Disclaimer: It's not mine! Sailor Moon, in all its forms and fashions, does not belong to me. If you sue me, you'll seriously get nothing. I'm just a college student – I've got squat.

Author Note: I'll be doing another set of Baby Grands! This one is based upon the Shitennou/Four Generals getting a second chance from Serenity. It's inspired by the picture drawn by Naoko-sama of the Senshi and their Generals together as couples. In this 'verse, their souls are still stuck in the stones from Mamoru's apartment and he kept them with him in Crystal Toyko.

1 - Hope

For a thousand years, the four men had been suspended in the coldest, darkest realm anyone could ever have possibly dreamed up to torment them. The whole of that millennium, they dwelt upon the wrongs they had done – to the world around them, to their friends and loves, and to each other. They deserved this treatment for the crimes they had committed, every minute of every second of it, and they knew it. It had been such a shock, then, when light showed itself in their endless darkness and warmth followed its way into the interminable cold.

"Jadeite, Nephrite, Zoicite, and Kunzite," beckoned a distant female voice – one they had heard before, but it had been a thousand years and then a thousand more after that. "If you four are still out there, will you please answer me?"

They hadn't been able to see anything – themselves, each other, or anyone else – in so long that it took them a moment to realize they were being addressed. How were they supposed to turn around and acknowledge the lady talking to them? They could only see the light off in the distance, and they tried to move closer to it. After what could have been a second or another millennium, they heard her voice calling out to them again.

"Jadeite! Nephrite! Zoicite! Kunzite!"

She sounded like she wanted very much to speak with them! The sound of her voice pulled them closer to the light way off. Something happened that had not in their memories of being in this place! They started to feel again. It was almost as if they had bodies once more! They looked down and felt abject shock – first, at discovering they could once again look in particular directions… How long had it been since they had looked down and seen their own hands? The four looked back towards the light in stunned silence, feeling funny at feeling their mouths hanging open.

"Please!" cried the voice again. "Please, answer me!"

The one with the long white hair regained his senses first.

"I… We're here, my lady!" he called back, stretching out a hand through the darkness. "We can hear you!"

The four of them could practically hear her smile! Taking the lead as he always had, the white-haired man turned to his comrades and indicated that they should all go on. Zoicite followed close behind him, while Nephrite made space for the two of them to go ahead. Jadeite hung back as if unsure he should follow at all. The light got closer to them, opening up wider as they drew up closer to it. In seconds, they could see the outline of the lady who had clearly been reaching out to them.

She had her hair up in the two round-topped ponytails they all had such vague memories of, and she stood before them in a pristine white dress that swept the floor. She had a crescent-shaped wand in her hand and as close to a stern expression on her face as she could manage. They could tell that, as always before, she still smiled more easily than anything else. However, she stepped forward without that usual smile, looking the four of them up and down. Blinking twice, she all of a sudden turned very bright red!

"Oh! Excuse me!" She waved her wand in a sweeping motion across their fronts. "I didn't realize you would come out with no clothes on!"

The four men looked off in different directions, their cheeks pinking as well as they felt clothing appearing on their bodies. When they looked down, they saw uniforms that seemed familiar to them. The white-haired man had a cape on, and the top button of his greatcoat hung open. He looked around at his former comrades – the men he had seen as his best friends and greatest warriors. They hunched their shoulders collectively and waited for the lady's judgment. Zoicite, Nephrite, and Jadeite glanced sidelong at their leader, waiting on him as always for instruction.

"What is it you require of us, my lady?" he ventured, sure she was about to take that wand and zap the four of them into oblivion. "We are at your service, I assure you."

She tilted her head, and the smile did not quite return yet to her face – they could tell she wanted to! Now that they had their clothes back, she could look them over as she originally wanted to. They looked frightened, and she had expected that. By all rights, she could destroy them in a moment. By their faces, she could guess that they knew. She took one more step toward them. This time, she lowered the wand to show them that she meant them no malice. The tiny, formidable Neo Queen stared up at the four with her huge, searching blue eyes.

"Let me ask you four just two questions," she started.

Her voice shook with the effort it took to say the words. The four regarded her with less fear and more curiosity. She had the wand in her hand as if she had something she wanted so badly to do with it. The giant blue eyes blinked at them. Whatever her question, they would not be able to lie to her.

"Are you sorry?"

Silently, four heads nodded in unison.

"Are you ever going to do it again?"

They knew what she asked about and they shook their heads as one again. To their surprise, Neo Queen Serenity smiled. Her entire face lit the room, and each of them felt as though she were specifically smiling at him. The four of them waited in eager trepidation for her next words. She bowed her head and studied the wand in her hands.

"Well, since you promise never to do it again, I'm willing to forgive you," she started, looking at each man in turn. "But only if you go to my friends and apologize to them too. If they forgive you, I will."