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*Summary: Chibiusa once again goes to the past, but for a different reason. Can she stop the meeting of Mamoru
and Usagi from ever happening, and set her up with Seiya?*

*Standard Disclaimer: These characters and anything else used in this fic are not mine, but belong to some higher
power out there. Only the idea and some of the characters are mine.*

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---Jean-Hime*
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Chapter Nine: An Idol for Tomorrow
Endymion opened the small, oak doors to the small communications room. It was dark inside at first, but with a
snap of his fingers light flooded the entire chamber. It was jammed full of powerful transmitting equipment, so powerful that
the energy signal could reach the most outer limits of the galaxy. But, it was also known for one other thing, that it could
send singals and communicate across time, coming into contact with other powerful points or magical objects in the past, like
Stonehedge. But, right now this room had consumed a little dust, since all the maids had ran out of the city weeks ago. No
one remained but the King, his generals and guards, three slowly dying senshi, and rats. One scurried close to Endymion's
foot hurriedly, disappearing into the shadows outside the door.

"One of these days I'll seduce a maid and have her clean up this mess," Endymion grumbled to himself. His finger
ran along the control board slowly, causing a cloud of dust to reach up to his nose. It seeped into his nostrils and the ending
result was a gigantic sneeze that caused the rest of the dust in the room to rise. Soon he had broke into a coughing fit, and
there was no one around to offer a glass of water to bring moisture to his dry mouth. Endymion cursed silently and returned
to the return board. There, his finger pressed a conspiculous red button, and the large screen overhead flickered.

The face of Chami, Endymion's fifth-in-command, greeted the stern face of her emporer. She was spruced up in her
purple uniform, and her black hair glistened in the only light radiating from the Dark Kingdom. Her eyes dropped to the
ground under his gaze, like a child who has done something wrong and was regretful about it. "I'm sorry sir," she said, still
not looking at Endymion, "But Jedeite would not listen to one word of my plan. It was him that has led us into defeat during
these previous battles."

"How many senshi of the moon kingdom have awakened yet?," Endymion asked without a tone of emotion or anger
in his voice. He knew how to handle his generals well, and one thing they hated to face was an angry emperor.

"Only Sailor Mercury so far. But it's been so hard with those Starlights, and, a few visits from some cape boy," Chami
answered back, raising her eyes just a little.

Thoughts began to rush through Endymion's head as he absorbed this information. His past self was not a threat, for
all he did was throw roses, make boring speeches, and occasionally make an appearance with his cane. Then Sailor
Mercury, in which at that time her attack was based on the defensive. And then those powerful Starlights, who now numbered
to five, Sailor Starfighter, Starmaker, Starhealer, Starcreator, and Starsearcher, another senshi he had never heard of. They
were as plentiful as the Moon Kingdom senshi. But, there were several out of place things. Like, for instance, where was
Sailor Moon? She had definitely appeared before Mercury, because Kamen had started risking his but for that crybaby since
day one. "No Sailor Moon?," he asked to comfirm himself. General Chami shook her head.

'Great, just great,' Endymion thought, clentching his fists. 'I suppose already my darling daughter is making a change
in the normal time frame.' He snarled and the anger welled up inside him. "Find Chibiusa!!!," he bellowed at the top of his
lungs. Chami crouched down holding her ears and starting to cry, since she was actually a very sensitive person at heart. He
hated her crying since it reminded him off his last wife, that wife that would break down and sob everytime he hit her and
cussed her out. Serenity never told her senshi because she wanted them to think that everything was under control. After
all, she didn't want even to face the fact that the man she had loved dearly since she was of the innocent age of fourteen was
insane. 'Serves you right, Serenity,' Endymion thought. 'You were always a thorn in my side since that first time you threw
that waded up math test at me. Who would want a ruler, or a wife, who makes thirty-eights on her math tests.' He pushed the
red button again so he didn't have to look at the pathetic general in a heap on the ground, crying because her emperor had
yelled at her.



Neptune stared into her mirror and watched silently as Endymion gently pushed the red button on the control
button, and his general's sobs fazed away. She felt sorry for the poor woman, even if she was on the enemies' side. No one
should be treated that way.

Uranus moved over to her small space in the cell and placed her hand on Neptune's shoulder. The aqua beauty
met her gaze and mustered up a small smile to reassure her lover that she was alright. But Uranus knew her better than that
and could see the small lines of worry etched on her face. "Neptune, will your mirror be able to work?," Uranus asked
quietly, so as not to disturb the sleeping Pluto. She was against her side shivering on the only small bench in the entire cell and
obviously having a bad dream. All of their dreams were so disturbing lately, since they depicted some very disturbing things
that Endymion had done to destroy their perfect way of life. She was already beginning to remember one occurance...

Neptune was in her own private little world, swimming in the olympic size pool inside the palace. Mercury was
also there, sitting in a lounge chair reading a, gasp, romance novel. Poor Mercury had gone into depression lately, growing
thin and desolate in her chambers each day. Each of the senshi were very worried about her, so worried that they had not
noticed the spirit of their queen either.

"Mercury, why don't you join me?," Neptune asked cheerfully, kicking her feet in the water to stay on top.

Mercury looked up from her book and trembled just a little. "But I have no swimsuit," she silently said.

"Then just jump in with your clothes on! I thought the senshi of ice enjoyed the water as much as I did," Neptune
tried again, now resting against the side. She pushed up on the edge and rose out of the water onto the slippery floor and
took a white towel off one of the chairs. Mercury had returned to her book, and was starting to fall asleep. Neptune smiled
just a little and opened the door to the sauna, sitting on one of the wooden benches and feeling the sensation of her pores
opening and smelling the coals warming the small room.

Just then a bloodcurling scream pierced through Neptune's ears. She sat in fear as it started to die down and then
the sound of a door closed silently. After a few minutes of waiting silently just in case, Neptune hurriedly rushed out of the
sauna, almost slipped on the wet floor, and peared into the water. It was red...

"Neptune! Neptune!," Uranus shouted, trying to awaken Neptune from the dream had dozed into. Those eyes as
deep as the ocean greeted her with sadness, and she bowed her head in despair. "Neptune, are you alright?," Uranus asked
with concern.

Neptune then held onto the person beside her, sobbing into the warm chest of her soulmate. A hand rubbed against
her back and softly rubbed it. "Uranus, it was terrible," she cried silently. Her thoughts wandered to the poor blue haired
senshi. She knew why she was sad. Word had come from the kingdom of Kinmoku that month that the senshi called Sailor
Starmaker had died due to a drug overdose and was found on her balcony, thought to have been watching the sky as she
usually did. When Mercury had heard the news she had rushed to the palace library, stayed for a total of three days, and then
retreated off to her room. Neptune had watched her run away silently from Neo Queen Serenity, holding her head.

She stopped crying and released herself from the other senshi's hold. Her mind began to focus on what they should
have been doing. "Uranus, I'm afraid I don't have enough energy to have my mirror be able to contact out past counterparts."
Uranus wasn't surprised at all, but still turned her head away.

"But," Neptune continued, catching Uranus' attention, "I was able to see another way in my talisman today."

"What, Neptune?"

"Endymion used the control room in the palace today to contact one of his general's in the past, Uranus," Neptune
said. "If we can somehow escape this prison, we might be able to avoid the guards and use it."

"It would have to be very soon," another voice said, and Neptune and Uranus looked up to see a very tired and
red eyed Pluto standing over them. "I can feel my past self become suspicious. Pluto was appointed the task of keeping the
gates of time guarded, but also to correct time if it were changed in a major way. She's deciding whether to appear on Earth
and fix what Chibiusa might have done already."

Uranus' face paled and Neptune bit her lip. If Pluto came to the past and awakened Uranus and Neptune early to
help her, they could easily catch Chibiusa and make her return, enabling Endymion to kill or torture her, and destroy their
last chance of hope. Pluto was right. They would have to break out very soon.



Usagi ran the usual route to her school, afraid of being late and give detention by Ms. Haruna. A cloud of dust rose
behind her as she ran. Then, she passed right by a poster and instantly stopped. On it was a picture of the popular teen
idol, Mikan, gracing the piece of paper. Oh how Usagi wished she was an idol!

"Odango, don't you have school to run too," a voice behind her said, and she turned and looked into the gorgeous
eyes of Seiya Kou, smiling and calling her that nickname. She thought he was awfully cute, but she couldn't bring herself to make
any mention of it. Already classmates, especially girls, were asking her about him, his interests, and what he liked in a
girl. Usagi had laughed and waved her hand at them, cause she had no idea either. Seiya was a mysterious fourteen year old
even after a week of knowing him, and fighting beside him as well. As mysterious as their little sister, Chibiusa.

"Don't you too," Usagi countered, pointing her finger at him.

Seiya laughed. "My alarm didn't go off, and Yaten made it so I couldn't find my uniform. The little twerp hid it in the
trash can." Usagi instantly ran her eyes along the regular boy's blue uniform, with the gold butten on the collar. Seiya caught
her gaze and laughed. "Don't worry, Odango! The reason why I was late was because I spent almost a half hour cleaning
them!"

Suddenly something hard hit Usagi's head and Naru was behind her. "Usagi, stop standing there so we don't get
late!" Then she noticed Seiya standing beside her and blushed.

"I'm coming," Usagi said, grabbing both Seiya's and Naru's hands and starting to run. Seiya noticed the pain his
hand felt as she gripped it and softly pulled it off. He waved at her and walked at a slower pace, well aware that he might
get detention for this. As he walked, he didn't notice where he was going and walked straight into someone. Seiya landed on
the ground and looked up to see a tall man stare down at him, then extend a hand and help him up.

"Sorry, sir," Seiya said, dusting himself off. But, the man was looking down the road at the thick dustcload, tipping
his shades just a little. 'Okay...,' Seiya thought and edged himself around the man, starting back on his way. All he knew of
the stranger was that he had jet black hair and wore a turtle green jacket.



Chibiusa was spending time with the Three Lights that day, since Usagi was doing some mysterious activity with
her friend, Naru. They were hanging around the park eating ice cream and quietly talking. Just then, a crowd of people
gathered around a woman, holding out pieces of paper and screaming at the top of their lungs.

"Who's that?," Yaten said grumpily, casting a glare upon the screaming people.

"Usagi was looking at a poster of her today," Seiya said. "I think her name's Mikan."

Yaten frowned and crossed his arms. "Well surely she can find another part of the park to sign her autographs!"

The four didn't notice two figures behind one of the trees, staring at the idol and her fans. One was obviously
Jedeite in his blue uniform, hearing Yaten and secretly agreeing with him. Chami was beside him, a little quiet but stiff and
giving off a look of authority. "We need a way to be able to find that little brat," she said, narrowing her eyes at her partner.

"It's not my problem," Jedeite replied. "All I'm doing is gaining myself an extra day to live by gathering energy
for Queen Beryl."

Chami scowled at him. "Well, you're last plan didn't work. Why don't you let me plan something now!"

"Because I didn't agree to you're help from the start!," Jedeite whispered. "Besides, there's another person I have
in mind to target." He walked away from Chami, leaving her to growl at him from underneath the tree.



Usagi and Naru were at her house, in her room, dancing to the "Moon Densetsu" song. After Usagi had returned
from holding a bucket in the hall, Umino had started talking about Mikan and said that she might have a chance to become
an idol herself. Usagi could just imagine herself surrounded by screaming fans, and one of them was charming Seiya with that
sexy smile. He would ask for an autograph but Usagi would just take him and they would go to a fancy restraurant and dance
to a waltz in the moonlight, with everyone staring at them, and...

"Usagi, you stepped on my foot!," Naru yelled, causing Usagi to awake from her daydreaming.

"Well, you were too close!," Usagi shouted back. The two began to fight, with Naru saying that even Shingo
would have been a better partner than Usagi. This was followed by a comment from Usagi.

Then there was a knock on Usagi's bedroom door. Usagi, thinking it was Shingo, her annoying ten year old
brother, was about to ignore it when they heard, "Usagi, open the door cause I know you're here!"

There Chibiusa stood, just looking at the two and peering into the bedroom where the song was still playing and
stuff was thrown on the floor. "You're mom let me in and I heard some shouting in here," Chibiusa said innocently, now
looking at the two girls.

"Who's this?," Naru asked Usagi, gesturing to Chibiusa.

"I'm Chibiusa Kou," Chibiusa said, crossing her arms. She looked up at Usagi and gave her that 'I-have-something-
important-to-tell-you' look.

"You know, Seiya's little sister," Usagi said. "Um, Naru, can you come back another time?"

"Yeah, I need to find a better partner," she replied and walked down the stairs towards the door. "See you at
school, Usagi," she yelled and closed the door.

Now Usagi looked down at Chibiusa and pushed her into the room. Chibiusa wasn't very happy with that, but
Usagi just wanted to get back to her dancing. In fact, seeing Chibiusa here gave her an idea for a new partner.

"Usagi, what I came here for was that Taiki wanted to know if you could come by tomorrow," Chibiusa said. But
Usagi was too busy looking Chibiusa over to hear her message.



Chibiusa had ended up being forced into accompaning Usagi in the "Cinderella Caravan". Already they had
attended the first round, and it was strange that everyone had made the cut. Taiki thought something was afoot, and she
agreed with him. Right now the three were backstage with them, just because Taiki had suggested keeping an eye on the
preformers and the events of tonight.

"Um, Seiya...", Usagi was red in the face as she faced him, "Could you zip my back, please?"

Seiya was a little red too, but Usagi circled around and Seiya zipped up the zipper on her dress. Yaten was
laughing just a bit, but Taiki shut him up quickly. He was busy looking at all the other participants for the contest. In one
corner was Usagi's best friend, Naru, and a boy with long, round glasses right beside her. And to another corner, all alone
was a girl with short blue hair in the shadows. Taiki, being a little bit suspicious, left the group and walked up to the girl.

"Are you in the contest," he asked as he approached the girl, who appeared to be the same age as him. She
instantly looked up at him and gave a little nod.

"Yes, are you," she asked him.

Taiki laughed silently. "I don't do this stuff. I'd rather be studying than this but my friends dragged me."

The girl laughed as well and extended her hand. "Ami Mizuno. I'd rather be home studying as well."

"Taiki Kou," he said and they shook. She was a little shy, but so was Taiki. He studied her a moment and
realized it was the same person that kept tying with him in the scores.

Ami also noticed this. She took back her hand and started withdrawing but she couldn't stop looking into those
violet eyes. The two held a gaze for a moment but Yaten ran up and seized Taiki's hand. "Come on, Taiki! They're about to
start!" Taiki waved a little and then walked over to where the others were. Usagi and Chibiusa were now dressed and just
doing a little rehearsing on their notes.

The curtain opened and Mikan walked up to the stage with a big smile on her face. Taiki didn't like this woman
because of the creepy feeling she gave him, and went farther upstage. Suddenly the auditorium broke into clapping from the
shadowy figures in the audience. And then Taiki noticed that he was getting very tired. He ran behind the curtain and found
Seiya, Yaten, Usagi, and Chibiusa ready to transform since they figured out that this was a trap.

"Fighter Star Power!!!"

"Maker Star Power!!!"

"Healer Star Power!!!"

"Creator Star Power!!!"

"Searcher Star Power!!!"

Five bright lights let out of their henshin items and seconds later they were the legendary Starlights. Running from
outside the curtain and onto a small perch where the lights were held, they heard Sailor Mercury appeared before
Mikan, who was now a youma. She had her black cat beside her and was making a speech about how you shouldn't use
other people's dreams of stardom to collect energy. The youma just threw threw her head back and laughed, then threw
something out of her hand towards Mercury.

Mercury narrowly escaped the attack thrown by the youma and watched as the group of chairs turned into blocks
of ice. She needed some time to think so she could come up with a strategy using her new computer. "Sharbon Spray!," she
shouted, and the bubbles released gave off enough fog for Mercury not to be seen. Putting on the blue visor and pulling out
her tiny Mercury computer, she instantly started typing. But, she didn't notice that the youma had been blindly stumbling
among the chairs and had now come across the huddled figure of Sailor Mercury.

But, as she was about to dig her jaws into the blue senshi, a rose cut across her face and she looked up to see
that idiot Tuxedo Kamen standing in an opera box with his cape rustling in the wind. "Nobody like you should disturb the
efforts of other to find their destinies," he said at the youma. Mercury looked up as well, but went back to her computer so
Kamen could be the distaction.

Kamen took out the slender black cane and let it extend outward towards the youma. It took it as its cue to
charge and the two began to battle. But Kamen was starting feel weak with the menacing gaze of the youma upon him and
his knees began to buckle.

"Hey Kamen, need a little help?!," a voice cried out, and Kamen looked up to see the five starlights in the other
opera box, with Searcher at the front. They jumped down on the ground beside Mercury, who told them to aim for the back
of the youma.

"Star Faithful Return!!!", Searcher shouted, and the blast of pink light was enough to drag the youma's attention
towards them. She snarled at them and paced towards Searcher and Creator, who was standing beside her. Maker was
still by Mercury, but Fighter and Healer were now inching behind the distracted youma, taking out their staryells, and shouting...

"Star Serious Laser!!!"

"Star Sensitive Inferno!!!"

These two attacks caused the youma's head to circle around and its eyes go wide as the light hit it and the youma
melted into a pile of dust, which blew away with the wind. Creator and Searcher did high fives and then motioned Mercury to
join them, but she shook her head. "Thank you Starlights and Tuxedo Kamen for helping me," Mercury said instead, and
showed it by bowing. Then she walked away, with her black cat following behind her.

"She's very polite," Creator remarked.

Fighter nodded. "Don't you think it's time we headed out now," she asked.

The others nodded and left before the kids in the auditorium could wake up.



Jedeite and Chami stood in a small room inside the Dark Kingdom, both suffering extreme cases of fear and much
doubt. The first general of Queen Beryl kept getting lecture after lecture about losing precious energy for Beryl's master. Chami
couldn't stand another meeting with Emporer Endymion, for if she did, it would make her cry again. The two were on opposite
sides of the room, wallowing in their own sorrow.

'I need to prove to Lord Endymion that I'm as strong as he thought I was once was," Chami thought, gripping her
knuckles together. 'I am not weak!'

"Jedeite, Chami!," someone yelled outside the room and they both looked up to see Zoisite in the middle of the
door, huffing and puffing. His hair was in a mess and he looked scared.

Jedeite rose first, and placed one of his hands on the chair to support himself. "What is it?" He was a little grumpy
at the moment.

Zoisite's face turned pale. "There's another Sailor Senshi, and she's right outside our door! Queen Beryl is in a
state of anger and panic!"

"Who is it?!"

"Pluto..."
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