Sailor Moon-American Senshi
by Eugol Dlareg

I do not own any of the main characters in this story except for Gilded Rose. They are owned by someone in Japan. However, with the exception of Serena Campbell and Amy Anderson, I do own the Americanized names of the characters, as well as many of the supporting characters and villains. To make things easy, we'll just say that anything that has appeared in the manga or anime version of Sailor Moon is owned by someone in Japan, most likely Toei or Naoko Takeuchi.

LAST EPISODE
The Sailor Soldiers were assisted in battle by a mysterious young girl with Sailor Soldier powers. She was later revealed to have come from the future to recruit the American Senshi.

MILLENNIUM QUEST
Episode 2
The Quest Begins

==Saturday, 21 March, 1987 Jake's house, 9:00 a.m.==

Jake had seen the beginning of a message from his future self. It instructed him to gather the rest of the team to hear the remainder of the message. Susan Makoto had been the last to arrive. Upon her arrival, Rini began to address the team. "As Jake and Amy already know," she said, "I came from the future to seek your help. I also came to deliver a message." With that, she pressed the nose on her floating cat head, and a hologram of an older Jake Slater appeared.

"I'm not going to waste time here," the hologram said. "I'm going to give it to you straight. Your future selves need your help. They were captured by a being named Jedite. Jedite means to enslave the Earth, and he plans to start by eliminating the only people capable of thwarting his plans. Those people are your future selves. Except for myself and Sailor Jupiter, the entire team is being held by Jedite. Fortunately, he wasn't aware that Sailor Moon was able to pass her powers to her daughter. However, the three of us are nowhere near powerful enough to defeat Jedite. That's where you come in. We need your help to free your future selves and defeat Jedite. There's more. To defeat the evil that threatens to enslave the Earth, it will become necessary to restore the Silver Milennium. To that end, you will need to find the rainbow milennium crystals." At that, the hologram vanished.

When the hologram disappeared, Rini gave Jake something that looked like a television remote control. "This will help you find the crystals," Rini said. She then gave Serena a small wristwatch-like device. "You'll need this," she said.

"Why do I need this?" Serena said, as she put the device on her left wrist. "You make it sound like I'm going with Jake to find the crystals."

"Exactly," Rini said. "This device is connected to the one Jake is using.

"One question," Jake said. "How do I work this contraption?"

"Simple," Rini said. "The seven buttons on the top are colored to correspond with the seven rainbow crystals. Press one button, and you'll be transported to the time and place where each crystal is located. When you arrive, the device will point you to the exact location of the crystal. When you have one crystal, press another button. Once you have located all seven crystals, press the white button on top, and you will be transported back here, at the exact same moment you left."

"Sounds simple enough," Jake said. "Well, Serena, let's get going. Would you like to suggest a plan of attack?"

"Just one," Serena said. "Let's go in order. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, purple."

"Sounds like a plan," Jake said, pressing the red button. He and Serena found themselves in 1951. Her looked at the screen on his crystal detector. "According to this doohickey Rini gave me, the red crystal is 50 yards due north to our position."

"I'm on it," Serena said, walking north. She found the red crystal in a large knothole in a tree. "Got it," she said.

"Great," Jake said, pressing the orange button. They found themselves in the Adirondack mountains, in the summer of 1954. "I got this one," he said, leaping a thousand feet straight up, to a cave near the top of a peak, where he found the orange crystal imbedded in the cave wall. A short blast of energy dislodged the crystal, and he gently yet quickly decended to the ground. "Two down'" he said.

"Five to go," Serena said, as Jake pressed the yellow button. They found themselves on a beach.

"According to our little wayback machine," Jake said, "it's March first, 1960, and the yellow crystal is exactly thirty seven inches directly underneath my feet." He handed the locator to Serena. "Hold this while I dig." Several minutes later, he had the crystal. He exchanged the crystal for the locator, and pressed the green button. They found themselves in 1961, in the cereal aisle of an Alpha Beta in La Habra. He looked at the locator, and reached towards the rear of the shelf as if he were looking for a particular box of cereal. He pulled out a box of Kellogg's Sugar Smacks cereal. "I'm hungry," he said. "I haven't even had breakfast yet." They took the box of cereal to the checker, paid for it, and left the store. Once they were out of the store, Jake opened the box, and grabbed a handful of cereal. He offered some cereal to Serena, who refused. Jake grabbed another handful, and came up with the green crystal. He closed the box, handed it to Serena, and pressed the blue button.

"Where and when are we?" Serena asked when they arrived.

"Beautiful downtown Needles, California," Jake said. "October fifth, 1965."

"And where's the blue crystal?" Serena asked.

Jake held out his left hand. "Three, two, one," he said. On cue, the blue crystal fell out of the sky and landed in his left hand. "That takes care of that," he said, and pressed the indigo button. They found themselves in Hillcrest Park, in May of 1969. Jake went over to a bush, and reached into the base, and pulled out the indigo crystal. "One more," he said, and pressed the purple button. They found themselves at a rest stop on Interstate 40, in 1971. "You're going to have to get this one," Jake said. "It's in the ladies room, behind the sink."

"On it," Serena said, going to the ladies room. "I guess we got what we came for," she said, as she came out a minute later, with the purple crystal. "Let's go home."

"I hear that," Jake said, pressing the white button, returning them to 1987, and to his front yard, where the rest of the team were waiting. "We have the crystals," he said.

"And I do appreciate you going to the trouble of finding and retrieving them for me," a long haired man in military dress said, as he materialized.

"And who might you be?" Amy said.

"How rude of me," the man said. "Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Jedite. I have come for what is rightfully mine."

"You mean steal what doesn't belong to you," Rini spat out, making no effort to mask the contempt in her voice.

"Say what you will," Jedite said. "But it doesn't change the fact that I will take the rainbow milennium crystals."

Jake held a gold rose in his hand. "Over my dead body," he said, throwing his rose to the ground. "Transform!"

"We're with you," Tom Chiba said, as the other members of the team transformed.

"I'll kill you all if I have to," Jedite said. "As long as I get the crystals."

"Bring it on," Gilded Rose said. . .

Next time on American Senshi
Jedite battles the American Senshi team, and manages to kill one of them. Join us next time for
BATTLE FOR THE CRYSTALS