"Stop this, Vegeta! We can still just walk away!"
"HA! Walk away? From YOU? Kakarott, you've lost your mind… and I plan to take full advantage of that. Prepare to die!" the Saiyan Prince shouted, as his sister smirked from her seating point off to the side. She held her hand out, stopping Gohan and Krillin from running forward.
"Ah ah ah… I'm sorry, but Vegeta has challenged Kakarott all alone. He has no reason to fight you, so you will not interfere." She said, making Gohan growl. Her tail swished behind her angrily, and she narrowed her eyes. "I'd hate to have to subdue you, guys…" she said, as they stood down, albeit against their will.
As Goku and Vegeta duked it out in the air, 6 beams of ethereal light touched down, with a massive wave of energy that stopped them in their tracks. Standing there were 6 young women, one with long blond pigtails hanging from her head. She looked up sadly, before grabbing the brooch she was carrying, and holding it up, her skin tight clothing glowing and disappearing as she shouted.
"Moon Cosmic Power, Make Up!"
In a bright blast of light, her body glowed pink and she transformed in an instant into Sailor Moon. "I'm Sailor Moon, protector of Love and Justice, and in the Name of the Moon, I shall punish you!" she said, pointing to Vegeta and Kymri, as Kymri blinked, and stared, the other 5 senshi transforming behind Sailor Moon.
"…Are you High? You can stop posing now, ok?" she said, making Sailor Moon blink, and lower her hand. Vegeta cracked up, as Goku glared. "Leave Sailor Moon alone! She's a friend of the Z warriors!" he said aggravatedly, making Kymri roll her eyes.
"What a pathetic planet…you have to have a dozen and a half protectors just to keep you safe. If this dust ball was worth saving, then you'd not need the amount of protectors that you have." She said simply, rolling her eyes and kicking a rock up.
"It's NOT pathetic! We'd do anything to save the world we love…" Usagi said, shaking her head at Kymri. Vegeta grumbled, and shot an energy ball at Usagi's feet, making her jump back in fear. "If you cannot block THAT, then you don't need to be here, woman! Leave!" he said, darkly, before returning his gaze to Goku, and beckoning him forward.
The battle commenced, and both sides were close to equal. If Vegeta hadn't caught Goku off guard, he may have lost. As it was, Goku fell at Vegeta's feet, and he laughed…
"Fight me, Vegeta…" Usagi said quietly, her red boots kicking up dust as she walked forward, summoning the Imperium Silver Crystal and inserting it into her Moon Wand. It glowed for a minute, before blossoming into a crystal rose, and she held up the wand…
"If you insist, woman… I warn you, however, your chance at surviving this night is going out the window if you fight me…" he said, as she nodded.
"If you want to kill me, I won't stop you… But I will ask that you simply give me a chance to prove that the Earth is worth saving…" she said, and before he could reply, her eyes glowed a bright blue and she shot a blast of Lunar energy at him from her wand. He coughed and sputtered at her, as the energy knocked him back a few feet.
"Impressive, for an earth woman… Tell me, where did you learn such an attack?" he asked, as she readied herself, but spoke anyhow.
"I'm not an earthling… I'm Lunarian… I'm a Moon Child." She said simply, her wand ready for another attack…
Kymri's eyes flashed for a moment, shock on her face as the memories flooded her mind and soul. She grabbed her head and cringed, but the images stood out… Vegeta and Serenity, the moon princess, with identical hair to the little Lunarian standing before them. And they were in love, ready to take on the world in order to stay together for all eternity… and the Moon child carried her brother's baby. The only thing that had separated them had been a single woman with raven hair… her face was unseen to Kymri at the moment, but she could hear her voice, full of malice…
And it cleared. She looked over to see Vegeta moving over to Usagi with his hand ready to strike her down. "Well, Lunarian… prepare to join the rest of your race in eternal sleep, because your end is now!" he said, and he prepared an energy attack…
And Kymri moved forward and stopped his arm. He looked to her, and she shook her head. "Not now, Vegeta… let's just go inform Frieza that we have lost this planet. He'll leave it alone." She said, as he glared…then nodded, shooting Usagi an odd look, before stalking back to his ship. "You got lucky, Moon Child. Next time, we'll finish this…" he said, as he stepped in.
"I'll be ready for you…" Usagi said, as Kymri stood in front of her, and reached to Usagi. She grabbed Usagi's moon locket and opened it, chuckling lightly at the image in it. Using her Ki, she fixed the nano chip inside of it, making it so that it showed the truth that was being hidden from Usagi…
"Here. You'll want this. It's the real image of the Moon kingdom, and the real dance that happened on your birthday. You're lucky your silver crystal brought back my memories…or Vegeta would have killed you. Be ready. Until he and you regain your memories, you're going to need all the strength you can get to save your world and everything in it." She said, making Usagi stare at her, but nod. What more could she do? Kymri then stalked to her ship, next to Vegeta's, and the after she got in, the two took off for the far reaches of the galaxy, heading back to Frieza's ship.
Usagi watched them go, her outfit returning to the black and silver training uniform that Master Roshi had given her, then she gasped. "Goku!" she said, running up to him and kneeling, worried, at his side. He grinned, then grimaced in pain as he tried to move. "Ack, is there a doctor in the house?" he joked, making her giggle, tears in her eyes.
"Oh Goku… Krillin, Gohan, you guys need to get Goku to Capsule Corps!" she said, as they moved forward and lifted him up, heading to the city to help Goku. Mina walked up to Usagi and stared.
"What was that girl talking about, Usagi? Do you know him?" she asked, making Usagi shake her head. "No… Of course not. I've never seen him before in my life." She said.
But as soon as the others had gotten on Capsule bikes and followed Gohan and Krillin, Usagi opened her locket, and watched the new image flitter around in front of her. And for some reason… it felt right.
Meanwhile, up in space, Kymri and Vegeta were communicating VIA their communication hook-ups.
"Why the hell would you stop me?" he asked, agitated. She was silent. What do you tell someone when they ask that? I stopped you because she was the mother of your child in the past? I stopped her because she is your soulmate? The thought of love had been beaten from her and her brother's skulls years ago by training from Frieza. It wasn't any different now…
"Trust me, brother… you would regret it later." She said. She could just see the scowl and impatient look on his face, he was an arrogant bastard when he wanted to be. "As I said…trust me. I know you don't believe me, but I guarantee you, you'll want to. You don't want her hurt."
"And who the hell are you to tell me who I do and do not want hurt? Maybe I'd have liked to see her die. Did you ever think about that, sister?"
Yes, she had. She had considered it when she stopped him. At that moment, she knew her brother was tasting blood… but later on, he'd realize that he had killed the one woman who understood him and had once loved him, no matter what. And he would hate himself for it.
"Brother, believe me. I guarantee you, she is something special." She said, leaving it at that. She was not telling him that almost immediately after fixing Usagi's pendant, that she had been given a brooch in her pocket, replacing her scouter. And this was no ordinary brooch, this was a brooch that she had seen in her dreams, fantasized about. It was pure power, the crystal of Vegetasei lodged in it's metal embrace. It was life and death all in one.
It was her transformation brooch, and she needed it like she needed life itself.
As they headed back to Frieza, one thing was going through Kymri's head. Where was Seiya, and was she still ok? Was she the same as the one she had left before? Seiya Kou, the Starlight protector, male in his normal form but female in her transformation. And Kymri remembered her embrace, her kiss, and her touch fondly.
Where was Seiya Kou? And how could she find her again?
And for that matter, where was Queen Serenity? How was Usagi even alive without Serenity? This was puzzling the Vegetasei princess like nothing else. What could she do, how could she figure this out? The key was no longer in the future… but in the past.
From her outlook, Pluto watched with a keen eye. She was making sure that things unfolded a certain way, and so far… it was looking good. It was definitely better than Queen Serenity had thought it would be, what with Usagi and Vegeta having not killed each other on first glance. In fact, those two had met in the field of battle and survived. This was cause for celebration…
Now, they just needed to keep it up.