Prologue
Thousands of years ago, before the age of recorded history, the greatest battle in the universe was waged, and it was the final marker in a war that the greatest heroes of this time period were destined to lose. Queen Serenity of the Moon Kingdom, which served as the governing body for what would later be called the Milky Way galaxy, sacrificed her life to give the souls of her recently deceased daughter, the protectors of her realm and the rest of her kingdom's population a second chance at defeating the evil that had come in the form of Queen Metalia and her Dark Kingdom followers. Using the Silver Crystal, her most powerful magical item, Queen Serenity was able to seal the evil Queen and her armies away where they could do no further harm to anyone but at the cost of her life. Moments before her death, she sent the spirits of her loved ones and subjects to be reborn at some point in the future on the neighboring blue planet known as Earth.
In the beginning, the members of the Sailor Soldiers, the former protectors of the Moon Kingdom, had no idea who they really were when they were each reborn to human parents in city of Tokyo, Japan. With the help of the guardian cats Luna and Artemis, who were also sent by Queen Serenity to guide them should the need for the sailor warriors ever be needed again, Sailor Venus, Sailor Moon, Sailor Mercury, Sailor Mars, and Sailor Jupiter were each reawakened one at a time.
Along with their mysterious ally, the masked hero known as Tuxedo Mask, the Sailor Soldiers began to battle against the various evildoers that plagued their city. When a new warrior appeared and saved Sailor Moon from a powerful monster, the sailors gained another new ally in their struggle to keep peace on Earth in the hero known as Carnage. Under the tutelage of Carnage, the five Sailor Soldiers learned how to further harness their individual sailor powers and learn new strategies on how to use them in tandem with each other which would prove invaluable in their future battles against the Doom Tree and later on, Gaap, the Prince of Demons.. As their enemies continued to grow in power and viciousness, the stronger members of the Outer Planet sailors; Sailor Uranus, Sailor Neptune, Sailor Saturn, and Sailor Pluto arrived to act as reinforcements to even the playing field when it came time to face them.
As time wore on, a pure and sacred love developed between Carnage and Sailor Jupiter. The power of this love would come to rival that of the love between Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask. Both were examples of the deepest love that a human heart could feel, and it bolstered not only their own individual powers, but had the residual power to enhance all of the other Sailor Soldiers' powers together as a group.
Once again, the Dark Kingdom attempted to rise to power under a new leader named Apachite. He intended to success where the previous leaders, Queen Metalia and Queen Beryl had failed. He managed to infiltrate and corrupt the Illuminati Council that Carnage had once been an active part of and acted as the first and last line of defence against the Earth's enemies. However, Apachite was secretly working on corrupting the entire world. It was this overall tremendous act of evil that triggered the end of the known world. Even with the added strength of their strike team's assault on Apachite's base in Canada, the power of love and justice was not enough. Unbeknown to the Sailor Soldiers, the evil Apachite had managed to set off over 12,000 nuclear missiles that had already been successfully launched as his ultimate trump card. Unfortunately, none of the missiles could be stopped in time before they hit their targets. In a last act of desperation, Sailor Moon used her Silver Moon Crystal, the evolved form of the Silver Moon crystal that was once yielded by her mother thousands of years ago, to save the people of the world from the destruction that was about to occur. The Silver Moon crystal encircled the world and formed a hard crystal shell that encased each member of the Earth's population along with each member of the Sailor Soldiers and Carnage to protect them from the radiation and environmental effects of the global nuclear fallout. The Earth itself was completely devastated and fell into a deep state of hibernation as it healed itself.
Nearly one thousand years later, the crystal cocoon holding Sailor Moon opened up, releasing her. Using the Silver Moon crystal that had returned to her just before she had been put into suspended animation, she magically willed all of the other cocoons to open up and release the people inside them. During all that time, the climatic scars and environmental infection left by the missiles had long since gone away and a new Earth had grown from its ashes like the mythological Phoenix of old. When the people of Earth began to re-inhabit it, the sailors found that a large mountain of natural clear quartz crystal had grown in the exact center of where the old city of Tokyo had been. The sailors immediately knew this was to be the Crystal Palace which was prophesized to be the center piece of the new city of Crystal Tokyo.
A calming joy began to settle over the world, because the sight of the Crystal Palace and the establishment of Crystal Tokyo was the signal that the Crystal Millennium had begun. Sailor Moon became Neo-Queen Serenity and Tuxedo Mask became King Endymion and her husband. They assumed the reins of power and became the new rulers of this time of global peace. They did what was necessary to keep the people of Earth safe, with the help of the Sailor Soldiers and Carnage resuming their roles as guardians of Earth. Although this was a time of peace and love, evil continued to manifest everywhere and anyway it could. The modern evils of drug addicts, gang members, and the sort may have been greatly reduced by the white queen of Earth and the Silver Moon Crystal but they were still an issue to contend with. Although the weapons and tools had changed, the darkness that remained in humanity would never truly be eliminated.
The first major battle in this new world was when a magician by the name of Aldrich Reid appeared with the intention of destroying Crystal Tokyo. Using the magical skills he had acquired from various demons including the sailors' old enemy, Gaap, he stole all the humanity from the warrior known as Carnage, leaving him an empty husk for his alien symbiote to completely take over his body with its own brand of insanity and evil. This new version of Carnage tore through Crystal Tokyo like a murderous cyclone bent on death and destruction, leaving nothing but mayhem and chaos in his wake.
As all hope was about to be lost, Sailor Jupiter's love for her husband ended up saving him and the unborn child that was growing inside her. The product of that love turned out to be a little girl whom they would name Tera. Aldrich Reid was exiled to the Dark Moon, the tenth planet and furthest away from the Sun. Carnage took the new name Hybrid to show that he was different now and to not be associated with the numerous crimes that he had committed while under Aldrich Reid's influence. As part of his penance, he was ordered to attend regular cleansings from the Silver Moon Crystal along with Sailor Jupiter and Tera to ensure that the evil of the Carnage symbiote would never be unleashed again. The king and queen dubbed him as the official Guardian of Earth, and gifted him with the magical sword, the Sword of Gaia that King Endyimon had once used over ten millennia earlier in his original identity of Prince Endyimon during the reign of the Moon Kingdom. When Tera reached the age of fourteen, she requested and was granted the powers of a sailor warrior, following in her mother's footsteps and taking over her father's title as the first ever official guardian of Earth, Sailor Earth.
Three centuries passed, and the soldiers of love and justice began to grow lax as new responsibilities and duties took over each of their lives. Each of the Sailor Scouts developed their own agenda in a world that didn't need heroes right now. Sailor Mars founded the new Hikawa Shrine and began to pass on everything she'd learned from her grandfather about spirituality and guidance to the citizens of Crystal Tokyo. Sailor Mercury threw herself completely into various scientific and medical fields and was a significant factor in the vast advancements in both medical and technological marvels that helped shape the society that now dominated the Earth. Sailor Venus ran the network of recreation centers around the city of Crystal Tokyo where the general public could engage in both physical and social events. These were also the places where the next generation of Sailor Soldiers could be trained to act as a precautionary measure just in case the forces of evil ever chose to rise again.
Princess Chibiusa, the daughter of Neo-Queen Serenity and King Endyimon became the new Sailor Moon, taking over her mother's former identity. Also like her mother, she had her own group of guardians known as the Sailor Quartet. Sailor Jupiter and Hybrid's daughter, Tera, joined them as well. Tera had inherited the powers of a sailor warrior from her mother, but she had also been gifted or cursed with a symbiote from her father. When she can to realize that fact on her sixteenth birthday, it scared her nearly to death to find out that she had this other aspect to her living within her.
So even though the Earth had been nearly restored fully and was clear of the societal evils such as crime and war for the most part under Neo-Queen Serenity and King Endymion, t, not everything was perfectly good. It was true that education was open to everyone and the average life span had increased from eighty years to nearly a thousand thanks to the magic of the Silver Moon Crystal. This created a kind of utopian world that existed for the people saved from the nuclear holocaust of the past and the future generations born afterwards.
However, the few people that still carried an evil influence were located and captured so that they could be brought before Neo-Queen Serenity to be cleansed of their malevolent tendencies before re-entering society. Unbeknownst to all of them, a threat was building, a threat by the name of Norman Osborn. He and his team of super-powered humans formulated an attack on Crystal Tokyo by first capturing the only threats that could stand against them; Hybrid and the original Sailor Soldiers.
With their mentors and parents in gone and presumably in grave danger, the next generation of sailors, led by Sailor Moon mounted a rescue mission to bring them back. In the confusion of their infiltration inside Norman Osborn's corporate headquarters, Sailor Moon was seriously hurt and presumed dead. Her friends thought she'd been lost to them as she had disappeared down an elevator shaft with a scream. After they had managed to retreat to the outskirts of the old city of New York, they became trapped in their own prison of grief and sorrow at their ultimate failure until their princess found and returned back to them after escaping Norman's fortress on her own. Meanwhile, the original Sailor Soldiers found themselves in a tight spot of their own as Norman kept them trapped in giant glass tubes as if they were his own personal science experiments. Even more frightening was that the insane corporate leader had managed to use his expertise in chemistry to turn Hybrid against his family and his friends by temporarily bringing out his evil alter ego, Carnage. Ironically enough, it was his own daughter that had to face him as the original Sailors were still trapped in their glass prisons and the young sailors had been taken out of commission temporarily by a surprise attack from Norman's lieutenant, Doctor Octopus. In the end, love and strength won out over insanity and brutality as Tera was able to weaken him enough to be able to save her father.
Not long after the defeat of Norman Osborn, the Sailors had to face yet another crisis that would rock each of them to their very souls, in particularly Sailor Uranus and Hybrid. In an icy battle with a mysterious blue ninja, Sailor Uranus had to deal with the immense emotional pain after she had just watched her lover supposedly die before her very eyes in a battle with two more mysterious ninjas as part of a sadistic tournament designed by the evil sorcerer, Shang Tsung. The grief that she felt turned into raw anger and it gave her new strength. She drew on her love for Sailor Neptune to give her the power and will to wield her personal weapon, the Space Sword with enough precision to dispatch her enemy, the blue ninja known as Sub-Zero, which had become the object for her rage. Later on when she returned back to the Crystal Palace and in front of Neo-Queen Serenity and the other sailors, Sailor Uranus came face to face with the blue ninja's lover, a woman by the name of Tanya. Sailor Uranus with the Space Sword still in her hand, plunged it deep into the woman's chest. Everyone who witnessed the act was immediately shocked that she would blatantly break the sacred law decreed by the white queen of the Earth by killing an unarmed woman. Sensing their intense and questioning stares, Sailor Uranus kicked the woman's lifeless arm away from her body to show a hidden bladed weapon underneath it. The sudden understanding of what had really happened flooded across each of her friends and team mates. Sailor Uranus soon finds out afterwards that Sailor Neptune isn't dead after all and is filled with a sense of intense relief.
The evil and dangerous tournament that Sailors Uranus and Neptune had taken part in was the idea of the malevolent sorcerer, Shang Tsung with the prize for the victor being a young woman by the name of Iris. The young blonde haired woman was actually Hybrid's long lost sister who had been kidnapped by Shang Tsung and held in the demon dimension, Negonall for over a decade according to the passage of time in the alternate universe.
With the Sailors barely winning the tournament, Shang Tsung grabs Iris and takes her back to Negonall where he knows Neo-Queen Serenity's influence cannot reach. Hybrid, Sailor Earth and a few of the other sailors who didn't participate in the tournament give chase with the help of the guardian of time and space, Sailor Pluto. They manage to track Shang Tsung to a large tower and are confronted by Shang's elite guards, a small band of monstrous humanoid creatures. The sailors paired off against the monsters, leaving Hybrid to enter the tower and continue to track down both Iris and Shang Tsung. Although a few of them would suffer various injuries; some minor and some very serious, when all was said and done, good triumphed once again and the creatures were dispatched.
When he locates them both in a large spherical room, Hybrid enters into an agreement with the sorcerer to battle to the death with the winner getting Iris' body and soul. During the ensuing battle, the sorcerer transforms himself several times into some of Hybrid's friends and family to distract him and leave him open for a surprise attack. When he turns into Hybrid's mother, it seems like victory is all but assured for the crafty magician when Hybrid's hidden guilt for failing to find and rescue his sister for so many years nearly paralyzes him. Off to the side and chained to the wall, Iris is forced to witness the physical and emotional damage that is being wreaked upon Hybrid, and she mentally tells herself that she has to do something before she loses the only family member that she has left.
Using the magical skills that she had learned during her time in Negonall she manages to free herself and with the help of a rusty decorative sword that she sees hanging on a nearby wall, she uses her powers to make mystical flames dance along the blade before she plunges it into the back of the evil sorcerer, almost killing him instantly. Hybrid, recovered from Shang Tsung illusion being broken and the sight of his sister coming to his aid, finishes the sorcerer off with organic weapons created by his symbiote.
The magical power that Iris possessed and her actions to save Hybrid gave her the confidence and desire to create a new identity called Magik. Neo-Queen Serenity asked her to join her brother and his friends and family as a Guardian of the Earth and the Crystal Kingdom to which Iris graciously accepted. The queen had a new sword commissioned for her, and Iris managed to get a battle uniform that she felt her new title and role deserved. Once again a happy ending ensues, but what will our heroes face next?
