Chapter 18: Why Them?

In the timeline Hotaru and ChibiUsa went in, they began looking for clues that would help them all escape the mansion and defeat the creature . . . untill . . .

"Ah!" Cried Hotaru, trying to fight off Steve, "Chibi Moon! I could use some help!"

The pink haired girl sat there, looking at the monster, feeling a deep ache within her heart. Her connection with Usagi was strong, she could feel that something happened to her future mother, and began feeling the pain Usagi was in.

"Usagi, why must you hurt me?" She asked, "Why am I . . . affected by the pain you're feeling? You're being selfish again, mama."

Hotaru pushed the monster away, running towards ChibiUsa. Steve looked over at the young guardian-in-training, chuckling at the questions Chibi Moon asked.

"I'm surprised you haven't figured it out yet, Small Lady." Steve began.

"You can talk?!" Hotaru exclaimed, obviously shocked about Steve.

"Serenity never clarified WHICH "Usagi Serenity" when she wrote in that book." Steve smirked, "Therefore, you both are affected by the pain, torture, and fate that this place has to offer!"

"That's not true!" Hotaru screamed, "Sailor Moon would never do that. Not to anyone!"

"Why don't you go back to your time loop and see what has happened?!" Mocked Steve, vanishing away.

Hotaru watched until Steve was completely gone. She then turned her attention to ChibiUsa. She helped the young princess up, and held onto her.

"Don't worry, we can do this." Hotaru said.

"Back to our time loop." Muttered ChibiUsa, tiredly.

…

In another room that Mamoru found in the safe room; the inner guardians surrounded their dear princess. Minako's tears fell from her eyes as she began to pet Usagi's head.

"Usagi, come back to us . . ." She paused, "I refuse to leave this place without you!"

"Usagi . . ." Makoto clenched her fists against her knees, feeling her tears hitting them as they fell from her olive green eyes, "It can't end like this. Why did this have to happen?"

"Don't worry, Usagi." Ami began, sounding calm; even though she was pained to see her friend like this; she began hooking things into her super computer as it began to beep, monitoring Usagi's heart beat, oxygen level, and her blood pressure, "We'll save you."

Rei's head was laying against her arm, she was holding onto Usagi's deathly cold hand.

"Usagi . . ." Rei began choking up, "Please, come back . . . come back . . ."

"Usagi!" Ami exclaimed, reading the report on her computer, feeling relieved, "She's alive."

The computer beeped a few times with incoming messages from monitoring Usagi.

"We got her back." Ami smiled, with tears falling down her cheeks.

Usagi still laid there, not moving. Her breathing became normal in her hand she held the book close. Makoto looked at Usagi with a small smile, wiping her tears away. Minako's tears didn't stop, she smiled at her princess before she gently pressed her lips against Usagi's forehead. Rei looked at her friend with a small smile.

"Usagi." Minako said, petting her head again.

"Sailor Moon." Makoto answered.

"Thank goodness you're alright." Rei grinned brighter, holding onto Usagi's hand still, "We're right here with you, Usagi."

….

In the bedroom, Michiru laid next to her sleeping lover. The attack took a lot of energy and Haruka's sight along with it. Michiru felt really guilty for not saying anything when Haruka first started using the unknown magic from the Sailor Uranus from the last time loop. Now, Haruka couldn't see anything or anyone anymore. The blue haired girl gently placed a hand against the blonde girl's cheek, her tears began falling from those sea-green eyes. She knew that Steve was got what he wanted; he killed Usagi, hurting Small Lady, and he made Haruka use too much of that magic causing her to go blind.

"We got her back!" Ami's voice cried out, for the other's to hear.

Michiru was relieved that their princess was alive and that Steve didn't know (hopefully). The only thing that was still an issue was Haruka.

"I'm sorry, Haruka." Said Michiru in a sad tone, "I'm sorry that we argued and your now . . . blind."

The tall girl's eyes slowly opened, she tilted her head to the left side to face Michiru. She felt Michiru's hand against her cheek.

"I feel like I could've stopped this from happening . . . but . . ." Paused Michiru, "But I did NOTHING to stop it."

"Don't think like that, Neptune." Replied a tired Haruka.

Michiru blinked a little before she glanced up to look at her beloved Sailor Uranus.

"I'm not blaming you for this. No one is blaming you for this." Haruka began, placing a hand on top of Michiru's before she gently kissed it, "It's not the end. There's still work to do! We'll get out and defeat that damn creature."

"Haruka." Replied Michiru.

"Even though I'm blind, I'll never forget what you look like, Michi." Smirked Haruka, "I will always love you."

"And I will always love you, Ruka." Michiru paused, tears falling from her eyes, "No matter what."

….

Hotaru helped ChibiUsa up to the safe room. She felt how warm the young senshi-in-training skin was getting.

"Tuxedo Mask! Pluto!" Cried Hotaru, "Help!"

"Hotaru?" Setsuna asked.

"ChibiUsa?" Added Mamoru.

"Help!" Hotaru cried again.

The two of them ran to help. Mamoru noticed Hotaru carrying ChibiUsa. He took his future daughter and got her up to the safe room. She began to feel a little better.

"What happened there?" Asked Setsuna.

"That thing made things clear . . ." Hotaru answered, "He told us that Sailor Moon wrote in the book but never clarified which "Usagi Serenity". Now he's after both. Chibi Moon felt something wrong with Sailor Moon and it started to affect her."

"I see." Setsuna said, looking shocked at the news Hotaru brought, "What do we do? Sailor Moon's barely alive, Small Lady's being affected by this, and Uranus' blind."

"What?!" Hotaru asked, hearing everything that Setsuna said, "What's wrong with Haruka-papa?"

"I don't know how to explain it." Setsuna began, "Michiru and Usagi were with ones who saw it happen. Michiru refuses to leave Haruka's side and I can't ask Usagi since she hasn't woken up, yet."

"She's not dead, is she?" Asked Hotaru.

"She's in a coma, we're not quite sure what's wrong." Answered Setsuna.

"Poor Serenity. The inner guardians are having a hard time about this, aren't they?"

"King hasn't gone in there to see her since we came back from finding her in the basement."

"Poor Endymion."

"Let's go check up on Michiru-mama and Haruka-papa."

"O-Okay."