CHAPTER 5 : one more piece to the puzzle.

Hutaru was the first one awake and she heard Chibi-Usa and the twins awake in their cribs . She went to check if anyone else was awake. She peeked into Usagie's room and grabbed Chibi-Usa. She ran to the kitchen and placed Chibi-Usa in her swing. She walks (walked) back to grab the twins one by one and placed them in their swings as well ...

Walking past Artimus and Luna asleep on top of the kitchen table she went to wake up Angel who was snuggled up in between Lorne and Setsuna on the living room cot. Angel yawned and stared blankly at Hutaru. Hutaru simply pointed toward the three content babies in their swings and Angel smiled . She slowly got out of bed and walked toward the kitchen.

She pulled up a chair to the counter and began searching for some cereal. Angel spotted a cereal box and placed it on the counter. When she looked back up to close the cupboard she noticed a tin box. She rattled it and it opened to reveal 6 lockets , 2 in the shape of stars, one in the shape of a star with two extra points (forgive me I don't know what its called), one in the shape of a wing, a heart shaped one, and one last one in the shape of a circle.

Angel came down off of the chair and each of the girls picked up a locket . Hutaru picked up the odd star shape and angel picked up the wing shape. The two girls got a dazed look in their eyes as if to stare into the distance. Then almost to be paralyzed , a glassy look came over their eyes and they became stiff as a board.

It all happened in a matter of seconds; but they seemed to come out of the trance and closed their eyes. Hutaru and Angel dropped to the floor with a loud thud. Lorne and Kieran where the first to the girls, soon followed Setsuna and Coty.

Setsuna picked up Angel while Lorne picked up Hutaru and placed them side-by-side on the cot. Lorne watched the girls intensely for a moment. They seemed to be in some sort of dream state. Kieran placed his hand on both of the girl's foreheads.

"They both have a fever, can you get some damp cloths please... someone?" Kieran asked pointing towards the kitchen. Lorne came back with the damp cloths and watched Artimus and Luna run from sight at the idea of anything wet. He suddenly got a bad vibe, like an odd chill up his spine . Just then Comwee shimmered in the room, took a couple steps toward a scared Lorne and veered toward the unconscious Hutaru. You could see his face lined with anger and concern.

"IF ANYTHING HAPPENES TO HER...I swear! ..." Comwee seemed to glare around the room as his eyes transfixed on Mamaru and Usagie. They had just walked into the room, with two unconscious children and Comwee glared at them, and three babies near screamed in their swings. Mamaru picked up Malachy and Chibi-Usa and Usagie picked up Madison. The little ones could feel the anger coming from Comwee.

"What exactly all happened out here ?" Mamaru and Usagie asked looking slightly puzzled. Comwee explained what he knew. "I saw all this in a vision about a couple seconds after it happened. I had to get out of sight before I just disappeared. If Sir knew I had these kinds of powers..." he finished. "You are startling the little ones I suggest you disappear or be disappeared." Said Lorne as he stood up and faced Comwee. Within a second Comwee had his blade at Mamaru's throat.

"Who plans to stop me?" He inquired intensifying his glare. Now Lorne had his blade about 2 millimeters from Comwee's jugular vain. "If you ever – EVER try that again, I shall not hast to leave your head in a bloody heap on the floor" and with that Comwee disappeared cursing to himself. With the babies finally settled down they were fed some breakfast and put on a big blanket with some of their toys.

Setsuna and Lorne went for a short walk leaving Mamaru and Usagie to tend to Hutaru and Angel. Their fever finally broke and it looked like everyone would finally have some peace and quite with the two on the bed taken care of, now off to bed with the other three... what a house full. Coty and Kieran took off to their room and shut the door quietly behind them.

Kieran wrapped his arms around Coty and kissed her lips gently, caressing her face with the tip of his nose affectionately. There was a knock at the front door and for some reason Coty had to get their first. She opened the door, and the person at the door, who looks almost identical to Coty, wrapped her arms around her. "HOLY CRAP how did you find this place... it's been like three years now since I last talk to you..."Coty asked. "It's not all that hard... I talked to mom..." The stranger explained.

"I'm glad you got to talk with her finally" Coty relied . By this time Kieran came to see what the yelling was about. "You must be Karen" is all he could say. "Yeah, this is Karen... heh, you know twin sisters separated at birth different foster homes, all that nonsense. "GUESS WHAT?!" Karen asked in a loudly excited tone... Artimus shrieked and nearly fell over from the high-pitched sound. "Let me guess, you finally got laid again?" Coty smirked. "You take the fun out of everything don't you?!" Karen grimaced. "Heh, you haven't changed." Coty said in the mock-ish tone.

"Ya well...at least my man, or men, are given me some action. What about you eh Coty, did he finally give you some action?" Karen asked looking back from Coty to Kieran, who just blushed and shrugged. Coty laughed slightly. "I think you will be pleasantly surprised." Luna snickered to herself. "I SWORE I just heard that cat laugh"

The two girls walked upstairs into their bedroom where Madison and Malachy (obviously not going to sleep) bickered back and forth among themselves . "Is this proof enough that my man puts out?" Coty said cooing and smiling at her bundles of joy. Kieran laughed slightly to himself. Karen's jaw dropped in shock. "AND YOU DIDN'T TELL ME BECAUSE WHY?!!!!!"

3 hours later

Everyone (not including Lorne and Setsuna) decided "Lets go for a walk... its so nice out... to the park or something" Usagie suggested smiling happily at Mamaru.

On The Road

Lorne nudges Kieran "watch this 3, 2, 1 ..." "stand up straight Coty. Jeeze your posture is terrible, and stop mauling poor Kieran." Karen nagged. Lorne had known the two in the old days when the moon Kingdom thrived so he knew Karen had a tendency to play mom.

Kieran smirked to himself and piped in "Well her bad posture isn't such a terrible thing, because in all actuality if she bent over a little more that's probably what position these two were conceived in." Coty blushed harder then she had blushed in her life.

Lorne snickered but Kieran looked proud as he looked down at his creations with the woman he loved more then anything. That shut Karen right up for the rest of the trip. To bad it did nothing for Lorne because he nearly died laughing all the way there... Setsuna just shook her head and smiled.

Angel appeared to deny her relation with him. They arrived at the park and there were Hakura and Micheru sitting at a table just staring at each other in the bright sun. "Hakura papa, Micheru mama..." Hutaru called out as she ran towards to the two women.

"So no one's told her yet?" Lorne pondered out loud. "Guess not" Coty replied back. "What happened Coty did someone attack you with a cloning machine?" Hakura asked. "Oh real funny Hakura." Both Karen and Coty crossed their arms and scowled . Both Kieran and Lorne snickered walking away from the now identical scowls.

Everyone got to talking (when Coty and Karen decided to join in the fun finally) and it started to get late. Everyone hugged and said their goodbyes. They all pretty much went their separate directions. Hakura and Micheru decide to go with the Usagie, Coty, Karen, Mamaru, and Kieran (and of course the little ones). Everyone arrived home, and Malachy, Madison, and Chibi-Usa were all put to bed for the night.

Coty, Karen, and Kieran were sitting in the kitchen. Usagie and Mamaru were in the living room enjoying a new TV series. Hakura and Micheru were enjoying a peaceful conversation of their own in the doorway between the kitchen and the dining room/ living room.

Just as everyone settled into his or her conversations, Comwee shimmered into the Kitchen. He grabbed Hakura, Micheru, and Karen, and shimmered back out of sight. Luna and Artimus ran into the room

"Crystal Tokyo is under attack again, there is a new enemy but we can't get much data on him, please hurry." Luna informed the others Usagie, Coty, Kieran, and Mamaru linked hands and teleported to Crystal Tokyo. Leaving the two cats to baby-sit with Angel.

MEANWHILE

Somewhere in the palace "Anna stay with your mother, no one leaves no matter what" Comwee explained turning his attention to his blue haired love. "Ami-Chan please trust me, our daughter is smart. You are both in good hands" Ami and the other three inner sailor senshi had their memories erased leaving them to lead normal lives after their tragic accident.

Ami was only given part of her memory back so that she could still lead her normal life but would remember enough of her time with Comwee.

Everyone arrived just outside of the palace to find a thick fog everywhere. The outline of the palace was barely visible. You could see a body hanging in mid air somewhere about twenty feet in front of them. Usagie and the others ran toward the body, amazingly they reached it without any sign of Comwee.

Karen was bound by chains hanging from a palace balcony. The keys were hanging on a rope around her neck. She was set free immediately. "Its too easy you guys, he should have tried to attack us by now . Something isn't right..." Usagie said looking around in the dense fog. Two bright yellow lights shot out from the fog. The lights hit Karen directly in the chest and she screamed in terror and fell to the ground. Comwee stepped into sight, and everyone took a step back in surprise.

"You now see I possess the power to remove a persons star seed." He laughed his malicious laugh and slowly walked toward Karen. "You're wasting your time she's not a senshi, " Usagie hollered at him. "HAH I think you will find you are very mistaken..."He bellowed back bending down and taking her seed that still shone brightly.

Just as he bent down Coty noticed what appeared to be a black collar around his neck. Karen was transformed into an evil senshi, operator (considering she answered telephones for a living) She hurtled towards the group of senshi and missed them by inches.

"OPERATOOOOOOOORRRRRRR" She screamed and threw one of her phone receiver arms at Usagie and the others.

"Keep her busy and I might be able to save her" Usagie called to the rest of the group. Comwee stood in mid air howling with laughter. Coty shot her brain freeze attack at Operator to slow her down. This worked for all of 30 seconds while Mamaru worked on getting Comwee to come down from the air.

"So you think your pretty tough, come down and challenge me like a real man...or are you afraid?" Mamaru called up to Comwee who simply laughed and came down to the ground. The two shot blast after blast at each other, just basic energy balls. Coty and Kieran were working on keeping Operator busy for just a little while longer. Mamaru let a few energy balls hit him and acted like he had been defeated, but slowly built up a huge one of his own.

"Give up already, what kind of man are you anywa – " His speech was cut off as a huge ball of energy hit him in the gut and he went flying dropping the star seed in front of Mamaru. "Here Coty CATCH" Mamaru yelled out. Coty caught it and threw it at Operator just in time for Usagie to heal Karen back to her original state.

"HOW DARE YOU ATTACK MY DAD!!!!!" Anna called out to Mamaru as she shot an attack at him. "ANNA NO!" Ami shouted as the attack hit the unsuspecting Mamaru directly below the chest. "He will need medical attention...and soon," Lorne said watching Mamaru's still body on the ground. He wasn't getting up, he wasn't moving.

Everyone transported home and Mamaru was brought to the hospital immediately. He suffered only miner external and internal bleeding and was bandaged up and sent home within a few day.