Sailor Moon Fan Fiction / Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Love In A Ruined World ❯ I Don't Want To Leave You ( Chapter 18 )

DISCLAIMER: Neither DBZ nor Sailor Moon or any of the characters are owned by me. They're owned by greedy old men without families. Blah.

NOTES: This fanfic takes place after Sailor Moon Super S (in Sailor Moon's world) and after Trunks returns to the future after the Cell Saga (in DBZ's world).

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"Gotta catch Frieza... I have to catch him... I can't let him hurt Bulma or Ami!"

Trunks flew across the landscape in pursuit of Frieza. All he could see of him was a small speck in the distance.

"I can't believe this!" Trunks shouted. "I'm barely gaining any ground on him... I should probably power back down."

Trunks' muscles shrank down again, into the streamlined physique of a normal Super Saiyan. He flew off after Frieza with incredible speed.

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"Bulma, do you see him now?" Ami asked. Bulma looked up toward Frieza and squinted her eyes. She gasped.

"That IS Frieza!" Bulma shouted, Frieza's body now clearly in view. "Ami, hide!"

But before Bulma or Ami could run anywhere, Frieza descended to the ground in front of them. He smiled a sadistic grin.

"So," Frieza said. "Who wants to die first?"

Ami growled, then transformed into Sailor Mercury.

"I won't let you hurt Mrs. Briefs!" Sailor Mercury shouted, her legs trembling with fear. "I'll fight you, Frieza!"

"You pathetic creature!" Frieza shouted. "I'm millions of times stronger than you'll ever be, you-"

"Take this!" Mercury shouted, firing a large blast of ice magic at Frieza. Frieza stuck out his arm and used a small ball of energy to hold back Sailor Mercury's attack. Then, he blasted the attack back, knocking Sailor Mercury down.

"Ami, no!" Bulma shouted. Frieza hovered over the terrified water Senshi.

"This is going to be fun," Frieza said. He turned around, his tail zooming toward Sailor Mercury's skull. Just as she began to scream, a large hand enclosed around the tip of Frieza's tail, and the evil Changling was lifted off the ground.

"What were you planning to do?" Trunks asked angrily. His ki aura flared up, and within an instant, he had transformed back into an Ultimate Super Saiyan.

"Trunks..." Mercury said in a relieved tone.

"Let me go, you stupid Saiyan monkey!" Frieza shouted, trying to break free of Trunks' powerful grip.

Still holding Frieza by the tail, Trunks began to swing Frieza over his head, spinning him around and around. Finally, he let go of Frieza's tail, sending him flying a long distance until finally, Frieza regained his balance by somersaulting forward and landed on his feet. He turned around and glared at Trunks angrily.

"That was a cheap trick," Frieza said. "You grabbed me from behind!"

Without saying a word, Trunks flew straight at Frieza. Frieza fired a flurry of small purple energy balls at Trunks. Trunks flew right through the storm of energy balls, the ones that actually hit him doing no damage. He flew right into Frieza's chest, sending Frieza flying back. Frieza let out a cry of frustration and flew up into the sky. Trunks followed him, flying up to face Frieza.

"You'll never defeat me," Frieza said. "I'm the most powerful warrior in the universe, and you're just a Saiyan mon-"

Trunks' fist slammed into Frieza's face, knocking him back and causing blood to gush out of Frieza's nose.

"Dammit, you're annoying," Trunks said. "You keep saying the same thing. Don't you have anything else to call me?"

Trunks smiled.

"Maybe all those blows to your skull damaged your tiny little brain," Trunks said, a hint of cockiness in his voice. "I'm through toying with you! You're going to die now!"

Frieza, having floated downward slightly after being punched by Trunks, looked up at him. He shook his head, as if in a daze.

"This form is supposed to be indestructible!" Frieza thought, mentally castigating himself. "How can I possibly be losing to this foolhardy Saiyan? This was supposed to be my revenge!"

Frieza flew up toward Trunks and spun around, kicking at his head. Trunks grabbed Frieza's leg with his right hand and tossed him down to the ground, then pointed his arm at Frieza. He charged up a ki blast.

"Die, Frieza," Trunks said coldly. A large beam of golden energy flew out of Trunks' palm, toward Frieza.

"Trunks' power is incredible," Bulma said, turned toward Sailor Mercury. "Don't you agree?"

"I've never seen or felt power like that before, from anyone..." Mercury said in quiet amazement.

"He's ten times as powerful as his father was," Bulma said. "At least..."

The huge beam of ki flew toward Frieza, who was still plummeting toward the ground. Frieza turned himself over and stopped in midair, right above the ground. He watched as the mammoth blast flew toward him.

"Trunks, I'll make you suffer!" Frieza shouted. He flew away from the path of the blast, barely clearing the beam as it slammed into the ground. The huge explosion created by the blast expanded outward and slammed into Frieza's back as he flew away, sending him flying forward toward Bulma and Sailor Mercury. He landed face down on the ground, about fifteen feet away from them.

"How did he dodge that?" Trunks asked himself. "At least he's running from me now... I have to finish him off!"

Frieza picked himself off the ground weakly. Sailor Mercury and Bulma gasped, stepping back toward the front door of the house.

"Go inside," Trunks warned them through gritted teeth. "NOW!"

Bulma and Mercury nodded meekly and ran into the house, closing the door behind them. Frieza floated up off of the ground and toward the Briefs' house, hovering over it.

"If I killed them, Trunks...." Frieza said, smiling, "how much pain would it cause you?"

"Not even a tenth of a percent of the pain that I would cause you, you sadistic bastard," Trunks said, floating down and hovering a few feet away from Frieza. "Don't you dare!"

Frieza smiled and fired a small blast down toward the house, too small to hurt Trunks but large enough to destroy the house and both people inside. Trunks swiftly floated over to the blast and smacked it away with his hand, sending it flying into space. Frieza began laughing.

"Try this on for size!" Frieza shouted. "Die, monkeys, die!"

A gigantic red energy blast, probably fifty times larger than Frieza's body, swelled forth from Frieza's hands, pushing him up hundreds of feet in the air as the blast expanded, the bottom of the blast just a few feet away from the Briefs' house. Trunks, standing on the roof, gasped in horror.

"He would do something like this..." Trunks thought. "I won't... I can't let it hurt mom! Or Ami! I PROMISED HER!"

Trunks put up his arms, holding the huge blast back. Frieza tried to push it forward, toward the house, but Trunks, floating up off of the roof, continued to push it back, toward Frieza. Frieza's expression changed from glee to anger.

"Frieza, it's over for you!" Trunks screamed. "Take THIS!"

A huge ball of ki emerged from Trunks' palms and swelled up, much smaller than Frieza's blast, but much stronger as well. Frieza had no choice but to bail out, flying to the side and allowing Trunks' ki blast to push Frieza's up and into space.

"How does he do that?" Frieza shouted. "I'm the superior being! I'm the sole survivor of the Changling race! I-"

"You're dead, Frieza," Trunks said. Frieza looked up to see Trunks, hovering over him.

"How did you get up here?"

Trunks slammed both of his fists into the top of Frieza's head, sending him plummeting downward to the ground, and away from the Briefs' house. He hit the ground with amazing force, sending a huge dust cloud into the air. Trunks flew down into the dust cloud and saw Frieza, struggling to get up from Trunks' attack. Trunks put both of his arms together and extended them at Frieza, palms pointed toward the evil beast. He began charging energy into them as Frieza tried to get up. Frieza finally managed to get to his feet, but it was too late. Trunks had finished charging his energy.

"I SHOULD HAVE DONE THIS A LONG TIME AGO!" Trunks screamed. "FINAL FLAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!!!"

A huge burst of golden energy flew outward from Trunks' hands, hitting Frieza at point blank range and engulfing the evil creature in light. The huge blast pushed Trunks back, almost all the way toward his house, two or three hundred feet away. Inside, Bulma and Sailor Mercury had to turn and shield their eyes from the immense light of the attack.

"I can barely stand!" Sailor Mercury screamed. "What's Trunks doing?"

"He'll tear the house apart!" Bulma shouted. "Get down!"

The huge ball of light remained on the ground for several minutes. Finally, it disappeared. Trunks, gasping for breath and barely able to stand, looked to see the effects of his attack.

"I can't feel anything," Trunks said in a staggered tone. He detransformed out of USSJ, back to his normal Saiyan form. "Frieza's... dead..."

Trunks stood at the mouth of a giant crater, over 750 feet wide and nearly a hundred feet deep at the center. Frieza was nowhere to be seen. The crater's edge was barely twenty feet away from the Briefs' home. Bulma and Sailor Mercury slowly stepped outside of the house.

"Oh my God," Bulma gasped upon seeing the crater. She fell back into Sailor Mercury's arms.

"Bulma!" Mercury shouted. "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine..." Bulma said weakly. "Just... almost fainted there, huh?"

Trunks turned to face them. A slight smile crossed his face.

"I did it," Trunks said. "I... I killed Frieza... again..."

"You sure?" Mercury asked.

"I can't sense his energy, and he can't mask it," Trunks said. "Ami... mom..."

"Now we can finally live in peace," Bulma said.

"I really hope so," Trunks said, frowning again. "And we can finally get Ami home."

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That night, Trunks, Bulma, and Ami, now detransformed, were standing next to the workbench in the Briefs' basement.

"Tomorrow, I want to go back and try to help the villagers," Trunks said. "They're all walking out to Nihimo Town, but that's thirty miles away."

"What are you going to do?" Ami asked him.

"I'm going to carry them, about thirty at a time," Trunks said. "That's the most that I can carry without having to worry about them knocking each other off."

"I see," Ami said.

"Ami, could you hand me that screwdriver over there?" Bulma asked, pointed to a green screwdriver lying on a table next to Ami.

"Sure," Ami said, taking the screwdriver and handing it to Bulma.

"I think I've just about got this thing done," Bulma said, screwing a panel into place onto a machine that Trunks and Ami couldn't see because Bulma was standing in the way.

"What is that thing?" Trunks asked, trying to stand on his tiptoes so that he could see over his mother's shoulders.

"You can't see it until I'm done," Bulma said. "It's going to be a surprise."

"How do Ami and I know how close you are to finishing until I see the actual machine?" Trunks asked.

"I know about you promising Ami you'd have her home in two weeks," Bulma replied. "She's been here what, twelve days? I'll have it done by tomorrow night."

"Really?" Ami asked. "Oh, thank you, Bulma..."

"I'm dismantling the old time machine," Bulma said. "Building this, I learned, requires many of the same components, only it's actually a bit simpler."

Trunks turned around. In the far corner of the room stood the time machine that he had used to travel to the past. Most of its panels had been removed, along with much of the wiring.

"Wow, mom, you really wrecked that thing," Trunks said. "You mean that the same principles used to travel through time can be used to travel between dimensions as well?"

"Time is a separate dimension," Ami said. "Dimensional travel as opposed to time travel is just like traveling out into space as opposed to traveling down the street, right, Bulma?"

"That's right, Ami," Bulma said. "Only without having to strap down your breakfast every morning."

"Geez, Ami, you're as smart as my mother," Trunks said. "Maybe smarter."

Ami giggled.

"Actually, Bulma was the one who told me about the space-street analogy," Ami replied modestly. "She's taught me a lot while I was here."

Ami looked up into Trunks' eyes, smiling a warm smile.

"And so have you, Trunks," Ami said sweetly. "I almost don't want to leave..."

"Ami, don't be ridiculous," Trunks said. "This world... this world is dying. It's already dead, and it will take hundreds, maybe thousands or tens of thousands of years before it'll be anything like it used to be, or like your world is..."

Trunks put his hand on Ami's shoulder.

"Plus, you're a member of the Sailor Senshi. It's your responsibility to protect your world, along with your friends," Trunks said. Ami frowned and looked down toward the floor.

"My friends..." Ami said sadly. "I miss them so dearly... but I'll miss you too, Trunks. You and Bulma."

Ami smiled.

"But... maybe you and your mother could use Bulma's new machine to visit my world!" Ami said cheerfully. "Any time that you want!"

Bulma frowned.

"No, you won't..." Bulma said. "This is kind of a rush job, and making a source of fuel for machines like this takes a long time. It will only have enough energy to send one person once..."

"I could wait more days, I could!" Ami said. "One week, or two, or four, or-"

"Ami, your friends need you," Trunks said, frowning sadly.

"Trunks is right, dear," Bulma said. "I'm sure that your friends... they miss you greatly... and your mother..."

"And you did promise me that I'd be home in two weeks," Ami said. "It's almost that time now... just a couple more days..."

Trunks smiled.

"Ami, I want to make another promise to you," Trunks said. "I'll always remember you, and... I'll do everything in my power to try and visit you after you've returned to your dimension."

"Trunks, you mean it?" Ami asked, looking into his eyes again. "Trunks, I... I don't know what to say, except..."

Trunks leaned his lips toward hers again. Ami closed her eyes as Trunks brushed back her hair and kissed her softly. They had only kissed for a split-second when they were abruptly interrupted by the sound of Bulma's voice.

"Maybe you two should get some rest," Bulma said. "You've had a terribly long day..."

Trunks stopped the kiss and turned toward Bulma.

"Alright, mom," Trunks said calmly.

"Thank you again, Mrs. Briefs," Ami said. The two teenagers walked over to the stairs and climbed them, leaving the basement.

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Back in Juuban, the other four Sailor Senshi were locked in battle with an extremely deadly monster, one of Dr. Sikaki's deadly creations. The monster that they were fighting was a huge, twenty-foot tall monster skeleton. It had already managed to knock out Sailor Mars and Sailor Venus earlier with one swipe of its huge, bony arm. Sailor Jupiter was standing near the monster's leg, covered with bruises and scratches. She appeared extremely tired. Sailor Moon had survived the battle nearly unharmed. She stood in front of the skeleton, pointing her henshin wand toward its chest.

"Hurry, Sailor Moon!" Jupiter shouted weakly. "This guy's killing us!"

"I'm trying!" Sailor Moon shouted. She gasped. "Watch out, Jupiter!"

Sailor Jupiter looked up to see the monster's huge foot hanging over her head. The skeleton stomped down. Jupiter held up both of her arms and caught the skeleton's foot, using all of the strength she had to keep the monster from crushing her.

"HURRY!" Jupiter shouted painfully.

"Sailor Jupiter, hold on!" Sailor Moon yelled. "Moon... Purification... Panacea!"

A huge beam of sparkling white light flew into the huge monster's chest. The skeleton roared, lifting its foot and allowing Sailor Jupiter to run out from under it and over to Sailor Moon.

"It's not strong enough!" Sailor Moon shouted.

"I'll help!" Jupiter yelled. "Jupiter... Oak... Evolution!"

A wave of leaves, lightning, and wood slammed into the skeleton's chest. Even with Sailor Moon and Sailor Jupiter's attacks bearing down on it, the monster still stood. It was in pain, but it was still alive, and soon, it would overcome the Senshi's attacks.

"We can't hold it..." Sailor Moon said sadly. "Oh no!"

"Mars Flame Sniper!"

"Venus Love Chain Encircle!"

A flaming golden chain flew into the monster's chest, causing it to roar loudly again. Sailor Moon and Sailor Jupiter turned their heads to see Sailor Venus and Sailor Mars, standing next to them.

"You're awake!" Sailor Moon said in relief.

"Duh, Sailor Moon..." Sailor Mars groaned, still in severe pain.

"We wouldn't... abandon you..." Sailor Venus said.

The four attacks continued. The huge skeleton monster could no longer take the pain. It roared again, then disintegrated. The four Senshi stopped their attacks and sighed in relief.

"That was a close one," Sailor Moon breathed. "Everyone okay?"

The other three Senshi nodded.

"That was the toughest fight yet," Sailor Moon said. "Ami... we need you..."

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Ami, wearing a beautiful white nightgown with pink slippers, was snugly tucked into the sheets and blanket on Bulma's bed. Trunks sat on the foot of the bed, wearing a white undershirt and blue-striped boxers.

"Trunks," Ami said, sitting up and scooting over next to Trunks. "I'll miss you so much..."

"We still have two days left to be together," Trunks said gently. "Ami, I don't know if I can say this enough... thank you for everything."

Ami nodded.

"Trunks, you've fulfilled all of your promises to me," Ami said. "You've kept me safe from Frieza, you've helped me get back home..."

Ami's eyes began to water.

"And... and I know you'll visit me," Ami said. "I know you'll visit me, and you'll visit my friends, and..."

A tear slid down Ami's cheek.

"What is it now, Ami?" Trunks asked, gently brushing away Ami's tear with his finger. "You're very emotional, you know that?"

"Yes, I do," Ami sniffled. "I don't cry very often, really... well, compared to most people, I guess... it's just that, well, I find myself feeling sad a lot of the time, and-"

"Sad?" Trunks asked. "I know that you've been picked on at school for being intelligent, and that you worry about your friends often because they're always out on dangerous Senshi missions, and...."

"And I don't want to lose you, Trunks," Ami said, tears streaming down her face. "I mean, I mean..."

Ami's words were broken up by intermittent sobs, causing her to shake and tremble every few seconds.

"Ami, I'll always be in your heart...." Trunks said, trying to console her. "I have a confession to make... guess it's selfish, but over the last few days I haven't really wanted you to leave..."

"You feel that way too?" Ami asked, still crying. "A lot of the time I feel as if I don't want to leave... if there was a way to have the best of both worlds... see you and my friends and my family at the same time, then..."

Ami leaned forward, resting her head on Trunks' shoulder. Her tears began to seep slowly down his arm. Trunks didn't bother to wipe them away, instead, caressing Ami's face with his arm while wrapping his arms around her.

"Ami, I've been wanting to say..." Trunks said, before stopping. He breathed in, and as the air went up through his nose and mouth, Ami heard him sniffle slightly. "Ami, I've been... Ami..."

A single tear appeared in Trunks' eye. He blinked, causing it to fall out of his eye. Ami caught it on her finger, gasping slightly.

"Trunks, I've never seen you cry..." Ami said, picking her head up off of Trunks' shoulder and looking into his eyes, which were reflecting a sadder expression than Ami had ever seen on Trunks' face.

"Ami, I love you," Trunks said.

Before Trunks could say anything more, Ami gently pressed her lips against his, slipping her tongue slightly between his lips and into his mouth. Ami closed her eyes and let Trunks' lips envelop hers before slipping her tongue into his mouth again. She pulled back slightly, only stopping the beautiful kiss for a second to whisper three words, before wrapping her lips around Trunks' to resume the passionate kiss.....

"I love you."

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"Mon...key... monkey... Saiyan... Saiyan monkey... Trunks..."

Deep within the center of the crater, far below the earth, an infinitesimal amount of energy had begun to seep into the crater.

"You murdered... my father... you tormented my thoughts... my dreams... my body... damn Saiyan monkey..."

Trunks' Final Flash attack had not killed Frieza. It had pushed his battered, mutilated, and mangled body deep into the Earth. An extremely small hole which had formed in the center of the crater had provided the nearly dead Changling with everything he had needed to become what he had always wanted to become.

"This isn't like other transformations... you can't sense it... you can't see it... it's deep within the planet... and in a few short hours, I will begin to undergo my ultimate and final transformation... yes! Trunks, you and everyone you love... I'll make all of them suffer! I'll make you watch as I inflict upon the ones that you love more pain than even you can imagine! Your damned old hag of a mother... that shrieking witch whom I know is your lover... and then... I'll torture you forever! You pathetic, weak Saiyan monkey! I'll inflict pain upon you so severely that you will never have an afterlife! You will ALWAYS remember the name of Frieza! I'll carve it into your heart, etch it permanently into your brain... brand it onto your lips... the name of FRIEZA..."

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Yes, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, pets, kawaii critters, and one-celled organisms, Frieza is still alive! Barely, at least! What? Could it really be true? Another transformation? And... did Trunks and Ami... well, you can make your own assumptions, I'm not going to say anything. Anyway, read, and please please review!