Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon Z
Act Two: Sailor Mercury

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"Bunny, get up!" Trunks called from the bottom of the staircase. Monday morning had rolled around, a full two days since she first transformed. Luna didn't live with them, instead the guardian feline lived with Goten so Trunks wouldn't get suspicious. Now today, Bunny had to go to Gohan's for tutoring, something she wasn't fond of. She appriciated what Gohan did, but as a teenager schooling wasn't something she did for fun. She snored on, never hearing her fathers calls. When he didn't hear her stir, he started up the stairs. Going to her door, he called for her again with the same responce.

"Serenity Briefs, get your lazy butt out of bed!" He barked. Bunny was up, and with a yell fell out of bed. She sat up to see her father staring at her. A sheepish grin crossed her face as she stood up and moved for the door. She went to the bathroom to take a welcome bath. She was a mass of cramps and bruises after that first battle and decided a nice, long soak in the hot water would make her feel better. Looping her pigtails and placing her buns in in a shower cap, she started the running water. Noticing how red the scar on her chest was, she lightly touched it. It felt raw and stung horribly but there was nothing she could really do about it. No one knew how she got it and it kinda made her a little nervous. She remembered...vaguely...that the day Goten discovered it, she had been having a nightmare. In the dream she was so filled with greif at seeing a man die that she took a crystal sword and plunged it through her heart. She thought it was just a coiencidence and never brought the dream up. Occasionally she would have similar dreams to that, never seeing herself run herself through though, and always wondered who 'Endymion' was. Oh well. Sinking down in the warm water until the diamond shapped scar vanished, she tilted her head back. Gohan wouldn't be upset if she was a little late today. After being 'attacked' on Saturday, he said she should come in sometime before noon. She heard her father yell up to her that he had an important meeting all day and that Goten would give her a lift at 11:30, the current time being eight. He soon ran out of the house, never noticing the coffee stain on his pants. (When Bulma called and told him that he was late, he spit it out and all over him. Now we know where Bunny gets her late streak)

"Endymion..." She murmured. She fell into a twilight sleep, where she began to dream while she was was awake. In this dream she was hiding behind a wall to see two men talking. One had black hair and wore armor while the other had white hair to his shoulders and wore a grey uniform with a cape. The man in armor had heard her and turned to see her. Before she could see his face however, a gloved hand fell to her shoulder which violently tore her from the dream. She gasped and jumped a little. Realising it was just a dream she ran a wet cloth over her face. Glancing up at a waterproof clock/radio, she was that it was about 8:30. She turned the radio on, which was on the news today. It seemed that the media was in a panic. Sailor V, the most beloved crime fighter since the time of Saiyaman, had vanished after Sailor Moon arrived. Bunny blinked and finally stood, draining the now cold water. Drying herself off and removing the cap she returned to her room and went through her closet to find something to wear. Something that hid the scar. That did nothing to narrow the feild, every last top she owned hid it. She finally settled on a Sailor V shirt and a pair of jeans. She let her pigtails down and went down stairs and to the kitchen to get something to eat. Her father was in a hurry this morning so the food was stocked up.

"Let's see...oh! Pop-Tarts!" She squealed, pulling some cherry filled ones out. Opening them and dropping them in the toaster to heat up, she went to the refridgerator to get some milk.
"I've got a long while before Goten-oji comes for me. Maybe I should go check out the arcade again..." She said, thinking outloud. Eating her pop-tarts and drinking her milk, she wrote a message for Goten, grabbed her shoes, and left the house. It was a sunny day today, a perfect arcade day. She walked past Juban Junior High to see a bunch of kids whispering to one another. Stopping outside the main gate to listen in, she spotted a girl who looked...seperate from the others. She wore a different kind of uniform than everyone else, hers was black. She also wore glasses and was leafing through what seemed to be a copy of a student hand book. Bunny could hear some of the whispers, and one caught her attention. Someone said the girl had an I.Q of 300!

"She must be smart like Obaasan..." She whispered to herself. The girl exited the gate and walked by her. Bunny smiled and waved, calling out to the girl. She stopped for a moment and looked around to see who she could possibly be talking to. Realizing the girl was talking to her, she spoke.

"Are you...talking to me?" She shyly asked. Bunny giggled.

"No silly. I'm talking to the smart girl next to you. Of course you!" She said. The girl blushed a little and looked down. Bunny pulled her to a bench and sat her down.

"I'm Tsukino Bunny, what's your name?" She asked. The girl blinked, thinking how much she resembled Serenity Breifs but didn't bring it up. She pulled her glasses off to speak.

"I'm Mizuno Ami. Um...what school do you go to Bunny?" She asked, finally noticing the lack of a school uniform or an identification badge on her. Bunny grinned, and gave a little peace sign,

"I don't go to school, I'm tutored by a family friend every other day." She explained, not bothering to give a reason behind that. Ami just nodded a little. Bunny grinned again, getting Ami to smile a little to.

"So do you go to Juuban Junior High?" She asked. Ami nodded some and held the hand book so the bubbly girl could look through it.

"My mother enrolled me today and I start next week when they have enough text books for me. I take a lot of extra science classes." She explained, noticing a look of confusion on Bunny's face. The girl was whining about how schools had way to many rules and rambled on about how her tutor Son Gohan didn't have as many rigid rules.

"Gohan's cool. He lets me have snack breaks and regular breaks when I need them. He's a really neat guy. His daughter is one of my friends and we're going shopping this Saturday. Oh! Hey Ami, I know! Let's go to the arcade! It's only nine right now, and I don't have to be there for another three hours and then I get out when the schools do!" Bunny said. Before Ami could say anything, the blonde grabbed her arm and proceeded to drag her down the street. Bunny ignored her cries until they were well in the arcade and she was pulling out her token bag. Ami looked to the Sailor V game where Bunny had plopped herself infront of. She dropped a token in and began to play, trying to explain the game as she went along. Ami wathed, almost as if she were analyzing the game. A little time passed and Goten walked in with Luna riding on his shoulder, clutching to his shirt for dear life. He had been flying and she wasn't willing to put the theroy of cats haveing nine lives to the ultimate test. Bunny frowned.

"It's hard and I suck at it." She admitted. Goten would have said something, but Bunny had a temper she aquired from Vegeta. She looked at her new friend. Goten reccognised her. Gohan was talking about a high school genious who always made perfect scores on all the national tests. This must have been her.

"Hey Ami, you wanna try? I've got a continue." Bunny offered. Ami moved to the chair and began to play. Luna's eyes narrowed as she saw a faint glow that was hidden by the tints in her hair. Ami played calmly, never noticing the large crowed gathering around her. Motoki worked his way through the now dense crowd to see what was going on. Was one of the games fritzing again?

"Motoki, come see this!" Bunny called. Goten floated up a few inches when he realised he could have yelled 'Bunny is Sailor Moon!' and no one would have heard him or noticed. His eyes went wide as he saw the girl, Ami's, score. It was in the millions! He dropped back to the ground to also move through the crowd. Finally, as Ami typed in her initials in the number one slot, something dropped into her lap.

"I guess I won a prize." She said. It was a pen. Kind of odd looking, but a pen was a pen. She pocketed it and noticed Bunny get a little jealous.

"I want one..." She said before shaking the machine, screaming at it.

"C'mon you stupid machine! Gimme a prize too!!" She screamed. Motoki shouted that she'd break it, but before she actually could, another pen, one with a little moon on the body and a jewled cap, plopped out and into her hands.

"Yay!" She said, kissing it a few times. Ami said something about her being so funny, but it was lost in her giggles.

"Bunny, you're a nut!" Motoki told her before checking to make sure the game still worked. It did. Bunny gave a little peace sign again.

"I don't mean to. Hey Ami, wanna hang out again sometime? Go have ice cream? Goten-oji here'll buy!" She said. Goten sharply glared at he before smiling and rubbing Bunny's head. Ami smiled some.

"That'd be great...but I have to go now to my cram school, Crystal Acadamy." She said. Standing and bowing, the girl walked out. Bunny sighed and also walked out with Goten who called for Nimbus. Bunny hopped on the cloud after Luna said a cloud couldn't carry someone, proving her wrong.

"Your friend is something else Bunny." Goten commented once they had safely snuck off. Luna nodded some from her place in Bunny's lap.

"Yes...and I have a feeling I know what too..."

"Gohan-san! Gohan-san, I'm here!" Bunny called as she kicked her shoes off and ran inside. Goten followed soon after to see Bunny sit down at the kitchen table where her lessons for the day were spread out. Gohan came out from the bathroom after a little bit and groaned as he watched his brother raid his refridgerator.

"Goten, what are you doing?" He asked. The younger man poked his head out long enough for a 'hello' before returning to what he had been doing. Gohan rolled his eyes and sat down next to Bunny, who was grinning from ear to ear.

"Did you meet Sailor V or something Bunny?" He asked. Bunny shook her head.

"Nope! Even better! The Sailor V game gives out prizes now and my new friend Ami got this cool pen and so did I!" She said, waving the jeweled item around happily. Goten sat down next to them with a small mountain of food.

"You had to beat the crap out of the machine to get it." He told her. Bunny blushed before opening her mathbook to the page she was on to ask questions. Goten, not wanting to have to listen to the lessons, took Luna and walked outside. Sitting on the grass, he let the cat down as he saw Videl walking up towards the door.

"Hey Goten." She greeted. He waved a little and Luna meowed, bowing her head some. Videl kneeled down to scratch the cat behind its ears.

"She's so pretty. Goten, I didn't know you had a cat. What's your name?" Videl asked. Luna started to talk, but bit her own tounge to shut herself up. She couldn't let anyone know about this...'ability' of hers. Goten had found out on accident and Luna would NOT tell anyone not involved with the Senshi. Luckily Goten had caught what the cat was about to do and ran his hand over her head to hide the fact she had bitten her own tounge.

"Her name's Luna. I found her the other day." He said. It was the truth. Wasn't the WHOLE truth, but it was the truth. He'd hung out with Trunks for FAR to long. He had learned out to lie without lying. Videl didn't notice Luna's drastic actions and smiled.

"Well, she's very pretty. So are you waiting on Bunny to get out of class?" Videl asked her brother-in-law. He nodded. Luna had said earlier she wanted to investigate that Ami Mizuno. Videl smiled and walked inside, telling him good-bye, and dropped something from her arms. Luna walked over to find a flyer for that cram school Ami said she attended.

"Goten look. This must be Crystal." She said. Goten looked over. Sure enough, it was. They advertised their disk method and used a picture of Ami as a promotion. Luna looked to her current owner.

"Goten, we should go check Crystal out." She said. He looked at the cat with a look of disgust.

"Luna, it's a school. What could go wrong in a school?" He asked. The cat scratched his face, forcing him to jump up, yelping. She hissed at him and he decided they SHOULD go check it out. It was quite suspicious after all. Sticking his head in to tell Bunny that he had to go somewhere for a little bit he lifted Luna up, held tight, and flew off towards Tokyo...

Goten snored on as he slept on his couch, where he had crashed last night due to exhaustion. Luna had him follow Ami all over the city last, like she was trying to prove something. Luna groaned at they wat he was acting. She would have called Bunny, but Goten explained her schedual. Since today was Tuesday, she would be in training with her Ojiisan during school hours. Another reason Luna couldn't go was due to the fact that Bunny's grandfather lived at Capsule Corp. where her father worked. Luna would not risk being spotted by the man. He had seen her before, going through his stuff to find that letter. So instead, the Cat found herself an open window in his bedroom to escape from.

"Tsk tsk tsk. Goten, honestly. If you keep window like these open, any theif could just wander in..." She said as she slipped outside. Luckily for the cat, Goten lived in Tokyo. Stretching herself out, she began to walk towards Juuban Junior High where Ami now attended. She wanted to see if she could find out anything about the girl. She'd been typing away all night in the control room and had had about three hours of sleep. She had been uploading anything she could find on Bunny to watch her growth over time. So far, the only unclassified information on her was that her real name was Serenity Breifs and her most basic information. The information on Trunks was detailed, but when one got to Bunny, it was heavily guarded. Now, the thing that got Luna was that the passwords had been done in Lunarian and it had read that only the Princess could access the information. Luna began to think that the princess had already awakened. She shoved the thoughts to the back of her mind when she arrived at the school gate. School had another half hour, thus so did Bunny. The cat squeezed through the bars on the gate and made her way to another open window. Peering in, she saw the girl she had been looking for. Ami Mizuno. She was in a Chemistry class at the time.

'She takes such advanced classes for someone her age. Such great intellengence...perhaps she's the princess?' Luna thought. A few moments passed before Ami got up to leave. Luna ran to the open door and went to find her.

"The school is so big...where is she?" Then Luna remembered her excellene in the Sailor V game the previous day and began to look for the computer lab. Finding it, she peered in to find it empty of anyone except for Ami. Rubbing her temples, the girl popped a disk out of the hard drive.

"My head is killing me. I can't get into this disk method Crystal uses. Good ol' note taking feels better." She muttered to her self as she used the pen she won the previous day to begin to take notes. As she sat it down to rub her hand a little, Luna hopped onto her head and down to her lap, startling her.

"Oh! You startled me! Oh, I remember you. Your Bunny's ojisan's kitty aren't you?" Ami asked. With that, Bunny wandered in, in her training clothes.

"Goten-oji isn't really my ojisan. He's my 'tousan's best friend in the whole world. They grew up togather. If something happens to my 'tousan, my obaasan, my ojiisan, and my obasan Bra, he has legal custody of me." She explained as she pulled up a chair to sit down next to her friend. She reached out to pet Luna.

"What about your Okaasan?" Ami asked. Bunny's mood darkened a little.

" 'Kaasan...'kaasan died when I was very little. 'Tousan said she was shot to death while we were gone." She said, pulling her hand away from Luna. Ami gasped at that. Her mother had been murdered while she was an infant? Ami's parents had divorced due to conflicting interests. And even though she never saw her father, atleast she knew he still loved her. Bunny would never know that. Ami assumed her parents had divorced as well. It was awful.

"Gomen nasai..." She whispered.

"It's okay Ami-chan. You didn't know." Bunny explained. She then smiled once more when she noticed Ami had been using the pen she won the other day.

"Hey! You've been using the special pen! Me too!" Bunny told her, pointing to the jeweled item in her own pocket. Ami smiled as well before hearing in the hall that someone had signed up for Crystal.

"I have to be going Bunny..." Ami explained. She remembered what her teacher had said the previous day, how everyone was trying to catch up with herand that she needed to keep raising her level. Getting up and gathering her things, Ami left. Bunny blinked as she watched her friend leave the school. Then she noticed the disk still in the computer.

"Luna, Ami left her disk behind!" She cried. Grabbing it, she ran for the school entrance to try and catch up with the girl.

'It's times like these....that I wish I could fly like 'tousan!' She thought. She rounded the corner that led outside the gate and as she did, she bumped into someone, dropping a Crystal flyer that Pan had given her from Gohan.

"Ow! Hey, watch it Odango!" A familiar voice came. Bunny opened her eyes and looked up from where she was sitting to see the man from the Osa*P jewelery store. Growling, Bunny jumped up.

"BUNS! THESE ARE BUNS YOU LOW INTELLEGENCE, LOWER CLASS, NO GOOD, WORTHLESS HUMAN! BUNS!!!!" She screamed at the man at the top of her lungs, pulling rank on him. She was, after all, Serenity Briefs. The daughter of Trunks Briefs who was the son of Bulma Briefs who owned the largest and richest company in the world. He couldn't compare to her. She was always invited to every big social event. She was better than he was.

"Bunn-meow!" Luna said as she finally noticed the man. His attention shifted to Luna.

"Did I just hear that cat talk?" He asked. Bunny blushed and hasitly made an excuse before grabbing Luna and starting to run off again. Snorting, the man began to walk on once more before stepping on the paper. He stopped to lift it up and read it...

"Luna, Ami's gone and I don't think Crystal would let us in during a class." Bunny said as she carried the cat down to her basement slash arcade. Luna grabbed the disk out of the girl's hand and moved to one of the two computers sitting next to the wall.

"Then we'll have to find out what's on the disk ourselves." Luna explained. Popping it int the A drive, she began to type when Bunny caught the sound of her father's footsteps heading for the door leading to the basement. Popping it back out and dropping Luna under the desk she looked up to see him.

"Hey Bunny. I got out of my meeting early." Trunks said. Bunny smiled a little.

"Cool! Um, hey 'Tousan, have you heard anything about the Crystal Cram school?" She asked. Luna blinked. What was Bunny getting at? Trunks chuckled a little.

"Heard about it? It's all Gohan-san talks about really. He thinks it;s a great place to study at. Even Chichi-san wishes it were around when Gohan-san was little." He explained. Luna nodded. Bunny was collecting information. Very smart. Something to add to her Senshi Profile.

"My new friend goes there every day after school. Her name's Mizuno Ami." She explained. Trunks nodded a little before sorting through the mail.

"I've heard of her. The smart girl right? She's supposidly as smart as Gohan-san was at that age. She'll grow up to be like him, lemme tell you." He said. Bunny giggled.

"So you mean she'll become a level two Super Saiya-jin and defeat a killer android from the future using the Kamehameha wave with only one arm?" She asked. Trunks rubbed her head, shoving her down a little.

"You know what I mean!" He said, laughing as well. He stood up and handed her a letter.

"This came for you today. It's an invite to that ball next week. You gonna go?" He asked. Shrugging, Bunny took it and shelved it. Trunks smiled again and walked up the stairs to go take a nap before meeting Goten for some sparring.

"Okay Luna, it's clear." The girl whispered once she was sure he couldn't hear her,

"Was that your otousan Bunny? He seems very kind." Luna told her. Bunny nodded, smiling.

"That's my 'Tousan. He spoils me all the time. Ojiisan doesn't think he should. He wants me to be a great fighter, but 'tousan wants me to be who I want to be. I love him for that. But Ojiisan has some good ideas as well. I just don't know who I should be like. It's really confusing me." She explained. Luna blinked.

"Bunny, who is your ojiisan? What's his name?" She asked.

"His name is Vegeta." Luna's eyes went wide.

"He's a Saiya-jin."

"He's the king now." Bunny told her, smiling.

"So that would make your father and your aunt a prince and princess? Making you...?" Luna began. Bunny nodded before popping the disk back in, interrupting her. Luna began to type a little. Nothing happened. So Bunny shook the computer, hitting it a few times.

"Bunny, I agree with Motoki! You're a nut!!" Luna yelped. Bunny yelped too as a voice came over the headphones connected top the speakers. Pulling them on for a second, Bunny listened and looked at Luna.

"Luna, it's telling people to become slaves to some great master and to find the Ginzuishou!" Bunny told her. Luna gasped.

"Bunny, your hitting it must have forced a subleminal message to play over the lessons." Luna said. Bunny blinked.

"Sub-whatemal?" She asked.

"An illegal form of technology. A message plays at fixed intervals and is so short it can't be noticed but over time it makes you obey it." She explained. Bunny gasped. And this was Ami's disk!

"Luna, does this mean Ami-chan's been brainwashed?! We've gotta help her!" Bunny cried. Grabbing her friend, writing a hasty note for her father and pulling her shoes on, Bunny ran out of the basement via the outside door. She called for Nimbus, hopped on and headed for Crystal.

"We've gotta save her..." Bunny said. Not long after Bunny jumped into an alley near the cram school.

"Wait Bunny, you can't just barge on in there! You need a disguise!" Luna called. Bunny spun on her heel to face her companion.

"What are you talking about?" She asked.

"Use the pen you got the other day. Wave it high in the air and call out 'Moon Power' and tell it what to change you into!" Luna said.

"Cool! Moon Power! Change me into a doctor!" Bunny told it. Her clothes altered and so did her hair. It was cropped short now. Bunny didn't notice or care. Changed into this new form, she ran inside, to see the teacher choking Ami.

"You haven't used the disk! You're not brainwashed like the others!" The teacher cried.

"I don't need your methods...I can learn on my own...!" Ami said, struggling to breathe. Bunny slammed the door open.

"I've heard there's an emergancy requiring my assistance!" She yelled. The teacher slammed Ami into one of the desks.

"We don't need your help doctor." The woman said, bareing fangs and turning into a monster. Bunny took a slight step back before getting her nerve again.

"I'm afraid you're wrong! That's MY friend, and no one hurts my family OR my friends!" She said. Ami looked up.

"Moon Prisim Power, Make UP!" Bunny called. Pulling the wing clips out of her hair she threw them at the teacher slash monster. The monster growled and threw...tests at her?

"Ah! Papercut! Owie! I hate tests! Make it stop!!" Bunny shouted, wanting to cry. Luna jumped up onto the desk.

"Don't cry Sailor Moon! Your shrieks will amplify and blow the computers out!" She called. Ami blinked. Bunny was Sailor Moon? Goten's cat turned to her and smiled. Unknown to Ami, that strange birthmark she had that rarely appeared, had.

"Ami-chan, do you rememebr that pen you got? Grab it, now!" The cat ordered. Wondering if all that studying had gone to her brain, Ami nodded. She was now taking orders from a talking cat! Maybe this was just a dream. Doing as she was told, she grabbed the pen and felt a strange snesation overcome her. A familiar one though. Like something she knew was in her memory, but couldn't remember.

"Where did this fog come from?!" The monster cried. Bunny looked around, but couldn't see it. A male voice called out to her as someone lifted her up.

"Now Sailor Moon!" The voice shouted. Bunny kicked at it as hard as she could.

"Sailor Moon Kick!" She yelled. The attack was now Ki powered and slammed the creature into a wall. Sailor Moon looked up to see Tuxedo Kamen tip his hat to her and leave through a window. She began to drool slightly but Luna grabbed her pigtail to bring her back to reality. Bunny pulled the Tiara off and it clipped into the frisbee.

"Moon Frisbee!" She shouted. It tore through the creature, dewstroying it instantly. Luna ran to gather the tossed items as the fog cleared. She came back.

"Ami, where are you?" Bunny asked. Turning, a figure began to become clear. A girl in a Sailor fu'ku not unlike Bunny's. Hers was various shades of blue and had no sleeves. She had blue hair and a blue symbol glowing on her forehead before the blue stone Tiara appeared over it.

"Ami, is that you?" Bunny called. The girl looked at Bunny and stood up, looking herself over. Bunny noticed a change in her own uniform. The choker turned red and the knot that held it tied togather vanished. Her boots reversed colors and began to shrink.The bands on her gloves turned red and began to shrink as well and the blue stone on her brooch lit up as well. Then Luna began to speak.

"I knew I was right, soldier of wisdom and protected by Mercury. Mizuno Ami is Sailor Mercury!" She said. Ami blinked.

"Me? I...I'm a Sailor Senshi? Bunny, what other secrets do you have?" She asked. Bunny was hopping up and down happily.

"Yay! Ami's in the group now! I'm not the only one!" She said. Luna and Ami sweat-dropped...

"Jadeite!" A voice barked loudly. Jadeite knelt down before a truly fearsome woman.

"Yes...my queen?" He asked, his voice shaking noticeably. The woman frowned.

"That's...strike two. You have one last chance to retreive the Ginzuishou. Do not fail me again!" She yelled. Another man spoke up.

"Queen Beryl, allow me, Nephlite, to search." He said. Jadeite looked up at Queen Beryl.

"My queen, I assure you, I won't fail again! I'll destroy those miserable Senshi and retreive the crystal!" He said, begging now in his voice. The woman growled and told him it was his last chance and if he failed, he would be wise to never set foot in the Dark Kingdom again.

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Notes-
     In this chapter Luna begins to think that perhaps Bunny could be the Moon Princess since she is a Saiya-jin princess. Luna is unaware that Bunny was adopted by Trunks and Bunny doesn't know she was either. Trunks doesn't want to tell her. This is a conversation between Trunks and Goten.

'Hey man, do you ever plan on telling Bunny she's adopted?'

'Of course I do! What kind of heartless man do you take me for?!'

'...your fathers son...'

'I know exactly when I'm gonna tell her!'

'When?'

'On my deathbed.'

That's the end of this series for now!