SailorStar9: You ladies wanted this chapter, so here goes. This is Chapter 25 of this fic, so please be a dear and review.

Disclaimers: I do not own the animes. But I do own the pairing, I hope.

Chapter 25: Cold-Hearted Rubeus! The Four Sisters Of Sorrow

In the UFO...

"Rubeus." Wiseman stated. "Your future has two paths. One is the path of victory that leads to glory. The other is the path of defeat that leads to darkness and ends in death."

"Glory or defeat..." Rubeus mused.

"Rubeus, there is only one way for you to survive." Wiseman added. "Kill the Rabbit and the Sailor Senshi."

"I know that!" Rubeus retorted. "Since it's come to this, I'll throw all my cards out there and make the glory of victory mine."

Time passes...

"Hey!" Chibi-Usa tossed the dried leaves.

"Chibi-Usa, don't scatter the leaves that we worked so hard to sweep up!" Usagi scolded. "Do a little work too!"

"Look who's talking." Chibi-Usa taunted. "You're the one who flitted over here because Rei told you they were having a yam roasting party."

"Quit making fun of adults!" Usagi fumed. "You're so not cute! You came here for roasted yams too. What's with you?"

"Chibi-Usa, there's a leaf in your hair." Cooan remarked.

"Thank you, onee-chan." Chibi-Usa beamed.

"Hey, are you listening to me?" Usagi hollered.

"Hair's a girl's life, you have to take good care of it." Cooan reminded.

"Onee-chan, you're so nice." Chibi-Usa smiled. "I love you."

"If I didn't know any better, I'd think those two are related." Ami sighed.

"I never knew how beautiful this world is." Beruche remarked. "I didn't realize it at all when I was fighting. I guess we were wrong, after all. I wish I could be of some help to you, but I know none of the crucial information. In the end, I was just a puppet."

"It's okay." Ami assured. "Don't worry about it. We're just sincerely happy that you've become our friend."

"Friend?" Beruche echoed.

"It's done!" Makoto dug out a baked yam.

"Gimme! Gimme!" Usagi insisted.

"No," Makoto replied. "Chibi-Usa gets one first."

"What?" Usagi whined. "After all my hard work?"

"Chibi-Usa, give me half of that!" she demanded.

"Usagi..." Makoto sweatdropped.

"You should be ashamed of taking from a small child." Minako chided.

"Easy for you to say!" Usagi protested.

"Chibi-Usa, you little..." she fumed, after the child taunted her.

"Usagi, you slowpoke!" Chibi-Usa teased, the two 'Rabbits' chasing each other around the yard.

In the UFO...

"I can't believe that this is what is left of the very best of Black Moon, the Dark Moon Clan." Petz growled, seeing the scene via a viewing mirror.

"Do you intend to just leave those two alone, Petz?" Calaveras asked. "At this rate, our loyalties will be brought into question as well."

"Exactly." Rubeus cut in. "Two of the Four Ayakashi Sisters have betrayed our clan. You do not actually think this is the end of it, do you?"

"This is not our responsibility." Calaveras protested.

"What?" Rubeus demanded.

"Rubeus-sama, I'm not as foolish as my younger sisters." Petz replied. "I will kill the Rabbit, along with the Sailor Senshi, without fail."

"Well, well, so you are confident of this?" Rubeus wondered.

"Of course." Petz insisted.

"Onee-sama!" Calaveras gasped.

"Very well." Rubeus replied and tossed her a scepter.

"What is this?" Petz asked.

"If you use this wand, your Dark Power will increase many times over." Rubeus explained. "Understand?"

"My..." Calaveras gaped.

"This is your final chance." Rubeus reminded. "Kill the Sailor Senshi and the Rabbit and dispose of the traitors. If you fail, understand that you will have no place to return to. Am I understood?"

"Yes sir." Petz replied.

"Do your very best." Rubeus added.

"You took the mission so readily." Calaveras noted after Rubeus was out of earshot. "But will you be okay? It will be unacceptable to suffer any more humiliation."

"I know that." Petz snapped. "And you make sure not to do anything to hinder me."

"What did you say?" Calaveras retorted. "You've never even come up with a decent plan. I'm the one who's had an awful time."

"What about you?" Petz challenged. "I am really the most unfortunate. To have such worthless younger sisters like you, Beruche and Cooan."

"I feel the same." Calaveras snapped.

Inside the Hikawa Shrine...

"This is bliss..." Usagi smiled, gobbling up two roasted yams.

"Usagi!" Minako chided.

"You'd better stop or you're going to gain weight." Makoto pointed out.

"It's okay." Usagi assured.

"Being insensitive like that is why you got dumped." Rei taunted.

"Rei!" Minako and Makoto gaped.

"That's harsh!" Usagi wailed.

"More importantly, if you eat too much, you get sleepy, and it slows down your mind." Ami advised. "A junior high school student's duty is to study. Shouldn't you watch your diet for that reason too?

"Never mind that." Makoto sweatdropped with Minako. "With regards to yams, you know how you can run into trouble if you eat too many?"

"Right." Minako agreed. "Your stomach's trumpet will sound, you know?"

"Be quiet." Usagi retorted. "I won't care, no matter what happens."

"That stinks." the group muttered after Usagi unwittingly let out gas.

"How unmannerly." Chibi-Usa deathpanned. "Told you so!"

"It wasn't me." Usagi objected.

"What is that?" she asked when a ball of light floated downwards from the sky.

"Watch out!" Cooan warned as she shielded the pink-haired 'Rabbit' when the ball burst into full light. "Chibi-Usa!"

"Onee-chan!" Chibi-Usa gasped as two chains wrapped around Cooan and Beruche's waists, pulling the two defected sisters upwards.

"Oh no!" Ami exclaimed.

"What was that?" Rei demanded.

"Chibi-Usa, you have to stay in here, no matter what happens." Usagi put the child into a closet.

"Let's go." Makoto stated.

"Right!" the girls nodded.

They were taken because of me. Chibi-Usa wondered.

"Everyone, transform." Luna gave the order.

"Right!" the girls nodded.

I have to call them! Chibi-Usa ran out of her hiding spot. I have to call the Sailor Senshi and get them to help.

"Millennium Mars Crystal Power!"

"Venus Star Power!"

"Jupiter Star Power!"

"Millennium Mercury Crystal Power!"

"Moon Crystal Power!"

"Make Up!" the five girls chorused.

"Right!" the five Senshi nodded and took off, not realizing that Chibi-Usa had seen them transform.

On the road...

"What's the enemy after?" Jupiter asked. "Executing the traitors?"

"No way!" Venus gasped.

"It's too soon for us to give up." Mercury voiced, activating her visor. "The air is filled with an unusual energy. It's towards the west."

"Everyone, hurry!" Artemis urged.

On the suspension bridge...

"Onee-sama, I seriously doubt that the Sailor Senshi would appear to save these worthless traitors." Calaveras remarked, the two unconscious younger Ayakashi Sisters within a bubble. "Wouldn't it be better to quickly dispose of them?"

"Wait just a while longer." Petz snorted.

"Honestly." Calaveras pouted. "But the effect of that wand is amazing."

"I can feel the infinite power flowing into me." Petz gushed. "I am invincible now."

"Come to think of it, I think it's even given your skin a better glow." Calaveras noted. "Let me borrow it too."

"You're terrible, onee-sama." she whined, after Petz struck her off with the scepter.

"Cooan and Beruche both betrayed me." Petz reminded. "I can't trust you either."

"You can't mean that." Calaveras protested.

"Looks like the worthless scrum have woken up." Petz looked over at the awakening Cooan and Beruche.

"Petz! And Calaveras!" Cooan gasped.

"Tell us where the Sailor Senshi and the Rabbit are." Petz demanded.

"Onee-sama, please stop fighting the Sailor Senshi." Cooan pleaded.

"What did you say?" Petz snapped.

"You two, just what has happened to you?" Calaveras asked.

"We realized what Black Moon, the Dark Moon clan, really stands for." Cooan replied.

"Black Moon is a terrible clan that will trample on anything in order to attain its objectives." Beruche added.

"This is what fighting is about." Calaveras retorted. "Those who fight and win are the ones who are right."

"Love and friendship?" Petz snorted. "Rubbish. Die!"

"Hold it right there!" Moon declared. "Aren't your beliefs incorrect?"

"Sailor Moon!" Cooan and Beruche gasped.

"We fight for the sake of this beautiful planet." Mars added.

"For the sake of the kindhearted people." Mercury was next.

"Trees, plants and flowers." Jupiter continued. "For the sake of all living things."

"For the sake of love, happiness, and the beautiful future." Venus announced.

"For ad girls who trample on all those things," Sailor Moon wrapped up the introduction. "In the name of the moon...

"We will punish you." the girls chorused.

"You are fools to come save these traitors." Petz snorted.

"Did you not think it would be a trap?" Calaveras added.

"We knew, but we followed after you." Mars snapped.

"Return our friends to us." Mercury added.

"Sailor Mercury." Beruche breathed in relief.

"You came to rescue your friends?" Calaveras mocked.

"I don't even want to hear that foolishness." Petz retorted. "Dark Thunder!"

"Oh my gosh!" Moon sweatdropped at the gaping hole the attack left on the bridge, the girls having leapt off to avoid the attack.

"Onee-sama, let me use it too." Calaveras requested.

"You're in my way." Petz snapped. "Move! Dark Thunder!"

In the UFO...

"Petz and Calaveras..." Rubeus chuckled as Petz fired attack after attack at the Senshi. "When I no longer need your help..."

On the suspension bridge...

"Dark Thunder!" Petz released another attack.

"Is everybody okay?" Luna asked.

"I can't believe it." Venus remarked. "What incredible power."

"If it's about power, I've got something for you too." Jupiter stood up. "Sparkling Wide Pressure!"

"Dark Thunder!" Petz countered.

"Jupiter!" Moon gasped when Jupiter was stuck back by the combination of her own attack and Petz's lightning.

"She's several times more powerful than we last fought her." Jupiter replied.

"I know!" Mercury activated her visor. "I got it. There's an incredible amount of energy coming from that wand."

"Then, if we take that wand from her?" Venus suggested.

"I think she'll go back to her previous power level." Mercury replied.

"Leave it to me!" Venus replied. "Venus Love Me Chain!"

"I missed!" she blinked when Petz jumped to avoid the attack and dashed down towards them from the railing. "She's so fast."

"Snake Fire!" Mars fired a fiery serpent at Petz, who merely slapped the fire construct away.

"Dark Thunder!" Petz released her attack at close range.

"Aqua Rhapsody!" Mercury barely had enough time to counter Petz's lightning with her ice streams.

"I'll put you out of your misery now." Petz grinned, certain of her victory.

"Sisters!" Beruche begged. "Please stop this! Please stop trying to hurt each other. Rubeus is the sort of person who won't hesitate to sacrifice you two if it would help to attain his goal. You must not trust him. Sisters, please believe us. Please."

"What are you trying to pull here?" Calaveras retorted. "Are you still thinking of getting in our way?"

"No!" Cooan protested.

"We're saying this for your sakes." Beruche insisted.

"Besides, we don't need you anymore." Calaveras shrugged. "I'll be dammed if I have to listen to any more of this drive. Dear Petz-onee-sama, let's hurry up and dispose of these two."

"Very well." Petz replied. "Dark Thunder!"

"Petz, what are you doing?" Calaveras asked, as she was electrocuted with the other two.

"You ridiculed me time and time again." Petz snorted. "But looking at you now, you look somewhat cute."

"Petz!" Calaveras gasped.

"As long as I have this wand, my powers are infinite." Petz grinned. "Eventually, I could even surpass Rubeus-sama and stand at the pinnacle of our clan. I have no need for a woman like you. You could betray me at any time."

"Petz!" Calaveras gaped.

"Die together with the traitors." Petz declared.

"Watch out!" Jupiter and Mars caught Beruche and Cooan respectively.

"Are you okay?" Mars asked. "Cooan!"

"Yes." Cooan replied. "Thank you, Sailor Mars."

"Petz, even you turned on me..." Calaveras floated to the ground, stunned.

"Are you okay?" Mercury asked.

"We were fighting just a moment ago." Calaveras snapped. "What are you trying to pull?"

"It's only natural to be concerned about someone who has been hurt." Mercury soothed.

"Is that how you do things in this world?" Calaveras asked.

"Calaveras-onee-sama, this is what human love is." Cooan supplied.

"It is what we of the Black Moon have forgotten." Beruche added. "And it is what Sailor Moon and the others have taught us again."

"So, we were wrong." Calaveras admitted.

"Worthless scrum certainly get along well with each other." Petz mocked.

"What did you say?" Mars demanded.

"Don't you think that what you're doing is too horrible?" Moon snapped.

"Trying to kill your younger sisters?" Jupiter added. "Are you even really human?"

"Who cares about the lives of one or two pieces of worthless scrum?" Petz snorted. "They can't do anything by themselves."

"Why you!" Moon growled.

"She's not someone we can reason with." Jupiter remarked.

"No, she's not really our sister." Calaveras cut in.

"What?" Moon blinked.

"She's been possessed by the power of the wand." Calaveras supplied.

"I knew it." Moon nodded.

"But what can we do?" Mars asked.

"There is one way." Mercury replied. "We have to all..."

"Go to hell!" Petz declared.

"Work together." Mercury finished. "Shabon Spray!"

"Shoot!" Petz cursed as Mercury's fog roared in.

"Now!" Mercury shouted.

"Okay!" Venus nodded. "Venus Love Me Chain!"

"Jupiter!" Mercury called as Venus' chain knocked the scepter out of Petz's hands.

"All right!" Jupiter replied. "Sparkling Wide Pressure!"

"We did it!" the girls beamed, Jupiter's attack electrocuting the eldest Ayakashi Sister.

"Are you okay, Petz?" Cooan asked.

"Don't touch me!" Petz snapped. "Having you people take pity on me is..."

"Petz..." Cooan, Beruche and Calaveras muttered.

"Good work, Petz." Rubeus noted.

"Rubeus-sama, I..." Petz started.

"You've managed to gather the Sailor Senshi and the traitors together in one place, so you've done quite well.." Rubeus added. "I never believed that you could win in the first place. If I can defeat the Sailor Senshi, I can take care of the rest perfectly by myself."

"Then, I was..." Petz realized.

"You guys were nothing but pawns." Rubeus replied. "I can always find replacements. Die together with the Sailor Senshi."

"This is the true power of the wand." he smirked, activating a vortex around the scepter. "You will be sucked into a dimensional crevice."

"We're going to be sucked in!" Moon wailed, the groups grabbing onto the surrounding wires, just as Chibi-Usa ran into the scene.

"What the heck is going on?" Luna asked.

"Just earlier, that wand was producing an infinite amount of energy." Mercury supplied. "He probably reversed that."

"Then, it's something like a black hole?" Jupiter reasoned. "Isn't there some way to stop it?"

"Luna!" Moon whined.

"There's no way you can seal a dimensional tear!" Luna replied.

"No, there is a way." Petz corrected. "If I use all the power left in my body to strike at the wand and destroy it, this black hole will also cease to exist."

"That's dangerous." Mercury protested. "If you do that, your life will..."

"So, you don't care if this world is destroyed?" Petz posted the question. "Dark Power!"

"Calaveras!" she gasped when Calaveras saved her from getting sucked into the vortex with her whip.

"I won't let you hog the spotlight." Calaveras joked.

"Hang in there, Petz." both Cooan and Beruche pulled their eldest sister up.

"You guys!" Petz was shocked.

"I know we were always fighting, but we're really in this together." Beruche added. "If even one of us were missing, we would not be the Four Ayakashi Sisters."

"We're done for!" Moon wailed as the ground cracked under her.

"Do not give up, Sailor Moon." Tuxedo Kaman advised.

"If you join your powers together as one," Dragon Solaris added.

"You will be able to seal the dimensional tear." Dragon Mars finished the sentence.

"But..." Mars gasped.

"No, they're exactly right." Artemis cut in. "That wand is creating a space around it, that's like a tunnel that connects two dimensions. If we can destroy the wand before we are flung to another dimension, the black hole should cease to exist."

"Are you telling us to jump into that hole?" Jupiter asked.

"Sailor Moon, there's no other way." Luna replied. "Let's do it! On the count of three, we'll all jump in, okay? One, two..."

"Three!" the girls jumped in.

"Where's the wand?" Luna asked inside the tunnel. "If we don't hurry, we'll be tossed into a different dimension."

"Over there!" Mars pointed.

"Everyone, join hands." Artemis gave the order.

"Focus your power against the wand." Luna added.

"Moon Crystal Power!"

"Mars Crystal Power!"

"Mercury Crystal Power!"

"Jupiter Star Power!"

"Venus Star Power!"

"Sailor Planet Attack!" the girls chorused, sending a pillar of light into the scepter, destroying it.

"Did we do it?" Moon asked, the girls having blasted out of the tunnel by the shockwave.

"We did it." Artemis confirmed. "The dimensional tear is gone."

"Looks like our dear Earth Prince did his disappearing act again." Dragon Solaris remarked.

"Nice job, girls." Dragon Mars noted.

"Sailor Mercury." Cooan voiced. "Please help my elder sisters."

"Okay." Mercury nodded. "Sailor Moon, I'll need your help on this."

"Right." Moon agreed.

"Moon Crystal Power!

"Mercury Freezing Redemption!"

"Refresh!" both Calaveras and Petz declared as the healing light washed over them, purifying them of the Dark Moon's taint.

"Usagi... Sailor Moon... Ami... Sailor Mercury..." Chibi-Usa muttered. "The Ginzuishou...? The 'Life Crystal'...?"

In the UFO...

"Unbelievable!" Rubeus growled. "Sailor Moon had the Ginzuishou? And Sailor Mercury possessed the 'Life Crystal'? Damn you!"

The next day...

"So those four opened up a shop?" Makoto noted.

"Yeah." Usagi nodded. "It's supposed to be a shop where anyone can become beautiful."

"Hi!" Cooan squealed. "How would you like some cosmetics that will make you beautiful?

"Beruche, please stay out of our merchandise." Petz chided.

"Petz, if the salespeople's skin looks so dull, the customer will not trust us." Beruche pointed out.

"Why you!" Petz fumed.

"Petz, the customers are watching." Beruche protested.

"Well, as they say, 'You get along well as you fight'." Rei shrugged.

"Like you and Yuichiro?" Minako teased.

"Why you!" Rei began her chase as Minako fled.

"They're just like us." Ami sweatdropped.

SailorStar9: Now that's done, read and review. In the next chapter, Chibi-Usa now knows that Usagi is Sailor Moon and that she has the Ginzuishou. She sneaks into Usagi's bedroom and steals the crystal. She tries again to return to the future with her time key, but only succeeds in altering Rubeus to her presence. Both Rubeus and the Senshi race all over town looking for her. When she tries to use the key again, Rubeus appears in his UFO and sucks the four Sailor Senshi up into the ship while Usagi, Mamoru and Chibi-Usa look on in horror.