Sailor Moon The Doomtree Aliens Alternate Re-Write

by Sailor Mars Fanatic

This is a variation on the events of the Doomtree arc that forms the first part of Sailor Moon R. It is intended as a sequel to my previous story that was an alternate take on the first season of Sailor Moon. Be warned though. Don't expect the lovable sprites of the original. This is a much darker and sinister take on Alan and Anne. N.J. if you want answers then let us communicate.

11. Chapter 11

CHAPTER 11

The very next day after the incidents at the theater was Monday. The beginning of a new week of school. As was usually the case Serena was running late and she was panicking trying to compose a good excuse for Miss Haruna when she arrived.
Just as the bell was ringing she was only arriving at the entrance to the school building. "Oh! Oh! Oh! I am so late!" she panted and puffed as she ran up the stairs to her classroom taking them two at a time.

As she ran through the door she stumbled and fell flat on her face. "Yeeaaaargh!" She screamed and moaned as she hit the floor. But she felt kind hands on her shoulders and a gentle voice speaking to her.
"Serena. Are you all right?" As Serena turned her head she saw it was Miss Haruna.
"Oh yeah. I-I'm okay Miss Haruna. But I'm so sorry I'm late. You see I,"
But even as Serena tried to think up an excuse there and then, Miss Haruna gently cut her off smiling. "Save it Serena. I'll overlook your lateness this time because I was so concerned to see you fall."
Then she helped Serena get to her feet asking her if she was sure she wasn't injured. "No, I was only shook up Miss Haruna. I'm all right really."
Serena remembered how concerned Miss Haruna had been the time when she had gone without lunch. She was so touched that she grinned at her and made her way to her desk. Then Miss Haruna instructed everybody to get their English books out. "Turn to the poem on page 68 I instructed you to read and study for your homework over the weekend and be ready to answer questions."
At that particular moment Serena felt a pang of hunger. She had rushed off in such a hurry today that she hadn't even eaten breakfast. Though she had remembered her lunch bag. Acting on a sudden impulse she used her open book as a cover while she quietly drew one of her sandwiches out of her bag and took a bite. Unfortunately however Miss Haruna chose her first at random.
"Serena read the first two lines please."
Serena almost choked and made a muffled sound. Miss Haruna was momentarily concerned about her again. "Serena?" She went over to her desk and pulled the book aside. She gasped when she saw the sandwich in Serena's hand. "SERENA! You actually dare to eat in my classroom? Oh, I don't believe it!"
She was starting to look angry for sure and Serena swallowed the mouthful she'd been struggling with and sheepishly said, "Would you believe I need some extra energy to help me study today?"
But Miss Haruna raised her voice and cried out, "No, I'm sorry Serena. I can't overlook this second offence. You have detention today."
"Aw no. Not again." Serena bowed her head accepting the inevitable and put the rest of her sandwich back in her lunch bag.

Then Miss Haruna turned her attention to Anne instead. "Anne. Will you kindly read the first two lines of the poem please?"
However Anne was still feeling rather cross with Alan for spoiling her chance to plant a surprise kiss upon Darien last night and she looked up saying gruffly, "No thanks. I'm not in the mood."
Everybody's eyes were fixed on Anne disbelievingly, even Serena's. Miss Haruna was trying hard to keep her temper at this unexpected act of student insubordination immediately following her encounter with Serena and she stammered, "E-excuse me Anne. When I tell you to do something you are obligated to obey me."
With her thoughts full of her grudge against Alan, Anne talked back without even looking at Miss Haruna. "Well I don't feel like obeying you at the moment. I'm too hung up over what happened last night before my big finale scene when I was playing Snow White."
"Anne. I was there in the audience and I can assure you that there would have been far worse things to be upset about than the spoiling of the end of the play if the Sailor Scouts hadn't been around," answered Miss Haruna. "So please pull yourself together and participate co-operatively in class thank you."
But Anne persisted with an emphatic "No," and Miss Haruna had had enough.
"If that's the way you feel Anne, you can join Serena for her detention with me later today."
"Whatever." Anne really didn't care a fig about anything that morning and Serena was agog at the thought of sharing detention with her of all people.

Later during lunch break Anne met with Alan privately on the roof of the school building while the rest of the students were generally congregating in the grounds below. He was shocked to hear what had happened to her. "You need to go to detention soon you say? What did you think you were doing? You're supposed to be helping me orchestrate a very important attack on the school staff and students from the inside today. We desperately need energy after what transpired last night."
She sneered at him. "Yeah, well I couldn't think straight because my mind was stuck on the events of last night. Before I knew it I had landed myself in trouble. Of course it never would have happened if it wasn't for a certain somebody's misdemeanours."
Alan took a deep breath and said, "Anne let's not start that again please. There's no time to spare." He produced the Cardian deck and said, "Before you leave quickly select a good Cardian for me to send on a rampage throughout the school. Anyway perhaps Miss Haruna herself will make an excellent victim with the anger energy she has built up with you now?"
Anne remembered how she once observed Miss Haruna yelling in rage at Serena in class on a previous occasion and how she had wickedly thought about sacrificing her life force somehow to provide energy for the tree one day. Thinking about her death in this way felt like the prospect of sweet revenge after having been roused at and given a detention by her. She forgot all about her resentment with Alan for the time being and smiled. "Sure okay." Then indicating her choice with her forefinger she made a card fly up into the air.

Before either of them could do anything else however a familiar voice cried out, "Anne? Are you up here? Anne?"
Alan quickly put the cards out of sight and mentally willed the one Anne had picked to fly over and land on top of the roof of the small structure where the stairs led out through the doorway onto the roof. He was only just in time as Serena came bounding into view puffing and panting. As soon as she saw that Anne was indeed present she ran up to her and grabbed her arm ignoring Alan. "Oh Anne! I've been desperately looking for you. Our detention is due to begin in ten minutes. Come on! We can't be late or Miss H will extend it to include tomorrow as well. Believe me, I know from experience." By this time she was dragging Anne in amazement down the stairs with her. Even though Serena couldn't stand Anne, she had such a good heart that she would never wish the wrath of Haruna to fall upon anybody. Not even her worst enemy.
As Alan watched them go he thought to himself, "Anne didn't tell me she was sharing this detention with Serena." Then with a shrug he said, "Oh well. I'll get my flute out and summon the Cardian that she picked just before she was rushed away. Then I'll order it to run rampant and attack victims beginning with that intimidating Miss Haruna. But I'll make sure to explicitly state that Serena and all her close friends must not be touched. I may be getting soft but I just can't bear the thought of Serena being too upset."

So Alan glanced carefully around to make sure he was alone, shed off his human disguise and rose up into the sky with his magic flute in hand, picking up the Cardian from where it lay as he ascended. But little did he know that Peter was waiting and ready to materialize and ambush him with two other aliens, Max and William. As he made the card hover in mid-air he was about to put the flute to his lips, when the other three aliens surrounded him with ropes in hand. As they tied him up very fast he shouted, "Hey! What is the meaning of this treachery?"
Peter said to him, "You are no longer worthy to be our leaders, you and Anne. Jenny and I are taking over. Max is going to take you back to our apartment and leave you bound up in the room with the tree, while William will fill in for you the rest of the day at school."
Before Alan's startled eyes William transformed into the perfect mirror-image replica of his human identity before dematerializing to find a careful opportunity to reappear somewhere unobserved in the school grounds. Completely out of sight he materialized behind some bushes and peering through the foliage he made sure the coast was clear before he crawled out and sat down so that to anybody who walked past from that point on it would seem like they noticed "Alan" sitting next to a bush by himself.

Then Peter took the magic flute in his hands and waved a mocking goodbye as Max vanished with the real Alan struggling in his bonds and cursing.
Peter put the flute to his lips and played the usual tune and the Cardian's physical form appeared as the card first grew to life-size as usual. Removing the flute from his lips Peter said, "Cardian Insectia. I summon you to do my bidding."
This Cardian known as Insectia had green skin, light-blue hair, long, pointed ears and two small yellow horns. Her black and orange boots, gloves and other clothing made her resemble a humanoid-like bumble bee.
"I am here to serve you master," she said as she bowed to Peter.
Peter chuckled as he replied, "We need lots and lots of energy. Come follow me all over the city and attack anybody we find."
Insectia was almost crazy with frenzy by the spell she was placed under. She eagerly said, "You lead me and I'll attack all who cross our path."
"Good," said Peter and he flew off with the Cardian right behind him.
Alan and Anne had assumed the plan was merely to attack the people at the school today but Peter intended to ravage the city for all the energy it was worth. He was very pleased that Insectia had been the Cardian the pair of dupes had selected. She would keep on going until everybody in the city was either dead or half-dead, including eventually the school anyway. Alan was their prisoner and they would also get Anne when they had the chance.

Speaking of Anne, she and Serena were currently in their classroom with Miss Haruna for their detention. They were seated at their usual desks with sheets of writing paper, pencils and erasers and Miss Haruna explained what the task of their detention was. "I want you to write me an essay of at least four pages with a structured beginning, middle and end on the subject of "Why School Is Important To Me" and be warned, any smart-alec remarks and I'll double the minimum number of pages."
Suddenly Miss Haruna's best friend, the sewing teacher Mrs. Humphreys appeared at the open doorway. She was as white as a sheet as she spoke. "Pardon me Patricia. There's an emergency phone call from your mother. Your father is in hospital."
Miss Haruna gasped in horror with her hand to her mouth. "Oh my goodness. Keep working girls. I'll be back. Thank you Helen."
While she and Mrs. Humphreys quickly rushed off together Serena was suddenly very worried. Could this be the work of another one of those Cardians the evil aliens used?
Anne was also wondering in a different way. She had been hoping Alan was going to send the Cardian to attack Miss Haruna first. Then she would have been spared the humiliating degradation of being forced to write this essay. But then she thought perhaps Alan had planned it this way to get Miss Haruna away in order to try to protect Serena. The idiot.
While Anne was fuming, Serena was hoping with all her heart that the other Sailor Scouts would be able to cope with this threat while she was stuck in detention. Even with Miss H gone she couldn't transform or even leave with Anne present.
In barely fifteen minutes Miss Haruna came back aghast and barely able to control herself. "Girls. I need to go and meet my mother and drive to the hospital to see my father. He's in stable condition thankfully but he's very weak after some creature apparently attacked him."
Anne and Serena both knew it was a Cardians' work now and Anne said nothing silently gloating.
Miss Haruna said, "I will be back to collect your essays as soon as possible. I am trusting you both to honour your detention commitment in my absence. Goodbye."
But before she could leave Serena boldly jumped out of her chair crying, "Wait Miss H. I want to say something." She actually grabbed Miss Haruna's arm and for one moment she was feeling annoyed. But she softened as she saw the tears building up in Serena's eyes and sensed what they meant. As the two of them stared at each other Serena said, "Please be very careful."
Miss Haruna fought to hold back tears of her own and said, "I promise I'll be careful Serena. Now get back to your essay."
Serena immediately sat back down and watched with a teary smile as Miss Haruna exited at a dash.
Anne was actually taken aback by this exchange of affection. But she brushed it aside thinking, "Hmm. Maybe while Miss Haruna is gone I can get an opportunity to kill Serena with my own hands and make it look like our Cardian did her in. Then she will never distract Alan's heart from me again."

In the meantime Raye had been enjoying lunch break at her own school hanging out in the cafeteria with her friends. They were all eating, laughing and chatting together at their tables when suddenly with an enormous crash the wall caved in and Cardian Insectia burst through the hole followed by Peter. Everybody screamed. "What is going on?"
"Monsters! Help!"
"Let's get out of here!"
But Insectia pounced upon the nearest table of students at Peter's prompting. "That's it Insectia. Drain their energy."
Peter had been leading this Cardian all around the city leaving a trail of severely weakened people in their wake. The barrage of energy was so intense that the poor tree felt like a person does suffering electrocution. Insectia was crazy and lashed out at anyone including the occasional animal. Peter didn't care though. Insectia was the most powerfully rampant Cardian in the entire pack and this was perfect for their desperate needs. With her they'd pour enough energy into the tree to eventually brainwash it just like the Cardians themselves. Moonlight Knight and the others were very worried. They knew what was happening but the tree was too bombarded to take the time to tell them where to go. He told Skulker and Pierrot they would just have to alert the Sailor Scouts and seek their help.

But right now Raye was desperately urging her friends to run for their lives out the back door. The cafeteria ladies were trying to also flee. Insectia had turned her attention to them having left a few student bodies slumped on the floor or in their chairs. Raye ran out after the last of her friends pulling out her communicator. "I must let the others know about this," she said.

So even while Moonlight Knight and his friends were on their way to the Sailor Scouts' various schools, Raye had contacted Mina and she in turn had contacted Lita and Amy. But they had told her about Serena's detention having heard about it from Molly and Melvin. So Serena's communicator in her bag did not go off while she sat writing at her desk.
Even Luna and Artemis were running as fast as they could to Serena's school to rally the team as soon as they had heard word of the sinister goings-on.

At the moment though Anne had secretly changed into her alien form and was sneaking up behind Serena while she was trying to think of her essay. "Why else do I like school?" she asked herself out loud. "Oh I know. To spend time with my friends."
Anne prepared to spring from behind and grab her around the neck. She figured that if she could strangle Serena she could run to the teachers hysterically putting on an act about how she had been attacked by a monster. They'd buy her story with the things that were currently happening.
But just as she lunged at Serena, she dropped her eraser and bent down off her chair to pick it up. With a cry Anne fell onto Serena's desk and it toppled over taking her with it.
"Anne!" Serena cried in shock. "What happened?"
Anne had skilfully managed to resume her human disguise as soon as she fell and turned to Serena as she picked herself up. "Oh. I was just taking a break from doing my essay to stretch out those writing cramps," she raised her arms up and down above her head as she spoke, "and I'm afraid I lost my balance."
"Oh, I can relate to that Anne. It sounds like the sort of accident I might have. It's lucky you didn't land on top of me. I hope you're not hurt."
"I'm fine Serena." Anne helped her to put her desk back in position and returned to her own thinking, "I'd better try to write a little bit of my essay so it won't look like I was slacking I suppose. I'll have another try at Serena when I do half a page. It was kind of nice of her to ask if I was hurt as well." She smiled then grimaced. "But I can't go soft. She must die unfortunately. Unfortunately? Why did I just think that word?"
Anne was beginning to feel mixed-up and in her state of mind she sat for a short while, but she never wrote anything on her paper.

By this time Raye and Mina had transformed and left their school grounds, journeying to Amy, Lita and Serena's own school. Amy and Lita were also transformed and met the other two just outside the school gate as Luna and Artemis were also arriving. Artemis puffed and said, "Oh good. We ran as fast as we could but we're so glad to see you girls have already come to hear about this new string of horrible attacks."
"But where is Sailor Moon?" asked Luna fearing the most probable answer.
"She landed herself in detention," said Sailor Mars with a disgusted gesture.
Luna and Artemis both sighed in despair. "Ah well. There's no choice but to scour the city without her for now," said Artemis.
Suddenly Sailor Venus gasped as three familiar figures materialized in their midst. "It's the Moonlight Knight and those two Cardians who teamed up with him."
Pierrot sat astride her unicycle remarkably perfectly still and completely balanced with Skulker standing on her left. The Moonlight Knight himself stood in the center but much closer to the Sailor Scouts forming a basic triangular formation with his two friends.
"Sailor Scouts," he proclaimed, "this is a very intense situation. Our source can't even tell us where we should go to meet the current threat. Therefore we have come to you first. But where's Sailor Moon?" He asked this looking around and Sailor Mars sighed.
"As I just said, she's in detention." She sighed and thought to herself grumpily, "Hope I don't have to repeat myself anymore today at all."
"Detention?" said Skulker.
"What is that?" queried Pierrot.
"Oh no. Let someone else try to explain it to them." Raye was thinking this with exasperation and annoyance, but fortunately nobody needed to attempt to tell the Cardians what it meant because the Moonlight Knight suddenly took authoritative action.
"There's no time to waste. You lot must all scour the city searching for the source of these terrible attacks and in the meantime I shall lead Skulker and Pierrot in an attempt to rescue Sailor Moon from this detention or whatever it is that the enemy has her caught in. Follow me my friends."
With that he leaped through the air over the gate, Skulker rose into the air and floated along after him and Pierrot zoomed through the open gateway on her unicycle with her umbrella open and twirling round over her head.
The Sailor Scouts and the cats were somewhat flabbergasted but Sailor Mars said, "Ah well. Let them work it out for themselves. Come on it's true. We have an urgent task to perform."
With a mutual response of "Uh-huh," they all ran off to try to seek out the insanely zealous Cardian and her master.

While Moonlight Knight, Skulker and Pierrot were trying to search the school for the place where Serena was being held prisoner to their way of thinking, they found it slightly difficult due to all the students' reactions. They stuck out like three sore thumbs and as the students pointed at them some of them began to scream and panic thinking they were going to be attacked. The Moonlight Knight said, "Pierrot. Use your umbrella to put them all to sleep."
"Yes Moonlight Knight." She spun her umbrella round and round out in front of her and everybody they met dropped into a deep sleep from which they would awake unharmed an hour or so later. But William, who was impersonating Alan of course, immediately transported himself back to the apartment before the hypnotic effects could reach him to give a report about this.

At that moment Anne had decided to have another try at strangling Serena before she changed her mind. "There'll be no escape this time," she thought as she changed into her genuine appearance once again. Serena was crouched over her essay paper writing hard as Anne reached out for her neck. She was watching very carefully to make sure Serena didn't drop anything to give her reason to suddenly duck down like last time. But Anne was taken by surprise again in a different sort of way. Serena suddenly raised her hands above her head as she yawned very deeply. Before Anne knew it the pencil Serena was holding jabbed her up the nose. Fortunately since Serena had been writing at the time it was the smooth end that entered Anne's nose, not the point. But it still hurt a great deal. "Aaaaaarghhh!"
Serena was concerned to see what had happened. Despite the pain Anne had managed to quickly disguise herself so Serena saw human Anne holding her nose in agony.
"Hey. I'm sorry Anne. What were you doing looking over my shoulder? Are you having trouble with your essay? If you wanted help you should have just asked me."
Anne was too busy leaning on a desk to avoid collapsing due to dizziness, pain and shock and couldn't say a word.
Serena stood up and walked over to look at Anne's paper. "Goodness Anne. You've hardly written anything. Miss Haruna will be very angry. If you're stuck sit down with me and I'll help you. Miss Haruna isn't here to raise objections. I just hope she doesn't suddenly come back and catch us."
Anne thought about how furious Miss H could become and to be honest she didn't want to experience any more. So she forgot all about wanting to put a choke hold on Serena and pulled up a chair next to her. "Very well thank you Serena," she said and with that Serena proceeded to help Anne write her essay.

As they worked together Anne felt rather strange and yet also happy. Serena was so very nice to her and she wasn't used to being treated nice. This was so different even from the "kindnesses" of Peter, Jenny and the rest of their "friends". She and Alan had grown up to their teenage years knowing nothing but constant pain and misery from their respective sets of parents. The beatings and the starving and all the other forms of cruelty had seared their hearts so badly and filled them with violent resentment. Then when they had run away together and met the juvenile delinquents they had fostered their ill feelings by telling them that all authority figures were as cold-hearted as their parents. Punishing their parents had felt so wonderful and the gang had urged them on to continue to payback the rest of their "enemies" through juvenile crime and as they all grew older, they progressed to the ambition of sadistic dictatorship and universe conquest they held now. But this contradicted everything they had believed. Serena was so sweet and affectionate that Anne realized the last thing she wanted to do was kill her.
"I don't understand," she thought. "But Serena is so very sweet. And I now realize that even the liking I took for that handsome earth man Darien went against all I ever believed before. He should have been considered my enemy, as much as anybody else in the universe. This is incredible."
"Hey Anne. Are you all right?" asked Serena.
"Wha? Oh yeah, I'm fine Serena. I was just thinking to myself about how nice it's been to spend time with you today."
Serena's face beamed jovially. "You know something Anne? I was thinking the exact same thing!"
"You-you were?" Anne was getting even more gobsmacked.
"That's right. I must confess I always used to think you were rather mean and nasty. But since we came to share this detention together I've come to see a new and very likable side to your personality that I never imagined was there Anne."
Serena blushed rather ashamedly when she said this but Anne felt even more shameful. "If only you knew that I tried to strangle you twice Serena. If only you knew how much blood really is sticking to my hands, back on my planet as well as here on yours. Oh woe is me. Woe also to my darling Alan. When he realizes how very wrong he and I have been he'll be devastated too. But we can never make amends for our misdeeds. We're murderers."

Just then the school bell rang signaling the end of lunch break. "Oh, the other students will be turning up for afternoon's classes soon," said Serena. "Miss H must still be at the hospital. I hope her dad is really going to be okay."
Little did Serena realize that Miss Haruna had already come back from visiting her dad with her mum, but she, like practically all the rest of the school had been taken by surprise and placed into a harmless sleep by Pierrot.
Serena went on further to say, "Thank goodness we were able to finish your essay together Anne. If she makes me stay in detention tomorrow to finish my own I don't care."
Anne was fighting hard to hold back her tears. "Th-thank you Serena. I- I need to rush to the girls' restroom. Please tell Miss Haruna I'll be back soon."
"Sure, okay Anne. I'll explain this to her and give her your essay too." Serena smiled and took the essay as Anne ran for all she was worth. She was intending to run to the restroom all right. But all she wanted to do was cry her guts out in there. She felt so hopeless. Wretchedly polluted.

But no sooner had Anne run off and out of sight than the Moonlight Knight, Skulker and Pierrot came racing up from the opposite direction. Moonlight Knight knew that Serena was Sailor Moon of course. He had once appeared at her bedroom window to deliver a warning about the intended attack on the Kindergarten bus. Serena and her friends had never thought to wonder how he had known her identity at the time, but the tree had limitless knowledge and had told him. In fact he and his two friends knew the identities of all the Scouts.
But anyway as soon as he saw her he called out, "There you are! Have you somehow escaped from detention?"
Serena was surprised at his words but stammered, "Um, well. I g-guess you c-could say I've broken f-f-free." She didn't understand what he meant but she knew if they were here things must be serious.
Suddenly her communicator rang and she answered it to find Sailor Mercury on the other end. "Sailor Moon. We found the Cardian with the alien who's controlling her. The others are trying to fight them just outside the library."
"I'll be there with back-up Sailor Mercury. MOON CRYSTAL POWER!"
Transforming into Sailor Moon she turned to the trio who faced her. "We must get to the library pronto."
"We can get you there in no time Sailor Moon," said the Moonlight Knight. "Skulker and Pierrot. Support her."
Before Sailor Moon knew it Skulker had risen into the air and tied threads around her arms and legs. "Hey! What do you have in mind?" She yelled but without an answer Skulker lifted her up onto Pierrot's shoulders. Pierrot folded her umbrella and crossed her arms over Serena's legs. Then she peddled off while Skulker zoomed along overhead holding her steady in place with the threads. As the Moonlight Knight followed alongside in leaps and bounds Serena wailed, "Couldn't we have taken a cab?"

But the Cardians held her steady and in barely five minutes they arrived at the library. Serena felt a little shook up but she was unharmed. While the Sailor Scouts were trying to battle Insectia, who was so very strong and agile that she dodged nimbly even their upgraded power attacks that they threw at her, Peter called out, "Moonlight Knight! You have interfered with our invasion plans for the last time! I know now that your weakness lies in the destructive power of this magic spell that was created by a powerful court magician back on our planet."
Skulker and Pierrot both gasped in fright, but the Moonlight Knight stiffened his resolve. "Between the three of us we have enough power within ourselves to free Insectia from your brainwashing. Sailor Moon, if you please attack and keep him occupied while we concentrate."
Sailor Moon obligingly took off her tiara forming the scepter that she hadn't had any chance to use for awhile. "MOON SCEPTER ELIMINATION!"
While Peter ducked and weaved the blast that emanated from Sailor Moon's weapon, Skulker and Pierrot bravely joined the Moonlight Knight in leaping together at Insectia. Between Skulker's threads and a whip-like tendril shooting forth from Pierrot's umbrella, they actually managed to ensnare Insectia's legs and lower body torso before she could jump away. Concentrating hard they directed their reserves of psychic strength through the bonds into Insectia while the Moonlight Knight added his, throwing his arms around her upper torso.
Luna and Artemis yelled to the other Scouts to help Sailor Moon while Peter fought back after dodging the attack of the scepter blowing Sailor Moon off her feet and onto her back. Though the girls tried their very best Peter seemed to be a very strong opponent and knocked them all over like a bowling ball making a perfect strike against a set of pins.
But Insectia momentarily slumped down and raising her head seemed much more relaxed and sanely normal as her friends released her. "Moonlight Knight! Skulker! Pierrot! You've rescued my mind from its bondage. I thank you, but I can remember what has been going on. I was always trying to shake it off. That's why I was so madly full of passion and zeal. But they used me. And he," pointing her finger at Peter, "he has forced me to do his evil bidding attacking innocents and sometimes killing them."
Taking even the Moonlight Knight by surprise Insectia suddenly gave an enormous leap screaming, "You will feel my vengeance you evil slime!"
Peter was taken by surprise as Insectia grabbed him by his collar and one of his arms and began to shake him hard. But he managed while struggling to place the tip of his finger on her forehead and recite the dreaded magic spell. Sailor Moon and her friends recovered in time to see what happened along with Luna, Artemis and the others. It wasn't a pretty sight.
Insectia's body suddenly jerked in violent spasms as she released Peter. She shrieked and groaned as the movements took full control of her and then she burst into tiny pieces like particles of sand flying everywhere. The Moonlight Knight and the others all screamed horrified and as Peter prepared to swoop down upon them Luna shouted, "Hurry Sailor Scouts. Do whatever you can to protect them."
Sailor Moon's four friends all attacked together.
"VENUS SHOWER!"
"MERCURY ICE BUBBLES FREEZE!"
"MARS FIREBIRD STRIKE!"
"JUPITER THUNDER DRAGON!"
The four of them all used their upgraded, revamped power attacks that they had recently acquired one by one and as Peter halted in his tracks and turned wide-eyed at the sound of their booming voices he gave a huge gasp to see their attacks all combined bearing down on him. But he only just dematerialized in the nick of time. He was gone back to the apartment. He made a mental note to never again face off against those Sailor Scouts on his own. They were too powerful. Numbers were needed for safety and assurance of victory.

When it was over Skulker and Pierrot both burst into bitter, unstoppable tears and the Moonlight Knight had a teary voice as he explained to the Scouts what had just happened. "We successfully freed our good friend Insectia from the control held over her. But now she has been destroyed absolutely forever."
"But I thought they could be restored?" Sailor Moon said in confusion.
The Moonlight Knight bowed his head. "Twenty-five years ago on the planet we came from, the King had a court magician who was secretly planning to kill him and assume his throne. The magician devised a diabolical magic spell which would render Cardians to a state of destruction from which there could never be any restoration. The all-knowing guiding source from which we came forth sent a telepathic message to the King and he set a trap for the magician. He had a poison slipped into his wine glass at the dinner table the day before he was going to make his move against him. It may seem rather cold-blooded, but it was the only way to prevent him ever using that spell. He would have wiped out all the Cardian force."
"So how did that alien find out about the spell?" asked Sailor Jupiter.
"The aliens have kidnapped the source and somehow succeeded in tapping into its knowledge. That's how they first found out there was something that would destroy any Cardian that resisted their mind-control. The source held the full facts back for as long as it could but it had already warned us that the secret was finally let out."
The Sailor Scouts, Luna and Artemis were all aghast to learn of this. The Moonlight Knight would say no more about the source so they comforted and consoled the grieving Skulker and Pierrot. They let them cry on their shoulders and gave them tissues to wipe their eyes and blow their noses. Then the Moonlight Knight said, "We must go for now and plan our strategy. We need to proceed with caution or we will end up like poor Insectia. Take care Sailors."
Then they were gone in two seconds.

The Sailor Scouts all returned to their respective schools. Afternoon classes had already long begun but Raye and Mina showed up at their schools each with the cover story that they'd been spirited away and the Sailor Scouts had rescued them. When Amy, Lita and Serena arrived back at the school they all shared they found everybody only just waking up, so they didn't even know they'd been gone. But they told everybody that the Sailor Scouts had protected them, thank goodness. The principal decided to cancel the rest of the school day under the circumstances, so everybody went home.
Before Serena left though she and Anne handed in their detention essays to Miss Haruna. "Good work Anne," she said with obvious pride. "Serena. You can finish yours at home and give it to me tomorrow. I don't feel much like extending your detention after all that's happened."
"Thank you Miss Haruna." Serena smiled at her gratefully and she smiled back. Anne smiled too but little did anybody know she wasn't the real Anne.
When Peter had breathlessly returned to the apartment he had sent Jenny, Sally and another female named Susan to the school. They had psychically sensed where Anne was crying in the restroom and materializing before her, they had grabbed her and tied her up, just like Alan.
William had of course materialized outside the girls' restroom in his Alan disguise and met Susan as she came out disguised as Anne.

Anne was now re-united with Alan bound up but not gagged on the floor nearby the big bed where the tree sat. Alan had already had time to think about things and he had come to the realization that he had tragically allowed his abusive past to steer him down the wrong path through the bad example of these evil, sadistic criminals. "Oh Anne." He sobbed. "I love you so very much. I wish we could undo all the atrocious acts we've helped this mob perpetrate."
"I love you too Alan. I feel awful knowing how many have died, even if not by our hand at least with our co-operation somehow. Our hands are tainted forever."
"Forgive me Anne. I shouldn't have been so blinded by my anger and resentment."
"I am equally to blame Alan. We may be able to forgive each other, but our deeds are unforgivable before a court of justice."
The gang of aliens all began to mock and scorn them. Max guffawed and pointed at their faces. "Look! Even Alan has tears in his eyes. We were completely wrong in our assessment of them. They were never of the same caliber as the rest of us."
Another male cried, "Yeah. They are as weak and simple as the humans on this planet we came to conquer."
"Feeling remorse for killing? Of all the pathetic things!" exclaimed a female exasperatedly.
Peter said, "You may have some small consolation that you won't have to live with yourselves much longer. As soon as we defeat our enemies on this planet we will execute you after our own tribunal of justice sentences you. Till then you can cry together and fret between yourselves."

The rest of the aliens all laughed together fiendishly. But the tree was feeling pain for them. It was deeply grieving the loss of the Cardian Insectia and Alan and Anne's sorrow cut to the center of its thick trunk. "I must try to help them," it thought to itself, "try to mentally communicate to them and offer comfort. True they can never undo all the lives they have taken but they are different none the less from the rest of these despots. Their hearts are painted totally black. They are beyond repentance. Alan and Anne have always been potentially good. I must show them my compassionate love and mercy."

Only time would soon tell where things were going to go from here.