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Ranma 1/2 , Sailor Moon , Tenchi , OMG , Star Trek Universe ,
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Immortal's Lament

Prologue

By Cute Kitsune Kaydee And Tomas Megerson



He was alone , so very alone. He was almost the last of his species. He
was also an Immortal. Only one other Immortal was with him. They were
the only two left.

He remembered. He remembered it all. He could not stop remembering. The
Immortality gave him a perfect memory and guaranteed his sanity. He
remembered the feel of the sun on his skin. Earth's Sun. The
blue/sapphire sky. The green/emerald grass. The white/diamond clouds.
the brown/chrysoberyl earth. The red/ruby of the setting sun. But most
of all he remembered the people. Most especially he remembered HER.
AKANE. His precious , sweet , wonderful Akane. She had been dead these
past 1,000,000 years. He would never see her again. Never hear her call
him a baka. Never have her hit him over the head with a mallet. Never
taste her cooking again. He would give everything he ever had to taste
a single bit of her cooking. Ranma had been everywhere, seen and done
everything. He was so old and just wanted to die. But he could not.
Even though he was a one million years old ancient he still had the
body of a 19 year old boy.

*Flashback*

It was from his attempt to cure his curse. He succeeded in stopping
water from transforming him. Later he learned how to cause the
transformation at will. But when Akane his wife started to grow older
and he didn't he learned the true horror of his curse. The cure had
stopped him from aging in either of forms. He could not die now either.
He had stopped a robbery and been shot.

It had been a normal day for him. He was taking the payments from his
most recent students to the bank. The Tendo School of Anything Goes
Dojo had become one of the best in all of Japan. New students came
every day to train under the master of the school, Ranma Saotome. He
had received three more students that day for the beginner's class.
Akane, his loving wife of nine years now, was in the process of
teaching that class as he headed to do some shopping. As he walked
into the bank, he noticed a number of things wrong. The few patrons
inside were lying on the floor. The tellers all had frightened looks
upon their faces. The most noticeable problem, though, were the two
men with guns. Ranma didn't even think about danger, he just acted as
he had so many other times before in times of trouble.

The first robber didn't see what had hit him. One moment he was
getting the money from a teller, the next his body exploded with pain,
and he was flying across the room. The second was even worse off, as
Ranma released the Kachu Tenshin Amaguriken on him. All 973 blows
landed home striking the man into the black depths of unconsciousness.
That was the point that a freak accident had occurred. The first
robber's finger tightened reflexively on the trigger of his gun when he
hit the wall. Time seemed to slow for Ranma. He watched as the hammer
slammed down and the bullet left the barrel. His eyes raced faster
than the bullet and saw that a small girl, perhaps four years old at
the most, was in the path. His body moved faster than ever as he
poured every bit of Ki he could muster into speed. Faster than he had
ever dreamed possible, he was between the girl and the bullet. He felt
it impact his chest, and puncture his left lung. The pain tore through
him like a bolt of lightning through a tree. Then the pain was gone.
Looking down, he saw a bloody bullet on the ground. He quickly lifted
his shirt to check the wound, only to find none. There was blood on
his body, but the wound itself was no where to be found. Thinking back
to his cure all those years ago, and to his curse, Ranma realized
instantly the true price he had paid.

He had become Immortal. Nothing could harm him. All damage was repaired
instantly. He has watched his love grow old with the passing years and
die before his eyes all while he remained young. All his friends died
of old age too. He saw his children, their children, and their
children's children live, grow old, and die. He saw Humanity invent
space travel and spread throughout the stars. He saw them form the
United Federation Of Planets. He was one of the first who had helped
begin it along with the Senshi. He saw Crystal Tokyo born. He met
Neo-Queen Serenity but she could not cure him. He stayed with them
awhile learning what he could. He fell in love with Neo-Queen
Serenity's teenage daughter Usa. After a few years he married her. It
was a surprise when Usa accidentally died and then revived revealing
she was an Immortal like Duncan MacCleud. Ranma was ecstatic with joy
now that he had a love who could live Eternity with him. It had taken
him so very many long years to fall in love again after Akane. He
thought about her all of the time, but for the first time since he lost
her, he felt like he could go on. He wanted to live once more. The
knowledge that someone else shared the curse he had brought unwittingly
upon himself gave him hope. There was some one that he could talk to.
There was someone that he loved. The pain of Akane slowly faded.
Though he would no longer feel the pain of that loss, he would never
forget the good that had been between them. Then after a long time he
and Usa left to explore the Universe. They traveled throughout the
Galaxy. They served on the Enterprise with James T. Kirk. Later on the
new ship under Captain Picard. They met a greedy Ferengi named Quark.
They decided not to participate in his get rich quick scheme. They got
lost in the Delta Quadrant on the Voyager. They saw the end of the
Federation when the aggressors from the neighboring Galaxy had swept in
and took it all for themselves. That had happened some centuries after
Janeway's time. Very shortly after Captain Braxton's time. His people
did not have enough warning to do anything about it. All their time
travel technology was lost as well. They had kept all of the
Federation's knowledge of time travel in one base which was immediately
destroyed. Both Ranma and Usa had argued with the head of the
Federation over the placing of all the knowledge into one place. They
both had realized the threat that would come about if that knowledge
was lost. They had been laughed at and scorned upon. The Federation
was overconfident. They had lasted for many centuries, what could stop
them. Ranma and Usa were right. The Federation learned the error of
their ways.

The Federation was completely totally destroyed. Earth and it's star
system were blown to rubble. His entire race and many others too were
wiped out. The invaders then turned on themselves. After 100 years of
bloody fighting they had utterly destroyed themselves. Ranma and Usa
had fought them when they first appeared but were powerless against
them. The weakest one of them had the strength of 100 Saffrons. Not
even the Senshi could stop them. They shrugged off Saturn's attack like
it was nothing. The Queen tried to use the crystal but it was no good.
The invaders destroyed all the Senshi except Pluto and Usa. She had
been ordered to guard the Gates of Time from the invaders and to
protect Usa by her Queen. Being forced to defend them, she did the
only thing she could. She grabbed the only other Immortals and brought
them to the gates. Ranma and Usa were the only other Immortals left.
The invaders had beheaded Duncan and all the others of his kind except
Usa. She put Usa in a suspended animation chamber and tossed her into
the Gates of Time. It was the only way she could think to protect her
for as long as might be needed. Ranma was pained by the thought of
having to do so to his wife, but it was for the best. Besides, Pluto
said that she would retrieve Usa later when it was safe. Together they
locked that entrance and moved on. With the Federation and so many of
it's races wiped out Ranma and Setsuna left for the Gamma Quadrant and
did not return for 3,000 years. They found a way to cross Galaxies and
went to pay back the invaders kin folk. They learned that like the
invaders they had destroyed themselves and their entire Galaxy. Ranma
screamed in rage at the pointlessness of it all. "Why?!", he yelled in
bitterness and rage. "Why did they destroy everything?". Sailor Pluto
had no answer. She could not figure it out either. The time stream
could give her no answers as the invaders, frustrated by their
inability to open the Gates had destroyed them instead. The great
magic of long ago was lost. This also meant that Usa was lost forever.
Ranma did not take that news well. It took a while for him to recover.
He eventually did after a few hundred years.

There were many times during those hundreds of years that he
contemplated suicide. At least, to anyone else it would have been. He
didn't know what it would be to himself, though. Ranma had found a
black hole that was near enough that he could leave through it. He had
no idea what the immense gravity would do to his Immortal body. He was
always stopped by Setsuna's presence, though. He wouldn't leave her
alone. That would be too cruel for anyone. Another thing stopped him.
It would be giving up, and Ranma didn't want to be considered a
quitter by his last friend. He tried to slit his wrists a number of
times to see if his curse was gone, but to no avail. It became a
common event for Setsuna to enter the bathroom to find blood in the
sink. Pluto was patient with him, helping him when the grief became
too much. Eventually he recovered, though only for the sake of his
last friend, for the last person from his home.

They left to other Galaxies far across the Universe. The pain of their
destroyed home brought them to a decision. They would never allow
something of such hatred to ever come about again. They fought evil
and oppression and also tyranny wherever they found it. Countless races
across the Universe made legends about the great warriors who had saved
them. Ranma And Pluto The Immortal Champions they called them. They
spent time with some of the longer lived individuals like Washu. Ranma
and Pluto learned allot from her. But even in time Washu died. Before
she did they came across a site that even for some as long lived as
they left them filled with awe , grief , and a terrible sadness. A
giant Tomb floated in space. It looked like it had been grown from
living crystal of many rainbow colors. There was ancient writing on the
Tomb including Japanese. The Kanji said , "Here lies the bodies of Urd
, Belldandy , Skuld , Peorth , Keiichi , Megumi , Tsunami , Tokimi ,
Neo-Queen Serenity , King Endymion , The Sailor Senshi, The Moon Cat
Family , and all the others who perished during the
Last Battle."

Ranma , Pluto and Washu realized that they have found the Tomb Of The
Gods who died during the battle that destroyed the Federation , Earth ,
and Humanity.

Washu had a sad look on her face and said , "Tsunami/Sasami , Tokimi.
How I miss you sisters." , then started crying. Ranma got a sad look on
his face and says , "Akane... Usa". He too breaks down crying. Pluto
just stared at it a tear running down her face. She staid like that for
a time. She finally spoke, "I am sorry Your Majesties , I failed you
terribly. Usagi. Mamoru. Usa. All the others." , then started crying
uncontrollably. Centuries later after Washu had died Ranma and Pluto
took her back to the Tomb to bury her beside her sisters. Then Ranma
and Pluto are alone once again.

*End_Of_Flashback*

Ranma looked out their starship's window at the Universe. The last
light was dying now. Soon there would be nothing left but him , Pluto
and their ship, their ancient memories , and the Holographic Doctor.


It came as a great surprise to Ranma when he stumbled upon a little
program Kasumi had left for him. While going through the logs of the
on board computer, revisiting memories of better times, he stumbled
upon an upload of a program called money. Not knowing what else to do,
he ran the program. Much to his surprise an image of Nabiki appeared
on the main screen. More to his surprise was when she demanded 50,000
yen for not being released sooner. After a long talk and argument over
the money, it had come out that Nabiki had had her memories placed
inside a data program just before her untimely death at the hands of a
drunk driver. Her eldest sister had saved the program and eventually
uploaded it to Ranma's and Usa's ship after their return from the Delta
Quadrant. It then became a hope of Ranma and Setsuna to find an
android's body that they could place her into. Until that time,
however, she was forced to remain in the ships computer.

The Doctor had joined them shortly on their new ship shortly after they
had returned from the Delta Quadrant. He received new programming and
an upgrade of medical knowledge from Doctor Tofu. Physically he looked
the same except he had long hair tied in a ponytail , was a bit more
muscular , and just a little taller. His personality was still the same
though. The Doctor was also given a new name by Tofu, Tolan. He had no
problems at the time, since Ranma and Usa were traveling and aiding
people. Tolan had saved many lives while being with the two of them.
He had changed a bit after Usa was lost and started acting a bit
cranky. He traveled with Ranma and Setsuna on their adventures. But
since for three hundred years all they ever came across was lifeless
worlds , habitable but uninhabited , he asked them to never turn him
back on until there were more than the two of them in the Universe.
They hadn't seen him in a century now. Later as their ship floated
through the Void and Nothing that was left of everything Ranma curled
himself into a ball on the floor of their ship and wept tears of grief
, real emotional pain , loss , anguish , sadness while saying two names
over and over and over again , "Akane , Usa".

***

Sailor Pluto could not believe it had all come to this. She was the
Guardian of Time and was supposed to be able to turn back entropy using
the Gates Of Time. But ever since the battle with the Invaders she had
lost her Powers and the Gates had been destroyed. She had not had
access to time travel for millions of years. If she did she would go
back and change everything. The unchanging of the Timeline be damned if
this was the result of it. She didn't care if she altered all of
History. It had to be better than this.
She had lost her Powers but still retained some abilities. Otherwise
she
would not be Immortal and sane right now. Unlike Ranma she could
destroy
herself. No one or nothing else could though. She still had her
self-destruct magic that every Senshi had. But she did not want to
leave him alone. She loved him too much.

But he only loved Akane and Usa. Sailor Pluto had never seen two loves
so strong before. Even Mamoru or Usagi would have gotten together with
someone else after all this time. If only one of them had survived.
Thinking of her dead Leaders and friends she started crying again.
Finally she stopped. She loved Ranma but she could not compete with a
woman dead for one million years , or a lost in the Timestream Usa.
Stretching her few remaining mystic senses out into the Void she found
Nothing. That is all there was now , Void and Nothing. She kept
thinking that if she had been quicker she could have stopped the Gates
being destroyed. Then she would have not lost her Powers. If she had
not lost her Powers then she could have used them and the Gates to turn
back Entropy and repower the Universe. (All my fault,) , she thought ,
(all my fault that I underestimated them then.). Suddenly her senses
found something where she had expected nothing. This more than
surprised her. Hurrying to a sensor panel she scanned outside the ship
and found a small object. It was radiating magic energies. She hurried
to a Transporter and beamed it aboard. She gasped out loud when she
realized what she had brought aboard. (IT CANNOT BE.) , she thought.
Then she yelled , "RANMA!!! HURRY DOWN HERE!!!".


***


Ranma was still on the floor saying Akane's and Usa's names when he
heard Setsuna yell. He knew that Setsuna , unlike him , could die. He
immediately got up and ran to where she was. All the way thoughts of
her activating self-destruct and he being left all alone again ran
through his mind. He arrived to where she was and could only stare. She
was jumping up and down like a schoolgirl. She was hollering about
things working out. Ranma was worried that Setsuna had finally lost her
sanity now. He warily approached her and said , "Setsuna , what is
going on?". Hearing her name Sailor Pluto turned around and hugged
Ranma. She said , "I can't believe I found it. It was right outside the
ship. Oh Ranma , we can make everything right again finally." , she
babbled on while Ranma wondered if he could use a pressure point
strikes on her and render her unconscious before she hurt someone. Like
himself. "What are you talking about?" , he asked while getting the
pressure point strikes firmly in his mind. She turned around and picked
something up. She then turned back to him. She presented him with what
she was holding in her hands outstretched to him. Ranma took one look
at what she had and immediately forgot about pressure point strikes and
realized she was still sane. He just wondered if he was. There was no
way he could be seeing what she held. He just stared at it in awe.
Sailor Pluto was amazingly holding the remarkably intact Nan Ban
Mirror.

***

Ranma looked at Pluto and at the mirror. All could be changed, all
could be right again. (Akane , Usa). Then the words of Cologne came
back to him. The words she had spoke when he told her the mirror was
repaired.

*Flashback*

"Ranma, the mirror has changed. With it you can go into your past,
but you can't change the present with it. With the Nan Ban Mirror now,
any change you make in the past will create a branch to a new future ,
an Alternate Universe like on that American TV show Sliders. It will
not be your own. If you were to stop your father from teaching you the
Neko-Ken, you would still have it, but an alternate you would not. You
can only create a better future for others now, not a better one for
you. You can use it to travel to other Universes as well. Not just the
ones you create by changing things but ones that also have always
naturally existed. I believe that it also has become completely
indestructible. I seriously doubt that anything can harm it now. Even
the most powerful of martial arts techniques could not break it.
You're Neko-Ken would be nothing to it." Ranma had decided he had
enough troubles in his own Universe without going to naturally existing
Alternate ones or creating new ones so he buried the Nan Ban Mirror in
a deep volcano.

*End_Of_Flashback*

"Setsuna, there is something that you must know. We can't change
our future with it."

Setsuna looked at him in shock. "I can feel the time stream ripple
around it. I know it can send us back into the past."

"Yes, but it has been changed. A long time ago 999,984 years, back
when I was only sixteen, the mirror had been broken. It was repaired
when I was nineteen, but the magic changed. Any change in the time
stream will create a new alternate universe. We can make a better
world for others, but we ourselves will not change. Are you willing to
use it? To give others a better life, though we will not change? I
am."

Pluto thought for less than a second before making a decision. She
had been manipulating the time stream to aid others all her life,
without any thoughts of using it for her own gain. "Yes, I am. To aid
my Queen and all of the others who died uselessly, I am willing to go
on as I am."

"Then lets go." Ranma was about to rub his eye and let a tear fall
on the mirror.

Suddenly a vortex appeared outside the ship. Setsuna scanned the vortex
and realized it was giving off temporal energy.

"Ranma, look at that! Do you know what that is?!" Ranma could
hear the excitement in her voice. He studied it closely for a few moments
until it came to him.

"That's a temporal vortex! Then that means…"

"The Gates of Time survived! This is a direct link to them, though
it is unstable."

Ranma's eyes widened in shock as the next thought came to him.
"Usa-chan! I can get to Usa!" He dashed to the controls of the ship
only to be stopped by Setsuna.

"Ranma, you can't do that!! The Gates would block out any other
type of time travel device. If we go into the vortex, then we can't use
the Nan Ban Mirror! We enter there and it would be pure luck to find
another vortex to let us out!"

Rage entered Ranma's eyes. The feelings of helplessness that had
come over him when he thought that the Gates were destroyed was finally
gone. He had a way to bring back one of the only girls he had ever
loved. He would not let this one chance slip by him. "I don't care
Setsuna! To see my lovely Usa's face again! To hold her in my arms
once more! To touch her soft lips with mine one more time! To feel
her heart beat against mine! It's worth eternal damnation in every pit
of hell that man has EVER conceived of! I will NOT lose this chance to
be with her once more!!"

Setsuna looked at Ranma in awe and a bit of fear. It had been a
long time since she had seen him worked up this much about something. But
she couldn't let him do what he wanted. There were too many lives in
the balance. She took the only option she could with him, she used Usa
against him. "Ranma, what would Usa say? Knowing that you had the
chance to save everyone. Knowing that you could put everything right,
that you chose to be selfish. You chose to listen to your own greed.
What would she think of you?"

Thinking on this Ranma paused. What would his wife say about him
turning his back on all those he could protect. The fear of her
rejection of his actions caused him to delay. That was all that fate
needed to play it's hand.

The vortex shifted slightly. The colors of it started to fade.
Just before it collapsed, an object came through. A tall cylinder made of
gray metal. There was only one color on it. Two Japanese Kanji
painted in bright red letters. Ran Ma. Both of the Immortals' eyes
grew large. A word escaped Pluto's lips. "Princess."

"Nabiki lock onto the object outside and beam it to Sickbay. Use
extreme care when transporting. That's my Wife in there." , said Ranma.


"How much is it worth to you, Ranma?"

"NABIKI!!!!"

"No problem Ranma-kun." , said Nabiki, with a slight laugh in her
voice, "Lock on achieved. Transporting now."

"Ranma to Sickbay. Medical Emergency. Nabiki activate Doctor Tolan. Doc
Usa's back and I'm bringing her down to Sickbay.", said Ranma.

The Doctor's image appeared just in time to see the Cryostasis tube
appear. "Well, I'll be…" He got to work getting Usa out.

"Transport complete." , said Nabiki. "Welcome back Usa. Hmmm... things
are going to get interesting around here now. I wonder how I can turn
it to my advantage."

Less than a minute later Ranma burst into the room. Setsuna was right
on his heals. "Doc, can you get her out!? How long will it take?!"
The Doctor calmly looked at the Immortal.

"By Crom Captain , calm down. It is going to take a few hours.
Set's guts you can have a seat, but you must stay out of my way. I have
already started the process." Ranma, not wanting to be kicked out,
quietly sat down on one of the medical beds and waited for his wife to
be free once more. (He was watching those Conan holo-novels when he
shut himself off so long ago.) , thought Ranma. (Did he set himself
into a feedback loop of Conan or something? He's acting very like Conan
right now.).

Ranma sat in the Sickbay holding on to his wife's hand. He
marveled at her continued beauty, at her firm muscles, at her bright pink
hair. He still couldn't figure out which genes gave her that hair color.
But then, he didn't care. He had his wife back, and that was all that was
important. He watched as she moaned softly and her eyes opened. The
first thing that she saw was her husband sitting next to her, holding
her hand.

"Ranma!! You're okay!"

"Usa-chan! My dear sweet Usa!" Ranma broke down and started to
cry. All of the emotions that had been buried in his heart came out. He
pulled Usa into a hug and a deep kiss. They stayed like that until Usa
pulled away and then had asked the question that Ranma had been
dreading.

"Ranma, what happened to everyone? What happened to my parents?"

Ranma couldn't lie to her. He choked up a number of times as he
told her what had happened since he and Pluto had put her into Cryostasis.
She cried at the loss of her parents and friends. She wept when she
learned of the Tomb. Her heart went cold as she learned the fate of
the Invaders and their descendants. Finally, when all was told, she
gazed downward with the pain she felt. "So that's it? There are
three people, a holographic Doctor who acts like Conan and a self aware
Computer with Nabiki's memories, personality, and image inside it left
in the universe? Everything we strove for, everything we fought for is
gone?"

"Not everything, Usa. We can set everything right. We have the
means to give everyone a brighter future. Well, everyone but ourselves."

"What do you mean, Ranma?"

"Just before the vortex that let you out formed, we came across the
Nan Ban Mirror. It is an ancient magical device that will allow us to
go into the past and change fate. We can give this Universe a brighter
future."

"There is a problem though, anything we change will create an
alternate reality. We will never live through any of the changes we
make."

Usa sprang from the bed and grabbed the Guardian of Time in a hug.
"Pluto, am I glad to see you! With every one else…" She broke off
with the pain rising to her throat. She then felt the strong arms of
her husband wrap around her, and she drew strength from them. "You
say that we can change all of this?"

Ranma spoke from behind her. "Yes, but not this Universe. We can
go back and split off an Alternate one. Our native Universe will remain
unchanged. We can travel to any time in that new Alternate Universe and
if anything disastrous occurs we can split off yet another Alternate
from it. We will remain the same not Altered. We will never change.
Are you willing to do this?"

"Yes, I am. To save Mother, Father, and the Senshi, I am prepared
to do this."

"By Crom count me in too.", said Tolan. He typed something on the
console. "The Anvil of Crom" started playing in the background.

"I'll help too Ranma-kun." , said Nabiki. "I won't even charge you.
This time." Nabiki looked at the Doctor. (You've been reading way too
many Conan holo-novels my friend.) , thought Nabiki.

Pluto smiled. "Things will be easier than we planned Ranma. When
the vortex opened I felt something. My powers as Pluto have fully
returned. While we can't get to the Gates of Time in this universe, we
will be able to use them in others , that is if they were built there
then."

"Good, that will help us. Meet me on the bridge when you are ready
to go. I want to make a few last scans of the area before we use the
mirror." He gave Usa another kiss, and left for the bridge, leaving
the two Senshi together.

***

Usa and Setsuna walked onto the bridge of the starship Wild Rabbit.
Ranma was sitting in the pilot's chair starring into space. Usa walked
up to her husband and put her arms around him. "What's the matter
dear? You don't look too good. Are you alright?" Concern etched her
face. There was something that Ranma wasn't telling her. Her senses
then picked up that Setsuna had not entered the bridge. She looked
over her shoulder to see Setsuna staring at the same point Ranma was.
Usa looked out the window to see a giant crystal like space station
floating in space. The ship was moving closer to it, heading for one
of the docking bays. Ranma finally spoke, just before she could ask
the question on her mind.

"That, love, is known as the Tomb of the Gods. All who fell during
the last battle are buried there. So are your parents, the Senshi, and
those Gods and Goddesses who remained on Earth. I felt that we should
say good-bye to them. We will never see them again or this universe.
Those that we care for are in there." The ship docked and the gravity
generators in the station kicked in. The hanger filled with air and
the power went from standby to active. Ranma stood up and turned
around in his wife's embrace. "Shall we go?" The last of the
Immortals left the bridge and headed into the Tomb.

***

Usa stared at her parents. Slowly turning around she gazed at the
others in the Tomb. All of them were in perfect condition, but could
not be revived. The last wish of Kami-Sama. To have the heroes who
tried to stop the greatest evil ever created survive eternally. To
have them in a state that they could be remembered for all time.

Ranma was standing in front of the last of his family. The only other
Immortals to ever come from Nerima. Kasumi and Tofu. They had helped
him so many times in the past, and he could do nothing for them now.


Setsuna was standing by the outer Senshi. Her family that formed after
the rebirth of Serenity. She was crying as she stared at Hotaru. The
young girl who had become the closest thing to a daughter that she had
ever had. The same thoughts went through her mind as Ranma's. (Why
couldn't I help you?)

Usa looked at her mother again. As she prepared to say her final
good-bye's a voice entered her mind. "Draw it forth. It will come to
you." The crest of Serenity began to glow on her forehead. The power
that she wielded rarely reached into the block of magic holding her
mother and wrapped around something. Something familiar. Something
from long ago. Her mother's locket, and the Ginzuishou. There was an
explosion of power that caused Ranma and Setsuna to turn around.
Watching, Usa's hands took hold of the Ginzuishou, and her clothes
started to change. A moment later she stood in the garb of Sailor
Moon. Ranma watched as a chalice formed in front of her. Usa reached
out and placed the crystal against the chalice. There was a flash of
light and the chalice was absorbed into the Ginzuishou. Usa's clothes
changed once more, and she became garbed in the outfit of Eternal
Sailor Moon. It was then that the spirits started to arrive.

The first was Neo-Queen Serenity and her Husband, Usa's Parents. They
spoke out to her. "My dear daughter. We don't have much time to be
with you. Kami-Sama granted us this last chance to be with you. Know
that the Ginzuishou has changed. From now on, when you use it to turn
into Sailor Moon, you will enter the strongest form possible. Learn to
use this form to your advantage. You can make it stronger with
practice. It will be difficult, but I have faith in you."

Then her Father spoke. "Ranma, please come forward." Ranma walked to
the King of the Earth. The man once known as Mamoru held forth a rose.
"Take this rose, Ranma. With it you will be able to summon the armor
and sword I wielded as Endymion. They will aid you, I am sure. You
are now the protector of Sailor Moon. I have great faith in you.
Protect my daughter, your wife. Use the love that is between you to
strengthen you in your hour of need."

Queen Serenity spoke then to Pluto. "Pluto take this." A white beam
of light emitted from the Queen. In front of Pluto the Staff of Time
formed, though it was broken in two parts. "The Crystal has the power
to repair your staff. Keep the children safe, Setsuna. I am counting
on you to watch over them as you did for Usa so long ago."

Setsuna looked upon her Queen with tears in her eyes. "I will, my
Queen."

The two rulers of long ago faded with parting words of love for them
all.

A glow from the other side of the chamber lit the room. The spirits of
the Inner Senshi came forth. Mars spoke for the group. "We have less
time than the Queen, princess. We can give you our strength, though.
Please take our powers, and use them to stop this from happening
again." Light emitted from the inner Senshi and sped into Usa's body.
Water, flames, electricity, chains of hearts , and sunlight surrounded
Usa. When it had stopped Usa stood once more, a bit taller and more
sure of herself. Then the Inners faded away.

Another glow came about and the Outer Senshi stood in front of Pluto.
Uranus spoke for her group. "Setsuna, you alone of us survived. But
you succeeded. You were able to protect the princess. We can aid you
in the future. Take our strength. You will know how to use it when
the need comes." A glow emitted from the outer Senshi and drove into
Pluto. Earth, water, darkness, and light surrounded her. Then the
Outer Senshi vanished from sight.

Yet another chamber glowed with color. Out of the light stepped
the three moon cats. Ranma's reaction was expected by any who knew him.
Setsuna had never seen him around cats before, though, so she was
quite surprised when he leapt to the ceiling and was clinging there in
fear. The cats just looked annoyed. Luna spoke for the trio. "Ranma,
get down here! We are going to take care of that fear of cats for
you." Ranma dropped from the ceiling but was holding on to Usa.

"Hurry up, then. I can barely fight the Neko-Ken right now!"

A swirling white and black beam of energy ran to all three of the
Immortals. Ranma felt the fear die away and something else come
forward. His senses enhanced, his strength increased, and his balance
shifted slightly. Then Artemis spoke. "Ranma, the Neko-Ken has been
brought forward. You can now use it at will. For all of you, we have
given you a link to each other. You are able to sense each other's
emotions and feelings. If you concentrate you will be able to speak to
each other telepathically. We must go now. Farewell."

Diana , Luna and Artemis's daughter , looked at Ranma and Usa then said
, "Goodbye you two. I'll miss you. Have fun you two cuties."

Then the three of them faded away.

The last chamber started to glow. In front of Ranma appeared Tofu,
Kasumi, Washu and the Norns. Belldandy spoke for them. "Ranma, you
are strong, but you do not have the ability to win yet. We give to you
all of the knowledge that we have acquired that can aid you in fighting
the Invaders. You will know more forms of fighting, healing, and magic
than you ever dreamed of and ability for your Ki level to increase many
levels. Your body, however will not be able to use it all. You must
train to be able to control the knowledge and the power that we give
you. The same is true for your girl form as well. I know you do not
like being a girl , but sometimes it will be necessary."

Tofu spoke up at that point. "Ranma, I placed a special device in
your ships medical bay that will allow Tolan to move free of the Ship.
A portable emitter if you will. It is much more advanced than the one
he had on Voyager. Please use it to your advantage. It will also
allow him to experience Human pleasure and pain. It is as close to a
Human body as I can offer him. He already has emotions but he will now
have the ability to dream. I remember he once said he wished he could
dream. Oh , and about his personality. Your earlier thoughts were right
, he accidentally locked himself into an image feedback loop and kept
repeating the holo-novels. Don't worry he'll be back to normal in a few
months. Until then just go along with it."

It was then Kasumi's turn to speak. "Ranma, long ago I gave Nabiki
a choice. She could either join Akane and the others in eternal rest, or
join you. She chose to go with you, for she wanted to finally help
people. Her memory chip is far to advanced for us to have been able to
build a holographic body around. It would have also cheated her of
what she knows to be life. There are, however, instructions on how to
move the memory chip that she is in. You can carry her in your palm
computer, and eventually move her into an android's body. Please, keep
my little sister safe."

Light surrounded those in front of Ranma and entered his body. His
eyes glazed over and as his lost friends faded from view, he collapsed
to the floor.

***

Ranma awoke in the Sickbay with his wife standing over him, holding his
hand. "Weren't we in a similar position not too long ago, love."

"Yes, we were. Are you alright?" The concern that was on her face
caused Ranma to smile with his entire heart in it. A shock came to the
two of them as they realized that they could feel each other. The
concern that Usa was feeling for Ranma flooded his mind. The love that
Ranma's smile projected was felt with the power of a raging star. Usa
was stunned at the force that Ranma's love held for her. There was
another buzzing in both their heads. Concentrating on it, they both
sensed Setsuna's worry over Ranma's health as she was monitoring the
void from the bridge. Ranma concentrated on her presence and tried to
speak with his mind.

[Setsuna, would you mind coming to Sickbay?]

Usa's eyes widened as Ranma was sure that Setsuna's were doing. A
stuttered yes came mentally from her. Ranma smiled. "We may need some
practice, but this will be a great help to us, ne Usa-chan?"

Setsuna entered the Sickbay. "Ranma, are you okay? And how did we
do that?"

"Just a small headache. All of that knowledge basically overloaded my
brain. As to how we talked like that, it is the gift of the moon cats.
We simply have to concentrate on each other to talk mentally." Ranma
sat up and gently kissed his wife. He was so completely happy to have
her back. "Come on, lets get that portable emitter installed in Tolan
and use the mirror. I can rest later, but we've got a universe to
save."

***

They were standing around Ranma waiting. Ranma let a tear fall onto the
magic mirror. In a bright flash of light Ranma , Setsuna , Usa, Tolan,
Nabiki, still on the main screen, and their Starship disappeared.



- Kitsune's Thanks

I want to think Tomas Megarson without who's help this would be
nothing. He did the hard work of dialog , writing in some cool scenes ,
character interaction and development , coming up with some cool ideas
, and writing them in a way better than I ever could. Thanks Tomas.