Though there was little substance in the not-space in which it existed, the Gates of Time
always seemed to be housed in an ethereal fogbank, as if to signify how cloudy the future can be,
or how muddied the past is. Sailor Pluto'd grown used to this, however, and the symbolic
atmosphere was ignored as she saw the future, doing what she could to prevent intervention with
the flow of time.
The few times she'd seen a paradox arise, she'd watched with grim humor as whoever
messed with the mast eventually fixed the problem themselves. The few flaws, the wrinkles, that
occasionally popped up often had a habit of being laid to rest, as well, and her involvement was
never necessary in these small temporal glitches. However, coming up, as her future self had told
her, was a bizarre branching of time. A new universe was being born, and Sailor Pluto was one of
the few beings in the universe that could sit back and watch the divergence.
Said divergence was based upon that rare instance where the probability of option a
happening was just as high as that of option B, and that the probability for both was at an
amazing 99.9 percent chance of happening. When this problem arises (and it rarely does) The
Universe splits, and an almost perfect replica is created, though, with the change being made,
things begin to differ rapidly.
Pluto settled down, and from her vantage point, began to watch what might have been.
Her counterpart flashed a quick smile to her before disappearing into the new Gates of Time, and
arrived at a new Hikawa Shrine, where a certain group of young girls were wondering what the
hell just happened.
Kagato presents
an Altaverse SM Fanfiction
with Coca-Cola and Dominos Pizza
Sailor Moon: Back to Square One
The room full of senshi, currently in their civilian guises, seemed to shimmer for a
moment. That was the only warning Ami had before everything began to change. Fortunately,
she, as well as the other senshi, knew better than to ask questions, and were halfway
transformed when the greater shift took place. This saved them from changing with the rest of the
world, but left them in a rather odd predicament.
When the transformations were complete, the Sailor Senshi looked around, wondering
who or what had attacked. However, a cursory glance showed nothing out of place, at least to
Sailor Mercury. Mars, however, looked around wide-eyed, her face slowly draining of color.
"What just happened?" Sailor Jupiter asked, breaking the silence. Sailor Venus and
Sailor Moon shrugged, watching Mars walk around, seemingly in awe. Mercury's computer
beeped where it lay on the table, and she reached for it, hoping to find an answer to Jupiter (and
the other's unspoken) question.
Rei Hino, Sailor Mars, however, could already sense what was wrong. Subtle changes
here and there, a missing stain, an older wall there...
"Somehow..." she said, slowly, "Somehow we're in-"
"-the past." Mercury finished, staring at her computer in growing shock.
"We're where?" Venus asked, incredulously.
"The past. About-" she trailed off, typing a little more into her computer, before continuing, "-a day
before Jadeite's first youma attack on Juuban at the Osa-P."
"That's close enough." A voice said from the corner. Venus Jupiter and Mercury whirled, while
Mars slowly turned to look at the speaker. Where nobody had stood mere seconds ago, Pluto
now occupied with a small smirk on her face.
"Pluto! What happened?" Sailor Moon asked, finally speaking up. Pluto's grin grew a bit more,
this time in amusement, as if she'd just heard a really funny joke that gets better as you hear it
echo in your mind.
"The universe faced a problem of unsolvable proportions, and it split to accommodate
both possible outcomes." She answered, looking at the room with her steadily growing grin.
"An alternate universe?" Sailor Mercury asked, understanding better than the others. "What
happened?"
"Well... "Pluto said, trailing off for a moment. The others leaned forward unconsciously as she
appeared to trail off. "I'm not sure." The scouts face faulted as one, being caught by surprise.
Mercury, climbing to her feet, grimaced slightly at how obvious what she'd been about to do had
been. 'Oh well,' she mused. 'Hindsight is 20/20, as they say.'
"What do you mean you're not sure? You're supposed to be able to watch everything that
happens from here to eterni-" she was cut off by a beeping noise coming from her wrist. In fact,
every communicator was going off, as someone had hit the "General Alert" call button. Flipping
her communicator open, Mars was the first to answer the call. She was surprised to see Uranus,
though, at the moment she was looking off screen, shock, fear, and suspicion all flashing across
her face as she spoke with someone Mars assumed was Neptune or Saturn.
"Something's wrong... where's the princess. We're under attack." Uranus said, once she
realized her call had been answered.
Pluto, flipping open her communicator, grinned at Uranus, as she spoke quickly "We're
not under attack. However, this new problem will be difficult to explain, and I'd rather not have to
do it twice. Come to Rei's temple, and I'll try to explain what I can." Uranus just frowned, then
nodded. "Alright." she answered, reaching to turn her communicator off. Before she could, Pluto
spoke up, rapidly. "Do not, under any circumstance, de-transform. You, Neptune or Saturn. If you
do, the price we all pay could be quite severe." Uranus nodded once, looking a little shaken up,
before ending the transmission. Pluto looked at the others, and spoke again, "That goes for you
all as well. Do not de-transform, under any circumstance, until I've explained everything to you
all."
Mercury stared at Pluto, unsure how to react. Pluto wasn't totally mysterious, but she
usually spoke a bit more enigmatically, when she chose to speak at all. Then, against her prior
warning, she de-transformed. Setsuna Mieoh looked around, then turned to the others.
"I'll be right back. Wait for me here." She said, before disappearing, as if she'd never
been there. The Senshi look at each other questioningly, before staring off into space to
contemplate what might be. Their musing, however, was interrupted by Sailor Moon.
"If Pluto can de-transform, then we can, to! I'm tired, and hungry, and I want to go home."
She said, walking to the door. "I'll be back after I find some ice cream." Then she de-transformed.
A soft flash of light announced the standard de-transformation, but what followed was
anything but standard. A breeze, soft, but steadily gaining in power, began to circle Usagi, and
after a moment, a small light, like a firefly, drifted from Usagi's head into the small whirlwind,
shortly followed by another, and another.
Soon, instead of a swirl of wind, Usagi was being circled by a fast moving halo of soft
lights. A final light exited Usagi's head, and suddenly, the circling lights gained in intensity and
size, obscuring Usagi in a tube of light. A Steady whine, having begun at the appearance of the
first light, but now growing painfully loud, was replaced by a roaring noise that ceased as the
cylinder of luminescence collapsed in on itself, disappearing inside Usagi for a moment, before
shooting upward, through the roof, and into the evening Sky.
always seemed to be housed in an ethereal fogbank, as if to signify how cloudy the future can be,
or how muddied the past is. Sailor Pluto'd grown used to this, however, and the symbolic
atmosphere was ignored as she saw the future, doing what she could to prevent intervention with
the flow of time.
The few times she'd seen a paradox arise, she'd watched with grim humor as whoever
messed with the mast eventually fixed the problem themselves. The few flaws, the wrinkles, that
occasionally popped up often had a habit of being laid to rest, as well, and her involvement was
never necessary in these small temporal glitches. However, coming up, as her future self had told
her, was a bizarre branching of time. A new universe was being born, and Sailor Pluto was one of
the few beings in the universe that could sit back and watch the divergence.
Said divergence was based upon that rare instance where the probability of option a
happening was just as high as that of option B, and that the probability for both was at an
amazing 99.9 percent chance of happening. When this problem arises (and it rarely does) The
Universe splits, and an almost perfect replica is created, though, with the change being made,
things begin to differ rapidly.
Pluto settled down, and from her vantage point, began to watch what might have been.
Her counterpart flashed a quick smile to her before disappearing into the new Gates of Time, and
arrived at a new Hikawa Shrine, where a certain group of young girls were wondering what the
hell just happened.
Kagato presents
an Altaverse SM Fanfiction
with Coca-Cola and Dominos Pizza
Sailor Moon: Back to Square One
The room full of senshi, currently in their civilian guises, seemed to shimmer for a
moment. That was the only warning Ami had before everything began to change. Fortunately,
she, as well as the other senshi, knew better than to ask questions, and were halfway
transformed when the greater shift took place. This saved them from changing with the rest of the
world, but left them in a rather odd predicament.
When the transformations were complete, the Sailor Senshi looked around, wondering
who or what had attacked. However, a cursory glance showed nothing out of place, at least to
Sailor Mercury. Mars, however, looked around wide-eyed, her face slowly draining of color.
"What just happened?" Sailor Jupiter asked, breaking the silence. Sailor Venus and
Sailor Moon shrugged, watching Mars walk around, seemingly in awe. Mercury's computer
beeped where it lay on the table, and she reached for it, hoping to find an answer to Jupiter (and
the other's unspoken) question.
Rei Hino, Sailor Mars, however, could already sense what was wrong. Subtle changes
here and there, a missing stain, an older wall there...
"Somehow..." she said, slowly, "Somehow we're in-"
"-the past." Mercury finished, staring at her computer in growing shock.
"We're where?" Venus asked, incredulously.
"The past. About-" she trailed off, typing a little more into her computer, before continuing, "-a day
before Jadeite's first youma attack on Juuban at the Osa-P."
"That's close enough." A voice said from the corner. Venus Jupiter and Mercury whirled, while
Mars slowly turned to look at the speaker. Where nobody had stood mere seconds ago, Pluto
now occupied with a small smirk on her face.
"Pluto! What happened?" Sailor Moon asked, finally speaking up. Pluto's grin grew a bit more,
this time in amusement, as if she'd just heard a really funny joke that gets better as you hear it
echo in your mind.
"The universe faced a problem of unsolvable proportions, and it split to accommodate
both possible outcomes." She answered, looking at the room with her steadily growing grin.
"An alternate universe?" Sailor Mercury asked, understanding better than the others. "What
happened?"
"Well... "Pluto said, trailing off for a moment. The others leaned forward unconsciously as she
appeared to trail off. "I'm not sure." The scouts face faulted as one, being caught by surprise.
Mercury, climbing to her feet, grimaced slightly at how obvious what she'd been about to do had
been. 'Oh well,' she mused. 'Hindsight is 20/20, as they say.'
"What do you mean you're not sure? You're supposed to be able to watch everything that
happens from here to eterni-" she was cut off by a beeping noise coming from her wrist. In fact,
every communicator was going off, as someone had hit the "General Alert" call button. Flipping
her communicator open, Mars was the first to answer the call. She was surprised to see Uranus,
though, at the moment she was looking off screen, shock, fear, and suspicion all flashing across
her face as she spoke with someone Mars assumed was Neptune or Saturn.
"Something's wrong... where's the princess. We're under attack." Uranus said, once she
realized her call had been answered.
Pluto, flipping open her communicator, grinned at Uranus, as she spoke quickly "We're
not under attack. However, this new problem will be difficult to explain, and I'd rather not have to
do it twice. Come to Rei's temple, and I'll try to explain what I can." Uranus just frowned, then
nodded. "Alright." she answered, reaching to turn her communicator off. Before she could, Pluto
spoke up, rapidly. "Do not, under any circumstance, de-transform. You, Neptune or Saturn. If you
do, the price we all pay could be quite severe." Uranus nodded once, looking a little shaken up,
before ending the transmission. Pluto looked at the others, and spoke again, "That goes for you
all as well. Do not de-transform, under any circumstance, until I've explained everything to you
all."
Mercury stared at Pluto, unsure how to react. Pluto wasn't totally mysterious, but she
usually spoke a bit more enigmatically, when she chose to speak at all. Then, against her prior
warning, she de-transformed. Setsuna Mieoh looked around, then turned to the others.
"I'll be right back. Wait for me here." She said, before disappearing, as if she'd never
been there. The Senshi look at each other questioningly, before staring off into space to
contemplate what might be. Their musing, however, was interrupted by Sailor Moon.
"If Pluto can de-transform, then we can, to! I'm tired, and hungry, and I want to go home."
She said, walking to the door. "I'll be back after I find some ice cream." Then she de-transformed.
A soft flash of light announced the standard de-transformation, but what followed was
anything but standard. A breeze, soft, but steadily gaining in power, began to circle Usagi, and
after a moment, a small light, like a firefly, drifted from Usagi's head into the small whirlwind,
shortly followed by another, and another.
Soon, instead of a swirl of wind, Usagi was being circled by a fast moving halo of soft
lights. A final light exited Usagi's head, and suddenly, the circling lights gained in intensity and
size, obscuring Usagi in a tube of light. A Steady whine, having begun at the appearance of the
first light, but now growing painfully loud, was replaced by a roaring noise that ceased as the
cylinder of luminescence collapsed in on itself, disappearing inside Usagi for a moment, before
shooting upward, through the roof, and into the evening Sky.
