Rei, Serena, Ami, Lita, and Mina returned to the temple to see what they could learn about what had happened. Who were the two people in Virginia that had died when she broke the orb? How did Andi know them? What was their connection to this whole situation? But as they neared it, they saw Chris standing at the door waiting for someone to let him in.

They were all surprised to see Chris without Fred or Paula, but as they got closer, they could see his troubled expression. What was wrong with him? And why was he here? And why was it more and more questions were popping up, and never any answers?

They came up to him and Rei tapped him on the shoulder. He seemed to jump nearly out of his skin and nearly cried out at her touch as he spun to face the five girls. Immense relief washed over his expression when he saw who it was. "Oh, it's you," he said, trying to catch his breath. "What are you all doing here?"

"Uh. . . I live here, remember?" said Rei, "Something I can do for you?"

"Oh right. . . Yeah, I need to talk to Andi right away. It's really important."

"She's not feeling well today. Do you think you could come back tom—"

"No!" he said with surprising forcefulness. "I need to see her now!"

"I'm sorry," Rei snapped, "but you can't—" then something in his eyes made her stop. Perhaps it was the dread, or the urgency, or the regret. . . or perhaps a combination of all three. But the feeling of sincerity she received from him far overpowered any evil she could ever sense. "Come inside."

Chris went inside after Rei, and the other girls followed behind them. She showed him Andi's door, and at first he didn't even bother to knock. He soon found, however, that the door was still locked, and raised his hand and gave three loud bangs on the door. Rei had to grab his wrist to calm him down before he put his fist through the wood.

"Wh. . . who's there?" came Andi's voice from inside after a long moment, shaky and muffled by sobbing.

Chris took a deep breath and then said more gently, "It's Chris. I need to talk to you."

"P. . . Please just leave me alone. I...I don't want to talk to anyone right now."

"Andi," Rei commanded, "open the door!"

Then her voice took on an angry tone. "Go away! I said I don't want to talk!"

"Please, Andi!" Chris stepped forward, gesturing for Rei not to get involved, and she grudgingly stepped back. "Listen, I know you're upset and you're not feeling well, but this is a matter of life and death! You have to listen to me!"

The girls all looked at each other, stunned. Life and death?! He had looked worried, but they had no idea it was quite that serious! A long silence passed. The air was so tense that any one of them could have cut it with a knife. They all watched the door. . . waiting. . .

After what seemed like forever, they heard the "click" of the door unlocking, and Chris turned to them and said "Thanks, but this has to be a private discussion." He watched them leave the room, and then opened the door and disappeared inside. As soon as they heard the door close behind him, they returned and stood next to the door, listening in on what was being said.

"Alright," they heard Andi's voice come from inside, "what's so important that you thought you could just walk in here without knocking first?" She was not her usual self at all. Whoever it was that had died the night before had to have been very important to her.

"Andi. . . " they heard him say, obviously trying to keep his voice low, "I know your secret."

"What secret? What are you talking about?" but her voice suggested she knew exactly what he meant.

"Antares, please, there's no time for games. You've been deceived and you're in a great deal of danger."

"Deceived? By who? About what?"

"The other night in the street. . . That whole thing was a set-up intended to turn you and the Sailor Scouts against each other. You thought that the Scouts had sent the youmas that you had fought off before because there was no one else there, and they thought that you had drained everyone's energy for the same reason. And when Sailor Mars lost her temper and attacked, the plan had succeeded. That was what was intended. That you would mistake each other for the enemy."

"But Chris. . . Who set it up then? If it wasn't the scouts, then who sent the youmas?"

Although they could not see it, they could somehow tell that Chris hung his head as he spoke at that point. "I did. Along with Fred and Paula."

Andi sounded shocked. "But. . . Chris, why? Why do you want me to fight the Sailor Scouts?"

"Look, Andi, we're not who you think we are. We're not Paula Fred and Chris. My name is General Chrysolite, and Fred and Paula are really Prince Feldspar and Lady Pyroxene. We're from the Negaverse, and we were sent by Feldspar and Pyroxene's mother, Queen Mica, to do this. The plan was that you would fight the Sailor Scouts and kill them, and then while you were still weak from the battle, we would. . . We would kill you too."

The scouts outside all sucked in a sharp breath of air at what they had just heard. All that time they'd had the complete wrong idea! But then. . . Why did she have an energy orb? And why did she wake up screaming bloody murder when it shattered?

"So. . . " said Andi after a long pause during which she absorbed all that information, "what about the orb? How did that fall into all of this?"

"Well, we weren't expecting you to take it after you battled that first monster back in Richmond, but we figured that as long as you had it, we could use it to our advantage. Feldspar can control the energy orbs, and he was hiding out in an alley and he was the one who made it take Sailor Mars's energy."

"But what about what happened when it broke? Why did it hurt me, and kill Justin and Kirk?"

"Well, as for you, when you carry the orb, it binds itself to you. It's energy fuses with your own, and when it was shattered, you felt like you, in effect, were shattering too. If you had been holding it much longer, you would have been killed when it broke. The boys, well. . . their energy was inside the orb, but when it's released, it doesn't return to them. In fact, anyone whose energy is in the orb when it shatters is drained of the same amount all over again."

Rei gasped and whispered "That's why I felt so weak afterward!"

"Since they had a great deal of energy taken from them, the new drain was enough to kill them."

For well over a full minute, no one spoke. Finally, Andi's voice was heard again. "Chrysolite. . . why are you telling me all this?"

"I'm not sure," they heard his footsteps moving toward the door and scrambled to get away from it. They ducked out of sight just as it opened, and they heard him say, "I guess it's because. . . I really like you, Andi. But don't tell anyone what I told you or I'm as good as dead. And. . . be careful. I have to go." And without another word, he hurried out of the temple, brushing past Paula and Fred as he went.