SailorStar9: Chapter 8 goes up. This is Chapter 9.
Disclaimers: I do not own both the animes. However, I do own the pairing, I hope.
Chapter 9: Usagi's Crisis! The Tiara Doesn't Work
Time passes...
"Usagi!" Ikuko fumed. "How long are you gonna sleep?"
"Get up!" she ordered, tugging at the blanket.
"Today's a day off!: Usagi whined when she tumbled out of bed.
"What are you saying? it's such a nice day." Ikuko scolded. "Your papa and Shingo got up long ago and left already."
"No, I'm so sleepy!" Usagi whined. "Mom, you're so mean!"
Oh boy... Luna sweatdropped when the blond dropped off to sleep again.
In the Juuban Odyssey...
"The Makaiju didn't gather as much energy as I thought." Ann remarked, stroking the tree. "It's all because of those Sailor Senshi."
"The Makaiju is the source of our life." Ali added, appearing at the door. "If the Makaiju dies, so will we."
"Ail..." Ann begun, exiting form the room they kept the Makaiju.
"'Virtual Reality Theater, now open in the Juuban Shopping District.'" she quoted from the poster Ail just slammed down on the table.
"It could be a great place for the Cardian to collect human energy." Ail proposed.
"Let's go out to town, Ail." Ann suggested, knowing what he was thinking. "In search of fresh energy."
In front of the shopping center...
"So, that's the vertical reel something, something..." Usagi noted.
"The virtual reality theater!" Luna corrected, sweatdropping.
"I know that!" Usagi retorted at the cat on her shoulder. "It's just like a gigantic arcade! At the arcade, I was known as the 'Goblin Queen'! Now, I have to show off my skills!"
"I invited Rei and everybody, but it looks like they're not here yet." Luna noted as the blond rushed to join the queue.
"There're all couples here..." Usagi sighed once she reached the long line. "Let's go home, Luna. it's just a war game anyway."
"That's why it's good!" Luna protested. "You don't remember how to be a Senshi at all, so this is the best place to develop a combative spirit!"
"No, no, no!" Usagi whined.
"But, if I could be with Mamoru, I would think about it." she swooned as Luna sighed.
"Hey, Luna!" she demanded. "I bet you actually know how to restore Mamoru's memory, don't you? Tell me!"
"Will this help, Luna?" she shook the cat. "How's this, and this, and this!"
"Just because you're not with a boyfriend, doesn't mean you should take it out on your cat." Mamoru chided.
"Oh!" Usagi blushed.
"If you don't have anyone to date, why don't you go to the library like a normal junior high student; dumpling head?" Mamoru suggested.
"How dare you! I do have someone to date!" Usagi fumed, dropping Luna in the process.
"Oh, well, excuse me." Mamoru remarked.
"What's this? He's also going in by himself." Usagi noted when she saw Mamoru head towards the end of the queue. "That means this is my chance!"
"All right! I won't give up until I win! let's go!" she decided.
Why can't she be that tenacious when she's fighting? Luna sweatdropped when Usagi took off after Mamoru.
"Sir, please get in line." the attendant told Seijuro who had apparently cut in.
Seijuro frowned, using his powers to hypnotize the attendant.
"What are you doing? Why should I date somebody like you?" Nastumi demanded, after giving a male student a slap across the face.
"Hey! don't be so stuck up!" the student hissed.
"Quit pestering girls." Mamoru intervened. "It's pitiful."
"What did you say?" the student retorted.
"Damn it!" he snorted and walked off when Mamoru remained unfazed by his gaze.
"Mamoru! You saved me!" Nastumi glomped him. "Thank you! I shall never forget this! To show my appreciation, I shall spend the day with you!"
"What?" Mamoru blinked in astonishment.
"Hold it! Mamoru!" Usagi cut in.
"Nastumi, what are you doing?" Seijuro asked his 'sister' who was fighting over Mamoru with Usagi
"Seijuro..." Nastumi let out a nervous laugh.
"Oh, Usagi-san..." Seijuro blinked at the blond clinging onto Mamoru.
"Seijuro, this is Chiba Mamoru." Nastumi introduced. "He will be joining us today."
"Oh no, I didn't..." Mamoru protested.
"In that case, I shall accompany you as well!" Usagi cut in.
"Tsukino-san!" Nastumi fumed.
"Nastumi!" Seijuro chided. "This is not a game!"
"It will be better this way because we will not stand out." Nastumi reminded him.
"But I don't know." Seijuro remarked.
"Let's go. This way." Nastumi ignored her 'brother' and jumped Mamoru again.
"Well, I guess this turn of events isn't too bad." Seijuro noted when the two girls dragged Mamoru off.
"Hey! Get in line!" the people in the front line shouted when the four approached the entrance.
"You guys are cheating!" another protested.
"Special VIP guests, welcome." the door attendant told the group.
"I'm so lucky! let's go, Mamoru!" Usagi beamed.
"Usagi!" Luna sighed. "I can't believe this."
"Luna!" Minako called out, the four girls approaching the cat.
"Oh, here they are." Luna broke out into a smile.
Inside the arcade...
"Go!" Shingo fired at the virtual monster that had appeared onscreen when Kenji panicked.
"What is this?" Kenji inquired.
"Oh! I'm so scared, Mamoru!" Nastumi squealed.
"Excuse me! That is very unladylike of you!" Usagi retorted.
"It was just an accident." Nastumi shot back.
"Usagi?" Kenji turned to see his daughter behind them.
"Huh? Dad! Shingo!" Usagi gasped. "Why do you get to come here with Dad by yourself, Shingo?"
"Leave me alone!" Shingo protested. "You can't play high-tech games anyway."
"Don't just assume that!" Usagi pounded his head in.
As the game raged on, the booth Mamoru, Usagi and Nastumi were in shook violently, knocking Nastumi off and Usagi into Seijuro's arms.
"Seijuro..." Nastumi blinked.
"Oh, it was an accident." Seijuro apologized.
"Excuse me..." Usagi laughed nervously, the two breaking apart.
"Usagi." Kenji whispered to his daughter.
"I trust you. Remember, I trust you!" he whispered.
"You know..." Usagi fumed.
Back outside...
"How long do we need to wait?" Makoto complained.
"As they say, 'everything comes to he who wants'." Minako misquoted.
"It should be 'everything comes to he who waits'." Ami corrected, causing the three girls to sweatdrop.
Back inside...
Kenji and Shingo strapped on their protective gear as they prepared to enter the next stage.
"The cool schoolboy superhero, 'Sneakers Shingo'." Shingo declared. "In the name of the moon, I will punish you!"
"Dad, we did it!" he beamed, once the father-son pair destroyed a couple of monsters with their guns.
"Yeah!" Kenji agreed.
I wonder if Usagi is okay? He wondered.
Elsewhere, Nastumi fired at a monster which had appeared in front of the group.
"Wow, I hit it!" she beamed, snuggling against Mamoru.
"See? See? See? See?" she prodded, ignoring a fuming Usagi.
"Dad!" she blinked, before sighing. "And Dad said he trusted me."
"I have no choice." Nastumi whispered to her 'brother'. "Or else it would look suspicious."
Suddenly another monster appeared and the two males fired at it simultaneously. Mamoru frowned at the smirking Seijuro, an 'Alpha-male' battle for dominance was in the wake.
As another group of monsters appeared, the two males fired at their targets, destroying them in an instant. Then, the two turned and fired at the group of monsters behind them.
"Wow! Both of them are so cool!" Usagi swooned.
"Just as I thought, he's good." Nastumi noted.
"Okay, me too then!" Usagi decided and fired at a monster beside her.
"My, you are so good!" Nastumi mocked when Usagi missed her target.
"Such barbaric games are not to my taste, you see." Usagi quickly covered up.
"Really?" Nastumi challenged. "But winning is what gives everything meaning. You are so honest to admit defeat right from the start."
"What did you say?" Usagi fumed.
"Ouch!" the two broke apart, a laser beam coming in between them to destroy a monster that had appeared behind them.
"Oh, we could stay like this longer, if you prefer." Nastumi hugged Mamoru.
"I'm sorry, but I'll decline." Mamoru shot her down. "You can't win someone's heart by being so pushy."
"I agree completely! Mamoru, you're the man!" Usagi agreed, resting a hand on his shoulder.
"Oh! No!" she shrieked when a monster appeared behind her.
"Dumpling Head!" Mamoru called out to the fleeing girl. "A girl like you with no sense of direction will just get lost!"
After Mamoru took off after Usagi, Nastumi fired an energy beam from her finger and destroyed another virtual monster.
"Love is something you have to take by force, right?" she grinned.
At Seijuro's frown, she quickly corrected herself, "Oh, my body needs more energy. I'm afraid I can't go on anymore."
"That's why I told you this is not a game!" Seijuro retorted.
"Please don't say it like that." Nastumi pleaded. "It's time to commence our operation!"
Outside...
"Ten more people." Rei remarked, noticing the line was getting shorter.
Inside...
"Please pick the best Cardian for this place!" Ali told his companion.
With her finger, Ann lifted a card from the card fan.
"Come forth! Cardian Hell Ant!" Ail commanded, playing on his flute to summon his monster.
"Ant! Ant! Ant! Hell Ant!" the Cardian manifested.
"It's like we're walking in circles." Shingo remarked.
"Where is Usagi? Where did she go?" Kenji inquired, worried.
"What could that be?" Shingo asked his father, upon hearing the screams of the people inside the arcade as Hell Ant drained their energy.
"An! Ant! Ant!" the Cardian chanted, draining the players with its tentacles.
"Ant!" it declared, one of its male victim's laser beams barely fazing it.
"Wonderful." Ann remarked as the two aliens watched from above.
"It looks so real!" Shingo gasped.
"Doesn't it look too realistic?" Kenji inquired.
"Ant!" the Cardian now turned to the two.
"Ant!" it hollered.
Elsewhere, Usagi and Mamoru sweatdropped when Usagi missed all of her targets.
"Darn it! Darn it! Darn it! Darn it!" the blond cursed.
"It must be a special talent to be able to miss this many targets." Mamoru sighed, relinquishing the monsters easily. Turning back, he fired at the monster that had appeared.
"Wow! You're so cool!" Usagi swooned.
"Let's go, dumpling!" Mamoru reached out.
"If I play, I want to get the highest score!" he added, pulling Usagi along.
"This is it! It has to be like this!" Usagi beamed, as Mamoru fired at the appearing monsters as they ran.
"Okay! Let's go!" Mamoru told her.
"I'm so happy." Usagi swooned, as she imagined Tuxedo Kaman holding onto her hand, the Moonlight Knight holding onto the other.
"Sis! Sis!" Shingo snapped her out of her daydream. "Sis!"
"Shingo! Why did it have to be you? Usagi scolded. "Go away!"
"Sis, Dad's in trouble!" Shingo told her.
"What's wrong?" Mamoru asked.
"Something's wrong with the monsters!" Shingo replied. "Even when I shoot them, they don't disappear."
"What?" Usagi gasped.
"Okay, you guys stay here." Mamoru told the sibling pair and took off.
"Mamoru!" Usagi called out.
"Wait!" Shingo added. "I'll show you where he is! My dad's in danger!"
"Okay!" Mamoru looked at the youngster.
"Shingo!" Usagi whined.
"I'm a man! Sis, you stay here!" Shingo told her.
"What? What does he take his sister for?" Usagi blinked as the two took off. "Just when everything was going so perfect!"
"No, now's not the time for that!" she composed herself and ran after them.
Outside...
"Okay, the next two, you may enter now." the door attendant ushered the next in line in.
"Three more to go." Rei noted.
Inside...
"Ant!" the Cardian growled.
"I'm not interested in your life." Ail told the terrified Kenji. "Just relax and rest for a while."
The Cardian then removed Kenji's laser gun after he fired at ti to no avail.
"Ah! Ouch!" he tripped over his feet when the cable that connected his gun to the backpack snapped.
"Dad!" Shingo gasped.
"Ant!" the Cardian growled when Mamoru tossed his backpack on the back of its head before it could attack Kenji.
"Shingo!" Kenji turned to his son.
"Damn monster!" Mamoru growled.
"Ant! Ant!" the Cardian released its vines at the two. Mamoru dived to the ground to protect Shingo from the attack.
"Shingo, run!" Kenji called out.
"Ant!" the Cardian charged.
"Shingo!" Kenji shouted, tossing his backpack at the Cardian.
"It's a parent's duty to protect his beloved child!" he snapped, a fire extinguisher at hand as Mamoru took the child away.
"Come on, monster!" he challenged, spraying the fire extinguisher.
"Ant!" the Cardian leapt from the smoke.
"Dad!" Shingo called out when Kenji was taken by the Cardian. Then, both he and Mamoru gasped when they too were taken by the Cardian.
"Ant! Ant!" the Cardian grinned, its three newest victims ensnared within its grasp.
"Moon Prism Power, Make Up!" Usagi transformed.
"Hell Ant, go easy on him." Ann told the Cardian after ti tossed the three against the wall and Mamoru stood up.
"Ant." the Cardian looked at her.
"Please don't try to fight." Ann advised when Mamoru readied himself.
Mamoru jumped aside, using his hand as leverage to avoid the Cardian's attack.
"Stop right there!" Sailor Moon declared.
"Sailor Moon!" Ali looked at the intruder.
"You've hurt everyone I care about." Sailor Moon told the two aliens. "Even if you apologize, I won't forgive you! I'm a Sailor Senshi of love and justice, Sailor Moon. In the name of the moon, I will punish you!"
"Shut up! You're getting in my way!" Ann retorted. "Hell Ant, crush her!"
"Ant!" the Cardian changed its target.
"Moon Tiara Action!" Sailor Moon fired her charged up frisbee at the Cardian. However, the disc returned to its original tiara form mid-way and cluttered to the ground.
"No way! My tiara..." Sailor Moon gasped.
"I don't know who you are, but if you're gonna fight, fight!" Mamoru retorted.
With a cry, the Cardian unleashed its vines at the arguing duo and knocking them to the ground. Just as it was about to finish the job, a single white rose intervened.
"Even in this uncertain world, a beautiful flower of love blooms." the Moonlight Knight declared.
"Who are you?" Ali demanded.
"I am the gusty white wind that paints the darkness." the Moonlight Knight replied. "I am Moonlight Knight."
"Moonlight Knight-sama!" Sailor Moon swooned.
"What? But..." she blinked, looking back and forth at the Moonlight Knight and Mamoru.
"Another weird one's shown up." Mamoru noted.
I thought Mamoru was Moonlight Knight. Sailor Moon wondered.
"I respect your courage." the Moonlight Knight told him as he leapt down. "But it's not an opponent normal humans can defeat! Stay back."
"A truly brave man does not start a fight, but if provoked, he will finish the fight!" he added, now turning to the charging Cardian.
Leaping, he sliced through the Cardian's tentacles with his dagger, the chopped off tentacles dropping to the ground when he rescathed his blade.
"Ant!" the furious Cardian grabbed the Moonlight Knight by the tentacles on its body.
"Knight-sama!" Sailor Moon gasped.
"Icy Fog!" came Millennial Sailor Mercury's fog.
"Fire Soul!" Sailor Mars released her flame ball, cutting the vines that held Moonlight Knight captive.
"It seems like we made it in time." Sailor Jupiter remarked, the four Planetary Senshi placing themselves before Sailor Moon.
"Everyone... Mercury..." Sailor Moon sobbed. "My tiara doesn't work anymore."
"Calm down, Sailor Moon." Millennial Sailor Mercury soothed.
"The tiara? No way!" Luna gasped in shock.
"Sailor Moon, pull yourself together." Sailor Venus consoled, returning the tiara.
"Venus..." Sailor Moon mumbled, taking back her weapon.
"We will be your opponent in place of Sailor Moon." Sailor Venus declared.
"Crescent..." she charged up her energy.
"Supreme..." Sailor Jupiter powered up.
"Beam!" Sailor Venus released her attack.
"Thunder!" Sailor Jupiter unleashed her lightning.
"Cleansing!" the Cardian cried out when Sailor Jupiter's lightning stunned her in place as Sailor Venus' attack shot through its body. Returned to its card form now, the card then turned black as before.
"We will get you back for this!" Ail promised, the aliens disappearing.
"Excellent work!" the Moonlight Knight praised. "Sailor Senshi, even when fighting, the brilliance of your friendship shines beautifully."
"Adieu." he waved the girls farewell and disappeared through the exit.
"So, that's Moonlight Knight."Sailor Venus noted.
"Who in the world are you people?" Mamoru inquired.
"What's going on?" the people outside rushed in.
"Oh no, are you alright?" one of the rescuers asked the victims on the ground. "You okay? What's going on?"
"Hey, hang in there!" another rescuer chided when Mamoru looked around to find the Sailor Senshi gone.
"You there, are you okay?" one of the rescuers called out to Mamoru.
Back in the Tsukino household...
"Ouch!" Shingo whined when Ikuko applied ointment on his wounds. "That hurts!"
"That's what you get for leaving me at home and going off to have fun." Ikuko scolded.
"But I still can't believe that was caused by computer problems." Kenji pointed out.
"I can't use my tiara anymore." Usagi told Luna who was in her arms. "And it turns out that Mamoru is not Moonlight Knight."
"I'm so confused! What should I do?" she sobbed, hugging the cat tighter.
"Usagi..." Luna mumbled.
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