Chapter 9 – The power of a thousand supernovas

"Where do you think it will go?" Michiru asked Haruka as the yellow Porsche raced through the streets of Tokyo's downtown. There weren't many people outside, just some late-night bar visitors and a few prostitutes.

Haruka's eyes were straight on the road. Her mouth was shut tightly and she frowned. "No idea," she said then, "but this thing left behind a few tracks."

A small black tangled feather floated by. Michiru nodded and the car speeded on.

"It's all my fault," Hotaru mumbled quietly. "If my mind hadn't been so opened to its world…"

"Being the Sailor Scout of Death has a price, don't forget that and don't blame yourself for that," Haruka growled. "It's here now and we can't turn the time back, so all we can do now is to go and stop it."

"Why did it warn us?" Goten asked. He wasn't sleepy any more; now he felt like he could be awake for days.

"To build its way out. It would've been better for it to come quietly but it couldn't do that. We're not a big threat for it anyway – or so it thinks." Haruka's eyes narrowed as she spotted another feather. "I think it's heading for Shinjuku."

The car stopped in front of Tokyo's nerve centre, Shinjuku's tall office buildings and skyscrapers. Haruka had been right, long cords of black mist were reaching out from top of one of the skyscrapers. They reached all over the sleeping city, infiltrating into the houses.

"It really is… eating people's dreams," Michiru whispered.

"Not for long!" Goku boosted into the air. "Let's go up there, guys!"

Haruka grabbed his boot. "Excuse me, but some of us are humans here."

"You'll stay down here and let us handle the problem," Vegeta announced, floating up too.

The three girls grunted. "Guess again."

"Women…" Vegeta muttered as they flew up to the top of the building and put the girls down.

The creature was standing in the middle of the roof, sending out the cords of mist. "Oh, the sweet dreams of those pathetic little humans… how tasty, how innocent!" it cackled.

"I don't see your name on them," Trunks shouted.

The being seemed surprised. "How… did you find me?"

"They always ask that," Haruka remarked, pulling out her transformation wand. "Another one of life's great mysteries… Uranus Crystal Power, make-up!"

"Uranus Crystal Power?" Goten asked. "What the heck does that mean?"

Sailor Uranus completed her transformation and shrugged. "Don't ask me, I didn't come up with it…"

"I thought I told you that your materialistic powers don't do anything to me," the demon grinned.

"But it's still worth trying," Vegeta remarked. "Big Bang Attack!"

The huge energy orb flew right through the demon, hit the park near the skyscrapers and left a huge crater behind.

"Bing Bang Attack?" Sailor Saturn asked Trunks who shrugged. The demon cackled again.

"Worthless bags of flesh and bones… I must credit you for trying though."

"Michiru?" Uranus asked over her shoulder. Neptune nodded.

"Space Sword Blaster!"

"Submarine Reflection!"

Both attacks flew right through the demon as well.

"That doesn't make much point," Trunks said. "You're attacking a big bunch of black smoke."

Vegeta snarled quietly. "Can you do better?"

"Trunks is right; we need a different angle." Uranus gave a quiet sigh and frowned at the demon that had stopped gathering the dreams and was now looking at the fighters with an amused look on its face. "And what are you looking at??"

"A bunch of black smoke… how do you fight smoke?" Goku asked. "Nothing materialistic can do anything against it."

Sailor Saturn who had been quiet during the fight suddenly raised her Silence Glaive. "Death Reborn…"

"NO!" Uranus dashed forward and slammed her Space Sword into the Silence Glaive which fell on the ground. "Have you lost it? You'll destroy the whole planet with that attack!"

"This thing will destroy the whole Universe when we won't stop it." Saturn's eyes were cold and angry. "Is that what you want, Uranus? Our lives compared to the whole existence of life on all planets – this isn't a big price to pay."

"You really should consult other six billion people on Earth before deciding that." Uranus's eyes were angry too. "And who says that the Death Reborn Revolution will kill it? It's made of darkness and dreams. Darkness must be destroyed, dreams must be saved. Can your Silence Glaive do both? I don't think so. We need to save the dreams of the mankind first, do you get that?"

"How?" Neptune asked suddenly. "How can we save the dreams…? If not… yeah, this might be a way." She grabbed her Aqua Mirror and slid her hand over its surface. Then she reached her hand out. The mirror started to glow, and then faded again.

A small ray of light struck through the night sky and shone right on the roof. A bright white creature appeared into the ray and as the ray faded, it pushed its head up, stretched its wings and gave a quiet snort.

"Hello, Pegasus," Neptune said with a smirk. "Say, you do know that you're having a small problem in the world of dreams, eh?"

Pegasus glared at her. "Do I? Have you any idea how busy I've been? The whole Elysion is about to collapse because that thing over there," he snorted at the demon, "is draining the dreams away. And don't ask me to fight it, my weapons, the dreams, are its food. You might as well start a war with candy cane cannons." He snarled and shook his mane. "No, you have to defeat it by yourselves."

Uranus stepped closer. "And how, if I may ask?"

Pegasus shrugged and almost fell on his nose (you try shrugging while standing on four legs). "You need to believe in yourselves, in your dreams and in the whole mankind. Unite your powers. You just have to feel the strength that comes from inside. That creature is alone, you have each other. Think of that. You're able to defeat it together." He disappeared in a whirl of glittering dust.

"Well, that was informative," Goten remarked.

"Actually… guys, I have an idea." Saturn raised her Silence Glaive again. "Don't worry, Uranus, this time it's not the Death Reborn Revolution." She waved her long glaive around her. "Silent Wall….!"

"Wasn't that for protection?" Uranus asked as a semi-transparent energy wall appeared in front of Saturn.

"A metal shield is for protection as long as you wield it to avoid strikes," Sailor Saturn replied. "When you slam the shield into someone's face, it's not for protection. All right, now all of you, attack that wall with all the power you've got. And fast!"

Uranus and Neptune looked at each other with surprise, but then they nodded quietly and raised their hands. "World Shaking!" "Deep Submerge!"

Both plasma balls disappeared into the wall.

Neptune gasped. "What the…?"

"Your turn, you Saiyans!" Saturn shouted.

Vegeta grinned. "If you insist… Final Flash!"

The whole Tokyo shone bright as the humongous wave of energy was struck out… but then it disappeared into the wall as well.

"That was strong," Saturn nodded with satisfaction. "Make it fast now!"

The demon was gathering all the dreams again and paid no attention to the others.

Goku concentrated for a moment. Trunks and Goten used the time to fuse into Gotenks.

"Kame… hame… HA!" Goku's energy wave also faded into the wall. Gotenks sent his little ghost kamikazes right after it.

"Happy now?" Vegeta asked, sitting on the ground and breathing hardly. He had given everything he had and had now merely enough energy left to keep his body still functioning. The others were practically drained too.

"Perfect," Saturn nodded. "That should work. Silent Wall!!!"

The semi-transparent energy wall dashed over the roof and threw itself over the demon that hadn't even seen it coming. The wall formed into a hemisphere and turned bright.

"Right now there's a huge explosion inside that wall," Saturn explained quietly. "Your powers can be compared with the power of a thousand supernovas. Actually very impressive. You Saiyans truly are a mighty race, I must say…"

"Those supernovas are quiet," Trunks remarked. There really wasn't a sound to hear.

"The Silent Wall and the two plasma balls are the protective shield between our world and the inside of the sphere. If there wasn't for those, this galaxy would probably blow up. Theoretically your energies should create a vacuum between the dimensions and send the creature to the Dead Zone." Sailor Saturn said.

"Dead Zone?" Goku asked and sat up. "Then it won't be lonely any more – it can play checkers with Garlick Junior or something."

Saturn gave him a surprised look. "Erm… if you say so…"

Suddenly the sphere disappeared. A huge complex of black mist flew out on the whole Tokyo and on the same moment the eastern side of the sky turned red.

"The dreams are back where they're supposed to be," Neptune smiled, turning back into Michiru.

"And the sun is rising." Uranus aka Haruka yawned. "I want coffee. Anyone with me?"

"Hey Vegeta! Guess what just happened!" Goku ran into the garden and stopped. "Hey… where are you?"

"Up here." Vegeta was sitting on the roof. "What's all that big excitement about?"

"I just got a connection with King Kai!" Goku announced, floating up to the roof too. "It turned out that there had been a magnetic storm near the edge of the galaxy. We're actually not very far away from home. I can even feel Gohan's aura right now!"

"Did I get that right?" Haruka stepped out of the house and looked at the roof. "You have a chance to go home now?"

Goku nodded. "Yeah."

Goten and Trunks, who had been training in front of the house, stopped and looked up too. "But we don't wanna go!"

Goku blinked with surprise. "You don't?"

"At least not yet," Goten added. "All this "Goten, put your sweater on, you'll catch the cold" and "Goten, eat your vegetables now, or you won't get any dessert". Don't I deserve a better childhood?"

Haruka grinned. "Too much TV indeed."

"Michiru promised to make egg rolls for dinner," Trunks added.

"I thought that Haruka didn't want us around?" Goku looked at the girl.

Haruka smirked slightly. "Let's see… while you're already sitting up there, the roof needs fixing. Once you're here, you might as well be useful, eh?"

Vegeta smirked too and squinted, looking at the sun. The day was sunny and cloudless.

"Get me a few nails up here, will you?"

"Mom has been bugging you for weeks to fix our house's roof," Trunks reminded him with a grin.

"Mom can wait for another week… or two," Vegeta replied.

The End

Author's Note (and update): Want more? I recently started writing a new fanfic that continues this one here. It's called "A Vacation With Demons"... if you want to know what happens to the Saiyans next, you might as well go and read it. Hint #1: the demon isn't defeated yet. Hint #2: the Outer Scouts land on the Dragonball Earth. Hint #3: there will be a LOT bigger problems than some lousy little demon. Wanna know more? Go ahead and read...