A Witch's Plea...

A lone Sedaristani solder stood just outside one of the many warehouses that were located inside the the small military base. Normally the Sedaristan base that was situated on the coast and located near the boarder with Russia would be packed full with naval personnel and heavily guarded by solders. But in the past few hours, recent events had caused most of them to abandon their posts and head off to the "Revolution" that was taking place in there country. Seeing that news of the death of Zavimir Sedar had reached the masses quickly. Only a hand full of them stayed behind to watch after the base and protect the 2 gun boats that were still at the docks and prevent them from being stolen or destroyed in the coming days. The solder in question was just one of the very few that were still there. As the man stood there, her placed a cigarette in between his lips and struck a match to light it. But as he did this, he did not notice that a lone , large figure that was hiding in the shadows, was creeping up behind him and that she had her arms extended out, ready to grab him. Then, the pair of muscular arms wrapped around his neck and proceeded to drag him back into the shadows, where they proceeded to knock him out cold. Then after a few minutes, said form crept out of the shadows to reveal herself as Sailor Jupiter and behind her was the rest of the shenshi team, as well as the 4 solders that had befriended them. That solder was just one of the many that the 2 teams had taken out since they had arrived in the base.

"I think that was the last of them." Mercury said, as she scanned he area with her visor down,. " You think that for an military base, they would have better security or something?" Sweetwter pointed out, "Not that I'm complaining any thing!"

"SHHH! Quiet down! I think I saw some one over there!" Redford whispered, as he gestured with is rifle towards one of the warehouses. Every one remained quiet as Mercury scanned the darkness inside the building and sure enough, her visor managed to pick up 2 signatures trying to hide in the darkness. Thinking that these men could be getting ready to set up an ambush for them, Redford decided it was best that they be the ones to get the drop on the would be attackers. But before the men could move out, a golden ball of energy came shooting out of the darkness and struck a wall that was behind the 2 teams. No sooner had that happened, a pillar of water followed up behind the ball and narrowly struck the solders. Then, before any one could say any thing, the forms of 2 women came walking out of the darkness. One of them was rather tall with a muscular build, she had short blond hair and she carried a small sword in her hands. The second woman was slightly shorter than the first one and she had shoulder length bluish-green hair. She carried a mirror in her hands and the both of them were dressed in the same kind of garb as the rest of the shenshi.

" Who are they? Friends of yours?" Marlowe asked, as he saw the 2 walking out. "And where did all those flower petals come from?" Haggard asked , puzzled at the unexplainable appearance of flower petals flowing through the air.

"Haruka- papa! Michiru-mama!" Saturn called out excitedly, as she ran up to to her adoptive parents, Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune. The 2 elder shenshi for there part just bent down and embraced the young imp, as she ran up and hug them both. " I was so worried about you!" she cried.

"It's alright, Hime-Chan." Neptune said, as she returned her daughter's hug. " Were glad that you are alright, firefly." Uranus followed up, hugging her as well. At this point, the rest of the shenshi came came up with a very puzzled looking Bad Company.

"Uranus, Neptune? Is it really you?" Masked said, as he held on to the assault rifle that he had gotten just the day before. "Uh... the last time we checked, we were. Any way, just who are theses guys?and where are we." Uranus asked. " One minute we were fighting a Yoma and the next thing we knew we were in the middle of nowhere. Who are those men, anyway?" Neptune echoed her compaion, as she motioned to the group of solders behind them.

"Uranus, Neptune, this is Redford, Marlowe, Haggard and Sweetwater. They have been helping us. Guy, this is Sailor Neptune and Sailor Uranus. They are Shenshi as well as Saturn's parents." Venus introduced each other.

"Where's Moon?" Uranus asked them, as she noticed that the princess was missing. The shenshi got an sad look as Saturn replied sadly... "She was taken from us. We were following what we thought were your communicator tracking signals , but it was a trap and someone used it to capture her."

"Well, that would explain what happened to our communicators" Neptune said, " Some one managed to steel ours. Well at least we know why they did it. But why go through all this trouble?"

"Well it is obvious that your girl was the intended target. But the strange thing is that who or what ever took her left us directions to come and find her." Redford said. The other 2 shenshi were confused by his statement until Mercury showed them the map as well as the message they had gotten.

"This could be a trap." Uranus pointed out. "True, but this is the only lead that we have. We have no other choice." Mars replied.

"So what is the plan?"

" That is why we are here. There are a couple patrol boats on the base, we planned to use them to get to Sadiz." Redford replied, "But we will have to work fast, the army will be rolling in is a few hours to take the town."

The 2 outer shenshi took some time to think about what they had been told. The whole think smelled like a trap and neither of them liked the idea of walking knowingly into one. But this was the only lead that they had and they had no choice but to follow up on it.

"OK, not much of a choice we have now do we?" Neptune asked them. "I'm afraid not. " Redford replied.

"Well then, we better get going. We don't have much time." Tuxedo Karmen said to them. The others just nodded and made there way to the docks , where 2 large fast patrol boats were tied up. Redford had Marlowe and Haggard place some charges on one of the vessels while the rest of them readied the other craft to launch. Within a few minutes, the first patrol boat had left the dock leaving the other one behind and when they reached a certain distance, Haggard detonated the charges and destroyed the other vessel in a massive fire ball. Once that was done, Marlowe took the helm and gave the water craft full throttle , as he and the 2 teams sped off to the port of Sadiz, Russia...

(Port of Sadiz, Russia)

Usagi was in a state of shock, for standing in front of her was a woman that she and the rest of her team thought of as dead. "Mimete..." she gasped out in disbelief. The last time that she had seen the poor woman was she had tried to use an invention built by Eudial to destroy the Shenshi. But what happened was that her fellow Witch, Tellu, turned on her and " pulled the plug" on her helpless woman. Moon could remember the look of horror on Mimete's face and how she pleaded for Tellu not to do it. But in the end, Tellu did . The image of Mimete's look of horror before she vanished, haunted Usagi for many years and worst of all, she was unable to stop Tellu. Even if Mimete was a villain, she surly did not deserve what she got. But for many years, Moon thought Mimete was "Turned off forever" and was long gone. But now in front of her and in the flesh, was Mimete! Usagi did not know how to feel at this point, she was glad to see that Mimete was not killed by Tellu's treachery, but at the same time she was filled with fear. She was all alone and she she was now in the company of a woman that was possibly not only responsible for attacking her team and kidnapping her, but was possibly still bitter at the shenshi and what was worse, she was completely defenseless. She was in her "civilian" form and she had no way of knowing what Mimete had in store for her. But what Mimete said next, has even more shocking...

"Please, don't be afraid. I will not hurt you." Mimete said in a pleading tone. "You can trust me."

"Mim... Mimete? B... but how? Your..." Usagi stuttered out. Mimete just got an sorrowful smile and said, " Yes, I guess it is a bit of a shock to see me again Sailor Moon. Considering that every one thinks that I am dead. I can assure you, it is a bit of a shock to me as well that I am not."

"Wha... wha... wha...?" Usagi began to stutter out, " but... I thought... how did you survive?" Mimete just raised her hand and said, "I don't know how either. But some how I ended up in this reality."

"This reality?" Usagi echoed in a confused tone, " what do you mean by that?"

" I guess I should explain, shouldn't I ?" Mimete sighed, " Very well then. Moon... when Tellu pulled that plug, I was sent into a realm of darkness that I can not even begin to put into words. There, I was could not do any thing. I could not eat, sleep... I could not do any thing. All I did was float around in a endless void of nothing."

"You must have gone mad while you were in there." Usagi asked. " Well, I did. But after a while in got bored and went back sane. While I was there, I began to think back on the life that I had lived and where it had lead me too. Floating forever in my own personal hell and it was all my fault." she finished with a sad tone in her voice.

" But how did you manage to escape?"

" Since I had nothing else to do, I began to explore my "prison". Isn't it funny? I was in hell with no escape and I explored it? But when I did, I learned something incredible..." the former witch replied. Then, a small black hole opened up and Mimete slowly vanished into it. But at the same time, another hole appeared right next to Usagi and Mimete came through it, just as she disappeared into the first one. Usagi was once again speechless by what she had just see, just how was Mimete doing that? Was that how she was able to kidnap her? Mimete saw the shocked look on the young woman's face and said... "While I was, lets say, "trapped" , some how my body was altered and I was able to control the darkness. But I did not realize it until one day. When I was transported into this... dimension."

"Dimension?" Usagi squeaked out, "What do you mean?" Mimete for her part just nodded and said "Where we are right now is an altered reality. Another dimension... or in other words, an alternate universe."

Okay, Usagi was not the greatest mind in the universe, but she still was able to understand what Mimete had just told her. But she still could not wrap her mind around the idea that she, along with her entire shenshi team had been transported into a alternate universe. But yet, it would explain why she had never heard about the country of Sedaristan. Or why she had never heard about a war between the US and Russia. Even if she only did watched cartoons on TV, Usagi was still very much aware about the world around her.

"So... it was you that sent that yoma to attack us and bring us here?" Usagi asked fearfully. But there was still a hint of anger in her tone. The other woman just nodded sadly an said... " Yes, I am afraid that attack was of my doing. But I never meant to hurt nor harm any one. I have already hurt too many in my life."

" So you are responsible for turning that poor man into the creature?" Usagi accused. " I..I am afraid so. And I am sorry that I did and that will always haunt me." Mimete replied, her voice filled with remorse. "

"But why did you bring us here?" Usagi asked fearfully. She still did not know what Mimete wanted from her. As far as she knew, Mimete could still be bitter about their past and would now use the moment to get her revenge on her. But yet, Usagi could feel a strong sense of sadness and remorse from the former witch . Was she really sorry for had she had done, or was it all a ruse as to get her defense down? All she could do was listen quietly as Mimete spoke up and said... " Sailor Moon... I need you help."

"Help? Help you with what?" Usagi asked fearfully...

"I want you to help me... get back home..."