Hey!

Thanks for the lovely reviews everyone! I'm glad you're all liking the story so far! Well, this is a new chapter and hope u like this one too...I'll also tell you all that Zoisite is a girl in this story (just in case you wanted to know before hand...)

And thank you so much to Kiweee, my lovely editor!

Disclaimer: I wish I owned Sailor Moon...but I don't.

(Continuing on from chapter 2...)

"MOON CRYSTAL POWER!" Usagi called to the night- completely forgetting the fact that she was at home and that it was 2am.

Pink ribbons surrounded her, transforming her into the great superhero known as Sailor Moon. She looked down at her uniform and shivered. She hated the winter air whenever she was in senshi attire.

Sailor Moon ran towards her bedroom door and opened it. She was about to exit her bedroom when she remembered that her mother was down in the living room, sleeping on the couch- ready to welcome her husband home for the next morning. And the living room just so happened to be a room that she had to walk through to exit her home! Moon gasped.

"How am I going to get out of here without giving away my secret identity? And why did I transform in my own home?" She thought to herself as she hurriedly looked around.

She was getting really worried until she realised that, nearby, thrown over her open wardrobe door, was a brown trench coat that she had bought herself for a costume party about four months beforehand. She squealed in delight and hurriedly slapped her hand over her mouth.

"Usagi, darling? Is everything alright?" Ikuko called up the staircase.

"Err…oh! Tuxedo Kamen, you're sogood-looking..." Moon pretended to call out in a sleepy voice.

Back downstairs, Ikuko rolled her eyes and walked back to the couch. She lay down and turned on the television, turning the volume right down so as not to disturb either Shingo or the 'supposedly dreaming' Usagi.

Meanwhile, back upstairs, Moon threw the coat on and started to quietly walk down the stairs. She heard the TV making sounds and stopped. She then quickly descended the stairs and walked quietly to the entrance of the living room. Moon poked her head around the door and observed her mother. Ikuko was now sleeping like a log.

"Hopefully a dead log…" Moon thought, quietly entering the living room.

She got down on all fours and quietly crawled across the soft carpet and successfully made it through without waking her mother. She crawled to the front door, grabbed her set of keys off the hook and quietly opened the door. She crawled out, quietly shut the door, threw the trench coat into the bushes and ran off into the night- not realising that Shingo had heard her transform and had just watched her whole escape and run off into the night as his favourite superhero- Sailor Moon.

AT MINAMIZA PARK

The four planetary senshi- Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter- all stood at least five metres apart from each other. A huge, ugly, tree-related youma towered above their heads with the evil Terran General, Zoisite, on the ground beside it.

"TREEAN!" Zoisite yelled, "GET THEM! GET THOSE BLASTED SENSHI!"

The youma attacked them with all kinds of tree-associated weapons. First came a 'Vine Whip', then a 'Leaf Storm' and, finally, a 'Bark Shatter'. The senshi were all thrown several metres backwards and were all plastered to different trees. The roots came out of the ground and snaked up their legs and up to their arms, securing them to the trees.

"Ha ha! Now I have you! The Rainbow Crystals shall be mine!" Zoisite yelled.

"Not so fast!" came a voice

"Huh? Wha…"

"I am Sailor Moon, Champion of Justice! I will right wrongs and triumph over evil! And that means you, you freak show!"

Zoisite smirked.

"What-EVER!" she yelled, "Now hand those crystals over, Sailor Moon-brat!"

Sailor Moon glared at her.

"Never, Zoisite! I've had a bad day and I will NOT give up these crystals to a freak like you!"

Zoisite growled low in her throat. It always came down to this- getting one of her freak show youma to try and kill the Sailor Brat.

"TREEAN! GET SAILOR MOON!" she yelled

The large, tree-like youma turned from trapping the other senshi and focussed on Sailor Moon. It took aim and hurtled one of its 'Vine Whips' at her. Sailor Moon screamed and, just before she was turned to moon dust herself for the first time, she was lifted off the ground to safety in the arms of…Tuxedo Mask. (sigh)

"Tuxedo Mask, y-you saved me again." Sailor Moon said in wonder.

"Of course I did. I will protect you for as long as I live, Sailor Moon." He replied, "But for now, you must defeat that youma."

"Right!" Sailor Moon agreed.

Tuxedo Mask lowered them to the ground from the safety of a tree nearby and stepped back. Sailor Moon plucked her tiara from her head and raised it in the air. She got into throwing position and yelled,

"MOON TIARA ACTIVATION!"

The youma stood stock-still and watched as his doom came hurtling towards him. As the tiara made impact, the youma let out a scream and was immediately dusted.

"Dusted." Sailor Moon whispered happily.

The other scouts fell off their respective trees, onto the ground in undignified heaps and got up slowly. Sailor Moon, however, went looking for Tuxedo Mask. She was still concerned about Mamoru and felt she needed a male's point of view on the situation. But, her caped saviour was nowhere to be found.

"Oh Tuxedo Mask…where are you? I need your help..." Sailor Moon whispered before detransforming.

AN: Sorry about the name of the youma...and the attacks that the youma had...they were the best that I could come up with... please review and tell me what you think! and if you have ideas for future chapters, please let me know!