AN; you should be able to figure this out fairly well, but just in case, the four generals have awakened on earth and met Serenity/Serena/Sailor Moon and work with her instead of the sailor scouts, who have yet to awaken, except for Sailor Venus. The generals have a debt to repay, considering their betrayal on the moon. i'm using concepts from the manga and the anime.
"AWW! Come on Raye! Please?" Serena was whining again. Darien and Andrew leant on their respective sides of the counter in the arcade and watched the unfolding spectacle, amused.
Serena "meatball head" Tsukino was begging Raye Hino for a job. It wasn't working.
"Come one Raye! I know you're grandpa always needs help! He's always asking girls to help!" she whined.
"No means no, Serena." Raye said tiredly, "besides, we have Chad to help out now."
"You said yourself that he's useless." Amy pointed out wickedly, enjoying the discourse immensely. Serena grinned at her friend with stars in her eyes, "thankyou Amy!" she turned back to Raye, "See! You said it yourself, Chad is useless!"
"He is not!" glowered Raye.
"Only cus you like him." Cut in Mina devilishly.
Before Raye could kill her, Darien decided to add his two cents worth.
"I think she just won't give Serena a job because she couldn't put up with meatball head day in day out." he commented.
Mina shot Darien a knowing look just then, as if she knew that he wouldn't mind being around the meatball head day in day out.a look he ignored.Raye grinned at him and Amy and Lita just rolled their eyes as if to say 'so immature!'
"Who asked you, Chiba Baka?" Serena sneered, and then turned back to Raye, "aw, come on Raye!"
"Damnit Rena!" Raye growled, using her friends nickname, "you'd break everything in the place and read my manga's all day!"
"I so would not!"
"Would too!"
"Would not!"
"You would!"
"Would not!"
"You will!"
"Will not!"
"Will too!"
Then it degenerated, as it often did, into a raspberry war. Darien and Andrew laughed at the look on the other girl's faces, sympathetic.
Lita got sick of the blrrrghing and dragged the two apart, perhaps a little more forcefully than she needed to. Serena, being the lighter of the two, went further, and slammed into another customer, who happened to be carrying a chocolate milkshake. Everyone blocked their ears at the wail she sent up.
When it was safe to hear again, one by one everyone looked at the blond who was now sitting on the floor covered in chocolate milkshake, and whimpering. The dejected, defeated look on her face was so comical that one by one, the whole population of the arcade began to laugh. The four girls she always hung with collapsed against each other and Darien and Andrew leant on the long counter/bar for support as their eyes watered and knees wobbled.
Serena sat where she was, pouting with chocolate milk dripping from her nose, and a cherry in her hair. The poor lady she had bumped into was trying her best to mop up, and handed the girl a handful of serviettes.
Everyone laughed even more as she tried to stand and immediately slipped and fell. Serena, her cheeks now burning and her eyes wet with unshed tears of embarrassment, got to her feet again, and began to help the woman mop up, apologising all the time.
"Princess?" a loud, incredulous and somewhat angry male voice bought all laughter to a stop.
Serena, bending over to wipe brown milk from her jeans, froze. Darien, who had not turned to look at the newcomers, saw her eyes widen and the red flush totally disappear from her cheeks. She very, very slowly straightened and turned to look at the four men in the doorway of the arcade. They had entered, unnoticed in the midst of all the laughter.
They cut an impressive sight. The one who had spoken, a tall man with long white/silver hair and icy blue eyes was staring at Serena, perplexed and somewhat annoyed. Behind him a shorter man with long blond hair tied back in a ponytail stared at the blond in shock. Beside him a tall man with long brown hair that fell around his shoulders and sky blue eyes was trying hard not to look angry. Behind them a man with short blond hair was glaring at Serena as if she had somehow been responsible for her current state.
"This is what you have degenerated to?" demanded Malachite, unable to orientate the graceful and mature Princess he had met in the Silver Millennium wit the milkshake covered girl standing in front of him.
One by one, everyone in the arcade turned to Serena and got quite a shock. She was standing straight, and appeared taller than usual. Her fists were clenched at her sides but it was her eyes, those laughing blue eyes that were always full of happiness and laughter that had changed the most. No longer even holding a shred of amusement, and were now as icy as the man with white hair.
"I told you never to come here." She said into the stillness. Her voice had changed too, and was hard and brittle.
"It was imperative. Time has run out and we need your help." Said Malachite quickly, glancing around the silent arcade uneasily, and wishing she wasn't going to confront him about it now.
Darien looked between them, confused, "What's going on?" he asked warily, not liking the looks on the four strangers faces, but absolutely hating the look on his bubbly Serena's face.
The men ignored him, and the one with long blond hair walked towards Serena. Darien watched as Serena four friends gathered at her back. The blond man didn't seem concerned, and Darien reflected that if Lita was glaring at him that way he would be worried.
"We need you to come with us, please Serena." He said quietly.
"There are other ways for you to communicate with me." Serena said softly, dangerously.
A look of worry and… fear? Crossed the blond mans face. "But-"
Raye gasped suddenly, and everyone turned to look at her. "I sense evil!" she cried, eyes wide.
"That's it," said Lita, and reached for the blond mans shirt, assuming him to be the reason for the bad vibes.
She, and everyone else, was very surprised when a slender hand wrapped around her wrist and twisted it, sending her stumbling sideways. Serena glared at the brunette.
"The evil Raye feels does not come from these men." She said softly, releasing Lita's wrist. Lita took a wary step back, massaging the offending wrist. "They have never hurt anything on earth." This was a subtle hint at what the Generals owed her and her friends, and all four men winced. The general's betrayal had happened on the moon, not earth.
She turned to the blond guy with short hair, who had shut his eyes and seemed to be concentrating.
"Where is it, Jadeite?"
Raye's eyes went incredibly wide when she heard the name, and for some reason she found herself stifling a sob. A feeling of deep pain washed over her and she shivered uncontrollably, staring wildly at the man.
His eyes snapped open, "down the street."
As if in punctuation to their cryptic statement, the ground shook, and dust fell from the ceiling.
"Earthquake!" yelled Darien, ducking as the shaking began to get worse.
Serena, down on one knee with her hands over her head, shook her head. This was no earthquake.
An inhuman scream echoed all around them, a shattering accompaniment to the explosion that followed. It was close, Darien noted as he ducked plaster from the ceiling, close enough that they all felt the shockwave.
"What the hell was that?" demanded Lita as soon as the sound passed, getting to her feet and dragging Amy with her, face white with shock as well as plaster dust.
"Youma." Said Darien numbly, getting to his feet and wondering where he was going to transform into Tuxedo Mask.
He glanced towards Serena, and blinked in surprise as he watched her launch to her feet and towards where the three gentlemen were, or had been, he realised belatedly. They were gone. The blond one ran with her.
"What the?" he began, but ran after them, "SERENA! GET BACK HERE!"
The four girls, realising their friend had gone, ran after him, Andrew joining them.
When they got to the wide street that was a haven for shoppers and lovers alike, they found an empty street, except for Serena and the four men and one very, very tall youma. It was huge, its feet the size of cars and it looked like a dragon. It was tall enough that it could look in the windows of the five story buildings in the street. He heard Andrew swear softly in shock beside him.
The beast threw back its snake-like head and roared, and even that sound was enough to make the ground shake. It swung it huge snake like tail, and there was another ground jarring thump as the building flew sky-high, and landed as rubble. Darien grabbed Lita (who had been going to run to Serena who was still standing unprotected in the middle of the street) and pulled her back inside under the protection of the arcade's entry way as the rubble fell around them.
"NO!" she shrieked, "let me go! Serena! SERENA!"
Darien's own heart was breaking at the thought of Serena being out in the street with no protection.
The last piece of wall fell, and then there was silence. When the dust cleared, everything was silent except for the youma's heavy breathing. Darien stared wide-eyed at the scene in front of him.
Out in the centre of the street, five figures stood, unhurt and apparently unconcerned by the rubble that had fallen around them. The one with short blond hair was holding a hand up above his head, palm spread to the heavens, and appeared to be holding a shield up around them all. Serena was seemingly unconcerned by the magical barrier surrounding her and was just looking up at the beast (which was now slightly closer) with an amused look on her face.
"When will you lot ever learn?" she asked it mildly. Darien barely heard her, but apparently it had good hearing because a deep, growling and gurgling voice spoke.
"When you are dead."
Serena seemed amused still, and Darien watched as the four strange men moved to stand next to her.
"I am Malachite, defender of Earth." Announced the one with white hair.
"I am Nephrite, reader of the stars."
"I am Jadeite, the Seer of all things unnatural."
"I am Zoisite, Universal scholar and strategist."
There was silence, and then Serena added, "I am Serenity."
Malachite began to blow white.
Nephrite began to glow green.
Jadeite began to glow red, and Raye stared at him in recognition… she knew she had met him before… but where?
Zoisite began to glow blue.
Serena (serenity?) was glowing all the colours of the rainbow, but the colours seemed somehow muted, as if some of the vibrancy had been taken out of them, and all was left was pastel tints whirling around her, whipping her hair and skirt into a frenzy. For a second the lights glowed so bright everyone had to look away and when they returned their gaze there were five very well known figures standing in the street.
"Oh… my…" murmured Amy, eyes wide and mouth hanging open.
"The Generals! And Sailor Moon!" cried Raye in amazement, "Serena is Sailor Moon!" she cried in horror, suddenly realising what she was seeing meant.
Mina, who was watching proceeding with a calculative look gave her an odd glance, "Is it so hard to believe Raye? After all, what better disguise for a powerful and clever superheroinethan a klutzy blond?"
Everyone stared at her, unused to her making intelligent conversation.
Sailor Moon turned as if she had heard her, and smiled straight at her, "I think Sailor V would be a help right now, Mina."
"Sure." Mina got to her feet and clambered over to the rubble towards her friend.
The monster was having none of this, and turned slightly, bring up its tail.
With a roar and a lightening fast movement the tail sped towards Mina, but never got there. It was stopped instead by a wall of glowing white power, leaving welts and abrasions from the white hot magic on its scaly skin. Malachite wasn't about to let his old girlfriend get hurt.
Mina shot him a grateful look that made his heart ache before pulling out her red mask.
"SAILOR V TRANSFORM!" she bellowed.
Now Amy, Raye, Lita, Darien and Andrew watched open-mouthed as many different hues of orange lights glittered into being around the girl, and again it got so bright they had to look away. When they looked back, Sailor V was standing next to Sailor Moon.
The two girls grinned at each other before turning to the youma.
"This is gonna be fun."
AN; well I have arisen from months full of silence with a shortie. Hope you understand it. I may or may not continue it. We'll see. Depends what you guys want?