Epilogue: What the Future Brings

With a small burst of energy Chibi Usa shot from the time portal. With some deftly maneuvering she managed to land on her feet. She straightened up, and held her breath. She listened - no explosions, no sounds of thousands of marching troops. Carefully she opened her eyes, and looked around in the alley; which still was an alley, of a city, apparently an intact city - not a wasteland. She let out a breath she hadn't been aware holding, and slowly looked around better to orient herself, wondering if her friends were still alive, wondering if they needed her help.

"Princess!?" a voice asked and she whipped her head around to regard whoever asked her. There was a man at the beginning of they alley - in a uniform. She had never seen the uniform before in her life; but a few of the symbols, and the rank insignia that showed he was a captain were very familiar to her - the symbols and insignia of the Earth Royal Army.

"Uh, hello, you are?" Usagi asked nervously.

The man snapped to attention, his face for a moment filled with self-annoyance: of course the princess didn't know every single soldier by name. "Captain Micheals, ma'am, with the 52nd airborne division."

*52nd airborne!?* Usagi wondered silently. *Shouldn't he be at an airfield then? And since when do we have English - American? Australian? - people who have been part of our army so long they made it to captain? . . . oh, my.*

"Ma'am, I could be presumptuous, but we've been looking for you, feared you were kidnapped, you might be needed in Tokyo, ma'am, you might want to go there," the man quickly said.

Usagi went white, they had gotten here anyway, for a moment she had hoped the army wasn't here. Had her changes been enough? Obviously at the moment Tokyo wasn't leveled with the ground - yet. "Yes, ok, uhm, how do I get there?" she asked, between her across space teleportation, twice, and the exhausting first time sex - might not have been such a good idea after all - she had no energy left for another teleportation, although she was confident she could still fight.

The man seemed confused, and asked, "Flying, ma'am?"

Usagi looked at him for a few moments, confused, and then said, "With what?"

The man's eyes bugged out of his head, looking at Usagi in disbelief and then suddenly with suspicious eyes. Could this be an imposter? He had never been close enough to the princess to be able to know her ki signature.

The pink-haired girl looked at him in shock, and then slowly regained her composure. "Could you bring me?" she asked nervously.

Captain Micheals contemplated, and then decided that the queen would most notably be able to tell if this was the real princess or not. He pulled out a communicator and said into it, "People, I found the princess, I'll be escorting her to the battle field. Watari, you're in charge." A chorus of acknowledgments followed, each having a little sliver of relief in their voices. Micheals decided that if Usagi was an imposter, and she didn't know about flight, it was better to keep her imbalanced. Before she even know what had happened, he had grabbed her tightly by her waist and blasted off with great speed. It had the desired effect, Usagi's eyes widened in shock as the city below her flew by rapidly.

*****

They arrived over Tokyo, and Usagi was still in shock. The army was here alright, but an army of their own was standing against it - or more like flying against it. The battle raged everywhere, but the army of Earth was holding their own even against superior numbers, which with every death of an enemy soldier became less and less superior, of course Earth warriors were dying as well, but they just weren't dying with the same numbers as was the enemy.

Then she saw it: the General of the army. The horrible thing with its tentacles, the one that so easily leveled Tokyo with the ground in her memories. She froze up with dread as Micheals placed her and himself on the roof of a nearby building. She recognized Mars - Rei - except she was not in her Sailor Mars outfit. She was wearing a skin tight outfit purple and black, that blossomed out to broad shoulder pads, and a lovely cleavage covered by a few ropes that was both stylish as well as sexy, and sensible. Next to her King Endymion was fighting. Usagi hadn't recognized her father until now, because he was not in his classical tuxedo uniform, he was wearing an outfit made to move in, with the front only vaguely resembling his erstwhile tuxedo costume.

Suddenly the both of them stretched out their hands and a yellow energy disc formed on each of their hands. "DESTRUCTO DISC!" both yelled and then flung the cutting discs at the main force. It laughed, wanting to say something, an energy shield shimmering around him. He looked mightily surprised when the discs cut through the shield he was generating and sliced off some of its tentacles. Rei and Endymion shot forward like a well-oiled team and smashed both their knees forward into the alien general. His weakened shield shattered under their combined power and they doubled the thing over as they crashed into him. Immediately after, they followed up with uppercuts that sent the thing reeling. They backed up some, and both charged an angry white ball of energy with both their hands pointing at the alien. They let the balls fly and they connected, both exploded mightily, making the alien roar in pain. The explosion was big enough to shatter the glass in the skyscrapers on either side, sending the glass flying everywhere.

"Honey, NOW!" Endymion shouted, as he and Mars back up some. Chibi Usa watched with astounding as her mother arrived from somewhere behind a building with a speed she had never seen her move at. The blonde Super Sailor Moon had her hands stretched out, her scepter floated in front of her chest, energy crackling from it focusing in a focal point right in front of it. There a pink ball of energy slowly formed and grew bigger.

"MEGAMAC!! EAT THIS!!" Super Sailor Moon shouted, as the pink ball of crackling energy formed a blue and black angry core. "DISINTEGRATION BEAM!!" she yelled in anger and the ball stretched out in a powerful beam of energy. The general was still recovering from Rei and Endymion's united attacks and had no defense. He screamed as the energy beam enveloped him, and started cutting him up, seemingly in thousands of tiny cubes. Suddenly the last of the beam crashed into him and with an implosion the cubes were flung away, and then disappeared into nothingness.

"General Z!" someone called, and Chibi Usa looked over. She saw a red and black clad ninja minus face mask in a furious battle with an alien that had to be of the same stature seeing its uniform. This General Z, which she had never hear of, moved with a speed, grace, and agility that had her dumbfounded. Reacting to his summons the general sped up, got in the alien's defenses and suddenly blasted a beam of energy from his hand through the alien's chest. Immediately this General Z looked over to the one calling and saw what the soldier wanted him to know: the alien general was destroyed. In that moment the dumbfounded girl could see the general's face, and recognized him, but couldn't quite place him. She wracked her brain 'mom's childhood friend' clicked somewhere, having seen the man a few times when he came to visit; 'Umino', her mind supplied the name right after.

"Jupiter!" General Z commanded with authority, as he looked down. Chibi Usa followed his gaze, and saw Sailor Jupiter fighting a whole squadron of aliens on the ground . . . except it wasn't Sailor Jupiter, it wasn't Makoto - it was . . . Usagi couldn't remember the name, but it was Umino's wife that much she knew. "The ki shield is down."

Sailor Jupiter nodded once, blasting the attacking aliens who had decided to try and use her distraction off of her. Then she was enveloped in a white flame of energy and burst upward into the air. In the sky her antennae rose out of her tiara and dark thunderclouds gathered around her.

Chibi Usa's attention was taken away from the sight, as Sailor Uranus's familiar voice called out, "Saturn!" She couldn't see Uranus, she was probably somewhere behind a building, but a moment later Sailor Saturn appeared from behind a building, and sliced her glaive clean through a few alien soldiers. To Usagi's surprise she seemed healthy and strong, not the weak, pale girl she remembered. Then Satarn burst into the air, her glaive swiveling around in her right hand. "DEATH BLAST!" Saturn called, and stopped the glaive horizontally in front of her. Immediately arches of black energy lashed out continuously, striking at the alien soldiers.

"Multi Thunder Attack!" Sailor Jupiter called from somewhere, and Chibi Usa looked over. Lightning came flashing down from the dark, dangerous thunderclouds, each one striking at least one alien soldier. Chibi Usa watched in awe as Saturn and Jupiter's attacks moved forward, killing alien soldier after alien soldier. Finally both attacks flashed down upon a shield. Chibi Usa watched as the higher and more powerful alien generating it, groaned with the effort, but he managed to ward off the attacks until they ended.

The new commander, now that the old one died, took one final look at the death dealt to his army, and their leader, and he called out, "RETREAT!!" Then the alien soldiers did just that, fleeing from the battle field in a well-ordered fashion. Chibi Usa watched as an airborne contingent of Earth's forced started pursuing, firing energy blasts from their hands like it was nothing.

"STAND DOWN! LET THEM GO!" Sailor Moon called out with authority, and immediately efforts of pursuit were ceased.

Earth's army stayed vigilant for several more minutes in case it was a faint, and in that time Chibi Usa marveled at what she saw. She couldn't believe it; she had hoped, wished for many things, but nothing like this. An army of super warriors? Tears of joy started to form on her cheeks as she thought it over; it shouldn't be possible. Setsuna and her had gone over so many possibilities of what to do and what could result, but none contained this. She had hoped for just enough power to beat this army, resulting in a half destroyed Earth at the end. But this? "Gohan," she suddenly whispered as her tears of joy and relief started flowing with greater numbers, understanding dawning, "you did this. You trained them." She looked up, as if he would be there, and whispered with deep emotions, "Thank you."

The Sailor Soldiers who were nearby and their friends arrived at the roof, and Sailor Moon scolded, "Small Lady Serenity, what did you think you were doing!? Where were you!? We could have used your help! You can't forsake your duties."

Chibi Usa looked at her very much alive mother for a moment, and then with a cry of joy bound forward and jumped, wrapping herself around her mother's neck, hugging her close. The blond, senior Usagi was surprised and then wrapped her arms around the crying teen. "Hey, what's wrong?" Usagi whispered soothingly, looking at her friends one by one for an explanation, none of them had one to give. Micheals took a few uncomfortable steps back, he felt like a perverted voyeur, watching this.

Chibi Usa moved her head, regarding Rei, and she asked whimpering, "Why aren't you Sailor Mars?"

"Why do you mean?" her mother asked, confused like the others. The pink-haired girl in her arms gave a shrug. "She's been Ninja M for years. Why don't you know this?"

"Humor me," Chibi Usa said softly.

Her friends and family looked at each other for a moment, and then Rei answered, "Mars was destroyed years ago."

Chibi Usa looked confused, and asked, "What do you mean, you're here?"

Everybody frowned, and Rei answered in disbelief, "Not me, not the soldier, the planet - it was destroyed years ago." The pink-haired teen looked shocked for a moment. "Why don't you know . . ." Rei trailed of as Usagi's face lit up in revelation, and then her face did as well.

Usagi prompted her daughter, "You just went to the past to have Gohan destroy the time gates, didn't you?" Chibi Usa looked up in surprise, and then nodded. "You don't know anything of the new time line . . . we're going to have to train you all over again, no wonder you felt so low on ki."

Her daughter looked confused for a moment, and then looked over at the new Sailor Jupiter: Naru. "Makoto?" the teen croaked out. She felt the hug tighten and steeled herself for the answer she dreaded.

"She was killed three years ago, but her transformation pen wasn't destroyed," Sailor Moon answered softly.

Chibi Usa swallowed, and then gave a sob. She had already seen them die, she knew some of them would probably still be dead when she came back, but she had also hoped, it still hurt. "Setsuna?"

"Vaporized over a decade ago," her mother answered and decided to add the rest to it. "Ami and Minako are fine, they're off planet on an official visit to one of our allies. And Michiru is fine too, although she claims otherwise and is mostly yelling at Haruka for 'getting her into this predicament' - she's at home, pregnant."

Chibi Usa looked up, frowning in confusion and looked over at Sailor Uranus. The short-hared blonde folded her hands across her chest, and sternly, but with a smile, she answered, "Artificial insemination, you changing the past didn't change my gender."

"Hon, she's getting heavy," the older Usagi complained somewhat which earned her an annoyed look from the others. When Chbi-Usa was handed over to her father and she buried her face deeply into his chest while he hugged her fiercely, nobody mentioned a thing though.

*****

A week later all was quiet, and Rei soared happily through the air of the Earth. The defeat of General Megamac effectively removed any coherence in the army, and the commander that had decided to retreat, had also decided to sign a peace treaty with Earth. Of course, other movements in the army now left with mostly a power vacuum didn't accept his new position as easily. The new General was forced to leave quickly to fight other newly, self-appointed generals for dominance. The different factions would battle each other till there was hardly anything left of the once great and terrifying army. Thus at least in the short run, Earth was at peace once again.

*Hino Rei,* a disembodied voice suddenly sounded. Rei halted her flight, and looked around, then suddenly understood.

"Kami-sama?" she said out loud and beamed back.

*Yes, please come to the sanctuary,* the ancient god's voice sounded in her mind.

*I'm coming,* she beamed.

*****

An hour later Rei landed on the airborne, ancient building. She walked over to the waiting Sarudahiko, and knelt down, "Sarudahiko-sama," she said with reverence. The god was clean shaven now though, and he didn't seem so old now, perhaps even slightly attractive.

"Oh, get up, child, now!" the old god ordered as the even older caretaker of the place appeared behind the god. Rei quickly obeyed and bowed, not daring to look at the god. "Look at me!" Rei once again obeyed nervously. "Good," the god said, and then started on a different line of thought. "Rei, I've been god of this world for several millennia now. I'm old, ancient, not even the magics in this place can keep me alive for that much longer. I need a replacement."

"I don't understand," Rei answered confused.

"Hino Rei," Sarudahiko continued in an officious voice. "You wanted to be a priestess, going ahead of others to worship gods, but circumstance threw a monkey wrench in that plan. You turned the possibility down based on several moral decisions: your continued protection of this world, and its ruling queen, not to mention the requirement to give up certain things you couldn't give up, because you didn't think anyone should have to give them up. Yet you never stopped criticizing the new royal couple and their decisions; you have no idea how much influence you've had on them and the queen in particular. You've shown compassion, wisdom, and through time a better control of your temper; and yet you are not afraid to let that considerable temper out when it is necessary. In short; you are the best candidate to replace me. There were several others in the running, but you've grown enormously in the past few years. I'm asking you to become god of the Earth, to replace me."

"What!? ME!? God of the Earth!?" Rei exclaimed in other shock. She always worshiped gods, how could /she/ of all people become one?

"Indeed, you, what is your answer?" Sarudahiko asked.

"I couldn't possibly, I'm not worthy, I'm just mortal, I . . ." Rei started, too shocked by the whole question.

"Are you denying me?" Sarudahiko demanded suddenly, a mischievous twinkle in his eyes.

"N-no, I wouldn't presume . . ." Rei started, mortified.

Sarudahiko grinned, stuck out his jeweled staff, and said, "Good." It was really manipulative, he knew, getting her like that, but he could see in her heart; he knew, deep down she was build to take on this responsibility. Tentatively the grown woman took the scepter slash staff. "Great!" Sarudahiko said with a bright grin and walked around her toward the edge of the platform. Rei turned around to look at the god in shock. "You'll do fantastic, Rei, trust in yourself. The magics of the place will prolong your life to a few millennia, don't lock yourself up here completely, you /can/ go down and interact with everybody, including men. If you really, really, /really/ need help or advice you can contact me telepathically, but only /really/." The ex-god looked down, and rubbed his hands in anticipation, "Two thousand years of celibacy, that's going to change - /finally/. These last few decades of my life, I will indulge myself. Ooh, what I've heard whispering about today's bikinis. TO THE BEACH!" Then he blasted off with joyful laughter, leaving Rei behind.

"But, but . . ." Rei tried weakly, but the ex-god had already left. She lifted the staff and looked at it dumbfounded.

"Hino Rei Kami-sama," the genie said behind her. When she turned around she saw him bowing respectively. He straightened back up, and suggested to the shocked goddess, "It might be prudent for me to give you the full tour of the place, every last nook and cranny so to speak."

"I guess," Rei said slack jawed and slowly followed the ancient caretaker.

The End

Author's notes:

Few, finished! A few notes I think. SM vs DBZ power levels. It's obvious the dragonball characters and especially the Super Saiyans are far beyond anything the Sailor Moon characters can put out. I've read several crossovers where SM characters were written so powerful the DBZ characters didn't stand a chance against them, which was just ridiculous. I've read all the arguments about why SM is supposedly stronger than DBZ and let me tell you, they don't hold a candle to some scrutinizing. There's is only one argument that cannot be shown to be wrong, but that one doesn't show anything, it can just as easily mean that the DBZ characters are even /more/ powerful in comparison to the SM crowd. If you want to debate it, I'll answer every argument you can throw at me at my yahoo group:

I've read crossovers that are the umpteenth 'let's put Vegeta, and Usagi together, and Bulma and Mamoru are really just assholes (exchange names as necessary)' which makes me go; huh?

Finally, nearly every crossover never has an impact on the SM universe when a Super Saiyan arrives through the dimensional barriers, and that never sat right with me. Space and time are torn apart revealing a massively powerful being capable of destroying planets with ease, and everyone in the SM universe just goes 'shrug, so what?' Everyone and their mother would come investigating exactly how, why, that being got there and whether or not he/she is a threat to the rest of them.

Doing that caused me to wonder, can Jupiter foresee anything that lies outside of time and space? And what kind of consequences would that have? This is the result, I hope everyone likes it.