Disclaimer: No one in this chapter is mineDisclaimer: No one in this chapter is 
mine. They belong to a lot of other people in Japan.
Catch up time: All right, last chapter nothing really much happened. Trunks 
found out who everyone was, made sleeping reservations with Chichi and Bulma, 
and jumped off Kami’s palace. Kinda boring huh? Well, enough with the past. In 
this chapter Gohan will explain what has gone on between Crystal Tokyo’s time 
and the present day (in the story). And now, on with The Way Things Work Out.
The Way Things Work Out
Part 3: Ignorance is Bliss
By: Genki Dama
"Ahhhhh!" "Please stop screaming in my ear!" "Sorry, but I’m not used to falling 
from the sky!" "Be quiet Hotaru. I’m sorry… uh, Trunks is it?" "Yes." "Thought 
so. How are we going to survive hitting the ground?" "What?! You think we’re 
going to crash?" Trunks glanced over his right shoulder at Setsuna in a 
questioning manner. "Well sorry, but it certainly looks that way to me." "Don’t 
worry we’re not going to crash. I’ve got it covered." "I don’t mean to rush you 
or anything, Trunks-san, but whatever you are going to do I strongly urge you to 
do it quickly!" Trunks looked over his left shoulder. Michiru had her eyes 
squeezed shut and had tightened her grip on Trunks’ arm. "Look, I have it 
covered. Just watch." Trunks gathered some ki and began flying with his 
passengers hanging on for dear life. "I can’t believe it! You can fly!" "Yeah, 
so?" "Well we don’t get a lot of that sort of thing where we come from." Haruka 
readjusted her grasp of Trunks’ shoulders. "By the way, where exactly DO you 
come from?" "We all are from Tokyo." Trunks looked down at Mamoru and Hotaru in 
his arms. "Tokyo? Where is that?" "WHAT?! You don’t know where Tokyo is?" "No, 
should I?" "Just where are WE?" "Uh, Trunks-san, what date is this?" Trunks eyes 
went back to Setsuna. "April 17, 781 I think. Give or take a couple days." 
"WHAT?! You mean we went back in time?!" "No, I do believe you all in your 
future." "But…" "Well, here we are."
Trunks lowered himself down to ground and set Mamoru and Hotaru down. Setsuna, 
Haruka, and Michiru climbed off his back. "Nice place." Michiru walked up to 
Chichi’s front garden. "Wow, these are really nice flowers." The door opened and 
Chichi walked out wiping her hands on a towel. "Well hello." "Hello." Michiru 
bowed slightly. Chichi returned the gesture. "Chichi-san these are the visitors 
I told you about." "Yes, thank you Trunks. Well, what are you all doing standing 
out here? Come in, come in." Everyone wandered in followed by Chichi. "Please 
take a seat. I just made dinner." They all took a chair and sat down. "Goku!! 
Time to eat!" "All right!" Goku dashed into the room and quickly sat at the 
table. "Hi. You guys must be the people Trunks was talking about. I’m Goku. What 
are your names?" "I’m Setsuna." "Haruka." "Michiru." "Hotaru." "Mamoru." "Nice 
to meet to you all." "Ok, here’s dinner." Chichi set down a pot of rice and they 
all began to eat.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * After dinner the little group began to talk as 
Chichi washed dishes. "That was very good Chichi-san." "Thank you..Setsuna." "I 
have a question." "Yes?" "Well, when Trunks-san was flying us here, he gave us 
the impression that there is no such place as Tokyo in this time." "No, I don’t 
believe that there is a Tokyo anymore." Setsuna gasped. "What do you mean… 
anymore?" "Well if I remember correctly, there was a Crystal Tokyo about eight 
hundred years ago. But it got burned or something. I’m not one on remembering 
that sort of thing." "Eight hundred years!?" "I think that’s right. Goku." "Yes 
dear?" "Go call up Gohan and ask him to come over." "All right." Goku walked out 
of the room. "Who’s Gohan?" Chichi looked over at Hotaru. "He’s my son. I think 
he might be able to explain it better to you than I could." "Explain what?" 
Michiru elbowed Haruka gently. "Pay attention. They are going to tell us what 
happened to Tokyo." "Oh." Goku came back in and sat down. "Well, I explained the 
situation to Gohan and he said that he’ll be over in a couple minutes. Oh, and 
he’s bringing Videl and Pan too meet you all." "Um, if we are going to learn 
about our future, shouldn’t the others be here too?" Goku looked at Mamoru 
strangely. "What others?" "You know, the ones staying over at that other place." 
Goku eyes glazed over as he tried to think. "Oh, yeah, the ones staying at 
Bulma’s house." Chichi rolled her eyes. "Yes, you’re right…Mamoru. Goku, go call 
Bulma and tell her to bring the others over. "Oh, alright." 
Goku left the room and dialed Bulma. ‘Hello’ "Hi, Bulma, it’s me, Goku." ‘This 
isn’t Bulma you idiot!’ "Oh, hi, Vegeta." ‘What do you want Kakarot?’ "Chichi 
wants you and you guests over here." ‘What for?’ "I don’t know. Something about 
learning something about the past. Or something like that." ‘Well we can’t.’ 
"Why not?" ‘I’m too busy.’ Just then Goku heard a door opening in the 
background. ‘*Vegeta! What are you doing?* I’m talking to stupid. *Give me that 
phone…… Hello? Goku? *His name is stupid. * Shut up Vegeta!’ "Hi Bulma, sounds 
like you’re having fun over there." ‘Oh, Vegeta and the girls are at each others 
throats.’ "How come?" ‘Well for one they keep making fun of his hair, and two, 
every time they go into the same room he’s in he’ll yell and scream at them. But 
at least he hasn’t killed them yet.’ "Well, anyway, Chichi wants you to bring 
them over so Gohan can tell them about the past." ‘Oooo K. Whatever, we’ll be 
over there in a few minutes.’ "Ok, bye." He hung up the phone and walked back to 
the others. * * * * * * * * 
Once everyone had gathered they sat down at the Son’s table. Gohan began the 
conversation. "So what is it you want to know?" "We would like to know the 
history of Crystal Tokyo and where in time we are." Gohan looked at Setsuna. 
"Well, the date here is April 17, 781." "See, I told you." Trunks got a death 
glare from Haruka. "Sorry." "What time did you come from?" "The twentieth 
century." "Twentieth century huh? Man, that’s a long time ago." "How long?" 
"About one-thousand eight hundred years." A few gasps were heard from the side 
of the table the inners were sitting at. "Could you tell us what has happened 
since then?" "Sure. But it could take a while." "That’s OK. I think we could 
spare the time." Vegeta muttered something under his breath. "What was that 
Vegeta?" "Nothing, Bulma." "OK, here goes. At the end of the twentieth century 
the earth froze over and everyone was put into a deep sleep. And it stayed like 
that for a thousand years. Until, a woman by the name of Neo-queen Serenity woke 
up and used some sort of immense power to melt the ice and wake everyone else 
up. Thus restarting the calendar at year zero. But, to be awakened one must 
allow this power to over take them. Most people let this happen to them but some 
resisted. Neo-queen Serenity felt that if these people were strong enough to 
resist her power then they could be a threat to her newly established kingdom. 
So using her power she transported all of them to a rouge moon just outside the 
solar system. The exiles came together and raged war on the capital of Neo-queen 
Serenity’s kingdom, Crystal Tokyo. But they could not destroy it because a 
shield made of energy protected it. Until, one day the queen’s daughter took the 
source of the power, the Silver Crystal, from its holding place. With the shield 
down, the exiles quickly attacked, destroying much of the city. Also, in the 
attack Neo-queen Serenity was put in a crystal to protect her. After that, most 
of the details are sketchy because of frequent time traveling by both parties." 
"So, what happened next?" "Well, after the war, the queen sent her daughter back 
in time for some sort of training. When she got back her mother thought she was 
finally ready to take over the throne. Oh boy was she wrong." Eyes went wide all 
round the senshi. "WHY!" Both Usagis shouted in unison. "In the princesses time 
travels she met up with a half boy half horse guy named Pegasus. For some weird 
reason she fell in love with him and brought him back to the future. Later, 
after she got the throne from her mother, she married the man slash horse." 
"What's wrong with that? Isn’t that following your heart." "Yes, well, you can’t 
very well marry a horse and expect your subjects to agree with you. Their union 
prompted massive riots of people who didn’t think someone so stupid as to marry 
a horse could possibly run the earth wide kingdom with any intelligence. So in 
the long run, the princess tried to use the same method on the rioters as her 
mother used on the exiles. Which gave even more people a reason to rebel. And 
so, the people of earth stormed Crystal Tokyo, killed the princess and her 
horse, and burned Crystal Tokyo to the ground." Chibi-usa started crying and all 
the other senshi looked at Gohan with horror in their eyes. "Of course that was 
seven hundred years ago. Since then the east capital was built over the ruins of 
Crystal Tokyo and everything has pretty much stayed the same. And that’s all." 
Chibi-usa and Usagi were now both crying along with most of the inners. Makoto 
just looked at the table in disbelief. Haruka leaned over in Setsuna’s ear. 
"Serves her right for fooling around with horses." Bulma stood from her seat. 
"Well if that’s it I guess we’ll be going. Girls, could you all please go get in 
the aircar?" The inners nodded solemnly, stood up, and slowly walked out the 
door. "I wonder what's wrong with them. Come on Vegeta. Vegeta!" Bulma smacked 
him upside the head. "Hmm, uh, WHAT!" "Wake up we’re leaving." "Fine." Vegeta 
stood, stretched, and made his way to the aircar full of wailing girls. "Oh, 
man." "We’ll see you guys later. Bye." "Good-bye Bulma." Bulma followed her 
husband out the door. The rest listened as the aircar took off and flew away. 
"Well, I guess we’ll be going too." Gohan looked over at his wife. Videl was 
holding a sleeping Pan in her lap. "Come on Videl." "I’m coming. Good-bye 
Chichi." Gohan scooped her up in his arms and flew out the door. "Seems we’re 
all by our selves again. If you girls want to sleep your room is right down the 
hall and on your right. It used to be Gohan’s room." "Thank you very much 
Chichi-san. Good night." Setsuna rose and proceeded down the hall followed by 
her companions. "What about me?" Chichi looked over at Mamoru. "Oh, you get to 
sleep on the couch. It’s right in there." She pointed to the next room. "Thank 
you very much." Mamoru walked out and plopped down on the couch. "Man! What a 
day." "Trunks. Are you still here." "Yeah." "Do you want to stay with us?" " No, 
I’m staying up on Kami’s palace. Thanks for asking though." "No problem." "See 
you tomorrow. Bye Chichi-san." "Good-bye Trunks." Trunks walked out and shut the 
door behind him. ***************End Ignorance is Bliss********************** 
Well, How did you like it? Ok, the part about Chibi-usa getting killed is pretty 
sad but that’s about it. Next time on The Way Things Work Out: Vegeta will get 
mad, Usagi will do something ditzy, the cats will sleep (getting déjà vu yet?), 
and a fight of some sort will break out. Hope to see you there. Flames and/or 
comments send to the great Genki Dama at sailor_dragon@softhome.net or on ICQ # 
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