Jupiter finds out
As Serena quietly ate her breakfast after getting Phobos and Deimos to accept her as Rei, the one thing that went through her mind was how different she and Rei Hino were.
By nature, Rei Hino was a calm, serious, and practical woman. She was also distrustful of men because of what her father had done to her and her mother (when she was alive). She was also had dreams of becoming a singer, a model, or a voice actress.
As a practitioner of Shinto, Rei Hino was also learning how to become the next head priest of her grandfather's temple. She also had absurd psychic talents, had an egocentric nature makes, rarely valued the people around her; and she sometimes adopted an aloof, bossy, and domineering attitude.
During her free time, she had deep and abiding passion for pop culture, musical shows, playing the piano, the guitar, singing, and composing all the songs for her school festivals. Of course, she was also kind of bitchy towards her friend and fellow Senshi – Sailor Moon.
In addition to her psychic talents, Rei was also able to do fire readings and dispel evil spirits. And then of course, her powers of Sailor Mars were – apart from Jupiter – the strongest among Serenity's guards.
Serena Campbell on the hand was a crybaby who only cared about video games, manga or spending time with her friends. Serena Campbell was also somewhat immature, did not view life with a great deal of seriousness, would goof off whenever she could and oftentimes neglected activities, such as schoolwork. Despite all of this, she would friendly towards many people and tends to help others out with their problems.
Of course now that she was in Rei's body, Serena had to act just like Rei. She had to love the things that Rei loved, she would have to be distrustful of men, she would have to hate her current father, and she would have to disparage Chad and her grandfather. She would also have to a bitch to both Rei and Darien. And most importantly, she would have to be Sailor Mars. And while Serena was willing to do it if that meant that Rei would finally admit her feelings, Serena – as she began to think of all the differences between her and Rei – suddenly began to become upset, thinking that she couldn't she couldn't do it, she couldn't be Rei. Thankfully, before Serena could become to upset, Lita Kino – who had planned to help Rei that weekend – showed up.
"Lita, what are you doing here?" A surprised Serena asked the Senshi of Thunder.
"What do you mean 'what am I doing here?' I'm here to help you with your chores Rei," Lita replied. "Don't tell me you forgot!"
"Actually Lita, I didn't forget!" Serena exclaimed. "You never told me that you were helping Rei this weekend.
"Of course, you're not going to be exactly helping Rei this weekend."
"What's that supposed to mean," Lita wondered.
"Lita, before I answer that, do you remember that during the Silver Millennium, Luna would sometimes switch you and the other Senshi, forcing you to sometimes live as them?" Serena asked.
"Of course I do," a bitter Lita answered. "I remember one time having to be Venus. Kami, I hated being her! But what has that to do with anything?"
"Well, you see, Luna has sort of done the same thing again," Serena stated. "She has switched me and Rei."
"What!" A shocked Lita asked. "You mean you….you….you…you"
"Yea, me and Rei have been switched," Serena proclaimed.
"Okay, if you're not Rei, then who are you?" Lita asked.
"Lita, it's me, Serena," Serena proclaimed.
"Oh Kami, please don't tell me that!" Lita cried. "Please don't tell me that my best friend is now in the body of 'The Queen Bitch' and that 'The Queen Bitch' is now in the body of best friend.
"Actually, we are," Serena stated.
"Oh, Rena, I'm so sorry," Lita cried.
"Lita, don't be sad, it's not as bad as you think," Serena said.
"Not that bad!" Lita exploded. "Rena, you're in the body of 'The Queen Bitch.' Do you realized how fucked up that is? Not only that, but who knows if your powers have been thrown out of whack!"
"Lita, please calm down!" Serena commanded. "And please, stop calling the person I'm in love with 'The Queen Bitch.'"
"Serena, how can you be in love with Rei?" Lita asked. "That's…that's….that's…"
"Lita, calm down and I'll explain everything," Serena said.
"Fine, but before you do, I'm going to make some tea if you don't mind?" Lita enquired.
"Feel free, Lits," Serena responded. "Besides, you usually help yourself to some tea when you come over here."
"Yea, I guess I do, don't I?" Lita responded.
So, after Lita made some tea for and Serena, Serena spent the next thirty minutes explaining everything to Lita. Yet even though being told everything, Lita was still pissed.
"Rena, answer me this?" Lita pleaded. "How can you not be angry at Luna? I'm mean, she's really fucked your life up and there is no telling how long you and Rei are going to have to be long like this?"
"To be honest, I'm not sure why I'm not mad," Serena answered. "I guess it's because I've learned to trust Luna. Sure, her methods don't make sense sometimes, but I've learned that there is some madness to her methods."
"Yea, I guess you're right," Lita answered. "Course, I'm just going to use to being 'Ms. PMS."
"Lita!" Serena cried.
"Oh come Rena, you know as well as I do that Rei PMS' 24/7," Lita teasingly said.
"Yea, well, that's me you're talking about right now, lightning wielder," Serena warned.
"So, does that me I get to call you 'Queen Bitch' then?" Lita jokingly asked.
"Not if you don't want me to fry your ass!" Serena angrily answered.
"Yea, well since you can't access any of your powers right now, 'Rei,' I've got nothing to worry about," Lita answered back.
"Yea, and that's where I'm going to need your help, Lits," Serena said.
"What do you mean?" Lita asked.
"Well, you know Rei the best," Serena began. "Plus, outside of Amara, you're the only one who can come even close to acting like Rei. So, I guess what I'm asking you is – Would you please teach me how to act like Rei?"
"Serena, I'm not sure if I can," Lita answered. "I mean yea, I know a lot about Rei, and yea I can act almost as bitchy as she can, but you can't ask me to teach my best friend how to be 'The Queen Bitch' and then treat my best friend as though she is 'The Queen Bitch.'"
"Lits, please, you have to!" Serena begged.
"Serena…" Lita began to answer.
"Lits, I want you to listen to me and listen to me really good," Serena interrupted. "Although I agree with you that this situation is kind of fucked up, Luna wouldn't have done what she did if it was a bad idea.
"Plus, until Rei finally admits that she loves me, she and I are going to have each other. Plus, think of our families. None of them know we are the Sailor Senshi. If they found out that we were, and what has happened, they'd have nothing to do with us again. And finally, think of the planet. Think of what would happen if the Sailor Senshi are needed and neither Rei nor I have access to the powers of the bodies we currently occupy?"
"Yea, I guess you're right." Lita answered as realization finally hit her.
"So you'll do it? You'll teach me how to be Rei, you'll treat me as Rei, you'll call me 'Rei;' you'll treat Rei as though she is Serena, and you'll call Rei 'Serena'?" Serena asked.
"I guess I have no choice, do I?" Lita responded.
"No you do not," Serena proudly answered.
"Alright Rena, I mean, 'Rei,'" Lita said.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!" Serena answered as she began to happy-dance around the room.
"Uh, 'Rei', why are you happy dancing?" Lita wondered.
"I always do that when I'm happy," Serena stated.
"No, Mina and Serena happy dance, you don't 'Rei," Lita corrected.
"Yea, I guess you're right," Serena said.
"Good, I'm glad we got that straight, 'Ms. Queen Bitch," Lita jokingly said.
"Lita, if you call me that horrid name just one more time, of if I found you've called me that name, I swear I'll…" Serena cried.
"Consider that lesson number one, 'Rei'," Lita answered.
"Oh yea, what's lesson number two?" Serena asked.
"Easy, how to PSM 24/7," Lita said.
"Ugh, you're really going to enjoy this aren't you?" Serena responded.
"Maybe, just a little bit," Lita answered. "'Ms. Queen Bitch.'" Lita said as she ran out of the Cherry Hill Temple.
"Lita….get your ass back here," Serena said.
"This is going to be an interesting weekend isn't, Deimos?" Phobos asked as he watched Serena's and Lita's interaction.
"Interesting doesn't even begin to describe what this weekend is going to be like." Deimos answered as he proudly saw quickly Serena was adjusting to having to be Rei.