Disclaimer: "Sailor Moon", "Star Trek", "Pitch Black/Chronicles of Riddick" and other genres belong to their respective owners.
Note: This is a multi-epic crossover.
Special note: This story takes place between "Sailor Moon: An End of an Era" and "Sailor Moon: Samurai Jill".
Part 3
This…unknown planet was off the charts, according to the "first officer" Carolyn Fry. I never got a chance to meet her before I was placed in hyper-sleep. But the travel agent did tell me the crew of the Hunter Gratzner was professional, which is odd to me since they were very much willing to jettison everything, including the passengers. But…I'm not going to hold Miss Fry's incompetence against her. After all, she's only HUMAN.
The air was slightly arid, making even the strong breeze hot. Instinctively, I want to seek the darkness for comfort. But…there are others predators down below the surface. I can sense it. As I extend my senses, I feel a focused hunger that was expecting something to occur. I push that thought aside for now, since what I feel will become very important in the future.
And I sense HIM. The one called "Riddick".
According to his "escort" Marshal Williams J. Johns, Richard B. Riddick had escaped from a labor camp, where he worked the mines on some planet in the "Three Galaxies". But…there was something odd about Johns, as if he was hiding something. This is not to say that Riddick is dangerous. In fact, I can sense a quiet fury from him, as he sits in his hiding place. Riddick is trying to determine how much of a threat I am to him. Well, as long as he leaves me alone, then he won't find out.
Iman Abu al-Walid seems to care about me. The dark-skinned practitioner of Islam was concern about me, since I've been staring at Riddick's position, which was virtually invisible to the other crash survivors. Or, it's perhaps because I am a female. Regardless, the iman wants to make sure that I was okay. Humph. He should be worried about what's on this planet first.
Usagi ("Sailor Moon") Tsukino didn't sweat as much, since her physiology was different from normal humans. In fact, she liked the heat.
"Hey, what are you looking at?" said Johns, a sandy-haired man in a khaki police outfit. He was suspicious of Usagi.
Usagi, who was setting down on a loose bulkhead, looks at Johns, and then returns her gaze to…elsewhere.
"Nothing," Usagi replies.
Johns looks at Usagi, then in the direction of her gaze, and then back at Usagi.
"If you see my prisoner, let me know, okay?"
"Sure," Usagi replied.
About twenty minutes later, Usagi noticed a shadow. She didn't even bother to move, when she felt the blade on her neck.
"Tell me, little girl," said Riddick, as he whispered in Usagi's ear. "Tell me, why should I not end your life?"
Usagi paused for a moment, careful of her words.
"Because I could have said something a long time ago, and that wasting my blood will be nothing compared to what will happen when night comes."
Pause.
"Not to mention that whatever you have going on with Johns is not my business."
"You know, you're alright," Riddick says, as he stands up. "I like you."
"Yeah? Well don't get cocky. Pride comes before the fall."
Riddick looks at Usagi for a moment.
"I'll keep that in mind."
"Yeah, you do that."
Usagi words would proved to be correct.
Eventually, the group decided to search for water, since there was none available. So, a group was sent to find some, including Usagi.
"Child, you need some water," said the Iman.
"No thank you, sir," Usagi said, as she and her companions trudged forward. "Give my share to your students."
The iman merely nodded, and placed his canteen back into his knapsack.
Usagi looks at the assembled scouting party. There was a young teenager skipping and hoping about, while the Iman's students were reading their Korans. A dark haired woman named Sharon seemed to be the most aggressive of the group; she and a friend were to help assist the colonists set up shop. In fact, everyone, except Usagi, Johns and the missing Riddick were colonists.
"Take a look," Fry said, as she pointed ahead.
Everyone was amazed at the sight. They saw an endless field of bones.
"What kind of place is this?" Sharon asked.
"Seems like a graveyard of some kind," the Iman said.
The kid named "Jack" was picking up a bone.
"Man, these things are SO neat," says Jack.
"Hey, kid," says Marshal Johns. "We don't want to waste time."
Meanwhile, one of Sharon's friends had dropped his canteen in one of the numerous holes that dotted the landscape.
"Hey, I dropped something," the man says, as he began to reach forward. "Dang, I need to get down there somehow."
So, he tied a rope around his waste, and proceeded to retrieve his canteen…
Usagi was looking at the scene, and then began to ascertain the best course of action to prevent a potentially fatal encounter. She made a bird whistle sound.
"What are you doing?" Fry asked.
"Nothing," Usagi said. "Now, go AWAY."
Fry was about to respond, but choose not to.
A few minutes later…
"What do you want?" Riddick says.
"I need your help with something," Usagi says. "Come."
"And if I refuse?"
"Then don't. But if you do come, I'll owe you…a favor."
Riddick looks at Usagi for a moment.
"Lead on."
Meanwhile, Sharon's friend goes down the dark hole. He uses a flashlight to search for his canteen…
"Got it!"
Then, it happens.
The man hears a screech, just as something big was about to take his head-
BLOOSH!
Usagi drops from the shadows, as she lands on the creature. She takes her talons/claws, and rips out the creature's brain stem. Her eyes glow a weird "off-white", an indication that her "night vision" was in effect, as she slinks back into the shadows with the carcass.
Needless to say, the man was scared 'spit-less'.
While the man crawls out of the hole, and impromptu meal was taking place.
"Pass the hot sauce," Riddick says, as he chows on his lunch.
Usagi tosses a bottle, stolen from the cargo ship, to Riddick. All around them were carcasses of the creatures that lived below the surface. The fire that was lit was to make sure that their meal was not disturbed. Usagi had asked Riddick to help her search for a water source, in exchange for a few lessons of survival. Thanks to her xenomorphically-enhanced physiology, Usagi had the skills of a hunter. Tens of thousands of possible scenarios played in her mind, thanks to the racial memory of her alien heritage. In fact, if she weren't human, Usagi would be hunting those who naively exist above her. Riddick was perhaps the only who would appreciate her ways.
"You know, you're not bad," Riddick says between bites.
"Then you REALLY don't know me very well," Usagi replied.
The two ate in silence.
Tbc.
Author's note: Usagi still has emotional autism at this point, so she would be the LAST person to display compassion. In this story, it will be Riddick who will teach Usagi how to feel again. Later!