A lone crystal sat in the darkness of its dungeon, a blonde man imprisoned inside. He swore that if he ever got the chance that he would invoke revenge upon the three that had sent him to his untimely stasis. All he needed was to be free of this crystal prison.
He felt a change in the crystal, it was getting weaker. Had his queen been killed? The punishment of eternal sleep only worked as long as the crystal had a source of strength. Without one, it gradually grew fragile until it fell apart on its own.
It had been a year since the moment he felt the crystal begin to grow weak, it was visibly cracked in many places. With a single mighty burst of strength, he moved his arm. The crystal fell apart and he fell forward onto the ground. Rising to his feet, he stretched his arms and legs, it felt good to be free. Even better knowing that he could, at last, take his revenge.
"At last, Sailor Moon. I can settle the score." Jadeite's voice echoed in the darkness around him. He made his way towards the throne room, and sure enough it was in ruin upon his arrival, which meant he could carry out his plan for revenge. He knew who his targets were. Serena Tsukino, Ami Mizuno, and Rei Hino.
This time around, he would show them no mercy.
But he would need energy, lots of it. He also had an idea of where to get it. Jadeite may have been imprisoned, but he could hear some of the words of his fellow generals through the telepathic link he gained once frozen. Neflyte spoke often of a girl named Molly before Zoicite murdered him, or that's what he assumed had happened, something about powerful love energy. He knew just how powerful human emotions of the sorts could be, it was time to get a move on. "I hope you're ready, Sailor Moon. As soon as I have my way, your suffering will never end." He let out a maniacal laugh as he finished the sentence, then vanished in a swirl of energy.
The general appeared beside a sleeping Molly Baker, he smirked as he extended his hand to begin gathering her energy. "Incredible." He whispered as he absorbed this girl's emotions. "Neflyte was right, this energy is unlike any other when gathered individually." He remembered that two of his plans involved using this emotion, but both were failures in many ways. As the earth saying went, third time's the charm. The gathering went undisturbed, and Jadeite left, feeling stronger than ever before, without saying a word.
He appeared inside an abandoned building that had a sign saying 'Rag Time' on it's front. "It's time for a little remodeling." Using his powers, he conjured a lair of darkness for himself, but if the Sailors were coming, he would need to be ready.
But at the Hikawa shrine, Rei couldn't shake the feeling that there was another evil afoot besides the Amazon Trio. "Sacred flame, use your powers, show me this evil." She prayed in front of the ever-burning fire that was housed in the temple. She saw a pair of hands with energy swirling between them. Above this she could see a pair of eyes staring back at her. "Who..." She started to say, but gasped as she saw her and two other Sailors appear below the scene. Lightning struck from the swirling energy, turning the miniature her and two others to dust before the scene vanished.
She found it near impossible to sleep that night, the thought that an evil wanted her specifically was a terrifying thought. But she tried not to show it, and eventually fell asleep.
The sun rose the next day like always, and like always a certain blonde girl was late to class. "I'm sorry Miss Haruna! Please don't make me stand in the ha-" She almost finished her sentence, but realized that it wasn't Miss Haruna at the front of the classroom. Instead, it was a blonde man with red earrings and glasses, wearing a red blazer and khaki pants.
"You must be Serena Tsukino. I'm Jedediah, your substitute for today. Miss Haruna had some business to...take care of."
Serena took the opportunity to sit at her desk, he hadn't noticed her being late? It was odd, but she didn't mind as long as she didn't get another detention. "So, Jedediah. How did you know my name?" She asked.
"Because your always late for class. It says right here in Miss Haruna's notes. He tapped a stack of papers on his desk, and Serena slumped down in embarrassment.
"Hey! I'm not always late for class." She whined, but the substitute ignored it.
Jadeite was pleased with this disguise, he was in plain sight of Sailor Moon and she didn't even know it. But he would stick to the plan, there was no room for error this time around.
What he didn't know, was that there was already a group fighting the Sailor Scouts, who would not let anyone get in their way.
Hawk's Eye, Tiger's Eye, and Fisheye sat at their bar, looking through the photos of possible candidates of Pegasus' host. "How about this one?" Hawk's Eye held up a photo of Serena's substitute teacher.
Fisheye immediately snatched the photo from his hands. "Oh! Well hello handsome..." He said to himself.
"That was fast." Hawk's Eye commented.
"I take it you'll be taking this job?" Tiger's Eye asked for clarification. No response came from him. "Fisheye?" He looked over, but saw that he had already left to complete the task. "I'll take that as a yes then."
Jadeite was pleased things were going so well, now it was time to gather the energy from these students. "Alright class, for the next few days we'll be testing a new brand of pencil. Supposedly, they never wear down." He picked up a box from the desk and removed the lid. "Here, I want each of you to take one." The students lined up and each took a pencil from the box before returning to their seats.
As Serena sat down, she got the odd feeling that she had met this man before. She couldn't figure it out though. Class went by as per usual, but everyone found themselves rather sleepy by the end of it. She met up with Ami and Lita in the courtyard at lunch for their usual get-together.
Back in his classroom, Jadeite had finished absorbing the energy gathered by the pencils. He chuckled, "This is going perfectly." He donned his disguise once more and began to walk out of the room.
Fisheye in disguise bumped into him as he left the room, dropping the school supplies he was carrying. "Oh, dear! I'm so sorry about this!" He was disguised as a female, so he was expecting the fake substitute to fall for him.
"It's alright, things like this happen." When Fisheye wasn't looking, Jadeite used his telekinesis to gather all the supplies and upon Fisheye looking back, handed it to him.
"Wow, that was fast. How did you do that?" He tried his best to look like a cute girl being cute, but Jadeite remained uninterested despite his efforts.
"So, we heard you have a substitute in class for today." Lita started in a tone that Serena knew well. "Is he cute?" She teased.
"Yeah, kinda. But there's something strange about him, I can't stop thinking that i've met him before."
Ami replied with, "So it's not just me."
"What do you mean?" Lita wasn't sure where they were going with this.
"When I saw him in the hall on my way to class this morning, I got the same feeling. That i've met him somewhere before." She explained. "There was something about those earrings as well, where have I seen them before?"
While Ami pondered the true identity of Serena's substitute, Jadeite was growing annoyed with Fisheye flirting with him. It was painfully obvious. Eventually he snapped, "I'm not interested in you! Okay? Go find someone else there are plenty of others out there!" He cleared his throat after the small outburst. "I'm sorry, I don't know where that came from."
Fisheye gave up on trying to get Jadeite to fall for him, so he shed his disguise and began the countdown. "One!" A mirror shaped wall rose from the ground behind the blonde man. "Two!" Metal bindings restrained him to the surface of it. "Three!" Nothing happened. A dream mirror was supposed to be revealed, but nothing had happened. He tried again, "Three!" But as to be expected, nothing happened.
Jadeite shed his disguise and chuckled at Fisheye. "You think this will restrain me?" With a little effort, Jadeite snapped the bindings holding him against the wall, advancing towards his would-be captor.
Fisheye threw a series of knives at the advancing general, but Jadeite was quick to catch the knives with telekinesis. "What!?" Fisheye panicked. Not only was there no dream mirror in this man, but this man had powers he had never seen. Being able to break free from the bindings was already an impressive feat.
One by one, Jadeite launched the knives back at their owner, who let instinct take over and threw himself at Jadeite. The blonde general dodged to the side after he had launched the first knife. He launched the second and third simultaneously towards Fisheye's back. Both missed since he ducked, but he soon realized that on his own he was badly outmatched. He gave a final attempt by throwing one last knife, but like the others it was caught and fired back at it's owner.
Fisheye was out of sight rather quickly, but had he been thinking straight he would have summoned a Remless to attack along side him. Upon returning to the Dead Moon Circus, he reported the problem to Hawk's Eye and Tiger's Eye.
As soon as school ended, Serena, Ami, and Lita met up with Rei and Mina at the Hikawa Shrine. Serena told them about her substitute teacher, and how she couldn't shake the feeling she'd met him before.
Rei told them about the vision she had last night, and how her and two others were vaporized by the person above. Ami spoke up, "Maybe it's someone we've fought before. That would be a likely explanation."
"Yeah, but who?" Lita asked. Mina nodded.
Luna was the first to answer. "We know that they can gather energy, and Serena's class having a substitute teacher the day after Rei's vision gives me some bad feelings in my gut. That teacher is probably the one Rei saw in her vision!"
"Yeah, but who is he? The only person that matches that description is...you know...him, and we haven't seen from or heard of him in over a year." Ami followed up Luna's statement, Serena and Rei knew who she was talking about.
"I don't think Jadeite's behind this. He was sentenced to Eternal Sleep by Queen Beryl, remember?" Luna countered. The girls nodded, and began to wonder who else might be behind this. Unaware that two others were about to have a run-in with the former general.
Michiru and Haruka were on their way home after they had spent the day together looking for any sign of the Amazon Trio. Instead, however, they spotted Jadeite on the roof of their apartment building. Without hesitation, Haruka and Michiru transformed into Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune both made their way to the roof through a series of stairs. They confronted him on the roof. "Who are you?"
Jadeite turned to face them, a wicked smile on his face. "I am Jadeite, and who might you be? I don't remember seeing a Sailor Scout duo." He mocked.
"Jadeite was the first enemy Sailor Moon faced, so this should be a cakewalk." Uranus whispered, remembering what their princess had told them. "I am Sailor Uranus!" The short haired sailor proclaimed.
"And I am Sailor Neptune!" The blue haired sailor announced.
This seemed to worry Jadeite, he didn't remember there being a Uranus or Neptune, let alone both. "Very well, seeing as you're Sailor Scouts I shall bring you down!" He shot lightning from his hand, which the two dodged with ease.
Uranus rushed towards him, underestimating his power. Jadeite extended his hand, forming an invisible barrier that the girl just bounced off of, just like when Sailor Moon had tried the same thing.
"Deep Submerge!" Neptune launched her attack at Jadeite, who leapt into the sky to avoid it. He shot balls of energy down at them, although the roof was getting decimated they dodged the onslaught.
"World Shaking!" This time Jadeite was prepared. But being a projectile based attack, he caught it midair with his telekinesis, leaving Uranus in a state of shock.
"Hah! You are nothing!" He launched the attack back at them, bringing them both to the ground and leaving them severely drained. He extended his arm, and began to harvest the love energy from the two. Although they hadn't showed it to him, he could tell that they loved each other, which would prove to make him even more every passing second, the two felt themselves becoming weaker, but Jadeite could not finish before Neptune launched an attack in desperation. The attack hit him head on as he was not prepared, sending him flying to the other end of the roof, but he remained on his feet. As Neptune helped Uranus to her feet, they heard Jadeite say, "Don't think you've defeated me! You tell Sailor Moon and her two little friends, Sailor Mercury and Sailor Mars, that i'm coming for them, and that anyone who stands in my way will be destroyed!" He vanished into thin air, leaving the two Sailor Scouts on their own.
Back at his lair, Jadeite slammed his fist into the table before him, growling in anger. "Just great, now there are five Sailor Scouts. I'll have to change up my plans in order to compensate." He walked away from the table, and began to harvest energy from his surroundings. The amount was miniscule, but it was still better than sitting around doing nothing."Don't worry, Sailor Moon. I will have my way." He chuckled in the darkness, this time he would not fail. The three who had imprisoned him would suffer for eternity, and the others would fall before his power.
Jadeite, the first shitennou, was back and badder than ever before.