Obligatory copyright disclaimer: Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z, and relative characters are the intellectual property of their respective owners. I'm using them without permission, but this is only no-profit Fanfiction.

Author Notes: I've been thinking about writing this fic for some time. I love both SM and DBZ and I had to write a cross-over! Trying to be faithful to both universe's differing laws I made up an OC to explain it all. She won't be the main character though, her role is being a MacGuffin. Good reading ^^

Edit: My heartfelt thanks to Angel-Rias for Beta-reading the chapter!

Chapter One: The Storm

Everything started as an absolutely normal day in Juuban. Among the crowd, four girls were waiting in front of a recently opened sweet shop.

"Uff. Rei is late. I want to eat the new 'triple-sized chocolate cake'. Why is she always late? I can't resist anymore, I'm going in without her!" whined Tsukino Usagi, age 17, almost crying.

Three other girls were patiently enduring their friend's tantrums, so accustomed they were to such displays of immaturity. One of them, the bookish bluenette Mizuno Ami, tried to calm down her friend.

"Usagi-chan, please, you know Rei-chan has to walk far to come here from her school. Try to be patient," she said, clearly embarrassed by her fiend's tantrum.

"But... aww, I skipped my after-school snack to make room for this shop's special cake. I'm starving!" replied Usagi still crying.

Makoto and Minako, the remaining two girls, a tall brunette and an athletic blonde, sighed while smiling. Usagi never stopped to surprise them with the ability to put herself in embarrassing situations. Fortunately for them Rei, the missing girl, finally showed up. The raven-haired shrine maiden was wearing her school's uniform.

"Oh, at last. Rei-chan, you're awfully late. Let's go inside, hurry!" said Usagi, brightening up in an instant.

Makoto smiled at her, "Usagi, how can you even speak of being late to Rei, when you are always late, except when food is involved?"

"Don't worry, Mako-chan. There's a good reason if 'I' am late." said Rei following Usagi in the shop.

In no time the five friends were seated at a table ordering slices of delicious-looking cakes. While eating, curiosity prevailed and Usagi had to ask "Thn, whchmp 'you' whre lthe?" speaking while chomping down a huge bite of cake.

"Usagi, eat properly before speaking, you risk to..." Ami tried to stop her, too late to stop the inevitable.

"Urghhh, aghhh, glooomp!" trying to swallow before choking Usagi's face changed from pink to red, then blue, while her friends eyed her with worried expressions. With a mighty gulp, she managed to breathe again.

"I was asking, why you were late? Uh, this cake is so good!" She ate another mouthful of it.

Ami, Makoto, and Minako immediately started laughing, while Rei remained silent. "I had a premonition." she said bluntly.

The laughter died down quickly, while the girl's expression turned serious in an instant. Even Usagi stopped eating, if only for a moment. "Another enemy?" she said wearily, her carefree expression immediately turned serious.

"I sincerely don't know. I have been nervous since last week, but I cannot see anything clearly. It's not a definite sensation. More like a ripple in a pond rather than a huge wave..." Rei stared down at her cake, untouched.

"I thought defeating Chaos was our last battle... that we could live peacefully ever after" murmured Usagi. Minako tried to comfort her friend placing a hand over her shoulder. "Usagi-chan..." she said softly.

In the battle against Sailor Galaxia and Chaos, Usagi suffered immensely, managing to save everyone only through her great love. They were supposed to aid her, but it always came the other way around and they knew it. Every one of them loved the cheerful girl, wishing her a peaceful life with her fiancée, Mamoru. Unfortunately, the universe was not cooperating.

"I can't decide if it is a bad sensation or a good one. I told you nothing because I don't know what I'm sensing. It's been eight days now and it's growing stronger each day. Still, I don't know what to do about it. It's not clear, not at all! Usually, I have some visions, but this time... I only feel a vague foreboding." Rei explained to them almost apologetically.

"Rei-chan, you were aware of this premonition since eight days ago, right?" asked Ami. Her friend nodded.

"Then, maybe there's a correlation to the water plant incident..." she said while taking out a little handheld computer from her school bag.

"Water plant? Such as water lilies?" Asked Makoto, always the plant lover.

"No, I'm referring to an incident in the water distribution plant that happened last week. It was on the news for days. I can't believe none of you knew about it!" Ami said, disheartened.

Her friends smiled, embarrassed, while she started a search on her computer, showing them a news page. "Someone poisoned the water in the plant using an automatic dispenser device. The device was discovered deactivated by the police, following an anonymous phone call. Three workers were found dead nearby. Someone killed them to place the device, and someone else disarmed it and notified the police about it. It happened exactly eight days ago.

The friends looked at each other. "Terrorists?" suggested Minako, a blonde athletic girl. "In my days as Sailor V in England, I had to fight against them, a nasty bunch..."

"I don't think so. Normal criminals never trigger my precognitive abilities." Rei sighed.

"Then we should simply be more alert, wait for something to show up" concluded Ami.

"Agreed" they all said. Then Usagi raised a hand. Having gathered the attention of her friends, she pointed at a nearby building out of the window. "The red storm with blue lightning over the Matsuya Fashion Outlet Building qualifies?" she asked, unfazed.

~o~~~o~~~o~~~o~~~o~~~o~~~o~~~o~

Four minutes and a sailor transformation later, the five friends stood near the entrance of the building. The red wind was strong enough to push away anyone not possessing the unnatural strength of a Sailor Senshi, and the blue lightning was laying waste of any object too close to the storm. The police were unable to reach the entrance and so were the firefighters, as they tried to evacuate the building. Obviously, an air rescue by helicopter was even more out of question.

"Have you tried to call the Outer Senshi?" Ami, as Sailor Mercury, asked Minako, Sailor Venus, while analyzing the storm with her visor.

"Useless; they're in Europe for Michiru's first solo violin tour." answered Venus.

Mercury, still scanning the storm with the Mercury computer, was mumbling to herself. "Strange... It seems the storm is not really a physical presence..."

A cerulean lightning bolt struck a nearby car, pulverizing it and making Usagi, Sailor Moon, yelp.

"Seems physical enough to me..." Makoto, Sailor Jupiter said through clenched teeth. "Let's see... if we cannot enter the building from the main entrance... then we open a new one! Sparkling... Wide... Pressure!" she channeled electrical power through her hands, forming a ball of lightning, swiftly hurling it at the side of the building. With a thunderous boom, the wall caved in, opening a way to enter the building.

Awestruck, the other Sailor Senshi stood immobile for a moment. "Jupiter!" Sailor Mercury complained. "Some poor victim could have stood near that wall!"

"Eh, you are right... s-sorry" stuttered Jupiter, embarrassed.

"No time to dawdle, let's go inside!" Sailor Mars quickly moved into the building, braving the strong winds. The others followed shortly, except Sailor Moon.

Looking at the strange storm she made a sad expression "I should have called Mamoru... I don't like this, not at all. It's happening too fast." then she slapped her cheeks, put on a brave face and followed her friends.

The inside of the building was eerily quiet. A red glow from the windows was the only source of light, the electrical system shorted out by the storm raging outside. Occasionally a blue flash and the crackle of lightning broke the silence.

"Where are the customers? There's no one here." Sailor Venus asked. Sailor Moon nodded, thinking about the safety of the innocent bystanders.

"My visor shows them here, with us." Sailor Mercury replied warily.

"But this floor is deserted!" Sailor Jupiter looked around, searching for someone.

Sailor Mercury activated her computer and started to analyze the data feed from her sensor glasses. "The storm is actually a fluctuation in the quantum matrix membrane. Our senses cannot really perceive it. What we see is a physical echo of the effects it has on the space-time continuum. The customers are locked away in a pocket dimension sealed by a five-dimensional hyperspace fold. Their time correlation variable is almost zero. Most likely they are not even aware of the situation. Fortunately for them and for us, they are safe, at least for now. But we must release them before the storm increases its power, or they risk being lost forever ... elsewhere!"

The collective reply of her friends was a puzzled "Eeeeh?" to which the blue-haired genius sighed. "They were imprisoned by the storm, locked in an out-of-time non-physical state. They are safe for now, but they will vanish in..." she finished her calculations "27 minutes and 43.5 seconds if the storm continues to increase at the present rate."

Sailor Venus looked around concerned "Damn! Where should we go then? We must hurry."

"The last floor. The sensation is stronger now. Still not clear though, but it definitely comes from the last floor." Sailor Mars was perplexed; being unable to understand a premonition was normal, but this time she wasn't sure she was even having one. It was a strange feeling, like having a vision of doom while at the same time being absolutely certain nothing was amiss.

"My visor shows me the storm's center on the last floor, as you say. The elevator will be out-of-order, we should take the stairs." she pointed at the safety stairs.

Sailor Moon stared at her friend "What? This building has a hundred floors! Are we supposed to run through all of them?" The bleak look on her friend's face was the only reply needed.

~o~~~o~~~o~~~o One Hundred Floors Later o~~~o~~~o~~~o~

"Ooh, my poor legs. Why it must always be the last floor? Villains never show up on the ground floor. Are we there yet? No? Go without me, my friends, I will quietly die here..." complained Sailor Moon dramatically.

"Shut up, Moon, we just reached the last floor." panting, Sailor Mars stood beside a sign with the number 100 on it.

"Now we defeat the baddies and return to our cakes." Sailor Jupiter opened the safety door, warily peeking in. "All clear, let's go." she said entering the door.

They followed her into a maze of corridors, awash in a strange red and blue light, the walls covered by a crystalline substance of prismatic colors. Sailor Mercury analyzed it. "It's incredible. This crystal... cannot exist. It violates all the known chemical rules. It should be impossible, at least without changing the fundamental physical constants!"

"And?" asked Sailor Moon, not really understanding anything.

The reply from Sailor Mercury surprised them "And... it seems to be the case. Until now we had to cope with magical and physical energies, but it seems that this storm is actually unrelated to any known effect, and at the same time is a very simple weather phenomenon. I... do not understand."

"Don't worry Mercury." Sailor Moon replied smiling. "I never understood any of your techno-talk until now, but we still won every time!"

"Eh, wonder why this doesn't make me feel better?" replied Mercury.

"Girls!" shouted Sailor Venus, "Look!" they had reached the rooftop balcony.

Outside the protective shell of the building, the storm raged around two people. One of them was a balding, middle-aged man, wearing an expensive business suit with a spiteful expression on his face. The other was a young woman, no more than twenty, dressed in cheap clothing. The two of them had their hands raised at each other as if they were trying to push themselves with the power of the mind.

"What the hell are they doing here?" shouted Jupiter, trying to be heard against the roar of the storm.

"It's them." answered Sailor Mars, "Their battle is causing the storm, I can feel it!" She looked at Mercury.

"It's true. The power they are releasing is incredible. The strangest thing is that it should have destroyed the city by now. The storm is far too small for such a display of power. Unless..."

"Then we'll try to stop them." Sailor Moon walked against the wind, trying to reach the two. "Please. Stop the storm. You're damaging the city and endangering lives!" she shouted, hoping to defuse the situation without using force. She raised her Eternal Tiara, however, ready to use it.

"Sailor Moon, wait. They are outside reality, in a bubble of folded space, they can't hear us!" finished Sailor Mercury. "Most of their power is raging inside the bubble. If they stop their duel, the bubble will collapse, releasing the power over the city. We must raise a barrier, to prevent the explosion, or the whole of Japan will be razed!"

"All of Japan? Whoa! How much power do they have?" asked Sailor Jupiter, amazed. Nonetheless, they assumed the barrier positions they already used against Pharoh-90.

"It's not their personal power. They are channeling energy from other dimensions, an infinite number of them. This shouldn't be possible!" Sailor Mercury was still befuddled by the contradictory readings of her sensor glasses.

Bravely stepping forward, Eternal Sailor Moon raised her weapon. "I will try to reach them without breaking the bubble, I have already done it in the past." she said moving near the storm while her friends raised a barrier.

"Be careful Moon! The power of Pharaoh-90 originated only from the Tau Nebula dimension. This storm, it is many times more powerful!" warned Sailor Mercury.

Eternal Sailor Moon calmly looked at her friend. "The power of our enemies never stopped me from trying Mercury, you know it. We have no choice but to go forward." That said, she entered the center of the storm, vanishing from sight for a moment. The next instant she appeared near the two combatants.

Sailor Moon found herself unable to move further. The wind raged around her stopping her progress. The lightning, thundering with each strike, threatened to hit her. She looked at the two madmen who caused all of this. They were talking to each other.

"Even if you stopped my poisoning device, you will fall Runner! Praise the Faceless One, I will deliver this world to his realm. Now die already!" shouted the man, sounding really evil.

"I will never, ever concede to the likes of you scum! I understand your motivations, but I cannot forgive your actions. Go to hell and say hello to your master for me!" with these words the woman unleashed a barrage of red wind gusts, hitting the man and making him falter. It was only for a moment, however. Looking at the woman with horrible eyes, devoid of any light, he raised his power to match hers and unleashed blue lightning, striking her and causing obvious pain.

Sailor Moon could not stand idle anymore. Fighting the strength of the wind, she raised the Eternal Tiare and called out "You two, stop immediately! Or I, Eternal Sailor Moon, guardian of peace and justice, will punish you in the name of the moon!"

While the man scoffed at her threat, the woman was instead amazed. "S-Sailor Moon? Awesome! I am a fan of yours and... ah, forget that. You should go away immediately, you are in extreme danger here. And... how the hell did you manage to enter the storm? No one should be able to do that!" she said with a disbelieving tone.

The man noticed the woman's distraction. "An opening, die Runner, Void... Lightning!" he said while shooting blue thunderbolts at the woman, making her double over in pain.

Usagi decided that the man was definitely evil. She raised the Tiare shouting "Starlight... Honeymoon... Therapy... Kiss!" releasing a beautiful pink light beam hitting the man in full.

"Argh!" he screamed, obviously in extreme pain. The lightning lessened somewhat.

'I don't understand, this power should heal or purify, not cause pain.' thought Usagi, unsure if she should continue attacking or stop."What's happening?"

The storm started to unravel as the man, brutally battered by the wind, raised his face looking at the Sailor Senshi with dead eyes. "You fool! You broke the barrier blocking the maelstrom ... sealing the fate of your world. The storm will rage on. Ha ha ha ha! I won. Thank you, Sailor idiot!" then he started to vanish.

"What? I..." Usagi stuttered terrified and unsure. She remembered the warning Mercury gave her. "How could my healing power burst the bubble thingy?"

The woman recovered from the pain, shouting with grit in her voice. "Oh no! You are not fading away on me, take this and good riddance! Storming... Maelstrom!"

Releasing an enormous gust of wind with obvious effort, the woman blasted the man away, his screaming body multiplying in infinite copies, each one fading away in a different part of the storm. The original one was hurled into the sky, disintegrating painfully in a shower of blue sparks.

A relieved expression appeared on the face of the woman. She grabbed Sailor Moon's hands, dancing in the wind with obvious joy. "I made it, I made it! Another one bites the dust, yeah!"

"Uh yes, but, shouldn't the storm scatter?" asked Sailor Moon.

"Eh? Y-yes, you are right. Why the hell isn't the wind going away?" Worried, she looked around her. "I won the duel, the storm should subside. Something is not right."

"Then, if you don't know what you are doing I will disperse it!" She aimed her Tiare at the storm around them and unleashed her power again: "Starlight... Honeymoon... Therapy... Kiss!"

The pink light however was having no effect whatsoever. The storm had thinned out, but only because it was expanding throughout the district.

"This thing is out of control!" shouted Sailor Venus at her friends.

"We can't contain it anymore, it's escaping our barrier!" Sailor Jupiter replied.

Mercury increased her concentration "We should have faith in Sailor Moon, stand fast!"

Sailor Mars said nothing, her premonitions remaining uncertain despite the danger. 'This is driving me crazy.' she thought.

Inside the center of the storm, the woman grabbed Sailor Moon by the shoulders. "I understand now. It's dead but I have not won in time. The energy is not in me. It's still in the storm. Your attack disrupted the maelstrom but no one is supposed to be capable of interfering in a reality duel!"

Sailor Moon was starting to be annoyed by the woman's attitude. "How could I know that? And it was not an attack, it was purifying light, healing! I don't use violence!"

"Healing? You were trying to purify it? It was a Void, without soul or conscience, only spite. There was nothing to be healed!" she shouted at her.

"Your light probably restored some of its feelings from when it was alive, causing it pain. But the light also broke the barrier containing the maelstrom. My wind overwhelmed the void but I couldn't disperse the power we unleashed, because you already released it." The woman looked at the storm all around them.

"Your light is limited by this world's axioms. As an Ord you stand no chance against it. I must try something before the maelstrom destroys us!"

Sailor Moon did not like the tone of her voice. She emphasized the strange word, 'Ord', as it was something worthless. Somewhat pissed, Moon was going to try to help anyways, "What can 'we' do?"

The woman distractedly answered. "'You' will do nothing. 'I' will try to shunt all of his power away. Use the time to get away, out of the area, or try to aid your friends and be useful for a change."

Trying to leave the 'bubble' as instructed, Sailor Moon replied, "I don't like your manners. Not at all. But... good luck anyway."

After a short time, she was out of the storm's center, adding her power to the barrier, to the relief of her friends. "I hope she'll succeed or we will be very sorry indeed."

Inside the storm, the woman braved the wind, now out of control. Opening wide her arms she shouted. "In thy name... Apeiros!"

The storm answered, the wind increasing in strength but starting to concentrate around the woman. In the end, the wind formed a tall vortex, first piercing a hole in the sky and then being sucked into it in a shower of red and blue sparks.

The Sailor Senshi barrier held until the end, when it shattered completely. Screaming, the girls were lifted by the wind; then pushed away and at the same time dragged inside the vortex. In a last infinite moment they saw themselves sprawled on the roof and thrown in the sky; then they lost consciousness.

Moon's last thought was for her loved one. "Mamoru..."

~o~~~o~~~o~~~o Sometime Later o~~~o~~~o~~~o~

Usagi's first words upon regaining consciousness were; "Mmmmommm, letshmesleep five miuthes mooore..."

Something was tickling her lower back. "Mom, please! I'm so tired and hungry... I..."

She suddenly remembered the battle on the rooftop. Opening her eyes, she immediately tried to stand up. She failed, falling on the hard rocky soil. She felt so weak. Like a newborn baby. Looking around, she saw her friends beside her. Then she noticed they were all stark naked.

The sailor uniforms had vanished without giving them back their civilian clothes. Fortunately, no one was looking at them. In fact, they were not in the fashion outlet building or in Juuban anymore. The rocky ground, bare and arid, the cold wind, and...

Rolling on her back she gazed at the sky. It was full of strange stars of all colors. And two moons, one white and large, another small and blue-green!

Her friends awakened and rapidly realized their situation. They were speechless, save Minako, who tried to play it down. "Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kentucky anymore." she managed to say, awed.

"I'm pretty sure it was Kansas." replied Ami dryly, staring at the alien sky.

Not one of them noticed the mysterious woman sprawled unconscious a few meters away, nor the furry tails that were growing rapidly from their lower backs...