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Chibi-Usa Time Two
Part 12:  Cooan

"So there's another Rabbit?" Rubeus asked.

"Hai, Rubeus-sama," Karaberas confirmed. She had dropped her cargo off
and then vanished to report to Rubeus. It appeared the ill-mannered
Rabbit was showing her true age and throwing a mighty temper tantrum.

"What makes you so sure that it was her twin rather than some child who
looked amazingly similar?" Rubeus was forming a plan but he dare not
take the chance of having the second child turn out not to be a second
Rabbit.

"The energy beam... We know that only the Rabbit emits an energy beam
and that's what this one did when she touched the droid." Karaberas was
also curious about that reaction.

"I must inform Wiseman. Our spies seem to have failed to notice her
twin..." Rubeus said. <Excellent, won't Wiseman be pleased.  Two Rabbits
AND the Ginzuishou.  This will definitely put me in Wiseman's favor...>
"Arigato, Karaberas... Petz!"

"Hai, Rubeus-sama." Petz flitted into existence; she hadn't been doing
anything so the summons wasn't inconvenient.

"Tell Her Highness that I wish to see her."

"Hai!" Petz flitted out of the room, she was actually going to enjoy
this assignment.

                                  ******

Petz looked into the room that the Rabbit was assigned and found the
tantrum was still going on strong. Petz tried to hide a chuckle. It
looked just like a little kid who hadn't got her own way. Which of
course it was.

The room looked like it had been hit by a hurricane. Chibi-Usa was
throwing things and every so often would stomp around screaming, "IT
JUST ISN'T FAIR!"  With each word she stomp her small foot in
indignation.  After that another fit of anger would take over and the
child would find something else to throw.

Petz walked into the room and said, "Rubeus-sama wants you to report to
him immediately."

"BAKA! You dare come in without asking and being told to!" Chibi-Usa
whirled around on Petz and started stalking towards her. Petz wasn't
about to stand for this. She was following Rubeus' orders, and enjoying
every second of it!

"Listen here, squirt, you might be a princess but I suspect your mother
taught you to mind your elders," Petz hissed out menacingly. <Eww! That
felt so good!>

Chibi-Usa stopped dead in her tracks. She couldn't believe one of
Rubeus' lackeys was talking back to HER! She started to reply but Petz
was continuing to speak.

"Whether you find me acceptable or not, I'm one of your elders and you
haven't even begun to earn my respect. Now Rubeus sent me to get you and
I suggest you comply, quickly!"

                                  ******

Chibi-Usa appeared before Rubeus, none too pleased that she'd been
practically ordered here.  "Your lackey told me you wished to see me."

"Hai Your Highness... I want your twin captured alive; she is not to be
killed."

"You dare..." Chibi-Usa composed herself, "Why?"

"Your Highness, Wiseman has standing orders to capture you, remember? If
you present your twin to him, he will leave you alone and might give you
more power."

"What about `Chibi-Usa'?" Chibi-Usa said, <More power... Yes Rubeus soon
you will be my lackey... And Petz will pay for talking bad to me.>

"You may kill her as you wish... You may even torment your twin," Rubeus
added. He could see the eager anticipation in the girl's eyes, "Just
think about it, Your Highness... The Ginzuishou, something to save your
life, and revenge." <The baka is eating out of my hand.>

Chibi-Usa considered this offer, "And what do you get out of this?" <I
don't trust you, Rubeus... You're up to something...>

"I'll gain Wiseman's favor. I also will be allowed to leave this
primitive place."

Chibi-Usa considered what Rubeus had said. He wasn't telling her
everything but that was to be expected. There was something else
bothering her, but what was it? "The copy will not die," Chibi-Usa
conceded.

Rubeus hid a smile. <Excellent!>

                                  ******

"Cooan."

"Hai," Cooan's small voice answered. She had been knocked out of her
prized position as Rubeus' favorite by the Rabbit. This had not made her
a great admirer of the Rabbit.

"I have a SPECIAL job for you," Rubeus said. <I've got to give her a
carrot.>

"You mean the others won't do it." <I've already heard how the Rabbit
treated my sisters.>

"Now, now Cooan, my sweet, don't be petty." Rubeus smiled, "Tomorrow's
the Rabbit's last chance.  If she fails, you are to capture her. You are
also to capture the Rabbit's twin.  I will present both of them to
Wiseman, even if I don't have the Ginzuishou... Wiseman will be pleased,
and with his pleasure comes power... You will rise with me, Cooan."

"As you command, Rubeus-sama. I will not fail." Cooan smiled. She was
going to enjoy tomorrow.

                                  ******

Chibi-Usa was sitting on Minako's bed in her bunny pajamas curiously
watching her adopted onee-san rummage through one of her drawers. A few
moments later Minako straightened up with a pair of socks and walked
over to the bed.

"Give me your right hand, Chibi-Usa-chan," Minako asked. Chibi-Usa
complied and held out her right hand; Minako took it turned the palm up
and started rubbing some cream into the skin, "Feel better?"

"Hai... it tingles a bit," Chibi-Usa sniffed, "Smell's pretty too."

Minako smiled, "The tingling is from the medicine." After a thorough rub
Minako got one of her socks and put it over Chibi-Usa's right hand.

"Nani?" Chibi-Usa questioned in surprise.

"It will stop you from scratching the itch," Minako explained, "When I
had chicken-pox when I was a little girl, my mom put socks on my hands
to stop me from scratching."

Chibi-Usa looked at her now sock covered hand and giggled, <Onee-san
said I'd have fun here...> Minako chuckled as well, <She's a really good
onee-san. Maybe I should tell Minako's mommy that she'd like an
imouto...> A smile crossed Chibi-Usa's face as she got a great idea.

"Other hand please," Minako said, and waited as Chibi-Usa presented her
left hand. Minako rubbed some cream and put a sock over that hand as
well, "Now then, would you like me to read you a story?"

"Hai!" Chibi-Usa declared. She hopped off the bed and got out the book
from her overnight bag. Handing it to Minako she hopped back up on the
bed and then snuggled under the covers.

"Oh... don't forget this, Chibi-Usa-chan," Minako smiled and handed
Chibi-Usa a football-sized soft stuffed pink bunny. It had long floppy
ears with big red eyes. Chibi-Usa reached up took the bunny that Minako
had bought her and snuggled it lovingly against her chest.

<She's so kawaii... I almost wish... Kami-sama, I'd better watch it or
I'll be wanting my parents to give me a little brother or sister,>
Minako thought, and then started reading the storybook.

                                  ******

As Minako and Chibi-Usa entered the kitchen the next morning, Chibi-Usa
stopped, hugged Minako, and said, "Arigato Minako-chan, for buying me
that bunny last night."

Minako bent down, "Your Onee-san gave me the money. Maybe you should
name your bunny."

Tears of happiness formed in Chibi-Usa's eyes. <Onee-san really loves
me... but she wouldn't want to me to cry in front of Minako.> She wiped
her eyes and nodded, <I'll have to thank Usagi for giving Minako the
money...  She's the `bestest' Onee-san. Hmm... Now what can I name my
bunny?> With that Chibi-Usa hopped up onto the chair ready for
breakfast.

"Good morning, Mom," Minako said as she came into the kitchen.

"Good morning, Minako. Good morning, Chibi-Usa," Mrs. Aino replied
cheerfully, "I hope you both slept well...  Chibi-Usa-chan, why don't
you put your bunny on the couch and I'll get your breakfast."

"Hai," hopping down Chibi-Usa went into the living room placed her bunny
carefully on the couch so it could watch TV and told it, "Rini, now you
be good." With that Chibi-Usa returned to the breakfast table.

"Rini?" Minako questioned when Chibi-Usa was sitting at the table again.

"Hai... for my mommy.  Her name's Ser... Ser..." Chibi-Usa scrunched up
her face. <Would Puu be mad if I said her name?>

"Serenity?" Minako questioned with some shock. <Hmmm...>

"Minako-chan, you're smart!" Chibi-Usa clapped her hands happily, "How'd
you guess?"

Minako smiled and then said, "Chibi-Usa-chan, are your hands itchy this
morning?"

"Iie..." Chibi-Usa said happily and started to eat her breakfast.
Minako being just as hungry began eating breakfast as well. She didn't
notice the spark of humor in her mother's eyes.

"Minako-chan... what names do you like?" Mrs. Aino asked innocently.

"Well... I think my favorite name is Senji for boys and maybe Sayoko for
girls. Why?"

"Oh... I might need one," Mrs. Aino said and calmly and quietly walked
out of the kitchen while counting how long it would take for that
comment to register with her daughter.

It didn't take too long, "NANI!?!?" Minako yelled, "`I might need
one'?!?!" With that Minako jumped up from the table and pelted after her
mother.

Chibi-Usa watched in fascination. <I thought Minako wanted an imouto...
All I said to Minako's mommy was that Minako was all alone...>

                                  ******

"You know... something strange happened last night," Usagi absently said
as she, Ami, and Makoto were eating lunch at school, "The energy
beam..." She swallowed the food she was chewing, "When Chibi-Usa was
normal and I spanked her for the first time, she let it off. The good
one is overly sensitive and, the night before last, Mom gave her a
couple of swats because she was making noise. Chibi-Usa cried but didn't
release the beam... And then all of a sudden last night right in the toy
store..." Usagi raised her hands in an arching motion and took another
bite.

"It's possible that by your tampering with the natural order, the
requirements for the beam's emission were changed." Ami began. Seeing
the blank looks of her friends Ami explained, "When you split them, the
circumstances required to occur to make Chibi-Usa unconsciously release
the beam changed." Ami set down her book and continued to talk like a
professor lecturing on an interesting subject, "When Chibi-Usa was
normal and you spanked her for the first time, Chibi-Usa probably was
scared of YOU...  Now though she knows that you and your mom don't
really mean to hurt her so she doesn't fear YOU specifically, only being
in trouble but that fear isn't as strong. Last night, as Minako stated,
contact with the droid hurt Chibi-Usa. The intense pain and the surprise
would be enough to make her very fearful and scared so she released the
beam. I think the beam acts like a distress call..."

Usagi sat in silence trying to digest all the new information and the
delicious lunch Makoto prepared. After a long moment Usagi said, "Thank
you very much, Mizuno-sensei." This caused Ami to blush slightly, and
then they were called back into the school.

                                  ******

Usagi looked up at the clock, <I really do miss having Chibi-Usa
around... Okay I'll wait another ten minutes, then meet Minako at the
park with Chibi-Usa.>  She was home from school.  Minako had said she'd
pick Chibi-Usa up from school and take her to the park where she would
meet Usagi.

Looking back at her homework Usagi sighed. She'd much rather be outside
but now that she was not getting detention and had passed the last few
quizzes, barely but had passed. She turned back to it. <Might as well
keep it up... Mom seems to be in a better humor... She doesn't yell as
much... and it will make Chibi-Usa proud of me...>

That's when she heard a noise from downstairs.  Getting up she opened
the door and headed to the top of the stairs, "Mom? I'm going over to
pick Chibi-Usa up from the park in a few minutes, I don't think we'll be
too long."

That's when the form of Chibi-Usa appeared at the bottom of the stairs,
"No `Chibi-Usa', I'm not that old hag... I've come for the Ginzuishou
and I'm going to get it," Chibi-Usa snarled out.

<Uh oh...> Usagi thought, <Can't transform here...>  She ran back into
her room and shut the door. She could hear Chibi-Usa's footsteps on the
stairs, slowly stalking their way up and then along the hall. <What to
do... What to do... I have to get out of here fast!>

Chibi-Usa forced the door open with her enhanced strength and snarled
out, "Give me the Ginzuishou, `Chibi-Usa', and I'll kill the old hag
quickly. Else..."

Usagi's fight or flight mode kicked over to fight; nobody threatens her
family. Rushing forward Usagi grabbed the floating Chibi-Usa and tossed
the very surprised and enraged child lightly across the room. Usagi
raced off down the hall, down the stairs, and out of the house. After
checking to make sure she wasn't being followed, Usagi dashed off down
the street.

Having regained her balance, Chibi-Usa snarled, hopped out of Usagi's
window and floated gently to the ground. She started running along the
street looking for her target and she caught the flash of long blonde
hair. <`Chibi-Usa' you can't get away from me!> Smiling evilly Chibi-Usa
raced around the corner and levitated.

What she came face to face with was not who she expected. There standing
in front of her was Sailor Moon! Chibi-Usa tried to backpedal but forgot
that she was floating.

Sailor Moon reached out, grabbed Chibi-Usa, and gave a very nonstandard
speech, "Little girls who go around and threaten people's lives are very
naughty and need to be spanked, or merged with their good halves... I am
the Pretty Sailor Suited Senshi, SAILOR MOON! And in the name of the
Moon, I will MERGE you!"

"COOAN!!!!" Chibi-Usa bellowed. <Where IS that baka?!>

Sailor Moon yelped and jumped backwards letting go of Chibi-Usa as
Cooan's attacked slammed into the wall right above Sailor Moon's head.

"Get me to the park. NOW!" Chibi-Usa commanded, "Thank `Chibi-Usa' for
telling me where the `copy' is, Sailor Baka!"

"IIE!!" Sailor Moon shouted and tried to grab Chibi-Usa again but she
was too late, "Iie!" Sailor Moon said in disbelief. Using her
communicator Sailor Moon alerted the others, "Minna, get to the park
right away! The evil one knows where Chibi-Usa is!"

She heard acknowledgments from everyone except Sailor Venus. With a
building sense of fear and anger Sailor Moon sped off down the street
towards the park. <I've got to save Imouto!>

                                  ******

"Ah... MINAKO-CHAN! ONEE-SAN! HELP ME PLEASE!!" the good Chibi-Usa cried
in terror as the evil Chibi-Usa plucked her out of the swing she had
been swinging on and started to raise up into the air.

"Oh, don't worry. We're going someplace they won't be able to find us."

"Where are you going?" Cooan questioned. <The Rabbit has failed. Time to
bring both of them back... Time to regain my position with Rubeus!>

Taking the opportunity Minako slipped behind some bushes and
transformed. She quickly returned to the scene, "You leave her alone!"
Sailor Venus demanded, "Little girls are made of syrup and ice and
everything nice, and I will NOT allow you to hurt her. I am Pretty
Sailor Suited Senshi of Love and Beauty, SAILOR VENUS. In the name of
Venus, I'll punish you!"

Cooan and both Chibi-Usas looked at Venus oddly. The good Chibi-Usa
started to giggle slightly before letting off a cry of pain. The evil
Chibi-Usa snarled, "Shut your trap or you'll get it again!" with that
the evil Chibi-Usa started off again, the other one whimpering slightly.

"Droid Aquaticus come forth!" Cooan shouted.

The fountain near Venus trembled slightly and then water in a vaguely
humanoid shape rose from it. "Aquaticus take care of this baka Senshi, I
have other things to do."

"As you command, Cooan-sama!" Raising a fist Aquaticus threw a punch.
Its arm extended and Venus only barely managed to sidestep the attack.
The fist and arm acted like a battering ram and toppled a large tree
that was in its path.

Wanting to gain a little breathing room Venus shouted, "VENUS CRESCENT
BEAM!"

Now it was unfortunate that Minako had missed the science lesson dealing
with refraction and deflection. The crescent beam entered Aquaticus
bounced around and then shot out its side. It shot out over the park and
neatly put a hole through a stone wall.

"Oops!" Venus said sheepishly, <Good thing Artemis isn't around...>

                                  ******

<Ollie ollie oxen free, come out, come out, wherever you are!> Cooan
thought. She'd lost sight of the Rabbits.

                                  ******

"I'm Princess Usagi of Crystal Tokyo... You have no respect for royalty
but you will learn," the evil Chibi-Usa chided. She was holding the good
Chibi-Usa down with one hand. The good Chibi-Usa had struggled at first
but was no match for the increased strength of the evil one.

"And this is mine!" the evil Chibi-Usa said while reaching up, grabbed
hold of the Time Key, and yanked. The good Chibi-Usa yelped slightly and
started to whimper.  "Hai, you should be scared...  That baka who you
call `Onee-san' got away. I was going to have some fun with her but now
I can't so I'll just have to with you."

"ONEE-SAN!" the good Chibi-Usa started to cry, "Onee-san, help me
please!"

"Shut up!" the evil Chibi-Usa snarled, "That is sick wanting that baka
as a sister..." She smiled and pressed a little harder down on the very
sickening child, "You know once I get the Ginzuishou, I'm going back to
the future," the evil Chibi-Usa held up the Time Key and its broken
chain. The good Chibi-Usa shook her head no. The evil Chibi-Usa
continued, "Hai, I will go back to the future... Do you know what I'm
going to do there?"

"Save Mommy?" the good Chibi-Usa meekly said.

"BAKA!!! I'm not going to save Mommy... I'm going to kill Mommy!" The
good Chibi-Usa gave a gasp and started to struggle, "Hai, I'm going to
kill Mommy and Daddy... and then I'll be Queen of Crystal Tokyo!"

"IIE!!! That's mean, Mommy and Daddy love us!"

"I don't care... Do you know what I'm going to do to you?" There was no
reply, "I'm going to do all the bad stuff those old baka did to me
before I give you to Wiseman... Then with his help, I'll slowly kill
Mommy and Daddy," lowering her face so it was now right in front of the
terrified expression of the good Chibi-Usa the evil one breathed out,
"Then I'll be Queen... That'll be fun, won't it? Now let's start."

                                  ******

Sailor Moon had arrived at the park and noticed two important things.
Sailor Mars and Sailor Mercury were the only ones standing. Sailor
Jupiter was laying on the ground with Sailor Venus watching over her.
The more important thing was that NEITHER Chibi-Usa was in sight.
Without a speech or moment's hesitation, Sailor Moon dispatched the
droid. "MOON PRINCESS HALATION!" was the battle cry. When the droid was
nothing but a pile of dust Sailor Moon ran towards her friends.

"What happened to Jupiter and where's Chibi-Usa?!" Sailor Moon demanded.

"She used her attack and it arced back knocking her out... Mercury says
she'll be okay though," Mars said.

"Where's Chibi-Usa?!" Sailor Moon asked again.

"The evil one took her," Venus croaked out, "I tried to stop her but I
couldn't..." Venus broke down into tears.

Sailor Moon noticed something on the ground. It was a stuffed pink
bunny. Walking over and picking it up Sailor Moon dusted it off and said
quietly, "Then what are we going to do?"

That's when the energy beam shot into the air, "IMOUTO!!" Sailor Moon
shouted and took off at a speed unprecedented in any of her previous
runs. The Sailor Senshi were hard pressed to keep up, especially Jupiter
who had just started to regain consciousness and stubbornly refused to
stay where she was.

                                  ******

Cooan had spotted the energy beam as well and headed straight there.
What she saw made her stop and reconsider if Rubeus' anger would be
worse than what she had seen. Heading from the opposite direction as her
was one very enraged looking Sailor Moon followed at a distance by some
rather grim looking Sailor Senshi. Feeling that retreat was the better
part of valor, Cooan teleported away leaving the identical but very
opposite Rabbits to the Senshi.

The energy beam had knocked the evil Chibi-Usa off of the good one who
was cowering on the ground. The evil one had just started to get up and
stalk towards the good Chibi-Usa when Sailor Moon's voice made her stop.

"Venus take out the evil one but don't hurt her," Sailor Moon ordered.

Nodding Venus used her chain to encircle and snare the evil Chibi-Usa
who with her foul mouth demanded to be let free and was describing what
would happen to the Senshi for touching royalty.

Sailor Moon raced over and scooped up the good Chibi-Usa who was crying
hard. "Chibi-Usa-chan, it's okay now," Sailor Moon said while hugging
Chibi-Usa, "I'm going to make things all better."

"I want MY ONEE-SAN! I WANT MOMMY!!!" Chibi-Usa howled.

"Chibi-Usa-chan, stay with Mars. I'll go find Usagi," Sailor Moon said
and sprinted away. A minute or so later Usagi came running back to the
scene. Seeing the very angry look that the evil one was giving her Usagi
said, "Sailor Moon told me where you guys were... She spotted one of the
Sisters and went after her; she seemed extremely upset."

At Usagi's voice the good Chibi-Usa squirmed out of Mars' arms and ran
to her in tears. "Onee-san! I was really scared! And... and she..."
Chibi-Usa couldn't find the words and when Usagi picked her up just
buried her face into Usagi's shoulder.

Usagi started soothing the girl. <I have to calm her down... What she's
going to have to do will be very hard for her.. for us all...> After
several minutes of softly talking to Chibi-Usa and giving her the
stuffed bunny she had dropped, Chibi-Usa settled down but continued to
cling to Usagi.

"Imouto... I need you to do something for me." Chibi-Usa raised her head
and looked at Usagi. The look that Usagi saw nearly caused her to call
off the entire plan. There was fear and sadness in those eyes and they
made Usagi's heart ache. "Do you trust me, Imouto?" Chibi-Usa nodded her
head. Usagi nodded to Mars who stepped forward and stood directly in
front of the evil Chibi-Usa and started to activate her ofuda.

Just as Sailor Mars placed the ofuda on the evil Chibi-Usa, Sailor Venus
let her chain disappear. The evil Chibi-Usa stiffened and grunted
slightly but remained still, looking wildly around, trying to figure out
what had happened. She was effectively helpless. Mars stepped back a
little and nodded to Usagi.

Usagi gave the good Chibi-Usa a hug and said, "Imouto... I need you to
go and hug the other Chibi-Usa."

"Iie... iie... She's very mean to me! I'm scared of her!" Chibi-Usa
started to cry again. <Please Onee-san, let's go home and you can read
me a story...> Chibi-Usa hid her face again and increased her grip. She
really didn't want to be around the bad girl that hurt her and
threatened her parents.

"Imouto please, she won't do anything bad, I promise," Usagi tried to
comfort Chibi-Usa and started to walk towards the immobilized child.

<Onee-san is right... My new sister needs a hug but... She's so mean...
She might hurt me...> After some more reassuring talk Usagi managed to
get the good Chibi-Usa to agree. She looked back up to Usagi, <I have to
help my sister. Onee-san will protect me.>

Chibi-Usa slid out of Usagi's arms, handed the bunny to Sailor Venus to
hold, and tentatively walked up to the bad little girl who hurt her.
"Onee-san says you need a hug." The evil Chibi-Usa growled which caused
the good one to back up a step. Getting an encouraging smile from Usagi
the good Chibi-Usa gathered her courage, wrapped her arms around the bad
one, and hugged.

<I'll miss you... Imouto...> Usagi sadly thought.

Usagi reacted quickly. Calling on the Ginzuishou, she activated its
power and cried, "MOON HEALING... ESCALATION!" In her thoughts she
commanded, <Ginzuishou, make Chibi-Usa normal again... Please merge the
evil one and the good one back into the normal Chibi-Usa!>

And then there was a brilliant flash of light...

The End

Coming next in Part 13:  Old Wounds

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