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This chappie was rather tedious to write; just filling in the spaces…boooring....but one little part was really easy…bet you guess which!

When she woke up, Rei was in a soft, warm bed. She sat up instantly, and the night's events came back to her in a wave of grief. Rei tried to turn her mind to different matters, like where she was and…whose clothes were these?

She glanced around the room. The room was huge and elaborately decorated, from the bed to the antique oak wardrobe. Rei walked over to it, but finding it empty, decided she would have to make do with the outfit she had on: a bright pink, frilly dress. It didn't fit well and was quite uncomfortable, but it seemed that was the only thing she had to wear. Rei's head throbbed, and she realized that she had a nasty gash on her forehead. She got back into the bed, content to look around the room from there.

A boy with blond hair and green eyes peeked in the door, brightening up considerably when he saw she was awake.

"You've woken up! Konnichi wa, my name is Quatre Winner." Rei smiled. It was almost impossible not to instantly like this boy. His warm smile and friendly demeanor made him practically irresistible.

"I'm Rei Hino. Pleased to meet you. Sumimasen, but I have absolutely no idea how I got to this place. I was just returning home," her beautiful eyes darkened at the memory of the fight with her friends, "and then I was here." Quatre looked puzzled. He opened his mouth to speak, but at the same moment, a boy with long brown hair in a braid and cobalt blue eyes dashed in the door.

"Oh, she's up at last! Ossu, my name is Duo Maxwell, also known as Shingami. Now, what would someone as incredibly hot as you be doing here?" Rei's lips twitched, but she managed to keep a straight face. This guy really came on strong, didn't he? But he was also very cute…

"Well, actually, that's what I would like to know," Rei said calmly, "because I ended up here, wherever 'here' is," At this point, two other young men peered in the door.

"Come in," called Quatre, "she's awake!" The two of them walked in the door, first a guy with brown hair in a very odd hairstyle covering half of his face and then a guy with black hair in a small ponytail.

"This is Trowa…" Quatre said, pointing to the guy with the hair over his face, "…and this is Wufei." Wufei looked at Rei with a superior air about him.

"So, when can we get rid of this weak onna?" That comment made Rei livid.

"For your information, I am not weak! I could so take you down in one-on-one combat! Come on!" Rei jumped out of the bed. She instantly felt incredibly dizzy, and the blood drained from her face. Rei collapsed back into bed. Quatre instantly rushed to her side.

"Rei-san! Are you okay?" Rei smiled weakly.

"I'm fine. It's okay; I just want to know how I got here."

"Well, actually, I'd better have Heero tell the story. He's the one who found you." Quatre peered out the door.

"Ah, there he is. Heero, exactly how did you find Rei-san?" asked Quatre. A boy with messy dark hair and Prussian blue eyes walked in the door, a cold, emotionless expression on his face. Rei felt an instant attraction to this guy, even though she didn't know him. Her heart beat faster and her stomach felt fluttery.

"She…fell out of the sky and into the lake." Heero said, seemingly unaware of how odd he sounded. Duo snickered. Rei's amethyst eyes widened.

"Okay, I'll assume I heard that wrong," Rei said. "But what about getting me home from wherever this is?" Quatre smiled again.

"Where do you live? I'll drive you there, if you'll give me the directions."

"And your phone number." Duo interjected.

"Okay, I live on Sendai Hill, at the Hikawa Jinja Shrine," Rei said. Quatre looked puzzled.

"I don't know of a Sendai Hill," Quatre said, looking concerned.

"Isn't this Crossroads?" asked Rei. Quatre still seemed mystified.

"Crossroads where?"

"Crossroads, Japan," said Rei, wondering why he needed to ask. Surely he knew about Crossroads!

"Japan?" Quatre exclaimed.

"Yes, Japan!" Where else would he think I lived? mused Rei.

"Um…we're a little far away from Japan," Duo said, grinning widely.

"Exactly how far away?" Rei asked, worried.

"About 10,000 miles, give or take," Duo said, "but you're welcome to stay with me—I mean, us." Rei smiled sadly.

"That would be nice," she said, "but I'd like to get back home as soon as possible." Quatre quickly crushed any notion of her returning home soon.

"Rei-san, you are not to leave your bed until you're feeling better. You could barely stand earlier; there is no way that you are going to go on a plane now." Quatre said kindly but firmly.

"But I need to get back to my frien—family!" protested Rei. Quatre's eyes grew solemn, and the room fell quiet. Trowa broke the silence.

"Gomen nasai, but your family would understand that you are too weak to travel to them. You must understand that if you go on a trip now, the chances of a relapse are much higher. I am sure that the people back home would prefer you to be here and okay than with them and ill." Duo's eyes practically popped out of his head.

"That was the longest statement I have ever heard Trowa say. You are some kind of miracle worker!" Smiling at this reference, Rei once more tried to get up. She managed a few wobbly steps and then sank into a chair, fatigued with the effort.

"Okay, you win. I'll stay here until I can win a fight with Wufei." she said, pointing an alabaster hand at the dark-haired boy. Wufei scowled.

"Then you'll be here until the day I die." he stated calmly. Rei's violet eyes flashed.

"That'll be pretty soon if you keep that up!" she shouted at him.

"There is no way you could touch me, never mind killing me." he smirked.

"Misogynist!" yelled Rei.

"Weak onna!" yelled back Wufei.

"I would so win a fight between us!"

"Oh, yeah?"

"Yeah!"

"I don't think so!"

"You'll be down and out in seconds!"

"Oh, I'm so scared!"

"You should be!" Rei closed her eyes and felt the familiar feeling of fire rush through her veins. Holding up her henshin pen, she shouted out the phrase:

"Mars Crystal Power, Make-up!"

"Nande kuso?" muttered Wufei, until a blast of red-gold light sparkled around the room. Rei's clothes disappeared as her body was engulfed in flames. Duo's eyes grew huge, and Heero suddenly became fascinated with the wall. Wufei, however, was bracing for the oncoming attack. The flames around Rei's body melted into a short-skirted schoolgirl uniform, with a pair of red high heels to match. Wufei relaxed. There was no way that Rei would be able to move in those things, much less fight. Rei stared at his laid-back posture, eyes narrowing as she realized that her opponent had already foreseen the inevitable outcome of their match.

Rei ran forward and executed a perfect jump-kick to the groin, sending Wufei hurtling backwards. There was a sympathetic murmur from the other male occupants of the room. Those pointed heels must really hurt! Wufei was beginning to see the advantages of that type of shoe. Getting back on track, Wufei vowed not to let this onna defeat him. It should be an easy battle to win.

Heero watched as Rei and Wufei sparred, Rei's long, silky black hair whipping around as she blocked and threw numerous blows. Rei seemed like she was made for combat. She moved like a cat, graceful and poised.

Somehow, Heero could be content just watching her for hours, as he did before she woke up from her coma. He would sit in the room, satisfied to do nothing but stare at her. Who was she? What was she? An OZ agent? A fallen angel? A princess? Some intricate combination of the three? He had so many questions about her, and what she was doing here. It was hard to believe she was an undercover spy for OZ, though. How could anything evil last in a body as beautiful as hers?

Heero internally slapped himself. What the hell was he doing, thinking like this? He was supposed to be the emotionless, perfect soldier. And yet, after just days of being in Rei's presence, and mere minutes of knowing her very name, his ice cold exterior was melting like she was a blazing fire.

In fact, she reminded him of a flame. Didn't her last name mean 'fire'? She practically acted like the incarnation of the element, blazing with temper and stubbornly resolute. Passionate, fiery, with a sort of untouchable beauty—he was doing it again. Heero needed to get away from this girl before he became some sort of emotional sap. He quickly retreated to a far off corner of the room. This girl, this Rei, did strange things to him.

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Rei was in the middle of her sparring match when she felt her fatigue return. Temporarily gone from her power-boosting transformation, her exhaustion was back with a passion. Rei managed to block one more blow and then fell back onto the bed, weak and tired. She dehenshined. Wufei sneered. This onna obviously didn't have what it took to fight him. Quatre, however, seemed worried.

"Rei-san, when was the last time you ate?" Rei's brow creased.

"Well, what's the date?" she asked.

"It's November 22," said Quatre. Rei's eyes widened.

"Well, either I've gone back in time, or I haven't eaten in seven months," she replied, shocked. "What year?"

"After Colony 197," said Trowa.

"Nande?" asked Rei, beginning to panic. "What sort of date is After Colony? What colony? What is going on here? The last time I checked it was Anno Domini!"

"Anno Domini? A.D.? That's a date from our history books! You must be joking," said Trowa.

"I'm dead serious. That is really when I'm from!" protested Rei. "Listen, I'm not exactly a normal girl," she tried to explain.

"Well, duh! You're an incredibly beautiful girl," said Duo, entirely missing the point.

"No! That whole fire transformation thing I just did! Normal girls don't do that…do they?" Rei asked, troubled by the possibility that in this time everyone had Sailor Senshi powers.

"Oh, right. Yeah, that would be weird…if you were a human. Now, if you were one of those special agents for OZ, well, that would be pretty normal," said Duo.

"OZ?" questioned Rei. Duo rolled his eyes.

"Okay, enough with this stupid game. We know what you are, you can give up with the 'oh I don't know anything I'm from another time' act," he sighed, "but, I'll explain everything anyway. OZ is a military organization which you probably know all about. They have been attacking the space colonies recently with their new agents, genetically mutated humans who have what you might call 'magic'. They can do things a lot like that little fire trick you just did. See? It all works out," Duo stated calmly.

"But I'm really not from this time!" Rei insisted. "See if you can find me in any database of my year of birth. I have a record back then and everything!"

"I'm sure there was a girl named Rei Hino back then, but I doubt you're her," said Heero.

"No, really, here's some info about me! My otou-san is Diet Member Hino of the Democratic Independence Party, my okaa-san—"

"Yes, yes, I'm sure you know all about them. But, you see, this information is all too easy to memorize. I'm afraid you can't prove a thing," interrupted Heero.

Quatre looked worried. Everyone was being rather hard on Rei, obviously because her story was completely unbelievable. But Quatre couldn't sense any negative energy coming from Rei. It seemed like she was telling the truth.

"Um…guys? I think Rei-san isn't lying," said Quatre. The other pilots stopped and stared. There was a long pause.

"If you're not an OZ agent, tell us who you are and why you have these powers. Right now," ordered Heero.

"Okay. You might want to bring in some more chairs, because this is going to take some time. I am from the past, or maybe not even from this dimension. I am a member of the Sailor Senshi, a group that fights evil in the name of love and justice, etc. Each Senshi has a planet from which they draw their powers. Mine is Mars, so I use the power of fire, which is governed by Mars.

"There are five Inner Senshi: Sailor Mercury, the Senshi of Wisdom, uses water, Sailor Venus, the Senshi of Beauty, has metal attacks, Sailor Moon, our princess, fights with things that really don't make much sense to me, like kaleidoscopes and Holy Grails and other strange things. Then there's me: the Senshi of War, wielding fire.

"Sailor Jupiter, the Senshi of Protection utilizes both electrical and wood attacks. Sailor Saturn, the Senshi of Silence, has power over Death and Rebirth, whereas Sailor Pluto, the Senshi of Death, manipulates Time. Sailor Neptune, the Deep Sea Senshi, also controls water, leading some to believe that Mercury uses ice. Sailor Uranus, the Senshi of the Heavens, controls air.

"We fought numerous enemies who wanted to take over the world and other melodramatic things. Our most recent enemy, Chaos, has been in defeat for over a year. The world was peaceful, until…" Rei trailed off, tears welling up in her eyes.

"Until what, Rei-san?" Quatre asked gently. But Rei's eyes were no longer staring ahead. They had glazed over and seemed to be looking at something none of the others could see. Rei let out a piercing scream and began to shake convulsively. A harsh, guttural voice issued from her lips:

"ALL THOSE WHO HEAR ME HEED THESE WORDS: I MARK THIS GIRL FOR DEATH. SAGE IS HER MASTER AND TO SAGE SHE WILL RETURN."

Hee. Hee. Hee. Evil, aren't I? Leaving you hanging like this? Hopefully you care enough to review…please?