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.

13. Chapter 13

CHAPTER 13

Sailor Moon's friends were still trying to figure out how they could get inside to save her and Darien. Greg shut his eyes and said, "I can sense that this tree is a very powerful living being with intelligence. But it's not really evil. It wants you girls to help save it."
They were all amazed to hear this. Sailor Mercury gasped, "Is that really right Greg? Sure it's not trying to trick you?"
Sailor Mars stepped forward concentrating hard and said, "I can read the tree's mind. What Greg has told us does appear to be the truth." She reached out and placed her hand on one of the enormous roots and it moved aside. So did several others making a clear pathway through the entrance.
"It looks like we have no choice but to trust it," said Sailor Jupiter.
"And besides," added Sailor Venus, "Greg's vision has been spot on so far."
Luna said, "Let's all go then. But be very careful all the same. We don't know for sure what we'll find."
Artemis said, "Sailor Mercury. You keep an especially close watch on Greg."
"Of course I will." Sailor Mercury and Greg smiled at each other with twinkles in their eyes. Then they joined hands and followed all the others into the building, the two of them taking the rear.

As they entered they found the roots continued to move out of their way. Incredibly some of them pointed like they were gesturing towards the stairs and the roots on the staircases further hinted by lifting up and twisting, clearing the way for them to ascend as best they possibly could. "It looks like we must ascend to the apartment in question," said Sailor Jupiter.
"Let's go then," said Sailor Venus.
"Stair climbing again," sighed Sailor Mars taking her high heels off. But she climbed very slowly and gingerly to make sure she did not stub her toes on the large roots. Even the other Scouts and Greg still wearing their different assorted footwear were taking their time. They didn't want to trip over the roots, nor bump their heads on any overhanging ones for that matter. The tree was trying to make a clear path for them but it couldn't do so completely.

In the meantime the tree was still holding Serena (still in her doctor disguise), Darien, Alan, Anne and even all the rest of the aliens as far above and out of harm's way as possible. Peter and Jenny had finished summoning the entire fleet of Cardians and Peter screamed out commandingly, "Attack and subdue that big tree! Destroy it if you really must! And all those creatures coiled in its branches if necessary!"
The other aliens were horrified. "Peter no!"
"Not us too!"
But even Jenny was unfeeling. "Sorry. Peter did say only if necessary. But chances are it probably will be. Your hard luck."
"If any of you are lucky enough to survive we will try to make you comfortable," said Peter. However he and Jenny were laughing together as he said this. It was clear that Peter and Jenny only cared about each other at heart. If one of them had been caught by the tree, the other would have done anything to save his/her partner. But couldn't have cared less about any of the others. The old saying "No honour among thieves" equally applied to alien invaders as all the others realized to their terror. But the tree, amazingly caring soul that it was, strove hard to its utmost to protect them all as it swung its free branches to strike at the charging Cardians and parry their attacks. Still some of them succeeded in slashing or hacking at the branches and the poor tree winced in pain. It ended up losing its grip on Darien and Serena. Darien cried out in alarm and only just managed to grab onto the twisting branch before he fell. But Serena was quick to take immediate advantage of the moment to transform herself in mid-air. "MOON CRYSTAL POWER!"

As she used her super-human agility to hurl herself at Darien she caught him round the waist with one arm and wrapping her other arm around the branch she gently slid down it. "Don't worry Darien. I have you safe and sound.
Darien was astounded. "Y-you're Sailor Moon!"
He didn't know what else to say. In fact he fell into a dead faint.
Peter and Jenny noticed her when she reached the trunk at the end of the branch and nimbly jumped down to the ground.
"It's Sailor Moon Peter!" Jenny pointed and shouted.
"Some of you Cardians destroy her!" yelled Peter.
Sailor Moon quickly lay Darien down gently and turning to stand in front of him she pulled off her tiara which changed into her Moon Scepter of course. "I'm Sailor Moon! Defender of the planet Earth! I know these Cardians aren't my real enemies and I won't really hurt them permanently. But I'll get to you two monsters if I'm a lucky fighter and you will be fully destroyed. MOON SCEPTER ELIMINATION!"
She brandished her scepter well at a couple of Cardians whose names she didn't even know and reduced them to blackened cards as they attempted to attack her. But even with the ones who were still battling the tree, Sailor Moon could never hope to hold them all off. Unless her friends arrived in a hurry sooner or later a Cardian would be sure to wound her. Or even worse.

Just then a voice called out, "Sailor Moon!" Turning her head just a little Sailor Moon saw that it was Sailor Venus who had cried out to her and the others were also looking concerned.
"My friends. You're here."
Sailor Mars shouted, "Watch out Sailor Moon! MARS FIRE IGNITE!" She sent a fireball zooming over Sailor Moon's head scattering two random Cardians who had been about to attack her at the same time.
"Keep concentrating on the battle Sailor Moon. We'll back you up," cried Sailor Jupiter.
Greg stayed back with Luna and Artemis as the Scouts advanced to fight, though Sailor Mercury still took up her position standing just a few feet in front of Greg to seek to protect him. As they all used their attack powers skilfully even the Cardians who were not hit were disoriented and thrown off their guard allowing the tree to capture them one by one. Its branches were like fast lassos and Mophead, Minotaur, Vampeal, Nacrid, Faraion, Amphibia, Vulturos and Racy were among the various Cardians who were trapped and couldn't fight anymore. Sailor Moon and the others quickly turned all the rest into blank cards needing to go through the process of renewal.
Peter and Jenny were not ready to give up yet though.

"We have a trump card up our sleeve and it isn't another Cardian," said Peter as he and Jenny rose into the air side by side.
"Even our sonic booms will give the tree a nasty shock," said Jenny as they thrust their palms out towards the branches and with a deafening crash they actually snapped off and the tree shrieked in pain.
Sailor Mars made a valiant attempt to stop them. "MARS FIREBIRD STRIKE!" Her fireballs formed into a menacing dragon-like phoenix of flame and bore down upon the two aliens. But to her dismay Peter and Jenny just stared at it unemotionally and an invisible shield stopped it from reaching them snuffing it out like a candle. The others all tried, Mercury, Jupiter and Venus all at once. Still the shield deflected everything they could throw at them.
"You're on our turf now," exclaimed Peter.
"You Sailor Failures," laughed Jenny as she and Peter proceeded to deliver a constant barrage of sonic booms that knocked them all to the ground and made them jerk and writhe in painful spasms. The Sailor Scouts, Luna, Artemis and even Greg were being attacked just like the tree and all the aliens and Cardians in its branches. Even Four-Face was shocked out of consciousness, her whole head spinning round and round with pain on all four of her faces. "AAAAARRRRRGGGHHHH!"
Only Darien was mercifully not under attack lying where he lay fainted and forgotten about.
Sailor Moon groaned and thought to herself, "I must try to do something," as she desperately rolled over to get out of range still clutching her scepter.

Raising herself awkwardly to her feet she crossed her arms holding the scepter in both hands bracing herself against the force exerted by the aliens. It took all her strength to stand her ground but Peter and Jenny gave a concentrated blast together and she was blown backwards losing her grip on the scepter which rolled away and turned back into her tiara. "You'll never win. You'll all be destroyed."
But no sooner had Jenny finished saying this then a familiar white rose flew through the air straight past the line of her and Peter's vision. As their concentration was broken they turned along with Sailor Moon and everybody else to see three familiar figures standing atop a stationary curled branch of the tree. It was Sailor Moon who cried out in excitement. "Moonlight Knight, Skulker and Pierrot!"
The Moonlight Knight replied, "This is a very serious scene Sailor Scouts."
"But take heart," said Skulker.
"These evil misfits can be defeated," assured Pierrot.
"Misfits?" shouted Jenny.
"You forget we can destroy you," Peter retorted, however before even Sailor Moon could do or say anything an extraordinarily, surprising thing happened.

Alan and Anne launched themselves from where they had been held by the tree towards Peter and Jenny. As Alan tackled Peter and Anne began pulling Jenny's hair, Peter yelled, "Hey! What's this? Where did you get such energy from? And what happened to your bonds?"
While Anne and Jenny were having a violent cat-fight, Alan wrestled roughly with Peter and gave explanation as he did so. "How do you think the tree successfully managed to break free from the final vestiges of control over it? It had been quietly speaking to my mind and Anne's mind. It told us that while we could do nothing to change our misguided, sordid past we could gain some redemption if we exerted what little strength we had left in helping it to be able to prevent more killing and terrorism. We both listened and knew we must do what we now know to be the right thing and as we secretly concentrated the tree helped us in turn by giving us small traces of energy back. When it was free it cunningly used the tip of the branch that held us to slip under the ropes and snap them releasing us. Finally it siphoned off some part of all the other aliens' energy and transferred it to us revitalizing us in full."
And so Alan and Peter punched and kicked each other and Anne and Jenny scratched and bit. To the Sailor Scouts' astonishment the Moonlight Knight and the other two all sprang into the air and each one grabbed an individual Cardian in the tree's grip and combining his or her strength with the strength of the tree, they broke through the brainwashing restoring their friends to their senses. Then they did the same to another Cardian each and so in this way they were all redeemed three by three. As they were all united as one they responded by taking the aliens prisoner. They were weakened from the tree's giving their energy to Alan and Anne and none of them could fight or resist as the Cardians gathered them together and tied them all up in pairs back to back.
But suddenly Sailor Moon and her friends heard the tree calling out in their minds, "Please help Alan and Anne. Please do."
With this Sailor Moon remembered something from a good long time ago. King Lune-Eclipsus, Queen Serenity and Nephlite had all appeared to her and told her that if she fought courageously she would be rewarded with the power to restore the memories of her sweetheart Darien. "Wait you girls," she raised her hand as they began to run towards her making them pull up to a halt. "I believe this is a fight I need to handle myself."
The others were reluctant to comply but Sailor Mercury said, "Well if you're sure Sailor Moon. But we will be watching and we will intervene if we see fit."
Upon hearing these words the other three expressed agreement. Even Sailor Mars, though she secretly thought it slightly foolish and hoped that Sailor Moon wouldn't regret her choice.
Luna, Artemis and Greg all watched awed though a tad worried of course.
Sailor Moon ran across and picked up her tiara where it lay. It changed once more into the moon scepter and she turned to run towards the aliens' battle which was beginning to turn extremely violent.
There were streaks of blood on Anne and Jenny's arms and faces where they had bitten and clawed each other respectively and they were now in the process of trying to rip out chunks of their hair.
Meanwhile Peter was getting the upper hand on Alan and after landing a crippling blow to his solar plexus, doubling him over was proceeding to kick and stomp on him.
Sailor Moon sprang into the air without shouting out or making her presence known. She lashed out with one leg as she leaped high. It was incredible how Sailor Moon could aim so perfectly under circumstances such as this without clutzing up. Her kick missed Anne but the sole of her boot connected to Jenny's face with a horrible crunch. She stumbled backwards away from Anne with blood spurting from her nose and collided back to back with Peter while he was preparing to land another painful kick to Alan. They both collapsed in a tangled pile and Sailor Moon landed next to Alan shouting, "Your wicked invasion stops here in the Name of the Moon." And before Peter or Jenny were aware of it, Sailor Moon raised her scepter and shouted, "MOON SCEPTER ELIMINATION!"
The rays shot out from the tip of the scepter and as it struck the two aliens, they convulsed and screamed before exploding into absolute nothing. Their tiny atomic particles even seemed to dissipate into the atmosphere before they could settle on the floor. Peter and Jenny were no more.

At that moment the tree began to glow very brightly indeed and as the light shot out illuminating all the area surrounding it, Sailor Moon, Sailor Mercury, Sailor Mars, Sailor Jupiter, Sailor Venus, Luna, Artemis, Alan, Anne, all the Cardians and even Greg found themselves inside a different dimension. The only ones missing were all the alien prisoners who were still safely tied up and Darien who, of course, was still unconscious.
"Where are we all?" cried Sailor Moon.
Alan was staggering to his feet and said, "I think we have all been transported inside the mind of the tree itself."
Then the tree spoke and all could hear it even more audibly clear than when it would speak to their own minds in the usual manner. "That is correct Alan. Sailor Moon and friends. I want to fill you in on my background and the background of these children of mine, the Cardians."
So the tree began its story.

"I was first planted and cultivated over a century ago on the planet which Alan and Anne come from. The inhabitants were astounded to discover that I was different from any other ordinary tree. I had the ability to communicate telepathically. It took them a little while to figure out it was I speaking to them, but the King of the planet was so impressed that he appointed me his royal advisor and the guiding force for the peace and protection of all his people. I instructed his majesty to create magical soldiers from my bark. They produced cards with pictures drawn on them and part of my wood was used to carve a magic flute which could turn them into physical, living immortals. They were indestructible and served to punish wrongdoers and uphold justice on the planet. There was one time however, when an evil magician created a spell which would make it possible to terminate the Cardians."
At this point all the Cardians shuddered and trembled, and so did the Moonlight Knight. The tree went on: "By my powers of all knowledge, I was able to alert the King and he had the magician executed before he could use the magic spell or pass it on to anybody. Only I knew about it. But then all the trouble started when the royal palace was broken into and the magic flute stolen."
"But how could that have happened, if you are really all-knowing?" asked Sailor Moon.
"That, I am ashamed to say was all my own fault," said the tree sadly. "I am all-knowing in the sense that I can read people's minds. If I don't take the time to read them however, then I won't know what they're thinking. Thankfully I always made it my business to keep tabs on everybody associated with the king in any way at least. But my big mistake was in underestimating the ambitions of the gang of juvenile delinquents Alan and Anne had associated themselves with. I thought their criminal activities would be easy for the king to handle with the aid of the Cardians. But little did I realize until it was too late when they broke into the castle and stole the flute while everybody was asleep. They also discovered the deck of Cardians stored in the drawer by the King's bedside. They skilfully stole it without disturbing his slumber. Then they figured out how to use the magic flute to summon them and exert forced control on them to start with. Then eventually they upgraded the control to a full thorough brainwashing, making them believe they were serving good forces. It hurts me to recall how they took over the planet and stole huge quantities of energy through the Cardians and put me under their thumb. Directing the energy of their victims into me weakened me and made it impossible for even I to fight against them until now."
After a pause during which Sailor Moon and her friends tried to comprehend this incredible story, the tree added, "Shortly after the invaders uprooted me and traveled through the galaxy seeking to take over this planet of yours in addition to their own, fortunately something happened to liberate one of my children from their control. Moonlight Knight. Would you like to step forward and do the honours?"

The Moonlight Knight accepted and all eyes turned on him as he said, "Thank you very much. Yes I was the very first one to break free and it happened as soon as Alan here had asked Ann to pick a Cardian. She picked me."
The Sailor Scouts and the cats all gasped. Sailor Moon cried, "You mean YOU are a Cardian yourself?" Even as the question flew out of her mouth, she was thinking the same thing as her friends. "Of course, we should have guessed. How stupidly obvious."
The Moonlight Knight affirmed, "Yes that's right. I am a Cardian. But I too was fully brainwashed back on our own planet to start with and to my eternal sorrow I was also used to hurt and sometimes kill innocents. And I was almost used in such a way here on earth too. But I was the third Cardian they tried to use after Vampeal and Minotaur and as soon as I was summoned I was freed and I pretended I was going to do their bidding but when I was sent out I ran away telling the alien who was with me that I would do all I could to oppose their cause and help free the tree and the other Cardians."
"How were you freed?" asked Sailor Moon. She was dying to know.
"I'm coming to that. Sailor Moon. Serena. Moon Princess."
"You even know about my past in the Moon Kingdom?" Serena was flabbergasted. So were her friends.
"I know everything about you because the person who freed me told me all. It was Darien."
This time it was Sailor Mars who cried out, "Darien?! But how can this be?"
"Let me explain," said the Moonlight Knight. "Even though Darien lost all his memories during the final showdown with Queen Beryl his sub-conscious inner soul still knew it needed to do something to aid Princess Serena when this new even worse threat arrived. So it decided to enlist help of its very own and chose to meld itself with my physical body and override the effect of the misuse of the magic flute upon me. It told me that it had even subtly manipulated Anne making her choose me for Alan to summon and that together we would be strong enough to overcome and rebel against the enemy's power. It had especially chosen to use me because part of my trademark is white roses and in his Tuxedo Mask identity Darien uses red roses. Darien's soul thought it most fitting. I could recognize the full truth of the matter and so Darien and I telepathically kept in contact with the tree. It guided us towards you when you were in trouble as best as it possibly could while it was still restricted and we strove to help it break free as soon as possible. That is the truth Sailor Moon."

The Moonlight Knight stepped away having finished his contribution and the tree resumed its own story. "So while I was still struggling to break free with my allies help, the aliens were still probing me for information that could be useful to them. They picked up a hint of a way to really kill Cardians and I tried to keep it concealed but at one point I was too weak to do so. They found out the story about the magician though the details about the magic spell were not fully divulged from me until Peter and Jenny returned from the theater after the incident at the play. Peter personally learned the spell when he relentlessly probed my memories. But he wouldn't teach it to any of the others except Jenny later privately. They told them that as their leaders they would take full charge of this secret knowledge and use it as they saw fit. They gave Alan and Anne a false incantation when they arrived back in front of the group to deceive them. Now that you've killed them Sailor Moon the secret is once again safe with me. Though sadly one Cardian, Insectia, was killed by Peter."
The Cardians were all horribly grieved to hear about this. There were several minutes of mournful wailing and crying among them. Four-Face turned her head around to her sad face which wept bitter tears down its cheeks.

Alan and Anne began to sob also and threw themselves into each other's arms. "We killed that Cardian Anne. We're as good as guilty by complicity. We're guilty of multiple murder."
"Yes Alan. We deserve to die ourselves. Sailor Moon should execute us immediately."
The tree spoke solemnly to Sailor Moon as well as to Alan and Anne. "You both have good hearts. It is evident by your genuine sorrow and anguish over the results of your misguided actions. Sailor Moon. These two aliens are very tragic figures. They grew up knowing nothing but cruelty and pain from their mothers and fathers. The very people who should have loved and nurtured them along the straight and narrow bashed them, starved them and yelled at them forbidding them to see each other. They made their hearts twisted and filled with bitter malice, so that when they fell in with the wrong crowd they were led astray into desiring vengeance upon their parents and also upon all others outside the gang. Peter and his gang fostered their malice and taught them that everybody, especially those in authority, were as cruel and heartless as their own personal sets of parents. But they were always good at heart Alan and Anne. Their tears and acknowledgement of their guilt proves it."
Then it spoke to the sobbing alien couple. "Alan. Anne. You have proved yourselves worthy of my kindest mercies. Listen to my proposition."
They turned their tear-stained faces to listen to the tree's gentle voice. "If we were to take you back with us, there would be no choice but to turn you over to the justice of your planet of course. I expect that when I return with all the Cardians and rescue the King and his people from those who were left to guard them, they and all the prisoners we have to take back also will receive a lifetime sentence of imprisonment in the royal dungeons. If we were to leave you here, whatever the Sailor Scouts decided to do, you would still have to face the stigma of the lives you took on this planet. But there is a third possibility. Do you want to know what it is?"
Alan cried, "Oh please tell us great tree."
Anne seconded his plea, "Please share what hope we may possibly have."
The tree said, "This is it. If Sailor Moon uses her scepter to kill you both while you are here inside my mind, you will indeed die, but your life forces will be absorbed into my very being. Then when we get home I will instruct the King to take some of my bark and have a male and a female figure painted and infused onto cards. Although nobody on your planet will ever know, you will both live on after death as two brand new Cardians to take the place double of our fallen comrade Insectia. Does that sound good to you?"

Alan and Anne found this a very good and cheerful proposition. "Would we be welcome among the Cardians?" asked Alan.
Roars of unanimous approval came from all around and Four-Face herself said, "As leader of the Cardian force I will welcome you with all six of my open arms." Her happy face shone very brightly and once again all the other Cardians cheered encouragingly.
Anne was so very happy. "Ooooh! Let's do it Alan. It will be a brand new glorious start for us."
She and Alan rose to their feet laughing merrily. Their tears all gone.
"We're ready Sailor Moon," said Alan.
"Do it please," said Anne as she and Alan hugged each other closely.
Sailor Moon was momentarily rather loath to kill them, but Luna said, "It's the only thing you can rightfully do Sailor Moon." The other Scouts, Artemis and even Greg told her not to hesitate, though they said it with tears welling up in their eyes. Sailor Moon knew she had better comply before she hopelessly broke down. So taking her tiara and changing it to the scepter she waved it round and shouted, "MOON SCEPTER ELIMINATION!"
In five seconds Alan and Anne were gone. Then everything went so bright that Sailor Moon could no longer see anything. But she could hear the tree's voice, a little faint but clear. "Thank you Sailor Moon and farewell."

When Sailor Moon and the others were able to see clearly after the brightness faded, the extraordinary tree, all the Cardians and all the aliens were vanished. Even the Cardians that had been turned into blank, blackened cards had been taken away from where they had lain. Only Darien's still form remained amidst the ruins of what had once been a high-rise apartment block. Ignoring Greg and all her other friends Sailor Moon ran over and knelt over him crying. "Darien. It's all over now. But will I be able to restore your memories? And how can I do it anyway? I wish my Moon Kingdom parents were here!"
While she was holding Darien's limp hand she heard some familiar voices. "Your wish has come true Princess Serena."
"We observed you fighting so bravely. You made us proud."
Turning around she saw the spectral forms of Serenity and Lune-Eclipsus and felt immense joy. "My mother! My father! Oh please tell me what I must do to restore Darien's memories!"
Serenity said, "The power resides inside the Silver Imperium Crystal."
Sailor Moon clasped her fingers around the locket which hung around her neck. "The Crystal here in my magic transformation locket? How must I use it?"
Lune-Eclipsus smiled and told her, "You just open the locket the way you do to transform and shout "Moon Crystal Healing Activation."

Sailor Moon did not hesitate to try this. "MOON CRYSTAL HEALING ACTIVATION!" The crystal shone and pulsed with power while the music from the star locket it lay in briefly played. Darien was raised to his feet fully conscious by the healing rays and as he opened his eyes Sailor Moon could read the recognition in them. "Congratulations Sailor Moon. You have triumphed over the evil invaders." He drew her to him in a warm embrace. "It's great to be back finally, my beautiful Meat-ball Head."
"Oh my darling Darien." Sailor Moon wept tears of joy, then she and he turned to smile at the ghosts of the Moon King and Queen.
"Thank you my dear parents."
"Your majesties." Darien saluted them as they wished their daughter farewell and gave both of them their deepest blessings for their future.
In a twinkling of the eye, they were gone too.
Sailor Moon and Darien gazed into each other's eyes serenely but were taken by surprise as the other Sailor Scouts, Luna, Artemis and Greg all gave hearty cheers. They had forgotten they were not really alone, but they were so very happy for the enthusiastic, joyful support of their friends.

Later that night on the television news, there was a full report based upon the story that the Sailor Scouts had given to the authorities. The anchorman sat at his desk and read his notes. "Sailor Moon and her four friends were on the scene earlier today when the terrible forces that have been plaguing our city with death and mayhem targeted the high-rise apartment complex completely destroying it. Everybody was able to evacuate and flee except one family sadly. Sailor Moon said quote: "We are deeply saddened and sorry to say that Mr. Peter Granger, his wife Jenny and their two high school children, Alan and Anne were all killed before we were able to save them. But we can assure everybody that we, the Sailor Scout team, were finally able to fight and exterminate these wicked forces that have been responsible for the deaths not only of the Granger family, but many other innocent lives. It has been depressing for all of us, but at least we can assure you that the horror is now over." The four unfortunate Grangers had happened to move into the very same apartment from which an elderly couple mysteriously fell from the balcony to their deaths a couple of months ago. It will never be known whether that incident had any connection to the sinister events that later terrorized us or not."
Watching the news with her family Serena had tears in her eyes. Her family assumed she was grieving Alan and Anne like the rest of the school were, and in a sense they were right.
"I hope things work out well for them as Cardians," Serena thought. "At least the tree will be more careful from now on. Nobody will ever discover that dreadful magic spell. They will always be safe. All of them including the dear Moonlight Knight." She missed him very much too but she was so happy now that Darien's memories were back. Their love was now able to bloom and bloom freely with nothing to worry about. Or was that fully the case?

Somewhere in some mysterious place two figures stood next to an enormous door. One was a very tall woman with long black hair tinged with green and holding a rather dangerous-looking scythe. But she was speaking kindly to a little girl around six years of age with pink hair tied in plaits similar to Serena's back on earth. "The enemy have sealed up your mother and have well-nigh taken over your world dear Small Lady. There is only one chance of defeating them and rescuing your mother and everybody else you know and love so very much. I will send you through this door to travel to the old earth. Your mission will be to obtain the Silver Imperium Crystal. Only with its power can there be any hope for the future of your world Small Lady. I will give you a device by which you can keep in contact with me and a key to return with when you have the object of your quest. Now are you ready?"
The little girl looked up into the woman's face and said, "Yes I am."

NOT THE END!