A/N: Hi again (￣▽￣*)ゞ
My inbox had been filling up with random kudos and follows and even a smattering of reviews from arcs one and two and I had this chapter 1/3 of the way written, so in the free time before this semester began, I started to work on this again! At the moment I have chapters 1-4 completed, but for fear of time repeating itself, I'm going to release one chapter a week so I hopefully don't go dark for months if my job and my graduate school stuff eats me alive again xD ((and if I finish everything I'll release them faster, hahaha...))
If you are unfamiliar with Cardinal King (a reversed AU centering on Mamoru as Cardinal King and the shitennou as his Heavenly Kings who protect the world against the Evil Queen and her Senshi Warriors), please use the Cardinal King Collection above to redirect yourself to the first arc (entitled simply "Cardinal King")! Also found in the collection is "Cardinal King One-Shots", a collection of stories set behind-the-scenes of the original work, filling people in about stuff going on in the background that Mamoru (our narrator) wasn't privy to at the time - and then there's the second story, "Cardinal King: Arc Two - Architects of a New World". This story starts seconds after arc two ends, so please give that a glance if you're confused about anything in the first chapter!
And now for some refreshers XD (I realize I didn't pick the easiest to keep track of names...)
-Present Name (Last First) - Past Life Name - Superhero Title (accent color(s)) - Guardian-
Chiba Mamoru - Prince Endymion - King of the Cardinal Rose (gold) - Taishakuten, Lord of the Center
Hanada Kaito - Zoisite - King of the North (green/black) - Tamonten, Lord who Hears All
Moegi Yuu - Jadeite - King of the South (red) - Zochoten, Lord who Expands
Midori Nero - Nephrite - King of the East (orange/green) - Jikokuten, Lord who Upholds the Realm
Kobai Khalid - Kunzite - King of the West (blue/white) - Koumokuten, Lord who Sees All
The "new" Heavenly Kings uniform (all identical but for accent colors for the piping!) is a black version of their Shitennou uniforms from season one of Sailor Moon. All of them wear the jacket buttoned up and pants tucked into their boots; around the buttons there's some fancy thread embroidery and the top button is their transformation pendant! For the double colors above, the main gem is the first color with veins of the second veined through (representing their original colors veined with their new power base color). Mamoru's is black with a golden lotus blossom insignia in the center with mini colored gems at the cardinal points to represent his team! Additionally, in this form they always have a black-backed half-cape coming off their left shoulders, rather than having a full cape only appear when they're falling. -this form was totally inspired by a fanart pic of jadeite from pgsm, shh-
The Senshi are all in their base forms, except Usagi is Princess Sailor Moon!
*Anyway*, here's the first chapter!
Energy whirled around them, pulling at all angles, ripping at his clothing and trying to pry him apart from everyone else, but he wasn't going to let that happen. He held tightly to Rin with one arm and Usagi with the other and prayed that the pressure points on his back where at least two of his friends clutched at the material of his new uniform would continue. The cacophony that buffeted his ears was nearly too loud to hear anything, but the spontaneous shrieks of the shapeshifters made his blood run cold. He was powerless as he was, only able to protect the two people in his arms, unable to even see what was coming in the crackling rush that surrounded them; all he could do was count the seconds and be prepared to act the moment this whirlwind released them.
One of the grips on the back of his shirt pushed him forward before releasing, and moments later he crashed into the ground, the hand behind Rin's head cushioning the kid's fall as much as he could, their trajectory such that Usagi landed on top of them, and someone else or two besides. He opened his eyes and started trying to disentangle himself to prepare to fight off the enemies that followed them, but it was no use - he was near the bottom of the dogpile, Usagi's hair complicating matters as white-gloved Senshi tried to get up while trying not to pull at the golden strands. He pulled Rin closer to protect him from well-meaning jostling and could not have been more relieved to hear East and North.
"Help them, I'll keep an ear out," North stated cautiously, his voice coming from behind them, closer to the direction they had come from.
"Got it," East said casually as he approached, then sounded from directly above as he politely offered, "Jupiter, may I?"
With her consent, followed quickly by a squeak of surprise, Jupiter was lifted directly off of them and Mamoru could look up and see more than thick brunette locks. Nero had taken a careful hold of the tallest senshi's bicep in one hand and had lifted her with his other hand beneath her stomach, almost directly upward, keeping green-booted toes grounded until she was upright and stable and looking a little bewildered at having been manhandled so easily, and then, beyond that, her expression seemed shadowed by something else, but it was gone before he could identify it. Together the pair of them helped Venus to her feet, the blonde careful not to put any more pressure on Usagi than necessary, and then finally Usagi was able to sit up and tried to sweep her mess of long hair away, one of her odangos having unraveled somewhere in the journey. Venus gently helped her stand and started pulling her hair back with practiced ease, and while the senshi's eyes were soft when looking at her princess, they were otherwise sharp and wary of their surroundings. Without words, Jupiter went off to take up a monitoring position and Nero offered him his hand to pull him to his feet before blue eyes squinted, staring off into the gloom in the direction opposite Jupiter. Once standing he quickly helped Rin too his feet, keeping the kid close as he looked around, with East close on his right. The Doom and Gloom girls couldn't be far.
The world around them was stark and barren, the fog that hugged thick and close to the ground the only thing in any direction, illuminated by half-light that seemed to have no direct source. Above them the sky - if there was one - seemed to just fade out of sight, all green and grey and disconcerting.
"Some future," East commented under his breath.
"This isn't the future," Rin replied defensively as he opened his palm to reveal the item he had been holding before: a small golden key. "It's the dimension of the Space-Time Door," he elaborated, holding the key aloft as a little pink light glowed from its tip; Rin moved it carefully and the light shone dimmer in one direction, brighter in another, then dimmer again. It must've been honed in on where he needed to go. The kid held it in the direction it shone brightest and confirmed Mamoru's suspicions: "The door's this way."
He nodded down to acknowledge him and looked back towards North. "The others?"
"They dropped off when a couple of the shapeshifters got too close," North stated.
"Mercury and Mars, too," Venus confirmed, "They'll be able to find us again;" she stated with certainty, immediately moving on to ask Rin "how safe is this Time Door?"
"It's safe," Rin replied, "Its Guardian is on duty, and no one is more powerful here than Sailor Pluto."
"Sailor Pluto?" Venus repeated, sharing a pointed look with Jupiter.
"Do you know her?" Usagi asked, putting the final pin in her hair. Mamoru felt foolish for it, but he couldn't help but notice she was still in the guise of Serenity; while the long gauzy dress suited her (and he had some fond memories with her in that dress), he was more used to seeing her in her school uniform or the short-skirted outfits she liked to wear - or, most recently, in her Princess Sailor Moon disguise - so the dress from memories that felt more like dreams, nostalgic and sweet, was like bringing a soft light into the gloom surrounding them. As she was, however, with nothing but a few layers of silky fabric between her and everything else, he felt he needed to be nearer to her, to guard her, but with Venus there she was well protected. Usagi caught him staring and winked at him; his cheeks flushed and he averted his gaze.
Venus didn't answer Usagi's question at first, but took her slight hand and brought her closer to him - well, to Rin in any case. "Let's keep moving," the leader of her guard decided, "they'll deal with the threat and catch up. Unless you need to provide your men with backup?"
She didn't necessarily state it as a slight against them, but she didn't not state it that way. Nero opened his mouth and took in a breath to answer but Mamoru put up his hand to stop him before he could let his emotions get away from him; the last thing they needed was another standoff, but he couldn't let her make a decision like that without knowing the details. After seeing West and East fight off the ghoulish figures after their power upgrade, he wanted to believe that the West and South could handle themselves against a shapeshifter, but he did not know how well Mercury and Mars would fare. "They may all need backup," he stated, meeting in the middle rather than making it a contest of teams as he invited her sharp gaze, "The shapeshifters are strong and fast and powerful; each time we faced them we outnumbered them and still barely made it out in one piece. Let's head back, regroup, and go for the door together."
She met his gaze coldly, "Just because your generals were unable to handle the problem doesn't mean my senshi can't. We're going to the door; if you feel you need to support your people then meet us there."
"Right," East cut in, crossing his arms, "Makes complete sense. We had problems with them so why would you? It's not like we've tested strengths before at some recent point in time and proved -"
"East!" North snapped, storming over to interrupt where that conversation was heading before Mamoru had the chance. He understood what set Nero off, but digging up that part of the past was no way to cement a working relationship, and - even if they didn't want to, which was not his intention at all - right now they had no other choice but to try to foster one. "I'm sure Venus only wants what's safest for her Princess and doesn't mean to insinuate anything untoward. However, she is operating with out-of-date information, and, before she commits herself to a difficult decision, I believe Usagi-chan has something to share?"
All eyes shifted to Usagi, who looked back at Kaito, completely unaware of what he meant. Mamoru smiled.
"Your transformation?" Kaito prompted quietly.
"Oh!" she lit up, twisting to face Venus head-on and take both of her hands and shake them excitedly, "I can transform! I'm a Senshi, now, too! Here, watch!" She took two steps backward, held her hand out to the side, swept it gracefully up over her head, and called out "Moon Princess Power, Make Up!" In a flash of cool light, Princess Serenity stood before them no more, in her place standing Princess Sailor Moon, her uniform similar in style to Venus's but for color and the addition of lace and pearl-string accents. She posed proudly before swooping in to grab Venus's hands again and jump enthusiastically. "Isn't it great?! Now I can fight with you guys!"
"And kick ass," Nero supported, reaching out to offer Usagi a high five, which she happily supplied. "West said you sent that shapeshifter packing before; with all of us together we'll zap 'em back to whatever hole they crawled out of!"
"So you see, Venus," North explained, but Venus's was obviously not paying him her attention. She had offered Usagi the faintest of smiles at being shown her transformation, but now she had only one target for her attention, and that was him: Chiba Mamoru. The gaze she pinned him with was a cold glare of accusation, quietly seething, her mouth a thin line that spoke volumes of her disdain. "You don't need to focus your entire attention on protecting Usagi-chan;" North continued, "she can, and has, fended for herself. We can go back for Mercury and Mars to ensure that we - all of us - get out of here and back to our own -" North froze, green eyes darting back towards the way they had come just as a spear materialized in his hand, his body language the only warning that Cardinal and East needed.
"Venus!" Jupiter shouted in warning, even as East dashed forward to meet the attack, his long brown hair and orange-backed black cape streaming behind him, stone-covered knuckles brought to bear against the winged changelings that barreled towards them.
"Trident!" North reminded sharply, running to take the second creature with his spear held out to his side, but East countered -
"Ramp!"
North stopped, aimed quickly, and a burst of ice shot from the tip of his spear and landed between East and the approaching creature; East jumped, landed on the tip of the ice and springboarded higher, sailing towards the green changeling and crashing down on top of her, stone knuckles brought to bear in a punching motion. There was a cracking sound at impact, and the "Doom and Gloom girl" plummeted to the ground ahead of Nero, hitting the stony surface so hard that ejecta shot out around her; East landed a split second later in the crater with another loud crack -
"Venus Crescent Beam!"
Light exploded in the gloom and the laser-like mass of ionized energy shot out from Venus's outstretched finger, aiming true for the body of the pink shapeshifter; it struck her, but the short-haired creature only twitched in her course, grinning widely as it called teasingly, "Heading home so soon, Little Red?"
Venus fired again as Jupiter ran to intercept its course, skidding to a stop between the creature and them and crossing her arms, "Jupiter Thunderbolt!" she called, and lightning seemed to strike her before it snaking out towards the flying monster, hitting it dead on, the energy pumping into the creature and crackling around it; it seemed paralyzed, its wings frozen and its body started to fall - but then they started beating again, and - with another sick grin that showed its muzzle and sharp, pointed teeth - it continued streaking towards them.
Sailor Moon's elbow brushed against his sleeve; their eyes met, and without words, he bent, scooped up Rin, and dashed in a tangential direction as Usagi's fingers hit the red gem in the center of the pearl tiara stretching across her forehead. "Twilight Flash!" she called, and bright cold light reflected out into the eyes of the approaching creature. As he ran, Rin's arms around his neck, he freed his right hand and summoned a rose, preparing to defend in case either of the creatures got too close. To anyone.
East sprung out from the shallow crater only for North to jump in, spear first, and immediately pop back out again. "Frozen!" he called, tearing after East as they redirected efforts to the remaining monster.
"They're stronger," Rin marveled quietly, his body twisted around to see.
Princess Sailor Moon had fanned out in the opposite direction, across from them, as she skidded to a stop - the lace in her skirt jerking and bobbing into place - he saw the crescent wand in her hand and he steadied Rin and dashed just a little farther out of the path the energy would take. "Moon... Princess…" she called, the silver crystal nestled in the crook of the wand starting to glow brightly in the gloom.
"Drop!" he shouted in warning, and North threw himself forward to tackle East to the ground.
"Supreme Thunder!" Jupiter quickly called again, momentarily paralyzing the creature again to keep it in place.
"Halation!" Blinding light, sparkling with energy, erupted from the end of the crescent moon wand, spreading ahead of her in a conal shape up and towards the recovering creature. It screamed as it was held in place by the immense energy of the silver crystal, but grew suddenly silent as its body disintegrated, simply blown away with the immense power of the attack. As the attack petered off and the light faded, the little wings that had served as the shapeshifter's tiara fluttered to the ground to top the pile of ash: the only thing left of an enemy that had harassed them so thoroughly before. Princess Sailor Moon lowered her wand slowly, her shoulders shaking as she breathed deeply from the effort of using her powers.
In the quiet moment following, East King, brushing his hair back out of his eyes from his position on the floor, enthusiastically called, "Yeah! What did I say?! She kicks ass!" causing Usagi to smile proudly. North, shaking his head, got off East and turned to get eyes on Mamoru before offering the brunet a hand up. Mamoru approached, the danger over, dropping the rose as he let Rin slide back down to the floor.
"It wasn't just me," Sailor Moon said, the wand disappearing, no longer needed. "Jupiter and Venus weakened it first; last time I tried that, she survived to mock me and fly away." She grinned at her friends, and while Jupiter smiled back with a small, incredulous shake of her head, Venus's smile was an empty thing - while outwardly fine, Mamoru noticed the way her jaw was set.
"You've definitely changed, Princess," Jupiter said fondly, placing her hand on Usagi's head between her twin buns, avoiding the little crown. "I like it," she added softly, and Usagi's eyes brightened.
"Well, that's two down," East stated, wiping his hands as though knocking dust from his gloves. "Two to go - the orange one and the purple one. Think West and South took care of them already, or should we circle back?" Nero looked back towards the crater expectantly, as though half-expecting them to materialize out of the gloom. Mamoru looked, too; Khalid had a sixth sense for dramatic entrances. Rin left his side to join Usagi, taking her hand in his.
North quirked a brow with a deadpan expression, raised his wrist, and a quick twist of thumb and forefinger, both his and East's communicators went off.
Right. Communicators. He tried to make as though he hadn't forgotten about them in the moment, adjusting the dials to noon to stop the beeping and open the channel as Nero muttered something about Kaito "being smart". Khalid's face popped into focus immediately, but Yuu wasn't answering yet.
West King reported succinctly, "Purple shapeshifter down; Mercury has located Mars and South and we're heading to intercept them now."
"Do you want us to wait for you?" North asked, glancing at Venus warily.
"Not necessary," Khalid replied, "Her computer can sense life-signs; we'll rendezvous when -" he paused, looking off-screen. "There." He moved to shut the screen, but just before he did they heard another voice, "Mercury Aqua Mist!"
Venus nodded her head sharply. "That's her screening attack. Kunzite will make short work of the remaining enemy and they'll meet up with us soon." She took a definitive step forward and walked in the direction Rin had earlier indicated, speaking with a tone that left no room to argue: "Let's find this 'Sailor Pluto' and get out of here."
There was no reason to argue with her - though East looked annoyed enough by her tone to try - so they followed, Rin holding the little key out ahead of him to periodically check its glow. He didn't know what to say at first; there were so many questions to ask, but whether he should ask them or not was the hold-up. Should they know more about their future? … especially if Rin was here specifically to change it? Would Rin even be returning to the world he knew, now that his goal of awakening the senshi had been met? Were they the key, then, to avoiding the future he had seen in Rin's past when he took his hand that day they met, only a week ago? … if they were the key, what did that say of the Kings? Were they… He swallowed. … But then Rin had commented on how much stronger they were - just now, in the fight against the two Doom and Bloom Girls. Maybe they had changed, too, between the past Rin knew and the future path they were now set upon. Was that how time operated, though? Wouldn't their present changing drastically from Rin's past alter Rin's present and potentially take him out of their time entirely? But that would, in turn, potentially change the reasons for their changes and - he had to stop thinking about that. The paradox potential for their situation nearly overwhelmed him, so he tried to put it aside and - failing that - put effort into coming up with distinct questions for Rin's Guardian when they found her.
They were joined by their missing party members not long after; Mercury and Mars wordlessly taking Jupiter's place ahead of them, the green senshi dropping back to be closer to Sailor Moon, standing to the outside of the group and keeping an eye open, though less warily than she had before Mercury had joined them. East fell into place beside South and the pair of them started talking quietly but animatedly; judging by East's shadowboxing, it was about the Doom and Gloom girls. Helios glided in beside him, taking his customary place, but he remained quiet.
"Where are we?" West asked quietly.
"The Dimension of the Space-Time Door," North dutifully replied, "We are heading towards the door and its Guardian, Sailor Pluto."
"Sailor Pluto?" Helios repeated, "I wasn't aware… there are more than the four?" the unisus looked expectantly towards Sailor Venus, apparently expanding his speech to include their team, but the golden-haired guardian remained quiet.
"They all had different missions," Rin offered quietly, "Venus, Jupiter, Mars, and Mercury are the Guardians - they protected the Moon Kingdom and Princess Serenity from threats born within the solar system. Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto protected the Moon Kingdom from threats originating outside the solar system." The kid's revelation was made with his head down, still staring at the key he held in his hands as he walked forward. Sailor Moon lightly put her hand on his shoulder, encouraging him to continue in his sudden willingness to answer questions -
"Where are Uranus and Neptune now?"
"Is there a Sailor Saturn?"
North and South asked simultaneously, the latter holding his hand up to stop East's story so he could better hear. East closed his mouth and started listening; Mamoru turned to Sailor Moon; Luna had mentioned these outer-system senshi in passing, but, if he remembered correctly, she had said they were not reborn.
Rin glanced up from the key to look at Venus, but she wasn't paying any attention to him, so he looked over to the Kings. "Uranus and Neptune are gone, and Saturn is locked within her planet."
"Gone?" North repeated, and Rin shrugged.
"That's what Luna said."
"You are in contact with Luna?" Venus asked, breaking her silence.
Rin nodded, admitting as though it were a secret, "Until a few months ago, when she went silent. I thought Helios had caught me and told her not to talk to me about that anymore, but now…" his hand gripped the key tighter, his voice catching as he continued, "I should have said something, but I thought I was in trouble and -" he sniffed, "and I thought Helios didn't talk to me about it because I knew I wasn't supposed to ask about them, but -"
He had started to cry, and that was about all Mamoru could take of that. He took two longer strides forward to catch up to the halting steps of the redheaded boy and knelt to get closer to his level. Rin stopped and hurriedly let go of the key with one hand to scrub at his eyes with the heel of his palm and Mamoru's heart ached just looking at him. "It's okay, Rin," he soothed, hesitantly reaching out for him, only then realizing he didn't have a lot of practice with this part, or role models he remembered well for this. Rin shook his head, taking deep breaths and holding them to force the tears away in a move Mamoru knew only too well, and he overcame the hesitation and pulled the kid to him in a hug. Rin was stiff, still trying to be strong, but he broke down after a moment, both hands wrapping to lock behind Mamoru's neck as he buried his face in the neck of Mamoru's uniform.
"It's all my fault," Rin cried, "If I had said something, it wouldn't have been able to get stronger, and they wouldn't have -" he broke off in a hiccupping sob, and as his arms pulled Mamoru closer, he responded to squeeze Rin a little tighter. He looked up and Usako was there, one gloved hand placed comfortingly into the mass of red hair. They rode out the worst of it, though they could only guess what Rin had meant or what he was going to say.
"You weren't supposed to know about the Sailor Senshi, Rin?" South asked, his tone carefully gentle; Rin took a deep breath and shook his head, still pressed into Mamoru's collar, and South continued, "Why not?"
"Ma-" he paused, catching himself before he continued, still speaking into Mamoru's chest, "My mother wanted to tell me about them, but I got impatient."
"That happens to everyone," East shrugged, coming up behind him, "and everyone makes mistakes, but not everyone tries to fix them, so you're already doing a lot better than most people out there." Mamoru tilted his head to see him, and Nero caught his eye for just a second before looking back at the mass of red hair, "You done crying? I'll give you a ride for a bit if you are, but if you're not then you're walking - my hair isn't a handkerchief, got it?" Rin's hold around his neck started to loosen, and Nero took that as an answer, crouching down to accept him and pulling his hair to one side. "Limited time only, kid. Offer to be the tallest person here expires in five, four, three -" Rin let go and stepped back, moving around without looking at Mamoru towards Nero, "- wipe the tears first - two - ow! Watch the hair, remember?" he chided, and Mamoru got to his feet as Rin maneuvered his arms and legs around Nero's mass of wavy brown hair as East finished the countdown and shot to his feet to jostle Rin into holding on tight. "One and we're off. Which way does that key point?" he asked, immediately setting off in the wrong direction.
The rest of them started to move again, heading in the correct direction as East continued to play dumb with Rin, heading one way then the other and cheering him up as the senshi gathered a little closer to hear an explanation. West offered what he could, succinctly explaining Rin's sudden appearance and what he had admitted to on the rooftop not half an hour before - that he was Prince Mamoru Lord Endymion, son of King Endymion and Neo-Queen Serenity of Crystal Tokyo, and he had traveled back in time for the single reason of awakening them. He added that the creatures they had just disposed of had been after him since his arrival, and, as East careened by with Rin on his shoulders, the kid holding onto his head as the King leaned precariously to one side in a half-run, North asked Mamoru to recall again what he had seen when he first took Rin's hand, the context of his being from the future giving them far more insight than they had had before.
Mamoru described the scenes again: the first, with the woman alone atop a tower, the scene shaking with explosions all around her, lit from the front by a bleaching white light; the second, with the burning city in chaos and the oppressive feeling from above; and the third, with Rin being chased in darkness.
"Chased by the Doom and Gloom girls," North surmised, "Was it here?"
He closed his eyes, recalling the image, and ultimately shook his head. "It didn't have the mist and the openness this place has."
"The burning city and the tower has to be Crystal Tokyo," Jupiter mused, "and the bright light and explosions - could that be what caused the chaos in the city below?"
"Maybe," Mars said, but continued in a different direction. "He said he came back to our time to awaken us, right?" she asked rhetorically, and South nodded to urge her to continue, "So, in his time, we were not part of any of this - now we will be, so will any of this come to pass, then? Especially with our knowing what we do now?" She turned to find Rin and East, "We should learn as much about this as we can, and that way none of this should happen and he should walk right back to a happy ending and whatever evil caused the chaos in those visions won't have the chance to do that."
"Hmn," Mercury hummed thoughtfully, "but would it work like that? We did not awaken in Rin's past, so Rin coming back to our time must have served as a catalyst for this change; if we fix whatever's happening in his time before it happens, he would have no reason to come to the past to awaken us."
"A paradox," North nodded.
"A what?" Sailor Moon asked, looking up at North and then him.
"A self-contradiction," he explained, only too familiar with this chain of thought. "If Rin travelling back to our time caused the senshi to awaken, then they would already be awake in his time so he wouldn't come back to ours to wake them up."
"...So then they wouldn't wake up in our time and wouldn't be awake in his time so he would come back to our time and wake them up but then they would… oh." Her brows furrowed cutely, and he wished he could make it simpler than that, or solve this outright, but that was the paradox. But then her expression cleared, "But he didn't make you guys wake up, did he?"
They looked at each other, and Jupiter shook her head. "I… I was in my apartment. The power was out and the wind was howling and making the windows shake, and then it all died down and there was a bright flash of light and I… remembered. I knew it was you, and that you were in trouble."
Mercury nodded along, indicating a similar story, "I knew him from your introduction of him, but beyond seeing him in the arcade I never ran into him."
"It was the Silver Crystal that awakened us," Venus stated definitively, "not him."
"Then maybe this paradox isn't even a thing?" Sailor Moon suggested, "The Silver Crystal woke them up, not Rin, so…" her idea lost steam.
"He's already come to our past, Usagi-chan," South said quietly, "I -"
But whatever he was going to say was cut off by two cries - one higher pitched than the other - and they all turned to find that East and Rin had traveled beyond their range of vision. West took off towards the sound, his sword in hand, and Mercury had her computer up and her fingers flew across the keys; he and the other Kings followed after West -
"North by northwest!" Mercury shouted in warning, "Energy's building!"
"Get down!" Venus shouted, and behind him he heard a sharp oof! as one of her senshi tackled Princess Sailor Moon to the ground.
"Dead… Scream."
A/N: Thank you for reading Chapter 1!
BEFORE CONTINUING THOUGH, (*_ _)人 a pre-apology for potentially reusing things in this arc that I had used in the original arc XD I mixed and matched season elements in arcs 1 and 2 and so now I'm on 3 and I may end up reusing my favorite schticks for teh drama and I know that can get annoying but, like, I can't not so ... (シ_ _)シ
|･д･)ﾉ And please forgive any senshi characterization issues! They're stressed as hell and terrified of messing up again and trying their best with a princess who now thinks she's a powerful warrior and maybe she is a powerful warrior but what does that mean for them and their duty and life just got hard for them okay? poor bbs.
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