Silver Sailor Moon Series
Episode 9
No Crystal Tokyo
Usagi opened her eyes. She never remembered falling asleep. She looked down and she saw she was wearing her normal clothes. She searched around for her broach, but couldn't find it.
…Must have fallen off the bed again.
She stood up and continued to look around, getting on all fours to look under her bed. Her mind fumbled with what happened before she went to sleep.
I knew it was all a dream… No one's back… Mamoru is still gone… I still can't transform…
She stood, giving up on finding her broach and walked to her window to look down at the street. As she looked out at an unfamiliar scene, it dawned on her.
This isn't my room…
Usagi suddenly heard the distance clanking of someone walking on metal. She turned and stared at her closed door, and waited for the sound to stop. As the door opened, she was half-surprised to see Prince Diamond smiling at her. "Funny how the Black Crystal works, even on the strong willed, isn't it?" His eyes scrolled up and down Usagi, "Good to see your body doesn't change when you transform…"
Usagi rolled her eyes and sat back down on her bed. "Where am I?"
Prince Diamond walked toward her, "You are in a dream world…"
Usagi turned her head and watched him as he continued, around the bed, toward her, "Dream world?"
Usagi blinked, to find herself in a new setting. She looked around and saw she was on a bed in a room with a hologram of her - no Neo Queen Serenity. Usagi looked down and noticed she was wearing the same clothes as the girl in the hologram. She suddenly heard someone come in. She turned and heard Princes Diamond talking to her. "Do you like that hologram?"
Usagi knew that saying from somewhere. She had heard him say it somewhere before. Prince Diamond continued, "Welcome to the Black Moon's Castle on Nemesis, Sailor Moon…" Usagi gasped when she placed it. Now she knew where she was- she was in the past. This happened just a day or so before Prince Diamond's downfall.
Usagi didn't say anything; she didn't know what to say. She was trapped in the past. Prince Diamond was watching her, "No, Sailor Moon, you are not stuck in the past, you are, in fact trapped in the future…"
Usagi didn't quiet understand. "What…?" she breathed. "Where is Chibi-Usa?" Usagi asked as she looked around expecting to see her daughter around.
Prince diamond smiled, "It is the 30th Century right now…and Chibi-Usa doesn't exist…"
Usagi's eyes widened. Prince Diamond sat down in a chair that seemed to have just appeared from thin air, and smiled at her as she stood erect. "When you got kidnapped by Rubeus, he went to capture Chibi-Usa, but he failed. We then decided to go to Plan B. We jumped ahead in the future to the 30th Century, where Crystal Tokyo does not exist…"
Usagi looked down at the bow on her shirt. Her broach was still gone but she wasn't really looking for it, her mind was turning so fast she couldn't take in anything she was seeing.
"The princess never married Princess Endymion…" Prince Diamon continued, "There for, Chibi-Usa wasn't ever born…and 30th Century Crystal Tokyo is nothing but the Dark Moon's Capital City…"
Prince Diamond stood up and walked in front of Usagi. Tears had filled her eyes.
I knew this was going to happen… Damn it, Mamoru! How is this for the better?!
Prince Diamond bent down, embracing Usagi around the waist and meeting his lips with Usagi's. For a moment, they were motionless, and then when Prince Diamon lifted away, Usagi swung her hand powerfully at his face. As Prince Diamond recovered from the sudden, unexpected act of defense, Usagi raised her bare, empty hand, closed her eyes, and yelled, "Silver Moon Power! Make up!"
The silence was broken by Prince Diamond's laughter, "You are too close to the Black Poison Crystal again…You are powerless even if you had your precious Crystal."
Usagi slowly opened her eyes. Prince Diamond's laughter stopped with a shocked gasp, as he looked up at her pupil-less eyes. "What's the matter with you?"
Usagi just stared at him blankly. Prince Diamond became frantic, grabbing her forearms and shaking her wildly, "Say something!"
Usagi closed her eyes, tinted her head up toward the sky, and disappeared, leaving Prince Diamond standing in his fortress holding air.
Usagi reappeared in the park. The sky was darker than ever, fresh mud lay under her from an earlier shower. The park was deserted. For a moment, Usagi lay on the gravel ground, her face down in the mud. She didn't have the will to move just yet.
It that truly what is going to become of Crystal Tokyo? Is that the end of everything we've worked so hard to make…?
As Usagi lay in her uniform, wore both physically and emotionally, she let herself cry. As rain began to drip from the sky, forming into a down pour, she, just a few minutes, didn't care who stared at her- she didn't care what others thought. She closed her shaking fist around some mud, allowing it to sift through her fingers, trying to relive some of her frustration.
"Usagi?"
Her name being called made her jump. Looking up, she stared in horror at Mamoru, standing with an umbrella in the path just a few yards away. Not wanting to have to look at his face while she lay face-first in the rain, she returned her head back down to the ground, resting her head on her cheek.
The sound of an umbrella bouncing off the dirt, and the sloshing sound of Mamoru's feet as he ran to her side didn't even give Usagi the strength to move. When Mamoru pulled her into his lap, allowing her to rest her muddy face on his cleaned pants, he stared down at her. His black hair was getting soaked, dripping down on Usagi's face. "Usagi?"
Mamoru wiped her face semi-clean with his fingers, his eyes set with worry. "Are you okay? What happened?" Pulling her into a tight embrace, Mamoru's chest lurched as he tried to hold back his tears.
"Mamo-chan…?" Usagi managed to force out words, "Everything is gone… Crystal Tokyo is never more…"
Mamoru leaned down, giving Usagi a long missed kiss. The rain poured down on them, but it didn't matter. Time stopped for a fleeting moment, as Mamoru pulled away and smiled down at her, "God… I've missed you." Smiling, Usagi reached her hand up, pulling his head toward her again for another kiss in the downpour of the park.