(Hehe, can you believe that the past fourteen chapters depicted only ONE day!?)
~*~*~*~
Finally, the night from Hell was officially over. All had been resolved in respect to family matters. Now, all that was left was to find out just what they were up against and who these new allies were. So far, from what they could tell, these mystical Sailor Senshi only showed up in essence of trouble. But who were they, really? What was their connection to the enemy that had been so obsessed with Usagi? And most of all, what of this Moon Princess whom they spoke so highly of? Why did she show up now, after the Moon had long since been destroyed? It made absolutely not sense. But to this very diverse group of friends and family, it was of no matter. The fact was that this hellish night was over. After a night's rest they would be able to talk more civilly about the situation without getting into petty arguments with one another. So that's exactly what they did. The group shared their good-bye's and set off for home.
~*~*~
~That Night~
Usagi; fast asleep in the comforts of her own bed; slept peacefully knowing that she was safe and sound at home with her family where she belonged. She tired desperately to not think about the night, and even the past few weeks, but it was just not happening. So much had happened. With her own kidnapping, having to think of a way to save the Multiverse itself, even her fight with her father. It was just too overwhelming to just brush aside and forget about. The one aspect of this entire problem was that she, of all chosen people, was the Moon Princess of the Silver Millennium from thousands of years ago. She just couldn't get over that.
So there she lay, wide awake, with millions of thoughts compiling into her child-like mind just as fast as they were zooming away. 'Cell…' She turned over to her side, making sure that the blankets stay atop her for extra security. 'That's why he was sent after me. He was one of Beryl's people. Beryl wanted my Moon power, not my Saiyan power.'
Her face took on more of a bewildered expression as she looked out the window to see the soft downpour that was just starting to come down outside. The droplets twinkled in the pink sky, as the sun had already began to rise. 'Why did the Guardian of Time want me to stay in the past then? She obviously knew I was the Princess, why didn't she think I would be in danger? I was almost killed, all of us were.'
Usagi turned to lay on her back again as she yawned, letting her eyelids droop over her eyes. 'So… tired…' Before she even knew that she was drifting away, Usagi fell into a deep slumber that not even the loudest of explosions could have jolted her out of.
~*~Dream World~*~
A hand; small and frail, reaching out at a door knob, turning it and pushing in to reveal a room behind it. A rather small room; looking to be the room of a child. Whose was it? Inside stood two figures. One a grown man, and the other a small child. These two, familiar and friendly, who were they? The one with a bowl full of ice-cream, only eight years of age, looked forward with curious eyes and then it finally came to her. Of course. They were of her father and eldest brother, Gohan. This must be Gohan's room.
Usagi giggled. "What's all the noise about? I wanna know what daddy has to say!" She looked to her father who stared at her with sympathetic eyes, as if something had just gone wrong. "What? What is it?" She shoved an entire spoon full of ice-cream in her mouth with no remorse.
The figure of her father slowly turned around with a frown on his face. "What are you doing in here?"
Usagi gasped as she jumped back. "I just wanted to see what was going on."
A grin; on the face of Goku. "Who do you think you are? You can't just barge into a room like you own the place. Get out. Now!"
*~*
"What are we doing today?" Usagi asked cheerfully as she plopped down next to her father.
Goku frowned. "We? We aren't doing anything."
"What do you mean? Aren't we going to train? You know, to get my hidden power out?"
"What's the use? You haven't gotten it out now, and you won't ever get it out. Let's face it. You're a lost cause; a disgrace to all fighters everywhere." Goku stood up and looked to her friends. "Why don't you guys tag along? You seem to have potential. Unlike Usagi here. She can't fight worth anything. Even if her life depended on it."
~*~Real World~*~
Beads of sweat ran down the small face of Usagi as tears began to form in the bases of her closed eyes.
~*~Dream World~*~
Goku landed with Gohan from above. "Hey, that double attack wasn't very powerful if I was able to shoot it down. It was too weak to do any damage. You two need to re-think your strategies, and fast."
Usagi stood in a field with her friends as she looked upon her own father with scared eyes. "Why?"
"Because I want to see how much you've learned. I want to see if you're worthy enough to be called my daughter. So far, you are not. So, let's fight, right here, right now. You against me."
*~*
"Just shut up and prepare yourself." Goku planted his feet into the dirt as he stiffened his body to begin a power up.
*~*
Goku snorted. "Is that the best you can power up to? I know I've probably taught you better."
"I'm sorry. I don't have anymore power."
"Well fine then. We'll just have to fight as you are." Without further conversation, Goku jumped into the air and fired multiple Ki blasts at his daughter over and over. Usagi wasn't nearly fast enough to dodge even half of the energy balls and took a large beating from them.
*~*
There was nothing she could do. It was impossible for her to make a hit on him at this point. He was much stronger and faster. 'Why, why, why, why?' She looked up as she could feel him approaching her at an unthinkably rapid speed. 'How am I supposed to fight that?' She got onto her knees and tried to crawl away.
Goku reached out and grabbed Usagi's tail, causing her to wail out in utter pain. "OWOWAAA! Let go!" She could once again feel her energy leaving her muscles, leaving her much too weak to even hold herself up with her arms and knees. She collapsed hard and loud, face first.
Goku evilly laughed with a nasty grin. "Quit being a baby about this." His grin soon turned into a frown accompanied by a growl. "You're pitiful." He began to swing her around by her beloved tail.
*~*
'Now for a little help from your old man and we have a powerful little kid on our hands.' "Now to fix you!" Without wasting anytime, he built up his most powerful energy attack. "KA-ME-HA-ME-HA!" He released his great power at his daughter.
"You've changed. You hate me. YOU'RE NOT MY DADDY ANYMORE!" Usagi grabbed her head with pain as she began to feel a great sensation in her entire body. It was something that she had never experienced before. More pain then she had ever felt, even when taking the pain from her tail into account.
"Come on Usagi! Over come your fears! Make the transition!"
Most of Usagi's anger had been flushed out of her body. It had all turned to fear. Her father was trying to kill her now. "NO! NO! WHY?! WHHHHHHYYYY!!!???" Usagi could no longer control herself or her emotions. The pain was building up and she didn't know why. Her emotions mixed together. It was too much to take in at once. The blast, her father, her friend, the future, her pain. Everything. It was just too overwhelming for someone her age. "I WANT TO GO HOME!"
With that, her anger exploded all the way. She lost all control over her entire body. Ami and Gohan shielded their eyes. The only thing that they knew was that Usagi was getting a massive build up. It was so enormous that it was almost frightening.
Goku's Kamehameha was all of a sudden shot back to him. He quickly felt his daughter's ki, which was now larger than his own. "She did it!"
The picture of her father began to fade out as a smile appeared across his face.
~*~Real World~*~
Not only was Usagi's face filled completely with sweat, but it was also flowing with tears of pain and agony.
~*~Dream World~*~
"Take this CELL!"
Before Usagi had a chance to make a good attack on Cell, a golden ki attack came spiraling out of the tree tops and hit Usagi square in the hip. Her body flew back, with her head landing into a pile of sharp rocks. She looked down to the ground in time to see her own blood spilling out onto the cold ground.
The Newly arrived android 17 walked to Usagi with a smirk. "Naughty, naughty little Saiyan…"
~*~
"Don't worry Usagi. Soon I'll have your power and you'll be able to go to hell where you belong." Cell cackled aloud as he raised his hand and shoved his tubed finger nails into the neck of Usagi.
Usagi's eyes bolted wide open as she felt the long slender tube-like nails of Cell slither their way into her neck. 'Daddy…I'm sorry.' Tears of pain streamed down her cheeks as she looked into Cell's hate filled eyes.
Cell's eyes told of his morbid happiness. "Yes girl. Just hold still." He watched as the tubes were filled with energy. Usagi's life energy was being sucked out of her body and there was nothing she could do about it. "Finally. My queen will be able to rid the world of those who destroyed her." The energy in which he was extracting was filling his body with power. More power than he could have ever imagined. "It's hard to believe that such a runt could have held such a magnificent power. But it's mine now. All mine!"
"LEAVE MY SISTER ALONE!" A Super Saiyan Gohan jumped from the surrounding trees and rammed his foot right into Cell's unprotected face.
~*~Real World~*~
Usagi's face filled with a very small smile of happiness.
~*~Dream World~*~
"Hey, make a diversion." Usagi tapped Mamoru on the back of the shoulder to get his attention.
"Huh?" Mamoru frowned.
"Just do it. Trust me."
Mamoru shrugged. "All right. But if I die, I'm coming back to haunt you in your sleep." He jumped into the air. He positioned himself right behind Cell's head and held his hands out so they would fire directly at the neck of his target. He was soon joined by Gohan, Piccolo, and Goku. "GO!" From the four fighters came four massive beams of Ki, all directed in the same spot. The neck of Cell.
Usagi turned to her friends with a bright smile, a smile that not only told how happy she was, but also told that she had something planned. "You know how we couldn't ever do our combined attack because we would have to shout out? Well guess what? We don't have to do that anymore. We have our bond to do that for us."
Ami; "But we've never used it while we were apart."
"Who says we have to be separated?" Usagi glanced over her shoulder to make sure that Cell was still being distracted.
Ami; "Cell will feel the power accumulating when we start making it. He will most likely turn around and try to attack us. We will be all in the same place. That's the same as when we first made it. That's why your dad didn't want us to use it. But if we are separated and concentrate on one spot, he'll have a hard time locating us."
Rei; "Yeah, we already figured that out when your mom was training with us, Usagi. If we're going to do this we better do it quick. And I say that we DO, do this. It's our only option at this point. He seems to be too strong for your dad and yourself."
Usagi nodded. "You're right, Rei. Let's do this now, while we can, while he's distracted." She jumped backwards into the air and took her position just above the room of spirit and time.
Makoto stayed on the ground while Minako hovered just above Usagi only on the opposite side of the lookout. Ami flew up to the highest point just across from Makoto. They all looked to Usagi as she would once again lead the attack, since she had already done it twice before.
Usagi took a deep breath in before she too nodded to let them know that she was ready. 'Right about Cell's head is the place. That way if he detects it before we get a chance to finish he'll try to attack it. But then it will explode right on his head. He, he, he. Too bad for him.'
Minako couldn't help but giggle at that. 'I would pay to see something like that.'
Makoto grinned. 'Looks like we're about to anyway.'
Ami frowned. 'We should get this started. Ready?'
All; 'Ready.'
Rei nodded. 'Alright then. Start building up now.'
The girls all concentrated the majority of their energy directly above Cell's head as directed by Usagi. This time they had the link to let them know the exact point above his head.
Slowly but surely a white ball of energy began to form above Cell's head. It proved to be even stronger than his power was at the moment. Even to the girls, who had the benefit of feeling his real power. They knew that this was actually going to do some damage. They would finally see Cell suffer from what he had done.
Cell stopped worrying about Mamoru and the others' attacks and concentrated more on the energy pile up that was happening just above his head. "What the…?" He looked up only to be blinded by the magnificent bright Ki attack of the girls. "WHAT IS THAT!?" He could feel its energy, which was in fact larger than his own. There was no way that he would be able to attack against it.
'IT'S READY!' "NOW GIRLS! HAND IT OVER TO ME!" The others gladly complied with Usagi's wishes for none of them knew how to control such a massive energy. Usagi herself was even having trouble holding onto the attack once they let go. She found that she had to pull against the attack just to keep from flying into its pull. "It doesn't look like you're going to be killing anyone else today, Cell. Your terror stops here."
Cell decided to play it cool. He didn't want them to know that the truth was that he was feeling sort of scared by this attack. "Go ahead. It won't do anything."
Everyone else backed away from the two fighter. They felt the potential of the attack and didn't want to be anywhere near it when it hit. "It's lights out for you. You've tried to kill me and my family and friends. No more. I know daddy probably would have given you mercy, but not me. Not after what you've done. It's unforgivable." She became silent as she bowed her head once more. It became easier for her to hold onto the attack as well. "All the suffering your people have cause is unjustifiable. You will not go unpunished. In the name of all who stand for love and justice, you shall parish from this plane." With that, she raised her head and smiled. "Say buh-bye now." She released her hold on the combined attack that she and her friends created and watched as it felt onto Cell and crushed him into the ground and creating a shallow crater.
Usagi looked up at her father, who was giving her a thumb's up, and once again, her entire vision went fuzzy.
~*~Real World~*~
Usagi shot up out of bed in a heavy roar of pants; not knowing what the heck could have just happened. "Wha…?" She grabbed her forehead with her hand and looked up at her digital alarm clock, which read to be six in the morning. The sun was completely up now, but she was still tired for she had only drifted off to sleep two hours before.
She slowly wiped away the sweat from her face as her panting grew deeper. "What was that?" She looked out the window; ready to let her weighted eyelids flap back down over her eyes.
Usagi jerked her hand up towards her chest when she felt a warm, moist object make contact. "Huh?" She curiously looked down to see the wagging tail of Lucky, who was now a full grown dog. She giggled as she reached out to pat her on the head. "You'd never turn against me, would you, lucky?"
She gently turned her head to her window with great concern. 'I hope Luna's doing ok out there. I wish mom would have let her stay in the house tonight.'
Usagi yawned as she resisted the want, her calling to go back to sleep and got out of bed. 'That all happened when we were in the past. Why am I dreaming about it now?' She opened her door and proceeded to walk out into the living room. 'That was awful. I forgot how horrible it felt to have daddy treating me like I meant nothing.' Her heart ached with pain as she compared it to the morning's earlier events. The fight with her father, they were almost the same pains. 'Dad…' She walked to her parents' room and opened the door to reveal to sleeping figures comfortably resting in the bed.
'What a nightmare!' She quietly closed the door behind herself and proceeded to climb into the bed, betwixt her mother and father. 'I never want to go through that again… not even in a dream!' Careful not to wake her exhausted parents, Usagi snuggled under the covers and curled up; more than ready to fall fast asleep once again, only this time with the comforts of family around.
Goku, who was already half awake, opened his eyes and smiled to himself. He took her willingness to freely and openly come to him as a sure way of knowing that she was not in any way angry with him. He knew her ways. She was too forgivable to really hold a grudge anyway. He quietly chuckled to himself and strung his arm over his wife and daughter, falling fast asleep himself shortly after. Soon after, Lucky found her way into the room; snuggled comfortably in a build up of blankets at the foot of the bed.
~*~*~
After a night full of agony; leading to exhaustion; the trio did not wake until nearly two in the afternoon; only half an hour before Usagi was to meet her friends in order to speak of their new situation. But this meeting posed as a dilemma for all. They were to meet with the rest of earth's fighters as well. They were supposed to meet to speak of how they would handle such a situation which no one, apparently, knew about.
When Usagi woke, both of her parents had already left the room.
"What a night…" Usagi sat up with a stretch as she looked around the room. The room let off a sense of familiarity and security, which she would need a lot of if she had any hope of surviving through the road of destiny that she was born into.
She sighed as she looked up to the white ceiling. 'I wonder why I dreamt all that stuff earlier, I mean, wow. That was horrible. That was everything that happened in the past, wasn't it?'
She forced herself to emerge from the warm bed and onto the cold, breezy floor. She began heading for the door, but caught sight of her reflection in the mirror and stopped. She looked upon her reflection in that mirror with curious eyes. "Why me?" She whispered; her eyes fixed only on her face, nothing else. "Why can't I just be normal? Ever since I was really little I've been different, almost like an outcast. Just because I'm a Saiyan… Haruka, Michiru, and Mamoru have picked on me." She let her eyes turn from her petite face down to the rest of her body. "Mamoru's right." She frowned as she let her eyes travel to her long, golden hair, which now reached down to thighs without being put into Odangos. "I am scrawny. Who would ever want me to be a Princess? Why do I have to be a Princess anyway? What if I don't want to be the Princess? I just want to be normal. Is that too much to ask?" She looked down at her tail with eyes of sadness.
Lucky, sensing that Usagi was upset, jumped down from the bed and walked to Usagi. She gently nipped at Usagi's hand to get her attention.
Usagi quietly gasped as she looked back at Lucky. "What's wrong? Are you sad too?" She wrapped her arm around the dog's neck with a smile. "I bet you're hungry, aren't ya girl?" She quickly forgot of her troubles as she turned away from the mirror and walked away from the room. She didn't get very far before she was met with the worried faces of her parents, who were sitting on the sofa in front of the television.
Lucky barked happily and ran away from Usagi; allowing her to be free to walk to her mother, who was sitting closest to her. "Mom, what's the matter?"
Chi-Chi, near tears, reached out to her daughter and pulled her down to sit with her. "Goku just told me what happened to you. I'm so sorry! Mommy won't ever let that happen to you again! Those evil people will pay for what they did to my baby!"
Usagi gulped as she only sat there and let her mother fuss over her. Normally, she would have been sickened by this act of over protectiveness, but on this day, for some reason even she did not know, it was comforting. It made her feel loved.
Chi-Chi tightened her grip on her daughter when she realized that, for once, she wouldn't pull away from her. "You're not going to be out of my sight EVER again."
Usagi's eyes widened with fear as she, now, began struggling to pull away. "M…mom…let's not go overboard. I mean…"
Goku chuckled as he leaned back into his seat; fully entertained by the two women of his life.
Usagi frowned. Had she been able to share that frown with her father, she wouldn't have hesitated in the least bit. But she was still trying to figure out how she was going to break free without hurting her mother. "Mom, I love you and all, but…"
"Your mom's right about not going far from me, her, or your brother's for a while."
Usagi stopped trying to accomplish the impossible to try and decipher just what in fact was going on. Before her father spoke, she had expected that it was just her mother overreacting as usual, but when both of them said the same thing, it was something to worry about. "What do you mean? I'm not a baby. I'm not weak, I can take care of myself."
Chi-Chi let go of her daughter and slapped her, lightly, in the back of the head. "What are you talking about, young lady?! You know exactly what happened last night! No one was able to save you from those evil people and you got taken out of this world, even dimension because of it!"
Goku nodded with the sternest of looks, though still compassionate at the same time. "This isn't because we think you're weak, because you're not. We just want to play it low for a while, until we have more information on this new enemy of ours. Obviously, from what you told me, these people want you, which means that they weren't too happy that you escaped. They may come back for you, and if they do, we want to be able to try to protect you."
"But dad! I can fight too ya know!"
"I know that. But last night you were caught unaware, no one was able to detect it. They sucked you dry of all energy so you couldn't fight back. We're not necessarily saying that you have to be with us all the time, we just want to be near so in case something DOES happen, we'll be able to know. We'd even be satisfied with your friends being around. At least some could help fight while another comes back to tell us so we can help."
Usagi debated that idea in her head for a few moments. She didn't exactly have any objections to that idea, actually. It seemed fair since it was true, she didn't at all feel her attacker the night before, and even though she could sense them other times. "You sure it won't be trouble for you guys?"
Goku shook his head. "No, it won't. We just won't leave you all by yourself for a while. You're usually with your friends or at home with us anyway. Basically, just don't fly anywhere alone or go out to play in the forest alone for a while and we're happy. Gotta keep you safe so we don't have to summon you back with the Dragon Balls."
Chi-Chi frowned as she glared at her husband. "Goku! We didn't talk about us not being around!"
Goku grinned. "Relax. They'll be fine. Besides, we can't be selfish, can we?" He asked with an impish glare in his eyes.
Chi-Chi growled as she clenched her fists. "SHUT UP!"
Usagi gained a dumbfounded questioning expression as she turned her head from mother to father. She had no idea what in the world they could have been talking about, but it seemed to be one of those parent moments. But it didn't seem as important as what was coming to mind. "What about Luna? Can I keep her? Please?"
Chi-Chi quickly forgot of her fight with Goku and frowned at her daughter's question. The truth of the matter was that she did not particularly wish to have another animal in the house. Yes, from what Usagi had told them earlier in the morning, this cat did help save her, but there was already a dog at that house. That was more than either of her brothers had. Heck, when Gohan had asked her if he could keep Hire Dragon she had said no. Why should it be any different with this child? "About that…"
Usagi's gut flipped at that bit of uncertainty. "But mom!"
Chi-Chi quickly shushed her daughter. "Let me finish!"
Usagi gulped as she cowered away. "Sorry…"
Chi-Chi's expression lightened a bit, as did her mood. "I don't really want another animal in this house…" She cringed when she saw her daughter's face drop into a pile of bricks. "Your dad has NEARLY convinced me to let you keep her."
Usagi turned around, wide eyed, to her father, who was grinning down at her. "YOU!? You're afraid of animals you don't know! They have sharp teeth."
Goku chuckled. "I think I've lived with that dog long enough to overcome my fear of any animal you bring home."
Usagi shared a giggle with her mother as the two of them remembered back to the day she had first brought Lucky home; how he had run into his room and thrown the covers of his head in utter fear. She shot her head back to her mother and pleadingly begged her mother with the most pitiful child look one could ever dream of mustering up. "But she helped save me… your baby!"
Chi-Chi tried desperately to keep an unbiased opinion of that cat, but with what her daughter just presented her with was true. That cat was partly responsible for saving her daughter. Although she didn't know how that was possible, she wasn't going to argue it. "If I say yes will this be the last animal you make me bring into this house?"
Usagi cried for joy as a bright smile grew upon her face. "Thanks mom!" She jumped forward; throwing herself on her mother. "You're the best mom in the whole world!"
Goku's lower lip turned outward as he began to pout. "So now all of a sudden I'm second rate?"
Chi-Chi grinned. "Are you a mother?"
Usagi giggled as she turned around to look at her father; but in doing so, she noticed the clock that sat upon the television, which was turned to cartoons. Obviously, by choice of Goku. The clock read to be ten minutes to three. "WHOA!"
Goku instinctively jumped from the sofa and scanned the room for any kind of disturbance that his daughter could have been seeing. "What?! What is it?! I'll kill it whatever it is! No one messes around here anymore!"
Usagi herself, after having been frightened by her own father's outburst, jumped up. "Uh…" She backed away ever so slowly for, when she told him that it was nothing he was sure to be upset. "Nothings the matter, daddy."
Goku narrowed his eyes as he turned back to Usagi, who was continually backing away. "What?"
Usagi gulped. "I was just surprised that it was so late cause I have to meet the girls in like, ten minutes. I didn't mean to startle you…"
Goku began to calm after hearing that, though he still wasn't exactly the most happy camper. "Let's try NOT to have little outbursts like that for the time being, k?"
Usagi nodded, still somewhat frightened. "I'm going to, uh… go get ready to leave now." She didn't waste any time scampering off to her room to get out of the tension filled room.
Chi-Chi stood and stretched. "Don't be gone too long, sweetie. We still have to meet with everyone else later to try to come up with a plan of strategy!" There came no answer but the slamming of her daughter's door.
Goku, thinking that he was in the clear to go and have a snack, began doing just that. He proceeded to the hallway, that would take him into the kitchen. Chi-Chi, on the other hand, was now sporting yet another frown. "Goku! We still have to talk about last night! Don't think everything is all goody goody between us now that Usagi is back."
Goku gulped with a sweat drop as he froze in place. "Chi-Chi!" He whined. "I'm sorry. I won't do it again. I promise."
~*~*~
~*~Fifteen Minutes Later~*~
Rei, Minako, Makoto, Ami, and Artimas were all piled high atop the forest floor in the massive treehouse, Sanctuary. They had been gathered there for nearly ten minutes awaiting the arrival of Usagi, the only one who they had yet to hear from about this entire ordeal.
They knew that Usagi was an important member of this elite group of celestial warriors, however, they knew not of how much importance she really was.
Rei, being the most impatient of the group, was chomping at the bit waiting for Usagi. "Where is she? She should have been here by now. Here we are making special notice to be here on time and she's late."
Meanwhile, Minako was sitting in her giant cushioned bean bag, pigging out on a plate full of cupcakes. "It's only been ten minutes, give about five more before you get mad." She stuffed an entire cupcake into her mouth.
Makoto sighed as she looked out the window. "You're only giving her that extra time so you can keep eating your sweets without an interruption."
Minako blushed as she pulled the plate in closer to her chest, as if she were protecting it. "And they're all mine too."
While the three girls went back and fourth, bickering, Ami sat at an isolated table with Artimas. The two of them were working on figuring out her brand new Mercury Computer that came along with her job. She wasn't quite sure how to work it just yet, but she knew with a little time and determination it would come. "Calm down you guys. You know Usagi, she isn't exactly the most time worthy person."
Rei frowned as she sat down in her own bean bag next to Minako. "It still annoys me. We need to find out what happened to her last night. We need to compare notes, you know?" She traveled her eyes over to Minako, who was glaring at her with an almost disturbing amount of paranoia. "What's wrong with you?"
"Don't even think about eating a single one of my cupcakes."
"Oh for goodness sake I don't want your stinkin cupcakes!" Rei quickly left her obvious distress aside when she felt a sudden surge of power enter the room. The power was that of the most pure heart she knew.
Forgetting all common sense, she jumped up to her feet to glare at her friend, who was now standing in front of the table that Ami was studying at. She seemed to be holding Luna in her arms. "YOU!"
Usagi jerked back. "I know I'm late. I'm SO sorry, I got to talking with my mom and she started freaking out and all…"
Rei lashed out once again. "YOU'RE DARN RIGHT YOU'RE LATE! BY NEARLY FIFTEEN MRPMPHMHPH……!"
Makoto quieted Rei down by covering the girl's mouth with her own hands. "Calm down, man! It's not that big of a deal!"
Usagi let Luna jump onto the table as she grinned. "Makoto's right, you don't want to do anything harsh." She let her eyes travel down to Minako, who had her last two cupcakes of seven in her hand. "FOOD!" She dashed for Minako.
"NO! THEY'RE MINE!" Minako jumped up from her bean bag, making certain that she didn't squish the 'beloved' cupcakes at hand.
From what Usagi did next, Minako didn't even have a real need to get up. Usagi fell short of even reaching the bean bag when her foot caught onto a bag of weights, causing her to fall flat on her face.
The entire room burst out laughing, except for Luna and Usagi herself. Though, both of them for different reasons. Usagi for the obvious reason of being embarrassed, and Luna of disappointment. "Is that any way for you to be acting, I ask you?"
Ami stood from her seat to look down over the table at Usagi, who seemed to be pouting. "Are you ok?"
Usagi frowned and completely ignored Ami's question, though not purposely. "Luna, I can act whatever way I want!"
Makoto looked up to the black cat with curiosity as she let her laughter die down to a bubbling giggle. "What's she talking about, Usagi?"
Usagi kicked away the weights and proceeded to push herself up off the ground. "Nothing."
Artimas walked to the edge of table where Luna was cleaning herself. He could sense that she knew something that he didn't. Now that the action from the night before had died down, he could concentrate more on things other than making sure the others didn't find out who he was. "Luna?"
Luna looked back over her shoulder at Artimas, who was slightly glaring at her. "Yes, Artimas?"
"Don't you think we should begin?" He hoped that she would bring her secret about on her own accord so he wouldn't have to pry it out of her.
Luna nodded. "Of course. Usagi, why don't you tell your friends what we were up to last night?"
Usagi sighed as she gloomily sat down into a lawn chair that sat at the table. "I guess." It wasn't as if she didn't want to tell them, because she really did, it was the fact that she didn't want to travel back in her memories of the night before. "As you've all probably guessed, I'm Sailor Moon." She paused to allow her friends to all gather around to listen to her story.
"Cell's queen kidnapped me and put me in a jail cell in her dungeon." She stopped once again when she saw the hand of Minako go up into the air. "Yes?"
"It was that Queen Beryl lady that Artimas was telling us about last night, wasn't it?"
Luna nodded as she began to answer for Usagi. "Precisely, Minako. She is after Usagi's Moon power, and probably yours as well."
Usagi continued when she got the ok from Luna go to on. "While I was there, all I could feel was pure dark energy. When I tried to escape, none of my attacks would work until I started using the Moon Power when I was Sailor Moon. It was really weird, and really scary. Then, when I did escape, me and Luna saw this portal. We didn't know exactly where it would take us, but we jumped in it anyway."
Luna; "Turns out it was a portal to another dimension."
Usagi; "And guess where that dimension was…"
Rei thought about that one for a moment. "Let's see, the past? Did you get to go meet everyone again?"
Usagi shook her head as she was reminded of her dream from the night before. "No. In fact, the opposite. It took us to the future, Trunks' dimension."
Minako gasped. "No way!"
Usagi nodded. "Yes way! I met us there, all of us. Even me! They were all like, sixteen years old and really weak. I wasn't born to my mom and dad there because in that dimension, everyone died except for Trunks, mom, and Bulma."
Minako giggled as she became more fascinated with this story. "So what were we like there?"
"Well, things were a lot different. Mamoru, for one, was nice. You know the grossest part?" Her friends all shook their heads, though literally on the edge of their seats begging for more. Usagi grinned, however, she was ready to puke at the information she was about to relay. "He was MY boyfriend!"
That did it. The entire group of girls fell out of their seats either making sounds of hurling, or laughing. None of them could ever picture those two going out. Ever since they had met they had been at each other's throats. It was just insane to picture them as going out, together, nice and lovey dovy.
Usagi found herself more laughing aloud than anything, now that the initial shock was over. "I know! I know! I was just as shocked as you were. He even called me 'Usako' before he knew that I wasn't really the Usagi from that dimension."
Makoto literally fell out of her chair with severe side aches after hearing that. "Usagi! Please! This is too much! It's too funny! Could you ever imagine HIM being gentle and loving?!"
Rei laughed so hard that her eyes watered. "Him being loving is a sign of the ending of the world."
Usagi grinned. "So true!"
Luna and Artimas, not knowing the true Mamoru of this dimension, found nothing funny about this situation and therefore, were not laughing. "GIRLS!"
Usagi cringed at the reprimand and tried not to laugh anymore, but it was just NOT possible. Being with her friends and sharing this information only heightened the severe strangeness of the thought of her going out with Mamoru.
"USAGI GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER!" Luna shouted.
Usagi froze right there. "Sorry, Luna…" She whispered with a raspy voice.
Luna frowned. "Continue!"
Usagi nodded with a gulp. "I guess there actually was a reason for me going to the other dimension…" That got her friends to shut their mouths and want to listen. "You see, there's this thing called a Multiverse which, I guess, is kind of like all the dimensions put into one big glob, right? Ok. Since I was born in this dimension, it went against all other dimensions and created some sort of time dimensional rip in the Multiverse. Me and the other Usagi, Tsukino Usagi, had to use the New Namek Dragon Balls to fix this so called time dimensional rip."
Rei; "What? Why were you born to Goku and Chi-Chi in this dimension and no others?"
Luna answered that. "Glad you asked, Rei. You see, in all the other dimensions, the Usagi's and Sailor Moon's there have been weak. We needed someone that was strong, and loving, someone who would teach Usagi how to fight and hone her skills so she could use her Moon power without draining her of all her energy."
Ami; "Wait a minute. Why would the Moon power drain her of her energy? I mean, we don't get drained of our power and we were born to normal humans."
Luna grinned. "That's because Usagi's special."
Artimas frowned. 'I knew she was hiding something. Usagi must be more than just a normal Senshi. A normal Senshi wouldn't get drained of her power that easily.' "What's so special about her?"
Luna turned up to Usagi. "Why don't you share your destiny with your protectors?"
Makoto and Minako simultaneously turned to their friend, who wasn't looking all too happy at the moment. "Your destiny? Your protectors?"
Usagi nodded with a sigh as she looked down to the ground with solemn eyes. "Yeah, destiny. I learned more than I wanted to in the other dimension. I'm the Moon Princess, you guys."
Rei: "YOU'RE the Moon Princess?!"
Minako; "NO FAIR!"
Ami smiled; "Usagi! What an honorable position you have!"
Makoto nodded. "That's great! We have found the Moon Princess! And to think, we've known each other almost our entire lives!"
Luna; "What's the matter Usagi? Yesterday you thought it was great."
Usagi looked up with a frown. "At first I thought it was cool, but then I got to thinking. I'm not cut out to be a Princess or queen or anything."
Minako, of course, was jealous right off. "Y…Y… Yo…You're NUTS!"
Rei gave Minako a much earned slap across the face. "IS THAT ANYWAY TO SPEAK TO A PRINCESS!?"
Makoto looked into Usagi's saddened eyes, and saw the sincerity of her statement. "Rei, she's the same person…"
Usagi looked up to Makoto with expressionless eyes. "No I'm not. Do you know what this means? All that responsibility!" She groaned at the thought. School and family already took up too many slots on the responsibility list, she surely didn't need this. "I can't be a Princess. I can't even keep up with what I've got right now."
Minako jumped up with a smile on her face. "I'll be the Princess!"
Rei glared at Minako, ready to slap again. "Shut up!"
Ami looked upon her friend with sympathetic eyes. Never in her life could she remember another time that Usagi was so sincerely upset about something. Especially of such a high honor. "Usagi, don't be upset. You'll make a great Princess. You're smart, caring, compassionate, you always take others into consideration."
Minako forgot her own greediness and went to her friend's aid. "Not to mention you're pretty. Princess' always have to be pretty. You fit the entire job description."
Luna jumped down off the table and into Usagi's lap. "Usagi, your life isn't going to change drastically, you know that right? The only duty you have is to protect others, until you're queen that is. But that isn't until much later."
Usagi's face brightened ever so slightly. "Really? I protect people all the time."
Luna nodded. "Of course you do. Being Princess just means that you are of royal blood. Believe me, your life won't change that much, and think of it this way, if that other Usagi can handle it, you definitely can."
Usagi giggled. "I can, can't I?"
Artimas, who had stayed quiet the entire time, for he was still trying to grasp this entire ordeal, finally frowned. "LUNA! YOU DIDN'T TELL ME LAST NIGHT!?"
"Be quiet Artimas. We can talk about this later. We still have business to tend to."
Usagi's face turned dark and glum as she looked back down at the ground. "Girls, this is a problem, our enemy. Remember Cell? How we had to use our combined attack?"
Makoto nodded with a frown. "How could anyone remember an ugly face like that?"
Ami nodded. "His own hatred, his black heart was his ugliest feature of all. We're up against a lot."
Usagi looked up to give a piercing glare out the window. "I dreamt about our time in the past last night."
Makoto stopped thinking up reasons why she hated Cell and turned to Usagi. "Huh?"
"I dreamt about when my dad was being mean to me, about how he made me go Super Saiyan, about how we fought with Cell. It reminded me of everything we went through. He was strong, and I fear that Beryl is stronger from what I felt last night in her castle."
Minako walked to the table and picked up a can of soda. "Remember when we were in that room with all those Chibi Cells?"
Rei shuddered. "Please, don't remind me. That was real scary, being in that room with all those little things."
Makoto; "Yeah, but we got a lot of power while we were in there. We all reached our version of Super power."
Ami gasped as an idea hit her straight on. "Wait a minute you guys. I don't think that was really any sort of Super power at all."
Minako took a sip of her soda. "What's that supposed to mean?"
Ami; "Think about it. We're the only ones who can feel this Dark energy stuff right?" All nodded at that. "We are also the only ones who can feel our so called 'Super powers' too."
Minako looked down to Artimas, who had a look of shock on his face. "What's the matter, Artimas?"
Artimas; "I think I know what you're talking about. It is said that if a Senshi's life is in danger before they are awakened, their sleeping power will try to wake. It's kind of like it's trying to protect you until it can be fully awakened. What you guys exprieienced was a slight power up into Senshi hood."
Ami; "Is that why we were able to kill Cell with our combined attack? Was it because we had enough of this half awakened power to break through his Dark energy shell?"
Luna nodded. "It had to have been. The only way that Dark Energy can be destroyed is if it's done with the planetary power of the Sailor Senshi."
Rei had taken herself almost completely out of the conversation when the idea of their Super Powers only being a pre-birth of their Senshi powers. It had struck a memory that she thought she had forgotten. "U…Usagi?"
Usagi, as well as the entire group, turned to the shaking Rei. "Yes?"
Rei gulped. "Remember when Kiro tried to kill you because you were a Saiyan by taking over your body?"
Luna frowned. "What?!"
Usagi nodded. "Yes, I remember. Not that I want to, but I do."
"Your entire body shined Silver. It was so bright, almost like the shine of the moon from last night. He said that you had a pure heart and all."
Usagi gasped. "You think he was talking about my Moon power?"
Rei nodded. "Maybe your Moon power was activated because you were in danger, just like Artimas said."
Usagi's mouth hung wide open with realization. Her entire life seemed to be based on the workings of her previous life. Everything she had known seemed to be happening for a reason, like it was pre-setup. "That's scary, Rei."
Artimas; "And of course, you can never tell anyone about your findings, either."
Makoto nodded. "We know. No one can ever know who we really are."
~*~*~
At that precise moment, a very unwanted guest arrived in the heart of Satan City, ready to destroy all and take any energy it could find.
This new being did not go unnoticed by the girls at all.
~*~*~
Makoto jumped up into a fighting stance. "Looks like we need to take out the trash!"
Rei nodded. "I think you're right."
Luna jumped out of Usagi's lap and to the window. "Get ready to fight, Senshi."
Artimas; "This is your first fight as a true team!"
(There we go! Happy! It's fifteen pages long! That should hold ya for a while, ne? lol, anyway, ok, lotsa info there but I think you can decipher it all cause it's quite plain. Wha'd you think? Gotta run! Till next time! )
~*~*~*~
Finally, the night from Hell was officially over. All had been resolved in respect to family matters. Now, all that was left was to find out just what they were up against and who these new allies were. So far, from what they could tell, these mystical Sailor Senshi only showed up in essence of trouble. But who were they, really? What was their connection to the enemy that had been so obsessed with Usagi? And most of all, what of this Moon Princess whom they spoke so highly of? Why did she show up now, after the Moon had long since been destroyed? It made absolutely not sense. But to this very diverse group of friends and family, it was of no matter. The fact was that this hellish night was over. After a night's rest they would be able to talk more civilly about the situation without getting into petty arguments with one another. So that's exactly what they did. The group shared their good-bye's and set off for home.
~*~*~
~That Night~
Usagi; fast asleep in the comforts of her own bed; slept peacefully knowing that she was safe and sound at home with her family where she belonged. She tired desperately to not think about the night, and even the past few weeks, but it was just not happening. So much had happened. With her own kidnapping, having to think of a way to save the Multiverse itself, even her fight with her father. It was just too overwhelming to just brush aside and forget about. The one aspect of this entire problem was that she, of all chosen people, was the Moon Princess of the Silver Millennium from thousands of years ago. She just couldn't get over that.
So there she lay, wide awake, with millions of thoughts compiling into her child-like mind just as fast as they were zooming away. 'Cell…' She turned over to her side, making sure that the blankets stay atop her for extra security. 'That's why he was sent after me. He was one of Beryl's people. Beryl wanted my Moon power, not my Saiyan power.'
Her face took on more of a bewildered expression as she looked out the window to see the soft downpour that was just starting to come down outside. The droplets twinkled in the pink sky, as the sun had already began to rise. 'Why did the Guardian of Time want me to stay in the past then? She obviously knew I was the Princess, why didn't she think I would be in danger? I was almost killed, all of us were.'
Usagi turned to lay on her back again as she yawned, letting her eyelids droop over her eyes. 'So… tired…' Before she even knew that she was drifting away, Usagi fell into a deep slumber that not even the loudest of explosions could have jolted her out of.
~*~Dream World~*~
A hand; small and frail, reaching out at a door knob, turning it and pushing in to reveal a room behind it. A rather small room; looking to be the room of a child. Whose was it? Inside stood two figures. One a grown man, and the other a small child. These two, familiar and friendly, who were they? The one with a bowl full of ice-cream, only eight years of age, looked forward with curious eyes and then it finally came to her. Of course. They were of her father and eldest brother, Gohan. This must be Gohan's room.
Usagi giggled. "What's all the noise about? I wanna know what daddy has to say!" She looked to her father who stared at her with sympathetic eyes, as if something had just gone wrong. "What? What is it?" She shoved an entire spoon full of ice-cream in her mouth with no remorse.
The figure of her father slowly turned around with a frown on his face. "What are you doing in here?"
Usagi gasped as she jumped back. "I just wanted to see what was going on."
A grin; on the face of Goku. "Who do you think you are? You can't just barge into a room like you own the place. Get out. Now!"
*~*
"What are we doing today?" Usagi asked cheerfully as she plopped down next to her father.
Goku frowned. "We? We aren't doing anything."
"What do you mean? Aren't we going to train? You know, to get my hidden power out?"
"What's the use? You haven't gotten it out now, and you won't ever get it out. Let's face it. You're a lost cause; a disgrace to all fighters everywhere." Goku stood up and looked to her friends. "Why don't you guys tag along? You seem to have potential. Unlike Usagi here. She can't fight worth anything. Even if her life depended on it."
~*~Real World~*~
Beads of sweat ran down the small face of Usagi as tears began to form in the bases of her closed eyes.
~*~Dream World~*~
Goku landed with Gohan from above. "Hey, that double attack wasn't very powerful if I was able to shoot it down. It was too weak to do any damage. You two need to re-think your strategies, and fast."
Usagi stood in a field with her friends as she looked upon her own father with scared eyes. "Why?"
"Because I want to see how much you've learned. I want to see if you're worthy enough to be called my daughter. So far, you are not. So, let's fight, right here, right now. You against me."
*~*
"Just shut up and prepare yourself." Goku planted his feet into the dirt as he stiffened his body to begin a power up.
*~*
Goku snorted. "Is that the best you can power up to? I know I've probably taught you better."
"I'm sorry. I don't have anymore power."
"Well fine then. We'll just have to fight as you are." Without further conversation, Goku jumped into the air and fired multiple Ki blasts at his daughter over and over. Usagi wasn't nearly fast enough to dodge even half of the energy balls and took a large beating from them.
*~*
There was nothing she could do. It was impossible for her to make a hit on him at this point. He was much stronger and faster. 'Why, why, why, why?' She looked up as she could feel him approaching her at an unthinkably rapid speed. 'How am I supposed to fight that?' She got onto her knees and tried to crawl away.
Goku reached out and grabbed Usagi's tail, causing her to wail out in utter pain. "OWOWAAA! Let go!" She could once again feel her energy leaving her muscles, leaving her much too weak to even hold herself up with her arms and knees. She collapsed hard and loud, face first.
Goku evilly laughed with a nasty grin. "Quit being a baby about this." His grin soon turned into a frown accompanied by a growl. "You're pitiful." He began to swing her around by her beloved tail.
*~*
'Now for a little help from your old man and we have a powerful little kid on our hands.' "Now to fix you!" Without wasting anytime, he built up his most powerful energy attack. "KA-ME-HA-ME-HA!" He released his great power at his daughter.
"You've changed. You hate me. YOU'RE NOT MY DADDY ANYMORE!" Usagi grabbed her head with pain as she began to feel a great sensation in her entire body. It was something that she had never experienced before. More pain then she had ever felt, even when taking the pain from her tail into account.
"Come on Usagi! Over come your fears! Make the transition!"
Most of Usagi's anger had been flushed out of her body. It had all turned to fear. Her father was trying to kill her now. "NO! NO! WHY?! WHHHHHHYYYY!!!???" Usagi could no longer control herself or her emotions. The pain was building up and she didn't know why. Her emotions mixed together. It was too much to take in at once. The blast, her father, her friend, the future, her pain. Everything. It was just too overwhelming for someone her age. "I WANT TO GO HOME!"
With that, her anger exploded all the way. She lost all control over her entire body. Ami and Gohan shielded their eyes. The only thing that they knew was that Usagi was getting a massive build up. It was so enormous that it was almost frightening.
Goku's Kamehameha was all of a sudden shot back to him. He quickly felt his daughter's ki, which was now larger than his own. "She did it!"
The picture of her father began to fade out as a smile appeared across his face.
~*~Real World~*~
Not only was Usagi's face filled completely with sweat, but it was also flowing with tears of pain and agony.
~*~Dream World~*~
"Take this CELL!"
Before Usagi had a chance to make a good attack on Cell, a golden ki attack came spiraling out of the tree tops and hit Usagi square in the hip. Her body flew back, with her head landing into a pile of sharp rocks. She looked down to the ground in time to see her own blood spilling out onto the cold ground.
The Newly arrived android 17 walked to Usagi with a smirk. "Naughty, naughty little Saiyan…"
~*~
"Don't worry Usagi. Soon I'll have your power and you'll be able to go to hell where you belong." Cell cackled aloud as he raised his hand and shoved his tubed finger nails into the neck of Usagi.
Usagi's eyes bolted wide open as she felt the long slender tube-like nails of Cell slither their way into her neck. 'Daddy…I'm sorry.' Tears of pain streamed down her cheeks as she looked into Cell's hate filled eyes.
Cell's eyes told of his morbid happiness. "Yes girl. Just hold still." He watched as the tubes were filled with energy. Usagi's life energy was being sucked out of her body and there was nothing she could do about it. "Finally. My queen will be able to rid the world of those who destroyed her." The energy in which he was extracting was filling his body with power. More power than he could have ever imagined. "It's hard to believe that such a runt could have held such a magnificent power. But it's mine now. All mine!"
"LEAVE MY SISTER ALONE!" A Super Saiyan Gohan jumped from the surrounding trees and rammed his foot right into Cell's unprotected face.
~*~Real World~*~
Usagi's face filled with a very small smile of happiness.
~*~Dream World~*~
"Hey, make a diversion." Usagi tapped Mamoru on the back of the shoulder to get his attention.
"Huh?" Mamoru frowned.
"Just do it. Trust me."
Mamoru shrugged. "All right. But if I die, I'm coming back to haunt you in your sleep." He jumped into the air. He positioned himself right behind Cell's head and held his hands out so they would fire directly at the neck of his target. He was soon joined by Gohan, Piccolo, and Goku. "GO!" From the four fighters came four massive beams of Ki, all directed in the same spot. The neck of Cell.
Usagi turned to her friends with a bright smile, a smile that not only told how happy she was, but also told that she had something planned. "You know how we couldn't ever do our combined attack because we would have to shout out? Well guess what? We don't have to do that anymore. We have our bond to do that for us."
Ami; "But we've never used it while we were apart."
"Who says we have to be separated?" Usagi glanced over her shoulder to make sure that Cell was still being distracted.
Ami; "Cell will feel the power accumulating when we start making it. He will most likely turn around and try to attack us. We will be all in the same place. That's the same as when we first made it. That's why your dad didn't want us to use it. But if we are separated and concentrate on one spot, he'll have a hard time locating us."
Rei; "Yeah, we already figured that out when your mom was training with us, Usagi. If we're going to do this we better do it quick. And I say that we DO, do this. It's our only option at this point. He seems to be too strong for your dad and yourself."
Usagi nodded. "You're right, Rei. Let's do this now, while we can, while he's distracted." She jumped backwards into the air and took her position just above the room of spirit and time.
Makoto stayed on the ground while Minako hovered just above Usagi only on the opposite side of the lookout. Ami flew up to the highest point just across from Makoto. They all looked to Usagi as she would once again lead the attack, since she had already done it twice before.
Usagi took a deep breath in before she too nodded to let them know that she was ready. 'Right about Cell's head is the place. That way if he detects it before we get a chance to finish he'll try to attack it. But then it will explode right on his head. He, he, he. Too bad for him.'
Minako couldn't help but giggle at that. 'I would pay to see something like that.'
Makoto grinned. 'Looks like we're about to anyway.'
Ami frowned. 'We should get this started. Ready?'
All; 'Ready.'
Rei nodded. 'Alright then. Start building up now.'
The girls all concentrated the majority of their energy directly above Cell's head as directed by Usagi. This time they had the link to let them know the exact point above his head.
Slowly but surely a white ball of energy began to form above Cell's head. It proved to be even stronger than his power was at the moment. Even to the girls, who had the benefit of feeling his real power. They knew that this was actually going to do some damage. They would finally see Cell suffer from what he had done.
Cell stopped worrying about Mamoru and the others' attacks and concentrated more on the energy pile up that was happening just above his head. "What the…?" He looked up only to be blinded by the magnificent bright Ki attack of the girls. "WHAT IS THAT!?" He could feel its energy, which was in fact larger than his own. There was no way that he would be able to attack against it.
'IT'S READY!' "NOW GIRLS! HAND IT OVER TO ME!" The others gladly complied with Usagi's wishes for none of them knew how to control such a massive energy. Usagi herself was even having trouble holding onto the attack once they let go. She found that she had to pull against the attack just to keep from flying into its pull. "It doesn't look like you're going to be killing anyone else today, Cell. Your terror stops here."
Cell decided to play it cool. He didn't want them to know that the truth was that he was feeling sort of scared by this attack. "Go ahead. It won't do anything."
Everyone else backed away from the two fighter. They felt the potential of the attack and didn't want to be anywhere near it when it hit. "It's lights out for you. You've tried to kill me and my family and friends. No more. I know daddy probably would have given you mercy, but not me. Not after what you've done. It's unforgivable." She became silent as she bowed her head once more. It became easier for her to hold onto the attack as well. "All the suffering your people have cause is unjustifiable. You will not go unpunished. In the name of all who stand for love and justice, you shall parish from this plane." With that, she raised her head and smiled. "Say buh-bye now." She released her hold on the combined attack that she and her friends created and watched as it felt onto Cell and crushed him into the ground and creating a shallow crater.
Usagi looked up at her father, who was giving her a thumb's up, and once again, her entire vision went fuzzy.
~*~Real World~*~
Usagi shot up out of bed in a heavy roar of pants; not knowing what the heck could have just happened. "Wha…?" She grabbed her forehead with her hand and looked up at her digital alarm clock, which read to be six in the morning. The sun was completely up now, but she was still tired for she had only drifted off to sleep two hours before.
She slowly wiped away the sweat from her face as her panting grew deeper. "What was that?" She looked out the window; ready to let her weighted eyelids flap back down over her eyes.
Usagi jerked her hand up towards her chest when she felt a warm, moist object make contact. "Huh?" She curiously looked down to see the wagging tail of Lucky, who was now a full grown dog. She giggled as she reached out to pat her on the head. "You'd never turn against me, would you, lucky?"
She gently turned her head to her window with great concern. 'I hope Luna's doing ok out there. I wish mom would have let her stay in the house tonight.'
Usagi yawned as she resisted the want, her calling to go back to sleep and got out of bed. 'That all happened when we were in the past. Why am I dreaming about it now?' She opened her door and proceeded to walk out into the living room. 'That was awful. I forgot how horrible it felt to have daddy treating me like I meant nothing.' Her heart ached with pain as she compared it to the morning's earlier events. The fight with her father, they were almost the same pains. 'Dad…' She walked to her parents' room and opened the door to reveal to sleeping figures comfortably resting in the bed.
'What a nightmare!' She quietly closed the door behind herself and proceeded to climb into the bed, betwixt her mother and father. 'I never want to go through that again… not even in a dream!' Careful not to wake her exhausted parents, Usagi snuggled under the covers and curled up; more than ready to fall fast asleep once again, only this time with the comforts of family around.
Goku, who was already half awake, opened his eyes and smiled to himself. He took her willingness to freely and openly come to him as a sure way of knowing that she was not in any way angry with him. He knew her ways. She was too forgivable to really hold a grudge anyway. He quietly chuckled to himself and strung his arm over his wife and daughter, falling fast asleep himself shortly after. Soon after, Lucky found her way into the room; snuggled comfortably in a build up of blankets at the foot of the bed.
~*~*~
After a night full of agony; leading to exhaustion; the trio did not wake until nearly two in the afternoon; only half an hour before Usagi was to meet her friends in order to speak of their new situation. But this meeting posed as a dilemma for all. They were to meet with the rest of earth's fighters as well. They were supposed to meet to speak of how they would handle such a situation which no one, apparently, knew about.
When Usagi woke, both of her parents had already left the room.
"What a night…" Usagi sat up with a stretch as she looked around the room. The room let off a sense of familiarity and security, which she would need a lot of if she had any hope of surviving through the road of destiny that she was born into.
She sighed as she looked up to the white ceiling. 'I wonder why I dreamt all that stuff earlier, I mean, wow. That was horrible. That was everything that happened in the past, wasn't it?'
She forced herself to emerge from the warm bed and onto the cold, breezy floor. She began heading for the door, but caught sight of her reflection in the mirror and stopped. She looked upon her reflection in that mirror with curious eyes. "Why me?" She whispered; her eyes fixed only on her face, nothing else. "Why can't I just be normal? Ever since I was really little I've been different, almost like an outcast. Just because I'm a Saiyan… Haruka, Michiru, and Mamoru have picked on me." She let her eyes turn from her petite face down to the rest of her body. "Mamoru's right." She frowned as she let her eyes travel to her long, golden hair, which now reached down to thighs without being put into Odangos. "I am scrawny. Who would ever want me to be a Princess? Why do I have to be a Princess anyway? What if I don't want to be the Princess? I just want to be normal. Is that too much to ask?" She looked down at her tail with eyes of sadness.
Lucky, sensing that Usagi was upset, jumped down from the bed and walked to Usagi. She gently nipped at Usagi's hand to get her attention.
Usagi quietly gasped as she looked back at Lucky. "What's wrong? Are you sad too?" She wrapped her arm around the dog's neck with a smile. "I bet you're hungry, aren't ya girl?" She quickly forgot of her troubles as she turned away from the mirror and walked away from the room. She didn't get very far before she was met with the worried faces of her parents, who were sitting on the sofa in front of the television.
Lucky barked happily and ran away from Usagi; allowing her to be free to walk to her mother, who was sitting closest to her. "Mom, what's the matter?"
Chi-Chi, near tears, reached out to her daughter and pulled her down to sit with her. "Goku just told me what happened to you. I'm so sorry! Mommy won't ever let that happen to you again! Those evil people will pay for what they did to my baby!"
Usagi gulped as she only sat there and let her mother fuss over her. Normally, she would have been sickened by this act of over protectiveness, but on this day, for some reason even she did not know, it was comforting. It made her feel loved.
Chi-Chi tightened her grip on her daughter when she realized that, for once, she wouldn't pull away from her. "You're not going to be out of my sight EVER again."
Usagi's eyes widened with fear as she, now, began struggling to pull away. "M…mom…let's not go overboard. I mean…"
Goku chuckled as he leaned back into his seat; fully entertained by the two women of his life.
Usagi frowned. Had she been able to share that frown with her father, she wouldn't have hesitated in the least bit. But she was still trying to figure out how she was going to break free without hurting her mother. "Mom, I love you and all, but…"
"Your mom's right about not going far from me, her, or your brother's for a while."
Usagi stopped trying to accomplish the impossible to try and decipher just what in fact was going on. Before her father spoke, she had expected that it was just her mother overreacting as usual, but when both of them said the same thing, it was something to worry about. "What do you mean? I'm not a baby. I'm not weak, I can take care of myself."
Chi-Chi let go of her daughter and slapped her, lightly, in the back of the head. "What are you talking about, young lady?! You know exactly what happened last night! No one was able to save you from those evil people and you got taken out of this world, even dimension because of it!"
Goku nodded with the sternest of looks, though still compassionate at the same time. "This isn't because we think you're weak, because you're not. We just want to play it low for a while, until we have more information on this new enemy of ours. Obviously, from what you told me, these people want you, which means that they weren't too happy that you escaped. They may come back for you, and if they do, we want to be able to try to protect you."
"But dad! I can fight too ya know!"
"I know that. But last night you were caught unaware, no one was able to detect it. They sucked you dry of all energy so you couldn't fight back. We're not necessarily saying that you have to be with us all the time, we just want to be near so in case something DOES happen, we'll be able to know. We'd even be satisfied with your friends being around. At least some could help fight while another comes back to tell us so we can help."
Usagi debated that idea in her head for a few moments. She didn't exactly have any objections to that idea, actually. It seemed fair since it was true, she didn't at all feel her attacker the night before, and even though she could sense them other times. "You sure it won't be trouble for you guys?"
Goku shook his head. "No, it won't. We just won't leave you all by yourself for a while. You're usually with your friends or at home with us anyway. Basically, just don't fly anywhere alone or go out to play in the forest alone for a while and we're happy. Gotta keep you safe so we don't have to summon you back with the Dragon Balls."
Chi-Chi frowned as she glared at her husband. "Goku! We didn't talk about us not being around!"
Goku grinned. "Relax. They'll be fine. Besides, we can't be selfish, can we?" He asked with an impish glare in his eyes.
Chi-Chi growled as she clenched her fists. "SHUT UP!"
Usagi gained a dumbfounded questioning expression as she turned her head from mother to father. She had no idea what in the world they could have been talking about, but it seemed to be one of those parent moments. But it didn't seem as important as what was coming to mind. "What about Luna? Can I keep her? Please?"
Chi-Chi quickly forgot of her fight with Goku and frowned at her daughter's question. The truth of the matter was that she did not particularly wish to have another animal in the house. Yes, from what Usagi had told them earlier in the morning, this cat did help save her, but there was already a dog at that house. That was more than either of her brothers had. Heck, when Gohan had asked her if he could keep Hire Dragon she had said no. Why should it be any different with this child? "About that…"
Usagi's gut flipped at that bit of uncertainty. "But mom!"
Chi-Chi quickly shushed her daughter. "Let me finish!"
Usagi gulped as she cowered away. "Sorry…"
Chi-Chi's expression lightened a bit, as did her mood. "I don't really want another animal in this house…" She cringed when she saw her daughter's face drop into a pile of bricks. "Your dad has NEARLY convinced me to let you keep her."
Usagi turned around, wide eyed, to her father, who was grinning down at her. "YOU!? You're afraid of animals you don't know! They have sharp teeth."
Goku chuckled. "I think I've lived with that dog long enough to overcome my fear of any animal you bring home."
Usagi shared a giggle with her mother as the two of them remembered back to the day she had first brought Lucky home; how he had run into his room and thrown the covers of his head in utter fear. She shot her head back to her mother and pleadingly begged her mother with the most pitiful child look one could ever dream of mustering up. "But she helped save me… your baby!"
Chi-Chi tried desperately to keep an unbiased opinion of that cat, but with what her daughter just presented her with was true. That cat was partly responsible for saving her daughter. Although she didn't know how that was possible, she wasn't going to argue it. "If I say yes will this be the last animal you make me bring into this house?"
Usagi cried for joy as a bright smile grew upon her face. "Thanks mom!" She jumped forward; throwing herself on her mother. "You're the best mom in the whole world!"
Goku's lower lip turned outward as he began to pout. "So now all of a sudden I'm second rate?"
Chi-Chi grinned. "Are you a mother?"
Usagi giggled as she turned around to look at her father; but in doing so, she noticed the clock that sat upon the television, which was turned to cartoons. Obviously, by choice of Goku. The clock read to be ten minutes to three. "WHOA!"
Goku instinctively jumped from the sofa and scanned the room for any kind of disturbance that his daughter could have been seeing. "What?! What is it?! I'll kill it whatever it is! No one messes around here anymore!"
Usagi herself, after having been frightened by her own father's outburst, jumped up. "Uh…" She backed away ever so slowly for, when she told him that it was nothing he was sure to be upset. "Nothings the matter, daddy."
Goku narrowed his eyes as he turned back to Usagi, who was continually backing away. "What?"
Usagi gulped. "I was just surprised that it was so late cause I have to meet the girls in like, ten minutes. I didn't mean to startle you…"
Goku began to calm after hearing that, though he still wasn't exactly the most happy camper. "Let's try NOT to have little outbursts like that for the time being, k?"
Usagi nodded, still somewhat frightened. "I'm going to, uh… go get ready to leave now." She didn't waste any time scampering off to her room to get out of the tension filled room.
Chi-Chi stood and stretched. "Don't be gone too long, sweetie. We still have to meet with everyone else later to try to come up with a plan of strategy!" There came no answer but the slamming of her daughter's door.
Goku, thinking that he was in the clear to go and have a snack, began doing just that. He proceeded to the hallway, that would take him into the kitchen. Chi-Chi, on the other hand, was now sporting yet another frown. "Goku! We still have to talk about last night! Don't think everything is all goody goody between us now that Usagi is back."
Goku gulped with a sweat drop as he froze in place. "Chi-Chi!" He whined. "I'm sorry. I won't do it again. I promise."
~*~*~
~*~Fifteen Minutes Later~*~
Rei, Minako, Makoto, Ami, and Artimas were all piled high atop the forest floor in the massive treehouse, Sanctuary. They had been gathered there for nearly ten minutes awaiting the arrival of Usagi, the only one who they had yet to hear from about this entire ordeal.
They knew that Usagi was an important member of this elite group of celestial warriors, however, they knew not of how much importance she really was.
Rei, being the most impatient of the group, was chomping at the bit waiting for Usagi. "Where is she? She should have been here by now. Here we are making special notice to be here on time and she's late."
Meanwhile, Minako was sitting in her giant cushioned bean bag, pigging out on a plate full of cupcakes. "It's only been ten minutes, give about five more before you get mad." She stuffed an entire cupcake into her mouth.
Makoto sighed as she looked out the window. "You're only giving her that extra time so you can keep eating your sweets without an interruption."
Minako blushed as she pulled the plate in closer to her chest, as if she were protecting it. "And they're all mine too."
While the three girls went back and fourth, bickering, Ami sat at an isolated table with Artimas. The two of them were working on figuring out her brand new Mercury Computer that came along with her job. She wasn't quite sure how to work it just yet, but she knew with a little time and determination it would come. "Calm down you guys. You know Usagi, she isn't exactly the most time worthy person."
Rei frowned as she sat down in her own bean bag next to Minako. "It still annoys me. We need to find out what happened to her last night. We need to compare notes, you know?" She traveled her eyes over to Minako, who was glaring at her with an almost disturbing amount of paranoia. "What's wrong with you?"
"Don't even think about eating a single one of my cupcakes."
"Oh for goodness sake I don't want your stinkin cupcakes!" Rei quickly left her obvious distress aside when she felt a sudden surge of power enter the room. The power was that of the most pure heart she knew.
Forgetting all common sense, she jumped up to her feet to glare at her friend, who was now standing in front of the table that Ami was studying at. She seemed to be holding Luna in her arms. "YOU!"
Usagi jerked back. "I know I'm late. I'm SO sorry, I got to talking with my mom and she started freaking out and all…"
Rei lashed out once again. "YOU'RE DARN RIGHT YOU'RE LATE! BY NEARLY FIFTEEN MRPMPHMHPH……!"
Makoto quieted Rei down by covering the girl's mouth with her own hands. "Calm down, man! It's not that big of a deal!"
Usagi let Luna jump onto the table as she grinned. "Makoto's right, you don't want to do anything harsh." She let her eyes travel down to Minako, who had her last two cupcakes of seven in her hand. "FOOD!" She dashed for Minako.
"NO! THEY'RE MINE!" Minako jumped up from her bean bag, making certain that she didn't squish the 'beloved' cupcakes at hand.
From what Usagi did next, Minako didn't even have a real need to get up. Usagi fell short of even reaching the bean bag when her foot caught onto a bag of weights, causing her to fall flat on her face.
The entire room burst out laughing, except for Luna and Usagi herself. Though, both of them for different reasons. Usagi for the obvious reason of being embarrassed, and Luna of disappointment. "Is that any way for you to be acting, I ask you?"
Ami stood from her seat to look down over the table at Usagi, who seemed to be pouting. "Are you ok?"
Usagi frowned and completely ignored Ami's question, though not purposely. "Luna, I can act whatever way I want!"
Makoto looked up to the black cat with curiosity as she let her laughter die down to a bubbling giggle. "What's she talking about, Usagi?"
Usagi kicked away the weights and proceeded to push herself up off the ground. "Nothing."
Artimas walked to the edge of table where Luna was cleaning herself. He could sense that she knew something that he didn't. Now that the action from the night before had died down, he could concentrate more on things other than making sure the others didn't find out who he was. "Luna?"
Luna looked back over her shoulder at Artimas, who was slightly glaring at her. "Yes, Artimas?"
"Don't you think we should begin?" He hoped that she would bring her secret about on her own accord so he wouldn't have to pry it out of her.
Luna nodded. "Of course. Usagi, why don't you tell your friends what we were up to last night?"
Usagi sighed as she gloomily sat down into a lawn chair that sat at the table. "I guess." It wasn't as if she didn't want to tell them, because she really did, it was the fact that she didn't want to travel back in her memories of the night before. "As you've all probably guessed, I'm Sailor Moon." She paused to allow her friends to all gather around to listen to her story.
"Cell's queen kidnapped me and put me in a jail cell in her dungeon." She stopped once again when she saw the hand of Minako go up into the air. "Yes?"
"It was that Queen Beryl lady that Artimas was telling us about last night, wasn't it?"
Luna nodded as she began to answer for Usagi. "Precisely, Minako. She is after Usagi's Moon power, and probably yours as well."
Usagi continued when she got the ok from Luna go to on. "While I was there, all I could feel was pure dark energy. When I tried to escape, none of my attacks would work until I started using the Moon Power when I was Sailor Moon. It was really weird, and really scary. Then, when I did escape, me and Luna saw this portal. We didn't know exactly where it would take us, but we jumped in it anyway."
Luna; "Turns out it was a portal to another dimension."
Usagi; "And guess where that dimension was…"
Rei thought about that one for a moment. "Let's see, the past? Did you get to go meet everyone again?"
Usagi shook her head as she was reminded of her dream from the night before. "No. In fact, the opposite. It took us to the future, Trunks' dimension."
Minako gasped. "No way!"
Usagi nodded. "Yes way! I met us there, all of us. Even me! They were all like, sixteen years old and really weak. I wasn't born to my mom and dad there because in that dimension, everyone died except for Trunks, mom, and Bulma."
Minako giggled as she became more fascinated with this story. "So what were we like there?"
"Well, things were a lot different. Mamoru, for one, was nice. You know the grossest part?" Her friends all shook their heads, though literally on the edge of their seats begging for more. Usagi grinned, however, she was ready to puke at the information she was about to relay. "He was MY boyfriend!"
That did it. The entire group of girls fell out of their seats either making sounds of hurling, or laughing. None of them could ever picture those two going out. Ever since they had met they had been at each other's throats. It was just insane to picture them as going out, together, nice and lovey dovy.
Usagi found herself more laughing aloud than anything, now that the initial shock was over. "I know! I know! I was just as shocked as you were. He even called me 'Usako' before he knew that I wasn't really the Usagi from that dimension."
Makoto literally fell out of her chair with severe side aches after hearing that. "Usagi! Please! This is too much! It's too funny! Could you ever imagine HIM being gentle and loving?!"
Rei laughed so hard that her eyes watered. "Him being loving is a sign of the ending of the world."
Usagi grinned. "So true!"
Luna and Artimas, not knowing the true Mamoru of this dimension, found nothing funny about this situation and therefore, were not laughing. "GIRLS!"
Usagi cringed at the reprimand and tried not to laugh anymore, but it was just NOT possible. Being with her friends and sharing this information only heightened the severe strangeness of the thought of her going out with Mamoru.
"USAGI GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER!" Luna shouted.
Usagi froze right there. "Sorry, Luna…" She whispered with a raspy voice.
Luna frowned. "Continue!"
Usagi nodded with a gulp. "I guess there actually was a reason for me going to the other dimension…" That got her friends to shut their mouths and want to listen. "You see, there's this thing called a Multiverse which, I guess, is kind of like all the dimensions put into one big glob, right? Ok. Since I was born in this dimension, it went against all other dimensions and created some sort of time dimensional rip in the Multiverse. Me and the other Usagi, Tsukino Usagi, had to use the New Namek Dragon Balls to fix this so called time dimensional rip."
Rei; "What? Why were you born to Goku and Chi-Chi in this dimension and no others?"
Luna answered that. "Glad you asked, Rei. You see, in all the other dimensions, the Usagi's and Sailor Moon's there have been weak. We needed someone that was strong, and loving, someone who would teach Usagi how to fight and hone her skills so she could use her Moon power without draining her of all her energy."
Ami; "Wait a minute. Why would the Moon power drain her of her energy? I mean, we don't get drained of our power and we were born to normal humans."
Luna grinned. "That's because Usagi's special."
Artimas frowned. 'I knew she was hiding something. Usagi must be more than just a normal Senshi. A normal Senshi wouldn't get drained of her power that easily.' "What's so special about her?"
Luna turned up to Usagi. "Why don't you share your destiny with your protectors?"
Makoto and Minako simultaneously turned to their friend, who wasn't looking all too happy at the moment. "Your destiny? Your protectors?"
Usagi nodded with a sigh as she looked down to the ground with solemn eyes. "Yeah, destiny. I learned more than I wanted to in the other dimension. I'm the Moon Princess, you guys."
Rei: "YOU'RE the Moon Princess?!"
Minako; "NO FAIR!"
Ami smiled; "Usagi! What an honorable position you have!"
Makoto nodded. "That's great! We have found the Moon Princess! And to think, we've known each other almost our entire lives!"
Luna; "What's the matter Usagi? Yesterday you thought it was great."
Usagi looked up with a frown. "At first I thought it was cool, but then I got to thinking. I'm not cut out to be a Princess or queen or anything."
Minako, of course, was jealous right off. "Y…Y… Yo…You're NUTS!"
Rei gave Minako a much earned slap across the face. "IS THAT ANYWAY TO SPEAK TO A PRINCESS!?"
Makoto looked into Usagi's saddened eyes, and saw the sincerity of her statement. "Rei, she's the same person…"
Usagi looked up to Makoto with expressionless eyes. "No I'm not. Do you know what this means? All that responsibility!" She groaned at the thought. School and family already took up too many slots on the responsibility list, she surely didn't need this. "I can't be a Princess. I can't even keep up with what I've got right now."
Minako jumped up with a smile on her face. "I'll be the Princess!"
Rei glared at Minako, ready to slap again. "Shut up!"
Ami looked upon her friend with sympathetic eyes. Never in her life could she remember another time that Usagi was so sincerely upset about something. Especially of such a high honor. "Usagi, don't be upset. You'll make a great Princess. You're smart, caring, compassionate, you always take others into consideration."
Minako forgot her own greediness and went to her friend's aid. "Not to mention you're pretty. Princess' always have to be pretty. You fit the entire job description."
Luna jumped down off the table and into Usagi's lap. "Usagi, your life isn't going to change drastically, you know that right? The only duty you have is to protect others, until you're queen that is. But that isn't until much later."
Usagi's face brightened ever so slightly. "Really? I protect people all the time."
Luna nodded. "Of course you do. Being Princess just means that you are of royal blood. Believe me, your life won't change that much, and think of it this way, if that other Usagi can handle it, you definitely can."
Usagi giggled. "I can, can't I?"
Artimas, who had stayed quiet the entire time, for he was still trying to grasp this entire ordeal, finally frowned. "LUNA! YOU DIDN'T TELL ME LAST NIGHT!?"
"Be quiet Artimas. We can talk about this later. We still have business to tend to."
Usagi's face turned dark and glum as she looked back down at the ground. "Girls, this is a problem, our enemy. Remember Cell? How we had to use our combined attack?"
Makoto nodded with a frown. "How could anyone remember an ugly face like that?"
Ami nodded. "His own hatred, his black heart was his ugliest feature of all. We're up against a lot."
Usagi looked up to give a piercing glare out the window. "I dreamt about our time in the past last night."
Makoto stopped thinking up reasons why she hated Cell and turned to Usagi. "Huh?"
"I dreamt about when my dad was being mean to me, about how he made me go Super Saiyan, about how we fought with Cell. It reminded me of everything we went through. He was strong, and I fear that Beryl is stronger from what I felt last night in her castle."
Minako walked to the table and picked up a can of soda. "Remember when we were in that room with all those Chibi Cells?"
Rei shuddered. "Please, don't remind me. That was real scary, being in that room with all those little things."
Makoto; "Yeah, but we got a lot of power while we were in there. We all reached our version of Super power."
Ami gasped as an idea hit her straight on. "Wait a minute you guys. I don't think that was really any sort of Super power at all."
Minako took a sip of her soda. "What's that supposed to mean?"
Ami; "Think about it. We're the only ones who can feel this Dark energy stuff right?" All nodded at that. "We are also the only ones who can feel our so called 'Super powers' too."
Minako looked down to Artimas, who had a look of shock on his face. "What's the matter, Artimas?"
Artimas; "I think I know what you're talking about. It is said that if a Senshi's life is in danger before they are awakened, their sleeping power will try to wake. It's kind of like it's trying to protect you until it can be fully awakened. What you guys exprieienced was a slight power up into Senshi hood."
Ami; "Is that why we were able to kill Cell with our combined attack? Was it because we had enough of this half awakened power to break through his Dark energy shell?"
Luna nodded. "It had to have been. The only way that Dark Energy can be destroyed is if it's done with the planetary power of the Sailor Senshi."
Rei had taken herself almost completely out of the conversation when the idea of their Super Powers only being a pre-birth of their Senshi powers. It had struck a memory that she thought she had forgotten. "U…Usagi?"
Usagi, as well as the entire group, turned to the shaking Rei. "Yes?"
Rei gulped. "Remember when Kiro tried to kill you because you were a Saiyan by taking over your body?"
Luna frowned. "What?!"
Usagi nodded. "Yes, I remember. Not that I want to, but I do."
"Your entire body shined Silver. It was so bright, almost like the shine of the moon from last night. He said that you had a pure heart and all."
Usagi gasped. "You think he was talking about my Moon power?"
Rei nodded. "Maybe your Moon power was activated because you were in danger, just like Artimas said."
Usagi's mouth hung wide open with realization. Her entire life seemed to be based on the workings of her previous life. Everything she had known seemed to be happening for a reason, like it was pre-setup. "That's scary, Rei."
Artimas; "And of course, you can never tell anyone about your findings, either."
Makoto nodded. "We know. No one can ever know who we really are."
~*~*~
At that precise moment, a very unwanted guest arrived in the heart of Satan City, ready to destroy all and take any energy it could find.
This new being did not go unnoticed by the girls at all.
~*~*~
Makoto jumped up into a fighting stance. "Looks like we need to take out the trash!"
Rei nodded. "I think you're right."
Luna jumped out of Usagi's lap and to the window. "Get ready to fight, Senshi."
Artimas; "This is your first fight as a true team!"
(There we go! Happy! It's fifteen pages long! That should hold ya for a while, ne? lol, anyway, ok, lotsa info there but I think you can decipher it all cause it's quite plain. Wha'd you think? Gotta run! Till next time! )