Here's the next chapter!
Standard disclaimer: Though I would love to own both of these animes, I do not.
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Pluto gazed into the swirling mists of the time gate; she had spent countless hours reviewing Princess Serenity's arrival in the throne room. It seemed as if she appeared and then disappeared from the Crystal Tokyo sector of time completely instead of teleporting somewhere else- yet another thing that Pluto couldn't understand about Chibi-Usa considering she never had that ability before. Pluto watched the scene in the Crystal Palace again, she would find out what was going on with the princess before that awful war started. Pluto sent up a silent prayer to Chronos, asking him to allow her to find the answers she needed in a very short amount of time.
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As Trunks and Chibi-Usa exited the time chamber, they were greeted by sounds of bustling activity in the palace halls.
"Father must have returned," said Trunks, he closed his eyes and searched for the ki of the Chibi-Usa he knew, "but no Princess Serenity. Lucky for her."
Chibi-Usa laughed nervously.
As the pair rounded the corner, they ran into a speeding figure with a resounding crash. Staring down at them as they sat on the floor was none other than King Vegeta.
"We are departing for Crystal Tokyo in less than 24 hours and you bakas can't do anything but sit on your butts on the ground?" he growled.
Not wanting to anger his father when the man was already tense with anticipation of the rapidly approaching war with earth, Trunks merely lowered his eyes. Taking his eyes off his son, Vegeta looked down at the girl sitting next to him.
"I hope your not as incompetent as you were the last time I saw you fight," sneered Vegeta at the girl known to him a Selene.
Suppressing an urge to throw a sharp retort back at the spiky haired Saiya- Jin, Chibi-Usa, like Trunks lowered her eyes.
"I have been training hard, your majesty, I will not fail us," said Chibi- Usa, deceptively docile.
Vegeta glared at the girl.
"I hope so, for your sake," he said, "Trunks, we leave tomorrow at noon, gather all troops and be prepared. I hope none of your loyalties aren't changed since the last time the matter was spoken of."
Trunks became stony faced at his father's statement.
"Believe, me," he said dangerously, "Princess Serenity will pay dearly for what she did."
"Good," said Vegeta, walking off.
Trunks sighed. He thought about what he had to do. True, he had no qualms about exacting revenge for all the lives that girl took, but it felt that his heart had broken none the less. He really thought he had loved her. Trunks stood up, and caught a glimpse of Selene. 'She is so much like Chibi-Usa,' Trunks thought to himself. Selene smiled up at him, her red eyes bright. Trunks had to fight to suppress the strange felling he felt in his chest when he looked full into her face.
"Trunks?" asked Selene, "Are you alright?"
"I'm fine," he replied, "Listen, about tomorrow, I know you'll be coming with us, but I want you to be careful. I know the protectors of the Queen and Princess of Crystal Tokyo aren't that strong, but you never know what's going to happen, so I want you to stay back from the fighting as much as possible and stay safe."
Even though Chibi-Usa stood in silent terror at the thought of the next day, she couldn't help but smile when Trunks warned her to stay safe. Even if he no longer loved her, he was still a caring person. Chibi-Usa sighed. She felt bad for deceiving him, pretending to be somebody called Selene. What would she do tomorrow when they returned to her home? She couldn't sit back and watch her friends and family be destroyed on account of her, of this she was certain. But when she finally transformed back into Princess Serenity, what would happen to her then? A tear slid down Chibi- Usa's cheek. What was she thinking, she couldn't let her entire planet be destroyed because of her. Her mother had taught her that not only as Princess of Crystal Tokyo, but also as Sailor Moon that sometimes others had to be put before herself. Chibi-Usa braced herself. It was time to behave like a true Moon Princess would.
"Selene?" asked Trunks confused, but concerned, "Why are you crying?"
'My sweet, Prince,' thought Chibi-Usa, 'I still love you no matter what.' She could do only one thing to save her loved ones- transform and try to get them to believe her.
"Trunks," said Chibi-Usa, "I'm not who you think I am."
"What do you mean, Selene?" asked Trunks not understanding.
Chibi-Usa ignored the prince's question and continued on.
"I just want you to know that I still love you and always will," she whispered.
Trunks looked down at the red-eyed girl in shock.
"Disguise Pen!" yelled Chibi-Usa, holding up the pink wand, "Change me back into my real self."
The Saiya-Jin prince's eyes widened in shock as different colors of light swirled around the person he knew to be Selene. A flash of white light temporarily blinded him, but when the brightness faded the person he vowed revenge upon stood before him.
"Serenity!" he growled.
"Trunks let me explain…" began Chibi-Usa.
With a yell Trunks powered up to his super Saiya-Jin form, flashed out of sight and grabbed Chibi-Usa by her neck from behind. He gathered an intense ki blast in his free hand and stuck it close to the princess's back.
"If you so much a move without my permission, I will blast you to hell, you witch!" he grated into her ear.
Chibi-Usa closed her eyes, causing more tears to fall.
"Trunks," she said, "it wasn't me! I didn't attack your planet! You know I would never do that!"
Trunks slammed Chibi-Usa into a wall and pressed the ki ball in his hand close to her face.
"Do you think I'm stupid!" yelled Trunks, "I know what I saw that day, and you know what you did! Who else but you and your whore of a mother can use that stupid crystal of yours? Did you lose it or something? Tell me!"
Chibi-Usa sobbed.
"I don't know how it happened, but I swear, Trunks, it wasn't me!"
The Saiya-Jin prince glared at her.
"What were you doing on Vegeta-sei unannounced parading around as a Saiya- Jin if you weren't up to something? Why didn't you contact me the minute you got here if you weren't planning to do anything? No, Serenity, don't even attempt to lie to me, you're no good at it."
"Trunks," whispered Chibi-Usa desperately as her face continued to be drenched in tears.
"Never say my name again! Your lies will not get you out of the punishment you deserve this time. We are going to the throne room to see what my father wants to do with you. Don't give me an excuse to kill you because I really don't need much of one right now."
Trunks's fingers tightened around Chibi-Usa's neck as he whirled her around and pushed her through the corridors of the palace. Finally, Vegeta-sei would be avenged.
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Saturn sensed Chibi-Usa returning to her normal self, and, almost immediately after, Trunks's ki rising as he turned into a super Saiya-Jin. The Messiah of Silence smiled.
"So, it seems the little worm is trying to have a backbone after all," she mused. Saturn laughed. Chibi-Usa thought revealing herself would stop the war. Mistress 9 chuckled, obviously she didn't know about the little interlude the Messiah of Silence had starred that made a certain Saiya-Jin king believe a certain Queen of Crystal Tokyo had ordered her to attack. Regardless of what Chibi-Usa said or did, the Saiya-Jins would destroy Crystal Tokyo. She should have stayed in hiding for a little longer. Saturn rose and strode towards the throne room. She definitely didn't want to miss what Vegeta would say to her.
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King Vegeta was distracted from his conversation with his generals when the gigantic doors of the palace's throne room were blown to dust.
"Who the hell!?!?" exclaimed Vegeta.
The Saiya-Jin's eyes widened in shock as Princess Serenity came through the door with Trunks, in super Saiya-Jin form, holding her by her neck while pressing a ball of ki dangerously close to her lower back. Vegeta couldn't help but smirk. The brat had been caught.
"Well, welcome, Your Highness," mocked Vegeta, "it seems you've made quite a few visits to our humble planet in the past few days. Tell us, any plans to decorate the planet further?"
Chibi-Usa looked at the Saiya-Jin king in horror. All she could think about was how easily he had defeated Mars.
"Tell me, brat," began Vegeta, "Do you regret obeying your mother's orders now that it seems that you won't live long enough to take her crown?"
Chibi-Usa fearfully looked at Vegeta with confusion.
"What are you talking about?" she asked weakly.
"Why don't you tell me?" growled Vegeta, "You're the one who was foolish enough to attack a planet full of Saiya-Jins, even if Neo-Queen Serenity commanded you to do it. You'll soon see, brat, that you should fear me much more than you should fear her."
"She didn't tell me to do anything!" Chibi-Usa cried.
"So you did it all on your own?" toned Vegeta sarcastically as he raised an eyebrow.
"No! I didn't do anything, I wasn't me!"
Vegeta laughed evilly.
"I'm sure," he said sarcastically, "Well, little Princess, the two of you can argue for blame tomorrow right before I kill you both. Don't worry, I promise it will hurt, badly."
Chibi-Usa sobbed.
"Get this cowardly filth out of my sight, make sure she's guarded well. Remember, weakling, you will die, but you can either die now and not get to say your goodbyes to your race before I destroy them, or you can be a good little bunny and behave until you are ripped apart," said Vegeta.
Chibi-Usa looked around the room. All she saw was either angry glares, hateful smirks, or barely restrained, rage-filled faces. As she was roughly taken out of the throne room, she looked and saw Saturn. Before she could appeal to her friend and fellow senshi for help, the purple haired girl walked up and slapped her in the face.
"Good riddance traitorous bitch of Crystal Tokyo, I look forward to seeing you die," said the girl who was once Hotaru.
"Saturn!" gasped Chibi-Usa.
Hotaru pulled close to Chibi-Usa and leaned in to her ear.
"Saturn is no more, only the Silence remains," she whispered.
Chibi-Usa's eyes widened as comprehension dawned on her.
"Why?" she yelled as the Saiya-Jins drug her to a holding cell.
Mistress 9 answered the question the best way she could, with absolute silence.
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Well, there you go. My typical flame policy is still in effect. Note to Saturn fans: the story isn't finished yet. R/R!
Standard disclaimer: Though I would love to own both of these animes, I do not.
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Pluto gazed into the swirling mists of the time gate; she had spent countless hours reviewing Princess Serenity's arrival in the throne room. It seemed as if she appeared and then disappeared from the Crystal Tokyo sector of time completely instead of teleporting somewhere else- yet another thing that Pluto couldn't understand about Chibi-Usa considering she never had that ability before. Pluto watched the scene in the Crystal Palace again, she would find out what was going on with the princess before that awful war started. Pluto sent up a silent prayer to Chronos, asking him to allow her to find the answers she needed in a very short amount of time.
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As Trunks and Chibi-Usa exited the time chamber, they were greeted by sounds of bustling activity in the palace halls.
"Father must have returned," said Trunks, he closed his eyes and searched for the ki of the Chibi-Usa he knew, "but no Princess Serenity. Lucky for her."
Chibi-Usa laughed nervously.
As the pair rounded the corner, they ran into a speeding figure with a resounding crash. Staring down at them as they sat on the floor was none other than King Vegeta.
"We are departing for Crystal Tokyo in less than 24 hours and you bakas can't do anything but sit on your butts on the ground?" he growled.
Not wanting to anger his father when the man was already tense with anticipation of the rapidly approaching war with earth, Trunks merely lowered his eyes. Taking his eyes off his son, Vegeta looked down at the girl sitting next to him.
"I hope your not as incompetent as you were the last time I saw you fight," sneered Vegeta at the girl known to him a Selene.
Suppressing an urge to throw a sharp retort back at the spiky haired Saiya- Jin, Chibi-Usa, like Trunks lowered her eyes.
"I have been training hard, your majesty, I will not fail us," said Chibi- Usa, deceptively docile.
Vegeta glared at the girl.
"I hope so, for your sake," he said, "Trunks, we leave tomorrow at noon, gather all troops and be prepared. I hope none of your loyalties aren't changed since the last time the matter was spoken of."
Trunks became stony faced at his father's statement.
"Believe, me," he said dangerously, "Princess Serenity will pay dearly for what she did."
"Good," said Vegeta, walking off.
Trunks sighed. He thought about what he had to do. True, he had no qualms about exacting revenge for all the lives that girl took, but it felt that his heart had broken none the less. He really thought he had loved her. Trunks stood up, and caught a glimpse of Selene. 'She is so much like Chibi-Usa,' Trunks thought to himself. Selene smiled up at him, her red eyes bright. Trunks had to fight to suppress the strange felling he felt in his chest when he looked full into her face.
"Trunks?" asked Selene, "Are you alright?"
"I'm fine," he replied, "Listen, about tomorrow, I know you'll be coming with us, but I want you to be careful. I know the protectors of the Queen and Princess of Crystal Tokyo aren't that strong, but you never know what's going to happen, so I want you to stay back from the fighting as much as possible and stay safe."
Even though Chibi-Usa stood in silent terror at the thought of the next day, she couldn't help but smile when Trunks warned her to stay safe. Even if he no longer loved her, he was still a caring person. Chibi-Usa sighed. She felt bad for deceiving him, pretending to be somebody called Selene. What would she do tomorrow when they returned to her home? She couldn't sit back and watch her friends and family be destroyed on account of her, of this she was certain. But when she finally transformed back into Princess Serenity, what would happen to her then? A tear slid down Chibi- Usa's cheek. What was she thinking, she couldn't let her entire planet be destroyed because of her. Her mother had taught her that not only as Princess of Crystal Tokyo, but also as Sailor Moon that sometimes others had to be put before herself. Chibi-Usa braced herself. It was time to behave like a true Moon Princess would.
"Selene?" asked Trunks confused, but concerned, "Why are you crying?"
'My sweet, Prince,' thought Chibi-Usa, 'I still love you no matter what.' She could do only one thing to save her loved ones- transform and try to get them to believe her.
"Trunks," said Chibi-Usa, "I'm not who you think I am."
"What do you mean, Selene?" asked Trunks not understanding.
Chibi-Usa ignored the prince's question and continued on.
"I just want you to know that I still love you and always will," she whispered.
Trunks looked down at the red-eyed girl in shock.
"Disguise Pen!" yelled Chibi-Usa, holding up the pink wand, "Change me back into my real self."
The Saiya-Jin prince's eyes widened in shock as different colors of light swirled around the person he knew to be Selene. A flash of white light temporarily blinded him, but when the brightness faded the person he vowed revenge upon stood before him.
"Serenity!" he growled.
"Trunks let me explain…" began Chibi-Usa.
With a yell Trunks powered up to his super Saiya-Jin form, flashed out of sight and grabbed Chibi-Usa by her neck from behind. He gathered an intense ki blast in his free hand and stuck it close to the princess's back.
"If you so much a move without my permission, I will blast you to hell, you witch!" he grated into her ear.
Chibi-Usa closed her eyes, causing more tears to fall.
"Trunks," she said, "it wasn't me! I didn't attack your planet! You know I would never do that!"
Trunks slammed Chibi-Usa into a wall and pressed the ki ball in his hand close to her face.
"Do you think I'm stupid!" yelled Trunks, "I know what I saw that day, and you know what you did! Who else but you and your whore of a mother can use that stupid crystal of yours? Did you lose it or something? Tell me!"
Chibi-Usa sobbed.
"I don't know how it happened, but I swear, Trunks, it wasn't me!"
The Saiya-Jin prince glared at her.
"What were you doing on Vegeta-sei unannounced parading around as a Saiya- Jin if you weren't up to something? Why didn't you contact me the minute you got here if you weren't planning to do anything? No, Serenity, don't even attempt to lie to me, you're no good at it."
"Trunks," whispered Chibi-Usa desperately as her face continued to be drenched in tears.
"Never say my name again! Your lies will not get you out of the punishment you deserve this time. We are going to the throne room to see what my father wants to do with you. Don't give me an excuse to kill you because I really don't need much of one right now."
Trunks's fingers tightened around Chibi-Usa's neck as he whirled her around and pushed her through the corridors of the palace. Finally, Vegeta-sei would be avenged.
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Saturn sensed Chibi-Usa returning to her normal self, and, almost immediately after, Trunks's ki rising as he turned into a super Saiya-Jin. The Messiah of Silence smiled.
"So, it seems the little worm is trying to have a backbone after all," she mused. Saturn laughed. Chibi-Usa thought revealing herself would stop the war. Mistress 9 chuckled, obviously she didn't know about the little interlude the Messiah of Silence had starred that made a certain Saiya-Jin king believe a certain Queen of Crystal Tokyo had ordered her to attack. Regardless of what Chibi-Usa said or did, the Saiya-Jins would destroy Crystal Tokyo. She should have stayed in hiding for a little longer. Saturn rose and strode towards the throne room. She definitely didn't want to miss what Vegeta would say to her.
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King Vegeta was distracted from his conversation with his generals when the gigantic doors of the palace's throne room were blown to dust.
"Who the hell!?!?" exclaimed Vegeta.
The Saiya-Jin's eyes widened in shock as Princess Serenity came through the door with Trunks, in super Saiya-Jin form, holding her by her neck while pressing a ball of ki dangerously close to her lower back. Vegeta couldn't help but smirk. The brat had been caught.
"Well, welcome, Your Highness," mocked Vegeta, "it seems you've made quite a few visits to our humble planet in the past few days. Tell us, any plans to decorate the planet further?"
Chibi-Usa looked at the Saiya-Jin king in horror. All she could think about was how easily he had defeated Mars.
"Tell me, brat," began Vegeta, "Do you regret obeying your mother's orders now that it seems that you won't live long enough to take her crown?"
Chibi-Usa fearfully looked at Vegeta with confusion.
"What are you talking about?" she asked weakly.
"Why don't you tell me?" growled Vegeta, "You're the one who was foolish enough to attack a planet full of Saiya-Jins, even if Neo-Queen Serenity commanded you to do it. You'll soon see, brat, that you should fear me much more than you should fear her."
"She didn't tell me to do anything!" Chibi-Usa cried.
"So you did it all on your own?" toned Vegeta sarcastically as he raised an eyebrow.
"No! I didn't do anything, I wasn't me!"
Vegeta laughed evilly.
"I'm sure," he said sarcastically, "Well, little Princess, the two of you can argue for blame tomorrow right before I kill you both. Don't worry, I promise it will hurt, badly."
Chibi-Usa sobbed.
"Get this cowardly filth out of my sight, make sure she's guarded well. Remember, weakling, you will die, but you can either die now and not get to say your goodbyes to your race before I destroy them, or you can be a good little bunny and behave until you are ripped apart," said Vegeta.
Chibi-Usa looked around the room. All she saw was either angry glares, hateful smirks, or barely restrained, rage-filled faces. As she was roughly taken out of the throne room, she looked and saw Saturn. Before she could appeal to her friend and fellow senshi for help, the purple haired girl walked up and slapped her in the face.
"Good riddance traitorous bitch of Crystal Tokyo, I look forward to seeing you die," said the girl who was once Hotaru.
"Saturn!" gasped Chibi-Usa.
Hotaru pulled close to Chibi-Usa and leaned in to her ear.
"Saturn is no more, only the Silence remains," she whispered.
Chibi-Usa's eyes widened as comprehension dawned on her.
"Why?" she yelled as the Saiya-Jins drug her to a holding cell.
Mistress 9 answered the question the best way she could, with absolute silence.
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Well, there you go. My typical flame policy is still in effect. Note to Saturn fans: the story isn't finished yet. R/R!