AN: You will either love this chapter, or wonder what the hell I was thinking. You have been warned. And again I thank my Beta, especially for her speed in getting this back to me this time.

RANMA DARK MOON

CHAPTER SEVEN

DARKNESS FALLS ON JUBAN HIGH

Juban High: after lunch: Ranma's classroom

There was a loud thunderous boom, a bright white flash, and then a swirling hole in reality opened in the middle Ranma's classroom. Now if this has been Furinkan, then nothing would have happened other then the students wondering who was coming to get Ranma, and in what capacity, death or marriage. But as this was Juban High, and they were not used to the so called 'Ranma Effect' yet, it went predictably for any other normal school.

So, as the figures formed from the hole in reality, the students and the teacher were up against the walls of the classroom in fear, those that did not run for their lives, screaming at the tops of their lungs, that is.

All except Ranma. Sighing as she stood, she wondered just who was coming to get her this time, and why, but that was a secondary concern. Then Dark Pluto and Dark Saturn emerged from the hole in reality, and it shut behind them. As they scanned the room, taking note of the, in their minds, worthless peons, they saw their Princess. As they kneeled to Ranma they said as one, "We have come to join you in whatever you chose to do, your Majesty. If you shall decide to go against the Queen, so shall we." They said from their kneeling position, looking at the floor.

Ranma was stunned, and had no clue as to what these two were talking about. 'And why does one of them look so much like Setsuna?' She wondered. "Um, what are you talking about?" Ranma asked.

"Mistress," Dark Pluto began. Ranma twitched with a half forgotten memory. "We were to be sent by your Mother, Queen Serenity, to take you back home, by force if necessary, and decided that it was in yours and ours best interest to, defect, to you and your new allies my Princess. I hope that does not displease you."

As Dark Pluto said that, more memories flooded in. Ranma stomped down ruthlessly on them, but she now fully realized who was kneeling before her. And while she was not displeased with them joining her, their timing left a lot to be desired.

So Ranma shouted, "Well it's great and all you came to join me, but did you have to show up in the middle of my classroom? Couldn't this have waited till after school was over at the least?" she shouted.

"Miss Saotome! Who are these people and how did they appear like that! Answer me right now young lady!" Miss Noiria, after she finally got her spine back, yelled at Ranma, which probably was not the wisest thing to do, seeing as both Dark Pluto and Dark Saturn stood up and said,

"Are you yelling at the Princess?" Then Saturn half turned and asked "Your majesty, should I vaporize her?"

It was then all the Senshi that attend this school in one fashion or another arrived through the window in their Senshi guises. That meant all the Senshi were here except Mars and Saturn, who were still at their respective schools.

The Senshi were shocked and dismayed to not only see The Dark version of Pluto, in all her armored glory, but a Dark and adult version of Saturn, also fully armored. How ever this did not stop them.

"How dare you attack a school! They are place of learning, not battle! In the name of the Moon I shall punish you!" Sailor Moon cried out pointing at them.

Ranma, whom had never heard the battle cry before, and Dark Pluto and Dark Saturn all looked at each other in a shared look that asked, 'Is she for real?' And as the Senshi of this reality leapt off the windowsill to attack the Dark Senshi, the three guessed she must be.

"Hey! Stop! Hey listen to me! STOP IT RIGHT NOW! Ranma cried out. Seeing as they didn't, Ranma then cursed as a combined Dead Scream and Silent Glaive Surprise from the Dark Senshi destroyed not only the classroom they were in, but the entire wing of the school, knocking the Senshi from this reality out of the building.

As the Senshi from this reality got up shakily, and the onlookers ran, the Dark Senshi stalked up to their prey.

"Schools aren't for fighting, are they? Then let's get rid of it then!" Dark Saturn called to the Senshi of this reality. Turning around she called out "Silent Glaive Surprise Doubled!" And swinging her Silence Glaive behind her left to right, then right to left, she did two Silent Glaive Surprises in a row, utterly demolishing the school building. After the destruction, she laughed heartily, and asked, "Now can we fight, weaklings?"

As a collective 'Oh shit!' ran through this realities Senshi's minds or voices, Ranma cursed, and thought, 'Well why not? They already blew my cover. I told them it be impossible to even try to keep my identity a secret anyway.'

And with that, Ranma powered up to her Senshi form in front of everyone, causing gasps from those stupid enough to still be around.

As the crowd gasped, and some of them asked 'Hey who is that? Isn't she the one they named Dark Moon or something similar?' Ranma closed in to stop this fight.

As the others powered up their attacks, Ranma threw one in-between them. Calling out her first voluntary magical powered attack she screamed "Dead Moon Vortex!" causing a funnel-like vortex of pure negative energy to crash into the ground half way between the two groups.

As the paused their attacks, Ranma let the choke hold she had kept on the Fear Flare drop, to show she meant business. It had the add effect of not only causing both sides to freeze in their place, but to send all the innocent bystanders whom were too stupid to flee earlier, into a panicked retreat. As Ranma sighed in the satisfaction of having the Fear Flare lose from it's bindings she called out to both groups of Senshi "I don't care WHO started this mess, I'M finishing it! And Saturn," she cried out, focusing her ire on Saturn "What the hell were you thinking! I go to school there!" She cried out, pointing to the rubble that used to be Juban High. "Or at least I did till you demolished it!" Ranma yelled in furry.

Saturn sank back and said "Um, sorry?"

"I'll deal with you later." Ranma said darkly, then switching her target. "Now for you girls!" Ranma screamed at this realities Senshi. "They were in the middle of defecting to our side when you attacked them! Don't you ever get the whole story before you blindly rush in and attack?" Ranma asked yelling, conveniently forgetting that she had done the same thing many, many, many times over.

"Um, maybe we should take this elsewhere?" Haruka asked.

Ranma looked around, and saw the approaching emergency vehicles and then swore. "Fine! But I'm NOT done with ANY of you yet!" she yelled. Then after getting her Fear Flare back down to, reasonable, levels, not as low as possible, she was too pissed for that, said "Well come on!" and ran off.

Rei's Grandfather's temple: later

After they all arrived at the temple by following Ranma, a thoroughly pissed off Ranma started to chew both sides of the conflict out. She started with this dimension's Senshi.

"Are you nuts!" Ranma yelled. "Why the hell did you just up and attack them?"

"But, she was threatening the teacher!" Usagi countered, pointing at a Dark Saturn who glared back.

"If you had been paying attention, she was asking permission to harm Miss Noiria! Permission which she would not have gotten from me, however much I dislike her. So all this could have been avoided if you had just stopped when I told you too!"

"And you two!" Ranma called out switching her targets, now focusing her anger and frustration on the Dark Senshi "I thought you two would have listened to me at the least when I was shouting for you to stop! But NOOO! Pluto, you had to be overzealous as always, God how can I even remember that, and you Saturn! You just had to go and destroy my new school. you destruction manic! Do you know how hard Setsuna," Ranma said pointing at this realities Setsuna "worked to even get me in there? All that effort gone to waste! It's almost a crime!"

"I'm sorry Mistress, I was only defending my self, and was too caught up in the battle to hear you. Forgive me my Mistress!" Dark Pluto cried, lowering her self into a bow from a sitting position, causing her to stay sitting yet have her forehead touching the floor.

Then Dark Saturn spoke up. "I'm sorry my Princess, you know when I get angry or even exited in any way shape or form, I tend to destroy things. I need to work on that if I'm to stay in this reality, as you need to work on you reactions to certain stimuli too. I was thinking we could, help one another with are respective yet similar problems, if I'm not being to presumptive your Majesty." Dark Saturn said from her own sitting bow.

"No, your not." Ranma said. "I do need a lot of work on some things," Ranma said, finally calming down "And it's a big step for you to admit you need help too. We can help each other I hope. We can try at the least." Ranma told Saturn. "Now stop that both of you, it's embarrassing." She told the bowing Dark Senshi.

As the Dark Senshi sat up, this realities Setsuna asked the Dark Senshi "May I ask you some questions"

"If it's all right with the Princess, sure." Dark Saturn said.

"If my Mistress wishes, then of course." Dark Pluto said causing Ranma's left eye to twitch.

"Why did you decide to defect to your Princess side?" Setsuna asked. Then Dark Pluto went into a long detailed description of why and what had happened to make her defect, and why she included Dark Saturn in on the defection, and why they ultimately felt they could not wait for the defection. When she was explaining her, relationship with the old Princess, one that she hoped to continue with Ranma, Ranma blushed as all of this realities Senshi stared at both of them in shock, followed by a 'Go Ranma!' from Haruka, causing Ranma to look at Haruka with a look that promised a lot of pain and suffering.

Then Dark Saturn told, in much less time, why she defected, and the hopes she had of being more then the lonely weapon of mass destruction that she had been created to be.

Finally Setsuna had to call the meeting off. "Sorry girls, I've got to pick up Hotaru and Kasumi, and check up on the Neko Hanten's progress. Explain what happened to Rei for us ok?" Setsuna asked politely to Usagi, who got the message from an elbow from Ami this time, and said

"Sure thing! Will do. Go, you can go." Usagi said waving her hand. And so Setsuna stood, followed by Haruka, Michiru, Ranma and Dark Setsuna and Dark Hotaru, all going in to their untransformed states, which the Dark Senshi really hated to be in, and in their normal clothes, which, for the Dark Senshi, was still sort of outlandish.

As they reached the temple entrance, they found a huge SUV that could fit everyone that needed to fit in, in it. "Do I even want to know how?" Ranma asked aloud, then deciding that she really did not, she said "No, no I don't." She said sighing and getting in the big SUV.

Tendo house and dojo: a little while after school had ended

Nabiki was alone in the living room watching the afternoon news, waiting for the stock reports, when the incident on the battle at Juban high was aired.

"And this time there seemed to be two Pluto's, one on the enemy's side. And yet again the new Dark Moon transformed on camera." The news caster said, showing Ranma transforming in to her Dark Moon outfit, He continued with "Dark Moon stopped the hostilities between what we believe are two rival versions of the Senshi, however that is possible, and led them off to an unknown location to obviously discus things over. Now seeing as we've caught Dark Moon on tape twice transforming, we are hoping someone out there recognizes her, and is willing to come forward with information about her. A reward of up to one hundred million yen is being offered for information on Dark Moon." The news caster spoke, causing Nabiki to freeze up in shock, then bolt over to the phone, dialing the number given,

As the receptionist answered the phone, Nabiki said "You're looking the life story of Dark Moon? I've got detailed files on her, and you won't believe most of it." She said with visions of her rolling around naked on a bed covered in yen going through her mind.

She then set up a meeting in an hour with the news caster assigned to track the Senshi at the Tendo house. Hanging the phone up she shouted "I'm going to be rich!"

The new Neko Hanten in Juban: three hours later

Setsuna was going over the perments with Cologne, she had promised after business was taken care of, they'd talk about the Dark Senshi. So Cologne was anxious to get the paper work out of the way, so they could talk of things of real importance, when the new that was on the T.V. mounted over the counter showed the Senshi reporter and Nabiki.

Shampoo noticed this and said " Nabiki on T.V. Why?" causing all there to look up at the T.V.

Then the reporter spoke "Earlier in the day, we offered a reward for information concerning the new Dark Moon, and Nabiki Tendo here called us up saying she detailed files on Dark Moon, yet we probably would not believe them. And at first we did not, yet we have checked out Miss Tendo's claims and found them to be one hundred percent true. All information regarding Dark Moon you are about to see and hear are verified facts. And so, we now give you the life of Dark Moon, otherwise know as Ranma Saotome!"

And so, Ranma and the others watched in stunned silence as Ranma's life story was aired on national television. All was revealed by the news station, with Nabiki smiling evilly in the shots of her.

And as the story closed the news caster said "And now I've gotten word that one of our remote units has found the now Miss Saotome, inside a restaurant as of yet unopened, and owned by a former Fiancée's Great Grandmother, the Neko Hanten! They should be set up to talk to Miss Saotome in moments!" The reporter called out, causing all there to move to the window quicker then thought, and there they saw the reporter setting up.

"Oh Shit! What do we do now!" Haruka yelled.

"I don't know." This Realities Setsuna said softy.

"Want me to waste'em?" Dark Hotaru asked.

"No." Ranma said, then she continued with "But I'll keep that option open for Nabiki."

Ami's house: at the same time.

The Inners had been studding at Ami's house when the news cast hit the air. "We've got to get down there, NOW!" Usagi said, transforming into Sailor Moon. "Turning to the others she said what are you waiting for, come on!" and the others all went Senshi too.

Then as they were leaving Moon called out to Mercury "Contact them and let them know were on our way! And tell them to be in their Senshi forms to protect their identities!" Moon yelled; then very un-Moon like, started to curse.

The Neko Hanten: same time

"Michiru got off her communications compact and said "That was Ami, they saw the broadcast and are on their way. She said Moon ordered us to be in our Senshi forms to preserve our identities."

"Why didn't I think of that?" Setsuna asked as the Outers of this reality went Senshi.

Then Ranma said "We'll do the same." And then the Dark Senshi went Senshi. "God I hope Moon has a plan, because I sure don't" Ranma muttered darkly.

All nodded and hoped to any listening Deity that Moon had a plan to get them out of this mess.