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Chibi-Usa Times Two
Part 11:  Karaberas

"Iie... Iie, leave her alone!"

Chibi-Usa's eyes flew open at the shout. Fearfully looking around she
saw that Usagi was tossing and turning. <Onee-san must be having a bad
dream... I have to help her.> She pushed Usagi a little; this seemed to
stop her motion. Slowly Usagi's breathing returned to normal and then
she slipped deeper into slumber.

Snuggling closer to Usagi, Chibi-Usa thought, <There that's better... We
had a fun time at the park... We went on the swings and on the
teeter-totter and the rubba-dub.> Chibi-Usa was now fully awake
remembering the exciting trip to the park, <And we had ice cream and we
went on the slide... I was scared at first when Usagi tried to get
down...> Chibi-Usa put a hand over her mouth to try and stifle the
giggling, <Onee-san looked sooo funny going down the slide and she got
stuck!>

No matter how hard she tried Chibi-Usa couldn't stop herself from
laughing, the vivid image came unhindered to her mind. Usagi had laughed
along with Chibi-Usa admitting she probably did look silly. It had been
a thoroughly enjoyable time for both of them.

Chibi-Usa's laughter abruptly stopped as Usagi's door swung open and she
saw a figure standing in the doorway. Giving a yelp of surprise
Chibi-Usa tried to hide herself behind Usagi. This caused the now
partially awake teenager to fully come awake.

"What's going on in here?" Ikuko's sleepy voice demanded; she sounded
irritated.

Usagi just having woken up wasn't really sure herself, "I-I'm not
sure..." Usagi said truthfully, "I just woke up."  That's when she heard
the whimper behind her; turning slowly she saw that Chibi-Usa was
fearfully looking at the doorway.

"I... I... Onee-san was having a bad dream. I tried to wake her up but
she stopped having the bad dream and was still sleeping." Chibi-Usa's
overly sensitive scale of right and wrong blew the situation out of
proportion and she rushed on at warp speed, "I was wide awake and trying
to be quiet but I thought about our trip to the park and when Onee-san
got stuck on the slide and I just started to laugh and I couldn't help
it and I'm really really sorry. Gomen nasai." Taking several deep
breaths she looked at Ikuko hopefully.

Ikuko looked at Usagi confused, "Did you catch any of that?" Usagi shook
her head. The words had been traveling at a speed that her brain
couldn't decipher at this early morning hour. Ikuko started to walk over
towards the bed while saying, "Maybe you should stay in your own bed for
the rest of the night, Chibi-Usa-chan."

Chibi-Usa's reaction was immediate. She clamped onto Usagi's arm and
whined out, "Iie... iie... please Ikuko-mama! I want to stay with
Onee-san! I'll be good..."

Ikuko looked at Chibi-Usa oddly. Nearing the bed she started to reach
for Chibi-Usa but the little girl continued whining, "Ikuko-mama,
please... Why are you being so mean? I'll go right to sleep. I promise."

Ikuko stopped, gave a stern look at Chibi-Usa, and commanded,
"Chibi-Usa, get out of bed..."

Slowly, almost reluctantly, Chibi-Usa slipped out of bed and stood in
front of Ikuko head bowed. Ikuko looked over at Usagi and asked, "Do you
mind if she stay's with you the rest of the night, Usagi?" Seeing her
daughter shake her head, Ikuko turned Chibi-Usa slightly gave her a
couple of swats and said, "Chibi-Usa, into bed and right to sleep and no
more nonsense." With that Ikuko left the room and the now crying child
slowly climbed back into bed with Usagi.

Settling Chibi-Usa back into bed beside her Usagi tried to soothe the
crying child back to sleep. "Shh.... there... there... Imouto..." <Boy,
oh boy... I'll be glad when the old one's back,> Usagi sleepily thought.

                                  ******

"Hi Minako-chan!" Usagi called out while waving to her friend, "Can I
talk to you?" She'd started for Minako's place when she'd spotted her
walking along the street window shopping.

"Sure... what's up?  Hey, you look... like you didn't get much sleep."

Usagi only gave her a rueful grin before saying, "Yeah well... I wanted
to ask you if Chibi-Usa could spend the night... I'm a little worried
about the evil one coming to look for me and if she isn't at my house,
then there's that much less chance."

"Well Usagi-chan, I'll have to okay it with my parents but I think it
should be okay...  We can have fun. I have to go shopping for some new
stuffed animals and that'll give me the perfect excuse if I take her
with me. You know I kinda envy you."

"Me?" Usagi asked surprised.

"Hai... sure you fight with Shingo but at least he's a brother. And
Chibi-Usa is your `imouto'. I don't have any brothers or sisters... All
I got are cousins and most of them don't live in Tokyo."

"Well... I need to ask Chibi-Usa. I haven't asked her yet. And given
what happened last night, it's going to be a hard sell..."

"What exactly did happen last night?" curiosity consuming Minako.

"Iie, I better not say... Ja ne!" With that Usagi left Minako with a
need to know.

"Now just wait a minute, Usagi!" Minako called after her fleeing friend.
<Oh... You just wait, Odango Atama!>

                                  ******

"Imouto?" Usagi asked as she came into the house.

Chibi-Usa who was sitting at the kitchen table looked up from her
coloring book, "Hai?"

"Imouto, would you help me with a problem?"

Chibi-Usa hopped up and went over to stand in front of Usagi and waited,
<Onee-san wants my help! I hope it's an easy problem... I'm just a
little kid.>

"Imouto... would you help cheer up Minako?" Chibi-Usa gave Usagi a
quizzical look, "See Minako-chan was telling me today that she doesn't
have any brothers or sisters... All she has are cousins."

"But I can't be her sister," Chibi-Usa reasoned, "I'm YOUR imouto."

Usagi chuckled and patted Chibi-Usa reassuringly on the head, "Hai, you
are... but I was thinking you could have a sleepover. See Minako-chan
asked if you could come over for a special sleepover... Just you and
her."

"Just me and her?" Chibi-Usa questioned.

"Hai... well Artemis will be there." Usagi smiled and gave a further
push, "She could pretend you were her imouto for a little while and it
would make her very happy. And she wants you to help her pick out a
special bunny for her stuffed animal collection."

"Really?"

Crouching down and leaning closer Usagi whispered, "Hai... the naughty
Chibi-Usa hurt Minako's stuffed animals so she wants you to help her
pick out a special one... And maybe Minako-chan will buy you one too."
Usagi was counting how much of her allowance this was going to cost.

<Poor Minako... No little sisters... I'll try to make her happy and pick
out a really special bunny for her. She's always been really nice to me
and Onee-san.> Chibi-Usa nodded, and said, "Hai Onee-san... would you
please read me a story?"

Usagi nodded and headed after Chibi-Usa who disappeared up the stairs in
a flash, <Yep, this is going to really put a dent in my allowance... I
actually managed to only lose a little of it because of that droid at
the arcade.>

Just as she was heading up the stairs she heard Ikuko's voice say, "And
when were you going to okay this sleepover with me, Usagi?"

Usagi stopped dead in her tracks, <Mom... I forgot to ask Mom if was
okay!> She turned sheepishly around to see her mother looking at her
arms folded across her chest, <Uh oh...> "Gomen, Mom, I was going to ask
you... It just slipped my mind." Seeing Ikuko waiting expectantly Usagi
said, "Mom would it be okay if Chibi-Usa slept over at Minako's for
tonight?"

"Now was that so hard?" Usagi shook her head. "Hai, Usagi, it's okay."
Ikuko agreed. Usagi gave a sigh of relief before Ikuko continued, "And
were you expecting Minako to pay for this toy you want her to buy
Chibi-Usa?"

"Iie... I have most of my allowance left.  I was going to give it to
Minako to buy one for her."

The fact that Usagi actually had allowance left shocked Ikuko. What was
even more of a shock was Usagi was going to give it up willingly so her
friend could buy Chibi-Usa a toy.

"Mom, I know you don't give advances on allowances but what if I did
double chores? Could you maybe loan me some money? I don't think my
allowance is big enough..."

Ikuko smiled slightly and reached into her pocket she handed Usagi a few
folded bills and said, "Don't worry about it, dear."

Usagi was surprised, "But... but..."

"Onee-san?" came the call from upstairs.

"Go on... Go take care of YOUR `imouto'." Ikuko gave Usagi a wink.
Usagi gave one more look towards her mother and then left the room
shaking her head. <If Usagi's willing to give up her allowance to buy
her `imouto' a present I might as well throw in my little bit. Chibi-Usa
was so upset last night...>  A small frown creased Ikuko's face, <I
don't remember her being so close to Usagi. She's certainly changed over
the past couple of weeks...>

                                  ******

"Karaberas."

"Hai, Rubeus-sama?"

"Karaberas, I have a special mission for you. Not only will you help
Princess Usagi but you will capture a Crystal Point. The Crystal Point
comes first... We already have one; let's get another one."

"Will she be patient?" Karaberas asked incredulously.

Rubeus studied Karaberas closely before saying, "Hai... She understands
the importance of it... She seemed to even take great pleasure in it."

"As you wish, Rubeus-sama."

                                  ******

Chibi-Usa walked around her room on the UFO, <I really must have bigger
rooms given to me... Taking a Crystal Point... That will help in my
plans...>  Then a scowl crossed her face, "I wonder if `Chibi-Usa' will
come there?"

                                  ******

Minako opened the door to see Chibi-Usa and Usagi. Chibi-Usa was
carrying a small overnight bag with a kawaii set of rabbits hopping
around decorating it. "Hello Chibi-Usa-chan, Usagi-chan... come in."
Usagi greeted Minako as Chibi-Usa and herself entered the house.

"Konnichiwa Minako-san, thank you for asking me to have a sleepover with
you," Chibi-Usa said and bowed, "Hello Artemis, you're such a pretty
kitty."

Usagi quickly covered her mouth to hide the grin, <`Pretty kitty'...
hahaha... I'll have to tell Luna that.>  The look Artemis had on his
face was rather sour.

"This way, Chibi-Usa-chan," Minako said leading her guest up the stairs
and into her room, "You can put your bag here."

Chibi-Usa placed her overnight bag were Minako indicated and then turned
to Usagi who crouched down.  Walking over Chibi-Usa gave Usagi a hug and
said softly, "I'll miss you, Onee-san."

"I'll miss you too, Imouto. You be a good girl, okay?" Chibi-Usa nodded,
Giving her a hug Usagi got up and said, "Minako-chan, can I talk to you
for a second?"

Nodding Minako suggested, "Chibi-Usa-chan, why don't you play with
Artemis...  He's been a lonely kitty." The expression of childish
delight that spread across Chibi-Usa's face set the older girls
giggling. Artemis got an even more sour expression when Chibi-Usa picked
him up that just made the girls laugh even harder.

                                  ******

Slipping downstairs Usagi said, "Here Minako-chan," with that Usagi
handed over the rest of her allowance and a little extra she managed to
get from her mother, "Please take this and buy Chibi-Usa-chan a stuffed
animal too." Usagi opened the door and slipped out, "Ja ne."

"Ja ne," Minako said and pocketed the money. <Kami-sama, you've really
got it bad for this little girl.> Walking back upstairs she found
Artemis completely stretched out in Chibi-Usa's lap purring away.

The little girl had chosen an excellent spot. It was right in the warmth
of the sun and she seemed to know where that particularly hard place to
reach was.  To put it mildly Artemis was in cat heaven.

                                  ******

After supper when Minako and Chibi-Usa had left for the mall, Minako's
parents sat around discussing the little girl.

"What a vast improvement from the last time," Mrs. Aino started.

"Hai, you can easily see that Usagi's parents took the little girl in
hand and straightened her out."

"Don't you think they might have straightened her out a little too
much?" Mrs. Aino inquired, "I mean Minako's polite but to have a little
girl THAT polite?"

"I'll have to ask Tsukino-san what he did," Mr. Aino said and then
turned back to his paper.

                                  ******

"Wow! Look at all the toys!" Chibi-Usa cried happily, "Where are the
stuffed animals?"

"Honey before we go in you have to promise me to hang onto my hand. If
we get separated, I want you to stay right where you are no matter
what." <And don't destroy any of the animals.>

"But what if we do get sep... sep... I'm alone and I have to go to the
bathroom?"

"Well that's different," Minako said again, "If you wander off and I
can't find you, I might worry." <It'll help also if the evil one shows
up... but why would they evil one come here?> "And if I can't find you,
Usagi-chan would be very angry with me."

Chibi-Usa considered. <She's really being nice to me. Onee-san was
right.... Minako really wants a little sister.> She looked at Minako and
then the toy store and then Minako again, "I promise." Taking Minako's
hand they entered the store and were lost immediately in a multitude of
color.

                                  ******

"Your Highness, how is the operation proceeding?" Rubeus asked.

Chibi-Usa glanced over at Karaberas who nodded, "Real good. The Senshi
haven't come and all the toys we're selling have Dark Energy."

Karaberas broke in, "Hai Rubeus-sama, we are infecting the people with
Dark Energy, capturing the Crystal Point, and when the toy store closes
we will go and seek out this `Chibi-Usa'." <Oh Kami-sama, I hope this
ends soon... I don't even know how Petz stood the Rabbit.>

"Excellent!" Rubeus said and then cut the connection.

                                  ******

"Oh look at all the bunnies!" Minako squealed in delight, "Aren't they
just so kawaii!?" Minako was in paradise acting like a child Chibi-Usa's
age.

"Hai!" Chibi-Usa agreed, "What one are you going to buy, Minako-chan?"

"All of them!" Minako squealed.

Chibi-Usa gave Minako a funny look, <That would cost a lot of money.>

"May I help you?" came a voice behind them.

Minako turned to the voice to see Karaberas disguised as a sales clerk
approaching them. As Minako moved Karaberas got a glimpse of someone who
looked familiar. An unnoticed frown crossed Karaberas's face, <What is
that little runt playing at this time?>

"Is something wrong?" Minako asked.

"Iie, Gomen... Was there something I could help you find?"  Karaberas
plastered a smile across her face. <Well she's still under Rubeus'
protection if she want's to play little kid that's her right... How
disgusting!>

"Hai, I was looking for a special stuffed bunny rabbit for
Chibi-Usa-chan here," Minako said indicating the little girl who was
entranced with a large stuffed pink bunny.

The bunny was almost as tall as Chibi-Usa and was plump and looked so
cuddly! Chibi-Usa said with a large smile, "Could I please see that
one?" Pointing to the overly large bunny.

Karaberas smiled, that was one of her special droids, <Isn't this ironic
I'm going to teach the Rabbit a lesson with a giant pink bunny.>  "Hai."
Moving over she reached out and plucked the bunny off the shelf and
handed it to Chibi-Usa.

Chibi-Usa gave a sharp cry of pain and let the bunny drop to the ground.
Tears welled up in her eyes as she clutched her hands together and
started dancing around. Minako was surprised at first and went over to
see what was wrong.

"It hurts! It hurts!" Chibi-Usa screamed. Minako had never personally
seen Chibi-Usa release her energy beam but as she was trying to get her
still, there was a sudden swirl of light. The crescent moon on
Chibi-Usa's forehead appeared and then suddenly an energy beam shot up
into the sky.

Karaberas was shocked, <But... but..> her mind was numb.  Minako quickly
went over to Chibi-Usa who was on the ground clutching her hands.
Helping the little girl up Minako said, "Let me see honey..." Worry and
gentleness she took Chibi-Usa's hands and opened them up to see that the
palms and the fingers were a deep red and seemed to be throbbing.

"Where have you been?! What caused that light!?" came a familiar voice.

Karaberas, Minako, and Chibi-Usa who was still in tears all looked in
the direction that the voice was coming from. There coming down the isle
was another Chibi-Usa but dressed very differently.

"NANI?!" Karaberas asked shocked, "How can this be?!?"

"What are you..." evil Chibi-Usa started and then saw her other self.
She stopped dead in her tracks and stared. <What was this?!?> "You dare
copy royalty?!?!" Chibi-Usa yelled out while starting to stalk towards
the good Chibi-Usa.

"Konnichiwa, you must be my sister," Chibi-Usa reasoned out, "Maybe you
should put on your school fuku and then we can play together. We should
get our pictures taken. We'd look very kawaii."

"You're NOT my sister..." Then Chibi-Usa saw something around the other
girl's neck, "MY KEY!!! That damn baka took MY key and gave it to you?"
Pulling herself up to the grand height of three foot eight, the evil
Chibi-Usa said, "I'm the only Princess of Crystal Tokyo and I'm going to
make sure that you pay for your lack of respect."

"Nani? I've been extra good, even Rei-chan said I was," Chibi-Usa
stated, "And don't you say I did bad things because Minako-chan might
tell Onee-san."

The advancing Chibi-Usa stopped again and said, "Onee-san?" <What's the
baka talking about?>

"Hai, Usagi-chan. She's our onee-san and we're her imouto." <She really
does need a hug.>

Minako had quietly signaled the others that something was amiss and was
trying to think of how to get out of this situation when Karaberas
provided the distraction.

"What's going on?!" Karaberas now thoroughly confused demanded. She
didn't care what Rubeus said, it was getting way too weird for her.

"Quiet!" evil Chibi-Usa snapped.

Minako grabbed the good Chibi-Usa and placing the child under her arm
she ran for the bathroom.

"GET THEM!" evil Chibi-Usa raged far behind them.

Only to glad to be in control Karaberas said, "Droid Flopp-alot come
forth!"

The pink bunny rabbit grew in size. It had some difficulty getting up
but soon was on its hind paws. Its once blue eyes were now a violent
purple color, two large fangs hung down from its upper lip. Its once
floppy ears now hung down to the floor coming to a razor sharp point.

"GET THEM! GET THEM!!" Chibi-Usa commanded. She was in a childish temper
tantrum, "I'M THE ONLY PRINCESS OF CRYSTAL TOKYO!" She stomped her feet
in anger.

"Droid Flopp-alot get the humans," Karaberas indicated the fleeing forms
of Minako and Chibi-Usa.

"Hai, Karaberas-sama!" it boomed out and started to hop after the
fleeing pair. Each mighty bound took it several meters. Each of its
impacts made the ground shake and toys fall off the shelves.

                                  ******

"Honey, you stay right here," Minako ordered as she placed Chibi-Usa
inside the bathroom, "If anybody comes in here but me or Usagi-chan, you
hide."  With that Minako started out the door.

"But Minako-chan you can't go out there! You'll get hurt!" Chibi-Usa
protested.

Having no time to argue the point, Minako turned around and said in the
most authoritative voice she could, "Chibi-Usa-chan, you will stay in
here until I or Usagi come to get you or else." With that Minako left
again.

Chibi-Usa whimpered slightly, <I hope Minako will be okay... I'm glad
Onee-san's not out there...>

                                  ******

Sailor Venus emerged to find Sailor Jupiter going hand to `paw' with the
beast. Unfortunately every time Jupiter hit the bunny, her hand sank
into the soft material seeming not to have any effect on the thing.

Tiring of the game Flopp-alot swung its head around and brought both
ears to bear on Jupiter. The impact flung the Senshi across the store
out the door and skidding along the ground.

Venus decided it was her turn, "Hey!" Venus shouted. Flopp-alot turned
around to see who was yelling at it. Venus lifted her hand for her
attack and shouted, "VENUS LOVE-ME CHAIN!"

The chain flew out and wrapped itself around Flopp-alot's body and
pulled. Flopp-alot snarled and reached down with its two large front
paws grabbing the chain and giving a mighty yank started to spin Venus
around.

"Owww!!! Stop it please! I think I'm going to be sick!" Venus pleaded.
All she could see was the store whirling around in front of her.

"Toys are for the enjoyment of children, not to frighten them! I am
still a child at heart and for ruining my fun you will pay! I am the
Pretty Suited Senshi, SAILOR MOON! In the name of the Moon, I will
punish you!"

Flopp-alot gave one last twirl and then let go of Venus' chain. Venus
had common sense enough to let the chain go. She tucked herself and
waited. With a "flop!" she landed neatly in the giant teddy bear's lap
that was at the entrance to the toy store. "Boy, am I glad to see you,"
Venus confided.

"MOON PRINCESS HALATION!" Sailor Moon shouted wasting no time in
finishing off the droid. Sailor Jupiter recovered and was walking toward
Venus. Sailor Moon as well rushed over to Venus and asked, "Venus, are
you okay?"

"Hai... but we got a problem..."

                                  ******

"Chibi-Usa-chan?" Minako called out. She'd transformed back and now had
went to pick up her charge. At the sound of her voice Chibi-Usa who had
hidden behind a trashcan popped up and ran to Minako.

Minako bent down and picked Chibi-Usa up, "I'm sorry for yelling at you
Chibi-Usa-chan but it was very dangerous out there."

Chibi-Usa gave Minako a hug and while whimpering slightly said, "I was
scared... Can... can we go home now?"

"Honey, what's the matter? I'm alright; I'm not hurt..." Minako drifted
off for a few seconds before saying, "Oh! Your hands!"  Minako set
Chibi-Usa on the counter and looked at the little girl's hands, "Do they
hurt?"

"They're itchy," Chibi-Usa complained.

"Well we'll go home and get some cream on them... I just wanted to make
sure you were safe. That's why I told you to stay here...
Chibi-Usa-chan, do you want to go back to Usagi's?"

"I'm not mad at you, Minako-chan. I want to stay with you tonight!"
<She's my onee-san today... It would be bad if I leave... Onee-san will
be proud of me.>

Minako just smiled, reassured that Chibi-Usa wasn't mad at her.

                                  ******

"Damn those Senshi!" Chibi-Usa raged, "Every time!" As soon as the
Senshi had shown up, Karaberas had teleported them to the UFO, "I'll get
the Ginzuishou from you `Chibi-Usa' but now you'll have to wait... I
have a bigger problem... that copy of me!"

Then her rage turned on to a different topic. "MY KEY!!! That BAKA
ODANGO ATAMA took MY KEY... maybe when she took Luna-P..."  Then an evil
thought occurred to her, "Luna-P... that `copy' must have Luna-P...  and
MY KEY!"

<The `copy' WILL die!>

The End

Coming next in Part 12:  Cooan