Uranus and Mercury's Excellent Adventure!! Part 2

By Sailor Nimnard

Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon, I'm just borrowing the characters for a little story.
Also, the story will contain some adult content, namely the mention of a relationship between
Uranus and Neptune, but nothing in detail. Also, some slight profanity.

Key: " " = talking
' ' = thinking
~ ~ = radio transmission

Now, on with the story!!!


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"Oh, My, God!! That was one of the biggest rushes I've ever had!!" Uranus exclaimed
wide-eyed as she turned to look at Mercury.

Mercury was sprawled out face-first on the floor, after being slammed into the rear wall.
She was struggling to get up as Uranus rushed to her aid.

"Are you alright, Mercury?"

"I think so."

"This is some flight simulator you created! I hope you do as well, if not better on my
racing simulator! You do need to work on the graphics a little, though."

"Oh, my head! I think I'd better sit down!"

"Here! Let me help you!"

Uranus gently led Mercury to one of the two seats. Once seated, Uranus stood over
the smaller girl and began checking her head for any visible injuries.

"It's alright, Uranus. I think I'll be okay in a few minutes. I was just caught
off-guard."

"Are you sure? You don't look too well right now."

"I'll be fine."

"This really is quite the little invention! The speed felt so real! I actually thought
we might have gone somewhere!"

"Well..."

By now, Uranus sat in the other chair, and was looking at the view screen.

"You do need better graphics. When we took off, all I saw were a jumble of lights.
Now the screen just appears blank, as though we're in a big black void or something."

"Oh, no!"

"What?! Is it your head?"

"No! Uranus! This isn't a flight simulator!"

"Then what is it?"

"It's a...I don't know how to put it...a..."

"Well, just spit it out! I haven't got all day!"

"The easiest way to say it...it is essentially a time machine."

"Huh?"

"I was building it for Pluto. You know, she does do a lot of interdimensional
travelling as part of her duties."

"Yeah, so?"

"The Queen was worried about Pluto's safety, openly travelling through time and space.
Her majesty worried that Pluto might me attacked or something on one of her trips."

"So, you were asked to build this to make her travels easier?"

"I guess you could say that."

"How does is work? I mean, if I remember right, you don't have to power to control
time."

"No, I don't. That is why Pluto gave me one of her master time keys."

"You mean, this key here?" Uranus asked as she pointed to the key she had turned to
start the device.

"Yes. Why is it turned?"

"Well, I had to start this contraption somehow!"

"Oh, no!"

"What?!"

"We must have traveled through time!"

"We couldn't have! Wouldn't Pluto have come forward and killed us for trespassing
through the gates of time?!"

"No! Not since we had one of her master keys!"

"Well, I'm sure we haven't gone too far. We're probably just in the lab, a couple of
hours later or something. I hope Michi isn't mad, since I'm most likely late for supper."

"I don't think we are in the lab, Uranus."

"Why not?"

"The last time I checked, the lab wasn't a big, black void!"

'When did Mercury become such a smart-ass?'

"Okay, if you don't think we're in the lab, Mercury, where do you think we are?"

"I haven't figured that out yet. What numbers, if any, do you remember seeing at the
bottom of the screen?"

"The numbers flashed by too quickly. They were replaced by a long string of e's.
Backwards, too."

"What?!"

"Not a good answer?"

"NO!!"

"Can you speak a little more intelligently? You are supposed to be the brains of
the senshi."

"Do you know what this means?!"

"No, I thought you were explaining it. Not too well, either, I might add."

"You created an error in the time selector! We could be anywhere!"

"Like, inside a big, black void, perhaps?"

"This is serious, Uranus!"

"Well, I don't think we can be lost. We still have Pluto's time key. She should be able
to find us and bring us back, shouldn't she?"

"Yes, under normal conditions. When a time key is used, it is with the destination in
mind. You know where your are going, and it takes you there. Since we just kind of flew in
here blindly, with no destination, we could possibly be lost in time."

"You don't really believe that, do you?"

"It is a possibility we'll have to consider. Why don't you try to reach Pluto on the
communications system, and I'll see what I can do about repairing the time indicator. We won't
be able to go anywhere if that isn't fixed."

"Okay, but where is the communications system?"

"Just punch the black button the says "LP" on it."

"Thank you."

While Mercury got started trying to fix the controls, Uranus sat about trying to find
the communications. As soon as she found the proper black button, she pressed it and waited
for whatever was supposed to happen. To her surprise, a black Luna-P appeared before her,
floating in the air.

"Mercury, you have got to be kidding?"

Mercury looked up from her task and lightly giggled at the expression on Uranus' face
while looking at the Luna-P.

"Why do you think ChibiUsa had one?"

"Is this Pluto's idea of a joke? I mean, do I actually have to talk into that thing?"

"Yes. I'm not absolutely sure it will work, though. None of the systems have actually
been tested yet."

"Then why didn't we fall apart during our little "flight"?"

"Oh, that's easy. The outer hull is made of an alloy of titanium and Silver Imperium
Crystal."

"How did you do that?!"

"Well, the Queen has been helping on this project."

"Yes, but bits of the Imperium Crystal are in the hull?!"

"Yes. Several of the objects from the Silver Millenium and today are made from it. Your
talisman, for example. The Queen wanted to make sure that this would be indestructible."

"Oh, yeah. I forgot about that."

"That's alright. Now, could you please see about contacting Pluto?"

Uranus stared at Mercury for a moment before breaking out of her daze.

"Yeah. Sure thing."

Mercury went back to work at trying to fix the time indicator while Uranus looked at the
Luna-P ball.

'Ok. I think I just have to push the nose in to turn it on.'

Uranus pushed the nose, and immediately the eyes lit up and a static noise could be heard
coming from the ball.

"Hello? Puu? Puu, are you there?"

"Uranus, what are you doing? I don't think Pluto would appreciate you calling her
"Puu", do you?"

"I guess not. Heh-heh. Okay. I'll try again. Pluto? Pluto, can you hear me?"

~Uranus? Is that you?~

"Pluto!!"

~Yes. At least you aren't calling me "Puu" again. You know I only allow Small Lady to call
me that.~

"Yes,...um...I'm sorry, Pluto."

~Good! It is so nice to hear your voice again!~

"What do you mean? I just saw you about a half an hour ago."

~To you it was a half an hour, for everyone here, it has been 133 years.~

"What?!"

~You've been gone a long time Uranus. I assume Mercury is with you, as well.~

"Yes, she's trying to fix some time indicator thing. How can it have been that long?"

~I don't want to bore you with theoretical physics. I'm sure Mercury understands and
can fill you in on all of the possibilities later. How did you two get there? I have to
admit, I do not even know where you are, to be sure.~

"What? Well, anyway, I decided to test your little device. I thought it was a flight
simulator. Mercury just happened to come along for the ride."

~So, that's what's become of you. Everyone thought you two had been killed by an explosion
in Mercury's lab. The Queen, and I, however, knew better. We knew you had taken the
Plutomaru, we just didn't know why.~

"So, everyone thinks we're dead?"

~Yes, at first anyway. Neptune took your "death" rather hard, as you could probably guess.
The Queen felt it was necessary to fill her in on all of the details. What we knew anyway.~

"How is she, Setsuna? Michiru, I mean." Uranus asked, suddenly softening.

~She's as well as can be expected, Haruka. She is still very lost without you, but knows
you'll come back to her one day.~

"How can she be so sure?"

~She feels it. Everyone knows that you and Mercury are still alive somewhere. If you had
died, you two would have reawakened by now.~

"I guess that's true."

~That's how the other senshi figured out that you two weren't dead, either.~

"Okay, well, enough chatting. How do we get back? Can you come and get us or something?
Maybe open a portal, perhaps?"

~I wish it were that easy Haruka. Since I haven't been able to find your location in the
time stream, I've been unable to bring you back to this time. We've been working for over
a century on how to get in touch with you and deal with this problem. It hasn't helped that
Mercury went with you.~

"So, what have you discovered so far?"

~I knew you were going to ask that. What we've been able to determine so far is that you
two have transgressed several different dimensions. I'm amazed you haven't encountered
someone out there.~

"What is that supposed to mean?"

~Well, think about it. Almost all of our enemies have come from different dimensions. That,
really, was the purpose of the project. The Queen thought if we were capable of travelling
to other dimensions rather easily, then we could find as many other cultures as possible and
set peace treaties with them. That would make our new kingdom that much more secure.~

"That is a very good idea."

~Well, it was. Until you decided to play with it.~

"Yes, I know. I'm sorry. What can you do to bring us back."

~First, we have to pinpoint your location. Mars and Jupiter have been doing that as soon as
we first established radio contact. We have to do a method called triangulation. It might
take awhile. I'm waiting for Venus to return with Neptune. Then Michiru can talk to you to
keep the contact open, and I can help Mars and Jupiter.~

"They're helping in the lab? I never figured them for the scientific type."

~Well, everyone has had to help fill in for the two missing senshi. You, no offense, were
very easy to cover for, Mercury, however, was not.~

"What do you mean I was very easy to fill in for? Neptune hasn't..."

~No, Haruka. Don't be stupid. She has remained ever so faithful to you. It's almost
kind of sad, if you think about it.~

"Like you have room to talk, oh Miss "I've-been-at-the-timegates-for-over-two-thousand-
years"!"

~You do have a point there. Anyway, a lot of things have changed while you've been
gone. We had another enemy attempt to invade Crystal Tokyo. Luckily, we were able to
defeat them, with the aid of the chibi-senshi.~

"What are the chibi-senshi? I thought there was only ChibiMoon? Did she multiply or
something?"

~Well, she hasn't multiplied exactly. But, you and Mercury have.~

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT SETSUNA?!"

By now, Mercury, who had been listening to the conversation, ran over to grab the Luna-P.

"Pluto! Pluto! What are you talking about?!"

~Hello, Mercury. It is so nice to hear your voice again. We have all been making ourselves
very busy in your lab here. I have to admit that there wasn't much left after the explosion.
We salvaged what we could and tried to rebuild it as good as possible.~

"Thank you. But, what did you mean about Uranus and I muliplying?"
Uranus and Mercury both looked at each other, as if to confirm that they were hearing Pluto
lightly laughing into the communicator.

~Oh, that. Well, the genetics portion of your lab was relatively unscathed. We were able to
take some of you DNA and implant it into a human ovum. Very elementary procedure if you ask
me.~

"Okay, so you created a being from DNA combined from Uranus and I?"

~No. We needed to replace two senshi, so this was the Queen's solution. We extracted DNA
from samples you had in the lab. We then manipulated the DNA so that it could fertilze a
human ovum. Once we had two volunteers to be the "mothers", we fertilized the eggs,
waited 9 months, and your daughters were born.~

"So, Usagi, I mean Serenity, came up with this solution?"

~With a lot of help from Neptune, yes.~

Both Uranus and Mercury stared wide-eyed at each other, apparently in shock.

~Hello. Mercury, Uranus. Are you two still there?~

Uranus recovered first, and answered her friend, "Yes, Setsuna. We're still here. That was
just a lot of information to handle at one time. I mean, it's bad enough that we are
apparently lost in time, but to find out that we both have children, well, that's really
shocking."

~I understand.~

Mercury recovered enough to ask, just barely as a whisper, "What's her name?"

~Your daughter is named Kiri. She is the perfect mixture of you and her biological
mother. Very intelligent, yet also fiery tempered.~

"Who is her mother?"

~Your daughter, Uranus, is named Mikomi. She has your strength and speed with Neptune's grace
and beauty. You did figure out that Michiru insisted on being the mother. I think it was the
one thing that has kept her sane through this whole ordeal.~

"Pluto, you still haven't said who the mother of my daughter is."

~Who do you think would want to be the mother?~

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End of Part 2

I thought I'd be mean and end it there. I kind of thought it was starting to ramble on anyway.
I want to have a few adventures for Uranus and Mercury before they get back to their regular
time, so there will be at least 1 or 2 more chapters. If anyone is interested, that is.
Please review, if you liked it anyway. Also, Mikomi means Hope and Kiri means Mist in
Japanese. Hopefully I won't go out on a tangent again like I did in this chapter. Sometimes
I can get easily sidetracked!

Until next time!