After breakfast, Usagi and Diamond explained to his mother why they had come in the middle of the night.

"They started chasing us after we left dinner," Diamond started. "I think they were going to ram us until they saw Chibiusa in the back."

"We fled to the beach house, but they must have known about it because they followed us there."

"To stop the fight, I hyponitzed them into wanting waffles, so they would go look for a diner, and we came here while they were gone."

"Waffles! We should have chicken and waffles for breakfast tomorrow," the Queen said giddly.

"Well, now that breakfast is taken care of, all of our problems are solved," retorted Sapphire.

"Don't be a snot," his mother told him. The Queen turned back to Diamond. "I wish it weren't this way, but we're from the Negaverse. People are going to see the worst in us. People didn't want you with the Princess in your last life, and they won't want you with her now. You have to walk a difficult line between protecting yourself and not losing your temper. They want you to become a monster. You can't let them win."

Usagi took his hand in hers. "I'm not going to let them separate us," she said. I just wish I knew what to do.

Diamond kissed her hand. "Me neither."

"Why don't you take Usagi and her friends to the circus?" his mother suggested. "It's in town this weekend."

"The Circus!" shouted Chibiusa. "Take me!"

An hour later, the group was leaving the palace in a carrage headed for the circus.

"What kind of animals do they have here?" Usagi asked Diamond.

"They're like the ones on Earth, sort of."

Sapphire snickered. "Let's just say they're a bit more feral than the ones you would see in Tokyo."

When they arrived, the crowd was huge, swarms of people descending on different tents and vendors. The crowd looked rough, like they had come from some alien form of Hells' Angels.

"That guy has a cool tattoo," Chibiusa pointed at a man with a tattoo of a unicorn.

"Be wary of them. The unicorns are a notorious gang," Sapphire cautioned.

"The unicorn gang?" Rei questioned.

"They tend to pick innocuous names, but what's in a name if they're stabbing you?"

Rei didn't say anything else about them.

They went into one area where a tiger looked like he was trying to eat his handler.

"Is that the trick?" Chibiusa asked.

"I think the handler's just trying to live," Sapphire answered.

They went on to the next tent where they had somehow fit 3 giants in a little clown car.

The next tent had a unicorn that went on a rampage, slashing its handler before running out wildly. Soemone called for the snipers to come shoot it. Usagi was horrified.

"They can't shoot a unicorn!"

"It's probably possessed," Diamond told her.

Usagi quickly transformed, "Moon Crystal Power!"

She went running after the unicorn. Diamond handed Chibiusa to Sapphire. "Keep her safe."

He went running after Usagi. The other senshi were already hot on her tail.

The unicorn was almost all white, with black eyes and a silver-purple horn. The handler's blood streaked down its fur. Patrons were used to such outburst and there was little fuss about it. It was like seeing a pickpocket in Time Square, nothing to write home about.

Diamond was concerned that Sailor Moon's powers wouldn't work on Black Moon. Rei was worried that their leader was going to get shot. "Call back those snipers."

"STAND DOWN!" The Prince bellowed at them. They looked to see their rarely seen prince waving at them. What the heck is he doing with those girls going towards a wild unicorn?

Usagi tried to talk to the unicorn. "Please, let me help you!"

The unicorn looked. It saw her innocent blue eyes and charged.

A white light burst from Sailor Moon. She turned into her Princess form and yelled, "Moon Healing Activation!"

A black demon emerged from the unicorn, turning into ash and blowing away in the wind. The unicorn collapsed, exhausted after running around like crazy and being possessed. A team of employees rushed in, carting out the tired animal.

The crowd was actually surprised for once. The Moon Princess was back and on the Black Moon of all places. Why would she come to the Negaverse?

With her work done, the Moon Princess turned back into Usagi. She was tired too.

"You did it!" Rei was stunned. She was sure that this was going to end poorly.

"I couldn't let them shoot him. It wasn't his fault he got possessed. Can we get something to eat? I'm hungry."


The journey to Black Moon felt longer the second time around. It was longer. Rubeus had made a wrong turn at the Moon and had to double back. They finally got there. He was beat. "To the palace," he mumbled, trying not to fall asleep.

They made their way there and the guards let them in.

"I was wondering when you stragglers would get here," the Queen said as she came out of her chambers.

Rubeus thanked her for letting them stay and promptly went to take a nap.

"Everyone else is at the circus," the Queen told them.

Luna, however, had some questions for the Queen. "How much of the Silver Millenium do you remember?" Luna realized she needed to know more about the past to figure out what to do about their problems now.

"Let's go to my office." The two cats followed the Queen while Trig went to the kitchen.

Her office was large enough to be a suite. It had a small room for a secretary, not that she had one, a huge desk, office chairs and a small conference table. She had a larger conference table in another room in the palace. The room was adorned in marble and oak, the walls dark green.

"Take a chair."

The two cats shared a chair, sitting across from her, her desk between them.

"Did you know Sailor Pluto in the Silver Millenium?" Artemis asked her.

The Queen shrugged. "Not personally, but I saw her with Queen Serenity. She was always chasing the woman around like a lovesick puppy."

The cats weren't surprised. They knew Setsuna had been quite fond of their fallen Queen.

"How well did you know Queen Serenity?"

"Well enough such that we despised each other." She had a flippant tone when she spoke. Her answer caught Luna off guard, even though Luna knew that Queens Pearl and Serenity didn't like each other

"Why did you despise each other?" Luna asked her.

"Well I can't speak for her, well I guess I can since she's dead. I thought she was a classist bitch, and she thought I was a no good thief. I'm sure she saw herself as good and peaceful, and I saw myself as a social revolutionary. History's a funny thing. The survivors get to tell the story and they have the most reason to lie because usually, they did something not so nice to make sure they didn't die."

"And what did you do to survive the Silver Millenium?" Artemis inquired. "If you don't mind answering that."

"Nothing really since no one was crazy enough to attack Black Moon in the first place. I heard that there was a problem at the Moon Kingdom. I got there just in time to see my son crying over Princess Serenity's body. Everyone was either dead or dying and before I could get to him, he killed himself with his own sword. Then, I saw Queen Serenity use the last of her life force to port her daughter and her senshi 1000 years into the future. Then, I used my mimic-youma to copy Queen Serenity's power, so I could port Diamond into the future."

"What did you mean when you said you were a social revolutionary?" Luna asked.

"I doubt this ever effected you, but being from Nemesis, travel restrictions made it very hard to do anything. I couldn't travel freely as most planets had prohibited people from the Negaverse from coming there without a special permit, which no one could get. No one would trade with us unless we paid some ridiculous tariff. It made life terrible here, people fighting viciously for scarce resources.

People couldn't get jobs. We only knew of the universe from books and everyone else got to travel. When I was growing up, I thought it was just bad because we had a bad king, so I led a rebellion to depose him, but once I became Queen of the Black Moon, I saw how it was the world that needed to change, so I started writing letters to kings and queens, trying to get them to ease their restrictions on travel, so that we could work and trade and live amongst the rest of the world. Most of them refused. The ones that accepted just considered us cheap labor that could be exploited.

I thought I could make the first move and I ended all visa requirements, well except there was a fee. Everyone could come to the Black Moon. I thought if I made it exciting and people wanted to come, we'd gain acceptance. Instead, all the planets just started dumping their worst offenders on us. Queen Serenity was the worst. She'd just sent spacecrafts full of her own people. Sure they were murderous and no good, but a Queen is everyone's queen, not just the subjects you like.

I had to do something with these criminals, so I found a remote area on Black Moon to put them on and they started farming, building roads, schools. They weren't very good roads and school buildings, but they existed and things started to look better for a while. Eventually, there were too many convicts. I couldn't find space for them all, so tried to buy a territory belonging to Mars, Phobos, I think it's called. No one lived there, so why not.

Right before the deal closed, however, Queen Serenity talked the King of Mars out of it, saying he wouldn't want my people on his planet. I got mad, so I seized the moon for my country and I put my prisoners on it and got them to work. They got mad, saying I violated some customary international law or some crap, but I figured, if I didn't sign it, I'm not bound by it."

"I can't believe our Queen just dumped her subjects on you," Artemis said, not accusing Pearl of lying, but shocked he never knew about it.

"Serenity and I didn't get along because she wanted a kingdom where everyone was good and compliant, and she was fine with casting away everyone who wasn't. The world just doesn't work that way. You can't have good without bad, light without darkness, fear without hope, both with individual people and with society at large.

Everyone has some good in them and some not so good and how you treat them can help influence what parts you see. No matter how bad you are, I think everyone deserves a life, hope for a better future, and a chance of making something for himself. I thought I could give a chance to the people the rest of the world was fine with forgetting, but I couldn't do it alone. When I didn't get the support I thought I should have gotten from the rest of the world, we started marauding."

"Y'all became pirates?" Luna asked.

"I prefer the term marauding. It sounds more dignified, but yes. I didn't authorize it at first. I didn't even know that was how my construction companies were getting their materials, but when I found out, I didn't stop them. I thought that if we could take just enough to get ourselves established, we could have enough clout to change things. We could really be international players. Well, unfortunately, everything came to a crashing halt when the Silver Millenium fell apart, and we never got the chance."

Luna had never thought about why people from the Negaverse stole. She just assumed, well they are thieves so they take. It was weird hearing an explanation, which did not sound totally unreasonable.

"I do have hope, however, that we will get a chance to shine this time around."

The group returned from the circus. Chibiusa fell asleep on the way back. One of the servants carried her to a bedroom.

"I'm exhausted," Usagi growled as they went into the living room.

"You did kill a demon," Diamond noted as he wrapped his arms around her. Usagi closed her eyes and leaned on Diamond's shoulder. She could have fallen asleep if she hadn't heard her name being called.

"Luna? Artemis. How did you get here?"

"No thanks to you," Luna growled. Why couldn't she have used her communicator before they left?

"Rubeus teleported us."

Usagi could tell Luna was a bit grouchy about being left behind. She scooped up her advisor. "I'm sorry about taking off without a word, but we were pressed for time. Sailors Uranus and Neptune attacked out of no where."

Luna couldn't stay mad at the flighty girl. "We know. We went to Setsuna's and heard them tell her about how they had lost you all."

"What is their endgame?" Minako asked. "It's not like they can make them break up."

"I think their goal is to drive him off Earth," Artemis said.

"Or kill him if he won't leave," Luna added.

Usagi gulped when she heard that. "But he hasn't done anything. Senshi aren't supposed to kill innocents."

"I don't think these senshi care too much about the rules," Sapphire cautioned.

"Unfortunately he's right," Luna said. "The outers have always been more, well, the ends justify the means. It's a bit more wild in the outer planets."

"There has to be a way to stop them," Ami said, "well other than fighting them. I don't want to fight them again."

Luna and Artemis looked at each other. Should they tell Usagi? Artemis nodded. Luna sighed. "There is a way, but you won't like it."

"I won't kill them," Usagi exclaimed.

"Not that," Luna said exasperated. "Your crystal is powerful enough to take their powers. If they won't stand down, you can kick them out of the senshi."

"It's never been done before," Artemis said to her, "but we've never had a problem quite like this." Both cats hoped it wouldn't come to this, but it might be the most non-violent option.

"Is it reversible?" Rei asked.

"It should be, why?" Artemis asked her.

"You could take their powers for a little while, like a suspension, until they calm down."

Usagi shook her head. "That will just make them more angry when they come back. I can't let this be an on off switch. It's hard enough being a senshi. Think about trying to be a senshi with the threat of me taking your powers looming over your head every day. That would just be unbearable."

The other senshi looked at each other. She had a point. None of them would take it well if Usagi threatened to kick them out of the scouts.

"So what do we do?" Makoto asked.

"I have to try and reason with them. It's my decision they're questioning and my leadership."

Diamond did not like the idea of her going to see them alone. "Should I go with you?"

"NO!" said everyone.

"You're the person who they want to kill," Makoto reminded him.

"I know, but they haven't really met me yet. Maybe I can win them over."

No one liked that idea.

"Maybe Makoto should go instead," Sapphire suggested.

Everyone looked at him.

"What, she can pack the biggest punch."

Makoto laughed. "Alright. I'm in."


Endymion could feel his feelings for his wife fading away. Desperate to hold onto his relationship, he needed a way to get Usagi and Mamoru back together. He went in search of his former self, who was at Crown goofing off with Motoki, none of the senshi in sight.

"They always came here on Saturdays," Endymion muttered to himself. He tried looking for Usagi, but she was nowhere to be found and neither was Chibiusa. They must have gone somewhere together, but where and with whom?

Sailor Neptune was at home with her wife, still trying to make sense of what happened. Setsuna saw Diamond taking Usagi to the Negaverse in her mirror, so they had gone to stop him, just for their princess to end up on the Negaverse with him anyway, likely fleeing from them. "Can we escape the future?" Michiru asked herself.

"What?" Haruka asked her.

"Nothing, just thinking out loud."

"Since when do you think?"

"Humph!" Michiru threw a pillow at her.

The two girls got into a fight. Haruka had the upper hand, straddling her wife and "suffocating" her with a pillow until the doorbell rang. Michiru took advantage of the distraction and bopped Haruka in the face with a pillow.

The professional driver growled, rubbing her nose as she opened the door. It was Endymion.

"King Endymion? What brings you to here?"

She let him inside. He sat down and began to explain. "My marriage is in trouble."

"What did you do wrong, other than be a man?" Haruka laughed at herself, no one else did.

"I didn't do anything," he insisted. "But my feelings for Serenity are fading because Mamoru is falling out of love with Usagi. He's changing the future, and I don't know how to get them back together." The King was not about to lose his Queen.

So to make it better, not only is Usagi running around with a Negaverse villain, but Mamoru is out of love too. Getting them together will be easy.

"What can we do?" Michiru questioned.

"The last time we broke up, I rescued Serenity from a youma and we got back together. Maybe we could hire a youma to attack Usagi and Tuxedo Mask could rescue her."

"What?" Michiru thought that was crazy.

"Not bad," Haruka suggested, "but from where can you hire a youma?

"I don't know. I was hoping you knew," the King admitted.

Michiru thought this was nuts. "Have you lost it? We can't have a youma attack OUR princess."

"But it will be a fake attack," Haruka insisted. "She just won't know about it."

"But what if…." Michiru got cut off while her wife and the King plotted. IDIOTS!