Chapter 1: The Blonde That Took Us Back
"Hey Kento, it's time to go," Ryo Sanada tells him. Ryo walks towards the others who are standing, waiting for Kento to finish.
"Wait! Wait!" Kento's getting excited because he's playing the final boss. "No, no, no, no, no! Damn! You broke my concentration, Ryo." Kento says angrily.
Cye Mouri, Kento's best friend, steps forward and pats Kento comfortingly on his back. "There, there now Kento. It can't be that bad."
"Seventy-six tokens down the toilet."
"Seventy-six tokens!?" All of his friends say.
"Anyway, we need to get to the girls," Rowen Hashiba says. He still can't believe Kento wasted seventy-six tokens on a video game. "Let's go buddy."
"Hey!" A blonde haired boy comes running up to the group.
"What's up Andrew?" Sage Date asks.
"If you're off to see the girls, tell 'em I said hi, okay." Andrew says.
Ryo has a smile on his face, "Sure thing!"
"Thanks!"
"Bye!" The group leaves, and Kento has his head hung very low, and he's complaining.
Meanwhile, in downtown Tokyo, "Ooooooooh! They're sooooooooo cute!" Serena exclaims looking in a pet store window.
"SERENA, we've got to meet the guys at the park!" Raye slaps Serena on the back of the head.
"Raye, stop it!" Serena yells in defense. "Darien, protect your woman!"
" Here they go again," the others say, sounding annoyed.
"You deserve that Serena, for looking at a filthy fleabag dog, when you've got me." A black cat says walking in between Raye and Serena.
"You're kidding, right Luna?" Serena says.
" What are you looking for, Mina?" Darien and Amy inquire together. They stare at Mina blankly.
"Did you guys hear something?" Mina asks back with her hand on her forehead, looking left and right.
"No." Everyone says.
"I just heard it again. I'm gonna transform!" Mina runs off with Artimes, her white cat, on her head. "Venus Crystal Power!" Moments later, Super Sailor Venus comes out of an alley behind large buildings.
"I guess we'd better go too," Lita said throwing her hands in the air. All the girls and Darien run to where Mina had transformed. "Venus, wait for us. Jupiter Crystal…"
"Mercury Crystal…" Amy says.
"Mars Crystal…" Raye follows.
"Power!" The three girls say in unison. Lita is suddenly engulfed by electricity, with her body glowing green. Amy is covered with bubbles and water, forming clothes on her icy blue glowing body. Raye's surrounded by fire rings all over her red glowing body. The electricity, bubbles, and fire form sailor styled outfits on them, and they're finished transforming.
"Hurry up you two!" Artimes says. Darien takes a red rose out of his pocket, it starts to give off a dark red glow. His skin is blinking in an array of different colors. His clothes turn into a tuxedo. The rose vanishes, and a cape magically appears that is attached to his shoulders. Darien holds out his hand, and a top hat materializes out of nowhere. He puts the hat on his head, and the top half of his face is now covered by a mask that covers his eyes.
"Hurry up, Serena," Tuxedo Mask says.
"Okay, but something doesn't feel quite right," Serena hold up her broach in the air, "Moon cosmi—" A pink cloud forms over the scouts and a little girl falls out of it.
"Rini!" Tuxedo Mask exclaims, "no time to waste, hurry and transform." Rini nods her head in agreement.
Rini holds her broach in the air, like Serena. And they both shout, "Moon Cosmic Dream Action!" They put their broaches back in the middle of their chests, the crystal in the middle shines, then shoots out red and pink ribbons that cover both of their multi-colored glowing bodies. Pretty soon, they have white body suits on, and their skirts are also multi-colored. They finish transforming.
"Finally," Luna sounding annoyed. Venus is all the way at the end of the alley as the other scout, the cats, and Tuxedo Mask run to catch up.
A car pulls up to Sailor Venus, and there are two guys in it. The window rolls down and the guy on the passenger side sticks his head out the window to talk. "Hey baby, how about comin' for a ride on our personal limos? All you've got to do is unzip our garage doors."
Sailor Venus just stands there for awhile, staring at them. The driver guy gets impatient and yells, "Get in the car, girl! I know you're blonde, but damn. It doesn't takes this long to think! You're supposed to do whatever we say because you're blonde. Now get in!"
Venus gets really mad and yells back at them. "Well, I was gonna get in, but you had to open your big mouth." Super Sailor Venus keeps yelling at them, but all the while, she's thinking to herself, 'Man, what a jerk! But he has really great hair. They probably think I'm a hooker. Maybe they're people from the Negaverse. I'll be doing the world a huge favor by getting rid of them.' Venus finishes thinking and screaming. "Well, what do you say?"
The passenger guy takes out a hundred dollar bill from his wallet and says, "How much do you charge per person?"
Venus gets really angry and points her finger at the two men, "Sorry, wrong answer! Venus Crescent Beam Smash!" A big energy beam generates at the end of her finger. Sailor Jupiter jumps and repositions Venus' hand skyward. The beam comes out doing no damage to the people. The two men in the car have scared looks on their faces. The driver steps on the gas and zooms down the street. Just then the rest of the group catch up to her.
"What the hell did you do that for? You could've killed them!" Sailor Jupiter says in her face.
"They were being really big jerks to me," Venus replies.
"That's still no reason to go on a killing spree!" Jupiter says. "We'll deal with this later, but now where's the trouble?" Venus pauses for a moment and listens. Then she runs and everybody follows. Venus leads them to a small, green house, right in the middle of two huge skyscrapers.
"Ahhhhh! Get it off me!" A girl screams from inside the house.
"So that's the noise she heard," Sailor Mercury says looking at Tuxedo Mask. Sailor Venus stops to fix her bow, and the other take off in front of her. Shortly after, Venus went after them.
The guys are walking just around the corner from the meeting place. Just when Sailor Venus is running behind the building, Ryo barely catches a glimpse of Venus' shoe as she disappears behind the building. Ryo stops the guys and has a worried look on his face. "What's up Ryo?" Rowen sounding concerned.
"I just saw Venus," Ryo explains. "There must be trouble, let's suit up!" All the guys nod their heads. They take out little metal orbs, with writing on them, and change into their sub-armor. Ryo looks to see if no one is around, so they can change. "The coast is clear. Ronin Warriors, to arms! Armor of Wildfire, Tao Jin!"
"Armor of Halo, Tao Chi!" Sage follows.
"Armor of Strata, Tao Inochi!" Rowen says.
"Armor of Hardrock, Tao Kichi!" Kento bellows.
"Armor of Torrent, Tao Shin!" Cye repeats.
They all stand back to back with light emanating from their hands. Ryo's is red, Sage's is green, Cyes' is a light blue, Kento's is orange, and Rowen's is a darker blue than Cye's. Rolls of patterned silk jet up from the ground, spraying and unraveling everywhere. The silk glows brightly, until it is white. Then bursting into cherry blossom leaves. The leaves cover each guy, forming their armor. After their body armor is on, they hold out their hands, and cherry blossom leaves fall into the palm of their hands. The leaves turn into their helmets. They all put their helmets on and draw out their weapons, ready to fight.
"Let's go!" Ryo tells all of them. They all run around the corner where Ryo saw Sailor Venus. They see the scouts standing in front of a green house. "Hey!"
"Huh?" The scouts turn and look back.
"Guys! Guess you got tired of waiting for us, eh." Mars smirks.
"Not really. But you could've left a note that you were gonna fight evil or somethin'," Kento says sarcastically.
"Uh-huh, right. Could we get back to the problem at hand?" Sailor Moon wails.
"Ahhhhh!" The scream again. Both the scouts and the Ronins are startled. They all head for the front door. Tuxedo Mask tries to turn the doorknob.
"It's locked!" Tuxedo Mask exclaims. A sword, barely a millimeter away from his face, slices the door and it swings open.
"You were saying," It was Sage looking happy with the job he had done. They single-file rush into the house.
"Look at all the cute stuffed animals!" Sailor Moon and Mini Moon say with big, pink hearts in their eyes. Mini Moon picks up a fuzzy pink and white one.
"Look at it's nose, it's sooooo cute!" Mini Moon says adorably.
"Put me down!" Yells the toy. Mini Moon and the others stare at the toy in amazement. "I'm Talon, and I'm not a toy. I'm a time shifter. We all are." The "toys" all over the floor come to life and start jabbering all at once, saying mean things.
"We're surrounded… It's a trap!" Sailor Jupiter yells out. Struggling to get free, Talon slaps Sailor Mini Moon with a leaf that she carries in her hand.
"Ahhhhhhh!" The mysterious scream starts up again. "Get it off me!"
"Oh, right. Someone is in trouble," Venus reminds the group. Sailor Venus leads the way through the house; and Mini Moon finally lets go of Talon. Venus leads them into an all metal room with nothing in there but a screaming pink haired girl, a blue dinosaur looking motorcycle without wheels, and two boy chasing the girl. "Unhand her, you fiends!"
The two guys stop chasing her, and the girl vigorously rubs through her hair. "Oh, finally, it's out," the girl says in relief.
"Is the spider out of you hair, Sara?" The smallest guy asks.
"Yeah, thanks Flint. Tony, let's go!" Sara says, talking to the tallest boy. "We've got to get to South America in the 13th Century to rescue Ice Cap."
"Uh-huh, South America…rescue, sure," Tony stares intently at Sailor Venus with his mouth hanging open, and drooling. "What a hotty!"
"I can't believe that you dragged us, then got the guys to waste their time following you. All for a stupid SPIDER!" Sailor Mars is roaring inches away from Sailor Venus' face.
"Just what is going on here?" All the Ronins say, speaking up for the first time in awhile.
"Stay away from my future wife you…you ugly old witch!" Tony breaks into a run, heading for Sailor Mars who is still yelling at Venus.
"Sara, why is Tony acting like that?" Flint questions.
"I don't know, but I'm putting a stop to it. For all we know, Petrafina has already captured Ice Cap," Sara answers back. Tony jumps at Sailor Mars. Venus and Mars stop arguing and see Tony coming strait at them. "Gotcha!" Sara snags Tony in mid-leap by his ear.
"Ow, oww! Stop it, you're hurting me. I need to save my wife!" Tony cries out.
"C'mon lover boy. We've got work to do," Sara says angrily. "Flint, start up the time cycle.
"You bet!" Flint replies, putting a card into a slot on the cycle. Tony and Sara, followed by a chubby blue thing, and a flying red thing get on the cycle. "Let's go!"
"Goodbye my love!" Tony says sitting on the cycle. "Until we meet again."
The Scouts and Ronin Warriors turn to leave when a loud noise goes off. They turn back around, and a vortex appears in the metal wall. "Well, there's something you don't see everyday." Cye comments. As they all watch in astonishment.
"On to South America!" Flint yells in excitement. The cycle rises off the ground and speeds forward into the vortex. "You think they have taco's in South America?" That's the last thing they hear before the cycle and everyone on it, is gone. The Scouts and Ronins continue to watch, not believing what they just saw.
Suddenly, a mysterious wind picks up, and it seems to be coming from the vortex. It starts to suck everybody in. "What's happening?" Tuxedo Masks questions.
"We've got to get out of here!" Artimes warns the group. Sailor Venus, who is the closest to the vortex, is swept off her feet, and is floating towards the vortex. "Mina!"
"Help me!" Venus cries out to her friends.
Sailor Mars extends her hand, "Grab my hand!" Sailor Venus reaches for her comrade's hand, but barely misses, because she is too far away now.
"I've got an idea. Venus Love Chain Encircle!" Venus sends out her chain, and Mars grabs hold of it. Sailor Mars attempts to pull Sailor Venus back to her, but is sliding closer to the vortex as well.
"Raye!" Ryo dashes forward and grabs Sailor Mars around her waist. Pretty soon, everyone has formed a human rope, with two cats at the end.
"Ummm, could you guys… I don't know. GET ME DOWN FROM HERE!" Venus is getting cranky and is only a foot from the vortex now. The closer they go, the stronger the suction becomes.
"Hang on, we're doing all we can!" Sailor Mars calls back, "Whoa!" Mars looses her footing on the floor and falls on her butt. At the same time, she accidentally lets go of the chain.
"AHHHHHHH!" Venus is flying into the vortex. The suction becomes too great, and they all lift off the ground and get pulled into the vortex. One by one, they zip through the bright hole in the wall. "Look, there's a light at the end of this funnel."
"Tunnel! A light at the end of the tunnel," Everyone corrects her.
"Oh yeah! Guess that makes more sense, huh?" Venus, of course. The light they see looms larger and larger around them, finally swallowing them all up.
"Uhhhh," Groggily and slowly, Ryo comes to. "Did anyone get the number of the bus that hit me?" Ryo looks around himself and sees the other Ronin Warriors regaining consciousness as well. Ryo and the others look at the scenery around them and see that they are outside lying in the dirt. They all get up.
Cye's attention is averted to something else, "Where's Amy and the others?"
"I don't know. When I woke up, all I saw were you guys," Sage replies with a confused look on his face. "What… Someone's coming! Let's get out of this armor." The Ronins recall their armor, and are left with their regular clothes on.
Just then, as Sage predicted, a tough looking man wearing a hat, whistle, tank top, some camouflage styled pants, and some boots walks up to them, and has an angry look on his face.
The stranger gets closer and closer until he is just inches away from Ryo's face. "ROY!" The stranger yells in Ryo's face, "Roy! I see you and your buddies here, think you can ditch work! Follow me! We're going to see Colonel Koma. He'll just love to see all of you again. The army is no place for slackers!"
The stranger turns around and walks. Ryo signals the others to follow. Ryo talks privately to the others, "Until we know what's going on here, we play along." Now Ryo thinks to himself, 'Why did he call me Roy? My name is Ryo.'
The stranger leads them into a building and up two flights of stairs. They come to an office, which the door reads 'Colonel Koma'. The guy slowly opens the door and sticks only his head in. "Colonel Koma, I've caught these lazy disgraces slacking off in their duties again. Shall I send them in?" The guy says in a nicer, much more respectful tone.
"Yes, send them in, Sergeant Morgan," the Colonel says. Sergeant Morgan opens the door all the way and stands aside so the Ronins can get in. Sergeant Morgan leaves and shuts the door behind him. "Hello boys," his voice comes from a turned chair, so his back is facing them.
Kento speaks up, "just what is going on here?"
"This is the second time this week you've been sent to me. In the army for only a month and you're all so close to getting kicked.
"I think you've made a mistake. You've got the wrong people. We're not who you think we are." Rowen chimes in.
"I don't make mistakes," Colonel Koma reaches for some files in his file cabinet, and fingers through them for awhile. Then he spins his chair around to face them. All the Ronins gasp for air when they see the Colonel's face.
'It's…It's Anubis!' Ryo thinks quietly. They see Anubis wearing a neatly pressed uniform with a lot of medals and badges on it.
"I'm not wrong Roland Hashiba," The Colonel says looking at Rowen. "Now, you all are to be punished. Roland, you, Kenven Faun, Curt Mouri, and Samuel Date over there are to report to Sergeant Morgan's office. And you Roy Sanada, are to wait outside my office. I'll see you get your punishment away from your friends. You are quite the troublemaker."
The Ronins leave the office. "Was that just me or was that Anubis we just saw?" Cye asks in disbelief.
"No, we all saw it. But I thought he died when he sacrificed his life for Kyura. And what's up with the different names?" Kento tells them.
"I believe you boys are to come with me," Sergeant Morgan yells from down the hall. He strides up to them, and is accompanied by four large men. They seem to be older than the Ronins.
"Remember, play along until we know what's going on here," Ryo tells his friends before they are forcefully taken down the hall and out of site. Ryo notices a chair with a newspaper on it next to the Colonel's door. Ryo picks it up and reads in his mind. 'UNCLE SAM'S WORD— Tuesday, March 2, 1947. What 1947!' Ryo's eyes get wide with wonder. 'Either someone around here saves old, American newspapers… or we've gone back in time!'