Chapter 2:

Once more Usagi and Mamoru found themselves invisible, but for once not in a foreign place or time. This place they knew, in fact they were here almost everyday –

"The Arcade?" Usagi asked incredulously.

"Well it stands to reason, Usagi, considering we ourselves spend so much time here, and the Queen and her husband are really only our former selves." Mamoru replied, smiling, wondering how different things could have been.

"True," She replied thoughtfully, "Mamo-chan, are your memories coming back? Because Pluto said they might but I don't remember anything differently…"

"I wouldn't worry about it Usa, she said they might, not that they would definitely." Usagi nodded in response to this, it sounded logical.

They stood in silence for a minute, inspecting the familiar looking arcade, trying to find familiar faces. Mamoru grinned and pointed to a dark-haired man sitting at the counter –

"There I am," Mamoru said, still pointing, "So, it stands to reason that you'll appear very soon." Just as he mentioned this, Usagi noticed a blonde blur running past a window and through the doors.

"Yep, there I am," Usagi grinned, then yelped, indignant: "Oh, you're not serious! There is no way I look like that from this angle!"

"What on earth are you talking about Usagi? Of course that's what you look like, all of your gorgeous self!" Mamoru replied to her moment of insanity, grinning a bit over her silliness.

"But.. No! I had no idea my skirt rode up that much!" Usagi spluttered, looking to Mamoru for confirmation, who smirked at her, looking at the aforementioned skirt.

"What's wrong with it?" He questioned, a purely innocent look on his face, his eyes watching her as she steadily turned red. To prove his point Mamoru flicked his eyes to the skirt, staring til Usagi hit him.

"Hentai. Now pay attention, something must be about to happen."

Mamoru and Usagi stood there for a minute, surveying their surroundings, expecting something to happen between their alternate selves, but all that occurred was Usagi sitting, further down the counter from Mamoru.

"Mamoru," Usagi whined to the supposedly invisible man next to her, "I can almost hear the crickets, why is nothing happening? They're just.. sitting there! Where's the arguing, the yelling and screaming?"

"I don't know, Usa. Maybe something is about to happen and this is just to keep us in suspense?"

"This isn't a movie!" Usagi squeaked, looking at their quarry, who still hadn't moved, "Shouldn't she have ordered something, and where's Motoki? Shouldn't he be around here somewhere?"

At that moment Motoki appeared, holding a chocolate milkshake in one hand, and a cup of coffee in the other, placing them in front of alternate Usagi and Mamoru respectively. Usagi chirped a greeting to the bringer of chocolate, and proceeded to drink the milkshake in almost record time. That Usagi may not have noticed, but the hidden pair certainly did when Mamoru gave her a little smile and turned to his coffee.

"Awww," hidden Usagi cooed, "Why didn't I ever notice anything like that?"

"Because you love chocolate too much!" Mamoru replied, smiling and putting his arm around her waist, "But you know now."

"I do too."

Invisible Usagi heard a bleeping noise coming from the bag on the counter, which it appeared only the Usagi of this reality could hear, for no one else in the arcade even noticed it. Mamoru didn't notice either, but Usagi poked him and pointed at their prey, seeing how she was quickly packing up her stuff and placing money on the counter for Motoki, before running out of the Arcade.

They went to follow Usagi, and happened to notice the other Mamoru was also doing the same that Usagi had, running out of the Arcade.

"I'll follow Usagi, you follow him?" Usagi suggested, not waiting for a reply before running after similar blonde pigtails.

"That girl will be the death of me," Mamoru muttered, following his alternate self into a nearby alley, where the man magically changed into a tuxedo with a mask and cape, before jumping up onto the nearest building and sprinting for the park.

Usagi had also seen a similar feat with her alternate self, but was able to follow her into the park, where she found Mamoru waiting for her, watching as Usagi's alternate self introduced herself as 'Sailor Moon'.

"Where are you?" Usagi asked Mamoru, who pointed to a nearby tree, where the masked man sat.

"What the hell is that?" Mamoru yelped, seeing the youma, a giant four legged orange monster, resembling a giant cat somewhat.

"Youma." Usagi replied, listening as Sailor Moon completed her speech about love and justice.

Sailor Moon was now surrounded by other Senshi, who called themselves Sailor Mars, Sailor Mercury, Sailor Jupiter and Sailor Venus. All through this introduction the youma had not moved, staring blankly at her attackers. However, once the introductions finished, the monster attacked, sending waves of orange power out into the Senshi, knocking them to the ground.

Sailor Venus cried out something incomprehensible, which had mentions of love and beauty, before a chain of golden hearts reached out and bound the monster. This did not last for long, and the youma was soon free, reaching out with one of its enormous hands for Sailor Moon. He picked her up, knowing the other Senshi could not interfere if he held their leader. Sailor Moon screamed, the hand was crushing her, she could hardly breathe.

The Senshi could only stand and watch, helplessly, knowing that any attack they could send would only hurt Sailor Moon. She screamed on last time, before passing out, going limp in the giant hand. Using this moment, the monster sent another wave of orange power into the Senshi, causing them to be flung to the ground.

Usagi watched this scene in horror, her eyes wide, surely this was not how things had begun between their future selves! Mamoru noticed movement in the tree where his alternate self had been sitting, a red object flew out of the dark figures hand and into one of the monsters eyes.

The youma roared and dropped Sailor Moon, she fell limply to the ground, unmoving. The masked figure jumped out of the tree, wielding his cane as though it were a sword. He slashed the youma across its 'throat', and it appeared as though the cane actually did have a sword point on it. The Youma collapsed and the man, who had called himself Tuxedo Kamen, rushed to pick Sailor Moon up, cradling her in his arms.