A/N: First of all, I'm sorry that it took me a while to update this again. Things have been crazy as per usual, but more importantly, I had a bad bout of writer's block for this work and for Here We Go Again. However, I know you guys have been waiting for a really long time to see the aftermath of what Mina has done, so the other day I cracked down and wrote the chapter below. I really hope you guys will enjoy it. Thanks again for all the support you guys have given this work.

Warnings: Given the situation that's just happened, Mina will probably be a bit OOC. Also, things are going to calm down a little for the next chapter or two...but be warned. It's just the calm before the storm. Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha! Eh, I think I enjoy torturing these characters a bit too much.

Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon, Yu-Gi-Oh, or Code Geass (the anime that found its way into this work because of my crazy brain.) I only own my original characters such as everyone's favorite immortal demon, E.E.

Chapter 28

Death to Innocence Part 5

Joseph Wheeler had seen some horrific things in his lifetime.

As a child he had watched his father beat his mother with broken bear bottles, belts, and a wide array of other items. He had seen his sister cry for hours on end in response to the beatings their father inflicted on both of them. Later he watched his mother drive off with Serenity in tow, leaving him behind despite all of his cries for his mother to save him from the maniac chasing him down the street that was slick from the cold pounding rain. Over the years he had grown accustomed to the beatings and to the various scars that marred the skin of his back. He joined a gang with Tristan during his middle school years, granting his eyes traumas his mind simply blocked out.

It wasn't new for him to see blood. While part of gang activity, he delivered some severe beatings, many of which ended with his fists stained in the substance. Sometimes he still sees the signs of the liquid on his knuckles even though he had long since given up that lifestyle. His days had been more peaceful in the last two years, but in Duelist Kingdom he encountered a couple near death situations, one of which he only escaped from because Mina had been there to protect him.

He remembered now that she had killed a man that night.

But it hadn't been intentional. Joey had seen the whole thing with his chocolate brown orbs. He knew that the man's death had been a result of her sending too much of her energy at him. It was purely accidental, but Mina had carried that death on her shoulders through a good portion of the tournament, even using it as leverage to convince Kaiba not to push Yugi too far during their duel at Pegasus' castle.

Circumstances can force you to do things you'd never dream of doing.

Those had been Mina's exact words to Kaiba.

Joey heard those words again loud and clear when the second bullet Mina fired shot through her mother's head. Chocolate irises widened in horror as the woman's body stumbled forward with wide open, lifeless blue eyes that matched Mina's far too well.

Mina fired again and the corresponding bullet hit the woman's chest. She was already dead, but Mina continued to fire. Blood sputtered out from the wounds, splattering to the grass Joey was lying on.

Through the whole ordeal, knots of guilt twisted in Joey's stomach. This was his fault. Once again he was the circumstance that had forced her hand. Thinking of the situation from her perspective, he saw the struggle she must have gone through to make the choice that she did. On the one hand, her whole reason for coming to Japan had been to save her mother and get her father's paperwork signed legally by a blood relative. She had cut all ties with her old friends, threatening death to all of them should they get in the way of her goal. Joey had witnessed this first hand. He knew where her mindset had been all along.

He thought he could help. He didn't consider his weakness or his complete inability to challenge any of the things standing in Mina's way. He acted to protect her without realizing that there was no way he could.

The decision he made had been foolish, probably the worst decision he had ever made in his entire life.

Which is what led to Mina's struggle. She could do what she set out to do and allow him to perish as a result or abandon everything she had tirelessly worked for to protect him.

There may have been a middle ground, but Joey doubted Mina would have seen it. Her emotional state had already been fragile before this moment.

Now, as the young man watches Cecelia's body fall into the lake, he can see exactly what he's done. Mina's mental state would be broken beyond all possible repair.

And it was all his fault.

Because she had chosen him.

For whatever reason, Mina had chosen him over her mother.

Rage exploded in Joey's heart for a short moment at the thought. He wasn't worth this. Saving his life couldn't have been worth the guilt Mina would have to shoulder now, and that's if she could even live with it to begin with.

Right now, he wasn't even sure if he could live with the weight of this guilt on his shoulders.

On the hill, Mina had finally lowered her arm, dropping the handgun in the process. Her lips were still turned upward in a smile because she had been laughing a few seconds earlier. Behind her, Suzaku Kururugi stood, a deep frown of pity etched in his features. His knightmare frame, Lancelot, stood a couple feet behind him.

Suzaku was well acquainted with this sin. Seven years ago, he murdered his father the prime minister in cold blood over a dispute for Japan and the lives of his friends. His actions caused Japan's abrupt surrender in its struggle against Britannia, which in turn created the false peace that the settlement dwellers had known up until Zero appeared and shook the world. Even now, the organization he created, though brainwashed by E.E., was a result of Suzaku's solitary and selfish action. Perhaps the horror of this night could have been prevented indefinitely if not for this one thing.

But that is doubtful. There are simply too many other circumstances to take into account, too many mistakes and people unaccounted for.

In time the whole truth would be revealed...at least to Mina.

Of course, Suzaku Kururugi would have no way of knowing that, thus the reason he felt it fit to offer Mina some form of sympathy.

"Mina..."

The blonde doesn't answer, but her body twitches at the sound of her name. Slowly but surely her mind is registering the reality forming around her.

"You have my sincerest apology for not arriving fast enough," Suzaku said earnestly, keeping his gaze on the back of her head. "Rei asked me to stop you from pulling that trigger. She wanted me to save you from this. She saw it coming."

The sound of Rei's name caused a small spark of anger to filter through Mina's consciousness, but it faded as quickly as it came. All of her emotions were draining away from her, leaving nothing behind but a numb, walking corpse.

"We only just met a couple of days ago, but for what's it's worth, I want you to know..."

"Know what?" Mina cut in softly, so softly in fact that Suzaku barely heard her. "That there's no consolation for this sin I've committed? You think that because you killed your father you understand what I'm going through now?"

None of this was said in anger. It was unnerving to Suzaku just how emotionlessly she had spoken the words.

Mina herself was confused by the lack of passion in her voice. She knew she should feel something, anything at all in the wake of the tragedy that had just unfolded. Was it not sinking in? Was her mother's body floating in the lake not enough to make this picture clear?

"You're wondering how I know about what you did," Mina continued, though she couldn't say that she was paying much attention to what she was saying at this point. She felt as if she were living outside of her body. She was there, living in the moment and yet...dead. She just...felt dead inside.

The blonde exhaled a breath she'd been holding before addressing Suzaku again. "Geass is the answer to your question. I have a Geass that allows me to see into a persons past. When we met, I saw a good chunk of yours. That's how I know about your father, about your knowledge of Geass, and Lelouch's role as Zero too." She paused, losing her train of thought as her gaze finally found Joey. He was still staring at her mother's body in the lake.

"I killed her in front of him," Mina realized, her sapphire colored eyes widening for a short moment before they settled back into their normal state. Without turning around, she spoke to Suzaku once more. "We're strangers, so I could care less what you have to say about anything I'm going through." She exhaled a soft sigh that sounded similar to a giggle. "Even if you do understand...I... " Mina stopped then, her legs taking her down the stone steps leading into the park without another word.

The expression on Joey's face helped solidify the idea that this nightmare was happening for real. She wasn't dreaming. She knew she couldn't actually be dreaming, but she still felt that she had to be.

The thought to pinch herself filtered into her head for a second as she drew closer to her friend but she tossed the idea from her mind. It was a silly notion meant for a silly occasion, not this.

Eventually, Mina stood over him, her silhouette towering over his meek position on the grass. Noticing the shadow falling over him, Joey looked away from the body in the lake and up toward Mina before quickly shifting his gaze to the ground.

Mina continued to stand there, simply staring down at him without uttering a single word. Was he afraid of her? Did he think she would do the same thing to him?

Did she have a reason to do the same thing to him?

Blonde bangs shielded Joey's eyes as he continued to gaze at the ground. He clutched at the dirt with his fingernails, fighting off emotions Mina couldn't begin to identify. Right now, making sense of what she felt was difficult enough. It was disorienting to ponder the sense of calm rushing through her. Because of this feeling she began to write off the reality surrounding her as a delusion. After all, there's no way she could flippantly disregard the horror of her mother's body floating in a lake if it were actually happening, right?

A deeper part of her knew she was just trying to cover up the sin with naivety and ignorance. That part of her also knew that she needed to keep up the farce for as long as possible, lest she lose herself completely in her grief. Besides, as far as Mina was concerned, this moment could still be a nightmare...the worst nightmare of her life, but a nightmare nonetheless. The lack of pounding in her heart was a testament to this. It had to be. Surely she would wake up soon and then she could laugh off the horrors she had faced in the wake of E.E.'s horrendous scheme. She could wake up in her bed at the old apartment in Juban, surrounded by cuddly stuffed animals that offered her nothing but endless smiles and silent company in the quiet of early morning. Shaking off the images of corpses and blood, Mina would march into the kitchen and meet the gazes of both her parents. They would be happy, healthy, and waiting for her to join them at the table as the morning routine demanded. The demon known as E.E., the life she had been forced to build in Domino, Joey, Kaiba, Pegasus, Geass...all of it would be meaningless, subconscious trash easily tossed away. She would go back to living life the way she had before her father showed any signs of illness.

Convincing herself that this was what awaited her in the near future, Mina knelt down to Joey's level with a soft smile gracing her features as she tilted her head in genuine confusion.

"What's wrong..."

"I'm sorry," he blurted, anguish seeping from his tone. "I'm so sorry, Mina."

Something pricked at her heart, something akin to happiness in response to his sadness. "Why, Joseph? What are you sorry for?"

She knew what his answer would be, but thought it would be nice to hear him say it anyway.

She was wrong.

"It's my fault," he answered, his fingers still desperately clawing at the dirt. "It's my fault that you were forced to choose. I thought...it doesn't matter what I thought. I just...I'm sorry Mina."

The anger was slowly coming back, but Mina was determined to keep it to herself. The part of her that understood the reality unfolding didn't blame the blonde for what had happened. At the very least, that part of her was trying very hard not to. It played with the idea of blaming Serena for not keeping Joey safe, but the thought died soon after. There was no point in throwing blame around.

In this situation, Mina understood that she was solely responsible for this outcome. After all, she was the one that asked Joey to come to Japan. Had she left him behind in Domino, this situation wouldn't have been able to occur at all. There was no getting around that.

Mina just wished he wouldn't have cared so much, even if this all turned out to be a distorted reality created in her subconscious mind. This guy simply cared too much.

"What you think matters a great deal to me, Joseph." Her fingertips brushed the few tears beginning to stream down his face. "I know why you came here. You wanted to help me again, didn't you? You wanted to be by my side?"

Joey gave a nod. It was the only response he could give.

"And now you blame yourself for my decision," she stated, knowing that was the truth. "And you're thinking I should have let her kill you, right?"

He lowered his head even more. "Yeah..."

"You shouldn't think that," Mina offered calmly, cutting him off before he could say anything more. "You're important to me too." She laughed at herself then, and the sound was just as hollow as it had been when she'd spoken to Suzaku.

"None of this is real," Mina thought, laughing a little harder. "And yet..."

Joey started to speak, but the words were inaudible. Mina didn't hear them.

"Why do I feel so...so...what is this?"

Mina registered that he was apologizing once more, but again, his words were inaudible in her ears. She only knew he was apologizing because she had read his lips. That was new. Since when could she do that?

The senshi of love stared at his lips for a long moment as he continued to talk. She didn't pick up any other words and after a minute she got tired of watching them move.

"Please stop talking now," Mina breathed, cutting him off mid-sentence. "I can't really hear your voice anyway." Her fingertips ghosted over his skin as they trailed down the side of his face, stopping once they reached his neck. "The guilt you feel...is meaningless. I brought you into this situation, knowing the potential danger for you right from the start. At the time, it didn't matter. I wanted..." She trailed off, laughing again at how stupid she had been. "I needed you. To face what had to be done, I needed a reason."

Joey blinked, his gaze still on the ground, but now he was confused. "What do you mean?"

A weak sigh passed through her lips. "I had been hesitating to come here...because my duty as a Sailor Soldier demands personal sacrifice at the deepest level."

There was bitterness in her voice now, but in her shock, Mina couldn't really guess why. Should she really resent her role right now? Having forced her mind to transform reality into an illusion, she couldn't rationalize her reasoning or the empty feeling in her chest. It was starting to frighten her, the way the emotions she fought to control were straining to rip through her heart.

"However, there's no way I could have brought myself to do what was necessary to end the chaos. I didn't want anyone else to do it either. I clung to the belief that I could save my mother from her fate on my own without any help. Even so...I... "

She couldn't bring herself to continue on that line of thought. It was too horrible to say. Nightmare or not, she couldn't tell Joey the underlining reason why she had brought him to Japan and why she had allowed him to stay with her even when she tried to send him away.

Mina didn't want to admit it to herself either. To do so would force her to abandon the delusion she was trying to make real in her mind.

But regardless of every effort to write off her sin as a long nightmare, the reality was closing in, choking her, tearing the air from her lungs with every second that passed. Sitting there in front of Joey, she felt as if she were suffocating.

"Don't you hate me?" Mina asked, a sudden panic rising inside of her. "Aren't you even the least bit afraid of me after what you just saw?"

Joey lifted his gaze, hearing the hysteria in her voice. "M-Mina..."

"No..." She could feel herself slipping more rapidly now. "This...this is real. And I...I actually...no, no, no, no, no, NO!"

With panicked breaths she kept talking. "How can you still care about my well-being?" The senshi of love stopped for a second, bewildered by the mere idea of his caring about her to the point where it was comical. The hollow sound of her laughter was suddenly replaced by something resembling a strained sob mixed with a cackle straight out of a mad scientist flick. The sound echoed in the air, reaching Suzaku who still stood at the top of the hill and Sailor Jupiter who had just arrived on the scene seconds earlier.

"I don't understand you at all Joey," Mina continued, still making that awful sound as she spoke. "What's it going to take, huh? You just watched me kill my mother for crying out loud..." The ribbon wearing blonde inhaled sharply then, her body slumping forward. Joey's arms immediately snaked around her shoulders and waist in response, his brown eyes widening when he felt her shaking in his embrace. He wanted to say or do something, anything to make the pain go away.

He didn't know that his heartbeat shattered her beautiful illusion. If he had known, the boy probably would have made a show of ripping the organ out of his chest with his bare hands just so she could pretend a little longer.

But in the end, there was no stopping the tidal wave of sorrow descending on the senshi of love. Trembling in Joey's arms, she began to drown in grief.

Mina wasn't going to wake up from this. She wasn't going to open her eyes and see stuffed animals surrounding her. She wouldn't walk to the kitchen and see her parents smiling at her.

Instead she would dream of her mother's body slowly sinking deeper in the frigid lake, her blood spreading through the once clear water.

"I...really did kill her didn't I?"

Joey's grip tightened around her. In the last few seconds his body had started shaking too.

It was all the answer she needed.

Mina sucked in another sharp breath, her arms moving to wrap around Joey's torso. With shaking hands she dug her nails into the fabric of the black tuxedo jacket he was still wearing. "Joey...what have I done? There must have been another way?" She was hyperventilating now. "I...I know there was a way to save both of you, so why...why...please...tell me that I didn't actually do this! What monster murders their own mother!?"

Joey couldn't respond at all. There was nothing he could say. He could only hold her and offer his body heat as a form of solace.

Mina's eyes remained dry during their embrace, her erratic breaths eventually falling back into a steady rhythm though she didn't feel steady at all. All the energy she had spent forcing her mind to believe a lie had drained away from her body, returning her to a state of numbness despite the fact that each beat of her heart inflicted terrible pain throughout her circulatory and nervous systems as she lay completely helpless in Joey's arms.

"Please...tell me I didn't do this..."

Over and over she begged for him to lie. If he told her it was a nightmare, she would make herself believe him. Right now, that was the only thing she wanted.

But Joey never responded. He couldn't lie to her.

No matter how much he wished he could, he didn't have the capability to erase the sin she committed.

Meanwhile, in the underground base in Narita, an immortal man going by the alias A.A. mourns the loss of a brother and sister. His subordinates have left him, fleeing to the upper chambers of the base in the wake of his grief. He has forgotten all about restoring E.E.'s powers and also failed to reseal the Millennium Ring so it wouldn't disappear. The mystic item had a bad habit of walking around on its own without rhyme or reason, not that A.A. cared. Right now, no punishment his adoptive mother could deliver would equal the pain he was feeling now as he continued to silently sit by his brother's body. If not for his voice finally leaving him, A.A. would have continued screaming.

E.E. entered the rectangular room a few minutes later, sparks of red electricity radiating off her as the Code continued in vain to repair the damage done to her body. Her Code had its work cut out, for Ophelia's broken noble phantasm had done its job in weakening the immortal considerably. Of course, she had gained a great deal of strength before Ophelia's betrayal. Though weaker, she was still better off than she had been before this night in terms of physical strength and stamina.

Unfortunately, upon entering her throne room, she saw that killing Ophelia had come at a cost. For one, A1 was dead. He had been a useful subordinate. Too quiet for her liking, but useful. Replacing him was going to be difficult, but E.E. wasn't overly concerned about it. More important than losing a faithful servant was the effect it had on A.A. and the ritual's progress.

E.E. now realized that A1 and Ophelia sharing one Code hadn't been one of her better ideas. She should have made A.A. choose which sibling he cared about more or better yet, say that Ophelia couldn't be saved period. Yes, letting her die back then would have suited her purposes a lot better in hindsight.

Puzzling through the options she should have taken hundreds of years ago served no purpose but to anger the immortal demon further, especially once she looked to the center of the alchemic circle that had been drawn on the floor. The Millennium Ring was nowhere to be found. Her remaining adoptive son had forgotten to seal the ring back up which meant it had disappeared, probably to go back to Ryou Bakura.

And thanks to the ritual's interruption, the spirit of the ring would still have control over a small bit of her power.

E.E. shook angrily at the thought of what was to come. That spirit posed a greater threat to her now because of the actions she had taken. Had Ophelia stayed loyal, she would have gotten all of her powers back and the spirit would have been helpless to stop her from continuing with her plans as she pleased.

Gritting her teeth, the immortal woman closed the large door behind her. The sound it created caused A.A. to jump from surprise. He turned, orange irises widening as he noted the state she was in.

He couldn't speak, but he didn't need to. The immortal demon could see the questions in his eyes. In response to this, E.E. attempted a smirk, but with half her face missing, the quirking of her lip twisted into a sort of grimace as she thought up a wonderful little lie.

She knew just the right person to pay for this inconvenience.

Minako Aino.


Around 1 a.m. within the Kaiba Estate, an Egyptian man seats himself at a desk and unrolls an old parchment of paper. With a pen in hand, he begins to write.

The following is an overview of the events that took place on the night of December 17th, 2017 a.t.b.

Over the years I have written many chronicles depicting many events in history, but none have caused my heart as great a sorrow as this. My pen can hardly write the barbarity my eyes witnessed through the magic of my Millennium Key. As a guardian, it has always been my duty to watch over humans while protecting items that would bring harm in the wrong hands. I played a role in unlocking the paths toward a person's destiny, and have watched many change those destinies, creating different paths for the next generation to follow. The human race is strange in that way. The free will they exhibit gives them the power to change fate should they so choose.

But now isn't the time to write on such things, for my time is limited here. The soldiers of the outer planets will be arriving at this estate soon and when they do, the time to write will have passed, the knowledge my key has temporarily granted, extinguished. To write is to remember what would otherwise be forgotten in the passage of time.

Below, I shall write what my key revealed.

At 6:57 p.m. on the night of December 17th, 2017, the immortal woman known as E.E., accompanied by her adoptive son A.A., entered through the gates of Ashford Private Academy which is owned by the former nobleman Reuben K. Ashford for the school's Christmas Snowball, the last event in the annual winter festival his granddaughter, Milly Ashford, always planned. However, in the weeks before the festival and ball, there had been a string of murders in Britannia. Detective and Royal Knight, Kara Alyssa Fennete, was assigned to investigate with the help of agent Fernando Green, a man secretly working under E.E. He was aware of the murderer's identity, but chose not to reveal it. Their search for the serial killer led them to Japan and in the days prior to the ball, a mass murder took place within an airport in Tokyo. It was there that Kara, having seen a small trace of his Geass power, began to suspect Fernando. Alas, just before they investigated the mass homicide, a student was found dead in the academy's stables. Milly made the discovery with one other, who died in the mass homicide later that day. Kara's cousin attended the school, so she saw it fit to pay a visit to the academy in order to warn her cousin about the danger. It was during this visit that she met Rei Hino, E.E.'s number one nemesis. It was also here that she discovered the identity of the killer, Cecelia May Ashford the mother of Minako Aino.

After this discovery, Kara bombarded Fernando with questions. He tried to use his power over emotion on her, but was unsuccessful. For this reason, he was forced to admit his part in letting Cecelia roam the streets. He told her about E.E. and of her goal to kill Rei.

With this information, Kara set up a protective military unit around the school for the night of the ball. She would have preferred to cancel the event as well as transport her cousin to a safer location, but doing so would have caused a panic. Besides, the young woman had been confident that she could make an arrest and end the string of crimes, especially with three knights of the round attending the ball. She took precautions and planned for unexpected problems.

Regardless of this, Kara and her team were unprepared. There was simply too much they did not know or understand.

E.E. slipped into the ball undetected and created chaos within hours thanks to her adoptive immortal children, the triplets A1, A.A., and Ophelia Hyuga.

The nightmare followed, permanently altering countless lives.

In chronicling the damage done...it's difficult to pinpoint an adequate starting point, but I will try.

Though none of this has been counted yet, I know the death toll will reach 2,003. The number of wounded is an even 5,000. Over three hundred are missing. These are the tolls for Britannian and Japanese civilians, but the media will only cover the Britannian loses, causing the death toll to drop to 1,122. The number of wounded will drop to 3,784 and the number of missing persons will plummet to one hundred and forty-five. This does not include the lives lost when the jail facility the outer scouts escaped from exploded.

Many of the innocent men and women who survived through this night will have to live with permanent scarring, lost limbs, loss of loved ones, brain damage, irreparable injuries that will slowly kill them, and the list continues on. The only ones to survive without a scratch were those who attended the ball. They'll awaken disoriented and weak, without any memory of what happened before E.E. arrived. To the Britannian media, it would appear that Ashford was the safest place to be despite the lone body found in the front courtyard and the destruction of the school's library.

Fernando Green, a man hoping to kill E.E. himself became one of the nights victims. His left arm was lost to E.E.'s immortal son, the cannibal thief, A.A. When he wakes up at dawn, Kara will be sitting nearby with her ear pressed against a mobile phone. She'll glance at him, unperturbed by his gaze lingering on her as she continues to dish out orders to the men and women still on the field.

A.A. himself is a victim. His sister, Ophelia Hyuga, with the help of Sailor Venus, bravely betrayed and combatted E.E. in order to save Sailor Mars and her friend, Lelouch Lamperouge, formerly know as Lelouch Vi Britannia and Zero. However, in helping them escape, Ophelia sacrificed her life and all hopes that she would see the love of her life, Akito Hyuga, ever again. The moment she died, A.A.'s brother, A1 died also because he and Ophelia shared one Code, the Code A.A.'s beloved Xion died to give.

He has lost three loved ones because of E.E., but it will be a long while before he realizes it. Right now, he is fixated on revenge and will believe anything the immortal demon tells him.

And what she will tell him shall cause greater suffering for a girl who is already breaking inside.

Minako Aino. Sailor Venus.

Her mother is Cecelia Ashford, the serial killer Kara and Fernando were hoping to catch. Mina herself was hoping to save the troubled woman, but...because of poor decsions made by multiple parties, she found herself in a situation where she had to choose. There was no right decision. She couldn't see beyond the extremes. Had Mina seen a middle ground and taken it...no, even that wouldn't have been the right answer, not with monsters like E.E. waiting to take advantage of any weakness.

Given the circumstances handed to her, Mina made the best choice she could. In a way, she did what she had set out to do. She saved her mother from E.E.

However, the cost to her heart may be too great.

In the aftermath, Sailor Jupiter, Lita Kino, took Mina and Joey Wheeler away from the scene and to the hospital per request of the knight, Suzaku Kururugi. Recovery units arrived a short time later to collect the body of E.E.'s puppet.

Around the same time is when Kallen Kozuki and Hotaru Tomoe found the remaining outer senshi. With help from Katase Urabe, they tore through enemy units and raced to Juban. They went to a small storage facility to hide their knightmares before piling into a car Urabe had borrowed from the servants of the Kaiba Estate. As I write, they are on their way here.

But, there was someone left behind. A boy by the name of Tomaru Kawaguchi.

In seeing these events, I have made a discovery regarding him, one someone must inform the Senshi of Fire about at some point. There are a multitude of things the Sailor Scouts must know. Things that pertain to Geass and the Millennium Items. To stop E.E., they must become stronger.

However, I fear it might be too late.

The young princess, Chibiusa Tsukino a.k.a. Rini, should not be present in this timeline right now. Her presence here worries me and I can only assume that in her time, Neo Queen Serenity has died, which means...

Yes, this is definitely worse than I thought...

But even if what I fear most turns out to be so, I am certain Sailor Moon will still save this world from chaos.

However, there will be more obstacles than before.


A/N: And so ends the night of December 17th, 2017, otherwise known as the worst night of Mina's life. To make matters worse, E.E. still has tricks up her sleeves. Seriously lady, would you give it a rest? We get it. You're pure evil! Anyway guys, thank you so much for reading and supporting this work. Let me know what you thought of the chapter by writing something in that review box. The feedback is always helpful. Also, if you spot errors of any kind, please let me know. Constructive criticism is always welcome. Thanks again for keeping up with this work and all of its craziness. Stay tuned. More is coming soon!

And hopefully it won't take me three months to update this time. We can only hope.