AN: I was going to bed when this idea came to me, bitch-slapped me awake, and screamed "YOU WILL WRITE ME!" So, as to not anger my pissed off muse, I did so. Good thing I had nothing to do today.

Summery: Pluto, at the end of time realizes that the Moon Kingdom fell due to the removal of a certain Senshi by Metallia before she ever took her post. So she takes steps to replace that Senshi and stop the fall from ever happening.

Warning: It's another of my locked Ranma fics. Just so I don't here from people complaining about that.

Disclaimer: I do not own Ranma ½. I do not own Sailor Moon. I do not own any fictional person, place or thing used in this story. I do not own any real person, place or thing used in this story. Any new and original persons, places or things used in this story are mine however.

THE ETERNAL SUN

PROLOGUE

RANMA'S HARD DECISION

The ruins of Nerima

Ranma Saotome says he never loses. But right now he wished he had. To his left were the ruins of the Tendo compound. To his right were the dead bodies of the Tendos and his parents. They had all been sitting down to dinner when it happened. Youma had attacked. Usually they kept about two wards over in Juban, and the few who came into Nerima didn't last long. But this was different. Instead of a single and easy to dispatch lone Youma, there had been hundreds of the things. Ranma had beaten most of them, and then the Senshi showed up and helped him dispose of the rest.

He then took his anger at losing his loved ones out on the Senshi. Crying "Why didn't you get here sooner! I'm probably the only one left alive in this ward!" he chased them out of the ward.

And he was right. The close to three hundred Youma that missed their drop point and landed in Nerima instead of Juban had killed every one in the ward other then him.

He spent the next few days burying the dead of the ward, and saying prayers for those he knew, even the Kuno's and the ladle lady.

He had also spent that time driving any who came to Nerima out of it.

It had been over a week now and Ranma was getting over the manic depression he had. Oh he was still depressed, but he was ready to go out into the world again and face it. "I want to help those Senshi girls fight the Youma. They need to die." Ranma thought.

As he looked around the ruins of the Tendo house he'd been staying in, he said "I just wish this had never happened. I'd do almost anything to not of have it happen."

"You are wise to put the 'almost' in that statement." A female voice said from behind him. Turning around he saw one of the Senshi, and a blond woman in a white gown, a crown on her head, and golden scepter in her hands.

"Yeah, well I know who can be listening when you make blanket statements like that. So who are you and what do you want?" Ranma said then asked the pair.

"I am Queen Serenity and this is my trusted confidant Sailor Pluto." The Woman in white said.

"Your majesty, we don't have much time before my current self detects us and comes to investigate, we must leave soon." The Woman named Pluto said.

"Yes, yes I know. Ranma, I have a proposal for you, if you want to hear it, please come with us. If you refuse, you have my word that you will return here as soon as you left, but we must leave soon." Queen Serenity said.

Ranma saw the desperation in this woman, and said "Alright, where are we going?" Ranma asked.

"The end of time." Was Pluto's answer. And with a wave they were gone.

Moments later, the current Sailor Pluto came into the ruins of the Tendo house, and asked to the empty air "What were they doing here?"

The void which is the end of time

The three of them were in a void of nothingness. "Welcome to the end of time." Pluto said.

Looking at the void in which they were, Ranma's eyes went wide. "Uh, ok. Now what did you want?"

"The time line is badly screwed up. Your time should have never happened." Pluto started.

"Huh, what do you mean?" Ranma asked.

"Ranma, I want your solemn oath that if you do not except my offer, you will reveal this to no one, not even the Senshi." Serenity said.

"But isn't she one?" Ranma asked pointing to Pluto.

"Yes, and no. do I have your oath?" Serenity asked.

"Ranma, now curious, said "I swear as a martial artist that if I do not except your offer, what ever it is, I will never tell anyone what has been told to me by either of you." Ranma said.

"Fine. Ranma, I'm a ghost." Serenity started off with.

Seeing Ranma's look of shock, Pluto said "I think I should explain this your majesty."

"Go ahead Pluto." The ghost of Queen Serenity said, nodding.

"This," Pluto said, waving her arms at the nothingness around them "Is the end of time. I now live here. The Pluto you know of is my past self. I want to tell you a story, a story of a Kingdom called the Moon Kingdom." She said. She then went into the rise and eventual fall of the Moon Kingdom.

"Wow. That's some story." Ranma said.

"But it should have never happened that way!" Pluto yelled.

"What?" Ranma asked.

Taking a deep breath, Pluto said "All the Senshi were picked from the Royal families of their Planets. But there was to be one more Senshi. The Senshi of the Sun. The candidate for that was to be the daughter of best warrior and most loyal person in the Moon Kingdom, Queen Serenity's Sister. Her Niece was to be Sailor Sun. But Serenity's Sister and thus her Niece were removed from the time line by Metallia before I ever became a Senshi, thus I did not learn of them till time ended. I Serenity's Niece had become Sailor Sun, the Moon Kingdom would never have fallen."

"How could one Senshi stop the slaughter you described?" Ranma asked.

"It doesn't matter, she did." Pluto said. "Ranma, we need your help. We looked all over time and space for a being that could take Serenity's Niece's Place and your it." She told Ranma, then she said "Don't say anything yet, just here me out. You have two choices. One, you can go back to your life as it is, and do whatever you want. Or Two, you can take the place of Serenity's Niece, and become Sailor Sun, and stop the fall of the Moon Kingdom." Seeing that Ranma was about to speak, She said "Wait till I Finish. If you chose to help us by taking Serenity's Niece's place, then you will enter a Father Paradox. A Father Paradox is described as 'How can you go back in time to kill your father, when doing so stops your birth?' the answer is you exist outside of time. Ranma, if you help us, you will be assuring that your world as you know it will never exist. Now you may speak." She told a Ranma ready to burst.

"Ok, so you want me to be a girl, become a Senshi, go way, Way, WAY back in time to prevent the fall of your Kingdom, which will ensure that the world as I know it never ever, EVER existed? Why?" Ranma asked.

"Because, the world that you know was NEVER supposed to exist. The Moon Kingdom was supposed to continue, but by removing my Sister and her Niece from the time line, it did. We want to correct that." Serenity said.

"But why do you need me? Why not…" Ranma was asking, when Serenity interrupted him with

"Not get my Sister and her Niece?" Ranma nodded. "By removing them from the time line, Metallia made them non-existent. We can't get to them, for they do not and never did exist. So we have to replace them. And you are the only being we have found searching through all of time and space that can not only handle the power and responsibility of being Sailor Sun, but also do what is needed to prevent the fall of the Moon Kingdom."

Ranma sighed. "Say I did, for arguments sake, except your deal. What would happen? Would I still be me? Would I remember everything I know? Or would you mould me into a new person? And who would play my Mother?" Ranma asked.

"I would take over as Serenity's Sister Tranquility. You would be put into the time line just as you are, with all your memories intact, and you would have a second set of memories as well as my Daughter Peace. Your Memories as Ranma would be the primary ones, with Peace's memories being secondary. To be honest, I have no idea of the effect that this will have on either of us, but it is a chance I'm willing to take. I'm willing to lose pieces of my self to stop the fall, but it is up to you if you are." Pluto told Ranma.

"Can I have some time to think about this?" Ranma asked.

"You have all the time you need in this place." Pluto said.

Ranma thought. And he thought some more. And then he thought even more.

In Ranma's mind there were two downsides to this. One, he be a girl. Two, he'd be effectively destroying his reality to make a new one exist. On the other hand their was the fact that he didn't like this reality that he lived in, what with everyone he knew, especially Akane dead. Also the Moon Kingdom sounded like a thing worth fighting for. Finally he thought of the first duty of a martial artist. To always protect the weak. But who was the weak here? His reality, or the one that never existed, yet should have. Finally he remembered the hundreds of billions that had died in Beryl's attacks. That was what decided him. They were the weak in this instance. So he finally said after hours of consideration "I'll do it."

"Thank you Ranma." The ghost of Queen Serenity said. "We had hoped you would. Pluto and I modified the Gates of Time with a spell. All you have to do is walk through them, and you will replace my Niece Peace the second she was removed form the time line. You will then be infused with her memories, as a secondary set of memories. You will keep your body, so two things need to be done before you go."

"Change me and lock me right?" Ranma asked. Serenity nodded. "Wait, if I'm replacing your Niece, won't my girl side's body be different then what your Niece looked like? And Pluto look different then your sister?" Ranma asked showing a moment of true intelligence.

"Yes, but it will not matter, for reality will shift as you take their places, making all think you always looked that way. And before you ask, you must be a female for this because only females can be Senshi, and the Moon Kingdom by that point was quite Matriarchical." Serenity told Ranma.

"So I can only be this Sailor Sun as a girl, and the place is run by woman anyway?" Ranma asked.

"Yes." Serenity said.

Sighing Ranma said "Let's get this over with before I change my mind." Thus Pluto came over with a cup of water, and a ladle that Ranma knew well. Thinking 'I agreed to this, I agreed to this." Over and over again, he let himself be locked by Pluto, soon to be his new mother.

Afterwards, she sighed and asked "Now what?" she asked. She did agree to this.

"We walk through that portal over there," she said pointing to the portal that was part of the Gates of Time and lead to the distant past, "And enter our new lives."

"Then let's go." Ranma said nervously. And she followed her into the portal, where everything went white.

There it is, the idea that would not let me go to bed. Now I will. I really need to stop making new fics and write my posted ones, but this seemed very promising. After I get some sleep I'll work on chapter one.