the end in the beginning

by max333

Its been a month since Galaxia left, Usagi, the girls, Mamoru and their friends are all in a new phase of their lives just as a new enemy emerges, bent on destroying them. Will the strength of the senshi together be enough? With old friends and new friends coming in to help everyone must fight to protect everything they hold dear.

2. fire reading & investigation

SereStarOfGaea: I agree its one of the reasons why I decided to write this one out. It was also new territory for me to since I don't recall doing post stars before this one. You'll have to wait and see on the rest though. Lol

SerenityxEndymion: It is a viable reason for him to not having accepted it. As strong as he knows Usagi is he also knows she's human to and feels loneliness as anyone would.

LoveInTheBattleField: there's more to come.

kera69love: this is definitely a multichapter story. I'm debating on if it'll be longer than my last story or not…or the same.

phillynz: its good to have this one out. 😊

5 reviews, that's a nice start, this is just the beginning of this story here so there's going to be a lot to enjoy, lots of drama, some humor, sex, and twists and turns so stay tuned and let me know what you think!

The end in the beginning ch.2

Rei POV

Getting back from my business class was nice, don't get me wrong I loved to learn more about the world of business, the different licensing, permits and all that, even the structure of how it all worked was a form of excitement to get into, yet sometimes even I needed a break from all of it and to decompress. The best method for that for me was some yoga followed by a meditation session in the fire chamber.

After bending all over the place, getting into some positions that would make a gymnast wince at I was feeling better about it all. Business class was new and exciting but sometimes the numbers began to blur together rather than stay separated. So once the yoga is done with I know I'm ready to get into my robes for the fire. I change my attire once more so I can be more comfortable in front of the fire.

I sat down and once settled I began to do my chants. By this point I was becoming very well connected with the sacred fires. The candles nearby even popped on when I entered the room simply by walking past them. I had a feeling my powers much like the others were advancing even more now and that, in my opinion, was good. We had all become more connected with our elemental powers since our time in fighting over the years, but even more so since our latest fight with Galaxia happened.

We were training harder than before and did what we could to try to tap into a deeper connection to our powers. See if we could level up by being better trained rather than hoping to wing it as we did in the beginning. Even though it wasn't too long ago, merely a few years, we had all been naïve at some point or another in our thinking and methods of how to beat the enemy. Galaxia proved that in a sense of her own.

We wanted to do better so that when the next enemy came, not if but when, we would be not only prepared but wouldn't be wiped out so damned easily as when we fought against fellow senshi Galaxia. I closed my eyes remembering that day. Swallowed the saliva in my throat as I focused myself. We were so un-prepared for that fight that I was actually ashamed to call myself the goddess of war.

I was one of the inner senshi. We the inner senshi were taken out all too easily and never even actually truly fought against Galaxia. Not really. Having her power hit each of us, no time to dodge or duck was like having a bullet tear a hole right through us and being a death strike on the first hit alone. If this were one of Usagi's video games we were level ten and Galaxia had been a level 50.

The flames around me flickered higher in my anger of those thoughts. I couldn't help but think about it though. Out of all the previous enemies we've had never once did a single strike take us out on moments flat. Even Beryl's minions at the end took several strikes at us and even then we not only fought to the death but we won. We got Usagi to Beryl and she, along with our spiritual essences, beat her.

We did it together as a team in the end. Galaxia, in my opinion wasn't a true team effort. Usagi was left to face her with outside help. It should have been us, the way it it's always been and we weren't strong enough to get to that point. We were supposed to be strong senshi, triumph over evil, and yet in that head to head battle we were in, we lasted mere seconds and I hated it and to be honest I hated myself for it.

We stood there ready for the strikes to come, thinking we needed to be out in front of it. I should have had Ami get out her computer to see what could have been done, or had Makoto and Minako hold off to the side and see how we could have strategized it better. Maybe if I had thought of something else to do, we might have been able to hit her from behind. Gotten her off course. Or as Haruka and Michiru did, tried an alternative method.

It wasn't usually my style to do something so bold as what they did BUT to find out that Galaxia didn't HAVE a star seed was something HUGE to discover. WE should have discovered that, or something crucial earlier. Plus I hated to admit it but I wasn't so sure that any of us inner senshi could have had the will power to overcome the power of the bracelets the way they did and pretend to turn all the while still being true to their mission and their love for not just each other but to our princess to.

They shocked even Galaxia with their move and dare I say it earned a bit of respect from her on it. At least that was the impression gained. So, knowing how WE went down angered me. I could feel my powers making the flames go higher in the prayer room. I knew I had to simmer down but I was upset by this. Those power strikes were right in front of us to. They were so damned fast to. Sometimes I can still see them in my dreams.

Like some bad weird PTSD or something. No other enemy gave me this feeling before. Sure I had prophetic dreams before, but that was a warning of what was to come. I didn't get anything regarding what happened with Galaxia. No I just saw them coming at us. They were like golden bleary lights that took our very breath and life away. We didn't see any of them coming and we should have, we should have ducked, dodged and moved Usagi out of the way though I know she would have dodged it to.

I faltered a tad in my focus thinking about it but resumed my stance. Our instincts were good, but they needed to be better. We needed to be better, to be the best that I knew we could be, the ones that would eventually protect for a life duty Usagi and her family when she and Mamoru came to power. Those guardians were us and I fully intended for us to become those brave, bad ass, not to be messed with women that could hold up a barrier against those forces for such a long length of time.

To hold such control and command over one's own power that you could ensure the safety and security over your loved ones and have a shield up above them. We needed to achieve that. To be better, not just for the control over power though, no far from it, that was only one small aspect, not this was to be able to advance our powers and to do what was right and needed to protect the innocents out there better than before.

That was something that I pushed for us to work on. Usagi and the other agreed that we needed to keep sharp and strong. Galaxia as far as I was concerned at this point was merely another enemy turned good in the long line of enemies that could be had. There were the enemies that we couldn't save but they were too far gone that even Usagi allowed the silver crystal to purify the evil till there was none left.

It just wound up being nothing in some cases. Beryl was reduced to nothing but dust at best, Wiseman and pharaoh 90 were the same way. No saving. So in this case, when we were taken out by Galaxia, when we fought her, unlike in previous battles where we had been through hell this lasted so little time that I knew our ends were eminent. The images of my grandfather and our friends went through my head.

So when I looked to Usagi and saw her grief I knew she would use it, channel it to bring us all back. I just knew and that alone gave me hope that we would be back around to see those we loved and be around each other again. Cause I also knew there was no coming back from it, not this time, not without Usagi there to take care of it and I knew at that point when we returned that she had done it somehow.

I saw our future Queen in her then and knew that despite any previous doubts or misgivings I had about her, she showed through in the end why she was the senshi of rebirth. So we worked, we trained hard and mastered our current powers and strove to work them in new ways so we could better them and ourselves. It was a work in progress, but it was working, and I knew we all felt better for it.

Even Usagi mentioned how she felt more connected with her crystal since she started to train with it more often. So I made sure to keep up with my own training as each of us did individually as well as together as a group. It's one of the reasons why I took up yoga to help me become more centered and focused as I did have anger in me still from the battle with Galaxia. It helped me to refocus my energies and redistributed my anger into something more productive like stronger fire readings.

So as I focused on the fire and allowed myself to get lost in the meditation of it I could feel the flames growing hotter. My control was back in place as the other flames behind me got lower but hotter. This was usually a good sign that I was getting closer to something more. I whispered the words that brought me closer to meditation and locked my fingers into the right place for the symbols to pull up and stay trained.

I saw the flame as I usually did. As I had for the last month. There hadn't been any real activity. I watched everything that came through it for better perception. Then as I focused harder and pushed my limits even more than before and found that near otherworldly plain where I could feel the flames licking at my skin, I sensed something out there. I reached deeper into the flames, and felt them caressing my skin.

I touched them as I saw an image appear. It was speckled at first. No face just an image. I repeated the words in my head, strengthening my connection as I saw the image getting stronger, "Show yourself." I commanded into the flame. It showed the image clearer now. It's near female in its appearance but the evil surrounding it is so strong I feel like my deeper connection is also allowing it to have access to me.

I can feel it nearly choking me. I take deep inhaling breathes but it doesn't do a lot of good. I made the decision to go in deeper and I was going to stick to it. I needed more information, besides I was already in it. I saw the figure reach out towards me but with it came evil that tried to circle around me. I used my senses to push it back but it was strong. The evil was practically dripping from it as I warned it, "You will not survive here if your intentions are malicious in nature." I practically felt it smile as it said, "We shall see."

It was only then that I was pulled back out from my vision with it as I felt the flames drop down as I saw my grandfather pull me out. As much as I wanted to be irritated by him for it I was more thankful for it. That was way deeper than any meditation before. "Be careful my child…you were so deep that the flames were not only one with you but I could see the evil energies trying to surround you." His warning was touching as I smiled.

"Thanks grandpa. I guess I went a little deeper than intended." I heed him, more so to get him to leave so he could be assured that I wouldn't go deep like that again without at least someone else with me. He kissed the top of my head as he left out. I grabbed my communicator and sent a warning to all the girls on it. Even our guardian felines. Did a fire reading…be on the lookout for suspicious activity…something feels like it's coming. I put the communicator down and shut everything off as I left the room.

Usagi POV

I had only been on my shift at the arcade for less than an hour and already I was feeling both happy that I was getting everything done, getting people taken care of and nearly overwhelmed that it was packed. Even with all three of us working this shift we were all busy as hell. Motoki was even getting into the back to help the line cook get more burgers and fries out while his sister and I got drinks and shakes to the customers.

Those that were waiting for more time than they should have we worked our charm to engage them in idle chit chat to help the time go by faster so they wouldn't complain. Only then did their meals start to arrive. So when the line cook was to go home for the next shift change I volunteered to go in the back and make the burgers and fries since Motoki looked like he was sweating bullets already.

"Go ahead, anymore time back there and I'll be cooked." He muttered as he gave me the oldest orders. Putting a headband on I went around the back to the fryer and made sure to put on as many as possible especially remembering how many there were to make for everyone. Between beef, turkey, and chicken there was a LOT of meat to have on the grills and the heat times differed on them.

Throwing a ton of fries into the boiling oil to be cooked didn't help as the splatter was painful but I didn't have a choice. Twenty minutes later and over 75% of everyone was served and only the new walk in customers hadn't been. However by this point the next line cook came in for his shift and took over. I walked back out as Motoki thanked me, "Sorry about that, I didn't know the cooks had a small twenty minute lag in the scheduling." I smiled, "Its fine, I took it as a challenge that I won." I tell him as I walk around the corner.

As nice as it is to have a change-up I still like being out with the people, interacting with them and being on the move. Besides if I have to flip another burger I'll perfect the Tuskino flip and my dad will want me to grill this coming summer. "Usagi if you want since majority are eating you can go on break. We've got this covered." Before I can deny it saying I can go longer I spot an online article one of our regulars are looking at.

It catches my eye as the screen is brightly lit up. Most of the time this stuff is nonsense to me as news coverage is usually edited to make it more dramatic or leaving certain things out so I didn't pay it too much mind, but the article itself for once is concerning. I see the headline 'flight to America finally found!' the flight number that was in the article has been burned in my head since Mamoru left that fateful day for America. I remember wanting to make sure we arrived at the right gate.

I nearly dropped my notepad as I swallow thickly and ask, "What website is that?" while trying to maintain my voice as the customer responds, "Terra News. Can you believe it?" He asks as he shows me as I nod in thanks, "Yeah that's surely something." I say and take Motoki up on that break offer only to go in the back and pull out my own phone and pull up the article. I spend the next ten minutes of my break not even caring about eating anything.

My hunger melted away when I saw the headline. It brought me back to the day Mamoru left for America. When he gave me the ring that I still wore to this day and never took off. Well I took it off for when I baked with breads or pastries and dough, but I kept it hidden on me for safety reasons. When we had that last kiss before he left. When I sent him letter after letter in hopes of a response back when Chibi Chibi was in our lives and how I was in dismay when I found out the cold hard truth.

When I found out Galaxia had killed him and took him from me…from all of us. I held back a sob forcing myself to remember that he was alive and well. I even went really quickly to read his latest few texts to me as he was in classes himself so I could breathe a little more at ease again. I read on in the article that it was found, not having even left Japan as investigators were on the scene and looking it over.

It killed me that it hadn't even LEFT Japan. I waved to his plane as he took off watching it through my fingers where my ring was. We hadn't known that. For all we knew he was halfway across the sea. I stopped reading at that point letting that piece of information sink in. It wasn't even out of our air space when it was attacked. He was attacked. All those passengers were attacked by her.

How did we NOT know? I closed my eyes briefly, as I take a breather. My mind running wild with what I know now and what I can imagine happening back then. We had no idea that it had happened so close to home. I lost him sooner than I had thought I did. I saw him in those final moments. I took a look at where it was found and felt tears spring to life and begin to fall before I brushed them away.

He hadn't made it further than twenty minutes into the air, thirty max before they were all…I gasped as I was suddenly struck with an intense need. I didn't know why but I HAD to see it. My gut was telling me to go find the plane. I had to see where I nearly lost my love for good. Plus, Rei's mysterious message sent recently proved that perhaps there was something else out there. I knew this was a long shot and probably nothing more than cannon fodder, but this could be a lead into something, I just didn't know what.

I needed to follow up on it, and if it turned out to be nothing more than debris from Galaxia's attack then at least I could finally put that day to peace behind me. Then again it would do so to allow everyone that was affected by the attack to have peace of mind and closure on the issue. I know that day still bothers Mamoru. He didn't like to talk about it too much. Who would unless you needed to get it off your chest in a support group setting.

I can only imagine how bad the memories would be for him. I only saw it from a third person perspective, to having been there…I mean I had my own struggles during his absence but learning of his death, back then it hadn't been temporary for me. It had been very real, emotional, mental and raw as hell. I had just lost people that I love and care for, so to find that out had been heart breaking and gut wrenching to learn.

Now I knew I needed to talk to him about more of what he remembered, but not until after I had taken a look at the wreckage myself. I just wasn't sure if I should have him come along for this or if it would be re-traumatizing him with it. To see what he survived off from. Bad memories I knew would come with it. Yet perhaps knowing more about what happened after his death might give him a sense of closure to.

I looked up in the article again on where it was found so I could get the girls over there later on this evening. I sent out a message to all of them and those who could make it, Minako, Ami, Makoto and Rei all agreed to come out and investigate ourselves. I sent a message out to Mamoru but I knew he'd be busy so I wasn't expecting a quick response back. So I ignored that he didn't text me back right away and went back to my job so I could refocus and do some more research later on.

Besides, obsessing about it now wasn't going to help me. It would distract me from my job and I couldn't have that happen. I forced myself back to the customers that came in, ignored the lack of food in my stomach as I had lost my appetite and took down some more orders. All the while though that website and article was now stewing in the back of my mind waiting to be examined more thoroughly.

It's when I get off after work that I see a new article online about it since the page I was on had an error page and refreshed to a stupid ad all on its own. Annoying. So as I walked home I read that the majority of the people on board the plane were found dead from having their energy taken from them. As if their very life force was syphoned. Many enemies had done this before in the past.

We had dealt with this many times before and had nearly become victims of it to a few times so I knew how this worked. The startling part was the draining appeared to happen BEFORE the plane crashed to the ground. That strikes me as odd cause it doesn't line up with what Galaxia did. It wasn't really her style so to speak. She didn't bother with that. Something is definitely fishy about this now and I'm more certain now that we need to investigate this plane and figure out what's missing.

It's after a short and to long of a dinner with my family that I'm able to sneak out of the house so I can join the girls to check out the plane. We all arrive there, transforming to ensure that we could get there as quickly as possible and to help evade any police there to avoid looking like we had something to do with it. Thankfully the crash site has been sectioned off to the mass public and it safe guarded.

Only were able to get in and since it's so late in the evening the teams that were investigating earlier are probably at their own labs if not at home by now so it's only a few guards, a few police officers watching over it from out past the perimeter. Were thankfully not within their sights. "You can see where the crime lab hauled a section of it back with them for analysis." Venus notices as she sees where a section was cut off manually.

I walk inside of the wreckage and already I can feel it. The wave of fear and death in here, it's palpable. Like the cries of those that did die are echoing in here. Their screams as they died feel like it's on me now. I rub my arms as the chill slips in through me. The windows are mostly broken as the emptiness is chilling. The bodies of course have all been removed but still their cries are stuck in here.

"I'm sorry." I whimper brokenly. It's then that I notice the seating numbers and find Mamoru's on the left. I see where there's a few dropped things here and there, mainly being the oxygen masks having dropped down in the event of an emergency. That's when I see it. I pick up from his seat the ruined picture he had of Chibi Usa and myself. We were in his last thoughts before he went out to face her.

A tear rolls down my cheek as I rub on the picture then take it with me. Placing it securely in my fuku as I wipe the tear away as Mars comes in, "I can feel it…so many lives." I look to her as I can see how she's taking it in. Feeling the depth of the souls lost aboard this flight despite the ones that were saved, or rather the ones that survived. "You can feel it to." I say to her as she looks to me, her eyes become misty.

Her gloved hand touches the dirtied head rest, "Yeah…a great evil boarded this plane and took many lives with it." She then pulls out a scroll. "For them to find peace in the afterlife." She starts to chant as I can feel it work. Nothing visually happens but we can both feel it. "I heard from Mercury once she tapped into the network for the investigation that there were survivors." It's a small cold comfort but at least it's something to see I guess.

It didn't take away from what happened but at least Mars put the souls to rest and they wouldn't become vengeful to the area. Already dealt with that once before, didn't need it to happen again to anyone. That's when Mars saw his seat, "He's not coming?" she questioned as I sighed, "Couldn't get ahold of him. He's in classes all day today anyways." I explain away his absence, "Understandable…how's he doing?" she asks. I look to her and see the concerned expression of a sister asking about a friend and brother.

Funny how just a few years ago she was trying to date him, only to realize she only wanted him cause I did and we competed without even realizing it. She wanted to be the best at everything and even though I was far from the best, since I got called into duty first she felt she had to be better than me. So when he came along she opted for a way to annoy me and be better only to realize that we didn't need to compete, and they weren't anything more than friends. She even admitted that they never even kissed.

"Working through things still. The American university rejected his application and won't be accepting another from him till next year so he's going to stick with Tokyo University." I tell her as she nods, "I think it's best…for everyone but mostly him." I look to her as she steps forward, "He was following one path of his dream but the truth is, deep down, his truest dream is to have you." There were tears forming in her eyes.

"The dream to be a doctor was born of his survivor's guilt from the crash with his parents so that he could save another child's parents and that they wouldn't have to go through that pain as he did, the dream that reign true in his heart is to have his princess by his side. You." I nodded recalling that Rei was one of the few people he ever told his story to since they held that losing parents thing together.

It was their one bond other than fighting together that they had. She may still have had a father but he was so busy with his political career that Rei truly believed that he forgot she existed. He had even stopped donating to the temple over a year ago despite the few letters that her grandfather sent to him letting him know that his contributions were quite helpful, "He has all of us, not just me." I tell her.

"True…but you're his other half. We're all family still but you're what he strives to get out of bed in the am for." It's funny how things turn out when you've been through what we've been through. I smile as she cracks one to, "He should have been able to prove to America that he's more than capable of being an amazing doctor." I say as she tells me, "He'll show them that when he graduates from Tokyo and becomes even better." We both laugh a bit at that as knowing Mamoru he'd pour his heart into his desired career field.

"Let's go…" she doesn't say another word, only looks to Mamoru's seat once more then to me before we walk out and back into the evening. The suns gone at this point and the only lights nearby are the ones left on by the investigation crew. I couldn't help but feel a tad of gratitude that Mamoru, despite his death in this to that he did make it back to me. I just couldn't help but feel the guilt that followed that I was in gratitude over his return when so many others didn't have that opportunity. They didn't have that chance to return.

I was upset with myself for thinking so selfishly yet I couldn't help but feel grateful that he came back. I couldn't. I felt worse though that this even happened. I hadn't had time to process this when Galaxia left to return the other star seeds. I hadn't thought about it since the plane hadn't been found. We just returned to whatever sense of normal life we could get. We worked on getting stronger and better as senshi but we didn't think about other prospects…till now and I was beginning to feel a sense of guilt for NOT thinking about this sooner.

Its then that I hear Mercury's computer buzzing off as she says, "I know why the plane went down." we all look to her, "Its why the authorities are saying 'engine problems' in the articles, this plane went down not because of engine problems but something that they can't explain, but I can." She looks up as she says this and throws a picture of the screen up to show us. The advances that she's put on the Mercury computer are amazing.

To view the images as 3-D visuals like a projector is not only creative but informative and visually stunning to see. However considering what we're looking at it was less visually stunning and making it more standoffish. Something that I think was necessary right now considering, "What happened?" I asked as she types in a few more commands and shows us the back to the front and the dimensions of the plane.

"From what we know of what Galaxia did she left after she retrieved Mamoru's star seed. She had no further business there…" she gestures towards the plane, "And it wasn't in her best interest to linger around." I couldn't stop myself from shutting my eyes briefly as I asked her, "So what caused the plane to crash?" I work to keep the edge out of my voice but even she notices my slight struggle.

She looks to me as I nod my head as she then explains, "It could have been moments later or possibly even up to ten minutes later, but this plane encountered another life form other than her. It struck the plane here." She points to it as we see where it encountered a massive hit that crushed the side of it. The dent was visible and definitely NOT mentioned in any online article that was circulating.

"That wasn't previously mentioned." Jupiter notes, "Definitely wasn't." now the girls were starting to become agitated and with good reason. Something else was out there and we had no clue of it. "The impact of the second 'entity' is was caused it to crash and this…" we all watch her take a swipe at the side of the plane she was next to and watch her rub her fingers together till we see the slightest of shimmer on her gloved fingers.

"Substance is what it left behind." We all lean in. "We can't really see it but the Mercury computer picked it up." we all walked forward to see it. It looked nearly invisible but with the slightest light reflections it was clearly there. "What is it?" Mars inquires as she hesitates to touch it herself, "From what I can tell so far is it's an oil based substance that isn't anywhere in my computers system." Now that made us a bit nervous and concerned.

Every substance on earth and other planets that we all came from were all in her computers database, so how is this stuff not? Where else could it be from? "It's definitely not from earth. My guess is whatever attacked this plane after Galaxia was done with it, clogged up all the ports, turbines and engines with this as it entered preventing the fuel injection from working and killing the motor pretty steadfast so that the aircraft was then forced to rely on the entity to keep it up in the air." this was strange to hear.

"So you're telling us that this thing, whatever it is, kept the plane afloat for a while AFTER it clogged up the engines." Mercury nodded to Mars query as she further said, "Considering it damaged the plane it had to do so. Especially to take the amount of energy from people that it did it couldn't do it in mere seconds while freefalling to the ground. Gravitational forces alone would have sent it all over the place and we don't know what kind of powers it has." She had very good points on this.

"Plus this wasn't a full on freefall." She gestures to us all around the wreckage. "Meaning what?" Jupiter asks her as she looks around, "This looks pretty wrecked up to me." she adds on, "Meaning this creature, whomever it was, kept the plane into a drift back towards earth. With its goo on the plane it wasn't caught by air force control to be seen or having emergency crews sent out to help." Now things were making more sense.

"As it drained people it got more powerful, and when it was done it let the plane freefall the rest of the way otherwise this crash site would be in mere pieces all over the place instead of what we're seeing now. There'd be hardly anything left from a full on crash from the original height." We were all stunned by this information as she lowered her head a bit, "I know it's not what everyone wants to hear but it's the facts as they are."

I sighed, "Your right Mercury…" letting her know its fine, we needed to know. She gets right back to her facts, "So unfortunately nothing that was set for emergency control could be activated to send out. Everything was blocked. There was no emergency signal so no one knew about the planes disappearance or crash." It prompts Venus to ask, "But what about the people waiting for their family and loved ones?" mercury looked up.

"Since the wreckage was covered in this goo, search and rescue couldn't locate it. It wouldn't have showed up on an aerial views, nor on any radar that any government has." This prompts Mars to ask, "But what about someone running into it? Physically." Mercury answers, "Glad you asked that, turns out that to the average human it would be literally invisible. So not just to sight but to touch as well."

This is surprising news, "We're only able to touch it now since we're not fully humans ourselves. They were only able to begin the investigation cause the goo dissipated enough to let them in." she says. "Are we gonna have to worry about what happens when the goo is examined by the investigators?" Venus asks, "At the rate it's disappearing at now that it's been exposed to our atmosphere long enough, I'd say that whatever samples they now have locked away in whatever air tight container they have will be gone in a few days."

Mercury's explanation gives us some comfort, "At least there won't be any UFO nuts out there making things difficult for us." Mars says, "Yeah that's the last thing we need if we're gonna do our jobs right and fight this out. I mean who knows what did this and who knows where their at." Jupiter says agreeing as we all think on that. Knowing this now we can't all but help to look around to see if we ourselves are now being watched.

"We're good." Mercury assures us after she does a quick preliminary search of the grounds with her computer. Nodding Jupiter then asks, "Question, so how are we able to know of it now? The goo is still here." It's a valid question to, "It appears to be activated by heat. Look." Mercury suggests as we watch the goo using her own body heat through the glove to give it life and make her finger appear to disappear before she wipes it back on the plane.

"But this plane has been sitting here for over a month." Venus notes as she carefully avoids the goo though she does look at the difference it makes. "Very true, it looks like its substance retains the heat for an extraordinary amount of time but since the earth air changes its temperature frequently it wasn't able to maintain its validity nor its original composition. In short the goo stopped working and is still disappearing." Again it was still good news.

We couldn't have the government coming down here and figuring out that otherworldly stuff actually happened. They weren't ready to handle what could actually happen…not yet anyways and perhaps not for a while. "Definitely foreign to earth as there is no material that holds this consistency, texture or shape nor that moves on its own like this." she explains as we all agree that we know nothing like that on earth.

That's when Venus's next question has all of us wondering, "How did this thing get in under our radar?" we look to Mercury, "We've never once had a blip of this on our detectors. They should have spotted this." even she's a bit puzzled by this development. She continues to type more into her computer as it hit me on what happened. I voice it out before I can think twice on it, "It didn't because it slipped in on the heels of Galaxia." Everyone looks to me trying to figure out how I came to this conclusion.

I look away though, "Whatever this new threat is, it slipped in just behind her and my guess is used that oil thing to mask itself so it could go on about its business without us or anyone knowing it was here." I hated that it got in undetected but it had happened and we hadn't even realized it. This is similar to what happened when the death busters came in. Un-detected and nearly destroyed us.

Jupiter then jumps in with, "That just begs another question, how did even Galaxia not set off the alarms?" before the girls can try to spout out an answer I reply, "Cause the system we have set up recognized her as a senshi still." Mercury seemed to get it first as she said, "She's right." I nod as Mars asks, "Even though she was festering with chaos inside of her?" I nod as she is astounded as the rest are.

"Regardless of what she was doing at the time it still saw her as one of us…and she is. I mean look at how many planets went out after her attacks on them. How many survived? How many of them had radars that didn't see her attack coming because they recognized her as a senshi?" I gently remind them as I notice Jupiter and Mars getting upset at the prospect of what we didn't think about on earlier.

Sailor Galaxia's devastation might have been temporary to the world at that time but had been very real to us for several months in fighting the soldiers that had been corrupted and killed themselves under her liege. So this was still pretty raw for us. A month later and we still were feeling emotional about what had happened. I don't even think the girls fully forgave her for what happened and I wasn't about to push it either.

It was why even though I said she was one of us, it didn't erase the damage caused during our war with her…or rather her war with us. "Think about it…" I get their attention again, "Sailor Tin Nyanko, Sailor Iron Mouse, all of the other soldiers that Galaxia had working for her, forced to work for her really…" I amend noting that they only did it due to the issues going on that were either caused by Galaxia or the fact that they felt they had no choice due to her presence and the power she already had.

"They're all sailor soldiers of their own worlds that were forced into servitude for her. It's why none of them really popped up on the radar. It only recognizes those with pure evil intent." The girls nodded just a bit, "It explains why we didn't notice it with Beryl. She was already on earth when she started her campaign to kill us for the crystal." Mercury noted, "Same thing with Mistress nine, she had already been on earth and was merely sleeping inside of Hotaru before being awakened." Mars added.

"Let's not forget that the dark moon clan came from the future, so there was no real detection on our radar as that was through a time portal they used." Jupiter jumps in as we all contemplate why the previous enemies didn't show up either. "And we didn't have it set up when Ann and Ali came in. We were still without our memories after our battle with Beryl." Noting this I hear Jupiter ask, "But Luna and Artemis were around. Why didn't they alert us? To Ann and Ali." She clarified to the group.

"Luna and Artemis hadn't any clue either. Their only real clue was an asteroid that fell here. However, they are just cats to, with powers yes but still cats nonetheless. Their limited in their powers just as much as we are to ours." She nods, "It's why she revived my memories as a senshi so I could continue to fight. Galaxia at the end of the day didn't show up till we were in the middle of a battle. Only then did she grace us with her presence." I resisted the urge to roll my eyes at that.

"This, whomever, or whatever it is, used her as a 'shield' of sorts and blocked its entry into our world." Mercury looks to me, "Makes sense, it hide behind her energies so when she left the plane after taking what she wanted the entity took the rest of the passengers and drained what it wanted then left only a few survivors behind." The air felt thick with anger right now that we had towards it.

Reasonably so, yet we were also angry with ourselves for NOT having figured this out. "Those that are alive are still in a comatose state." Mars then asks, "How many survived?" Mercury looks at her computer, "At least 25 of the passengers made it out alive. Most are still out of it but there are a few that are awake now, but with no memory of what happened." I can't help but respond, "Typical."

Jupiter looks to me, "It needs to go on undetected so this 'entity' makes sure to cause amnesia on those that did survive so it can continue on undetected." That's when Mars asked a question we hadn't wanted to ask but needed to be asked, "How many didn't make it? Cause there were a lot of souls aboard that plane." I could see the heartbreak on Mercury's face, "One is to many in my book so let's just say more than one." However we say Mars face on it, her stubbornness to know the truth wasn't letting up, "How many Mercury?"

She shut the computer down. Mercury was rarely affected so to have her reacting this way meant the numbers were high even for her. "Over 200." She looked back up as she looked to me, "He was listed on there as well." I knew what that meant. Mamoru was originally on the list as a passenger, yet no body was obviously found. "I removed his name." I gulped and thanked her with my eyes.

She noticed and saw that I wanted to convey my gratitude since I couldn't speak right now. My emotions were in my throat. "Last thing we need is for a glitch to come up for him. He's been through enough." I nod as we all do, "And digital footprint is erased now to." She concludes as we give her a tiny smile that she isn't getting herself into trouble either. We didn't want her to deal with the fallout of helping a friend out.

"The problem is, as if all of this wasn't bad enough, we have NO idea where it's set up shop. Or who set up shop. What their intention is or if there are other accidents that have happened that this new enemy is behind that were not aware of. We need to investigate them and I can run an analysis on them to see if it's really an accident or not." I agree, "Definitely, but analyze first, we need to be sure before we go to these places." Can't go all 20 questions on someone without reason first.

"Another problem is we don't know where the new enemy is." Venus said which we all knew was true, bad but true. "We can use the software we have at central to do a scan of the whole city, the whole planet if need be to find it and we will find it." Venus assures us. "It'll take days for that to happen, possibly even weeks." Mercury admits but agrees. I look around and notice that the guards look to be getting roused up, "We better split." I motion as we all agree to meet up later on. I had a feeling this would be our biggest enemy to date.