"Impossible!" Beryl whispered as a fresh looking Silver Sailor Moon appeared.

Silver Moon gave the Queen a haughty smirk before twirling her sword to counter-attack.

"Woohoo! Go Imouto!" Zoisite yelled, pumping his fists. Jupiter and Mercury did the same. "Go, Usagi-chan!"

Endymion proved to be a skilled swordsman, but he still couldn't underestimate Silver Moon's surprising skill on parrying his rather devastating attack. Kunzite and Nephrite had to hold themselves from fanboying at the fancy sword fight.

"You are good," Endymion said as their eyes met in a deadlock. "But not good enough."

"Oh yeah?" Silver Moon gave him a smirk. "I try to improvise, by giving you THIS!" Her left foot swung quickly… to Endymion's private area.

The Shitennou winced as the Prince of Earth kneeled pitifully while clutching his crotch.

Kunzite shook as he whispered to himself. "This is why I prefer long-range attack."

"Not helping." Nephrite whimpered. "Why there is no crotch protector?"

"Because warriors at that time are noble." At Mercury's muttering, Kunzite had to agree. Not even once he was hit on that area. "And men," Venus swiftly added, grinning.

The Shitennou glared at her. "Sexism is a crime."

Silver Moon wasted no second as she brandished the Moon Stick (Venus returned it to her after DD Girls fiasco) and healed Endymion.

"No!" Beryl screamed and aimed her staff to Endymion and Silver Moon, but Silver Moon immediately deflected the brainwashing spell with her Moon Stick.

"This fight is between you and me, Beryl." Said Silver Moon slowly as the sword appeared again in exchange for the Moon Stick. "Come!"

Beryl laughed as she turned her own staff to a sword, her dress to armor. "As you wish, Baby Princess."

Surprisingly, Beryl appeared to be a skillful swordswoman as she parried Silver Moon's restless attacks quite easily. After a moment she began to realize that Silver Moon was aiming at her throat and left her own body to be defenseless as she focused on attacking.

Noticing an opening, Beryl jabbed her sword to Silver Moon's stomach, but Silver Moon somehow was able to twirl her blade to parry the attack.

Then, she felt the weight around her neck disappeared.

Silver Moon wasn't aiming to behead her – she aimed for her necklace.

"Silver Moon Healing Escalation!"

Beryl kneeled to the ground, gasping for breath after Silver Moon's purification.

"You okay, Beryl?" Asked Silver Moon gently.

Beryl snapped her head toward her. "You… Princess Se-"

"Don't. Say. That. Name." The Moon Senshi said harshly through gritted teeth. At Beryl's confused gaze, Silver Moon sighed. "I'll explain later."

Beryl nodded slowly and turned to look at the Shitennou that marched towards her. The barrier had fallen the moment she turned her staff to a sword.

"Beryl?" Kunzite tentatively addressed her.

Beryl squinted her eyes. "Kunzite?"

Kunzite never had the chance to reply as the throne room rumbled, and booming voice of Queen Metalia filled the room.

"You foolish little girl. Do you think by removing Beryl from my influence will weaken me so? Wrong, child of Selenity. Wrong indeed."

"Show yourself, coward!" Silver Sailor Moon bellowed, her steely gaze fixated on the empty throne in front of her. The room rumbled even more.

"Of course, of course." Came Metalia's amused chuckle. "Couldn't help but to feel anger when you face me, hm?"

Silver Sailor Moon ignored her as a black cloud started to swirl at the ceiling of the room. Gigantic shining red eyes appeared, sneering at them.

"That's Metalia?!" Jupiter exclaimed in disbelief. "I thought she was kind of a metal monster of something."

Nephrite looked incredulously at her for a moment, but then realized he remembered thinking Metalia was some kind of metal monster during Silver Millennium before he was brainwashed.

"You fool!" Metalia snarled, obviously displeased by the lack of fear the Senshi and Shitennou showed. At least Beryl is cowering behind Kunzite.

Silver Sailor Moon pointed her Moon Stick to her, her eyes staring at the prominent mark above Metalia's eyes. "Metalia, you have endangered the life of humanity by absorbing energies that shouldn't be yours. You have two choices: leave the Solar System or I shall destroy you by the power of Silver Crystal!"

The room rumbled again as Metalia's chilling laughter filled the room.

"Do you not remember what had happened to your mother when she sealed me? You will die, brat, whether you are successful or not."

"Everyone will die eventually," Silver Sailor Moon retorted, matter-of-factly. She raised her Moon Stick and pointed it to Metalia. "As I said earlier: Leave or I shall destroy you."

The started to crack as Metalia became bigger and bigger.

"THEN DESTROY ME!" She taunted, as her body tore the ceiling apart.

"As you wish," Said Silver Sailor Moon with a glare. The Silver Crystal shone and released a beam of energy towards Metalia, but the incarnation of Chaos itself easily countered it with her own beam of dark energy.

Metalia chuckled victoriously as her own dark energy beam won easily against Silver Crystal.

However, the Princess of the Moon didn't give up, although the resistance was futile. She looked at her comrades behind them. "My friends, please, lend me your strength!"

All of them, including Beryl and Endymion, looked at each other before nodding in determination.

They intertwined their hands together, each of them channeling their magical core to Silver Sailor Moon.

Silver Sailor Moon powered down to Sailor Moon, surprising both her comrades and Metalia. But strangely, her own magical power became much stronger.

"I am Serenity, Princess Serenity. Daughter of Queen Selenity. The rightful wielder of Silver Crystal. I beg you, Silver Crystal, help us defeating this evil once and for all!" She thought over and over in mind.

As Sailor Moon felt a rush of various energy from her comrades, she opened her eyes to see that the Silver Crystal had shone even brighter than before.

"Moon Healing Escalation!" She chanted, as the energy beam from the Silver Crystal became brighter and larger. Faster than lightning, it shot off to the prominent mark above Metaria's eyes.

"NOOO!" Metalia wailed in anguish, as her body was slowly destroyed by the warm energy.

Sailor Moon slumped down to the ground with her comrades followed short behind her.

"We did it, everyone." She whispered weakly. Her body felt weak, and she was unable to move any of her limbs.

"Even after all these years… I still failed to live after this…" She whispered again as her world faded to darkness.

I wish… we are still alive and well…

Usagi stared dumbfounded at the familiar, yet at the same time unfamiliar room. She knew this room as the living room of Mamoru's apartment – she had been there before, after all.

She walked towards the porch – she felt something was pulling her there.

"Usako?"

She was right – Her Mamo-chan was the one who pulled her there.

He was still transparent – and wearing a lavender suit. Haruka always teased him about it, but for Usagi, he still looked as handsome as ever.

"Mamo-chan…" She whispered. King Endymion smiled at her but didn't reach for her.

"My time here is up, Usako." He said sadly. "You fixed the paradox and changed the future for the better. You belong here now, Usako, while I am not."

As he finished saying that, his body begun to fade.

"We won't be seeing each other again. But I hope you'll find me on this Present Mamoru… or Minako?" He chuckled in amusement as Usagi yelled at him in embarrassment. "Do remember you are still a child here, Usako."

Usagi shrugged. When powering up, Senshis are back to their past selves' relative age before dying - Serenity or Sailor Moon took in the appearance of eighteen years old girl while the rest of the Inner Senshi were a bit older than her, with Shitennou and Endymion were on their mid-twenties.

"Well," King Endymion smiled at her softly. "I love you Usako. Farewell, my Queen."

"Wait–!"

"…up."

Usagi stirred. The pounding on her head was still too painful for her to open her eyes.

"…Oda…ma!"

The pounding lessened. Strange. And what was that annoying screeching sound?

"ODANGO ATAMA!"

"MAMO-CHAN!

This time, Usagi woke up and bolted into a sitting position, incidentally smashing her forehead to Rei who tried to wake her up.

"Ow what the hell Rei?!" She yelled, clutching her sore forehead. Rei, on the other hand, didn't curse back, but rather enveloped her into a hug.

"Thank God!" She cried happily, wholly ignoring the name Usagi just shouted. "I thought we've lost you!"

"Whoa, I thought idiots don't die easily?" Usagi joked as she hugged Rei back. "Truthfully, I thought I've lost myself too." She smiled as she realized that they were still on D-Point, or Dark Kingdom HQ or throne room whatever.

"We were worried when you whispered that you failed on keep on living," Said Ami from her right. Oh, why was everyone on civilian clothes? Except for Beryl, of course. "Don't die on us that easily, Usagi-chan." She added sincerely.

Usagi smiled at her. "Hey if I die then you'll be the awesome heroine, Sailor Mercury!" She said jokingly.

Ami's eyes lit up for a second before frowning. "Tempting," She replied seriously, her hand was clasping Usagi's own. "But really, I'd prefer to be your side-kick." She said sincerely as she gave her a gentle squeeze.

"EXCUSE ME, but I'm Usagi's sidekick!" Minako said suddenly and shoved Ami from her way, resulting the blunette to stumble to Shuichi's arm – and the man shoved her away… to Makoto's. Shuichi gave someone thumbs up.

Back to Minako.

"Usa-cchi!" She wailed, and Rei had to detangled herself quickly from Usagi. She knew what was coming.

"Hey, V-babe-" Usagi began, but Minako had already smacked her lips to her own.

Beryl's eyes were wide open as she witnessed the Senshi of Venus practically devoured the Princess' face.

The rest of them had already closed their eyes and earholes when the kiss escalated to an intense making-out session.

Shuichi palmed his face. The scene wouldn't be too horrifying if they were still on their Senshi appearance.

Thud

"Oh look, Mamoru fainted."

Upon their return to Hikawa Shrine, they were assaulted by Luna and Artemis cat hug. Both of them were surprised that life continued to go on even though the Silver Crystal's light dawned upon them. They also thought Usagi would die, by the use of Silver Crystal that wasn't 'rightfully' hers. Artemis then told them that Luna was so restless that she tried to go on her human form to go to D-Point to assist them. Luna then commented that it was her motherly instinct speaking.

Usagi snorted at the comment, causing Minako to giggle.

Beryl also returned with them. Both cats almost assaulted her. It was thanks to Minako Artemis was convinced Beryl had already been cleaned. Luna, on the other hand, wasn't too sure. But then Usagi convinced her.

"Biased cat."

"What did you say, brat?"

Luna had never truly trusted Minako. She always had some ulterior motives for Usagi. Well, maybe. She was too overprotective and paranoid, God.

Grandpa Hino then berated all of them, saying that their relatives bombarded the phone asking for their well-being. The most recent call came from Mizuno Saeko, who had called thrice since their departure. Tsukino Kenji broke the record, as he had called more than ten times until an hour before Mizuno Saeko's call came in.

Beryl then declared she wouldn't miss the dark life and would like to start completely clean. She was never seen again. The girls, Shuichi, and Jirou didn't have time to fuss her about it as they neared the final exam. Thankfully, all of them passed with flying colors.

Kenji Tsukino expressed his disbelief after reading his daughter's report card. At first, it was too sad to look at (Dear God, Kenji really wanted to burn it), but then it somehow had gotten better. And Ikuko had nearly a heart attack when Usagi scored a perfect 100% on her Math. Shingo practically worshipped her for the rest of the holiday.

Saeko Mizuno, on the other hand, wasn't too happy that her daughter was depressing over her grade. Apparently, her Social Studies was 94%. She had assured Ami that it was remarkable, but then Ami told her that Usagi obtained 98% when she was the one who tutored Usagi. Saeko consoled her, saying that life wasn't always fair and Ami whole-heartedly agreed with her.

Minako's parents weren't too impressed by Minako's grade. It was low as ever since Minako skipped lots of exams and regular school days, but both of her parents didn't really fuss about it. Mrs. Aino only cared for her 'journey of love' and Mr. Aino just wanted Minako to be happy. Freedom was the only thing they can give Minako, due to their lack of appearance as parents. Nevertheless, they loved their only daughter.

Makoto showed her exam sheets to her family's grave. All were above the passing grade, thanks to Ami's tutorage and Usagi's tips and tricks. Even though they weren't here with her, she could feel that they were proud of her.

Grandpa Hino didn't react much but to say he was proud of Rei to be able to maintain her grades even with the Senshi business taking most of her time.

Jirou's and Shuichi's parents were glad despite their disappearance for nearly a year, they still maintained a high grade and could graduate.

All was well.

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NOT.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN I HAVE AN AFFAIR WITH VENUS?!"

"Because you made out with her, duh. It was – is – very traumatizing."

"Traumatizing? I always think my kisses are awesome."

"You are no more than a child, Venus! My conservative mind it couldn't take it that easily!"

Next on Problem of Time Series: The Makaiju

EXPLANATION TIME!

Problem: On the last chapter, Sailor Moon and Kunzite ran off to the illusion set by the DD Girls when they know perfectly well it's just an illusion.

Answer: Kunzite always had a motto to "better safe than sorry". He's the type to search every nook and crannies on RPG dungeons. The two cousins are that type to put families before others and DD Girls knows it well for they feed off fears of their opponents. While their mind telling the two that it was just an illusion, the instinct kicked in and thus, heading straight to a trap. Family or those are dear to them are their biggest weakness.

Problem: Three-way relationship between Endymion, Sailor Moon, and Sailor Venus

Answer: It's a big NO you pervert. They might be on their twenties mentally, but they are still teens physically. It would be weird as hell. Besides, the current Endymion (Present Mamoru) is in denial state and is still loyal to the princess he is looking for. Meanwhile, Venus likes to kiss and Moon doesn't mind because there is no romantic feeling involved and it's fun so why not.

Thank you, Guests, for the consecutive reviews! lashun316 for the perverted but fun (XD) review, and finally Ghost Man for sticking with this story!

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