Richforce: I decided to do something a little special for the four sisters and Amazon quartet in this chapter. All characters belong to their respective owners.

Chapter 2: The Secret of the Asteroid Kingdom

Serena and the others waited nervously outside the emergency room, the doctor then came out. "Well?!" asked Serena.

"We managed to stabilize the girls however they're still in a coma." The public believed that the girls were hurt when a gas line exploded.

"So when are they waking up?!" said Darien.

"We don't know it could hours, days or weeks perhaps even never."

Serena could barely hold on. They all saw all those tubes and wires sticking into the girls meant to keep them alive and now the possibility that they may remain in comas for the rest of their lives. "Isn't there anything you can do?"

"We'll keep doing our best. There's a good chance for them to be up in a few days."

They all hoped with their whole hearts that they would be alright.

In the Blackstar Fortress Draco stood before Merlor. "So what have you found out about the keys?" Draco said.

"Do you know what a starseed is?" Merlor asked.

"Yes, a persons inner star and for Senshi the crystal that is the ultimate source of their power, so?"

"The keys are not whole; rather each key is made up of two similar yet different starseeds. This first job is to see if we can make the two starseeds into one whole."

"And who are my victims?"

"Four sisters and those who were the originals for those they thought they knew. Here's what you need to know." Merlor proceeded to impart what he knew.

Katsy came into the beauty shop she and sisters owned. Lately some considerably unusual things were going on with them. First, these four girls introduced themselves to them saying that they also were in a sense healed by Sailor Moon. Second they started seeing men that reminded them of people they knew back on Negamoon, they even had the same names. "So how did it go?" asked Birdie.

"Rubeus is wonderful." Katsy said.

"I thought you said he was scum." said Avery.

"That was the other one. This one is more like a gumball, hard on the outside but sweet on the inside."

"Well for me, it seems that this Sapphire is even better than the first one." said Prisma.

"Well you two aren't the only ones who have romance in your lives." said Avery. "The Diamond I meet thinks of me as a princess."

"Well the guy Emerald has his eyes on me." said Birdie.

"Hard to believe that we would all fall in love with someone who looked so similar to someone who was connected to our future past." said Katsy.

At that moment the guys they were talking about came in. "What are you talking about?" said Diamond.

"Nothing." The sisters said. They didn't want their relationships with these men to be ruined by what happened before so they decided to keep it completely secret from them. Right then the bell rang as the formerly Amazon Quartet came in. "Oh hi." They said.

"Hello, how can we help you?" asked Avery.

"Well..." said Cere. "Never mind, forget we even came." They wanted to ask them more, but felt now wasn't the right time. Ever since they meet the four sisters they felt something about them, they weren't sure what but they felt some other kind of connection.

Suddenly there was an explosion and they were all thrown to the floor. Draco came through the remains of the store front. "Sorry to wreck your store, but I need the eight of you."

The scouts heard the explosion and rushed over to the source. "Stop!" said Sailor Moon.

Draco threw some ingots. "Keep them busy won't you?" the ingots changed into warriors and attacked. "Now where were we?"

"What do you want with us?" said Prisma.

"What only you have."

"You won't hurt Katsy!" said Rubeus.

"I'd be more worried about myself if I were you. You four also have what I desire." Draco then turned to the quartet. "Now this should interesting." He then made a dark purple barrier around the store; their surroundings became a void of swirling dark energy. "But first things first." He drew out a sword and threw it.

"DANCING SWORD!"

The sword seemed to fly and changed directions at his command. As it made several close calls at the sisters and their boyfriends Draco started to get angry. "Why don't you use your powers already!?"

"We don't have any." said Birdie. "Not anymore!"

"What do mean anymore?" asked Emerald.

The girls then looked at their boyfriends. "Were sorry." said Prisma. "We should have told you from the start."

"Maybe a more direct attack!" Draco said as the made the swords go for at the sisters. But before they could hit the quartet stood between them and got hit by the swords instead.

"What made you do that?!" the other eight said.

"It's all clear now." Cere said to Avery and Diamond.

"We just realized now." Ves said to Katsy and Rubeus.

"That we're meant to be together." said Jun to Prisma and Sapphire.

"Don't worry we'll see each other again." said Palla to Birdie and Emerald.

Then they all said together. "Mom, Dad..." They started to vanish and two streams of light came from them to each one they talked to.

At that moment the remaining eight's foreheads started to glow with different symbols. Avery and Diamonds' was a pink cross that then swept to the side at the top to form a C. Catsy's and Rubeus' was red and shaped like a Stonehenge trilith with curved horns on the top. Prisma's and Sapphire's was a green cross with five lines going from the top straight up and to the upper and lower left and right. Birdie's and Emerald's was a blue cross with a triangle on top. "So your true powers are starting to awaken!" Draco said.

"What true power?" said Birdie.

"Let me tell you a bedtime story. Once upon a time there were four girls from the future Negamoon, only they were never really told where they were really from. You see the most important people there took the appearances of men who were important to the girls though they didn't remember them, so they could use the girls' true powers."

"Negamoon? True Power?" Emerald asked.

"I'm just getting to the good part so pay attention. You see ages before in the Sliver Millennium there was the modest, yet happy Asteroid Kingdom. The rulers of this kingdom had four very beautiful daughters. When they grew up they married four princes promised to them and then each had a daughter of their own. But when the kingdom fell, the families were separated as they were to be reborn. The Princes were sent to Earth in this era, the princesses went to the future Negamoon and their daughters were found by Queen Nehellenia she also saw potential in them as well. Potential that was fulfilled when they gave what was left of their power to their parents so they could fight back against me knowing that in the future they would be born to them again."

At that point they were changed the Sisters found them selves wearing scout uniforms and their boyfriends wearing knight armor. "So we're..."

"The scouts and knights of Ceres, Vesta, Juno and Pallas; the four worlds of the Asteroid kingdom."

They were amazed. "So all this time we weren't who we thought we were." said Avery.

"All that matters now is that were here together now and that we protect each other." said Diamond.

"That is a bit of a problem." said Draco. "For you see I must have those powers!"

They called up their talismans four crystal balls, each one the color of their worlds, and four shields.

"CERES DESERT STORM!" Sailor Ceres caused a sandstorm.

"VESTA VOLCANO ERUPTION!" Sailor Vesta launched a lava attack.

"JUNO BLOSSOM SHOWER!" Sailor Juno spread a number of poisonous flower petals.

"PALLAS CRYSTAL DREAM!" Sailor Pallas threw several shards at Draco.

Draco however leapt up and dodged the attacks. "That was impressive; the others couldn't control their astral powers when they first got them." Draco readied to attack again.

"CERES SAND SHIELD!"

"VESTA LAVA SHIELD!"

"JUNO LEAF SHIELD!"

"PALLAS CRYSTAL SHIELD!"

The knights projected energy from the shields at Draco who avoided them.

"DANCING SWORD!"

As the sword came closer it split up and became nine swords that seriously hurt them. Draco went up to their unconscious bodies and formed four balls of light in his hands. Their bodies vanished as two went to each ball forming a crystal orb with the same color and symbol as each world. "And none of them lived happily ever after."

During the battle the scouts tired to penetrate the barrier after they destroyed the ingots, with no success. "Are you sure that computer isn't broken?" said Sailor Uranus.

"Positive." said Sailor Mercury. "This shield is really the divider to another dimension. I still haven't found a way to break it."

"Looks like we don't have too." said Sailor Jupiter.

The shield fell and they saw Draco holding four crystal orbs. "What did you do to our friends?!" said Sailor Moon.

"You'll find out soon enough. After all the great Draco has never lost a battle."

"You're gonna pay for what you've done to the Mini-Scouts!"

"That was just a warm up and this was only a test." He then vanished.

"Wonder what he meant?" said Sailor Jupiter.

"Whatever it is it can't be good." said Sailor Mars.

Back at the fortress Draco placed the crystal orbs on a table. "So the other scouts and knights powers other than Moon and Earth are the keys to opening the vault."

"Yes." said Merlor. "In the form of crystal orbs. We shall keep the four you just acquired Astra told she will need them later."

After he left the lab Draco thought to himself. I wonder if I'll see them again...

Richforce: Is Merlor really that much closer to releasing Astra? And who is Draco stay tuned for the answers.