Indifference: Light Within Shadow
Black Beyond
black_beyond@hotmail.com
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Part 4, and it took me long enough! This is named 
appropiately, and that reason shall manifest 
itself soon enough, ne?

Halite is introduced, Chibi-usa born, and three 
other factors introduced as well. Certain things 
ahppen, and it's all holding the usual dose of 
impossibility.

E-mail goes to black_beyond@hotmail.com, as usual. 
Please title it Indifference if it's about this 
story, because I've got other fics up and it's 
confusing if you don't title it Indifference or 
don't say the title somewhere within the e-mail 
body. Thanks.

That's all, I suppose. Enjoy! 

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"Only your heart can guide you through life."

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	Cassie was almost as beautiful and almost 
as hard to miss as Kayla, Michael thought, as they 
sat in the back of the cafe, discussing something 
in low, serious tones.
	Almost, because Cassie had a way, 
sometimes, of making herself blend in the 
background, where you'd never notice her unless 
she socked you in the gut. He had no idea how she 
did it. 
	Her hair reached halfway down her back and 
was a shimmering black violet, as were her eyes. 
She was tall, just a bit shorter than Kayla, and, 
just as Kayla's presence screamed "I AM LIGHT!", 
Cassie's presnece was darker, colder, and 
whispered "I am mystery...".
	And she was *always* with kayla, who was 
showing more and more, into the second month of 
the second trimester. Almost like a gaurd dog, and 
Kayla didn't seem to mind one bit.
	But now, she seemed agitated, he noticed, 
as her voice rose slightly "...take care of 
myself!"
	Cassie sent a nervous glance around the 
cafe to see how many people heard. Some were 
looking at them, as Michael was, but other took no 
notice.
	She said something to Kayla, in a very 
neutral tone, and Kayla seemed to loose all of her 
fire, but still seemed put out as she nodded.
	Cassie smiled in what looked like triumph.
	"Let go." She said, but Kayla shook her 
head and made a kind of waving motion with her 
hand, and Cassie looked hurt, but left, the gods 
be blessed, without Kayla.
	Michael leapt at his chance.
	He told Jane to take control of the 
register as he took off his apron and walked 
calmly across the cafe and took the seat opposite 
Kayla.
	At first, she didn't notice he was there. 
Her face was in her hands, and she seemed to be 
running over something in her mind.
	"Mike?" SHe asked, startled, as she came 
back to reality. "Hot-- Cassie left?" She asked, 
looking around. "It's a friggin miracle." She 
added, dryly. "My watchdog decided it was time for 
a break."
	Michael nodded, taking in the anger and 
disapproval behind her words. Something was up, 
something big. He could see it in her eyes, and 
the way she sent glances to the door.
	"What's up?" He asked.
	She looked at him.
	"Nothing. Cass just blackmailed me, but 
that's okay. perfectly okay. I'm not supposed to 
leave the house until I have my kids, etc, but 
everything's perfectly *okay*, because she's the 
one in charge now, and I *swear*, if they go back 
to how they were *before*, I'm going to find a way 
to leave again!"
	Michael stared at her. He'd never seen her 
this tired, this angry, or this open before. 
Never. She was livid about whatever Cassie told 
her.
	"What happened?"
	"Nothing." Kayla sighed, and with a bit of 
difficulty, stood up. "The Queen must return to 
her throne to be guarded 24/7. I'll have my 
servant come down later to chat with you so you 
won't be lonely." She save him a wink and left.
	Michael sat, staring at the door where 
she'd left. What did she mean, 'if things go abck 
to the way they were before' she'd 'find a way to 
leave again'.
	He didn't have time to think about it, for 
Setsuna took the place across from him.
	"I need to know," She said softly. For the 
first time, he saw the color of her eyes, a vivid 
garnet. "Exactly what Kayla just said."
	She stared at her for a moment, and 
Setsuna was afraid he'd refuse to, but then, in a 
low, confused voice, repeated what Kayla had just 
told him.
	Setsuna stared at him for a long second, 
for an eternity, almost. She sighed heavily, 
before looking away.
	"I suppose you have some questions. It's 
best for them to be answered now, lest you go 
looking for them yourself."
	"What did she mean, the way they were 
before?" He asked, wondering if he'd get an 
answer. Setsuna sighed.
	"Kayla grew up in Tokyo, I suppose she 
told you that?" At his nod, she continued. "She 
had a circle of friends that were more like 
sisters. She used to be very clumbsy, and was 
constantly injuring herself. One day, she almost 
died. She lived only by the intervention of a girl 
that you will know shortly. After that, her 
friends-- took charge, if you will, of her life. 
They never trusted her, and treated her like a 
china doll that was more fragile than most.
	"She had enough of it one day, and got 
into a fight with a youma-- one of those creatures 
that have been attcking this city. Only this one 
was stronger than anything before. It almost one-- 
but she gave her own life to destroy it, and was 
taken to a place, well, out of this world.
	"She rather liked it there. She stayed 
with a crowd of men, much to the caringment of her 
fiancee, but they were too kind to try anything." 
Michael didn't notice the wry smile on her lips. 
"But they were warriors, rough and strong, at 
that. She was able to get a fight that challenged 
her, something she'd not had forever.
	"I'm surprised she came back at all, but 
you know, she has a duty. She's not as delicate as 
she seems."
	Michael nodded. She hadn't revealed 
anything to him directly, but now she had a clue 
onto why she was as she was. Kayla-- fighting? An 
angel could fight? It was news to him, but he now 
understood the almost preditory look lurking in 
the back of her eyes. The look that longed for the 
unexplained and unexpected.
	He nodded.
	"That's all, Setsuna. Thank you." She 
stood up. "I may have not known her for long, 
Setsuna, but she needs freedom. if you try to keep 
her locked up, she'll die."

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~



	His eyes moved over her figure as she 
twisted in and out of his youma's reach. So much 
like the most graceful of butterflies, she was 
never touched by the swinging knifes and daggers 
of the monster, always missing them by mere 
millimeters, as her senshi, Saturn, was her name, 
deflected the attacking weapons deftly with the 
sharp glaive. The Saturnine Senshi possesed a dark 
beauty that contrasted with the other's. 
	A team of beauty. 
	But it was the One of Light his attention 
was focused upon. Her sleek beauty was like none 
he'd ever seen before. 
	He was a Galaxijourner. One of the best 
and most Elite. His youma were trained under *his* 
specification, and only because Celesite was in 
his favor did he allow her to use them.
	And to observe Her...
	Was it his fault She was so beautiful? So 
utterly gorgeous? That Her movements represented 
training and control that he could never hope to 
possess? That Her very presence demanded his every 
iota of attention? 
	That he had fallen in love with Her?
	Oh, it had not taken long at all to 
discover who she was. Only one creature in the 
galaxy could ever have her power, her grace, her 
everything.
	Kayla. If it was her real name, he could 
not figure out. But he did discover her. Slowly, 
he would find out everythig about her. 
	Kayla. Such a name could never to grace to 
what she was. Selene, perhaps, was closer. But 
Celestite, the silly girl she was, said something 
truer, something that did justice.
	When Kayla had confronted Dolomite, she'd 
said, Kayla became more than Serneity, more than 
Selene.
	Of the moon. 
	Those were th only words that could have 
described Kayla then. Completely and totally of 
the moon.
	He knew it was only inevitable for his own 
confrontation with Eternal Sailor Selene. 
Celestite would be of no challenge to the senshi. 
The girl could be nasty when she wanted to be, but 
lacked any confidense or stamina.
	"General Halite,"
	He looked down to see one of the lesser 
youma that were used for massengars.
	"What is it?" He snapped.
	"General Celesite wishes to see you. 
There's been a problem."
	"WHAT? What happened?"
	"A new senshi, sir. An unknown."
	"Damn you all!" After deposing of the 
youma, he swept off to find Celestite.
	

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	Sailor Selene stared at the newcomer, her 
lips an 'o' of surprise. Never... gods...
	She stumbled a bit, just dodging the knife 
that came careening her way.
	"What are you waiting for?" The newcomer 
snapped. "Get it over with already!"
	"R-right." She aimed her staff at the 
unhappy youma. "Concentrated Solar Moon Beam!" The 
youma howled in anger as it dicenigrated. Selene 
looked at Saturn incredously.
	"Saturn, tell me I'm dreaming."
	"Sorry, Princess. You're awake. And she's 
most definatly there." Saturn smiled slyly. "So, 
let's book it, you two. The media are ready to 
join the party."
	Sailor Star Fighter nodded, staring at 
Sailor Selene as they ran. Could this be... but... 
	Finally, they stopped, in a very empty 
place of what looked like a park. Selene 
dehenshined and looked at Seiya. 
	Cassie, or rather, Hotaru, burst out 
laughing at the stange look Seiya was giving Seiya 
and vise versa. Kayla, or rather, Usagi, was 
fighting with herself to pretend to be another 
person or embrace Seiya like an old friend.
	Seiya, however, was giving her weird 
stares because of two things: Her appearence and 
her stomach, which had really begun to show, in 
her fifth, almost sixth, month.
	"Okay, okay." She said, choking off her 
giggles. "Usagi, maybe you'd like to explain a few 
things to Seiya *before* he passes out. Seiya, I'm 
Hotaru, if you didn't guess."
	Seiya's jaw fell.
	"Usagi?!" His voice was surprised, to say 
the least. Kayla nodded. 
	"Call me Kayla while I'm in Boston." She 
said, her voice low. "It's good to see you, 
Seiya." She smiled and hugged him. Seiya hugged 
her back, tentavly.
	"Lovely... hey, didn't Yaten and Taiki 
come with you?" 
	Seiya nodded. "They went off to explore 
Boston. I was passing by when I saw you two 
fighting. I thought I'd lend a hand and confuse 
your enemy."
	Kayla smiled ruefully.
	"You might have confused Celesite, and 
maybe even Beryl. But I doubt they'll be confused 
for long. Beryl always gets what she wants." She 
sat down on a bench. "Chibi-usa will be born into 
a world of chaos and confusion, as is the destiny 
of the senshi."
	"Is that Mamoru's?" Seiya asked. Hotaru 
giggled and Usagi just grinned.
	"What do you think?" She asked slyly. 
Seiya smiled. Only one name came to mind, of 
course.  
	"Where are you guys staying?" Cassie said 
quickly, just in case Seiya did say something 
strange and Kayla got the urge to correct him. "If 
you don't have a place, Kayla and I share this 
absolutely huge appartment."
	Kayla gave Cassie a questioning look as 
Seiya's eyebrows quirked.
	"Alright, who are you two and what have 
you done with my blonde, giggly Odango-chan and 
the serious, never-laughing Hotaru?"
	Cassie looked hurt.
	"I'm not allowed to grow up and have fun?" 
She said, pouting. 
	"And I'm not allowed to grow up and change 
my hair color?" Kayla asked, wearing an identicle 
pout.
	"NO!" Seiya grinned, and then choked as 
both women leapt for him at once, pinning him to a 
tree.
	"Hotaru-chan," Kayla said wickedly. "Are 
you thinking..."
	Cassie smirked as Seiya gulped. "Kayla, 
let's just see how ticklish our starlight friend 
is..."
	"NOOOO!"

~**~


	Yaten and Taiki stopped in mid step.
	Their jaws fell open quite noticibly.
	The scene before them was not only 
disturbing, but outragously strange.
	Seiya was laying on a park bench, his head 
resting in the lap of a young woman with dark 
violet hair. A gorgeous woman that might as well 
haev been a goddess was standing against a tree 
that had grown directing behind the bench, talking 
to Seiya. She was obviously pregnant, and looked 
much too familar. 
	"I'm going to close my eyes, and when I 
open them, Seiya is going to be there, feeding 
rice to pigeons, watching them die." Yaten said. 
Taiki stared at him.
	"Pigeons?"
	"Don't ask."
	"Don't worry. Isn't that girl with the 
silver hair... well, it kind of looks like.."
	"Usagi?" Yaten nodded. "And if she wasn't 
seventeen years old, which is a lot older than 
we've been gone, I'd say that other girl, the one 
Seiya's flirting with, was Hotaru." Yaten shook 
his head.
	The flash of silver so similar to her own 
caught Kayla's eyes. She looked up and grinned.
	"Cass, stars at two o'clock. I'm going 
into evasive manuvurs and approach at six 
o'clock."
	Seiya looked at them both curiously.
	"Gotcha, Kay." She grinned as Kayla backed 
up into the line of trees and disappeared from 
sight altogether.
	"What's going on?" Seiya asked.
	"Your brother are staring at us, she's 
going to scare the pants off of them." Cassie 
replied simply. "So, anyways, after Galaxia left, 
what'd you guys do? Kayla told you what she did, 
and all's I did was sit aroubnd and grow up at a 
really fast rate."
	"We went home."
	"That's *it*?"
	"Why do you think we came back to earth? 
We went home. Was bored as hell. Came back. Ran 
into you guys. Had heart attack. End up with head 
on beautiful girl's lap. Plan on never going 
back."
	Cassie giggled. She grinned.
	"Turn your head ever so slightly. Kayla's 
about to start her show."

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	Eternal Sailor Selene grinned sadisticly 
as she swept throguh the trees with a grace that 
would have made Super Sailor Uranus flush with 
shame. She was right behind the two unsuspecting 
starlights: her prey.
	She was the goddess of moonlight, and 
intended on looking just that. Flaring up her aura 
so that her skin was luminate and her hair, soft 
and silver, loosened itself from her odangos and 
began to waft about her slim, desirable figure, 
that changed with her transformation. The opaque, 
luminate, butterfly-shaped wings upon her back 
fluttered with the slightest breeze. 
	She positioned herself behind the two. One 
hand sassily on one hip, the other held a 
silverish rose that she'd created and was playing 
with, running it across her lips, teasingly.
	She put a soft pout on her lips, and sent 
a wink to Cassie, who was watching with Seiya out 
of the corners of their eyes. Seiya had stopped 
breathing.
	"Hey, fellas." It was the voice Cassie had 
dubbed the 'sexiest voice on the planet'.
	The two spun around so fast for a moment 
Selene thought they were going to snap their 
necks.
	Taiki's jaw dropped.
	Yaten's eyes bludged.
	Both stopped breathing.
	She batted her eyelashes at them.
	"Hey. I haven't seen you two around here 
before." She said, with a sultry pout. She plucked 
a satiny petal and let it drop to the ground.
	Yaten began to drool.
	It was too much.
	Cassie started laughing. She almost fell 
over, knocking Seiya to the ground.
	Selene began to giggle.
	"Man, Cassie, do you have a camera?! I've 
got to take a picture of this and send it to Ami 
and Minako!"
	"No, but don't worry, I'll bet you 
anything that Pluto's already got them in the 
mail!"
	Yaten twitched, and Taiki facefaulted.
	"So, guys," Selene said, in her normal 
voice, letting the rose vanish. "Hi! So, you have 
to call me Kayla, but you can call me Odango-- I 
guess. It's really nice to see both of you." She 
dehenshined.
	"Usagi!?" Yaten yelped.
	"Of course? Who else? Man, I really 
shoulda got a picture of that..." Kayla giggled. 
	Taiki simply walked over to the bench were 
Cassie and Seiya sat and plopped down beside 
Seiya, who was brushing the dirt off his sleeves, 
grumbling.
	Yaten glared at them all.
	"An explanation would be very nice. As 
in... NOW!"

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	He glared quite openly at the man that 
Kayla was clinging to most possessively. Cassie 
was also on the arm of silver haired man, with yet 
another trailing behind them, engrossed in a book.
	They didn't notice him, of course. No one 
noticed him. He was the shadows themselves, and he 
went where he wanted to.
	No one saw him.
	He followed them for a good distance. Who 
were these new men who had waltzed into Her 
life... Sailor Selene's life... so easily? And why 
were they so close?
	Could it have anything to do with the 
three unknown senshi that had been appearing for 
the last two months? 
	He had noticed that Kayla stopped 
transforming to fight, probably for the sake of 
her unborn child.
	And her crazings... what a strange woman! 
He'd noticed the guys, or sometimes Cassie, 
leaving the appartment at all times of day and 
night for the strangest combinations possible: Ham 
and watermelon, Ketchup and Salami, etc.
	Now in her eigth month, she was more 
beautiful than any woman could be. He envied the 
man who had been with such a creature, and envied 
him even more if she loved him as much as her eyes 
revealed she did.
	Was it that man she seemed so close to-- 
Seiya?
	He growled softly as she leaned up and 
gave him a quick peck on the cheek, giggling at 
some comment he'd made.
	Cassie playfully slapped Yaten, a look of 
mock anger on her features.
	What a group, he thought. It was a wonder 
they hadn't destroyed themselves yet.
	But no, he couldn't afford to think with 
pity. He was Halite, the best of Beryl's army. He 
had to be cold, ruthless, and unforgiving. 
Celestite and Beryl were disagreeing more than 
ever now, and the former would soon be killed or 
released from command.
	Then he would take over in full.
	He had spent so much time learning 
everything about the senshi as he could. He knew 
them better than perhaps he'd ever hoped to.
	It wasn't enough.
	"I'm such a fool." He cursed softly as he 
realized he'd stopped walking and had lost them. 
	"Wonderful." He snapped his fingers, and 
vanished with a flurry of teardrops.
	He reappeared in an alleyway, composed his 
face into a charming smile, made sure he changed 
his clothes from the drab uniform of the Dark 
Kingdom into the apron of the place where he had 
taken a job to observe humans closer, and opened 
the back door.
	"Hey, Cynthia." He greeted one of the 
waitresses. "Has it been busy today?"
	"Sure has!" She grinned. "Man, we really 
needed you a couple of hours ago, Michael."

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	Kayla sighed as she plopped down onto the 
very comfortable couch. It seemed stiffling in the 
air conditioned appartment, and began fanning 
herself with a piece of paper when Cassie informed 
her that the tempature would not go any lower.
	"Usagi-chan.... it's COLD!" Yaten 
complained, snugling under a huge down comforter. 
"The water's freezing in my glass!"
	They all looked towards the glass of 
water. 
	"Is not." Kayla said indignitly.
	"Well, the ice isn't melting!" Yaten 
pointed out, snatching the glass up. "See?!"
	"Oh, shut up, weakling." Seiya said. "Now 
shove over and let me under that too!"
	"No way!"
	"We'd be warmer."
	"What are you waiting for? Get under 
here!" Yaten said, scooting over in the chair. 
Seiya managed to sit down, pulling the comforter 
up to his chin.
	Taiki laughed at them both.
	"Well, if you'd wear something other than 
boxers and put on a pair of sweatpants and a 
sweatshirt, you wouldn't be so cold!" 
	"I can not lower myself to afford being 
seen in such common, undignified garments!" Seiya 
whimpered.
	"Ditto." Yaten agreed.
	"Then freeze." Cassie informed them, 
smiling slightly. "She's got less than a month to 
go. You two can suffer for the Supreme Serenity's 
comfort."
	Kayla nodded.
	"Screw Serenity! I'M COLD!"
	"So glad to know I'm appreciated." Kayla 
rolled her eyes. "So, minna. How's Celestite 
going?"
	Yaten snorted.
	"If that woman was any more like Seiya, 
we'll have her beat before Chibi-usa sees 
daylight."
	"HEY!"
	"Celestite isn't exactly what you'd call 
brave, Odango." Cassie said quickly, before Seiya 
and Yaten had tie to jump into an argument. "We'll 
have her beat in no-time."
	"What about Halite?"
	"Haven't heard anything about him, or seen 
him." Taiki confirmed. "Kind of strange."
	"Not at all. They don't expect us to know 
about him." Cassie said. "They think they've got a 
trumpt card."
	"They don't." Kayla patted her stomach. 
"When this little one decides it's time to come 
out, I'm going to be out there with you--"	
	"Like hell you will!" 
	"Seiya, we've been through this before... 
I need to get this over with. Beryl can't win..."
	"She won't." A dark light came into 
Cassie's eyes. "I'll never let her win again. If 
that bitch hadn't  got  me in the back, I would 
have used my glaive--"
	"And I'm glad she did, sorry, Cassie. 
Destroying the planet you were on wouldn't have 
solved anything. She would have teleported out 
before you could have done a thing."
	Yaten frowned at them and snuggled under 
the comforter some more.
	"Would you two stop going off topic and 
concentrate on the IMPORTANT matter here?!"
	Cassie and Kayla both turned to stare at 
him.
	"And that would be...
	"I'M STILL COLD!"
	The two girls gave each other a long look 
before Cassie nodded, jumped up, and went into the 
kitchen. Kayla mouthed something to Seiya, who 
grinned.
	"Yaten, I'm gonna get a pair of pants on. 
Keep the blanket warm." He got up and disappeared 
into the bedroom.
	Cassie came out of the kitchen, her hands 
behind her back, and approached Yaten from behind 
the chair. 
	She leaned over the back of the chair to 
look at him.
	"You want to be warm?" She asked 
soothingly.
	Yaten nodded.
	SPLASH!
	Yaten's scream startled many people 
throughout the appartment complex.
	"THAT'S FREEZING!"
	"Now your blanket will feel a lot warmer." 
She replied, scathingly, as Seiya threw Yaten a 
towel.


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	A shadow of a shadow cackled softly, the 
insane giggle echoing through the unseen walls of 
it's domain. It had been watching for ever so 
long, always waiting for the right chance to 
strike.
	Nothing had ever been a secret to it, for 
it saw everything as it happened. Seeing it all 
had let it map out the most ingenius of plans, the 
most absolute masterpiece of it's drab life. It 
had watched everything, not evil, not good.
	Pure genius.
	And it had watched as evil after evil had 
tried to break the rule of Serenity. Oh, there 
were a few pauses here and there, but none had 
never truely finished Serenity off.
	And it had begun as a pastime at first, 
trying to guess the faults of their attempts to 
take the world as their own. Revising their plans 
to work for the better. Pointing out obvious 
faults in the senshi that could have been 
exploited.
	And then as a challenge. Spending years on 
plans, bringing forth the dead, and finding out 
powers it had never known. The Hell in which it 
lived was ever silent, and he could concentrate 
without disruption. Finally... he'd found his 
inspiration, his plan, and Serenity's downfall.
	Nightmares.
	Simple, utterly simple. In Serenity's 
nightmares lurked her worst fears and doubts, and 
they were seen to him as it realized this. 
	And so his plan began to build. Each fault 
examined. Each strength played. Each outcome 
processed and explained, each tactic memorized.
	It's water creature had served it's 
purpose well, forcing Serenity to use the power of 
the ginzuishou in a powered-down state, giving him 
the time-frame and oppurtunity to add it's own 
varibles, sending her into a strange world.
	She had always feared non-acceptance.
	Giving her temptations that weakened her 
love in Endymion, that would serve it's intentions 
later. 
	Of course, it had not expected Serenity to 
resist Diamond so strongly. Nor had he expected 
the merger with Selene. But in the end, the 
calculations proved correct. She still defeated 
Diamond and still had a saiya-jin child.
	True, the child would only be a quarter 
saiya-jin. It had seen the child in action, the 
pink-haired one, but it proved it's calculation 
that the child would be strong.
	And now, Serenity was hiding away from her 
senshi, with three invaribles and the dark 
messiah.
	Ah, it had not counted upon the messiahs 
fighting alongside one another. Nor the three 
starlights, who possessed much power, a formible 
opponet for the outer senshi team.
	But it was added up. Serenity would still 
face Beryl.
	There were three possible outcomes. And 
the outcome of the Fight of Beryl would decide the 
next chapter of it's plan...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~



	Kayla frowned, staring almost obsessing at 
the ceiling.
	The sharp, undenible pain came again.
	She refused to acknowledge it. 
	A while later, it came again, sharper than 
before, causing her to cry out.
	Cassie and the men looked up, alarmed.
	"Usagi... are you okay..." Cassie said, 
her voice low and steady. 
	"Does it look like I'm okay, dammit? I'm 
having contractions!"
	At this, Yaten and Seiya promptly 
panicked.
	While they were running around like 
chicken with their heads cut off, Taiki and Cassie 
knelt beside Kayla's chair.
	"Are you sure? It's about three weeks 
early, Usagi." Taiki said seriously.
	"I'm sure."
	The tone of voice was unmistakenably 
Selene's, and Cassie knew that the time had come. 
Maybe the fact that Chibi-usa was partically 
saiya-jin had effected the time spent in the womb. 
	"Alright." Cassie opened her communicator. 
"Setsuna?"
	"Hotaru?"
	"Yes. It's time. She's having 
contractions. We're sure it's the real thing."
	Setsuna looked startled.
	"It's so early!" She gasped. "Alright, I'm 
on my way. Keep her calm, alright? I don't want 
her to panic. There's a certain place we need to 
take her, just in case there's any strange effects 
because of the magic she and the child possesses."
	There was a loud popping sound, and 
suddenly, Setsuna was beside Cassie.
	"Setsuna, hey!" kayla said brightly. 
"Wassup? Hey, could you do something about those 
two??" She pointed to yaten and Seiya, who were 
arguing about whether they should take the pink 
blanket or the blue.
	Setsuna produced the Time Staff, took 
careful aim, and...
	CRACK!
	The two dropped to the floor unconscious 
after being hit in the head with the large metal 
object.
	Taiki applauded.
	"Thanks, Sets." Cassie said. "Now, about 
her..."
	"Leave it to me. I knew that Chibi-usa 
would be early (not this early, but still) so I 
had Ami's mother prepare a room. She won't 
question if you appear in there suddenly, so..."
	With a swish of the staff, Setsuna, Taiki, 
and Usagi were gone.
	Cassie sent a look to the unconscious duo, 
shrugged, and headed downstairs for the cafe.
	She needed something to drink, and they 
served one mean mocha.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~





	Michael looked confused as Cassie entered 
the cafe alone and took a seat at the counter.
	"Hey, Mike. What's up?" She asked 
cheerfully.
	"Not much." He replied carefully. "You?"
	"Well, Kayla went into labor early. She's 
at the hospital right now."
	Michael stopped breathing. A thousand 
thoughts raced through his mind at once.
	"But it's so early..."
	"I know," Cassie shrugged. "But Kayla's a 
bit... strange... as was the father. I'd say it's 
about right."
	Michael nodded. 
	This toyed with his plans a little bit, 
but it was nothing he couldn't handle. But it was 
so early, what if something happened to the child?
	He shook his head.
	"It's really wierd and all, but she's 
going to have the two best doctors that there are 
working on her, both friends." Cassie smiled. 
"Nothing can go wrong unless a youma decides to 
attack, and even then I doubt anything could 
happen." Not with the senshi gaurding her. "So I'm 
really not that worried." 
	"If you're not, I suppose I'm not. What is 
she going to name the baby?"
	Cassie grinned. 
	"If it's a girl, the name's Serenity Usagi 
Chiba, with her fiancee's last name. Believe me, 
he's probably going crazy right now."
	Michael frowned.
	"But her last name is Smith."
	"In a way." Cassie said dreamily. "But 
they *are* ingaged, and believe me, Mamoru's last 
name will be on that birth certificate if he has 
to murder all the doctors and right it himself. 
He's very devoted." She giggled.
	"Mamoru Chiba?" He'd heard that name 
before. How could he not? With Beryl screeching it 
at them, about what an incompetant fool he was and 
if any of them followed his footsteps like 
Dolomite she'd have their manhood taken out in 
painful means. 
	"Sounds like a nice guy." He said. "When's 
the wedding?"
	"Probably as soon as Kayla through with 
Boston. You watch, as soon as she's able to sit 
up, she'll be out skipping around Boston, yelling 
about how thery changed things."
	Michael chuckled. 
	"Wghat about those three guys?" The note 
of jealousy in his voice didn't go undetected.
	"Oh, they'll hang around." She said, 
giggling. "Yaten and I seem to be geting along 
better than ever and Seiya still has that 
impossible crush on Us-- Kayla." She flushed at 
her almost slip-up. "Taiki is staying too, he's ot 
an impossible infatuation with a friend of our's."
	"You and silver-haired one?"
	Cassie blushed and nodded.
	"My mama and papa are going to kill him 
and me both, but we'll survive." He looked 
doubtful for a moment. "Okay, scratch that. *I'll* 
survive. Yaten... well, he might be in the 
morgue."
	Michael laughed at the picture. 
	"I take it your parents don't like him?"
	"Yaten and my mama and papa... let's just 
say they've got a history." Cassie laughed, 
thinking about the much grumbled-about time when 
Healer and Maker had challnged Uranus, Neptune, 
and Pluto, only to have Seiya bust it up.
	Uranus was sure she could've kicked ass. 
	"And Seiya?"
	"Oh, he's had a crush on Kayla forever!" 
Cassie said, grinning. "Since she was sixteen. But 
nothing's happened... well, he kissed her once. 
And then Mamoru came back from overseas and... 
well, Seiya found that between kissing Kayla again 
and getting ponded to a pulp, he'd rather not 
chase after her."
	"Hot-- Cassie! Hey, girl!"
	Cassie whirled around, something between 
shock and amazement on her face.
	Michael was also shocked. This was a 
younger,  blonde version of Kayla.
	"Minako!"
	"No, Santa Claus." Minako gave Cassie a 
hug and sat down. "I came to tell you Odango 
Atama's doing fine and she's presently yelling at 
Mamoru everytime she has a contraction."
	Cassie and Michael both laughed.
	"Minako, this is Michael, he's a friend of 
our's."
	But Minako had already seen Michael, and 
was staring at him with a look of curiousity and 
the look someone gets in their eyes when they're 
trying to recall a memory just out of their reach.
	"I've seen you before." She said softly.
	Michael froze, and studied the blonde more 
carefully. 
	Long, blonde hair in a red bow. Big blue 
eyes, and a distinct resemblence to the Moon 
Princess. 
	Sailor Venus.
	He went convsiderably pale. Venus had been 
in charge of the section of galaxy where he passed 
trhoguh often in the Silver Millenium. If she 
recognized him, the dark messiah would not 
hesitate to follow her orders. 
	He didn't know how he'd stand against 
Venus and Saturn.
	"Oh my god."
	The words echoed through his mind. He 
looked up sharply to see a very memorable person 
in the doorway, one he recognized and feared only 
too well.
	Artemis, in human form.
	"Artemis! What are you... what's wrong?" 
Minako exclaimed, forgetting Michael for a split 
second as she turned to stare in shock,.
	Cassie frowned. Somehow, the situation 
went from happy to strange in point three seconds.
	"Galaxijourner." Artemis spat out the 
words like the were deadly toxin. Minako gasped. 
It was exactly what she was trying to think of! 
	Cassie, in a flash, ignoring the customers 
and waitresses, had the glaive out and at Michaels 
throat. Her violet eyes, before so cheerful, had 
gone dark with the good blackness that only the 
Dark Messiah could possess. 
	He gulped.
	Minako trembled in silent rage as Artemis 
glared at him.
	The galaxijourners weere a breed of humans 
that traveled space with ease. They used the best 
ships and the best techniques. 
	All had forsaken the Silver Alliance and 
joined Beryl to become her spies, scouts, and 
generals. Kunzite had been a Galaxijourner.
	"Artemis, go get Seiya and Yaten, NOW." 
Minako's voice was low and dangerous. "Just get 
them!"
	Artemis turned and fled.
	Many of the customers did also.
	Cassie glared at him, "Traitor." She 
pressed the sharp blade of her weapon into his 
throat, just enough to that it hurt but did not 
break skin. "Traitor."
	At that moment, Yaten and Seiya burst in 
to see the scene, Minako gripping her henshin 
stick, Cassie holding the glaive, and Michael, 
with the glaive at his throat and wearing a gray 
uniform, which he had transformed into.
	They looked around at the now deserted 
cafe, and nodded to Minako.	
	"Venus Crystal Power! Make UP!"
	"Healer Star Power Make up!"
	"Fighter Star Power Make up!"
	"Saturn Planet Power Make up!" As soon as 
the other three were done, Cassie called out her 
own henshined words.
	A new phrase surprised them all.
	"Pluto Planet Power, Make up!"
	They turned to see a very angry senshi of 
time.
	"I should have recognized you, Halite." 
She said, her soft voice furious. "Thank you, 
Minako."
	"No problem." Venus replied. In one hand, 
she conjured forth a handful of energy and 
concentrated on it. "Love and Beauty..." She 
grinned, almost insanely. "SHOCK!"
	Halite screamed as the blow took him head-
on. He shook his head incohertly as the pain faded 
and he blindly fired a blast. A scream told him it 
had hit someone.
	"Healer! Star Serious Laser!" 
	He jumped out of the way of the beam of 
enegy, letting it slamm into the wall behind him. 
With a flick of his wrist, Sailor Star Fighter 
went flying back through the glass of the front 
window.
	"Bastard. Silent Glaive Surprise!"
	The wave of power threw him up into the 
air.
	"Venus Love Me Chain!"
	The whip of hearts arched over him, then 
under him, wraping around him, yanking him down 
onto the floor with a sickening thud.
	"Dead Scream!"
	The sonic blast was the last thing he saw 
before black claimed his vision.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~





	"I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!"
	In order to keep history as it should be, 
labor had to be delayed.
	And Usagi was not a happy camper.
	Mamoru dodged the pitcher of ice and 
looked to Ami and Setsuna. Setsuna looked like she 
was trying not to laugh as Ami tried to calm Usagi 
down.
	"It's over now..." Ami said. "You can come 
out from behind the chair."
	Mamoru crept out of his hiding place.
	"Good work, Usagi." Setsuna said. "I've 
got to go now... I trust you'll be alright?"
	"She'll be fine, Setsuna." Ami said 
quickly. "Before you go, i'd like a word, please."
	She pulled the senshi of time out into the 
hall, leaving Mamoru and Usagi alone. 
	"Setsuna, will the baby have any... side 
effects?" Ami asked. "Like... ki blasts or a 
tail?"
	Setsuna looked a little worried.
	"I'm not sure." She admited. "I never gave 
it much thought. I've been trying to find out 
who's behind this new set of attacks."
	"What happens if Chibi-usa *does* have a 
tail?"
	"Cover it up as quickly as possible and 
carry it out. Claim it needs to be checked out 
immediatly for defects." Setsuna thought fast. "If 
she starts throwing ki blasts... well, make sure 
one hits Mamoru."
	"HUH?! Why?"
	"So he'll be knocked out and not remember 
cohertantly."
	"You know, I'm beginning to think all 
those bumps on his head might be adding up..."
	"I'll take care of it. Make sure Usagi 
doesn't start screaming about Gohan. We can't have 
any questions asked. Mamoru's always doubted his 
memories."
	"Gotcha."
	"I've really got to go, Ami. It's about 
Halite."
	"Goodbye, Setsuna. Be careful."
	"Oh yeah. Remember, it's Serenity Usagi 
Chiba."
	"Alight."
	Setsuna took a long look up and down the 
hallways, and vanished into a portal. Ami grinned 
as she heard Usagi screaming again and quickly 
went to help the girl ride through the pain.
	Poor Mamoru...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~



	Beryl frowned as she sat upon her throne. 
Her crystal balls was before her, but she paid no 
attention to the object, instead, she was glaring 
at Celestite.
	"Celestite, explain your latest failure. 
Now." Her voice was the low purr she used whenever 
she was angry. 
	"My queen, it is Sailor Selene."
	"Do not make excuses."
	"I am not, my queen. But this Sailor 
Selene... there is no record of her. Her power... 
it is greater than anything I have ever seen."
	Beryl frowned even more.
	"Of course there is no record." She 
snapped. "She is a creation of the Moon Goddess. 
You will defeat her, and you will stop being a 
snivveling simp!"
	"Yes, my queen."
	"Do you have a plan?"
	To Beryl's fury, Celestite shrugged.
	"Plans have never worked before, Queen 
Beryl. We are simply trying to gather as much 
energy as possible before the senshi chance upon 
our youma. When we have enough energy, we'll 
strike."
	"That's... interesting."
	"My queen, if I may speak of those higher 
ranked than I..."
	"Go ahead." Beryl said with a sigh. What 
bone did Celestite have with Halite now?
	"I belive General Halite is withholding 
valuable information from you and I, m'queen."
	"You have proof of this??"
	"It is only a suspicion."
	"How so?"
	"My queen, I already know that the Moon 
Goddess is with child and in the city posing as 
Kayla Smith. But I believe Halite knows the 
identity of Sailor Selene. He associates with this 
Kayla woman, and as history shows, the Moon 
Goddess has always been a talktive woman."
	"I reasonable suspicion, but foolish to 
follow up upon." Beryl yelled. "Now, get back to 
your plans!"
	Celestite bowed, and was about to hurry 
away, when a youma threw open the doors to the 
throne room and scrambled inside, looking 
frightened.
	"Queen Beryl! General Halite has been 
captured!"
	"WHAT?!"
	"Apparently Artemis and Sailor Venus 
recognized him as a Galaxijourner!"
	Beryl went pale.
	Halite was her best general yet. Cunning, 
coy, without a temper and with many skills.
	"Don't just stand there!" She shouted to a 
dumbfounded Celestite. "DO SOMETHING!"
	"Yes, m'queen." Celestite ran.
	Beryl settled back into her throne.
	What else could go wrong?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~



	Kayla smiled as she held the almost one-
day old Serenity Usagi CHiba in her arms.
	Oh, yes. She could see Gohan quite cleary 
in the small child's face. She could sense his 
energy, the energy of the saiya-jin melding with 
the moon. It was beautiful, just like the first 
time she'd felt it. 
	To her relief, and yet somehow, 
disappointment, the child had no tail. She hadn't 
thought it would. 
	Mamoru was also looking at child 
adoringly. He resembled Gohan enough to that the 
man didn't see anything strange about it at all. 
The pink curls were a bit of a shock, but he had 
been expecting them, after all.
	Ami smiled at her mother and then at 
Kayla.
	"She's perfectly healthy, Usagi, even if 
it's early by human standards." She knelt beside 
Kayla to whisper in the girl's ear. "I accessed 
files on my computer. The term was as it should 
have been, considering."
	Kayla nodded happily. She was revelling in 
flow of energy she felt from the child, that 
reminded her of Gohan so much. 
	Setsuna suddenly swept into the room. She 
was disheveled and scratched, looking as through 
she'd came from a rather tough fight.
	"We discovered Halite and are holding him 
captive. My Queen, heal yourself, and come with 
me. I'm sorry, but we've already been holding with 
for the last day. He's awakened and... well... 
it's difficult to hold him without your 
assistance."
	"But Chibi-usa!" Mamoru protested.
	"Shall not be harmed." There was an 
unearthly glow that settled over mother and 
daughter. Chibi-usa cooed softly and feel into a 
soft sleep, the glow staying with her but fading 
from Kayla.
	Mamoru took the child from Kayla as she 
stood up. She gave her fiancee` a long kiss and 
transformed.
	Ami looked up questioningly.
	"Setsuna, I know that Chibi-usa isn't a 
normal child, but to take her so close to a 
battle? Can't she stay here with us? Rei would be 
more than happy to care for her, and you can't 
steal her away from mamoru so soon."
	Setsuna looked troubled as she looked 
towards Eternal Sailor Selene.
	"It's your choice."
	Selene wanted nothing more than to cry as 
she kissed the child's forehead.
	"The protection of the moon and Vegetasei 
be with you, Small Lady." She whispered. "I'll 
leave you with Miko Rei. I'll return for you, I 
swear."
	She gave Ami a hug and whisperd into her 
friend's ear, "Ami, take care of her... if for any 
reason I don't return."
	"You will, Usagi. You will. I have faith 
in you." Ami whispered back. "Do it for Chibi-
usa."
	Selene winked, and a tear slid down her 
cheek.
	"Goodbye..."


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~



	
	Halite frowned as Saturn began to fire 
questions at him again. 
	He's answered only two: Who was he and 
what did he know.
	General Halite, and more than they wanted 
to realize.
	"Stop it, Saturn. He won't answer." 
Artemis, once more a cat, said. He walked up and 
down the cafe.
	Venus yawned again, keeping a tight hold 
on her Love-Me Chain. If she let go, he'd escape 
and that was that.
	"I've got Selene." Pluto threw open the 
doors and let Sailor Selene enter.
	Selene came in, smiling slightly. She 
ignored Halite completely.
	"Hey, Venus! It's been forever since I've 
seen you."
	"I know, Selene. Where's Chibi-usa?"
	"I left her with Rei and Ami. I can't go 
fighting the Dark Kingdom with a baby, ne?" The 
smile slipped a bit. "She's fine, perfectly 
healthy. Cute little thing."
	"How's Mamoru?" Artemis asked.
	"Bruised and battered, but otherwise 
fine." Pluto answered. Selene blushed.
	"Well, it hurt so much..." She grinned. 
"He won't be using his left hand for a long time."
	Artemis and Fighter laughed. Healer 
grinned.
	"Where's Taiki?"
	"Where else? With Ami. He's going to stay 
there until they've checked out CHibi-usa 
completely."
	Halite was stunned.
 	"Are you okay?" Saturn asked.
	"Of course. I'm tired, pissed, and 
exetremely angry. I'm prefectly fine." It was now 
that she finally turned her attyentions to Halite.
	"Michael, Michael, Michael." She said, 
chucking her tongue. "I knew you were a general. 
The question is, did you know I was Selene?"
	"Yes."
	"I thought as much." Selene rolled her 
eyes. "You could have attacked me at any time. 
Does a general have morals? The last one I fought 
did not, but you do seem the expection. Beryl 
found herself a bunch of honorable simps this 
time, ne? No matter."
	"Selene, he won't answer any questons." 
Saturn said, tentavely.
	"That's fine, Saturn. I'm not concerned 
with Beryl anymore." Selene knelt down beside 
Halite. "Who brought your queen back to life, 
Halite? Or do you know?"
	"I won't tell you."
	"So you don't know. That's okay." She 
stood back up. "Release him, Venus."
	"But..."
	"That was an order." Selene said softly. 
"We do not need an army of youma in Boston."
	Venus reluctantly drew back her Love Me 
Chain.
	"Thank you." Selene extended her hand to 
Halite to help him to his feet, which Halite 
accepted with a small smirk.
	"You're a fool, Selene." He said.
	"Yes, I know." Selene answered clearly, 
her silvery eyes staring into Halite's. "I know."
	"Selene, what are you going to do..." 
Healer asked, her eyes narrowing.
	"Nothing right now." Selene withdrew her 
hand from Halite's. 
	"You will regret this." Halite vanished.
	"I already do." She answered the air where 
he had stood. She turned to face Venus.
	"You should return to Tokyo, Artemis also. 
I need all of the inners there, in case Chibi-usa 
is threatened." Venus and Artemis nodded and left. 
"Healer and Fighter, dehenshin. You too, Saturn. 
Pluto, you've got a gate to gaurd, right?"
	"Right. Goodbye, Usagi."
	"'Bye, Puu." She dehenshined as the senshi 
of time disappeared. 
	"Kayla, why did you let him go?" Cassie 
asked.
	Kayla turned to stare at Cassie, and 
Cassie saw all the saddness and sorrow reflected 
in those eyes. 
	"Hotaru, it's not so simple anymore. He'll 
return to Beryl, and Celestite shall come out to 
challenge us. The time has almost come... can't 
you feel it on the winds? It's the cry of a 
kingdom.
	"And finally, for eternal forever, that 
kingdom shall be avvenged. Come on. We have to be 
there when Celestite appears.
	"Too many innocents are lost already."

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~




	Kayla grinned as she inspected her figure 
in the mirror.
	"No offense, but after getting rid of all 
that wieght and being able to walk normally again, 
I don't think I'll ever have another baby!"
	"Usagi, about Chibi-usa..."
	Kayla frowned slightly, but nodded.
	"Well, I've got an idea. We'd have to talk 
it over with Pluto, but Chibi-usa needs to be 
around you as much as possible, seeing she won't 
ever know her father. I now you don't want her so 
close to the battle, but..."
	"I understand. Continue."
	"If you did bring her here, you'd need a 
full-time baby sitter that wasn't exactly part of 
the normal team of senshi, right?"
	Kayla nodded.
	"What about the older Chibi-usa?" Cassie 
asked, grinning. 
	"You've got an ulterior motive here, 
Hotaru. You want your friend back."
	"But it works out for you, too."
	"You're right."
	"Gohan wouldn't want his daughter being 
sperated from both you and him."
	"Hotaru! Shh! Seiya and the guys are here! 
You can't risk them--"
	"I thought Mamoru was Chibi-usa's father."
	Kayla and Cassie both turned around to see 
Yaten standing in the doorway, looking at them 
both suspiciously.
	"Baka Hotaru..." Kayla mumbled, sitting 
down.
	"Ecchi! What were you doing? Spying?" 
Hotaru glared at the starlight.
	"Actually, yes." Yaten answered. "Ever 
since I've been here, I've yet to hear either of 
you directly name Mamoru as the father. I'm no 
math mathmetican, but I can count back nine 
months."
	The two senshi had paled.
	"Don't even say it aloud, Yaten, please." 
Kayla begged. 
	"Dates do not align." Yaten ammended his 
thoughts. 
	"Yaten, what are you getting at?" Cassie 
said, her eyes narrowing, a dark light coming into 
her eyes.
	"I simply think that something isn't 
exactly how you two say it is." Yaten said simply. 
"I can apply the help of Seiya and Taiki or you 
can tell me."
	"Threatening little scoundrel, aren't 
you?" Kayla sounded amused. "Well, since you've 
already figured it out, I can only confirm your 
suspicions. But this secret... well, if it gets 
out, I won't be the only goddess on your back."
	Kayla smiled.
	"Mamoru is not Chibi-usa's father."
	Although he had been expecting it, the 
news was still a shock.
	"Who is?"
	"An incredibly handsome man from another 
deminsion who's half-human half-alien." Cassie 
replied. 
	"No need to go into details, Hotaru."
	All three turned towards the new voice, 
none other than Setsuna.
	"Hey, Setsuna, why the lack of visits for 
the last week?" Kayla asked, sounding miffed. "I'd 
almost forgotten what you looked like."
	It was then she saw the wild look in 
Setsuna's eyes.
	"What's up?" She asked immediatly.
	"My princess, I have Chibi-usa waiting at 
the gates with the baby."
	"Huh?"
	"You've got to go to the Z dimension, 
now."
	"Why? What for?" Cassie was alarmed, and 
with good reason.
	Setsuna, differing from her bidaily 
visits, had not appeared for a while, worrying the 
senshi. Kayla kept having nightmares, which kept 
her from bringing Chibi-usa to live with the 
lights, herself, and Cassie.
	And now this?
	"Beryl is releasing a virus of sorts. It 
is the cause of the Great Ice that is to take the 
earth. You must leave it, until you regain all 
your strength."
	"What about the other senshi?"
	"The inner senshi, Mamoru, Luna and 
Artemis are waiting for us also. Hurry, and 
transform, all of you!"
	Seiya and Taiki by now had joined them.
	They nodded, and called out to their 
respective powers.
	When they were done, they looked towards 
the senshi of time, who had a portal waiting.
	"Pluto," Selene pulled the senshi of time 
to the side and spoke in a low tone. "Vegeta can 
sense saiya-jin energy, so can the others. What if 
Mamoru finds out?"
	"He won't, princess." Pluto said, but her 
voice was not very confident. "Come, let's go."
	Fighter, Healer, and Maker went through 
the portal first. Saturn went next, nearing 
pushing Selene out of the way.
	Selene caught the hint, though. Saturn was 
giving her a chance to lightly grill Pluto.
	"Okay, Pluto. Explain."
	Pluto smiled softly.
	"I really do need to get you out of this 
dimension, Princess. Beryl is planning to freeze 
the world, and you can't be on it when that 
happens."
	"What about the rest of the world?"
	"Temporary. If released soon enough, most 
will survive."
	"How soon is soon enough?"
	"One week."
	Selene counted to ten.
	"You expect me," She said, in a dangerous 
purr. "To return to the Z diemsion, explain 
everything to everyone, train my ass off, explain 
to everyone why I fight as well as I do, keep them 
all from finding how that Chibi-usa isn't exactly 
Mamoru's kid, think up a plan, keep Luna and 
Artemis off my back... ALL IN A WEEK?"
	"That was the plan."
	"How the bloody hell do you expect me to 
do that?!"
	"Well, to put it lightly, I believe you 
had a promise to four people who are good at 
keeping you out of trouble." Pluto not-so-gently 
shoved Selene into the portal, as the latter 
grinned happily.
	Time for Operation: Secrets.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~




	The youma frowned as the readings it had 
been ordered to keep a close eye on suddenly 
vanished.
	To it's great fear, it reluctantly called 
Celestite in to the control room. All of them knew 
what happened when a youma angered a general, and 
that was most usually pain and/or death.
	Celestite took one look at the readings 
and was too angry to do anything to the youma. She 
called in a recooperating Halite too look at them 
before they both went off grimly to report to 
Beryl that the senshi had literaly disappeared 
into thin air.
	They did not expect a happy queen.


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~





	It took Selene a minute to realize that 
pluto had positioned the portal so that she walked 
right out into the Z dimension's soft rolling 
green grass--
	And right into a very startled girl
	"Oh, I'm so sorry!" Selene exclaimed, 
looking around her in confusion. Where were the 
others?
	"Oh, it's okay, miss. After living around 
here for so long, you expect people to appear out 
of thin air." The other girl grinned.
	Selene took a moment to look her over. It 
was a teenage version of Bulma! A few things were 
subtly different, things that reminded her of 
saiya-jin featues...
	But otherwise, she would have sworn on her 
mother this was Bulma.
	To hell with being subtle.
	"You know, you look an awful lot like a 
woman I knew for a while. Bulma Briefs?" She 
asked, sighing.
	The girl's eyes perked up somewhat.
	"That's my mother!"
	"Your..." Selene took a deep breath to 
challenge the shock that threatened her nerves. 
"How old are you?" She asked in reply.
	"Seven."
	"SEVEN?!" The girl jumped as Selene yelled 
and slapped herself. "That's it. I'm going to 
murder Pluto. How dare she... and where are the 
others?"
	"Er..."
	"Oh, I'm sorry. I'm just a little 
confused."
	"No kidding. Anyway, I'm Bra. Who're you?"
	"I'm... ah, heck. Call me Usagi, kid. Can 
you take me to your mother?"
	Bra looked Selene up and down. The name 
was familar, and yet she didn't know why. Perhaps 
Videl would know? Videl should be there any 
second...
	And Videl did come, with a companion.
	Selene promptly began laughing, as hard as 
she possibly could. She ended up on her rear, 
laughing so hard she almost choked.
	After Videl, the mysterious companion, and 
Bra had stared at her for a long time, Selene 
managed to regain her breath.
	"Gods, Gohan, what the hell are you 
*wearing*?!"
	They all jumped at that.
	"Usagi?" Super Saiya Man asked 
uncertainly.
	"No, it's Humpty Dumpty. Answer my 
question... you look rediculous!" This sent her 
into a new round of giggles.
	Super Saiya Man helped her up before 
replying in a miffed tone, "It's Super Saiya Man, 
Usagi. I'm a super hero. Meet Videl, my 
girlfriend."
	"Super hero my-- hi, Videl. Nice to meet 
you." Selene looked at Gohan. "You look older... 
How long have I been gone, Gohan? It's barely been 
nine months where I was."
	"Nine months? It's been almost three 
years!"
	"It has?" Selene dehenshined in a flash of 
light and looked angry. "Gohan, something's not 
right."
	"What do you mean?"
	"Setsuna brought me here, but I know she 
wouldn't have taken me to a strange time. And my 
senshi were to come with me. In fact, I was 
walking through the portal to go to the gates, 
where I could retreive my daughter to come, but I 
was here."
	"Out of thin air," Bra confirmed.
	"Sounds suspicious." Gohan nodded.
	"You're tellin' me." Usagi sighed, and 
threw her arms up in the air. "I'm going to look 
for them, okay? Then I'm going to go to Capsule 
Corp. You can explain to those two who I am, while 
I'm gone." She powered up into her goddess form 
and took off on her wings.
	Bra and Videl looked at Gohan expectantly.
	"Well, it's a really funny story, 
actually... okay, no it's not. But it is 
sometimes. Okay, well, anyway, she appeared in the 
ocean..."


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


	
	Setsuna stepped through her portal and 
onto the lush, gray grass of the Time Realm.
`	She was almost ambushed by Saturn.
	"Oh, Setsuna-mama! Come lookee at Chibi-
chibi-usa, she's so cute and pretty, and she 
smiled at me!"
	"Course." Setsuna nodded, and turned to 
close the portal.
	"Wait." Saturn looked confused. "Why are 
you closing the portal? Usagi hasn't came 
through."
	Setsuna turned back, startled.
	"She hasn't? She stepped through almost 
twenty seconds ago!"
	"No. I've been standing right here."
	"But..." Setsuna's mind raced. She had 
pushed the princess through the portal herself. 
She knew the portals couldn't shift like that 
accidently without her notcing-- too much raw 
energy.
	"Hotaru, are you sure? This isn't a 
trick?"
	"Would I joke about the princess?"
	Setsuna said something that Hotaru would 
never repeat under any circumstances, and closed 
the portal quickly.
	"Someone is messing with things here," She 
said, at Saturn's confused and stunned expression. 
"And they've got temporal power, along with a few 
other powers. No one I know of could have switched 
that portal. I have no clue where she is nor no 
way to find out, short of creating a flux."
	Saturn went considerably pale and peered 
through the fog to the shadowy figures before the 
gates.
	"What are we going to tell them, and where 
are we going to put them?"
	"The truth." Setsuna replied. "And I've 
got a safehouse on a planet not so far from here. 
They can stay there. It's not that different from 
earth. The Z dimension is out of the question 
without Selene."
	"We need to find her, Pluto."
	"I know, Saturn. Damn, who is doing this?"
	It was the very first time Saturn, Hotaru, 
or the Messiah had seen Sailor Pluto look 
hopeless, and quite frankly, it scared her. Pluto 
was the one with all the answers and the impecible 
timing...
	And their new enemy seemed to sense she 
was, and was doing all they could to shatter even 
Pluto's nerves, and doing a helluva fine job.


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`




	Usagi decided the best way to enter the 
city was on foot. She didn't want to attract 
attention.
	Within thirty muinutes she'd determined 
the senshio were no where on the planet. She could 
sense everyone's ki of the Z dimnsion clearly, a 
few she knew and a few she didn't.
	She knew Piccolo, Goku, and Vegeta were in 
this city, and finding them was number one on her 
to-do list. They seemed the ones most likely to 
have sensed anything strange.
	"It seems I attract more stares as I am 
than as Sailor Selene." She murmured thoughtfully. 
She had a suspicion that if she's flown in wearing 
her fuku and branishing the sword of Apollo, 
people wouldn't have given her a second--
	Her train of though ceased almost 
instantly at the sight of one of her three 
targets: Vegeta, arguing with a teenage boy that 
looked like himself.
	She grinned. Vegeta had to be arguing with 
someone.
	"VEGETA!" She yelled. "Over here!" She 
caught his eye, smirked as his jaw dropped, and 
pushed her way through the crowd to him.
	The boy's jaw follwed suit to Vegeta's as 
she enveloped the saiya-jin prince in a hug.
	"Good to see someone hasn't changed!" She 
said, grinning at Vegeta's choice of blue spandex. 
"I saw Gohan first, he said it's been three 
years... just a few months in my world."
	"Er..."
	"It's good to see you're speechless, too. 
I sensed Goku and Piccolo here too, right?"
	"Er..."
	"Hi! I haven't seen you before!"
	"Stop your yapping, Usagi. You talk too 
much."
	"Gee, I feel loved." She smiled as Vegeta 
found his voice box again. "Has it really been 
three years, Vegeta?"
	"You bet it has." Vegeta scowled. "And 
yes, Kakorotto and that green bean are fumbling 
aorund here somewhere."
	"Aren't you going to introduce me to Cutie 
here before he decides I'm your girlfriend?"
	She would have sworn a slight blush 
colored Vegeta's face... oerhaps it was the sun?
	"Tell her who you are, Boy." he barked.
	"I'm Trunks... miss, how do you know my 
dad?"
	It was all Usagi could do not to faint.
	"First I meet Bulma's kid... and now 
*your's*, Vegeta? How many mroe fo you have 
spawned."
	"You met Bra?" Trunks asked. Usagi nodded.
	"Well..." vegeta started to say something, 
but Trunks beat him to it.
	"Bra's my sister."

~~~~~~~~~~~~~



	"Thank you."
	"Don't grovel, Beryl. I didn't do this for 
you. The senshi are now seperated from Selene. 
It's your perfect oppurtunity."
	"Of course. I will have my best at the 
task."
	"If you fail to allinilate her now, Beryl, 
you never will."
	The shadow vanished.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~




	"Wake up... yoo hooo...."
	Usagi opened her eyes to stare right up at 
Goku.
	"ACK!" She yelped, and jumped up.
	And then looked around.
	Bulma, Chichi, Goku, and Gohan were in 
immediate sight. She recgonized the room as her 
old bedroom at Capsule Corp.
	"How did I get here?" She asked. "Oh, hi, 
Goku. I had the weirdest dream. I met this really 
cute kid with lavendar hair and he told me that 
Bulma and Vegeta had two kids..."
	Bulma blushed.
	"It wasn't a dream." Chichi said, rushing 
over to Usagi. "You look great! Wow, if you got 
any prettier, we'd have to lock our husbands up 
away from her, ne, Bulma?"
	Usagi grinned and sat up.
	"Three years? Okay, name off which ones 
have how many kids."
	"Well, Bulma has two, you've met them. 
Trunks is Goten's age, and Bra's a little younger. 
You missed seeing Trunks the first time around, he 
was in the past. Goku and I still just have Goten 
and Gohan--"
	"Thank God," Gohan interrupted.
	"And Gohan's married, to Videl, you've met 
her? Yes, you have.  They've got a little girl, 
Pan.  Krillin--"
	"*Krillin's* married?"
	"Oh, you bet. They've got a daughter named 
Marron. Cute thing, looks just like Krillin."
	"That's it?"
	"That's it." Chichi confirmed. Usagi began 
to laugh. 
	"I'm away for nine moths, come back to 
findn out it's been three years and there's all 
sorts of demi-saiya-jin running around. Geesh, 
have you ever heard of over-population?"
	This got a blush from all around.
	"I'm afraid I don't have very good news." 
Usagi said, in a serious tone of voice, after a 
few minutes of silence. "When I returned, it 
turned out Diamond wasn't gone after all... I had 
to beat him all over again. Nearly died again, 
yatta yatta."
	"Died again? But he's dead for sure, 
right?" Gohan asked.
	"I hope so." Usagi frowned. "Apparently, 
Diamond wasn't my biggest threat. There really is 
an overlord to all this. He'd bringing back old 
nightmares to life. Queen Beryl's at it this time. 
I'm afraid he's brought me to this time alone to 
attack me."
	"WHy this time?"
	"Well, it's not so much you guys as it is 
me. I still haven't completely recovered."
	"From what?"
	Usagi grinned. 
	"Oh, well, you know how things go. Fight a 
few enemies here, etc."
	"Oh, bull! Spill it, girl!" Bulma shouted.
	"Chibi-usa decided that it was nice to try 
to be born three weeks early. I've spent a lot of 
the past month in the hospital. She'll be... oh, 
let's see... two weeks old today. In my time. She 
was born on June 30."
	"Oh, wow! Usagi, I'm so happy for you!"
	"Don't be." Usagi said grimly, standing 
up. "I've only seen her once since then. I had to 
leave right away to face Halite, Beryl's latest 
pet general. I left her with Sailro Mars."
	"Oh, that's terrible."
	"At least she's safe. She's got a horde of 
capable senshi around her." Usagi hugged Goku. "I 
don't remember getting a proper hello from any of 
you, 'cept Gohan."
	After hellos, Usagi looked around the room 
suspiciously.
	"Where's Vegeta?" She asked Bulma.
	"Why?"
	"I'm going to chew him out for letting 
that Trunks kid drop that bomb on me." She stomped 
out of the room.
	A few crashes and bangs were heard.
	And then really loud yelling.
	"VEGETA YOU CONCEITED JERK HOW COULD YOU 
LET HIM TELL ME LIKE THAT?!?!  WHAT IF I HAD A 
HEART ATTACK?! YOU'LL BE SORRY IF IT'S THE LAST 
THING I DO--"
	"IT WASN'T ME! BLAME THAT BOY!"
	"Leave me out of this!" Trunks sounded 
like he was underneath something.
	The four raced to the stairs tyo check out 
what was happening.
	Trunks was behind the couch with Goten, 
who was wisely advising him not to get in the way. 
Vegeta was up against the wall, looking scared. 
Bra and Pan were giggling at the picture while 
Videl simply looked stunned.
	Eternal Sailor Selene had the sword of 
Apollo out and pointed right at Vegeta, her aura 
ablaze with feiry light.
	"I'M GONNA KILL YOU!"
	"AHHHHH!" Goten shrieked as the couch was 
thrown away by a particually nasty ki exchanged. 
"Get behind that statue!"
	"NOT MY EMPERESS STATUE!" Bulma screeched.
	CRASH!
	"THAT'S IT!" Bulma yelled, as Vegeta went 
to SSJ. "If you two are going to fight-- OUTSIDE!"
	Selene shok her head as she helped Piccolo 
move the couch back.
	"Sorry, Bulma. I got a little excited. I 
haven't been able to fight for a while. Gods... 
scrtach thatr statement, I've had three jealous 
guys and one over-protective woman holding the key 
to the cage they shoved me in."
	"Cages can't hold you."
	"I'll take that as a compliment and leave 
it so." She gave Vegeta a dirty look.
	"You're *the* Usagi?" Bra looked doubtful. 
"You don't look like a god."
	"Thanks. I don't want to." Selene frowned. 
"Okay, which one of you said I was a god? 'Fess 
up."
	"It was him!"
	Vegeta, Goku, Piccolo, and Gohan were all 
pointing at another. Vegeta to Goku, Goku to 
Piccolo, Piccolo to Gohan, and Gohan to Vegeta.
	"That answers that." Selene sweatdropped. 
"Glad to see something else hasn't changed."
	"Wow, you're so neat! Is Vegeta really 
scared of you?" Pan asked.
	Selene gave her a funny look before 
answering, "Never asked and never want to find 
out, kid. You're Pan, right? Wow, you look just 
like your mom." She looked from Pan to Videl. 
	Resemblence? That was an understatement.
	It took about ten minutes to restore the 
room, under Bulma's orders and Chichi's frown.
	Finally, Selene put the last vase back 
together with a bit of magic and set it on a 
table.
	"How's that?" She asked, stretching out of 
the couch. "I think I did pretty good. You can 
barely see any cracks."
	"Very nice." Bulma sat down next to 
Selene. "So, how are you going to contact your 
friends this time?"
	"I guess I can't." Selene dehenshined. "I 
suppose I'll scout out this planet, see if Beryl 
can establish a portal to it. If she does, I culd 
probably... well, it depends..." Usagi groaned. 
"This is the first time I actually wish I had paid 
attention to Haruna-sensei. Math... bah!" She made 
a sour face.
	Bulma sweatdropped.
	Gohan stiffled a chuckle, but Goten began 
laughing loudly, as did Goku. Vegeta kept a 
perfectly straight face, as Trunks, Pan, and Bra 
started laughing as well. Videl was too confused 
to do anything.
	Chichi looked at them all disapprovingly.
	"Minna.. do you hear that?" Goku asked 
suddenly.
	Usagi strained to hear...
	Screams. 
	

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~






	Eternal Sailor Selene was transformed and 
out fot eh house before any of the saiya-jin had 
registered ehat those screams meant. Gohan was 
next out, and then followed by Goku and Vegeta, 
Piccolo, and lastly Goten and Trunks.
	The saiya-jin caught up to Selene easily.
	"Usagi, what's going on?" Gohan asked.
	Selene looked over to him, smiling sadly.
	"I think I was right. The Overlord was the 
one that got me sent here. I've got to fight, 
Gohan. I've just got to. This is Beryl."
	"I'll help."
	"No. This is my fight. You've got 
families, you all do. I can't let you risk 
yourselves."
	"And what about you?!" 
	"Gohan, things will work out for my family 
no matter what."
	"If you die, the universe is caput!" Goten 
had heard. "I remember what that Pluto chick said, 
Usagi! You're the center of everything. You have 
to let us help."
	"Someone owes me an explanation." Trunks 
grumbled.
	"We're going to help you." Vegeta said. 
"You can't fight alone."
	"Aw, Vegeta, I should be flattered, ne?"
	"Shut up."
	"Guess not." Selene touched down in front 
of a woman wearing a gray unifrom. "Hello, 
Celestite. Miss me?"
	Celestite looked at the men behind the 
princess. 
	"Not exactly." She said, smirkign 
slightly. "I'm sorry you're in one peice."
	"So am I."
	Celestite's eyes narrowed. She had been 
informed that Selene's power was at a low, giving 
her a chance of winning. 
	As if.
	"I come to challenge you, Kayla Smith."
	Selene looked a little confused at the 
name, but then smiled.
	"Oh, Celestite?"
	"What is it?" Celestite snapped.
	"Well, since we're out of Boston and 
Chibi-usa is safe, I think you need to know who I 
really am."
	"Oh really? Who?"
	"Well, let's see. Tsukino Usagi, Princess 
Serenity," She began to count off on her gloved 
fingers. "Sailor Moon, Super Sailor Moon, Eternal 
Sailor Moon, Sailor Selene, Eternal Sailor Selene, 
the Goddess Selene... am I leaving something out?" 
She grinned at Celestite's pale face. "Oh, yeah. 
Neo-Queen Serenity of the Sun, Moon, and Earth. I 
think that's about it, unless you want to get 
technical."
	"You don't scare me!"
	"Oh yeah?" Selene grinned, and pulled out 
her staff. "We'll see about that. Concentrated 
Solar Moon Beam!!"
	"Dark Crystallization Blast!" Celestite 
countered.
	The two beams met in the center, and for a 
secdond, it looked like they would cancel each 
other out.
	"Shadow! Help me win!" Celestite called, 
grinning evilly. Almost immediatly, her power 
doubled... tripled!
	It blew Selene back into Goku, who caught 
her.
	"Damn..." Selene wiped some of the blood 
from her lip and stood back up. 
	Celestite held a sphere of glowing energy.
	"I should probably tell you, the Shadow 
holds more power than you'll ever dream of."
	Selene shrugged, and powered up some.
	"Terra Lunar Blast!" She shouted.
	"Not quite enough, Selene." Celestite 
threw the ball of ki at the earth-shaped ki blast, 
glowing with silver and green power.
	Selene muttered a word that she had sworn 
never to use in front of children as the general's 
attack and her own anilated each other.
	"Kamikaze..." Goten began to power up.
	"No!" Selene shouted. "Not yet." She 
pointed her staff at Celestite. 
	"You can't win." Celestite hissed.
	"I've heard that before." Selene replied. 
"And guess what, honey? I always loose anyway. 
Because when you die, you can't call it winning, 
even if you defeat the enemy."
	A look of horrible realization appeared on 
Celestite's face.
	"You're not going to..." She gasped.
	"Of course not. Not to you. But well..." 
She frowned. "It's inevitable, ne?"
	"Selene, don't you dare."
	"Be quiet, Goten." Trunks hissed. This was 
better than a movie.
	"Ginzuishou, I call upon your light. Lend 
me strenght to defeat this challenge... strength 
to fight!"
	
	'If you use the ginzuishou, you'll die...'

	Eternal Sailor Selene grimly smiled.
	"I'm not going to die." She whispered. "I 
can't, remember? Eternal Moon Power!"
	The ginzuishou shone in all it's brillance 
as it threw it's power at Celestite, who could 
only marvel at the loveliness of it all.
	Death could be most beautiful.


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


*looks around nervously*
Is it done? It is? WOOO HOOO!
Part four is dooone! Yeahh!!!!!!


-Black Beyond