Disclaimer: None of the characters belong to me. I'm using them just for fun and without permission.

Note1: I first started writing this story, when Sailor Pluto reappeared in Sailor Stars, although she said, she would be punished for stopping time. I'm using the japanese names in the story:

Usagi = Serena
Ami = Amy
Rei = Raye
Makoto = Lita
Minako = Mina

Note2: It's the same story as before, I just decided to translated it (don't ask me why, I just felt like it ^__^). I'm no native english speaker, so please excuse my many mistakes. I've only translated the first chapter so far. The others are still german, but I'll work on it ^__^

And now Michi-chan productions presents you....


Voyager's Moon


The small planet rounded its sun in a steady orbit. On its surface were no signs of intelligent life; it was approximately in the stage of primeval times' earth. It was a peaceful world and there was yet no sign that this would change very soon. Danger was approaching unnoticed, like an enemy sneaking up from behind when you least expect it.

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The chronometer showed 02:34. It was almost completely quiet aboard the USS Voyager, only the faint humming of the wrap core was audible. The lights in the corridors were dimmed - the only sign that it was in the middle of the night. In space there was no difference between day and night. No matter at which time you looked out of one of the big board windows, the picture you'd get would always be the same: Darkness, black darkness pierced only by the myriad of tiny lights, of which every one was a light years distant star.

Most of the crew was asleep now, except those who had been assigned to gamma shift... or those to whom sleep just wouldn't come this night. Among them Kathryn Janeway, Voyager's captain. Ever since she woke from a startling dream an hour ago, she'd tried in vain to get back to sleep. She turned to the other side and stared at the chronometer on her nightstand. Four hours from now she would already have to get up again and report for duty on the bridge. She tried thinking of something boring and tiring, but that didn't help much either. Sighing she sat up. *Well, if I can't sleep*, she thought, *I might as well do something useful.*

Pulling back her blanket, she stood up and walked over to her desk on which the newest reports from her crew were lying. Janeway sat down, took the one from the top and started reading. It was from Neelix, Voyager's chef and self appointed officer of mores. She looked through it and hoped she'd catch most of the important info. Even in his reports Neelix used far too many words to describe something simple. His report contained a list of the food supplies, which they were going to grow short of soon and thus should be looking out for on the M class planet Voyager was currently headed towards.

Janeway laid the PADD aside and took the next one from the heap. But after a few words she couldn't concentrate on what she was reading. She felt consumed by an inner turmoil she had no explanation for. She looked up and her gaze fell on one of the items which were placed on a console that was standing on the opposite wall. Slowly she rose and walked over to it. The piece that had caught her attention was a strange and very old stick which her grandmother had once found in the ruins of an old house in Japan. It had been impossible to determine its exact age or its origin but her grandmother had been sure it was some kind of talisman and so she had kept it. Ever since it was in the possession of Kathryn's family.

Janeway took the stick in her hands and turned it carefully, almost devout. It was approximately the length of her hand with a ball sitting on its top which in turn had smaller balls attached to both its sides. On top of the ball was a golden star with a strange symbol carved into it. Janeway had searched trough the whole federation database but hadn't found anything similar. Finally she had come to the conclusion that the sign didn't hold any meaning at all and merely served as an ornament. The symbol had the shape of a P with an L attached to its bottom.

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Usagi Tsukino, her friends Makoto Kino, Ami Mizuno and Minako Aino plus the cats Luna and Artemis were on their way to the Hikawa shrine. Half an hour ago Usagi's friend Rei Hino had called her up and asked her to gather the others and bring them to the shrine as soon as possible. Usagi had noticed the excitement in Reis voice and wondered what could have happened. She had wanted to bring her boyfriend Mamoru along as well, but when she had called him, her call was only answered by his answering machine.

"What could it be that Rei wants to tell us?" Makoto asked while they walked through the streets.

"I certainly hope nothing bad has happened." Ami's face was worried. "What if new enemies have appeared?"

"Please, anything but that!" moaned Usagi.

"It's so nice and quiet since we defeated the Deathbusters. The evil guys could really give us some time to relax!"

"Phh, don't worry!" Minako waved her hand disparagingly. "Maybe Rei's just going to tell us that she decided to marry Yuichiro." She giggled and was soon joined in by Usagi. But then from one second to the next the pigtailed girl looked upset.

"No! Rei can't do that!" she cried with exasperation. "If someone is going to marry, then that would be Mamo-chan and me! We've been a couple far longer than them; we've been a couple before we were even born on this planet!"

"Usagi, Minako was just joking." Makoto tried to calm her friend before Usagi would start telling the story of the wonderful love between Prince Endymion and Princess Serenity for the hundredth or so time.

"Hey, look over there!" Minako suddenly shouted. "Isn't that Haruka and Michiru?"

Her companions turned their attention to where she was pointing.

"Yeah, you're right." Usagi said. "HEYA! HARUKA! MICHIRU!" she waved at them.

When the two girls heard someone shouting their names they stopped and turned around.

"Hi! Nice to see you! What are you doing here?" The beautiful turquoise haired Michiru smiled at them.

"We're on our way to Hikawa shrine. Rei obviously wants to tell us something important." Ami answered her question.

"Really?" asked Haruka. "She wants to tell us something, too."

"But isn't that great? Now we can walk together!" Minako happily hooked her arm under Haruka's and pulled the baffled girl with her. The others followed them, rolling their eyes. Usagi walked up to Minako and tipped her on the shoulder from behind.

"Minako, just in case you forgot.. No matter how cool Haruka looks, she can never be a HIM!" she whispered.

"I know, I know" Minako sighed. "But it would be so nice IF..."

"Absolutely hopeless!" groaned Luna.

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At the shrine Rei was already waiting for her friends' arrival. *What is taking them so long?*

She paced impatiently in front of the shrine while looking out for them. *They should be here by now*

When she had conjured her holy flames about an hour ago, she had seen something that was so incredible, that she hadn't hesitated for a second to summon the others. They needed to know as soon as possible. If only they were already here.

Rei was about to go back into the house, but stopped, when she thought she had heard Minako's voice. *Could it be them?* she asked herself, and walked towards the long stairway that led from the street up to the shrine. It was indeed them.

Her eyes caught sight of Haruka and Minako walking a few meters ahead of the others. They were followed by Ami, Makoto and Michiru and - a few meters behind - Usagi, who dragged herself the long way upstairs.

"Finally! What took you so long?" Rei asked instead of a greeting.

"Sorry, Rei but we couldn't make it any sooner." Makoto tried to calm Rei.

"What could be of such great importance anyway, that you let us all run here at your command?" asked a breathless Usagi who had finally managed to climb the stairs. "I wanted to go shopping with Naru today."

"Grrr USAGI!!" Rei looked at Usagi and took a threatening step towards the other girl. "In case you have forgotten, we are Sailor Scouts and we have a duty. When will you ever realize-" She didn't get any further. Usagi who had backed away from her had unfortunately forgotten that behind her was only the stairway.

"Uasgi! Watch out!"

"Usagi be carefull!"

Ami's and Luna's warnings were a second's fraction too late. Usagi had already lost her balance and was swinging her arms in a fruitless attempt to regain it. "Oh no, no, no... HEEEELPP!!"

The others watched in shocked silence, as Usagi fell backwards as if in slow motion and started to roll back down the stairs. (Hey, she's an anime character, this won't hurt her!)

"I can't believe it!" sighed Rei.

"Well, Rei, I guess whatever it is that you wanted to tell us, it will have to wait for a while. Because it isn't sure, how long it will take Usagi to climb those stairs again... maybe hours... days..." That comment earned Minako a look from Rei, that would've made hell freeze over. But before Minako, too, would become a victim of Rei's temper, Michiru intervened.

"Rei, how about you tell us in short what has happened. Until Usagi is back up here."

"Whenever that may be!"

"Minako!"

"Ok, ok I'll shut up."

Rei looked at each of the other girls in turn then took a deep breath and said "Ok, it was this afternoon, barely an hour ago, when I consulted my holy flames, that.. Sailor Pluto appeared to me."

Silence fell over the group after Rei's words. The five girls stared at each other, none of them knowing what to say. After a few moments they turned back to Rei, who had been watching them, the expression on her face even more than the one she used to say: "Usagi, are you ever stupid!"

Haruka was the first to find her speech again. "Are you serious, Rei?" she whispered, then said a bit louder "I mean, are you sure it was Pluto? Couldn't it be that you-"

"What-" gasping "-what was-" more gasping "-was Pluto?" even more gasping. The girls turned around to see Usagi standing on the top stair leaning her arms on her knees and panting madly. Makoto walked slowly over to her and, having reached Usagi, laid her hand on the other girl's forearm. Usagi looked at her questioningly, not knowing what to make of Makoto's action.

"Mako-chan, is everything alright?"

"Yeah... yeah, I guess..." Makoto paused, then spoke on, her voice steady and calm again.

"Usagi, Rei just told us something really, really incredible..."

"She saw Sailor Pluto!" Minako shouted

"What?!" Usagi stared at Rei in utter bewilderment.

"Let's go inside." Rei suggested. "I'll tell you everything then."

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Something was different. It took the woman a moment to realize what it was. Then she knew. It was the silence. The silence that had been her companion on her sheer endless journey, that had almost become a part of her - it was gone. Instead myriads of different noises, the most of which she couldn't identify as it had been too long since she had last heard them, came to her ears. And it wasn't dark anymore. A bright light pierced her eyes even through closed lids. She felt something brush her arm.

The feeling brought her thoughts to an abrupt stop. She FELT something. But that would mean she had a body once more. She forced her eyes to open, ignoring the blinding light. It was the only way for her to determine where she was, what she was. Slowly she raised her lids a bit, but closed them again immediately, because the light caused her eyes which were accustomed to darkness, immense pain. She took a deep breath taking in the smells of her surroundings. They there so completely different from the smells she had known before her journey. Those were fresh smells of plants, of clear air. They were smells of life. And she didn't like them.

Once more she tried to open her eyes, and this time she ignored the pain. The first thing her eyes saw was a mass of strange plants that was growing wildly all around her. She opened her eyes a bit further to see more of her surroundings. The sky above her was a clear blue and not a single cloud covered the two suns that shone there. She was about to take a closer look at her surroundings when she suddenly stopped dead and gazed at the sky again. No, she hadn't imagined it. Above her were two suns. Shocked as she was, she was no fool. She knew very well what the two suns meant; that she wasn't on earth or even in the terran solar system anymore. But where was she then? She tried to remember what had happened before the darkness had engulfed her.

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Serenity, the Moon Princess, had used her silver crystal and then.. then there had been a bright light and then... then? The next thing she remembered was the silence.

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The woman looked down at herself and was surprised to see that she looked exactly the same as she had before. Before the princess had defeated her and destroyed all her plans.

But had the princess really defeated her? After all, she wasn't dead. A thought struck the woman. What about her powers? Did she still possess any power or was she now just a simple and weak human? Well, that could be tested.

She fixed her eyes on a tree a few feet away and then concentrated on aggravating the power in her body. She felt a familiar tingle on her skin as a strong energy began to pulse inside of her. The feeling of this uncanny energy that seemed to flow through every vein in her body would have been enough to prove her that she was much more than a mere human. It wasn't really necessary to finish her test. She did it nonetheless. She wanted this, she needed it.

And so she extended one of her hands towards the tree. A black ball of energy shot from her palm and raced towards the tree. As soon as the ball had hit its target the tree turned to dust. A small smile appeared on her lips. This was good, very good. She thoroughly enjoyed using her powers again.

Maybe, just maybe, the last battle between her and the Moon kingdom wasn't fought out, after all. At the moment she might not know, where she was - on which planet, in which solar system and in which time - but that didn't matter to her.

She decided that before she would do anything else, she would first create a new hideout here.

Once again she concentrated on the power in her body. But this time she didn't go for a small ball of energy. She kept on aggravating her power until a swirl of black energy was whirling around her. When she felt the energy reaching its peak, she stretched out both her hands and with that movement let loose the energy.

She watched it whirling through the plants, leaving only ashes behind. Another movement of her hand brought it to a stop and it started to rotate with increasing speed, all the while growing bigger and bigger until it covered great expanses of the surrounding land. Then suddenly it was gone as if it had never been there in the first place. And in its place a black mountain towered. The woman closed her eyes and used her powers to teleport herself into the mountain.

A cool and quiet darkness greeted her in the cave that was located right in the mountain's heart. She sighed. Yes, this was much better. No bright light to assault her eyes, no fresh air to assault her nose. From here on she would plan her further moves. She didn't know if she would ever meet the moon princess again to take her revenge on her, but at the moment that didn't matter to the woman. For now there was only one thing of any importance to her:

Queen Beryl was alive.

To be continued...