A Tear in Time

Chapter Two - Interrogations


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"So, I'm Minako! What's your name?" asked the once again, cheery and perky Minako. Being solemn and serious and just plain boring didn't suit her. Evidently.

Now Wufei was under the impression that this girl was serious. Until five minutes ago when she opened her big mouth and started asking if he had a girlfriend, if he was straight, and if having his hair pulled back like 'that' hurt anyway. This girl was what some called 'special'.

Sighing, he opened up a metal door at the end of yet another long, boring hallway andmotioned Minako inside, closing the door behind him.

The room was a bit plain, with two straight-backed wooden chairs facing each other at opposite ends of a wooden table. A large mirror stretched across one wall facing the chairs. Let's all take a wild guess at this. It's an interrogation room, right? Minako knew what kind of room this was, she had spent plenty of time with at the precinct, only she had been the one asking questions.

--Minako's POV--

He must want me to sit down. But first, I need to check my hair. I must look like crap. Getting sucked up in big, black holes and then falling from the sky onto people does that to you! Oh, my poor ribbon! I don't even know what color it is anymore! Well this sucks. I don't think asking the Asian man for a hair brush would be smart. He'd probably just yell at me or something. But that hair...

--End Minako's POV--

Wufei couldn't help but be humored at the fact that as soon as Aino had come into the room she ran up to the mirror. He thought it wasso much like agirlthing. Always making sure they looked pretty and all that. He noticed that she didn't realize that on the other side of the said mirror there were two preventors watching them. These preventors went by the name of Duo Maxwell and Quatre Winner.

Yes, this was going to bevery entertaining for the two.

'Yui said to take this ordeal seriously, but how can I when thisgirl seems to have nothing better than tocheck herself out in the mirror?' Wufei thought, 'It's time to begin. Let's get her attention, shall we?'

"My name is Wufei Chang. You may call me 'Wufei Chang'. Not 'Asian man'. Sit down, answer my questions, and you will live. And stop looking at the damn mirror!"

'That went well. Now...'

--+--

Silence.

Nothing but silence.

Usagi was going to go crazy! She had done as she was told! She'd gone into a room just like Minako's with this guy and had expected to get herself some information.

What she got was silence.

She couldn't take the silence. Evil thoughts were now in the princess' head as she thought of ways to kill this person.

'His hair is so pointy and it's probably really sharp.Stab, stab!'

"STAB!" she screamed insanely. This in turn made Trowa jerk in his seat ever-so-slightly. Was this girl really mad? If so he'd probably have to tie her down. So much for not taking her seriously.

'Wow! That was so calming! I feel a lot better now! Someone up there must really like me!' Usagi thought. She figured that sometimes you just need to let it all out to make yourself feel better. Now she understood why her daddy always seemed to enjoy yelling at her for her bad grades! It was because he just needed to let all the building stress out! Or so she had come to think.

"So are you going to tell me your name? Its only fair since you know mine," Usagi said matter-of-factly.

"Very well. I have no name. But if you must call me something other than the one-eyed one then call me Trowa. Trowa Barton." the man spoke, surprising the little rabbit as she wasn't expecting to get herself any answers while with Trowa Barton.

"Please tell me how you came to fall from the sky."

It was a start.

--+--

"So, you don't know what a Preventor is? You don't know what a colony is? And you think I'm going to tell you? I'm the one asking the questions here and you were supposed to answer them truthfully and the only way I'd ever believe that shit is if you could prove to me you've lived in a hole underground all your life!" yelled the poor, wittle, frustrated Wuffie. Yes, Wuffie. Minako had taken to calling him that and took pleasure everytime his face went red when she said that oh-so evil nickname.

At hearing this Minako got mad. Very mad. When Minako is mad you don't want to be around her. She does really evil things. Eviller than calling the ex-pilot 'Wuffie'.

"Are you calling me a liar?" she asked slowly.

"ARE YOU CALLING ME A LIAR?" Minako screeched.

"If that's how you wish to put it, then yes."he replied.

"Well for your information, I used to live in England. Then when I was 14 I moved to Tokyo. I'm now 17 and I hate mushrooms. Never have I lived in a dirty, DISGUSTING, MOST LIKELY RAT INFESTED HOLE! NOW YOU BETTER GIVE ME SOME ANSWERS RIGHT NOW OR YOU CAN KISS THAT STUPID LITTLE PONY-TAIL OF YOURS GOOD-BYE, WUFFIE CHANG!"

And so a chase began. Yes, a chase. A very good one too as it consisted of Minako screaming at Wufei and him running from her in fright. Yes, fright. All the way around the room.

"Get away from me you crazy freak! Aaarrggghhhhh!"

"WWWWWUUUUUUUUUUUUUFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

Little did the two know that on the other side of the mirror two preventors by the name of Quatre and Duo had completely lost it. Duo was on the floor rolling around laughing his braid off like it was April Fool's Day and he had just seen Hiiro kiss Relena.

Our dear Quatre was laughing too. Harder. A lot harder than Duo. Which was saying something. It wasn't until after he knocked a cup of coffee on Duo did he finally tone it down. Not thatit helped. So Basically: Duo and Quatre were laughing really, really, REALLY HARD. And it was either because Minako was screaming at Wufei, or that our justice-minded Wufei was actually cowering under her. Surprising? Quite. But... it really was funny.

And with that, we head back to our other interrogation.

--+--

Their questioning had gone quite smoothly after Usagi had her little outburst. They had come to an agreement that one would ask a question and get an answer, and then the other would ask a question and get an answer. As for who went first was a decision made by Usagi, who believed that the rule 'ladies first' should be implied here.

"What's "After Colony 198" mean?" Usagi asked.

Trowa paused for a moment, then went on, "...The age AC came from when the colonies were built 198 years ago. The era called 'After Death' or 'A.D.'ended when monsters attacked and destroyed the kingdom." now it was Trowa's turn, "Where are you from? And how did you end up falling from the sky?"

Usagi huffed, "Hey! That's two questions. I'm from Tokyo, Japan. So is Minako-chan. As for your second question, I can't answer that. It's far too complicated and I'm not even entirely sure about that either. My turn! What's the deal with Crystal Tokyo? I thought that the sailor senshi protected the city! What happened to them?"

Trowa rose an eyebrow at the title, not many knew it had been called that. "Crystal Tokyo, hm? I believe the palace was attacked one night, and they were unprepared..."

Usagi frowned, "Oh... could you tell me about it?"

Trowa sighed and took a deep breath, "Crystal Tokyo was created in 2009 by a man named Endymion. Supposedly he was to have a queen named Serenity but she vanished several years before. They were targetted one year after the new era and a war between them and those of the Black Moon had begun.

This is where the senshi come in. Each of which had planetary power. Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. There was also the power of the moon. The moon's power was supposedly the most powerful as it had a powerful gem by the name of the Legendary Silver Crystal.

Princess Serenity, Endymion's future wife and the one whom was known as Sailor Moon, the leader of the senshi, posessed this powerful jewel. She vanished one day. As well as the senshi known as Venus along with her. No-one ever saw them again and the creation of Crystal Tokyo was done alone by the prince of Earth - Endymion. They say that he did not wish to create the supposed age of peace without his love and had actually stated that if he did then it would fall. At the time no-one knew that his prophecy would come to happen. Not even the guardian of time, Pluto. Not long after peace seemed to finally be restored they were attacked. The senshi fought them for many years but without the two missing senshi they failed. As they no longer had the crystal that was needed to banish the evil."

As Trowa finished he noticed her change of attitude. At first she seemed eager to hear the tale, then she leaned back in her chair and had slightly bowed her head, avoiding his gaze.

'There's more to you than you lead on, Usagi.' he thought. He stood up, "Come. Let's head back to the lounge, we're done here."

She nodded and with that they took their leave in silence. And for once Usagi didn't seem to mind.

--+--

Things hadn't gone so well and the room had been totally trashed. That wasn't until after Minako had made the mistake of yanking on Wufei's pony-tail and he had torn off her hair ribbon. That was when the real war had started. There was much hair-pulling, kicking, scratching, and biting on Minako's side. Some on Wufei's too...

'So much for getting some answers.' thought Minako. She was getting pretty tired out from chasing Wufei.

Now when you get tired from running long distances, or around in circles, it is wise to stop. Minako was good at running, but even the powerful leader of the inner senshi had to stop after a while. This did not bode well as when she had abruptly stopped from being chased by Wufei he had crashed into her halted form. He ended up flying into the table. She merely fell to the ground in a rather odd, twisted position with one foot in the air. The other somehow managed to get stuck behind her head and her hands squished by a chair. A very, uncomfortable position, and a very funny sight to see.

"That's it! We're heading back right now!" yelled a very angry, slightly wounded, Mister Chang, who was just getting up from his quick flight from here (One side of the room) to there (The opposite side of the room).

And once again we cut to the room beyond the one-sided window. Currently Quatre had once again spilled hot coffee on Duo. Only this time it got on his pants. At seeing this Quatre really couldn't help but laugh some more.

--+--

Minako, Usagi, Wufei, and Trowa all filed into the lounge, a cozy room with a couple of couches, some fat chairs, and the weirdest looking lamp any of them had ever seen. It was in the shape of an elephant's leg and the lamp shade had pictures of what looked like possums all around it. The light bulb was a neon orange color. I told you it was the weirdest looking lamp any of them had ever seen.

The door opened and none other than Duo Maxwell strode in. "Excuse me, but I gotta talk to the guys here." he said, grinning at them.

This caused them to relax a bit at his cheery disposition which reminded them of Minako. Except for Minako. She was just thinking about how it was possible for so many gorgeous- young - men to be in the same room as her. Yes, she had calmed down from her war with her Wuffie-chan.

--+--

Silently the boys walked into the room across from the lounge where the girls sat. Trowa leaned up against the wall, Hiiro just stood near the door with Wufei while Duo and Quatre sat on a rather comfy, if not ugly, electric blue couch. Why they even had an electric blue couch at the Preventors' Headquarters was a mystery to even these five.

"So what about them? Hiiro, didn't you say they fell on you or something?" asked Duo, he knew when to be serious.

This was not one of those times.

"Duo."

"Yeah?"

"Shutup."

"Right."

"The Aino girl said that she had no idea where she was and that she had no idea what a colony was," stated Wufei.

"Well, they are strange, but we have more important things to worry about. That and they're in danger of the monsters as well, so we have to keep an eye on them. I'll have one of the other preventors send them home." said Hiiro.

It was Trowa's turn to speak up, "You know, I think that the girls have somehow gotten caught up in the middle of this. For whatever reason, I think we should keep them with us. I don't think it will be possible to send them home."

The guys stared at the most silent of their group. Trowa wanted them to stay?

Quatre looked thoughtful, "I could let them live in my home. You all were going to stay there as well, right? So looking after them shouldn't be too hard."

"Why should they get special treatment and live with you in your mansion?" Wufei snorted, "There are plenty of other girls out there who need to be protected!"

"Believe me Wufei, they're special." Trowa replied mysteriously, "We'll leave the other girls to Une to take care of." Trowa's orders were clear. The girls would stay with them until the monster thing blew over. If it did. All of them except Hiiro would be staying there. He would be staying in Sanc to be with Relena. For business purposes, of course.

"I guess we should go tell them then." Duo said darkly, "I'm sure they'll love to live with us."

"Fine with me. But don't go acting foolish. Whether or not they are teenagers, the female species are prone to anger when they are confused or upset. It just shows how superior the male race is to those females." said Wufei, his voice menacing.

--+--

"What are we going to do?" cried Minako. Usagi had just told everything about Crystal Tokyo and all and now she was worried. As she should be in such a situation. But Usagi couldn't help but feel like telling her to shutup and to get a grip when suddenly someone appeared magically in front of them.

A familiar someone. A familiar someone named Sailor Pluto a.k.a. Meioh Setsuna.

"Pluto! Is that you?" cried Usagi hopping up from her seat to give one of her favorite people a big bear hug. She sure hoped it was.

"Yes, Usagi, it's I. Who else?" she said smiling slightly. It had been nearly a year when their peace had caused them to go their seperate ways. What with Pluto's time-watching and Usagi's education - or lack-there-of.

"Unfortuately, I am not here for pleasure. It's business. I'm here to say that what has happened to you is the cause of a tear in the time continuum. As you have probably already guessed, this is not good." she spoke. Causing the smiles of her friends and fellow senshi to disappear.

"Pluto, what exactly is a tear in time?" asked the senshi of love.

"Hold on! What's happened? I was told that Crystal Tokyo has been destroyed! Now we're supposed to be in the future where the only known magic comes from the monsters that have been attacking these people and kidnapping blond girls!" screamed the still out-of-it Bunny.

Sighing lightly, Sailor Pluto stood up and began to slowly pace the room, "It's a bit complicated to explain... to put it in the simplest of terms, a tear in time is like a black hole. It swallows everything in it's path and sends it to another time.

"It's similiar to Galaxia's ordeal. She was a galaxy away and tore a large hole in space to travel to our system. Evidently, this caused time to become corrupted as well as other systems. This disturbance has caused destruction and much confusion in the time continuum. This world was created because of that, otherwise the monsters never would have come and destroyed Crystal Tokyo!"

"So was this Galaxia's work? But she's good now, so it's not her fault!" asked the panicking Usagi. This whole arrangement was just freaking her out even more than at first.

"I'm sorry. It isn't Galaxia's work per-say. Remember Chaos? It was possessing Galaxia's body and used her power to rip the hole in the space-time continuum. It changed the future, and I believe that Chaos is behind these attacks in an attempt to find... you, Usagi. As well as Minako."

The two girls gasped, long-haired blonds!

"So it's our fault these people are in danger!" Usagi lamented.

"No - you're the cause for their rampages, but it is most definitely not your fault! It is Chaos' plan to make you think that - he may be trying to draw you out of hiding or to weaken you! Do no worry. Leave me to figure out what to do there, you need to worry about your crystal! That and your brooch is gone, you need to get it back!" Sailor Pluto's words were somewhat calming, until she mentioned the crystal. It didn't take long for her words to sink in...

"The crystal? It's gone? I hadn't even noticed! I'm so stupid! Whining about everything else! Rei is going to kill me!"Usagi cried.

"Calm down, it is not you fault, it was just part of your time-travelling. It is not gone forever, so do not mourn, just misplaced and you need to find it." replied Sailor Pluto, "No, Rei is not going to kill you," she added to lighten the mood, giving the two girls a small smile. But they could see it. She too, was very upset by all of this. You could see it in her eyes, and tell by the tone of her voice.

They were unable to finish their conversation as the door opened to reveal the five ex-gundam pilots. Usagi turned her head back quickly only to see nothing there. 'At least they didn't see her leave. Or at least I hope they didn't.' she thought.

"So we have some news for you girls. Well, we're not going to kill you if thats what you're thinking. But there's a little problem," Duo said, "We hear that you have no idea what's been going on and frankly, we find that hard to believe."

Standing up Usagi spoke, "We do know what's going on! We uhh..." she trailed off looking at Minako to save the day.

Minako didn't dissapoint her, "We're just really tired from all this. The monsters attacked us and uh... caught me and Usagi-chan was pulling me out their grip when she bit them and it kind of threw me and Usagi and that's how we landed on Hiiro there!"

The boys stood staring at them for a minute to let it sink into their heads.

"But how can you be from Japan? You did say thats where you're from." Wufei asked suspiciously, "The monsters obliterated the entire country a little over a year ago. Some have reason to believe that they are currently occupying the area as a base."

"Yeah, we did come from there! But we managed to escape though when they attacked!" Minako went on, she didn't want to lie to these guys. But it was for the best. It was hard enough dealing with the fact that...

'Everyone is dead,' Minako thought, 'I guess I just realized it. I knew but... it took a while for it to drop.'

"Well, if you think you're in the dark, think again." Quatre said, "We're not even sure why these creatures have such a grudge against us. They appeared almost two years ago, first destroying L2, then Japan, a large portion of Africa - and this is the Sanc Kingdom in Europe just so you know - since you don't really seem to, and more reports are coming in every hour. This is overwhelming for all of us. And if you two have no-where else to go... we would like to ask you if you would come stay with us. For your own safety."

After that was said there was more silence. Usagi was getting pretty sick of that word.

Silence.

The girls hesitated to speak, Minako started to pace the room much like Pluto had, back and forth, back and forth. Should they tell the boys about who they really were? Would they believe them? Or laugh like crazy and have the girls locked up in an insane asylum? But then again these guys didn't look like the type to laugh. They looked more like they had the personalities of rocks. Yeah, they were just like rocks to Minako. Except they could move. And talk a little.

"Okay... um, we haven't told you the complete truth..." Minako stopped, turning to the boys. Usagi looked up at her.

"The complete truth?" Hiiro asked. Minako nodded.

"If we tell you everything we know, will you... promise not to laugh?" asked the innocent-looking Minako. Of course she'd be the one to ask them something like that. The boys just looked at eachother before nodding in their direction. It was a silly question to ask them but if it gave them what they wanted then they were willing to go with the flow.

"Ok, it's a long story. We could start at the beginning beginning or the middle beginning, or-" Minako's rather odd sentence was cut off by Usagi, who was getting rather annoyed at her inconsistency.

"It all started a few thousand years ago when-"

Their conversation/interrogation was suddenly interrupted by someone knocking at the door. It opened to reveal amessenger. He didn't look very excited to be there at that time, he probably didn't want to be in the same room as the ex-pilots at any time!

"I'm sorry to disturb you sirs, madames, but I have bad news. In the sudden attack of the monsters, one Dorothy Catalonia was taken while visiting her friend Relena Darlian. We would surmise it has something to do with her being a blond with long hair. But not to worry, our men are doing a search of the entire area as we are sure that the captors should not have been able to get very far." the soldier spoke, quivering under Hiiro's intense glare.

"You may leave now." Quatre spoke. The soldier didn't hesitate to run right out the door. The girls gave each other worried looks

"Those fools, the monsters tend to vanish, don't they? What makes them think they'll pick up a trail?" Wufei muttered. Silence filled the room, the girls wondered if it would still be wise to tell them their story.

The silence was becoming rather deafening. It was Trowa who broke the spell that seemed to mute the entire room. Even the yells outside had stopped.

"In case you're unsure - we'll be making the final decision. You shall come with us. Quatre's home is only a few blocks away. It is best if we stick close to H.Q." he said.

Silence.

"What is up with that hideous lamp?" Usagi burst out. Truthfully, she had been wanting to say something about it ever since she'd seen it!

Silence.


Notes:

I've re-done yet another chapter. I've changed a BUNCH of stuff to make it flow better, and hopefully Pluto's explanation about the tear in time is a lot easier to understand. Also, before this chapter and the first were one chapter, I'm just splitting them all out, so they're shorter and easier to update.

Thank-you everyone who has supported this story in the past!