Sailor Moon Aeons.
Book 2: Rebirth.
Act 2: Dark Moon Rising.
Episode 35: Good alien, bad alien.

By Razor Knight
Last update: April 10, 2013
Last edited: May 30, 2017

Waking up early had its ups and downs. On the bright side, she wasn't sent to stand in the hallway, but she usually had to wait for her friends to get to the classroom, so she had nothing to do until then. That morning wasn't much different, and Usagi saw only two classmates were there, the Ginga twins.

"Hello, Tsukino."

"Hi." Usagi was surprised, those two weren't quite sociable. "You two seem worried."

Natsumi decided it was a good time as any to drop the bomb. "That's because we don't know if you'll like what we need to tell you."

"What you need to-"

"I'll start by apologizing for hurting your friend yesterday. And for trying to hurt you."

Usagi wasn't a genius like Ami, or even as smart as Terry, but she still could figure out what they meant. She took a step back and stared at the twins in shock. "You two, you are..."

"We're just trying to survive, but we're no warriors. We don't want to cause any deaths, but yesterday that almost..."

Usagi saw the girl was upset. She also knew the two weren't attacking her right now, in fact they seemed quite eager to talk. "It's not me you should be apologizing to," she noted, "but I can't let you drain people like that."

"A few friends of yours told us that your group may be able to find an alternative to that."

"I suppose I could tell Mercury to-"

"Hey, Usagi, finally managed to befriend those two?"

Usagi turned to see Yukiko walking to them, and cringed. "Yuki, they are... Ail and Ann."

Yukiko glared at them, fire and lightning swirling around her hands. "You..."

"Wait!"

She looked at Usagi. "What the heck?"

"They were telling me that they will stop draining humans if we can find an alternative-"

Yukiko calmed down slightly. "Hmph. They should also stop shooting at the good guys."

"Sorry about that, Hokuge," Natsumi said. "It was Seijuro who shot, but it was my plan to attack Moon. We were desperate."

"We don't eat animals and plants, we only need energy to live, but this world's apparently quite empty. The only way to get energy is to drain it from humans."

"I see, you're like vampires?"

"I told you Usagi wouldn't fry them."

Usagi turned to see Emi and Aki walk in. Had Aki just made a comment in Spanish?

Aki smiled at Usagi's surprised face. "Maria's been teaching me, and Emi here's a language freak."

Seijuro looked at Usagi. "We'll give you our address, you can bring your whole group if you want."

"We'll tag along," Emi said, "we already know a few things about them, but we want to hear the rest of the story."

Shade was walking around, trying to find clues on where the Ayakashi came from, but so far she had found nothing. Luna and Artemis had also been searching, but those women were harder to find than they thought. She saw something and stopped for a second. 'That's Chiba's sister.'

Karin saw the cat and frowned. She could see it clearly, a mark on the cat's forehead, a lopsided crescent moon. "What are you, kitty?"

"Meow?"

"I know you're like Sailor Moon's cat, so drop the act."

Shade flinched. This girl could see through the disguise? That meant she could be...

Karin sighed and shook her head. "Come on, I know you guys can speak."

Shade checked the area and saw there were no civilians near them. "Good for you, Karin."

"You know my name?"

"Your brother's a Senshi."

Karin blinked at that. "That explains the way he's acted for the last few months."

Shade smiled, she had to tell the girl something else, and she knew it would surprise her. "However, only magical beings can see through our disguise. Normal humans don't see the mark, and thus dismiss us as normal cats."

"I think I know what you're implying, but... Me, a Senshi?"

"You're not the first one to say that. Follow me."

"Where?"

"To meet your leader."

Only a few of the Senshi went to meet the two aliens, but Usagi was sure even a small group was too much. These aliens didn't seem to be lying, and despite what her friends said, she knew she could trust them.

"That's a big house."

"Not as big as mine, but yeah," Terry commented.

Natsumi and Seijuro smiled as the door opened on its own. "Let's go, we'll show you the Makaijuu."

"Makaijuu?" Mako said, looking at Aki.

"Eh, just a coincidence," Aki muttered.

The group walked around the building for a minute before they reached the large room where the alien tree was. "That's the second largest tree I've ever seen," Kage commented.

Ami was using her visor and her computer to analize the tree. "I see, this tree requires a particular kind of energy. We call it mana. Unfortunately, our planet's mana was capped by an event which happened a long time ago."

"And that's why we can only find mana in living beings," Ann, who had turned into her normal self, guessed.

"That's correct. However, this tree seems to be trying to break through the flooring with its roots, to find the ground. I suppose it's naturally attracted to mana, and once it digs down far enough, it will find plenty of it."

"So all we need to do is move it outside?" Ail asked.

"But this tree's obviously alien, people will notice-" Minako started, then saw the tree had turned into a Sakura tree. "... Disguise magic?"

"We've used it before," Ail said, "and it's the same power that let us become Natsumi and Seijuro."

"As long as you don't drain any civilians, we'll let you stay," Usagi said, "I'll trust you, but don't make me regret it."

"We won't, you're not a soft hitter," Ann joked.

Terry smiled at that. "And she's one 'level' below most of us. Senshi grow stronger the more they fight and train."

Ail stared at Moon in shock. "You're saying she's weak right now? Then we definitely don't want you as our enemies."

"Why are you in this planet, anyways?"

Ann looked at Rei. "We're looking for a place where we can live. Our homeworld is gone, as far as we know we're the only two left, if we die our race dies with us.

Terry's watch started beeping, and he looked at it. "Oh shit."

"What's wrong?"

"Two alien entities, stronger than Cooan and her friend. They're targeting the other Rabbit."

"Yuki's keeping an eye on her," Usagi said, "but if they're stronger than the other two, she'll need our help."

"Change for the party and we'll take you there," Emi said.

"What the heck's this place?"

Shade smiled. "The Senshi's base. But I thought the Senshi would be here."

Luna looked up at Karin. "Mamoru's sister, a Senshi. Can't say I didn't consider it possible."

"... Wait, I've seen you around. You're Usagi's pet."

"I'm also Sailor Moon's guardian."

"Usagi is Sailor Moon? Wow."

"She gets that a lot," Artemis mused. He then looked at Shade. "You found her, so you do the honors."

Shade nodded, and did the usual jumping flip to summon a wand. "Karin, take that wand and search inside your mind, you will find the words you need."

Karin looked at the wand floating in mid-air for a second, then grabbed it. She closed her eyes and focused, and it didn't take long for her to open them. "And to think I used to think Senshi were fake." She stared at her wand for a few more seconds before smiling. "Earth Planet Power!"

The Senshi watched the scene in awe. The two new Ayakashi hadn't surprised their prey, since ChibiUsa was using a handgun to shoot at one of them, while Warwitch kept shooting small fire spikes at the other. Moon wasn't in the mood for playing fair, so she summoned her two weapons. "Double Flight!"

The two women staggered back as the attack hit them, and turned to Moon. "That almost hurt, kid."

"Let's kill them, Petz."

"Sounds fun, Karaberas."

"Dark Thunder!"

Petz produced a whip, lashing out at Karaberas' lightning blast, and absorbing it. "Dark Whip!"

The Senshi were all sent crashing to the ground by the electric wave the whip generated. "What the... Heck?"

"World, stop spinning," Venus muttered.

Moon, Mercury and Saturn staggered up, ready to try again, but someone beat them to it. Petz felt something hitting her side, and turned to Warwitch, who had just hit her. "Go away. Dark Whip."

Karaberas turned to ChibiUsa. "It's time for you to die, rabbit. Dark Thunder!"

Moon's eyes widened as she saw the attack heading straight for the small girl. "No!"

However, the attack never reached its target, as someone else took the hit for her. ChibiUsa looked at Saturn, who was kneeling on the ground, electric arcs still running through her arms and legs. "Are you okay?"

"I'll... Live," Saturn said.

Mercury glared at the two women. "You two, I don't care why you're doing this, you're evil and I'm not letting you do as you please." She summoned her weapons and pointed them straight up, a couple small ice blades appeared on top of them.

"Hey, is she going to melee those two?" Dragon Venus pondered. The rest of the Senshi were trying to stand up, they knew it would be up to them to end the fight if Mercury's stunt failed.

Mercury smiled and pointed her weapons at her foes, the ice 'blades' lighting up with a cyan hue. "Mercury..." She pointed the tonfa downwards, blade-first. "Ice..."

Karaberas was quite shocked. That girl's power was... "Sister, we need to stop her before she-"

Mercury wasn't going to let them stop her. She slammed both tonfa into the ground, and completed her attack phrase "Geiser!"

For a split second, nothing happened, but then an updraft wave of ice, snow and water shot from under the two women, who were sent flying up, bouncing once in the pavement before stopping. "They shouldn't be... This strong," Karaberas said.

"I'm not giving up yet."

"You should, creep."

A couple large energy balls hit the two women as they tried to stand up, knocking them back down. The Senshi looked up to see Ail and Ann floating in mid-air, glaring at the enemy.

Mira saw the women struggling to stand up, and frowned. "They're too stubborn for their own good. Luminiscence."

"Flametongue."

"Bolt Rain."

"Artic Wind."

A wide beam of light, a wave of fire, a rain of small electric sparks and a gust of icy wind all hit the two women, knocking them back down. Petz glared at the heroes, and then both sisters teleported away.

Mira looked at Warwitch. "Your magic's raw and untrained, but it's quite similar to ours."

"Could she be a Hunter?" Moon asked.

"No, we keep track of our numbers, if she was a Demon Hunter, she would have been born in one of our clans, and her powers would have been detected while she was still a toddler."

Saturn was still kneeling on the ground. If not for her healing powers, taking two electric blasts would have knocked her out. "Darn, those two hit really hard."

ChibiUsa hugged her. "Thank you, Saturn."

Saturn smiled at the girl. "I couldn't let them hurt you."

"She's smiling. Should we run?" Circe joked.

Saturn stood up and stared at her with her usual emotionless face. "Don't worry, I don't target weaklings."

"Good one."

Moon sensed something, and summoned her communicator. "Huh? Luna, what's wrong?"

"Nothing wrong, but you should come back to the base as soon as you can."

"Why?"

"It's easier to show you than tell you," Luna said and cut the call.

Calisto saw the Senshi were all looking at them. "Yeah, we know, you need a ride. We should start charging you for this. Mass Teleport!"

Dragon Mercury stared at the 'intruder' in their base. "Damn, just how many Senshi are there?"

"There could be one for each planet, and seeing there's a Sailor Moon and Dragon Sun, then there may be Senshi for satellites and other things, too," Mercury lectured.

"Where's my brother?" the new Senshi said.

"Brother?" Moon asked, then noticed the girl's skirt and bows were grey. "Wait, are you Sailor Earth? Karin?"

"That's me," Earth admitted.

"I could say I found her, but in fact, she found me," Shade admitted.

"As for your question, he said he had to study for an important test," Moon said.

Mercury noticed the Dragon staring at Earth. "Terry..."

Earth blinked at that. "Terry? You mean this guy is-"

Terry turned back to normal. "Guilty as charged."

"Stop staring."

"You're no fun," Terry muttered.

Earth frowned, and in a blink she shot forwards, kicking Terry's chest. Or at least she tried to, as Terry grabbed her leg, lifted her off the ground, and tossed her away in a rather unceremonious way.

"What the heck..." Earth said, staggering up.

"Just so you know, a kick like that used against a normal, unprepared human, could kill them on the spot," Terry said in a rather casual way. "Fortunately, I'm neither normal nor unprepared, and you may think you've got skills, but I can tell you're just a rookie, girl."

Earth was now staring at Terry. "Whoa, what's up with you? You sound... Different."

"He may be a joker most of the time," Mercury noted, "but he's the best melee fighter of our group, and when he's in 'fight' mode, he can sound like a different guy." She looked at Earth and sighed. "But you know, you attacked him outside of Senshi form, that's not fair. Why don't you try attacking me?"

"What's she planning?" Moon said to Terry.

Terry knew exactly what she planned, because he had 'helped' her find out, accidentally. "Watch and learn."

Earth sighed. "Are you serious? Aren't you Mizuno?"

"You shouldn't judge a cook by his brother," Venus said.

"Mina, you're doing that on purpose, aren't you?" Dragon Venus muttered.

"Doing what?"

"Nevermind."

Earth decided to humor Mercury, and went for a punch to her chest. Mercury, however, only reacted by giving a soft grunt, and then grabbed her arm, dragging Earth to her, and hitting her in the stomach with her free hand, causing Earth to stagger back and gasp for air. "Guess we're even."

Earth stared at her. "How can you be that strong?"

"I'm one level above you. It's not just our magic power that goes up with each upgrade we get, our physical power also goes up. But there's another lesson here, one you need to learn if you're going to be one of us. It doesn't matter how harmless or weak an enemy looks, never underestimate them, or you could get hurt, or worse."

"Lesson learnt," Earth said, then walked to Terry. "Sorry for trying to hit you, I guess my fuse is too short."

"No harm done," Terry said.

"... You're staring again."

"You'll get used to it," Mars admitted. "It's annoying at first, but he just looks. If he ever does touch, he'll be an ice cube in seconds."

Mercury smiled at that. "That's quite true."

"You were right," Warwitch said.

"About what?" Mercury asked, then chuckled. "Oh, about that."

"Just think about how we'll be when we get the four or five Sailor Senshi missing," Jupiter noted.

"Maybe there will be a Dragon for each planet too," Dragon Sun commented.

"If that's the case, I'll need to build a bigger base," Terry joked.

The man was obviously upset by his soldiers' last performance. "That was pathetic."

"Rubeus, we-" Petz started.

"No excuses. The Prince needs that girl dead. I'm giving you one more chance, but this time you will all attack together. If you fail again, then I will have to take care of those Senshi personally."

A/N: Yes, I use the old "Mamoru's long-lost sister is Sailor Awesome" plot device. Remove the "long-lost" and "Sailor Awesome" crap, and it's actually a pretty decent plot device, seen it work in fics other than mine... Assuming it does work in mine.

The Senshi will gather slightly faster in this version than they did in Cyber Moon Chronicles. If you are wondering if there will be more Senshi than before, or less, then the answer is... Yes.