind the shadows, to reveal itself as a cat, and watched as Usagi cried. It couldn't help but feel sympathy for the child. It had just witnessed the girl try everything that she had, yet, it all failed. Things did look pretty grim at that point, but there was still hope. The cat raised its paw and began cleaning itself off. "This is the dirtiest place I've ever been in. How is a girl supposed to keep clean in a place like this?"
Usagi slowly lifted her head from the ground, still very much in tears of lost hope. She was startled by the black cat just outside her cell, who was cleaning itself. Usagi stood up and ran to the bars that were keeping her prisoner and gasped. "Now I'm hearing things. I could have sworn that that cat just TALKED!" The small cat turned her head to Usagi and kitty smiled. Usagi backed away from the bars in shock just after she looked down to the cat's forehead, which had a small golden crescent moon on it. "YOU'RE THE CAT FROM MY DREAMS! I MUST BE DREAMING! I'M ASLEEP!" She screamed when she pinched herself as hard as she could. "Wait a minute! I'm NOT sleeping! What's going on!? Why is that cat here? I thought she was just a fictional character I made up!"
The cat calmly stood to its feet and walked into the Cell with Usagi. "Yes, I guess I would be in your dreams considering the long history you and I have. But that isn't quite important yet. Getting you out of here is."
Usagi once again dropped to her knees, as she knew there was no way to do it. She wondered what the cat met by 'long history' though. She would have asked her, but she knew how important it was to break free of her prison. "I've tried, believe me. I'm totally drained of any power that I had left because of it. It's no use to even try anymore."
Usagi perked up with excitement. "WAIT!" She slowly raised her power level and concentrated all of her energy. 'Girls! Girls! Can you hear me!? This is Usagi! I've been kidnapped by that queen who wanted me dead! That queen who sent Cell after me.' She smiled as she waited for them to answer. 'Hello? Girls? Are you there?' No answer came in response. "Hey cat! Why aren't they answering?"
"There is a dimension of dark energy. Regular power doesn't work against dark energy. That's why you couldn't teleport. That's also why that man said that the power of the Super Saiyan wouldn't work."
Usagi disappointedly looked down to the cat beside her. She didn't exactly find it too strange that she had met a talking cat. For one reason, it was the same cat from her dreams, and for the second, she kept in mind what her father had told her to not be surprised when strange things happened. This had to be one of the strangest things ever. "You were there when that bad man was here? Then you were here when I drained myself of my energy."
"I know, but you had to learn on your own that it wouldn't work. You wouldn't have believed me otherwise."
Usagi calmly nodded. "I guess you're right. But what do you mean by 'regular power'? And what did that man mean by my 'hidden power'? Is my dad not telling me of a power that I have like he didn't before?"
The cat shook her head. "No, your father does not know of this energy, this sacred power, that you hold."
Usagi let her mouth fall in awe. "Sacred power?"
The cat nodded. "Yes. The only power in the universe strong enough to fight off the dark energy."
Usagi wasn't sure if she understood anything that the cat was trying to tell her. "Dark energy? You mean that stuff that Cell had?"
"Yes. Dark Energy, the energy in which you have been fighting for thousands of years."
Usagi couldn't help but let out a small laugh. That was absolutely outrageous. "What are you taking about? I'm only eleven years old. My parents aren't even a thousand years old."
The cat shook her head in annoyance. "Same old inquisitive girl as always. We mustn't worry about such tedious things now. First we must get you out of here. Here, take this." A small pink light, about the size of the cat's head, appeared before the cat. "This is a gift." The light disappeared and left a small pink item.
Usagi stood up. "I'm not taking anything from you! You may be...one of them." She exclaimed with paranoia.
The cat rolled her eyes. "I am not. I am on your side. Now if you pick this up and yell out moon crystal power Make-Up, it should work."
Usagi snickered. "Moon Crystal power Make-Up? What kind of corny saying is that?"
"A very good one. Now we don't have much time. You are strong enough to go to the second level of Sailor Moon." Distant footsteps could be heard. "They're coming back."
Usagi giggled. "Sailor Moon?"
"Yes. You ARE Sailor Moon. You have the power of the moon. That means that YOU ARE Sailor Moon. Now pick it up and attack this Cell and who ever is coming down here before they get here!" The cat nervously looked over her shoulder to see what was happening down the hall.
Usagi crossed her arms. "And why should I do this?"
"BECAUSE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT! The only way one can fight dark energy successfully is with planetary power. You have the strongest planetary power of them all. The power of the Moon."
"I have the power of earth and the planet Vejita, where the Saiyans come from. I am Son Usagi, Super Saiyan! Not Sailor Moon!"
"JUST DO IT! DO IT FOR YOUR PARENTS! I SAW HOW FULL OF FEAR THEY WERE! You love you mother and father DON'T YOU?! You love your brothers DON'T YOU?!"
Usagi backed up from the cat's outburst. It was true, she did love her family with all of her heart. She didn't want to become a puppet for the dark side and kill her family for them. Usagi nodded, knowing what she had to do, and bent down to pick up the transformation brooch. She held it high above her head with pride. If she was going to do this, she was going to do it right. "Fine. But only because I love my family." She braced herself for whatever may happen next. She knew it was time to get down to business and get out of there. "MOON CRYSTAL POWER...MAKE-UP!" The room was overtaken with light as bright as the moon as Usagi's cloths disappeared and her body became wrapped with ribbons, which soon turned into a dazzling new Sailor Fuku. Her energy was also regenerated to its fullest, to her liking.
Usagi examined her new outfit from. She could hardly keep her laughter in. "This is it? It looks ridiculous! How am I supposed to fight in THIS? It's too frilly. Not that frilly is bad, but frilly is not good for fighting. I can't fight in this, CAT!" She went to move her arms to build up for an attack, but found that she had terrible restraints holding her back. "This wont do at all. Is there something else we can work with? I mean really, look at this bow in the back. What if an enemy grabs it? I mean, yeah, my tail got in the way a lot, but that couldn't be helped. This bow has got to go, too." She looked down to the cat, who didn't seem to be listening to a word she was saying. "Cat! Hey CAT!"
A man, other than the one before, soon took her attention as he stood in front of the cell with a gun. She backed away for she knew that if it shot anything, it would be pure black energy. "Uh-Oh."
"SHE'S TRANSFORMED! QUICKLY GET HER!"
The cat turned around with a frown. "DO SOMETHING SAILOR MOON!"
"SURE THING CAT!" Sailor Moon pulled herself together and extended her arms out in front of her body towards the bars of the cell as well as the man in front of her. "Hey freak!" The man turned to Sailor Moon in fear as she built up for another massive Ki attack. He was too stunned to say anything. Sailor Moon smirked a Vejita smirk. "Yeah you! I'm talking to you. Wanna see a fire work show?" Without letting him say a single word, she fired her ball of silver moon energy at her enemy. To her surprise, it ate right through the bars and immediately eliminated her enemy. The power even ricocheted off of the wall bounced directly to the enemies down the hall that were quickly approaching. "Wow, cat. This moon stuff really works great." Sailor Moon brought her hand up to face in amazement. 'Wow, I did that?'
"I told you, now we must make haste and get out of here as soon as possible." The cat ran out of the cell. She turned around when Sailor Moon didn't follow. "What's the matter now?"
"Wait, I want to thank you for bringing me this power and saving me. I guess I was a little rude to you before too. I just wanted to say that I'm sorry."
The cat smiled. 'She's different here.' "You did all the work."
"Don't be modest...Sorry, I didn't get your name."
"The names Luna."
Sailor Moon smiled as she emerged from her Cell, which she had been wanting to do all along. "Well Luna, nice to meet you. I guess that's a good name for you considering the fact that you're a moon cat, right? I mean, that is the deal with the moon on your forehead." 'Wait a minute, a crescent moon on her forehead, I'm Sailor Moon, the crescent moon earrings from mom. These are ALL connected. I understand the cat and Sailor Moon, but the earrings, how did mom get them?'
Luna nodded. "Yes. I am a moon cat. We can talk later though, Sailor Moon. Right now we need to get you out of here before Beryl catches you."
Sailor Moon curiously looked down at her kitty companion as she followed her down the hallway that led out of the dungeon. "Beryl? Is that the lady that has been chasing me for all this time?" Luna nodded. "Well, why don't I just blast her with a Kamehameha wave using this moon power while I'm powered up to Super Saiyan?"
Luna looked over to Usagi. "You can't just do that. Only the Moon Princess can do such a thing."
"Moon Princess?" Usagi turned a corner after Luna.
"Yes, the Moon Princess. The one that you are sworn to protect. You are the Senshi of the moon. Leader of the Sailor Senshi and guardian of the Moon Princess. Listen, I'll explain all of this in more depth later. Right now we REALLY need to get out. You need to stay alive."
"Don't worry about me, Luna. I can protect myself."
"Don't be so confident. Not even your father could keep you out of trouble this time. Don't think that your Moon power will always be able to help."
Usagi sheepishly looked down to the floor as she thought of her parents. She hoped that they weren't freaking out TOO much. Though, knowing her mother she was probably already gathering the Dragon Balls to wish her back home. 'I just want to get home to be with mommy and daddy...'
Luna turned around in worry once she had not heard any response from the Senshi of the Moon. "Look, Sailor Moon, Usagi, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to..."
Usagi tried to put on a smile. "It's all right, Luna. I know you didn't mean to make me think about them. I'm just wondering what they're doing back on earth. We've all been given such a scare today. I guess I haven't really been thinking about their feelings just sitting around and doing nothing. I've been worrying them so much lately. All because I felt this coming."
Luna stopped in her spot. "You felt that this was going to happen?"
Usagi looked down. "Yes. For the past two weeks. It has been scaring me senseless. I haven't known what to do at all. I've been so confused."
~*~*~
The dark queen, Beryl, jumped off of her thrown with severe anger. "Usagi has awakened as Sailor Moon. I TOLD YOU NOT TO LET HER ESCAPE!" She hissed as she glared over to her female guard, who approached her with less fear than of her than the rest. "How did this happen!?"
The female guard kneeled before her queen and bowed her head. "You have summoned us, our liege?"
Queen Beryl looked at her minions in the same contempt she had for all. "Sailor Moon has shown herself in MY castle. She is running around and killing off everyone I send at her. I want you to ALL to go fetch her and bring her to me at once! You there!" She pointed at the man who had taken Usagi down to the cellar. "Tell that damned scientist to send his least creation down to earth to find the other Senshi. No sense of wasting the most powerful ones on such weaklings. They must not be allowed to wake, though. They must not be allowed to protect the princess of the moon. While you're at it, program the thing to steal their planetary power, as well."
All of her minions looked upon their queen with hatred and fear, but they still responded to her will. They all bowed to show their respect, having learned the hard way what it meant to disobey her. Together, they turned around and walked out of their queen's lair.
Beryl walked away from her thrown with her anger rising every moment that Sailor Moon was left to run free in HER castle of dark energy. "I don't trust those fools to do anything. I'll have to make sure that she is stopped." With that, she hurried out of her lair in search of the one person who could stop her. Just before she left, though, she stopped with an evil smirk on her face. "Wait a minute. Why bother getting HER power? Little Senshi of the Moon, there is more than one way to get your power."
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~~Back on Earth~~
It was the middle of the night, yes, but that didn't mean that things were as peaceful as they should have been. Two different parties gathered in two different areas with one objective, each unknowing of the other.
Five girls gathered in 'Sanctuary', all with fear of what was going on. They had all been wakened up by the power that they felt coming from Usagi's house. It was much too intense to sleep through, or even ignore when they had wakened. They all knew exactly what kind of power it was too. It was too evil to not remember. Well, all but one remembered for little Hotaru had never felt the power before. But her link with her friends had let her understand exactly what she was up against.
So there they sat, on the top floor of their meeting place, all wondering what they were going to do. They knew that they were the only ones who could feel the dark energy that was being emitted at the time of Usagi's kidnapping, aside from Mamoru and his gang of friends.
"You guys, what are we supposed to do? Usagi is GONE. We can't talk to her, even through the link." Minako had tried numerous times to talk to Usagi, but the same thing happened over and over again, nothing. From the moment that she first felt the dark energy, she tried, as well as the other girls.
Rei walked to one of the windows that overlooked the waterfall and sighed as she gazed up to the newly formed moon. "I don't know. I wonder why the moon is back." She widened her eyes with fear as she looked back to Hotaru. "Hotaru...I just remembered what happens when Saiyans look at the moon. Umm...why don't we, uh, cover this window with a curtain or something so Hotaru doesn't feel tempted to look at it."
Hotaru smiled as she bounced over to Rei. "Don't worry about it. I already looked at it and nothing happened."
Rei cautiously backed away from Hotaru, who was starring at the moon, herself. "Uh...if you say so." She relaxed her muscles when nothing happened to the younger child, only to re-tense herself. "You guys...I'm sensing an evil nearing this location!"
Makoto, startled, turned her head to the west with fear written all over her face. "It's them! That's the same power that we felt earlier!" Without needing to be convinced any further that she would have to fight, she powered up to her fullest power.
Hotaru pulled herself away from the sparkling moon and powered up as well. "Man that's a really hate filled power!"
Ami stepped in front of the youngster and powered up, along with Minako and Rei. "Tell me about it. It's JUST like Cell's power from the past. This MUST be them trying to strike back on us for beating him. But why are they coming here?"
Minako ran to the west window and frowned. "We didn't kill Cell Jr. Goku did, but it was our combined attack that kill off the REAL Cell. They're probably just mad at us for it. They must hold really big grudges."
Rei jumped to Minako's side and saw the monster that was fast approaching them. She smirked. "Well, I guess we'll just have to do it again, wont we?"
Ami grabbed Hotaru by the arm as the others flew out the window. "Well Hotaru, let's put all your hard training to the test. Did you bring you weapon with you?"
Hotaru nodded as she ran to pick up her staff. "You bet your marbles I did!"
Ami smiled. "Great! Let's go show that thing whose boss!'
"RIGHT!" Hotaru wrapped her tail around her waist, not wanting it to get in the way, and jumped out the window with Ami. "HERE WE COME!" Hotaru could hardly wait to tear into her enemy and put her skills to the test. For once, she could go all out and not worry about hurting anyone.
( ::grin:: SAILOR MOON IS HERE SAILOR MOON IS HERE SAILOR MOON IS HERE!!! ^_^ Did I not tell you that Chapter 100 was going to be big?! Well, I know it took a while for me to post this, but FF.Net was still being a pain. So, what did you think? I'd love to hear. Thanks. Ja Ne! )