Disclaimer: No one so far in this story belongs to me. The sailors belong to 
Naoko-sama and a bunch of other people. And the Z folks belong to Toriyama-sama 
and some more people. Please don't sue me. All you'll get is me. (As if that's a 
bad thing.) :) 

Notes: Hi. My name is Genki Dama. This is my first shot at writing a fanfic 
and posting it anywhere. Anyway, this story is about my two favorite Animes in 
the world: Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball. It is set the day after the end of 
Sailor Stars and at the end of Dragon Ball GT before Goku leaves. If you have 
any questions, comments, or flames just send it to, sailor_dragon@softhome.net 
And now, On with the fic.
 

THE WAY THINGS WORK OUT- A Sailor Moon / Dragon Ball Crossover 
Chapter 1: Wrong Place Wrong Time 

"Gin." "What?!" Piccolo jumped out his chair and slammed his fists into the 
table. "That's the thirteenth time in a row!" Dende's face wore a huge grin on 
as he repiled the deck of cards and began to deal again. "Calm down 
Piccolo-san. It's only a game." "How can I calm down when I keep losing to a 
little runt? Hold on...Have you been cheating?" Dende kept to facing the table, 
avoiding the larger namek's glare. "It's all in how you interpret the rules." 
"Hmm..Thought so." Piccolo picked up his chair and sat himself down again 
gathering his cards up. "Your turn Piccolo-san. Piccolo-san?" Dende looked 
across the table. Piccolo had his head turned looking out at the sky angrily. "What 
is it?" "I.. I don't know." He kept scanning in either direction. His eyes 
suddenly fixed on a point in the blue. "What ever it is it's right..." BLAM!! 
Piccolo jumped up, while his partner fell backwards out of his chair landing on 
his head. Piccolo snarled. A large yellow disk had appeared just off of the edge 
of Kami's palace. A slight breeze emanated from its center. Dende righted 
himself. "What's that?" He pointed to the disk. Piccolo turned and glared. "How 
in the world should I know? Anyway you're Kami." "Gomen." "Hey!!" The two nameks 
looked up. Two arms had appeared in the disk. Two legs. A head. Then the rest of 
a body. "Who is it?" "I can't tell. The light's too bright." Slowly the disk 
began to shrink. Little by little the newcomer became more and more 
distinguished until the light escaped form view. "Trunks!" Dende ran forward. 
Mirai Trunks, the one who had saved Goku and this timeline so many years ago, 
was back. Trunks landed on the deck of the floating palace. Righting himself, he 
bowed honorably. "Hello again Kami-sama." Dende stopped, and returned the 
gesture. "Welcome, Trunks-san." "Oh please." Piccolo crossed his arms. Trunks 
turned to Piccolo and waved. "Hello Piccolo." "Yeah.. Hi" "Piccolo! I'm 
surprised." Dende walked over to where he was standing. "He interrupted our 
game!" "Uh..I can go if I've come at a bad time." Trunks began to turn around. 
"No, please stay" "Go if you want." "Piccolo!" "No it's no trouble, I can leave 
and come back later." "No, Trunks-san." "I said it was fine with me." "Piccolo, 
stop it! Ohhh.." Dende drew out his chair and plopped down, annoyed. 

* * * 

Usagi skidded to a halt outside the front gate to the shrine. "You would think 
after yesterday you would be too tired to run that fast." Usagi turned to Ami. 
The poor girl ran, breathless up beside her. Catching her breath she hopped up 
and sat on the wall. "Are you kidding Ami?" Her eyes glazed over. "There's lots 
of food up there... and... CAKE!" She jumped up and down several times clapping. 
"Oh Usagi, what are we going to do with you?" "Come on!" Usagi grabbed her 
friend's wrist and yanked her off the wall and up the steps to the temple. Ami's 
feet went bouncing off each stair. "Ow! Ouch! Oof!" ~~> The door to Rei's room 
blew open. All who were present cringed as it hit back against the wall. "Hey 
everybody! We're here!" A few "Oh hi Usagi's" came from various parts of the 
room. "Ooooo. Look at all the goodies." Usagi flew over to the table in the 
center of the room filled with food. She immediately began stuffing her face 
like there was no tomorrow. Ami dragged her self in through the door and plopped 
down into the corner next to Minako. "Ami-chan you look exhausted!" "Oh, I'm 
fine. It's just that that girl has more energy than it takes to run this city." 
They turned to look at Usagi. She had succeeded in devouring at least half of 
what had been their little victory celebration. "So," Ami turned back to Minako. 
"Is everyone here yet?" "I think so." She scanned the room. "Yeah, they're all 
here." "Good. I need to talk to Setsuna." "About what?" "Oh, nothing." 

* * * 

"Gin." "Oh, mercy." Piccolo put his head in his hands. "My, that was fast 
Trunks-san." Trunks scooped up the cards from the table and began to reshuffle. 
"So, Trunks." "Hmmm?" Trunks looked up at the little namek. "How are things in 
your future?" "I guess it's all ok. Not much has happened since the androids. 
People are still rebuilding their cities and towns. I still help out here and 
there. My mother is still inventing stuff." "Speaking of your mother, how did 
you get here? I mean, without your time machine." "I have absolutely no idea." 
"Yeah, sure you don't." Dende shot Piccolo a death glare. "Sorry." "What do you 
mean?" "Well, my mom built this new machine. Some sort of portal generator. 
Anyway, she wanted to test it with a person. Apparently robots just won't do. So, 
after two weeks of constantly nagging on me, I gave in and let her test it on me. 
And, so I'm here." "Are you sure she knows you're all right?" "Awww!" Trunks 
slapped his forehead. "I forgot to call her!" He reached into his pocket and 
drew out a little black phone. After a few quick taps on the buttons, he put it 
up to his ear. "...Oh, hi mom!... Yes I'm alright......What!? Why?......Oh. I 
see...Ok...I love you too. Bye." Trunks pushed some more buttons and put the 
phone back in his pocket. "What did she say?" Trunks looked down at the table 
and sighed. "I have to go home." "What for?" Dende and Trunks looked at Piccolo. 
"What? I just want to know." "A minute ago you wanted him to go home and now you 
want him do stay?" "Hmmph." Piccolo crossed his arms and looked away. Trunks 
stood up. "She said something went wrong with her portal thing. A couple of 
shorts and what not. She doesn't trust it much so she wants me back should 
something go wrong." He began walking to the edge of the giant platform. "So, I 
guess this means your trip will be cut short?" "Yeah, but I'll be back before 
you know it." "I hope so." 

* * * 

'Knock knock' everybody turned to the door. Rei stood up and walked over to the 
door. She cracked it open slightly. "Yes?...Ok, hold on. Everyone!" She spun 
around and grasped the door handle with her left hand. "We have a special 
visitor today. I give you...Chibi-usa and her talking cat!" She flung open the 
door revealing Chibi-usa with her little kitten, Diana, perched on her head. 
"Chibi-usa!" Ami and Minako ran over to the little time traveler. Before she 
could say anything she was engulfed with hugs. Luckily, Diana had managed to 
escape the onslaught of squeezes. "Yaaaawn." She stretched her self out and 
hopped up onto Mamoru's lap. "Hello Diana." He began to scratch behind her ears 
as she purred. Artemis looked up dreary eyed from his catnap. "Hey Luna." He 
nudged his feline companion until she too looked up from dreamland, eyes half 
open. "What is it? Yaaaawn." "Oh, just our future daughter and Chibi-usa." 
"Hmmm. So it is. Look, she didn't even bother coming over here to say hi. 
Typical." "Oh, well." With those last words of wisdom, the two cats promptly 
dropped off sleep. 

* * * 

"Well, I guess I'll be seeing you guys." "Goodbye, Trunks-san." "Yeah." 
"Goodbye, Piccolo." Piccolo crossed his arms and glared, again. BLAM!!!! The 
large yellow disk appeared again. Waving his last farewell Trunks began to enter 
the portal. "Trunks! Look out!" "What?!" Trunks spun around to Dende then looked 
behind him. The portal rippled and started to spurt energy bolts from around the 
edges. "What the......" BLAAAAAAAM!!!!!! A huge explosion ripped the disk into 
shreds and threw Trunks into the platform's floor, embedding him. "Trunks-san!" 
Dende ran forward only to be held back by Piccolo. "Piccolo, let me go this 
instant!!" "Look!" Dende looked up as the yellow glowing material from the disk 
began to speed back up to where the blast had originated. All the little clumps 
of energy gathered together and then... BLAAAAAAAAAAAAM!!! The resulting 
fireball wedged Trunks further into the platform floor, knocked down Piccolo who 
lost his grip on Dende, and threw Dende about a hundred feet smashing him 
through one of the few trees on the palace grounds. "Kami-sama!!" Piccolo 
righted himself and ran over to his compadre. "Are you all right?!" "Oww. 
Piccolo-san." "Oh, good." "Piccolo-san, go help Trunks." "Oh, right." Piccolo 
ran back over to Trunks. He grabbed Trunks' arm and yanked him out rather 
forcefully. "Owww! Piccolo!" "Sorry." "What happened?" "I have no clue. Why 
don't you ask Dende?" "Where is he?" "I'm right here." Dende had managed to drag 
himself out from underneath the tree. He walked back over to the other two. "I 
have no idea what happened either, but why don't you try calling your mother." 
"Good idea!" Trunks pulled the little phone from his pocket and pushed some more 
buttons. "Hello, mom?...Yes, a little banged up but fine... What?!...Oh no!... 
Are you sure?... Ok... Bye." "Well?" The two nameks looked at him. "The portal 
generator blew up." "WHAT!" "Yeah, there's no way for me to get back home now." 
"What about the time machine?" "It got taken out by the blast. It'll take mom 
months to repair either one." He looked down at the ground. "Maybe I could 
help." Trunks looked back up at Dende. "Huh?" "Maybe I could help. I am kami 
after all." "Really?" "Well, I've never tried it before but, maybe I could send 
you back." "That's great!" "That's ridiculous." "What? Why's that Piccolo?" 
"Think about it. How much power it that going to take?" "Oh, you're right. If I 
messed up it would probably take at least a year to recharge to try again." 
"Well, I don't care as long as it gets me home." "OK, but don't say we didn't 
warn you." Dende stood straight up and powered up. His arms crossed and his 
pupils disappeared. Suddenly, he shot his arms up toward the sky as a column of 
yellow light jetted toward the heavens. 

* * * 

No one saw the flash of yellow light. 

* * * 

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!" "What!" The light column dissipated as Dende, Trunks, and 
Piccolo turned to see where the scream came from. Not far from where they were 
standing a bunch of girls had suddenly appeared most of whom were screaming or 
had fainted. "Oh no!" Dende put his hands over his face. "I told you." "Shut-up 
Piccolo." ~~> "Hey, Artemis." Luna raised her head a little, eyes half open. 
"Mmmm?" He didn't bother opening his eyes. "Look at this. Everyone fainted, even 
Mamoru." "You ate too much catnip for lunch again." "And over there are two 
green men and a purple haired guy with a sword." "Shhhh. It's just a dream. Go 
back to sleep." "Yeah, I guess Hakura and Setsuna passing out is pretty far 
fetched." "Mmmm Hmmm." Luna laid her head back down and shut her eyes. "Two 
green, yaaawn, men. Ha." With that she fell asleep. 

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End Chapter One 
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