Standard disclaimer. Sailor Moon is not mine, the idea and the show belong to people much richer than I. Please don't sue!

Dimmer however is mine.. of course if someone wants to use him or any of his transformations for ANY reason "thbbt" go ahead. You have my complete and total permission. I only request you tell me… Hell, I don't care if you don't tell me, it's not like I could find you anyway.

Warning: mild language, and this is my first fic. Maybe some lime sometime in the far future, but I seriously doubt it.

"Where?" Dimmer was quick to attention.

"An apartment of a painter. Her name is …"

"Peggy, right?" Serena was quick to fill in.

"That is correct Sailor Moon. Your information is better than I had estimated it to be."

"Yeah Serena. How did you know who was going to be attacked?"

"Well me and Molly went to an art gallery today. Peggy is a famous upcoming painter and she asked for me to model for her today. I didn't go because we had the scout meeting and I wanted to visit Dimmer today. I was going to go over there tomorrow."

Dimmer shook his head. "I remember this episode." He said softly to himself. "Serena fate predetermined that you should have been there tonight. You know where her apartment is right?"

Serena nodded.

"You girls get there quick. When you reach near her apartment look around for a construction yard. Zoicite will have to pass by there to get back to the Negaverse."

"Right!" the girls all said, and were about to rush out the door and transform.

"Wait" Rei stopped suddenly, "Dimmer how do you know all this?"

"No time for that now Rei, I need some time to recharge. I can't help you guys tonight. Tuxedo Mask will be making an appearance though. Now get outta here!"

Rei Simply nodded and followed out the door behind the rest of the girls.

Without looking back toward the window. Dimmer spoke to Talenite.

"Watch them. I know you don't want to be seen. Help in any way you can if they get in over their heads. Than come back here to report to me what happened."

"They will be in trouble Master Sundown. The strategy was in case you showed up."

Dimmer's eyebrows strained together as he thought, and looked toward Chad, who stood there stunned by what he just learned, and forgotten amidst the commotion.

"Did you plan for Tuxedo Mask as well?"

"No choice young master, it seems Zoicite has been developing an unhealthy personal vendetta against him for hitting her face during the last battle."

"Chad do you understand everything happening here?"

"Uuh… I think so… mostly. The girls are the gnarly girls in mini skirts that fight the bad guys, but the bad guys set a trap for them right?"

"That's right. Sundown is accounted for in the power level they're going to use to trap the girls. That maybe too much for even the Sailor Scouts to handle. Can you catch up to them?"

"Guess we'll see won't we. I'll do everything in my power to help."

"I'm sorry to ask this of you Chad, but we've run outta options, and Daybreak maybe an ace in the hole. Only Tuxedo Mask may have a hint at who you are be careful of him. He's friendly, but he needs to use the crystal the girls need. That means they're at ends with each other at the moment."

"Got you. You going to chat to me all night long or are you gonna let me go try to find that construction site?"

Dimmer smiled and gestured to the door.

Moments later Chad was riding his Harley in his trenchcoat down the now evening lit streets. Chad was thinking. This was going to be difficult. These things he was going to have to fight may be able to walk through the same explosions Sundown walked through on him when up Chad's cabin. Chad looked up to the sky to see it darkening. Nightfall was on its way, and Sundown couldn't make it. Chad smiled, that just meant Daybreak was going to have to come early. At that, he wheelied around a street corner that he'd caught glimpse of the girls go around before they took to the air as the scouts.

"Young Master. I must go Zoicite expects me to watch over the battle."

"Than by all means go."

"By your leave Young Master." That said Talenite teleported away.

Dimmer stared out the window. He wondered what would happen now, his interference without meaning to, had changed the fate of this rerun. Does that mean that by being here he may cause the death of the scouts? He had some thinking to do, but what he really wanted was to help his friends. Why is it despite how many friends he could make he always was left alone? The streetlight outside his window went out, and his bangs fell down in front of his eyes. As he tried to tuck his bangs back behind his ear, you could hear him mutter under his breath, "Bastard."

The scouts had found the construction site little trouble. Serena knew where it was having been here earlier. The only question was were they in time?

"Did we make it on time do you think Amy?" Lita asked putting everyone's thoughts into spoken words.

"I can't be sure Lita but we should all be prepared, if Dimmer was correct about this location there's not telling when they might show up.

Rei looked around quickly before saying anything. "Lita you hide behind that bulldozer I'm going by the crane, we'll take forward positions and try form some surprise close combat. Amy we'll need to use your fog as cover fire, so we'll need you in the back. Try hiding over there by the pile of pipes."

"Right!" Amy and Lita said both rushing off toward their said hiding spots, and Rei was about to run to her own.

"Hey Sailor Mars! What about me?"

"Go stand in that open field."

"What?!"

"Sorry Sailor Moon but we need to give them a reason to come to us. She'll leave with the crystal if she sees us all here waiting for her, but if she only sees you we might be able to nab her!"

"Alright! Good plan Sailor Mars. Sailor Moon reporting in as bait as ordered!" she saluted, and ran to her designated area.

Sailor Mars watched her go. She was expecting some kind of an argument from her. Maybe Sailor Moon was well suited to be the leader. "I guess even the meatball head can show some guts sometimes."

"Hey! I heard that!" :p Sailor Moon stuck out her tongue at Sailor Mars.

"Than again" she sighed to herself, and ran toward the crane.

"Talenite! What have you to report?"

"All is set Zoicite. If the scouts show up they won't stand a chance."

"They better not Talenite or I'll put your head on a pike, have it stuffed and delivered to Queen Beryl. Who knows she might consider Talenite on a stick to be a delicacy!" Zoicite laughed evilly. Talenite flinched noticeably. He didn't know what grated him more, her threats at having his head or her shrill laugh.

"All will go according to plan I assure you Zoicite."

"Very good. She held out the dark crystal in her hand and smiled, Beryl would be pleased. She than looked back toward her new youma. It hardly resembled the young artist she was. She was now just another grotesque youma. Her only semblance of the artist was the paintbrush in her hand.

Talenite disappeared in case the Sundown showed up. Zoicite swore at his cowardice. She would see to it after the world was over he would die for it. As they flew over a construction site she stopped to look down. There stood the obstacle that always seemed to stand in her way, and she looked to be alone.

She smiled to herself and called out, "All by yourself Sailor Moon? And I was expecting your friends to be here." Zoicite landed herself on the ground, her new youma landed behind her. "Too bad my plan is going to be a little overkill than, but to get rid of you, it's well worth it."

"So you think you can take me down that easy Negagoon!? Fine than came and get me!" Sailor Moon taunted her.

Zoicite smiled, "Just what I wanted to hear. Youma attack!"

"AHAhahahAHhA!" The Youma laughed as it drew its paintbrush at Sailor Moon., "When you were born your mother said what a picture!" she drew a hang man's knot around Sailor Moons neck, "Your father said yeah lets hang it Ahhahahaahaah!"

Sailor Moon just barely pulled her head away in time to see the rope close where her neck was. "Man! She is quick! Help! Yikes!" Sailor moon yiped out as she barely dodged all the large rocks the youma would draw in the air above her and would drop down always just one step behind her.

"I could use some help here guys!" She called out as one boulder came particularly close.

"Mercury Bubbles Blast!" was called out from behind the pipes, and a blanket of fog quickly covered the area.

"Supreme Thunder Crash!" Sailor Jupiter called out as she ran forward. Her lightning blew the rock the youma was about clobber Sailor Moon with to rubble.

"Mars Fire Ignite!" Rei taking a different tactic blasted her fire toward her surprised opponent. Zoicite.

"What the?!" Zoicite was blasted up against the wall of the supervisor's camper making a sever dent in the side of it, and Sailor Mars was barreling toward her. Mars slammed her fist into Zoicite's gut and than her other fist into Zoicite's face, before the too stunned Zoicite could react. The scouts had never attacked her!

Zoicite threw a pink energy ball down at the ground beside Mars. The explosion threw them both far apart.

Mars got up to take a martial arts stance. Zoicite got up and laughed. "You think I didn't plan for this? Five lizards jumped Mars from all around her. They were blended into the scenery so the scouts never noticed them arriving. There had to be near twenty of them. The odds were no longer in their favor.

Sailor Moon was doing impossible dodges in split seconds trying to keep from getting held down by the five lizards that had surrounded her. Sailor Mercury wasn't so lucky though. The lizards pushed the pipes over her and had her pinned down to the ground, it was the same pipes that were now protecting her as she remained just out of their reach as the dark green claw exposed hands reached toward her.

Jupiter wasn't as bad off as the other scouts as she was on an offensive against the lizards, but they were still between her and her friends stopping her from helping.

Zoicite called out to her youma through the fog, "This fog has become a problem. Do something about it."

"Ahhahahahahaah! A problem is it?" The youma drew a giant fan with her pen. "Well sometimes problems just blow over!" She grabbed the fan by its handle and waved it, a powerful gust of wind blew the fog away along with tipping the lizards and scouts over.

"Now Youma, get rid of another problem! Attack Sailor Moon!"

Sailor Moon jumped to her feet and took off. The lizards at her feet were still trying to get up, but the youma was close on her heels. It was drawing knives in the air that were continuing to be flung at her. "You're quick Sailor Moon but you can't dodge forever! Get the point?!" The Youma laughed out as she sent a particularly large group of knives in Sailor Moon's direction.

Sailor Jupiter found herself in a large tangle of limbs as the fan the youma used to clear the field of the fog blanketing it blew her and the lizards into a pile. She felt the large scales that made up most of the lizard's armor everywhere. She was swatted hard with a tail, and when she looked up again she found herself pinned down by the five lizards she was fighting. While three of the ones Sailor Moon was up against decided to take advantage of the opportunity of one of the scouts pinned such as she was. A claw raked across her face leaving three bloody traces across her cheek. Another claw she felt rip open her side. Than finally she felt two scaly hands start to choke the life out of her. Sailor Jupiter vision started to blur from loss of blood and air. She felt her eyes start to roll to the back of her head.

The lizards pinning Sailor Mars down were all blown off her when the large fan was waved. She got up quickly. "Mars fire ignite!" She called out toasting two almost on the spot. She narrowed her eyes as two more took their place. She gave a quick look around the battlefield to figure out where they had come from. The Sailor scouts were in trouble. It seems the lizards going after Sailor Moon had split up and came to her and Sailor Jupiter. Or what she could see of her friend all the lizards had piled up around her. That was no good.

Sailor Mars just barely ducked an incoming tail swipe. "Dammit Rei" she thought to herself, "You can't do anything for them if you're in trouble too! Keep your mind in your fight!" She grabbed the offending tail and threw the lizard it was attached to towards the other lizards. The lizards quickly dodged as their friend flew toward them. It caught one in the middle of a dodge. The three left standing rushed Sailor Mars together. She kicked at one and missed but managed to block the other two striking at her. The one she missed raked its claws across her stomach. She stumbled back one hand clutching her stomach, the other up and ready to block anymore incoming attacks.

Sailor Mercury was simply caught in the pipes. She had managed to loosen one of the pipes from underneath her and pick it up to use as a weapon against the lizards. Swing the over weight weapon back and forth while stuck underneath the pipes was keeping the lizards at bay, but she was tiring quickly, and the lizards were being patient as their meal tired itself out. "I can't keep this up" she muttered as she caught one upside the head sending it to the ground with a thud.

Dimmer felt a chill run down his spine. The scouts were in danger! There was nothing he could do. The dagger was still trying to absorb the power around him, he could feel it. Without that power at its fullest he wouldn't be able to change to Sundown. The feeling grew.

"Dammit!" He punched the wall in frustration, and ran out the hospital door. He didn't know what he was going to do. He was still only human, at least Chad had weapons to block against them, he wouldn't even make it on time without the speed he achieved only as Sundown, but he still kept running. He ran with everything he had. Even if it was only after the fight he arrived he had to get there! He had to help in anyway he could! They were "his" friends out there getting hurt. The fate that protected them were gone due to him. Any one of them could die now, and completely screw up the world they lived in.

Sailor Moon cried out as she valiantly tried to dodge the incoming massive amount of knives. Weeving, jumping, and skidding around as fast as she could, Sailor Moon managed to dodge the entire horde of knives flying her way. She turned to taunt the youma only to see a sharp, steel edge point right between her eyes. She looked up from the blade of the knife to its handle to where a white-loved fist had caught it out of the sir. Than as she continued to run her gaze up the black sleeve to stare at her hero in a top hat who was staring down at her through his white mask.

"Tuxedo Mask!" Sailor Moon hugged herself against his arm, "You came!"

Was it her or did a smile just slightly make its self known on the face of her saviour. Well whether it was there or not, it certainly wasn't now as he glared towards the youma.

The youma laughed. "So you want to go too? Than let's dance ball room boy!" She flung more knives towards her opponents.

Tuxedo Mask brought out his cane and spun it around shielding both him and Sailor Moon from the knives. "Your evil soul betrays you. And despite your bad jokes as you attack you will see soon enough that it is always those who work for good that get the last laugh!" Tuxedo Mask than looked at Sailor Moon who stood behind him still holding his arm. "Come on Sailor Moon, lets heal this poor soul before she causes any more damage."

"Right!" Sailor Moon said suddenly much more determined than she was a few moments ago, "Peggy! Remember your kind heart!" Sailor Moon called out as she brought her moon wand to bare.

The youma grabbed its head in both its hands and called out in rage. It charged them at break neck speeds. Tuxedo Mask was in the air in a flash pulling out two roses from under his cloak. The youma smashed headlong into the ground after the two roses found their way into its feet tripping it up. The youma screeched, tearing out the two roses from its feet in rage.

"Sailor Moon! Now!" Tuxedo mask called out from up in the air.

"Right! Moon Healing… ESCALATION!"

All at once light poured from her wand, illuminating the area around the youma. The sparkling aura of light surrounded the creature and healed its soul turning it back to an young girl that looked up at the two people that had healed her. She reached out for them, seeing them both in different clothes, the girl in a beautiful white dress and the man with a sword and black tuxedo. She smiled as the overwhelming feeling of goodness given off by the wand brought her into peaceful sleep.

"That's it!" Jupiter yelled out under the grip of the lizard that held her throat. Somehow she found the strength to rip her arm from the grip of one of the lizards, and bat away the grip of the one that had her throat. "Jupiter Supreme Thunder Crash!"

The lightning attack flew straight up in the air blasting through five out of eight of her opponents. She got up stumbling, holding her hand to her side. She stood still only long enough to get her bearings before coming down on the last three lizards writhing on the ground in pain from being in close proximity to her lightning attack.

"Time for a little payback!" she ran and soccer kicked one in the head sending it into one of the beams of the building being constructed. Some of the beams over its head collapsed on top of it. A small pool of greenish tinted blood oozed from underneath.

After seeing their friend taken out so brutally the other two took off at full speed, but it wasn't quick enough to out run the speed of light. "Jupiter Supreme Thunder Crash!"

Seeing her work as done Jupiter stumbled back to where Sailor Moon and tuxedo mask were taking care of the unconscious painter.

Mars looked like something off of dragon ball as she zipped in and out of the lizard's range. She had stopped hold her stomach for the use of both her hands. She usually never got to take these monsters hand to hand, but that didn't mean she didn't know how to do it.

"I'll teach you monsters not to mess with Sailor Mars!" She straight kicked one up into the air, and while still balancing it on her heel she brought it back down to the ground with a large stomp. Putting the end of her high hell straight through its throat. The other two rushed but hesitated as they seen what happened to their friend. That hesitation was all Sailor Mars needed.

"Mars Fire Ignite!"

Mars was about to run over to help Mercury until out of no where the sound of a very powerful engine crashed into the construction yard.

"Huh?"

A tall man on a motorcycle didn't even slow down as he took off toward Sailor Mercury, his trenchcoat flapping in the wind. He skidded straight into one of the lizards holding down the pipes over Sailor Mercury, and reached for the large rifle on his back. He parked the bike on the stunned lizard before he pointed the rifle and shot it in the head at point blank. Seeing this new arrival as an unknown threat the lizards immediately went after him. He weaved underneath their claws with all of the martial arts prowess he knew pounding them with explosive rounds and blowing them out of their range to strike at him.

"One killed, four left, one… two … three… in front of me, hey wait where's the other one?"

He dropped his rifle and pulled out his paired uzzi's riddling the one sneaking up behind him with bullet holes. Unfortunately for him it left him wide open to the other three now at his back. They attacked, but unfortunately for them, they all forgot about the, no longer trapped, Sailor Mercury who was still wielding her pipe.

Mercury knocked the entire pile of pipes towards the feet of the lizards attacked her rescuer, making them all trip over their now broken feet.

Seeing this Daybreak turned around and whiffed a grenade at the stricken lizards, and jumped over to pull Sailor Mercury underneath him. The Lizards were turned into bits and bites. The scouts all looked to their newest helper. Tuxedo Mask looked toward the rifle he strapped back onto his back.

"The sniper Sundown had with him." Suddenly he was very glad that Sundown and him had come to some form of a truce that day.

"Chad?!" Sailor Mars whispered, "What are you doing here?"

"Shhh! I'm not Chad!" He said in an overly manly voice while putting on his yellow tinted sunglasses, "My name is Daybreak".

Sailor Moon just giggled, "Well than "Daybreak" thanks for the help.

"Not a problem gnarly gi…uuuh Sailor Scouts."

"Chad stop the sherade! What are you doing here, it's too dangerous for you!" Mars was whispering harshly, trying to stop from balling him out.

"This coming from a girl who is bleeding profusely from her stomach" he pointed out nonchalantly, "Sundown said you needed help so his faithful sidekick, Daybreak was happy to lend a hand."

"Now's not the time for this girls." Tuxedo mask said very wary of the blonde Negaverse general walking towards the with two very big rock soldiers not unlike the one that had beaten Mars to a pulp not too long ago. Both wielded huge war hammers.

Zoicite smirked at the scouts. "Don't think you've won yet scouts. You and your friends are about to pay the ultimate price for daring to take on the glorious Negaverse.

Sailor Moon:

Oh no! The Negaverse ambushed our ambush! We're already tired and hurt, yet Zoicite said there's more to come, will the Sailor Scouts be able to deal with this new threat?

Today on Sailor moon all of us are in some deep trouble, but were not going to give up! We count on each other, and we know we can make it. It can be like that for you too, but if you give up you lose any chance you had! Never give up and keep on trying! Sailor Moon says!" Sailor Moon giggled.

Once again the v.c.r. clicked. Signaling that the tape had stopped recording.

Mike was now crowded into his room, surrounded by people who stood in shock and surprise. Police on the case had been looking for the lost person for months and this was their first clue of his whereabouts. His parents were crying, wondering how their boy had made it to Japan. Friends and relatives were all talking amidst themselves. Not one questioned if it were a coincidence. Not one thought it could be a mistake. There was no question about it. Their downtrodden Dimmer was on Sailor Moon.