Disclaimer: Sailor Moon and her friends are NOT owned by me, but I can’t remember the name of the person who owns it… You know who it is. The only characters, which are of my creation, are the new enemies, i.e. Ginaea, Mical, and the Ticha. This fan fic is Rated G for Gloriously Wonderful! And general audiences, in other words, Only the usual you see in the cartoon. Enjoy! "Ohhhh nooo!" cried Usagi, her long blond hair, done up in odangoes as usual, was flying behind her "I can’t believe I’m late again! Ami why didn’t you wake me?" "I did! You just through a pillow *pant * at me and went *pant* back to sleep, it’s not my fault!" cried Ami as she batted to keep running, she definitely wasn’t used to this. "And besides, now I’m late too!" When the two finally arrived at school their teacher, Sensei, immediately scolded Usagi but then jumped in surprise when she realized that Ami was late to! "Ami, I could expect this from Usagi but never from you! Of course there are no exceptions to the rule, detention for both of you." And so started another day in Usagi’s life. ******************************************************* At Rei’s temple "Come on Ami talk to me!" Wailed Usagi. Ami just turned around and looked the other way. "Don’t even try talking to her Usagi, she’s mad you broke her perfect record, she’ll get over it eventually." reminded Minako as she brushed her hair for the thousandth time. "But she can’t ignore me! I need her help on our big test tomorrow! And besides she was late once before after one of your fire readings." countered Usagi. "Ah forget it Usagi, you’re hopeless anyway, Ami could help you study till she died of exhaustion and you’d still fail," sneered Rei. "and I don’t control the fire, but you can control your laziness!" "Rei that’s not fair! Why are you always so mean to me?" Complained Usagi, as huge jet streams of tears poured out of her eyes. "Ah Usagi quit your yapping." "You stop insulting me!" "You wouldn’t know an insult if it bit you in the…" "STOP!" Yelled Makato "There’s no time for squabbling, this is a Sailor Senshi meeting, you can complain on your own time, right now we have to get down to business." "Thank you Mako-chan." responded Minako, "but Luna what are we here for anyway? I mean nothing’s happened in quite a while did you find something new?" "Well," cut in Artemis "not exactly, I’ve just been getting some bad vibes and I thought that since you haven’t been fighting in a while we should do some training." "Ah Luna, we’ll be fine!" Complained Usagi "Besides were all ready to fight if anyone shows up anyway." Rei sweat dropped, "Usagi! You are so lazy, you probably need the training most of all!" "I do not!" exclaimed Usagi; "Rei you are sooooo mean!!!" "Oh no," cut in Ami "this is not starting again. Let’s just drop it, it’s only a little training it is not going to kill anyone." "Fine!" exclaimed Rei and Usagi in unison. "Hey Luna, are the outers going to be joining us?" asked Makato, "We barely see each other any more." "Nope, sorry Makato, the outers have training sessions every once in a while thanks to Setsuna. So they don’t need to worry, unlike some of us." That last part came out a little frustrated, and Luna luckly shut her mouth before she started another fight. And so they began their training in the back of Rei’s temple since neither Grandpa nor Chad, were around. ***************************************************** "Setsuna-sama, I want ice cream!" "Hotaru I told you I’m busy, Why don’t you get Micharu or Haruka to take you?" "I already asked them. They told me to ask you and left me!" Hotaru was tired of being ignored. "It’s not fair ever since you became so involved with your store you never have any time for me! Except when we’re training, and then it’s still all businessy!" ‘Gee she sure has been acting childish lately’ thought Setsuna ‘Maybe I have been ignoring her…’ "Ok fine I’ll take you, maybe I have been ignoring you a little." She conceded. "Oh thank you!" ***************************************************** Elsewhere but not too far away. "Ginaea!" Boomed a load voice. "Ye.. ye.. yes?" Ginaea replied nervously. "How long t’il we arrive?" he asked. "Soon, Mical I’d say 3 more earth days, we are traveling at top speed." She replied slowly gaining composure. "Well I suppose that will do." "Yes sir, thank you sir." She replied hastily as she cowered away in fear. thought Mical ~ Mical! ~ echoed a voice inside his head. Quickly in stepped down the hall and into a room few knew existed. It was much more comfortable then the stuffy, cold command-center, it had the traditional furniture table chair couch, titanium walls, but with some added features, a tech 'droid although you’d never know it was artificial) and several earth artifacts. "I’m here General." Spoke Mical in a loud clear voice. "As yes welcome, sit down will you we have some things to discuss." Answered the general. Mical sat down "Ginaea has told be that we should arrive in 3 earth days. Is that satisfactory?" "Not entirely, but thank you for the report. I have new instructions from my, um, superiors. Our plan of action has been, shall we say altered a bit. We are no longer going into all out war, there is an enemy there who is to be vanquished first." "And who would this be?" "Well the details are unavailable at the moment but I would like you to ready some of your best "Ticha" to be ready to go in 2 days. That is all." "Yes sir right away." Answered Mical, as he got up. He the clicked his heels, saluted, turned and left to carry out his orders. ************************************************************* Usagi and the girls were relaxing and doing some window shopping after their tiresome training. As it turned out they were all slightly out of shape, except Makato but she’s a natural born fighter so that’s what you get. "Oh I’m so hot," complained Minako, "I’m getting some ice cream, who’s with me?" Everyone raised their hands, and headed over to the ice cream booth. "Hey look guys!" exclaimed Usagi, "It’s Setsuna and Hotaru how totally kawaii! Hey Setsuna -chan!" She yelled at near the top of her lungs. Everyone sweat-dropped. Setsuna looked behind her to see the inners standing there, looking embarrassed with the exception of Usagi who as grinning widely. "Hi girls nice to see you again." "Hi ya! Were getting ice cream, it’s soooo hot!" explained Hotaru excitedly. Ami smiled, "Same here, how’s it been? It has been quite a while since we’ve talked." Setsuna smiled "Oh same old, same old, life’s been dull but safe." "True." Replied Makato. Setsuna bought Hotaru her ice cream and Hotaru took off to go eat it on a bench. "Boy she’s got a lot of energy in her today." Commented Minako. "Yes and she’s been driving me crazy with it. You think that since it takes such a short amount of time for her to run out of energy she’d never be like this. But I suppose it’s because she hasn’t been fighting or doing anything very active lately." "Hey don’t worry she use it up soon. Hey maybe she could join in on our training sessions Usagi could use an extra help to get in shape." Commented Rei with a sly grin. "ohhh Rei! Why is it always me you make fun of! It’s no fair!" "But Usagi your just so easy!" "Ah quit you yapping!" came a new voice. "Ya you two are always going at each others throats." Agreed another. Rei and Usagi stopped fighting just long enough to turn around and notice Haruka and Micharu laughing at them. Normally they’d be fumed but they hadn’t seen each other in quiet a while so they just laughed instead. "Wow, this is so totally karmic." Comment Minako "everyone coming here at the same time." "Yes it is isn’t it." Agreed Micharu. "Hey, Setsuna where’s Hotaru?" Setsuna pointed to the bench where Hotaru was licking her ice cream and occasionally getting up and running around. Haruka laughed "Boy I’m glad we ditched her when we had the chance." "Yes," agreed Setsuna in a nerve racking calmness "and believe me I’ll get you back for it later." And with that the 9 girls launched into happy chitchat, and of course the occasional teasing. Yay that’s part one a bit short but still part one! All done, yippee! Hope you liked it. If you have read this story before under the title "A cruel Destiny" I just want to say that it’s totally different now do to the fact that I had the bad guys all wrong. I changed the time it takes place in, (I stuck in the outers) and so Usagi did not have her vision and things are much more cheerful for a first chapter. All in all, it’s better. =) Authors notes = Ok some one please tell me what Chad’s Japanese name is. It’ll drive me nuts and I can’t find it! Tell me what you think! - ^-^ Email me at lantos@nrtco.net or visit my homepage a HYPERLINK "http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Tower/6316" www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Tower/6316 Because you don’t really have to go on and on about it I just want to know if anyone’s reading this. Kind of as an incentive to keep going, but I doubt I’ll stop for a while. =) Or not at all until I finish. Did I goof? – Ok right now I’m not to sure I have everything right, I’ve only seen up to the defeat of wise man but I have learnt a lot off the net. So if I ever get anything totally messed up please tell me. Thanks! Cause I just know I’ve goofed up somewhere, especially with the outers. Also, The general has nothing to do with Beryl just to put your fears to rest this is not one of those stories. And of course, Enjoy! Disclaimer: Sailor Moon is NOT owned by me it is owned by T someone and Bandai, in cooperation with Anime. The only characters I won are Ginaea, Mical, and the Ticha. And other evil doers I may make up in the future. So DO NOT use them without my permission! Thanks and enjoy! This fanfic in rated whatever the normal show is rated cause that's all you'll see here! ******************************************** In the vast cold of space a fairly large crystalline ship traveled at high speed. An inside that ship was a large chamber filled with only 7 people. One with black hair and wearing a grayish blue uniform, was facing another, this one was dressed in a gray uniform with gold highlights, a purple cape and light brown hair. The one in gold spoke, "Well Mical this is the Ticha you promised me?" His voice was cold like ice, and it resounded through the chamber. "Yes General, hand picked and ready for action." One by one he pointed out the 5 _people_ beside him, first Celestiria, she was dressed in robes like the Romans except these were black. Then Hera dressed in a skin-tight body suit with tiny gold specks throughout. Next was Acidia, she was the smallest of the group but the look in her face was pure evil. Beside her there was Hestia the most noticeable this about her was her glowing red eyes, offset by her black hair and auburn miniskirt dress. Last stood the most powerful of them all, Versa she stood 6 feet tall, wore her hair in a pony tail in the back of her head, and was dressed in something similar to a suit but it was tighter around the legs and the shirt was sleeveless and appeared to be made of some material that looked as if you would be able to see right through it, though you couldn’t. The general eyed the three and then in a semi-congratulatory voice he said " Ah, the warrior of the Stars, the warriors of storms, rains and fire, and of course the powerful warrior of destruction. Just as I Wanted, thank you Mical I will send you the plan of attack once we reach earth." And with that he turned and started to leave, but all of a sudden Versa cut in "General I would appreciate it if I could at least know what we are up against so I can… prepare myself." "Versa, you are under my command now so I will decide when you find out what we are doing. But I will tell you one thing, to stop an unfortunate error from happening again. Do _not_ by any circumstances keep yourself out of the fighting. You were picked for your abilities, use them! "Well may I at least see the report on what the inhabitants of Earth?" "That information is confidential for the moment, even Mical does not know the full report, and it shall stay that way." Versa gave a quick bow. "Yes general as you command." And with that she vanished. The others quickly followed. "What is so significant about earth anyway general? And why’d it suddenly get a name? Wasn’t it MS-4 before?" asked Mical impatiently, he’d been going through this for awhile and he was getting sick of it. "Ah Mical we all get our orders from somewhere, but I can tell you one thing. Have you ever heard of the Moon Kingdom?" "Yes, who hasn’t? But as legend has an all-powerful Queen long ago wiped it out. Why?" "Yes that is the question, isn’t it?" and with that the general teleported away, leaving Mical to mull over this tidbit of information. ***************************************** After exhausting chitchat and major shopping the 9 girls came to their final store, just another clothing store but still Usagi hadn’t bought anything yet and was determined to. "You better find something in this store," complained Rei "I’m tiered and I only wanted to come for a little while. That move Mako pulled on me hurt!" "Then why don’t we complain to her?" asked Usagi. "Because," butted in Makoto "she pulled a move like that on me and I’m aching too!" "Ok fine last store," resigned Usagi "if I don’t find anything here I go home empty handed." "Not me!" exclaimed Setsuna she was carrying about 5 different bags "Boy I haven’t had this much fun in a while. I should stick around you more often." "Yep that’s right!" brimmed Minako as she raised her hand "Were the fun-est people on earth!" "Alright!" the 4 other inners yelled. A few people turned and looked and the outers sweat dropped. "Ya right." Answered Micharu. After looking through a whole bunch of clothes Usagi Picked out a teal jacket and bought it. Afterwards they all headed home. Makoto and Minako were headed in the same direction so they headed off together. On a whim they decided to pass by the park when they noticed Mamorou sitting on a bench staring at the lake. "Hey Mamo-chan." Greeted Makoto "Where were you today, Usagi wanted to see you!" "Oh hi, Minako, hey Makoto "I’ve been feeling kind of creeped out so I came to the park to relax." Minako looked at Makoto. "Hey Mamorou you don’t think it has to do with some new enemy, do you?" asked Minako. "I don’t know, why?" "Well Luna and Artemis were getting bad vibes so we did some training today, maybe they were right… " "Well it could be… Hmm I’ll tell you guys if anything else happens ok?" "Sure, ok. Ack ! We better be going I’m gonna be late!" exclaimed Makoto. "Ok oh tell Usako I’ll call her ok?" "Yep bye!" called back Minako as Makoto dragged her away. ************************** The next day Usagi arrived at school on time for once because she'd been actually successfully awakened by Luna for once. As she sat down in her seat she noticed a new face in the classroom. When the bell finally rung Ms. H introduced her to be Silia. thought Usagi, _Later_ "Hey Usagi, what's up? I can't believe you were actually on time today. Did you see Umino in gym today? It was totally Kawaii!" Exclaimed and excited Naru. "Oh hi Naru-chan, have you seen Silia?" asked Usagi distractedly. "Actually no, I didn't pay much attention to her, why do you ask?" "Oh well she seemed so alone, I thought I'd see how she was" "Aww Usagi you're too much, come on, I believe she lives in this direction." She answered dragging Usagi behind her. After a couple of blocks they finally caught up to her. "hey Silia." Announced Usagi. Slowly she turned around, "Hi, your Usagi and Naru right? What do you want?" "Hey don't be so mean!" retorted Naru "She was concerned that's all!" "Oh I'm sorry," she blushed "I didn't have a very good first day that's all." "Well, were going to the arcade, want to join us?" asked Usagi "And maybe if were lucky Mamorou will be there!" "Um who's Mamorou?" "Only the most hunkiest guy who happens to be my boyfriend!" exclaimed and excited Usagi. "Ok let's go then." And with that the 3 girls set off. ******************** Ami was setting of to go to home when all of a sudden Luna jumped out in front of her, she gave a little jump and then realized who it was. "Oh Luna you startled me what are you doing here?" "Looking for Usagi, have you seen her?" "No not in a bit actually, is it important?" "Not really I just need to talk to her." "Well she's probably at the arcade. Why don't we check it out?" "Ok, good idea." ******************* "Hey Usagi, hi!" exclaimed a little voice. "Oh hi Hotaru, what are you doing here on your own?" "Micharu and Haruka are over there." Answered Hotaru pointing at a Jewelry store. "Who's this?" She asked suspiciously pointing at Silia. "This is Silia, and I want you to be nice to her ok, she’s new here." She answered as she bent down. Out of the blue Hotaru whispered in her ear, "Usa-chan she frightens me! I don’t like her." "It’s ok," Usagi whispered back "I felt it too, I’m keeping an eye on her ok?" Hotaru nodded and Usagi turned to Naru and Silia. "She’s a little bored so she’ll be staying with us ok?" "Sure, she’s a little young but since you know her what they hey!" responded Naru gleefully. Silia just nodded bashfully, and they headed into the arcade. "Wow" commented Silia as they stepped inside. "What you never seen an arcade before?" asked Hotaru suspiciously. "Oh of course I have," she quickly responded. "This one’s just so big!" Naru eyed her, obviously surprised and then just walked straight to the Sailor Moon video game. "You should try this one, Sailor Moon’s the best! She’s real you know, saved my life more then once in fact." Usagi blushed and turned away so no one would see. "Really?" asked Silia obviously perked up. "Tell me about her." Naru started rattling on about Sailor Moon, while Usagi listened from behind another row of machines. All of a sudden Hotaru came running around the corner. "Usagi she’s way too interested in you did you see how she perked up!?!" "My you’re observant today, but I don’t know I’m just really interesting that’s all." At this point it probably would have mattered if Beryl re-incarnate walked by her. She was totally wrapped up in her own little dream world. "Oh fine Usagi I’m going to go tell Haruka and Micharu and see what they think." "Okay see-Ya!" called back a star-struck Usagi. Just then Ami and Luna walked in, and Usagi grabbed Ami as she passed by and pulled her behind the machines. "Hey Ami listen!" Slowly a slightly dazed Ami put her ear up against the machine to hear better. "…and of course there was the episode with Nephlite, but I won't go into details." "Hey so what are her powers like." "Well let’s see she probably had more than this but how would I know right? Hmm there was the ‘Tiara’ and then the ‘scepter’ and now her ‘tier’ hmm that’s all I know, boy you sure are interested." "Umm well super heroes are my hobby…. So any weaknesses?" "Now how am I supposed to know that! Gee you're acting as if I was Sailor Moon. Now that’s a hilarious thought! That’s like thinking Usagi is Sailor Moon! Where is she anyway?" "I don’t know, you sure you don’t know?" "Nope like I said how would I know." "Oh ok…" "Usagi did you hear that?" asked Ami "She asked about weaknesses! Who is she?" "Gee Ami you say that as if she’s evil." Responded a shocked Usagi who had apparently forgotten all about her bad feeling. "Her name’s Silia and she’s a new student in my class." "Usagi she could be evil! Most of our new friends or enemies show up as exchange students! So why don’t you keep a close eye on her ok?" "Oh fine I will!" "Ok, now why don’t you introduce me?" Usagi and Ami sneaked out and then came back in talking away. "Hey Usagi where did you disappear to?" asked Naru. "Oh well Hotaru had a little temper tantrum and I followed her outside where I found Ami." "Oh ok." "Ami I’d like you to meet Silia she’s my new friend I just told you about outside." Motioned Usagi. "Hello Silia, it’s a pleasure to meet you." Greeted Ami as she stretched out her hand. Silia just starred at it for a moment and then stretched out hers awkwardly. Ami took her hand and shook it. "Well Silia it’s been nice but…" Amy never got to finish as Haruka Micharu and Hotaru burst in the door, and marched straight towards Silia. "What do you think you’re doing scaring Hotaru like that?" demanded Haruka. "Wha… what do you mean?" stuttered Silia "She means leave her alone! You got it?" answered an equally upset Micharu. "I…I…" That was all she managed to say before she burst out into tears, and ran out of the arcade. "What was that for?" asked an outraged Naru, "she didn't do anything!" Haruka and Micharu just turned away. "Naru why don't go home and I'll sort this out?" suggested Usagi. "Why can't I stay?" demanded Naru "Because it looks like they don't want to talk to you either at the moment." "Fine, you know I'll never understand your friends Usagi." She called back as she left. Usagi and Ami turned to Haruka, Micharu and Hotaru. "What was that all about?" demanded Usagi. "Hotaru said she scared her." Said Micharu plainly. "I'm sorry Usa-chan, its all my fault " apologized Hotaru turning to face Micharu and Hotaru "I was about to tell them that she was scaring me because she was giving off bad vibes but the charged in her before I could finish." The 2 elder girls simply whisked that thought away "What difference does it make?" asked Haruka with a shrug, "If she is evil we wouldn't want her around you anyway Hotaru, or you Usagi." That was just like those two bring up the fact that they were supposed to protect her when it wasn't called for. "Well that's no excuse you 2," answered Ami, "besides we have both already gotten bad vibes from her, and as Usagi explained to me that's why she brought her with them." The 2 outers face faulted, but then quickly regained composure. "Umm well oh well dine continue whatever you were um doing. We've got to be going any how." Stuttered Haruka. "Yep bye! Come on Hotaru." Finished Micharu as the trio turned and left. Usagi and Ami just stared at them as they left. Usagi felt bad and started running after them when she heard screaming, coming from behind her. She stopped and Ami caught up to her. "Looks like trouble." Commented Ami. "Yep let's transform." Agreed Usagi with a sigh she thought. The two ducked in to and alley and transformed. "MOON ETERNAL MAKE-UP!" "MERCURY POWER MAKE-UP!" Now in Usagi's and Ami's place stood Eternal Sailor Moon and Super Sailor Mercury. "Let's do it!" The two ran in the direction of the screams to find they were coming from the bank. "Great a bank robbery!" exclaimed E. Sailor Moon happily "no nega-monsters!" "Well we should probably help out anyway." Prompted S. Sailor Mercury. "Oh but Mercury, they've got guns!" "Hey Venus did it in England right?" "Oh ok, let's do it." Inside the bank all hell was breaking loose, the robbers had a bunch of people locked up in the safe and had a gun pointed at one of the tellers. The cops were outside hoping he wouldn't shoot the teller, then out of the blue… "Stop right there!" a voice yelled. "And who might you be?" asked the robber suspiciously. "I am the Pretty-Suited Soldier Eternal Sailor Moon. I stand for love and justice and Mr. you're breaking the law. On behalf of justice peace and the moon, I'll punish you for you crimes!" "Gee Sailor Moon, fighter for justice and blah blah blah! I thought you only handled strange monsters." "Hey, it's been boring!" "Well Sailor Moon, let's see I'm going to be A-OK, because of a little something called a hostage. Now be a nice girl and go home." He demanded as he pointed the gun at E. Sailor Moon. She just smiled. "SHABON SPRAY!" Suddenly the room was filled with a pea soup fog. When the fog lifted the robber was lying unconscious on the floor and standing beside Moon, was Mercury. The police walked in grabbed the robber and the two girls disappeared. ******************** Ok, that's part 2 and it's longer than part one and yes you'll see action in part 3. Ok I'm all done now. Oh where oh where has Tuxedo Mask Gone? Ok here’s part 3; you actually get to learn stuff in this one! *applause* ok I’ll just write now.. Disclaimer: Sailor Moon and friends does not belong to me, and if you thought that they did you must be nuts! Oh and I'm using Darien not Mamorou because I like it better. ************************** Once again a group of people were gathered in a dark chamber this on although had tiny green lights here andthere. "Well Acidia, did you find anything?" demanded Versa. "Only that earthlings are mean!" responded the shortest one with aquamarine hair. "Oh forget them Aci," came back Hera "were much better then them any way." "Your right they’re worthless." Jumped in Celestiria. "They’ll all be gone soon enough," said Hestia with and evil smile "I’ll make sure of that." "Hello girls." Came a voice out of nowhere. "Find the 5 brats yet?" It was Mical. "No," replied Versa "but we have a plan in action. They’ll be ours soon." "Hmmm, for your sake you better hope it works. If not I *do* have a backup plan." Mical gave an evil grin and then left. "You heard him Acidia," commanded Versa "now get to work." "Versa, don’t take this so seriously." Started Hera "Ya, fate is on our side! They don’t have a chance." Finished Celestiria. "Yep, and I don’t have to leave yet anyway!" exclaimed Acidia. "Hmmm maybe we should test their powers. Hestia I want you to stir up some trouble. And send someone who’s disposable, let’s give them a false sense of security." "Gotcha!" exclaimed Hestia as she took off. "Hey why her!?!?" demanded Hera. "She didn’t question me." Said Versa simply as she Tele-ported away. ************************** "You should have seen it!" Exclaimed Usagi "after Mercury blasted her bubbles his mouth practically fell to the floor!" "Yes it was quiet exciting." Added Ami "Right after that her dropped his gun and we just jumped him and tied him up, it felt good to be a senshi again." "Wow sounds like fun." Commented Makoto. "I’m think I know the thrill you guys are on right now. I know I felt that way when I was busting up crime." Said Minako slowly disappearing into her memories. "Well you two you may have a chance to fight real evil again." Said Luna. "What do you mean?" asked Usagi "You haven’t found one have you?" "No but…" Luna started but was cut off. "Then as far as I’m concerned there is none!" exclaimed Usagi. "But Usa-chan what about Silia?" questioned Ami. "Who?" asked Ami, Makoto, and Minako. "She’s not evil," responded Usagi defensively "she can’t be she’s to quiet." "Gee Usagi from what I see you’ve barely known this girl at all and your already assuming that it’s impossible for her to be from the nega-verse!" started Rei "Well let me clue you in. A lot of them start out that way!" "I have to agree with Rei." Responded Ami "and she was way to interested in Sailor Moon." "In other words you, Usagi!" stated Rei. "Rei! I know what she meant! I’m not stupid!" "Could have fooled me." "Why you…." Just then a beeping that was coming from Ami’s direction cut off Usagi. "Oh dear…." Started Ami, "I set my computer to warn me if there were any disturbances and it appears that there is one now." "Looks like our peaceful days are over." Commented Minako. "Yep, now let’s go kick some nega-booty!" exclaimed Makoto. *************************** ~Look’s like the Sailor Simps didn’t bother to show up.~ thought Hestia. "Demon Festus!" "Yes Madame?" answered Festus she was dressed something like cat women but in red. "Suck the life out of these last two and then were out of here!" "Yes Madame, my pleasure." Hestia and Festus happened to be at the park where Naru had chosen to spend her afternoon. Unfortunately she ended up being once again in the middle of a battle. "Stop right there you evil being!" came a cry. "Who’s there?" questioned Hestia. One by one five girls identified themselves. "I am the soldier of storms and nature, on behalf of Jupiter you will be vanquished! I am Super Sailor JUPITER!" "How dare you pick on innocent people like that! On behalf of the planet Mercury I will stop you! I am Super Sailor MERCURY!" "I am the warrior of fire, and on behalf of the planet Mars I will punish you! I am Super Sailor MARS!" "I am the goddess and warrior of Love and beauty, you evil beings want to ruin that and so on behalf of Venus I will punish you! I am Super Sailor VENUS!" "And _I_ am the pretty suited Soldier of Love and Justice, how dare you hurt my friends! On behalf on the Moon I will right wrongs and triumph over evil, that means you! So beware for I am, Eternal Sailor MOON!" "We are the Sailor Senshi!" the all cried together. "Oh gee the Sailor Senshi and their incredibly boring introductory speeches. Well it’s been nice knowing you, ta ta! Demon Festus, get rid of them!." Ordered Hestia as she vanished. "Prepare to die Simps!" Shouted Festus. "Festering storms DESTROY!" she yelled as her hand turned to lightning which headed straight for Mercury and Venus but they dodged at the last moment. "JUPITER SPARKALING WIDE PRESSURE!" cried Jupiter as her attack headed for the demon. It struck her knocking the wind out of her. "Now!" she shouted. "STARLIGHT HONEYMOON THERAPY KISS!" shouted Eternal Sailor Moon and turned the demon to Moon Dust. "Hey that was easy!" she exclaimed. ~Yes too easy~ thought Mercury. "Hey Mercury what’s wrong?" asked Moon. "Well that whole episode seemed much to easy, even with Beryl’s warriors it took more then that." "Hey don’t get so wrapped up! We won right?" commented Jupiter. "Well yes but…" started Mercury as Venus cut her off. "Hey chill out! Maybe something tiered it." "Hmmm well whatever the reason just be careful next time ok guys?" Pleaded Mercury "Something’s just not right." "Got Ya Mercury! Now let’s go home." Answered Mars. Then the 5 girls de-transformed and went home. ************************ "So did they fall for it?" demanded Versa. "I don’t know, that Mercury seemed suspicious." Answered Hestia. "Well no matter besides Mical left us something." said Versa cautiously. "Oh what is it?" asked Celestiria anxiously. "It's a reveling portal, If you come in direct contact with someone who is a Sailor Senshi you'll know." Explained Versa happily. As she displayed the pocket-sized jewel, it was glowing dark red. "Oh cool!" exclaimed Acidia, "I get it right?" "Hey why you?" demanded Hera "You’re the youngest, and it's not a toy." Said Hera shaking her finger. "Sorry Hera but I am giving it to Acidia, since she's already stationed on Earth and will be in contact with more people." Explained Versa, Hera looked dumbstruck "And that's also why she's stationed at the school, I believe that's the age group the Sailor Scouts are in. Now remember it’s direct contact!" she explained as she gave the jewel to Acidia. "Ah! It's not fair!" screamed Hera. "Don't worry your pretty little head off. We wouldn't want those green hairs turning gray now would we?" asked Celestiria calmly. Then quietly she added "Besides Acidia's bound to mess up then we'll get a chance." With a nod Hera vanished. "What was that all about?" inquired Hestia, "What I miss?" "I'll tell you later." That was all Celestiria said before she left. ********************************** "Ah Rei it's the weekend, I don't want to work." Whined Usagi, she was sitting in a mound of comic books. "Fine then Usagi don't work, but If your not going to get your lazy but out of here cause I don't have a choice!" Screamed Rei at the top off her lungs. On that note Usagi took off to head to the park and read some mangas. She was about to sit down by Darien and hers favorite tree when…. "BOO!" "ACK!" yelled Usagi as she jumped in the air. Quickly she spun around and was going to scream in the persons ear when she realized who it was. "Darien!" she exclaimed as she ran into his arms. Now that school had started she didn't she him as much and she was glad he was here. Then she remembered that he had cared her out of her wits. "That was mean Darien!" she exclaimed "I could have had a heart attack and died!" "You meatball head? I don't think so." He answered. Usagi just smiled at first she'd hated that name but when Darien called her that it was different. "So what have you been up to?" he asked casually. "Oh the usual, school, arcade, hanging out, fighting nega-creeps. You know." Answered Usagi casually. "Youma's?" he asked shocked, "And I didn't know." "Yep, these knew ones are easy! Ami's a little high strung and says there's something more to them but I don't think so." "Hmmm, well I'll always be their when you need me. You know that." He said and swooped her up in his arms and kissed her. "Oh Darien I love you." "I love you too Usako." ********************************** Ami was sitting in her room looking at her mercury computer Luna was with her. "Luna come here for a sec." "Yes?' "I was doing an analysis on he two people we met, the demon, Festus, was weak. But the other women's power's were 50 time stronger!" "Which means that that women is really strong or that Demon was supposed to be weak." Reasoned Luna. "Exactly. I'll tell the others a tonight's meeting." ********************* Everyone was gathered at Rei’s temple that night, inners, outers, and even Darien because he wanted to know what was going on. Minako had just finished filling them all in, while Usagi was reading Sailor V mangas, when Ami spoke up. "Ok so that’s how it went, but I was doing some examining of the energy signatures left by Festus an that other lady. It appears that Festus’s energy signature was incredibly weak and that other lady’s was incredibly strong." "What does that mean?" asked Hotaru. "What it means," answered Luna "is that either Festus was incredibly weak, or that lady was incredibly strong. Or that they were trying to trick us…" "What do you mean?" asked Makoto. "I think what she means is that they want us to think that there easy to beat, but they aren't..." elaborated Setsuna. "Yes that is one possibility." Agreed Ami. Everyone was silent, until Usagi let out another big laugh! "Oh these Sailor V comics are sooooo hilarious!" "Usagi shut up! Would you pay attention for once! Do you even know what we've been talking about?" shouted Rei. "Don't be so mean Rei, I know exactly what you guys said." Responded Usagi and quickly told everyone exactly what they just said. The looks on their faces were priceless. Rei's jaw dropped, and everyone else laughed at Rei. Except, that is, for Setsuna. She just smiled secretively. "Wow Meatball head was paying attention!" exclaimed Darien. She just shrugged like it was normal. Which put Rei into a dead faint. "Ack she passed out!" Exclaimed Minako. "It's ok Mina-chan." Said Micharu as she tried to calm her down. Usagi giggled and ran into the next room she came back carrying a bucket of Ice water and joyfully dumped it on Rei's head. "ARGGG! Usagi are you ever gonna get it!" she screamed as she chased Usagi around the room. "Ahh! Darien help me!" yelped Usagi. Darien ran up to her but instead of protecting her, he grabbed her and lifted her over his head. That started her screaming even louder, so he brought her down and was about to kiss her when Rei who was going full tilt when he jumped in collided with them. "ahhh!" Screamed Usagi. "Rei." Moaned Darien. "It’s not my fault!" countered Rei. "Hey Rei, look who’s klutzing out now!" called out Makoto with delight. Everyone just laughed. ********************************** As usual Usagi was late to school again and so she got _another_ detention. ~nothing new~ she thought. "Ok class, I hope you all read chapter 3 last night because were having a pop quiz on it today!" ~gee why does she enjoy giving out quizzes? It’s not fair…~ Quickly she handed the quizzes out needless to say, everyone groaned, except Umino who boasted that he’d ace it. Which set Silia off she got out of her seat and punched him in the side. Everyone’s jaw’s dropped, and Sensei went ballistic. "How dare you! You just got a detention and a trip to the principle’s office! Now go!" she exclaimed pointing to the door. Silia just walked away like it was no big deal. After class Usagi was heading to detention when she saw Silia again, but she was leaving the building. "Silia! What are you doing were supposed to be in detention! Come on." She beckoned. Surprised Silia followed. Once they got there Sensei gave them each a page of work to do. "Um Usagi," whispered Silia "What are we doing this for?" "Cause Sensei got mad at us I guess… That was great what you did in class, a little weird but I’m glad someone finally did showed him." Answered Usagi, ignoring the fact that Silia seemed to be lost. "Oh, argarito." Just then a beep was heard coming from Usagi’s direction. "Oh gee will you look at the time! I’ve got some important stuff to do so I’ll see you later k?" exclaimed Usagi hurriedly. "I though we had to do this assignment." Responded a confused Silia. "Oh I’d just get it all wrong anyway!" answered Usagi as she dropped the barely started sheet on the desk and ran out of the room. ~Strange girl, although she has been nice to me.~ thought Silia, ~Oh well I might as well leave to~. And with that she walked out the door. As soon as Usagi was in the empty corridor she flipped on her communicator. "Usagi were have you been?!? Never mind get down to the park, now!" exclaimed Sailor Mars. "Right." Quickly she ran in the direction of the park, what she saw was not what she expected. Mercury was unconscious, and the others were barely holding on. ~gee Ami was right they really are powerful! I have to help them!~ MOON ETERNAL MAKE-UP! In a beautiful flash of light and feathers Usagi transformed into Eternal Sailor Moon. "Venus can you contact the outers?" asked an exasperated Mars as she barely dogged another golden energy beam. "I’m trying but something’s blocking the signal!" replied an exhausted Venus. JUPITER OAK EVOLUTION! Came a cry from Jupiter’s direction. But as usual the attack did very little. "Didn’t you reach Usagi?" she asked with a hopeful look on her face. "Yes but she’s still not here yet and this disturbance may just be recent." Replied Mars. STARLIGHT HONEYMOON THERAPY KISS! Everyone stared in the direction the attack came from, "It’s about time!" exclaimed Mars who was annoyed and yet relieved. Venus just wen to check on Mercury. Sailor Moon just ignored Mar’s rude comment, her attack had pushed the being out of the way but she was now back on her feet. "I am the pretty suited soldier, Eternal Sailor Moon! Who are you and what do you want?" "Well Sailor Moon you, showed up. Pity I was about to finish off dear Sailor Mercury here. Oh well you’re only a delay. I am Celestiria, warrior of the cosmos, and member of the Ticha; the strongest fighting force in the galaxy! Prepare to meet your doom! ARMEGEDDON ASTEROID STORM!" Millions of tiny brownish red energy balls formed at her raised hands and headed straight for Sailor Moon! SILENT WALL BLOCK! Sailor Moon who had closed her eyes, cautiously opened them to find Sailor Saturn standing in front of her. "Yippee you made it!" she cried with pleasure. Sailor Jupiter’s jaw dropped, and was about to ask how they knew to come when Celestiria sent another barrage of asteroids her way, luckily she saw it in time and dogged. "Interesting, there’s more of you." Observed Celestiria "May I ask who you are?" she asked putting a fake smile. "I am Sailor Uranus, sailor of the skies!" "I am Sailor Neptune, sailor of the sea!" "I am Sailor Saturn, sailor of silence!" "I am Sailor Pluto, sailor of death, and guardian of time!" "We are the outer senshi!" "Hmm outer senshi, sorry to leave the party but I have to tell some people about you. Bye, bye!" and with that she disappeared. Sailor Moon ran up to Mercury and Jupiter. "Is she ok?" Moon asked. "I don’t know." Responded Jupiter worriedly. Just then Saturn walked up to Mercury and put her and on Mercury. "She’ll be ok now." She stated "she just needs some rest." Everyone now reassured, de-transformed and began to talk about this new enemy. Only Setsuna noticed the absence of Tuxedo Mask. ******************* So how do you like part 3? Wondering where Darien is? Send questions, comments, flames, compliments, constructive criticism, to HYPERLINK mailto:lantos@nrtco.net lantos@nrtco.net . Part 4 should be out soon. It’s Christmas today and so I have a whole week of doing nothing to write this! Ti’ana Problems solved Problems Gained. Hello all! Yes this is part 4 *applause* ok let’s see I’m calling everyone by there Japanese names except Darien / Mamorou. And for you who don’t know what they are let me tell you. Oh and anything in between these ~ is someone thinking. Sailor Moon = Usagi Mercury = Ami Mars = Rei Jupiter = Makoto Venus = Minako Saturn = Hotaru Neptune = Michiru Uranus = Haruka Pluto = Setsuna Ok there now I’ll start writing. Disclaimer: I do not in anyway own Sailor Moon or her friends, only my bad guys that I made up. And if I find anyone using them _without_ my permission, you’ll here about it! Well maybe. Oh and this is my first fic so take that into consideration. ****************************** It was a beautiful Sunday, the birds were chirping the sun was shining, and Usagi was enjoying the peace while waiting for her boyfriend. Unfortunately there was a smudge on the perfect setting, she wasn’t here to enjoy herself, she had serious business to take care of. After the battle against Celestiria, Setsuna had taken her aside and pointed out Darien’s absence. She meant to ask him about it today. She wasn’t really worried though, there had to be a logical explanation. But every time she tried to think of one she had to rule it out. Illness? No she would have heard about it and it would have to be serious to stop him from helping her. Well that’s just one example of what had been going through her head. Then he arrived. "Hey Usako! What’s up?" he asked. "Hi Dar. Hey um.." she started ~better get right to the point~ she thought. "So how come you weren’t at the fight yesterday. Or the first one for that matter." Darien’s expression was a mixture of shock, acknowledgement and sadness. "Oh." Was all he managed to get out. "Well." Gently prodded Usagi. "I don’t know." He admitted. "What do you mean?" "I don’t know I didn’t feel anything. I usually do." He started. ~this is it, might as well say every thing~ he thought. "When you told me about the first fight I was shocked but you told me it was easy, and since you weren’t in any danger I thought that was why. How’d this other fight go?" he asked cautiously. Slowly Usagi described the fight, every thing, detention, how the others told her the first part of the fight. And what happened when she and the outers showed up. ~She could have been killed and it’s all my fault!~ he thought. "So Darien, what, um, do you think?" She asked. Darien sat down on the grass, it was as if his knees wouldn’t support him anymore. "Darien what’s wrong?" asked a concerned Usagi as she sat down beside him. "It’s all my fault," he managed to choke out "you could have been killed and it’s all my fault!" a lone tear rolled down his cheek. "Darien it’s ok," her voice was full of concern "Hotaru saved me, and besides there’s got to be a solution to this problem! Come on let’s go find Ami! Maybe she can help." She reasoned as she took her boyfriends hand, the guy she loved so much, there was no way she could be mad at him. ~Something’s wrong, and for once I’m going to be responsible and find out what it is!~ she told herself, and together they walked in the direction of Ami’s house. ******************************* "Well Mical how’s the operation on earth going?" asked a dark voice. "According to plan, only one… problem." "And what would that be?" "Well the scout you sent earlier said there were five senshi right?" "Yes." "Well there appears to be four more." "What!?!" "Yes sir, I believe they are… Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Pluto, do you wish to change our plans?" The shadowed man was silent for a moment then he spoke. "No, the Ticha we have there should be sufficient, for now at least. Keep me updated." "Yes sir" ********************* "Ok girls ready to do some shopping?" asked an enthusiastic Makoto. "You bet!" answered Rei. "Alright!" cried Minako. The three girls had decided to do some major shopping, originally it was supposed to be with Ami and Usagi as well. But Ami said she had to study, and Usagi was preoccupied, although no one knew with what. "Wow this dress is gorgeous!" commented Minako "Ya Mina-chan but did you look at the price?" responded Makoto. "Ack! That’s way beyond my price range!" "Oh look a cooking store! Um guys I’ll just be a minute ok?" stated Makoto. "Ok Mako-chan, Minako and I are getting some ice-cream!" responded Rei. "What, we are?" asked a dazed Minako "Yep!" answered Rei. "Ok I guess we are! See you in a minute Makoto!" called Minako. "Yep see ya!" answered Makoto. Minako and Rei quickly headed towards an ice-cream stand when they literally bumped into Silia. "Oh excuse me!" exclaimed Rei. "It’s ok." Answered Silia, as she walked on by. *** ~…Hmm do I know them? No I don’t think so…~ Carefully Silia sat down on one of the benches and stuck her hand in her pocket. Slowly she pulled out a little gem it was glowing red, but not dark red as usual, this was more of a bright red. ~…That’s strange, wonder why it’s doing that…~ She cupped her hands around the jewel and slowly images appeared before her eyes. ~…Now that’s interesting I think I’ll have to test this…~ Quickly she ducked into an ally way, as she did he clothes changed from a simple dress to a blue body suit with black sequins covering it, and a black miniskirt. "Youma Drechilius! I command you to come to me!" A swirling of blue appeared before her which then took shape into something that was shaped like a man but appeared to be made of pure water, with the exception of what looked like a red T-shirt and shorts. "Drechilius is here! What does the lady Acidia wish of me?" asked the Youma. "I wish you to head in that direction and stir up some trouble." Answered Acidia pointing in the direction she had just came from. "Then when the senshi show up I want you to leave." "May I ask why?" "Because I want to know which ones show up first and how many." Answered Acidia "Now go!" Drechilius immediately leaped around the corner and instantly Acidia could hear screaming. ~…Finally he’s doing something right…~ *** "Oh that ice-cream was delicious! That was one totally kawaii idea" claimed Minako. "I know." Answered Rei, all doled up in the praise she was getting. When all of a sudden they heard screaming. "Uh oh. Looks like Sailor business to me." Exclaimed Rei. They were just about to duck into an alleyway and change when a ball of blue energy came straight for them, knocking them to the ground. Minako struggled to get up but gave up when she saw two things, one the youma was going in a different direction, obviously blasting people at random. And two, and girl in a green fuko. But that was all she saw before she blacked out, for the cement really is very hard. *** ~…damn it! Minako and Rei are unconscious. Well I’ll just have to handle this by myself until the others arrive. Here goes…~ JUPITER SPARKALING WIDE PRESSURE! As the attack hit the youma it screamed in pain, and then whirled around to see what hit it. Standing there was none other then Sailor Jupiter. He was about to retaliate when a voice inside his head told him to return. Grudgingly he obeyed. ~…Well that was weird…~ thought Jupiter as she rushed to Minako and Rei’s side. They were both unconscious but they would be ok as long as she got them to a hospital. Noticing the crowd gathering she hid de-transformed and got back just in time to see an ambulance arrive. ************ Haruka and Michiru were walking down town when they heard the sirens of an ambulance roaring down the road and saw it stop about 5 blocks ahead of them. "I wonder what’s going on." Said Michiru. "Something to do with the scouts maybe?" suggested Haruka. "You know not everything revolves around us scouts." Commented Michiru. "Of course I do Micha-chan. Just sometimes stuff does." Responded Haruka. "True. Ok let’s check it out." The two women arrived just in time to see the ambulance drive off and Makoto go running in the direction of the hospital. "Hey Makoto wait for us! What’s going on?" called Michiru. Makoto turned around to see the two of them standing there, she was obviously anxious to get where she was going. "Gomen, but I have to get to the hospital, I’ll tell you there!" she called back. Quickly Haruka and Michiru ran up beside her. Then Haruka stepped in front of her. "Wait a minute! It isn’t Usagi is it?" demanded Haruka. "Haruka, what…" she started then realizing she wasn’t going anywhere until she told them she quickly blurted out all that had happened and continued her dash in the direction of the hospital.. "Wait Makoto!" yelled Michiru "You could get there much quicker in my car." Makoto screeched to a halt and the 3 girls ran to the car and drove to the hospital. ************* Darien pulled his car up in front of Ami’s house and he and Usagi got out of the car. Usagi went and rang the doorbell. In a moment Ami opened the door. "Oh Konichiwa, come on in." greeted Ami. "Argarito Ami." Responded Usagi. Darien remained silent. "So what’s up?" asked Ami. "Well you see, we have a bit of a problem." Started Usagi as she sat down. Followed by Ami and Darien. "You see, you know how Darien has this physic connection to me, and he always knows if I’m in trouble." "Hai, of course. That’s how he knew to come at the beginning." Responded Ami. "Well it appears that he can’t feel when I’m in trouble anymore." Finished a sullen Usagi. Darien remained silent but a look of pain and regret appeared on his face. Ami didn’t seem to notice though. "I think I may be able to solve your problem very quickly. Although I can’t make any promises." Stated Ami. Darien’s mouth opened in Shock and Usagi let out a huge "WHAT? Already, how?" she demanded. "Calm down Usagi you’ll burst a brain cell. You see when we couldn’t contact the outer senshi during the last fight I took some of the communicators and analyzed them. It turns out there was nothing mechanically wrong with them." "Then how come you couldn’t contact the outers?" asked Darien who had finally spoken. "Well I knew there had to be something wrong so I checked for any residual energies. That was when I stumbled upon the SBE." "SBE?" asked a confused Usagi. "Well actually I couldn’t identify it so I named it Signal Blocking Energy. It appears to have worn off but I managed to find a sample and well, through a long complicated procedure found a way to stop it. And built that into the communicators." "So how does this help me and Darien?" asked Usagi. "Well if I find SBE on one of you two I’ll most likely be able to stop it." Explained Ami. Usagi jumped off the ground and into Ami’s arms. "Oh Argarito! Argarito Ami-chan!" she exclaimed. "Oh your welcome Usagi but you’re stepping on my toe." Replied Ami. "Oh gomen Ami!" "It’s ok." Just then Darien spoke up. "What if you don’t find any SBE on either of us?" he asked concerned. "Well then we see if we can find out what’s wrong." Answered Ami, simply. "Now let’s see… My mom’s not home so I can transform now and look at you guys with my visor." "Ok." Answered Usagi. MERCURY POWER MAKE-UP! With a flash of blue light Ami transformed into Sailor Mercury and quickly proceeded to scan the two. When she finished she announced the results. " Well the good news is I found some energy on you Usagi." "Me?" Usagi butted in "Gee Darien had nothing to do with this at all." With this Darien let out a sigh of relief. "But the bad news, well it’s not that bad, is that this energy is still going strong and it’s slightly different in chemical properties then SBE, but all I’ll have to do is modify my device, it should only take an hour or two." "Oh Ami that’s great. Oh argarito so much!" said Usagi giving Ami a hug and beaming Darien a huge smile. "It’s no trouble, really. Well we have a meeting in about 3 hours, I’ll give it to you then ok?" "Great Idea." "Um girls," started Darien, "How do you think they knew to do this to Usako?" This left everyone quiet. "I don’t know Darien, I don’t know." Answered a now sullen Ami. *************** In a secret room unknown to all but 3 people, a meeting was taking place. One man was kneeling on the ground, the second was seated in a black chair dressed in blue yellow robes. And the third was listening in, this fact was known only to then man in the chair. He nodded and then man kneeling stood up. "Well general Kaiki, how are things going?" asked the man in the chair. Kaiki took a deep breath and started to give his report on the beginnings of his mission. All was going according to plan. His main concern was the Ticha named Acidia. "My lord she’s years younger then the rest and she’s being isolated, we know this could be a problem but know one does anything about it." Was what he had said, the lord had simply nodded and said to keep a close eye on her. Finally Kaiki finished the report and left his lord. As soon as he walked out the door a computer screen blinked on and the third person appeared. She was tall but her other features were shadowed. "So my humble disciple, what about your report?" she asked. "All three barriers are still in place although I believe the first two have been found by now." He answered. "Just as I had planned." She said as she smiled. "Anything else?" "Well actually Madame, I have a personal question." This intrigued the women, so she nodded her head in consent. "I was wondering why I am not to tell the others of your existence." "Simple," she stated with a bit of resentment. "unlike in the Silver millennium, our kind are now ruled by men, just like on earth. They would not bare well my presence as grand ruler. Now you rule in my place, until the time arises." "But with your vast knowledge of the Sailor Senshi and your immense power, why would they not accept you?" "I’m afraid Valdair," she started using his real name, the one he wanted to forget. Appropriately it made him cringe. "It’s not all that simple." "Yes Madame." "Anything else?" "Well if you don’t mind my asking. Why didn’t you notify us of the other senshi?"The women’s face grew dark. "That part of my memory unfortunately was lost during the transference." She stated with a growl and with that the computer screen went black. ********************** "Hera!" screamed Versa. "Go attack the senshi now!" "What? Why now?" asked a confused Hera. "Because 2 of our annoying senshi just might be in the hospital. This gives us a better chance." ~Acidia better be right~ "Now go, and bring Slasher with you!" "Yes Versa." Answered Hera as she disappeared. ~Oh yes Acidia you better be right~ Thought Versa. ***************** It was late that afternoon and Ami sat with Luna and Artemis in Rei’s temple. "Well this is a poor show for a Sailor meeting if you ask me." Commented Luna. "It’s strange that Rei isn’t here, it is her temple after all. And neither her Grandpa nor Chad know where she is, they said she went shopping with Minako and Makoto but she should have been back 2 hours ago. This is perplexing. I can’t find any disturbances that might indicate a fight." Said Ami all in one breath. "Relax, Ami. What about the outers and Usagi?" asked Luna. Just then Hotaru walked in the door. ‘Sorry I’m late guys but…" she started. "Hey where is everyone?" "That’s what were trying to figure out." Answered Artemis. "Yes, Hotaru do you know where the other outers are?" asked Ami. "Well Setsuna’s in the time streams, she just mumbled something, reminded me of the meeting and then disappeared. And think Haruka and Michiru went out to take a walk. But I haven’t seen them since, that’s why I’m late." "Oh poor you, you walked here all by yourself?" asked Luna. Hotaru nodded her head. Just then Usagi came running in. "I’m so so so so soooooo sorry! I was having such a good time with Darien I totally forgot about the meeting until it was too late!" The Usagi stopped herself and looked around. "Wait a minute. Where’s everyone else? Am I early?" "Sorry Usa-chan you’re not early. Everyone’s just not here." Answered Hotaru. "What!?!" she exclaimed "Where are they?" "We aren’t sure. I was just trying to pinpoint their communicators when you arrived. Unfortunately there I have Haruka and Michiru’s communicators and I can’t reach Minako, Rei or Makoto. So I tried zooming in on them but Minako and Rei’s signals are blurred. And the blocking is stopping me from zooming in on Makoto’s. I’m terribly worried." Then she reached into her pocket. "Oh and here is the device I promised you." She said handing a tiny egg shaped object to Usagi. "Thanks Ami-chan." Said Usagi quietly she was very worried. "Ami can you find out where the last signal emitted came from?" asked Artemis. "I don’t know. Let’s see…." For ten minuets all Usagi and Hotaru could do was talk about how life was going while Ami typed amazingly fast on her computer. "I’ve got it!" exclaimed Ami, Usagi ran over to her and gave her a huge hug, while yelling ‘thank you, thank you, thank you!’ which caused Ami to blush. "So where do we start looking?" asked Usagi excitedly. "Down town." Answered Ami matter-of-factly. "let’s go." "Right!" stated Usagi. And with that the 3 girls and Luna headed out to downtown. Leaving Artemis to watch over things in case someone showed up. ********* "Oh my head hurts!" groaned Rei. "Rei, you’re awake!" exclaimed Makoto. "Konichiwa Mako-chan, what happened?" "Well basically the youma was firing blasts randomly one hit you, you hit the pavement. I came in and it disappeared." Explained Makoto. "Wonder why it just disappeared like that." Mulled Michiru. "Michiru, Haruka? You’re here too?" said Rei. "Ya well we ran into Makoto as she was running towards the hospital, and gave her a lift." Explained Haruka, "We’re glad you’re ok though." Rei smiled, and then a groan was heard coming from Minako’s bed. Makoto rushed over. "Hey girl, you ok?" she asked. "Ask me again when the rock concert in my head finishes." Grumbled Minako. "What happened after I blacked out?" Quickly Makoto told her exactly what happened. "Oh and I tried to reach the girls on our communicators but they’re not working, and by the time we got here there was no answer on the telephone." Informed Makoto. "How long do we have to stay here?" asked Rei. "The doctors said after you woke up they’d do a couple more tests and then you could go." Answered Michiru. "Well go tell them were awake then! I hate hospitals." Grumbled Rei. "I’ll second that motion!" chirped in Minako. Makoto, Michiru and Haruka burst out laughing. ********* A whit mist surrounded the area, and two figures stood by a huge door. "Where is she?" Then she appeared. "I am Sailor Pluto Guardian of…" Pluto trailed off, smiled. And opened the time gate. "I believe you two know your way. Be careful." "Thanks Puu!" "Chibi Chibi!" With that the two girls jumped into the time gate. ************************ Ok that’s part four…. Part five: "Old friends returned" Should be out soon.And you probably already know who’s traveling through time. =) Oh well! Old Friends Returned I’m writing 2 fanfics now, yay! But that means this might come out every second maybe third week. Ok? Of course my other fic will probably come out on alternate weeks. It depends on how busy I am. Tell me if you’re reading this! Disclaimer: Sailor Moon is owned by Naoko Takeuchi =) ******************* "Do you think they’ll show up?" "They better." ******* "I still can’t believe there making us stay for 2 more days!" exclaimed Rei. "Well they’re the professionals right?" commented Minako "besides, I don’t like being here either." "I still sensed bad vibes from that nurse." Said Rei. "Rei-chan I know you want out of here but that’s not gonna work." Explained Minako. "But it’s true!" argued Rei. "If Michiru was still here we could get her to use her mirror but they stranded us!" "Rei calm down!" shouted Minako. "Sorry Mina-chan I just know something bad is going on!" answered Rei sullenly. "Rei if anything does happen will be there like that!" She promised. "Arigato, Minako." Said Rei smiling for once. ************** "Well you two, we’re here." Said Ami to Usagi and Hotaru. "Uh Ami is it just me or does this look wrong?" asked Usagi. "I think the nega-verse is here." Said Hotaru. "Hmm so you know about the nega-verse?" half asked half commented a lady dressed in green. The three girls whirled around to face the women. "Who are you?" demanded Usagi. "_I_ am Hera, Ticha of lightning. But the question is, are you three Sailor Scouts? Or just people who happen to know about us…." Responded Hera. "Us! Sailor Scouts!" exclaimed Ami "Usagi here can’t even run 2 blocks without tripping!" "Hey!" exclaimed Usagi! She knew Ami was calling there bluff but it was still insulting. "Well let’s say we find out hmm?" said Hera "We already know who your precious Venus and Mars are!" "Really who are they?" asked Hotaru pretending to be excited. Hera just looked at her with an amused expression. Then a second lady appeared. Well actually she looked more like a girl. ~I think I recognize her~ thought Usagi ~but who…~ Then it hit her. "Silia?" she asked, sounding shocked and hurt. "I.. I…" "Usagi…" she started. "I am not Silia she is just an alias, I am Acidia!" Her eyes glowed dark blue, and her black sequins shone. "Hera why did you summon me?" she demanded. "I have reason to believe that these three are Senshi. Now would you use your jewel on them?" "Usagi a senshi! Ha!" exclaimed Acidia you think I would have noticed by now?" "Acidia, we’ve always thought you were incompetent. Why don’t you prove us wrong for once, or you could let me do it!" exclaimed Hera. "Hear that’s not nice. Why can’t you ever be nice to me! You know I’ll be stronger then all of you one day! It’s not fair that you girls always treat me like this!" Acidia started to sob. "I knew it, you are petty, you dwell on stupid human emotions you are not worthy to our cause!" screamed Hera. "They’re worse then you and Rei." Whispered Ami to Usagi. "I don’t care let’s get out of here while they’re distracted!" urged Usagi. "I’m with you." Chimed in Hotaru. But just as they were leaving something happened. "….but I don’t care!" Hera was screaming. Just then a huge swirl of black appeared and a figure descended from it. She stood 6 feet tall, wore her black hair in a pony tail in the back of her head, and was dressed similar to Chibi-Usa when she was wicked Lady. "You 2 are both failures." She said in a calm but irritated voice. "Your squabbling almost caused these three to escape." She said gesturing to the three girls who were now trapped in a black force field. "But I am not so harsh as our superiors so find out if they are senshi NOW and stop your squabbling!" "Yes Versa." Said Acidia. Calming down. Hera nodded her head. Versa dropped the force field surrounding the three girls and Acidia descended on them. She was about to grab Usagi knowing that direct contact was needed, when tree cries were heard. JUPITER SPARKALING WIDE PRESSURE! WORLD SHAKING! DEEP SUBMERGE! Each attack hit one of the four. Neptune’s Hestia, Uranus’s Hera, and Jupiter’s Versa. Versa blocked the attack while Hera and Acidia were knocked down momentarily. But this gave Hotaru, Ami and Usagi time to leave. "Ha you Sailor Senshi are nothing!" screamed Versa and then let out a wicked cackle. "Allow me to make some formal demonstrations, we are five of the Ticha, the best fighters there are." She started as Hestia and Celestiria appeared. "- Hestia commands the gates of hell and the fire contained within. - Celestiria rules the black void of the cosmos. Hera was once the wife of Zeus himself, now she controls his powers to control nature in its worst form. - Acidia was created from the pollution that your earth itself created, she has powers based on that, you’ll soon know exactly what those may be and regret it. And of course there’s me, I am the leader of this group I am the warrior of the greatest strength and I will destroy you with pure dark energy. You have no hope for survival." Usagi, Ami and Hotaru had over heard this whole thing and were now furious. "Come on girls let’s go!" exclaimed Usagi. MOON ETERNAL POWER, MAKE-UP! SATURN PLANET POWER, MAKE-UP MERCURY CRYSTAL POWER, MAKE-UP! "I am the pretty suited Soldier Eternal Sailor Moon! You five are moon dust!" "I am Super Sailor Mercury! On behalf on the planet Mercury you wont succeed!" "I am Sailor Saturn. Senshi of the planet of Silence, you picked the wrong people to mess with." Now the 6 senshi stood facing the five Ticha. "Ha! You’re out-numbered!" exclaimed Jupiter. "It does not matter we will win this fight no matter what." Bragged Versa. "I’m even confident enough to send Acidia away. Although some of you might want to follow her, or you may never see Venus and Mars again!" Acidia disappeared and Sailor Moon took off in the direction of the hospital using her wings to take her their faster then anyone could run. But chances were she wouldn’t make it in time. ************* "Come on Chibi-chibi concentrate on the trouble! You can do it!" "Chibi-chibi Moon?" "No Chibi-chibi Usagi isn’t the one that needs our help." "Hai, Chibi-chibi!" "Chibi-Chibi you know that Minako and Rei are going to be in trouble. That’s the main reason why we came!" "Chibi-Usa! Chibi-Chibi Moon!" "No I know I overheard future Puu right Chibi-chibi!" "Noooo! Chibi-chibi Moon!" "Well if you’re sure…" "Chibi-chibi! Chibi-chibi! Chibi-chibi Moon!" "Ok, concentrate on her then." "Chibi-chibi!" ************* Sailor Moon was flying as fast as she could when Acidia appeared in front of her. "You know," she said "you really are too predictable. Hestia has already impersonated the nurse and taken their heshin sticks, they are no longer important. But you are." Sailor Moon quickly flew down to the ground where she knew she’d have a better chance, luckily she had been right over the park. She was about to ready her attack when something clicked in her head. A memory appeared…. * "S-Sailor Mars, why did you do that for me?" asked Catsy. "Because I see the good in you Catsy." "You do?" "Yes Catsy." * Maybe the Ticha can’t be saved, but Acidia, no Silia, can be. I can tell…. She’s too young to be fully evil. But while this was all happening Acidia had wasted no time. ACID RAIN BURN! She cried as the deadly blue energy went hurtling towards Sailor Moon. She didn’t have enough time to get out of the way, and was going to get hit when a strong pair of arms pulled her out of the way. "Oh Darien!" she exclaimed. Thankful that they were one again. Tuxedo Mask set her down and was preparing to fight when something hit the two of them from behind. Sailor Moon screamed in pain and Tuxedo Mask were hit by dark energy that could only have come from one person. Versa. She tried to get up but every time she moved another jolt of energy hit her, not new ones but remnants from the original attack. Just as she was going unconscious she saw a familiar flash of pink. *** Chibi-Usa and Chibi-chibi appeared in the park just in time to see Tuxedo Mask save Sailor Moon. "Chibi-chibi you stay here!" she said. COSMIC MOON POWER, MAKE UP! She shouted. By the time she had finished transforming it was too late. Versa had appeared and Sailor Moon was on the verge of unconsciousness, while Tuxedo Mask had not been the target and so he was just incredibly dazed but on his feat, with the power of his love for Sailor Moon. "Stop right there!" screamed the warrior in pink. "Who are you?" asked Versa and Acidia in unison. Tuxedo Mask smiled. Glad to be re-united with his daughter. And glad he had some help. "I am known as Sailor Moon! You hurt Eternal Sailor Moon and for that you shall be punished!" "Another Sailor Moon! That is not possible!" Screamed Versa in rage. Tuxedo Mask looked again at the soldier in pink realizing that she had in deed grown up. Although she looked relatively the same, just older, he knew that her powers must now be greater, which would be really good for the jam they were in. Little did he know how big a jam it was. While both Acidia and Versa were here leaving only Hera, Hestia and Celestiria with the others they had summoned around 10 youma. The Sailors knew they could beat them but with the Ticha’s ever binding presence, they’d never get to Eternal Sailor Moon in time. Tuxedo Mask’s vision had now fully cleared and he ran over to Eternal Sailor Moon. She looked bad, but she would recover, just not for awhile. He held her in his arms protectively, he wouldn’t let anyone hurt her anymore. He wanted to whisk her away to a safe place but he had to help Sailor Moon fight. She couldn’t possibly hold out against both Versa and Acidia. He looked again to Sailor Moon and out of the corner of his eye he saw Chibi-chibi standing behind a tree. She may be little but the secrets inside her were everlasting and maybe she was here just for this purpose. He could feel it deep down. Quickly he gathered up Eternal Sailor Moon in his arms and took her to Chibi-chibi. Chibi-chibi smiled at him and spoke. "Chibi-chibi Moon! Tuxedo Mask Chibi-Usa!" Knowing he had done the right thing Tuxedo Mask went to join his daughter. PINK MOON PRINCESS HALATION! She cried. Using what looked like Eternal Sailor Moon's scepter to strike a blow to Acidia. Who fell to the ground. Versa extended her hands to fire off her black energy when a rose struck her hand. She winced in pain giving Sailor Moon time too fire off another of her new attacks. PINK MOON BEAM! She did a "Venus Crescent Beam" pose and shot a beam of pink energy at Versa. Winding her but not doing much else. Tuxedo Mask ran up beside Sailor Moon and spoke "Nice to see you again." "Like my new attacks?" she asked. "Wonderful, so your Sailor Moon now eh?" "Yep say would you throw one of your roses at that girl in blue for me?" "Acidia? Sure." He whipped out a rose and flung it in Acidia’s direction. The SAILOR MOON spoke her last new attack. PINK ROSE COATING! Her pink energy hit Tuxedo Mask’s rose increasing its power. MULTIPLY, the rose became 10 more roses, DIVIDE, five diverted off course and headed towards Versa the others continued towards Acidia, AND SLICE! The roses with their power increased hit the two Ticha and hit them drawing blood in several places. "Wow!" exclaimed Tuxedo Mask "We should fight together more often." But Versa was not so easily beaten. Quickly she summoned all of her powers and shot a gigantic black energy beam at the two. They couldn’t possibly get out of the way in time, and it looked like they were all doomed. ******** Meanwhile Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus were fighting each there own youma when Pluto appeared. "Where’s Sailor Moon?" she asked. "Don’t you know?" asked Mercury. "It can get, um, distracting in the time streams, now where is she?" "She went to save Minako and Rei, but Hestia here just told us that she got ambushed by Acidia and Versa at the park." Explained Neptune. DEEP SUBMERGE! "This could be bad, I better leave." Explained Pluto. "Saturn would you come with me please?" "If you insist Pluto." Said Saturn following Pluto into the portal. ********** Pluto and Saturn arrived at the park just in time to see Versa readying her black powers, with lightning quick reflexes Saturn dove in front of Tuxedo Mask and Sailor Moon. SILENCE WALL BLOCK! Versa’s powers were so immense that even with the silence wall the three soldiers were knocked to the ground. Pluto then threw a dead scream at Versa but was knocked from behind by Acidia’s Acid Rain Burn.. With a groan Sailor Moon got up and shot her Pink Moon beam at Versa while Saturn Laid a Silence Glaive Surprise on Acidia.. The two of them screamed in agony and Versa called a retreat. And they left, so did the others at the other fight. Pluto, Saturn, Tuxedo Mask, and Sailor Moon quickly ran to the tree where Tuxedo Mask had left Eternal Sailor Moon. When they got there they saw a strange sight. Chibi-chibi was glowing red and Eternal Sailor Moon was glowing white. Tuxedo Mask knelt down to see if Eternal Sailor Moon was ok but when he reached for her Chibi-chibi glowed a brighter red and he hit a force field. Everyone was shocked, except Pluto. But then again she did guard time. Tuxedo Mask was not hurt just a little shocked, Sailor Moon spoke. "Chibi-chibi it’s us." She said to the little girl. Chibi-chibi and Eternal Sailor Moon stopped glowing and Chibi-chibi smiled. "Chibi-chibi Moon!" she exclaimed. "Yes Chibi-chibi," said Pluto "you did take good care of Eternal Sailor Moon." Just then Eternal Sailor Moon’s eyes fluttered open and she groaned. Everyone was relieved she was ok, Saturn used a little of her healing powers and then the five of them de-transformed and headed for the temple. *********** "Where’d they go?" exclaimed Jupiter, surprised. "I’m not certain but I have a feeling we’ve got a meeting coming up." Stated Mercury. "Sounds about right." Agreed Uranus. "Well let’s go then!" Said Neptune. *********** "You five are failures!" exclaimed Mical. He never really liked Ticha in general a few of them had worthy skills, but most were stuck up failures. "Mical, may I remind you that Venus and Mars are ours whenever we want them! And we severely injured Eternal Sailor Moon." Contradicted Versa. She had never failed a mission before and she wasn’t going to fail this one. "Oh yes, but you don’t have them yet do you? You also have stirred up quiet a disturbance otherwise the pink Sailor Moon from the future would be here." Reprimanded Mical. "Um Mical," started Acidia. She was terribly nervous, "I also think I know who Jupiter is. And we have Mars and Venus’s transformation pens." "Jupiter eh? Hmmm well I’ve been ordered to give you a second chance anyway. Now go see if you can capture Mars, Venus and Jupiter. Dismissed!" ************ Valadair was kneeling in front of a computer screen. The image on the screen was of a women whose beauty could be surpassed by few. She was his ruler, he would do anything for her. Unfortunately her glory and wisdom could not be shared by anyone else, and she could take the thrown any time she wanted to really. But she refused, not because of what she had said, that she was a women, but because a long while back Nutagi had become very sick, but the spirits managed to encase her spirit into a computer until a new body could be found. Valadair knew that she had some sort of connection to the moon kingdom, and that was why they were here. But he knew not what, and he dare not ask. Especially now, Nutagi was very grumpy, and ready to snap at anything, she needed a body and fast, soon she would just grab one out of a pile. She was waiting for someone special, but anyone was seeming better and better. Th screen flickered to life and Nutagi appeared. Even though she lived in a computer she looked tired. "What do you have to report?" she asked. "We almost have Mars, Venus and Jupiter. As a matter of fact I have Mars and Venus’s heshin sticks right here." He said holding out the sticks. The were both very elegant and their symbols glowed in the light. "Excellent Valdair, so far you’ve done well. How is the situation with Acidia?" "I believe that problem is now solved. Unfortunately her cover on earth is now revealed to the Senshi, but without revealing their identities they can’t do much about it." "Good, keep me updated. Oh and would you bring me some female personnel files, I’m tired of being trapped up in here I need a new body fast!" her voice was halfway between a whine and a command. "Yes Madame." "You may leave." Valdair bowed and left the room. After he left Nutagi’s thoughts wandered, she remembered how wonderful life was back then… * She and queen Serenity were waking through the palace gardens, even though she was 7 months pregnant Serenity looked as radiant as ever. "Serenity, why did you choose to have a child so early in life, you have so much time left." Said Nutagi. "Please Nutagi call me Kusagi, why you are always so formal is a mystery to me. And about my daughter, Usagi, it just felt right I suppose." Responded the queen. Nutagi was not surprised, all of Serenity’s family had some sort of gift, other then the usual, Serenity knew when things had to be done. Unfortunately for Nutagi though, she was always jealous of Serenity, her royal title, and her beauty. Nutagi’s came close but she could never surpass Serenity. That’s why she planned to get rid of her, with Serenity gone Nutagi would be the only option left. But not if Usagi was born, then she would take over, if needed her age could always be changed. They would never let Nutagi take the thrown. The council suspected her, yes they were right, but they could never do anything about it. What Nutagi needed to do was lure Serenity away from the palace, there would be less guards then, but so far all her attempts had failed. "You know," she started "Kusagi, you should really use a vacation. Down on earth maybe?" "Oh heavens no! I’m not leaving the palace until Usagi is born. It’s too dangerous, and besides I have so much work to do!" Serenity laughed it off and started dealing out all of today’s worries. At this rate Nutagi would never be queen. * Once again all was quiet in the dark room, and Nutagi wondered why the visions were returning. ******* Ginaea had never done much with her life. When she was little she went through all the learning sessions to be an engineer but she was always cast down, she wanted to be something special but something kept holding her back. Seeing as their ship was now in cloaked orbit around the earth she had nothing to do because, unlike her dreams, she was a pilot. Not a bad job but still… When she first came on board she had no Idea why she was here. What the mission was. But before they left it was all explained. Well actually not all of it. But all the details necessary. General Valdair had said that the people of the moon had wronged us long ago and that although the moon kingdom was destroyed some of their inhabitants were now on Earth. Of course at the time no one knew these places existed but that explanation was long and boring. So here she was twiddling her thumbs wishing she hadn’t gone on this mission and stayed home instead. ********* Rei and Minako were about to break out of the hospital. Their ‘nurse’ had disappeared. Which as far as Rei was concerned proved she was up to something. Their plan was simple, they still had the clothes they were wearing before on, and they were going to go to the bathroom clean up, and then claim they were friends of Rei and Minako to get their communicators back. Then they’d just waltz out of there like they were visitors. They actually had a bathroom in their room so they were already cleaned up and ready to go when a portal opened in front of them, and Pluto stepped out. Minako freaked momentarily and then regained her composure. "Oh Pluto are we ever glad to see you!" exclaimed Minako. "Come on girls they could be back any moment." Urged Pluto. "What do you mean?" asked Rei "We still have to get our communicators." "Listen Rei, 1. If they find me in here It’s going to look very weird. 2. Hestia, and the gang have already been here. And 3. Your communicators got friend when you got hit." Explained Pluto. The wasting no time Minako and Rei hopped into the portal. ****** "So you’re saying they know who we are _and_ they have our heshin sticks!" exclaimed Rei. "Ok now I’m worried." Said Minako. But Rei being as stubborn as she was searched her dimensional pocket for ten minuets only to turn up noting. During which time everyone in the temple went into casual chit chat. Or not so casual I suppose. Minako was talking to Makoto and Ami debating over whether they knew who anyone else was. Haruka and Micharu were studying attack strategies. Setsuna and Hotaru were actually talking casually. And Mamorou, Usagi, Chibi-Usa and Chibi-chibi were talking about the future, Chibi-chibi’s strange powers, and Chibi-Usa’s new powers. And how powerful Versa was. Not to mention Mamorou being worried about Usagi’s safety. She seemed to be a main target. Usagi, unfortunately had an even harder thing to think about. Silia, she decided to call her. She still hadn’t told the others. If _Silia_ ever came back they’d jump on her. Usagi was sure she saw a spark of innocence inside Silia. Maybe because she was so young. Maybe just because it was there. But she saw it. Maybe this is how Naru felt with Nephrite. Maybe she should talk to Naru, maybe she could offer some advice. Usagi was just thinking about that when Rei broke down. "It’s not fair! I have to be Sailor Mars!" she then proceeded to sob in Ami’s arms.Surprisingly Usagi knelt beside Rei and hugged her. Rei looked up at her with a questioning glance and then hugged her best friend. No matter what she said it would always be true. She was only hard on Usagi to toughen her up. Right now she just needed a friend. "Hey Rei don’t worry! We’ll get your powers back. Minako’s too." At this Minako let out a sniffle. She was trying to keep it in but Minako would always be Venus. Maybe she still had her composure right now because of something a fan of hers had said. It hadn’t been a big fight or anything just a brawl between only her and a youma a while ago. But one of the girls she had saved had said something surprising. She had called her Aphrodite, and thanked her for protecting her love. It had really touched Minako. Because as she knew Aphrodite was the goddess of love and beauty, with or without Sailor Venus she’d still is that goddess. "Rei," she said, lifting her head. Rei looked up at her, her face stained with tears. "Rei you have to remember one thing. Even without being a Senshi your still a goddess ok? I’ll always be the goddess of love. And you’ll always be the goddess of war. That may be why this hurts so much for you but remember even goddesses had powers." Of course Rei knew that those powers didn’t man she could fight but something in what Minako had said touched her. She had read Greek Mythology. Most of them had. She knew that Venus meant Aphrodite, goddess of love. And that Mars meant Ares god of war. Although she was a goddess, the same. Just female. Which reminded her of something else that put a smile on her face. All this time Artemis had been siting in the corner talking to Luna, and, although it was mean, she had to say it. "You know Artemis," Rei started, catching his attention. "Did you know that in Greek Mythology Artemis is a girl?" With that everyone broke out laughing. Easing the tension. But Luna seizing the moment strutted over to Mamorou in a very female way and purred while going around his legs. "You know Artemis, Endymoin is supposed to be your love." With this final note everyone lost it and got lost in giggle fits. ***************** I know I know, I just couldn’t resist putting in a little bit about Greek Mythology, I discovered all this recently and I love it any way… Send me your comments! Good or bad, I don’t care, as long as I get comments! HYPERLINK mailto:lantos@nrtco.net lantos@nrtco.net An Innocent Soul? Disclaimer: The Sailor Moon Universe is owned by Naoko Takeuchi. Don’t bother Suing me I have nothing. I’ll try to keep it clear between the two Sailor Moon’s when their together Usagi is Eternal Sailor Moon and Chibi-Usa is Sailor Moon. But when they’re apart I’ll try to mention Chibi-Usa being pink or something. Ok enjoy! *************** Usagi sat in class looking at Silia. She couldn’t believe she had come back after revealing her identity. Fortunately neither Ami nor Makoto recognized her. Usagi planned to talk to Silia after school, she had been on time today just to make sure she didn’t have detention. She really could do these things if she tried. The Sensei assigned homework and class was over. Usagi got up and started to follow Silia. Ami and Makoto gave her funny looks but let her go. Usagi hadn’t been normal today and if Silia had something to do with it they’d let her go. Once they were outside Usagi ran up to Silia and started walking beside her. "Hi Silia what’s up?" she asked, hoping to get on Silia’s good side. "Nothing much." Responded Silia, she had gotten reprimanded by Versa and she didn’t want to talk. "You look sad. Is everything ok?" asked Usagi. ~ She’s so kind, but why to me? ~ thought Silia. "I’m fine Usagi really." ~ Hey isn’t she friends with Rei, Minako and Makoto. I wonder… ~ "Are you sure?" asked Usagi again. Silia reached for Usagi’s hands and took them in hers. A wave of light crossed her vision. "yes Usagi I’m sure." She said, although it came out all choked up. Usagi was Sailor Moon, she knew who Silia really was. Why was she so kind? "Silia you’re crying!" exclaimed Usagi. "You know who I am, don’t you?" Silia answered, standing up. "Silia it’s ok…" "No! We’re enemies, and now I know who you are, goodbye." Silia turned and ran in the other direction and when the coast was clear she disappeared into thin air. Makoto and Ami walked up to Usagi who was kneeling in the grass staring into space. "Usa-chan are you ok?" asked Ami. "Yes." Answered Usagi. "No you’re not. Spill it girl. Were here for you, what did Silia say to you?" asked Makoto. Usagi spilled her gut’s and though she was waiting for them to be mad at her the explosion never came. "You’re not mad at me?" asked Usagi. "Usagi you have seen good in her, just the fact that she didn’t blow you into thin air as soon as she found out means something. Maybe you’re right." Consoled Makoto. "Yes but how did she find out who you are…" mused Ami. "What was the last thing she did before she seemed to know?" "Umm, she said that she was ok and then she held my hands in a reassuring gesture. Then she got all choked up." Explained Usagi. "Maybe the touch." Supplemented Ami. "She’d need something to recognize the energy signature but that would make sense…. Let’s see if Silia ever touched Minako or Rei, come on let’s go to the temple." Said Makoto. "Ok Mako-chan." Agreed Usagi. ************ Acidia sat in a small room in their ship. It wasn’t very cozy but it was private. She was thinking about Sailor Moon, and Sailor Jupiter. She hadn’t told anyone who they really were yet. And no one knew she knew who Sailor Moon was. Also who Sailor Jupiter was, was based on an assumption. She’d have to touch Makoto to really know. But she had new evidence now. Mako was both Usagi and the other two girls friend. But she couldn’t turn Usagi in yet. Why had she been so nice to her? She was a lot nicer than her present company. She needed to find out the answer to that question first.Acidia had just decided to go stir up some trouble to get her attention when Hera appeared. "So shrimp who’s Sailor Jupiter?" she asked. "Why should I tell you?" said Acidia. "Because Versa told me to find out." "Well I was wrong ok, I touched the girl and she wasn’t Jupiter." ~ Why am I doing this? ~ "Listen aqua freak, I know you’re lying to me. So tell me, who is she?" "I said I don’t know!" "Humph! You’re a failure Acidia, Versa’s not going to be happy with this." With that Hera disappeared. Oh if only Hera knew how successful Acidia had really been, but she was so mean. Nothing like Usagi… Acidia lay down on her small bed and wept. ************ "Valadair, I’ve been studying the personnel files." Said Nutagi. "And?" asked Valadair. He was looking into her lovely emerald eyes and was wondering if there was a person alive who could ever compare to her. "And nothing, I consulted the muses and they have told me I need someone soon or I will perish. So I want _every_ personnel file we have, that includes pilots and maids. I need a body and I need it soon. OH and I read Mical’s report on Acidia. Tell him to keep a very close eye on Acidia, she’s wavering I can feel it." "Yes my queen." Answered Valadair. He had not called her that in a long time but now it seemed appropriate. She smiled. "Good dismissed." **************** "Remind me why we didn’t go to school today Rei." Asked Minako. "Because we felt awful, Mina-chan." Responded Rei flatly. "And we still do." "Oh well you wanted me over here at your lovely temple for a reason, now spill it." Said Minako anxiously. "Well I was thinking, we don’t have our Super heshin sticks but I found my original one." Said Rei. Her old ‘wand’ as she sometimes called it appeared in her hand it wasn’t as elaborate as the other one but it had the symbol of Mars on it. "That sounds like a good Idea Rei but we’ll still be weak even if they do work Which they might not." But none the less she made her old stick appear in her hand. "What about the Star Power one’s?" "Mine has disappeared. I doubt you’ll find yours either." Said Rei. Minako believed her and stared at the symbol of Venus. "I’m doing it!" she declared. "Well then I’m with you." Agreed Rei. She was worried but even if she only had her fire soul she would feel safer. Mars, POWER! Venus, POWER! In a swirl of Red and Orange light the two girls became once again what they used to be. And they cried in each others arms. *********** Versa stood in front of her four minions. They had done well so far. But for one that remained to be said. "Acidia, we have learned the location of the two senshi you I.D. ’d for us. I want you to go rid the world of them now. Understand?" "Yes Versa but why me?" asked Acidia. "Because you discovered their identities." Said Versa simply. But she did not choose her because of that. Versa could feel Acidia was on the verge of mutiny she needed to test her. What better way then two, defenseless senshi? "Of course Versa, I understand now I’ll prepare myself and leave in fifteen earth minuets." "Good." Answered Versa. Acidia disappeared and then Versa turned to Hera. "You know what to do." "Yes Versa it would be my pleasure." Hera smiled, she had been assigned to follow Acidia. And, if needed execute her. She would enjoy that. The brat was far too ignorant of their cause, to conquer all. All Hera had to do was wait until she had seen Acidia commit treachery and then get rid of her. Versa then looked to Celestiria and Hestia. "You two set up a distraction so that the senshi can’t all go rushing to save their 2 defenseless senshi. I want you to go now. And make it on the opposite side of town." The two nodded and set out. Versa cackled, everything would go right now. Nothing could stop her, nothing. And soon she would be running this show on her own. ********* Usagi walked up to Naru’s house and knocked on the door. Naru answered the door and smiled. "Hi Usagi! What’s up?" she asked cheerfully. "Can we talk?" she asked. "Of course, is something wrong?" she asked as the went up to her room. As they got there, Usagi sat down on the floor. "Naru, this is personal I know but , uh, can I ask you about Nephrite?" asked Usagi hopefully. Naru looked at her curiously but smiled and nodded. "How did you know he was good, deep down?" she asked. "Well I suppose it was just a feeling you know? I guess I never really knew about his past, but I know Sailor Moon had a bone to pick with him so he must have been bad. I got the impression he was from this evil society. But deep down I could tell he had an innocent soul. And when he died I knew he did." Usagi smiled, she knew she was right now. "Thanks Naru." Usagi’s watch then beeped. "Sorry Naru that’s my alarm, I have to leave!" Usagi rushed out. "Sometimes she amazes me." Said Naru to herself. When Usagi was a couple blocks away and out of view she flipped open her communicator. "Hi ya!" she said. "Usagi this is Mako, listen there’s a fight going on but Ami wants you go to the temple." "What? Why?" asked Usagi. That’s when Ami’s face appeared. "Because Usagi there is a 76.3% chance that this might be a diversion. We are at the other end of town from the temple." "And," started Uranus as she grabbed Makoto’s communicator. "besides, you are still out of it from that attack!" "I’ll be careful though!" she persisted. "No way Usagi." Refused Makoto now getting her communicator back, "Besides Uranus and Neptune here are gonna come after you if you don’t do this." "Fine but if you need help I can fly remember?" said Usagi defeated. "Yes Usagi now go in case Ami’s right." "I’m practically there!" With that Usagi took off at a run for Rei’s temple. As she was running she didn’t even notice Mamorou coming from the other direction and she went straight into him. "Ahhhhhhh!" she exclaimed as she fell on top of him. "Just like old times again?" said Mamorou staring into Usagi’s lovely blue eyes. Usagi smiled back momentarily laughed nervously got up and continued running towards the temple. Leaving Mamorou shocked. "Usako is something wrong?" He shouted after her as he got up and ran after her. Then, seeing a she had just run into him he called her his favorite nick-name. "Hey meatball head!" "Don’t call me that!" she yelled back. "Rei and Minako might be in trouble we have to get to the temple right now!" "Hey we could take my car." suggested Mamorou as he caught up to her. "Oh Mamo-chan that would be wonderful!" exclaimed Usagi, hugging him. "Come on you passed it a block back." Prompted Mamorou as they raced to the car. ********** Acidia had made up her mind she was going but she wasn’t coming back, she was worried though. Would she escape from Versa? Would Usagi still be nice to her? Did she just have to disappear? She wasn’t sure why she was doing this but she couldn’t resist. Something told her she must. But to insure they believed her she needed a peace offering and she knew exactly what to give them. She appeared in the treasure room and grabbed the two objects off the table and smiled as she disappeared, hoping Sailor Moon would show up. She’d understand. ******** Sailor Jupiter was facing off with the very same youma that had disappeared on her when Rei and Minako had been injured. It fired a ball of blue energy at her and she dodged it. Seeing it was made of water she had to be careful. But one carefully placed shot could probably kill it. She just had to plan it out right. Mercury and Saturn were battling a female youma with hair that was on fire, dressed in a red bodysuit, with black shoulder pads and boots. It also had a black band around its waist. MERCURY AQUA RAPHSODY! She called out. Sending her ice at the demon unfortunately, like she had expected. The attack didn’t work. But it gave Saturn time to hit it with her Glaive. SILENCE GLAIVE SURPRISE! She yelled wounding the youma. They had been doing this systematically for a while. But unfortunately it looked like they needed someone like Sailor Moon for this job. Uranus and Neptune were attacking Hestia and Celestiria. And getting nowhere fast. Well that’s not to say they weren’t doing ok. They just needed more time. HELL’S FIRE! Screamed Hestia flinging black fire at the two senshi knocking them over. "I’ll finish them off!" exclaimed Celestiria, who then began to chant "Portal to the black realm and nothingness! Center of eternal torment! Open your gates to me!" as she said this a swirl of black appeared behind Uranus and Neptune, who were just getting up, and began to suck them in. They fell to the ground and started to be dragged towards the portal. They tried to grab the ground but it wasn’t working they were being sucked towards the portal! ********* Rei and Minako had de-transformed again and were now chatting happily together, when they heard a car pull up. "Who could that be?" asked Minako. "Someone coming to make a wish? Let’s go see." Suggested Rei. They walked out side to see Usagi running up to the temple with Mamorou trailing behind her. "Usagi I told you not to come here!" yelled Rei. "Come off your high horse Rei besides they already know who I am!" retaliated Usagi. "What!?!?" screeched Minako. "Yes that’s right, Silia is Acidia and she knows who I am. But that’s not the point. The point is that there’s a fight going on at the other side of town and Ami thinks it might be just a diversion so I’m here to protect you. I ran into Mamorou on the way here." Explained Usagi rapidly. "Ya literally." Said Mamorou rubbing his head. "But Usagi we’re not defenseless!" said Minako excitedly. "What do you mean?" asked Mamorou. "What she means," started Rei "is that we have our original powers which means I can access my fire soul and fire bird. And Mina-chan can use her crescent beam, and meteor shower!" "Guys that’s great!" exclaimed Usagi hugging Minako "But were having trouble holding them off with our new powers." "It doesn’t matter Usa-chan," said Minako "at least were not defenseless." "Guess your right!" agreed Usagi beaming. "Come on let’s go inside and…" Rei never got finished, at that moment Acidia appeared in front of them. "Silia." Said Usagi lowering her head. Then she took action knowing she had no choice. MOON ETERNAL POWER, MAKE-UP! MARS POWER! VENUS POWER! In a flash of red, orange and pinky white. The three Sailor Senshi appeared. Mamorou slunk out of view to transform somewhere else. Hoping not to be noticed. Acidia looked shocked. "You can transform?" "That’s right! I am Mars forever!" "And I will always stand for love, I am Venus!" Acidia looked at her feat. "I’m not here to fight you." She said plainly. Mars and Venus exchanged looks. Moon smiled. "I knew it, Silia you have an innocent soul I’ve seen it." Acidia lowered herself to the ground and reached into her pocket. Mars and Venus weren’t certain as to what to think so they stood on guard. "I don’t know what’s come over me. But the Ticha are so cruel and I know I don’t belong there. I brought you these as a piece offering. Will you help me?" Acidia reached into her pocket and pulled out two, heshin sticks and a dark jewel that was glowing brightly. Venus and Mars were ready to pounce on their departed ‘friends’ but they didn’t know whether they should or not. Moon smiled, "Of course I’d help you Silia, er, what’s the jewel?" "This is the revealing portal, it’s how I knew who you were. All I had to do was touch one of you and I’d know, I case you’re wondering, I bumped into Mars here downtown." With that she crushed the stone in her hand, and tossed the two sticks to Mars and Venus. They quickly grabbed them up and transformed properly. MARS POWER, MAKE-UP! VENUS POWER, MAKE-UP! When the two girls were finished they hugged each other with joy. ************* Hera had expected a mutiny she knew what had to be done as well. As she watched from the bush she saw Acidia talking kindly to the enemy! Even though she was expecting betrayal what happened next put her into shock and rage. Acidia crushed the revealing portal and gave the senshi back their transformation things. Hera leaped from the bush in rage. "Acidia! You mutinous whelp! Lucky for Versa I’m here! Well too bad you won’t be here much longer. OLYMPUS CHARGE!" A white thunder bolt appeared in Hera’s hand and she launched it towards Acidia. ACID RAIN BURN! Acidia launched her attack back and the two of them blew up when they contacted each other. Then Eternal Sailor Moon came into action. "I am the pretty suited soldier Eternal Sailor Moon! I stand for love and justice, I will right wrongs and triumph over evil! I have seen the good in Silia and I won’t let you take that form her! On behalf of the Moon I will stop you!" "Sailor Moon you are such a pain in the neck! And why do you persist to call her Silia, her name is Acidia and if you’ll just give me a moment I’ll get rid of her and deal with you." Retaliated Hera. "Not today you won’t!" called out Sailor Mars. "I’ll stand behind Silia and Sailor Moon, On behalf of the planet Mars I will rid the earth of you! I am Sailor Mars and I’m pissed so watch out!" "I am the goddess and warrior of love and beauty get out of here now while you still have a chance! For I am Sailor Venus and I’ve got my powers back!" chimed in Venus. "Oh such pretty talk. But you can’t defeat me! OLYMPUS CHARGE!" Hera flung four thunderbolts at each of her opponents. Mars and Venus dogged, Sailor Moon let out a yelp but managed to get out of the way. And Acidia fired back. VENUS LOVE AND BEAUTY SHOCK! MARS FLAME SNIPER! The two attacks charged towards Hera who dogged them. Her attention now mainly focused on the senshi. "I don’t have time for this! Youma Naturis I summon you! Take care of these brats for me!" Called out Hera. A female youma appeared she had green skin and he clothes appeared to be made of vines. Naturis laughed "Prepare to meet your end! Fell the burn of my sap!" She launched a brown substance at Mars and Venus who just barely made it out of they way in time. Mars looked back to see the ‘sap’ burning a hole in the ground. "Watch it that stuff’s like acid!" "Got’cha Mars!" called back Venus. "Hey vine lady! Taste this! VENUS LOVE AND BEAUTY SHOCK!" Venus’s attack knocked the creature to the ground but it was still fighting. ******** Jupiter laid another punch towards the creature but like the last one her hands just went strait through it. "Darn you!" she yelled in frustration. "Drechilius can not be beaten! Taste my energy water!" Drechilius launched a ball of blue energy towards her. Jupiter probably would have finished the cretin off with one of her attacks but electricity and water don’t mix and there was water everywhere. She didn’t know what to do but was about to try her luck when she heard a life saving call. DEAD SCREAM! The intense sound from Pluto’s attack sent the water creature into convulsions. Pluto attacked again and the sonic blast destroyed it. "Arigato, Pluto." Said Jupiter. "Not a problem, come on Uranus and Neptune need help." She answered pointing to her left. "That’s it!" exclaimed Saturn in frustration. "I’m using my death reborn attack!" "No you can’t! It’s to dangerous!" said Mercury. "Well what then, all my strength is almost gone!" complained Saturn. "I don’t know I…" Mercury cut herself off when she saw a familiar pink figure heading their way. "That’s what! Let’s distract it!" SILENCE GLAIVE SURPRISE! SHABON SPRAY! Just then the Sailor Moon in pink appeared. And launched her attack. PINK MOON PRINCESS HALATION! With that the fire demon screamed in agony and disappeared. "Nice to see you. Thanks." Said Mercury. "Where’s mommy?" "Well we thought you were with her, but she’s at the temple guarding Minako and Rei." "Nope I was with Pluto. But we better go help her she needs us." "You go! Look," said Saturn pointing to the black portal. "Uranus and Neptune need us!" "Ok!" with that Sailor Moon took off. "Neptune I can’t hold on much longer!" Yelled Uranus. They winds pulling them in were incredibly strong and noisy. "Use your sword! Dig it into the ground!" yelled back Neptune. "Good Idea! Thanks!" called back Uranus pulling out her talisman. Making her sword materialize and then digging it into the ground. "Micharu?" said Uranus. "Hey don’t call me that were in the middle of a battle here!" she responded. "I really don’t think they can hear us over these winds." "Maybe your right…" "Listen I just wanted to say something to you. I…" Uranus got cut off by some words they were never more grateful to hear. JUPITER OAK EVOLUTION! Jupiter’s attack whirled towards Celestiria who lost her concentration and cut off the portal. "Why you! You’ll pay for that!" screamed Hestia. HELL’S FIRE! Hestia’s attack went screaming towards Jupiter who was helping Neptune up and didn’t see it coming! DEAD SCREAM! Pluto’s attack hit Hestia’s and they blew up on contact. SHABON SPRAY! "Why you little sissies! Afraid you’ll get hurt? Come out from behind that mist!" called out Celestiria. "Gladly!" yelled back Uranus. WORLD… DEEP… DEAD… SILENCE GLAIVE… MERCURY AQUA… JUPITER OAK… SHAKING! SUBMERGE! SCREAM! SURPRISE! RAPHSODY! EVOLUTION! The Five attacks merged became one and hit Celestiria and Hestia wounded. "We’ll get you for this!" screamed Celestiria. "But we’ve done what we came here to do, so bye-bye!" said Hestia. And with that the two of them disappeared. "Good riddance!" Said Uranus. Pluto then opened a portal. "Come we have to help the others." Then the six of them stepped inside. ******** Sailor Moon saw her friends and Silia being knocked over at the same time. She didn’t know who to help. Her friends seemed to be doing ok but still… ~ I know! I’ll dust the monster and then hope Silia’s still ok. ~ , ~ What am I thinking? Silia’s up against Hera! She’ll never make it! ~ Just then Mars let out a yelp as an attack barely missed her and that made up Sailor Moon’s mind. Quickly she ran towards the battle her staff ready in her hand. Quick action could do it but unfortunately she didn’t notice the thunderbolt Hera had launched at her in an attempt to get rid of her once and for all. *********** Ha ha! Cliff hanger!! Ha ha! =Þ Ok well what’s gonna happen. Hmmm, I know. Buy you don’t! *questions and comments to HYPERLINK mailto:lantos@nrtco.net lantos@nrtco.net and/or visit my web- page at www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Tower/6316.* actually I have a simple address for it. http://come.to/Tiana but it’s not working right now.