Ok, here we are now in the past, telling the story of Usagi, Mamoru, and Luna!
Sailor Moon: World Rebirth -Part 2, Beyond the Horizon of Time
Episode 13 'Secrets'
All Sailor Moon could see was a swirl of colours. Her meatballs came undone
and her long hair waved up and down even though there was no wind. Just a
swirl of colours.
Then white.
Then black.
A tinge of red and then black again.
********
"Mercury Power, make up!"
"Mars Power, make up!"
"Jupiter Power, make up!"
"Venus Power, make up!"
The senshi relaxed. Their elements spun around themselves as they became the
sailor senshi. Elder Mars stood waiting. She had transformed in a second
with just a thought. She waited a second after they had finished. "All
right! Each of you run around the palace grounds twice, then meet me at the
city gates on the forest side."
The senshi took off. At inhuman speeds they ran across the courtyard of the
palace. It was a breeze. Today was a light day because they were having
target practice. They usually ran ten laps. Elder Mars stood, watching them
go, then closed her eyes as her surroundings shifted to that of the gates of
the city. She set to work setting up targets for the senshi to shoot. When
she was done she was back by the city gates to watch the senshi arrive. "Who
would like to go first?"
The senshi looked around. "Sensei, where are the targets?"
She pointed to the edge of the forest. "Over there."
The senshi squinted, scanning the area in front of the forest. They could
just make out a target. "That far away? I can barely see it! How are we
supposed to hit it?"
"It's a very possible shot." Elder Mars pointed a finger towards the
forest. Flame leapt from her finger across the land and hit the target right
on. "Bring the target to your eyes. Let your mind do the work. You try
Jupiter."
Sailor Jupiter pointed herself in the general direction of the target while
shaking her head. "Supreme Thunder!" She shot lighting towards the target
and it engulfed the target and tons of the space around it.
"Nice shot. You killed your target and fifty civilians. Next."
Sailor Mars pointed her fingers towards the target. She lined the tips of
her fingers with what she concluded was the target. "Fire Soul!" A stream of
fire shot off towards the forest. Suddenly a portal opened up in the sky in
between Sailor Mars and the target and a figure fell through. They were
engulfed by the fire. "Oh no," Sailor Mars cried. "No one could have
survived that!" The senshi took off towards the fire.
Sailor Venus reached the stranger first. "Oh my." She covered her face and
knelt down beside the person. The others arrived. "Who is she?" The person
was lying on her back. It was a young woman, about 16 or 17. She had long
blonde hair that reached down past the length of her back. The part that was
confusing was that she was in a sailor fuku that the senshi had never seen
before. She didn't have a mark on her from Mars' fire.
Elder Mars came walking up to them. "So Mars, who'd you fry? What-" Elder
Mars was puzzled. Who was this? Not an impersonation, otherwise the fire
would have taken care of them. And who would they be impersonating? "I think
we better take her back to the palace. The queen will want to see this."
Sailor Jupiter picked her up. "Gather around," Elder Mars instructed. She
closed her eyes and viewed the fountain just inside the palace gates. It was
a little tricky, but she was able to transport them all. Elder Mars led them
up the palace stairs and into the palace past a couple of confused guards.
Elder Mars led them through the palace to a guest room and motioned to
Jupiter to lay the girl on the bed. "Venus, go find the queen and bring her
here. Tell her it's urgent." Sailor Venus nodded and took off.
********
Queen Serenity sat at a desk looking through the day's reports. Sometimes
she hated being a queen. She was quite relieved when Sailor Venus came
bursting through the doors but also worried. "What's wrong?"
"Elder Mars said that's it's urgent and you have to come see."
Queen Serenity gracefully got up from the desk and followed Sailor Venus.
"What happened?"
"We found a girl while we were having target practice. Marsblastedherand
shewasn'thurtandshe'swearingafuku,onlynothinglikeours." Queen Serenity
barely grasped what Venus had said. They arrived in the room and Queen
Serenity moved up beside the person to get a better look.
"Who is she? A spy? Just some person dressed up?"
"Well," Elder Mars said, "She's not just some person dressed up. She got
blasted by Mars fire and she doesn't have a burn on her. I'm not getting any
bad feelings from her. I don't think she's evil. And look at this." Elder
Mars reached and pushed some of the girl's hair away to reveal a tiara. In
the middle of it was the symbol of the moon.
"How is that possible?"
"Ughhhhhh," the stranger moaned.
"Wait, I think she's coming to."
Queen Serenity waited a moment and then asked, "Who are you?"
Who am I? Usagi thought. She felt around her body to see what she was
wearing. She was too tired to open her eyes. Her transformation was putting
a drain on what little energy she had.
"I'm Sailor Moon." Usagi opened her eyes. Everything was blurry.
"But there is no senshi of the moon," a familiar voice said. Usagi's vision
blurred and focused, blurred and then focused. and she found herself staring
into the eyes of her past mother. "Queen Serenity?"
"So you know me. What is your name?"
"My name is Usagi. Where am I?" Usagi looked back and forth around here to
find the inner senshi there and an older woman dressed in the colours of
Mars. The senshi looked so young.
"You're in the Moon Palace. Where else would you be?"
"During the Silver Millennium?"
"Yes of course. What other time would this be? Are you alright?"
Usagi closed her eyes. Whoa, What has Sailor Pluto done now? This must be a
few years before the attack by the negaverse. It must be puzzling for them
to have found a senshi of the moon. Usagi was still feeling a drain on her
from being Sailor Moon so she transformed out. She was wearing her high
school fuku.
"Where are you from? You're certainly not from around here. Are you from
Earth?"
What was Usagi going to say? She couldn't just say, 'I'm your daughter from
1000 years in the future and Sailor Pluto did something and now I'm here
with you. A wave of dizziness washed over Usagi and she leaned back. "I'm so
tired . . ." and she fell asleep.
When Usagi woke up again she heard two people talking. "I've decided that
I'm going to use the crystal on her."
"Are you sure that's wise?"
"I have to find out whether she's evil or not. All right. Everyone out of
the room." Usagi opened her eyes to see the senshi leaving. Queen Serenity
held the ginzuishou over Usagi. "Moon. . ."
Suddenly Usagi shouted out "Stop!" and Queen Serenity did so.
"So, are you going to admit that you're evil?"
"No, it's just what do you think would happen if you used the ginzuishou on
itself. Now imagine the opposite of that. That's what would have happened."
Usagi unclipped her locket from her chest and set in on a side table.
"There. Now you can use it on me. If you want to save your strength I'll
tell you that it's going to have the same effect if you used it on yourself,
or your daughter..."
"Moon Purify. . ." Usagi relaxed as the familiar power of the ginzuishou
washed through her. It transformed her into Sailor Moon. When Queen Serenity
stopped it changed her back to Usagi. "What?! Who are you?"
Usagi grabbed a couple of braids off of a table beside her and set up her
hair like she normally would have. Queen Serenity stumbled back and sat down
in a chair. "Who do you think I am."
"How can this be? You look just like my daughter, only much older."
"That's because I am a descendant of your daughter, only from many years in
the future. I can't tell you too much because it might screw up the timeline
and I have a feeling Sailor Pluto is a little busy right at the moment to
come fix it." Usagi quickly made up some story. She wasn't exactly going to
say that Queen Serenity's daughter would be reincarnated in the future.
"But you became a sailor senshi."
"Yes, well, in my time I am one of the most powerful senshi."
"Why didn't you want me to use the ginzuishou on you while you were wearing
your locket?"
Usagi reached over and picked her locket up off of the table. "A lesson on
time from Sailor Pluto. She said that as long as time travelers don't cross
the horizon of time, and then meet their past selves, it will be okay, but
if there were two of the same person or thing in the same time, that were
from separate sides of the horizon, and if they came in contact with each
other they would destroy each other. The horizon of time is about 500 years
in the future." Usagi opened up her locket to reveal a second ginzuishou.
"If you had used it on me while I was wearing this mine would have protected
me. If the two energies met I don't know what would have happened."
Queen Serenity thought it over for a moment. "But why did you have to become
Sailor Moon? Does some disaster occur in the future? We've had peace in the
Moon Kingdom for almost a thousand years."
"No." Usagi thought it over for a moment, deciding what she could tell
Serenity and what she couldn't. "No, it's not until after the end of the
Silver Millennium. Please don't press me. I'll probably say something I'm
not supposed to. I don't know much about this time and I would rather not
tell you anything that might change what happens in the future."
"So how did you end up here?" Now Queen Serenity had moved and was sitting
on the end of the bed.
Usagi recalled the battle. "We were fighting a new enemy about 2 weeks after
defeating Ne-, oh sorry, anyway, we had just saved our home from
destruction, when a new enemy appeared. Our new opponent had almost
completely destroyed North America. First it took down the Outer senshi, and
then the inner senshi. I looked at them and I could see they were almost
dead. And then Tuxedo Mask was blasted and my powers didn't work on it so it
dropped me down a chasm that it opened up in the ground. Sailor Saturn
grabbed me just before I fell in. Then Sailor Pluto pointed her staff at me
and something shot below me, I think it was a time portal forming below me.
Then I was dropped into it and now . . . I don't know where any of my
friends are or whether they're okay and . . ." The rest of what Usagi was
said was unable to make out because she began to cry.
Queen Serenity took Usagi in her arms. Even though Usagi had only been here
since yesterday she couldn't stand to see her cry. She didn't understand
most of the things Usagi had said but it seemed like some disaster had
occurred and Sailor Pluto had sent her here to be safe. "Don't worry. I'm
sure they're okay, and at least Pluto sent you to a familiar time." Usagi
stopped crying and seemed to focus on hearing or feeling something outside
of this room. "What's wrong?"
"Mamoru is here, in this time. He followed me through the portal. I can feel
that he's here."
"Who is Mamoru?"
"He's my protector. My dream is to get married to him someday."
"Do you know where he is?"
"No, but I'm sure that he'll be able to find me."
"Well until then we're going to have to change your look. And you can't be
wearing the royal hair style."
"Easily taken care of." Usagi made a pen appear out of air and spun it
around on her finger. "What should I look like?" Usagi stopped the spinning
of the pen and held it up.
"How about you take the image of an ambassador from Earth."
"All right! Disguise Magic, turn me in to an ambassador from Earth!" Usagi's
hair returned to going down her back but it shortened to just going down
half of the length of her back and changed to a brown colour. She was wearing a beige
dress with a low neckline and no sleeves. "By the way, where is Princess
Serenity? How old is she?"
"She's on a vacation to Venus. They have quite beautiful resorts there.
She's lived about 11 Earth revolutions now." Queen Serenity led her out of
the room to where the senshi were waiting.
*********
"Friends, this is Princess Gaia, an ambassador from Earth. She is an older
sibling of their royal family. That is who she is now and if anyone outside
this group asks, that is who she is. Maybe I'll tell you the truth after she
has left." Then senshi looked at each other and then Queen Serenity gave
them a stern look. The senshi quickly transformed to their princess guises.
**********
"We would love to give you a tour of the palace grounds and surrounding area
Princess Gaia," Princess Mars stepped forward. I was so nervous. I really
hoped that they would accept me and be kind. I let them lead me off. I
figured while I was here I may as well have a look around and try to learn
more about my past. Everything was so big. It was nothing like my home in
Tokyo. When we reached the front hall Princess Mercury introduced herself
and the others. "My name is Ami, and this is Rei, Makoto, and Minako.
"My name is Usagi and I'm glad you guys are going to be able to show me
around." I listened to my voice waver after the first few words but then I
got control of myself. "This really is a beautiful place."
"You haven't even seen the best of it yet."
I had a great tour of the palace and the grounds surrounding the palace.
Minako mentioned that she felt like she knew me and the others had similar
feelings. I just smiled. It was simply incredibly beautiful. They showed me
everything except the palace gardens, which only the royal family and the
senshi were able to enter. And I do mean ABLE. I knew of this but said
nothing. I also remembered that eventually it was disabled because it was a
waste of energy. Then the princesses gave me a short tour of the main street
of the surrounding city. I wanted to go shopping but I didn't have any money
and the others said that we didn't have time.
After a few hours we ended up in the front gardens of the palace. We were
just sitting there talking about various things, including sites away from
the palace that I just had to see during my stay. "So who are you really?"
Rei asked. All other conversation between us stopped.
"Yeah, you can trust us," Makoto added.
I looked around the curious looks. They were only about ten or eleven years
old. "All you're going to get out of me is that I'm from way far into the
future and I'm on a visit until Sailor Pluto comes and gets me."
"But-"
"Nope. That's all I'm going to tell you." They kept on bugging me for a few
minutes until they gave up. My stomach rumbled. "When are we going to get
something to eat?" I got up from where we were sitting. "I'm starving."
Minako took my hand. "Come on. We'll go have some lunch." The princesses led
me off through the palace to the royal dinning room and the five of them
took a seat. During the meal I tried extremely hard to have proper table
manners so that I could fit in better. I tried really hard to mimic the
others, but kept on making mistakes. If there was anyone else there besides
the five of us there would have been many questions asked about me. I was
eating so slowly I actually tasted the food. It was great. By the end of the
meal, my manners had greatly improved.
********
Queen Serenity smiled from a balcony overlooking the girls. Clearly, Usagi
must have come from a future where she wasn't part of royalty. The queen was
happy that someday, even if it was a thousand years in the future, one of
the moon princesses would have a chance at a normal life. Well, almost
normal.
Suddenly a palace guard ran in to the dining room. "Senshi, you must come
quick. There are aliens attacking the palace. The guards aren't going to
hold out much longer." The senshi stood up. "Don't worry Usa- I mean
Princess Gaia. Just stay here and we'll be right back." The senshi left
Usagi sitting there as they ran off with the guard. Usagi decided to follow
them to see who the aliens were because she didn't remember the senshi
having to fight until the battle against the negaverse. Curious.
Queen Serenity quickly hurried down to the main level of the palace to see
what was happening outside. She met Usagi looking out a window at the front
of the palace looking at the battle below. "Youma." Usagi said.
"What?"
"They are youma," Usagi said.
"You've fought them before?"
"Many times." Usagi shivered from the frightful memories. She watched the
battle below as the senshi used their powers to fight. Their powers were
doing damage but the youma kept on coming. Even Elder Mars wasn't doing as
good as she should have.
"The other elder senshi are days away from here. And they are getting old
these days."
"I have to help them."
"But that would bring up even more questions about there being a senshi of
the Moon."
"What if I disguised myself so they wouldn't recognize me as Usagi, or
Sailor Moon, and only see me as a senshi of the Earth."
"I guess it could work. But how would you do that?"
Usagi was already ahead of her. "Moon Eternal, make up!" Usagi began to
transform into the ever familiar Sailor Moon. Only she used her disguise
power to alter her fuku. First she became the regular Sailor Moon rather
than Super Sailor Moon. Her bows and boots changed to green, so her fuku was
representing the colours of Earth and anything else she had that was red
changed to green. Her blond hair changed to a dark brown and continued to
only go down half of her back. The Moon on her tiara changed into a blue
jewel. Before Queen Serenity could comment on it Usagi was gone.
********
Sailor Mars was getting tired. She had already used her fire soul five
times. The creatures were getting weaker but they wouldn't die. There were
four of them. Sailor Mercury was on the ground because one of the creatures
had blasted her while she was off guard. Her shabon spray hadn't been doing
all that well anyway. Mars didn't know how much longer they would be able to
hold out. Sailor Jupiter was moving slowly and pretty soon wouldn't be able
to dodge fast enough.
"Crescent Beam!" Sailor Venus used her attack and a creature was blasted
back. But it just got back up and came after her again. The senshi were in
between the creatures and the palace.
"SPIRAL HEART ATTACK!" Suddenly a blast of power came from above and blasted
one of the creatures. It turned to dust. A person dropped on the other side
of the creatures, in between the creatures and the palace gates. The person
was in a blue and green sailor fuku. She was wearing a blue mask as
well(similar to the one Sailor V wore). "You youma are not welcome here. I'm
Pretty Soldier Sailor Earth! In the name of the earth, I'll punish you!" Two
of the youma faced the newcomer and the other one continued on the other
senshi. Sailor Earth whispered so only she could hear, "moon," and then said
out loud, "SPIRAL HEART ATTACK!" She took care of all three of the youma who
were left.
"Sailor Earth, who are you?"
"For now senshi, my identity must remain unknown. These creatures are called
youma and I have battled them before. Farewell, I'm sure we will meet
again." And with that Sailor Earth jumped into the air and disappeared. The
senshi watched her go and then helped Sailor Mercury into the palace.
Princess Gaia was waiting there for them. "So, I take it you took care of
whoever it was?"
Queen Serenity was surprised. She had watched the battle and was surprised
to see how easily Usagi had pulled it off.
"Yes we took care of them. You'll have to wait for us until we return from
the healers."
"Yes of course." Usagi stood in the main hall as the senshi moved on. Queen
Serenity walked over to Usagi.
"You just keep on surprising me Usagi."
"I keep on surprising even myself. But it seems something is wrong. I don't
recall an attack from my memories of this -I mean the history of this time.
I believe something is here from my own time."
**********
Sailor Moon: World Rebirth -Part 2, Beyond the Horizon of Time
Episode 13 'Secrets'
All Sailor Moon could see was a swirl of colours. Her meatballs came undone
and her long hair waved up and down even though there was no wind. Just a
swirl of colours.
Then white.
Then black.
A tinge of red and then black again.
********
"Mercury Power, make up!"
"Mars Power, make up!"
"Jupiter Power, make up!"
"Venus Power, make up!"
The senshi relaxed. Their elements spun around themselves as they became the
sailor senshi. Elder Mars stood waiting. She had transformed in a second
with just a thought. She waited a second after they had finished. "All
right! Each of you run around the palace grounds twice, then meet me at the
city gates on the forest side."
The senshi took off. At inhuman speeds they ran across the courtyard of the
palace. It was a breeze. Today was a light day because they were having
target practice. They usually ran ten laps. Elder Mars stood, watching them
go, then closed her eyes as her surroundings shifted to that of the gates of
the city. She set to work setting up targets for the senshi to shoot. When
she was done she was back by the city gates to watch the senshi arrive. "Who
would like to go first?"
The senshi looked around. "Sensei, where are the targets?"
She pointed to the edge of the forest. "Over there."
The senshi squinted, scanning the area in front of the forest. They could
just make out a target. "That far away? I can barely see it! How are we
supposed to hit it?"
"It's a very possible shot." Elder Mars pointed a finger towards the
forest. Flame leapt from her finger across the land and hit the target right
on. "Bring the target to your eyes. Let your mind do the work. You try
Jupiter."
Sailor Jupiter pointed herself in the general direction of the target while
shaking her head. "Supreme Thunder!" She shot lighting towards the target
and it engulfed the target and tons of the space around it.
"Nice shot. You killed your target and fifty civilians. Next."
Sailor Mars pointed her fingers towards the target. She lined the tips of
her fingers with what she concluded was the target. "Fire Soul!" A stream of
fire shot off towards the forest. Suddenly a portal opened up in the sky in
between Sailor Mars and the target and a figure fell through. They were
engulfed by the fire. "Oh no," Sailor Mars cried. "No one could have
survived that!" The senshi took off towards the fire.
Sailor Venus reached the stranger first. "Oh my." She covered her face and
knelt down beside the person. The others arrived. "Who is she?" The person
was lying on her back. It was a young woman, about 16 or 17. She had long
blonde hair that reached down past the length of her back. The part that was
confusing was that she was in a sailor fuku that the senshi had never seen
before. She didn't have a mark on her from Mars' fire.
Elder Mars came walking up to them. "So Mars, who'd you fry? What-" Elder
Mars was puzzled. Who was this? Not an impersonation, otherwise the fire
would have taken care of them. And who would they be impersonating? "I think
we better take her back to the palace. The queen will want to see this."
Sailor Jupiter picked her up. "Gather around," Elder Mars instructed. She
closed her eyes and viewed the fountain just inside the palace gates. It was
a little tricky, but she was able to transport them all. Elder Mars led them
up the palace stairs and into the palace past a couple of confused guards.
Elder Mars led them through the palace to a guest room and motioned to
Jupiter to lay the girl on the bed. "Venus, go find the queen and bring her
here. Tell her it's urgent." Sailor Venus nodded and took off.
********
Queen Serenity sat at a desk looking through the day's reports. Sometimes
she hated being a queen. She was quite relieved when Sailor Venus came
bursting through the doors but also worried. "What's wrong?"
"Elder Mars said that's it's urgent and you have to come see."
Queen Serenity gracefully got up from the desk and followed Sailor Venus.
"What happened?"
"We found a girl while we were having target practice. Marsblastedherand
shewasn'thurtandshe'swearingafuku,onlynothinglikeours." Queen Serenity
barely grasped what Venus had said. They arrived in the room and Queen
Serenity moved up beside the person to get a better look.
"Who is she? A spy? Just some person dressed up?"
"Well," Elder Mars said, "She's not just some person dressed up. She got
blasted by Mars fire and she doesn't have a burn on her. I'm not getting any
bad feelings from her. I don't think she's evil. And look at this." Elder
Mars reached and pushed some of the girl's hair away to reveal a tiara. In
the middle of it was the symbol of the moon.
"How is that possible?"
"Ughhhhhh," the stranger moaned.
"Wait, I think she's coming to."
Queen Serenity waited a moment and then asked, "Who are you?"
Who am I? Usagi thought. She felt around her body to see what she was
wearing. She was too tired to open her eyes. Her transformation was putting
a drain on what little energy she had.
"I'm Sailor Moon." Usagi opened her eyes. Everything was blurry.
"But there is no senshi of the moon," a familiar voice said. Usagi's vision
blurred and focused, blurred and then focused. and she found herself staring
into the eyes of her past mother. "Queen Serenity?"
"So you know me. What is your name?"
"My name is Usagi. Where am I?" Usagi looked back and forth around here to
find the inner senshi there and an older woman dressed in the colours of
Mars. The senshi looked so young.
"You're in the Moon Palace. Where else would you be?"
"During the Silver Millennium?"
"Yes of course. What other time would this be? Are you alright?"
Usagi closed her eyes. Whoa, What has Sailor Pluto done now? This must be a
few years before the attack by the negaverse. It must be puzzling for them
to have found a senshi of the moon. Usagi was still feeling a drain on her
from being Sailor Moon so she transformed out. She was wearing her high
school fuku.
"Where are you from? You're certainly not from around here. Are you from
Earth?"
What was Usagi going to say? She couldn't just say, 'I'm your daughter from
1000 years in the future and Sailor Pluto did something and now I'm here
with you. A wave of dizziness washed over Usagi and she leaned back. "I'm so
tired . . ." and she fell asleep.
When Usagi woke up again she heard two people talking. "I've decided that
I'm going to use the crystal on her."
"Are you sure that's wise?"
"I have to find out whether she's evil or not. All right. Everyone out of
the room." Usagi opened her eyes to see the senshi leaving. Queen Serenity
held the ginzuishou over Usagi. "Moon. . ."
Suddenly Usagi shouted out "Stop!" and Queen Serenity did so.
"So, are you going to admit that you're evil?"
"No, it's just what do you think would happen if you used the ginzuishou on
itself. Now imagine the opposite of that. That's what would have happened."
Usagi unclipped her locket from her chest and set in on a side table.
"There. Now you can use it on me. If you want to save your strength I'll
tell you that it's going to have the same effect if you used it on yourself,
or your daughter..."
"Moon Purify. . ." Usagi relaxed as the familiar power of the ginzuishou
washed through her. It transformed her into Sailor Moon. When Queen Serenity
stopped it changed her back to Usagi. "What?! Who are you?"
Usagi grabbed a couple of braids off of a table beside her and set up her
hair like she normally would have. Queen Serenity stumbled back and sat down
in a chair. "Who do you think I am."
"How can this be? You look just like my daughter, only much older."
"That's because I am a descendant of your daughter, only from many years in
the future. I can't tell you too much because it might screw up the timeline
and I have a feeling Sailor Pluto is a little busy right at the moment to
come fix it." Usagi quickly made up some story. She wasn't exactly going to
say that Queen Serenity's daughter would be reincarnated in the future.
"But you became a sailor senshi."
"Yes, well, in my time I am one of the most powerful senshi."
"Why didn't you want me to use the ginzuishou on you while you were wearing
your locket?"
Usagi reached over and picked her locket up off of the table. "A lesson on
time from Sailor Pluto. She said that as long as time travelers don't cross
the horizon of time, and then meet their past selves, it will be okay, but
if there were two of the same person or thing in the same time, that were
from separate sides of the horizon, and if they came in contact with each
other they would destroy each other. The horizon of time is about 500 years
in the future." Usagi opened up her locket to reveal a second ginzuishou.
"If you had used it on me while I was wearing this mine would have protected
me. If the two energies met I don't know what would have happened."
Queen Serenity thought it over for a moment. "But why did you have to become
Sailor Moon? Does some disaster occur in the future? We've had peace in the
Moon Kingdom for almost a thousand years."
"No." Usagi thought it over for a moment, deciding what she could tell
Serenity and what she couldn't. "No, it's not until after the end of the
Silver Millennium. Please don't press me. I'll probably say something I'm
not supposed to. I don't know much about this time and I would rather not
tell you anything that might change what happens in the future."
"So how did you end up here?" Now Queen Serenity had moved and was sitting
on the end of the bed.
Usagi recalled the battle. "We were fighting a new enemy about 2 weeks after
defeating Ne-, oh sorry, anyway, we had just saved our home from
destruction, when a new enemy appeared. Our new opponent had almost
completely destroyed North America. First it took down the Outer senshi, and
then the inner senshi. I looked at them and I could see they were almost
dead. And then Tuxedo Mask was blasted and my powers didn't work on it so it
dropped me down a chasm that it opened up in the ground. Sailor Saturn
grabbed me just before I fell in. Then Sailor Pluto pointed her staff at me
and something shot below me, I think it was a time portal forming below me.
Then I was dropped into it and now . . . I don't know where any of my
friends are or whether they're okay and . . ." The rest of what Usagi was
said was unable to make out because she began to cry.
Queen Serenity took Usagi in her arms. Even though Usagi had only been here
since yesterday she couldn't stand to see her cry. She didn't understand
most of the things Usagi had said but it seemed like some disaster had
occurred and Sailor Pluto had sent her here to be safe. "Don't worry. I'm
sure they're okay, and at least Pluto sent you to a familiar time." Usagi
stopped crying and seemed to focus on hearing or feeling something outside
of this room. "What's wrong?"
"Mamoru is here, in this time. He followed me through the portal. I can feel
that he's here."
"Who is Mamoru?"
"He's my protector. My dream is to get married to him someday."
"Do you know where he is?"
"No, but I'm sure that he'll be able to find me."
"Well until then we're going to have to change your look. And you can't be
wearing the royal hair style."
"Easily taken care of." Usagi made a pen appear out of air and spun it
around on her finger. "What should I look like?" Usagi stopped the spinning
of the pen and held it up.
"How about you take the image of an ambassador from Earth."
"All right! Disguise Magic, turn me in to an ambassador from Earth!" Usagi's
hair returned to going down her back but it shortened to just going down
half of the length of her back and changed to a brown colour. She was wearing a beige
dress with a low neckline and no sleeves. "By the way, where is Princess
Serenity? How old is she?"
"She's on a vacation to Venus. They have quite beautiful resorts there.
She's lived about 11 Earth revolutions now." Queen Serenity led her out of
the room to where the senshi were waiting.
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"Friends, this is Princess Gaia, an ambassador from Earth. She is an older
sibling of their royal family. That is who she is now and if anyone outside
this group asks, that is who she is. Maybe I'll tell you the truth after she
has left." Then senshi looked at each other and then Queen Serenity gave
them a stern look. The senshi quickly transformed to their princess guises.
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"We would love to give you a tour of the palace grounds and surrounding area
Princess Gaia," Princess Mars stepped forward. I was so nervous. I really
hoped that they would accept me and be kind. I let them lead me off. I
figured while I was here I may as well have a look around and try to learn
more about my past. Everything was so big. It was nothing like my home in
Tokyo. When we reached the front hall Princess Mercury introduced herself
and the others. "My name is Ami, and this is Rei, Makoto, and Minako.
"My name is Usagi and I'm glad you guys are going to be able to show me
around." I listened to my voice waver after the first few words but then I
got control of myself. "This really is a beautiful place."
"You haven't even seen the best of it yet."
I had a great tour of the palace and the grounds surrounding the palace.
Minako mentioned that she felt like she knew me and the others had similar
feelings. I just smiled. It was simply incredibly beautiful. They showed me
everything except the palace gardens, which only the royal family and the
senshi were able to enter. And I do mean ABLE. I knew of this but said
nothing. I also remembered that eventually it was disabled because it was a
waste of energy. Then the princesses gave me a short tour of the main street
of the surrounding city. I wanted to go shopping but I didn't have any money
and the others said that we didn't have time.
After a few hours we ended up in the front gardens of the palace. We were
just sitting there talking about various things, including sites away from
the palace that I just had to see during my stay. "So who are you really?"
Rei asked. All other conversation between us stopped.
"Yeah, you can trust us," Makoto added.
I looked around the curious looks. They were only about ten or eleven years
old. "All you're going to get out of me is that I'm from way far into the
future and I'm on a visit until Sailor Pluto comes and gets me."
"But-"
"Nope. That's all I'm going to tell you." They kept on bugging me for a few
minutes until they gave up. My stomach rumbled. "When are we going to get
something to eat?" I got up from where we were sitting. "I'm starving."
Minako took my hand. "Come on. We'll go have some lunch." The princesses led
me off through the palace to the royal dinning room and the five of them
took a seat. During the meal I tried extremely hard to have proper table
manners so that I could fit in better. I tried really hard to mimic the
others, but kept on making mistakes. If there was anyone else there besides
the five of us there would have been many questions asked about me. I was
eating so slowly I actually tasted the food. It was great. By the end of the
meal, my manners had greatly improved.
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Queen Serenity smiled from a balcony overlooking the girls. Clearly, Usagi
must have come from a future where she wasn't part of royalty. The queen was
happy that someday, even if it was a thousand years in the future, one of
the moon princesses would have a chance at a normal life. Well, almost
normal.
Suddenly a palace guard ran in to the dining room. "Senshi, you must come
quick. There are aliens attacking the palace. The guards aren't going to
hold out much longer." The senshi stood up. "Don't worry Usa- I mean
Princess Gaia. Just stay here and we'll be right back." The senshi left
Usagi sitting there as they ran off with the guard. Usagi decided to follow
them to see who the aliens were because she didn't remember the senshi
having to fight until the battle against the negaverse. Curious.
Queen Serenity quickly hurried down to the main level of the palace to see
what was happening outside. She met Usagi looking out a window at the front
of the palace looking at the battle below. "Youma." Usagi said.
"What?"
"They are youma," Usagi said.
"You've fought them before?"
"Many times." Usagi shivered from the frightful memories. She watched the
battle below as the senshi used their powers to fight. Their powers were
doing damage but the youma kept on coming. Even Elder Mars wasn't doing as
good as she should have.
"The other elder senshi are days away from here. And they are getting old
these days."
"I have to help them."
"But that would bring up even more questions about there being a senshi of
the Moon."
"What if I disguised myself so they wouldn't recognize me as Usagi, or
Sailor Moon, and only see me as a senshi of the Earth."
"I guess it could work. But how would you do that?"
Usagi was already ahead of her. "Moon Eternal, make up!" Usagi began to
transform into the ever familiar Sailor Moon. Only she used her disguise
power to alter her fuku. First she became the regular Sailor Moon rather
than Super Sailor Moon. Her bows and boots changed to green, so her fuku was
representing the colours of Earth and anything else she had that was red
changed to green. Her blond hair changed to a dark brown and continued to
only go down half of her back. The Moon on her tiara changed into a blue
jewel. Before Queen Serenity could comment on it Usagi was gone.
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Sailor Mars was getting tired. She had already used her fire soul five
times. The creatures were getting weaker but they wouldn't die. There were
four of them. Sailor Mercury was on the ground because one of the creatures
had blasted her while she was off guard. Her shabon spray hadn't been doing
all that well anyway. Mars didn't know how much longer they would be able to
hold out. Sailor Jupiter was moving slowly and pretty soon wouldn't be able
to dodge fast enough.
"Crescent Beam!" Sailor Venus used her attack and a creature was blasted
back. But it just got back up and came after her again. The senshi were in
between the creatures and the palace.
"SPIRAL HEART ATTACK!" Suddenly a blast of power came from above and blasted
one of the creatures. It turned to dust. A person dropped on the other side
of the creatures, in between the creatures and the palace gates. The person
was in a blue and green sailor fuku. She was wearing a blue mask as
well(similar to the one Sailor V wore). "You youma are not welcome here. I'm
Pretty Soldier Sailor Earth! In the name of the earth, I'll punish you!" Two
of the youma faced the newcomer and the other one continued on the other
senshi. Sailor Earth whispered so only she could hear, "moon," and then said
out loud, "SPIRAL HEART ATTACK!" She took care of all three of the youma who
were left.
"Sailor Earth, who are you?"
"For now senshi, my identity must remain unknown. These creatures are called
youma and I have battled them before. Farewell, I'm sure we will meet
again." And with that Sailor Earth jumped into the air and disappeared. The
senshi watched her go and then helped Sailor Mercury into the palace.
Princess Gaia was waiting there for them. "So, I take it you took care of
whoever it was?"
Queen Serenity was surprised. She had watched the battle and was surprised
to see how easily Usagi had pulled it off.
"Yes we took care of them. You'll have to wait for us until we return from
the healers."
"Yes of course." Usagi stood in the main hall as the senshi moved on. Queen
Serenity walked over to Usagi.
"You just keep on surprising me Usagi."
"I keep on surprising even myself. But it seems something is wrong. I don't
recall an attack from my memories of this -I mean the history of this time.
I believe something is here from my own time."
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