Raye had not been prepared for the events of today. The original plan had been to take Serena to a speed dating service, under the pretence of taking her to a pet store. The girls had all agreed that trying to help her settle into a new relationship may make the fact that Darien had been controlled by Queen Beryl for the past month or so. But just as they were about to pull the old switcheroo, a new monster had appeared in front of them. A heavily armoured one at that.
With a few cries of "X Power!" (X being the planets they hailed from in their past lives, or in Serena's case, "Moon Prism"), they were transformed into the 5 Sailor Scouts. A quick fight ensued, during which the monster got the upper hand painfully easily.
"You are pathetic.", the monster mocked. "Is this the quality of warriors defending this planet nowadays?"
It was then that Sailor Moon pulled out her Crescent Moon Wand to heal what they thought was another victim transformed against their will. "Moon Healing -." But the monster grabbed her before she could finish, forced the Scepter out of her hand and threw her to the ground. This caught Sailor Moon off guard. "Who are you? Why do you want my Crescent Moon Wand?"
"I am Kima Robot Schwarian.", The creature declared. "And this stick is nothing to me." He pulled the Silver Crystal on top off and threw the wand to the ground. "What I desire is this gem."
"So you ARE from the Nega-Verse.", Jupiter yelled in anguish.
"No, I hail from a far superior society than they could even dream of.", Schwarian responded. "I merely offered them my services in return for another task I need to see through."
With that, he vanished literally into thin air, leaving behind 5 very confused Sailor Scouts.
Elsewhere, Schwarian met with his allies, Malachite and Prince Darien. "As promised, the Silver Crystal used by the Queen of the Moon Kingdom to seal away the Negaforce in ancient times."
Prince Darien reached out to take hold of it, but his nominal ally withheld it. "I thought we had a deal."
"We do. But I recall that you still haven't upheld your part of it. I was promised RX's King Stone in exchange for Sailor Moon's Silver Crystal."
Prince Darien almost charged angrily at the robot, only for Malachite to stop him. "As you say, we promised you the King Stone in return for our prize. It's only fair that you receive your payment before we proceed to receive ours."
"Nice to know that you understand, Malachite.", Schwarian replied. "Perhaps you should go and report to your leader that I have obtained the Crystal that you require. Perhaps it will motivate her to step up your efforts." Malachite nodded and teleported away with Prince Darien. Once they were gone, the last of General Gatezone's soldiers laughed to himself. "If only you fools realised that I have no intention of seeing our deal through entirely."
Elsewhere, the monster that Malachite had sent out to conduct the search, a bird-themed female named Torina, was squawking Over her own failure to find it. She had searched all over the Tokyo area, from Futo to Zawame City, and turned up nothing. Now she had perched at a grave out in the open. Assuming her human identity, a secretary named Yuki, she saw the characters on the grave read "Nobuhiko". Unusually, the grave listed his life as "1967-87, 1989". Instead of giving it too much thought, Yuki instead thought about how she would locate the treasure she had been ordered to find, especially since all she had to go on was an energy signature.
An energy signature that Torina had begun to sense from the man that had walked into the Graveyard just now.