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~Let Go~

Chapter 5

“So we are going?” Bunny asked. She looked into Pluto’s eyes—for she had already transformed into her Scout form.

Pluto had a bad feeling. The information that Nemesis had told her just a few hours ago via their psychic connection was beyond troubling. She had informed the rest of the Outer Scouts, and they had agreed with her.

The only question was should she tell the others that as soon as they got to the other World that they were going to be fighting?

Pluto looked at Saturn. Saturn understood the turmoil her friend was going through. She put her right hand on Pluto’s shoulder, reassuring her that she was there.

“You should tell them. They need to be prepared, if they just go into the fight without warning, they will die. We can’t have that, it’s too early.” Saturn told her quietly.

Uranus and Neptune nodded, they totally agreed with their fellow Scout. Pluto looked over her shoulder at Uranus and nodded at her. The four Scouts had been together so long they knew what each movement of the others meant. They didn’t even have to use that connection they shared to talk into the others mind. They didn’t need it.

Uranus nodded herself. She turned to the five Inner Scouts, who weren’t transformed yet, and whistled, getting their attention.

“Okay listen up Scouts. You all need to transform as quickly as possible. We need to get there as fast as we can. There has already been a possession.” She ignored the gasps and the murmurs and continued on. “As soon as we get there, we are entering a fight. Now, here is what you need you need to know, two things. One: there will be others who will be fighting the enemy as well, though they don’t have the powers we do. They are more geared toward physical fighting with energy blasts.”

“The Z Fighters…” Ami said, after Uranus told her she was correct she and the rest of the Inner Scouts transformed. It didn’t take long, with their Crystals activated they were strong, and the transformation time became quicker.

“The second thing you need to know…is that we can’t save the ones possessed. This isn’t like taking your Star Seeds. Eternal Sailor Moon cannot heal them. We have to kill them. That is what the Princess has told us.” Neptune said as she took over for Uranus.

Sailor Moon and the rest were shocked.

“What do you mean we can’t save them? We always have been able to save them.” Sailor Moon cried to the Outers.

Saturn sighed, getting everyone’s attention in the process. “This isn’t that simple. Chaos isn’t taking their Star Seeds. Chaos isn’t turning them into phages. Chaos is taking something else.” She waited till her words had sunk in then she went on. “But we can save them. If we can locate them quickly enough, then we do not have to kill them.”

Sailor Moon and the Inners gave a sigh of relief. That was what they wanted to hear.

Sailor Moon though, had something nagging at the back of her mind. Sailor Nemesis—her sister—had told them they were all weak. Her sister had always told her that she was stupid and needed to listen more. And she had started doing just that. She needed to be strong. Uranus had said something about fighting as soon as they got there…

“Wait,” Sailor Moon said as she realized something. “Uranus, you said we would be fighting as soon as we got there right?”

“Correct Little Princess,” Uranus nodded.

Sailor Moon and the rest of the Scouts put it together then. “Then is it too late for the first one who is possessed?” Jupiter asked softly, already knowing the answer.

Pluto hung her head down. “It is too late, yes.”

Pluto then turned around—after a moment of silence—and called her Garnet Rod to her. She closed her eyes and cupped her hands around the top of her Rod. She focused and thought of the Door and what was behind it. She imagined the Planet they were going to. She imagined the location her Princess had given her.

When she opened her eyes seconds later, the Door was in front of her. She turned toward the Scouts. “While we are in that World you are to listen to either me or Sailor Nemesis. There will be no playing the Princess card on us.” She gave Sailor Moon a look. “We are all Princess’s of our own Planets, but now we are Sailor Scouts. We are going to protect this Planet. No arguing, alright? We have to focus on the task at hand. I will not tolerate what happened last time we tried to destroy the enemy and you, Inner Scouts, refused to let us do it. I am not sure if we can heal the ones that die this time. We are going to assume those that die, will stay dead.”

Neptune nodded. “We cannot have division among us. We have to be strong together or we will fall. We will die if we don’t work together and take down the enemy. Everyone understand?”

Once every Scout nodded, Pluto opened the Door and they stepped through.

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“Oh crap! Double crap!” Gohan yelled as he dodged another attack the enemy sent at him. “They won’t stop coming! Where is the end of these things?”

Their enemies had bracelets on their wrists, but they weren’t different from what normal humans look like. They all looked the same though. They were girls in skirts, more like Sailor Uniforms. The colors were definitely different. There was Brown, Red, Blue, and White. Each color had different attacks.

The Brown ones had Earth base attacks. The Red was Fire. Blue was Water. And White was Air.

Gohan and Goten had the Brown ones. Goku had a Red one, but so did Adrian and Adam. Blue ones were attacking Yamucha and Krillin. White was attacking Vegeta and Trunks. Drake appeared to be fighting a Brown and a Blue one, but he quickly killed the Blue one.

Killing them seemed to be easy, but they kept on multiplying. Like the Earth underneath them, would mold and shape one, while the creek thirty foot away made the Water ones. And at least two of the Fire ones were keeping a huge Fire burning near their Leader. It was making it hard to see who it was. The same thing was happening to the Wind and Air ones. Just a few were away from everyone else making more.

“Does anyone know where the others are? Eighteen, Piccolo or Tien?” Goten asked as he got hit. He quickly got his balance back and killed the one who hit him.

“Piccolo is talking with Dende, Eighteen is looking for Seventeen. As for Tien…I have no idea. We haven’t seen him in months.” Krillin yelled as a Blue one sent an attack of Water toward him. He dodged and threw his Disc at the five Blue ones trying to surround him.

Vegeta growled as he rammed his foot into a White enemy, who was thrown back into a few others.

“Where the hell are those others Nemesis was sending?” Vegeta growled as he punched another one.

Trunks was breathing hard, they had been going at this for over two hours nonstop. He was beginning to get afraid they weren’t going to beat this enemy. So where were the ones Nemesis said she was sending? Would they be too late?

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“Hurry! Those Z Fighters are in trouble.” Pluto whispered as she closed and locked the Door. “Before you attack, watch the enemy. Find out what kind of attacks they use and find one that your powers are strong against. Now Go Sailor Scouts!”

They ran toward the battle raging in front of them, but they held back when they got close. They hid behind some trees and bushes. They saw a huge amount of different color mini Sailor Scouts. They had to be between four foot and five foot tall.

They watched for five minutes before they figured the enemy out.

“Red has Fire attacks, Mercury and Neptune those are yours. Blue is Water, Jupiter those are all yours. White is Air, Mars it strengthens your Fire go get them. The rest of us, Moon, Saturn will go after the Brown ones, they have Earth attacks. I will join Mars against the White as back up. Did I forget anyone?” Pluto asked as continued to not take her eyes off the enemies.

“I didn’t get assigned.” Venus said softly.

Pluto looked back at her. “Sorry, go with Jupiter. Now, every group has at least two people, or am I wrong? Wait, Uranus stop being so quiet. You can’t play with the White, so go with Moon and Saturn. You are of the Sky, so take down those who are below you. Ready everyone?”

They nodded. “Come out alive, Scouts. It won’t be long before Nemesis shows up. Don’t take your time. Knowing her she is watching now, waiting to see if we need help. Go!”

The Outers disappeared and appeared in front of the Z Fighters taking on the enemies with their colors.

“You can go away now. We can take it from here.” The Outers said as one as they had their weapons in front of them, hacking away at the mini Scouts.

Pluto was in front of Trunks who had Vegeta at his back. Mars took care of the ones attacking Vegeta with her Fire attacks, while Pluto, who was behind them, took care of those.

Neptune flashed her Mirror at the one about to kill Adrian. Adrian and Adam were just staring and didn’t notice one coming up behind them, but Mercury took care of it with her Water attacks.

Saturn brought her Scythe down on a Blue one about to kill Goten, while Moon whacked one with her Scepter.

Uranus slashed with her Sword at the one Drake was having trouble with. She cut it down like it was nothing.

The rest of the Scouts, Jupiter and Venus, took on the ones they were assigned.

They all amazed the Z Fighters with their Elemental Attacks. The only ones not using their attacks were the Outers, who used their Talismans.

Within ten minutes the Scouts did what the Z Fighters couldn’t do in two hours. Even though they got the numbers down, it wasn’t enough. The Scouts saw that. Sailor Moon was going to do something about it though.

“EVERYONE STAND BACK!” Sailor Moon yelled.

The Scouts got closer to the Z Fighter they were Guarding and raised a barrier. Saturn protected both Goten and Gohan.

“SILVER MOON CRYSTAL POWER KISS!” Sailor Moon yelled as white light flashed over the clearing.

The entire army of the fake mini Scouts were gone.

Saturn and Uranus quickly dropped their barriers and caught Sailor Moon before she fell from lack of energy.

“You did too much Little Princess.” Saturn said.

Uranus nodded as the other Scouts came toward them. “You know when you use the Crystal you can die.”

Sailor Moon tried to laugh, but she started choking. “But we would have lost; even my stupid self saw that. As long as there was one left we would have had even more enemies to take care of. The only way to get rid of them all was an attack that destroyed them all at once. Even you guys know that.”

With that said she de-transformed. The Z Fighters could only watch. These were the people Nemesis sent them?

Little Girls in Sailor Outfits…just like the ones the enemy had. But the enemy did come from their World after all…their thoughts didn’t going any further when they heard a voice.

“So you killed the minions, but what about the boss?” a voice asked.

They all turned around and saw Nemesis…Sailor Nemesis. She stood as tall as she was before, but she wasn’t in her Princess dress now or her pajamas.

She looked exactly like Sailor Moon, but without the blonde hair. This time it was pure black. Her Sailor Outfit had black boots up to her knees. Instead of the Crescent Moon Symbols on her boots, there was the Nemesis Symbol. The symbol was a small golden circle at the center with two straight lines going out of the circle—left and right—but it didn’t stop. The left one went up and had an arrow, and the right one went down and had an arrow coming out of it too.

Her skirt was black, but her bows were golden. Her gloves and the upper half of her body were black as well.

The Symbol on her forehead…there was no Tiara; it was just her symbol, like Sailor Moon had the Crescent Moon. Her staff was as tall as her. It was rounded off at the bottom, pure black all the way through. But the top of the staff was different. There was a thin metal stick sticking up out of the top the staff, about three fourths up the staff. On the end of the stick it curved straight up on both sides, but at the tip it tilted down like the long sides of a triangle. Inside the top of the staff was a golden crystal. Floating a little below the ends that were tilted down.

In the middle of the bow on her chest was a black crystal. It was her Crystal. But it was only half of it.

“I am Super Sailor Nemesis.” She turned her green eyes toward Pluto. “You know what to do once the smoke clears.”

Pluto bowed. “Yes Princess.”

Nemesis turned toward the group of Z Fighters, her face blank. “You did great. My Scouts, you did well as well. Now, all we have left to do is to kill the one possessed.”

“Are you sure we can’t save them, Nemesis? Please!” Sailor Moon begged her sister.

Nemesis gave her little sister a calm, blank look as well. She chuckled. “How I always wanted you to beg. But not for this, not for someone else. I wanted you to beg for your life little Moon. But that will have to wait. No, this person will die, it’s the only way.”

“The smoke is clearing,” Krillin said, effectively breaking the tension that the two sisters’ caused.

All the Z Fighters thought it strange for Nemesis to want one of her own Scouts to beg for her life…but no one said anything. There was too much about these girls that they didn’t know.

None of them, but three caught the two words directed at both girls. Princess. They looked just a like. Before Nemesis had blonde hair, like the blonde girl with lumps on her hair did.

They all turned around to watch the last of the smoke to clear. Each Scout was by a Z fighter. Jupiter was in the back, in case of another attack. The Z Fighters weren’t close together, they were spread out. Five feet or so between each one. Vegeta and Goku were in front next to Nemesis and Pluto.

Trunks was next to Gohan and Moon. Mercury was next to Adam, who was next to Venus, who was next to Krillin. Mars and Uranus were by Drake and Yamucha—who both decided to stand by each other for no real reason, but to annoy each other. Saturn and Neptune paired up to stand next to Kari and Goten, who were talking quietly.

The smoke cleared. Four Fake Mini Scouts were standing around their leader—who was bent over on the ground, it looked like the leader was holding something—holding a barrier up.

Nemesis and Pluto chuckled as they saw the barrier.

“An Element Barrier? Too bad it killed them…” Pluto said as they watched the four dissolved into the Element they controlled.

The barrier went down and the leader was crouched down fiddling with something. Nemesis narrowed her eyes.

Once the barrier did go down the leader seem to sense the others behind her. She stiffened. She quickly conjured a White Fake Mini Scout and she gave it something and it disappeared.

She stood up, her purple hair flowing down her back. She turned around and narrowed her once purple—now black—eyes at them.

“Bulma…” Vegeta said, his eyes not believing what he saw. His dream…this is what it meant. She was going to die, because she was possessed. And he couldn’t save her…maybe there was a way. Maybe one of these Scouts wouldn’t kill her. Maybe if he found the one that was meant to kill her, he could stop them.

“Mom…” Trunks said at the same time as Vegeta said his mom’s name. He couldn’t believe it. His Mother was going to die…and he had to watch it. He couldn’t save her.

Nemesis took a deep breath, shut the emotions flowing into out. “Restrain and kill.”

“If that is your will, my Princess,” Pluto calmly stated as she nodded.

She threw an arm around Vegeta’s waist and pointed her Garnet Rod at Bulma.

“Pluto Death Ball.” Pluto whispered as she powered up her attack.

Vegeta remembered his dream…and just like it, he couldn’t stop her death. He couldn’t move. He was too focused on his wife. Her face looking like her, but at the same time totally different, her eyes wasn’t the only thing different. Her face mocked them.

“Kill me; it isn’t like I can’t possess someone else.” Bulma said, her voice higher, yet deeper than her own voice.

The purple ball of energy shot out of her Garnet Rod a hit Bulma. Bulma screamed bloody murder as her became extremely pale. Then she completely disintegrated.

Bulma was dead. She wasn’t coming back. Every Z Fighter felt her death, took it in. Every Z Fighter had been connected to her in some way.

Krillin had known her, with Goku, when they were children.

Yamucha had gone out with her, and at one time he was in love with her.

Gohan and Goten grew up with her there. She was like a second mom to them.

Adam, Adrian and Drake didn’t know her. They only knew Gohan. But they saw the pain on his face. Even though everyone knew that this couldn’t have been helped, that they couldn’t save her, it still hurt.

Goku had known her since he was a child. She was like a sister to him. He looked at Nemesis who still had the blank face on. But for a second, her face grimaced as if she was suffering unimaginable pain.

“Can you guys stop thinking or feeling for one blasted minute?!” She groaned out in pain.

Now, that got everyone’s attention. That and her grabbing her head like it was hurting.

Pluto let go of Vegeta and walked quickly to her Princess. She grabbed her and held her from behind.

“Shh…tune them out. Block them out.” She whispered smoothly like she was talking to a child who just had a nightmare.

Uranus, Neptune and Saturn walked over to their Princess as well.

“It’s okay Princess…” the three said over and over as two grabbed her hands and the other stood in front of her.

Moon became scared. “Is she going to have an attack?”

The four Inner Scouts paled at those words. The Z Fighters—all but one—didn’t know what that meant.

“She c-ca-can’t…didn’t s-sh-she get over t-th-tha-that years ago? Wasn’t s-sh-she cured?” Mercury stuttered.

Saturn turned to the other Scouts and glared, they backed up. “She isn’t having an attack. She just left her mind open that is all. Now shut up and close off your minds.”

Vegeta snorted. Trying to block out the fact that he wife just died. He did the only thing that came to him. Tease her. Tease the woman who had ordered his wife’s death. But somehow the teasing was easy, as if it was a habit he had developed. He knew he had developed it. They had known each other for years, they used to be close friends and didn’t friends tease the other?

“Oh…it seems the little Princess still can’t control herself. What have you been during all these years? Sitting on your ass? You used to be an expert.” He smirked. “Ahh, don’t tell me the baby got weak. You have to have your little attendants’ help you now. You have gotten weak.” He mocked her.

Nemesis forgot about the pain and whirled around. Her Scouts jumped back behind her. She glared at Vegeta, who was immune to them, just like she was immune to his glares.

“Weak? I’m weak? Who the hell had to save your ass over and over when we were kids? Hmm? Who had to cover for you when you did that? Who had to take the blame for that?” she trailed off.

Vegeta became quiet as well. “That was a long time ago. I covered for you as well, if you remembered.”

Nemesis snorted. “My mess ups were expected. I was too powerful and couldn’t control it. But you? You were the Prince of Saiyans, you could do no wrong.” She mocked. “And that night…” She trailed off, her voice becoming quiet.

“…was my biggest mistake.” Vegeta finished softly.

Nemesis looked away. “Yes, it was a huge mistake. You betrayed me.”

A silence had take control of the huge group. So many things were running through each and everyone’s head. How did those two know each other?

Sailor Moon looked back and forth between her sister and Vegeta.

“Was he the reason why you sealed off the Door?” she asked softly. “Why you wouldn’t let us through until we talked you into it?”

Now the Z Fighters looked between Nemesis and Vegeta. Even Vegeta looked shocked. She locked the Doors because of him? Vegeta didn’t know that what had happened had affected her so much.

Nemesis shook her head. “I left for a totally different reason. Not that it concerns anyone.”

Pluto took in the situation. “We have to get ready for the next possession. Princess,” she said. Nemesis turned around to look at her. “Are we to hunt by ourselves, as a group or wait?”

Nemesis shook her head. “I’m pairing you all up.” her face and voice had become emotionless and blank again.

She turned around again and walked toward Goku. “Goku, correct?”

Goku nodded. “Nemesis, are you really a Princess?” he asked, a few people sweat dropped.

Nemesis laughed and gave him a small smile, which he smiled in return. “Yes, I am the Eldest and Crown Heir to the Silver Millennium.”

Sailor Moon was mad. “STOP LYING!” she screamed.

Nemesis raised an eyebrow. “How am I lying, little Serenity?”

Moon stomped her foot. “I’m the Crown Princess! I will be Queen, Neo-Queen Serenity to be exact.”

Nemesis sighed. “Always so immature little sister. This is why mother begged me year after year to become heir again. No, you brought me back, so suffer to consequences. And stop acting like a child. You are eighteen, not to mention countless centuries old. Act like the Princess you claim to be.”

Sailor Moon knew her sister was right. Did she want to stop being immature, didn’t she want to start being smart? Moon looked uncertain as she thought about her future daughter. “What about Chibi Moon?”

Nemesis stopped and closed her eyes. “A talk for another time, stop giving out our personal business girl. Don’t you have respect? Now Goku,” she said turning her attention back to him. “What do you say about pairing up? Do you agree?”

Goku thought about it. As long as one Scout was with them, they could defeat the leader and the minions easily.

“Of course I agree. Why ask me though?”

Nemesis gave him a small grin. “Because you’re the leader of the Z Fighters, while I am the Leader of the Scouts. Now,” she turned toward the group of Z Fighters.

“Scouts behind me, Z Fighters bunch up together will you?” she said and turned around and focused on her Scouts.

“Let’s go in order shall we?” she said. The first one she looked for was Mercury.

“Mercury, you will pair up with,” she looked at the Z Fighters.

There was a man, twenty years old, medium length brown hair tied back into a bow. He wore dark brown pants with a blue shirt. He had tennis shoes on. He had brown eyes as well. The man loved brown, and for a good reason too. He had power of the Earth. Only a little bit of Earth, not everything. He could lift rocks, pick really heavy Earth up, and manipulate Earth, but not Plants, trees or anything other than rock and minerals.

Nemesis knew who to pick for her. “The dude who is obsessed with brown.” She said as she pointed at him.

His two friends laughed at him. He just sighed and told them his name was Adam.

“Well, Adam and Mercury go stand somewhere together so I know not to pair you up with anyone else. Next, Venus get your butty over here.”

Venus walked up beside her and Nemesis saw a short dude, who was almost drooling at her Scout. She smirked; Vegeta mumbled something about being worried.

“Okay you’re paired with the short, bald dude Venus, go stand somewhere. Now, little Moon get over here. You will be paired with the dude standing next to Goku…I’m guessing his son.”

“Gohan is my name…Nemesis.” Gohan said tightly.

Nemesis scratched her head. “Got you.”

But before Sailor Moon could walk over to him Nemesis put her hand on Moon’s shoulder. She froze and closed her eyes. Nemesis saw something she didn’t want to see. She had been wrong about one thing, and right about another. Black and blonde didn’t make pink, but Chibi Moon didn’t have pink hair…it was dyed. So her father did have black hair…but she was right about the father not being Mamoru.

“Sister, did you see something?” Moon said concerned.

Nemesis took a deep breath. “I just found out Chibi Moon doesn’t have pink hair, but that is all.”

The Scouts all laughed, while Moon just looked confused. “What has that got to do with anything? Of course her hair is pink! I would never let my child dye her hair.”

Nemesis looks the other way. “Cough. Venus…has something to do with it. Cough. Apparently she didn’t like the color her hair actually was. Cough. Moving on, next group.”

A few laughed, Venus looked sheepish. Moon still didn’t get it. Gohan just smiled as he led her to the others that had been paired up. These girls were weird, but he was used to it.

Jupiter steeped up toward Nemesis and whispered in her ear. “It was brown wasn’t it?”

Nemesis choked for a second. “I plea the Fifth, Jupiter step back, were skipping you. You’re with someone who won’t really be fighting. Mars go with the guy with that scar on his face…his has long black hair. Yamucha, I think is his name, now go away.”

Nemesis then reached her hand out behind her and someone held it. “Saturn, my Dark Destruction, go stand with….Goku’s other son…Goten right?”

Goten nodded as he walked side by side with Saturn to stand next to Gohan and Moon.

“Uranus, my Golden Sky, go find the dude…over there hiding behind the blonde one with curly hair. Wait…never mind go pair up with the curly blonde haired dude. No….” Nemesis sighed. “Neptune, my Deep Ocean, go with the blonde one, while Uranus you’re going with the dude with…” she chuckled. “Love your hair. I never met someone with such a vivid color before.”

Drake the one assigned to Uranus had bright red hair and eyes. He was obsessed with the color red. The other, Adrian, had blonde curly hair. Like their other friend Adam, their hair was long enough to put in a pony tail.

They all looked built, and they were. Like all Z Fighters they had muscles. But these two had different power. Drake controlled some aspects of Fire, while Adrian controlled some aspects of Wind and Air.

Her voice then went low. “Red…as blood.” She stared at it as if she was in a trance. “Red…maybe I need red hair.”

Pluto touched her shoulder and Nemesis shook her head and gave a quick laugh. “No. I don’t need red hair to remind me of the past. Do you Vegeta?” Her eyes were dull green as she looked at him.

The Prince of all Saiyans started to reach his arm out to her, but stopped when he got a quarter of the way up.

“No, I see it on my hands wherever I go.” His voice was quiet, matching her eyes.

Nemesis looked down at the ground. “This reminds me of the old days, doesn’t it? We will be fighting together once again.”

Vegeta blinked. “You’re pairing with me?”

Nemesis smirked, her eyes brightened with mischief. “No, I believe not. Don’t want to tempt fate do we?”

“Tempt what? It’s not like we ever did anything.” Vegeta snorted.

“Pluto with be paired with you.”

Vegeta’s breath caught in his throat. “She killed Bulma…my wife.”

Nemesis eyes hardened as she stared Vegeta down. It didn’t take her long to defeat him.

She walked up to him—he was less than six feet away—and dew her arm back and punched him in the jaw.

“Rule One, Vegeta!” Nemesis’ voice matched the hardness in her eyes. Almost everyone flinched and backed up.

Vegeta not expecting the punch, so he didn’t guard against it and flew back twenty feet. He crashed into three trees before he stopped.

He was mad, and his face showed it when he appeared ten feet away from her.

“I am the bloody Prince of Saiyans woman!” Vegeta growled at her, wiping the blood from his mouth.

“And I’m the bloody Princess of Saiyans, your freaking fiancée once upon a time. So don’t tell me what I can and can’t do. Do I have to show you once again, little boy, who is stronger?” Nemesis growled back at him.

To say that many of the Z Fighters as well as the Scouts were shocked was the understatement of the year. For those that had paid attention and remembered, they wondered if marrying Bulma was the betrayal Nemesis was talking about earlier.

“Princess!” Pluto scolded.

Nemesis waved her off. “This has to be settled now. Too long has he forgotten the ways. You aren’t even the man I had grown to care for once upon a time, the man who I had looked up to. The man who I knew had my back and was there for me whenever I needed him, no matter what side I was on. You have broken too many Rules Vegeta. What is Rule One?”

Vegeta’s rage went straight down after this. “Rule One: Never let your emotions gain control of you. A Saiyan always can control his emotions even in his weakest state.”

“Rule Two.” Nemesis stated.

“Rule Two: Never grow attached to someone that isn’t your partner. Never let that go too far either. If you are in battle, you can’t be worrying about someone else.”

“So did you care for his human more than your partner?” Nemesis asked.

Vegeta looked straight into her eyes. “My partner left me long ago. She left me to Frieza.”

Nemesis nodded. “Yes, I left you. And I will never tell you why. For that burden I will bear alone, I will not bring it on you. You deserve more than that. I left you…I don’t know how many years ago, since somehow you de-aged, but I don’t care about that. I’m probably still younger than you now. But tell me, would you whether your partner be paired with you, or the woman who killed your human wife? I don’t think there is much of a choice do you?”

Pluto’s eyes softened as she took her friends arm. “Princess…Reni. You know that keeping all this in will destroy you?”

Nemesis laughed at her. “Death doesn’t matter to me anymore. I died on the day I was betrayed by my family. My mother sent me to live alone for eternity on a God forsaken planet, just because she was a shamed of my birth. My sister betrayed me with the human I thought I loved. Her four Scouts betrayed her as well as our Kingdom by forsaking their Princess to play with the Knights. Yes, death is welcome.”

Pluto slapped her. “You have us. We have never betrayed you, so don’t think you’re alone. We will always be there for you. We are your Court, your Servants, your Scouts, your friends. We are yours.”

Nemesis laughed. “My Dead Rose, you are always my anchor. But it doesn’t change anything. Even the strongest can only take so much. Now, go stand with the weak Prince of Saiyans. I have two other assignments to give.”

She turned around and walked to Jupiter, her eyes were normal, so was her voice. Her mask was up…again.

“Jupiter, you will be guarding Dende, the Guardian of this world. I pick you, because you are high in the sky. Your lightening will be an asset to you, as well as your other skills. Goku.” She waved him forward. “I will not assign you to one of my Scouts. I want you to guard your wife, in case it goes after yours as it did with Vegeta’s. But I doubt it will. Chaos is making a statement. If I’m not mistaken, it’s sending me a message. It knows my past and it won’t be afraid to use it against me. It knows I am here. It knows it will die. I won’t be stupid like my sister was last time she fought it. I will not save its host. I will destroy it body and soul.”

Nemesis de-transformed. Her hair became blonde like Moon’s. But it was free. Her eyes green like before. Her clothes black as could be. Her skirt was shorter than in her Sailor form, her boots the same length. She had no gloves on, but her finger nails were purple. Her shirt was black as night, but it was weird.

It was strapless and dipped down her back. Leaving most of her skin showing, but it covered her front side well. She turned around to walk away before she said something.

“My name in this form is Konton. Ko for short. You will need to know each other, so get to know your partner. But don’t get attached. We will leave once Chaos is taken care of. Since there is no one left, I will not take a partner—” She was cut off by Trunks.

“You didn’t assign me to a Scout.”

Konton whirred around and locked her eyes with Trunks. She blinked. This kid had Vegeta’s power and aura, yet he looked like the human. But his aura wasn’t all Saiyan. He smelled different, his power was different. Just like Goku’s two kids…

“You’re a half Saiyan…” Konton murmured. And the woman I ordered Pluto to kill, he was her kid. Great two great pairs. The woman who killed the wife is paired with the husband. And the woman who ordered the death is paired with the son…great.

Trunks nodded. “Are you a full blooded Saiyan?”

Konton paused. “In this form I am, but as a Sailor Scout, or as a Princess I am a full blooded member of the Silver Millennium.”

Vegeta paused. “I know I heard that before. It was in the History Archives. The Silver Millennium was destroyed thousands of years ago, yet you grew up as a child with me.”

Konton snorted. “That didn’t stop you from betraying me did it? I have every power every Scout of mine has. Pluto is the Guardian of the Time and Space. I can use the same because it is in my blood.”

Moon was shocked. “But I don’t have that in my blood…do I?”

Pluto shook her head. “My Princess gets it from her Father’s side. We are cousins. Our Fathers had the same Father. So just like me, she has the power of Time and Space inside her veins allowing her to control the Doors.”

“She’s right. I was bored, my Mother never let me go off, and I always had to hide. She was ashamed that I was a half breed. I wasn’t pure Moon or whatever they called it. The Dark Kingdom was part of the Silver Millennium, though no one said it out loud. My Father was the King. But that doesn’t have to do with anything does it, Vegeta?” she bore her eyes into his.

“What does it matter that I am thousands of years old? That I manipulated Time and Space to grow up as a Saiyan in a body of a Saiyan? In all purposes I am a Saiyan in this form. But that didn’t stop you did it?”

Vegeta was growing mad. She always talked about the Rules, but she never followed them herself. And he told her that.

“Do you follow the Rules yourself? We knew as soon as we were declared fiancés that it was never going to happen. What did it matter that I was with someone else?”

Konton closed her eyes; she wasn’t going to let herself have an attack in front of him of all people. She took a few deep breaths, trying to get rid of the anger, the hurt. When she opened her eyes, Vegeta saw the girl he never wanted to see again, at least directed at him.

“You were the only one who knew me Vegeta. You knew what would make or break me. Did you not think we I felt those emotions in your mind I wouldn’t come running? Or those thoughts? I thought someone was killing you!” She screamed at him.

She couldn’t control her anger; she wouldn’t be able to stop the attack now.

“How was I to know you were there? You told me you were leaving and wouldn’t be back for another week! What should it matter anyway? Why should I have cared? This shouldn’t have mattered in the first place!” he yelled back at her.

Konton gave a bitter laugh. “Yes, watching someone who I was supposed to marry fucking another girl…yeah that shouldn’t matter to me, should it? And you wonder why I left you to Frieza, you deserved it.” She spat at the ground toward him. “You could have waited till the betrothal was broken. It only would have lasted a few more days, yet you shamed me. You basically said I wasn’t worth it. Do you know what that did to me? The only person, who mattered to me in that whole freaking World, just told me I was worth nothing. Do you know how I felt?”

Vegeta couldn’t say much to that. “I felt what you felt; you weren’t guarding yourself that night.”

Konton paused in her rant, her breathing was getting slower. She only prayed that no one read the signs. This fight was working to her advantage. If only Vegeta didn’t say anything, if only he wouldn’t notice anything.

But her luck wasn’t that good. He had seen her in this situation before.

He quickly walked toward her. “Are you having an attack?”

She blinked a few times. How did he know? It didn’t take him long to cross that ten feet. Before she knew it, he was right in front of her and was looking into her eyes, trying to figure out if she was having an attack.

She jumped back and started to fly. She was wobbly at first, but she quickly got the hang of it.

“Don’t you dare do that! You don’t care remember? If I was having one, you have no right to touch me, to help me. You, Vegeta messed the rest of my life up! You were the first to betray me.”

Uranus growled at Vegeta and was about to attack him, had Drake held her back.

“You’re the reason she was so broken when she came back. You’re the reason she didn’t talk for two hundred years! You’re the reason why she shut herself up. Why she hated everyone!”

Neptune put a hand on Uranus’ shoulder. “That is all the past. It was more than him that made her broken. Something she will never tell us. If it was just him, she would have never sealed this World away from us…no that’s a lie. She never sealed this World away from us, it was from her. Something happened after that, which was what had destroyed her.”

Konton was taking deep breaths now. She couldn’t breathe.

“Princess! Screw it, you’re having an attack!” Saturn almost yelled at her.

Konton threw an annoyed glance at her. “It won’t be the first one I had without help. Leave me alone. Get with your pairs. We have to figure out what Chaos had thrown to the minion before she turned around and faced us.”

With that she flew higher in the air and soon disappeared.

Goku looked to Jupiter. “I will take you to Dende.”

Trunks looked after where Nemesis had flown away. He wanted to go after her. He wanted to her to trust people…no, he wanted her to trust him. For the life of him he had a crush on this broken woman. One his Father had known long ago. One his Father had cared for and she for him.

He had seen her strength, her will, her brokenness, and her felt far more than he let on. He knew by her words she was a psychic. And somehow during the time they had spent together, he didn’t understand how, but he now how a bond with her.

How is that? I don’t even know this woman. Yet I can understand how she feels just a tiny bit. Everyone I loved was destroyed by the Androids. And I just watched. She watched the destruction of her people at the hands of the other half of her blood. All of the betrayals she felt, that I can’t understand.

The more he had thought about her, the more he wanted to understand, the more he wanted to help her.

Vegeta’s voice sliced through his thoughts. “You heard her boy. She said get with your pair, you are her pair.”

Trunks nodded, and started to fly away but stopped when Vegeta called out to him.

“Hurt her and I will beat you, son or not.”

Trunks nodded. He didn’t need to be told that. He didn’t want to hurt her. That was the opposite of what he wanted. He wanted her; he wanted her to care for him. He wanted her to love him. He wanted her to feel for him what he felt for her.

Hurting her wasn’t in the plan. Hurting her would destroy what he wanted.

But he had so many barriers between her and him. One was his Father. Would she see him as Vegeta? Or would she see him as Trunks?

There was a barrier that would be trouble. It was that he technically was two different people at the same time. He was the Future Trunks who was saved, but only his mind. Dende had kept him alive while they waited for the Dragon Balls. They waited until little Trunks had become twelve, four years after the Boo thing. For six years he has gotten used to and adjusted to being two different people.

What was even weirder was that his dad and a few other Z Fighters were younger than they should be. Krillin had been joking around when they were doing wishes—when the older Trunks and the younger one became one—and wanted just a few of them to be younger and it worked. So they now were just a few years older than him and Bulma was really annoyed.

Bulma.

Would the biggest barrier be the death of his mother? One he didn’t want himself to think about. Yes, she was possessed. He believed Nemesis when she said they couldn’t save her. But she had ordered her death…would he have done the same?

That was one of the reasons he never wanted to be a leader. They had to make hard decisions like that all the time. Who could be saved and who could be not. Should he hate her for doing her duty? For protecting his World, when he could not? Was his mother even his mother anymore?

Trunks remembered that for the past few days she had been acting weird. Playing with a device, he thought was a Dragon Ball detector…

No…that wouldn’t be what she had thrown would it?

He started to go over the memory and Trunks was afraid…it was in fact the detector.

Trunks, for the first time but not—he hoped— the last, found that bond in his head. He followed it and tried to find out where she was. She was by a lake…he knew where that was. He had been there before. But before he could get out of her mind, she had noticed him.

He was afraid she was going to kick him out, but she didn’t. She opened her mind further, and let him in more.

That surprised him, but what surprised him even more was that she was talking to him.

What is making you so worried, my lad? What makes you so scared that you want to run to me?

He didn’t care that they were talking in their minds. I know what my mother threw to the minion. It means big trouble.

To be continued...