Part IX
    Terra’s green rod crashed against Pyros’s sword. They made a loud metallic noise as they met and slid apart. Usagi clapped her hands, "that’s good, but Pyros, remember to keep the guard up on your left side. You tend to leave it wide open." she corrected.
    Chi-Chi nodded. "Saya-Jin attack!"
    Usagi spun and blocked the energy ball "Nice Green boy. But not good enough! Moon Tiara! Magic!" She threw the glowing Discus at Gohan, hoping he’d retaliate in the right manner, Terra clamped her arm onto Pyros’s arm. "No, he has to beat Sensei on his own or he’ll never stand against Freeza, we don’t have much time as it, it’s only because of the Time flux she put up that we have anytime at all!"
    Pyros hung her head. "I don’t know how I can hold up. Thank you Terra."
    Terra patted Pyros’s shoulder. "No problem Chi-Chi. You’re part of the Team and my friend."

    Gohan concentrated on to glowing discus streaking towards him "Destructo Disk!" He tossed the disk at Usagi tiara, keeping tight control so as only to deflect it and not destroy it.
    Usagi caught her tiara as it was flung back at her, then she concentrated on the Disk flying at her, she gritted her teeth and decided on the attack she’d seen Goku use. "Kame Hame HA!" the Disk didn’t stand a chance.
    Gohan landed on one foot. "You’ve gotten good with the Hame ha.", he winked.
    Usagi grinned, "I always try to pick up on new stuff when I can. Alright, Gohan’s shown his special technique, now show me yours!" she faced Pyros, Terra, and Aeros.
    Aeros went first. She held her spear it one hand, "Powers of Air, lend me your aid! Aeros Attack!" she yelled as she threw the glowing spear at Usagi , Usagi lunged to one side, the Spear flew back to Aeros. She smiled lopsidedly. "Ha!"
    Usagi nodded, "Good, Terra?"
    Terra began spinning her rod before her. "Terra Rod! Earth Quake!" she stopped the spin and thumped the butt of her rod onto the ground, Usagi leapt up as the ground underneath her erupted. She resorted to the most reflexive of her moves and kept jumping away as the quakes followed her, finally one caught her. She shook the dirt from her hair and stumbled out of the crater made by Terra’s attack.
    "Very nice Terra! But that wasn’t it’s peak of power, yours either Aeros, you have been going easy on me. Now for Pyros’s attack."
    Pyros swallowed and charged forward, she leapt up and twisted into a spin kick , "Pyros Flame spin!", ruddy flames surrounded her and slammed into Usagi’s chest.
    Usagi stumbled back and blew smoke from her mouth and surveyed her charred uniform. "That was great Pyros. You all are ready." then they felt the Time warp begin to break down around her. "Just in time too, those damn Ginue have been at that shield for the past three days. At least for the Ginue, for the Elementals, it had been on the verge of three months." Usagi released her hold on the warp and it began to fade, "Well, for us, it’s two days until they get through, might as well get some rest and eat."

    Jace fired another gout of energy blast at the offending shield. It had been up for four days, they had only found it three days ago, they had abandoned their attack on the Earth Saya-Jin. Freeza was convinced that the secret of the Dragonballs and getting his wish was behind it. Berter charged it and made a little progress. "I think it’s giving!" he yelled in exultation. Racoom smiled at his friend’s antics. "Let me try! Racoom Boom!" the thing shuddered.

    Usagi looked up from her meal and smiled, she could hear every word they had been saying. "Morons." she muttered, she had spent an entire day laughing as they had yelled their little chants at it and posed. Finally they had gotten the idea, and had gotten to business. She chuckled a little and took another bite of her supper.
    "What’s so funny?" Mamoru asked, looking up from his stretching.
    "Oh, those idiots out there think they’re actually breaking through the shield wall."
    He shrugged, "May not be so hard, they’re pretty stupid, we could beat them really easily."
    "Then we might not."
    Terra interrupted, "They could be smarter than they look. It has happened.", she said around a bite of salad.
    Usagi shrugged and began to wash her plate in the stream beside their campsite, after the main shield wall had started to deteriorate after Usagi had cut the flow of power , she had made a smaller one, harder to find around their camp, this one blended into the outside, and anyone unaware of it’s presence could walk right through and not notice a thing, Usagi prided it as one of her better shields, after she had discovered her Lunar shields, she had tinkered with them so they needed only a minimal trickle of energy from her to survive. Indeed she was working on one that drew from the excess energy the planet gave off, and if there was none, she was working on a little back up store she could hook up to the shield or herself if needed.
    After Usagi had cast aside the veil she had unknowingly worn most of her life and looked at herself for real, she found she had a real talent for changing her attacks and finding new ones. She carefully listened to Berter charging the shield once more and feeling it give, she knew what was coming. "Brace for Impact!" she shouted, the ground shuddered under the force of Racoom’s attack.
    "Somebody give that guy a breath mint, that breath is lethal, Terra quipped, (She is referring to the way Dragonball characters shoot energy out of their mouths) the trembling subsided.
    Usagi gritted her teeth. "All right! Everyone rested up? The shield is about to give and we’re fresh, and they’ve been at that thing non-stop."

    Terra, Gohan(I don’t like using green phantom, it’s stupid.), Pyros, Aeros, Tuxedo Kamen, and Sailor Moon lined up and prepared to meet the enemy.
    Goku felt another charge of energy. "What are they up to? They’ve been shooting off energy for two days and no one shoots back." he muttered.
    Vegeta shrugged, "The Ginue are pretty ignorant, not stupid, vain yes, stupid no. They probably got some fool’s errand from Freeza. We should probably go check it out.
    Goku nodded, he looked to Krillan, "Coming?"
    The bald man nodded, "Yea! I want to see with my own eyes what got them so riled up.", Goku nodded.
    Vegeta suddenly blinked, "You don’t think they’re after that girl do you? Sailor Moon?"
    Goku shook his head , "No, she’d have fired back by now. She usually starts out with physical attacks, but from what I can tell, faced with three of the them she’d just blast them and have done with it."
    Vegeta hewed his lower lip, "Yes, I suppose you’re right. What’s got me is why hasn’t Freeza used his wish? I mean, if he’s got them, why let us live?"
    Goku chuckled. "He probably doesn’t know how to summon the dragon."
    Vegeta blinked, "Summon the Dragon?"
    Goku shook his head, "No way. That’s all I’m telling, a wish never comes easy."
    Vegeta scowled, "Let’s go.", they flew off towards the Ginue.
    They arrived just in time to see the shield vanish. "What the hell?", Krillan swore, as the great dome surrounding a hill vanished six figures appeared, one they knew, Sailor Moon. The others were a mystery, the four were women dressed in similar outfits. All in black leotards and black split skirts, they each wore a translucent belt that varied in colors and wrist cuffs matching their belts. Two were men, one was in a ludicrous green outfit and the other has an equally odd suit, a tuxedo and red lined cape. Sailor Moon and the man in the tuxedo hung back as if to watch the fight and intervene when necessary.
    "They must be the students she was talking about. Where’s Gohan?" Goku muttered.
    Vegeta got a better look at the one in the ridiculous green outfit. "I think that’s him in the green. What happened?" Gohan’s hair had reverted to the spiky style he had had when Vegeta had first met him. Goku started towards them, Vegeta stopped him. "No, if they are Sailor Moon’s students then we can’t interfere. It must be their first fight, and the first fight is what makes them strong."
    Krillan looked at Vegeta, "Why should you care?"
    Vegeta blushed momentarily, then scowled. "I just do! My first fight was the most important thing in my life! Do you want to take that away from them?" he shouted.
    Krillan flinched as he felt the depth of emotion in his voice. He had really underestimated him, Krillan realized, he had considered Vegeta a heartless monster, but there was a serious hurt that had turned him the way he was.
    Vegeta cursed himself, what was wrong with him? Why was he letting himself care about such pitiful weaklings? Vegeta swallowed and focused on the woman in black and blue, her light blue hair tossed about her face. She seemed familiar, she wore a black and blue striped head band in her hair. Just like that girl he had found with Krillan and the boy, Gohan. Could it be? No way! But he had gotten strange energy readings from her, as if she carried a strange power beyond his comprehension. He got the same feeling from these five facing the Ginue now. Still the blue haired woman captured his attention in a way no one ever had…ever.

    Pyros, Aeros, Terra, and Hydra watched the Ginue.
    Terra held her rod in one hand, her knuckles were white.
    Aeros rubbed her thumb up and down on the shaft of her spear, and mentally said a prayer that she and her friends would emerge from this battle victorious.
    Pyros glanced at her son and gripped the pommel of her sword, Hydra loaded a bolt into her crossbow and stared at the Ginue, imagining they were the little green guy who had killed Yamcha, or better yet, the bald guy who had hatched it.
    "Well, well my pretties! Come for a fight?", the White haired warrior stared luridly at her skirt.
    Hydra scowled, "Are you that desperate for a date?" she quipped.
    Jace scowled, "You’ll pay for that babe!"
    Hydra snarled, "No one calls me babe!" she cocked her crossbow so the cross section was up to the proper tension. She charged the bolt with her energy and made sure the poison wrap was in place so she could apply it with a press of a button or a mental command. The button was mostly there for show, she could knock the bolts telekinetically if she wanted to, but she wanted them to think it was an ordinary weapon.
    They waited for the Ginue to make the first move. Jace finally tired of waiting. "I’m Jace! In your face!!"
    Hydra aimed her crossbow. "It’s been done! Hyro Energy Bolt!" she fired the bolt and it buried itself into Jace’s chest. He staggered and reached for the bolt.
    "Is that the best you’ve got?"
    Hydra smiled, "Explode!" she commanded, and….you can guess what happened. Jace fell back with a great smoking hole in what was left of his chest, he was dead before he hit the ground. She chuckled, "Like I said. No one calls me babe!" inside she was creaming, but she reminded herself of the mass damage this man had caused, and would continue to cause during his life. She sighed and wished him better in the next dimension.
    Aeros confronted Berter. She held her spear before her and began to power up. Berter smiled, "Do you really think you stand a chance against me little one? Tell you what, I’m sure Freeza would allow you to join his followers, he’d even…."
    Aeros cut him of with a slip of her hand, "I’ve already got a faith! Aeros Hope Blast!" she twirled her spear and pointed it at Berter, a bigger spear, made of golden energy formed around it, she threw both at Berter, who dodged it, but didn’t realize it was a smart bomb. It followed him, BOOOM! No more Berter. Aeros’s spear flew back into her out stretched palm. She spun it once more and posed, "Don’t mess with the faith!" she smirked. She too was wounded at the first life she had taken, but knew it was for the greater good.
    Racoom screamed at his friends’ demise.
    Terra started to approach him, but Sailor Moon held her back, she nodded to Pyros. Pyros swallowed and drew her sword. She held it at the ready, Racoom sneered at her, "Hey baby! Wanna date?"
    Pyros scowled, "Sorry buddy, I’m already married!", she snarled and held her sword before her eyes. "Energy of Flame, hear my call! Pyros Flame Gout!"
    She twirled the blade around her in a hypnotic dance, totally entrancing Racoom. Then she abruptly stopped and made a wide slash at him, Racoom, in his dazed state, barley managed to escape the wave of flames, he panted. "That’s it?"
    Pyros smiled, "Not by a long shot." She held the blade above her, point down and plunged it into the ground, "I draw from the life blood of the earth, Pyros! Magma Eruption!" she pulled the, now red hot, glowing blade from its earthen sheath, and leapt at Racoom, she plunged the red hot blade into his gut, red energy exploded from the blade and blew Racoom into smithereens. "No one messes with my Kid." she growled.
    She felt the strain of death on her hands, they now had someone’s blood on them, she swallowed and knew she had done the right thing, anyone who would beat up a child was not sane, and with his power, there was no way of locking him up. She looked at her blade, coated in red blood. She felt the bile rise in her throat, she knelt on the ground and wiped off her blade.  Later she would polish it, so the iron in his blood wouldn’t rust it. She looked at her hands, which were also daubed in blood, she wiped them off too. And retreated to find a stream,

    Gohan went after his mother. Goku, Vegeta, and Krillan landed. "That was impressive! You took them out just like that!"
    The woman with red hair and green accents looked him over. "Yes, but they have been expending energy on the shield wall for the past three days, we are fresh and rested, I call it no big victory." she said.

    Vegeta looked her over, "You didn’t even fight!"
    Terra snarled and activated her rod. "I know you Vegeta. Do not presume to judge me. I would have, can you say the same?" Vegeta searched her face and backed away, what he had seen shook him to the bottom of his soul.

    "Where’s the one in red and Gohan? That was really what I call a ‘Racoom Boom’,"
    Usagi looked at him, "She’s polishing her blade, Gohan is with her. I think you should go and talk to her."
    Goku backed away a step, "Hold it! I’m married!"
    Usagi smiled oddly, "So is she."

    Goku approached the black haired woman cautiously, she had shown extraordinary power. She was scrubbing furiously at her blade and hands, her wrist cuffs lay beside her along with her boots as she knelt in the water and used a spiky bit of bracken to scrub at her sword. "Need any help?" he asked tentatively.
    Chi-Chi spun and saw Goku standing behind her. "Goku!" she gasped.
    He recoiled, "Chi-chi?"
    Flames licked at her, "Yes it’s me! Did you honestly think I’d stand by idle while you two went off on a wild fighting spree?" she snapped.
    Goku sat beside her on the bank, "No, I was worried about you all the while I was here, I had this weird feeling that something was going to happen to you, but I was too far away to do anything."
    Chi-Chi sighed and let her sword rest on the bank , she curled up beside Goku, "It did, I got so worried about you two, I even tried to steal the professor’s new spaceship."
    "What happened?"
    "It crashed. I was out for an entire day." she mumbled.
    Goku began to chuckle, "Then how did you get here?"
    Chi-Chi sighed, "Well, I was helping with the laundry and Usagi appeared out of nowhere with Bulma and Gohan. I didn’t know it was them at the time, but she offered me the chance to come here and help, and the rest of my life so she said.  She said Gohan got the ability from me, but something has been bothering her when she found out, I can tell when she looks at me and Gohan." Chi-Chi leaned against her husband and he put an arm around her shoulder, she smiled happily, it had been a long time since they’d just sat like this.

    Gohan approached the side of the hill where his mother sat he turned the corner and saw her and father leaning against each other, he opened his mouth to hail them, but three strong hands clamped over it and drug him behind the hill, Bulma, Robin, and Carrie stared at him balefully. "Don’t interrupt them, it was just starting to get good!"
    Gohan watched and blushed as he realized they were about to kiss. "OOPS! Sorry!" he settled in with the others to watch the show.
    "And just what do you think you’re doing?" two voices behind them said angrily. They all sweat dropped and turned to see Usagi and Vegeta standing over them, they blushed as Usagi and Vegeta dragged them off from the show.

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