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Yes, as I thought it is another short chapter... And once more I claim writer's privilege. Besides, if you all kill me, you won't get tomorrow's update. And you really, really want tomorrow's update. You really, really do. It's five pages long. Five jam-packed pages long...

But for now, I hope you will enjoy... A Different Perspective. Mata ashita! Until tomorrow! - Raya

Moonlit Sakura

Chapter 39 – From a Different Perspective

"What the…?" Vital yelled as alarms echoed through the Crystal Palace. Frantically, he punched commands into the computer. "No! Power is being sucked out of the Palace! I'm losing the beacon!" he yelled to Diana over the din.

"Small Lady…" The small grey cat looked towards the Doors, and then towards Pegasus. The winged unicorn snorted, drug a forehoof across the floor, and nodded deliberately at her. When she shook her head, he snorted again and used his long nose to push her towards the hallway.

"I'd never make it in time," she said stiffly, fighting the urge to run to her friend. "Besides, I have to help you guard the Doors."

"Forget the Doors," Vital said as he looked over his shoulder. His voice was loud in the sudden silence as the energy drain and the alarms ceased as abruptly as they had begun. "She needs help!" He grimaced and then continued. "I can't go. I swore to Pluto I would stay here…" His expression changed from disgruntled to determined. "But you can go. Pegasus!"

At Vital's command and sharp gesture, the winged unicorn reared up slightly and began to glow. Diana's eyes widened as she vanished from the room.

'Ho... How did I know…?' Vital thought in shock. For a brief moment, he stared at the place where Diana had been, and then shook the question away. Quickly, he turned back to the remote for the main computer. 'If I reset the beacon to the Palace and drop the scramble and filters, it'll use less power and I can shut down some of the generators. I can always tell them how to find her!'

He watched the energy display nervously as he set the new beacon and began the power down process for the secondary generator. As the energy level spun down steadily, he began to heave a sigh of relief. He cut it off as another alarm began to ring through the Palace. With a worried frown, he read the alert that appeared in a separate window.

"Temporal and physical distortions… Too small to be the senshi returning…" he muttered as he paused the shutdown process and tried to find a video link to the battleground.

"You are mine now, Princess," he heard an orange haired man say triumphantly when he finally managed to access a satellite feed. He watched as Lady tore her eyes from an unconscious Diana, and stared at the man. The fear on her face slowly transformed into a look of determination.

Her enemy paused as if mesmerized by the transformation, and watched as she slowly reached up and pulled a jeweled pendant out of her top. "A focus stone? How quaint," he quipped looking a little uneasy.

Vital felt his stomach tighten and begin to roll with uneasiness as he studied Lady's expression and the stone that she held. He knew somehow that it was not a good sign that she had pulled it out. Belatedly, he realized that he didn't see any of her friends in the picture.

Slowly, Lady raised the stone in front of her and concentrated. The ground around her feet began to glow, and her eyes widened in shock as white power streamed towards her from all around her. A pink light rose up and surrounded her, and then faded into her skin.

Vital gasped when he saw the ethereally beautiful young woman who had taken her place. Princess Lady Serenity had a far away look in her eyes as she let the stone fall back to its place over her heart. "A beacon," she said softly as she focused on her adversary once more.

"Beacon? For what?" he asked curiously. Vital jumped and turned his attention quickly back to the new beacon he had made. It continued to beam calmly and steadily into the surrounding subspace. He heard the man continue in a snide voice. "All of your protectors are gone. There is no one to guide. Even your cat is out."

"You will not win," she said resolutely as Vital turned his attention back to the scene. She reached out with her right hand and grasped a scepter that appeared in front of her.

He laughed coldly as she raised it defensively. "They're dead, Princess," he said sneering the last word with obvious hatred. "All of them. Who will protect you now?"

"They're not dead,' Princess Lady replied firmly. "I will find them and bring them back. And then…"

With a wave of a dark wooden wand, the man cut her off. A dark, ugly black light flew out of the wand towards her, but she blocked it with her scepter. She winced in pain, but managed to hold it steady. As he threw another attack at her, she narrowed her eyes.

Vital jumped again as alarms began to echo through the Palace again. As he turned his attention quickly to the beacon once more, he caught a flash of light out of the corner of his eye. "Moon… Power…" he heard the princess say softly.

"Another energy drain?" Vital said in surprise. "Wait, it's Maiden who's draining the power?" As quickly as he realized this, he began turning off all non-essential power sources, and powering up the generators as much as they would go.

A new alarm began to wail, making Pegasus neigh and dance around flapping his wings in protest. As he stared in amazement at the size and strength of the new temporal distortion, Vital barely heard the princess' next words. "Pink… Moon… Pow…"

Vital stumbled as Pegasus shoved him roughly from behind. He fought to regain his footing, and then looked around the noisy hall. Seeing nothing, he looked towards Pegasus and cocked an eyebrow. "What was that for?" he asked warily, waiting for his partner to show him where the new enemy was.

Pegasus danced and neighed once again, flapping his wings forward as he flung his head back in an attempt to cover his ears.

"Oh, it's too noisy? Sorry." Vital relaxed slightly, turned back to the remote for the main computer, and began to acknowledge as many alarms as he could. "Oh come on. There has to be a mute button or a bypass in here somewhere," he muttered. Finally, silence filled the room.

As he turned his attention back to the monitor, he frowned in confusion. By the size and strength of the temporal distortion, he had expected to see a large number of senshi filling the shrine area. Instead, all he saw was an angel, a strange half-gryphon, a girl with large bat wings, two normal looking young women, and a normal looking young man.