"Then discard that."said Nephrite. "I mean, who would want to take Neptune away from this star system?"
"A new enemy!"Kunzite broke in.
"You're seeing enemies everywhere!"complained Zoicite. "It's been years, decades, such a long time, there's been peace in Crystal Tokyo, since it was created, and yet we still train, as if the place was infested with youmas!"
"A new enemy? I don't think so."said King Endymion. "It's possible, she's just lost. I mean, she doesn't know Crystal Tokyo very well, and she may have gotten lost."
"But she would have had no trouble finding the Crystal Palace and getting back!"Queen Serenity told him.
"Oh, right."
"Send out a search party!"
"Maybe she got on a ship, and is sailing?!"
"Ask everyone in sight!"
"She found a cave at the bottom of the sea, and she's staying there now?"
The suggestions went on and on. Everyone had a different idea of where Neptune could be, and kept suggesting different ways to locate her.
"Don't you have some kind of communicators, or something, that you could get a hold of her?"Kunzite asked Pluto, Uranus, and Saturn.
Pluto and Uranus shook their heads. It had never crossed their minds.
"It's very rare that we have to get a hold of one another."Uranus told him.
Kunzite frowned. He thought that would have been a good way to get a hold of Neptune, or at least locate her whereabouts.
"Telepathically?"he asked.
They shook their heads.
"And no one could have foreseen something like this!"he demanded.
"You should have!"Venus told him.
He ignored her, although he couldn't ignore the fact that perhaps she was right. He should have foreseen this.
"Maybe she just went back to Neptune."he suggested, shaking his head. "It is her home planet, after all, and, maybe she disregarded orders. Or there was something urgent she forgot to see to?"
"Now that sounds much more plausible."Artemis agreed. "I don't think she would disregard orders, though. But maybe she did leave something unfinished, or maybe she had something to do. She forgot?"
Mercury stood up. Although she doubted that what Kunzite suggested was likely, it made sense.
"Then I will try to contact Neptune. I will call Triton Castle by viewer. That should solve this. As soon as I view Neptune, we'll know everything is fine."
She walked out of the room. Jadeite stood up, he always found these meetings a bit boring, especially with Kunzite acting so psychotic. He knew that everyone did, as well.
"Ah! Well, that finally cleared that up."he said, cheerfully.
"I'm sure everything's going to be fine."said Mars, as they walked out.
Later, Mercury said she had no luck trying to contact Neptune.
"The furthest I got was Guardian Neptune."she told them.
"But wouldn't Guardian Neptune be absent if Neptune is there? Or, I mean, wouldn't she answer only if Neptune wasn't there?"Kunzite asked her.
"That's what I always thought."agreed Zoicite.
"Yes, and that's exactly what would happen. So I guess that means that Neptune isn't at Triton?"
Uranus looked shocked. If she wasn't at Triton, where could she be? Or was this some kind of complicated joke? She would have to see for herself.
"Where are you going?"Jupiter asked her.
"To Triton. To find Neptune."she said.
"It is possible that perhaps Guardian Neptune is simply following orders."
"But why would Neptune not want to speak to anyone? And why would she have just left so suddenly? Without telling anyone?"Uranus insisted.
"Maybe she wasn't comfortable here?"suggested Mercury.
"But she was under orders to remain here!"insisted Kunzite. "Whether or not she was comfortable is something completely apart from that. She had her orders."
"I'm going to Triton."said Uranus.
"We'll go with you."
"No!"said Kunzite. "We can't leave the King, Queen, and Princess here, alone! Someone should stay here!"
"Or maybe only Uranus and Pluto should go to Triton?"suggested Luna.
Kunzite nodded. That made more sense.
"Then both of you will go."