Usagi was tired. She and Haruka had started training together on Wednesdays after she got out of school. Setsuna had suggested it. "Usagi needs to build more confidence as a leader. I think knowing that she can take care of herself will help," and no senshi took her training as seriously as Haruka.

Usagi wanted to quit after the first 10 minutes, but she refused, even if she cried for most of the 90-minute session.

"Why is this so hard?" Usagi gasped, trying to breathe.

"Because I don't back down when you're tired. When you're fighting youma, they aren't your friends. They will exploit your weaknesses instead of easing up on you. I will do the same because I care."

"I wish you would care a little less," Usagi joked.

Haruka glared, but she gave a slight smile, one you would need a camera to have caught.

This went on for three months. Haruka was surprised that Usagi didn't quit after the first session, but she stayed with it. Setsuna called, asking if Haruka could let Usagi out early. "I need her to do something for me."

"You're free Koneko!"

"Thanks Haruka-chan." Usagi went on the errand. Setsuna needed Usagi to deliver some papers to Mamoru.

She knocked on the door, but he didn't answer. The file was too fat to get under his door so she took out her key and went inside.

"OH MAMO-CHAN!" She heard a girl squeal. The noise came from the bedroom. Usagi put down the papers. It cant' be what it sounds like. She tiptoed to his door and pushed it open.

Rei was on all fours; Mamoru was pounding into her.

They didn't notice until they heard a shrill.

"Usako?"

She ran out of the place, desperate to get away. HE was naked or else he would have run after her. Rei couldn't believe they got caught.

"You said she was training with Haruka."

"She was. She's always there at this time."

"Well, she wasn't today."

FUCK!

Tears filled Usagi's eyes as she scrambled to get into her room.

"Odango, dinner's early today," Shingo called out to her.

"Not hungry!"

"What?" Ikuko questioned. She's always hungry.

Usagi threw herself on the bed. She could feel her heart seizing up. She never knew a pain like this.

Luna was surprised to see Usagi such a mess. What could have happened while she was training? "What did Haruka do?"

"She didn't do anything," Usagi cried. "It was Mamoru. He's sleeping with Rei."

"WHAT?" That can't be right. "Are you sure?"

"I went to his house because Setsuna asked me to, and they were having sex. He didn't know I was coming. He thought I was still training, but I left early."

Luna gulped. "What about the future and Small Lady?"

"I don't know. I don't know anything."

"Is there anything I can do?"

Usagi shook her head. "I think I just need to rest."

Luna waited until she fell asleep to go find Artemis. He was coaching Minako as she sang until Luna jumped through the window.

"Want to hear her new song?"

"Later, Artemis. We need to talk?"

"What's wrong?"

"It's Mamoru. He's having an affair with Rei and Usagi found out."

"WHAT?" Minako yelled.

"She walked right in on them."

"Like a kissing affair?"

"She said they were having sex."

OH SHIT!

"What about the future?" Artemis asked her.

"I don't know."

Minako called Makoto, who was at Ami's house. They all agreed that the senshi needed to have a meeting. They decided to make it Friday.

"Should we still meet at Rei's?" Ami questioned.

"No," Makoto said. She might get thrown out of Rei's after kicking her ass. "Let's ask Setsuna. She has a big place."

Setsuna agreed to host the meeting. She knew she had some explaining to do. "I'll invite the outers," she said, wanting to make sure they didn't find out why there was a meeting until it was happening.

Minako called Rei to inform her of the meeting, but she hung up when Rei asked her what was going on. She feared the worst.

Usagi reluctantly went to school on Thursday. She didn't want to tell her parents about the breakup, so she had to go.

Mamoru had called ten times, but she blocked his number instead of calling him back. She didn't want to hear him or his excuses. She left her house early to make sure she wouldn't run into him. Amy was surprised to see Usagi at the school before she was.

She wanted to say something, but she didn't have any words.

Usagi was relieved that Rei was only in two of her five classes. Minako was in all of hers and if she had to see Rei all day, she would snap.

Rei tried to talk to Usagi after first period, but she walked out, ignoring Rei's calls and Minako's as well. She didn't give anyone the time of day. Even her teachers were baffled by her aloofness.

When Mamoru waited outside her school, she told him to get lost.

"Please, Usako, hear me out."

"YOU DON'T GET TO CALL ME THAT ANYMORE!"

She stormed away. He followed her and when she saw his motorcycle, she shoved it, causing it to bounce off the pavement.

"MY BIKE!" The mirror was smashed and it was covered in scratches now. She walked home, ignoring his angry screams as he looked at his ruined motorcycle.

Makoto saw Mamoru trying to get his bike off the pavement and she offered to help. Instead, she shoved it again, breaking the other mirror and scratching up the other side. When he confronted her, she kicked him in the balls and walked away.

He had to have his bike towed. He couldn't drive it without any mirrors.

Usagi went to dinner tonight, but she didn't speak much. Even Shingo was worried. "What's wrong with Usagi?" he asked their mother.

"I don't know." Maybe she got into a fight with her friends.

On Friday, Usagi went to class, taking notes instead of joking around. She didn't make eye contact with anyone. It was like this strange girl who looked like her had taken her place. If Minako hadn't known any better, she would have thought that Usagi had been replaced with a youma.

The meeting was at four. Usagi showed up right when it was about to start.

"Why are we here?" Haruka questioned.

No one had told her or Michiru the purpose of the meeting.

Everyone looked to Usagi. "I didn't call this meeting," she said bluntly.

"We decided to," Minako said, pointing to Makoto and Ami. "We have a problem. Should you say it or should I?" she asked Rei.

"Say what?"

"That you're fucking Mamoru."

"WHAT?" Haruka yelled. "Is this a joke?"

"No," Usagi said. "It's not. I dumped him."

"You can't dump him," Michiru told her. "What about the future and your daughter?"

"I don't want to raise her with a scumbag," Usagi decided. "In her timeline, she was happy. She had parents who loved her and each other, and if she can't have that, then I'd rather not have her at all. She'll still exist in the timeline that she had. I just won't get to see her again."

"Which means none of us will either," Haruka stated.

"Are you sure?" Ami asked her.

"Yes," Usagi said coldly. "I refuse to ever let Mamoru anywhere near me again after the way he made me feel on Wednesday. I trusted him completely, and it was the biggest mistake I ever made."

"I need to talk to you," Setsuna said. "Privately."

Usagi told her to lead the way, and they left.

Without Setsuna as the voice of reason, everyone ganged up on Rei.

"You stupid bitch!" Haruka lunged at her. Michiru held her back but not before Haruka got a good hit on her face. Rei tried to retaliate, but Makoto pulled her away.

"So she just gets a free punch!"

"If I had it my way," Makoto told her, "I'd tie you to a tree, and let everyone get a good punch. How could you do this to our friend? She's our Princess!"

"He wasn't happy with her," she insisted.

"It wasn't your place to fill in," Minako told her. "If he was unhappy, he should have told her."

Before Rei could respond, the doorbell rang.

"Who's that?" Makoto questioned.

Ami got the door and it was the devil himself.

"Is Usagi here?"

This time, Michiru did nothing as Haruka attacked Mamoru. She got him in the nose, and before he could respond, she punched him in the stomach and in the groan.

After the fourth hit, Makoto pulled her back. "I'm only doing this because I don't want you to get arrested. We can't have you in jail now, can we."

Mamoru was bloody. "I know I messed up but …"

"No, messed up is when you forget about plans you made with someone and you stay in to play video games," Minako told him. "Messed up is when you failed a test because you were too busy with your friends to study.

What you did was beyond the scope of messed up. It was deliberate and cruel. How could you do that and with her best friend no less? If you wanted a romp, then you should have picked a stranger, not someone Usagi has to see every day."

Mamoru had no excuse.

When Usagi left Setsuna's room, she told Mamoru, "If you don't get out of my way, I'm going to call the police and report you as a stalker."

"What about our daughter?"

"Ask Rei. Maybe she'll give you one."

"You're going to kill her because of my mistake."

She hit him hard on the nose, adding to the wound Haruka had already inflicted on it. "You have no right to talk to me about our daughter. You're the reason she's gone. You killed her."

She stormed off, not waiting for anyone to try and stop her.

"How the hell did this all happen?" Haruka questioned.

"I must confess," Setsuna said. "When I looked into the future, I saw Endimyon having an affair with Rei. Our Queen found out, but she was already pregnant with Chibiusa. She asked me for advice and I told her to stay for her daughter, for our future.

She did, and Endimyon promised to leave Rei, but he didn't. He just made up more lies and excuses, trying to cover up his tracks, but he was always sloppy. She found out that the affair never ended and what was left of her sanity broke. I blamed myself. My advice was selfish. I should have let her do what she thought was best, not what I wanted her to do, so I decided to change the present.

I knew Rei was at Mamoru's. I told Usagi to go over there, knowing she would catch them."

Everyone gasped.

"You did that to her on purpose!" Mamoru yelled.

"Shut up you asshole!" Setsuna hissed at him, stunning everyone with her language. "You did this to her, you and Rei. I just gave her a choice that she didn't have before. Instead of pretending that she loved you, putting on a façade for the world and for us, I gave her a choice here and now. It's up to her to decide what her future is, not me or anyone else."

"What is she going to do?" Ami asked her.

"I don't know. She asked me what she should do, and I couldn't tell her. I had to let her decide for herself, and so do you."

"That's why you wanted me to train her," Haruka said. "You wanted her to know her own strength."

"Yes," Setsuna admitted. "I don't think our Queen ever realized how important she is. I wanted to make sure Usagi knew."

The meeting was done. Rei and Mamoru were done. Everyone went off alone except for Haruka and Michiru.

"I never thought Setsuna had it in her," Haruka said to her girlfriend. "But she played us all like chess pieces. So much for noninterference."

Michiru had a different point of view. "The future must have been pretty bad if she did all of this."

Haruka frowned. "I wonder what she had seen."

The Year 3000

Neo Queen Serenity came home early from a peace conference. She expected her king in her bed, but instead it was Sailor Mars waiting for him, in a negligee.

"You're home."

"Really, in my bed. You couldn't take him to your bed. Do you want to wear my crown too, pretend Chibiusa is your daughter? How much do you have to take from me? Do you plan on going until nothing is left?"

Rei was defiant. "If you knew how to keep him happy then …"

She got a harsh slap to the face. "It isn't your job to keep him happy, it is mine. If he needed more he should have come to me, not sought out one of my senshi to use as his personal concubine. It's sad that you came after my husband, but why am I surprised. You couldn't get your own. You tried Motoki, but he wouldn't betray Reika. Even Yuuichirou grew tired of you. Despite your beauty on the outside, you've always been a bitter, nasty wench on the inside."

Rei lunged at her queen. They fought with a ferocity that neither woman had ever shown before. Rei had Neo Queen Serenity into a corner. She would finally make that bitch eat her words. She lunged at the woman, only to feel pain in her stomach.

Her queen stabbed her with her ceremonial dagger, grabbing it at the last second to protect herself.

"I…" Rei was baffled. Since when did Serenity assert herself?

It all happened so fast. Rei died before she hit the ground.

Just then, King Endimyon came into the room. "What did you do?"

"She attacked me. I had no choice."

He was in a rage and he strangled his wife with his bare hands. She looked at him as she died, like a kitten.

He looked down and saw what he had done. His lover was dead. His wife was dead, and he would surely get locked away for murder. What he did was revenge, it wasn't justified. Instead of risking a life in jail, Endimyon hanged herself.

Chibiusa found the bodies. Her beloved mother was on the ground. The woman who swore she would always protect her was dead too, and her father hung from the rafters. The girl was only ten years old. She was traumatized beyond relief, and now she would have to take the throne. She would be crowned Queen Usagi in two days time with Setsuna as her regent.

This was the future that Setsuna couldn't bare to happen. She risked Small Lady's existence to save her from what she thought was a fate worse than death. Now, Setsuna was alone in her apartment, drinking whiskey.

She didn't think anyone would come, but then there was a knock on her door.

"Minako, what are you doing here?"

"I wanted to check up on you."

"Me? I'm not the one whose world got thrown upside down."

"I know how close you were to Chibisua. You wouldn't have done this if the future wasn't really bad. I thought you might need someone right now." Minako was much smarter than she let on.

"Come inside," Setsuna said. "Let me tell you a story, about a beautiful princess who fell in love with a bastard for a prince."