Far From Home. The True Mission Begins.

The girls stumbled out of the swirling darkness and into the light. Hidenka, the second to exit, just after Chibi, blinked furiously and shaded her eyes. She had no idea how long they were floating around the Tower of Time, but there was no trying to guess, because there was no sense of time when you floated in it.

The salmon-haired actress oriented herself in her new surroundings as the other girls arrived. She appeared to be in a small grassy park that was very similar to one she knew to be close to the Juuban district. Of course, this being the future, there were some definite differences. There seemed to be more and bigger buildings in Crystal Tokyo. It was the same place, but it gave Hidenka a distinct alien feeling. I wonder if this is how Cosmos-sama and Aqua-sama felt when they came to our time? She pondered idly.

Neo Pluto, the last senshi to stumble out into the daylight, fell into Mars as she blinked rapidly and tried to focus. The pale girl muttered her apologies and staggered off.

This turned Hidenka's attention to all of the other girls. Everything seemed completely normal, until she noticed a strange figure in their midst. The woman was tall and elegant with long red hair hanging past her waist and wore a very similar fuku to Sailor Aqua, hers being red and graced with flame symbols instead of water drops.

Hidenka found herself meeting the woman's eyes against her will. The woman's intense red eyes showed intelligence and fierce determination yet incredible weariness lurked beneath the surface. Those eyes seemed very familiar.

The woman in red strode deliberately towards Hidenka through the crowd of girls. "Welcome to the future Sailor Mars," the woman began, "We are approximately twenty years ahead of where you used to be. Feels strange doesn't it?"

Hidenka only nodded.

The woman continued, "I though time travel was interesting, but I never really liked it much. By the way, my name is Sailor Blaze. I was told to pay special attention to training you."

Mars blushed, "Why me?"

"You have the same element of powers and other abilities as I have," Blaze explained fluidly. The red-clad senshi glanced around then spoke loudly to the rest of the group, "Alright girls, I've got you grouped up in different hotels around this area. Your roommates will change with each move, but try to get alone as well as you can. Untransform and I'll finish explaining."

In a quick moment of activity, the girls returned to looking normal and had their bags ready. Producing a handful of papers, Blaze began to speak again, "Musha and Koneko, Kenjou and Asatsuyu, Norikuken and Teisei, Hidenka and Korai, and Tonda and Chibi," she listed, "Come up and get directions to your apartments from me before you leave. So as not to raise any questions or spark any memories, you can't use your normal names here. Make sure this is what you call each other. Koneko is just Mizu Neko, Tonda becomes Aijou Tongari, Norikuken will be Chi Noriko, Chibi is Aijou Chibi, Hidenka is Kaji Hoonoko, Teisei is Furuato Tei, Musha is Tsukai Keika, Kenjou is Kaiou Kenko, Asatsuyu is Kaiou Asagao, and Korai is Tokino Raiko. Please call me Hino Blaze. Also, be careful. You will get a very odd sensation in your gut every once in a while. This means that if you continue, you could change destiny by accident. Be very careful not to do this. Turn around where you are and head away from where you were going until the feeling is gone. The last thing you want to do is to run into problems like that. Understood?"

The girls nodded.

"What sort of things would we be running away from?" Tonda asked skeptically.

"For one, meeting yourself," she answered, "You cannot let that happen. There are certain other people that you could trigger bad events by, like running into friends or family members."

"One last thing before you head off," Sailor Blaze added, "Since your appearance could trigger destiny to change as you all have been seen by countless strangers, you all need to look slightly different. Concentrate on a new look for yourselves…" Suddenly there was a purple pen with a red jewel on top in Blaze's hand. She held it up and called, "Moon power, change them into students of this time!"

There was a flash of color and no one came out looking the same, except for Hino Blaze, and even she was wearing different attire, some casual street clothes. Each pair of roommates was wearing a different school uniform from that none of the girls recognized. The main differences were hair styles. Chibi and Teisei had just let down their hair and later took on a light green hair bow making her look very similar to the twin she left behind. Kenjou, Asatsuyu, and Korai took on appearances very much like their mothers with their own hair styles and Kenjou kept her bangs. Norikuken had her hair cut to jaw length with a red hair bow crowing it all, round glasses gone. Koneko had tapered bangs and her long, now smoother, hair in a high ponytail tied with a forest green bow. Among them all, Tonda, Musha, and Hidenka were the most shocking changes. Musha now had shoulder-length wavy hair with no bangs and a braid going around her head like a circlet. Tonda's sugar pink hair was now long and thick and done into a thick braid that hung to just below her knees and was tied with a large pink bow. Hidenka looked nothing like herself. She had shoulder length pigtail braids tied with small purple bows and large round glasses.

"Hidenka!" Asatsuyu gasped, "Why did you want to look like that?"

Hidenka laughed good-naturedly, "I don't want to look anything like the star I was. So why not be a cute little nerd?" She laughed again. Then noticed Tonda's new look. "Tonda! I didn't think you liked pink!" she exclaimed.

Tonda rolled her eyes. Her new school uniform was a nice rosy crimson color and her long pink hair made her look very girly. "If we want no one to recognize us, then, I figure, we should be as different as we can," she said, "Of course I'll have to act to match it."

"This I have to see," Norikuken laughed.

Blaze cleared her throat. "Here are your addresses and your schools. So you don't stand out, you're all transferring into those schools for a couple days while we're here. I'll be staying at the palace if you need anything and you are to meet there directly after school for training."

"So you two are sisters," the woman at the front desk asked.

Tonda cleared her throat, "Yes ma'am, we are."

"Oh how cute!" she said with a grin on her face while Tonda fought hard to suppress the need to slap her. "Alright, so Aijou Tongari and Chibi. If you have questions, come to me. And here's your keys." She handed each of the girls a small, flat, hexagonal crystal with a small computer chip in the center. Just press it into the locks and the doors will come right open for you. Enjoy your stay!"

"Thank you ma'am," Tonda said politely.

"Thank you!" Chibi echoed.

With that, the two picked up their duffels and headed up to their room. It was on the 21st floor, so the elevator ride was long. Their hotel, The Crystalline Blossom, was in the heart of Crystal Tokyo in one of the towering crystal spires. Since Crystal Tokyo had become the capital of the world, large hotels were needed to accommodate the many travelers coming through and those people moving in that had not yet found a house to move into. These were the sort of people the Neo Senshi were pretending to be.

After a minute of silence on the elevator Tonda asked, "So, Chibi, I don't remember ever seeing you before just a couple days ago. What was your life like before all this?"

The little girl shrugged, her short red-pink hair bouncing lightly, "Cosmos-sama said that she brought me with her from another time, but I don't really remember any of it. My past is just a bunch of jumbled memories."

Tonda was a little taken aback. The tiny girl was amazingly articulate for her age, however old she was. "You may have gotten hit in the head or something," Tonda suggested.

"Maybe…" Chibi agreed absently, staring out the glass window on the outside of the elevator and watching the world outside the building wiz by. "What was your life like?" she asked, still staring blankly.

Tonda, slightly unnerved, responded, "I didn't like it much. I had some good friends, but my parents were so wrapped up in their careers that I didn't see them much, and when I did, they wanted to control my life. It was really hard. My mom is Aino Minako, the idol singer and my father is Saijou Asai, a soccer star. We have lots of money, but I never let that go to my head. People always expect the daughter of two stars to be beautiful, sweet, popular, and slightly aloof. I'm here to prove them all wrong."

This time Chibi was taken aback. She never expected for the pink-haired tomboy to have reason for her icy shell. "I don't know what's better," Chibi pondered, as a soft ding signaled that the two had arrived at their floor, the doors opening. The two girls picked up their bags and walked slowly from the elevator. She continued, "not being able to remember your past or not enjoying what you remember."

Tonda shrugged, "I'm away from my parents and tiring life and you are beginning a new memory. Just live in the now."

Chibi giggled. Then pointed up to a door just down the hall. "There is is! 2109!" she exclaimed and pulled the hexagonal crystal from her pocket and hurried over to the door. She pressed the key into a hexagonal indentation just below the doorknob. The crystal glowed light pink for a moment then there was a clicking sound of the door unlocking. Tonda turned the knob and pushed the door open opening into a huge and beautiful suite of rooms of mostly white with pale wooden floors. The entire eastern wall of the main room was a huge window with a magnificent view of Crystal Tokyo. Both of the girls were too much in awe to do anything but get inside the room, drop their bags, and stare.

Musha and Koneko found themselves in a hotel out of the main downtown area of Crystal Tokyo. It was a small one, for Crystal Tokyo standards, called Silver Gateway. After receiving a small crystal with a computer chip in it, which Koneko deduced to be an advanced form of key, the pair of them rode the elevator to the seventh floor and found their room, number 711. It was not a particularly large suite, but it had two bedrooms, a bathroom, a small sitting room, and a small kitchenette with a table. The theme of the room seemed to be navy blue, and that was a color that pleased both girls.

After getting settled Musha went straight for the balcony and sat in one of the nicely cushioned chairs there, looking over the sprawling suburbs of Crystal Tokyo. A light breeze blew by her. The air smelled clean and fresh; fresher and cleaner than she had remembered in her own time. She scowled and pushed her wavy violet hair out of her face and tucked it behind her ears again. This hair is really starting to bother me. Now I remember why I went to a braid in the first place.

Koneko, busy exploring the room, called to Musha from inside, "Hey Mu— Keika-chan!" She carefully caught herself then continued, "There's enough food here for several meals and someone left a box with some spending money in it for us. It looks like we're expected to buy some things here too."

"Oh," Musha called back, only mildly interested and slightly offended at being called 'chan', "That's good."

A few moments later, she heard the sound of the television being turned on. "And in the name of the moon, I'll punish you!" Koneko squealed in delight to see what program was on. "It's Eternal Sailor Moon and the story about her defeat of Galaxia!" she exclaimed as she hopped onto the bed to watch the show contently.

"Hmm," Mush responded indifferently, "That's always fun to watch. I'm surprised it's still on now." Slightly annoyed with Koneko constantly interrupting her solitude of thinking, the violet-haired girl rose from her seat and slid the glass door to the room shut with a soft click.

After returning to her seat, Musha returned to her train of thought, running her right hand idly through her newly long hair. There has to be a reason why I'm Sailor Saturn. I know this isn't just some chance event. I just wish there was a way of telling. Too bad the legacies of the planets and their kingdoms were lost with time when Queen Beryl, her generals, and the Seven Shadows destroyed them. Although… The people of the Sun lived through it all. Maybe I'll try to contact someone there when I return to my own time. Contacting anyone now would be far too risky. For now I'll just have to ponder on it.

Meanwhile, Koneko was laying on her bed resting her chin in her cupped hands and watching the TV. "There's mother! Oh look Keika, there's Saturn!" she called, then realized that the older girl would not hear her as she had closed the door. Antisocial, hmm? Re returned to watching the television peacefully. It was entertaining to her, now knowing who all of the original senshi had been. The names on the TV show were different. The character representing her mother had green eyes and straight, shoulder length blue hair. The only characters that remained the same were the Starlights and Sailor Moon. Everyone knew that it was Neo Queen Serenity that had save the planet time and time again.

Just then, Koneko's attention was drawn back to the television. This was a part she had always missed in the past. As Eternal Sailor Moon fought Chaos in the Galaxy Calderon and was loosing, a tiny figure with pinkish red hair in two pigtails and heart-shaped buns appeared by her side with a hopeful look in her sky blue eyes. There was a flash of light and an elegant woman in white appeared in the place of the tiny girl. Chibi! Cosmos! Does that mean?

Suddenly the phone rang. Koneko rushed to get it. Pressing a button just below where the screen was mounted she asked as the picture came into view, "Hello?"

The pictured defined itself and Sailor Blaze came into view. "Neko-chan!" she exclaimed, "Just the person I was looking to talk to. Actually— I was just calling to see how you and Keika were doing. Is your room fine? Do you think you can find the school alright?"

"Um…" Koneko's mind was suddenly drawing a blank as she stared into Blaze's knowing red eyes. She glanced hurridly at her surroundings and out to Musha on the balcony. "Er… Oh, we're just fine. This is a nice room. Is that money and food for us that we found here?"

"Yes that is," Hino Blaze nodded, "Serenity had that deposited discretely at all of your rooms before you arrived. Take as much as you want. If you run out, let me know and I'll see to it that you have more. At any rate, I best get going. Nice seeing you Neko-chan." With that, the screen on the phone went blank.

Koneko pressed the button and turned off her own speakers, stopping the dial tone. She stood dumbly confused for a moment. "What was I just doing," she asked herself quietly. She thought for another moment then answered her own question uncertainly, "TV, wasn't it?" After glancing on the blank and off television, she changed her mind. "Maybe not," she said and shrugged, then wandered to the kitchenette to make a snack for herself.

Asatsuyu spun several times with her hands in the air, her long, wavy gray-blond hair twining around her arms. "This room is so perfect!" she exclaimed as she stopped spinning. She immediate result was for her to stagger into one of the beds dizzily, then bounce onto it enthusiastically. "I mean it's so huge and so pretty and clean. I'm sad we're only staying here a couple days. Just look how big these beds are! And that balcony! The view is great! There's two computers and a huge TV. There a little kitchen with lots of food. A huge bathroom and another big room. I wish our house was like this back at home!" In finishing her excited list, the younger girl flopped back on the comfortable bed. In truth, the sisters had the largest room of any of the senshi and it was almost entirely a pure, clean white color. The pureness of it invigorated Asatsuyu but slightly unnerved Kenjou. That clean white reminded her far too much of the sterile clean of the orphanage where she had spent much of her early life.

Kenjou let a small smile grace her face and she chuckled at the enthusiasm of her younger sister. "You're so funny Asagao," she responded lovingly, "I think we will enjoy our stay here." After letting out a little love, she withdrew into herself again. She found her duffel and methodically unpacked the contents in to a generously sized dresser. She had only brought a few personal things. Among them was a small photo album. Something she never allowed anyone, not even Asatsuyu, to see. In the pages was the only picture she had of her parents. She was sitting on her father's knee while her mother was holding baby Asatsuyu. It was shortly after that that their parents got into financial trouble and could no longer keep the girls. Kenjou and Asatsuyu never saw or heard from them again. Of course, Asatsuyu had no memory of the pair and Kenjou's memories were few and faint.

Once at the orphanage, adults treated the girls with caring indifference. There were anywhere between ten and thirty other children there for the five years that the pair stayed at the orphanage. Kenjou was seven when they left and Asatsuyu had just turned six.

There were several photos in the book of her and some close friends from the orphanage. Kenjou had made a few very good friends but they quickly were taken away by loving families. The friends had promised to write, but after a few letters, they started forgetting. By the time she was five and a half years old, she stopped trying to make friends or caring about anyone except her precious younger sister, who somehow seemed to maintain carefree optimism all through the ordeal. To this day, Asatsuyu was the only person she really cared for and she intended to keep it that way. She could trust the happy girl never to abandon her like everyone else eventually would.

As she placed the few items of clothing that she had brought into one of the cavernous drawers, she recalled the day when she was finally rescued from that world of superficial love. Two elegant strangers, a tall blond and a beautiful aqua-haired woman, came and toured the orphanage. The moment she met eyes with the tall blond woman, whom she had first assumed to be a man, something passed between them that could not have been anything but magical. She now could see that this had something to do with her powers of Uranus. The pair of elegant women left. A few days later they were back. This time they took Kenjou and Asatsuyu back to their home with them.

Kenjou was more than thankful for being taken away from the white prison. She thanked her new mothers once with completely sincerity while Asatsuyu spent the next several months thanking them every chance she got. Haruka, the tall blond, seemed to find Asatsuyu cute and entertaining and Michiru, the elegant aqua-haired woman, was often flattered by Asatsuyu constant thanks. This made Asatsuyu the unofficial favorite of the two. Although Kenjou appreciated her parents more than she could explain, she was too scarred by her early life to be able to truly love them back for all the love they gave her. The last photo in the book was of Kenjou, Asatsuyu, Haruka, and Michiru looking completely happy. That moment, though she forgot the reason for happiness, was one she wished she could relive over and over.

Kenjou finally finished her slow unpacking and stowed her duffel in another drawer with the photo album carefully stowed in it. The book did not have a lock, but it was well understood and respected that Kenjou did not want anyone looking in it, so no one did.

Asatsuyu could tell when her older sister needed silence, as she had for the last few minutes. When she seemed to be done wallowing in her solitude, Asatsuyu asked brightly, "Dwelling over that book again?"

Kenjou shook out of her trance, "Sorry. I know it bothers you. I really should stop."

"It's okay, if it makes you feel better, keep at it," Asatsuyu responded in a rare serious tone, "It just makes me sad to see you so sad. If only you could make some friends, you'd have a much happier life."

"I guess you're right," Kenjou submitted, silently thinking the same thoughts to herself that she always did when this subject to herself: But I can't, because it hurts far too much when they leave me! As I know they will.

"So Tei," Norikuken began sweetly, as the pair of them stood out on their balcony fifteen stories above the streets of Crystal Tokyo. Their hotel, the Bara no Kaen, was located in the downtown Crystal Tokyo area, but closer to the palace than Tonda and Chibi. She continued, "You don't talk too much? Why is that?"

Teisei shrugged, "I'm not an incredibly talkative person; I'm more shy, actually."

Norikuken just laughed, "Well anyway, what do you think of the future?"

Teisei stared off into the sky line and responded neutrally, "It was very odd feeling at first, but I think I've adjusted."

"Yea," Norikuken agreed, "I felt the same way. I feel like I've aged a bit too. The future is beautiful. I can't wait until we get to live up to and through it."

A slight smile crossed Teisei's face. "If we return to our own time, that is," she corrected. "Cosmos-sama never promised that we would get out of this alive. It sounds very dangerous, so we might not."

"Stop being such a pessimist Tei!" Norikuken accused, "What you need is some ice cream. Want to go out and see if we can find an ice cream shop in this city?"

Teisei's grin widened, "I'd love to!"

Norikuken stepped back into the hotel room and off the balcony, pulling some yen out of the box of money that was left for them. "What are you waiting for?" she called in a teasing tone as Teisei slowly closed the sliding door to the balcony and walked for the door of the apartment. With that, the girls were off.

Hidenka still couldn't get over that odd feeling she kept having in the back of her mind. Korai seemed to be over the oddness of the time change, but that odd feeling was still there for Hidenka. She massaged her temples lightly with two fingers, then went back to her book.

Hidenka had figured that she would be best off to get into character with Hoonoko as quickly as possible. The best way was to start reading obsessively, but not manga or romance novels as Hidenka preferred, but science fiction or nonfiction. She never thought that her acting skills would become so useful in the real world.

All the while, that feeling in the back of her mind kept her alert and paranoid, wanting more and more to keep up her disguise. And she hadn't the foggiest idea why she was thinking this way.

Korai wasn't much for conversation, so the two girls mostly kept to themselves.

While Hidenka read, Korai spent quite a bit of time brushing and playing with her newly long hair. The dark-haired girl still couldn't get over that her mother worked so closely in the queen's service. She knew very will that that job would one day be her own. What a lonely career. That made her wonder all the more about who her father was. She had no memory of whoever he was and her mother refused to talk about anything having to do with her birth. That fact was known to very few and for a good reason. Things like that didn't happen in Crystal Tokyo. Just thinking about people's reactions if they did know was enough to make her depressed.

Korai loved her mother more than anything else, but was sadly alone in the world because of her job. Since birth, she had had strange abilities that Setsuna had often commented on as 'Just like Hotaru', always making her wonder who Hotaru was. Now she knew. Hotaru was the elegant and imposing Sailor Saturn. It gave her chills to think that she would ever be like that.

Bored, overwhelmed, and too tired to get up and cross the room, she decided to exercise her infrequently used powers. She had suppressed them in the past in an effort to be 'normal', but now that she knew she was not 'normal' and could not ever be. Besides, her abilities might come in handy in battle.

She twitched her left hand lightly and her duffle lying on her bed across the room began to twitch lightly. After a bit of fidgeting, a standard-sized framed picture worked its way out and shot through the air, right for Korai's left hand, where she caught it and set it up neatly on the vanity where she had been brushing her hair.

Hidenka looked up from her reading with a very curious and startled look in her red, glasses-framed eyes. After a moment of the two girls staring at each other, Hidenka saw that Korai wasn't going to give an explanation. She asked, somewhat impatiently, "Since when could you do that?"

Korai shrugged and turned away, going back to brushing her hair in front of the large, curved mirror.

"No really, Raiko," the red-head insisted, her tone getting slightly sharper, "Where'd you learn to do that?" How was it that some random girl had powerful special abilities while the daughter of a powerful priestess had hardly a speck of the powers?

Korai turned back to give Hidenka a depressed and almost dead-looking gaze that stopped her questioning immediately, brush still idly in her hand. After a moment of that, which sent chills down the actress' spine, Korai returned to the mirror and Hidenka pretended to return to her reading, the strange feeling still bothering her in the back of her mind.

No wonder people thought of Korai as weird. She's got those powers and doesn't seem to like them at all. She's completely antisocial and always depressed. What's with that girl?

Sailor Blaze, now dresses in an elegant gown of red silk, stood leaning on the thick, white marble railings of the huge balcony attached to her rooms in the private royal suite of the palace. The red-haired woman stared thoughtfully out at Crystal Tokyo, the peaceful home she had loved long ago. She sensed a presence behind her. She knew it without even turning around.

"Something is troubling you, Rei," the Queen stated more than asked in a quiet and soothing voice.

She shook of the feelings she'd been having for a moment and turned to perform a sweeping bow to one knee for the queen. It was more for love and for the eyes of onlookers than for respect to the queen.

"Oh do get up," Neo Queen Serenity ordered impatiently, "You don't have to do that, you know."

Blaze smiled and rose, "Yes, I do know. Even though you're not the Usagi I'm used to and I'm not the Rei you're used to, we still understand each other very well."

A light smile crossed the queen's worried face, "Some people never change." The smile faded quickly, "No really, something is bothering you. Is it the future? I could train the girls if you need to be back there."

"You are needed to be a powerful figure and rule. You don't need to baby-sit the girls all the time," Blaze retorted forcefully, a strong gust of wind caught her hair and gown blowing it about her chaotically, while the queen faired the same. She waited for the gust to subside then gestured to the blond woman dressed in white, "Let's get inside, bad weather seems to be blowing in."

Neo Queen Serenity followed, wanting to be out of the cold as well. As soon as they were inside and Blaze had closed a pair of large crystal doors that protected them from the wind, the queen began again, "Stop avoiding the subject. What is bothering you?"

The red-clad woman shifted uncomfortably then took a seat in a generously padded chair that was conveniently just behind her. The Queen remained standing, becoming a very impatient and imposing figure.

"Something has gone wrong," Blaze finally admitted, staring at the floor.

Queen Serenity raised and eyebrow and still remained standing where she was, still like a statue.

"Here, I mean," Blaze continued reluctantly, "I felt the normal strange sensation when I got here, but it was stronger and more uncomfortable than normal. The feeling faded slightly but refused to go away entirely. Then I realized what it was: Chaos sent six of her minions here by tying them to me when Eternity sent me to this time and retrieved Aqua. Besides that, I know exactly which ones she sent. This does not look good at all for the girls. They are not at all safe." She finally looked up and met the concerned blue eyes of the queen who hurried over to kneel right in front of her and grasp one of her hands.

"Six? Why didn't you tell me this earlier? Chaos was willing to take out that many people from her army? You can tell that much with your powers?" she asked without stopping for breath between questions, even more worried.

"Chaos has nineteen minion generals, she can spare some. But to send six and those that she did means that she really means business and has found out about our plans for reinforcements. I didn't tell you earlier because I was trying to sort out what was going on and how best to deal with it. This isn't exactly and easy subject knowing what I know," Blaze explained remorcefully, "I'm very worried about the girls. Especially Moon, Saturn, and Earth. They'll do anything to prove that one is better than the other two. That could lead to dangerous and irrational decisions on their part." She paused for a moment, as if trying to figure out how and what to say next then continued, "As to my powers, I've been alive nearly a thousand years. The peak of my purpose is coming to an end. My skills have steadily improved over time with need and the need is greatest now and will never be greater again in this lifetime."

Serenity nodded. She knew as well as her friend did that, because of who they were, they would be born again one day when they were gravely needed once again.

After a moment of though, the Queen said, "I will alert the Quartet that there is some very dangerous evil lurking the city and to watch especially for it and—"

"No one else," Blaze interrupted and finished the queen's statement, "The fewer senshi who might know the girls that are involved, the better. I have great faith and confidence in the Asteroid Senshi that nothing will slip out or cause destiny to change."

Once again, Serenity nodded, this time staying silent.

Alexandrite brushed his long, smooth green hair from away from his face, yet the wind whipped it stubbornly back out of place. So this is was Crystal Tokyo, he thought, The most beautiful place in the universe. From what he could see, it very well might be that way. His five companions had already set up an undetectable shelter and hiding place for them. If Sailor Blaze was here, as they knew to be true, she would know they were there, every last one of them. No doubt she would be worried. However, thanks to the skills of Lapis and Lazuli, their hiding place would be completely hidden even from her. Chaos chose a very effective team for him to lead. Unless some completely unforeseen consequences arose, this should be an incredibly easy mission.