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Night fell and the trio returned to the palace. Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Kamen both retired to their assigned rooms. After de-transforming, Usagi collapsed onto her bed. She sighed. "What am I going to do?" She knew that it was impossible for her to grow gills overnight—heck, at all; yet she agreed to the terms set by Posimas!

Usagi was pulled from her thoughts thanks to a knock on the door. "Who is it?" she called.

"It's me," Tuxedo Kamen called back. "Open up."

Usagi mumbled a curse and scrambled out of her bed. She grabbed her brooch that was previously placed on her nightstand, and whispered her transformation phrase. After the bright light of her transformation faded, she walked to the door and opened it. "What is it?"

"We need to find something."

Sailor Moon frowned. "What are you talking about?"

"We won't be able to breath underwater. I know. You know. And there's no way we're letting Posimas go to Poseidon's Palace on her own."

The blonde shrugged. "You're right. But what can we do?"

"We need a submarine."

She shook her head. "And you lost me. Tuxedo Kamen, these people have the ability to breathe underwater. Why would they need a submarine when they can swim?"

"Why do we need cars when we can walk?"

Sailor Moon paused. "Touché." She crossed her arms. "Let's say I go along with this little search party of yours. What makes you think the submarine is somewhere in the palace?"

Tuxedo Kamen shrugged. "It couldn't hurt to try, right?"

The blonde smiled. "Okay. You've won me over. Let's go." After grabbing her map from off of the dresser, the heroine stepped out of the room and began to close the door behind her.

Just as it was about to slam shut, Tuxedo Kamen caught it. "We have to be quiet. We can't have any of the staff catch us. If we're caught, we'd never get a chance to find the sub." Moon gave a silent nod and Tuxedo Kamen gently closed the door.

"According to the map, the restricted rooms of the castle are…this way," Sailor Moon pointed to the left. She led them down the hall. "Come on."

Sailor Moon led the way and Tuxedo Kamen followed closely behind. The couple managed to make it the door of the restricted rooms of the palace without much difficult and without being seen. There was a digital lock on the door. "It's locked," Sailor Moon sighed. "Now what?"

"I figured as much," Tuxedo Kamen mumbled. "Step back. I'll try to pick the lock."

The blonde shrugged and obeyed his request. He went to work, trying to locate wires and figure out the pin number before anyone strayed down the hall.

Five fruitless minutes passed and Sailor Moon let out a sigh. She was getting tired of waiting and felt as if it was time to give up for the night. "Tuxedo Kamen, maybe we should call it a night and start again in the morning."

The masked hero shook his head. "I'm almost through! I know it! Ten more minute, okay, Sailor Moon?"

Sailor Moon rolled her eyes. He was lucky he was so cute. If she didn't have a small crush on him, he would have been left a long time ago. "Ten more minutes." She leaned against the wall. She frowned, feeling as if a part of the wall had collapse beneath her weight. She knew she was a bit heavier here but the wall collapsing? This was ridiculous! She turned to see what was going on to see that a cinderblock of the wall had indeed been pushed in. Her frown deepened. What going on here?

"Tuxedo Kamen," Sailor Moon stepped just as the floor before opened up. Her eyes widened and she let out a scream before falling through. Several loud crashes could be heard before the blonde muttered a barely audible, "Ow…"

Tuxedo Kamen turned from his work and peered down the dark passage. "Sailor Moon, are you okay?"

Sailor Moon whined, "I landed on my butt! It huuuuuurts!"

"I'm coming down to get you!" Tuxedo Kamen announced. He carefully moved around the hole, trying his best not to activate anymore trapdoors.

He cautiously placed a foot in the hole, trying to feel for stairs. He smiled when he found a stable ground. Tuxedo Kamen slowly and carefully made his way down the hole. "Sailor Moon," he called for her. "Where are you? I can't see a thing!"

"Here," Sailor Moon whimpered pathetically. "I'm here."

Tuxedo Kamen felt his way through the dark hole until he found her. "Come on," he took her hand in his and lifted her to her feet.

"Where are we?" she asked. "And who puts a trapdoor in the middle of the hall?"

Tuxedo Kamen couldn't answer either of her questions. "Let's try to find a light switch." Keeping their hands locked, they used their free ones to blindly search. "I think this is it," the dark-haired man said aloud. He flipped the switch and the room they were in immediately lit.

Sailor Moon's eyes widened. They were in a warehouse of vehicles! What were the chances that her clumsiness would finally pay off? "Okay," she smiled. "I'm kind of awesome."

Tuxedo Kamen chuckled. "That you are, Sailor Moon. Let's see what submarines they have to offer."

The couple walked through the aisle of submarines, both feeling like children at a candy shop. "How about that one?" The blonde pointed to a small light blue submarine with pink dolphins painted on.

"How about not," Tuxedo Kamen looked at the sub in disgust.

Sailor Moon gaped. "And why not? It's adorable!"

"It's…childish."

"It's obviously Posimas's submarine," Sailor Moon said with a roll of her eyes, "which means we are likely to use that one compared to the king's submarine. Besides, it's not like someone from home are going to see you in it, Mr. Too-Good-To-Be-In-A-Submarine-With-Pink-Dolphins-Painted-On-It."

Tuxedo Kamen raised an eyebrow. "That nickname is kind of lengthy, isn't it?"

"You're missing the point. Let's go inside."

Sailor Moon started off, only to be caught by her arm courtesy of Tuxedo Kamen. "Oh, no, no, no. That has bad idea written all over it."

"Come on, Tuxedo Kamen," Sailor Moon crossed her arms. "You're the one that suggested we go submarine hunting. You can't say you want to give up now!"

It was Tuxedo Kamen's turn to roll his eyes. "Fine."

Sailor Moon let out a squeal and ran to the submarine. She quietly searched for a button to open the vehicle and when she found nothing, she step back and said, "Open sesame."

The submarine came to life and the doors parted. Tuxedo Kamen looked to the blonde with widened eyes. "How did you know?"

The girl grinned. "Nothing else has made sense in the last few days. Magic words just seemed to fit." Tuxedo Kamen shrugged. Sailor Moon climbed into the ship with Tuxedo Kamen following close behind. The heroine looked around excitedly. "This is my first time inside a submarine. Look at all the buttons!"

"Yeah, it's great," Tuxedo Kamen mumbled. "Can we go now? I feel like we're breaking in."

"We have to figure out the controls if we want to be able to drive this thing tomorrow, right? Lighten up, Tuxedo Kamen! You know, I wonder why Posimas never told us about this. Do you think she didn't want us to go with her to Poseidon's castle?"

"Gee, I don't know," Tuxedo Kamen said quickly, desperate to find a way to get Usagi to leave. "Here's an idea: let's go ask her." He grabbed her hand and started to the exit.

"No, I don't want to leave yet!" She pulled back. Tuxedo Kamen lost grip of her, causing her to fall into one the buttons. Her eyes widened. "Oh no."

An alarm began to sound and the motor of the vehicle started. "We have to get out of here!" Tuxedo Kamen took Sailor Moon's hand again, this time without resistance, and the two dashed out of the submarine.

Once they were at a safe distance, the couple turned around and watched in horror as the submarine rushed forward, crashing into one in the opposite side of the aisle. "I'll pay for it," Sailor Moon sighed in defeat.

"Do you have ten million dollars?"

Sailor Moon glanced at Tuxedo Kamen and crossed her arms. "Shame on you for crashing the ship."

"Me?! Wh—."

"What is going here?" the heroes heard a panicked voice behind them.

They turned to see the queen wearing a face of shock. Sailor Moon chuckled nervously and played with her hair. "It's a long story but there was a bit of an accident…"

The queen didn't look amused. "I want an extremely good explanation or you're both going to jail for destruction of royal property."

The heroes exchanged glances. Hopefully preventing her daughter from being kidnapped and reinstating Poseidon as god of the sea was considered a good reason…


"You believe Tuxedo Kamen kidnapped Usagi?" Rei asked for verification. She was currently in her room, talking on her communicator to Luna, Artemis, and Minako.

Minako shook her head. "I don't know, Luna," she mumbled. "Something about that just doesn't sound right. He usually saves her. Why would he randomly kidnap her?"

"The crystals," Rei pointed out. "He knows Sailor Moon has the ones that the Sailor Senshi collected."

"That would be a good reason for kidnap," Luna said. "But I can't find him either. With an exception of you two, there is no sign of anyone with senshi magic in Tokyo."

"He could have easily covered his magical trace, like we can," Rei suggested.

"It still doesn't sound right," Minako insisted. "Were there any witnesses to the attack? Maybe one of them knows what happened."

"Witnesses…?" Luna said more to herself. Why hadn't she thought to check with witnesses? "I have to check that out. I'll call you two back in fifteen minutes—hopefully with some news."

The communicators shut down and the two kittens immediately ran to the super computer. "Typing in the date," Luna mumbled.

"The time is submitted as well," Artemis said.

"And so is the location."

The cats watched as the attack unfolded. The video ended once the water tentacles were defeated by Sailor Moon. Artemis rewinded the video and paused it. "Look, Luna," he said. "Minako-chan was right. Tuxedo Kamen wasn't even on the scene when the youma was defeated."

Luna nodded. "There someone was. Look, the little boy that Usagi-chan saved, he was still on the beach."

"Do you think he knows something?"

Luna nodded again. "He's our only lead. He has to."


And that's the chapter! As for the poll, submarine then mermaid won! That's going to be so much fun to write! I'm so excited!

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