Sailor Moon Aeons.
Book 2: Rebirth.
Act 9: Fantastic Voyage.
Episode 130: Home sweet... Wait, what?

By Razor Knight
Last update: March 4, 2017
Last edited: June 16, 2017

Next few realities were, while weird, not as threatening for our two travelers. However, they were both tired of not reaching their goal.

And then, they found themselves in Tokyo again. However, they weren't able to access their magic, which was quite worrying. And their teleporters were charging very slowly, which was much more worrying.

So they could either stay in one place and wait, or explore. The choice wasn't tough at all for the two Mercuries.

And it didn't take them too long to find that reality's version of their friends. Mako and Naru, at least, but they looked young. Fifteen, at most. The two Mercuries decided to listen to their conversation before deciding if revealing themselves would be a good idea.

"I swear, Lita, you should stop comparing everyone to that jerk."

"But Ned Phryte totally looks like my ex, Molly!"

"Lita, Molly?" Ami muttered.

"I though Wisp and Moonshine were silly names. I stand corrected."

"You think Amy will ever tell Kazuo-"

"Nah, she's too busy with her books, and he's too busy, well, you know."

"I feel sorry for him."

"Kazuo?" Terry muttered. "Why, multiverse, why?"

"It's not that bad," Ami said. "I kind of like it."

"So...?"

Ami nodded, she had been scanning the two girls for a minute. "No magic abilities, but I can't be sure if they're fighters or not until-"

As if on cue, the walls of a nearby bank exploded outwards, and a group of masked men walked through the debris, carrying quite large, heavy-looking bags.

"Darn it, Molly, it's the Dragon Gang again."

"Won't those guys ever give up?"

"Dragon Gang?" Terry noted. "I fear asking."

"Mamoru, Yuichiro, Shingo... Even you are there."

Mako and Naru, sorry, I mean 'Lita' and 'Molly,' walked into a nearby alley. Seconds later, they walked out, wearing form-fitting black spandex suits, with black domino masks being the only real disguise for their identities.

What followed was quite silly. The two heroines blocked the burglars, paths, striking a few silly poses before going on about justice and punishment and so on. Ami cringed at that. Did they look that silly back whem they did that? They probably did.

One relatively short fight later, the gang was defeated, and took off running. The heroines, instead of chasing after them, stood there, arms crossed.

"What the heck. They let those guys go?"

"Can't have more episodes if the villains get caught," Ami said as the two girls left the scene.

"... Oh, right. This is basically a mediocre superhero show."

"Yeah, that's..." Ami stopped as she saw Naru walk by, happily chatting with Umino. They both seemed oblivious to the fact they had been trying to punch each other out minutes earlier. "... Uh, okay. That makes a lot of sense, right?"

"Wow. So they date their enemies without ever realizing who they are? Who would watch this?"

"That kind of things seem to be popular, no idea why."

"Okay, we're ready to jump, fortunately. I'd rather go have a fist fight with Great Mazinger than stay in this place for one more minute."

"Let's go, Kazuo," Ami joked.

"Shush, you."

Their next stop would have looked like Tokyo, if not for every building being a skyscrapper. "Where the heck did we land now?"

Ami was about to answer, when someone leapt right through the door of a jewelry store. The man looked like Zoicite, except his hair was green, his face was a pale white, and he had a somehow creepy grin on his face. "Oh no, not this," Ami muttered.

"Eek, it's the Zoiker!" A girl who looked a lot like Yukiko screeched.

A girl wearing a black suit with a dark cape and a black helm-like mask with pointy ears said. The girl's long, blonde hair flowed out of the back of the back of the mask. "Stop it right there, Zoiker!"

"Yay, it's Batmoon!" Yukiko shouted.

Ami cringed. "Can we leave yet?"

"Just one minute more."

Batmoon was suddenly hit by a laser, and knocked away. The attacker was a bald Nephrite who laughed evily as Batmoon staggered up, and aimed at her again with a pseudo-futuristic rifle. "Give up, bat brain!"

"Eek! It's Neph Luthor!"

"Are we ready yet?"

Terry groaned. "Unfortunately, no. Just a few more seconds."

A group of heroines appeared as Terry said that. A muscular Rei wearing a blue and red bodysuit, Ami with a round shield and a blue bodysuit, Mako on a viking costume and holding a big hammer, and Minako inside a red and yellow metal suit. As the two travelers feared, Yukiko once again felt the need to shout out their names. SuperMars, Captain Amercury, Jupithor and Iron Venus.

Ami saw the teleporters were ready, and decided not to stay around to see who else appeared next.

Again, a place that looked like their Tokyo. And yet Ami felt like something was off. The dojo looked quite abandoned, and a simple scan told her there was no secret base down there. "Another 'what if' reality?"

"Most likely," Terry said. Usagi walked by right then, but didn't seem to recognize them. "Okay, that was weird."

Ami had already scanned her. "Her powers haven't awakened yet."

Terry walked to a newspaper stand and frowned as he saw the date in a front page. "If I remember correctly, the Dark Kingdom had been around for two months. I was already helping you. So..."

Lightning shot out from a building near them, and they could see Nephrite and Kunzite fighting Venus and Jupiter. "Minako should be in London if the date was right," Ami commented.

The battle was short, and the Generals were, as expected, scared off by the two Senshi. However, Venus noticed the 'travelers' and walked to them. "Ami, Zephyr, why didn't you help?"

"We are not... Not from here."

"Stop joking."

"She's not. Call your Ami."

Venus and Jupiter were confused, but did just that, and Mercury's face appeared on the screen. "What's wrong, guys?"

Venus flinched. "Mercury, I'm right now standing next to... Ami and Terry."

"What? Zero is here, how-"

"Not sure, thought you could tell us."

"Keep them there, I'll go-"

Ami smiled. "That won't be needed, we'll go there."

Mwrcury was trying hard to hide her shock after hearing her own voice elsewhere. "But it will take you the same time."

"Not quite, we can teleport," Ami said, and the group vanished.

As usual, a bit of explaining was required, but they knew where things had changed. This particular reality was one where Luna and Shade never woke up, and so the leader of the Tokyo Senshi had been Venus from the start. Artemis had found Ami, Mako, Rei and Naru, but never sensed anything in Usagi, even though the girl was apparently a youma magnet and got attacked five times already.

"Why do you say Tsukino is important?" Rei asked. "She looks like a lazy, childish girl."

"I thought the same at first," Terry noted, "but she's kind, selfless and brave when it counts."

"I just can't see her being a good fighter," Rei said.

Ami sighed. "No offense but none of you is one. In our reality, we trained for a long time. It's what helped us be stronger."

"I've been trying to tell them that," the other Terry said.

Terry smiled. "I did too, but it was Usagi who convinced the others. She is a good leader, much despite her quirks."

"I still don't get what makes her special," Mako noted.

"She is Sailor Moon."

Ami saw Artemis blink in surprise. "I think your guardian remembers now, Minako."

"I do. It's strange, but... Sailor Moon is the piece we're missing."

"Huh?"

The other Ami gasped. "Wait, we were all princesses back then, weren't we?"

Artemis nodded. "All Senshi were queens and princesses back then."

Minako's eyes widened. "So wait, Sailor Moon is... The Moon Princess?"

"That idiot, a princess?" Rei muttered.

"I had a hard time believing it myself," Terry admitted, "but she proved me wrong plenty of times."

"You know, I don't think you showing up here and now was a coincidence," Mako said, "we're barely able to stop the youma."

Rei looked down for a second then nodded. "A few times I've felt like something was missing. Like our team wasn't good enough." She looked at Ami. "Do I get along with Tsukino in your universe?" It was weird for her to think of different realities but her Ami had confirmed those two were exact 'clones,' older and incredibly powerful.

"You and I are two of Usagi's closest friends," Ami said, "give her a chance, and be patient with her. Since she won't have Luna with her you might need a lot more prodding to make her realize how serious this war is."

"Maybe she'll have Luna with her," Artemis said.

Ami guessed what he meant. "You know where her pod is."

"I hid Luna and Shade's pods away, but I couldn't open them. My memory is still blurry and I can't figure out how to open them."

Ami smiled. "I think we can help you with that. Show us where they are."

Luna felt consciousness returning and opened her eyes. Bright, too bright! While her eyes adapted to the brightness, her mind started rembering. She knew who she was, and her mission, but the rest was just blurry. Maybe she had slept for too long?

"Hey, wake up already. I'm supposed to be the lazy one."

Luna could finally see, and the first thing she noticed was Artemis and Shade, looking at her. "Guys, what- Where are we?"

"In Tokyo."

"Yeah, that's helpful," Luna muttered.

"The youma are back," Artemis said, turning serious, "and we've been fighting them for months. But we were missing an important members of the team."

"I can sense... Sailor Moon."

Artemis nodded. "We need her to awaken her powers if we want to win this war. Thanks to two visitors, we know a few things we weren't aware of before."

"Visitors?" Shade asked. She had awoken a minute before Luna, and Artemis had told her he would rather explain everything once.

"It's a rather long story. I'll tell you on our way to find our Princess."

Were they home this time? It was hard to tell anymore. The city looked like their Tokyo, but the sky was obscured by what looked like a spaceship. A spaceship large enough to cover most of the city. Ami was about to say something, when she sensed her communicator. She summoned it and smiled as she saw Aiko there. "Hi."

"Mom, dad, I'm glad you're back. As you can guess, we've been a bit busy while you were gone."

"Welcome back!" Usagi said from outside the screen, causing Ami to chuckle.

"We'll be right there," Terry said.

"Good. I... Let's talk when you get here," Aiko said before ending the 'call.'

"So, guess we are back," Ami said.

"Before we go back, I wanted to tell you something."

Ami knew that tone, whatever he wanted to say, it was dead serious. "Go ahead."

"What happened back then, with that Moonshine creep... It made me realize I'm not immortal nor flawless. I could have left you alone and hurt, because I took that victory for granted. I'm sorry I put you through that, Ami."

"I... Was really scared. But I don't blame you for that."

"It also made me realize I could have left something unsaid, something I've been meaning to ask for a while, even though I'm quite sure I know the answer already."

Ami saw he had a ring on his open palm, and smiled. "Yes!"

"You didn't let me ask."

Ami kissed him and then waited while he put the ring on her finger. "I am one hundred and fifty-four percent sure I know the question."

Terry laughed. "Fair enough. Let's go to the base, though, before our beloved daughter comes to drag us there."

"We're home. I never realized how much I could miss it."

"Me neither. Let's not go on such a trip ever again."

"I can agree to that," Ami said as the two teleported to the dojo the old, safe way.

A/N: I said I didn't care much for crossovers, but I never said the same applied to just messing with the Sailor Moon canon with no real goal on mind. Well, other than mocking the old dubs' naming patterns. New dubs mock themselves by existing, so I'll leave them to their misery.

... Yes, even Crystal's dub is mediocre at best. Kind of poetic justice since it mocks a mediocre reboot, so I can almost forgive it. Almost.

And now we go back to the Senshi's normal universe. If one can call that mess normal.