Author's notes: This is the prologue is for a line of SM fics that will come to be known as Sailor Moon: 2nd Generation or simply "2nd Gen". It is based off of the alternate universe established by AngelDellaNotte and utilizes her character sets from "It Takes Two" and "Shared Destiny" as well as "Future Senshi" even though the latter will be considered an offshoot as everything was resolved after its conclusion. This series will largely center on the children of the Senshi and there eventual ascension to the roles of their parents as the guardians and protectors of the crowned queen of the moon kingdom.

This series is co-written by AngelDellaNotte and Ultima-Matrixed and will be under a joint name of Angelic-Ultimus. As there isn't much action with the elder Senshi, it allows us to be freer with the characters as they are personal creations. So the standard disclaimer applies when interacting with the original characters, but anything outside of that is reserved by us and we won't take kindly to unpermittied renditions of the 2nd gen characters.

With that said …

"Oh My!" was all Setsuna could say as the thin plastic stick clattered to the floor with a little pink plus sign on it. She had feared this since she had missed her period last month. And there was no denying it now she was pregnant this was the second test to come back positive.

"I'm pregnant? I didn't even think that was possible! I'm the guardian of time I'm not supposed to get pregnant!" she protested to herself and tried to gather her thoughts this couldn't be happening. She had made love before and never gotten pregnant in fact she had done it many times over the eras. Why did it have to be now? Michiru was pregnant with the twins and she was needed for that. Michi could pop any day now though it was good that Haruka was back about her senses because she was needed.

"Wonderful! Michiru's about to give birth and I go and get knocked up! I have to tell Taiki about this. Kami-sama what he going to say about this?" She thought as the Starlight was the last one she well, you know. She walked out of the bath room with the test in her pocket and went off to find him. Hotaru met her along the way."

"Where you going Setsuna-mama?" she asked holding drawing in her hands and looking up at her other mother.

"I have to go take care of something important. You be good for Haruka-papa and Michiru-mama." She said walking over to the coat rack and grabbing her long jacket. Pulling her long dark green locks from behind the jacket she walked out the door leaving Hotaru confused and a bit annoyed because she wanted to show off the drawing she had made at school. But Hotaru ran off into the house after watching Setsuna pull out of the driveway and speed away.

She ran into the house seeing Haruka standing at the counter pouring herself some sake into a coffee cup so Michiru wouldn't know. But she needed it to calm her nerves the twins could be born at any time and she wasn't sure who was more nervous herself or Michiru the actual mother to be.

"Haruka-papa! Haruka-papa!" Hotaru said running with her arms open. Haruka quickly corked the sake and dropped to her knees before Hotaru got there. There were some benefits to being the Senshi of the wind. She caught Hotaru and picked her up.

"What's up Hime-chan? You lucky Michiru-mama didn't see you or she would have scolded you for running inside." Haruka said about as sternly as she could. But Hotaru knew papa was a pushover.

"Your being bad too Haruka-papa! You know you're not supposed to drink the happy water!" Hotaru exclaimed. She called it 'happy water' because whenever somebody drank it they became happy. Haruka had been digging into the sake to deal with how irritable Michiru was being and to calm her own nerves.

"Yeah, I am. But I won't tell on you if you don't tell on me, okay Hime-chan?" Haruka said giving her a wink. She had been bringing home treats and slipping them to Hotaru without Michiru or Setsuna's knowledge. They were starting to question why Hotaru was so wound up in the late afternoon and why she was hardly touching her supper.

"Ooo, Setsuna-mama just left and she looked really worried about something." Hotaru chimed; this really caught Haruka's attention because the Senshi of time was usually ice cold and calm never really showing her emotions. At times with her it was like you were talking to a stone wall.

"Did she say what?" Haruka said sounding concerned.

"No, just that she had to take care of something important"." Hotaru said wiggling letting Haruka know she wanted down and Haruka set her down. She ran off leaving Haruka in thought

"Haruka! Are you out there! Hun, bring me something sweet!" Michiru bellowed which caused Haruka to kick back the coffee cup full of sake and grab a bag of cookies off of the top of the refrigerator as she went back into the depths of hell, every day was like a game of roulette with her wife she had good days and day unfortunately for Haruka today was a bad day.

"Coming Love!" she yelled.

Setsuna pulled into the lot of a large lavish apartment building that housed the Starlights; Taiki lived with the rest of the starlights in a large penthouse suite. She parked her car and turned on its alarm. She made her way up to the top floor of the suite. After getting off the elevator she knocked on the large door. The door opened to reveal Seiya not looking very happy standing in just a pair of boxers with little bunnies on them.

"Why are you here? Is there a new enemy or something?" he said scratching himself.

"I'm here to see Taiki, so out of my way pretty boy!" she said shoving the door and Seiya out of her way. Setsuna was really not in the mood to deal with any kind of irritation especially from the childish Seiya. She walked into the room and found Taiki zoned out in front of the TV in his boxers with a pizza on his lap. He was so into the program he hadn't even noticed Setsuna enter the room.

"Now just a minute! We don't come pushing our way into the manor!" Seiya said walking back in the room.

"That's only 'cause your scared shitless of Haruka and have to get permission before going in." Setsuna responded the turned after hearing screaming coming from the TV set at first she thought it was a horror movie that Taiki was watching. But she looked at the screen and realized what it was. "You're watching porn? Well it's your life but you won't watch that shit while I'm around!" she said pushing the TV over onto the floor causing it to spark and burnout.

"Hey! What gives! What the fu-- Oh! Hi Setsuna, what are you doing here?" Taiki asked grabbing his robe from the back of the couch quickly putting it on.

"We need to talk Taiki, in private." She said eyeing Seiya.

"Ok, sure. Let's go out on the balcony." Taiki said tying his robe off and walking over to the sliding door. Sliding it open, he and Setsuna stepped out onto the large balcony after which he shut the door.

"What's up Setsuna?" he said stepping up in front of her trying to run his fingers through her hair but she knocked his hand away from her head.

"Keep your paws off of me! That's what brought this trouble in the first place." She said her face going flush as she lost any control over her emotions that she had left.

"Whoa, what's wrong with you?" he asked.

"Taiki, remember the last time we, well, you know." Setsuna said trailing off.

"How could I forget? That's the best fu—" he started to say but never got to finish before she slapped him across the face.

"You will not talk about it like that when I'm around. You know how I feel about that shit." She said dropping her hand. Setsuna had never really liked it when he talked dirty and even more so today.

"Setsuna, I didn't mean to be dirty. I'm sorry." Taiki said rubbing his face and looking into the ruby eyes of the Guardian of Time seeing something was really bothering her. "So what about it?"

"Taiki, I'm pregnant." She said flatly and with tears in her eyes.

"How, how did this happen! Well I know how it could but… We've made love before and it's never happened. Many times in different lifetimes." Taiki said still trying to digest it Setsuna was pregnant… Setsuna was pregnant with his child. "I didn't even know the Guardian of Time could get pregnant."

"I don't know how, but I do know that no one can know about it right now." She said.

"That's right! If anybody knew that one of the starlights knocked up a girl we would get bad PR and –"He was caught off guard by another slap this time a full out backhand.

"I didn't mean about that you fucking baka. I meant there has never been a child between senshi from different systems. I don't know how this will change things but I will be having this child. Just we have to figure out a way to keep it from everyone until I can figure it out." She said

"Look, I'll get in contact with the homeworld tomorrow and see if I can't work something out. I'm sure our princess will be happy to give you space and the facilities to have the child." He said rubbing his face yet again.

"I'm more worried about how I'm going to keep it from my people. I can make up an excuse to Haruka and Michiru but it's going to be really difficult to keep it from the queen." Setsuna said.

"That's your problem. If I got involved outwardly it would only cause suspicion. But I'll get you a place to go to have the baby. And, I'm happy that I'm going to be a father. And I'll try to be a good one." Taiki said hugging Setsuna, who just broke down crying into his shoulder.

"I'm scared Taiki, I can allways see things coming and I didn't see this. It's not a bad thing but damn, am I loosing it?" she asked him and he smiled gently running a hand through her hair.

"Setsuna, you sould just focus completely on being a mommy for now." Taiki said kissing her on the forehead.

Unknown to either of them Seiya walked out of the kitchen a beer in hand and glanced out to the balcony seeing Setsuna crying into Taiki's shoulder. Today was two firsts for him the first time he had ever seen Setsuna loose her cool and the first time he ever saw her cry. Whatever it was that upset her obviously had something to do with Taiki but what?

A few days later …

"There's a reason why I asked you guys to sit down for a minute." Setsuna said to Haruka and Michiru who were each holding a baby as Hotaru sat between them playing the little blonde child in Michiru's lap.

"What's wrong Setsuna?" Haruka asked.

"I have to go back to the time gates for a while." Setsuna said lying.

"Why? Is there a new enemy? And so soon after I had the twins …" Michiru said in a concerned but not surprised tone.

"No, no, there's no enemy. I just have to go back and take care of some things. I am still the Guardian of Time you know." Setsuna said evading Michiru's question.

"Are you okay Setsuna-mama? You look sad." Hotaru asked looking up from her little sister to her other mother.

"I'm …" Setsuna never got to finish before Haruka cut her off.

"Setsuna-mama is gonna be fine Hime-chan, why don't you go outside and play for a while? I'll take you to get ice cream in a bit like I promised." Haruka said

"On the bike?" Hotaru asked excitedly.

"You bet!" Haruka said and sent Hotaru on her way.

"What's really going on Setsuna?" Haruka said having a fairly good hunch that Setsuna wasn't telling all she should be.

"Nothing's going on Haruka; I just have to go watch the gates for awhile." Setsuna said still evading her friends' questions.

"Have you spoken with the Queen?" Michiru asked.

"Yes, I spoke to her earlier today and she has said I should go." Setsuna responded. Usagi did say she sould go but only after Setsuna told her she 'sensed' something. The young queen was not one to question her most wise advisor so she agreed with her.

"All right, if the queen says it was ok then I'm not going to stop you." Haruka said.

"Haruka! We don't even know what's going on yet!" Michiru said concerned.

"It's not our place to question Michi, if Setsuna doesn't want to tell us then it's probably for our own good. You know how she keeps secrets." Haruka said looking at Setsuna with her 'I don't know now but I'll find out what you're up to' looks.

Apparently Haruka got the importance of being kept in the dark. But after she came back neither of them would let her live in peace until she told them which was ok because she would know better by then what was going on.

"Alright, I'll buy it for now but you'll have to answer for it sooner or later." Michiru said getting up and leaving the living room. Haruka then walked up to Setsuna with Haruko in her arms in whispered in her ear.

"We are your friends Setsuna. We have fought together and lived and died together. If you can't tell us what's going on that's fine. But remember we are allways here for you. And it upsets Michi greatly that you wont tell us but she'll get over it and I respect your privacy. Don't forget a single word." Haruka said turning and walking away.

Setsuna looked at Haruka's back and smiled lightly.

"Don't worry; you guys will know when it's time. You'll understand too." She said turning to go back to her room to pack.

Setsuna arrived at Taiki's with a small bag realizing that in a short time most of her clothing whould not fit in a very short time.

"Are you ready Setsuna?" Taiki asked.

"About as ready as I'll ever be." Setsuna said as she took out her henshin and Taiki followed and took out his.

"Pluto Crystal Power!"

"Star Maker Crystal Power!"

"MAKE UP!"

They both transformed and intertwined arms and then faded into the warm breeze.

To Be Continued…