Sailor Moon: World Rebirth -Part 2, Beyond the Horizon of Time
Episode 17 'The Reality Crisis'
Setsuna groaned as she woke up. She found herself lying in a bed, in her
sailor fuku. She didn't remember transforming. "It's about time you woke
up." The room was dark. A figure stepped out of the shadows up to the bed.
He was still shadowed. "How do you feel?"
It was a man. Setsuna closed her eyes and felt around her body for injuries.
She seemed alright. She remembered the explosion of the power generator and
then trying to lift a bar off of Minako, and then immense pain. She tried to
move. "I'm okay, I guess. Just a little stiff."
"That's good. You're one of the last people I expected to show up here.
You're lucky I was around to save you."
"Who are you?" Setsuna slowly moved up into a sitting position with her legs
hanging over the edge of the bed.
"One like you; one who keeps events in order." The man held his hand up
above her and the bed, and a sphere of light appeared there in the air,
illuminating the whole room. The man was wearing a robe with the hood up and
over his head. Setsuna's eyes adjusted to the light. The man pulled back his
hood and there was a friendly face staring at her. "You should not be here.
It is not right. The destruction of that vessel you were in has practically
finished off the people who it is my duty to watch. It was something I had
not foreseen."
Setsuna put her head in her hands. "I know, damn it! This whole reality has
been screwed up. I haven't had any correct visions in days."
"What could have caused this? What went wrong?"
Setsuna sighed. "A beyonder, . . . attacked my planet. I had no warning. My
senshi didn't have a chance." The man gasped but said nothing. Setsuna
continued looking at the floor. "The original timeline has been damaged past
the point where it could have been fixed. That happened a long two years
ago. Now I fear that my senshi are being gathered to fight back and I sent
their leader into the past of this reality. There's no telling what damage
sending them back to that time did. I have to return them to the current
time but my talisman has been safeguarded beyond my reach."
"Dear creator, a beyonder. This galaxy will never be the same again. And my
people are gone." The man bowed his head. "My world has gone into a nuclear
winter."
Setsuna looked up at him. "Then your planet isn't finished. It may take a
long time but the planet may eventually give life again."
"I'm afraid not even time will heal it. Nothing can cure Galaxia's evil
touch."
"Who?"
The man thought about it and then found his visitor analyzing him. "Ah,
never mind. But how rude of me not to introduce myself. My name is
unpronounceable in your tongue so call me Orion. It is what the ancients of
my planet called me. 'Star holder' in their language. I have watched over
this portion of space for many millennia." The man had taken a few steps
back into the room.
Setsuna, unsteady on her feet, slowly got up. "I am known as Sailor Pluto,
but you may call be Setsuna." She held her hands palms up from her sides for
a second and then her sailor fuku disappeared. She suddenly felt much
stronger. The transformation had been putting a drain on her stamina. She
was wearing the clothes Haiku had given to her. "I too have watched the
birth and death of great civilizations. Where are we right now?"
"Let me start at the beginning of this story. I was doing nothing when I
found the ship that carried the remains of my people falling out of the
orbit it had above the planet. I transported to the ship to find you and
your friends. They transported away but you were left behind. Probably
because you were unconscious. Just before the ship crashed into the planet,
I grabbed you and transported back to here, my home. I live on a deserted
moon that circles the planet. As soon as we arrived you transformed into
whatever you were wearing before. You've been here ever since."
"Will you help me then? To take on the beyonder."
"Well," Orion thought about it for a while, "I'll help you return to your
home. I don't know whether I'll go much farther than that. I'll make no
promises."
"Fine."
"Pluto Planet Power, make up!" Now that she was away from the planet she was
able to transform normally. The time staff, which was currently a staff,
changed back to its original form, but was still without the garnet orb. She
stepped beside Orion.
"Now, allow me." He held his open hand up into the air. When he closed it a
burst of energy shot out from it as a circle that got larger and larger. A
sphere of energy formed around the two timetravellers and they vanished.
Sailor Pluto and Orion appeared in a black void. "Where is this?" Setsuna
asked, "This isn't where I come from."
"First we have to find out what's being done about the beyonder. We must go
see Sailor Bahamut." Setsuna gasped. No one saw him unless it was of
absolute importance. He was the only one that beings like her and Orion
answered to. Their surroundings lit up and they found themselves in a room.
There were quite a few other people there and a bigger than regular size
throne that had its back to all of the other people. There was a floor now
but everything else was a void.
"NICE TO SEE THAT THE LAST OF THE MAINTAINERS HAVE ARRIVED," Sailor
Bahamut's voice boomed. The throne spun around and there was a dragon
sitting on it. Setsuna looked around. There was only about ten people in the
room. One of the others spoke up.
"Excuse me your majesty but what do you mean by the last."
Bahamut sighed, if a dragon could do that. There were creases of age on his
ancient face. "AS YOU MAY OR MAY NOT KNOW, THREE BEYONDERS HAVE ENTERED THIS
REALITY. AS SOON AS THEY DID, THIS REALITY SPLIT INTO TWO. ONE REALITY THAT
WOULD CONTINUE ON AS IF THE BEYONDERS HAD NEVER COME -THE ONE THAT YOU HAVE
FORESEEN, AND THE REALITY WE'RE IN NOW. BECAUSE THE BEYONDERS ARE NOT
AFFECTED BY ANYTHING OF THIS SORT THEY SIMPLY CHOSE ONE SIDE OF THE SPLIT.
THEY TAKE OVER ONE HABITABLE PLANET THAT IS RICH IN RESOURCES, AND RESHAPE
IN THEIR OWN MINDS. THE PEOPLE OF THE PLANET ARE JUST STUCK INTO IT
SOMEWHERE. IN A WAY, YOU COULD SAY THAT THE PLANET HAS BEEN 'REBORN'. A
WORLD REBIRTH." He paused a minute, letting this crucial information sink
in. "NOW, AS FOR THE REASON WHY I SAID THAT THE LAST HAVE ARRIVED IS BECAUSE
YOU ARE ALL THAT IS LEFT OF THE MAINTAINERS." Everyone in the room was
shocked. In the beginning there had been hundreds of maintainers. "ALL OF
THE OTHERS HAVE GONE, BECAUSE THEY HAVE EITHER TAKEN ON A BEYONDER, OR BEEN
HUNTED DOWN BY ONE. THE DAMAGE THAT HAS BEEN DONE IS IRREVERSIBLE. THE ONLY
OPTION NOW IN ORDER TO PREVENT THIS REALITY FROM BECOMING COMPLETELY
CORRUPTED IS TO DEFEAT THEM. I WILL DIVIDE YOU, AND SEND YOU IN GROUPS TO
BATTLE EACH BEYONDER. YOU WILL HAVE TO WAIT FOR A WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY, FOR
I FEAR THAT THEY HAVE BECOME TOO POWERFUL TO BE BEATEN. ORION, YOU WILL GO
WITH SAILOR PLUTO. THERE ARE POWERFUL WARRIORS ON EARTH THAT MAY STAND A
CHANCE SO I WANT YOU TWO TO GO THERE. A LIGHT OF HOPE IS FLASHING FROM YOUR
SOLAR SYSTEM." He then pointed at some others, "YOU FOUR ARE TO GO
TOGETHER," and pointed at the rest. "AND YOU FOUR TOGETHER. GOOD LUCK TO YOU
ALL." There was now a strong sense of purpose in that room. Orion repeated
the transportation technique he had used before and he and Sailor Pluto were
gone. They arrived at a gate of time, Sailor Pluto's post.
"Now where to?" asked Orion. "I have no idea where to go now." Sailor Pluto
held up her hand, and concentrated. A window opened, an eye into any place
or time she chose. She saw Haiku, and Sailor Venus, and Sailor Mars, and
Sailor Jupiter, crawling through a tunnel.
"I think she's almost done it," Sailor Pluto exclaimed.
"Almost done what?"
"The woman who destroyed the ship with your people on it. She's almost
gathered all of my senshi. Now to find the ones I sent back in time for
safety." The window closed. Orion grabbed her arm.
"You mean you sent someone from when the beyonder attacked, back into the
past? Who knows what kind of damage they could have done or how they would
be treated!"
"Don't worry. All of the senshi are reincarnated from a thousand years
before. I just sent them to their past selves. And you don't need to fear
too much damage, they have already been made aware of the horizon of time.
If one of them had been erased from time then we would have noticed the
changes." Sailor Pluto opened up another window. It showed the moon palace.
She scanned through different times and places. "Oh," she complained, "This
is going to take forever. I have to check every possible place they could
be. I could really use my talisman right about now."
Suddenly, even though they were in a void, a wind picked up. Sailor Pluto's
fuku began to fly all over the place. Light began to swirl around and then
met at a vortex. The garnet orb appeared on top of the time staff. She also
would have transformed into an eternal fuku except for the fact that Pluto
was already eternal. "Amazing, the senshi found the medallion. Now I can
actually do some good." Sailor Pluto held the time staff out in front of
her. A portal grew in front of her. "Now we can travel to the new world and
help." Sailor Pluto was about to step into the portal when it collapsed. She
got knocked off of her feet. Orion helped her back up.
"What happened?"
"The beyonder has blocked off transportation into the time of its rule.
We're going to have to settle with going into the past." Sailor Pluto opened
a portal that led into the past and walked into it.
"Any place is better than here," Orion said out to no one as he followed her
through.
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It was their two year anniversary of coming to the Silver Millennium. They
weren't sure if Sailor Pluto was ever going to come for them, but the burden
was helped because the Silver Millennium was very beautiful and there was so
much to see and do, and they were together. They had decided to return to
the moon for the occasion and to attend the annual masked ball. Luna, of
course, was waiting for them when the transport arrived from Venus to Earth.
She had insisted on not going any farther from the Moon than Earth, in case
Sailor Pluto came so she could be contacted by Queen Serenity. But, that
message had never come, and Luna had a great time traveling the Earth and
the Moon as a woman instead of a cat. She was treated much differently.
So the three of them got together for their final voyage to the Moon. Usagi
couldn't stop talking about all of the sights she and Mamoru had seen on
Venus, Mercury, Mars, and even all the way out to Jupiter. Usagi and Mamoru
had planned it so that they would arrive on the day of the ball, with a
whole afternoon before it to spare. Usagi and Luna spent the afternoon
dragging Mamoru from store to store to find new dresses to wear for the
occasion.
Mamoru was so relieved when the stores finally closed. They went to a fancy
restaurant and Usagi actually ate her meal slowly. When it got late they
left for the palace.
********
Sailor Pluto appeared on a balcony above the ballroom. There were hundreds
of people on the dancing floor below. Women in their marvelous dresses and
men in their suits with a wide variety of masks. Orion came out behind her.
He looked down at all of the people. "So she's down there?"
"Yes, I'm sure of it."
"You're sure? This is the eleventh place we've checked."
"Yes, she's right there." Sailor Pluto pointed to a young woman in a golden
white dress talking to the queen.
********
"It's nice to see you back Usagi. I take it you had a good time touring the
inner planets."
"Yes, your majesty. And I take it there haven't been any problems since?"
"Yes, all nice and peaceful. Just the way it's supposed to be."
"That's good." At that moment a young man who obviously wasn't Mamoru
offered to dance with Usagi. It being rude to decline Usagi accepted and was
spun away. It was two or three partners later until she finally ran into
Mamoru.
********
"So when are we going to get her?"
"I'll wait until the ball is over. She has a great responsibility to take up
and she should have this night to enjoy before it. Also, I have to wait for
a beacon." Sailor Pluto changed back to Setsuna. Then in a blink of an eye
she was wearing a beautifully decorated dress. "Should we have a dance until
then?"
"Well," Orion looked down at all of the people dancing. "I guess I could use
a break from all of the work I've been doing." He flipped up his robe and
then he was wearing a suit similar to some of the other men there. He took
Setsuna's hand and they were transported down to the dance floor. They were
swept away by the music.
********
When Usagi passed one of the other dancing couples she had a flash of
recognition. She and the other woman's eyes met. The other woman smiled and
spun away. "Mamoru," Usagi said, "I think I just saw Setsuna."
Mamoru stopped to think for a second. "Maybe she's giving us this last dance
before we have to leave."
"Very considerate considering how she has treated me in the past."
As the ball came to an end Setsuna and Orion made their way to the edge of
the crowd and disappeared into a dark hallway. "Time for an impressive
entrance I think," Orion said. "But for now I'd prefer to be unknown to the
senshi. I will watch from afar."
"Do as you wish. After I have her settled I'll come join you. I believe very
soon the senshi on Earth right now are preparing so we'll be able to pass
through into that time. Just remember, when the doorway opens, quickly slip
through."
"Fine." The two of them disappeared into a portal.
Queen Serenity thanked all of the guests for coming and there was a steady
flow of people to leave the ballroom. Usagi didn't move, but stayed in one
place, not in the middle of the ballroom but close to it and held Mamoru
against herself. When Luna realized that Usagi and Mamoru hadn't moved to
leave yet she stopped and waited at the door. When the last of the guests
had left the only ones still in the ballroom were the queen, the princess,
and the princess court. "Excuse me, you two," the princess of Mercury said
and stepped up to them, "You're going to have to leave now."
Usagi and Mamoru separated. "Yes . . ." Usagi said and trailed off. A globe
of energy appeared in the center of the room and floated down to a few feet
off of the ground. The sphere grew and then faded away. Standing there was
Sailor Pluto. "Pluto, I thought that I saw you. I've missed you." Usagi gave
her a hug and she returned the gesture.
Luna stepped forward. "Have you come to return us home?"
Sailor Pluto nodded. "But not the home that you knew, my princess. Times
have changed. There is a crisis. There will be much danger."
Usagi puzzled. Sailor Pluto was giving her a choice. She could either stay
here in the Moon Kingdom, or go back to her friends and fight a powerful
foe. She only considered the first choice for less than a second. "Let's
go!"
Sailor Pluto smiled. She waved her staff in front of Usagi and Mamoru and
they changed into Princess Serenity and Prince Endymion. The Princess
Serenity and the other princesses of the moon kingdom just stared. Usagi's
disguised, brown hair had returned to its normal blonde and her normal
odangos. She looked like a cross between the queen and the princess, but
being neither. Queen Serenity smiled. "Good luck." she called. Luna turned
back into a cat and jumped onto Princess Serenity's shoulder. Princess
Serenity and Prince Endymion stood behind Sailor Pluto. The sphere of energy
returned, and they were all whisked away. There was a flash of light, and
only Queen Serenity would remember what actually happened. Pluto's attempt,
to try to keep the damage done to the past minimal.
********
Sailor Pluto and her three companions found themselves in a blue and white
swirling void. "Where are we?" asked Serenity.
"We are on the border of the entrance, to the time of where our friends are
right now. We have been locked out, but I think the senshi will open a door
for us."
"How do they even know where we are, and to help us?"
"A very carefully placed prophecy planted into the timeline. There are many
variables, but I believe that the prophecy has been revealed. Ever since I
was helped by the one who was to rally the senshi so the prophecy could be
completed."
Serenity had a puzzled look on her face. "You lost me."
"Do not worry. You do not need to understand. As I said, here comes the
doorway." It started as a small black dot. Then it enlarged to the height of
a person. Light of colours shined through it. Blue, red, orange, green,
yellow, sea-green, purple, pink. Now, the four of them found themselves in
the middle of an eight pointed star. Each of the planet's symbols around the
edge, a crescent moon in the middle. Sailor Pluto disappeared. Before
Serenity could say anything she disappeared too.
The first sign Serenity had of being in new surroundings was the smell of
the sea. She opened her eyes to find herself standing in the middle of an
eight-pointed star in the middle of the ocean. Her friends who she knew and
loved were all around her.
" . . . . . and you guys know the rest," Usagi finished, finally coming to
the end of her story. She was tired of Luna continuously cutting in to clear
up specifics. They were at a table in the control room. She had told her
story, and Mamoru had told his, and Luna had told hers. Setsuna would not
tell what happened to her, but did tell the senshi about the situation.
"I no longer have any sight over events to come. A beyonder, a being that
knows no time, no space, no distance, invaded the timeline. These events
were never supposed to happen, yet they have, so they must be dealt with.
There is no way to return events into their original order so we're going to
have to deal with them the way they are right now."
"But what happened after you didn't get transported to my ship?" Haiku
wanted to know.
"Let's just say, I had some help from a friend." Sailor Pluto stood up from
the table. "Now, you'll have to excuse me, I have things to take care of.
I'll be around." Before anyone could object Sailor Pluto had vanished into a
portal.
Usagi looked around the table at all of the senshi, her friends. But being
the slow-witted person she was, still couldn't figure out who the mysterious
girl with the pink hair who everyone called Haiku was. Usagi was still in
her princess guise. "Well, I don't know about you guys but I could sure use
a rest." They had spent the rest of the day recuperating and sharing with
each other their adventures. Usagi got up from the table. "Lead me to the
beds." Haiku came over to Usagi, but there were no signs of recognition on
her part.
"Jeez, don't you recognize me Usagi? I don't even have the spell on me
anymore. You're more of an airhead than I thought you'd be by now." The
right words and the right look on Haiku's face brought Usagi around.
"Chibi-usa!" Usagi exclaimed happily and gave her daughter a hug. "But you
look so much older now." Chibi-usa quickly explained the story about the
sword and her mission in short. "It's so nice to see you again. So are you
going to show me where the beds are or not?" Haiku smiled and led Usagi off
so she could have a nice long snooze.
End episode 17.
End of Part 2.
Well there's the end of another part. It was meant to be short. Part 3 should be
about the same length as part 1.
Episode 17 'The Reality Crisis'
Setsuna groaned as she woke up. She found herself lying in a bed, in her
sailor fuku. She didn't remember transforming. "It's about time you woke
up." The room was dark. A figure stepped out of the shadows up to the bed.
He was still shadowed. "How do you feel?"
It was a man. Setsuna closed her eyes and felt around her body for injuries.
She seemed alright. She remembered the explosion of the power generator and
then trying to lift a bar off of Minako, and then immense pain. She tried to
move. "I'm okay, I guess. Just a little stiff."
"That's good. You're one of the last people I expected to show up here.
You're lucky I was around to save you."
"Who are you?" Setsuna slowly moved up into a sitting position with her legs
hanging over the edge of the bed.
"One like you; one who keeps events in order." The man held his hand up
above her and the bed, and a sphere of light appeared there in the air,
illuminating the whole room. The man was wearing a robe with the hood up and
over his head. Setsuna's eyes adjusted to the light. The man pulled back his
hood and there was a friendly face staring at her. "You should not be here.
It is not right. The destruction of that vessel you were in has practically
finished off the people who it is my duty to watch. It was something I had
not foreseen."
Setsuna put her head in her hands. "I know, damn it! This whole reality has
been screwed up. I haven't had any correct visions in days."
"What could have caused this? What went wrong?"
Setsuna sighed. "A beyonder, . . . attacked my planet. I had no warning. My
senshi didn't have a chance." The man gasped but said nothing. Setsuna
continued looking at the floor. "The original timeline has been damaged past
the point where it could have been fixed. That happened a long two years
ago. Now I fear that my senshi are being gathered to fight back and I sent
their leader into the past of this reality. There's no telling what damage
sending them back to that time did. I have to return them to the current
time but my talisman has been safeguarded beyond my reach."
"Dear creator, a beyonder. This galaxy will never be the same again. And my
people are gone." The man bowed his head. "My world has gone into a nuclear
winter."
Setsuna looked up at him. "Then your planet isn't finished. It may take a
long time but the planet may eventually give life again."
"I'm afraid not even time will heal it. Nothing can cure Galaxia's evil
touch."
"Who?"
The man thought about it and then found his visitor analyzing him. "Ah,
never mind. But how rude of me not to introduce myself. My name is
unpronounceable in your tongue so call me Orion. It is what the ancients of
my planet called me. 'Star holder' in their language. I have watched over
this portion of space for many millennia." The man had taken a few steps
back into the room.
Setsuna, unsteady on her feet, slowly got up. "I am known as Sailor Pluto,
but you may call be Setsuna." She held her hands palms up from her sides for
a second and then her sailor fuku disappeared. She suddenly felt much
stronger. The transformation had been putting a drain on her stamina. She
was wearing the clothes Haiku had given to her. "I too have watched the
birth and death of great civilizations. Where are we right now?"
"Let me start at the beginning of this story. I was doing nothing when I
found the ship that carried the remains of my people falling out of the
orbit it had above the planet. I transported to the ship to find you and
your friends. They transported away but you were left behind. Probably
because you were unconscious. Just before the ship crashed into the planet,
I grabbed you and transported back to here, my home. I live on a deserted
moon that circles the planet. As soon as we arrived you transformed into
whatever you were wearing before. You've been here ever since."
"Will you help me then? To take on the beyonder."
"Well," Orion thought about it for a while, "I'll help you return to your
home. I don't know whether I'll go much farther than that. I'll make no
promises."
"Fine."
"Pluto Planet Power, make up!" Now that she was away from the planet she was
able to transform normally. The time staff, which was currently a staff,
changed back to its original form, but was still without the garnet orb. She
stepped beside Orion.
"Now, allow me." He held his open hand up into the air. When he closed it a
burst of energy shot out from it as a circle that got larger and larger. A
sphere of energy formed around the two timetravellers and they vanished.
Sailor Pluto and Orion appeared in a black void. "Where is this?" Setsuna
asked, "This isn't where I come from."
"First we have to find out what's being done about the beyonder. We must go
see Sailor Bahamut." Setsuna gasped. No one saw him unless it was of
absolute importance. He was the only one that beings like her and Orion
answered to. Their surroundings lit up and they found themselves in a room.
There were quite a few other people there and a bigger than regular size
throne that had its back to all of the other people. There was a floor now
but everything else was a void.
"NICE TO SEE THAT THE LAST OF THE MAINTAINERS HAVE ARRIVED," Sailor
Bahamut's voice boomed. The throne spun around and there was a dragon
sitting on it. Setsuna looked around. There was only about ten people in the
room. One of the others spoke up.
"Excuse me your majesty but what do you mean by the last."
Bahamut sighed, if a dragon could do that. There were creases of age on his
ancient face. "AS YOU MAY OR MAY NOT KNOW, THREE BEYONDERS HAVE ENTERED THIS
REALITY. AS SOON AS THEY DID, THIS REALITY SPLIT INTO TWO. ONE REALITY THAT
WOULD CONTINUE ON AS IF THE BEYONDERS HAD NEVER COME -THE ONE THAT YOU HAVE
FORESEEN, AND THE REALITY WE'RE IN NOW. BECAUSE THE BEYONDERS ARE NOT
AFFECTED BY ANYTHING OF THIS SORT THEY SIMPLY CHOSE ONE SIDE OF THE SPLIT.
THEY TAKE OVER ONE HABITABLE PLANET THAT IS RICH IN RESOURCES, AND RESHAPE
IN THEIR OWN MINDS. THE PEOPLE OF THE PLANET ARE JUST STUCK INTO IT
SOMEWHERE. IN A WAY, YOU COULD SAY THAT THE PLANET HAS BEEN 'REBORN'. A
WORLD REBIRTH." He paused a minute, letting this crucial information sink
in. "NOW, AS FOR THE REASON WHY I SAID THAT THE LAST HAVE ARRIVED IS BECAUSE
YOU ARE ALL THAT IS LEFT OF THE MAINTAINERS." Everyone in the room was
shocked. In the beginning there had been hundreds of maintainers. "ALL OF
THE OTHERS HAVE GONE, BECAUSE THEY HAVE EITHER TAKEN ON A BEYONDER, OR BEEN
HUNTED DOWN BY ONE. THE DAMAGE THAT HAS BEEN DONE IS IRREVERSIBLE. THE ONLY
OPTION NOW IN ORDER TO PREVENT THIS REALITY FROM BECOMING COMPLETELY
CORRUPTED IS TO DEFEAT THEM. I WILL DIVIDE YOU, AND SEND YOU IN GROUPS TO
BATTLE EACH BEYONDER. YOU WILL HAVE TO WAIT FOR A WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY, FOR
I FEAR THAT THEY HAVE BECOME TOO POWERFUL TO BE BEATEN. ORION, YOU WILL GO
WITH SAILOR PLUTO. THERE ARE POWERFUL WARRIORS ON EARTH THAT MAY STAND A
CHANCE SO I WANT YOU TWO TO GO THERE. A LIGHT OF HOPE IS FLASHING FROM YOUR
SOLAR SYSTEM." He then pointed at some others, "YOU FOUR ARE TO GO
TOGETHER," and pointed at the rest. "AND YOU FOUR TOGETHER. GOOD LUCK TO YOU
ALL." There was now a strong sense of purpose in that room. Orion repeated
the transportation technique he had used before and he and Sailor Pluto were
gone. They arrived at a gate of time, Sailor Pluto's post.
"Now where to?" asked Orion. "I have no idea where to go now." Sailor Pluto
held up her hand, and concentrated. A window opened, an eye into any place
or time she chose. She saw Haiku, and Sailor Venus, and Sailor Mars, and
Sailor Jupiter, crawling through a tunnel.
"I think she's almost done it," Sailor Pluto exclaimed.
"Almost done what?"
"The woman who destroyed the ship with your people on it. She's almost
gathered all of my senshi. Now to find the ones I sent back in time for
safety." The window closed. Orion grabbed her arm.
"You mean you sent someone from when the beyonder attacked, back into the
past? Who knows what kind of damage they could have done or how they would
be treated!"
"Don't worry. All of the senshi are reincarnated from a thousand years
before. I just sent them to their past selves. And you don't need to fear
too much damage, they have already been made aware of the horizon of time.
If one of them had been erased from time then we would have noticed the
changes." Sailor Pluto opened up another window. It showed the moon palace.
She scanned through different times and places. "Oh," she complained, "This
is going to take forever. I have to check every possible place they could
be. I could really use my talisman right about now."
Suddenly, even though they were in a void, a wind picked up. Sailor Pluto's
fuku began to fly all over the place. Light began to swirl around and then
met at a vortex. The garnet orb appeared on top of the time staff. She also
would have transformed into an eternal fuku except for the fact that Pluto
was already eternal. "Amazing, the senshi found the medallion. Now I can
actually do some good." Sailor Pluto held the time staff out in front of
her. A portal grew in front of her. "Now we can travel to the new world and
help." Sailor Pluto was about to step into the portal when it collapsed. She
got knocked off of her feet. Orion helped her back up.
"What happened?"
"The beyonder has blocked off transportation into the time of its rule.
We're going to have to settle with going into the past." Sailor Pluto opened
a portal that led into the past and walked into it.
"Any place is better than here," Orion said out to no one as he followed her
through.
********
It was their two year anniversary of coming to the Silver Millennium. They
weren't sure if Sailor Pluto was ever going to come for them, but the burden
was helped because the Silver Millennium was very beautiful and there was so
much to see and do, and they were together. They had decided to return to
the moon for the occasion and to attend the annual masked ball. Luna, of
course, was waiting for them when the transport arrived from Venus to Earth.
She had insisted on not going any farther from the Moon than Earth, in case
Sailor Pluto came so she could be contacted by Queen Serenity. But, that
message had never come, and Luna had a great time traveling the Earth and
the Moon as a woman instead of a cat. She was treated much differently.
So the three of them got together for their final voyage to the Moon. Usagi
couldn't stop talking about all of the sights she and Mamoru had seen on
Venus, Mercury, Mars, and even all the way out to Jupiter. Usagi and Mamoru
had planned it so that they would arrive on the day of the ball, with a
whole afternoon before it to spare. Usagi and Luna spent the afternoon
dragging Mamoru from store to store to find new dresses to wear for the
occasion.
Mamoru was so relieved when the stores finally closed. They went to a fancy
restaurant and Usagi actually ate her meal slowly. When it got late they
left for the palace.
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Sailor Pluto appeared on a balcony above the ballroom. There were hundreds
of people on the dancing floor below. Women in their marvelous dresses and
men in their suits with a wide variety of masks. Orion came out behind her.
He looked down at all of the people. "So she's down there?"
"Yes, I'm sure of it."
"You're sure? This is the eleventh place we've checked."
"Yes, she's right there." Sailor Pluto pointed to a young woman in a golden
white dress talking to the queen.
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"It's nice to see you back Usagi. I take it you had a good time touring the
inner planets."
"Yes, your majesty. And I take it there haven't been any problems since?"
"Yes, all nice and peaceful. Just the way it's supposed to be."
"That's good." At that moment a young man who obviously wasn't Mamoru
offered to dance with Usagi. It being rude to decline Usagi accepted and was
spun away. It was two or three partners later until she finally ran into
Mamoru.
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"So when are we going to get her?"
"I'll wait until the ball is over. She has a great responsibility to take up
and she should have this night to enjoy before it. Also, I have to wait for
a beacon." Sailor Pluto changed back to Setsuna. Then in a blink of an eye
she was wearing a beautifully decorated dress. "Should we have a dance until
then?"
"Well," Orion looked down at all of the people dancing. "I guess I could use
a break from all of the work I've been doing." He flipped up his robe and
then he was wearing a suit similar to some of the other men there. He took
Setsuna's hand and they were transported down to the dance floor. They were
swept away by the music.
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When Usagi passed one of the other dancing couples she had a flash of
recognition. She and the other woman's eyes met. The other woman smiled and
spun away. "Mamoru," Usagi said, "I think I just saw Setsuna."
Mamoru stopped to think for a second. "Maybe she's giving us this last dance
before we have to leave."
"Very considerate considering how she has treated me in the past."
As the ball came to an end Setsuna and Orion made their way to the edge of
the crowd and disappeared into a dark hallway. "Time for an impressive
entrance I think," Orion said. "But for now I'd prefer to be unknown to the
senshi. I will watch from afar."
"Do as you wish. After I have her settled I'll come join you. I believe very
soon the senshi on Earth right now are preparing so we'll be able to pass
through into that time. Just remember, when the doorway opens, quickly slip
through."
"Fine." The two of them disappeared into a portal.
Queen Serenity thanked all of the guests for coming and there was a steady
flow of people to leave the ballroom. Usagi didn't move, but stayed in one
place, not in the middle of the ballroom but close to it and held Mamoru
against herself. When Luna realized that Usagi and Mamoru hadn't moved to
leave yet she stopped and waited at the door. When the last of the guests
had left the only ones still in the ballroom were the queen, the princess,
and the princess court. "Excuse me, you two," the princess of Mercury said
and stepped up to them, "You're going to have to leave now."
Usagi and Mamoru separated. "Yes . . ." Usagi said and trailed off. A globe
of energy appeared in the center of the room and floated down to a few feet
off of the ground. The sphere grew and then faded away. Standing there was
Sailor Pluto. "Pluto, I thought that I saw you. I've missed you." Usagi gave
her a hug and she returned the gesture.
Luna stepped forward. "Have you come to return us home?"
Sailor Pluto nodded. "But not the home that you knew, my princess. Times
have changed. There is a crisis. There will be much danger."
Usagi puzzled. Sailor Pluto was giving her a choice. She could either stay
here in the Moon Kingdom, or go back to her friends and fight a powerful
foe. She only considered the first choice for less than a second. "Let's
go!"
Sailor Pluto smiled. She waved her staff in front of Usagi and Mamoru and
they changed into Princess Serenity and Prince Endymion. The Princess
Serenity and the other princesses of the moon kingdom just stared. Usagi's
disguised, brown hair had returned to its normal blonde and her normal
odangos. She looked like a cross between the queen and the princess, but
being neither. Queen Serenity smiled. "Good luck." she called. Luna turned
back into a cat and jumped onto Princess Serenity's shoulder. Princess
Serenity and Prince Endymion stood behind Sailor Pluto. The sphere of energy
returned, and they were all whisked away. There was a flash of light, and
only Queen Serenity would remember what actually happened. Pluto's attempt,
to try to keep the damage done to the past minimal.
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Sailor Pluto and her three companions found themselves in a blue and white
swirling void. "Where are we?" asked Serenity.
"We are on the border of the entrance, to the time of where our friends are
right now. We have been locked out, but I think the senshi will open a door
for us."
"How do they even know where we are, and to help us?"
"A very carefully placed prophecy planted into the timeline. There are many
variables, but I believe that the prophecy has been revealed. Ever since I
was helped by the one who was to rally the senshi so the prophecy could be
completed."
Serenity had a puzzled look on her face. "You lost me."
"Do not worry. You do not need to understand. As I said, here comes the
doorway." It started as a small black dot. Then it enlarged to the height of
a person. Light of colours shined through it. Blue, red, orange, green,
yellow, sea-green, purple, pink. Now, the four of them found themselves in
the middle of an eight pointed star. Each of the planet's symbols around the
edge, a crescent moon in the middle. Sailor Pluto disappeared. Before
Serenity could say anything she disappeared too.
The first sign Serenity had of being in new surroundings was the smell of
the sea. She opened her eyes to find herself standing in the middle of an
eight-pointed star in the middle of the ocean. Her friends who she knew and
loved were all around her.
" . . . . . and you guys know the rest," Usagi finished, finally coming to
the end of her story. She was tired of Luna continuously cutting in to clear
up specifics. They were at a table in the control room. She had told her
story, and Mamoru had told his, and Luna had told hers. Setsuna would not
tell what happened to her, but did tell the senshi about the situation.
"I no longer have any sight over events to come. A beyonder, a being that
knows no time, no space, no distance, invaded the timeline. These events
were never supposed to happen, yet they have, so they must be dealt with.
There is no way to return events into their original order so we're going to
have to deal with them the way they are right now."
"But what happened after you didn't get transported to my ship?" Haiku
wanted to know.
"Let's just say, I had some help from a friend." Sailor Pluto stood up from
the table. "Now, you'll have to excuse me, I have things to take care of.
I'll be around." Before anyone could object Sailor Pluto had vanished into a
portal.
Usagi looked around the table at all of the senshi, her friends. But being
the slow-witted person she was, still couldn't figure out who the mysterious
girl with the pink hair who everyone called Haiku was. Usagi was still in
her princess guise. "Well, I don't know about you guys but I could sure use
a rest." They had spent the rest of the day recuperating and sharing with
each other their adventures. Usagi got up from the table. "Lead me to the
beds." Haiku came over to Usagi, but there were no signs of recognition on
her part.
"Jeez, don't you recognize me Usagi? I don't even have the spell on me
anymore. You're more of an airhead than I thought you'd be by now." The
right words and the right look on Haiku's face brought Usagi around.
"Chibi-usa!" Usagi exclaimed happily and gave her daughter a hug. "But you
look so much older now." Chibi-usa quickly explained the story about the
sword and her mission in short. "It's so nice to see you again. So are you
going to show me where the beds are or not?" Haiku smiled and led Usagi off
so she could have a nice long snooze.
End episode 17.
End of Part 2.
Well there's the end of another part. It was meant to be short. Part 3 should be
about the same length as part 1.