For Usagi and Luna, passing through the portal was as quick and easy as teleporting. In an instant flash of a bright light, the duo found themselves falling from the sky, down the busy streets of the city below.
Through the resistance, Usagi reached out and wrapped her arms around Luna so when they landed on the ground, she wouldn't hurt herself. Usagi had planned on letting herself fall until she was about to hit the ground, when she would raise her power level and do a power land. It had been awhile since she had landed from a fall of this height and would be good practice. Of course Luna didn't know this and was freaking. "Look out below!"
~*~*~
Down below the falling child and terrified feline, the streets were busy with a crowd of bustling people. The unsuspecting group of citizens was composed had not exactly heard Usagi's words as she had been much too far up in the air for her voice to reach. Though, one person did happen to hear. It a tall man with pure black hair; a man who was always on the look out for trouble no matter how small or big.
"Huh?" He looked up just in time to see Usagi, holding Luna close, and falling right towards him. He groaned with annoyance. He was pretty sure who it was, though he couldn't exactly see the girls' face. 'Not again. I thought she finally went home.'
~*~*~
"Look out!" Usagi yelled as she got closer and closer to the tall figure below. She frowned when he didn't do anything except just stand there. 'How annoying. Why does he just stand there?' She looked down and angled her body so that she would have missed him, but that idiotic man kept moving right under her. She raised her power level in annoyance to slow enough so she wouldn't hurt the moron who still wouldn't move. Unfortunately he moved just so at the last second that she fell right on top of his head.
"HEY!" He cried out. Usagi had landed with her legs around his neck and stomach over his face. "I thought you knew how to fall by now." He noticed something jump out of the girl's hand and run away for safer ground. He was pretty sure of who it was.
Usagi frowned as she looked down at the struggling citizen, who was now acting as her chair. "Well maybe you should get out of the way when someone tells you to."
The man below stopped struggling as he became stunned at the child's voice. "You're not her."
Usagi frowned harder when the man put his hands around her waist, and then she realized exactly HOW she was sitting. "You PERVERT!" She raised her hand and started slapping him upside the head. "Just wait until my dad hears about this!"
"What are you talking about?!" The now angry man ripped Usagi off of his face and threw her down onto the ground.
Usagi didn't waste any time jumping up to her feet. "You know what I'm talking about. You were trying to look up my dress. That's why you grabbed my waist and moved under me! You meant for me to land like this. That's why you kept moving!" She lunged herself at him, violently shoving him away from her so he wouldn't try anything. "My mom warned me about people like you!" He didn't respond to her. He was both shocked at her accusations as well as her appearance. "Don't come any closer unless you want me to call for my..." Usagi stopped to take a better look at her supposed attacker. He looked rather familiar, though; too old to be who she thought he was. He appeared to be an adult of at least twenty years old, if not older. "Mamoru?"
"Now look here little girl...wait a minute..." He looked harder at the girl, though he didn't quite recognize her form, she seemed eerily familiar. "Yes, I am Mamoru. How did you know my name?"
Usagi frowned as she shook her head in pure disgust. "Look at yourself, Mamoru. You're all grown. Did you think that while I was gone that you could steal my Dragon Ball and the others to make yourself older? HOW DARE YOU!"
Mamoru backed away from the angry child, who appeared to want to attack him for she was crouching into her fighting stance. "Look, kid, I don't know what you're talking about. I don't know what these Drag..."
"Mamoru, you know that my Dragon Ball is special to me. My dad gave it to me and you USED it. It's the only possible reason why you could have grown so fast. I thought we fixed things up between us, but I guess I was wrong. You're just as mean and nasty as ever! What would Monoko think if she saw you now?"
Mamoru frowned. "Kid, I think you have the wrong Mamoru. I don't know who you or this Monoko is. I don't know of these Dragon Balls. Go run along and play your game with your friends." He examined her more. 'Those Odangos...'
Usagi narrowed her eyes. "I am Usagi."
Mamoru stepped back with a gasp. "What?! USAKO?! Is that really YOU?!"
That was about all that Usagi could handle at that point. Just the thought of having a pet name was sickening in itself, but to have HIM call her one was just outrageous. She wouldn't stand for it. "That's it. Get ready Mamoru, we're going to spar, right here, right now. Unless you apologize for being a pervert, who stole my Dragon Ball just to make yourself older!"
Mamoru, himself, was beginning to become frustrated with Usagi. He had never heard such an insubordinate child. But, he couldn't blame her. If she was in fact his Usagi, then she must have been more than just a bit stressed out about being turned into a kid. "I'm not fighting you, Usako. I don't want to hurt you. Now why don't you just tell me what happened?"
Usagi glared harder at her rival. "Why don't you apologize?"
"FINE! I'm sorry that I acted like a pervert. Happy?" Usagi didn't answer; instead, she just crossed her arms and scowled at him. "What now?"
"You didn't apologize for stealing my Dragon Ball. You know you're going to have to find it again, right? I don't even know how dad let you get it anyway." And then it hit her. Her parents. They must have been worried sick about her, wondering if she would ever be able to return.
"I told you I don't know what this Dragon Ball stuff is. I've apologized for all that needs to be apologized for. I naturally grew to this age so deal with it. Now why don't you apologize for being so rude to me? I did nothing."
Usagi frowned. "Lying is a bit much. I thought Piccolo taught you better than to lie. And after all we went through last summer to make you better." Usagi was tired of hearing his lies and, therefore, resulted in throwing a swift punch at his stomach, which he failed to defend.
Mamoru went flying down to the ground, unable to breathe. "Usako? What....what's wrong with...you?"
Stunned, Usagi stared down at her rival. "Mamoru? Why didn't you try to block? And what's with the acting? That little love tap couldn't of hurt you." Mamoru didn't answer. Instead, he just tried to catch his breath. "Uh, ok, Mamoru, I'm going to leave now. When I return, you're going to act normal again. You're just weirding me out right now and I can't handle it. I've been through too much today." She slowly turned around and walked over to the building alley that Luna was waiting for her in.
Luna looked out to the street at the man who lay there, unable to move. "Do you know him?"
Usagi looked over her shoulder. "I have no idea. He's acting strange. But I know one thing; he had to have used the Dragon Balls to make himself older. How else could he have aged so..." She paused as she came to realize the reality of her situation. "Luna?"
"Yes?"
"What if we were in the Dark Kingdom for long time?"
"We were only there for a few hours, Usagi."
"But what if a few hours there means years here?" Usagi's face grew pale at the thought. That would mean that all of her friends were about fifteen or older. She would be the same age as Hotaru now, but her parents, not much would have changed there except that they would have given up hope on her and probably thought that she was dead. "Luna I'm scared."
"Don't be, Usagi."
Usagi slumped over as she leaned against a brick building. "But why didn't mom and dad use the Dragon Balls to get me back? Maybe they couldn't because of the Dark Energy. Maybe it wouldn't let the Dragon do his work..."
Luna jumped into Usagi's lap with a frown. "Usagi, as much as I would like to sympathize with you, we have more important things to work with. I have to brief you on your mission as a Sailor Senshi. Beryl and her minions could attack at any time. They could show up in any form so be careful."
Usagi's eyes were filled once again with lost hope. She didn't want to think about living in a world where everything she ever knew was changed, different from the norm. "What's the use? What's to fight for if not those you love?"
Luna sighed. "Usagi, I'm sure that everything is fine, but you really do need to listen to me."
Usagi nodded with tears in her eyes and bleakly replies. "Ok."
"Usagi, you are a legendary warrior from long, long ago. You are one of those who protected the Moon Princess, Serenity, of the Sliver Millennium of the Moon.
Usagi couldn't help but laugh at that. "So what are you saying? That this is my second life? That Daddy and Mom aren't my real parents?"
Luna shook her head. "No, well, sort of. You were reborn to them, so they too are also your parents. You were just born with Moon power as well as your Saiyan and Human power. But I'm not the one who can explain this part. You will have to listen to someone else, someone with more power."
"Oh, you mean I'm reincarnated, like a lot of anime characters and have two sets of parents, like people have two sets of grandparents. Why didn't you just say so?"
Usagi's head dropped again when a sudden silence filled the area. She tried to stop herself from thinking of her friends and family going for years and years thinking that she was dead when she really wasn't. "Why were you in my dreams? I've been dreaming about you as far back as I can remember."
"Because, I am your guardian, of sorts. I am to guide you and make sure you choose the right decisions."
"Ok, I'll go with that. You seem to know a lot of that DARK ENERGY. What is it? Who was that queen lady? She's been haunting me for years."
"That was queen beryl. She and her queen Metallia have been fighting you for years. She wants your energy since you, as Senshi of the moon, have the greatest power."
Usagi's eyes widened. "There's more Senshi than just me?"
"Yes. There is the Senshi of fire, Mars, The Senshi of Ice, Mercury, the Senshi of love, Venus, and the Senshi of lightning, Jupiter. There are others but those are the main."
"Wow. That's amazing, who are the others?"
"I'm not sure. My partner is searching for them. The others are the Senshi of time, Pluto, the Senshi of wind, Uranus, and Senshi of water, Neptune, and the Senshi of destruction, Saturn, who should never be awakened."
"Why?"
"If she is, the world will be destroyed. Her power is too great for even her to use for, whenever she does, she dies and gets reborn shortly after."
"Oh no prob. All we have to do is train her in the art of Ki-Jitsu and help her get strong." Little does she know that she's already had a year of training. "Me and my friends and family can take care of anything that comes along. Wait until mom and dad hears about this."
"You must NEVER tell anyone of yourself! EVER! Not even your friends or FAMILY! GOT THAT!"
Usagi was stunned by Luna's reaction. "Now hang on. I don't lie to my parents...much. And not about something like this. Why shouldn't I?"
"It's not safe. You never know whom you can trust. Your friends or family may be possessed with the enemy, it's just safe not to."
"Ok, Luna. I promise not to tell, ANYONE. But how will I keep my identity a secret? My family knows my energy like the back of their hands. Dad always keeps close attention to me cause he doesn't want me to get into any trouble again. He hasn't really trusted me again since Cell."
Luna grinned. "Leave that up to your planetary power. It masks your regular power. I'm sure Mercury and Mars can come up with a way to send off a signal of your regular energy to make it appear like you are in a certain place while you are fighting in your Senshi form. I just don't know how Beryl got out so much earlier than you."
"Huh? What do you mean?"
"She has been out in the world for almost thirty years now. The guardian of time told me."
"The guardian of time is Pluto, right? She's a Senshi too?! WHY DID SHE MAKE ME STAY THERE IN THE PAST!? She knew I was Sailor Moon all along, she had to have!"
"Usagi calm down. She had her reasons. But Beryl and Metallia shouldn't have gotten out so much earlier than you. They must have somehow escaped."
"We have to get to the bottom of this." She thought of her father. "Wait, dad won't feel beryl, will he? I know no one felt Cell's dark energy except for me and my friends."
'Her friends felt it? That means that they must be Senshi too.' "That is correct, Usagi. Only those with Celestial power can feel and fight against dark energy. The others are all nullified by it. Celestial power has the same effect. This will be something you and the other Senshi will have to do on your own."
Usagi stretched as she stood to her feet. "Well I don't like this situation one bit, but I guess I have to deal with it because I'm already in the middle of it."
Luna nodded. "You should go check on your friend to make sure that he's ok. I'll stay here and watch your progress."
"Ok." Usagi emerged from the alley, leaving Luna behind like she had been told to do. 'I really hope that Mamoru DID only use the Dragon Balls to get older otherwise my life as I know it is over.' "Mamoru!" She looked around the street, which was now pretty much empty whereas only a few moments ago, it was filled with people.
"Mamoru? Where are you?" Usagi walked further out into the street, only to find herself being attacked from behind. "HEY!" She jumped over the lunging figure, and turned to be standing face to face with Tuxedo Kamen. "Mamoru? Is that you?" A few giggles bubbled their way out of her mouth. "What's with the getup? I thought you liked to wear your black GI when you fought."
Tuxedo Kamen said nothing. Instead, he threw a single rose at Usagi, who easily dodged. "What the heck, Mamoru? What's wrong with you?"
Tuxedo Kamen dashed for Usagi and swung at her face. Usagi, thinking that he was almost as strong as Piccolo since she had not yet read his power level, dodged and brought her elbow down into his back, causing him to fall flat on his face into the ground. "Mamoru? Does your dad know that you're fighting like this? This is almost better then him in Mickey Mouse ears."
Tuxedo Kamen growled as he tried to push himself up, but it was no use. The hit from Usagi had knocked the wind out of him. "I have no father."
That only caused Usagi to gasp. 'Oh no. Piccolo is dead. Poor Mamoru.'
~*~*~
All the while this was happening, high on the rooftop of a near-by building stood five Sailor Senshi. One Eternal, and four Super.
Moon turned to her comrade in blue. "Is that her, Mercury?"
Mercury nodded. "Yes. She's emitting strong Dark energy." She punched in a few buttons on her computer to examine her closer. "But she also seems to have some strange DNA. Something besides the Dark energy. Both powers are effecting my scans."
Venus smirked as she walked to the edge of the building. "So, the Dark Kingdom has decided to come back to us, huh? I guess we'll just have to show them who's boss again, right Sailor Moon?"
Moon nodded with a smirk. "This time we won't have to rely on the Crystal for help. We're so much stronger then back then. Let's go defeat that monster." 'I wonder why they tried to make it look like me.' The five Senshi jumped down off the roof of the building onto some crates and then down to the street, where Mamoru and Usagi were still arguing.
~*~*~
"MAMO-CHAN!"
Mamoru's eyes widened at the sound of Sailor Moon's voice. "Wait a minute." He saw the five of them approaching his location. He looked up to Usagi, who glared down at him. "You're not Usagi."
Usagi, who was no longer looking down at her fallen rival, froze at the sound of her own voice, which sounded older. "Whoa...wait a minute." She slowly turned around with caution, only to be standing face to face with the Sailor Senshi, who appeared to be sixteen years of age. "Who are you!?"
Jupiter stepped forward with her anger written in her eyes as Moon ran to Tuxedo Kamen. "I might ask you the same question, kid."
'She looks like Makoto.' "I'm Usagi! WHO are you?" She paid close attention to the outfits in which the girls in front of her were wearing. They closely resembled her own sailor outfit.
"We are the Sailor Senshi! And you, are with the Dark Kingdom, we already know that because you are emitting their energy." Mars began building up for an attack. "We don't know how you got here again, but we aren't letting you destroy our home."
'It must be because I was in their castle and they kept hitting me with that stuff that I'm covered with their energy. I've felt the need for a bath since I got there. No matter. These guys can't fool me for one second.' Usagi gasped as she looked over her shoulder to the couple behind her. 'These guys are nuts. They're trying to make me lose concentration. It's obvious. They must have followed me here. That means that guy back there isn't Mamoru at all. No matter though. I can easily take them out. I mean, their power level is horrible.' "Ok. Fight me then." 'I hope daddy feels me power up so he knows that I'm here.'
Jupiter smirked. "Ok. But, just know, we've never once lost and we don't plan on losing now either."
Usagi grinned. "Neither have I. You guys don't know what you're in for." Usagi firmly planted her feet on the ground as hard as she could as she began to summon her power out in hopes to defeat the enemy. She hoped that she wouldn't have to transform to beat them. She didn't want to do it in front of the entire city.
"Wait!" Moon cried out, causing the entire group, as well as Usagi to halt what they were doing and look back at her. "We have to get Mamoru to a safe place."
Usagi smirked. "Don't try to act like you've got hearts. I've been warned about your kind."
Jupiter frowned. "Enough talk. Sailor Moon, take Mamoru to a nearby building. This shouldn't take long."
Moon nodded as she lifted Tuxedo Kamen up off the ground. "Right. I'll be back in a flash."
"You're not escaping." Usagi turned around and grabbed Mamoru away from the supposed Sailor Moon and threw him to the side. 'I'm not making the same mistake that I did when I fought Cell. No more underestimating these guys. Even though, they are doing a great job of masking their dark energy.' "Your fight is with me." She turned to Moon with a grin. "Let's get this going, shall we. Since you're trying hard to look like me, I'll start with you."
Moon nodded. "Alright. You won't win though." She pulled out her moon rod.
"See, if you were really me, you wouldn't need that thing at all."
"Attack all at once, girls. This one is going to be tough."
Mercury pulled out her computer. "Yes. You're right. As if her amount of Dark energy isn't bad enough, she seems to have almost the same kind of DNA as our partner. But something else that I can't read as well. She could be a clone of some sort." She put her computer away and readied herself for an attack.
Usagi did nothing but cross her arms as she stood inside a circle, which was created by the Senshi. "Throw everything you've got at me." The Senshi didn't hesitate one tiny bit. They had been through the Dark Kingdom before and they didn't exactly feel like going through it again. They wanted to end the threat once and for all.
Usagi grinned as she saw the five attacks from the girls fast approaching her. "Let's see how much fun I can make this." She lifted her tail and began batting the individual attacks away with it as fast as she could. Each time her tail and an attack made contact, it ricocheted off her tail and onto one of her attackers, causing them to fall back. "It's like a baseball bat. Neato!!"
Tuxedo Kamen struggled against the pain in his stomach to sit up and watch the girls fall. "That kid has a tail...? Wouldn't that make her a...?"
Usagi continued to bat the attacks away with her tail. Though she had wonderful aim and hit her targets every time, they always seemed to be able to recuperate easily. "Don't you guys ever give up?" She looked up into the sky. 'I wonder where everyone is? Why aren't they coming?'
~*~*~
~~The dark Castle~~
Queen Beryl walked back into her lair with a menacing rage. She had expected for her portal to still be where she had left it, but it had in fact, been gone and she was certain who had used it. "That Moon brat has done it again. The power I had to use to open it was extreme now I have no energy left to open it again! I don't have the benefit of getting HER energy anymore. Now I have to catch her all over again. GUARDS!"
Her most trusted minion ran into the room and bowed to her knees. "Yes your majesty?"
Beryl glared down at the woman. "Prepare to use the energy that we gained from Usagi all those years ago."
Confused, the woman looked up to her queen. "You're majesty, I don't quite understand. I thought that was supposed to be used to strengthen us."
"Silence! It is too much of a crucial time to be waiting around for my energy to be replenished. It seems as though the Moon brat has jumped through my portal so any hope of getting the other Sailor Moon's power is over. Not that it matters though, she was much too powerful to try and conquer."
The woman nodded. "Your bidding will be done at once."
Beryl smirked with evil intentions. "She will not get away again. She will be mine."
~*~*~
~~Back in the City~~
Usagi had had enough of playing baseball with her tail and the Senshi's attacks. She wasn't getting anywhere at all and she knew, that if there was any hope of actually defeating them that she would have to launch some of her own attacks. "You guys are boring." She hurled herself into the air, high above the Senshi. "You Dark Kingdom people are tough against your own power, but let's see how well you can defend against the power of the Kamehameha!"
The Senshi immediately stopped their attacks when it was obvious that their enemy was not in their line of fire anymore. Mars looked up. She seemed to be the only one who was able to sense the power that was building up inside the child's hands. "Uh, guys? She's getting a major build up...oh cripes, Mercury, what does your computer say?"
Mercury once again pulled her computer out. "I don't know. It's going crazy. The power seems to be too much for the computer to read."
Moon, who was back with Mamoru, looked up to her fellow fighters. "Why is she so resistant to our power?"
Mercury shook her head with frustration. "I have no idea." The computer in her hands began to smoke and shoot our sparks. "Great. Just great, now it's malfunctioning."
"KA-MA-HA..."
"USAGI!" A small voice from a close-by alley yelled out just loud enough for Usagi's Saiyan hearing to pick up. Luna didn't want any of the enemies to hear her. Usagi paused her attack and looked down to her cat friend. "You won't be able to beat them with just your Saiyan and human powers, remember? They're part of the Dark Kingdom."
Usagi looked back down to the group, and especially to the one who was meant to be her. 'That's not me or Mamoru. We would never act like that with each other.' She shuddered at the thought of giving each other pet names. 'That's right though. I guess I'm going to have to transform. Should I do it in front of them, though? I mean, they already know that I'm Sailor Moon and all...' She stopped her energy flow to her Kamehameha wave, causing the power to just disappear. She pulled out her Moon Locket that Luna had given her and held it high above her head. "Moon Crystal Power...Make-Up!"
Eternal Sailor Moon widened her eyes at the sight before her. The little girl, who was thought to be part of the Dark Kingdom, had just transformed right before her very eyes. "WHAAAAAA?! WHAT'S HAPPENING!? THA...THAT'S....ME?! AND THAT ENERGY, I'D KNOW IT ANYWHERE!!"
Mamoru looked up to the girl with fear. 'Flying? I only know one other person who can fly like that as well as produce energy attacks without any special device.'
Usagi, now Sailor Moon, smirked down at the flabbergasted crowd. "How do you like that?" She let her eyes wander over to Eternal Sailor Moon with a frown. 'She could never be me.' She pulled back her hands to be by her side again and built up another Kamehameha blast. "I don't know what you've done with my family and friends because they aren't coming to help me, but let me assure you, you aren't getting away with it. KAMEHAME..."
At that moment, a pink cloud appeared overhead and an object from on her head from above. "Now what?" Instead of concentrating on what she was doing, she concentrated more on the annoying interruption, causing her to fall to the ground, flat on her face with a body sitting directly atop. "Get off." Sailor Moon jumped up, throwing her new enemy backwards. Grumbling to herself, she looked over to see her attacker, only to see a girl her age in a Pink Sailor Uniform.
The new girl stood up and brushed herself off, not even paying attention to her friends, who were dumbfounded by her appearance. "You dare attack the Champions of Justice, I, Sailor Chibi-Moon, will not tolerate that! For daring to impersonate the Senshi of the Moon, I shall punish you!"
Sailor Moon looked directly into the serious eyes of the girl in Pink. She reached out her senses to get a good reading on her Power signature, which was nearly nothing. At that point, she didn't the only thing that she could think of. She fell down laughing at the top of her lungs. "HAHAHAHA!! That was a good one! You had me going for a while when you fell down on me! You Dark Kingdom people won't stop at anything, will you? HAHAHA! You're the ones impersonating me! Oh god, they must take lessons from the Ginyu force."
At that moment, in came Uranus, Neptune, and Saturn to help. "Chibi-Moon!" Saturn cried out, with her Glaive at hand. The laughing child on the ground didn't even realize that she had shown up.
Chibi-Moon looked back towards Saturn with a smile. "Uranus! Neptune! Saturn!"
Uranus smirked down at the laughing child. "Who's that supposed to be?"
Venus shrugged. "We don't know. She seems to be from the Dark Kingdom, but is a little bit too strong for that group."
Chibi-Moon looked back down at Sailor Moon. The laughing definitely didn't sit well with Chibi-Moon. "You're not doing a very good job at keeping yourself focused." She growled as she prepared to attack. No longer having the Bell, she pulled out her Heart Moon Rod. "Pink Sugar Heart Attack!"
Eternal Sailor Moon jumped to he feet and stepped forward to her future daughter. "Chibi-Moon, that won't help! It's too weak get away!"
Chibi-Moon glared at the fraud from the Dark Kingdom as her Heart Moon Rod began pouring out its energy. 'How dare she say that we, of all people, are from the Dark Kingdom?'
Sailor Moon snickered at the power level of the attack. 'What can that possibly do to me? I get worse from Vejita. It can't effect me.' How wrong she was. Within seconds, the blast made contact with her body and forced her to the ground to writhe from the effects.
Elder Sailor Moon rushed to Chibi-Moon, seeing that she had continued the attack much longer than it had needed. "Chibi-Moon, stop. You might really hurt her." She grabbed her by the shoulders and tried to make her stop, but Chibi-Moon refused. She had been warned by her mother in the future to not take any chances.
"She has to be stopped. Mommy said that she's strong enough to actually destroy us and not to let her attack. Then the future would be ruined."
Elder Sailor Moon looked down at the squirming foe. "But don't make her suffer. Here, I'll finish her off." She pulled out her own Eternal Moon Rod and held it out. "Silver Moon..." She paused when she heard an unwelcome sound coming from their opponent.
Down on the ground was Younger Sailor Moon full of giggles. "Stop...stop..." She could barely speak she was laughing so hard. "You're tickling me. I can't...stand it!" Her giggles became louder as she squirmed on the ground.
The outer Senshi looked on the matter and decided to take things into their own hands. Together they added their attacks to Chibi Moon, but the effect was not what they planned.
"STOP. STOP. THIS TICKLES TO MUCH."
Elder Sailor Moon pulled down her Moon Rod and looked down at the imposter. "Tickling?" She looked back to Ami for answers. "What's GOING ON!?"
Mercury, who was still unable to get a full read on her turned a severe frown at Sailor Moon. "She's too powerful, you have to destroy her."
The others added their encouragement to her, and she powered up her attack. 'Why does this feel wrong?'
Chibi-Moon frowned at the girl on the ground as she halted her attack. She had always at least injured an enemy, but the girl was obviously being tickled. Why?
As Eternal Sailor Moon's attack raced towards her laughing foe, the others discontinued their useless attacks, knowing that this power would surly destroy it. The blast created a huge explosion at ground zero and smoke and dust covered the scene. But as it faded, they were shocked that their foe actually grinned up at them, looking like she felt wonderful.
Chibi-Moon glared at her and interrogates her. "Alright, who are you?"
Still laughing as hard as she could, younger Sailor Moon tired to stand to her feet. "Man, you guys, this is great. I've never met such a fun enemy." She smiled around to the faces of everyone who looked like her friends, but she knew that it had to be a disguise.
Jupiter jumped to the imposter. "We are NOT the enemy. You are. You came here after all these years and attacked Mamoru."
Young Sailor Moon frowned at that reminder. "He looked up my dress! The pervert!"
Elder Sailor Moon turned to Tuxedo Kamen with a glare. "MAMORU!"
"It was an accident!"
She didn't take that as a valid answer. Instead, she just walked to him and slapped him across the face. "How could you do that to me?"
Young Sailor Moon snorted. "You? Think about the emotional stress it put on me. I was the one violated." She grinned. "Think about what my dad's going to do what he hears about that. You're going down big time. Of course that's after I finish with you."
"I was trying to save you. You were falling from the sky. I thought you were Chibi-Moon." But Tuxedo Kamen wasn't exactly concerned about that topic. He was more concerned about what had just happened. He looked at the two females who both claimed to be Sailor Moon. "What's going on? We aren't the enemy, and this kid claims that she's not the enemy."
Elder Moon forgot about the previous situation and looked over to the girl, who appeared to be a valid Sailor Moon. "Who are you for real, kid? You're pretty strong, too strong to be with the Dark Kingdom. We should have been able to beat you easily."
Mercury had already pulled out her computer and began analyzing young Sailor Moon by that time. "The dark energy, it's gone. Believe it or not, she has Moon energy in her body. She is, in fact, part Lunarian. One-third Lunarian. One third Human, and one third..................Saiyan."
"WHAT?!" Elder Moon ran to the smaller version of what appeared to be herself. "But how is that possible?" She lifted up her hair and placed her hand on one of her Odangos. "She looks almost exactly like me."
Young Sailor Moon looked up at Elder Sailor Moon with curiosity. "In answer to your question, I am Son Usagi. Who might you be?" She detransformed back into her civilian self and put her brooch away. These peoples' energy was too pure to be evil.
Elder Sailor Moon did the same, which was a signal for the rest. "Tsukino Usagi."
Son Usagi looked away from her older self and over to the girls who were grouping behind. "What's going on? You guys look like my friends, only older." 'Wait just a second. How can there be an older me AND them?' She looked back up to her older self. "You're me then, aren't you?"
Tsukino Usagi nodded. "That's what it looks like."
Son Usagi looked down to the ground and thought about her current situation. She thought back to the events that had led to this. How she was running away from the enemy with Luna. How they stumbled across the portal and jumped through. And then it hit her. "I must be in another dimension. That's gotta be it. That stupid portal wasn't to my world." 'Why does this always happen to me?' "This means that my friends are Senshi, too."
Mamoru walked up from behind, with the other girls, and looked down at Son Usagi. "Another dimension, huh? Well, that would explain a lot." He put his hands around his Usagi's shoulders just as Luna merged into the group next to Son Usagi.
Tsukino Usagi smiled. "That's the only possible answer. That's why you have Moon power in you. And why Ami's computer says you're me. And why the crystal reacts to you as it does, shining in your presence, yet not hurting you at all with its power when I attacked. Ha! And you said reading comics was a waste of time, Luna." She said to her own Luna, who had come to stand by her side.
Son Usagi giggled. "As if. You can learn a lot of time, space, and different dimensions from it."
Ami was still quite curious about one thing. She needed to know the answer before anything else went on. "Why did you feel like the Dark Kingdom? The Dark energy level that was around you was mind boggling. You are the keeper of the Moon power, yet you felt so evil."
Son Usagi looked down to her Luna. "Uh..." She looked up again, not getting any help from Luna. "I think it was because right before I came here, I was attacked and taken away from my home and brought to the Dark Kingdom itself by this lady named Beryl. They kept a lot of energy around me to keep me there. But that blast from the other me washed it away. You know, I bet it was because of that energy that my parents couldn't feel me. If they're even in THIS dimension."
The girls from the other dimension exchanged quick glances back and forth to each other. Rei looked back down to Son Usagi. "You're up against a tough foe."
Son Usagi smirked. "I'm pretty tough myself. I already fought this guy named Cell who was sent by her. Me and my friends barely beat him, but we managed." The entire crowd froze at the name of Cell. "What's the matter?"
Tsukino Usagi shook her head. "N...nothing."
Ami curiously gazed down at the child. There was no doubt that this girl and their Usagi were the same people. The were identical in appearance as well as their state of mind. "What I want to know is why the Moon Princess has been revealed at such an early age."
Son Usagi's eyes widened at the statement as well as thought of being the Moon Princess, who Luna had spoke of before they had jumped into the portal. "What? I'M the Moon Princess?" She glared down at her Luna. "You said I was the warrior of the Moon and had to protect the Moon Princess."
Embarrassed, Son Luna stammered her answer. "Well yes, of course you are. You just weren't quite ready to know of your true self yet."
Tsukino Usagi burst out with laughter at that one. "Kid, lesson one. All Luna's think with their pride. They tend to make stuff up as they go along. And when they are found wrong, they try to make it seem as if they knew all along. Watch her with that. Make sure she starts to use the terms, 'this is what I think it is,' when she isn't sure, otherwise it gets too confusing. She had no clue that you were the Moon Princess."
Tsukino Luna glared up at her Usagi. "And just what is that supposed to mean?"
Tsukino Usagi grinned. "Well let's see. Tuxedo Kamen may be the enemy, be wary around him. Careful around Ami, she may be the enemy. That priestess may be the enemy, be careful around her. I could go on for a long while if you want."
Tsukino Luna blushed as she grumbled. "What do whinny airheads know anyway?"
'I'm the Moon Princess? Me? A Princess? But then, why was I born to mommy and daddy? They aren't royalty. This doesn't make any sense.' Son Usagi was still more than a little curious about this world. Everything seemed to be backwards. Mamoru was nice, Usagi seemed to be a bit of a klutz as well as too soft hearted when it came to fighting. "But, who's the pink-haired girl? I've never met her, ever."
Before anyone could respond, Chibi-Usa walked behind Son Usagi and reached out for the wagging tail. "If she's my mommy, why does she have a tail?" With the tail comfortably resting in her hands, she tugged on it, getting virtually no response from Son Usagi.
"What?!" Son Usagi looked up to her older self. "You're her mom?! Who's the father then?"
Minako answered, not thinking of the possible consequences. "Why, Mamoru of course. Who else?" That earned her a look from both Mamoru as well as Tsukino Usagi. They did not at all appreciate her telling of their secret. The other Usagi had obviously not learned that bit of information yet, and who knows, her life has been different this far, maybe she wasn't even meant to know or even have Chibi-Usa.
Mamoru glared at her the hardest though. "You shouldn't have told her that. It could cause troubles for her to know too early." Blushing, Minako nodded.
Son Usagi couldn't hold her tongue any longer. "WAIT A SECOND!!! I have a kid with that JERK Mamoru? Ok, maybe he's getting better, but still. And just when did you have her? Man, mom and dad must have had a fit. You're so young to have her." She didn't even want to think about how her parents would react if she came home pregnant before she was married, let alone before she was out of school.
Blushing a beet red, the two found themselves at a loss for words. Son Luna glared at the couple, who were now hand in hand. "Usagi, she is much too young to have a child at that age. It's impossible."
Smirking at her ability to show off, Tsukino Luna addressed her. "True, except for one thing. She's from the future."
Tsukino Usagi glared down at her Luna. "Aren't you now giving away further information to her, fur ball?"
Son Usagi looked at Chibi-Usa in awe. 'That would make her my kid? Wow. So now I went into the past, and so did my kid. COOL!'
"And yes, we do have child. We love each other." Mamoru put his arm around Tsukino Usagi. "One thing is still on my mind though, why did you call me a jerk?"
Son Usagi frowned. "Because where I come from, we are rivals."
Tsukino Usagi obviously didn't understand. "We were rivals here for a while."
"Did he attack you when you were six years old and then leave you for dead so you could be picked up by your dad? Did he ever blow off your arm with Haruka?"
Tsukino Usagi's eyes went wide as she became almost speechless. "Oooooooh..."
Haruka paled at the thought of hurting her princess.
A pale Mamoru actually managed to respond though. "Wow, things are interesting where you come from. Usagi, I can honestly say that I'm not mean here. I would never hurt anyone on purpose."
Son Usagi stuck out her tongue in disgust. "No offense, but the thought of marrying you and having a kid with you is just gross."
Mamoru chuckled. "Thanks. I needed that self-esteem booster."
Usagi let her eyes wander over to Hotaru, who stood behind the still dazed Tsukino Usagi. "Wow, you're actually older than me here. Cool."
Grinning at her, Hotaru smiled. "Well if it weren't for you saving me from Pharaoh Ninety and my own power, I wouldn't even be here today."
Son Usagi was having a bit of her own confusion now. "Your power?"
"Yes, young Princess, her power."
Knowing that voice all too well, Son Usagi turned to a tall woman with long black hair. She wore a Sailor Outfit with the color of black and held a long staff in her hands. She was emerging from a black portal. "Oh. My. Gosh."
Tsukino Usagi; "PLUTO."
Chibi-Usa smiled with Excitement. "Puu."
Son Usagi was still trying to grasp that she was in another dimension let alone the fact that she had a million questions for Sailor Pluto. "You're the Guardian of Time from the cell battle." Stalking over to her, she picked her up, one handed. "OK, WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA MESSING WITH MY LIFE?" Pluto looked into the younger princess' eyes, which blazed with fire and gulped.
(Keepin this part short today. I know, I know, I put one mess on top of the other... ^_^ but that's me for ya. Gotta run! Ja Ne!)
Through the resistance, Usagi reached out and wrapped her arms around Luna so when they landed on the ground, she wouldn't hurt herself. Usagi had planned on letting herself fall until she was about to hit the ground, when she would raise her power level and do a power land. It had been awhile since she had landed from a fall of this height and would be good practice. Of course Luna didn't know this and was freaking. "Look out below!"
~*~*~
Down below the falling child and terrified feline, the streets were busy with a crowd of bustling people. The unsuspecting group of citizens was composed had not exactly heard Usagi's words as she had been much too far up in the air for her voice to reach. Though, one person did happen to hear. It a tall man with pure black hair; a man who was always on the look out for trouble no matter how small or big.
"Huh?" He looked up just in time to see Usagi, holding Luna close, and falling right towards him. He groaned with annoyance. He was pretty sure who it was, though he couldn't exactly see the girls' face. 'Not again. I thought she finally went home.'
~*~*~
"Look out!" Usagi yelled as she got closer and closer to the tall figure below. She frowned when he didn't do anything except just stand there. 'How annoying. Why does he just stand there?' She looked down and angled her body so that she would have missed him, but that idiotic man kept moving right under her. She raised her power level in annoyance to slow enough so she wouldn't hurt the moron who still wouldn't move. Unfortunately he moved just so at the last second that she fell right on top of his head.
"HEY!" He cried out. Usagi had landed with her legs around his neck and stomach over his face. "I thought you knew how to fall by now." He noticed something jump out of the girl's hand and run away for safer ground. He was pretty sure of who it was.
Usagi frowned as she looked down at the struggling citizen, who was now acting as her chair. "Well maybe you should get out of the way when someone tells you to."
The man below stopped struggling as he became stunned at the child's voice. "You're not her."
Usagi frowned harder when the man put his hands around her waist, and then she realized exactly HOW she was sitting. "You PERVERT!" She raised her hand and started slapping him upside the head. "Just wait until my dad hears about this!"
"What are you talking about?!" The now angry man ripped Usagi off of his face and threw her down onto the ground.
Usagi didn't waste any time jumping up to her feet. "You know what I'm talking about. You were trying to look up my dress. That's why you grabbed my waist and moved under me! You meant for me to land like this. That's why you kept moving!" She lunged herself at him, violently shoving him away from her so he wouldn't try anything. "My mom warned me about people like you!" He didn't respond to her. He was both shocked at her accusations as well as her appearance. "Don't come any closer unless you want me to call for my..." Usagi stopped to take a better look at her supposed attacker. He looked rather familiar, though; too old to be who she thought he was. He appeared to be an adult of at least twenty years old, if not older. "Mamoru?"
"Now look here little girl...wait a minute..." He looked harder at the girl, though he didn't quite recognize her form, she seemed eerily familiar. "Yes, I am Mamoru. How did you know my name?"
Usagi frowned as she shook her head in pure disgust. "Look at yourself, Mamoru. You're all grown. Did you think that while I was gone that you could steal my Dragon Ball and the others to make yourself older? HOW DARE YOU!"
Mamoru backed away from the angry child, who appeared to want to attack him for she was crouching into her fighting stance. "Look, kid, I don't know what you're talking about. I don't know what these Drag..."
"Mamoru, you know that my Dragon Ball is special to me. My dad gave it to me and you USED it. It's the only possible reason why you could have grown so fast. I thought we fixed things up between us, but I guess I was wrong. You're just as mean and nasty as ever! What would Monoko think if she saw you now?"
Mamoru frowned. "Kid, I think you have the wrong Mamoru. I don't know who you or this Monoko is. I don't know of these Dragon Balls. Go run along and play your game with your friends." He examined her more. 'Those Odangos...'
Usagi narrowed her eyes. "I am Usagi."
Mamoru stepped back with a gasp. "What?! USAKO?! Is that really YOU?!"
That was about all that Usagi could handle at that point. Just the thought of having a pet name was sickening in itself, but to have HIM call her one was just outrageous. She wouldn't stand for it. "That's it. Get ready Mamoru, we're going to spar, right here, right now. Unless you apologize for being a pervert, who stole my Dragon Ball just to make yourself older!"
Mamoru, himself, was beginning to become frustrated with Usagi. He had never heard such an insubordinate child. But, he couldn't blame her. If she was in fact his Usagi, then she must have been more than just a bit stressed out about being turned into a kid. "I'm not fighting you, Usako. I don't want to hurt you. Now why don't you just tell me what happened?"
Usagi glared harder at her rival. "Why don't you apologize?"
"FINE! I'm sorry that I acted like a pervert. Happy?" Usagi didn't answer; instead, she just crossed her arms and scowled at him. "What now?"
"You didn't apologize for stealing my Dragon Ball. You know you're going to have to find it again, right? I don't even know how dad let you get it anyway." And then it hit her. Her parents. They must have been worried sick about her, wondering if she would ever be able to return.
"I told you I don't know what this Dragon Ball stuff is. I've apologized for all that needs to be apologized for. I naturally grew to this age so deal with it. Now why don't you apologize for being so rude to me? I did nothing."
Usagi frowned. "Lying is a bit much. I thought Piccolo taught you better than to lie. And after all we went through last summer to make you better." Usagi was tired of hearing his lies and, therefore, resulted in throwing a swift punch at his stomach, which he failed to defend.
Mamoru went flying down to the ground, unable to breathe. "Usako? What....what's wrong with...you?"
Stunned, Usagi stared down at her rival. "Mamoru? Why didn't you try to block? And what's with the acting? That little love tap couldn't of hurt you." Mamoru didn't answer. Instead, he just tried to catch his breath. "Uh, ok, Mamoru, I'm going to leave now. When I return, you're going to act normal again. You're just weirding me out right now and I can't handle it. I've been through too much today." She slowly turned around and walked over to the building alley that Luna was waiting for her in.
Luna looked out to the street at the man who lay there, unable to move. "Do you know him?"
Usagi looked over her shoulder. "I have no idea. He's acting strange. But I know one thing; he had to have used the Dragon Balls to make himself older. How else could he have aged so..." She paused as she came to realize the reality of her situation. "Luna?"
"Yes?"
"What if we were in the Dark Kingdom for long time?"
"We were only there for a few hours, Usagi."
"But what if a few hours there means years here?" Usagi's face grew pale at the thought. That would mean that all of her friends were about fifteen or older. She would be the same age as Hotaru now, but her parents, not much would have changed there except that they would have given up hope on her and probably thought that she was dead. "Luna I'm scared."
"Don't be, Usagi."
Usagi slumped over as she leaned against a brick building. "But why didn't mom and dad use the Dragon Balls to get me back? Maybe they couldn't because of the Dark Energy. Maybe it wouldn't let the Dragon do his work..."
Luna jumped into Usagi's lap with a frown. "Usagi, as much as I would like to sympathize with you, we have more important things to work with. I have to brief you on your mission as a Sailor Senshi. Beryl and her minions could attack at any time. They could show up in any form so be careful."
Usagi's eyes were filled once again with lost hope. She didn't want to think about living in a world where everything she ever knew was changed, different from the norm. "What's the use? What's to fight for if not those you love?"
Luna sighed. "Usagi, I'm sure that everything is fine, but you really do need to listen to me."
Usagi nodded with tears in her eyes and bleakly replies. "Ok."
"Usagi, you are a legendary warrior from long, long ago. You are one of those who protected the Moon Princess, Serenity, of the Sliver Millennium of the Moon.
Usagi couldn't help but laugh at that. "So what are you saying? That this is my second life? That Daddy and Mom aren't my real parents?"
Luna shook her head. "No, well, sort of. You were reborn to them, so they too are also your parents. You were just born with Moon power as well as your Saiyan and Human power. But I'm not the one who can explain this part. You will have to listen to someone else, someone with more power."
"Oh, you mean I'm reincarnated, like a lot of anime characters and have two sets of parents, like people have two sets of grandparents. Why didn't you just say so?"
Usagi's head dropped again when a sudden silence filled the area. She tried to stop herself from thinking of her friends and family going for years and years thinking that she was dead when she really wasn't. "Why were you in my dreams? I've been dreaming about you as far back as I can remember."
"Because, I am your guardian, of sorts. I am to guide you and make sure you choose the right decisions."
"Ok, I'll go with that. You seem to know a lot of that DARK ENERGY. What is it? Who was that queen lady? She's been haunting me for years."
"That was queen beryl. She and her queen Metallia have been fighting you for years. She wants your energy since you, as Senshi of the moon, have the greatest power."
Usagi's eyes widened. "There's more Senshi than just me?"
"Yes. There is the Senshi of fire, Mars, The Senshi of Ice, Mercury, the Senshi of love, Venus, and the Senshi of lightning, Jupiter. There are others but those are the main."
"Wow. That's amazing, who are the others?"
"I'm not sure. My partner is searching for them. The others are the Senshi of time, Pluto, the Senshi of wind, Uranus, and Senshi of water, Neptune, and the Senshi of destruction, Saturn, who should never be awakened."
"Why?"
"If she is, the world will be destroyed. Her power is too great for even her to use for, whenever she does, she dies and gets reborn shortly after."
"Oh no prob. All we have to do is train her in the art of Ki-Jitsu and help her get strong." Little does she know that she's already had a year of training. "Me and my friends and family can take care of anything that comes along. Wait until mom and dad hears about this."
"You must NEVER tell anyone of yourself! EVER! Not even your friends or FAMILY! GOT THAT!"
Usagi was stunned by Luna's reaction. "Now hang on. I don't lie to my parents...much. And not about something like this. Why shouldn't I?"
"It's not safe. You never know whom you can trust. Your friends or family may be possessed with the enemy, it's just safe not to."
"Ok, Luna. I promise not to tell, ANYONE. But how will I keep my identity a secret? My family knows my energy like the back of their hands. Dad always keeps close attention to me cause he doesn't want me to get into any trouble again. He hasn't really trusted me again since Cell."
Luna grinned. "Leave that up to your planetary power. It masks your regular power. I'm sure Mercury and Mars can come up with a way to send off a signal of your regular energy to make it appear like you are in a certain place while you are fighting in your Senshi form. I just don't know how Beryl got out so much earlier than you."
"Huh? What do you mean?"
"She has been out in the world for almost thirty years now. The guardian of time told me."
"The guardian of time is Pluto, right? She's a Senshi too?! WHY DID SHE MAKE ME STAY THERE IN THE PAST!? She knew I was Sailor Moon all along, she had to have!"
"Usagi calm down. She had her reasons. But Beryl and Metallia shouldn't have gotten out so much earlier than you. They must have somehow escaped."
"We have to get to the bottom of this." She thought of her father. "Wait, dad won't feel beryl, will he? I know no one felt Cell's dark energy except for me and my friends."
'Her friends felt it? That means that they must be Senshi too.' "That is correct, Usagi. Only those with Celestial power can feel and fight against dark energy. The others are all nullified by it. Celestial power has the same effect. This will be something you and the other Senshi will have to do on your own."
Usagi stretched as she stood to her feet. "Well I don't like this situation one bit, but I guess I have to deal with it because I'm already in the middle of it."
Luna nodded. "You should go check on your friend to make sure that he's ok. I'll stay here and watch your progress."
"Ok." Usagi emerged from the alley, leaving Luna behind like she had been told to do. 'I really hope that Mamoru DID only use the Dragon Balls to get older otherwise my life as I know it is over.' "Mamoru!" She looked around the street, which was now pretty much empty whereas only a few moments ago, it was filled with people.
"Mamoru? Where are you?" Usagi walked further out into the street, only to find herself being attacked from behind. "HEY!" She jumped over the lunging figure, and turned to be standing face to face with Tuxedo Kamen. "Mamoru? Is that you?" A few giggles bubbled their way out of her mouth. "What's with the getup? I thought you liked to wear your black GI when you fought."
Tuxedo Kamen said nothing. Instead, he threw a single rose at Usagi, who easily dodged. "What the heck, Mamoru? What's wrong with you?"
Tuxedo Kamen dashed for Usagi and swung at her face. Usagi, thinking that he was almost as strong as Piccolo since she had not yet read his power level, dodged and brought her elbow down into his back, causing him to fall flat on his face into the ground. "Mamoru? Does your dad know that you're fighting like this? This is almost better then him in Mickey Mouse ears."
Tuxedo Kamen growled as he tried to push himself up, but it was no use. The hit from Usagi had knocked the wind out of him. "I have no father."
That only caused Usagi to gasp. 'Oh no. Piccolo is dead. Poor Mamoru.'
~*~*~
All the while this was happening, high on the rooftop of a near-by building stood five Sailor Senshi. One Eternal, and four Super.
Moon turned to her comrade in blue. "Is that her, Mercury?"
Mercury nodded. "Yes. She's emitting strong Dark energy." She punched in a few buttons on her computer to examine her closer. "But she also seems to have some strange DNA. Something besides the Dark energy. Both powers are effecting my scans."
Venus smirked as she walked to the edge of the building. "So, the Dark Kingdom has decided to come back to us, huh? I guess we'll just have to show them who's boss again, right Sailor Moon?"
Moon nodded with a smirk. "This time we won't have to rely on the Crystal for help. We're so much stronger then back then. Let's go defeat that monster." 'I wonder why they tried to make it look like me.' The five Senshi jumped down off the roof of the building onto some crates and then down to the street, where Mamoru and Usagi were still arguing.
~*~*~
"MAMO-CHAN!"
Mamoru's eyes widened at the sound of Sailor Moon's voice. "Wait a minute." He saw the five of them approaching his location. He looked up to Usagi, who glared down at him. "You're not Usagi."
Usagi, who was no longer looking down at her fallen rival, froze at the sound of her own voice, which sounded older. "Whoa...wait a minute." She slowly turned around with caution, only to be standing face to face with the Sailor Senshi, who appeared to be sixteen years of age. "Who are you!?"
Jupiter stepped forward with her anger written in her eyes as Moon ran to Tuxedo Kamen. "I might ask you the same question, kid."
'She looks like Makoto.' "I'm Usagi! WHO are you?" She paid close attention to the outfits in which the girls in front of her were wearing. They closely resembled her own sailor outfit.
"We are the Sailor Senshi! And you, are with the Dark Kingdom, we already know that because you are emitting their energy." Mars began building up for an attack. "We don't know how you got here again, but we aren't letting you destroy our home."
'It must be because I was in their castle and they kept hitting me with that stuff that I'm covered with their energy. I've felt the need for a bath since I got there. No matter. These guys can't fool me for one second.' Usagi gasped as she looked over her shoulder to the couple behind her. 'These guys are nuts. They're trying to make me lose concentration. It's obvious. They must have followed me here. That means that guy back there isn't Mamoru at all. No matter though. I can easily take them out. I mean, their power level is horrible.' "Ok. Fight me then." 'I hope daddy feels me power up so he knows that I'm here.'
Jupiter smirked. "Ok. But, just know, we've never once lost and we don't plan on losing now either."
Usagi grinned. "Neither have I. You guys don't know what you're in for." Usagi firmly planted her feet on the ground as hard as she could as she began to summon her power out in hopes to defeat the enemy. She hoped that she wouldn't have to transform to beat them. She didn't want to do it in front of the entire city.
"Wait!" Moon cried out, causing the entire group, as well as Usagi to halt what they were doing and look back at her. "We have to get Mamoru to a safe place."
Usagi smirked. "Don't try to act like you've got hearts. I've been warned about your kind."
Jupiter frowned. "Enough talk. Sailor Moon, take Mamoru to a nearby building. This shouldn't take long."
Moon nodded as she lifted Tuxedo Kamen up off the ground. "Right. I'll be back in a flash."
"You're not escaping." Usagi turned around and grabbed Mamoru away from the supposed Sailor Moon and threw him to the side. 'I'm not making the same mistake that I did when I fought Cell. No more underestimating these guys. Even though, they are doing a great job of masking their dark energy.' "Your fight is with me." She turned to Moon with a grin. "Let's get this going, shall we. Since you're trying hard to look like me, I'll start with you."
Moon nodded. "Alright. You won't win though." She pulled out her moon rod.
"See, if you were really me, you wouldn't need that thing at all."
"Attack all at once, girls. This one is going to be tough."
Mercury pulled out her computer. "Yes. You're right. As if her amount of Dark energy isn't bad enough, she seems to have almost the same kind of DNA as our partner. But something else that I can't read as well. She could be a clone of some sort." She put her computer away and readied herself for an attack.
Usagi did nothing but cross her arms as she stood inside a circle, which was created by the Senshi. "Throw everything you've got at me." The Senshi didn't hesitate one tiny bit. They had been through the Dark Kingdom before and they didn't exactly feel like going through it again. They wanted to end the threat once and for all.
Usagi grinned as she saw the five attacks from the girls fast approaching her. "Let's see how much fun I can make this." She lifted her tail and began batting the individual attacks away with it as fast as she could. Each time her tail and an attack made contact, it ricocheted off her tail and onto one of her attackers, causing them to fall back. "It's like a baseball bat. Neato!!"
Tuxedo Kamen struggled against the pain in his stomach to sit up and watch the girls fall. "That kid has a tail...? Wouldn't that make her a...?"
Usagi continued to bat the attacks away with her tail. Though she had wonderful aim and hit her targets every time, they always seemed to be able to recuperate easily. "Don't you guys ever give up?" She looked up into the sky. 'I wonder where everyone is? Why aren't they coming?'
~*~*~
~~The dark Castle~~
Queen Beryl walked back into her lair with a menacing rage. She had expected for her portal to still be where she had left it, but it had in fact, been gone and she was certain who had used it. "That Moon brat has done it again. The power I had to use to open it was extreme now I have no energy left to open it again! I don't have the benefit of getting HER energy anymore. Now I have to catch her all over again. GUARDS!"
Her most trusted minion ran into the room and bowed to her knees. "Yes your majesty?"
Beryl glared down at the woman. "Prepare to use the energy that we gained from Usagi all those years ago."
Confused, the woman looked up to her queen. "You're majesty, I don't quite understand. I thought that was supposed to be used to strengthen us."
"Silence! It is too much of a crucial time to be waiting around for my energy to be replenished. It seems as though the Moon brat has jumped through my portal so any hope of getting the other Sailor Moon's power is over. Not that it matters though, she was much too powerful to try and conquer."
The woman nodded. "Your bidding will be done at once."
Beryl smirked with evil intentions. "She will not get away again. She will be mine."
~*~*~
~~Back in the City~~
Usagi had had enough of playing baseball with her tail and the Senshi's attacks. She wasn't getting anywhere at all and she knew, that if there was any hope of actually defeating them that she would have to launch some of her own attacks. "You guys are boring." She hurled herself into the air, high above the Senshi. "You Dark Kingdom people are tough against your own power, but let's see how well you can defend against the power of the Kamehameha!"
The Senshi immediately stopped their attacks when it was obvious that their enemy was not in their line of fire anymore. Mars looked up. She seemed to be the only one who was able to sense the power that was building up inside the child's hands. "Uh, guys? She's getting a major build up...oh cripes, Mercury, what does your computer say?"
Mercury once again pulled her computer out. "I don't know. It's going crazy. The power seems to be too much for the computer to read."
Moon, who was back with Mamoru, looked up to her fellow fighters. "Why is she so resistant to our power?"
Mercury shook her head with frustration. "I have no idea." The computer in her hands began to smoke and shoot our sparks. "Great. Just great, now it's malfunctioning."
"KA-MA-HA..."
"USAGI!" A small voice from a close-by alley yelled out just loud enough for Usagi's Saiyan hearing to pick up. Luna didn't want any of the enemies to hear her. Usagi paused her attack and looked down to her cat friend. "You won't be able to beat them with just your Saiyan and human powers, remember? They're part of the Dark Kingdom."
Usagi looked back down to the group, and especially to the one who was meant to be her. 'That's not me or Mamoru. We would never act like that with each other.' She shuddered at the thought of giving each other pet names. 'That's right though. I guess I'm going to have to transform. Should I do it in front of them, though? I mean, they already know that I'm Sailor Moon and all...' She stopped her energy flow to her Kamehameha wave, causing the power to just disappear. She pulled out her Moon Locket that Luna had given her and held it high above her head. "Moon Crystal Power...Make-Up!"
Eternal Sailor Moon widened her eyes at the sight before her. The little girl, who was thought to be part of the Dark Kingdom, had just transformed right before her very eyes. "WHAAAAAA?! WHAT'S HAPPENING!? THA...THAT'S....ME?! AND THAT ENERGY, I'D KNOW IT ANYWHERE!!"
Mamoru looked up to the girl with fear. 'Flying? I only know one other person who can fly like that as well as produce energy attacks without any special device.'
Usagi, now Sailor Moon, smirked down at the flabbergasted crowd. "How do you like that?" She let her eyes wander over to Eternal Sailor Moon with a frown. 'She could never be me.' She pulled back her hands to be by her side again and built up another Kamehameha blast. "I don't know what you've done with my family and friends because they aren't coming to help me, but let me assure you, you aren't getting away with it. KAMEHAME..."
At that moment, a pink cloud appeared overhead and an object from on her head from above. "Now what?" Instead of concentrating on what she was doing, she concentrated more on the annoying interruption, causing her to fall to the ground, flat on her face with a body sitting directly atop. "Get off." Sailor Moon jumped up, throwing her new enemy backwards. Grumbling to herself, she looked over to see her attacker, only to see a girl her age in a Pink Sailor Uniform.
The new girl stood up and brushed herself off, not even paying attention to her friends, who were dumbfounded by her appearance. "You dare attack the Champions of Justice, I, Sailor Chibi-Moon, will not tolerate that! For daring to impersonate the Senshi of the Moon, I shall punish you!"
Sailor Moon looked directly into the serious eyes of the girl in Pink. She reached out her senses to get a good reading on her Power signature, which was nearly nothing. At that point, she didn't the only thing that she could think of. She fell down laughing at the top of her lungs. "HAHAHAHA!! That was a good one! You had me going for a while when you fell down on me! You Dark Kingdom people won't stop at anything, will you? HAHAHA! You're the ones impersonating me! Oh god, they must take lessons from the Ginyu force."
At that moment, in came Uranus, Neptune, and Saturn to help. "Chibi-Moon!" Saturn cried out, with her Glaive at hand. The laughing child on the ground didn't even realize that she had shown up.
Chibi-Moon looked back towards Saturn with a smile. "Uranus! Neptune! Saturn!"
Uranus smirked down at the laughing child. "Who's that supposed to be?"
Venus shrugged. "We don't know. She seems to be from the Dark Kingdom, but is a little bit too strong for that group."
Chibi-Moon looked back down at Sailor Moon. The laughing definitely didn't sit well with Chibi-Moon. "You're not doing a very good job at keeping yourself focused." She growled as she prepared to attack. No longer having the Bell, she pulled out her Heart Moon Rod. "Pink Sugar Heart Attack!"
Eternal Sailor Moon jumped to he feet and stepped forward to her future daughter. "Chibi-Moon, that won't help! It's too weak get away!"
Chibi-Moon glared at the fraud from the Dark Kingdom as her Heart Moon Rod began pouring out its energy. 'How dare she say that we, of all people, are from the Dark Kingdom?'
Sailor Moon snickered at the power level of the attack. 'What can that possibly do to me? I get worse from Vejita. It can't effect me.' How wrong she was. Within seconds, the blast made contact with her body and forced her to the ground to writhe from the effects.
Elder Sailor Moon rushed to Chibi-Moon, seeing that she had continued the attack much longer than it had needed. "Chibi-Moon, stop. You might really hurt her." She grabbed her by the shoulders and tried to make her stop, but Chibi-Moon refused. She had been warned by her mother in the future to not take any chances.
"She has to be stopped. Mommy said that she's strong enough to actually destroy us and not to let her attack. Then the future would be ruined."
Elder Sailor Moon looked down at the squirming foe. "But don't make her suffer. Here, I'll finish her off." She pulled out her own Eternal Moon Rod and held it out. "Silver Moon..." She paused when she heard an unwelcome sound coming from their opponent.
Down on the ground was Younger Sailor Moon full of giggles. "Stop...stop..." She could barely speak she was laughing so hard. "You're tickling me. I can't...stand it!" Her giggles became louder as she squirmed on the ground.
The outer Senshi looked on the matter and decided to take things into their own hands. Together they added their attacks to Chibi Moon, but the effect was not what they planned.
"STOP. STOP. THIS TICKLES TO MUCH."
Elder Sailor Moon pulled down her Moon Rod and looked down at the imposter. "Tickling?" She looked back to Ami for answers. "What's GOING ON!?"
Mercury, who was still unable to get a full read on her turned a severe frown at Sailor Moon. "She's too powerful, you have to destroy her."
The others added their encouragement to her, and she powered up her attack. 'Why does this feel wrong?'
Chibi-Moon frowned at the girl on the ground as she halted her attack. She had always at least injured an enemy, but the girl was obviously being tickled. Why?
As Eternal Sailor Moon's attack raced towards her laughing foe, the others discontinued their useless attacks, knowing that this power would surly destroy it. The blast created a huge explosion at ground zero and smoke and dust covered the scene. But as it faded, they were shocked that their foe actually grinned up at them, looking like she felt wonderful.
Chibi-Moon glared at her and interrogates her. "Alright, who are you?"
Still laughing as hard as she could, younger Sailor Moon tired to stand to her feet. "Man, you guys, this is great. I've never met such a fun enemy." She smiled around to the faces of everyone who looked like her friends, but she knew that it had to be a disguise.
Jupiter jumped to the imposter. "We are NOT the enemy. You are. You came here after all these years and attacked Mamoru."
Young Sailor Moon frowned at that reminder. "He looked up my dress! The pervert!"
Elder Sailor Moon turned to Tuxedo Kamen with a glare. "MAMORU!"
"It was an accident!"
She didn't take that as a valid answer. Instead, she just walked to him and slapped him across the face. "How could you do that to me?"
Young Sailor Moon snorted. "You? Think about the emotional stress it put on me. I was the one violated." She grinned. "Think about what my dad's going to do what he hears about that. You're going down big time. Of course that's after I finish with you."
"I was trying to save you. You were falling from the sky. I thought you were Chibi-Moon." But Tuxedo Kamen wasn't exactly concerned about that topic. He was more concerned about what had just happened. He looked at the two females who both claimed to be Sailor Moon. "What's going on? We aren't the enemy, and this kid claims that she's not the enemy."
Elder Moon forgot about the previous situation and looked over to the girl, who appeared to be a valid Sailor Moon. "Who are you for real, kid? You're pretty strong, too strong to be with the Dark Kingdom. We should have been able to beat you easily."
Mercury had already pulled out her computer and began analyzing young Sailor Moon by that time. "The dark energy, it's gone. Believe it or not, she has Moon energy in her body. She is, in fact, part Lunarian. One-third Lunarian. One third Human, and one third..................Saiyan."
"WHAT?!" Elder Moon ran to the smaller version of what appeared to be herself. "But how is that possible?" She lifted up her hair and placed her hand on one of her Odangos. "She looks almost exactly like me."
Young Sailor Moon looked up at Elder Sailor Moon with curiosity. "In answer to your question, I am Son Usagi. Who might you be?" She detransformed back into her civilian self and put her brooch away. These peoples' energy was too pure to be evil.
Elder Sailor Moon did the same, which was a signal for the rest. "Tsukino Usagi."
Son Usagi looked away from her older self and over to the girls who were grouping behind. "What's going on? You guys look like my friends, only older." 'Wait just a second. How can there be an older me AND them?' She looked back up to her older self. "You're me then, aren't you?"
Tsukino Usagi nodded. "That's what it looks like."
Son Usagi looked down to the ground and thought about her current situation. She thought back to the events that had led to this. How she was running away from the enemy with Luna. How they stumbled across the portal and jumped through. And then it hit her. "I must be in another dimension. That's gotta be it. That stupid portal wasn't to my world." 'Why does this always happen to me?' "This means that my friends are Senshi, too."
Mamoru walked up from behind, with the other girls, and looked down at Son Usagi. "Another dimension, huh? Well, that would explain a lot." He put his hands around his Usagi's shoulders just as Luna merged into the group next to Son Usagi.
Tsukino Usagi smiled. "That's the only possible answer. That's why you have Moon power in you. And why Ami's computer says you're me. And why the crystal reacts to you as it does, shining in your presence, yet not hurting you at all with its power when I attacked. Ha! And you said reading comics was a waste of time, Luna." She said to her own Luna, who had come to stand by her side.
Son Usagi giggled. "As if. You can learn a lot of time, space, and different dimensions from it."
Ami was still quite curious about one thing. She needed to know the answer before anything else went on. "Why did you feel like the Dark Kingdom? The Dark energy level that was around you was mind boggling. You are the keeper of the Moon power, yet you felt so evil."
Son Usagi looked down to her Luna. "Uh..." She looked up again, not getting any help from Luna. "I think it was because right before I came here, I was attacked and taken away from my home and brought to the Dark Kingdom itself by this lady named Beryl. They kept a lot of energy around me to keep me there. But that blast from the other me washed it away. You know, I bet it was because of that energy that my parents couldn't feel me. If they're even in THIS dimension."
The girls from the other dimension exchanged quick glances back and forth to each other. Rei looked back down to Son Usagi. "You're up against a tough foe."
Son Usagi smirked. "I'm pretty tough myself. I already fought this guy named Cell who was sent by her. Me and my friends barely beat him, but we managed." The entire crowd froze at the name of Cell. "What's the matter?"
Tsukino Usagi shook her head. "N...nothing."
Ami curiously gazed down at the child. There was no doubt that this girl and their Usagi were the same people. The were identical in appearance as well as their state of mind. "What I want to know is why the Moon Princess has been revealed at such an early age."
Son Usagi's eyes widened at the statement as well as thought of being the Moon Princess, who Luna had spoke of before they had jumped into the portal. "What? I'M the Moon Princess?" She glared down at her Luna. "You said I was the warrior of the Moon and had to protect the Moon Princess."
Embarrassed, Son Luna stammered her answer. "Well yes, of course you are. You just weren't quite ready to know of your true self yet."
Tsukino Usagi burst out with laughter at that one. "Kid, lesson one. All Luna's think with their pride. They tend to make stuff up as they go along. And when they are found wrong, they try to make it seem as if they knew all along. Watch her with that. Make sure she starts to use the terms, 'this is what I think it is,' when she isn't sure, otherwise it gets too confusing. She had no clue that you were the Moon Princess."
Tsukino Luna glared up at her Usagi. "And just what is that supposed to mean?"
Tsukino Usagi grinned. "Well let's see. Tuxedo Kamen may be the enemy, be wary around him. Careful around Ami, she may be the enemy. That priestess may be the enemy, be careful around her. I could go on for a long while if you want."
Tsukino Luna blushed as she grumbled. "What do whinny airheads know anyway?"
'I'm the Moon Princess? Me? A Princess? But then, why was I born to mommy and daddy? They aren't royalty. This doesn't make any sense.' Son Usagi was still more than a little curious about this world. Everything seemed to be backwards. Mamoru was nice, Usagi seemed to be a bit of a klutz as well as too soft hearted when it came to fighting. "But, who's the pink-haired girl? I've never met her, ever."
Before anyone could respond, Chibi-Usa walked behind Son Usagi and reached out for the wagging tail. "If she's my mommy, why does she have a tail?" With the tail comfortably resting in her hands, she tugged on it, getting virtually no response from Son Usagi.
"What?!" Son Usagi looked up to her older self. "You're her mom?! Who's the father then?"
Minako answered, not thinking of the possible consequences. "Why, Mamoru of course. Who else?" That earned her a look from both Mamoru as well as Tsukino Usagi. They did not at all appreciate her telling of their secret. The other Usagi had obviously not learned that bit of information yet, and who knows, her life has been different this far, maybe she wasn't even meant to know or even have Chibi-Usa.
Mamoru glared at her the hardest though. "You shouldn't have told her that. It could cause troubles for her to know too early." Blushing, Minako nodded.
Son Usagi couldn't hold her tongue any longer. "WAIT A SECOND!!! I have a kid with that JERK Mamoru? Ok, maybe he's getting better, but still. And just when did you have her? Man, mom and dad must have had a fit. You're so young to have her." She didn't even want to think about how her parents would react if she came home pregnant before she was married, let alone before she was out of school.
Blushing a beet red, the two found themselves at a loss for words. Son Luna glared at the couple, who were now hand in hand. "Usagi, she is much too young to have a child at that age. It's impossible."
Smirking at her ability to show off, Tsukino Luna addressed her. "True, except for one thing. She's from the future."
Tsukino Usagi glared down at her Luna. "Aren't you now giving away further information to her, fur ball?"
Son Usagi looked at Chibi-Usa in awe. 'That would make her my kid? Wow. So now I went into the past, and so did my kid. COOL!'
"And yes, we do have child. We love each other." Mamoru put his arm around Tsukino Usagi. "One thing is still on my mind though, why did you call me a jerk?"
Son Usagi frowned. "Because where I come from, we are rivals."
Tsukino Usagi obviously didn't understand. "We were rivals here for a while."
"Did he attack you when you were six years old and then leave you for dead so you could be picked up by your dad? Did he ever blow off your arm with Haruka?"
Tsukino Usagi's eyes went wide as she became almost speechless. "Oooooooh..."
Haruka paled at the thought of hurting her princess.
A pale Mamoru actually managed to respond though. "Wow, things are interesting where you come from. Usagi, I can honestly say that I'm not mean here. I would never hurt anyone on purpose."
Son Usagi stuck out her tongue in disgust. "No offense, but the thought of marrying you and having a kid with you is just gross."
Mamoru chuckled. "Thanks. I needed that self-esteem booster."
Usagi let her eyes wander over to Hotaru, who stood behind the still dazed Tsukino Usagi. "Wow, you're actually older than me here. Cool."
Grinning at her, Hotaru smiled. "Well if it weren't for you saving me from Pharaoh Ninety and my own power, I wouldn't even be here today."
Son Usagi was having a bit of her own confusion now. "Your power?"
"Yes, young Princess, her power."
Knowing that voice all too well, Son Usagi turned to a tall woman with long black hair. She wore a Sailor Outfit with the color of black and held a long staff in her hands. She was emerging from a black portal. "Oh. My. Gosh."
Tsukino Usagi; "PLUTO."
Chibi-Usa smiled with Excitement. "Puu."
Son Usagi was still trying to grasp that she was in another dimension let alone the fact that she had a million questions for Sailor Pluto. "You're the Guardian of Time from the cell battle." Stalking over to her, she picked her up, one handed. "OK, WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA MESSING WITH MY LIFE?" Pluto looked into the younger princess' eyes, which blazed with fire and gulped.
(Keepin this part short today. I know, I know, I put one mess on top of the other... ^_^ but that's me for ya. Gotta run! Ja Ne!)