AN: Just me and my shoes. Nothing more.

What Happens When We Discover

"Tag, you're It!" It took Wufei a moment to realize why everyone suddenly leaped away from him when just moments earlier he and his new friends had been sprawled walrus fashion in the grass. Apparently, Usagi had recovered from her food induced haze because she was the main tease. "You'll never catch me," she squealed as she slipped away from his grasp.

"Over here!"

"Come and get me!" The others were just as quick in the straight away as Usagi the man came to realize. Stealth was in order.

Heero wasn't laughing, but Makoto detected a hint of good humor glinting in his eyes as they crouched together behind the gazebo railing. The game of Tag had quickly evolved into Hide and Seek. Theirs was a good spot because not too far off, Minako and Duo were giggling so loud Wufei would have to find them first, giving Makoto and Heero an early warning system. Rei and Quatre had taken to the many rows of tall growing lilacs, a stalk shivering every now and again to show their position. Heero caught Makoto's attention and pointed to a nearby oak tree. Apparently, one of Ami's sandals' straps had broken because the shoe had flopped down into the dirt before Wufei's feet.

"I see you up there!" Wufei tried to climb the tree, but a laughing Usagi zipped by to distract him from his task. Sensing easier prey, Wufei bounded after her. Taking their chance, first Ami, then Trowa came shimming down the tree to seek a better hiding place. Turning back to her friend, Makoto began to suggest that they find another place when Usagi's eardrum splitting scream tore through the air. Game cancelled, the entire group left their hiding places in time to meet Wufei and Usagi as they came dashing back into view. They were not alone as they crossed the park clearing. It took the Senshi only a moment to silently name what the two were running from. It was one of Fiore's plant-women yomas*. But I thought Fiore had destroyed them after our victory…was the thought that ran through five minds at once.

"Look out!" All of the couples dodged various vine whips that the madly giggling plant-yoma slashed towards them.

"Go for help," Heero said as he pulled a large gun from nowhere. The other guys urged their female counterparts to do likewise as they also took defensive stances against the creature. Not wanting to leave their friends undefended, but knowing that they could do more good in their warrior forms, the girls dashed off to transform in secret. An eerie silence filled the park's woods as the girls came to a halt.

"We've got to hurry! The guys don't stand a chance!" Usagi turned and looked each of her friends in the eye before she held up her hand and shouted.

"Silver Moon Crystal Power. . .!"

"Mercury Crystal Power…"

"Jupiter Crystal Power…"

"Venus Crystal Power…"

"Mars Crystal Power…"

"Make Up!" As each girl's ribbon of colored light began to flow about them a somewhat familiar voice shouted out from within the woods' shadowed depths.

"NOW!" As each Senshi's power poured from her transformation, all of them gasped in unison as they found themselves locked into an embrace with a man each girl had just recently met. As if compensating for the extra person, the henshin sticks and Moon locket glowed twice as brightly. An outside observer would have seen both men and women enveloped with bright ribbons of power, each glowing in the respective colors of red, yellow, green, blue, and white. In the blink of an eye, the power faded, leaving ten stunned figures robed in the fighting garb of the Royal Order of the Senshi.

*Fiore from Sailor Moon R the Movie.*

AN: Oh, man! I hope that you like this chapter as much as the others. I promise to update soon and explain everything! Thank you for reading!