Tidus leaped out of the water field to complete his father's infamous kick, but was distracted by the watery mass growing from the ocean. He stared in shock and grabbed for ledge above him. The mass fell upon the stadium as if it were an avenging wendol. Tidus dimly heard the screams below as his hand didn't quite reach the ledge and he fell into the mass, which later would be called "Sin". There he ran into Auron, an old friend of his father, and he would fight the sinscales and be sucked up along with Auron, and he would disappear... for the next one thousand years...
"Oh sweet Dende!" Gohan swore as he saw the mass. "EVERYONE! HOLD ON TO SOMETHING!" He cried as he held onto the railing.
Usagi gaped but quickly snapped into action. The pole next to her looked sturdy and she clasped on to it like a leech and held for her life. She felt Shingo circle her waist and he buried his face into her back shivering in fear. Van took to the pole as well, and clutched as tightly as Usagi.
Rei, Ami, Hotaru and Merle all followed Gohan and plastered their bodies to the railing that separated them from a hundred foot drop. Heero and Duo took to another pole and watched in horrified fascination as the watery mass descended on them. Michiru, Haruka, Gene and Jim took to the cement ground and rolled under the seats. Ranma looped his leg through the railing to hold him down, clutched Ryoga to himself and closed his eyes tight. Trunks grabbed his past self and Goten and braced for the attack. There was nowhere for them to go, so he put his Saiya-jinn skills to the test.
That's when it hit them. It nailed them all like a hammer with unimaginable force, nearly knocking the pole-clutchers unconscious. At the railing, they were battered and bruised against the railing and people screamed as they flew over their heads and over the edge. Girl Ranma clutched Ryoga, now in pig form, as the freezing water swirled around them. Trunks stood like a rock and held tight to his cargo. None of them could breathe in the thick liquid.
Usagi clenched the pole tighter to her body as it tugged at her. The attack of the water like substance was freezing; yet her skin felt like it was on fire. She now knew what living in a microwave felt like. She felt Shingo's grip around her waist loosen. The water lowered to their waists, Van next to her sputtered for air. 'Selene that hurt!' Usagi winced in pain as she shifted to a better grip. An especially strong and brutal current swept by, pulling at Shingo. His grip slipped from her waist.
"SHINGO!" Usagi screamed in terror as her little brother was dragged over the edge by the substance rushing down.
Before she could transform to Serenity Van, beside her, burst out of the watery substance and leaped over the side. Pure white wings sprouted out of his back and striking white feathers drifted through the air, contrasting the moment. Usagi watched in trepidation as he flew over the edge and after Shingo.
Van rocketed down after the falling boy and caught him around the waist. Van pulled up and flew high above the mass. That's when they truly got a good look at their attacker. There was no way to describe it except as a giant fin sticking out of the opposite side of the stadium.
The water was out of the stands now and Usagi watched as Van gently placed Shingo down and looked ashamed. Usagi hugged Shingo tightly. "Are you all right?" Usagi asked checking him over.
"Yeah... Thanks Van!" Shingo turned to the dark haired man.
"Lord Van!" Merle yelled and stood in front of the heavily breathing king. "You all don't look!" She warned.
"What? Why?" Rei asked as she stretched a bruised arm. "They're beautiful."
"It is a curse, I am a demon of Atlantis." Van informed them all drawing in his wings.
"That's a pretty sweet curse my man." Trunks complimented as he set Chibi Trunks and Goten down. They stared at him in awe.
"With those wings? I'd say you're an angel." Hotaru stated.
"You're definitely an angel to me for saving Shingo." Usagi smiled.
"I wish we had wings!" Goten told him seriously.
"But we can fly already." Chibi reminded his best friend.
"Yeah, but we don't have wings." Goten responded.
"How is that possible?" Van asked.
"Oh brother." Gohan groaned. "Don't listen to them." He advised.
"You all aren't... afraid of me?" Van asked slowly.
"The only thing we're afraid of is Gohan's eating abilities." Girl Ranma spoke up, still holding Pig Ryoga.
"R-Ranma?" Ami caught her voice back first, while everyone else gaped at the redheaded girl holding the small black piglet.
The small, and very well curved, girl smiled. "Yeah, and this is Ryoga... don't tell Akane that he's a pig, okay?" He-she-turned serious for a moment. Ryoga squealed in agreement.
"How... do-did-you turn into a ... girl?" Duo asked, trying not to drool.
"Well, to make a long story short, I fell into a spring in Jusenkyo, China. It was a cursed spring that some girl had drown in a few thousand years ago, and so now I turn into a girl every time I'm hit with cold water. Ryoga turns into a pig, Shampoo turns into a cat that Mousse guy turns into a duck and my pop turns into a panda. We change back with hot water." Ranma sighed.
"That explains a lot." Said Rei.
Everyone nodded in agreement.
"You're okay that I'm half girl, half guy?" Ranma asked.
"Sure." Usagi shrugged. Everyone nodded and murmured "yes".
"And you're okay that I'm cursed, and a King from a planet called Gaea?" Van asked cautiously, pulling back on his red shirt.
"I'm sure we all know how hard it is to be royalty from a different planet." Usagi smiled reassuringly.
"Uh... not really, Usagi." Gene scratched his head. "But we're still cool with you being, an angel or demon or whatever you are."
"Don't forget Heero and I, and the others, are Gundam pilots, we're cool with anything." Duo reminded. Heero "hn-ed" in agreement.
"How about we get out of here?" Gohan suggested.
"Right." The group nodded.
"Wait," Ranma pulled out a thermos, "I never go anywhere with out one." She smiled and poured some of the lukewarm water on her head, then poured the rest on Ryoga.
Usagi, Rei, Ami, Merle, and Hotaru blushed and turned around as a very human and very naked Ryoga stood shivering. Ranma shoved his clothes at him and rolled his eyes. Haruka and Michiru glanced at each other and shrugged.
"Now we can go." Ryoga agreed once his clothes were on.
The group then ran off to find a way out of the incredibly damaged stadium.
They entered the street to see everything in total chaos. People were running, yelling, and looting. Usagi grimaced at the sight and shook her head sadly. "I wonder what happened to the Katana guys." Jim wondered and glanced around.
"Hopefully they drowned." Duo was still sore about the fight at the carnival last weekend.
"Duo!" Ami scolded.
"What? They're evil!" Duo held up his hands innocently.
"Still...the wicked shall receive their reward in the end." Ami quoted.
"The wicked get rewards? Dude! That's so unfair!" Duo pouted.
Heero sighed. "You baka." He crossed his arms over his chest.
"Duo, she means they will suffer long and horrible tormented deaths." Trunks told him.
"Oooh. I get it!" Duo smiled cheekily.
Screams were heard nearby, the group looked around to see little blackish gray creatures that resembled scales appear, and started to attack the survivors.
"Where did they come from?" Hotaru wondered. She followed their path with her eyes and saw more falling off of the fin that attacked the stadium.
"That's not good." Chibi Trunks grimaced as one of the scale monsters ripped into a screaming girl.
Not to far away...
Squall, pulling his gunblade-Lionheart-from seemingly nowhere, charged the scale creature. One clean cut through the middle killed it instantly. Another one took its place immediately. Squall killed it as well.
"Thunderbolt cut!" Sage cried as he swung No-Dachi, his battle sword. "Damn, what's wrong with these things?" Sage cursed as he cut through two more.
"They're never ending." Seifer gritted as he cut through his share with Hyperion, his gunblade.
The katana boys were fighting to the best of their ability cutting down the never-ending sea of scale monsters.
Squall closed his eyes in concentration as he picked a GF. Bahamut. "Dark Flare!" He summoned. The sky darkened and from the clouds above roared. A huge flying dragon, dark as the night, burst through the clouds and gave another might roar. It puffed up and then blew several mini fireballs down on the scales. He then powered up in concentration and sent a giant, dark flare down on the scales. They were all wiped out in a matter of seconds. Bahamut roared one last time and disappeared.
But then more scales appeared to take the fallen's place.
"Damn!" Zell swore.
Back to the Ken High gang...
Usagi gave a helpless look to Haruka. "I think we must." Usagi whispered. "Besides, Van revealed his wings and Ranma revealed his, err, woman side." She reasoned. "We might as well join them."
Haruka dodged another swipe of a scale monster. "Uranus Crystal Power, make-up!"
The others caught on quickly.
"Mars Crystal Power, make-up!"
"Mercury Crystal Power, make-up!"
"Neptune Crystal Power, make-up!"
"Saturn Crystal Power, make-up!"
"Moon Eternal, make-up!"
Shingo watched in awe as his older sister transformed into Eternal Sailor Moon, Tokyo's resident super hero. "I knew it!" He gasped.
"Ha, ha! I was right!" Trunks laughed gleefully.
"Uranus, a path?" Ami asked at that moment she pulled out her mini computer. The Senshi formed a protective circle around their friends.
"World Shaking!" Uranus caused an earthquake that knocked back and killed a few of the scales. More took their place.
"Aky Ryo Tai San!" Rei chanted and burned up the regrouping scale monsters.
"Apparently, these creatures are no hazard, but to end them is to eliminate the host." Ami informed them.
"Meaning...?" Usagi asked, Hotaru stood in front of her, ready to call up a Silence Wall.
"Kill that thing." Ami pointed to the giant...fin.
"Oh Ares." Rei cursed. "Mars Flame Sniper!" She tried a different attack on the scales.
"Submarine Reflection!" Michiru brought out her talisman, killing a few scales on the way. "There is only one fin." She reported after a quick glance in her mirror.
"Annoying pests!" Usagi grumbled. "Moon Crystal Power!" Usagi held up her small crystal from her locket.
A bright, warm, silver light shot out for a mile radius destroying, or 'dusting', all the scales within that distance.
"Whoa buddy!" Duo cheered.
To the Katana crowd...
"What..?" Kento looked up in surprise as a warm, silver light flooded them. It slowly disappeared and the scale that his Nanchaku was buried in turned to dust. All of the scale monsters turned to dust.
"Hyne!" Squall swore in amazement.
"Now that's something that doesn't happen everyday." Anubis mused and looked at his Staff of the Ancients.
To the Ken group...
"Sailor Moon." Uranus sighed. "There went all your energy." She scolded.
"I still have some." She defended.
"Mercury?" Hotaru asked.
"I'm working on it." Ami frantically calculated the fin's level and Usagi's.
"Ah, screw it!" Trunks complained. "Ready?" He asked Gohan. Gohan nodded. Instantly, they powered up their ki and charged the fin.
"Hey! Wait up!" Goten cried. He and Chibi Trunks powered up as well and flew to join Trunks and Gohan.
"Well... Gundam Pilots, kings from another planet with wings, changing sex or animals fighters, Sailor Senshi, and now...uh, them." Gene gestured to the Saiya-jinns. "Why don't we have cool powers?" He complained.
"Well...Mel is a robot." Jim pointed out.
"Guess that's as good as we're going to get." Gene sighed.
The four demi-Saiya-jinns attacked with a fury, their hard punches uprooted the fin and it retaliated with a "demi" spell. The four dodge it and the magic was sent hurtling down on the group below.
"Silence Wall!" Saturn quickly shouted. The spell was deflected.
"I don't suppose you can block THAT!" Duo cried and pointed to the very large monster that was sprouting out of the ground near them. It could pass as the worlds largest, foaming at the mouth, human eating, bad smelling, and wide-ranging bad plant.
"What the Hell?" Haruka narrowed her eyes at the giant plant.
"Ami?" Usagi asked, pulling out her Moon Tier in defense.
She typed furiously, analyzing with her visor. "Spawn of the giant fin, probably defending the fin." She informed.
"This just gets better and better." Ryoga muttered dryly.
The plant cast a water spell on the group. A torrent of water dumped down on the group. "ARG!" Girl Ranma shrieked and picked up the squealing Ryoga, and his clothes. "I just used all my hot water!" She complained.
"Time for some of my magic." Gene smirked and pulled out his gun and a castor shell. He quickly loaded and took aim. The bullet flew towards the monster, but was stopped by a blue energy shield.
"Just my luck." Gene muttered darkly.
"Ami! A weakness?" Usagi cried.
"I'm working on it." Ami replied.
"Mars Flame Sniper!" Mars sent a round of fire arrows at the giant planet.
"Getting attacked by plants, fins, and scales. This definitely goes down in the weird category." Van muttered.
"Try getting attacked by a giant pastry that turns you into desserts." Rei smiled dryly. "I was turned into a doughnut." Van raised an eyebrow.
"Quick, Heero, do something!" Duo flapped his arms.
"Like what?" Heero sighed, never taking his eyes off the monster.
"We just had to self destruct our Gundams, didn't we?" Duo complained and dodged a tentacle. "Van, you got anything?" He called.
Van grunted as he darted out of the way of becoming plant food. "No, Hitomi tells me I shouldn't carry my sword around, it's too awkward." He yelled back.
"Deep Submerge!" Michiru sent a blue energy ball, which resembled Neptune, at the plant spawn. "Our attacks have no affect, except make it angrier." She commented.
"Eat this!" Haruka brought out her Talisman. "Space Sword Blaster!" She attacked the monster with her sword, but was thrown off into a pile of rubble.
"Uranus!" Sailor Moon called worriedly. "Why can't I have a destructive power? All I do is turn people back into humans or send giant hearts at youmas!" She cursed.
"Patients, Sailor Moon." Hotaru calmed her down.
Gohan and Trunks weren't having much luck either. The fin had taken kicks, punches, and ki blasts but it didn't show any sign of wearing down. And it kept casting 'demis' on them.
"I'm getting real tired of these black hole type spells." Trunks growled and sent a huge, gold ki blast into the fin.
"I think they're pretty." Goten calked his head as the fin sent another spell at Gohan.
"Goten!" Chibi Trunks reprimanded. "It's trying to kill us!" He reminded.
"Right." Goten nodded and sent a grin at his best friend.
"I say we show this giant ... thing what Saiya-jinns are made of." Trunks growled. His gold aura flashed around him and his hair flickered gold. He sent a cry of fury and flew head on with the fin. He smashed into it, knocking it flat in the water and put a hole through its middle.
The fin fell into the sea, but it wasn't dead. It quickly moved off to heal its wounds. Trunks powered back to normal and gave a look of triumph. "That'll teach him, err, it, to mess with a Saiya-jinn." He grinned.
"Show off." Gohan joked. "Guess we have to do our lot of explaining." The four turned to their group just in time to see Sailor Moon take some actions.
"That's it! No more of this!" Sailor Moon cried in rage as Rei was thrown against a building. "You're going down!" She held her Tier out in front of her and closed her eyes in concentration. 'C'mon Lunar Sword.' She thought dimly to herself as she remembered the weapon of Selene. A light flashed around her and the Tier transformed into the Sword of the Moon. The blade was made of a stronger than diamond, poisonous substance. Nine stones, each the color of one of the planets, were embedded in the handle.
Sailor Moon stared in shock down at the weapon then glanced up at the plant monster. She smirked a look that would make Vegeta proud and held the sword out in front of her. "Lunar Sword Kiss!" She cried as she charged.
The sword drove straight through the beast and it howled in pain. It burst as the blade cut through its slimy skin and it exploded. Green globs of demonic plant innards covered Sailor Moon and everyone else that stood within a twenty-foot radius of the creature.
The Sword turned back into the Tier and Usagi sank to her knees. Hotaru came running up to her. "Usagi-hime! Are you all right?" Hotaru asked worriedly.
Usagi turned to look up at Hotaru. "I'm covered in icky green PLANT GUTS! EEEWWW!" She shrieked.
"I've never seen Sailor Moon do that before." Duo commented in awe.
Shingo looked up at him warily. "And you've seen Sailor Moon before?"
"No... I do have every magazine, manga, move, anime and video game that has her in it though." Duo grinned. "I'm a fan boy."
~@~
Squall looked curiously around. "Everything is gone." Sage confirmed as he shouldered his blade. "Not a single scale, nor a sign of that giant fin thing that attacked us." He reported.
"This was weird." Kento spoke up. "And I'm hungry now." He rubbed his stomach.
Squall sighed. "I have a dinner party with my father tonight, we've got to go." He told his friends.
"What do you suppose killed everything?" Umi asked, walking beside Squall.
Squall shrugged. "Do you think that bright light was Sailor Moon?" Zell asked.
"Oh please, Zell, and those gold haired guys at the Cell games finished off the Fin thingy. Get real chicken-wuss." Seifer rolled his eyes. "Now lets' get going."
~@~
Twenty minutes later found the whole Ken High group, including untransformed Senshi, sat in a park near just outside of Zanarkland District. Sirens and fire trucks of unimaginable numbers were everywhere in Zanarkland District.
The sailor Senshi, minus Minako and Makoto, sat on a bench. Gohan and Trunks leaned against a wall, Goten and Chibi Trunks were playing in the field behind them. Ranma and Ryoga sat on the grass, Ranma had located a bottle of hot water ten minutes ago. Heero, Duo, Gene and Jim sat across from Ranma and Ryoga in the grass. Van and Merle stood a few meters away from the Senshi.
"I think it's best we all explain everything, no secrets. Van, you go first since you revealed first." Ami interrupted the awkward silence.
Van cleared his throat. "As I said before, I'm a King on Gaea, a planet where both the Moon and Mystic Moon-Earth-hang in the sky. I rule a small country called Fanelia. Merle, here, has been a faithful servant and good friend to me for as long as I can remember. The day of my ritual to become king, kill a dragon and take it's energist, I was sent to Earth to slay it. I ran into Hitomi, she saved my life, and she came back to Gaea with me somehow.
"To make an incredible long story short, she has visions, I would fight in a Guymelef, it's like a primitive Gundam, there was a big war, and we won. Hitomi went home, a few months later I followed her to Earth, and here I am now." Van quickly told them, he decided not to go into details about how he died twice and Hitomi barely rescued him and the whole 'guymelef gets hit and the injury shows up on me' thing to save a lot of confusion.
"Interesting. I'll talk to you later for details on Gaea to enter into my computer." Ami mused. "Next, Trunks and Gohan since you are standing next in the circle." Ami directed.
Trunks and Gohan looked at each other. "I guess I'll start. My name is Son Gohan and I'm a hybrid." He cracked like he was at an AA meeting. "My father, Goku, whose actual name is Kakarot, is from Vegeta-sei, and he is called a Saiya-jinn. He was sent here as a baby and forgot his past with a bad case of amnesia. Everyone soon discovered my father is strong. Very strong, he won the World Tournament a long time ago.
"Then his brother, Raditz, comes to Earth and reminds him of his past. Turns out he was sent here to destroy Earth but he refuses. They fight, Raditz dies and my dad dies and two stronger Saiya-jinns are on the way. Vegeta and Nappa.
"My father and his friends train, including me. Dad is wished back the day they arrive, we fight, Nappa and a bunch of my dad's friends die. Vegeta and my dad are seriously injured. I, Bulma, and Krillin, two of my dad's friends, go to Namek-sei to get Dragonballs to wish everyone back. Vegeta shows up, my dad shows up, a new bad guy bent on ruling the galaxy shows up, fighting ensues, my dad turns into a Super Saiya-jinn and destroys Freiza."
"Or so he thought." Trunks came in. "This is where I come into the story. A year or so after Goku fights Freiza I came back from the future to warn Goku that in the future androids were going to kill everyone. I kill Freiza and his Father, Goku shows up, and I warn him. Three years later, I'm back to help fight. Goku has a heart virus and it acts up when fighting the androids. Two androids are killed and then three more come along and this creature named Cell. After a lot of fighting, Gohan here finally kills Cell. I go back to the future and when my mother passes away I decided to come back to the past and stay here."
"So, you are the guys at the Cell games?" Usagi asked excitedly.
The two nod.
"Wait, so you are from the future? Wicked!" Duo exclaimed.
"Yes. This is my present self." Mirai Trunks gestured to Chibi Trunks.
"And Goten really is my little brother." Gohan confirmed.
"You all already know our story." Duo spoke when Ami started to look around the circle for the next victim.
"And there's nothing to add to ours. Except one day we WILL find a way to cure ourselves." Ranma spoke up. "And Ryoga is known as the Eternally Lost Boy."
"Hey!" Ryoga argued. "I'm not eternally lost!"
Ranma just raised an eyebrow.
"And our story is quite simple. Jim and I run a business called Starwind and Hawking Enterprises. We pilot a XPG ship, fastest in the galaxy, with an annoying computer named Gillium, and we found the treasure Galactic Leyline while being chased by pirates, assassins, and my gay friend Fred. Melfina is an android, but not like the one's Trunks was talking about, she doesn't kill." Gene told them.
"Interesting." Rei was still typing away furiously.
"Don't worry, our friend Krillin married one of the androids programmed to kill us. And they have a daughter." Gohan reassured Gene.
"Well, I guess that leaves us." Usagi sighed. "I am Serenity, Princess of the Moon and Sailor Moon. These are my Senshi. We protect this Solar System. Minako is Venus, Makoto is Jupiter, our teacher, Setsuna Meioh, is Pluto." Usagi told them all.
"Princess?" Duo gaped.
"Of the Moon?" Gohan looked up in the sky at the crescent moon on the horizon. 'But I thought Piccolo... never mind.' Gohan thought to himself.
"My Minako, a Sailor Senshi?" Ryoga fell over with a nosebleed.
"I always knew there was fishy about our teacher." Ranma muttered to himself.
"So that's what you meant when you said 'I'm sure we all know how hard it is to be royalty from a different planet'." Gene smirked.
"If you're a princess, what does that make me?" Shingo asked curiously.
"An annoying royal spore." Usagi grinned.
"Hey!"
"I think we should all head home. It's been quite a day." Ami stood up, still typing furiously in her computer. "We have an emergency Senshi meeting tonight." Ami told all of her fellow Senshi.
~~@~~
Usagi stopped in front of the door to her house. She turned to Shingo, whose eyes were drooping. "Shingo, you can't tell anybody about what really happened today. Not about Van, or me being a Senshi, or about anybody else, understood?" She asked her little brother.
"I get it Odango, I do read manga, I know all about the secret identity thing. Just one question... does Luna really talk?"
Usagi smiled and ruffled his hair. "Yes."
Usagi then turned and opened the door, and trudged in exhausted followed by an equally exhausted Shingo. She stopped dead in her trudge causing Shingo to run into the back of her.
"Hey Odango, send me a warning!" He cried out tiredly.
Usagi ignored him as she saw her mother in the doorway. "Mom?" She asked cautiously at her mother's puffy eyes.
"Oh, hi honey... how was the game?" Ikuko asked wiping at her eyes.
"Awesome! We were meters from Tidus! And then that big thing attacked the stadium! That was scary-you haven't watched the news?" Shingo bounced.
"Mom, is something wrong?" Usagi asked carefully. Shingo then noticed his mother's distraught face.
The door opened up behind them. "Ikuko, I got more boxes-" Kenji stopped in front of his kids.
"Usagi, Shingo, your father and I have something to tell you." Ikuko began.
Shingo narrowed his eyes suspiciously. "We aren't moving, are we?"
"Well, we're not sure about that yet..." Kenji began.
"We're not? What's going on?" Usagi asked, a feeling of dread welled up in her stomach.
"Your father and I are-we're getting a divorce."
~END~
You can buy the Vision of Escaflowne Box set, eight tapes, from buy.com for $100 (it's supposed to be $160) if you want to know his whole story, which I recommend. *cuddles box set* the only thing I've bought myself that is above $100. (I'm still saving for the PS2 so I can finally PLAY FFX again! Don't ask, long story) I'm sure you all know you can watch Toonami for the whole DBZ line, I simplified it as best as I could. Ranma's story... you'd have to buy the anime or the manga. Outlaw star you'll have to buy as well. I think we all know the Sailor Moon plot line (considering that what this story is under, sailor moon crossovers...)
Did anyone catch the person who died today? The poor girl that the scale slashed into? *grins* Aren't i evil? *cackles*
Okay, Thanks Korner time!
Angellus Lee: Sorry, this chapter didn't tell what Squall wanted, but the next will! I swear!
julia: Minako is going to blow a gasket full of green envy... And you guessed right!
Cherry Moon-miko: Oh yeah, there's a great possiblity... next chapter will have the main pairing revealed...
Bird: *glomps* thanks! Squall does have a crush on Usagi... *hint* *hint*
BS-chan: someone saw MIIB! I love Frank! *cuddles cute little puppy* Well, here you go... now i have to work on our co-authored fic! @.@ i have a great idea for it though!
SA2-chan: yup, FFX is in here! *Grins* but only a chapter... don't you love Tidus? And No, i don't mind at all
Tasie: wait no more!
Chibi Chibi: yeah, i'll have a few GF's in wait a minute! *goes and writes a GF in this chapter* better?
Callisto Star: Was that fun?
PrincessLesse: i will have your alternate ending part, just keep bugging me about it and i'll get around to it! And the Chichi part might be posted in a few chapters... not the next one but the one after that... make sense?
LeaD: ever seen it? weird huh? i thought it was right down Duo's alley
Okay all, REVEIEW or ELSE! i'll sick a rabid bs-chan on you! *bs-chan looks indignet*
"Oh sweet Dende!" Gohan swore as he saw the mass. "EVERYONE! HOLD ON TO SOMETHING!" He cried as he held onto the railing.
Usagi gaped but quickly snapped into action. The pole next to her looked sturdy and she clasped on to it like a leech and held for her life. She felt Shingo circle her waist and he buried his face into her back shivering in fear. Van took to the pole as well, and clutched as tightly as Usagi.
Rei, Ami, Hotaru and Merle all followed Gohan and plastered their bodies to the railing that separated them from a hundred foot drop. Heero and Duo took to another pole and watched in horrified fascination as the watery mass descended on them. Michiru, Haruka, Gene and Jim took to the cement ground and rolled under the seats. Ranma looped his leg through the railing to hold him down, clutched Ryoga to himself and closed his eyes tight. Trunks grabbed his past self and Goten and braced for the attack. There was nowhere for them to go, so he put his Saiya-jinn skills to the test.
That's when it hit them. It nailed them all like a hammer with unimaginable force, nearly knocking the pole-clutchers unconscious. At the railing, they were battered and bruised against the railing and people screamed as they flew over their heads and over the edge. Girl Ranma clutched Ryoga, now in pig form, as the freezing water swirled around them. Trunks stood like a rock and held tight to his cargo. None of them could breathe in the thick liquid.
Usagi clenched the pole tighter to her body as it tugged at her. The attack of the water like substance was freezing; yet her skin felt like it was on fire. She now knew what living in a microwave felt like. She felt Shingo's grip around her waist loosen. The water lowered to their waists, Van next to her sputtered for air. 'Selene that hurt!' Usagi winced in pain as she shifted to a better grip. An especially strong and brutal current swept by, pulling at Shingo. His grip slipped from her waist.
"SHINGO!" Usagi screamed in terror as her little brother was dragged over the edge by the substance rushing down.
Before she could transform to Serenity Van, beside her, burst out of the watery substance and leaped over the side. Pure white wings sprouted out of his back and striking white feathers drifted through the air, contrasting the moment. Usagi watched in trepidation as he flew over the edge and after Shingo.
Van rocketed down after the falling boy and caught him around the waist. Van pulled up and flew high above the mass. That's when they truly got a good look at their attacker. There was no way to describe it except as a giant fin sticking out of the opposite side of the stadium.
The water was out of the stands now and Usagi watched as Van gently placed Shingo down and looked ashamed. Usagi hugged Shingo tightly. "Are you all right?" Usagi asked checking him over.
"Yeah... Thanks Van!" Shingo turned to the dark haired man.
"Lord Van!" Merle yelled and stood in front of the heavily breathing king. "You all don't look!" She warned.
"What? Why?" Rei asked as she stretched a bruised arm. "They're beautiful."
"It is a curse, I am a demon of Atlantis." Van informed them all drawing in his wings.
"That's a pretty sweet curse my man." Trunks complimented as he set Chibi Trunks and Goten down. They stared at him in awe.
"With those wings? I'd say you're an angel." Hotaru stated.
"You're definitely an angel to me for saving Shingo." Usagi smiled.
"I wish we had wings!" Goten told him seriously.
"But we can fly already." Chibi reminded his best friend.
"Yeah, but we don't have wings." Goten responded.
"How is that possible?" Van asked.
"Oh brother." Gohan groaned. "Don't listen to them." He advised.
"You all aren't... afraid of me?" Van asked slowly.
"The only thing we're afraid of is Gohan's eating abilities." Girl Ranma spoke up, still holding Pig Ryoga.
"R-Ranma?" Ami caught her voice back first, while everyone else gaped at the redheaded girl holding the small black piglet.
The small, and very well curved, girl smiled. "Yeah, and this is Ryoga... don't tell Akane that he's a pig, okay?" He-she-turned serious for a moment. Ryoga squealed in agreement.
"How... do-did-you turn into a ... girl?" Duo asked, trying not to drool.
"Well, to make a long story short, I fell into a spring in Jusenkyo, China. It was a cursed spring that some girl had drown in a few thousand years ago, and so now I turn into a girl every time I'm hit with cold water. Ryoga turns into a pig, Shampoo turns into a cat that Mousse guy turns into a duck and my pop turns into a panda. We change back with hot water." Ranma sighed.
"That explains a lot." Said Rei.
Everyone nodded in agreement.
"You're okay that I'm half girl, half guy?" Ranma asked.
"Sure." Usagi shrugged. Everyone nodded and murmured "yes".
"And you're okay that I'm cursed, and a King from a planet called Gaea?" Van asked cautiously, pulling back on his red shirt.
"I'm sure we all know how hard it is to be royalty from a different planet." Usagi smiled reassuringly.
"Uh... not really, Usagi." Gene scratched his head. "But we're still cool with you being, an angel or demon or whatever you are."
"Don't forget Heero and I, and the others, are Gundam pilots, we're cool with anything." Duo reminded. Heero "hn-ed" in agreement.
"How about we get out of here?" Gohan suggested.
"Right." The group nodded.
"Wait," Ranma pulled out a thermos, "I never go anywhere with out one." She smiled and poured some of the lukewarm water on her head, then poured the rest on Ryoga.
Usagi, Rei, Ami, Merle, and Hotaru blushed and turned around as a very human and very naked Ryoga stood shivering. Ranma shoved his clothes at him and rolled his eyes. Haruka and Michiru glanced at each other and shrugged.
"Now we can go." Ryoga agreed once his clothes were on.
The group then ran off to find a way out of the incredibly damaged stadium.
They entered the street to see everything in total chaos. People were running, yelling, and looting. Usagi grimaced at the sight and shook her head sadly. "I wonder what happened to the Katana guys." Jim wondered and glanced around.
"Hopefully they drowned." Duo was still sore about the fight at the carnival last weekend.
"Duo!" Ami scolded.
"What? They're evil!" Duo held up his hands innocently.
"Still...the wicked shall receive their reward in the end." Ami quoted.
"The wicked get rewards? Dude! That's so unfair!" Duo pouted.
Heero sighed. "You baka." He crossed his arms over his chest.
"Duo, she means they will suffer long and horrible tormented deaths." Trunks told him.
"Oooh. I get it!" Duo smiled cheekily.
Screams were heard nearby, the group looked around to see little blackish gray creatures that resembled scales appear, and started to attack the survivors.
"Where did they come from?" Hotaru wondered. She followed their path with her eyes and saw more falling off of the fin that attacked the stadium.
"That's not good." Chibi Trunks grimaced as one of the scale monsters ripped into a screaming girl.
Not to far away...
Squall, pulling his gunblade-Lionheart-from seemingly nowhere, charged the scale creature. One clean cut through the middle killed it instantly. Another one took its place immediately. Squall killed it as well.
"Thunderbolt cut!" Sage cried as he swung No-Dachi, his battle sword. "Damn, what's wrong with these things?" Sage cursed as he cut through two more.
"They're never ending." Seifer gritted as he cut through his share with Hyperion, his gunblade.
The katana boys were fighting to the best of their ability cutting down the never-ending sea of scale monsters.
Squall closed his eyes in concentration as he picked a GF. Bahamut. "Dark Flare!" He summoned. The sky darkened and from the clouds above roared. A huge flying dragon, dark as the night, burst through the clouds and gave another might roar. It puffed up and then blew several mini fireballs down on the scales. He then powered up in concentration and sent a giant, dark flare down on the scales. They were all wiped out in a matter of seconds. Bahamut roared one last time and disappeared.
But then more scales appeared to take the fallen's place.
"Damn!" Zell swore.
Back to the Ken High gang...
Usagi gave a helpless look to Haruka. "I think we must." Usagi whispered. "Besides, Van revealed his wings and Ranma revealed his, err, woman side." She reasoned. "We might as well join them."
Haruka dodged another swipe of a scale monster. "Uranus Crystal Power, make-up!"
The others caught on quickly.
"Mars Crystal Power, make-up!"
"Mercury Crystal Power, make-up!"
"Neptune Crystal Power, make-up!"
"Saturn Crystal Power, make-up!"
"Moon Eternal, make-up!"
Shingo watched in awe as his older sister transformed into Eternal Sailor Moon, Tokyo's resident super hero. "I knew it!" He gasped.
"Ha, ha! I was right!" Trunks laughed gleefully.
"Uranus, a path?" Ami asked at that moment she pulled out her mini computer. The Senshi formed a protective circle around their friends.
"World Shaking!" Uranus caused an earthquake that knocked back and killed a few of the scales. More took their place.
"Aky Ryo Tai San!" Rei chanted and burned up the regrouping scale monsters.
"Apparently, these creatures are no hazard, but to end them is to eliminate the host." Ami informed them.
"Meaning...?" Usagi asked, Hotaru stood in front of her, ready to call up a Silence Wall.
"Kill that thing." Ami pointed to the giant...fin.
"Oh Ares." Rei cursed. "Mars Flame Sniper!" She tried a different attack on the scales.
"Submarine Reflection!" Michiru brought out her talisman, killing a few scales on the way. "There is only one fin." She reported after a quick glance in her mirror.
"Annoying pests!" Usagi grumbled. "Moon Crystal Power!" Usagi held up her small crystal from her locket.
A bright, warm, silver light shot out for a mile radius destroying, or 'dusting', all the scales within that distance.
"Whoa buddy!" Duo cheered.
To the Katana crowd...
"What..?" Kento looked up in surprise as a warm, silver light flooded them. It slowly disappeared and the scale that his Nanchaku was buried in turned to dust. All of the scale monsters turned to dust.
"Hyne!" Squall swore in amazement.
"Now that's something that doesn't happen everyday." Anubis mused and looked at his Staff of the Ancients.
To the Ken group...
"Sailor Moon." Uranus sighed. "There went all your energy." She scolded.
"I still have some." She defended.
"Mercury?" Hotaru asked.
"I'm working on it." Ami frantically calculated the fin's level and Usagi's.
"Ah, screw it!" Trunks complained. "Ready?" He asked Gohan. Gohan nodded. Instantly, they powered up their ki and charged the fin.
"Hey! Wait up!" Goten cried. He and Chibi Trunks powered up as well and flew to join Trunks and Gohan.
"Well... Gundam Pilots, kings from another planet with wings, changing sex or animals fighters, Sailor Senshi, and now...uh, them." Gene gestured to the Saiya-jinns. "Why don't we have cool powers?" He complained.
"Well...Mel is a robot." Jim pointed out.
"Guess that's as good as we're going to get." Gene sighed.
The four demi-Saiya-jinns attacked with a fury, their hard punches uprooted the fin and it retaliated with a "demi" spell. The four dodge it and the magic was sent hurtling down on the group below.
"Silence Wall!" Saturn quickly shouted. The spell was deflected.
"I don't suppose you can block THAT!" Duo cried and pointed to the very large monster that was sprouting out of the ground near them. It could pass as the worlds largest, foaming at the mouth, human eating, bad smelling, and wide-ranging bad plant.
"What the Hell?" Haruka narrowed her eyes at the giant plant.
"Ami?" Usagi asked, pulling out her Moon Tier in defense.
She typed furiously, analyzing with her visor. "Spawn of the giant fin, probably defending the fin." She informed.
"This just gets better and better." Ryoga muttered dryly.
The plant cast a water spell on the group. A torrent of water dumped down on the group. "ARG!" Girl Ranma shrieked and picked up the squealing Ryoga, and his clothes. "I just used all my hot water!" She complained.
"Time for some of my magic." Gene smirked and pulled out his gun and a castor shell. He quickly loaded and took aim. The bullet flew towards the monster, but was stopped by a blue energy shield.
"Just my luck." Gene muttered darkly.
"Ami! A weakness?" Usagi cried.
"I'm working on it." Ami replied.
"Mars Flame Sniper!" Mars sent a round of fire arrows at the giant planet.
"Getting attacked by plants, fins, and scales. This definitely goes down in the weird category." Van muttered.
"Try getting attacked by a giant pastry that turns you into desserts." Rei smiled dryly. "I was turned into a doughnut." Van raised an eyebrow.
"Quick, Heero, do something!" Duo flapped his arms.
"Like what?" Heero sighed, never taking his eyes off the monster.
"We just had to self destruct our Gundams, didn't we?" Duo complained and dodged a tentacle. "Van, you got anything?" He called.
Van grunted as he darted out of the way of becoming plant food. "No, Hitomi tells me I shouldn't carry my sword around, it's too awkward." He yelled back.
"Deep Submerge!" Michiru sent a blue energy ball, which resembled Neptune, at the plant spawn. "Our attacks have no affect, except make it angrier." She commented.
"Eat this!" Haruka brought out her Talisman. "Space Sword Blaster!" She attacked the monster with her sword, but was thrown off into a pile of rubble.
"Uranus!" Sailor Moon called worriedly. "Why can't I have a destructive power? All I do is turn people back into humans or send giant hearts at youmas!" She cursed.
"Patients, Sailor Moon." Hotaru calmed her down.
Gohan and Trunks weren't having much luck either. The fin had taken kicks, punches, and ki blasts but it didn't show any sign of wearing down. And it kept casting 'demis' on them.
"I'm getting real tired of these black hole type spells." Trunks growled and sent a huge, gold ki blast into the fin.
"I think they're pretty." Goten calked his head as the fin sent another spell at Gohan.
"Goten!" Chibi Trunks reprimanded. "It's trying to kill us!" He reminded.
"Right." Goten nodded and sent a grin at his best friend.
"I say we show this giant ... thing what Saiya-jinns are made of." Trunks growled. His gold aura flashed around him and his hair flickered gold. He sent a cry of fury and flew head on with the fin. He smashed into it, knocking it flat in the water and put a hole through its middle.
The fin fell into the sea, but it wasn't dead. It quickly moved off to heal its wounds. Trunks powered back to normal and gave a look of triumph. "That'll teach him, err, it, to mess with a Saiya-jinn." He grinned.
"Show off." Gohan joked. "Guess we have to do our lot of explaining." The four turned to their group just in time to see Sailor Moon take some actions.
"That's it! No more of this!" Sailor Moon cried in rage as Rei was thrown against a building. "You're going down!" She held her Tier out in front of her and closed her eyes in concentration. 'C'mon Lunar Sword.' She thought dimly to herself as she remembered the weapon of Selene. A light flashed around her and the Tier transformed into the Sword of the Moon. The blade was made of a stronger than diamond, poisonous substance. Nine stones, each the color of one of the planets, were embedded in the handle.
Sailor Moon stared in shock down at the weapon then glanced up at the plant monster. She smirked a look that would make Vegeta proud and held the sword out in front of her. "Lunar Sword Kiss!" She cried as she charged.
The sword drove straight through the beast and it howled in pain. It burst as the blade cut through its slimy skin and it exploded. Green globs of demonic plant innards covered Sailor Moon and everyone else that stood within a twenty-foot radius of the creature.
The Sword turned back into the Tier and Usagi sank to her knees. Hotaru came running up to her. "Usagi-hime! Are you all right?" Hotaru asked worriedly.
Usagi turned to look up at Hotaru. "I'm covered in icky green PLANT GUTS! EEEWWW!" She shrieked.
"I've never seen Sailor Moon do that before." Duo commented in awe.
Shingo looked up at him warily. "And you've seen Sailor Moon before?"
"No... I do have every magazine, manga, move, anime and video game that has her in it though." Duo grinned. "I'm a fan boy."
~@~
Squall looked curiously around. "Everything is gone." Sage confirmed as he shouldered his blade. "Not a single scale, nor a sign of that giant fin thing that attacked us." He reported.
"This was weird." Kento spoke up. "And I'm hungry now." He rubbed his stomach.
Squall sighed. "I have a dinner party with my father tonight, we've got to go." He told his friends.
"What do you suppose killed everything?" Umi asked, walking beside Squall.
Squall shrugged. "Do you think that bright light was Sailor Moon?" Zell asked.
"Oh please, Zell, and those gold haired guys at the Cell games finished off the Fin thingy. Get real chicken-wuss." Seifer rolled his eyes. "Now lets' get going."
~@~
Twenty minutes later found the whole Ken High group, including untransformed Senshi, sat in a park near just outside of Zanarkland District. Sirens and fire trucks of unimaginable numbers were everywhere in Zanarkland District.
The sailor Senshi, minus Minako and Makoto, sat on a bench. Gohan and Trunks leaned against a wall, Goten and Chibi Trunks were playing in the field behind them. Ranma and Ryoga sat on the grass, Ranma had located a bottle of hot water ten minutes ago. Heero, Duo, Gene and Jim sat across from Ranma and Ryoga in the grass. Van and Merle stood a few meters away from the Senshi.
"I think it's best we all explain everything, no secrets. Van, you go first since you revealed first." Ami interrupted the awkward silence.
Van cleared his throat. "As I said before, I'm a King on Gaea, a planet where both the Moon and Mystic Moon-Earth-hang in the sky. I rule a small country called Fanelia. Merle, here, has been a faithful servant and good friend to me for as long as I can remember. The day of my ritual to become king, kill a dragon and take it's energist, I was sent to Earth to slay it. I ran into Hitomi, she saved my life, and she came back to Gaea with me somehow.
"To make an incredible long story short, she has visions, I would fight in a Guymelef, it's like a primitive Gundam, there was a big war, and we won. Hitomi went home, a few months later I followed her to Earth, and here I am now." Van quickly told them, he decided not to go into details about how he died twice and Hitomi barely rescued him and the whole 'guymelef gets hit and the injury shows up on me' thing to save a lot of confusion.
"Interesting. I'll talk to you later for details on Gaea to enter into my computer." Ami mused. "Next, Trunks and Gohan since you are standing next in the circle." Ami directed.
Trunks and Gohan looked at each other. "I guess I'll start. My name is Son Gohan and I'm a hybrid." He cracked like he was at an AA meeting. "My father, Goku, whose actual name is Kakarot, is from Vegeta-sei, and he is called a Saiya-jinn. He was sent here as a baby and forgot his past with a bad case of amnesia. Everyone soon discovered my father is strong. Very strong, he won the World Tournament a long time ago.
"Then his brother, Raditz, comes to Earth and reminds him of his past. Turns out he was sent here to destroy Earth but he refuses. They fight, Raditz dies and my dad dies and two stronger Saiya-jinns are on the way. Vegeta and Nappa.
"My father and his friends train, including me. Dad is wished back the day they arrive, we fight, Nappa and a bunch of my dad's friends die. Vegeta and my dad are seriously injured. I, Bulma, and Krillin, two of my dad's friends, go to Namek-sei to get Dragonballs to wish everyone back. Vegeta shows up, my dad shows up, a new bad guy bent on ruling the galaxy shows up, fighting ensues, my dad turns into a Super Saiya-jinn and destroys Freiza."
"Or so he thought." Trunks came in. "This is where I come into the story. A year or so after Goku fights Freiza I came back from the future to warn Goku that in the future androids were going to kill everyone. I kill Freiza and his Father, Goku shows up, and I warn him. Three years later, I'm back to help fight. Goku has a heart virus and it acts up when fighting the androids. Two androids are killed and then three more come along and this creature named Cell. After a lot of fighting, Gohan here finally kills Cell. I go back to the future and when my mother passes away I decided to come back to the past and stay here."
"So, you are the guys at the Cell games?" Usagi asked excitedly.
The two nod.
"Wait, so you are from the future? Wicked!" Duo exclaimed.
"Yes. This is my present self." Mirai Trunks gestured to Chibi Trunks.
"And Goten really is my little brother." Gohan confirmed.
"You all already know our story." Duo spoke when Ami started to look around the circle for the next victim.
"And there's nothing to add to ours. Except one day we WILL find a way to cure ourselves." Ranma spoke up. "And Ryoga is known as the Eternally Lost Boy."
"Hey!" Ryoga argued. "I'm not eternally lost!"
Ranma just raised an eyebrow.
"And our story is quite simple. Jim and I run a business called Starwind and Hawking Enterprises. We pilot a XPG ship, fastest in the galaxy, with an annoying computer named Gillium, and we found the treasure Galactic Leyline while being chased by pirates, assassins, and my gay friend Fred. Melfina is an android, but not like the one's Trunks was talking about, she doesn't kill." Gene told them.
"Interesting." Rei was still typing away furiously.
"Don't worry, our friend Krillin married one of the androids programmed to kill us. And they have a daughter." Gohan reassured Gene.
"Well, I guess that leaves us." Usagi sighed. "I am Serenity, Princess of the Moon and Sailor Moon. These are my Senshi. We protect this Solar System. Minako is Venus, Makoto is Jupiter, our teacher, Setsuna Meioh, is Pluto." Usagi told them all.
"Princess?" Duo gaped.
"Of the Moon?" Gohan looked up in the sky at the crescent moon on the horizon. 'But I thought Piccolo... never mind.' Gohan thought to himself.
"My Minako, a Sailor Senshi?" Ryoga fell over with a nosebleed.
"I always knew there was fishy about our teacher." Ranma muttered to himself.
"So that's what you meant when you said 'I'm sure we all know how hard it is to be royalty from a different planet'." Gene smirked.
"If you're a princess, what does that make me?" Shingo asked curiously.
"An annoying royal spore." Usagi grinned.
"Hey!"
"I think we should all head home. It's been quite a day." Ami stood up, still typing furiously in her computer. "We have an emergency Senshi meeting tonight." Ami told all of her fellow Senshi.
~~@~~
Usagi stopped in front of the door to her house. She turned to Shingo, whose eyes were drooping. "Shingo, you can't tell anybody about what really happened today. Not about Van, or me being a Senshi, or about anybody else, understood?" She asked her little brother.
"I get it Odango, I do read manga, I know all about the secret identity thing. Just one question... does Luna really talk?"
Usagi smiled and ruffled his hair. "Yes."
Usagi then turned and opened the door, and trudged in exhausted followed by an equally exhausted Shingo. She stopped dead in her trudge causing Shingo to run into the back of her.
"Hey Odango, send me a warning!" He cried out tiredly.
Usagi ignored him as she saw her mother in the doorway. "Mom?" She asked cautiously at her mother's puffy eyes.
"Oh, hi honey... how was the game?" Ikuko asked wiping at her eyes.
"Awesome! We were meters from Tidus! And then that big thing attacked the stadium! That was scary-you haven't watched the news?" Shingo bounced.
"Mom, is something wrong?" Usagi asked carefully. Shingo then noticed his mother's distraught face.
The door opened up behind them. "Ikuko, I got more boxes-" Kenji stopped in front of his kids.
"Usagi, Shingo, your father and I have something to tell you." Ikuko began.
Shingo narrowed his eyes suspiciously. "We aren't moving, are we?"
"Well, we're not sure about that yet..." Kenji began.
"We're not? What's going on?" Usagi asked, a feeling of dread welled up in her stomach.
"Your father and I are-we're getting a divorce."
~END~
You can buy the Vision of Escaflowne Box set, eight tapes, from buy.com for $100 (it's supposed to be $160) if you want to know his whole story, which I recommend. *cuddles box set* the only thing I've bought myself that is above $100. (I'm still saving for the PS2 so I can finally PLAY FFX again! Don't ask, long story) I'm sure you all know you can watch Toonami for the whole DBZ line, I simplified it as best as I could. Ranma's story... you'd have to buy the anime or the manga. Outlaw star you'll have to buy as well. I think we all know the Sailor Moon plot line (considering that what this story is under, sailor moon crossovers...)
Did anyone catch the person who died today? The poor girl that the scale slashed into? *grins* Aren't i evil? *cackles*
Okay, Thanks Korner time!
Angellus Lee: Sorry, this chapter didn't tell what Squall wanted, but the next will! I swear!
julia: Minako is going to blow a gasket full of green envy... And you guessed right!
Cherry Moon-miko: Oh yeah, there's a great possiblity... next chapter will have the main pairing revealed...
Bird: *glomps* thanks! Squall does have a crush on Usagi... *hint* *hint*
BS-chan: someone saw MIIB! I love Frank! *cuddles cute little puppy* Well, here you go... now i have to work on our co-authored fic! @.@ i have a great idea for it though!
SA2-chan: yup, FFX is in here! *Grins* but only a chapter... don't you love Tidus? And No, i don't mind at all
Tasie: wait no more!
Chibi Chibi: yeah, i'll have a few GF's in wait a minute! *goes and writes a GF in this chapter* better?
Callisto Star: Was that fun?
PrincessLesse: i will have your alternate ending part, just keep bugging me about it and i'll get around to it! And the Chichi part might be posted in a few chapters... not the next one but the one after that... make sense?
LeaD: ever seen it? weird huh? i thought it was right down Duo's alley
Okay all, REVEIEW or ELSE! i'll sick a rabid bs-chan on you! *bs-chan looks indignet*