Anything italicized is someone's thought bubble, they're singing, or they're dreaming
Bree stood up from her seat in the cage and looked over at Black Lady, seeing her talking to Queen Beryl, telling her the plan they had. She sighed in defeat as she looked over at Chase and Donald, leaning against the bars of their cell.
"At least Oliver is okay," she spoke quietly. "At least he's safe now."
"Yeah," Chase began. "Maybe now he'll…" Just as he went to finish his statement, a bright light appeared behind them in the cage, making the villains look over at them
"What is going on?!" Beryl called as she started rush towards it with her staff in hand, while the light consumed the three prisoners in their barred off home.
"Who is doing this?!" Vinelle yelled with fear in her voice, while Mistress 9 just stood there, a look of pure unamusement on her face. In this moment, however, when the light faded out…the trio was gone.
(SONG: "Butterfly" – Digimon OP – Amanda Lee English cover)
My broken wings dream of the sky/and I'll never be able to fly/only if we never try/ALL MY LOVE...!
MIGHTY MOON
If I could become just one thing/I'd be a butterfly free soaring/I really miss you/so now finally I'm on my way/let's focus on the people we trust/and leave all of the doubt behind us/so if you're ready/can we go/cause there's no time to waste/I wanna know/if the sky is only for show/I wanna know/what tomorrow will bring/so let's spread out our wings!
Maybe this world's an infinite dream/and there's only hope living in me/may it not fail me now/we'll turn this thing around/and get back to loving somehow/my broken wings dream of the sky/and they'll never be able to fly/only if we never try/ALL MY LOVE...ALL MY LOVE!
(End of the song)
Episode 4 – The Return of Mars
Rini sat in the study room of the school, in her school uniform that held the broach on her front red bow, finishing the final math problem on her homework sheet and then putting it in it's respective folder. Kaz had just walked in with his science book when he noticed Rini sitting by herself. He smiled before walking over and sitting across from her.
The pink haired princess looked up at him and smiled as well. "Hey, Kaz!" She exclaimed with excitement.
"Hey, Pinkie," Kaz said with a chuckle, which made Rini giggle at the nickname. Her mother might not have liked her nickname of 'Meatball Head' from her father when they first met, but she didn't mind being called Pinkie for her un-natural pink hair. She, as a matter of fact, enjoyed the nickname. She might need to find one that suited Kaz.
"What are you up to?" Kaz asked as he saw Rini holding a different book in her hand now.
"I just finished my homework," answered the young girl as she set her book down. It wasn't a novel or story, but a run of the mill white leather bound notebook with a little gold crescent moon on the front as well as little stars and pink bunnies. "Now I'm working one something I want to work on."
"And that is…?" Rini gave Kaz a look like he was prying, which made the fire powered kid hold up his hands in defense. "Sorry. Just asking."
"It's alright," the young princess opened up her notebook at this point and went to a specific page that had a few things already written down on it. Kaz opened up his science book as he watched Rini write a quick line down in it and then put it away.
"AH! Songbook!" He yelled, making Rini jump at the sound, and then rolled her eyes after realizing what he said.
"So what if it is?!" She yelled back. "I've been into music and performing ever since Sailor Venus taught me how to play the piano."
"Wow, that's cool," Kaz said as he saw someone with long black hair and violet eyes walk up behind Rini.
"And what did Sailor Mars teach you?" She asked, making Rini turn around and squeal with excitement.
"Rei!" Rini yelled before standing up and hugging her with such force, they almost fell over.
"Hey, Small Lady," Rei said with a smile as they pulled away. "How's the little princess doing?"
"I'm great!" Rini exclaimed.
"Where's Mizu? Ami told me she came here too."
"She's at work," Kaz chimed in as he kept his eyes on his science book, reading the exact page his teacher told him to read. This made the former Sailor Scout of Mars look at him with curiosity, which also made Kaz look up at her in confusion. "What? She has early release so she can work for her tuition!"
"Yeah, that's true," Rini replied.
"I knew she had a job out here, but I didn't know she got to leave early because of it," Rei stated, not taking her eyes off of Kaz. "And how does this boy know that?"
"Oh, right!" The pink haired princess exclaimed. "Rei, this is Kaz Connor. He's been my friend since I first started here."
"Friend, huh?" Rei had a smirk form on her face like she knew the young Crystal Tokyo Princess, which made Rini blush before glaring at the Mars Princess.
"Yeah, Rei…friends."
"I also know Mizu, so that's how I know where she is," Kaz added, not seeming to get the situation, which was great news for Rini. He had a tendency to not get jokes or be oblivious to certain things. And this one was the biggest one she was glad for.
Yeah, it's no surprise to say that Rini might have a slight crush on Kaz, but that's all it was: a slight crush. She still had some residing feelings for Helios and didn't want to move on just yet. But who knows what could happen with these two kids.
As Rei was getting ready to know Kaz a little better, Rini remembered something very important. Well, important to her. "Wait, if you're here…does that mean…?"
"What do you think, girly?" A male voice spoke up from behind the pink haired princess, making her spin around and see a young boy with short black hair and violet eyes like Rei. His smile was like the former Sailor Mars, but Rini could see his father in him. His tan skin was definitely from his father.
"Ash!" The young princess yelled before running up to him and hugging him, with the boy, Ash, returning the action.
Kaz just stared at them for a moment, with a jealous glint in his eyes, as they pulled away from their hug. Right as that happened, Oliver busted in through the door, which made all of them jump in surprise as they looked at him.
"Kaz! Rini! Come with me! Now!" He said before rushing out of the room again, making Kaz close his book and run after him with Rini in tow. Rei and Ash followed to as they made it to the front of the school yard, seeing four other kids there.
Kaz stared in relief as Chase looked around in surprise, before spotting the fire powered teen, and smiling himself.
"Kaz?" He asked, making the young man rush over and hug him and the other two.
"I'm so glad you guys are okay," Kaz said before pulling away from Bree, for it was her that he ended the hug chain on.
"How did you guys escape from Dark Moon Tower?" Oliver asked as Skylar ran up beside Rei and Ash.
"We didn't try to escape at all," Bree said as she held up a wand in her hand. It had a peachy red base with a gold crescent moon top. It was safe to say that Kaz recognized it from his dream he had a few weeks, making a month ago by now. "This is what got us out."
Rini gasped at the sight of it before slowly walking up to Bree. This made the young speedster look on in alarm before the pink haired beauty reached out, basically asking to hold it. Bree immediately realized she wanted the wand and handed it over.
Rini held it in her bare hands after that, feeling the cool metal of the gold accents and the peachy base. The gold moon glowed dimly at her as the gold crescent moon she had been born with appeared on her forehead, surprising Donald Davenport in the process.
"This was my mother's wand," Rini finally spoke as the glowing faded out and the moon on her forehead disappeared. "How'd you get it again?"
"It just appeared," Bree stated in response. "It's what got us out of the danger."
Rini scuffed with amusement as she looked over at Rei, seeing her smiling face looking back at her. "Mom's still protecting me."
"Looks like it, Small Lady," stated Rei. "Looks like it."
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Black Lady punched the bars of the abandoned cage, which made it crumble into dust before she turned back around, making a smoke mirror appear above the hollowed star she had in the middle of the room. The smoky mirror showed the scene of the bright glow appearing outside of Rini's high school, and then showing the three escaped prisoners of Black Lady and the others coming in after the glow disappeared. The black and pink haired girl recognized the wand in Bree's hand instantly.
"Now what do we do?" Vinelle asked as she leaned against the wall, arms crossed. "Our prisoners are no longer here."
"This can't be happening!" Black Lady yelled. "That wand shouldn't have gotten through the barrier I placed here!"
"How did it then, Black Lady?" Beryl asked as she sat in the throne off to the side.
"I don't know!"
"Well figure it out, dearie," Mistress 9 stated. "Because I fear something is about to happen that we are trying to prevent."
That was when Black Lady's eyes widen, making her change the scene quickly in her smoky mirror. There stood a tall golden brick castle, with the earth in the background, as well as the moon, before a blast of dark energy hit it, breaking it into pieces, and a sphere of white light floated out of it quickly. Black Lady concentrated on it for a moment, before gasping in surprise, seeing that it was a young man of maybe 18, floating towards the earth as the beautiful castle fell apart.
"Neo Queen Serenity must remember this castle now," she said with venom in her voice. "I can see you destroyed this one too, Beryl."
"Of course," began Beryl as she held her staff. "I wanted control of the whole universe. All kingdoms had to go."
"Did you not expect this though?" Black Lady said through gritted teeth as she made the scene replay, only this time she showed the white sphere of light more closely, showing the dark brown hair of the man inside.
"He looks familiar," Vinelle spoke up as she walked closer to it. "But I can't place him."
"Neither can I," Mistress 9 chimed in.
"Whoever he is in this time," began Black Lady with a sinister smirk forming on her face. "We must make sure he never is awakens. Vinelle…you know what to do."
"Yes, ma'am!" Vinelle called before disappearing in a swirl of vines wrapping around her.
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"Princess Small Lady, it's an honor to meet you," Donald kept saying as he also kept bowing towards her while they were in the ice cream parlor, with Mizu helping out a customer. School had just ended after Rini found her mother's old and very first wand in Bree's possession, and since the young pink haired princess needed to explain more of her mother's story, they went to Mizu's work, after Rini had changed into a cute red tank top and blue denim shorts.
"Please, Mr. Davenport," Rini began with a sweet smile on her face. "In Crystal Tokyo, Japan, I am Princess Small Lady, but to my friends I'm Rini. So please, call me that."
"She's supposed to keep a low profile here," Rei commented behind her son's chair. "Not to draw attention to herself as crowned princess."
"I see," Donald began as he bowed once more to Rini and sat down. "So sorry, your high…I mean, Rini." Rini just giggled at Donald's actions of showing his respect, even if it was a bit too much for the young princess. Kaz didn't do anything like that to her, mainly because he didn't realize she was Princess Small Lady. They were both born around the same time, and Crystal Tokyo didn't rise until Rini was at least 4, meaning Kaz had to have been 6 when all that happened. So he most likely wouldn't recognize her now that she was 16. It took the power of the moon from her mother's wand, that was sitting in front of her on the table, and her crescent moon to show up on her forehead for Donald Davenport to recognize her, too.
"So, how did this thing just "magically" save us?" Chase asked as he leaned forward some. "And how do I know you're not Black Lady in disguise?"
"Chase, dude!" Kaz practically reprimanded from beside Rini, while Bree smacked her bother on his arm.
"I'm sorry, Pri…Rini," Bree began. "If Chase can't explain it with science then it doesn't exist."
"Well, to answer your question on how this thing was able to save you," Rini began as well, trying to find the right answer, but came up empty. "I'm not sure. It was in my mother's possession back in Crystal Tokyo. So I don't know how it made it out this way so fast."
"Maybe it sensed the evil in this area of the world and came to help us fight it off," Oliver chimed in from beside Skylar, with his arm behind her on the chair she was sitting on.
"That could be," Rini said as she stared at the wand for a moment, before sighing and looking back at Chase. "And for your second question, I'm not Black Lady in disguise. But I can see where you think I might be."
"Well, duh, you look just like her!" Bree declared with surprise, but you could still hear the kindness in her voice.
"Yeah, that's true," began Rini as she took a deep breath, and began explaining everything to them. From why Black Lady and herself look the same, to the backstory of her family heritage. Diana nodded to everything the young princess said from her lap, which kind of freaked Chase out as he noticed what it was doing.
"So, Black Lady basically IS you," stated Bree. "And you have to try to stop her as the new version of Sailor Moon?"
"Exactly," Rini stated back with a sigh as she took the wand in her free hand, the one that wasn't holding Diana in her lap, and stared at it, thinking back to how it must have been like for her mother to have used this. But how she didn't notice this one thing was beyond her…but the Imperial Silver Crystal was no longer in the center of the crescent moon anymore. "Oh, no."
"What is it?" Chase asked as he leaned back, not buying any of what was being said.
"The Imperial Silver Crystal…I just noticed it's not on the wand," Rini answered. "It's the most powerful crystal of my home! It's like a family heirloom!"
"Maybe Aunt Usagi will send it out later, Smalls," Ash said with a grin on his face, but Rini didn't return it.
"Or maybe it's really missing again! If my mother finds out that it's gone…!"
"Rini, calm down," Kaz began as he grabbed her hand that was around Diana, making the pink haired teen look at him, her red eyes meeting his brown ones. "We'll find it. I mean, it has to be somewhere, right?"
"R-right," she stuttered out, as she felt him squeeze her hand for comfort. "You're right. I'm sure it's out there somewhere. We just…have to search around for it."
"How do you suppose we…?" Chase began before a loud bang was heard off outside, making the group run out with Mizu following them, and standing on a big vine like podium was Vinelle, laughing evilly as huge Venus Fly Traps were spreading throughout the area, going after energy of all the people running around in terror.
"That's right! Try and run away! But my Venus Fly Traps will suck you up in not time!" Vinelle yelled out before laughing again.
"That witch!" Chase exclaimed as he looked over at Bree, nodding his head to start the battle. Bree nodded back before speed running around one of the Venus Fly Traps, only to trip on one of it's roots and fall to the ground with hard thud.
"Bree!" Skylar called as she ran over to her friend's aid and fought of the fly trap the best she could.
Oliver quickly shot ice at the plant before him, but it just would freeze or die. It was like the ice and water made it more powerful. "Well, I under the water part healing them…but ice?! Really?!"
"Indeed," Vinelle said as she stared over at Oliver. "And to think, you used to be one of us." This just made Oliver growl at the young vine based villain.
Kaz ran straight into it, shooting fire at the plants, which in turn made them squeal in pain before dying off. However, one of them had started wrapping their vines around him without Kaz knowing it, and basically tied him up before bringing him to face level of Vinelle.
"You look extremely familiar to me," she said, trying to concentrate on who he could be, while Kaz was struggling against the vines around him.
"KAZ!" Rini yelled before holding up her hand and letting her nails get painted their pink color from the magic in her broach. "Moon, Prism, POWER!" And with that, Rini turned into Sailor Moon, with her mother's old wand in hand.
Chase and Rei both stared in surprise as Ash grabbed his mother's bag, which made Rei look at him in surprise.
"Ash Kasei Ardin! Give me back my…!" But Rei didn't get to finish what she was saying, for Ash pulled out her old power pen from when she first became Sailor Mars. She gasped as she watched him hold onto it with determination. "Ash, you can't use that! Only girls can…!"
"Mercury POWER!" Mizu yelled as she ran in and shot some bubbles and water here and there, only getting nowhere fast.
"I have to at least try, mom!" Ash told his mom. "If it doesn't work then I'll know for sure I can't be part of Smalls' team! But if it does…well…" Immediately, Ash ran forward, with Rei reaching out to him to try and stop him, but didn't bother saying anything.
"Come on, guys!" Diana yelled, making Chase jump at the fact that the cat just talked from beside his foot. "You can do…!" Sailor Moon screamed out as she rolled along the ground, away from the attack, going out cold but was still in her sailor form.
"SAILOR MOON!" Kaz and Diana screamed with worry towards her as the young boy struggled more against the vines, right as Vinelle gasped in surprise.
"I know who you are!" She yelled as she took out her brother's sword and aimed it towards him with anger lacing her facial features now. "I can't let you remember!"
"What are you…?!"
"Mars POWER!" Ash yelled, as his mother's old power pen started to glow with a white and red light surrounding him. Rei watched in surprise as the light soon faded out, showing her son in a red and purple striped tight fitting short sleeved v-neck leotard with red pants and a purple belt, a long red cape hanging off his shoulders, purple shoes were on his feet, white gloves that stopped at his elbows with the same red cuffs like how it looked on Rei when she was Sailor Mars, and on his forehead was the same gold tiara with the red gem in the center.
"Oh, my…he's a soldier," Rei stated with a tear falling down her face, a smiling forming on her face.
"Mars, Fire…IGNITE!" Mars yelled as fire started singeing every little vine and fly trap in the area, saving Bree and Skylar from one that was just about to eat them, as well as Oliver and Mercury. It even rescued Kaz before Vinelle could plunge the sword through his chest, untying him in the process.
Kaz fell on his back and looked over to see Sailor Moon was still out cold on the wet ground, making him quickly stand up and run straight for her. "Sailor Moon!" He called as he fell to his knees by her side, checking her neck for a pulse and her wrist. Thankfully she still had one. "Sailor Moon, can you hear me?"
Sailor Moon stirred a little as she opened her eyes and looked up at Kaz, seeing his brown ones staring with concern. "Kaz?"
"Thank God," he said as he helped her stand up. "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine. Just got winded," she answered before picking up her wand from the ground. She held it close as she saw Mars shooting fire in every direction before he noticed her awake.
"Hey Smalls, we could use that magic now!" He called to her, making her smile excitement, for the nickname he called her made her know who it was now on her team. She quickly ran around Kaz and jumped off a big rock, finding herself float up in the air and spun around quickly.
"Moon, Healing…ESCALATION!" She yelled as the wand in her hand glowed brightly, healing the streets of Centium City quickly, as well as hitting Vinelle head on.
"NOOOO!" She yelled in pain as she turned into dust floating in the breeze before the magic died down. Sailor Moon landed on the ground afterwards as Mars and Mercury ran up to her, giving her friendly hugs of worry and excitement. Another battle won.
"That…that can't be…" Chase began as he tried to find a logical explanation for all this but kept coming up empty as Bree, Skylar, Oliver, and Kaz walked up to him and Donald.
"Looks like magic is real, Chase," Kaz said as he kept his sight on Sailor Moon, seeing her smiling face as she looked over at Mars, who seemed very excited to be a part of her team.
"I'll be enrolling him at Centium City High," Rei spoke up, making them look at her. "He's needed here now." She then looked over at Kaz and grinned at him. "Take care of Rini for me, okay?"
Kaz grinned at her too before saluting with two fingers hitting off his forehead. "Always have…always will."
END OF EPISODE 3
