Yeah, yeah, everyone knows about how Neptune and Uranus died. No BIG DEAL! Where is the drama in that? Walking across the bridge of fate, and that whole thing about Sailor Moon stepping on her. That hurt.

No the real drama came after that. At least that's how Minako saw it. Of course the goop didn't stick to her hair because it had to be "perfect" but the fact that Sailor Pluto came made her more than a bit worried.

Now, most people would think at this point it was because of trying to find the true messiah and crap like that. Nope! That wasn't Minako's number one concern. It was more along the lines of, "Oh crap, what if she finds out that I used the Time-Space Key to go to the Moon." Minako wasn't sure if Pluto would erase her from all history--she'd read some fan fiction in which the Sailor Soldier could do that. Who knew what her real powers were?

However, despite these set backs, the quest must continue! As Minako pointed out to Artemis, "It's for the good of Sailor Soldiers everywhere." This of course (at the time), only included herself, Usagi, Neptune, Chibimoon (who was spontaneously added to the list), Pluto (but she didn't count since she didn't have a civilian form yet), Ami, Rei and Makoto. Seven people of the whole planet of about 5 billion people... less than the members of Morning Matsume, granted but it was just as important! If they were going to make appearances out in public, they needed to look good. They needed to be popular, they needed to look the best that they could! (Alright, even Minako admitted this was more for herself.)

This is why she thought of the next scheme. She would make Luna and Artemis give her a new pen! They gave them pens in the past. They had to know how to make them and how they worked. It was perfect! She knew it! Artemis had been holding out on her all this time. She didn't know why she didn't see it before.

However, to do this, Minako needed to keep it a secret, she needed to act, well, normal. She would then surprise everyone with a new pen! At this rate she could be smarter than Ami.

But first, it has to be explored how Minako reacted to the Grail before she came to this deep abiding realization.

Minako stared at the Grail as Usagi transformed for the first time and then realized that her best friend in the entire world had gasp One-upped her in the world of fashion. While, yes, she was concerned for her friend, her almighty quest for the Holy hair style minus the rabid rabbits. (Alright she'd seen the Japanese version of Monty Python.) somewhere at the back of her mind when her friend transformed, she realized that if a person's uniform could transform via object, that she herself could transform via object. Of course bringing back Uranus and Neptune was nice too, but that important factor led her to believe that her work wasn't for naught, and in fact she was on the right track.

Didn't anyone else realize that Chibimoon had gotten her pearls with feathers? That was a specific upgrade, which of course led to the meeting at the Fruit Crown Parlor.

Yes, yes, you all saw the concern for the messiah... but there is one thing that Minako asked Usagi.

"I want a hair upgrade!" Minako said sprawling herself over the table barely missing a few inches and grabbing her friend's shirt.

"You can give it to me right? Right?"

Usagi laughed nervously, as Rei and Makoto tried to calm her down. Which is about the time that Minako--from long hours of sleep depravation over this matter broke down--mainly to see if Usagi would do it.

"Minako-chan!"

Ami inched away from Minako nervously, remembering what she'd done on the moon.

"Alright if rabbits can do it and birds can do it, then perseverance will win out."

Ami didn't know what to make of that--if it was a song or a mangled saying.

"I just need Artemis... and Luna.. and Oh, we were talking about the Messiah?" Minako asked.

Rei was thinking something along the lines of, "I wonder if she's the cause of destruction for this planet."

Given this, Minako gathered a little conference with the cats in between her duties as a Sailor Soldier. Lacking sleep, and running on pure obsession as well as left over adrenaline from constant fighting with the Death Busters, she was not the usual calm girl that everyone had come to know and love. In fact, it wouldn't be amiss to say she needed another conk on the head from Pluto's staff.

Since most of what she said was in delusional Japanese, it would be wise to skim over this part and summarize it in the best rational way possible.

Minako grabbed Artemis by the scruff, Luna by the scruff and then shook them violently until she made them promise to get her a new pen before anyone else. This, of course is the mild version of it. Keeping it this way will spare a lot of broken Japanese and English blended in awful and new ways that would make a linguist cry for their mommies.

So the new quest began--at least for Artemis who had been putting up with this behavior for a while and just wanted to end it.

After talking to the Boss and then to Luna, they finally came up with a new henshin pen. The pen looked exactly the same and by the next chapter, (after Minako avoided Setsuna-aka Pluto's civilian form) Minako FINALLY got what she wanted... but as you'll see there was a huge catch... and maybe this was Pluto's revenge for Minako messing around with HER time stream...

This one corresponds to these episodes of SM. You do not need to know these episodes to enjoy the fic. (Minako ignores most of the major events). Death of Uranus and Neptune. Grail's divine power! True Messiah!

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