There were shouts and screams throughout the city. People ran in different directions.
Sailor Moon looked around at the strange place they were at. The city was crowded with large buildings, all gray and black. There was no sign of a living plant, only people running around. The sky was covered with thick black clouds of smoke. Barley any light from their sun was able to break through to the planet.
"This looks bad," Sailor Mercury said.
"What will their people do without light?" Sailor Sun asked. She looked about the city. "It's so dark. It's a wonder that they can even see at all."
"It's been like that for some time now," Healer said. "The people got used to it."
"Their use to it, but we're not," Sun said. "Do you mind if I try to fix it?"
"Do what you can," Fighter said. "We've tried many times again to rid of the smog, but as you can see, we were unsecessful."
Sailor Sun brought her palms together in front of her face like she was bowing. She seperated them out to her sides, then brought them up to a half circle at the top of her head. "Sun Light Beam, Cascade!" A ray of yellow light shot forth from her hands.
The light beam hit the smog. Slowly, the smog was being pushed away, allowing some light to spill over the city. The light coming through the smog got bigger. Sailor Sun continued to use her energy to widden the hole.
People stopped running in the streets to watch what was happining. There were some shouts of joy, shouts of confusion, and shouts of worriedness.
Saior Moon watched Sailor Sun carfully. She seeme to be getting weak.
Sailor Venus saw it to. "Don't worry," she said putting a hand on Sailor Moon's shoulder. She stepped up next to Sailor Sun.
"Venus Crescent Beam, Smash!" A ray of light flowed from her finger. It made contact with Sailor Sun's beam. The hole in the smog grew bigger.
Sailor Sun looked at Venus and smiled. Venus smiled back, then did a double take. "Venus Meator, Shower!" Her beam of light broke off into a bunch of small parts, each part hitting the smog. Soon, lots of holes with light shinning through them filled the sky over the city. It wasn't long before the entire city was free of the black toxin.
There was shouts, crys, and cheers, made by the people in the city. Sailor Sun looked back at Venus. "Thanks."
"Hey. No problem," Venus replied. She smiled.
"You did it!" Fighter said standing beside Sun. "But where did all the smog go?"
"My light broke the smog down into small particles, that the human eye can't see." Sun paused. "Plants will start to grow soon, and will feed upon the small particles of somg."
"I thank you," Fighter said. "And so do they." She pointed at the city full of people. The cheering went on.
"Now we can see who were fighting," Sailor Moon said. "Where are they?"
"They'll be here once they realize the smog is gone," Maker said.
"They will come from there," Healer said. She pointed to a mountain peak far from where they stood.
"Then lets start heading that way," Sailor Moon said. "We should be as far from the city as possible when the battle begins."
"She's right," Tuxedo Mask said.
Sailor Chibi Moon ran ahead of them. "What are we waiting for? We have a planet to save." She ran further on, with everyone following her.
***
"That's the Opinues Mountain," Fighter told the scouts as they neared the bottom of the mountain. "That's where the Atomics' came from."
Sailor Moon looked up the mountain. It was so high that she couldn't see the top. Large holes lay in the sides, making dark caves. No plants grew anywhere, like in the city.
"What do we do now?" Sailor Astroid asked.
"We wait," Healer said.
Sailor Mars brought her hands to her temples. "I since a presence from within one of those caves."
"It's the Atomics'," Maker said.
Mars shook her head. "No. This person is frightened, but strong. He wants to excape."
"Then we should help him!" Jupiter exclaimed.
"Yeah!" Uranus shouted. "Let's go!" She took the way up to the cave where Sailor Mars had pointed. Jupiter was right behind her.
"Wait!" Sailor Moon called out to them. The stopped and turned around. "You don't know what's up there. What if there are bats, or worse!" Spiders ran through her mind.
"You guys stay here," Uranus said. "We'll check it out."
Before Sailor Moon could protest, they went the rest of the way up to the cave and disapeared inside.
Each minute that passed, Sailor Moon got more worried. "Where are they?" she whispeared to herself.
"Don't worry, Sailor Moon," Chibi Moon said. "They'll be fine." She swolled. "I hope."
Tuxedo Mask put a protective arm around her. "If they don't come out in 5 minutes, then we'll go in."
Sailor Moon nodded, and waited.
Just when the five minutes was up, they heard a shout from inside the cave. "We're coming! You won't believe what we found!"
"That's Uranus!" Sailor Moon gasped, and smiled. But then her smile faded. There was a explosion of white light.
Sailor Moon blinked her eyes open and looked a round. All the scouts were lying on the floor. Some were trying to get up, while others just laid there not moving.
Sailor Moon stood up on wobbly legs and saw Chibi Moon not moving. "Chibi Moon!" She ran to her side and knelt before her. She took her in her arms.
Chibi Moon wasn't breathing. "No," Sailor Moon wispeared. Tears started falling down her cheeks. "I know the crystal can't help. You used it's power to give me back my power." She was talking to Chibi Moon, who, of course, couldn't hear her.
Sailor Moon took Chibi Moon's heart broach off. The Silver Imperial Crystal immedently came out. It was a dull white color, and was blinking on and off from the dull color to its usual color.
Sailor Moon let the tears come. A single tear slid down her cheek and landed on the crystal. The crystal disapeared from her hands, and Chibi Moon was lifted into the air.
The Sailor Scouts each stood up, watching what was before them. Tuxedo Mask stood beside Sailor Moon, watching his daughter the curiosidy.
Chibi Moon started to glow white. The silver flower on Sailor Moon's locket glowed, too. Then all of a sudden, Chibi Moon disapeared.
"Chibi-Usa!" Sailor Moon fell to her knees and stared at the spot where her daughter had once been.
"Usagi!" Tuxedo Mask, like Sailor Moon, starred at where his daughter had once been.
"Mamoru," Sailor Moon said between breaths. "Where did she go?"
"She's right here," said a strange voice.
Everyone turned to look up at the voice. Three figures were coming out of the dust that had once been the side of a mountain.
Two, she saw, were Sailor Jupiter and Sailor Uranus. The third figure she didn't reconize. But in that person's arms, was a child.
Sailor Moon stood there stuned. The third figure was a girl, who wore the same type of clothing as the Sailor Star Lights. She had white hair with a purpleish tint that hung long down her back the the other Sailor Stars. In her arms was Chibi Moon.
As they approached, the strange girl set Chibi Moon on the ground. Chibi Moon ran and threw her arms around Sailor Moon.
"Hello, Fighter, Healer, Maker," she said to the Sailor Star Lights. "It's good to see you all again."
"Protector!" the three cried out in usion.
"We thought you were dead," Fighter said.
"It seemed like I was."
"Where have you been?" Healer asked.
"As you know, when the Atomics' were banished underground, the captured me. You had no choice but to leave me, to seel them up.
"It wasn't until they got free, did they hide me in that cave. Then these two," he pointed to Jupiter and Uranus, "cut me free of my binds."
"Who are you?" Sailor Moon asked, still holding onto Chibi Moon.
"I am Sailor Star Protector."
"How did you come by on our daughter," Tuxedo Mask asked him.
"I felt her presence as she was going to the other side, but I dragged her back. It wasn't her time."
"We thank you for that," Sailor Moon said. Tuxedo Mask put a protective arm around his wife and daughter.
"Protector," Fighter said. "These are our friends. We helped them on Earth along time ago, now their here to do the same." Fighter introduced each of the scouts.
"I'm glad to meet all of you. Especially you, Makoto," Protector paused. "And Haruka."
"How did you know are names?" Jupiter gasped.
"Protector was born with the ability to read minds," Maker said. "I never really did understand it."
"Are you reading my mind right now?" Jupiter asked. She asked her because she was starring at her.
"I only read minds when I want to, or I need to," she said. "Right now, you thinking if I look like your old boyfriendds when I'm a guy."
Jupiter blushed, and the inner scouts laughed. Protector just smiled.
"Hey! Wait!" Sailor Astroid said. "I just remembered. Where did that blast come from?"
"You must be as stupid as you seem."
They all turned around. In front of them were thousands of people. Each was dressed in a silver uniform.
"We're ready to beat you," Fighter said, stepping up to the strange guy.
He wore the same siver outfit as all the others, but a large silver flower crystal hung on a chain around his neck.
"Who are you?" Sailor Moon said stepping up to him.
"Didn't Fighter tell you?" He laughed. "I am King Bakudan of the Atomics'. And who might you be?"
"I am Sailor Moon, and these are the Sailor Scouts." She named them all off. "And in the name of the moon, and this planet, I will punish you." She did her stance.
"Give me a break," King Bakudan laughed. He looked at Sailor Moon. His eyes suddenly grew wide. "What's that?" He pointed to her broach.
"It's my broach. Why?"
"That... that.... flower! Where did you get it!?"
"I gave it to her," Chibi Moon said stepping up.
"But where?"
"I found it in the royal garden on Earth. What's it to you?"
"Immposible," he said turning his head. "Never mind. Meet me in the Field of Dreams. There we will fight."
"Your on!" Fighter yelled. "When we get done with you, your going to wish you never came back."
"We'll see about that, now won't we?" He motioned for his men to retreat. "See you there." He disapeared.
"What's the Field of Dreams?" Saturn asked Fighter.
She turned to her. "It's a large field that makes your dreams come true. It's a dangerous place."
"A fare warning before we go there," Maker said. "Don't be drawn in by the looks. Fixate on the problem at hand. You can get trapped in the Field of Dreams if you allow it to consume you."
"I don't undersatnd," Sailor Moon said.
"You will," Healer said. "You will."
***
"This is the Field of Dreams?" Sailor Moon asked surprised. In front of them was a large desert. No plants grew, no animals were to be seen, and the only living life form seemed to be them.
"Don't be tricked by the looks of it," Maker said.
"I don't see what's so dangerous about it." Sailor Moon bent down and picked up a hand full of sand. She let it slide through her fingers.
"Just wait," Fighter said.
"Your not afraid, are you, Fighter?" King Bakudan said. He appeared onn the other side of the feild, followed by only a few men.
"Let's settle this, now!" Fighter yelled to him.
"Don't worry. We will in time. But if you want to defeat me, you'll have to cross the Field of Dreams. I'll be on the other side." He disapeared along with his followers.
"Shall we go?" Sailor Moon asked. She looked at Fighter.
"If it's the only way. Be carful." She looekd into Sailor Moon's eyes with such love. She turned away and begain to talk to the others. "Concentrate on nothing but our mission."
She turned around and started walking out into the desert.
***
Chibi Moon walked between Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask. She saw nothing that seemed like danger was coming. It was all peaceful. The thing that did scare her, though, was the fact that no plants grew, and no animals were to be seen.
Then off in the distance, she saw something move. She watched it slowly, and as she got closer, she saw that it was a little white bunny.
"Look!" she said pointing. She looked to see if Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask had seen it, but they were no longer beside her.
She looked back at the bunny, and saw that Usagi and Mamoru were petting the rabbit. They looked up at Chibi Moon and smiled. They waved her over.
She soon realized that they were no longer in the desert. They were sitting in Usagi's room when Usagi was 14, and she was living with her in the past.
"Chibi-Usa. Come here," Mamoru said. "Come see the bunny."
"Usagi-chan? Mamo-chan?" Chibi Moon was puzzeled. She saw that she was no longer Chibi Moon. She was Chibi-Usa.
"Who did you think it was?" Usagi said to her. "The Easter Bunny?"
"What?"
"Duh! You really are lame, you little brat." Usagi picked up the bunny and held it against her chest. "It's my bunny. Mamo-chan gave it to me. You can't touch it."
"Now, Usagi," Mamoru said. "I got it for the both of you."
"Yeah, Odango Atama." Chibi-Usa ran and tried to pry the rabbit out of Usagi's hands.
"Leave me alone," Usagi yelled at her. "Don't make me call mom."
"Go ahead."
"Mom!"
Usagi's door opened and Usagi's mom walked through the door.
"Aunt Ikuko!" Chibi-Usa cried. "Usagi won't give me my bunny."
"You should know better, Usagi," her mom scolded. "Now give her the rabbit."
"But mom....."
"No buts, Usagi. Your suppose to be nice to your cousin while she's here. Now give it up."
Usagi hesitated then sighed. "Fine." She thrust the rabbit in Chibi-Usa's arms. Her mom walked out the door. "You happy now, brat?"
"Leave me alone." Chibi-Usa went over to Mamoru and sat down besode him. "Ain't the bunny cute?"
"Yes he is. When I saw him, I thought of you." Mamoru smiled.
"Really?" she was so happy right then.
"Really. Always."
"What about Usagi?" She turned to Usagi, but she had disapeared.
"I think of her sometimes, but your the one whose always on my mind."
Chibi-Usa didn't like his answer. She handed him the rabbit. She stood up.
"What's wrong?" Mamoru asked.
"I don't...." she didn't finish. She suddenly remembered where she was. She was in a desert, but this was Usagi's room.
Something isn't right, here, she thought.
"No. Thsi isn't real," she said put loud.
"What are you talking about?" Mamoru asked.
"Your not real," she said to him. "None of this is." She waved her arms in a circle to show she was meaning the room.
Surly enough, the room started to fade.
***
Chibi Moon blinked a few times. What she saw didn't surprise her. Through the Star Lights had warned her, they were caught in their own warnings.
Chibi Moon saw Fighter (as a guy) with his arms around Usagi. Healer (as a guy) was singing on a stage with a bunch of girls calling out his name. Maker (as a guy) was sitting at a desk, typing away at a computer. Protector (as a guy, she looked differnt) was meditating.
She looked around for her parents. But she saw everyone but them.
Pluto was standing at a larde table, cutting clothing. Saturn was dressed as a doctor, and was working with a sick child. Venus was modeling in front of a camera man. Mercury was sitting in a desk in a large class room, hanging onto every word the teacher was saying. Uranus was in a race car and driving on a wide track. Neptune was sitting in a large auditorium playing her violin. Mars sat before the fire, meditating. Jupiter was cooking in a kitchen.
Sailor Sun was in a dark room, developing pictures. Sailor Astroid was on a dirt track and running. Sailor Galaxy was teaching a class of high school kids. Sailor Nebula was dressed as a cop, and was giving someone a ticket.
At last she came to Tuxedo Mask and Sailor Moon. They were in the same dream, together. Only, Tuxedo Mask was now Prince Endymion and Sailor Moon was Princess Serenity. They were dancing on the moon, in the garden.
All of them seemed to be in their own dream world.
But what awakened me, Chibi Moon wondered.
She looked up into the sun, wanting to get an answer from it. But the sun was only half of what she saw.
The face hidden, a figure floated in Chibi Moon's view of the sun. A white dress was blowing in the wind. Chibi Moon gasped, and staggered back.
The figure laughed. It was not a mean, tauting laugh, but a kind and gentle laugh. Slowly the figure desended from the sky and gently landed on the ground in front of Chibi Moon.
The girl was about 16, maybe 17. She wore a dress similar to Chibi Moon's and Princess Serenity's dress, except that now, the yellow circles were replaced with three stars. On her forhead was a yellow crescent moon, with a star inside it. The two bottom feet of the star touched the indside of the moon, the arms touched the rising sides, and the top jetted out a little was than that of the tips from that for the moon. Her light green, almost yellow, hair was brought up in two stars on her head, and from which long twist of hair fell down her back and down to her feet.
"Who are you?" Chibi Moon asked in amazement.
She smiled. "I am Star Serenity. I helped you excape your dream prison."
"Why do you look so much like me? And how come you have mine and my Mother's name?"
She lost her smile and looked up into the sun. "I must go." She looked back at Chibi Moon and smiled again. The moon-star on her forhead glowed yellow, and she vanished.
"Wait!" Chibi Moon reached out for her, but it was too late.
She looked at the scouts and saw that none of them had noticed the strange girl. They were all locked in their own dream nightmare.
She decided she had to do something to help them excape. She ran to Hotaru (Saturn), where she grabbed her hand and tore her away from the pacient.
"Chibi-Usa?" Hotaru said confused. "What are you doing? I have to help this person."
Chibi Moon then realized that she was no longer a scout. She was inside her friend's dream.
"He's not real," Chibi-Usa said. "Try to remember. We're on another planet, trying to help the Star Lights."
"What are you talking about?" Hotaru tried to pull away from Chibi-Usa.
"Your suppose to be Sailor Saturn right now. You in a dream."
"Sailor Saturn? What are you talking about?"
Chibi-Usa was stunned. She don't remember. Her perfect dream was to help people, not being a scout.
"Think, Hotaru. Think of all the battles we've had in the past. Think about our friendship." She paused. "I'm Chibi Moon, your Sailor Saturn. Do you remember Usagi at all?"
"Usagi?" She blinked her eyes a few times. "Your mother."
"Yes!"
"I remember, now. Sailor Moon and the Sailor Scouts." She looked at the guy she had been helping. "I have real people who need my help." The vision blurred.
Chibi Moon was left standing in the desert once again, beside Sailor Saturn.
"You did it!" Chibi Moon gave Saturn a big hug.
"Thanks."
Chibi Moon looked up at her and smiled. "Lets get the others."
One by one, each scout was awakened from their dream.
When they had all awakened, each stood looking at each other, all dazed at what had just happened.
"I guess that's what you warned us about, huh?" Sailor Nebula asked the Star Lights.
"Yeah," Fighter said. "And I didn't even catch my own warning."
"Don't worry," Neptune said. "We're here and all right."
"That's not the point," Fighter protested.
"Let's not talk about this now," Sailor Sun said. "we're all ok, and we really have a great battle ahead to fight."
"She's right," Mercury said. "If my calculations are correct," she tapped on her little computer that she had out, "it won't take but a few minutes to reach Kind Bakudan."
"Then we should go and get this over with," Healer said. She started walking in the direction that they had last seen Bakudan in.
Sailor Moon nodded. She joined Healer, and the others followed.
***
"How much further is it?" Sailor Moon asked Mercury.
"Don't know," she replied. "We should have been there a long time ago. I don't understand it." She typed away at her computer.
"Sailor Moon," Chibi Moon called out. She was tempted to tell Sailor Moon about the girl she had seen.
"Huh?" Sailor Moon turned around to look at her.
Chibi Moon sighed. "Nothing."
"Is something wrong?" Sailor Sun said putting a hand on her shoulder.
Chibi Moon looked up into her new friend's face. "No. I just miss my mom," she lied. Sailor Sun nodded toward Sailor Moon. Chibi Moon looked at Sailor Moon then back to Sun. She smiled. "That's Sailor Moon. My mom is Neo-Queen Serenity. She's not Neo-Queen Serenity. That's Usagi."
"I think I understand," Sun said.
"You seeing the future?"
Yeah," she whispeared. "Just dont say anything."
Chibi Moon nodded and they walked on in slience. Chibi Moon didn't notice, but tears sprang to her eyes. She was concentrating to much on the mission at hand, but in her unconscience mind, Chibi Moon was remembering the times from when she was in the past. She did miss Usagi, and Mamoru, and Ami, Rei, Minako, and Makoto.
"Usagi," a whispear excaped form her. Seeing Sailor Moon now, and remembering the false dream, made her fall to her knees and start crying.
"Chibi Moon!" she heard someone yell.
Chibi Moon didn't know who had yelled. She culdn't see a thing. Only memories of the past flowed into her brain. She felt someone pick her up, but she didn't accknowlede it.
The tears were now falling freely from her eyes. She could hear the shouts and cries, and remember the time when she was in the past, when she was fighting one the many evils, when the scouts were all calling for her. They had love for her then, but now, it seemed like they didn't care.
"Leave me alone!" she finally seemed to manage. She was dropped to the ground by who ever had picked her up.
"Chibi Moon? What's wrong?" Sailor Moon's voice said. Chibi Moon knew that it wasn't Usagi. This was the older voice of her mother.
"I want Usagi!" She opened her eyes and starred at Sailor Moon.
"I'm right here, dear," Sailor Moon said.
"No your not! Usagi hated me. Usagi loved me. You just love me! Why can't you hate me, too?"
"Chibi-Usa! I will always love you. I will never hate you."
"That's the thing! You do nothing but give me love, Mother! But I want the real Usagi. Before she became my mother. Tsukino Usagi was different. She loved me in a different way. That's the Usagi I love." Tear poured from he face.
Sailor Moon had tears running down her cheeks to. "Usagi?" it came out in a whispear.
"Usagi!" Tuxedo Mask yelled. "You made your mother cry. Look at her."
"No!" Chibi Moon turned and started running. She heard foot steps running after her. She stopped and turned around. Tuxedo Mask stood there. Behind him, she could see Sailor Moon on the ground crying, with the inner senshi around her. "Why can't it be like that again."
"Like what?" Tuxedo Mask.
"Like it was before!"
"Before what?" he asked.
"Before you grew up! Why did I have to come back to the furture? I loved it in the past with Usagi and Mamoru."
"Usagi...."
"I'm Chibi-Usa. Small Lady. Remember? Do you remember the past, Dad? How come you sent me there in the first place? Just so I could be protected? If I had never met Usagi, or Mamoru, or any of the other scouts, I wouldn't miss them now. Don't you see? I want to be with them again." Chibi Moon broke down into snobs.
"I can't help it if we grew up. If we hadn't, you wouldn't be here." He paused. "Chibi-Usa. We all have to grow up sooner or later."
"You still don't understand!" She turned to Pluto. "Send me back to the past!"
"Small Lady?"
"Please, Pluto. Send me back to the past so that I can be with Usgai again." Chibi Moon ran into her arms.
"The past?" Sailor Moon looked up. Her eyes were blood shot.
"I have to," Chibi Moon said. "I need to. I miss you to much." All the scouts just starred at her, not saying anything. She looked back at Pluto. "Please!"
Pluto looked at Sailor Moon for an answer, but she didn't respond. She looked at Tuxedo Mask, who nodded. She sighed. "If that's what you want, Small Lady."
Pluto used her Garnet Rod and created a gold key. She handed it to Chibi Moon. "This is the time key. You know how to use it."
Chibi Moon looked at it and saw that it was the same time key she had recieve when she was six.
"I'm going to send you into the past just a month after the Star Lights left, that way it don't interupt the time you were there." Chibi Moon nodded. Her crying had stopped. "You have five years. You can come back when ever you want, but if you decided to stay all those five years, then I must tell you this. On the fifth year after the Star Lights left, was the the year the world froze over. You must return by then, or the world as we know it today will be nothing like you know it now. Understand?"
Chibi Moon nodded. "Yes."
Pluto sighed. A tear came to her left eye. She pointed her Garnet Rod into the desert, and the time portal appeared. "Good luck."
Chibi-usa detransformed. She looked at the Sailor Scouts. They all loooked like they were about to cry. She loooked at Tuxedo Mask. He had his head down. She looked at Sailor Moon. She was just starring off.
"I'm sorry," Chibi-Usa said starring into Sailor Moon's eyes. She bent her head down and stepped through the door.