(last time)

“You fool! Did I Kill her on Earth! Either let me take her, or I will just take her from you and keep her with me,” Vegeta sneered at them and took a step closer to the group. “A Princess belongs in the company of other royalty, not with third class hybrids like you, kid.”

“Give me one good reason why we should trust you,” Gohan asked, his face set with a look of determination.

“Guys, I think we can trust him with Usagi. I don’t know if she told you, but Usagi told me everything that happened that day back on Earth when she first met Vegeta. He told her to stay alive. He’s not going to kill her.” Bulma stated, giving Vegeta a calm and calculated study, ‘I’m right, just by hugging him that day she worked her magic on him, and he could no more hurt her than he could destroy the entire universe with a single thought, let alone kill her. No Usagi would be just as safe, if not safer in Vegeta’s care.’

“Are you sure Bulma?” Krillon asked not convinced.

“Yes I am. He couldn’t hurt Usagi anymore than Goku could.” Bulma replied while looking Vegeta in the eye. He only returned the stare. With this decided Vegeta took the unconscious Usagi from Gohan, then waited while Gohan picked up Bulma, and Krillon picked up Dende and they headed off. Unfortunately another one of Freeza’s lackeys had locked on to Vegeta and was soon on their trail.

Zarbon grumbled as he took off after Vegeta, ‘I’ll show that stupid monkey not to mess with Lord Freeza. Even if Vegeta is stronger than before he’s still no match for me.’ He thought smugly as he used his scouter to track Vegeta. ‘Hmmm, looks like he’s moving pretty fast, and there are a couple others with him, but who? Maybe it’s those two brats that interrupted Lord Freeza earlier. Well in that case, Freeza should be quite pleased when I bring them all back.’

Suddenly Gohan stopped and looked off to his right his face turning into a scowl.

“What did you stop for Brat?” Vegeta asked annoyed.

“Someone is coming straight at us from that direction,” Gohan answered.

“Hey, you’re right,” Krillon added. “We better find somewhere to hide quick, we can’t fight if we all are carrying someone,” Vegeta just scowled at the thought of hiding, until he looked at the still unconscious girl in his arms.

“Look down there Guys, there’s a small cave!” Bulma exclaimed, as she pointed to an opening in the rock wall.  Krillon flew down with Gohan and Vegeta following. Krillon, Gohan, Bulma, and Dende then walked into the cave making sure their was room for all of them as well as nothing else currently in it; Vegeta stayed near the entrance and just studied the girl in his arms.

‘I don’t understand it. How can one little girl make me do these things? I never would have sunk to the level of hiding, but I am about ready to in order to protect her. What is this strange hold she has on me.’ Suddenly Vegeta was pulled from his thoughts by an annoying, yet familiar voice with a somewhat Australian accent.

“Well, Well, Well, what do we have here? The mighty Prince of sayians carrying a little girl.” Vegeta just growled as he turned to face the blue skinned creature.

“And if it isn’t Freeza’s little pretty boy.” He answered. “If you don’t want to end up like that pink marshmallow, then I suggest you scram.” Vegeta told Zarbon, not wanting to deal with the vain alien yet if he didn’t have to, especially with the girl still in his arms. Just then Gohan and Krillon walked out of the cave.

“Really Vegeta, protecting children now just isn’t in your style. So you can do everyone and yourself a favor; hold onto to the girl, grab the boy and tell me where the little Namek brat is so that we can all go report to Freeza.” Zarbon stated smirking. Vegeta growled, but stopped when he felt Usagi tense up.

“I really don’t care what your orders are Zarbon, but you are not getting me or this girl.” He replied icily. Zarbon just laughed causing Usagi to finally come around.

“Ohhh….Kami! Remind not to do that again.” She mumbled lifting a hand to her forehead. Still not opening her eyes. Vegeta turned his attention to Usagi.

“You must have had quite the after shock, I mean a blast a thousandth of that size would have done just fine to dispose of marshmallow head back there.” Vegeta told her as he set her down on her feet. Zarbon just stared at the little girl who Vegeta had just said killed Dodorio.

“You’re joking right? There is no way that that little twig could have destroyed Dodorio. She was just lucky that her and her other little friend managed to escape Freeza with the Namek boy. So tell me little girl, why do you think that some stupid legend will defeat Freeza.” He said laughing. Usagi just stared at another of the creatures that had helped destroy Den Dee’s village. Then with a frown she took two steps forward, the others just watching.

“Did I say a legend, I meant legends, the two that are Freeza’s greatest fears; One the legend of the ‘Golden Warrior’, known as a ‘Super Sayian’ the second the ‘Silver Senshi’ known as the ‘Queen of the Stars’ or ‘Sailor Cosmos’. The ‘Super Sayian’ was said to have to be born of the royal Sayian line, a Prince of Sayians. The ‘Sailor Cosmos’ had to be born of the royal Lunarian line, a Princess of the Moon. Well Freeza thought he’d gotten rid of this threat, but instead the two most important parts of the legend were left alive; the Prince of Vegita and the Princess of the Moon, and well here we are standing before you,” she spoke calmly. Zarbon just stood there and smirked.

“You can’t really expect me to believe that you are the Moon Princess, or that those legends will ever come true,” he said cockily in his goofy accent.

 

Usagi sat on her knees her hands pressed flat onto the ground on either side of her. She poured her energy into the planet creating an invisible shield deep within the crust. Behind her was the Capsule Corp. spaceship that her father had arrived in. Inside Bulma was taking care of Piccolo and Vegeta with Gohan’s help, Dende stood behind her waiting to lend her his energy if she needed it. She was creating this shield to protect the planet from Freeza, in case he decided to try and blow up the planet and destroy everyone but himself. Her father had arrived just in time to help Gohan, Krillon, and Vegeta in dealing with the Ginyu force. None of them had been a match for her Dad. She, on the other hand had been helping Dende and Bulma, the three of them making a team. It had worked out rather well, Vegeta had helped Krillon and Gohan put her Dad in the rejuvenation tank after his fight with Captain Ginyu.

While Vegeta rested they had called on Namek’s dragon and wished Piccolo back to life as well as to Namek, but Guru had passed away before they could make the third and final wish. Then Freeza had shown up. Usagi and Dende had hidden on the ground while Vegeta, Gohan, and Krillon had begun to face off with the tyrant. It had been rather funny to watch Freeza’s frustrated scowl as those he thought he had defeated kept coming back stronger than before. First it had been Krillon healed by Dende, then Gohan healed by Usagi. Things were going better for a while when Piccolo arrived to the fight scene, stronger than ever before. Things had been looking up for the Z Senshi; that is until Freeza reached his fourth and final transformation. Dende had been able to heal Piccolo and Vegeta when Freeza had all but killed them; while Usagi kept an eye on Gohan and Krillon. Unfortunately Freeza had seen Dende and what he had done, Usagi had barely managed to teleport Dende back to where she stood hiding behind a large towering rock formation before he was almost killed by Freeza.

After that Usagi had concentrated on saving those that Freeza was trying to deal death blows to. She had managed fairly well until Freeza had begun to use Vegeta as a personal punching bag; she had struggled to heal and reduce the damage that Freeza was causing but was losing ground. He was being wounded faster then she could heal at this distance. That’s when her dad had arrived after being fully healed. He had given her telepathic instructions as he had pretended to bury Vegeta (who had thought he was dying but only being forced asleep by Usagi) that she was to take Dende and Vegeta back to his spaceship and also to find Bulma and bring her there. She had done as told, but when she’d returned to the ship with Bulma she had found Gohan there with a barely alive Piccolo that Dende had immediately began to try and heal him using what little energy he had left. Usagi had put Bulma down, and then proceeded to construct a planetary shield. Krillon was gone, that she could sense, and his death had caused her dad to reach a whole new level, Freeza was losing and he was beginning to get desperate.

That’s when the attack came, Usagi screamed as the attack hit her shield. Freeza’s attack slowly ate into it, and in her weakened state she was unable to stop it, finally it broke through her shield and descended into the core of Namek completely destroying it. Luckily she had weakened Freeza’s attack enough so that it would take longer for it to actually blow up. Suddenly the sky grew black and a ways off in the distance Namek’s dragon could be seen. Then suddenly Dende took off flying as fast as he could straight for it.

“No Dende! Wait!” Usagi yelled after him, only to have her thoughts interrupted by her father.

‘It’s all right Usagi, he is on a mission, now make sure you watch over your mom and brother, as well as Vegeta and Bulma until I can get to Earth okay?’ her father’s voice asked in her mind.

‘Okay Daddy, please please come home soon. I love you,’ she replied.

 

Usagi stared in awe at the seven glowing gold-orange spheres with red stars; a different number of stars for each ball. It had been just over four months since they had arrived back from Namek. Now they were going to wish her father, and Krillon back. She watched as Dende gave their wish to the dragon.

“The one called Krillon is at the check in station, but the one called Goku cannot be brought there.” The dragon replied.

“WHAT? Why NOT?!” Bulma yelled.

“To bring him there he would have to be dead, If I brought him there now it would kill him, because he is alive,” the dragon answered in a matter-of- fact tone.

“DAD IS ALIVE!” Gohan shouted gleefully.

“All right, then lets wish him back home.” Usagi said anxious to see her father. Everyone nodded and Dende gave the dragon their wish.

“Hold on one moment………… It can not be done. The one called Goku does not want to come. He says that he is fine and will come back later,” the dragon replied.

“no. no! No! NO! NOOOOOO!” was all that was heard before everyone’s attention was drawn to the young silver haired girl. Her hands were clenched into fists at her sides and her eyes blazed as tears chorused down her cheeks. Already she was surrounded by a silver glow, the golden crescent on her forehead blazing. “HE PROMISED! HE SAID HE’D COME BACK!! HE PROMISED ME!!! HE PROMISED ME!!!!!” she screamed. The energy flowing around her grew and grew until no one could stand within 10 feet of her. That was when Vegeta walked forward. Ignoring the blazing energy he walked up to the young princess and pulled her into his arms folding her into a hug. Immediately her energy level died down as she sobbed into the Sayian Prince’s chest, banging her small, but strong fists on his chest as she let her anger, and pain out. The crowd watched as Vegeta just held her, her cries slowly dieing down, only a muffled “He promised,” still heard occasionally.

Bulma watched in awe at the cold-hearted Prince’s display of affection toward the young girl. She then turned to see Gohan standing with his fists clenched tightly his eyes squeezed shut. Chichi stood beside him staring blankly at some unknown point. ‘I’ll ask them to stay here with me until Goku is back. They need to be around friends right now. She thought to herself before turning back to everyone else.

“Don’t worry, he said that he would come back and he will.” Was all that came from Piccolo who stood leaning against one of Capsule Corp’s buildings. Gohan smiled at his sensei before turning to Bulma.

“Well let’s wish Krillon back!” he said. Bulma nodded, and Dende gave the wish; in a flash of golden light Krillon appeared, good as new.

“I.. I’m alive” he said shocked. Everyone cheered. Then after a brief conversation with King Kai, Bulma told Dende that Yamcha was next. The wish was made and the dragon disappeared.

Meanwhile, Vegeta had his hands full, trying to completely calm the young Lunarian Princess. She had finally stopped pounding on his chest and was now just softly crying.

“I hope you actually didn’t think you could hurt me with those pitiful hits.” Vegeta stated trying to take her mind off of her adopted father. “You need a lot more training if you ever want to actually be able to defeat anything.” He then said, requesting in his own way that she train with him.

“Hai Vegeta-san. Will you help me train?” she replied humoring him by actually asking for his help although she knew he wanted her assistance just as much as she wanted his. He simply gave a brief nod, then allowed her to back away and stand on her own. The two turned to see Bulma hugging Yamcha, who had just disposed of a frog that had somehow ended up on his head.

 

Usagi smiled as she and Gohan watched Vegeta and Bulma arguing once again, both of them to stubborn to give in. ‘They both love to argue with each other, although neither of them would admit it.’ Usagi thought to herself before she and Gohan slipped into the gravity room to train.

It had been almost a year since they had arrived back from Namek. Tien and Chao-tsu had been wished back, and the Nameks had wished themselves to a new planet to live. Usagi, Gohan, Chichi, and Vegeta had all been living a t Capsule Corp since the day that they had tried to wish Goku back. Things had been rather interesting, as Usagi had spent her days training with Vegeta, Gohan or even Bulma and Chichi; although the girls’ sessions had always been disguised as shopping trips or some other girl thing that neither Gohan nor Vegeta would question.

Bulma had been going out with Yamcha for a while, but it seemed that their relationship was doomed from the start and Bulma had officially broken up with him about 8 months after he was wished back. Ever since then, unbeknownst to them, Vegeta and Bulma had been growing closer and closer ever since they came back from Namek.

Usagi and Gohan had just began to train when suddenly a glowing black and purple portal appeared in front of them. A moment later the tall and regal Senshi of time stepped out, immediately bowing to her Princess.

“Puu!” Usagi shouted and ran to hug the older woman.

“Hello Princess. Are you ready for our training session?” the woman asked. Gohan just stared at tall woman.

“I will have to tell everyone else first, so they don’t worry,” Usagi replied, then walked over to the control panel and turned off the machine, gravity returning to normal. With that Usagi walked out of the gravity chamber, Sailor Pluto and dumbfounded Gohan following her. As soon as they stepped out Bulma and Vegeta stopped in their argument to look at the third person who had appeared.

“And just who are you?” Vegeta demanded in his normal arrogant tone.

“Vegeta-san, Bulma-san; I would like you to meet Sailor Pluto.” Usagi told them.

“The Senshi of Time, and one of the eight guardians of the Moon Princess.” Vegeta replied an eyebrow raised in curiosity.

“Hai, the one and only,” Usagi replied giggling.

“Hello Vegeta, Prince of the Sayians; and” Sailor Pluto paused at this until she had Usagi’s complete attention, “a guardian of the Princess of the moon.”

“What are you talking about?” Usagi asked.

“She means that I’ve put it upon myself to protect you, or be one of you guardians.” Vegeta stated, a little miffed that the Senshi of Time had blurted this fact out.

“Umm, Hello Sailor Pluto.” Bulma said cheerfully after sending an icy glare at Vegeta. “Welcome to Capsule Corp. Is there something I can do for you?” Bulma continued being the good hostess that she is.

“No, I’m here to take Usagi for a training session,” Pluto answered in her normal mysterious manner.

“Oh. Ah, Okay,” Bulma said a little unsure as what to say and do.

“Is my mom in the Kitchen Bulma-san?” Usagi asked cheerfully.

“Hai, Usa-chan. She is.” Bulma replied then watched as Usagi walked into the house followed by the mysterious Senshi.

“Is she really one of my Sister’s guardians Vegeta?” Gohan asked Vegeta still not sure of exactly what was going on.

“Yeah she is brat. The woman is the guardian of the time gate. No one can travel through time with out hers, our your sister’s approval,” Vegeta answered with a smirk.

“Really! Wow. She must be pretty strong,” Gohan replied finally coming out of his dazed state.

“Hmmph,” was all that came from Vegeta as he then proceeded to grab Gohan by the back of his gi and drag him into the gravity room for a training/sparring session.

“Huh?  VEGETA GET BACK HERE RIGHT NOW!! I’M NOT FINISHED WITH YOU YET!!!!” Bulma began yelling once again, as she noticed that Vegeta began to walk away from her.

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“Mom! Where are you?!” Usagi called as she and her guardian entered the Briefs household.

“I’m here in the kitchen Usa-chan,” Chichi answered. With that the pair continued into the kitchen.

“What is it Usa dear? I thought you were training with Gohan……Oh” Chichi stood stunned for a moment at the sight of the Senshi of Pluto.

“Mamma, you’ve met Puu, before. It’s time for another one of my training sessions with her,” Usagi said brightly.

“Hai, I remember,” Chichi responded.

“I will be taking Usagi to train and we will not be back tell roughly this time tomorrow. It is time that I step up her training, just as it has stepped up with everyone else. She has learned much and has very good control over her power. It is now time for her to start blending together more and more what she learned in the Silver Millennium with what she is learning now. Unfortunately, that will take some time. So we will be going to the Time Chamber at Kame’s Lookout. Although only one day will have passed in this time, a hole year will have passed for us within that room.” Pluto told Usagi’s adoptive mother.

“A wh…whole year!” Chichi exclaimed sinking into a chair. “I will miss a hole year of my little girl’s growing up.”

“I’m sorry, but it is necessary,” Pluto replied. “We must be going now, I will return Usagi at approximately this time tomorrow,” Pluto said moving to the door. “I’ll wait for you outside Princess.”

“Mamma.” Usagi whispered as she hugged her mother tightly. “I’ll be fine, but I’ll miss you. Just wait until I get back then we can train together and I’ll be able to show you and Bulma-san some new attacks,” Usagi said reassuringly. Chichi only nodded, ignoring the tears running down her cheeks.

“Just make sure you come back in one piece SON USAGI!!!” she said, then pushed her now nine-year old daughter out the door.