Episode 203: Yaten's, Taiki's, & Seiya's Promise! Usagi's Ambition!

Previously On Sailor Moon Shooting Starlights:

Queen Kagome said with a sneer, "Now to give you three your punishment."

Queen Kagome smirks and continues, "You three are being stripped and binded immediately of all your powers and henshins, and being exiled from this planet and galaxy! And being replaced by more responsible people who wouldn't be too emotionally attached to my daughter since you three are guilty for all the things you've done 15 years ago!"

Yaten starts to sob into her hands and said angrily, "That damn bitch knew that we were innocent! Why did this happen to us? We've been loyal since we had become Sailor Senshi when we were eight years old! Damn her and her damn judgments to hell!"

Taiki wraps her arms comfortingly around Yaten in a motherly manner, holding her close to her as Yaten sobs even harder into her chest and said as she rubs Yaten's back lovingly, "Ssh, sweetie. It's okay. She'll pay someday, Yaten. Don't cry please. Ssh. Just get some rest."

Seiya starts to curse at herself, feeling extremely tired as her eyes started to close sleepily before she finally drifts off to sleep once Taiki and Yaten finally had fallen asleep, but not before she thought with determination 'We'll fix this somehow since we'll have to be strong enough to hold ourselves together, until we figure out a way to fix all of this. Because it's not too late.'

Seiya wakes up to the sun shining down on her face at the sound of Yaten struggling against someone as a guard carried her over his shoulder while two other guards carried Taiki and Yaten in their arms or under their arm, and looks over at Yaten as Yaten struggles against one of the guards, crying out angrily, "Let me go, you son of a bitch!"

The guard slaps Yaten across the face and said, "Oh, shut up, you stupid whore."

Seiya and Taiki glare at the guard as he tries to restrain Yaten from breaking out of his hold on her, before looking at each other and nod their heads in understanding.

Seiya headbutts the guard holding her as Taiki punches the guard holding her in the face, landing on her feet as the guard holds his head in agony once dropping her, crying out in pain, and dodges his punch that was aimed at her stomach before punching him right in the face, followed up closely by a roundhouse kick to his face that knocked him up against a tree, unconscious.

Taiki lands on her feet also, dodging a kick to her face before wrapping an arm around his neck in a facelock and performs a rolling cutter on him, causing him to be knocked unconscious and runs to Yaten's aid with Seiya in front of her.

Seiya drop kicks the last guard on his chest, causing him to fall onto his back while dropping Yaten before getting back up on time to see the former Starlights getting into defense stances to defend themselves.

The guard sneers at the three women standing before him and said, "You bitches aren't even capable of defending yourselves now that you're no longer Sailor Senshi on this planet, so you're not any threats to me." The guard laughs before finding himself falling onto his back when Yaten swept his feet from underneath of him from behind, and growls as he gets back up, glaring at Yaten once he turns towards her as he starts to approach her.

"Why you little bitch . . . I oughta- WHOA!"

The guard cries out in surprise when Yaten spin kicks him in the face, followed up by a couple of punches to his face that causes him to blindly stumble over to Taiki, who punches him in the face, sending him flying over to Seiya.

Seiya smirks at the guard as he tries kick and punch her clumsily without landing a blow on her before she moves aside when he tries to tackle her to the ground instead, kneeing him in the gut during the process.

The guard coughs, holding his stomach as he glares at Seiya and said, "You stupid ass bitch! Who the hell do you think you are?"

Seiya continues to smirk at him and said, "Kou Seiya and Sailor Star Fighter, the leader of the Sailor Starlights and the rightful guardian of Princess Kakyuu. And there's nothing that you can do or say about that, you dirty son of a bitch!" Seiya kicks the guard in the gut, sending him flying into a tree just as she, Taiki, and Yaten heard heavy footsteps coming their way with Hiroshi crying out, "Jiro! Taro! Yuri! What the hell's going on? I hear some commotion from over here! Did you get rid of those wenches?"

Seiya looks at Taiki and Yaten, who nod their heads in understanding as they start breaking into a run, and follows up closely behind them as the footsteps got closer, until she's in front of Taiki and Yaten as they continued to run away from their pursuers.

Seiya spots a familiar tree as they continued to run in the direction of their hometown and said as she started running towards it, "Taiki! Yaten! I see it!"

Yaten and Taiki stopped running and turned towards Seiya in confusion and annoyance as their leader ran off in another direction.

Yaten said irritatedly, "What the hell are you talking about, Seiya? Stop fooling around! We're being hunted down by the royal guards right now! We have to keep going!"

Taiki nods her head in agreement, narrowing her eyes on Seiya and said,"Yaten's right, Seiya. So let's go before the guards catch us and send us off to solitary!"

Seiya said, "But, Taiki, Yaten, if you two remember right, it's our old hangout from when we were kids. DUH!"

Yaten and Taiki frowned, looking at each other in confusion before shrugging and ran after Seiya as Seiya disappeared in a flash of red light with flashes of yellow and blue lights following up closely afterwards as they disappeared into the tree also without the guards seeing them as they ran by in hot pursuit of the three former Sailor Starlights

Yaten sighs in relief in between pants, throwing herself onto a nearby couch and said, "Thank god! No more running! I hate sweat!"

Taiki and Seiya rolled their eyes at their friend's statement as Taiki said in slight annoyance and exhaustion while rubbing her temple, "But, Yaten, you should be grateful that Seiya saved us because surely if it wasn't for her, we would've kept going until we reached our hometown, which surely have people who despise us also for leaving Kinmoku during the battle with Galaxia."

Yaten lifts her head up from its place on one of her light green fluffy pillows on the couch and said, "I am grateful, Taiki. But what are we supposed to do now? We can't stay here forever!"

Taiki said, "Well we're going-."

"Back to Earth."

Taiki and Yaten turned their heads to look at Seiya, who was holding a picture of them together from when they first became the Sailor Starlights before sitting it back down on the coffee table as she turns her dark gaze onto them.

Yaten narrows her eyes on Seiya and said, "But, Seiya, you're not serious! We're not going back there! So you can-."

Taiki sends a warning look to Yaten as she said crossly with her lilac-colored eyes flickering dangerously, "Yaten, don't start-."

Yaten sits up, glaring at Taiki and said angrily, "What? You know that I'm right, Taiki! Because she just wants to go back to Earth to see her stupid 'Odango' when she knows that that Odango Atama would NEVER, EVER love her at all and would just end up hurt at the end like before."

Yaten turns her gaze over to Seiya, getting up from the couch and said,"And you, Seiya, can forget about dragging us back to Earth to see that airhead because she already has her 'Mamo-chan', so get a life and get the hell over her 'cause it's sickening to see you always moping around over her not being love WITH YOU. I ALWAYS wonder WHY you're our leader nowadays since you're actually like a-."

"Yaten."

Yaten glares at Taiki again and said, "WHAT? It's the goddamn truth, Taiki, and you know it since we've talked about this several times before we came back here yesterday! So don't try to act all innocent when you know that I'm right!"

Yaten turns back towards Seiya and said, "So stop crying and whining and acting like a big ass pussy, Seiya, and get the hell over her already. She doesn't want you and she'll never will for crying out loud, you dum-."

SLAP

Yaten turns back towards Seiya, holding her reddened right cheek in pain as Seiya glares down at her with tears welling within her eyes.

Seiya shakes in anger as she said angrily, "Don't you EVER talk about Odango like that EVER AGAIN, or I'll fucking choke the life out of you, Yaten! You don't understand the pain of being in a unrequited love, Yaten, so shut the fuck up! You're supposed to be my best friend!"

Then she turns towards Taiki, crying out even more,"And so are you, Taiki! We've known each other since we were 5 and 4 years old! I'd never expect you two to think that I'm so weak, and yet you two think of me as a mere pain in the ass to be with nowadays! Well, what 'good' friends you guys are."

Seiya glares back and forth between Taiki and Yaten as they looked down guiltily at the floor before turning around and storms out of the living room, walking the stairs to her bedroom.

Taiki and Yaten cringed at the sound of Seiya's bedroom door slamming very hard, sighing as they looked at each other.

Yaten said, "Should we calm her down?" Taiki shakes her head and said,"Iie, give her some time because she's beyond pissed off at us right now. Let's go get ready for the trip for this afternoon."

Yaten nods her head, following Taiki up the stairs to their bedrooms so that they can get all cleaned up and packed up for their journey to Earth.

2 ¹/² hours later, Taiki walks out of her room with her bag in her right hand and walks over to Seiya's room, knocking on the door.

"Seiya, it's time to go!"

Seiya turns her head towards her bedroom door and said, "It's open!"

Taiki sighed in relief, opening the door and leaned against the doorway, her left hand resting casually on her hip as Seiya turned back around to face her mirror.

"So you're not mad at us anymore, huh?"

Seiya continued to fix back up her ponytail and replied, "No, I'm not since it was the truth, so I shouldn't have gotten all dramatic over it."

Taiki nodded her head in understanding and said, "Yeah, we know that, but we shouldn't have reacted that way. However, we are going back to Earth since we're no longer welcomed here."

Seiya smiled happily, putting on a pair of black ankle length boots and said, "Great! That means that I get to have more hamburgers and see Odan-."

Taiki narrowed her eyes at Seiya as Seiya fixed her sleeveless "dress" up that was a trench coat that went to her ankles with a sharp 'V' cut that showed most of her cleavage and said, "Don't even think about it, Seiya. We're only going back to Earth because we're no longer welcomed here on this planet, not because you want to see Tsukino-san."

Seiya waved a hand carelessly over her shoulder at Taiki, walking over to where Taiki was standing once she had grabbed her black bag with a red dragon on it that was full of her belongings and said, "Yeah, yeah, Taiki, I know."

Yaten narrowed her eyes on Seiya once she and Taiki had came down the stairs, crossing her arms over her chest and said, "We're serious, Seiya, because we're not in the mood for you to be moping around Earth like a zombie."

Taiki said, "Which is why we must agree to a.) to lay low; b.) change our appearances so that the Sol Senshi won't recognize us out in public..."

Yaten continued Taiki's sentence with, "Don't EVER think about contacting ANY of the Sol Senshi."

Then Taiki and Yaten said in unison as they narrowed their eyes at Seiya, "And don't even try to tell ANYBODY that we're back! Not even Tsukino-san/Usagi-san!"

Seiya said as all three of them walked outside afterwards, "But what if..."

Yaten said,"No buts, Seiya! So promise us that!"

Seiya sighed, lowering her head in defeat and said, "I promise that I won't reveal that we're back on Earth and stay away from everybody, even Odango."

Yaten smiled and said, "That's better. Now let's go! Too cold to be out here!"

The former Sailor Starlights formed a circle in the clearing and disappeared into the sky as red, yellow, and blue shooting stars.

"Minako-chan! Would you stop gawking at boys and help me with our bags already?"

Aino Minako turned around to face her raven haired friend, who was struggling with all of their luggage, and said with a whine as she tipped her sunglasses down to get a look at her, "But, Rei-chan, they're just SO cute! And those are to heavy!"

Rei glared at Minako and said, "I know THAT! But would you PLEASE help me out?"

Minako continued to take pictures of the guys passing by and said,"In a minute."

Artemis looked up at Minako from his place on her right shoulder and said sternly, "Minako, quit fooling around and help Rei with the luggages."

Minako sighed, turning around before walking over to Rei to help her carry all of their luggages and said, "Ok, I will."

Minako picked up half of the luggages from the cart, walking over to her and Rei's car and stuffed them into the trunk, slamming the door before walking over to the passenger's side and got in.

Rei rolled her eyes once she stuffed the rest of the luggages into the backseat, starting up the car and said as she drives away rom the airport, "You really are lazy, huh? You're worser than Usagi-chan!"

Minako said as she readjusted her sunglasses with a smile, "I know that, but hey at least the whole gang are getting back apart."

Rei, Artemis, and Luna sweatdropped at Minako's statement, sighing.

Rei said as she passes Juuban High, "Yeah, you haven't changed a bit. But aren't Ami-chan and Mako-chan already here?"

Minako nodded her head, her eyes filling with worry and concern and said, "Hai, they got back on a early flight to here. But I wonder what exactly Usagi-chan has been doing lately since we haven't seem each since after her 17th birthday party."

Luna said with a sigh, "I don't know, except for probably sleeping in, eating junk food, not doing her homework, and clinging onto Mamoru-san like her life depended on it."

Rei giggled, making a right turn around a corner and said, "That's typical Usagi-chan for ya."

Minako joined in with a couple of giggles of her own as Rei continued to drive to the Crown.

A very happy Minako squealed happily as she catches a glimpse of a certain odango-haired girl once Rei drives around a corner, "Usagi-chan!"

Rei looked around and said, "Huh? Huh? Where?"

Minako points directly at a very attractive blonde-haired girl with an abnormal hairstyle, who was running down the street, and said excitedly, "Right there!"

Rei, Luna, and Artemis gaped in shock at the sight before them as the petite blonde continued to run at top speed. Luna said with her eyes widened, "She's actually exercising?"

Minako ignores the statement as she rolled down the window, her smile widening and cried out, "USAGI-CHAN!"

Usagi stopped dead in her tracks, turning around just in time to be tackled into a bear hug by none other than Minako Aino and cried out in surprise, "Minako-chan!"

Minako smiled, hugging Usagi tighter and said, "I'm SO happy to see you! How have you been doing lately?"

Usagi pulled away from the embrace once returning the embrace, looking at Minako happily as she wipes a strand of hair away from her face and said, "Just fine. But when did you get back?"

Minako said, "A few minutes ago. Rei-chan, Artemis, Luna, and I were planning on meeting up with Mako-chan and Ami-chan at the Crown. Would you like to join?"

Usagi opened her mouth to say 'yes', but was cut off by an all-too-familiar voice said, "Actually, Minako-san, I need to talk to Usako about something real quick, so-."

Minako smiled happily, hugging Mamoru as she cried out,"Mamoru-san!"

Mamoru returned Minako's embrace, chuckling and said, "Nice to see you back, Minako-san. But I really do need to talk to Usako."

Minako looked at Mamoru, then Usagi with worry crossing her face before forcing a smile as she turned back to face Mamoru again and said, "Ok! Go ahead and have your fun! Don't worry about us! Go ahead, Usagi-chan!"

Mamoru smiled, taking Usagi's hand and said, "Arigato, Minako-san, I'll make sure that nothing happens to her. And it's great having that you and the others have returned"

Minako said, "It's great to be back, demo you better be going now since you and Usagi-chan need to talk. So ja ne!"

Minako turned back around, running back across the street and entered into Crown, sighing as she threw herself into the booth that she, Usagi, Ami, Rei, and Makoto always hung out at at Crown.

Makoto frowned and asked, "What's wrong, Minako-chan?"

Minako said, "Something's wrong between Mamoru-san and Usagi-chan, but I don't know what."

Ami smiled reassuringly at Minako, laying a reassuring hand on Minako's right shoulder and said, "Ooh, don't worry, Minako-chan. We've only been gone for year, nothing has changed. Usagi-chan's 18 years old now, she's matured."

Minako looked up at Ami, smiling and said, "You're right, we should trust in Mamoru-san and Usagi-chan."

Minako smiled wider, relaxing with a sigh of relief as a waitress walked over to take their order.

"So, Mamo-chan, what would you like to talk me about?"

Mamoru looked down at his smiling petite girlfriend/future wife-queen walking right beside him, smiling as they sat down on a park bench and said, "I'd like to tell you that I've been accepted again to study aboard at Harvard."

Usagi looked up at Mamoru in shock and horror, her smile disappearing completely and said, "But, Mamo-chan, you can-."

Mamoru takes Usagi's hands into his and said, "But, Usako, I'm trying to start an honest living for us before Crystal Tokyo comes and we have Chibiusa. This is a great opportunity for me because I want to be a great husband to you once we get married."

Usagi snatched her hands away as if she were burned and said, "But, Mamo-chan, what if a new enemy comes?"

Mamoru said, "I'll come back right away. But I have to do this. I want to do this for us! For Chibiusa!"

Usagi looked at Mamoru with tears welling up within her azure blue eyes and said, "Demo, Mamo-chan, you can't go to America again. Remember what happened last time?"

Mamoru caresses Usagi's cheek gently and said, "Usako, don't worry about me. This time it'll be different because it's been peaceful here for a whole year, so there's no need to worry. I promise that I'll write and call every single day, OK?"

Usagi hugged Mamoru, crying silently into his chest and said, "I just don't want you to go, Mamo-chan, because I'm so afraid that something would happen to you like last time."

Mamoru smiled reassuringly at Usagi, hugging her lovingly and said, "Ooh, don't worry, Usako. Nothing's going to happen to me. I promise."

Usagi pulled away from his embrace, nodding her head and said, "Ok, but when are you leaving?"

Mamoru said, "Next week on the fifth."

Usagi nodded her head again, getting up and said as she forced a smile onto her face, "Ok, I'll be there to see you off with a smile. I promise I will."

Mamoru looked at Usagi with concern and worry and said, "Usako, I won't leave if you-."

Usagi shakes her head rapidly and cried out with tears welling up within her eyes, "Iie, it's your dream! I want you to go for it if it makes you so happy, Mamo-chan! I'm so happy for you!"

Mamoru gets up, making a move to embrace Usagi again, but she moves away from his embrace as she said, "Really, I'm truly happy for you. But I have to go now. Mama wants me to home by dinner, so I'll see ya next week, OK? Ja ne!"

Usagi snapped around, running away as she tears started to trail down her face and ignored Mamoru's voice calling out her name and for her to come back, and kept on running, until she was back at her house.

Then she walked up the stairs to her bedroom once seeing that nobody was home and threw herself onto her bed, sobbing heavily into her pillow, until she was asleep which was how Luna found her once she had came back from Rei's shrine without noticing three red, blue, and yellow shooting stars crossing the night sky.

Meanwhile, three very attractive women landed on Earth in a local park in Juuban.

Seiya sighed, looking around and said with a smile on her face as she made a move to walk off, "Finally! We're back! Now for me to see Oda-."

Yaten and Taiki looked at each other, rolling their eyes at their leader's mood swings and grabbed her by both of her arms despite her protests and struggles as they dragged her back to their old condo, where they finally let her go.

Seiya glared at Taiki and Yaten as she cried out angrily with annoyance, "What the hell was THAT about?"

Taiki said sternly as she returned Seiya's, "You can't see Tsukino-san because-."

Yaten cuts Taiki off sharply with a glare of her own at Seiya, "A.) It's night time here already so she's already asleep and B.) Our pact that we all made and agreed on before we left Kinmoku."

Seiya rolled her eyes in annoyance and said, "You guys were serious? For crying out, that pact's stupid! What if they need us? Are we just going to just sit around and let them all die?"

Taiki said, "Seiya, you have to understand that it's for the best for all of is because we can't tell them the real reason as to why we're really here in the first place!"

Seiya said, "But why won't you guys let me see Odango at least ONCE! JUST ONCE!"

Yaten said, "Because we don't HER to hurt you again, Seiya! She almost gotten you killed!"

Seiya said, "Oh really? I thought that we were over that incident! I thought that you were friends with Odango now."

Taiki said, "We are, but we just don't want to see you hurt by her again! So we're laying low starting tomorrow!"

Seiya looked between Taiki and Yaten, pleading with them as she saw how much their eyes had softened up compared to their bodies and said, "But can't I at least see her once again? Please, Taiki, Yaten."

Yaten looked away quickly when her lime green eyes locked with Seiya's midnight blue ones and said, "I'm sorry, Seiya, but we just can't let it happen. Not again."

Seiya turned her dark gaze over to Taiki's lilac ones and said, "Please, Taiki."

Taiki bowed her head down to avoid Seiya's intense gaze, looking down at her feet and said, "I'm sorry, Seiya, but we can't allow it."

Seiya springed onto her feet angrily and said, "Damn you both! You know that you two want to see Ami and Minako as badly as I want to see Odango! Why won't you two admit it already, huh? Princess and I have been known that you loved those two as much as I love Odango, so you can drop the act!"

Seiya punched the wall, turning back around to face Taiki and Yaten again and cried out angrily as she glared at them, "Goddamnit! Why won't you let me see her? Huh?"

No answer, except for Taiki shifting her feet, and Yaten stroking her hair nervously.

Seiya turned away from them angrily and cried out as she stormed off to her bedroom, "FINE! DON'T ANSWER! But don't forget that they're our friends and we're turning our backs on them!"

Then Seiya slammed her bedroom door so hard that it shook the whole condo, causing Taiki and Yaten to cringe.

Yaten looked at Taiki worriedly once Seiya had retired to her room angrily and asked, "Do you really think that it's really a good decision to keep her away from Tsukino-san, Taiki?"

Taiki said, "For now. But in a way she's right. We are turning our backs on them by laying low."

Yaten said, "I know, but it's for the best for all of us for now."

Taiki nodded her head in understanding and said, "It is. But now I'm exhausted from today's events, so good night."

Yaten smiled as Taiki walked off to her bedroom at the very end of the hallway, next to Seiya's and said, "Good night, Taiki!"

Yaten retired into her room after she heard Taiki's door gently close.

Over at the Outer Senshi's house, Michiru looked at Haruka in concern as she felt a familiar brightness of three Star Seeds and asked, "Did you just feel that?"

Setsuna nodded her head as Hotaru said, "It seems like three shooting stars have finally returned after a whole year of peace."

Haruka looked at Michiru, Setsuna, and Hotaru and said, "I wonder why in the hell did those three decide to come back HERE after a whole year, especially that goddamn Seiya."

Setsuna shakes her head and said, "Not a clue, but we'll have to find out tomorrow since it's too late to look for the Sailor Starlights."

Haruka said, "And that'll give me a chance to have the honor to kick Seiya-baka and his friends off of this planet!"

Michiru said, "But, Ruka, there's got to be a very reasonable explaination for their return, so don't be so quick to get rid of them."

Haruka cursed under her breath, grumbling something about kicking Seiya's ass as she crossed her arms.

Setsuna said, "But I've got a bad feeling about the reason why they're back and we might not be able to find them this time."

Haruka said with determination, "We will find them! I'm sure about it! Since most likely he's back for Koneko-chan!"

Michiru said, "You're right since he was very much in love with Usagi-chan."

Setsuna said, "And he could possibly cause the demise of the future as we know it."

All of the Outer Senshi looked each other with worry flickering within their eyes at the possiblity of their future changing.

Next time on Sailor Moon Shooting Starlights:

"Do we REALLY have to do this, Taiki?"

"I have a song; I'd like to sing for a friend."

"Where in the hell are they?"

"They're back?"

"Hello, my name is Aomori Akira and these two are my sisters, Shina and Hikari."

Next Episode: The Sailor Starlights Are Back? Where Are They?