Disclaimer: I do not own Dragon Ball Z. It is the property of Akira Toriyama. I do not own Sailor Moon. It is the property of Naoko Takeuchi. I do, however, own this story, or rather, series of stories. The name is mine, the storylines are mine.The characters are not. Well, some of the characters are, but only the ones who never appeared in either show.


First Encounters: Chapter 1

Every Student in the class had their eyes glued to the clock, watching the last few minutes of school pass by. They had all anxiously been waiting for this day to come ever since school started back in September. Each and every student sat in their seats, waiting for the last five minutes of the school day to end. Once the day was out, they would have two weeks of freedom. They would have two long weeks of winter vacation and wouldn’t have to worry about the stress of school.

Usagi was one of the most excited out of the whole group. She was going to be able to have two weeks of relaxation. Her father had told her that she didn’t have to train for the two-week vacation. She hadn’t protested either. She was ready for the break to just sit around and do nothing. Most of the time, she had weekends to do nothing. But even then, it just wasn’t enough for the young fighter. A two-day break wasn’t much. Now she would be able to spend a longer period relaxing. At the end of the break, she would be refreshed and ready to train with full use of her energy. She just couldn’t wait.

She leaned her chest of her table and put her arms out in front of her. "Come on clock, only four more minutes. Four little minutes. Please, just hurry up and hit three o’clock." Usagi looked forward to every vacation. She usually got quite hyper when one was nearing. Especially around spring vacation.

"Usagi, the time isn't going to speed itself up just because everyone wants to go home. Just calm yourself. If you don’t watch the clock, the time will go by faster."

Usagi looked over to Ami. Usagi had always thought that Ami had acted much like an adult. She didn’t think it was normal. There had been many occasions when Usagi would try to get her to do something fun, yet Ami insisted on studying instead. She couldn’t figure out for the life of her what her friend found so interesting about studying. She hated it. She found no use for it in her life, which made her mother angry with her, but she didn’t mind. She turned her head to Ami. "Ami, loosen up."

Ami didn’t have anything to say to that. She never really did have anything to reply to Usagi about those sorts of things. She found that it usually just caused an argument when she did. Usagi would usually end up winning because she could be louder and more obnoxious. But she still liked Usagi. There was something about her that made Ami feel carefree whenever she was around her, yet there were other times when Usagi felt like she had to act as a parent. From what she had learned from being with her for the past seven months, Usagi was a kind hearted, fun loving, carefree person. She didn’t like work too much and always wanted to play. Her idea of play was hanging out or taking part in a good spar. She had even tried to get Ami to fight, but her mother wouldn’t have it. She was strongly against the idea of children fighting. Ami pretty much went along with it. Although fighting interested her, she didn’t want to upset her mother by disobeying her. Usagi had begged Ami’s mother on numerous occasions to allow her to fight, but every time, the answer was the same. Ami told Usagi to just hold off for a while and that she would try asking at a later date, once she shows her mother that fighting isn't all that bad.

Usagi turned her head back to the clock and realized that she only had two minutes left to go. "Yes! I can't wait to get home! First thing I'm doing is watch TV." Usagi never watched TV on weekdays. She never had time. She missed watching all her favorite shows.

Minako was also letting her anxiety get the best of her. "Usagi. This is going to be so much fun. And guess what?! My mom enrolled me in a dance class. Isn't that cool?! I can't wait to go! I start on Monday." Minako had begged and begged her mother for months to enroll her in a dance class. She had always wanted to dance, ever since she went to one of her cousin’s ballet recitals when she was four years old. Although, she didn’t exactly want to do ballet. She wanted to do something a little more up beat. She wasn’t sure exactly WHAT, she would find out once she got to class and had a chance to see the types of dance that were offered.

"That’s so cool Minako! Dancing would be fun. Too bad my dad wouldn’t let me dance. He’s so keen on fighting. If I weren’t training with Goku and you guys, I would have to go back to that stupid martial arts class. My dad always treats me as if I'm a boy." It wasn’t that Makoto didn’t like fighting, she just wished that her father wouldn’t always push her into it. She wanted it to be her decision. And although Goku elected to give the girls a break from fighting for the two weeks, her father did not approve of it. He didn’t want her to get out of shape, so he enrolled her in one of Mr. Satan’s martial arts class for the next two weeks. She was a bit disappointed for two reasons. She wouldn’t get to hang out with her friends as often as she would have liked to, plus, she won't learn anything. She will be totally ahead of everyone there. When she told her friends, they were also disappointed.

Usagi turned back to look at Minako. "Wait, that means you're going to be gone during the day too? That’s not fair though. I want us all to be able to hang out." Usagi was already disappointed that Makoto was going to be gone during the day. "And what about when vacation is over? You will have to go after school."

"No I won't. Mom worked it out to where I will be able to go on the weekends when school returns. And don’t worry about hanging out, class gets out at 2:30 anyways. I'll still be able to hang out with you guys for the rest of the days anyways." Minako noted that there was only a minute left until they were released from school and picked up her bag as she stood up. "Come on, we only have a minute left."

Usagi sighed as she picked up her stuff. She would have to except the fact that two of her friends would have other things that they would have to do over winter break. At least she wouldn’t totally be alone. She would still be able to hang out with Ami and Rei. They could still go places together. She looked up at the clock in anticipation. "Ok you guys, here it goes. Five…four…three…two…one…let's get ourselves out of here and say good bye to this stupid place for two whole weeks!" Usagi didn’t even let herself finish her sentence before she was already dashing out the door, leaving Minako, Makoto, and Ami behind.

Minako looked to her friends and giggled. "There she goes again. She must really hate school." She didn’t like schooling either, but she still did her work, unlike Usagi, who detested doing anything schoolwork related. < Doesn’t that just sound like Usagi? >

Makoto put her chair up on her desk and looked around to the kids around her as they yelled across the room to each other and ran out the door. "Yeah. It’s pretty obvious. Here mom is really mad at her too because she doesn’t get good marks. But from what Gohan has told me, Chi-Chi said that studying is more important the saving the world."

"Well, studying is important you guys, but if the world is at stake, I think fighting is the better way to go. I've noticed that my mother and Usagi’s mother have quite a bit in common. They are both against fighting. But, Chi-Chi has Goku to talk her into letting Usagi into fighting, while my mom has not husband." Ami’s father had died of cancer when she was only five years old. <I know that never happened. But you know I've changed so much already, I may as well change that too. > "My mother wants me to be safe. That’s why she will not allow me to fight, while it is the same case with Usagi’s mother. So you guys, that’s why it’s going to take me a little while to talk my mom into letting me fight. I don’t have the luxury of a father coaxing my mother into letting me fight."

Minako and Makoto just stared at Ami. She was always using big words that they didn’t know. They kind of had the basic gist of what she was saying, but not always sure. In this case they didn’t really need to know what the words meant to know what she was saying. Makoto looked around the room to see that virtually every kid in their right mind had already left the room. They were the only ones left. "Come on you guys. Let’s get out of here before Usagi has a cow and starts yelling at us for making her wait."

Too late. Usagi had decided that she was tired of waiting on them and poked her head in the door. "Come on you guys! I want to get home. Let's go already." She immediately took her head out of the door and waited for her friends.

She crossed her arms, grabbing each arm with the opposite hand to produce warmth. It was the middle of December and the weather was icy. She was freezing, even with her coat on. "Bur…" Her teeth began to chatter. She turned her head over to the door when she heard the sound of her friends talking coming in that direction. "Took you guys long enough." She playfully smiled to her friends as she stepped forward. She looked up to the sky when she felt something fall on her nose. "Ooooh. Look you guys. It’s snowing."

Ami covered her eyes with her hand as she too looked to the sky. "Wow, this is so cool. Maybe we will get a lot of snow this year instead of getting barely any." In previous years, there had been very little snow in the winter. They would get some, but maybe just a few inches here and there. Nothing too big. All the girls had always wanted to have lots of snow to play in.

Minako put the hood of her jacket over her head. "You guys, it’s getting really cold. I think we should be getting home. My parents are expecting me home early anyways." Her hair was being thrown around her as the wind started to pick up. "I'll talk to you guys later. Maybe we can go somewhere tomorrow or something."

Ami began to walk to the fence that led out of the playground and into the parking lot. "I'll see you all later. I have to go to Bulma’s tonight and tomorrow. We’re working on a really cool new project together and we’re almost finished. It should be done by Tuesday. You guys should come by and see it. I can't stay and talk about it now though, Bulma should be here already." Everyday after school, Bulma would come by and pick Ami up to go to her house so she could teach her things. Most of the work was hands on as Bulma knew that when you work with your hands and other items, you usually learn faster then if you just read books and did worksheets.

"Bye Ami! See you later!" Usagi watched as Ami left the playground and then looked around. She shivered as she began to feel the cold air creeping up her jacket and around her legs. "You guys, it’s getting REALLY cold. And we’re pretty much the only ones left here. I think Minako’s right. We should be getting home. My mom is going to worry about me if I it starts snowing harder and gets more windy if I'm not home. I'll be in major trouble if she has to tell dad to come and find me and I'm all right. She’ll just say that I wasn’t paying attention to what I was doing, as always." Usagi hated to get scolded by her mother. Anything she did, just wasn’t good enough for her.

Minako, who was already in the air slowly began to fly forward. "Hey you guys, when you fly, it makes you warmer. You should try it."

Usagi and Makoto nodded at each other and then jumped into the air. They both began to fly forward a bit. Makoto headed left, though, towards her house. "You're right. It does warm us up. Probably because we’re being active." She began moving faster and turned her head to her friends. "See you later. Bye you guys."

Usagi turned around. "Bye Makoto. I'll call you tomorrow!" She looked forward to Minako and could barely see her because the snow was now falling at an even faster pace. They both began flying forward. "Great. It’s coming down harder now. This would be perfect if I didn’t have to fly in it." She put her arm in front of her face to try and block some of the snow rushing into her.

Minako sped up her face, with Usagi following closely behind. "Yeah, and you have further to go then I do. You should go as fast as you can. Don’t worry about staying with me. I'll be fine by myself. I don’t have to much more to go."

Usagi nodded and complied with her friend. She knew she was right. She needed to get back home as soon as possible. "By Minako. See ya tomorrow hopefully." She waved goodbye and turned forward, increasing her speed to her fullest. The icy snow hitting against her body sent cold chills up and down her body. ‘Why do we have to have our first snow storm NOW?’

~*~*~

Chi-Chi stood in front of the window to her family room. She was beginning to get worried. It had been a half-hour since her daughter was released from school. She didn’t know how long it would take her to get home. She didn’t know how close to home she was. The snow was violently coming down from the sky due to the wind. It was too thick to see anymore then ten feet in front of the house. ‘I wish you would get home soon Usagi.’ She turned around and proceeded to walk down the hallway and into the living room, where her husband was watching cartoons. She leaned over the back of the sofa by his head. "Goku, is Usagi close to being home yet?"

Goku took his eyes off the TV but didn’t turn his head. He could feel his daughter’s Ki coming towards the house at quite a fast speed. "She should be home any minute now. Don’t worry. She can navigate through the snow. If she all of a sudden stops for any reason, I'll go get her."

"Well, maybe you should go and get her now. I'm worried. She should have been home by now, and the wind is picking up. She has never been in a snowstorm before. She might not know what to do."

"Chi-Chi…" He turned his head to look over at his wife. She had the look of a worried mother on her face. If it were up to him, he would have just let Usagi come home on her own. She was older now and could hold her own in a snowstorm. "Don’t worry. She won't have a problem coming home. You can't baby her forever. You have to let her do things on her own. If you don’t, she will never be ready to take care of herself. What do you think I've been doing with her for the past couple of years. If I know she can do it, then I let her. But if I know it exceeds her limits, I don’t make her do it. Just like with Mamoru. I know what I'm doing Chi-Chi."

Chi-Chi frowned at this little speech of his. "She is just a little girl Goku. She may be able to handle it, but you shouldn’t let her just because of this. I don’t want her to grow up before she has to. I want her to enjoy her childhood. Gohan didn’t get to. He was always fighting. Ever since he was four. He was forced into it. He was forced to fend for himself in the wilderness for half a year. The other half Piccolo trained him. And what did the fighting get him? A dead father. Goten was lucky enough to have half a happy childhood. A normal childhood." Chi-Chi took one look at her husband’s face and knew that she had crossed the line.

Goku looked forward and clenched his fists. "Do you think I like the fact that I had to leave you guys? If you do, you're sadly mistakin. There is nothing that I wouldn’t do to be able to turn back the clock and kill Raditz in another time." Goku paused for a reply from Chi-Chi, but didn’t get one. "Look, do you remember when you were in labor with Usagi? You asked me if I was alright with having another child." He looked back to his wife as she nodded without a word. "Well, I told you I was. But really, I wasn’t sure if I was or not. Part of me wanted her, but there was another part of me that didn’t want to have another child. I didn’t want to shatter another innocent life. I hate myself for what I did to Gohan and Goten. I didn’t want that to happen again."

Chi-Chi couldn’t believe what she was hearing. "Why didn’t you ever tell me this Goku?"

"Because you were so happy when you found out that you were pregnant. I didn’t want to make you unhappy. I hadn’t planned on telling you ever, but so many things have pushed me to do it. So manNot only did I hurt Gohan by leaving so many times, but I thought I was doing everyone a favor by staying dead after cell was defeated. But really, I was just shattering another innocent life, Goten’s. Everyone is right. I'm a horrible father." Goku rested his face in his hands as he continued thinking about how a total failure as a father he was.

Chi-Chi walked around the sofa and sat next to her husband. She could tell that this was something that he had been thinking about for a long time. He had to have. No one like Goku just comes up with thoughts like that. She rubbed her hand on his back. "Look, Goku, you aren't a bad father. Do you think I would have had anymore children then Gohan with you if I didn’t think you were a good father? Do you think I would trust you with Usagi if I didn’t think you were a good father? Granted you weren't the best father when Gohan was a baby, I mean really, you nearly let him run into a tree. But, you have grown since then. We were both young and didn’t really know what parenting was all about back then. I think you have grown the most. I didn’t mean what I said earlier. You know me, I go off all the time, and most the time, I don’t even know what I'm saying. I know I get angry a lot. But that’s just me. If you had feelings like this, you should have told me so we could have gone through this together."

Goku looked over to his wife. She was right that she didn’t know what she was saying half the time, but he still felt horrible. He had put all of his kids through so much that it just made him sick to think about it. "I guess the important thing is that they have never died once, right?"

Chi-Chi could detect a hint of laughter from her husband. "That’s right. I mean look at Gohan, he’s successful and has raised a family. Goten, on the other hand, is well, just successful. But that’s good."

Goku smiled. Talking about it made him feel better. "Thanks Chi-Chi."

"No more doubts right?"

Goku nodded. "Right. From now on, it’s all your fault if they mess up."

Now Chi-Chi was smiling. "Why you little." She grabbed onto his arms and started to squeeze them as hard as she could.

Goku continued to smile down at her. "You think that you can hurt me? Silly woman." He bent over as he pulled his arms away and kissed her. He was happy now. She always did have a way of cheering him up when he was down. He pulled away from her. "Usagi is home."

~*~*~

Usagi burst into the house and closed the door behind her with a big thud. She looked around the brightly-lit family room and half expected to see her mother sitting in the chair by the hall worried sick about her. She began brushing the snow off her cloths and out of her hair. "Mom?" She looked down the hallway to see her mother running at her.

"Usagi, look at you. You're all wet. Come here, let's get you into some dry cloths." She ran up to her daughter and immediately began to take off her coat. "Take off your shoes and leave them by the door."

Usagi did as her mother told her. She was more then ready to change into cloths that weren't wet. "Is this a real snow storm mom?" She grabbed her coat from her mother and threw it down on top of her shoes.

Chi-Chi grabbed her daughter’s hand and began leading her down the hall. "Yes. We haven't seen one of these in years. They are so rare. Although, it’s refreshing to see something new instead of having the same old weather." Chi-Chi let go of her daughter’s hand when the phone began to ring. "Usagi, go and change. I'm going to answer the phone. Try not to upset your father please." She ran back to the phone in the family room to make sure she answered it before it stopped ringing. She got to it just before the person on the other line hung up. "Hello?"

~*~*~

Usagi continued to walk down the hallway so she could go to her room. ‘I wonder why mom told me not to upset daddy. I wonder if something happened.’ She stopped walking just as she reached the living room, where her father was watching TV. She shrugged. ‘Looks normal to me.’ "Hey daddy." She began walking to her room again.

Goku turned around and smiled at his daughter. "Hey. How’s it goin?"

"Well, let's see, I'm cold, wet, I just came from school, hmmm…I think I'm doing just dandy thank you." She smiled and walked into her room. She immediately began to undress as soon as she got in. Her skin was beginning to prune up from being so wet. She was thankful for her Saiyan genes and the fact that she couldn’t get sick. If she had been all human, she probably would have caught phenomena. Although it was still quiet early and she didn’t have to go to bed until 8:30 and it was only 4:45, she decided just to get totally comfortable and get into her bed cloths. She didn’t really care. It wasn’t like was going anywhere anyways. And hey, it was, after all, her vacation.

Once she was in dry cloths, she walked to her mirror that sat on her dresser and took down her hair from its normal hairstyle. It was full of tangles and was pretty frizzy from the wind. She let it fall to just below her waist as she began to brush through it. ‘Wow, snow is kind of cool actually. I wonder if I can get daddy to go play in it with me.’ She got her devious smile on her face again. "Daddy…" She put her brush down and turned around and walked out of her room.

She walked up to the side of the sofa and leaned against the armrest. "Daddy, can you go outside and play with me? Pleeeese?" Usagi looked up to her father’s face.

Goku looked down at his daughter and smiled. "Not tonight Usagi. It’s too windy outside and it’s already dark."

"But daddy…"

"Usagi! Get out here NOW!"

Usagi shot her head up. "Uh-oh. What did I do now?" She backed away from the sofa and began to walk down the hallway. "Coming mom!" When she got out to the family room, she was greeted by the angry face of her mother, glaring at her. She didn’t get too close. "Yes?" She squeaked out.

Chi-Chi had her arms crossed in front of her and tapped her foot on the ground. She found that by tapping her foot, she calmed down a little bit and was less likely to lash out at someone. "I just got a phone call from your teacher. She says you're nearly failing two subjects. Do you know what those subjects might be?" Usagi shook her head. "Well, it seems you're failing the reading and writing subject, and math. You’ve got D’s in those two subjects. In spelling, surprisingly you have a C, and in science and history you have C pluses. Do you have an explanation for this young lady?" Usagi shook her head again. "Well, there is hope for you yet. I just called Ami’s mother, and asked her if she could have Ami tutor you over winter Vacation. I don’t want your mind to go any more sour then it already is."

If Usagi’s jaw could have dropped to the floor, it would have. "But mom, I was looking forward to having a vacation. That isn't fair." ‘Although, it’s just Ami. I can do whatever I want. She’ll let me. She is my friend and all.’

"Look, it’s not fair that you let your studies drop like you do. I've looked over the C’s, but D’s will just not do. No child of mine will have D’s. Your teacher said that you could do some extra credit to bring up your reading and writing skills. She suggested an essay about something you know about. So, you will go park yourself in your room and write an essay about the most interesting part of our family history. And you will not be able to go anywhere until you have it done."

"Mom, you’ve got to be kidding." Usagi looked into her mother’s eyes and could tell that she was very well serious. "I can't believe this, it’s my vacation and I have to work."

"I suggest you march yourself back to your room and get busy. And I want to read it before you do anything else."

"I don’t know much about the family history. I only know bits and pieces." Usagi was not going to look forward to writing this essay. And she knew she couldn’t just write a quick essay. Her mother would be reading over it to make sure it was good enough to turn in.

"You know enough to do an essay. And what you don’t know, ask your father." Chi-Chi turned around and walked into the kitchen so she could start on dinner.

Usagi grabbed her bag from sitting by the door and walked into the living room. Her father was still watching cartoons. She decided not to do the essay in her room, but instead do it in the living room. Her mother wouldn’t know the difference. She would be busy in the kitchen for a while. She sat down at the end of the coffee table that sat in between the sofa and the TV and pulled out a notebook and a pencil from her school bag and began writing her extra credit essay. ‘This is so stupid. I would rather be fighting then write this stupid thing. Stupid teacher. Always calling home whenever I don’t get good marks. Gees I hate this.’ She began to scribble a few words in her notebook. ‘Let's see…’

~~What’s she writing~~

‘My family is one of the strongest familys in the world. My dad is Goku, the strongest man in the world. My mom is Chi-Chi the nisest lady in the world. My oldest brother is Gohan and my other brothers name is Goten. My dad has saved the earth from distrucshion lotsa times. There was this 1 time, wen this guy named cell came to earth and made my brother go Super Sayan level two. Before that happened, someone from the futer came and told dad that he would have a heart diseese.’

~~Back to reality~~

Usagi ripped the paper out of her notebook and crumpled it up. "That’s no good." She rested her head in her hand.

Goku looked down to his daughter. "What’s wrong kiddo?"

Usagi looked up. "Mom is making me write this stupid paper for extra credit about something interesting about our family’s history. I know a little bit, but not that much. Can you tell me about Cell?"

Goku turned off the TV. "Sure, why don’t you come sit up here and I'll tell you the basics of a very complicated situation."

Usagi smiled. "K!" She hopped up from the ground and sat on her father’s lap. "K! I'm ready. Go ahead and tell me what happened! Tell me everything to refresh my memory."

"Ok, well, it all started when I finally returned to earth from fighting Freiza. I was greeted by everyone I knew and loved, except there was a new guy there. His name was Trunks. Well, Trunks told me about his future and how everyone had died by the hands of androids 17 and 18. He told me about that heart virus and gave me the medicine and left. Well, after he left, not much happened. Everything went on as normal for the next three years. Then, when the time came…" < Blah, Blah, so on so fourth. I think you all know what happens in that saga since they just played it on Cartoon network twice in a row. > "And that’s pretty much all there is to know about Cell."

At the end of a half-hour explanation of what happened with the androids and cell, Usagi was full of questions. One stuck out in her mind above all others though. "Well, daddy, since the Trunks here, never lived alone, and never went through all that stuff with the androids that the Trunks from the future, what will happen to the past? I mean, without a Trunks from the future going to the past, the past will be messed up and everyone will die."

"Well, I never thought of that before. I guess the past will travel a different timeline then ours. Maybe it just keeps going in circles. The Trunks that is in the past right now, will live like the Trunks that came to us from the future. Then the Trunks that is in the past right now, will go to his past and warn everyone, just as we were warned.. <Wow, there I go again. Not making any sense.>

"You mean, I won't be born in the past?" ‘I wonder if there’s anyway to stop that from happening all together.’

"There is really no need to worry about it though. We won't be in anyway affected by this. Remember what I said? Each timeline is like a different dimension. So what you do in the past or future, never affects your real timeline."

"But the other dimension still suffers. That’s not fair to them. Isn't there anything we can do?" This seemed outrageous to Usagi. She wouldn’t be born in the other timeline and everyone would be dead. She wished that there were some way that she could help. But is that the way things really were? Would time just keep going in circles? Or would the androids just not exist anymore. This conversation had left Usagi still quite curious about the subject.

Goku shook his head. "I'm afraid not. This is just the way things work out."