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The Inverness Chronicles

Book One

Chapter Four

Then Ken left his wife alone again in their kitchen area, and he went to bed. She remained in

the kitchen for a while longer, until she finally finished her work on whatever she'd then been cooking

here. Just as she was then about to leave the kitchen behind for the rest of the night, after cleaning up it,

of course, the kitchen phone rang. She checked the number on the Caller ID box, and saw that it was

from the Shields residence.

She thought, briefly, "This had better be good, people. I was just about to head to bed now."

She picked up the phone before anyone else who might have heard it well enough could do the same.

And she secured the connection from outside eavesdroppers as best as she then could do so at the

current time. She asked, once she knew which member of the Shields family was now calling, "Lita

here. What's the matter, Moon?"

"Trouble in Edinburgh Heights, Lita," said the caller, who was the older Serena Shields. "It's

going to require the presence of you, me, Rini, and all the other Crystal Scouts, I fear."

"I was about to head to bed, Meatball Head."

"I'm sorry, Lita. Believe me, I really am. But the Outers are going to need our help. They

thought they could handle it, but whatever they're facing now is still too strong for them at the current

time. So they called me, and I'm calling out the rest of the Crystal Scouts here. Mercury's on her way,

but I don't know if she'll be able to get there in time, without some help. She was in the middle of an

emergency operation on a car accident victim. She was having trouble with the operation, for the

injuries were more severe than she often has to deal with as a doctor. So she turned over the operation

to other doctors for a while, at least. I caught Dr. Thurston just as she was taking a break from the

operation for a while. She left her hospital shortly thereafter, and started to head toward Edinburgh

Heights as quickly as possible. But her car is having some trouble about halfway between Inverness

and Edinburgh. She can't teleport, for someone or something's currently jamming our teleportation

devices here. All of them, as a matter of fact. Mars is on the way, and Venus is with her as well.

Raye's driving her car, and Mina's her current passenger. Corona, Eclipse, Twilight, Starhawk, and

Nightwalker are using a helicopter to get to the battle location now. I'll be heading out with my dear

Rini and Tuxedo Mask shortly, I'm sure. I just had to call you, Skyhorse, Mir, Slaabovia, and the

Monitors who are also Scouts, at least, if not anybody else as well here. After I finally get done talking

here with you, Lita, I'll then be calling Skyhorse, Mir, Slaabovia, and all the other Crystal Scouts."

"Who's going to watch the rest of your children, then, Serena?"

"Rising Sun, Spyglass, Tranquility, and Millennium are going to do that, Lita. They're on their

way. And as soon as they get here, Rini, Tux, and I are out of here."

"You think I should take my van?"

"If you think it best, why not? But you might want to cloak it, at least until you pick up

Mercury, so that our enemies can't find it as well. At least while you're in transit to Edinburgh Hills,

that is."

"And how are you, Tuxedo Mask, and Rini going to get there?"

"We're going to take Darien's convertible there. That's how we're going to get there, Lita."

"What should I say if my children and husband see me leaving here?"

"As little as possible. Leave a note, if you must, or say business is calling you away. Say

anything you have to, if the need arises. But still say as little as possible here, just the same, Lita, for all

the obvious reasons, if you can do so here. We don't want to worry them needlessly, do we?"

"No, of course we don't."

"Now I think we'd best get off before someone else hears us talking on either end, if at all

possible. How soon do you think that you can pick up Mercury?"

"Give me an exact location, and I'll tell you." When Serena did so, Lita then said, "Twenty or

so minutes, if I leave within a minute, and if I'm not otherwise delayed."

"Fine. But just hurry there as fast as you can, please."

"Agreed. Lita out."

Serena then signed off as well, and Lita then hung up the phone just as quickly as she possibly

could do so here. Twenty seconds later, at most, a very brief note was on the nearest counter to the

phone. And Lita was already on the way out through the nearest doorway, with her Crystal Scout

uniform then materializing on her, even as she headed out that very doorway. She grabbed up several

of her weapons on the way out of the front door as well. And she put them either in a backpack or on

her belt, as needed, for her here, in fact.

Two minutes later, she was starting her van, after first engaging the cloaking device that'd hide

her van from view for at least a while. And no more than about another minute or so later, she was

already on the required road to Edinburgh Heights, with the van's communications system completely

on, of course. She turned it to the usual communications frequency that the Scouts would communicate

on when they were on the way to a battle, if not also during a battle, that they'd fight as Scouts. As she

did so, she heard Uranus shout, "You may be good, in terms of fighting, but you won't win this battle,

no matter how many of us you may take down here at all, monsters! For we Scouts will crash your

dreams of global conquest eventually, if we can't totally do it now!"

Then she heard Uranus unleash one of her more powerful attacks related to her Space Sword.

And that attack was specifically her Whirlwind Cloud Starburster attack, which was a third-level Space

Sword-related attack of hers. There were currently four attack levels related to her Space Sword, and

that particular attack was her third-level one for it. She no longer had enough strength to use her

fourth-level Space Sword-related attack. But she could still use her third-level attack for it, just the

same.

However, that attack didn't work very well for Uranus, from what Jupiter could then tell. For

Uranus evidently sounded quite upset after each use of it against her current opponent, who now

seemed to be at least a little immune to her attacks, in fact. Uranus was evidently having at least a little

trouble keeping herself strong enough to withstand her opponent's counter-attacks. And from what

Jupiter could also hear of the battle, Neptune and Pluto were nearly unconscious, and Saturn wasn't

much better than Uranus at the current time.

About ten to fifteen minutes later, then, Jupiter pulled the van up next to Mercury's car. And

Mercury stopped her vehicle on the nearest shoulder of the appropriate road. She did this once her

computer's proximity sensors had picked up Jupiter's van, even though it was still cloaked. As soon as

she did so, she then reached to her side, and grabbed up her things that she'd been carrying with her at

the current time in her car. As she did so, Jupiter briefly turned off her van's cloaking device, so that

Mercury could carry her things over to her van, and get into it as well, in very short order. Mercury

had loaded all the necessary things into Jupiter's van within about two minutes of Jupiter's pulling up

beside her, in fact. And as soon as she did so, and had engaged her car's security systems sufficiently

well here, she then climbed up into Jupiter's van, so that she and Jupiter could eventually join the

current battle. After Mercury had put on her seatbelt well enough then, Jupiter re-engaged the van's

cloaking device again, for all the obvious reasons here. Jupiter was rolling again at 60 mph within

another ten seconds of engaging the van's cloaking device again, in fact.

"How was the battle going near Edinburgh Heights, last you heard, Jupiter?"

"They need us there as quickly as possible, Mercury. Uranus is having trouble with her

opponent. Neptune and Pluto are nearly unconscious. And Saturn isn't much better than Uranus, if

she's actually doing better than Uranus at all here."

"And the others?"

"Corona and four others are almost there, the last I heard, Mercury."

"Moon, Crescent Moon, and Tuxedo Mask?"

"Just got out on the road. For it took at least a little while after Serena called me for Rising Sun

and three others to arrive at their house to watch the rest of Serena and Darien's kids, due to the

lateness of the current hour there. Rising Sun and three others had to sneak out of their respective

families' homes to be able to get to the Shields residence in order to watch their other children while

Rini, Tux, and Moon were out. I presume that if their parents find out that they've done so, they'll be in

trouble, for all the obvious reasons. Let's just hope that they don't do so, of course. Or at least not for

a little while, if not a long while, quite naturally."

"Agreed." The rest of the trip to the battle scene was spent in relative silence, except for the

sounds of battle still being broadcast over the van's radio, as a matter of fact. As soon as they were

close enough to the scene of the battle, Jupiter and Mercury piled out of the van just as quickly as they

could then do so here. And they did so even while gathering up all their things that were now in the van

that they thought they might need here, of course.

One minute after they did so, a rather thick fog surrounded much of the area around the Outers,

courtesy of Mercury and her Supreme Ice Shroud Blast power as a Crystal Sailor Scout. It was a

more powerful version of her previous Mercury Mini-Ice Bubbles and Mercury Bubbles Blast powers

that she'd had as either a Junior Sailor Scout or as a Sailor Scout, in fact. Much more powerful than

either such power of hers was this Mercury Supreme Ice Shroud Blast power of hers. It'd normally

shroud an area that was at least a quarter of a Terran statute mile in average diameter, if not an area

even larger than that, as well.

After Mercury then shrouded the area in quite dense fog, so that their enemies couldn't see well

enough at the current time, Jupiter asked her what she thought they should do next here. Mercury

reached back into a backpack on her back, and she took out her still-trusty data computer of many

years. She began scanning the area now shrouded around them and their enemies, and soon said,

"Jupiter, go get the Outers, and bring them here to this place, as quickly as you can. The monsters

should be unable to find you for at least the next five to ten minutes while you bring the Outers here. If

necessary, I will add more fog around here, of course." Mercury told Jupiter exactly where to find the

Outers, and then Jupiter began retrieving them as needed, quite naturally here. While Jupiter then did

that, Mercury proceeded to scan the area in which the battle had been waged up to this point in time.

She did this so that she might quite hopefully be able to come up with a plan that might work well

enough for all the necessary people here, when her fog finally would dissipate completely again.

As she began scanning the entire area of the battle to this point in time, Corona, Eclipse,

Twilight, Starhawk, and Nightwalker arrived here, in fact. They brought their helicopter directly over

the middle of the fog dome that Mercury had just generated, as well. And then they activated the

helicopter's autopilot and combat systems as they saw fit to activate them at the current time here.

After doing that, they then jumped out of the chopper, and headed down through the very top of the

dome, which didn't attack them, due to it recognizing they were non-hostile Scouts. This, of course,

was for all the obvious reasons here.

The fog stayed present, even as they passed through it, so that the Scouts wouldn't be attacked

by their enemies in the meantime. As soon as they were soon enough through it, they began sending

attacks toward the Scouts' enemies, with the assistance of Mercury, in the sense that she told them

where to send their attacks. They did so, even while still dropping to the ground below them all, and

while still using parachutes to get down to the ground easily enough here.

Corona started attacking their enemies by calling upon her Corona Ring Blast power that she'd

had a long time before as a Junior Sailor Scout. This power of hers then generated many rings that

looked a lot like coronas during a typical solar eclipse. At least during ones that happened in the Milky

Way Galaxy's Sol System, for people on Earth, of course, if not any other place as well in the known

Universe or Universes. She used this power at least to gauge the current strengths of all the Scouts'

enemies who were still fighting here in the immediate area of the battle, in fact.

Eclipse, for her part, started out with a Silent Shadow attack of hers. Which generated

shadows near all their enemies, whenever possible, as she began singing to distract their opponents

from their shadows who'd soon enough be attacking them here as well, of course. As Jupiter had done

at least once before in her life, either during the Silver Millennium or the current time period, if not both

periods here, she provided certain weapons and things to the shadows now in question here whenever

possible. This was so that the shadows could attack their owners with them, of course. Within about

five minutes, then, of Eclipse generating the necessary shadows, the Scouts began hearing several of

their enemies start to get afraid. Really afraid, as a matter of fact, when they couldn't see their shadows

easily enough at the current time during the battle. That bought Jupiter at least a bit more time to find

and bring the four Outers back until they were right next to Mercury, as well.

Nightwalker added another level of shields to the fog that was still shielding the Scouts from all

their enemies' views, with her primary defense power, at the same time. This certain power of hers

was her Night Invisibility Shroud power. And it'd combine at least partly with Mercury's Supreme Ice

Shroud Blast power, if not entirely, here, so that it'd be much more difficult for the Scouts' enemies to

find them for at least a little while longer. After doing that, Nightwalker then called for her Obsidian

Star Sword. Which then materialized in her hands, just as she was landing near where Jupiter had left

Uranus just a few minutes before. This Obsidian Star Sword was in a scabbard that was covered

largely by many black pearls of various sizes, in fact.

After it completely materialized in her hands, Nightwalker then drew it out of her scabbard,

which was now on her uniform's belt, in fact. And she began swinging it around just as soon as she

was sure that it was safe enough for her to do so here. At least when it came to other nearby Scouts,

of course. She soon shouted, "I shroud the night as needed, and I strike the enemies of all that is good

and right in this Universe, when least expected, whenever possible. I am Crystal Sailor Nightwalker,

and I work with my sisters Twilight and Starhawk to eliminate or convert those who would do wrong in

the Universe, whenever possible. Prepare to meet the darkness that awaits all the lost souls, if God

feels that you must do so here. And prepare to die in eternal fire, when all is said and done in this

Universe of ours."

After she swung it enough to suit her at the current time, several large rocks materialized above

several of the Scouts' enemies. As soon as she saw that at least ten good-sized rocks had materialized

above those enemies, she then suddenly shouted, as she also began raising and lowering her sword,

"Boulder Smash And Bash Surprise!" She pointed her sword at each enemy in turn just before each

rock began falling toward the appropriate enemy. And the rocks then began falling, seconds later, right

on top of those very same enemies.

Mars and Venus then entered the area, after Mars had parked her car just inside the area that

was still being shrouded by Mercury and Nightwalker's shielding powers. And when they did, they

soon unleashed attacks at nearby enemies that Mercury located for them, often teaming up with

Twilight and Starhawk as they did so here. Mars unleashed an attack called Mars Fire Dragon Sniper.

She did so by generating a bow of fire and at least one quiver full of flaming arrows, if not more than

one such quiver. The head of each flaming arrow was in the shape of a dragon's head, and each of the

arrows was surrounded by a narrow cylinder of fire. Almost instantly after she fired one arrow, another

arrow would then materialize already nocked in the bow, as well. While the arrows were each still in

the air, the cylinders of fire often turned into dragons of fire, in fact. And the dragons often developed

wings two seconds later, so that they could fly above their targets as needed at the current time here.

Venus then used some chains of some sort, moments later, to try to steal certain things away

from their respective enemies, whenever possible. She then stole several of their opponents' various

kinds of weapons, and she pulled them to her before they could recover them easily enough here.

Among those things that she then stole here were several swords and other similar enough weapons, as

a matter of fact.

The now-present Scouts then continued to work on their current opponents while they were

still shrouded by the fog and the invisibility levels of their current shields. Even after several other

Crystal Scouts also arrived on the current scene here, led by Moon, Crescent Moon, Mir, and

Skyhorse. Eventually, after dozens of attacks by all the Scouts now here were executed by them, as

they could be executed here, Mercury suddenly said, "We must not kill at least twelve of them, for

they've got other humanoids inside them as well."

Moon and Crescent Moon asked, "What do you mean, Mercury?" They asked this just as

Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and Saturn then fell out of their respective Crystal Sailor Scout states of being,

and back to their usual non-Scout states of being, in fact.

"It seems that inside at least twelve of the monsters here, there are humanoids that have been

captured like the two that the girls and Rini healed earlier, Moon. We can't destroy or kill them, or the

Tokyo that we will know in the future will most likely not exist. They are key to our being able to build

Crystal Tokyo in the future. Though I don't yet know how come that is the case for sure, I do know

that it is still the case here. So we must wear them down, and not destroy them here, if it can possibly

be avoided at all here."

"Which ones in particular are you talking about here?"

"I'll find them, and I'll tell you where they are. The ones that I tell you all not to destroy or kill,

you are only to try to wear down, if at all possible here. I'll find them, and then Tuxedo Mask will have

to sneak up behind them and put roses on their heads somewhere, if he can. The ones that have roses

on them, you are only to try to wear down, if at all possible, until they can no longer fight against us.

When they can't fight, you and Crescent Moon are to do what you can to heal them. There will be no

more than eight males, and nine females, I think, that we'll have to heal here, if at all possible, Serena

the Older."

"I see. And the rest, Mercury?" asked Crescent Moon.

"No humanoids present in them, it seems. All monsters, from what I can tell here, at least as of

the current time, that is."

All the Scouts then nodded at her, if they were sufficiently close to her for them to do that here.

Especially Moon and Crescent Moon, in fact. Even the ones that were no longer in their respective

Sailor Scout states as of the current time here, as well. Meaning, of course, the ones that were Crystal

Sailors Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and Saturn, for all the obvious reasons here.

Mrs. Morgan said, "I still think that we might be taking too much of a chance here with things,

Dr. Thurston. But we'll try it your way this once, at least, I think."

"I understand that you might think that we should destroy them all, Michelle. But to ensure the

future, I believe that we'll have to heal them instead. You do want your kids to be safe from harm,

don't you?"

"Of course I do, Amy. But I still think that this plan of yours isn't quite up to the average level

of your previous battle plans that you've come up with as a Scout that I know of, just the same.

You've come up with some great ones in the past, I'm quite sure. But this plan doesn't seem to be up

to the current average level of all your battle plans as a Scout that I know of, Amy. You might be

risking us needlessly here with this one, Amy."

"I understand that you might feel that way. But this is the best plan that I can come up with

here, at the current time, Michelle. I really do wish I could come up with a better one here. But we

really don't have enough time for me here to come up with a much better one, I believe."

Then Mercury began scanning the battle's current area, so that she could hopefully find all the

necessary monsters that Tuxedo Mask would have to put roses on before it was too late for him to do

so here. She then located those monsters, and she directed him to each of them, one at a time. Even

while all the other assembled Scouts who could still fight either covered him or took on any or all of the

other monsters they'd have to take on here, if necessary at the current time, of course.

After Tuxedo Mask would put each of the roses on the necessary monsters somehow, the

roses would turn gold, so that the Scouts could see which ones that they needed to wear down, and not

destroy, if at all possible. The roses would soon appear to each of the Scouts who were then

sufficiently close to the monsters to see the roses now in question. And they'd then try not to kill those

particular monsters here, of course. Even if they had to take some hits in the process, quite naturally,

from the various attacks of the still-present monsters.

Eventually, the monsters who were marked with the roses in question here began to tire

considerably, and they were soon enough no longer able to fight at the current time. Even if they still

looked like monsters, though. After a while longer had then passed, they evidently began to fall quite

asleep or unconscious, from what the Scouts could then tell here. After the last of them slid down to

the ground as the situation then permitted it to do, Mercury then scanned each of them again at least

once more apiece, if not more than that.

Mercury eventually said, "Moon and Crescent Moon, we shouldn't have any more trouble with

the rest of these monsters, because all of their previous companions are no more. And there won't

likely be any more monsters coming from where these monsters' human captives seem to have come

from, as far as I can currently tell. I believe that you can start healing them with your respective wands

here. From what my readings are now telling me, there should be five males and seven females here, if

I'm not too mistaken here about such things."

Moon and Crescent Moon then began to work together to heal all the remaining monsters in the

area here, as the rest of the Scouts stood guard, just in case. The first of the people that Moon healed

was a masked man about 5'9" and about 150 pounds. He now seemed to be about twenty or so years

old at the current time, in fact. As Moon healed him, his right hand also slipped out of the grasp of a

nearby monster, who Moon would also heal eventually, if it was at all possible for her to do so here.

As soon as she healed him completely, he asked, "Where am I, and where is my wife?"

Moon looked at him for a moment, and then asked, "You're on Earth. You have a wife?"

"Yes, my wife was right next to me, last I knew."

"Who are you, stranger?"

"I am the Star Prince. And I was with my wife, the last I knew."

Moon then looked at him and the neighboring monster that he'd apparently been grasping the

hand of, and then realized that the neighboring monster was most likely his wife. She said, "I think I

know where she is. Please either stand or roll to your left, and I will see if I can find her here."

The Star Prince rose somewhat unsteadily, as Jupiter and Skyhorse also swooped in next to

him, so that he'd not fall down again. And they then brought him in the necessary direction here, of

course, so that Moon could then try to find his wife with the wand presently in her hand. Moon looked

at that monster for no more than about a minute or so. And then she pointed her wand at that monster,

just as her daughter had done when she'd healed two other monsters and freed their humanoid

captives. Within another minute or two, then, the monster turned into a woman slightly younger than

that of the Star Prince, in fact. Moments later, her eyes opened, and she came to. She looked around

until she finally found the Star Prince, after which she then asked, "Star Prince, where are we?"

"We're on Earth. I thought I'd lost you for good, when we got zapped by some sort of

Voidian weapon. I don't yet know how we got here, Milky Way. But I surely do intend to find out,

eventually, if at all possible. The blonde woman with the Crescent Moon Wand here has just healed

you here, it seems."

"What about the others?"

"I think they're here. But if so, then I don't see them yet."

Then Moon watched the now-steadier Star Prince walk over to his wife in a red uniform that

looked a lot like Crystal Sailor Mars's uniform here. And then the Star Prince helped her to her feet in

very short order. A hug or two later, and then they both went back near Jupiter and Skyhorse. At

least long enough for the Star Prince to hand his wife to Jupiter and Skyhorse for a time.

After he did so, he then walked over to where Moon and Crescent Moon were looking over

the rest of the monsters, so he could converse with them a while. As he did so, Mercury first moved

briefly over to him, and then over to his wife. This was so that she could check them both out as

needed, of course. Moments later, Mercury said, "Both of these two are Terrans, Moon. They are a

lot like we are, in fact. How much, I'm not quite sure yet."

"Mercury, you say these are Terrans?"

"Yes, I do, Moon."

"Then maybe the rest of these monsters have Terrans inside them as well."

The Star Prince said, "Yes, that's right, Moon. I can tell you for a fact that all these apparent

monsters have Terrans as their captives currently. I can sense them, in fact. Three of these people are

related to each other, at least, as well. I'll bring you to our main healers here now, who were with us at

the same time we were zapped by some sort of alien weapon."

"Lead the way, then, Star Prince," said Moon, as she, Mercury, and Crescent Moon then

followed him to the side of another monster. He stopped by another one a few moments later.

He then said, "The human captive here is Magellan. Her masked husband Duncan is next to

her. Their granddaughter is near them both here. Heal Magellan first, please. She's a better healer

than either her husband or her granddaughter, in fact. And she might be able to help us get the others

healed better as well."

Moon and Crescent Moon then aimed their wands at the monster indicated as the one that now

held Magellan. Moments later, then, a woman apparently about the same age as Milky Way eventually

appeared in a similar uniform to that of Milky Way, but primarily in another color instead. That color

was purple, as well. As soon as she came to, and saw the Star Prince, she asked, "Where am I, and

where are Duncan and Panda?"

"They're near you, but they got zapped by the same Voidian weapon that blasted all of us.

They've not been healed yet, so you might not want to look here for them right now. These two

strangers have just healed you, and brought you back here. We're on Earth, but we're most likely not

exactly where we were before we got blasted, Magellan. The woman primarily in blue here is evidently

a healer, so don't be afraid of her. She and her friends will check you out while we check on the other

Galaxians that were with us when we got zapped, Magellan."

"All right, Star Prince, I'll go with them. But please try to find out as soon as you can whether

or not Duncan and Panda are okay here, if you possibly can do so here."

"Of course, Magellan. You know that I'll do that here, for all the obvious reasons."

About ten or so minutes later, at most, Moon and Crescent Moon had both healed Duncan and

Panda. Other Scouts then helped them rise, and then they brought them over next to Milky Way and

Magellan. They did this while the Star Prince then led Moon and her daughter Crescent Moon over to

the next pair of apparent monsters that were yet to be healed here. First he led them to the masked

male of the pair, who was slightly atop that of the female, as if he'd been trying to shield her from the

aforementioned Voidian weapon's attacks, and then to the pair's female. And he then said, "You'll

have to heal the male of this pair first, in order to be able to heal the female. For he's at least a bit on

top of her. They're both African-American as well, in fact."

"As you wish, Star Prince."

Moon healed the male first, all by herself, for Crescent Moon's assistance wasn't actually

needed to heal him here. As soon as the male was healed, and conscious enough, the Star Prince said,

"Thunderhead, you'll need to get up from where you are now, so that Andromeda can be healed by

these people here. We're on Earth, but I don't think it's quite the Earth that we're familiar with enough

in our lives. Please get up so that they can help Andromeda."

"Understood, Star Prince." The masked male then stood up, still quite unsteady on his feet, for

all the obvious reasons. Other Scouts caught him before he could then fall back down to the ground.

They brought him over to where Mercury and others were beginning to attend to the Galaxians who

were now here, as they were each healed by Moon and/or Crescent Moon, as needed.

Several moments later, then, an African-American girl who appeared to be about 14 to 16

years old now, eventually appeared in front of Moon, Crescent Moon, and the Star Prince. She was

wearing a similar uniform to that of her fellow Galaxians Milky Way and Magellan, in fact. But her main

color was blue, no matter what shade of blue it was, for her uniform's various components, if it wasn't

her only color for them here.

After she was checked out sufficiently well here, Mercury said, "She's Terran as well, Moon.

As are Thunderhead, Magellan, Duncan, and Panda."

"I see. Who's next, Star Prince?"

"Our language expert, if you please, Moon. Her name as a Galaxian is Craneb, and her

husband is the masked male Sebastian."

Five minutes later, Craneb was healed by Moon and Crescent Moon, and brought over to

where her fellow Galaxians except for the Star Prince were now sitting nearby. Her masked husband

soon followed, as well, in being healed by Moon and Crescent Moon. He too was brought over to the

still-growing group of Galaxians who were currently sitting nearby, of course.

That then left just three more monsters to attend to here, so that their current captives could be

freed easily enough. The Star Prince brought them over to another pair of his fellow Galaxians, and he

soon said, "The masked male is Edison. While his wife is Quinton."

"And the other one?" asked Moon.

"Her name is Cassini."

"Is she attached at the moment?"

"If I remember correctly enough here, she is married, but her husband was elsewhere on

another mission for us against our enemies, Crescent Moon. So he wasn't around with us when we got

blasted like we did."

"And did anyone try to shield Cassini?"

"I believe that Edison and Quinton tried to, Crescent Moon. But I'm not sure if they were able

to do so well enough yet, even though she's here with us now. Maybe Mercury and your friends will

be able to tell us if they were, once she gets checked out well enough here."

Moon and Crescent Moon then healed Edison and Quinton in very short order, with at least a

little help now from Magellan. For Magellan had finally been able to regain enough strength to help out

Moon and Crescent Moon here at least a little bit, if not a lot. Soon enough, Edison and Quinton were

both sufficiently conscious, and being checked out as well by Mercury and others as needed here.

Magellan also helped Moon and Crescent Moon to heal Cassini here, to at least some degree, if not to

a total degree. After Cassini was finally conscious all the way, Mercury and others began checking

them out in the required manner or manners, as well, of course.

After Cassini was then healed here by Crescent Moon, Moon, and Magellan, Moon and

Crescent Moon dropped back one Scout level to their respective Super Sailor or Sailor Scout states of

being. For they were no longer strong enough to maintain their most powerful Scout states of being, at

least as of the current time. As Moon and Crescent Moon then did so, all the other Scouts and

Galaxians now present immediately began dropping out of their respective Scout or Galaxian states of

being in their respective lives, if they'd not already done so by now. No more than about a minute or

two later, then, all the Galaxians were in their normal Earth states of being, as were each of the other

Scouts besides Moon and Crescent Moon, in fact. Tuxedo Mask looked at his own wife and daughter

briefly, and when they each dropped down one Scout level, he hoped that they were both still all right.

Eventually, then, Moon and Crescent Moon could no longer maintain even those Scout states of being

at the current time, so they too dropped back to their normal Earth states of being as well. It was now

about three or four in the morning or so, local time near Edinburgh Heights elsewhere in Scolvakin,

most likely, as a matter of fact.

Of course, when everyone eventually dropped out of their respective Galaxian or Scout states

of being, they saw exactly what everyone else actually looked like when they weren't in those states of

being, if at all possible. This was quite naturally for all the obvious reasons, no doubt. For all of them

except Corona, that was the case, in fact. For Corona, when she wasn't transformed, was normally

quite blind in her own life, as she'd essentially been ever since her birth. Her real name was actually

Destiny, and she was married to a man named Solomon. She was also actually the twin sister of the

woman who was also the Crystal Sailor Eclipse.

As for the Sailor Scout who was also the Crystal Sailor Eclipse, she was normally quite deaf in

her life, whenever she was in her normal Earth state of being in it. Her real name was Bethany, in fact.

And she was herself married to a man named Renaldo, who was also the twin brother of her twin

sister's husband Solomon, most likely.

Even powered down, though, the males who were also Galaxians were still masked, as of the

current time. As for their wives or girlfriends, as the case might be, they were now wearing whatever

civilian-style clothes that they'd been wearing when they'd transformed themselves earlier into their

respective Galaxian states of being. Their husbands or boyfriends, whichever the case might be for

each of them, were now wearing exactly what they'd been wearing at the time they too transformed

themselves as needed into their appropriate Galaxian states of being.

It turned out that the only unmarrieds here were Andromeda, Thunderhead, and Panda. And

their real Earth names were Andrea Domedante, Percy Ulysher, and Angelina Duke, respectively.

Angelina Duke appeared to be at least a sophomore or junior in college, while Andrea and Percy were

still evidently high-school age, or just a bit older than that, here. When they all began to then introduce

themselves as needed, the older Serena Shields began signing whenever necessary here, so that

Bethany and Destiny would actually be able to understand what was being said and done at the current

time here.

The Star Prince chose not to reveal his real name, at least as of the current time. So the Sailor

Scouts would all still have to call him Star Prince for at least a little while longer, of course. As for the

others, Milky Way introduced herself as Camille Wayne Stewart. Magellan introduced herself as

Margaret Collins Duke. Duncan introduced himself as Ethan Duke. Sebastian introduced himself as

Bartlett Kroskutche. Craneb introduced herself as Kristine Nelabu Kroskutche. Edison introduced

himself as Eugene Wesley. Quinton introduced herself as Colleen Quinton Wesley. And Cassini

introduced herself as Cassandra Nicholls Rogers.

The married people were probably all at least 20 years old, if not even older than that, here.

While Andrea and Percy were each most likely under twenty, as well. Percy was about three years

older than Andrea was, in fact. While all the others were generally closer in age to their respective

spouses than that, at the very same time here. In any case, among the known Galaxian couples, the

male member of the couple was always older than the female member of it. As for Cassini, she was

about as old, if not even older, than Angelina Duke apparently was, in actual reality.

Soon after the Galaxians introduced themselves to the Scouts, the blonde Serena asked her

companions if they'd be willing to take their new acquaintances into their homes, for at least the time

being. Amy said, "I think that Greg might not mind it if we took in two or three more people here, for

at least the time being. At least that's what I'm hoping here, of course."

"Are you talking about the Dukes, Amy?"

"Of course, Serena the Older."

"Very well. Lita, which of our new acquaintances would you like to take in right now?"

"I suppose that the Kroskutches could stay with me and my family for a while, at least. Ken's

going away for a little while, so I might not mind the company for a while, Meatball Head," said Lita,

"All right. Who wants the Wesleys?" asked the older Serena Shields.

Before anyone else could volunteer to take them in here, then, the now-blind Destiny, who was

also the sighted Crystal Sailor Corona, said, "I think that they should stay with me and my family, for

some yet-unknown reason. Solomon and I'd probably not mind having at least some company of a

similar sort to us here. Yes, I know that they're not Scouts, in actual reality, but I really don't think that

Solomon and I would mind it all that much here and now."

"Fine. If the Wesleys don't mind here, then you can take them in. Do you mind, Mr. and Mrs.

Wesley, staying with Destiny and her family?"

"Fine with us, Mrs. Shields. We'll stay with her, if it's all right with her here."

"Very well. Then, Destiny, the Wesleys are yours here."

"Understood," said Destiny.

"Laura, please make sure that Destiny, Bethany, Shari, and Roc¡o get back to their respective

homes, and please bring the Wesleys to Destiny's house, as planned."

"Will do," said a woman who appeared to be in her early to middle thirties, at the very oldest,

in any case at all here. "I'd be glad to do that here, in fact, Serena the Older."

Minutes later, then, Laura and the other women just mentioned here left the area behind again

with the Wesleys, just as soon as they could then do so easily enough here. And they did so by leaving

on the helicopter that'd brought them there in the first place, in fact.

Raye soon decided to then take in Cassandra Rogers and Andrea Domedante for a while, as

well. She eventually left the area with Mina, Andrea, and Cassandra not long afterward, for all the

obvious reasons, of course. And they all left in Raye's car, quite naturally, when they did so here.

The two Kroskutches and the three Dukes then left with Lita and Amy, when Lita and Amy

said that they now had other things that they either wanted or needed to do at the current time. But

only after they all then spent just a little time more with the Stewarts and Percy Ulysher, for all the

obvious reasons, in fact.

The Shields family then decided to take in the Stewart couple and Percy Ulysher for at least the

time being, and that then accounted for all of the Galaxians, of course. The other Sailor Scouts then

began leaving the area in the exact same manners that they'd gotten to it before. But they did so only

after everything and/or everyone else was taken care of as needed here. Or if they actually needed to

do so before any or all of their dual identities were learned by the local fire, police, or emergency

personnel who didn't need to know them at all. Or by any civilians who might then be sufficiently

nearby, for that matter as well, of course.

Just before those kinds of people could then find them easily enough in the area, they were all

quite easily enough gone from it. And they were all heading back to the necessary places in whatever

modes of transport were then possible for each and every one of them in their lives. And they left

absolutely no clues that they'd ever been there in the first place in actual reality, if they could then

possibly avoid doing so somehow, of course.

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Chapters Five and Six will bring several characters more into the main storyline, if at all

possible. More significant action will happen later than those two chapters, as necessary. Until then,

you'll just have to see what's coming up soon enough. But I promise you at least a few more crossover

elements will be added to the story as well within the next few chapters, at most, most likely, readers.

So please read, review, and enjoy, if at all possible. Until later, then, this is "The Universal Storyteller"

signing off here. Happy reading, and God bless, and all that, of course, readers! Over and out!