Serena emerged from the portal on the other side. She wasn't proud of what she did but she felt it was the only way to accomplish what she had to do. And what she had to do was end this charade and put to rest the long years of wondering and waiting. Waiting to see what would happen if she was again introduced to the person who gave her back her past and took five years away from her friends in one foul swoop.

Slowly she continued to walk down the rubble strewn streets looking around for any signs of Galaxia. "I can't believe this happened. If only I was here. Maybe then I could have done something, anything." She thought aloud to herself.

"Maybe you could have but I guess we'll never know now will we?" A voice questioned her from behind causing her to spin on her heel and face the owner of said voice.

"Rei…" she gasped taking in the form of one of the people she didn't expect to ever see again.

"Awe isn't that sweet. The little moon princess remembers 'lil ole me." She cooed in what Serena could only assume was a mocking tone.

"Rei, what's happened to you?" Serena asked confused at finding her once best friend in such a condition.

"Nothings happened to me. I just found a leader that was better than you. It's nice to have someone who's more responsible and more capable of keeping people in their good graces. But then again, you never were good with….well, anything were you?" It was at this point in their conversation that Serena noticed the gold bracelets and costume that Rei was wearing. It was nearly the same as Galaxia's.

"Rei, you don't know what you're talking about. It's all Galaxia's fault! She's brainwashed you!" she yelled.

"You are wrong, I chose this. This was my own doing and my own choice. And I wouldn't want to change it." She replied with an evil smirk.

"That's what I was afraid of. Rei, I know you're in there somewhere but I don't have time for this. I have to find Galaxia and destroy her. Only then will I be able to set this world right and restore you to the person I know you to be."

"I have no idea what you are talking about. There is no way you will beat Galaxia. You're just a weak moon klutz." Rei stated coldly folding her arms across her chest.

"THAT'S IT! You are the one who doesn't have the strength to beat me and I will show you what I mean. You are my friend and that is going to make this very difficult but I will not let my emotions interfere with the way that I perform my duty to this world. Now either step aside or bring me to Galaxia. Either way you choose she and I will be meeting very soon." Serena shouted finally having enough of this particular situation.

"Before you go to Galaxia, how about we have a little reunion. Guys." As she spoke the rest of her friends, dressed in gold and black, appeared on either side of her. "You remember the gang, right?"

Serena gritted her teeth against the scene before her. She honestly didn't know if she had the strength to deal with this alone and secretly wished Vegeta was standing by her side. "I remember. Now either take me to Galaxia or die now." Serena said in the most threatening tone that she could muster in such dismal circumstances.

"You don't have the nerve to kill us. Your nothing but a weak little child pretending to be something your not." Darien scolded from his position beside Rei placing a gloved hand on her shoulder.

"If you knew what I have become you would not have just said that. Now get out of my way I can fid her myself." She said pushing her way past them fully intending to search for Galaxia but stopped when she felt the impact of an attack.

"You will have to go through us first brat." Darien spat as he prepared to throw another barrage of roses.

"Oh I'm so scared. Are you going to hurt me with another flower? Awe isn't that sweet. I love roses." Serena said mockingly plucking one of the roses he had just thrown at her out of the air and sniffed at it delicately.

"You should show the prince of earth some respect bitch!" Rei shouted as she threw a 'mars firebird' at Serena, which Serena dodged easily.

Serena smiled sadly. Their power levels really hadn't changed at all. She knew hers had grown but that was because she had trained. What they did with Galaxia she couldn't even begin to imagine. She didn't want to kill them but if Galaxia took control over them thee was a very slim hope of ever freeing them. She didn't know what to do but she hoped that maybe, maybe whatever happened would turn out for the best. But right now that wasn't the most pressing issue on her mind. She was after all staring down the barrel of a gun so to speak.

"I'm sorry." She said sadly as she raised her hands above her head forming a large ki blast which she infused with energy from the crystal. She took one more deep breath and aimed for the center of her friends. Throwing the blast and hitting her target she immediately formed and threw four more and waited for the dust to clear. When the dust had settled Serena had to fight to hold back the sob that caught in her throat. All of her former friends were strewn over the rubble. What she didn't notice was that their bodies were glowing with a bright sliver light. A light that eventually formed into balls that collided with her body. This was because she was already running tin the opposite direction searching for Galaxia.

"COME OUT AND FIGHT YOUR OWN BATTLES! DON'T HIDE BEHIND OTHER PEOPLE!" Serena shouted as she walked down the broken streets. Several minutes later she heard something move behind her. She turned around and found that the bodies of her fallen friends had disappeared. She shrugged it off and continued to walk until something blocked her path. What seemed like an invisible wall was keeping her from progressing in her search.

"I'm surprised at you miss moon. You would have walked in that trap much quicker if you had never gone through that portal. But you went though it didn't you? And, oh, that's right I sent you through it didn't I? No hard feeling right?" The woman who had just appeared laughed.

"Oh no, of course not. If it weren't for you I would never have found the family I never knew I had. Oh and I've was meaning to thank you, with your help I found my brother that I thought I'd lost and an inner power that I never would have found. You just helped me so much I don't know where to being in thanking you." Serena said smugly watching as the smile slipped from Galaxia's floating face.

"Inner power? You think you could have an inner power? That makes me laugh. You already killed your friends, what more do you think you have to live for?" She suggested totally ignoring the last statement Serena had thrown out there about her new found family.

"I have more to live for now then I did when my friends were alive and in your grasp. I have my family and my other friends. Those you can't take away from me and I know I can defeat you." Serena said strongly floating in the air just above the ground coming eye level to Galaxia.

"Oh how precious. Out little princess has learned how to float. Cute trick but I can tell you that you are no stronger now then you were last time we met." Galaxia mocked.

"How can you tell?" Serena question curious.

"I know your weakness." She smirked raising a glowing hand that seemed to split into five beams. When the light died down, where the light beams had ended floated her friends. There were breathing or they appeared to breathing but very light. "Now. What will you choose, your friends, or you home planet." She snickered waving the limp bodies carelessly getting closer and closer to the hard ground.

"This is not my home planet. You should know that. Aren't you supposed to be the most powerful creature in the universe? And you didn't even know that little fact? I am disappointed." Serena mocked

"Whatever. Are you going to surrender the crystal or are we going to have to do this the hard way?"

"Do you even have to ask? Common." Serena stated taking up a fighting stance. This was not going to be an easy fight but she wasn't planning on loosing.