Ranma 1/2 is the creation of Rumiko Takahashi and Sailor Moon is the creation of Naoko Takeuchi. This fan-fiction isn't intended for commercial use but is rather a tribute to Ranma 1/2 and Sailor Moon.

This is a continuation of Saotome Ranma, Wiseman Book 1 which should be read first as otherwise little will make sense.

Chapter 1 – Sailor Nemesis

It was hard to tell who was more nervous, Hotaru or Mistress 9. Ranma had figured out that Mistress 9 wasn't feeding so much on ki but converting it into something she could actually "eat" - soul energy. It was sobering to realize that possible future version of himself had actually made a mistake even with 1000 years under his belt.

Mistress 9 had even figured out that converting yin ki was an option – something Ranma himself had overlooked. She had gotten so good that she and Hotaru felt they could attempt to enter the yin ki pocket reality of the Phoenix Republic. But as a safety measure Eclipse was coming along with her just completed Ginzuishou crystal with the hope its passive yang ki would be enough to give them time to get Mistress Saturn (as everyone had become to call the pair) out before something bad happened.

Speaking of something bad happening there was the fourth member of this happy little group - Bishop Shirayanagi Seiichi. Ranma wasn't looking forward to the meeting that man and Beryl were going to have. Ranma shook his head. He had to be careful how far he went with those lines of thought as he risked going Nekoken and having Princess Morganite take control. An 8 year old mind in possession of his current skills and power was frightening enough but when it was in "defense" of her sister – just best not to have that happen.

The whole thing was a little too close to one Genma's 'do and hope it doesn't blow up in your face' ideas for Ranma's liking but Beryl was pushing herself to a level where she really need to be healed quickly to continue her training. Then you have the fact that since Neith (Rei) went to a Catholic School the youma had developed an interest in that religion as well as Buddhism. Sure there was Father Bozy but the youma respected hierarchy and Bishop Shirayanagi Seiichi had to be shown that the archive weren't holding the souls of dead youma. Ranma would love to find out what baka had started that story and read them the riot act. They were called memory crystals not soul crystals for a reason.

Stepping through the portal they saw Queen Beryl, in her Sailor Nemesis outfit, sparring with a youma. Ranma frowned as he looked at the figure made from Hard Thought that now stood beside Beryl's throne. Created by Beryl herself as a place to keep Beryl's "extra set of clothes" it stood there with Beryl's dress in its outreaching arms and her crown on its head.

It had quickly become clear Beryl hadn't stopped being obsessive – she'd just changed what she was obsessive about. Beryl had taken a page from Eclipse's, no Usagi's bookand was taking steps to create a new identity for herself. The problem was Beryl was also referring to herself in the third person as Usagi did regarding Sailor Moon as if they were two totally different people. Ranma wasn't sure, but his instincts were telling him that that wasn't exactly healthy. But it wasn't like there was anyone at the dojo that could really objectively confirm this.

Nabiki had become desensitized to the whole thing and thrown herself into being the head of Chapter 13 with the same vigor she had with regards to her batting pools and the like. As for everybody else at the dojo...they were all "broken" in some way. Pops was having an existential crisis regarding his training of Ranma...as well as being more afraid of the youma then Grandmaster Pervert and had become as youma spar happy as Beryl...maybe more so. His mother had memories of an alternate version of himself in her head and they were definitely effecting her behavior and perception of things. With regards to perception Kasumi was so easy going that if Pinhead from the Hellraiser movie series showed up he would be surprised if she didn't ask if he wanted some tea and so took everything around her as "normal"...or at least appeared to do so. After all wasn't there that saying about the quiet ones? He and Akane had the memories of other people rattling around in their heads and so their perception was "off". The Sailor Sensei were effectively gone; with the exception of Hotaru they had been replaced with (in theory) part time youma as the remaining three had used the Pool of Drowned Youma water and would deride their old Sailor Sensei identities as "boosted pieces of food" as much as the first five had. Worse yet Ranma couldn't remember when any of them had used hot water rather then their shapeshifting ability to be human.

The only good thing had been that other then Herb and Safuran none of the insanity that Purple Wiseman had related had shown up...yet. Herb was friendly and now he was unlooked had quickly learned the ki manipulation to activate and deactivate his curse. Pops was trying to learn the technique but so far he keep messing up and turning himself into what Ranma had been told was copy of an American manga (they supposedly called them comic books) character called the Human Torch...though Ranma felt Set Himself on Fire Man was a more accurate name. Safuran on the other hand still remained a cypher. He still had contempt from anyone who couldn't fly under their own power but did have some respect for someone who could fly without wings.

Beryl help up her hand. "Looks like our sparring will have to wait." Looking at the bishop as the youma stepped back she sighed. "I believe you are here to talk to the lovesick revenge crazed egoistical idiot that use to rule this place with an iron hand. Just a moment."

Beryl then sent over to the statue and removed the crown. She then removed her wig and mask putting it on the statue. As she reached for the dress Ranma spoke. "We could do without your lack of modesty."

Beryl chuckled. "That is something I need to relearn. Well when you live with humans who generally run around nude with the ability to shapeshift so none of the naughty bits are there you get to where you forget you do have naughty bits." Turning to the group she gestured. "Wise...Ranma told me you would like to look at the crystal archive as well giving me a dressing down for the way I behaved for the last 12,000 years."

"That and I want to know about Teki and the youma that were with her you sent to Earth."

Beryl frowned. "I just confirmed that Danburite's group of youma were the basis for the Egyptian pantheon with their decedents likely being the Egyptian pantheon. I really don't want to deal with the idea that a youma I sent to Earth is the basis for Satan."

Ranma frowned. "But, you have her memory crystal."

"Which she, who knows how, has blocked access to. Not even those descended from the youma that broke away and formed their own clans can access her memories. That along with the fact it glows like she is still alive worries me. Especially given what was related about...that thing that founded Anything Goes."

"Speaking of the ki draining Old Pervert I wonder what he is up to."

~*~*Toyko, Japan*~*~

Happosai was use to running away from enraged women...but an enraged father with a shotgun...well that was very different. One good thing...the man had seemed to have run out of ammunition a while ago as he was now using the gun like a club. Of course there was still the crowd of enraged women out for his blood. 'Now where...' thought Happosai as he rounded a corner. 'Oh there they are. This is going to hurt.'

Standing on a rooftop grinning like the Chestier Cat as Happosai got pummeled was Chronos Aeon. "Got to love it when a plan comes together," she said aloud. With Crystal Tokyo off the table and the Time Space Door about as useful as a Magic 8 ball thanks to too many future variables she had gotten bored; so she had made Happosai her current "project".

Chronos Aeon then frowned. The Time Space Door refusing to work because the AI wanted to mess with her was one thing but this...well it was something else. Via text the Time Space Door showed it was frustrated as well; having some idea when Sailor Galaxia showed up would give them a better time table on how fast and hard they needed to train. She could have the gates form a construct so she could talk to them like a normal person but that would remind her too much of the Sailor Pluto construct from Purple Wiseman's timeline.

The fact the Time Space Door seemed to show frustration made her even warier of having it form a construct. What safeguards that existed to prevent her or another one else from abusing the Gate's power were totally useless if the Gate itself could sent a construct through space and time as they had seen with Purple Wiseman's timeline. Chronos hoped their world had diverged far enough that neither it or the Doom Phantom could come back.

"Don't have a more constructive way to relieve the boredom?" asked a now familiar voice.

"Hello, Jadeite." sighed Chronos not bothering to turn around. "Anything more on the false flag operation in England?"

"Nothing. I have given the governments of highly populated nations a method to detect direct youma energy drain. Now I will just have to wait for the reports to come in and try to clean up any mess some of our old guard youma are causing and hopeful get something on who is behind the other ki energy drains." Jadeite signed. "I would prefer if we had more time to train. I think I have come up with an idea."

Chronos turned around. "It isn't Genma level of crazy is it?"

Jadeite chuckled. "No. But it is...daring. Even if the Time Space Door can't do this I think the Stargates might be able to pull it off. The whole thing depends on time being asynchronous on the two ends."

Chronos frowned and then her eyes widened "Go to an alternate timeline and train there while time here is slowed down relative to it."

Jadeite nodded. "There are a lot of logistics. First, just how powerful are the two crystals on their own as anything we leave here will be off the resource table."

Chronos nodded. "As demonstrated by Death Reborn Revolution insanely powerful. Heck, Thoth has even started calling the Moon Kingdom's ki based technology 'Clarktech' due to how many physical laws it appears to break."

"Like the Stargates themselves," commented Jadeite. "We've seen with the creation of the Dark Kingdom that they had the ability to create pocket realities with more then three physical dimensions."

"Who knows what they have now."

"There may be no remnants of the Moon Kingdom to have anything."

Chronos frowned. "You think Queen Serenity's bungling killed everyone on the worlds of the Moon Kingdom? Possible, but even if so they certainly would have been resettled in the 12,000 years since then."

"Only if they could resettle them. Everything we know about the Moon Kingdom shows that effectively all their technology was ki based...including the energy needed to make Earth's Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Pluto able to support life as well as the huge space stations that orbited Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune."

A look of total horror formed on Chronos' face.

"I see you are realizing the implications of my theory. We have assumed all the energy found in the Ginzuishou was from the people on the planets. But was if that energy also supplied their life support systems?"

Chronos' expression got grim. "That would mean instead of a quick painless death the people of Venus and space stations would have suffered a painful lingering death as their populations could likely not provide the energy reserves needed to keep everything functioning." Chronos cocked her head "But we know from Ami's test of the Time Space Door that the Palace had been turned into a memorial. You can't do that on a totally dead world."

"But what if the Palace was in a recently constructed dome?"

Chronos frowned in thought. "So what are you suggesting?"

"The Time Space Door can see that reality. I say we use it to a little general scouting of Earth. After that we can decide if we want to go there and do a more detailed examination and find out as much as we can of what is going on there."

~*~*About an hour later*~*~

"The plan itself is sound but given how past operations have gone...well you will understand my nervousness in implementing this idea," said Nabiki.

"I admit as plans goes this does have the feel of what I would in desperation slap together to keep Beryl happy," commented Jadeite. "But it is very different in that we know next to nothing about that other reality and we have a good indication they have been messing around in ours."

Chronos appeared a frown on her face.

"Bad news?" asked Nabiki.

"More like weird news," stated Chronos. "Asside from a few differences history of that other reality is effectively identical to our own until the launch of Sputnikin 1957. Thanks to Galileo seeing the remains of the Palace on the Moon 1610 the space race was even more fast paced then in our reality."

"With clear evidence of a civilization on the moon that should have sent everybody into 'get there before the Soviets do' mode," commented Nakiki.

"Right, though in the long term it didn't matter as the US landed on the moon on the same date as in our reality. But it was after Neil Armstrong made his "One small step for Man one large step for Mankind" statement that things went sideways as the surface was found to be covered in dead bodies ." Chronos paused and then sighed. "He found the remains of the Sailor Scouts when he reached the Palace though my counterpart's body was missing."

"So my dome theory was correct?"

"Yes, it was started in the late 1970s as there was more reason to settle the moon then in our reality. The US grabbed every piece of tech they could get their hands and started trying to reverse engineer it. As a result their computer technology is about a decade ahead of our own. Things settled down into a kind of modernity until stories about girls running around in outfits fitting the descriptions of those found on the moon started coming out of Japan."

"I take it something is blocking you from getting more details," commented Nabiki.

"Their Time Space Door. Something caused it to go into total lockdown and to block any attempts at looking at anything after their Usagi became Sailor Moon."

"How'd that happen?" asked Nabiki. "I thought we got the Moon Kingdom's tech."

"Remember that one of the ideas thrown out was we got their old tech. I had Thoth with me in case we needed to do a scan and she found a mixture of Dark Kingdom, Black Moon, Pharaoh 90 energy, and Time Space Door energy."

Nabiki groaned putting her head in her hand. "You do realize for that to have happened they have to have their own, and likely superior, versions of the Ginzuishou and Jakokusuishou."

"Yes," Chronos paused and closed her eyes "Our Time Space Door can only see their present...and it doesn't look good. It looks like nearly every major martial artist we know of is at the Tendo dojo training...for something." Chronos opened her eyes and Jadeite and Nabiki tensed at the anger and pain they could see in them. "Nabiki, you only have one shrine here, right?"

Nabiki paled. "How many shrines in that other world did you see?" she asked a coldness forming in the pit of her stomach.

"Two. I also saw Soun, Kasumi, and your counterpart."

"This shrine… its for Akane isn't it?"

"From what I was able to put together from what they said, yes. She was murdered...by some Sailor Senshi and Ranma has declared a blood feud on them….all of them. And yet Sailor Saturn is with them."

"Perhaps they don't know she is Sailor Saturn." said Nabiki as her eyes turned hard. "Our Sailor Senshi would never outright murder..."

"Uranus and Neptune would if it achieved what they felt was the greater goal. There is a reason Georgium Sidus and Mazu call them the Triggerhappy Twits."

"That is something that bothers me and I think it bothers Ranma," stated Jadeite frowning. "The Japanese barely deal with their actions in WWII with many text books glossing over or even entirely skipping key events like Manchuria and Nanjing. Many of you go one step further and talk about your past actions as if they were done by entirely different and separate people."

"On a practical level what can we do, Jadeite? The Sailor Senshi were the pariah boogie man for youma for generations. When they showed up in the flesh… all that come to the forefront."

"The disconnect is all that you feel is keeping some youma form trying to put you into the ground," sighed Nabiki.

"Well it isn't totally unreasonable," commented Chornus. "Sailor Moon and her friends were sending youma to their ancestors for nearly seven months. That certainly wouldn't win her any friends in the Dark Kingdom."

Jadeite snorted. "You re forgetting one key fact. They all were Terms...youma who if they had lived would eventually have a future where they would be laying on the ground in agony coughing up their own guts as black goo until they died. Better a quick death via Moon's Glowing Frisbee of Death then that."

Chronos narrowed her eyes. "All? But what about Morga, Balm, and Furau?"

"They were in the very early stages. The aches and a little bit of black goo when they coughed." Jadeite sighed. "I knew Beryl was eager to get out of the Dark Kingdom and so used a term for my first project as there were a lot of gaps in my reconnaissance. Based on what happened I figured continuing to use Terms until I found out what went wrong was prudent. When it became known a Sailor Scout was involved, even though it wasn't a familiar one, I had to keep Beryl from going Hard Thought on my ass (that eventually blew up in face) and deal with Terms coming out everywhere to have a crack at gathering energy. The Pool of Drowned Youma gave you the form but not the culture."

"True, but Sailor Senchi culture I do know. And if Sailor Moon is using Uranus and Neptune as her advisors then she and the Scouts of that world need to be shut down. Hopefully by non lethal means."

"Great idea. But given how Ranma feels about Akane how do we stop their Ranma from trying to literally rip their freaking heads off?" Jadeite asked a hint of amusement in his voice.

Nabiki chuckled. "Oh I know of way to get him and my counterpart off the 'kill them' bandwagon. Our main issue will be deciding who goes."

"Don't you mean getting Ranma to agree to this borderline insanity?" asked Jadeite.

"You haven't looked into Ranma's past. I have. He's done crazier things."

"Do I want to know?" asked Jadeite.

"Not really." said Chronos and Nabiki together.

~*~*Some time later*~*~

"Chronos," said Genma frowning, "this piece of insanity sounds like something I used to come up with...while drunk."

"Pops, it is not like we are going to go in there freaking blind," sighed Ranma. "We set up a Stargate and talk to them and get their side of what the blazes is going on in their world. Besides we need to give them some idea of what kind of powers the Sailor Senshi have."

"But as you pointed out this is a different world."

"Which is why after talking to them we do some leg work and gather information the old fashioned way," growled Eclipse as she lowered her head. "It doesn't help that odds are we got their hand me down tech and they have the more recent and likely more powerful stuff. We have seen what an over idealistic somewhat naive person did with it in trying to "fix" the world with our version." Eclipse looked up her eyes hard and cold "I don't want anything even remotely similar to that level of power in the hands of a counterpart that could have, for what ever reason, turned into some kind of homicidal nutjob."

"The thing is our version is the one Queen Serenity was holding when everything went pear shaped," said Ranma. "Why would she being using old and likely obsolete technology in a major battle?"

Gernma chuckled, "Ranma has a point. Even at my worst I was never that dumb. Heck, given the ki that thing cranks out I would have kept both on my person to keep fit enough to keep improving the boy's skill."

"As it was you went to pot," commented Eclipse.

"Aside from a few techniques so dangerous I sealed them Ranma got to my skill level years ago."

"Just how dangerous are we talking about, Pops?" asked Ranma clearly worried.

"Think of throwing a ki swipe composed of pure vacuum. Effectively very poor man's close combat Death Reborn Revolution if I understand the basic ki principal of that thing enough."

Ranma gave a low whistle. "No wonder you sealed it."

"That may have been why Queen Serenity was using the old tech; the new version was too powerful," commented Eclipse.

"The thing is the energy I detected is far lower then what I would expect," said Chronos. "Though everything else points to us getting the old tech. For example, when I had Tho...Ami look through the scientific and medical archives of the first 5000 years of the Moon Kingdom and she found were wiped from the Mercury Computer. If that wasn't enough the computer has an internal clock that records the time since it was first turned on. It worked out to be roughly 57,000 years."

"It also means somebody wanted to memory hole that information real bad," commented Nabiki.

"Memory hole?" asked Ranma puzzled.

"Reference to an English novel called 1984 where history is continuously rewritten."

"Perhaps," started Jadeite clearly in thought. "Yes, that would make sense. We have all been working on the assumption the new technology was superior to the old. What if it wasn't?"

"You're saying the Moon Kingdom was in decline?" asked Eclipse.

"It would answer the one question that has always bothered me – why did Queen Serenity after so many millennium behave in what has to be the most wreck-less way possible? You simply don't do that...unless your empire is in trouble. As in danger of collapsing under its own weight trouble."

"That would explain a lot," commented Chronos. "In fact, the one thing I have seen going over this Earth's history is empires, like the people that make up them, are born, grow up to hit a zenith, grow old declining along the way, and then die. Why should the Moon Kingdom be any different? Heck, Rome the longest lived Empire this Earth ever saw, at best lasted only 1,400 years and that is ignoring all the internal problems it had."

"But in the some 50,000 years it was around you were only the second Sailor Pluto," commented Nabiki.

Chronos grimly chuckled. "None of the other Senshi had my lifespan. The only one that came close was Saturn and likely for the same reason." Chronos then frowned. "Which now I actually think about it doesn't really make sense."

"Why not?" asked Ranma. You don't want that kind of insane power being used by someone new every 100 years or so."

"Yet, the most powerful of them all did exactly that," said Jadeite.

"The crystal is too powerful," commented Eclipse, "It's bad enough that kind of power is in the hands of one person; the last thing you want to do is give then enough time to figure out all the nuances of that power." Eclipse sighed. "All this speculation is pointless. We need to go in there and find out who or more likely what is behind the false flag operation that was going on in London and make sure it stops interfering with our world."

"That is the only reason I am even considering going along with this insanity," said Nabiki sighing. "Ok how do we go about this?"

~*~*Another Tendo Jojo*~*~

Ranma and the others in the Tendo back yard were startled as the ground started to shake. "Its an earthquake!" said Ryoga. "No, it isn't! Look!" exclaimed Ranma pointing to one side of the dojo's remains.

Everyone got into defensive stances as a crystal circle rose out of the group shaking everything in the area as it rose. Even when the circle was fully formed the shaking continued as a crystal ramp formed in front of the circle and a crystal podium beside it. Finally the shaking stopped.

"What is that thing?!" asked Nabiki.

Ranma took a step forward only to have his way blocked by Cologne's staff. "Son-in-law open your ki senses."

Ranma nodded and then took a step back. "Kama sama the ki coming off that thing is insane."

"It worse then that," said Cologne Ranma swearing that he could pick up some fear in the Old Ghoul's voice. "That thing is giving off more energy then Saffron, the most powerful being I know of. A being so powerful that many regard him as a god as when he dies he is reborn as a child. That is why his kingdom is called Phoenix Mountain. Anything that could create this would be able to squish Saffron like a bug."

"Ahhh. Great grandmother look. Yin-yang symbol is starting to spin."

Everyone watched as the symbol spun faster and faster until it looked like a gray circle. Then the circle face revealing a very familiar yard a figure in black robe a tall woman in a formal dress with various humanoid but clearly not human figures around them.

"Those..." began Hotura.

"Look like some of these things that have been killing people." growled Uyko.

"Sounds like things are even worse then we saw, Wiseman," said the woman.

"No surprise there, Mistress Saturn. We knew from our history that the Sailor Scouts weren't going to be the only things we were going to have to deal with."

Cologne frowned. "Son-in-law. This Wiseman is using ki to alter his voice but I recognize it."

"So you know who this guy is? Great. Who is he?"

"He's you."

"I told you that you didn't have the skill to hide your identity from my counterpart," said a very familiar voice with humor in it. Everyone blinked as another Cologne came to stand beside Wiseman.

"What the?" begun Ranma.

"This isn't trick or illusion," said Wiseman removing his hood revealing Ranma's face. "I am you...and yet I am not."

"Mind explaining that piece of nonsense to us, "Saotome"?" asked a clearly skeptical Nabiki.

"It isn't nonsense, my dear," said another familiar voice as another Nabiki with one of the strange humanoids beside her came along side Wiseman. "Kama sama this is creepy as all get out," the other Nabiki muttered.

"Brings a whole new meaning to talking to yourself doesn't it?" asked the other Cologne.

"Guys, you are wasting time and if there is one thing that counterpart still believes is that time is money. So let's cut to the chase. Does anyone on your side of the Stargate know anything about Many Worlds Theory?"

"Stargate? And what is this Many Worlds Theory?" asked Ranma.

The other Nabiki sighed. "Given the blank expression everyone else's face I take that as a no. Figures. Ok here are the cliff notes as it were."

~*~*Author's Note*~*~

"Clarktech" is a term coined and used by Isaac Arthur on the rare occasions he explore impossible (by our physics) technology like FTL, solid Dyson Spheres (dyson swarms are totally viable by our understanding), time travel, and the like. In general his Youtube channel focuses on realistic space travel and assumes that if there are civilizations out there they are way beyond our light cone to see or haven't advanced to the point where they are noticeable by our technology.

If the world the Gray Moon Clan is visiting sounds familiar that is because it based on Fire's Vengeance and a Half which "ended" on a sort of psudo cliffhanger.