Okay, this is the point where things move towards the endgame. First off, I'd like to thank my latest reviewer and tell him that the Starlights will probably be reserved for a sequel. Next off, this is the chapter where the reveal I've been teasing comes out. It may surprise you, it may not. But for now, just read and enjoy
Grand Zirconia was shocked. This creature wasn't part of the plan. He had sensed that his enemy Queen Metalia had been destroyed. This meant that Jadeite had succeeded in his plan. That meant that this creature, somehow, was Jadeite.
"Stop!", he cried out to the creature. "This wasn't part of the plan." The Doom Phantom turned away from his current prey - Queen Nehelenia's court - and turned towards the pathetic avatar, gazing at it with angry red eyes.
"I no longer have any use for you, you sad creature. I have everything I need." With this, he floated over to to Grand Zirconia, and impaled him with a blade formed from his arms. His energy drained, the male avatar of the queen of the dark moon was reduced to rags. "Power! The infinite power! Now I shall render the same fate upon all the vermin polluting this pathetic planet."
From beneath the rubble, Nehelenia looked on in horror. It looked as if only the Sailor Scouts could save her now, as much as she hated to admit it.
Serena looked up at the beam of black light, shooting in the sky. This was the second weirdest thing to happen in the last few minutes. The first had been all the Nega-monsters having simultaneous seizures. The few they had on their side had used the same partial healing as Malachite, which had bought him more time. Now they had an army to fight off the other two rulers of Tokyo. But then this beam had appeared out of Sector 3, which had caused their entire force to stop, stunned.
"Amy," began Serena "what was that?"
Mercury replied "I'm not sure, but it seemed to be composed of the same dark energy as the Nega-force that possessed Queen Beryl and destroyed the Moon Kingdom." But before they could discuss it further, Mistress 9 appeared in front of them, flanked by an army of Heart Snatchers and her fabled "pet".
"Sorry," said the extraterrestrial entity, "but this is the end of the line for you all. Warriors of the Tau Nebula, attack!"
It could only see vague glimpses of it's past. A mirror, the water, string music, an endless sky. It didn't know what these images meant, or what role they had played in its old life. But now it had been freed by the oppressor the servants referred to as the Sovereign. It hoped to see a face it could recognise among the crowd. Then it found one with its enhanced senses. A girl, tall, blonde hair, cut short, dressed in sailor fuku.
Sailor Uranus had prepared for this. She had spent years planning for some ultimate confrontation with the Sovereign of Silence. Now it had finally happened. If only Michelle were here to see this day. Instead, Amara had to fight this battle with her unlikely allies, the Sailor Scouts and the denizens of the Dark Kingdom. For this fight, she had partnered with the little girl Sailor (she called herself Sailor Chibi-Moon). The little girl clearly had access to more power than the others. She could tell that from just her presence. The little girl called Usagi was taking these things out incredibly fast. There was no reason for Uranus not to join the fight. With all her power, she unleashed her special power "Uranus World Shaking!" The blast was powerful enough to reduce several of their attackers to their inanimate forms, including a violin, a record player and - amusingly, Amara thought - a jigsaw puzzle.
"Thanks for saving me there, Uranus", the little girl said gratefully. "Don't mention it, peanut", Uranus replied. Suddenly, they were both approached by Mistress 9's grotesque pet. Uranus and Chibi-Moon prepared to attack, but found that something was preventing them from doing so.
"What's wrong, Sailors?", said the matriarch of the Heart Snatchers. "Don't you recognise your old friend, Sailor Neptune?"
Now that the Queen of the Dark Moon had been taken out, he had the time he needed to gain the Golden Crystal. Then he would have a reciprocal for the power he now possessed. Not wanting to waste precious energy, he decided to use the avatar for his own purposes. The Doom Phantom imbued it with his energy, creating a cloaked figure, who appeared to be in partial silhouette.
The avatar, newly dubbed "Wiseman" by his creator, set out to the gallery where the gem was held by Nehelenia. There, Wiseman ran into Zirconia's former servants, Tiger's Eye, Hawk's Eye and Fish's Eye. With his limited power reserves, Wiseman reduced them to their original, animal forms and grabbed the Crystal, taking it back to the Doom Phantom.
"Excellent work, my puppet. It won't be long now..."
It remembered now. It was a she. Her name was Michelle Kaiou. The girl in front of her was her cousin, Amara Tenou. She was really Sailor Neptune, Sailor Scout of the Sea. She had come to Mistress 9's house to try and destroy her or the two talismans she had collected. But something had gone wrong. She had ended up in a dimension made up of board games. Obviously that witch Mimette was responsible for that. The heart-snatcher that inhabited this dimension had challenged her to a game and cheated, imprisoning her. She remembered being taken before the Sovereign of Silence herself. "Good work, U-Ikasaman. Stupid as she may have been, Mimette had the right idea. Perhaps I can make use of this one." She had remembered little of her old life after that. Now, she had one thought "break free".