It's always something!

For the past three years, our enemies have tried to steal our life energy, pure hearts, dreams, potential star seeds... but now, they're trying to destroy hope! A hope in a Higher force and a happy afterlife. There's nothing wrong with believing in it - and what's with all the weird things in the news lately?

I'm Sailor Moon - ready to face whatever comes our way!

Several months have passed since Usagi's peaceful triumph against Galaxia and the Starlights departed with their princess. Save for the new courses and technology, nearly nothing else appeared to have changed for the Sailor Senshi.

It began as any other a free day before school the next morning. But for the Sailor Senshi, and many more, it turned out to be one of the most traumatic and frightening days of their lives.

The Senshi, their comrades and many of their friends were about to embark on an incredible journey they'd never could've imagined.

Ami and Makoto

Makoto had taken Ami to a new coffee shop she'd discovered run by an affable foreign couple. They'd just made their orders and were leafing through the magazines.

" 'Could a one world currency be far behind?' " Makoto Kino or as her friends called her 'Mako', read the cover then rolled her green eyes. "Now there's a bad idea."

Ami Mizuno picked up another one, "Dr. Chaim Rosenzweig… newsmaker of the year." She read the article. "This is quite interesting. He's a chemist that created a miraculous formula, which enabled lush vegetation growth even in areas and climates were such growth would be impossible, this has made Israel a rich nation and a prime target for countries who desired to get their hands on the formula."

"That IS big." Mako nodded, impressed.

"There's more right here." Ami held up a magazine and read the lines whilst explaining, "According to the article, the reporter was present when Russia launched an all-out assault on Israel to annihilate the nation."

"Oh-oh!" Mako expressed.

"Israel would've been destroyed except… ice and hailstones the size of golf-balls poured from the sky. Followed by a tremor, but that's not the strangest thing."

"Then what was?"

"In the entire city there was not a single casualty. Anything atomic erupted high up in the atmosphere. While the downed fighters fell between buildings and in deserted streets or fields. Ancient walls had been leveled but there was not a scratch on anyone or anything in all of Israel. And the fallen missiles either harmlessly fell apart or refused to detonate."

Mako let out a low whistle. "That is beyond weird."

The two girls became a little somber, for in the back of their minds they feared it could mean a sign of things to come.

"Sorry about the delay girls, hope I didn't leave you waiting too long." The server, an apple cheeked server came up with their orders.

"No, it's ok."

"Having a tough morning?"

"More like worrying about… things." Mako said a little sheepishly.

"Ruminating would be the proper word." Ami explained.

The server smiled sympathetically. "Girls, what you two need is a big old hug from God."

Ami and Mako smiled warmly at the sentiment.

"That's very nice of y-"

But before she could finish the sentence. The server disappeared right before their eyes, leaving only her clothes and the serving tray which fell to the floor in a heap.

As the two girls leapt up, they noticed the cries of shock and screams. All over the café, a few of the patrons or workers have gone missing in the very same manner as the server: only the clothes, jewelry and other personal items remaining.

Minako

Minako had just gotten home from a house errand and slept for nearly half an hour before awakening. The blonde girl then recalled the new place her friend mentioned now that she had some free time before sundown.

Artemis was in the living room when the news suddenly interrupted the usual programming.

Something strange had happened in the past hour. Millions of people all over the world had disappeared at the very same time. Leaving everything behind but flesh and bone. And as a result, driverless cars, trucks, and buses had crashed, ships ran aground, planes crashed.

The reports came from so many countries, and he sat up, as video shots showed people disappearing and their clothes floating to the ground. A tape broadcast from Hawaii showed a birthday party where the birthday girl, her two brothers, and her parents vanished as a neighbor videotaped her blowing out her candles. She leaned close to the cake and took a breath, then she disappeared, and her party hat fell into the candles and erupted into flames. The woman doing the videotaping saw only the flames and quickly doused the fire, then realized that she and another couple were the only people still there.

A stunned Artemis heard her gasping and trying to talk as she taped the scenes of little piles of clothes all around the room. When the station replayed the tape in slow motion, Artemis could see what the video camera woman had not seen. Just before the little girl's hat fell into the candles, the girl had disappeared, and her dress dropped out of the picture.

Minako walked in just one news cast was showing what happened to a soccer team in Indonesia. This video was shot by the uncle of a soccer player at a missionary boarding school.

She and Artemis watch as the players raced down the field. Then in slow motion, all but one player disappears. Their uniforms softly float to the ground as the ball bounds away and the sole remaining player stops and stared in horror. The cameraman kept the video rolling and turning from side to side in disbelief, showing he is one of few adults remaining, the rest having also disappeared right out of their clothes.

"... these grisly scenes from around the world," the announcer was saying "evidence of the mass disappearances that occurred in every country at approximately midnight, Eastern Standard Time. ..."

Artemis' jaw had dropped. "Minako…"

Minako had just finished putting on her shoes and was just as shocked as he was. "I-I've got to tell the girls!"

Rei

It was almost similar as when they faced the Death Busters, a premonitory nightmare. But this one involved an entire crowd on planet Earth following some horrible monster wearing a human mask accompanied by a giant snake, while another portion of the population is fearfully hiding away. Suddenly at the hissing of the serpent, the monster points at her, the other Sailor Senshi and the people that had been shying away.

Those people that were listening to the monster then viciously turned on the Senshi and the other group. But why? And the screams began.

Rei jumped. She was back in her school, volunteering in extra-curricular activities… but something was wrong. Doing a quick scan of the area, she noticed that a great number of the staff and students have vanished leaving only their clothes.

"Hitomi's gone!"

"Where'd she go?"

"I can't find Sister Agnes!"

Just then Rei noticed the two crows that lived with her circling over the chaos, cawing to get her attention.

"Phobos? Deimos?"

At that moment, they dropped something to the ground with two feathers pinning it down. Rei kneeled to pick it up before anyone else noticed. She looked at it with a frown. "What is this?"

The crows had dropped down a political magazine depicting the new installed president of Romania, Nicolae Carpathia and an old image of four horsemen. A closer look revealed that the feathers were pinning to the horseman riding a white horse and the other on the face of the president. "Nicolae Carpathia, Romania's rising star."

What was it? What did it mean?

Usagi

Usagi had just gotten the new laptop working with Luna's help and was cheerfully talking to her fiancé, Mamoru Chiba, who was abroad in the United States for his studies on video call.

His roommate, a young man just walked in towards the mini-fridge and was apologetic the moment he noticed. "Sorry! Don't mind me, just fetching the snacks."

"That's fine." Usagi said from her spot as Mamoru introduced him.

"So this your girl, Chiba?"

"That she is." Mamoru confirmed.

"Well, you treat her right then. You'll never find one like her in a thousand years."

Usagi giggled and flushed, Mamoru did too. "That's the plan."

But in the twinkling of an eye – the other young man vanished, leaving behind only his clothes floating in midair for a fraction of a second before falling to the ground.

As to be expected, Usagi and Mamoru were in shock.

"How did that just happen?" Usagi gaped.

Then she got a message on her communicator, it was Minako and she was frantic. "It's all over the news, people disappeared! Right out of their clothes…"

It wasn't just in America, as Usagi and Mamoru feared, there were news stories from all over Earth of people disappearing right out of their clothes in front of the camera. In one hospital, a nurse vanished as a woman was about to give birth, and the baby disappeared before it was born. And in the nursery, all the babies and underage patients were gone. Pallbearers at a funeral disappeared while carrying a casket, which fell and popped open, revealing that the corpse had vanished too.

Later after Mamoru promised to find a way back to Japan, Usagi went to meet up with the girls.

"Girls, I am so glad to see you. The weirdest thing just happened to me."

A driverless car crashes into the store a few feet from them. Moments after, some people loot and start stealing whatever's inside.

"Okay. That was pretty weird too." Usagi gulped.

"This could be a new enemy of some kind." Ami speculated. "But there's no clue on who or what they're after. What do we know so far?"

Minako answered. "A whole bunch of people disappeared from all over Earth without their clothes or other items."

"Yet I can't seem to find the pattern…" said Ami.

Rei looked around and noticed something glaringly obvious to the observant. "Wait, do you see what I see?"

"What are we supposed to be looking at?" asked Mako.

Rei pointed to the daycare across the street, "There are no babies or children around."

"Well their parents must have picked them up…"

"No! Look closely!" She pointed to a couple leaning mournfully over and empty stroller. Then to a playground where frantic mothers are searching. "Almost every child under thirteen has disappeared."

"They mentioned this on the news too – they've literally lost babies, even those that weren't even born yet!" Usagi recalled with a gasp.

"That's right. But I don't know why other adults of varying ages and teenagers are gone either." Ami said thoughtfully.

"Looks like the start of a new battle…"

It was just another day for the Outer senshi, nothing else appeared to be out of the ordinary save for Hotaru suddenly watching the news intently.

Haruka and Michiru were setting the table, they were to have lunch while Setsuna was on her way.

Briefly, Haruka glanced at the TV which was broadcasting the recent new president making his way up in the world of business and politics. She frowned, the man's pretty talk sounded promising but to her eyes was hollow – and judging from Hotaru's wary expression, she felt the same.

The pixie cut racer shook her head and walked over to the TV. "I know you're catching up. But you shouldn't watch this yet, too much politics is bad for you."

Hotaru didn't protest too much as the channel was changed to that of a live action competitive show for grade schoolers.

"There you are." Michiru nods, "Lunch will be ready soon."

It some sort of little race for the players to cross a narrow swimming pool as though it were a moat. The teams were required to swing out to a rope net in the middle of the moat, climb it, and then swim to the other side for their partner.

But the game show was interrupted by an urgent news bulletin that swiftly got the attention of both Michiru and Haruka: In an instant, people had disappeared into thin air, leaving behind their earthly possessions. As they listened in with Hotaru, they learned that this inexplicable phenomenon had been repeated all across the globe, with literally millions vanishing off the face of the earth without a trace. Local television stations from around the world reported these bizarre occurrences, especially in time zones where the event had happened during the day or early evening.

Could it be the work of a new enemy?

The Amazon Quartet

Since the Dead Moon circus' defeat, the Amazon quartet have been in a nutshell homeless. However it did not take long for them to end up in the foster care system and by some altruistic grand scheme, in one of the best institutions together.

It wasn't perfect for their school education was challenging, they had chores and they had to naturally live with other children of varying ages, but living there was certainly much more preferable to squatting in abandoned old places or making less than five yens in a month.

Jun, Ves and Palla were playing a game with some of the younger ones in the field under supervision, while Ceres was talking to the gardener, Mr. Yosuke, a sweet elderly man who loved nature.

"How do you manage to make them grow so healthy?" Ceres was asking.

"The usual, but for fertilizer usually it's my own special compost, preferably fallen leaves or twigs that are still green with a little extra petals." The old man replied brightly.

Before the girl could answer, in a brief spark of white, the old man had disappeared. Leaving behind only his clothes and the flower pot he was holding. Ceres has yelped and backed up in shock.

Jun had her back turned when some of the other kids and two of the staff had disappeared.

"Jun! Miyo, Genki and Nobu are gone!" Palla came running up, "And we can't find them!"

Frightened and confused, they are left questioning and wondering the cause.

Naru and Umino

Usagi's old friends/ schoolmates were on a date when it all happened. Although the two had been amog those t to be transferred to another academic institution and thus causing them to start to drift from their old schoolmates. Yet there were always fond memories to look back on. Before they kissed, a truck crashed right through the park and demolished the bench they'd been sitting in mere moments before. The two had just managed to avoid it by leaping sideways into the bushes.

"What was that all about?" Naru got up first.

Umino carefully had stood up then went to investigate. He adjusted his spectacles in perplexion. "No driver. But why are there clothes on the seat?"

They stared in wordless horror at the entire scene. All over, there were not only people suddenly panicking but sporadic piles of clothes, purses, and other personal belonging lying on the spots where people had been mere seconds ago.

Deep in Elysion, many of the dreams are quickly losing their light, but millions of them have also literally vanished into the sky to Helios' confusion. Surely these dreamers couldn't have all perished. Furthermore, they were from different areas of the Earth. The golden crystal is still shining brightly. What could be the cause?

Just then he noticed something at the borders. The great abyss that separated the Earth's golden kingdom from the brightly shining Promised Region was started to close bit by bit. In days gone by, in the time of Helios' predecessor, after Elysion was founded, the abyss was already there, separating the realm from the wondrous high kingdom. The residents of the Golden Kingdom were told that there would come a time when the enormous crevasse would close. It could only mean the day was fast approaching.

Yes, all over Earth people have vanished and Tokyo was no exception. The Ayakashi sisters were happily tending to a group of women (several few with children under eight) at their cosmetics shop only for the little ones to literally disappear, leaving behind only their belongings and their bereft mothers.

Far away in space, in the light of the recent event, familiar faces were being called back to Earth.

That same evening, Michiru with Haruka grimly watched the news. They'd just finished dinner and Hotaru had been nearly silent the entire afternoon. Haruka couldn't get ahold of Setsuna and Michiru had taken her mirror to see if there was so much a clue to what just happened, but all she kept getting were brief images of the same man. It was getting troublesome.

Little did they know was that they would be getting the answers very soon.

Author's: Thought I'd got the route of the MC introducing the episode and her thoughts for this fic series, it'll be fun.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever! I'm aware of how vastly different things are in Japan, but here the characters are going to have to face different challenges than they expect. And as such, I'll be writing this fic my own way, and if you think asking the same continuous question over and over again (and subsequent doing the same on my other accounts) will change my mind, don't bother. Because you know know what else is a perfectly valid reason? Because I don't want to. I didn't write this so some rando can harass me here and on archive of own, I'm not your puppet.

However to those who only just want to see what I've got planned regardless, enjoy!