Minako Aino was in Stanford gym class, and had a perfect dismount from the high bar. She wanted to show off because she was in a good mood, as this was the day she planned to deliver a love letter to Ace. Minako was a little old-school, and even though she was in college, still believed in love letters and such. She had always been a big fan of love.

In class, her teacher caught her eating. "Pay attention! You'll lose your scholarship!"

Sam Winchester watched her through the window. "Are you sure she's the one?"

Dean's voice answered through the gold pen he held. "I'm sure."

"Your government score is in the toilet," said a sophomore, she couldn't recall his name. "Ace will be your tutor."

Minako was thrilled, but she couldn't form words, finally spitting out, "H-Hi, I'm Minako."

"I'm Ace," he replied. "Y'know, you would look pretty with a big red ribbon in your hair."

"Ace! Come over here!" Haneda said.

I wonder if she is his girlfriend, Minako thought. She can't be, I will be sure to win him over.

As she left the class, Minako realized she forgot to give the letter to Ace. She was surprised and annoyed to see Sam lurking around again.

In the meantime, Ace was surrounded by a crowd of admiring girls.

"Walk back to my dorm with me!" He said and his eyes flashed black.

Once Minako got back to the dorm, Minako took a bath and looked at herself in the mirror, wishing she could be pretty like Haneda.

Sam appeared then, somehow in her bathroom, "You were born with the protection of the goddess of the moon. I'm Sam Winchester."

Minako screamed and threw him out the window.

Minako returned room, upset about a guy that peeps at her, wondering if it's some kind of joke.

Sam reappeared in her room again, "You have been chosen, and have the power to transform into someone stronger and more beautiful than anyone."

"Me? Strong and beautiful? I'm kind of an ugly duckling," Minako has a hard time believing this, but he showed her a crescent compact which showed her reflection with the addition of a crescent moon on her forehead.

She suddenly saw a vision of herself floating in space near Earth, as Sam continued speaking. "That is the planet you are supposed to protect." The vision then shifted to Venus. "That is your mother star; and that's the Castle Flora, above the continent of Hera, and is your home castle. You are a senshi, an angelic soldier endowed with powers, in human form. You carry the protection of Venus and are chosen by fate, born to fight in its name. I'm a Man of Letters. I've been searching for you all my life. I want to avenge my mother's death. Will you help me?"

Minako fainted, overwhelmed.

Minako woke up the next morning, wondering at her strange dream. She spotted the love letter and remembers that she forgot to deliver it. As she approached Ace, however, she noticed that his fans were still protectively gathered around him and was intimidated.

Meanwhile, Ace smirked about how he had enslaved all these girls. He received a call on his cell phone.

"Fluorite," Ace said. "I've enslaved all of girls here at Stanford. The Winchester boy is doing well too."

"Danburite," Fluorite said over the phone. "Get more brainwashed slaves so we can take over." Sam overheard this, and relayed the message to Dean using the pen.

Both he and Dean realize that Ace was the enemy.

Minako's friend and roommate Naru advised her that Ace always ate lunch alone in the garden, so Minako, now wearing a big red ribbon in her hair, headed off to find him and give him the letter. As she was on her way, Sam stopped her. "Listen to me, you have to stay away from Ace!"

Minako was annoyed. "Stop messing around, Sam."

As she approached the garden, she saw Haneda talking to Ace.

"You look lovely with a red ribbon in your hair," Ace said to Haneda.

Minako was disappointed that the two of them loved each other, and decided to find another boy. As she turns away, though, Ace used his power to enslave Haneda; Minako heard the scream and turned back. She was alarmed by what she saw, and was then spotted by Ace, who turns on her as well, with black eyes.

Sam threw the broach to Minako. "Awaken! You are the soldier of Venus!"

Minako was momentarily stunned, and Ace attacked her; though she was weakened, she held the broach up with a cry of, "O Mater Venus, Regina decorem, adiuvo me nunc."

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Ace confronted the newly awakened Minako. "I am actually the reincarnation of Adonis, a Lunar soldier who lived during the Silver Millennium. I was and even in the present still madly in love with the Princess of the Moon and we were supposed to love one another and that I am your mystical lover. However, you never knew of me in the past as I was a lowly solider of no rank. I was finally able to met you in person when the Venusian Army was borrowed by Prince Castiel's Four Generals for the war that was taking place on the Moon. Your dedication to your duty as Senshi and your attraction for Kunzite, made me realize that you would be unreachable to me in that lifetime, but maybe not the next: At that moment, I knew if I could just change one wheel of fate, the two of us might fall in love. However, I realized that even after becoming a demon and raising to a rank high enough for you to acknowledge me and woo you that there was only one inescapable destiny. Sailor Venus will always choose duty over love and therefore will be forever unreachable to me."

With this realization, he embraced his role as her enemy, Danburite ordered his minions to attack her.

"Use your powers!" Sam yelled. "Sailor Venus has powers over molecules!"

Danburite's minions kept coming and he held her up telekinetically choking her. Minako held out her hands in panic and suddenly—he and his minions froze!

Sam nodded. "Hold him like that! Exorcizamus te, omnis immundus spiritus, omnis satanica potestas, omnis incursio infernalis adversarii, omnis legio, omnis congregatio et secta diabolica. Ergo, omnis legio diabolica, adiuramus te...cessa decipere humanas creaturas, eisque æternæ perditionìs venenum propinare...Vade, satana, inventor et magister omnis fallaciæ, hostis humanæ salutis...Humiliare sub potenti manu Dei; contremisce et effuge, invocato a nobis sancto et terribili nomine...quem inferi tremunt...Ab insidiis diaboli, libera nos, Domine. Ut Ecclesiam tuam secura tibi facias libertate servire, te rogamus, audi nos."

Black smoke flew out of Ace and the smoke solidified into Danburite.

"Yes...there is only one fate," Danburite said.

"Ace!" Minako yelled.

Ace's body continued to disintegrate. Danburite backed up and fell over the ledge of the roof.

"My path ends without reaching you," Danburite said.

Minako grabbed his hand, holding him from the roof.

"Is it your fate to destroy the ones that I love?" Minako begged.

Danburite threw a card. It was the Ace of Hearts.

"I'll tell you your final love fortune," Danburite said. "Your love will be hopeless for all eternity."

Minako stared at him, eyes wide.

"What's wrong?" Danburite said. "You should look happier! Now you can go on living without having to torment yourself over the ultimate choice - your love or your duty. Your fate is to continue fighting. Your true battle begins now."

"You don't get to talk to her like that!" Sam yelled. "Her love isn't hopeless! Her fate is to live a life full of love and happiness!"

Minako grinned and held up the crescent compact purifying the demon and freeing his slaves, leaving them unconscious.

Back at Minako's dorm room, Sam looked sadly at the girl as she lay face-down on her bed.

"Maybe we were too hard on her, Dean," Sam said into the gold pen.

"Minako will be your partner from now on," Dean replied. "She is confused and needs you to show them the way."

Sam went over to Minako and woke her up. "It's me, Sam. I'll be you're new roommate. We're partners after all. Open the window and leave the compact in the light of the full moon to charge it."

The next morning, Minako decided that she still liked the red ribbon in her hair. She left for school.