Disclamer: I have not created SailorMoon or any other characters from the show. The animated television series SailorMoon is produced by Toei Animation Co. Ltd, and is based on the manga series by Naoko Takeuchi, first published in Japan by Kodansha Ltd. I have made this fanfic to express how much I really like the show Sailor Moon!!

Episode Three: Pretty Solider Sailor Helix appears! Beatle is the guide!


She saw white light all around her and it burned her eyes. She shielded them and turned around as a familiar voice called her name.

"Summer?" She blinked and found her self sitting opposite of an elderly woman wearing a sunflower in her short gray hair.

"Nana? Wha…?" Summer uttered as she noticed that she was sitting in her Grandmother's car. She looked out the window and saw an endless expanse of white, and as she turned to give her Grandmother a confused look, she realized what was happening as her Grandmother smiled. "I'm in a dream within a dream?" Summer said as she gasped. "First a talking hamster that knows my name and now I see my dead Grandmother…"

"Knock it off Summer. You're way too dramatic." Summer widened her eyes as she looked at her. "I haven't much time, so stop acting like this is all…" Her Nana waved her hand around as she brushed Summer's hair out of her eyes, while she spoke, "…isn't real. It doesn't matter. I have something important to tell you, and that's what you need to get out this." Summer was speechless and could only stare at her.

Her Grandmother sighed and pinched Summer. "Ouch!" Summer exclaimed as she rubbed her arm and gave her a hurt look.

"Nana!! What'cha do that for?" Summer pouted.

"This is real you goof, and now I hope I have your attention." Summer nodded and frowned a little bit. "I've forgotten how cranky she gets…" Summer thought as the old woman put her hands on the steering wheel. "Now I'm not going to explain why we are in the middle of nowhere in my old Pontiac . Though it's a funny story and I'm sure your Grandpa would get a kick out of it…" The old woman cackled a bit and Summer gave her a odd look. "…now where was I?" Summer suppressed a giggle.

"Still the same though…" she thought as she noticed something appear on her Grandmother's wrist. It was a familiar thin wired green bracelet and it's sparkle got her attention. "Nana, why's my bracelet appearing on your wrist?" Summer watched her lift her hand and gaze at it, as if it was going to tell her time.

"Oh yes. That's my bracelet dear, and I wanted to talk to you about it. You see…" her Grandmother turned to face her and had a very serious face, "…with great responsibility there is great…great…" The old woman paused and cocked her head. "…there's great something. Argh!" she hit the steering wheel which startled Summer. "Damnit! I forgot the rest of that saying."

Summer gave her long and bemused look. "You're important message is a quote from a hit superhero film from a couple years ago?" Summer shook her head. "Explains the white expanse and the car." She muttered.

"No, I mean yes. I liked the film, but that quote pertains to you. Now listen to me, I don't have much time." She pointed at her bracelet and then at Summer's forehead. "I found this bracelet when I was about your age, and when I put it on, it gave me a sense that it would belong to you. Of course at the time I hadn't clue I would have grandchildren, heck or even children, but that's beside the point." She laughed and looked at the bracelet and smiled at Summer. "This thing has always meant to belong to you and it has the ability to awaken power in you. Please don't be a fool and use it well, and for God's sake, don't tell your Grandfather. He always thought it was ugly and cursed, though I told him numerous times, it helped us meet each other. It was on a pretty spring day when we were…" Summer gaped at her Grandmother's hand.

"Power, within me? Sounds strange…" Summer said as she interrupted her reminiscing.

"Yes, power. Power…to save the world or something. Definitely not something you want to tell everyone or they'll think you're crazy. That's why I never mentioned it, well that and I didn't really believe myself. Dang thing would always warm up whenever you were around though. So go and save the world and listen to the hamster. He'll guide you. You don't have to do much; just kill evil and stuff, you know, like that crap you used to watch in those cartoons." Summer looked embarrassed when she said that.

"You mean like the superheroes I liked when I was growing up?" Her Grandmother nodded.

"That's it! I'll be here, rooting for ya. Don't give me that look. It's that look your mother gives me when I tell her I think you'll do great, great things, because you are different from everyone else. She never really understood what I meant by that. Oh and before I go, tell your Grandfather to check the oven before he goes to bed. He has a tendency to leave it on. Fool of a man." Her Grandmother looked up and snorted. "Out of time. Well goodbye my dear and good luck. You'll do fine, and remember not to tell this to anyone, well you can tell the hamster." She looked briefly annoyed as she looked upwards again. "Ok, ok! I'm wrapping it up!" Her Grandmother closed her eyes and sighed.

"Bye, Nana…" Summer said as she went to hug her. It was nice, for a moment, Summer could smell her unique scent, something she hadn't experience in years. Then it was gone and Summer saw a tiny pair of brown eyes looking at her.

"Beatle." Summer said before the hamster could speak. She sat up and rubbed her head, and in the process knocked the hamster off her chest and sent him almost crashing into her lap, but she caught him. "Sorry about that. Man I must have hit my head…" she said as she brought the hamster back to eye level. He was also rubbing his head and turned to give her the same worried look, he had when she woke up from her dream with her Grandmother.

"Are you..?" he started but Summer interrupted.

"Yea, considering the strange circumstances. I'm fine, really." She smiled at him.

"You seem much calmer now." He said as he looked unconvinced.

"I guess I would. I just had the strangest thing happen…" Summer paused and closed her eyes. "I can still smell her..it must have been real, so I guess Beatle being able to talk is real as well. Why would Nana think this hamster can guide me? Since when am I a superhero? That's just insane, I have the hardest time walking through doors without running into something. Of course that's just because my feet are really huge, but still. What kind of hero will save the day and fall flat on their face?" As she was contemplating these things she felt a strange cool sensation on her hand. "Gwa?" she uttered as she opened her eyes and looked to see Beatle staring at her with a confused look on his furry face. "What did you do?" She asked him.

"Oh are you speaking to me now? Or are you still, hmm what's the word…?" He looked at his paw and then back up at her. "…ah, here it is, spacing out?" Her eye twitched. The hamster was sarcastic, just what she needed.

"Funny. I had a dream, or vision about my dead grandmother. She was talking to me about this." She pointed at her other hand at her bracelet causing Beatle to slide off, grabbing her finger for support. "Oh, sorry." She said as she positioned him onto her hand again.

"I hate being this small." She heard him exclaimed, then he looked up at her and looked rather embarrassed and then he cleared his throat. "You're a hamster…" Summer started but he interrupted her. "Sorry about my earlier comment, I didn't realize you were having a vision. It's something you don't do that often, well to my knowledge." Summer stared at him.

"Wha.."

"Anyway, I didn't do anything to your hand but sprayed some of this on it, to get your attention."

"Wha.." "It's supposed to get your attention, ok? You may not have visions a lot, but you do have a lot of internal dialogue with yourself, and it drives me crazy when you don't tell me what you are thinking." Summer was about to open her mouth again, but the hamster continued on, making it impossible for her to ask how he knew her like that. "Now this vision about your grandmother, was she telling you that," he now pointed at her bracelet. "is more than a piece of jewelry?" Summer nodded. "Excellent! Perhaps this will go smoothly and we can get started saving our home."

"Our home?" He wasn't listening to her as he poked at his wrist again. "What is that you're doing?"

"Oh, this is my um, mini comp. I need it in this strange, strange terraform orb, um, planet. It really helps in communicating, and there are so many languages on this tiny place."

"I see. You're an alien. Well that explains a lot." Summer felt lightheaded. "The coffee has finally gotten to me, I've going insane. Jonathan would have a laugh if he saw me now." She scowled as she once again felt the cool mist on her hand. "Will you stop that?" she saw the hamster looking quite annoyed. "Well you were the one messing with your comp. What do you want from me anyways? To save the world?" He nodded his head. "From what? There are more criminals in this place alone, versus the whole world, and there is one big footed me, and I think if there was a fight, they would win. Besides I have school and a life. This doesn't concern me." She got up and placed the hamster back on her dresser. As she did, he sprayed her in the face with a small device on her hand.

"Summer. Knock it off, you are being dramatic." Summer wiped her face and felt her heart skip a beat.

"Just like Nana said…" she grabbed the dresser and stared blankly.

"Did I hurt you? I'm really sorry. I didn't mean it. I just wanted you to let me speak. Summer?" She ignored him briefly and saw her reflection in the mirror above the dresser. She did look rather pale. She then looked down at her small annoying hamster and saw he was genuinely worried.

"I'm..I'm fine. Just a little shaken that's all. I'll listen to you and I won't interrupt until you are done. I just need to sit first." He nodded and she sat down on her bed and looked at him. "Ok. Start again, and I won't speak or tell you what I think, until you are finished."

"Your piece of jewelry, what did you call it..?" Beatle looked frustrated as he was trying to form the word he was searching for while looking at his wrist. Summer stared and smiled while remaining silent as he finally said "bracelet." Summer nodded and held out her wrist to look at it. "It's purpose is hid your true identity from prying eyes. You already have power within you." He paused and crossed his little arms and nodded as if he was having some internal dialogue within himself.

"Dork. He whined about me doing that." Summer rolled her eyes as he smiled and resumed speaking.

"So just repeat this and you'll see who you really are, and please, stand. It's best if you stand…" He said as she started to look sheepish and embarrassed. "Why are you looking like that?" She said as she stood up. "I've..never seen this transformation, actually. You've always.."

She interrupted him, "You have an idea what this is going to look like don't you?" She gave him a hard stare.

"An idea, yes. I'll turn around…heh." He gave a nervous laugh and proceeded to do so.

"Why? Am I going to be naked or something?" She asked as she stared at the back of his head where his hair suddenly poofed out.

"Ummm, I…." he was stammering as he was having difficulty standing up. "Just say this phrase and you'll see." He said rather quickly.

"Fine. Just don't look." She couldn't believe that he was getting so embarrassed and thought he might have actually seen, whatever she was about to do. "Say, Helix Power Makeup!, while holding out your hand and you'll understand what I'm talking about." "Sure." Summer shrugged, and held her left hand up in front of her face and noticed the bracelet sparkled quite alot.

"Helix Power, Makeup!" She watched as for a moment nothing happened, then she saw her bracelet glow and started to give off a dark green light.

"Gwa?" Summer uttered as a strange power sensation filled her. She watched with awe as the green light grow and started to cover her entire body, making her clothes dissolve into nothingness.

"Eeep!" She thought as she tried to cover herself but realize she couldn't move. At the moment she saw her bracelet dissolve and the familiar little green silhouette of a small comet encompassed in a red N, fly above her head. She gasped as this symbol then produced ribbons at first small and shimmering, that started to enlarge and cover her face. Then she couldn't see anything but the array of red and green ribbons in her face as she felt clothing once again materializing on her body. Just a soon as the ribbons appeared, they vanished and she spotted her reflection of a stranger in her mirror, as the same symbol suddenly, flew through her and ended up behind her. She automatically did a pose and proceeded to stare at herself with a dumbfounded expression.

"WTF???" Summer exclaimed as she looked down at herself and back at the mirror again.

"Can I turn around yet?" Summer glanced over her shoulder and saw Beatle still had his back turned.

"Yes, and tell me why I'm in…this strange getup!!" she said rather shrilly as she looked back at the mirror. What she saw was something out of a comic book, wearing a really strange costume. She touched her forehead and stared at the pale yellow straight tiara that was on it with a small green jewel in the center. She proceed to look and saw she was wearing a spiffy criss-cross green chocker, well she thought it was spiffy looking. The chocker matched a goofy green sailor collar that had one white stripe on it. This was attached to a red bow that looked more like thin flattened butterfly wings. "

The bow is pretty but the collar is funky looking. What am I, a reject from the Navy?" She thought as she continued to examine her costume. She noticed that in the center of the bow was a three piece broach that had a large center orb, and two smaller orbs below it on each side. She thought it was odd how her upper part of her outfit, which felt very thick to her finger tips, but felt as light as cotton flared out at the bottom to reveal a slight part of her midriff. As it flared out, it tucked into a red thicker part.

"It's like a strange white shirt…or something, but the bottom is…something out of the seventies." She laughed nervously and turned at angle to look at the front and back. The second piece of the outfit had a red belt with white orbs dangling onto part of her short mini green skirt. Under the skirt, the part Summer was thankful for and thought looked outdated but cool, she was wearing Arabian style white pants with a hint of sea green that billowed out in a flare fashion into another red section with dangling white orbs.

"The footwear is cute too.." she thought as she stared down at the green ballerina styled shoes a white orb on the top of it. "Oh wait I have gloves as well as these cute white orb earrings." She liked the fact that the gloves weren't long and they went slightly above the wrist, with two rims of green padding. She didn't understand the padding, but the more she looked at herself, she realized she didn't understand what just happened.

"I present, Sailor Helix!" Summer turned around and looked at Beatle.

"Sailor, Helix? You mean me? I look like a Christmas elf from the seventies. I'm going to fight crime like this?" She said as his happy expression faded quickly away.

"You still don't remember anything? I was sure once you were back in your senshi mode, you would. This isn't good." He looked absolutely mortified.

"Senshi. What's that? Sounds foreign."

"Senshi means soldier." Beatle said with a flat voice.

"Hey now, don't get depressed on me. I told you I would listen to you, and I definitely believe that something interesting going on." She picked him up and placed him on her shoulder. "Now what do I do? Why am I like this?" She went over to the mirror and continued to stare. For a moment she looked at her new look while he remained silent. She glanced at her shoulder and poked him. "Hey Beatle, Nana said you would guide me. So, what do I do?" He looked at her with a sad, but determined look.

"Ok, well I guess I just start telling you then. You are Sailor Helix, the leader of the Nebula senshi. Our Lady, Lady Helix has sent me to look for you, the other nebula senshi, and the brightest light; the moon princess, aka Sailor Moon." He paused and sighed at her blank expression.

"Whoa, sounds complicated. Ok, you found me, so where are the others?" Beatle smiled.

"I'm glad you are listening even though this is confusing for you. I have a very vague idea where they are. I was hoping you could find them, but I guess I need to help your memory first." Summer stared at the mirror and spotted something strange in it's reflection. She looked over her shoulder and saw the window, where again she spotted a dark cloud. Normally she wouldn't think anything of it, but she felt like it was something she had to look at.

"Helix? What is it?" Summer blinked and gave him a weird look.

"Are you going to call me that?" She said as she went over to the window.

"Yes. You are Sailor Helix." "Right…" Summer replied lazily and placed her hands on the window sill as she peered out to look at the sky.

"That looks odd…" she said half out loud. Beatle looked and glanced about.

"What does?" Summer rolled her eyes and pointed at the cloud, but stopped as she saw it had disappeared.

"Huh? It was there a moment ago. It was really bizarre looking cloud, and…" she trailed off as she saw her parent's car pull up into the driveway. "Crap!" she gave Beatle a worried look, "My parents are home. They can't see me like this!" Beatle looked down and cocked his head to peer over.

"You're right, no one should know that you are Sailor Helix, it has to be a secret." He said as she frantically placed him back on the dresser while trying to take the tiara off. "Darn right it has to be a secret. I would be the butt of everyone's joke!" She realized that the tiara wasn't coming off and proceeded with the gloves.

"You're not a joke! You are a specialized soldier who fights for justice."

"Stuff it! How do I turn back? I can't get this off!" She was spastically trying to pull her shoes off as she was sitting on her bed.

"I don't know. I've never been a Nebula senshi. I'm just a commander. You've never told me how you change back." She glared at him.

"Great. How is this supposed to be a secret if I can't be normal looking?"

"You look great like that…"

"Beatle…" she growled as she heard front door open and close.

"I don't know! It's not a topic you discussed with me. That would be rather strange. My only guess is that you are needed somewhere, and that's why you can't go back to your civilian look."

"Sounds like I'm part of the army. Fine, how do I leave, to help fight for justice when my parents…"

"Summer? You up there?" her mother yelled to emphasis her point.

"Yes, and I'm going to bed! Night!!" Summer yelled and quickly jumped in the bed and pulled the covers around her tightly. Summer stared at the door, knowing her mother was going to check in on her. After all going to bed this early was going to make her worried. She heard the knock on the door and saw Beatle scamper behind her bottle of lotion on the dresser.

"Can I come in dear? Are you sick?" her mother said behind the door. Summer remembering her tiara pulled a pillow over her forehead.

"No I'm not..just really tired." Her mother entered and gave Summer a worried expression. "Bad day at work then huh?" "Yea…and I have to study tomorrow, so I've decided to call it a night…." Summer said with a muffled voice.

"Ok then, but aren't you hot…?" "No, not at all! Rather comfortable. Night mom!" Summer said with a shrill voice. She saw her mother was unconvinced, but shrugged it off and walked out of the room.

"Not that taticful Helix." Summer sighed as she sat up and glared Beatle as appeared behind the bottle.

"Shutup. She didn't see, did she?" "No, I guess not." He then pressed his watch and stared at it. Summer got up and went to the door and listened to it.

"Mom's telling dad she thinks…what?" Summer looked embarrassed and shook her head as she went back to the dresser.

"What are your parental units saying?" Summer gave him a strange look.

"Parental units? You need to brush up on your English. Mom thinks that I got rejected for a date tonight. She knows I have finals next week." Summer went over to mirror and fixed her hair while pouting at what her mother was thinking.

"Date? What's that?" Summer looked over at Beatle and saw he stopped messing with his wrist.

"Never mind. What are you doing?" Beatle gave her a blank look for a moment and then went back to his wrist.

"Trying to see if Dark Matter has setup here yet…and it looks like he has. I think there are some pieces of him attacking this part of the city." He proceeded to make an image of Seattle float in front of him.

"Wow, a hologram of the city. Pretty snazzy, Beatle."

"Yes, well I have very minimal resources I received from my Comp, before it decided to blow itself up. So this is about the best I can do." He scowled. Summer stared at the map and spotted an old run down theater she used to go as a kid. She gasped as she saw some darkness move. "This dwelling you call a city is quite large and I've been trying to see where Dark Matter pieces are…"

"Stop! Go back to that theater. I thought I saw something." Beatle pulled up the theater and froze the map.

"Here? I didn't detect anything…"

"I saw something!" Summer exclaimed and then gave him a puzzled look. "Dark Matter? What is that?" Beatle's face grew grim as he stared at the transparent map in front of him.

"It's an entity of evil that eats anything light. It has eaten several of our sister nebulas. I thought for the longest time it had…it had…" he trailed off and stared soullessly into the map.

"it had..?" Summer probed him to continue.

"It had killed you and the others. I guess it didn't, but your memory, it's gone, so I wondered what happened to you during the time I was searching for the brightest light." He gave her an extremely mournful look and gave out an exasperated sigh. "No matter. I've found you, and I'm sure it will come back to you eventually. Now you said you saw something here?"

"Yes." He lifted his tiny paw and touched the transparent hologram. It zoomed in and Summer saw the building had survived quite a lot of damage from time as well as people. Summer sighed and noticed nothing but an old building that had seen better days. Beatle on the other hand, gasped.

"I sense it now Sailor Helix. It's in there. Pieces of him anyways. Let's go and destroy it." "How?" Beatle was taken aback as he made the map disappear.

"What do you mean how?" Summer laughed and shook her head.

"We'll just go into that structure, you'll do your gossmar attack and we'll come back here. I'm sure then you can become your civilian self.:

"That sounds grand, but I don't know how to attack and, certainly it's going to be loads of fun getting out of the house without my parents noticing." Summer retorted at him and then looked at her window. "Unless of course you tell me I can fly. Is that one of my superpowers?" She felt herself feeling excited. Perhaps this super heroine thing wasn't going to be so bad. "That would be so cool!" She said as she gave Beatle a grin and put him on her shoulder.

"You can't fly. Unless you have bubble transport on this terra orb. Which I don't remember seeing one…" She gave him a blank stare and sighed.

"Well what can I do?. Oh never mind. I'm kinda in the mood to kick butt and find out myself." She surprised him; she could tell as she walked over to her window and stared out.

"You're starting to sound like your old self…" she heard him say rather quietly as she surveyed the only exit she had. "Hmmm. Let's see, I have these nice little shoes with no heels, so that's good. Makes grabbing and climbing down the lattice trellis much easier, but I wonder if it will support my weight." She thought as she looked at the bushes below. "The fall would probably break my leg…well maybe. I don't have good depth perception. Oh the heck with it. Stop thinking and do it Summer!" She stretched out her arm and leg and grabbed onto the trellis.

"Sailor Helix? I don't think this is…"

"Shutup! No talking. This is the only way. I'm sure my parents are watching tv or something downstairs, and I can't waltz out of the front door like this." She said rather angrily at him as she shifted her weight and was completely on the trellis. "It's just like a very skinny ladder…" she muttered as she slowly climbed down on the lattice work.

"Sailor Helix…"

Summer grunted. "What? I'm getting down."

"Those plants, aren't they going to hurt your feet…?"

"Eh?" She looked down and wished she hadn't. She saw she was quickly approaching the roses. She gave Beatle a weak smile and nodded her head. "Yes, yes they are going to hurt. Especially if Dad sees those destroyed…" Beatle gave her a confused look and was about to say something when she sighed. "Hang on tightly, I'm going to jump over this. It's not.." she gulped. "that far to the ground. I have to land on my butt and we should be ok." She then twisted herself so she was facing towards the lawn, and in that brief moment, before she jumped, she thought she wasn't that flexible and was quite amazed how much she thought out this stupid act. "Oh why couldn't my super powers been flying?" She thought as the ground was approaching fast. The landing was far from graceful, particularly landing in the bushes, which were rather uncomfortable for her to sit in. She did manage to land on her rear and when she stood up, felt the expected lower back pain.

"You alright?" she asked her tiny passenger as she quickly walked over to her car, trying to walk off the pain.

"Yes, I'm fine. Rather horrible landing though." She pouted. "Any landing you can walk away from…" she started to say as she tried to open her car door but realized it was locked. "Oh no."

"What?" She looked at him and then back up at her window she just escaped from. "I left my keys up there."

"So?"

Her eye twitched. "Well we can't get there now!" She was exasperated with him.

"You're joking right?" She glared at him.

"No, I'm not."

"You can walk, can't you? Let's get going. We have to hurry, the less pieces Dark Matter has, the weaker he is."

"Walk..? Oh right." Summer started to run a bit while trying to stay out of sight as much as possible.

"Don't want people staring how funny I look." She saw Beatle had his little map out again and he was periodically giving her directions, but overall remaining quiet. "Stupid little alien hamster, acting like he is an army sergeant or something. Hmph. It would be nice if he gave me more information. If it wasn't for Nana, I wouldn't be doing this really impulsive, stupid thing." She turned right and ran into an alleyway very quickly as she spotted a group of teenagers walking out of a fast food restaurant. "It would have been much easier if I could drive there…" she was running much slowly now as she was trying to catch her breath. "I supposed it's a good thing I didn't though, Mom and Dad would have heard the car leaving…" She paused and looked across the street to make sure no people and cars were coming. "I don't have stealth powers, do I?" she muttered mainly to herself.

"No, but it would be useful, here. If my stupid comp didn't…" he rambled on again about his machine as Summer wasn't paying him attention but focusing on the old structure coming up. "There it is…" She said softly as she darted across the street after making sure the coast was clear. "Stupid kids these days just sprayed graffiti all over this place. It used to be cool. They really should fix it up or destroy it." She thought as she leaned against the back of the theater to catch her breath, before walking into the alleyway. "When my brother and I were kids, we used to sneak in here," she whispered to a very silent Beatle as she snuck about looking over her shoulder to make sure no one was there. "He used to dare me all the time, and here's my secret entrance…" she crouched down and lifted a very rusted old screen window. "Granted I was like 5"2' then, so I don't know if I can squeeze into this…" She peered in the small space and sighed. "I don't think so…I guess I can just try the back door by the dumpster…" She heard Beatle gasped, before she stood up. "What?"

"It's…it's in there Helix. I can sense about three to four of them. Be careful."

"Yea, yea. I can't get in this way so it's not going to hurt me. How can you 'sense' them anyways?" She walked over to a back door and pressed her ear against the door as she heard an angry reply from her passenger on her shoulder.

"Take this seriously Helix! These dark matter pieces will kill you if they get the chance. Now isn't the time to take them lightly or discuss how I know they are in there."

"Well I don't hear anything, and don't scold me like a child." She gave him a nasty look as she struggled with the door knob.

"Seems rusted…" She jumped back as a very small teal light shot at the door's keyhole. "Now try it." Beatle said nonchalantly as he lowered his wrist. She nodded and the door this time opened with ease. "Nice shooting Tex. " She grinned as he returned her smile with a confused look.

"Now Helix I want to remind…" Summer rolled her eyes and patted his head as she lightly walked forward into the dark space of theater. "I got it. You don't need to repeat it. Whether it's darkness here or thugs, I'm not going to be found that easily." She had a horrible time adjusting to the vast darkness but could finally picture a very deserted kitchen, full of cobwebs and creatures; Summer didn't wish to think about. Her feet left footprints in the dust as she searched the kitchen and deemed it vacant. The dust she was stirring did annoy her nose and as she struggled to prevent a massive sneeze, she heard strange whispers beyond a door that was right in front of her. Beatle's eyes widened as he merely pointed at the door as Summer nodded. She went to the side of it and saw it was slightly ajar. Holding her nose and praying that her sneeze would die she heard very low unintelligible voices. "Almost sounds alien.." Summer thought as she felt her heart race. "What am I doing here? I'm going to get caught by some thugs doing some meth deal or something." She began a cold sweat as she heard a man's voice.

"Very good, very good gentleman. This should be a perfect launching ground for Phase One. Master will be very please with your work." Summer glanced at Beatle looking for guidance but was shocked to see he looked extremely upset.

"He looks like I feel. Crap, I need to get out of here and call the police. I'm not a hero. I'm just a college student trying to become an accountant." She wanted to move, but her feet remained still and her brain though, telling her to run, was being over ruled by her heart. "Why do I feel like this..?" She felt as though as scared as she was, she had to go in there and stop these people. Sighing she clutched her hand into a fist. She gave Beatle another look, hoping for some words of advice, but the poor little hamster looked like he had been stabbed in the chest. "I think I'm on my own, since he seems to have spaced out." She grabbed the door knob and slowly opened it. The next thing happened in quite a fast daze as she felt that sneeze she tried so hard to suppress, come back. It did the moment she opened the door. "ACHOOOO!" on reflex she covered her mouth and stared at the room and saw three shadows and a man with long blonde hair staring back at her.

"Uh, excuse me.." she laughed quietly. The man smiled at her and looked at his shadow men. They started to walk slowly towards her as he floated on top of the counter where so many years before, Summer bought popcorn and candy. Summer was speechless as well as Beatle as the man proceeded to laugh, extremely eerie laugh. It sounded very musical, like someone playing the harp with broken strings. It made Summer want to claw her ears off and she snapped out of her daze as one of the creatures had grabbed her from behind and now had his arm around her neck. "WTF??" Summer screamed as she instantly used her free arm and elbowed it in the chest. It loosen it grip and Summer kicked it in the crotch as she struggled to breath. The laughter continued as Summer caught Beatle from almost hitting the floor. Holding him in one hand, she winced at the pain in her elbow and she nearly avoided being grabbed by the second shadow creature.

"Pitiful." She heard the man on the counter say. "You certainly a mere ghost of what you used to be Sailor Helix." She ignored him as she kicked one shadow creature in the knees and jumped out of the way as another dived at her.

"Beatle, I need your help." She said rather shrilly as she was being laughed at from behind.

"You should have remained dead. Or are you still, and your vengeful spirit is back but you are just too weak?" Summer though extremely terrified of fighting things that don't exist was getting very annoyed.

"Will you shutup!" she yelled as she ducked as the two shadow creatures tried to grab her but ending up punching each other out. She grabbed a utensil they use to shovel popcorn into bags and threw at the man on the counter. He smiled and held out his hand and the object stopped in mid flight and fell at his feet.

"Shall I help you rest in peace once and for all, so you can stop this sorry masquerade? My memory of you won't be tainted then."

"Beatle! I need some assistance, what was that gossamer attack thingy you were talking about?" She flicked his nose and stared nervously as the man jumped off the counter, still giving her an amused look.

"Talking to animals, tsk, tsk, how the mighty have fallen. I'll help escort you to your afterlife."

"Beatle!!!" Summer growled as she dodged a shadow creature's punch, but was grabbed by her ankle by one that was on the floor. "Don't touch me!" she kicked it in the head.

"Say 'Helix gossmar nuclei' and point at those things!" Beatle yelled as he jumped onto her mid arm and climbed up to her shoulder. "Fine." She noticed the blonde hair man stopped and looked extremely perplexed. "HELIX GOSSMAR NUCLEI!" She instinctively raised her left hand with just her pinky and index finger extended, the other two fingers being held down her thumb. Above the raised fingers, two small green and red orbs formed. She then swiftly lowered her arm, and pointed at the shadow on the ground, still holding onto her ankle, shooting the two orbs at it. The orbs quickly formed comet tails that streamed out, and then criss-crossing, forming a helix, reminding Summer of a DNA chain. The orbs hit the creature in the head and the helix breaks, wrapping around the creature as the orbs explode and the creature and the other right by it disappear in an array of red and green colors. Summer then briefly looks over her shoulder and raises her hand, shouts "HELIX GOSSMAR NUCLEI!" and destroys the last one behind her. Summer then glared at the blonde man in front of her. "Your stupid grin has left, I see." Summer gave him a dead pan look and felt a great amount of confidence surge in her.

"So, you remember that little trick. Big deal." The man did a backwards flip and landed on the counter and then crossed his arms while shooting a glare at Beatle on her shoulder. "You've changed. I thought Sailor Helix here was crazy talking to you, but I guess I was wrong."

"Stop talking. Your plan is over." Summer spat as she lifted her fingers at him.

"Ah, attempting that on me, so far away from home? I don't think so." The man lifted up is hand as a fire ball formed above it.

"Helix stop!" Summer gaped at Beatle as he looked furious at her opponent in front of them.

"Smart, very smart." The man's fireball dissipated and he pressed his hand to his ear. "You should listen to your animal. He's a coward, but very smart." With that the man laughed once more and teleported away, leaving Summer very tired, scared and dumbfounded in a destroyed theater popcorn stand.

It was easy getting back into her house, though the journey back home was very tiring for Summer as she was quite sore from the little battle she had just won. Least she thought she won it. She had a million questions racing through her head as she once again avoided all human contact making her way back, but Beatle had remained silent, making it very awkward for Summer to ask one. "He must know that guy, and he feels betrayed." Summer thought as she spotted her house. She saw all the lights were off and figured her parents went to bed. "I wonder what time it is…?" she thought as she tried the front door but frowned as she saw it was locked. "Um, Beatle, can you do that door unlocking thing?" She looked at him as he had a far away pained look. "Beatle?"

"Yes, sorry, Helix." Summer saw him touch his wrist and the tiny teal light shot out of his small watch and towards the keyhole.

"Thanks Beatle." Summer tiptoed inside and peered around the living room and saw it was empty. She did the same to the kitchen and finally snuck up the stairs to her room. After shutting the door she flopped on her bed and started to rub her ankle. "That thing really hurt." She quietly whined and remembered that Beatle had probably flown off in the process of her lying down. "Beatle?"

"Yea, I'm here." He was sitting on the edge of her bed, looking very dejected. Summer poked him.

"Come out of it for a moment. So what if that guy is bad, perhaps he's brainwashed or something. You got to tell me what I just did back there." Silence filled the room for a moment and Summer glanced at her alarm clock while she was waiting for a reply. She knew from experience silence meant there was a lot of pain that usually didn't want to come up. "Wow, it's 2:30? That took awhile." Summer thought as she turned her attention to her small friend.

"You're right Helix." He turned around and gave her a smile. "You did wonderful and I'm terribly sorry I didn't help you. I…"

"Hey now, don't feel guilty or make excuses. If we won, then we won!" Summer grinned and then started to rub her ankle again. "Right?" He gave her a starry gaze for a moment and nodded his head.

"Right! We've just fought some shadow pieces of dark matter, kinda like dark souls."

"Ugh. That gives me the creeps. Who was the long hair blonde colonial reject?" Summer saw Beatle look upset again and he stared at his feet for a moment. Summer sighed and tried to take off her shoes, regretting she brought up the freak that obviously made Beatle upset. "It's not coming off!" she pouted and Beatle looked up at her looking confused.

"That's odd. It should by now."

"Don't tell me I have to fight more, because I'm really exhausted now. It ain't happening." She laid on her back and stared up at the ceiling.

"I don't know Sailor Helix. I can do another scan of this dwelling…"

"It's called a city Beatle. We are in Seattle .." she sat up and frowned. "And if you find more, I'm not going again. I'm done for the night." She then felt a strange glow coming from her front bow. "Huh?" She stared down and felt extremely warm and nervous at the same time. "What's happening now?" she asked quietly.

"I'm not sure." Summer gaped as a small orb came from her bow and hovered in front of her. It was glowing blue and yellow and grew into a size of a grapefruit. She heard Beatle gasped. "It's…." he started as a voice started talking.

"Onegaiitashimasu!" A small blue haired girl with pleading golden eyes appeared in the orb. "Yoroshikuonegaishimasu!" she said in a very hushed and desperate voice. Summer could only stare as she hadn't a clue what this girl had said. Beatle on the other hand looked surprised but excited at the same time.

"Sailor Eta Carinae!" He said as walked to the orb. The young girl blinked and looked at him and Sailor Helix and gasped.

"Dochirasama?"

"What's she saying Beatle?"

"Hang on." He pressed his wrist and then looked at Summer. "She's speaking Japanese and I'm going to reply back to her, ok? She's saying she needs help and wants to know who we are…"

"Gwa?"

"Youkai!" The girl was looking around frantically and extremely scared.

"Beatle say something!" The hamster looked startled as Summer gave him a nervous look. She knew this girl was in trouble and wished she could help her.

"Henshin yo! 'Eta Carinae Makeup!'" Beatle replied back to the girl. She looked perplexed but nodded. The orb quickly disappeared as Summer began to feel extremely hot. She looked down and saw her normal clothes.

"Wha? I'm back to normal." Beatle blushed for a moment and cleared his throat.

"Attoiumani!"

"You are still speaking Japanese, and why do you look like that?" she gave him a very annoyed look as he frantically pressed his watch again.

"Sorry, I was happy to see that in a blink of an eye you are back to your civilian self. I guess you couldn't change back until we helped Sailor Eta Carinae."

"I hope she's ok…" Summer said quietly, remembering the frightening look she had.

"She'll be fine. Strange that you have connection with her. I wonder if you have it with the others."

"You know I have tons of questions to ask you, but I'm extremely tired." She got off the bed as she said this and put Beatle on the dresser. "So I'm going to sleep, and tomorrow you better have some answers for me."

"Yes maam!" the hamster grinned as he saluted her and then wandered over to the pink pillow Summer put there much earlier that night.

"No peaking either!" She muttered as she changed into her pjs. She got into bed and closed her eyes. "God, I hope that girl will be ok. If she is dealing with these things, she's going to need all the help she can get." Summer prayed as she drifted off into a dreamless sleep.

END Episode Three.