SailorStar9: With Chapter 88 out, this is Chapter 89 of this fic. Remember boys and girls, reviews are an author's subsistence. Really, is it so difficult for you guys to review instead of just putting this fic up in your favorites and alerts?

Pairings: Tieria/Ami, Mamoru/Usagi and quite possible Setsuna/Hotaru.

Just in case anyone is still confused, Kubo Satoshi is the Present Day Tieria Erde and Faheem Kamal is the Present Day Setsuna F. Seiei.

Standard BS Disclaimers: I do not own Sailor Moon, Gundam 00 or the pairings. If I did, the other Senshi would be as powerful as Sailor Moon and kicking MOTD ass more often and VEDA would have least an anti-hacker program installed. The only thing I do own is the plot.

Chapter 89: Sunny Skies After a Storm! A Friendship Dedicated to Hotaru


In Mistress Nine's room...

"Release my powers." Mistress Nine droned. "Hurry. Can you not hear the voices of time calling for me?"

"Let us hurry, using the Pure Hearts of humans." Professor Tomoe crowed.


That weekend...

"Hotaru and Mayumi can't come after all, I guess." Chibi-Usa sighed, seeing no sign of either Hotaru or Higa Mayumi, the latter was what they called U-Tomodachi's 'human' form.

"Chibi-Usa." Luna whispered, on the hood of Mamoru's car.

"Hotaru, Mayumi." Chibi-Usa beamed. "Th two of you came."

"What kind of bodyguard would I be if I can't?" Mayumi winked.

At the greenhouse where Kurebayashi Yoshiki worked in...

"This place is big." Chibi-Usa gushed at the lush field in front of the picnicking group.

"That looks rather fun." Michiru chuckled, the three Outer Senshi watched the group from afar.

"A senior graduate of my school works here." Mamoru led the girls into the greenhouse. "He's a botanist, with his lifework being his research on roses."

"So, this is where you get all your roses from?" Mayumi inquired.

"That's a good question." Luna agreed, perching on Mamoru's shoulder

"Well..." Mamoru sweatdropped.


In the Witches Four office...

"Yes, Professor?" Mimete took the call.

"Mimete, what is your favorite color roses?" Professor Tomoe asked.

"If I could have any, it would a million red roses." Mimete beamed.

"Improving and breeding of roses is a job that requires good sense and patience." Professor Tomoe was cultivating his own strain of roses. "There apparently is a botanist with good results in that field, I take it?"

"That must be the owner of a Pure Heart." Mimete pulled out Kurebayashi Yoshiki's profile. "The target has been determined.

"All right." Professor Tomoe put in the cultivated rose pot into the Daimon generation box. "Let me make a Daimon most suited for that man. I'm counting on you." he then injected the Daimon Egg into the rose pot.


In the greenhouse where Kurebayashi Yoshiki worked in...

"Isn't that Mamoru?" Kurebayashi spotted his junior. "How've you been? You've still got beautiful women with you." he teased.

"Senpai!" Mamoru chided.

"Papa!" the Kurebayashi brood of children clambered around their father, a packed lunch in hand.

"The main dish is a croquet?" Kurebayashi took a whiff of the packed lunch.

"So many..." Usagi gawked.

"There's even more of them..." even Mamoru was taken aback.


In the field outside the greenhouse...

Having sent his children back to their mother, Kurebayashi settled in for lunch with Mamoru's group.

"How goes the research for new types of roses?" Mamoru asked, a plate of food prepared by Usagi in hand.

"I think I'm almost there." Kurebayashi dug into the rice.

"I brought something extra." Mayumi took out a wrapped plate of pan-fried gyōza, complete with chili oil as a dipping sauce.

"Gyōza!" Chibi-Usa beamed.

"Mayumi, did you and Rei make these?" Usagi gawked at the sheer number of dumplings.

"Yes." Mayumi smiled brightly.


In the greenhouse after lunch...

"Almost every variety of rose growing in Japan are planted in this greenhouse." Kurebayashi introduced his plants. "They're beautiful, aren't they? Other than these, many different types of roses have been grown thanks to improvements made to them. These are tropical plants. Come over here." he led Mamoru's group into the greenhouse's next section.

"Can you tell me the name of this flower?" Mimete presented a dead flower to Mamoru.

"You should ask the research over there!" Usagi fumed, seeing Mimete pressed herself against Mamoru.

"I totally thought that he was the researcher." Mimete was nonplussed by the possessive blond. "You look so intelligent." she pushed Usagi aside. "If you don't mind, how about we have a conversation in private?"

"I'm sorry, but I'm here to spend time with my family." Mamoru rejected her flat-out. "They're my future wife and daughter." he pulled the two Rabbits to him. "Now, excuse us."

"Fine then." Mimete snapped. "I will have to take the Pure Heart by force."

"It's beginning to rain." Mayumi heard the thunder crackling overhead.

"This isn't rain." Hotaru gasped at the hailstone battering the glass roof. "It's a hailstorm!"

"This is bad." Kurebayashi gaped, seeing the glass walls shatter under the force of the hailstones and the electricity went down.

"We have a problem." Luna informed.

"Understatement." Mayumi muttered. "Mi'lady!" she turned to the shuddering Chibi-Usa who had huddled into a ball at the flash of lightning.

"I'll go find Kurebayashi!" Hotaru shouted and ran out after the botanist.

"Thanks." said botanist nodded, Hotaru helping him support a wooden board he was hammering to cover up the crack in the glass roof.

Just then, a spinning wooden stick knocked the step ladder off balance and sending both Kurebayashi and Hotaru to the floor.

"Work is work." Mimete alerted Kurebayashi of her presence. "The path to the chief executive is more important. I'll take your Pure Heart." she pointed to Kurebayashi. "Appear, Daimon!" she summoned Daimon U-Baulla.

Grabbing Kurebayashi by the front of his shirt, U-Baulla lifted the botanist off the floor and sucked out his Heart Crystal, swallowing it.

"Moon Prism Power, Make Up!" Chibi-Usa transformed behind the door. "Those who don't take good care of flowers, that's the type of people who will ruin the Earth." Sailor Chibi-Moon posed. "I am an apprentice Sailor Senshi of Love and Justice, Sailor Chibi-Moon! In the name of the future Moon, I will punish you!"

"A pesky little girl." Mimete sneered. "U-Baulla."

U-Baulla grew four roses from her fingers and tossed them at Sailor Chibi-Moon.

"Golden Arrow!" an golden energy arrow shot out, burning through the thrown roses. "I am the Guardian of the Hunt and all Wood-kind!" a Sailor Senshi in a silver-green sailor suit appeared beside Sailor Chibi-Moon. "Sailor Sagittarius is here to defend the future Princess!"

"I am the Sailor Senshi of Love and Justice, Sailor Moon!" Sailor Moon took the stage. "In the name of the Moon, I will punish you!"

"U-Baulla, kill every last one of them!" Mimete ordered.

"The Red Rose of Passion!" U-Baulla grew out thorns from her body and approached the Senshi.

"Pink Sugar Heart Attack!" Sailor Chibi-Moon fired her energy beam at the Daimon, hitting her on the face.

"What are you doing, losing to a little girl like that?" Mimete fumed.

"Beautiful roses are full of thorns!" U-Baulla tried again.

"Bow of the Moon!" Sailor Sagittarius charged up her bow. "Protection!" she put up an silvery energy shield in front of the two Sailor Moons and deflecting off U-Baulla's vines. "Mi'lady, where's Saturn-sama?"

"Saturn Planet Power, Make Up!" as if on cue, Hotaru transformed. The Death Senshi leapt at U-Baulla and stabbed her Glaive in the Daimon's back. "Death Scythe!" the blade of her weapon glowed and Sailor Saturn released the charged up energy into the Daimon's body, destroying her.

"That's why I'm not too thrilled about doing this." Mimete pouted and retreated.

"Now, that's what I call a back-stab." Sailor Uranus joked, the three Outer Senshi witnessed the fight from the background.


SailorStar9: Any OOC-ness is regretted. *Sighs* Don't you just hate plot bunnies sometimes? Read and review.