"Usagi!"

Mamoru peeked his head into the living room and caught sight of his lovely young wife. Usagi squealed, leapt up from the couch where she had been watching TV and ran over to him, wrapping her arms around him in a big hug. "Oh, Mamo-chan!"

The dark-haired prince chuckled, returning the hug. "What's got you all excited, Usako?"

"Oh, just life. You know, being happy to be alive. Oh, and the ambassadors got back to me today. The president approved of my proposal! We're on the way to building Crystal Tokyo! Can you believe it?!"

"Really? Usako, this is amazing! We're finally going to bring peace to the world! And it took us only twenty years to start!"

"Mamoru!" Usagi playfully slapped Mamoru's chest, making him laugh, which made her laugh too.

"Usagi!"

"Wow, everybody wants me today!" Usagi giggled and curtsied. "Yes, good citizen, how may I help you?" She and Mamoru laughed harder.

Luna humphed. "Usagi, this isn't the time for playing around! I've just discovered something that could call the entire future into question!"

The Moon princess gasped. "What? Just now? But I finalized the constitution for Crystal Tokyo only two hours ago!"

"Who is it this time?" Mamoru asked, biting his lip.

"It's not another enemy," Luna replied, "but it is something very significant... We should probably get the other Senshi as well."

"A twin brother?! Are you for real, Dani?" Rei screeched. "The last thing we need is another Usagi on our hands!"

The on-screen image of Daniko Gintari rolled her eyes. "Chill out, Rei, it's not that bad. Besides, twins aren't completely the same, even if they are born identical."

"Which they're not," Makoto mused. "I wonder if he's a super-hot jock. Huh, Usagi? Whadd'ya think, having a hunk for a baby brother?"

Usagi sighed. "Are you absolutely sure, Daniko? I don't recall my parents saying anything about a missing twin brother in all my life."

"That's just it, nobody remembers him. I went and checked the database for Silver Millennium, and I found a birth certificate with his name and yours on it. Plus birthdates and height, weight, eye and hair color - you know, the usual. But there aren't any other records for him. It's like he disappeared entirely from the kingdom but no one knew about it, almost as if he'd never existed. Well, except for the certificate. I'm sending that to you guys, by the way. There's weird energy emanating from it, and I think you should check it over, Rei."

"Will do," the raven miko replied.

Haruka leaned over and whispered in Michiru's ear, "Think she cursed it herself?"

"I heard that." Daniko narrowed her eyes. "Look, I get it, I completely get it. You still don't trust me. Heck, I was surprised I trusted myself after the whole Chaos debacle, but your princess gave me another chance, okay? It's been twenty years, this stuff should be old by now."

"Sorry," the blonde Outer Senshi mumbled. "Old habits die hard, I guess."

"'S okay."

Usagi frowned. "Let's get on this right away; the sooner, the better. Rei, like she said: energy analysis on the certificate. You too, Ami, anything you can calculate about it, we need. Setsuna, maybe a time scan is in order. Daniko, start looking for individuals who might match up. Do you think we could do a DNA test to narrow our search?"

"I'll see what I can do, your Highness."

"Right. Everyone, you've got your jobs, get started as soon as you can."

"Got it," the Senshi chorused.

"What do you think happened to him, Mamo-chan?" Usagi asked as the couple lay in bed that night.

"I'm not really sure. I mean, disappearing without a single trace? And no one remembered him? That's new. Although... maybe no one wanted to remember him."

"How can we know, though? I don't understand."

Mamoru kissed the top of her head. "We'll find him, Usako. I promise."

Usagi sighed and snuggled deeper into the sheets. "I hope so, Mamo-chan. I hope so."

Somewhere in upstate New York a young man woke up with a start. He gasped and sat bolt upright in his bed. Looking around, he blinked, shook his head, and got up to get ready for the day.