(last time)

“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.

 

Usagi landed on Capsule Corp’s front lawn. She had just gotten back from her year of training in the time room on Kami’s Lookout. ‘Something is different, but I’m not sure what,’ she thought to herself as she moved to go inside.

“Mom! Gohan! Bulma-san! Vegeta-san! I’m back,” she called out as she entered the living room where she found Bulma and Vegeta arguing with each other once again, immediately their attention was drawn to their young friend.

“USAGI! Look at you! You’ve grown so much! You’re at lest two inches taller and your braid must be at least six inches longer. Oh I’ve got great NEWS! Your Dad’s Back! He arrived Yesterday!” Bulma said excitedly chattering away, completely ignoring Vegeta, much to his annoyance.

“DAD’S BACK!!! Sorry Bulma-san, I’ll talk to you later. Spar later this week Vegeta-san. Got to Go, BYE!!!” with that she disappeared. Bulma shook her head in slight amazement before turning her attention back to ‘her’ saiyan prince.

“Now where was I? Oh yes…” with that she walked over to the scowling Vegeta placed a light kiss on his lips before continuing on her way to the kitchen to finish making lunch; leaving a stunned and dazed prince in her wake.

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Goku took a deep breath of fresh air, and sighed. It was good to be home. Although now he had a new challenge to prepare for. The news that Mirai Trunks had told him had been startling, although he thought there already is another difference from his time to mine. Not once did he mention Usa, not once. Either she was never here or she had left and was unable to return. It was good that they knew of the oncoming threat, and that Freeza had been finished once and for all. Just then there was a flash of silver light and Goku found himself tackled to the ground.

“DADDY!!! You’re HOME!!!” the creature that had tackled him cried. “I really haven’t seen you in almost three years.”

“Usagi, my little bunny,” he whispered upon recognizing the voice and head of silver hair that buried into his chest. “It’s only been about a year and a half since Namek was destroyed, and I saw you before you left with Gohan, Krillon and Bulma. It hasn’t been three years,” he said, although to him it had felt more like ten.

“She spent a year in the time room with one of her Guardian’s. She left yesterday,” came the now cheerful voice of his wife from behind the pair that lay on the ground. The father and daughter slowly stood up, Goku’s arm slung around her shoulder.

Three years had come and gone since Goku had returned to Earth. The Z Senshi had spent them training and preparing for the androids that the strange lavender haired youth had warned them about. Usagi, doing double, as she trained to face the androids as well as the evils in her own world. She had spent a total of five more years in the time room training with Pluto.

She now stood with Goku, Gohan, Piccolo, Krillon, Yamcha, Tien, and Bulma; waiting for the androids to appear. Vegeta had yet to appear. Yajerobe had arrived delivering the senzu beans and was just leaving, while Usagi cuddled the baby Trunks as Bulma chatted with the gang. Then there was an explosion as Yajerobe’s air car blew to smithereens.

“It’s them! The ANDROIDS!” shouted Krillon.

 “Darn, they vanished into the city. Gohan, go check on Yajerobe. The rest of you, quickly spread out and start searching for them,” everyone followed Goku’s orders and spread out to begin their search. Usagi stayed behind for a moment.

“Bulma-san, please go home soon. I don’t want you or Trunks to get hurt,” Usagi said softly giving the older woman a hug. Bulma hugged the now eighteen-year old girl back, before taking a step back to study her. ‘She has grown up so much, and so fast. She has truly grown into the warrior Princess she was meant to be.’ She now stood about an inch taller than herself. She wore a martial arts gi like her father’s, except for it was navy blue and silver, where his was orange and blue. Her silver hair now hung in a thick braid down her back, stopping just a few inches away from her ankles, a navy blue headband tied around her forehead.

“Hai, I will Usagi-chan. Take care of yourself, as well as your dad and brother. Now get going,” Bulma said struggling slightly to keep tears in check. Usagi was practically her daughter as well. She had learned so much from the Lunarian princess. Usagi smiled and nodded.

Usagi stared in horror as the android called Nineteen began to steal all her father’s energy, who was currently unable to fight due to a viral heart disease. They had found the pair of Androids and managed to lead them away from the city, unfortunately the android called Twenty had destroyed half the city first. Now she stood here watching, unable to move unless she wanted to start a fight with Twenty on her own.

“DADDY!!!!! NOOOOOO!!!!!!” she screamed and not caring moved to rush to her father’s aid, only to be knocked out of a blasts way by an unseen force. She laid on the ground, not moving; letting the android think she had been hit. Gohan and Krillon were quickly at her side.

“I advise you to not try and make any moves to help Goku, or like her, you will be dealt with,” Twenty stated flatly. Amused that Goku’s supposed daughter had been so easily taken care of. How she had aged so quickly he did not understand. She should be a little younger then the boy. But here she appeared to be years older. Then, the android Nineteen screeched. Everyone turned to see him kicked to the side, a cocky Vegeta standing besides Goku.

“No one kills Kakarot or the Brat while I’m around,” he stated bluntly with a smirk. Once he had spoken Usagi stood up, much to the surprise of the Z Senshi. ‘Just you wait Vegeta-san! I’ll get you back for stopping me! I could have deflected that Androids Blast, and You Know It!!!’ she screamed at him telepathically. A little amused as she saw Vegeta’s smirk falter for a split second at her rebuke.

“Usa-chan, are you okay?” Krillon asked worriedly.

“Hai, I’m fine. That blast never touched me. Vegeta-san is the one who stoped me,” she replied watching Vegeta and her father. With a swift kick, Goku flew over to the Z Senshi, Piccolo catching him and then setting him on the ground. Usagi was at her father’s side in an instant feeding him some of her energy, trying to help him fight the disease.

“Usagi, take him home and make sure he gets that medicine.” Piccolo said without moving his eyes from the androids and Vegeta.

“Are you sure?” she asked not wanting to leave the rest alone.

“We’ll be fine Usa-chan. Just make sure your Dad get’s better. Okay?” Krillon stated putting a reassuring hand on her shoulder. Usagi nodded.

“Take care everyone. I don’t want to have to piece you back together,” she told them, then turned to the sayian Prince, “THAT GOES FOR YOU TO VEGETA!!”

“Hmmph,” was the only reply she received. With that, there was a brief flash of light and she and Goku were gone. 

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Usagi sat beside her father slowly feeding him energy to help fight the heart disease. Her mother was busy working in kitchen, cooking and baking up a storm. When Usagi had asked her about it, she had told her that it was her way to keep from worrying too much by keeping busy. Usagi studied her father’s face carefully, ‘Please Dad, You’ve got to make it, if not for me then for Mom and Gohan. Fight it Dad. You haven’t lost a battle yet, so don’t lose this one.’ Just then a swirling portal appeared in the room, Sailor Pluto stepping out.

“Greetings Princess, I have some bad news. It is time for you to return to Earth. The Sailor Senshi need your help and leadership,” she told her after bowing.

“NOW?!!? I can’t leave now. They are in the middle of a fight here right now,” Usagi stated defiantly. She couldn’t leave here right when they need her most.

“I’m sorry Princess, but if you do not leave now, you will be killed in a battle and then the enemy will surely win, in this world as well as the other,” Pluto said quietly, knowing there was no other way she could convince her mistress, except for telling her the truth about what could happen if she did not leave this world now. Usagi sat completely quite and still. She had stopped feeding her father energy as soon as Pluto had arrived.

Mirai Trunks looked at the peculiar binder like book strangely. It reminded him of a photo album of his mothers but, there was something very different about this one. He had tried to open it, but couldn’t. Then what was even stranger, he had woken up a couple times to see his father looking at the book, with a smile on his face. They had already been in this Time chamber for about four months. His father was now out training and he had walked into the room to see the book laying open on the table.

Slowly Mirai Trunks began to go through it. It was a picture album, full of pictures of the Son’s and the other members of the Z gang. But what puzzled him the most was the presence of a silver haired girl through many of the pictures. There was even a picture of her placing a kiss on his father’s cheek, Vegeta showing a shocked expression. There was another shot of her chasing Gohan. But what was really strange, was that in the first half of the album she was the same age as Gohan, but in the second half she was older; in fact in the last few pages she seemed to be almost his age, maybe only a year or so younger. ‘She’s beautiful, but who could she be.’ He wondered as he studied the pictures.

“What are you doing Brat?” Trunks immediately closed the album and put it back on the table be fore turning to face his father.

“Umm.. I was....ummm..yeah…I was. That’s it,” he stammered out. Vegeta just stared at him and broke out into laughter, while Mirai Trunks blushed furiously at his failure to give an answer. Vegeta, after getting his laughter somewhat under control walked over to his future son and gently touched a silver crescent moon on the upper right hand corner of the cover of the book causing it to gently open.

“She obviously forgot this in here, the last time she had a training session with that guardian of hers. She is going to have to give me one heck of a sparring session before I give it back though, especially with all the pictures in there.” Vegeta stated with a smirk as he slowly began to turn the pages. Trunks just watched with curiosity.

“Who left it here?” he asked, his curiosity getting the better of him. Vegeta turned and looked at him surprised.

“You mean you don’t know her?” he asked back surprised.

“Know who?” Mirai Trunks asked back, now getting a bit confused. Vegeta turned to the photo album and let a finger rest, pointing to the silver haired girl. The picture one of Goku, Chichi, Gohan, and the girl, It looked like a family portrait.

“Her, Serenity, or more commonly known as Son Usagi,” Vegeta answered, not moving his gaze from the photo.

“Son Usagi?” Trunks asked, “I’ve never heard of her. And why does she have Goku’s name?”

Setsuna sighed to herself as she listened to the Princess training in the gravity room that had been a birthday present from Bulma-san. It had been encapsuled and stored in her subspace pocket, and thus had arrived with them on Earth. ‘The fist dozen monsters that face her are greatly going to regret ever setting foot on this planet.’ She thought a little amused. A loud bang and crash was then heard from the gravity room. ‘Make that three dozen.’ She corrected her thoughts as she continued designing clothes for her current job.