Third Time Around

Introduction

This wasn't supposed to happen.

A fact they had all stated repeatedly from the very beginning. A fact which Luna and Artemis still agreed on long after it was over.

Jadeite had been awakened from his Eternal Sleep by the fallout of the destruction of Beryl and the Negaforce. He'd spent the time since then, gathering and training the remaining Negaverse monsters, and finally, he attacked en force.

Tuxedo Mask had been killed in the third battle, but since Sailor Chibi-Moon had not been erased from the timeline, everyone naturally assumed that he'd come back eventually, like every other time before that.

Then Sailor Moon was killed, along with Sailor Jupiter. Rei and Mina insisted that Rini would probably bring everyone back and everything would be fine, because otherwise Rini would have disappeared. Everyone was satisfied with that answer, except Amy, who muttered something about Alternate Timelines, and then wisely decided to keep her mouth shut.

Sailor Venus and Sailor Neptune were killed in the next battle, and the remaining Sailors decided to go to the source, they took out Jadeite, but only Sailor Chibi-Moon and Sailor Pluto remained, along with the cats.

Sailor Pluto left, and took Rini with her.

Greg was devastated, he had a vision that he would be hit by car and killed. Greg was always right.

Chad had left the temple, to hook up with his old band, but Rei's grandfather's failing health had brought him back to look after him, seeing as he was the closest thing to family that the old man had. When he died, Rei's Grandfather left the temple to Chad. Chad eventually met a woman named Carol and married her, and they had two daughters, Zoƫ and Ruth, and a son, Jason.

Molly married Melvin, who became a biology professor, but six years later Molly's ability to attract monsters was the death of her.

After a few years of "on-again off-again" dating, Sammy eventually married Mika, and they had three daughters; Krista, and the twins Sarah and Amanda.

The Earth's dimensional fabric began to fall apart, and attacks from realities similar to the Negaverse began occurring more frequently, fortunately, they were completely random, and there was no evil plot behind any of the attacks. The UN expended a lot of time, money, and resources to deal with the threats, but they weren't exactly equipped to handle Magic-Based creatures. Fortunately, the world leaders were too busy concentrating on the Other-Dimensional Beings to fight amongst themselves, and not all of the "ODBs" were hostile.

The constant drain on resources, prevented technology from advancing as much as it should have, but there were still some major breakthroughs: Solar and Hydrogen powered vehicles were now the majority; but big rigs, construction equipment, airplanes, and helicopters, used other fuels.

Internet-based everything got better. People could chat face to face over the Internet. Internet Video quality was so good that television was obsolete, you could watch a show or movie on the computer on demand, or, if you wanted a bigger image, just plug your computer into a Video Screen. Of course movie theaters, having a special charm, were never obsolete.

Luna and Artemis grew closer together, but they never started a family. They constantly wondered what had happened, but they talked about it less and less frequently.

All of the Magical Items which belonged to the Inner Sailor Soldiers returned to Luna's pocket dimension once their owners died, with the exception of the Silver Crystal, waiting for the time that they would be called forth once again...