Hiya! So, all of you out there reading my Sailor Moon stuff, and not really having read my writing before, might have noticed a common theme. Yup, that's right! Time travel. I'm absolutely nuts about it. Most of my ideas have it, these days at least. Also, you might've noticed I post a lot of new stories. Writing new stuff helps me work on posted stuff, some of the time, and then I get finished chapters, and I wanna post 'em. So… I do.

FYI, this is manga based. :P

Anyway, I hope you all enjoy this little fic, and remember that all those in the Sailor Moon universe do not belong to me. Unless they're OC's. But then I don't write many OC's anyway.

Dark Clouds

Chapter One

"Now Sailor Moon!"

"Moon… Tiara… Magic!"

The youma screamed in agony, letting loose a stream of dark energy, that collided with a… what? As Sailor Moon jumped up in down in joy at defeating the youma, both Sailor Mars and Sailor Mercury stared aghast at the dark cloud that had suddenly formed where the youma's last attack had 'landed'.

"Sailor Moon, stop jumping like an idiot!" Mars finally snapped. "We have a problem!"

Moon poked her tongue out at the Fire Senshi, then noticed the dark cloud. "Uh… What is that thing?"

Mercury was already analysing it with her computer. "It seems to be a combination of dark energy, which the youmas use, and…" she spoke analytically, then her tone failed, "I don't believe it. According to my computer, that's time energy mixed in there."

A small distance away, Tuxedo Kamen was listening intently to what they were saying. In the meantime, Moon squinted at the cloud, trying in vain to see whatever it was that Mercury's computer could see. "How could time be in that cloud?" she wondered.

Mars shrugged and Mercury just kept tapping away at her computer.

After a few moments, the cloud started to flicker. The three senshi gasped and leapt back, ready in case something happened, though they had no idea what that could be. The cloud expanded, contracted, then expanded again, before disappearing in a flashy explosion that had them covering their ears and scrunching their eyes shut tight. With some thorough blinking, they were able see again, and when they could, they gasped again.

In the wake of the explosion, a person was standing there. They looked battered and bruised, and stood on shaky legs, which gave out on them a moment later, and they fell to their knees. It was a Senshi, dressed in a white fuku with a yellow, red and blue layered skirt, and a blue and yellow collar with a heart and wings in place of the usual bow, white gloves and boots, and translucent pink sleeves. Her hair was up in two buns and ponytails on her head, and two white, wing shaped clips were in her hair. A crescent moon sat on her forehead, instead of the usual tiara.

"A-am I going crazy, or does she look like Sailor Moon?" Mars asked.

"No, your mental state is fine," Mercury said. "She does indeed look like Sailor Moon. In fact, all things considered, I'd say she's actually Sailor Moon, just from the future."

"She's me?" Moon asked, wide eyed and staring.

"It's the most logical conclusion," Mercury said.

Over in his hiding place, Tux was equally shocked at the sight of this 'future' Sailor Moon. Did she know where the ginzuishou was? What about the Princess? There were so many questions running through his head, and he wanted answers. He was about to charge forward and start interrogating her, but then the girl collapsed, unconscious to the ground.

Mars, Mercury, and Moon all gasped, even as Mars darted forward to check on their visitor. Mercury also came forward, checking for a pulse, before scanning her with her computer.

"She seems to be suffering from exhaustion, on top of her injuries," the Ice Senshi said. "Whatever time she came from, the battle she was in must have been incredibly intense."

"More battles?" Moon complained as she knelt down next to herself. "Just how long are we going to have to fight the Dark Kingdom?"

"Maybe forever," Mars muttered darkly. "Or, maybe it's a different enemy?"

"Well, what are we going to do?" she then asked. "We can't just leave her here. I've got nowhere to hide her. Mercury, you can't either. Nor Moon, obviously."

"I'll look after her," came a new voice, and they all whirled to see that Tux had turned up.

"Why should we let you?" Mars demanded. "We have no idea who you are, or what your motives are. We can't know that she'll be safe with you!"

"Leave him be!" Moon defended him.

"I would never hurt Sailor Moon," Tux said, and his tone implied anger at the idea he would do otherwise. "Now, or in the future."

A groan interrupted them before a real argument could ensue, and they all turned to the future Sailor Moon to see her regaining consciousness. Her eyelids fluttered open and she stared blankly at each one of them before she closed her eyes and brought her fingers up to rub at her temples, clearly not pleased with her current location.

"Crap," she said, then struggled to sit up.

Moon helped her future self up, before Mercury asked, "Are you alright? What do you remember?"

"My head is pounding louder than Jupiter's thunder blasts," Future Moon said. "And the last thing I remember is both kicking the ass of that stupid Chaos Tear, as well as getting my own butt kicked, too."

"How did you end up in the past?" Mars asked.

"…Your guess is as good as mine," Future Moon said. "Last I heard, the Tears couldn't bend space and time. Then again, they are a part of Chaos, so I suppose I shouldn't really be too surprised."

She looked around her. "So, is it just Moon, Mercury, Mars and Tux?" she asked. "No Jupiter or Venus yet?"

"Are those the other Senshi?" Moon asked. "Luna said there were others we needed to find, so that we could better protect the Princess."

Tux seemed to latch on to the mention of the Princess, and was about to speak, but Future Moon got there first.

"The Inner Senshi, Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter," she said. "Charged with the Princess's protection, alongside the ginzuishou. Then there's Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, the Outer Senshi, who each have their own specific tasks. They're not required to protect the Princess, as they guard the solar system from outside threats. Though, they do answer to the Lunarian royal line, and their allegiance is with the Princess."

Silence a moment, then Mars said, "That sounds like you memorised it off a piece of paper."

Future Moon shrugged. "Luna made me learn a whole bunch of things like that when the Princess was revealed," she said.

"So the Princess is revealed by your time?" Mercury asked. "I don't suppose you could tell us who and where she is? Wait, of course not, you can't alter the time line, can you?"

Future Moon was about to answer, but then Tux spoke up. "You mentioned Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter as the Inner Senshi," he said. "You missed Moon. Why didn't you mention your own?"

A sigh, then Future Moon revealed, "Because there wasn't supposed to be a Senshi of the Moon. Luna made a mistake. But it's a mistake that she's never regretted, because none of us are sure that we could have gotten where we are in my time if all of us weren't fighting together."

"If there was no Sailor Moon in the past, then… were you even in the Silver Millennium?" Mercury asked.

Future Moon nodded. "I'm not sure I should really be telling you all this," she said. "Time line and all that. Pluto would kick my ass if I said too much, and I probably already have, so… Sorry, not gonna happen."

Tux just barely restrained a frustrated growl, and the other Senshi looked disappointed, but they all nodded. "Now," Future Moon said, trying to stand up, and eventually only succeeding because Mercury helped her, "I don't know about you guys, but I feel I could sleep a week. Any of you know a place I can crash until I can contact Sailor Pluto?"

"We were discussing it a moment ago," Mercury said. "We don't really know…"

"She can stay with me," Tux repeated his 'offer' from before.

Mercury and Mars looked ready to argue, especially the latter, but then Future Moon nodded. "Makes sense," she said. "You've got the room, and no one to check up on you."

"How on Earth do you know that?" Mars demanded.

Tux felt he'd like to know the answer too. "It's been almost five years, Mars," Future Moon said. "A lot has changed from what you know now."

"But you'll de-transform!" Mars argued. "He'll know who you are!"

Future Moon looked contemplatively at the masked hero. "You already know, don't you?"

"He WHAT!?" Moon shrieked, even as Tux nodded.

He then turned to Moon and said, "No need to shriek, Usagi, I'm standing right here."

Moon was getting rather red in the face, and Mars was not far behind her. Future Moon took a shaky step in order to stand between the girls and Tux. "Go home," she told them. "We'll talk again once I've rested enough to regain my energy levels, alright?"

Two out of three looked reluctant, but eventually they all left. Future Moon then wobbled on her feet, falling forward, with Tux catching her just before she could hit the ground. "Thanks," she whispered, slowly losing consciousness.

"Sleep," he ordered as he swept her up in his arms and took off towards his apartment.

'Yes, sleep, Usagi,' he thought. 'Sleep, then I'll find out what you know about the Princess.'

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