Okay, well, I got busy and couldn't update, yeah, I know, I suck, but I did
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Trunks tossed in his sleep. Images of Crystal Tokyo's pink haired princess flashed through his mind. He saw her scowl from when they had first met in the garden, her determined glare as they argued in the throne room, her smile and shining eyes before their first kiss, and finally her evil smirk as she attacked his planet. Trunks awoke with a start and covered in cold sweat. He shook his head, ran his fingers through his hair, and stood up. 'Where did it all go wrong?' he asked himself. One minute he was in love with a beautiful princess who seemed his perfect match, the next he was attacking her planet in retaliation for her atrocities.
"Chibi-Usa." he whispered her name. He heart full of regret and unanswered questions, Trunks stood for a moment remembering what was. Finally, he pulled himself together and with eyes turning hard, he focused on the task at hand.
"The girl you fell in love with doesn't exist if she ever really existed at all," said a melodious voice from behind.
Trunks spun around to see Hotaru.
"Hotaru, I, was just., I'm sorry, I didn't hear you come in," said Trunks.
Hotaru smiled, "I never thought I'd ever see the day when I caught Vegeta- sei's prince off guard."
Trunks smiled ruefully back. He gazed at Hotaru for a while. There just seemed to be something about those violet eyes that he couldn't resist as of late. He couldn't remember feeling this way when they had first met, but now. now was a different story.
"Are you all right?" Saturn asked.
"Yeah," replied Trunks, "yeah, I'm fine."
Saturn looked up at Trunks for a moment, the next, she brought her lips to his. Her alabaster cheeks flushed rose.
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done that," she said her eyes cast down. She turned to leave the room, but stopped when she felt Trunks' hand grab her wrist.
"No," he said, "You don't have to go." He pulled her in close and returned the kiss.
An announcement from the speaker interrupted their moment.
"Prepare to enter Earth's atmosphere," said the voice.
"I guess we'd better go," said Trunks. He opened the door for Hotaru and signaled for her to go first.
"Thank you," she said. A smirk formed at her lips as before she turned to walk hand in hand to the bridge of the ship. She couldn't wait to see Princess Serenity's face when the brat saw Trunks with her. 'I always get what should belong to me, always,' she thought to herself. She looked up at Trunks and smiled. Within the hour, her sweet, sweet revenge would finally be carried out. 'Let Silence reign.'
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"Is everybody ready?" asked Neo-Queen Serenity.
A collective nod waved through the crowd. The Queen concentrated and sent her thought to the Guardian of Time.
'Pluto, we are ready to return,' she thought to her senshi.
In response a tower of pink light appeared.
"Let's go, we have our world to save!" said Neo-Queen Serenity as she stepped into the light and disappeared.
The defenders of the Earth followed the Queen into the light and to face their destiny.
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Vegeta smirked. Soon the universe would see that none would be able to mess with the Saiya-Jin race and live to tell the tale. Once again, Vegeta saw the Crystal Palace up close as they settled only meters away. Vegeta took to the air.
"Well, Serenity, too scared to come out of your little rock? Face me, you worthless sailor bimbo."
A moment of silence, and then the echo of footsteps.
"My wife," replied a voice, "is nothing of the sort."
"Ah, she's afraid to come out so she sends her little whipping boy, Endymion. How cute."
Endymion glared and prepared to retort when blinding flash of pink light filled the space between himself and the Saiya-Jin army.
"King Vegeta," said a soft, but strongly audible voice, "I am more than a 'sailor bimbo.' However, I am having trouble seeing if you and yours are more than just a bunch of belligerent monkeys."
Vegeta grinned evilly as he heard the voice of Neo-Queen Serenity.
"I'm glad you decided to attend the destruction of your planet, I was afraid you might have run of somewhere to shortly prolong your worthless life."
A stream of energy streamed across the air and right next to Vegeta's head. The blast landed in the middle of the Saiya-Jin army, immobilizing an entire section.
"That's enough, Vegeta," said Goku, "You have no reason to be attacking this place, go back and play war somewhere else."
"Kakarot," growled Vegeta, "I see you're being your usual bothersome self. I expected that you would fight against your own planet."
"I'm not fighting against my planet," said Goku, his glare focusing on the Saiya-Jin king, "I'm fighting against a man who is attacking a planet full of innocent people for no reason."
"Innocent," sneered Vegeta, "Their little bitch of a princess attacked us first under the orders of this pathetic excuse for royalty."
"You have yet to prove that," retorted Gohan.
"Shut up, brat, what do you know about matters of a warrior?"
"As I recall, that "brat," my son, was enough of a warrior to defeat a monster known as Cell as a little boy, when you, a grown man, couldn't," said Goku.
"I will not stand for this insolence," growled Vegeta, with a flash and a yell Vegeta gathered his energy and powered up to his maximum, Super Saiya- Jin 4.
Goku smirked, "If that's the way you want it, Vegeta, then so be it," Goku clenched his fist and transformed to the same level.
"Good, let it begin," growled the Saiya-Jin king. At a blinding speed, the two warriors raced to face each other.
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"Love and Beauty Shock!"
"Oak Evolution!"
"Flame Sniper"
The three senshi attacks combined in air and blasted the front line of the Saiya-Jin forces.
"Star Serious Laser!"
"Star Gentle Creator!"
"Star Sensitive Inferno!"
The Sailor Starlights combined their attacks to counter the massive energy wave that swelled from the army ranks.
The second line of Saiya-Jins rushed towards Crystal Tokyo's defenders.
"Aqua Rhapsody!"
The ground beneath the advancing horde froze, setting the Saiya-Jins off balance, however, this wasn't enough to stop the warriors, a fist came crashing down on Mercury sending her flying towards the barrier of the Crystal Palace. However, help from a very unexpected source caught her before impact. Mercury was relieved not to have crashed into the magical force field Serenity had created and was marinating to protect the people of the Crystal Tokyo, housed in the palace- she might have ended up as a blue pile of ash.
"Go limp, I have you," said Gohan. 'I've gotta even the odds a little while I still can,' he thought, he powered up to Super Saiya-Jin 2, making the Saiya-Jins in the area gasp in surprise.
"Masenko Ha!" yelled Gohan, his stream of energy elimination a good portion of the Saiaya-Jin army.
A fist from behind sent Gohan flying.
"That will be the last time you do that," said Trunks, now powered up to SSJ3.
Gohan glared at the prince.
"You aren't the only one with that little trick up your sleeve," Gohan powered up to match Trunks. Gohan spotted his brother Goten starting to power up to his highest level as well. 'I'd rather deal with one of them than two of them, or Gotenks for that matter,' thought Gohan. In a split second, Gohan appeared behind his little brother, hit him with both fists grasped from behind, knocking him unconscious. Gohan turned to face Trunks. Mirroring the smirk of his father, Trunks rushed at Gohan.
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In the middle of the battlefield, Saturn stood watching the fight. All was going according to plan. A blast of energy singed her from behind. She turned around to see Sailor Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.
"Why don't you want to fight, traitor?" said Uranus, "I see you haven't even transformed, did you plan on showing yourself to be the coward you are by watching from the sidelines?"
Saturn smiled.
"You have no idea what you're up against."
Saturn raised her hand and sent a blast of purple energy barreling towards the three outers senshi. They barely dodged in time.
"World Shaking!"
"Deep Submerge!"
"Dead Scream!"
The outers' attack merged and spiraled towards Saturn.
"Silence Wall!" said Saturn, summoning her glaive and averting the attacks. She jumped into the air, and, using the training gained with the Saiya-Jins, and brought the blade of her glaive down on Neptune. The senshi of the sea attempted to dodge, but was still caught by Saturn's swing. Blood flowed from a deep gash in her right leg.
"Neptune!" cried Uranus. With a growl Sailor Uranus summoned her Space Sword and attacked Saturn. Hotaru blocked with her glaive, flipped away, and called out her attack.
"Silence Glaive Surprise!"
Uranus was blasted back by the force of Saturn's attack. Pluto looked up at the former senshi.
"Where did she get these powers?" Pluto asked aloud.
Wiping the blood away from the freshly gained wound on her forehead, Uranus glared up at Saturn.
"I don't know, and it doesn't matter, she's going to pay for betraying us," growled Uranus. Tapping into what Goku had taught her, Uranus flashed behind Saturn and attempted kicking her from behind, however, the effort was in vain. Unbelievably, Hotaru held back the forceful kick with one hand. She smirked at her former comrade.
"Do you really think that I can be defeated by a weakling like you?" Hotaru grabbed Uranus's leg, swung her around her head and into Sailor Pluto. The two collided with a loud smack. Neptune struggled to her feet and summoned her mirror.
"Submarine Reflection!"
Saturn brushed the attack away again with a flip of her wrist.
"How pathetic," she taunted. With an evil look in her eyes she turned to face the outer senshi, her silence glaive poised. "It's time to say goodbye to this world and hello to the Silence," she raised the glaive over her head and began to power up her attack. Pluto's eyes widened in shock and understanding.
"Silence. no it can't be," whispered Pluto.
"I don't care what it is, this brat is going down," said Uranus, ready again with her Space Sword.
"You don't understand," snapped Pluto, "that's not Hotaru, that's Mistress ." A blast of purple energy ended Pluto's sentence.
"Nine, is that what you were going to say?" spoke Hotaru softly, she smiled evilly, "It seems you've discovered my little secret, however," she readied her glaive in preparation for the final blow, "it's a little too late!"
Spiraling purple energy through the sky, Saturn brought her weapon down and summoned the full force of her attack at the senshi. The senshi of the outer planets braced themselves.
"Amazonus Jungle Arrow!"
The two masses of energy collided and snapped away into nothingness.
"Who in the hell..." began Mistress 9.
"Hotaru," said Chibi-Usa, "enough is enough, your game ends now."
"Sailor Chibi-Moon!" cried Neptune.
"No, not Sailor Chibi-Moon," corrected Sailor Pluto, her voice awed as she recognized the Asteroid senshi and Chibi-Usa's fuku, " but Sailor Moon, she has finally earned her title."
"Who are they?" asked Uranus, pointing to the Amazoness Quartet, her voice full of suspicion.
"We are the protectors of the Princess," replied Sailor Vesta simply.
"Whoever you are, prepare to die!"
Saturn, having time to regain her composure, sent her attack flying at the group of senshi.
"Pink Lady's Freezing Kiss!" Returned the new Sailor Moon.
The two attacks canceled each other out.
"You guys, go help the others, it looks like they're having a tough time, I'll take care of this," said Chibi-Usa, glaring at Saturn.
The outers looked at Sailor Moon dubiously as did the Amazoness quartet.
"This fight is mine," said Chibi-Usa dangerously.
Sailor Mars's body being flung through the air finally convinced the other senshi of their need elsewhere.
"Hey, Uranus, you just planning on standing around and watching the rest of us pull your weight?" jibed Sailor Star Fighter as he unsuccessfully tried to jump out of the way of a Saiya-Jin warrior. Uranus readied her Space Sword and jumped into battle at the place Seiya left off. The other senshi followed suit. Glancing back as she plowed into the fight, Sailor Pluto left Chibi-Usa a warning.
"Small Lady, be careful," she said.
"Hai," Chibi-Usa replied simply.
Mistress 9 grinned evilly at her willing prey.
Eyes full hope and determination, Chibi-Usa returned her gaze.
"For Crystal Tokyo," whispered Chibi-Usa.
"You're dead, Rabbit," said Saturn, voice dripping with evil pleasure.
Pink and violet energy colliding, the two warriors rushed at each other.
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Vegeta dug his knee into Goku's stomach. Using Vegeta's proximity, Goku grabbed Vegeta's leg and flung the Saiya-Jin king away from him. When it seemed that Vegeta was about to crash into the palace walls, Vegeta used his momentum to push off of the Crystal Palace and barrel back towards Goku. Goku flashed out of the way in the nick of time only to have his face greeted by Vegeta's rock-hard fist. Goku fell back at the blow.
"Nice, one, Vegeta, you certainly have improved," complimented Goku.
"Hmph," sounded Vegeta confidently, "You haven't seen anything yet."
Goku smirked.
"Neither have you," he replied.
"Then let's get down to the real fighting, 3rd Class trash," said Vegeta reading himself.
"Third class trash, eh?" repeated Goku calmly, "Same old insult as always, Vegeta, I would have thought that you could come up with something better by now."
"Aaarrrrrhhh!" screamed Vegeta as he raised his power level to its maximum level, "Prepare to die, Kakarot!"
Goku's ki exploded around him as he powered up to match Vegeta. Vegeta took the early offensive, throwing a furious series of punches. Goku, defending with as much fury as Vegeta, matched him punch for punch. Goku kicked his leg horizontally at Vegeta's torso, forcing the Sayia-Jin king to shift off balance just enough to momentarily ease the pace of Vegeta's punches. A moment was all Goku needed to summon the attack he had known since he was a child.
"Ka-me-ha-me-Ha!"
Vegeta barely had time to put up any sort of defense. Straining with all his might, he tried to push away the energy, but to no avail. Finally, Goku's Kamehameha wave over took Vegeta. The Saiya-Jin king bore the full force of Goku's attack. Adding on an extra burst of energy towards the end, Goku's attack pounded into the ground with Vegeta as the only buffer. As Goku ceased the attack a huge explosion of energy and light burst, the sheer force knocking down humans, Sailor Senshi, and Saiya-Jins alike. Goku floated down to check on the status of his opponent.
"Come on, Vegeta," whispered Goku with concern, "A blast like that couldn't have finished you off."
Suddenly, the pile of rubble exploded. Vegeta arose from the destruction, bruised, and bleeding in several places. He raised his gloved hand to his mouth and wiped away a runnel of blood. He glared up at Goku.
"That was a lucky shot, clown," said Vegeta, "but we're far from finished."
Once again, the two rushed at each other, the very earth trembling with the power of each blow.
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Sailor Mercury looked over the battle field; there seemed no end to the Saiya-Jin forces. After all the effort it took to take down even one soldier, three more would take their comrade's place. Despite their tough fight, Ami silently thanked the powers that be for the training of Goku and Gohan- without them, doom would already be upon them.
"Bubble Spray!"
The battlefield filled with fog.
"Now!" cried Mercury.
The inner senshi used the moment's confusion to summon their attack.\
"Mercury Power!"
"Mars Power!"
"Venus Power!"
"Jupiter Power!"
The blue, red, orange, and green energies barreled towards the Saiya-Jins and ripped into their ranks. Much to the senshi's dismay, many more recovered from the blast than they had expected.
"Star Serious Laser!"
"Star Gentle Creator!"
"Star Sensitive Inferno!"
The Sailor Starlights combined their attacks as well, taking out the Saiya- Jins still struggling to get up. Seiya looked across the battlefield at the outer scouts- it seemed they were ganging up on one soldier. Seiya looked over to Uranus to yell at her; mid sentence, he was sent flying by a hard fist.
"Well, look who's tearing up the field. Sleeping on the job, Seiya?" taunted Uranus.
Seiya glared at the senshi.
Neptune scowled at Uranus.
"We don't have time for this, let's do our Planet attack and get it over with," said Neptune, warily eyeing the second line of Saiya-Jin troops.
In the same manner as the inners moments ago, the outer, inner, asteroid, and starlight senshi combined their powers. Energy washed through the area as the massive attack built and exploded into the Saiya-Jin forces. The effect was brilliantly explosive. The throng of Crystal Tokyo's defenses cheered at the apparent victory. However, a not so pleasant surprise awaited them, heralded by a blast of ki that took out all of the defenders and immobilized the senshi.
The Saiya-Jin elites had arrived.
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In a flurry of punches and kicks, Gohan and Trunks battled it out. After several minutes of complete draw, Trunks finally landed a punch. Gohan flew back and wiped the blood from his lip. Trunks smirked. Gohan frowned at his arrogance.
"I think you forget, Trunks, that I've been doing this a while longer than you," said Gohan, "you can't win in the end."
Trunks laughed.
"That might be true for a true warrior, you on the other hand haven't trained like you should have in years," taunted Trunks.
It was Gohan's turn to smirk this time, Trunks had no idea about is sojourn between time.
"We'll see," said Gohan.
Gohan rushed at Trunks, but at the last minute, flashed out of sight and dropped down on him from below. However impressive the technique, Trunks was ready for it and grabbed Gohan's leg. Prepared for such a maneuver, Gohan hurled the energy blast he had been charging up in his hand at the unsuspecting Trunks. The Sayia-Jin prince went face first into the ground. Gohan flew in for the kill, but was surprised by a ki blast, which he narrowly missed. Using the momentary distraction, Trunks flashed behind Gohan and pummeled him solidly in the back.
"You," said Trunks between punching series, "are a traitor to your planet., your.race, and most of all.your warrior heritage." Trunks punctuated the last word with a solid kick to Gohan's stomach. The eldest son of Goku fell to the ground. Looking down at the bruised Saiya-Jin, Trunks laughed. Gohan struggling to get up, slowly climbed to his feet.
"A true warrior, Trunks," said Gohan, breathing heavily and now having a split lip of his own, "fights to defend the innocent, not attack!" Looking like he was nearly finished, Trunks began a slow decent.
"I'm sorry, I might consider listening to you if you weren't so pathetically easy to beat," mocked Trunk.
With a glare, Gohan straightened.
"I think you need to reconsider," growled Gohan.
The Saiya-Jin prince's eyes went wide as he realized that Gohan was far from defeated.
"Masenko Ha!" screamed Gohan. The amazing force of the blast hit Trunks dead on. The purple haired warrior found himself propelled painfully into the atmosphere. As he began his fall, Gohan returned Trunks's 'favor.' In a furious series of punches Gohan pounded his one time ally literally in to the ground. With a final blow to the head, Trunks's form went limp and fell into the Saiya-Jin sized hole that Gohan had once created. Gohan floated to the ground a meter away from the hole. He looked down at Trunks and was almost sick to his stomach. He hated having to hurt people, but most of all, he hated having to hurt the people whom he had fought alongside for so long. 'This is madness,' thought Gohan.
Trunks slowly struggled to his feet.
Suddenly a huge wave of energy spread across the battlefield. Both warriors were knocked to the ground. Because of his weakened state, Trunks was blown to the other side of the battlefield. Gohan was plastered to the floor, he wondered what on earth could have caused such a blast- his answer was found when he looked up- Goku and Vegeta. Gohan smiled to himself.
"Who else?" he mumbled.
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Saturn and Sailor Moon faced each other. Each one stood panting, bodies marked with gashes, bruises, and blood. Mistress 9 almost snarled her frustration at Chibi-Usa.
"Time to die!" she yelled as she hurled another blast of violet energy at the princess. Chibi-Usa narrowly rolled out of the way, her wing singed in testimony to the fact.
"Moon Tiara Magic!" called out Princess Serenity, surprisingly summoning the adornment she had worn as a super sailor senshi. Saturn batted away the spinning tiara.
"Pathetic," she laughed.
Chibi-Usa smirked and guided the tiara to its true intention as it circled behind Mistress 9's back.
"Tiara, trap her."
The gold circlet pinned Saturn's arms firmly in place. Knowing this wouldn't hold her long, Chibi-Usa didn't stop there.
"Pink Lady's Freezing Kiss!"
A thick barrier of rosy ice added to the confinement of Saturn. Pressing her advantage further, Chibi-Usa summoned her staff.
"Pink Moon Crystal Power Kiss!" she cried. The energy fused with the ice to cause a blinding attack. Saturn screamed as the energy exploded around her. Hotaru was blasted back from the force. Calling on the training gained from Trunks during her sojourn as Selene, the Princess of Crystal Tokyo called out her ki attack!
"Crimson Attack!"
The energy barreled towards Mistress 9, seeming to spell her doom until an outside force stopped the attack. Knocking away the stream of light and energy with a small blast of his own, Trunks stepped between Saturn and Chibi-Usa, his status as nearby observer being thrown aside. He helped Saturn to her feet.
"Are you all right?" he asked, holding her up.
"Yes, yes," I'll be fine.
"I promise you will be, leave the Rabbit to me, she'll get hers for this," he said to Hotaru gently. He embraced Saturn and gave her a kiss before he turned to face the Princess of Crystal Tokyo. As Trunks kissed Saturn, Chibi-Usa felt her heart almost break in two. Tears welled up in her eyes as she saw the man she loved glaring at her with death's stare.
"Trunks, that's not Hotaru, that's." began Chibi-Usa only to be interrupted.
"Shut up! You attacked my planet, you attempt to deceive me yet again on Vegeta-sei, trying to destroy us from within, and now you attack, Hotaru, somebody who's supposed to be your best friend? Do you expect me to believe anything you say?"
"But, Trunks.." Said Chibi-Usa her eyes flowing with tears, "I promise it wasn't me, I would never hurt you, I love you, Trunks."
Trunks smirked.
"I fell for that once and I won't do it again, farewell deceive bitch of Crystal Tokyo," he said as he drew his sword, "Die!" he yelled, eyes full of hate and lusting for the kill. Trunks jumped into the air, his sword held high above him. With the full force of his momentum, he plunged the sword into Chibi-Usa's chest and directly through her heart. Chibi-Usa stumbled back as she saw the sword pointing through her chest. She fell backwards onto the ground, still supported by her hands. She looked at the sword sticking out of her chest. She coughed, blood coming out of her mouth and running down her alabaster face.
"Trunks," she gasped, reaching up towards her him despite the cold glare he lavished upon her, "I." she choked as darkness surrounded her, "I still.love.you." She fell back onto the ground, and as death's hands carried away the Princess who had saved the world and her friends countless times, Chibi-Usa was alone. The last thing she saw was the evil joy of her one time best friend and the frigid, hateful glare of her love.
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Before I get a bunch of nasty e-mails, let's understand 2 things"
There are more chapters. This is my first fic and therefore my first big battle EVER, be nice to me, I really tried to do an okay job.
Anyway, until next time.
P.S. I think everybody who reads "Usagi, A Saiyan Child" and "Ultamate Powers" should start flooding these two authors with "Please Update!" mail, it's been a while!! Anyhoo, R/R my fic! ^_^
Insert standard 'I don't own these characters or anything of the sort' disclaimer.
All right, nobody going to sue me, good, let's get this baby goin'.
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Trunks tossed in his sleep. Images of Crystal Tokyo's pink haired princess flashed through his mind. He saw her scowl from when they had first met in the garden, her determined glare as they argued in the throne room, her smile and shining eyes before their first kiss, and finally her evil smirk as she attacked his planet. Trunks awoke with a start and covered in cold sweat. He shook his head, ran his fingers through his hair, and stood up. 'Where did it all go wrong?' he asked himself. One minute he was in love with a beautiful princess who seemed his perfect match, the next he was attacking her planet in retaliation for her atrocities.
"Chibi-Usa." he whispered her name. He heart full of regret and unanswered questions, Trunks stood for a moment remembering what was. Finally, he pulled himself together and with eyes turning hard, he focused on the task at hand.
"The girl you fell in love with doesn't exist if she ever really existed at all," said a melodious voice from behind.
Trunks spun around to see Hotaru.
"Hotaru, I, was just., I'm sorry, I didn't hear you come in," said Trunks.
Hotaru smiled, "I never thought I'd ever see the day when I caught Vegeta- sei's prince off guard."
Trunks smiled ruefully back. He gazed at Hotaru for a while. There just seemed to be something about those violet eyes that he couldn't resist as of late. He couldn't remember feeling this way when they had first met, but now. now was a different story.
"Are you all right?" Saturn asked.
"Yeah," replied Trunks, "yeah, I'm fine."
Saturn looked up at Trunks for a moment, the next, she brought her lips to his. Her alabaster cheeks flushed rose.
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done that," she said her eyes cast down. She turned to leave the room, but stopped when she felt Trunks' hand grab her wrist.
"No," he said, "You don't have to go." He pulled her in close and returned the kiss.
An announcement from the speaker interrupted their moment.
"Prepare to enter Earth's atmosphere," said the voice.
"I guess we'd better go," said Trunks. He opened the door for Hotaru and signaled for her to go first.
"Thank you," she said. A smirk formed at her lips as before she turned to walk hand in hand to the bridge of the ship. She couldn't wait to see Princess Serenity's face when the brat saw Trunks with her. 'I always get what should belong to me, always,' she thought to herself. She looked up at Trunks and smiled. Within the hour, her sweet, sweet revenge would finally be carried out. 'Let Silence reign.'
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"Is everybody ready?" asked Neo-Queen Serenity.
A collective nod waved through the crowd. The Queen concentrated and sent her thought to the Guardian of Time.
'Pluto, we are ready to return,' she thought to her senshi.
In response a tower of pink light appeared.
"Let's go, we have our world to save!" said Neo-Queen Serenity as she stepped into the light and disappeared.
The defenders of the Earth followed the Queen into the light and to face their destiny.
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Vegeta smirked. Soon the universe would see that none would be able to mess with the Saiya-Jin race and live to tell the tale. Once again, Vegeta saw the Crystal Palace up close as they settled only meters away. Vegeta took to the air.
"Well, Serenity, too scared to come out of your little rock? Face me, you worthless sailor bimbo."
A moment of silence, and then the echo of footsteps.
"My wife," replied a voice, "is nothing of the sort."
"Ah, she's afraid to come out so she sends her little whipping boy, Endymion. How cute."
Endymion glared and prepared to retort when blinding flash of pink light filled the space between himself and the Saiya-Jin army.
"King Vegeta," said a soft, but strongly audible voice, "I am more than a 'sailor bimbo.' However, I am having trouble seeing if you and yours are more than just a bunch of belligerent monkeys."
Vegeta grinned evilly as he heard the voice of Neo-Queen Serenity.
"I'm glad you decided to attend the destruction of your planet, I was afraid you might have run of somewhere to shortly prolong your worthless life."
A stream of energy streamed across the air and right next to Vegeta's head. The blast landed in the middle of the Saiya-Jin army, immobilizing an entire section.
"That's enough, Vegeta," said Goku, "You have no reason to be attacking this place, go back and play war somewhere else."
"Kakarot," growled Vegeta, "I see you're being your usual bothersome self. I expected that you would fight against your own planet."
"I'm not fighting against my planet," said Goku, his glare focusing on the Saiya-Jin king, "I'm fighting against a man who is attacking a planet full of innocent people for no reason."
"Innocent," sneered Vegeta, "Their little bitch of a princess attacked us first under the orders of this pathetic excuse for royalty."
"You have yet to prove that," retorted Gohan.
"Shut up, brat, what do you know about matters of a warrior?"
"As I recall, that "brat," my son, was enough of a warrior to defeat a monster known as Cell as a little boy, when you, a grown man, couldn't," said Goku.
"I will not stand for this insolence," growled Vegeta, with a flash and a yell Vegeta gathered his energy and powered up to his maximum, Super Saiya- Jin 4.
Goku smirked, "If that's the way you want it, Vegeta, then so be it," Goku clenched his fist and transformed to the same level.
"Good, let it begin," growled the Saiya-Jin king. At a blinding speed, the two warriors raced to face each other.
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"Love and Beauty Shock!"
"Oak Evolution!"
"Flame Sniper"
The three senshi attacks combined in air and blasted the front line of the Saiya-Jin forces.
"Star Serious Laser!"
"Star Gentle Creator!"
"Star Sensitive Inferno!"
The Sailor Starlights combined their attacks to counter the massive energy wave that swelled from the army ranks.
The second line of Saiya-Jins rushed towards Crystal Tokyo's defenders.
"Aqua Rhapsody!"
The ground beneath the advancing horde froze, setting the Saiya-Jins off balance, however, this wasn't enough to stop the warriors, a fist came crashing down on Mercury sending her flying towards the barrier of the Crystal Palace. However, help from a very unexpected source caught her before impact. Mercury was relieved not to have crashed into the magical force field Serenity had created and was marinating to protect the people of the Crystal Tokyo, housed in the palace- she might have ended up as a blue pile of ash.
"Go limp, I have you," said Gohan. 'I've gotta even the odds a little while I still can,' he thought, he powered up to Super Saiya-Jin 2, making the Saiya-Jins in the area gasp in surprise.
"Masenko Ha!" yelled Gohan, his stream of energy elimination a good portion of the Saiaya-Jin army.
A fist from behind sent Gohan flying.
"That will be the last time you do that," said Trunks, now powered up to SSJ3.
Gohan glared at the prince.
"You aren't the only one with that little trick up your sleeve," Gohan powered up to match Trunks. Gohan spotted his brother Goten starting to power up to his highest level as well. 'I'd rather deal with one of them than two of them, or Gotenks for that matter,' thought Gohan. In a split second, Gohan appeared behind his little brother, hit him with both fists grasped from behind, knocking him unconscious. Gohan turned to face Trunks. Mirroring the smirk of his father, Trunks rushed at Gohan.
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In the middle of the battlefield, Saturn stood watching the fight. All was going according to plan. A blast of energy singed her from behind. She turned around to see Sailor Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.
"Why don't you want to fight, traitor?" said Uranus, "I see you haven't even transformed, did you plan on showing yourself to be the coward you are by watching from the sidelines?"
Saturn smiled.
"You have no idea what you're up against."
Saturn raised her hand and sent a blast of purple energy barreling towards the three outers senshi. They barely dodged in time.
"World Shaking!"
"Deep Submerge!"
"Dead Scream!"
The outers' attack merged and spiraled towards Saturn.
"Silence Wall!" said Saturn, summoning her glaive and averting the attacks. She jumped into the air, and, using the training gained with the Saiya-Jins, and brought the blade of her glaive down on Neptune. The senshi of the sea attempted to dodge, but was still caught by Saturn's swing. Blood flowed from a deep gash in her right leg.
"Neptune!" cried Uranus. With a growl Sailor Uranus summoned her Space Sword and attacked Saturn. Hotaru blocked with her glaive, flipped away, and called out her attack.
"Silence Glaive Surprise!"
Uranus was blasted back by the force of Saturn's attack. Pluto looked up at the former senshi.
"Where did she get these powers?" Pluto asked aloud.
Wiping the blood away from the freshly gained wound on her forehead, Uranus glared up at Saturn.
"I don't know, and it doesn't matter, she's going to pay for betraying us," growled Uranus. Tapping into what Goku had taught her, Uranus flashed behind Saturn and attempted kicking her from behind, however, the effort was in vain. Unbelievably, Hotaru held back the forceful kick with one hand. She smirked at her former comrade.
"Do you really think that I can be defeated by a weakling like you?" Hotaru grabbed Uranus's leg, swung her around her head and into Sailor Pluto. The two collided with a loud smack. Neptune struggled to her feet and summoned her mirror.
"Submarine Reflection!"
Saturn brushed the attack away again with a flip of her wrist.
"How pathetic," she taunted. With an evil look in her eyes she turned to face the outer senshi, her silence glaive poised. "It's time to say goodbye to this world and hello to the Silence," she raised the glaive over her head and began to power up her attack. Pluto's eyes widened in shock and understanding.
"Silence. no it can't be," whispered Pluto.
"I don't care what it is, this brat is going down," said Uranus, ready again with her Space Sword.
"You don't understand," snapped Pluto, "that's not Hotaru, that's Mistress ." A blast of purple energy ended Pluto's sentence.
"Nine, is that what you were going to say?" spoke Hotaru softly, she smiled evilly, "It seems you've discovered my little secret, however," she readied her glaive in preparation for the final blow, "it's a little too late!"
Spiraling purple energy through the sky, Saturn brought her weapon down and summoned the full force of her attack at the senshi. The senshi of the outer planets braced themselves.
"Amazonus Jungle Arrow!"
The two masses of energy collided and snapped away into nothingness.
"Who in the hell..." began Mistress 9.
"Hotaru," said Chibi-Usa, "enough is enough, your game ends now."
"Sailor Chibi-Moon!" cried Neptune.
"No, not Sailor Chibi-Moon," corrected Sailor Pluto, her voice awed as she recognized the Asteroid senshi and Chibi-Usa's fuku, " but Sailor Moon, she has finally earned her title."
"Who are they?" asked Uranus, pointing to the Amazoness Quartet, her voice full of suspicion.
"We are the protectors of the Princess," replied Sailor Vesta simply.
"Whoever you are, prepare to die!"
Saturn, having time to regain her composure, sent her attack flying at the group of senshi.
"Pink Lady's Freezing Kiss!" Returned the new Sailor Moon.
The two attacks canceled each other out.
"You guys, go help the others, it looks like they're having a tough time, I'll take care of this," said Chibi-Usa, glaring at Saturn.
The outers looked at Sailor Moon dubiously as did the Amazoness quartet.
"This fight is mine," said Chibi-Usa dangerously.
Sailor Mars's body being flung through the air finally convinced the other senshi of their need elsewhere.
"Hey, Uranus, you just planning on standing around and watching the rest of us pull your weight?" jibed Sailor Star Fighter as he unsuccessfully tried to jump out of the way of a Saiya-Jin warrior. Uranus readied her Space Sword and jumped into battle at the place Seiya left off. The other senshi followed suit. Glancing back as she plowed into the fight, Sailor Pluto left Chibi-Usa a warning.
"Small Lady, be careful," she said.
"Hai," Chibi-Usa replied simply.
Mistress 9 grinned evilly at her willing prey.
Eyes full hope and determination, Chibi-Usa returned her gaze.
"For Crystal Tokyo," whispered Chibi-Usa.
"You're dead, Rabbit," said Saturn, voice dripping with evil pleasure.
Pink and violet energy colliding, the two warriors rushed at each other.
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Vegeta dug his knee into Goku's stomach. Using Vegeta's proximity, Goku grabbed Vegeta's leg and flung the Saiya-Jin king away from him. When it seemed that Vegeta was about to crash into the palace walls, Vegeta used his momentum to push off of the Crystal Palace and barrel back towards Goku. Goku flashed out of the way in the nick of time only to have his face greeted by Vegeta's rock-hard fist. Goku fell back at the blow.
"Nice, one, Vegeta, you certainly have improved," complimented Goku.
"Hmph," sounded Vegeta confidently, "You haven't seen anything yet."
Goku smirked.
"Neither have you," he replied.
"Then let's get down to the real fighting, 3rd Class trash," said Vegeta reading himself.
"Third class trash, eh?" repeated Goku calmly, "Same old insult as always, Vegeta, I would have thought that you could come up with something better by now."
"Aaarrrrrhhh!" screamed Vegeta as he raised his power level to its maximum level, "Prepare to die, Kakarot!"
Goku's ki exploded around him as he powered up to match Vegeta. Vegeta took the early offensive, throwing a furious series of punches. Goku, defending with as much fury as Vegeta, matched him punch for punch. Goku kicked his leg horizontally at Vegeta's torso, forcing the Sayia-Jin king to shift off balance just enough to momentarily ease the pace of Vegeta's punches. A moment was all Goku needed to summon the attack he had known since he was a child.
"Ka-me-ha-me-Ha!"
Vegeta barely had time to put up any sort of defense. Straining with all his might, he tried to push away the energy, but to no avail. Finally, Goku's Kamehameha wave over took Vegeta. The Saiya-Jin king bore the full force of Goku's attack. Adding on an extra burst of energy towards the end, Goku's attack pounded into the ground with Vegeta as the only buffer. As Goku ceased the attack a huge explosion of energy and light burst, the sheer force knocking down humans, Sailor Senshi, and Saiya-Jins alike. Goku floated down to check on the status of his opponent.
"Come on, Vegeta," whispered Goku with concern, "A blast like that couldn't have finished you off."
Suddenly, the pile of rubble exploded. Vegeta arose from the destruction, bruised, and bleeding in several places. He raised his gloved hand to his mouth and wiped away a runnel of blood. He glared up at Goku.
"That was a lucky shot, clown," said Vegeta, "but we're far from finished."
Once again, the two rushed at each other, the very earth trembling with the power of each blow.
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Sailor Mercury looked over the battle field; there seemed no end to the Saiya-Jin forces. After all the effort it took to take down even one soldier, three more would take their comrade's place. Despite their tough fight, Ami silently thanked the powers that be for the training of Goku and Gohan- without them, doom would already be upon them.
"Bubble Spray!"
The battlefield filled with fog.
"Now!" cried Mercury.
The inner senshi used the moment's confusion to summon their attack.\
"Mercury Power!"
"Mars Power!"
"Venus Power!"
"Jupiter Power!"
The blue, red, orange, and green energies barreled towards the Saiya-Jins and ripped into their ranks. Much to the senshi's dismay, many more recovered from the blast than they had expected.
"Star Serious Laser!"
"Star Gentle Creator!"
"Star Sensitive Inferno!"
The Sailor Starlights combined their attacks as well, taking out the Saiya- Jins still struggling to get up. Seiya looked across the battlefield at the outer scouts- it seemed they were ganging up on one soldier. Seiya looked over to Uranus to yell at her; mid sentence, he was sent flying by a hard fist.
"Well, look who's tearing up the field. Sleeping on the job, Seiya?" taunted Uranus.
Seiya glared at the senshi.
Neptune scowled at Uranus.
"We don't have time for this, let's do our Planet attack and get it over with," said Neptune, warily eyeing the second line of Saiya-Jin troops.
In the same manner as the inners moments ago, the outer, inner, asteroid, and starlight senshi combined their powers. Energy washed through the area as the massive attack built and exploded into the Saiya-Jin forces. The effect was brilliantly explosive. The throng of Crystal Tokyo's defenses cheered at the apparent victory. However, a not so pleasant surprise awaited them, heralded by a blast of ki that took out all of the defenders and immobilized the senshi.
The Saiya-Jin elites had arrived.
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In a flurry of punches and kicks, Gohan and Trunks battled it out. After several minutes of complete draw, Trunks finally landed a punch. Gohan flew back and wiped the blood from his lip. Trunks smirked. Gohan frowned at his arrogance.
"I think you forget, Trunks, that I've been doing this a while longer than you," said Gohan, "you can't win in the end."
Trunks laughed.
"That might be true for a true warrior, you on the other hand haven't trained like you should have in years," taunted Trunks.
It was Gohan's turn to smirk this time, Trunks had no idea about is sojourn between time.
"We'll see," said Gohan.
Gohan rushed at Trunks, but at the last minute, flashed out of sight and dropped down on him from below. However impressive the technique, Trunks was ready for it and grabbed Gohan's leg. Prepared for such a maneuver, Gohan hurled the energy blast he had been charging up in his hand at the unsuspecting Trunks. The Sayia-Jin prince went face first into the ground. Gohan flew in for the kill, but was surprised by a ki blast, which he narrowly missed. Using the momentary distraction, Trunks flashed behind Gohan and pummeled him solidly in the back.
"You," said Trunks between punching series, "are a traitor to your planet., your.race, and most of all.your warrior heritage." Trunks punctuated the last word with a solid kick to Gohan's stomach. The eldest son of Goku fell to the ground. Looking down at the bruised Saiya-Jin, Trunks laughed. Gohan struggling to get up, slowly climbed to his feet.
"A true warrior, Trunks," said Gohan, breathing heavily and now having a split lip of his own, "fights to defend the innocent, not attack!" Looking like he was nearly finished, Trunks began a slow decent.
"I'm sorry, I might consider listening to you if you weren't so pathetically easy to beat," mocked Trunk.
With a glare, Gohan straightened.
"I think you need to reconsider," growled Gohan.
The Saiya-Jin prince's eyes went wide as he realized that Gohan was far from defeated.
"Masenko Ha!" screamed Gohan. The amazing force of the blast hit Trunks dead on. The purple haired warrior found himself propelled painfully into the atmosphere. As he began his fall, Gohan returned Trunks's 'favor.' In a furious series of punches Gohan pounded his one time ally literally in to the ground. With a final blow to the head, Trunks's form went limp and fell into the Saiya-Jin sized hole that Gohan had once created. Gohan floated to the ground a meter away from the hole. He looked down at Trunks and was almost sick to his stomach. He hated having to hurt people, but most of all, he hated having to hurt the people whom he had fought alongside for so long. 'This is madness,' thought Gohan.
Trunks slowly struggled to his feet.
Suddenly a huge wave of energy spread across the battlefield. Both warriors were knocked to the ground. Because of his weakened state, Trunks was blown to the other side of the battlefield. Gohan was plastered to the floor, he wondered what on earth could have caused such a blast- his answer was found when he looked up- Goku and Vegeta. Gohan smiled to himself.
"Who else?" he mumbled.
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Saturn and Sailor Moon faced each other. Each one stood panting, bodies marked with gashes, bruises, and blood. Mistress 9 almost snarled her frustration at Chibi-Usa.
"Time to die!" she yelled as she hurled another blast of violet energy at the princess. Chibi-Usa narrowly rolled out of the way, her wing singed in testimony to the fact.
"Moon Tiara Magic!" called out Princess Serenity, surprisingly summoning the adornment she had worn as a super sailor senshi. Saturn batted away the spinning tiara.
"Pathetic," she laughed.
Chibi-Usa smirked and guided the tiara to its true intention as it circled behind Mistress 9's back.
"Tiara, trap her."
The gold circlet pinned Saturn's arms firmly in place. Knowing this wouldn't hold her long, Chibi-Usa didn't stop there.
"Pink Lady's Freezing Kiss!"
A thick barrier of rosy ice added to the confinement of Saturn. Pressing her advantage further, Chibi-Usa summoned her staff.
"Pink Moon Crystal Power Kiss!" she cried. The energy fused with the ice to cause a blinding attack. Saturn screamed as the energy exploded around her. Hotaru was blasted back from the force. Calling on the training gained from Trunks during her sojourn as Selene, the Princess of Crystal Tokyo called out her ki attack!
"Crimson Attack!"
The energy barreled towards Mistress 9, seeming to spell her doom until an outside force stopped the attack. Knocking away the stream of light and energy with a small blast of his own, Trunks stepped between Saturn and Chibi-Usa, his status as nearby observer being thrown aside. He helped Saturn to her feet.
"Are you all right?" he asked, holding her up.
"Yes, yes," I'll be fine.
"I promise you will be, leave the Rabbit to me, she'll get hers for this," he said to Hotaru gently. He embraced Saturn and gave her a kiss before he turned to face the Princess of Crystal Tokyo. As Trunks kissed Saturn, Chibi-Usa felt her heart almost break in two. Tears welled up in her eyes as she saw the man she loved glaring at her with death's stare.
"Trunks, that's not Hotaru, that's." began Chibi-Usa only to be interrupted.
"Shut up! You attacked my planet, you attempt to deceive me yet again on Vegeta-sei, trying to destroy us from within, and now you attack, Hotaru, somebody who's supposed to be your best friend? Do you expect me to believe anything you say?"
"But, Trunks.." Said Chibi-Usa her eyes flowing with tears, "I promise it wasn't me, I would never hurt you, I love you, Trunks."
Trunks smirked.
"I fell for that once and I won't do it again, farewell deceive bitch of Crystal Tokyo," he said as he drew his sword, "Die!" he yelled, eyes full of hate and lusting for the kill. Trunks jumped into the air, his sword held high above him. With the full force of his momentum, he plunged the sword into Chibi-Usa's chest and directly through her heart. Chibi-Usa stumbled back as she saw the sword pointing through her chest. She fell backwards onto the ground, still supported by her hands. She looked at the sword sticking out of her chest. She coughed, blood coming out of her mouth and running down her alabaster face.
"Trunks," she gasped, reaching up towards her him despite the cold glare he lavished upon her, "I." she choked as darkness surrounded her, "I still.love.you." She fell back onto the ground, and as death's hands carried away the Princess who had saved the world and her friends countless times, Chibi-Usa was alone. The last thing she saw was the evil joy of her one time best friend and the frigid, hateful glare of her love.
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Before I get a bunch of nasty e-mails, let's understand 2 things"
There are more chapters. This is my first fic and therefore my first big battle EVER, be nice to me, I really tried to do an okay job.
Anyway, until next time.
P.S. I think everybody who reads "Usagi, A Saiyan Child" and "Ultamate Powers" should start flooding these two authors with "Please Update!" mail, it's been a while!! Anyhoo, R/R my fic! ^_^