Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction / Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Android 14 ❯ Death and Adjustment ( Chapter 1 )

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For those of you who have seen the SMR movie, you can skip all
the way to the stars.
To that point, it's basically just a sum up of the movie.

Enjoy. And if you like (or don't like), e-mail me and tell me
what you think! :)



Chapter One: Death and Adjustment


Fiore had been an unexpected problem. The childhood friend of
Mamoru had nothing to do with the Dark Moon family at all. He was not
after Chibi-Usa, nor did he want the silver imperium crystal. He knew
nothing about the past identities of either Usagi or Mamoru. All he
knew is that he had made a promise to the tuxedo-clad hero years ago,
as a child. The two had been the support they both needed as children
when no one cared for them. When he was given the rose before he left,
he promised that he would return someday later with lots of flowers
for Mamoru.

When Fiore came across the legendary kisenian flower, he felt
he had found the perfect bloom for Mamoru. It was beautiful, and
radiated power. That power was not good though. It warped Fiore's
mind, made him believe that everyone had to be punished for abandoning
Mamoru and himself. It took advantage of his weakness and changed it
to a strong hatred.

The battle was different from those previous with Rubius and
the four sisters. The comet that was meant to pass Earth within a few
days hid billions of kisenian blooms. Fiore had taken Mamoru from
Earth after an accident earlier that day, and the masked hero had not
yet broken free of the capsule that both healed and restrained him.
Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Venus were drained of their energy by the
flowers that grew on the comet surface. They were spared only by
Fiore's shock when Sailor Moon agreed to give up the fight and drop
the moon scepter in return for their lives. When the kisenian flower
managed to regain full control of Fiore, she had him take advantage of
Sailor Moon's unarmed state. Within seconds, the power of the moon
warrior began to disperse among the kisenian's flowers, giving them
the strength they needed to send their seeds to Earth.

Fiore spoke of loneliness. He told the weakening Sailor Moon
that she would never understand what he and Mamoru had gone through.
That she must be punished for fooling Mamoru into loving her. He
continued despite the pleas of the senshi that if it were not for
Usagi, that they would all be alone as well. He only saw in the wishes
that Sailor Moon had fooled more then just Mamoru, but the sailor
senshi too. Finally Mamoru stopped him. Mamoru had managed to free
himself from the capsule, and rushed to help Sailor Moon and the
others. When he saw Fiore draining Sailor Moon of her energy, he
attacked. The rose hit Fiore in the chest, breaking the bond the
kisenian had on him for a short time.

Torn by the fact that his childhood friend had attacked him,
Fiore turned anger to despair. No one cared for him now, not even
Mamoru. The kisenian was not yet finished with her work though. As the
comet's flowers faded away, leaving the senshi standing on bare rock,
Fiore decided that if he was going down, so would everyone else.
Altering the comet's path ever so little, Earth's gravity grabbed hold
of it and started to drag it towards the surface. Sailor Moon, who
until this point had been so drained of power she was unconscious,
took this time to awaken and do her part.

Revealing the silver imperium crystal from its broach, she
started to gather its energy to protect those she loved. She told the
senshi not to worry about her when she heard them call out to stop.
She would be alright, and they could all go home and be happy.

Fiore, noticing that something was going on, reached forward
and grabbed the broach, still on her shirt. Sailor Moon winced with
the sudden change. With the crystal's change in surroundings, Usagi's
sailor fuku faded away, leaving long, flowing ribbons that seemed to
grow from the transformation broach as her only cover. She looked up
at Fiore, a small smile crossing her lips.

"Do not be afraid." The compassion in her eyes startled the
alien. He had not expected something like this. In a sudden flash, he
found himself in the past. He saw chibi-Mamoru crying on his hospital
bed. A little girl with odongos on her head came into the room and
rested her head on Mamoru's knee. Looking up, Mamoru saw the
4-year-old girl for the first time. She asked him what was wrong.
Mamoru explained how a dear friend was leaving soon. The young girl
then happily told him why she was at the hospital, that she had gotten
a new baby brother and was going to see her mother. She then held up a
rose from the small bouquet she had been carrying, and gave it to
Mamoru. Fiore watched this scene with surprise. The rose Mamoru had
given him had really been from Sailor Moon?!

Fiore stepped back from Usagi. Taking his hand away, the
silver imperium crystal floated out in front of the girl. Fiore
smiled, seeing how it was shaped like a flower. Kisenian tried to keep
her control over Fiore, but the power from the crystal washed over her
and she vanished. Fiore soon followed.

Usagi stood up, turning into Princess Serenity. The comet was
quickly nearing Earth, and if she didn't stop it, many would die,
including her closest friends. With the strength of the crystal,
Serenity formed a shield in front of the comet, attempting to change
the coarse. The impact of Earth's atmosphere with the comet started to
break it up, causing large pieces of rock to nearly hit the princess.
Straining under the flow of power she had to control, she started to
weaken again. Tuxedo Mask saw this and, turning into Prince Endymon,
stepped forward to support the princess. The sailor senshi also saw
that their friend needed their help. Standing up, they stepped
forward, holding hands, and added their planets' powers to Serenity's.

The comet, now much smaller then it had been before, skipped
over Earth's atmosphere, saving the senshi and those on Earth.


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Now a safe distance from Earth, the remainder of the comet
floated in space calmly. Calmly except for those that were still on
it.

Usagi rested quietly in Mamoru's arms. On the front of her
reformed sailor fuku, the remains of the silver imperium crystal and
the broach it rested in revealed the damage that had been done. Rei
was crying bitterly.

"Usagi you baka! You said you would be alright! You liar!" She
brushed furiously at the hot tears that fell down her cheeks. The
other sailor senshi sat behind her, crying more quietly. When the
comet had come to a rest, they had realized that Usagi had not just
collapsed from exhaustion, but in death as well.

Mamoru looked sadly down at Usagi's pale face. He did not yet
want to believe she was gone. He had only remembered his love for her
a few months ago, and already she had left him.

Minako, recovering for a moment, looked around the sad group.
She rubbed her eyes dry once more, then spoke. "We should return. Luna
and Artimis might be getting worried."

Rei spun around and glared at her. "And shouldn't they be?
Look what we let happen, Mina!" She turned back to look at Usagi. "The
baka should have known it was too much for her. Now look what's
happened."

Mako looked up at Rei, her eyes red. Her arms were around Ami,
trying to calm her down. "Rei, maybe Mina is right. We need to see if
maybe there is anything we can do. Maybe there is some technique that
can bring her back," she added with false cheerfulness.

The four remaining sailor senshi finally managed to pull
themselves together enough to form a circle around Usagi and Mamoru.
It was tough, being without Usagi and attempting a Sailor Teleport,
but with some effort, they made it back to Earth safely, arriving in
the park. It was still nighttime, and they were fortunate in there
being no one out for a midnight stroll.

The concentration they had to use to transport themselves and
two others back to Earth had managed to center the group more,
allowing them to think clearly. Mamoru had yet to say a word, and to
this point had only been communicating in small shakes of his head.
Arriving back on Earth, Usagi's body changed back to her civilian
form, as well as Mamoru and the others.

"Well, what now?" Rei asked emotionlessly. Mako, Ami, and Rei
looked at Mina, as if asking her what she thought they should do.



Despite the girls' best efforts, the police were brought into
the picture. Healthy teens don't just go around dying for no reason
after all.

Mamoru was brought in for questioning first. The police asked
him how long Usagi and he had been going out. How their relationship
was going. How far they had gone, physically. Mamoru answered these
questions as simply and emotionlessly as he could. Then he was asked
about his temper. Had he ever lost it around Usagi? Had he ever hit
her? Mamoru's response to these kinds of questions did not help him.
The thought that he would ever have hurt his Usako was ridiculous! He
took offence and, instead of keeping his emotions under control,
showed the police examiners just how angry he could get. No one was
hurt, but the police felt he needed to cool off before going home. He
spent that night in a jail cell.

Rei was brought in next. They first asked her some questions
about Mamoru and Usagi's
elationship. Had she ever noticed any strange bruises? Rei answered to
this by weakly joking, saying that with Usagi's clumsiness, bruises
had never seemed strange on her. The police brushed this off, trying
to dig deeper. Instead of focusing on Mamoru though, they started to
ask if Usagi had ever done drugs. Had she started to seem more distant
from her old friends recently? Did she ever show up to meet with her
friends, and seemed kind of spacey? Rei answered all of this
negatively, saying she knew Usagi didn't do drugs.

Before the police could bring in anyone else for questioning,
the results from the autopsy came back. There were no signs of
physical abuse, nor were there any of drug usage. She had no disease
that would have killed her so suddenly. It actually seemed as if she
had died from extreme exhaustion. The police were baffled. There had
been no known attack by one of those creatures that absorbed energy
and always seemed to draw the attention of the Sailor Senshi, and if
there had been one, wouldn't the victim's friends let it be known? And
anyway, no one had ever DIED in one of those attacks before. Why now?
They couldn't think of an alternative reason for the sudden death
though. The case was put on the back burner. There was no evidence of
foul play, at least none they could deal with. Besides, the Tokyo
Police Department had more important cases then trying to find the
mysterious reason for the death of a teenage girl.

No one seemed to notice the disappearance of the young,
pink-hared little girl that had stayed with the Tsukinos other then
Mamoru, the remaining senshi, and the cats. And they kept quiet about
it.


On the day of the funeral, Minako, Rei, Ami, and Makato went
to the church together. The Tsukino's wanted to keep the funeral
small, friends and family only. Makoto was glad it was small. She
didn't feel like crying in front of half the school, and she knew she
would cry. She could already feel the tears forming as she saw the
coffin.

As there were a few minutes before the service started, Ami
decided to see who else had shown up. Looking near the front of the
room, she saw the red head of a girl her age. Naru! Ami thought. She
didn't know why she was surprised. Naru had been Usagi's friend long
before senshi business came into the picture.

Leaving the other girls behind, Ami walked up to the front row
and sat next to Naru. The girl had a tissue clutched tightly in her
hand and was looking at the coffin through tear-soaked eyes. She
noticed Ami had sat next to her and looked over, smiling weakly.

"Did she ever want to tell me?" she asked quietly. Ami looked
at her, not understanding. Naru looked back to the front before she
clarified. "Who she was. I don't know what kind of magic it is that
makes you guys impossible to be identified by others, but Usagi and I
have been friends for a long time, Ami. Even after she started to
abandon me at the mall with no explanation. I'm not so stupid that I
can't realize that everytime she did that, there was a yoma attack on
the news later. And once I noticed that, next time I saw Sailor Moon,
I was sure." As she spoke, her voice caught in her throat a few times,
and she'd have to stop and collect herself before continuing. Over all
though, her words seemed to slow her tears. "Did she ever want to tell
me, Ami?" She looked at the blue-hared girl again, bringing the tissue
to her eyes. Ami looked at her hands resting in her lap before she
answered.

"Many times. Sometimes we had to convince her not to." She
looked guiltily up at Naru. "You have to understand. If you knew, then
our enemies might find out and use you."

Naru frowned angrily. "They did use me, Ami. Long before I
learned the truth. I think you were really just afraid I would tell
the whole school. That your precious identities would get out into the
open. Well I blame this on you, Mizuno Ami. Maybe she would have died
with or without you, but if it hadn't been for you and the others, I
would have at least been able to say goodbye." Naru forced her voice
to stay low. As she finished, she stood from her seat and walked to
the coffin. Laying her hand on the polished wood, she stood quietly
for a few minutes. As she turned again, she looked at Ami first, then
the three other senshi that had been watching Ami and Naru, and walked
from the room, not waiting for the service to start.


Minako called for a meeting the next day at Rei's temple.
Mamoru and the four senshi sat outside the building at the time Mina
asked them to be there. They had to discuss what to do now. Luna and
Artemis joined them after a few minutes. It had taken Luna some extra
time to get out of the house, now that there was no one to open the
door for her when she had to leave. No one spoke for a while, all of
them unsure of what to say. Finally, Artemis spoke up.

"I'm glad you are learning to take control, Mina. Now that
Usagi is..." His voice trailed off, unsure how to mention it. "Well,
anyway, back in the Silver Millennium, you were the leader of the
senshi. Now it's time to take the reins again. I'm glad you are doing
so." Luna rolled her eyes, shaking her head slightly. The girls
couldn't help but smile.

Mako finally brought up the subject they were all worrying
about. "What are we going to do now, without Sailor Moon? She was the
most powerful of us all. Now we're going to have to deal with Rubius
by ourselves. And what happened to Chibi-Usa anyway? She really just
vanished?" She asked the last to the two cats that sat on the ground.

Luna shook her head. "We were sitting on the roof of the
Tsukino household, waiting for you all to return. We were watching the
sky, looking for any sign of you girls. Next thing I know, I heard
Chibi-Usa gasp, and when I turned around, she was fading away right in
front of my eyes!"

"That ball of her's went too." Artemis added.

"Perhaps I should explain," a woman's voice said. The group
looked up in surprise. Standing a bit off was a tall woman, around
Mamoru's age, with long dark green hair. The cats, thinking they'd
been caught, went and hid behind the legs of the girls. The woman
chuckled.

"You don't have to worry about me Luna, Artemis. I don't talk
to many people. I doubt I could spread your secret easily." She
sighed, looking away from the cats and to the surprised faces in front
of her. "We do have a lot to worry about though. My name is Meiou
Setsuna. I am also Sailor Pluto."

"Nani?!" Artemis said, followed by Luna, the girls, and
Mamoru. Setsuna chuckled lightly at the expressions she saw, but
remembered the reason of her visit and all signs of cheerfulness
vanished.

"Usagi was not meant to die. I'm afraid I was unable to see
Fiore's part in the time line for some reason, and now it is too late.
As Pluto, I am guardian of time. I make sure nothing happens to
seriously change the future. Well, something has." She paused, looking
at the faces in front of her to see their reaction. After a moment,
she continued. "Mamoru, you and Usagi were meant to become the future
rulers of Earth and the Solar System. Chibi-Usa, or Small Lady as I
know her as, was your daughter. She now no longer exists." She sounded
sad, her eyes dropping to the ground in front of her.

Mamoru looked at Setsuna in shock. 'Usagi and I? A daughter?'
Regaining some of his composure, he spoke quietly. "All of that is
gone now? There is no way to bring Usagi back?"

Setsuna shook her head sadly. "I'm afraid the damage has been
done. At this point, the timelines are still realigning. Even I am not
yet quite sure what is to come. Of what I do know though is trouble.
Rubius was from the Dark Moon family in the future. Since that future
no longerexists, you will have no more trouble from them. You should
have peace for a while."

"Why are you here then?" Ami asked quietly.

"Usagi's death has not stopped future enemies. I cannot tell
you ahead of time what new troubles will come. I am able to do this
though. As you are now, without Usagi and with your current
transformations, you will not survive. I have seen what will happen in
the next few years if I do this, and seeing the alternatives, I find
no other way." She held out her hand, and in it appeared four new
transformation pens.

"How do we know we can trust you?" Luna asked wearily. Setsuna
smiled tiredly and, resting the pens on a bench, brought out one
different then the others.

"Pluto planet power, make up!" she cried out. Rei was suddenly
very glad her grandpa and Yuuichirou were out for the day.

Less then a second later, the same woman from before stood
before them in a black sailor fuku with dark, blood red ribbons. In
one hand she held a long staff that was shaped like a key. On the top,
in a beautiful setting, sat a red orb. Sailor Pluto.

"Mina, now that Usagi is gone, as Artemis said, you are to
become leader. When your next enemy comes along, so will new senshi. I
will join you again then." The time senshi smiled once more at the
group before vanishing. The only sign that she had been there at all
were the four new pens. One dark blue, one red, one green, and one
orange.



'Jadeite.....'

The blond man opened his eyes slowly. At first, he wasn't sure
where he was. Then it came back to him. Failing his queen. Loosing to
the sailor brats. But why was he still alive?

He looked in front of him. A girl of about 16 or 17 was
standing in front of him, grinning coldly. She had reddish-brunette
hair to her shoulders and was wearing jeans and a tight, black t-shirt.

"About time you woke up. I was starting to wonder if I would
be here for the rest of the day. Welcome back to the living, Negaverse
General."

Jadeite gasped. Who was this girl? How did she know who he was?

The girl frowned, crossing her arms in front of herself. "Or
shall I say Chaos General now? A lot has happened since Beryl locked
you away. Do you think that, if given the power, you could take care
of the Sailor Senshi?




Well, there it is. Chapter one. For those of you who are more
used to the NA names,

Usagi=Serena
Ami=Amy
Rei=Reye
Makoto=Lita
M inako=Mina
Mamoru=Darien
Naru=Molly (I nearly put Molly instead of her Japanese name while
writing this. Oops!)
Yuuichirou=Chad

~Jade Nova
moon_archer82@lunap.com