Cyber Moon: Crystal.

Act 3: Aeons.

Episode 14: Ancient evil.

By Razor Knight

Last update: March 11, 2009

A blast of lightning hissed by, barely missing her head. She turned to the source and coldy glared at the creature. "Death Lance." As the creature doubled over, its chest pierced by a beam of focused death magic, she scanned the area. Three more of them, all within blast range, if she used something she had yet to test in battle. "Deadly Halo."

A ring of death shot from her, blasting through the three creatures, which exploded before even touching the ground, and doing a fair damage to the already wrecked buildings in the area. She fell to her knees, noticing the buildings around her were disappearing, and sighed in relief. Hotaru and Usagi walked to her, in the now empty, large gray room. It was an amazing technology, she couldn't tell the destroyed city she had been fighting in a few seconds earlier was just a magical construct. "I'm a weakling, I guess."

"You're not," Hotaru said. "That magic you used is strong, I admit it's nothing like what we can use, but you're progressing fast, Kyouko."

Younger Saturn looked up at her mother and smiled. "Thanks."

"I'm just telling you how things go. Your dear mother here," Hotaru said, nodding at Usagi, "might have been a Senshi at six, but she was quite a lousy one until she was twelve or so."

Usagi shot Hotaru a side glare. "Don't make me shut you up."

"You know I'm right," Hotaru countered, then turned back to their daughter. "You're not weak, right now. Guardian level attacks aren't something I'll call weak."

"But compared to you..."

Usagi shook her head at that. "Don't compare yourself to us. We have a thousand years more experience than you, of course we will have the upper hand."

Hotaru smiled. It was a good thing their daughter wasn't like the former Younger Senshi to share part of her power. No, she wasn't evil, but there was one thing they had realized about her, she was a 'born warrior,' like her mother. She wanted to be stronger, but for the right reasons.

Kyouko was sixteen now. Sixteen! Years passed by now at a speed she didn't bother calculating. Her daughter was almost an adult now, and she knew anytime now she would start chasing after guys... Or girls.

Kyouko had first activated her Senshi powers when she was eleven. Also, that was the day her own Ginzuishou appeared, though hadn't really used it much, other than to power up her attacks. By Ami's estimates, Kyouko could reach Holy level before she turned twenty, but Hotaru wasn't so sure about that. Kyouko didn't have anyone to fight against, no evil forces, nothing that would force her to level up.

And even Usagi, much to her own chagrin, couldn't go 'all out' against her own daughter. Maternal instinct had knocked all the warrior instincts out of her whenever she had tried to do just that.

So the best they could do was bring her to the virtual reality room in the Crystal Palace, but that place had a flaw. While yes, technically you could die in here, the power of the creatures created by any combat simulator was directly linked to the power intake needed by the room to create them. To create anything that could hold its ground against even a Guardian Senshi, the room had to use as much mana and electricity as the whole city would use for a whole day. Creating a monster as strong as a Holy Senshi would, by Elder Mercury's calculations, take as much energy as what the whole country spent in one week.

It just wasn't worth it, really, so the room had mostly became a curiosity for visitors. The Senshi themselves didn't use it much, in fact this was the first time the room had been used in two years.

It had seemed strange, at first, that Kyouko only used death magic, and Hotaru had pointed that out to Usagi. But Usagi had answered with something that Hotaru herself had never realized. She had, indeed, been too used to see Chibi (a nickname that she still used, at times,) use only 'lunar magic.' She had never realized that, in fact, Usagi Tsukino the second had been born from a Moon Senshi and an Earth Senshi. Yet, the only way the pink-haired girl had to use rocks as attacks, was to lift them up with her own hands and toss them at the enemy.

"Hello? Earth to Hotaru?"

"Sorry, I got distracted," Hotaru said turning to Kyouko.

"I was asking you two about those 'special' powers..."

"Don't bother," Usagi said, "none of the Younger Senshi has been born with anything like that. Well, I have my extremely weak psichic senses, but that's it. And even with the Elders, only those we normally call 'Inner Senshi' have that kind of traits. Well, Hotaru here has her own kind of teleportation, but that's also an unique trait."

"That's unfair."

"That's just life," Usagi noted, "but you have something most other Senshi don't have, a Ginzuishou. Even Earth's crystal doesn't come any close to it when it comes to raw power."

"I don't know, I've only been able to have it improve my attacks. Maybe it's broken?"

Usagi frowned. "Can you summon it?"

Kyouko reached out her hand, and the crystal was there. It was something all the Senshi knew how to do, items they used in combat (even their suits) were turned into raw magic once unsummoned, and turned solid again once they summoned them mentally. How it worked was something not even Ami and Terry had yet figured out, but she wasn't worried about that. It worked, she knew it worked, and she used it.

Usagi picked the small crystal and looked at it. "No, the crystal is fine. I guess it's time you learn how to use it."

"You'll teach me?"

"Of course. I think I'm the only one who can teach you right now."

"One thing I've noticed about you two," Kyouko said looking at her two mothers in turn. "I've seen your battles of the past, they're easy enough to find in the archives. You don't ever tell the other what you will do next, and yet..."

"And yet, we always seem to know what the other's thinking," Hotaru completed for her. "That's something we got thanks to our relationship. After so many years fighting side by side, we just don't need to talk to know what either one of us is going to do next. "

"That's awesome."

Usagi smiled. "Nah, it just means I've been around this old woman for too long."

Meanwhile, a few dozen meters above them, someone was talking to the Queen. Someone who was rarely seen outside her post, and who, to most of mankind, didn't even exist.

"Despite how much I would wish for this to be a social visit, I know better than that," Serenity said. "So, Saki, tell me what your visit is about."

Saki looked around. "Is it safe to speak here?"

"As safe as ever," Serenity said, looking around the room she had centuries ago designated as her private meeting room. "The guards just outside this door, even if they were to overhear anything, are being paid to forget whatever it might be."

"That's good enough," Saki said. "There's an unkown danger out there, mother sensed its energy."

'Unknown' and 'out there,' both of those terms seemed alien to Serenity when said by this girl "what do you mean by 'out there'? Outside of our system? Of our galaxy?"

"Outside of our universe," Saki said, "outside of any known universe, in fact."

"You mean, like Apsu?"

"No, Apsu was acting from..." she seemed to look for the correct term, and in the end, decided for one Elder Mercury had used more than once, "... a pocket dimension. It was still part of our universe."

"In that case, you mean there's something beyond what we have seen. A place that doesn't belong to any universe..."

"Mother is investigating the matter right now."

"Alone?"

"She's the only one that's ever been there before, and someone had to stay behind and warn you, in case she didn't come back."

Now Serenity understood why Saki was really here. "And she's not been gone for only a few hours, or even a day, is she?"

Saki looked down. "She's been gone for a week now, and hasn't contacted me."

Serenity's face turned serious at once. "Let's not jump to conclusions, I take it you haven't felt anything..."

"She's alive, of that much I can be sure."

"And do you have a mean to get to that... Place?"

"I should have, I'm Sailor Pluto too," Saki said, visibly upset by that fact. "Unfortunately, she's never taught me how to go there, and it's not just like 'going' somewhere, from what little I understood of it."

Serenity shook her head. "I think only two persons in this city may be able to understand what you're trying to explain. I'll call them right away." Well, actually three people, but she didn't want to tell the Princess about this just yet. Not until they knew where Pluto was.

Of course, said couple was always interested in new information about what they called 'multiverse.' They listened to Saki's explanation (and so did Serenity, but the Queen didn't quite know what half of it mean,) and then the room fell silent for a minute.

At last, Ami nodded. "Hyperspace, that's where Pluto is."

Serenity knew she had heard the term before, back when she herself was a writer. A pity she had abandoned that when she became what she was now. But she was getting sidetracked. "Hyperspace? Like when ships travel real fast in science fiction?"

"The term can be used also for something that's beyond space, beyond our universe," Ami said, "and since we lack a name for it, that will do... Anyhow, think of it as the area which surrounds all our universes."

Serenity tried to imagine something like that. "Right. And Pluto is there." "So, how do we get there?"

Ami looked at Saki in surprise. "You don't know?"

"Mother never told me about that place until a week ago, and never taught me how to get there."

"That seems unlike her, to not foresee that she could end up falling into a trap, and us unable to reach her," Terry noted.

"Unless..." Ami started.

"Unless I knew I was in no immediate danger by going there," Pluto, who appeared as suddenly as she usually did, said.

Saki stood up from the couch she had been sitting on. "I was worried. "

"I can't blame you for that," Pluto said. "However, I must admit my little scouting was for naught."

"You didn't find anything out of place?"

"I didn't find anything at all there," Pluto said, "whatever it was that I felt, was gone by the time I reached it."

"So why did you take a week to get back?" Saki asked.

"Time passes differently in there. For you, it was a week, for me, only a few hours."

"So it was nothing after all?" Serenity asked.

"No, I wouldn't say 'nothing,' I found traces of a strange energy, something I haven't seen before. So someone, or something, was there. "

"Then we should be careful. Whatever it was..."

"I see no reason for it to hide from me," Pluto noted, "it may mean that the creature is just prodding, scouting us like I scouted its home."

"Curious superbeings," Terry mused, "with no evil intent at all?"

"Of that, I can't be sure," Pluto said, "we would have to face whatever creature it is that's lurking outside, and I can easily guess it can see us coming and hide like it did before."

"You've been to some other universes like ours," Terry said, looking at Pluto. It wasn't a question, since Pluto herself had told them that in the past. "So, you must have encountered worlds where teleporters such as the one I once field-tested were created."

"Whatever happened to those..." Ami started, then stopped and looked upset. She had never thought about those teleporters after the journey they went through, or, at least, after they used them to eliminate the Kh'Sun threat.

"Long story short, the risk of what happened to us happening to someone else wasn't small enough to ignore," Terry said, "so dad discontinued the project. They are the base of interplanetary teleporters, however."

Pluto smiled. "I know what you're going to ask," she said to Terry, "you're going to tell me to give you this." And with that, she reached her hand out, a single watch resting in it.

"But how did you get that?" Serenity asked.

"Never pondered why those two alternate Senshi never came to visit?" Pluto asked with a small smile.

"You didn't trust them," Terry guessed, "so you took that away from them. But what about the schematics..."

"Gone as well," Pluto said, "whatever happened in that world after we left, it was none of our business, and I couldn't risk leaving such a threat unchecked out of trust."

Terry looked at the watch. "A thousand years ago, I wouldn't know what to do with this, but nowadays, things are different."

Ami nodded. "We could, in theory, adapt it to travel to Hyperspace. "

"Hyperspace?" Pluto let out a laugh. "That's one of the best names I've heard for it. There's other universes out there, and in some, there's legends of a place like the one I've been on, a place 'outside any other place,' a place 'you can't reach by any known means.' That last bit, at least, is wrong."

Ami was busy checking her computer. No typing required, as usual, and that was a good thing, because she could check the archives as fast as she could think. "Terra Ultima," she finally said, "there's a record of such a legend in Silver Millenium, of the Terra Ultima. Best translation I can give is 'the final land,' or the 'land at the end of all.' Some people believed a godlike creature lived there. Not a fake god like Metallia or Wiseman, or even that Pharaoh monster... But in a more literal sense of the word, a being who couldn't die and who couldn't be destroyed, or even harmed."

"And he created us to his image?" Terry mused.

"I wouldn't discard that. But Pluto, if such a being was there all along, why could you only sense him now?"

"Because what he's doing now, whatever it is, may affect us. Or because he didn't want to be detected before. Can be one of those two, or both."

"Is 'he' evil?"

"I don't know," Pluto said, "wish I knew, but I've never been a religious person, I simply ignored religious beliefs in favor of what I knew as a fact."

"Well, they might have been right after all, at least partially right," Terry said, "where's a priest when you need one?"

Serenity shook her head at that. Same old Terry. "Setsuna, can't you look forwards in time and see what he's up to?"

"I've tried already," Pluto said, "the future's clouded, I can't see anything. There's only three entities I know that could do that. " She looked at Saki "Me, my daughter, or you yourself, Serenity."

Serenity cringed. "But why would any of us do something like that?"

"Unfortunately, we can't know that that until we get there," Saki said. "However, mother, a being of such power as a god..."

"Yes, of course, it may be that this 'god' we face doesn't want us to have foresight on things."

Terry shook his head and stood up. "Then let it be that way."

Ami looked at him, shocked. "Terry?"

"We've been living on a constant wait for the future for a freaking millenia already. If this god, demon or whatever it is wants us to stay unaware of what's going to happen, then I personally won't mind. "

Serenity flinched as Terry left the room. "He's right."

"You're just going to let things come to you?" Ami asked.

"What else can we do?" Serenity asked back. "Send Pluto on a wild goose chase? If that being is as powerful as we think, and doesn't want to be found, then we'll never find it. And how big is that... Hyperspace?"

"Again, hard to explain. Our universe is believed to be infinite, and that is quite a close guess on its size. It could take us millions of years to get to the closest 'border' of our universe right now, if we had ships that could travel at many times the speed of light."

"Which we don't," Ami admitted.

"Now this 'Hyperspace' we're talking about... It contains a seemingly infinite number of universes like ours. And those seem to only take a small portion of that place."

"In short, it's so large, it would take us trillions of years to explore it all?"

"That sums it up quite nicely," Pluto admitted.

"I'm not agreeing with you two here. We've never been like that, have we? Waiting for an enemy to..."

Serenity let out a sigh. "Ami, please, you know better than that. That's how things went with us in the past, and we always won in the end."

"That may be truth, and an optimistic way of thinking," Ami agreed, "but don't mind me if I don't share your optimism this time around. "

As Ami left the room, Serenity looked at the two Plutos. "Keep me informed of anything you sense. I don't want that creature to take us by surprise."

'That creature'? How rude of such an inferior being to be speaking of him like that. But still, he knew ignorant, weak beings didn't mean to be rude, it was just their own primitive way of thinking. Anyhow, he just couldn't afford to wait any longer, he was just too bored to wait. "It is time for you to go."

"Why can't I just kill them?"

"Because that would ruin my fun. And you know what I did for you. If you can't make things fun for me, I will just undo it."

"Let me say it clearly, then, that I don't think this is a good idea. They beat me, as much as I hate to admit it, a millenia ago, and from what I can sense, there's more of them now, and they've become stronger."

"What you think is none of my concern, I want you to entertain me, or else you're going back to the place you were before. And keep this in mind, woman, I created you."

"Wiseman did, but the loser is dead."

"Wiseman? Fool, Wiseman created the original, yes, a mere parasite inside a young girl, meant to corrupt her mind and turn her into his slave. That was his style, no doubt about it."

"The original? But I am..."

"You were made to believe you always existed within the younger Moon Senshi. I created you with such a delusion, but I don't care about keeping the act anymore. You were created to entertain me, and you did the job quite well until Serenity defeated you."

"Created to entertain you?" That was it. "Cut the crap!" the woman shouted, unleashing a wave of energy so powerful, it would have been able to destroy a large planet easily. Still, her target stood there, unmovable, unamused, and unharmed. Well, not unamused, since he smiled at her as the attack died out. "There's no way in hell anyone would survive that."

"I must admit, that was fun," the creature said, "I didn't think you would dare attacking me, but I also don't mind. Such is your mindset, I know it well."

"You bastard!" Black Lady caught herself just before sending another wave at him. No, it was useless, this creature... If it was true that he had created her, and she had no reason not to believe that right now, then he could also end her existance anytime he chose to. An image came to her, of Aurite's body exploding right in front of her eyes, and she paled. "I understand, I shall do as you command. "

The creature nodded. "Go."

Black Lady smiled inwards. Of course, she would do as he commanded, but only until she found a way to destroy him and finally be free. What she didn't know, however, is that he already knew of her intentions. He had created her, after all, but he didn't find her feelings towards him troublesome. No, that bloodlust, that ego, is what he was counting on to make things far more interesting.

Europa. Once a deserted satellite, now one of the many worlds that formed the Jovian System. Jupiter itself was being colonized, with the moons serving mostly as outposts. Only a few of the moons had a Seed, but that was no surprise, as the same had happened in many other satellites. However, this wasn't related to their size, but to the mana reserves they had. And Europa, Younger Saturn realized, had mana to spare.

Only problem she saw with this world, was that the atmosphere was a bit too thin, and when compared to the Earth, it had barely any oxygen at all. Of course, those who had lived here for decades were used to it, and she could easily ignore it too. Being a Senshi had many advantages, one of them being her ability to survive even where there was no oxygen at all.

This was the second time she was on her own. In the past, one of her mothers would usually be around to look after her, but she was old (and poweful) enough to fend off for herself, unless some insanely strong creature showed up... And the last of such creatures had been dealt with before she was born.

She was only a couple miles away from the capital of Europa, walking through a field of flowers she had never seen before. She had heard the others, even some of the youngers, talking about a time when the Earth was the only world populated by humans, and the only world with native plants and animals. All that, to her, sounded too strange to be true, but after watching several records of the Pre-Magic era (a name that she found fitting,) she couldn't help but wonder how things were back then. And she knew she would have loved to be in such an era, when enemies stronger than the last showed up constantly.

She was a Senshi, she was a warrior, but a warrior who had no enemies at all. She was growing tired of it, wasn't there anything out there in the universe strong enough to be a challenge? The universe itself, or maybe those in charge, had a strange sense of humor. Her mother had told her that several times, but she had never understood the meaning of that phrase.

"Well, well, I guess I found what I was looking for."

Or to be correct, she had never understood the meaning of that phrase, until now.

Standing there was someone she could have easily mistaken for her mother. The same hair color (Kyouko's being a darker shade of pink,) the same eyes, the same face. Only things giving away the difference were the suit and the way she was looking at her. "You are..."

"Black Lady, yes, that's me."

"But how? Serenity banished you, you couldn't have returned on your own."

"That much is true," Black Lady admitted, still studying the girl. This girl had the same energy as the one she knew as ChibiMoon, but also... "Out of curiosity, who's your father?"

"Father?" Kyouko shrugged. "Who said I had one?"

"But your mother is... Usagi?"

"Usagi and Hotaru," Kyouko said.

Black Lady stood frozen for a few seconds, then burst in laughter. "I wasn't informed of that. Seems her crystal's capable of way more than I thought."

"It sure is. Listen, I can guess what you're back for, but you shouldn't bother. They're way stronger than they were a thousand years ago."

"I wouldn't want it any other way."

"Then why aren't you in Crystal Tokyo? Are you afraid?"

Black Lady glared at the girl. "I was looking for that bitch, to kill her first, but I guess..." she paused for a few seconds, then smiled. "... killing her daughter first will be priceless."

Kyouko smiled at her. "If that's a challenge, you're on." Her clothes were replaced by her Senshi suit, and she reached a hand out. "Death Lance."

The woman stood there, looking at the incoming death blast dismissively. "If I wasn't able to sense the nature of your powers, I wouldn't believe such a weakling as you is her daughter." The blast hit, but she didn't even flinch. "You should use some real power, otherwise this will be a boring fight."

"Sorry, I'm Younger Saturn, not Moon," the girl snapped and aimed both hands at her foe. "Poison Mist."

That was a new one for Black Lady. It wasn't exactly death magic, it seemed more like a mix of both energies. And the result was a foul cloud of a sickly green color. Although she was barely affected by it, Black Lady still walked out of it as fast as she could. "That was impressive, I admit. But I'll have to send it back your way. Dark Poison Mist."

Saturn was suddenly surrounded by a dark, thick cloud. She could hardly breathe, this attack was stronger than her own. If she couldn't get out of the cloud fast, she could... Her thoughts were interrupted by a hit to her midsection, which sent her flying back and out of there. "What was that..."

"One of my many talents is copying my enemies' attacks," Black Lady explained. "But I couldn't let you die with that, I want to kill you with my own attack."

"You won't kill anyone, bitch!"

Black Lady knew that voice, and for a split second, she considered turning around and mocking her. But, she realized, she couldn't move. "You loser, what are you here for?"

"Loser?" Hana laughed at that. "I admit last time I fought you, I was weak. But while most of the Senshi didn't train much in the last thousand years, I've been training whenever I could. As you see, not even you can escape my mind's power now."

"Keeping me in place will only help you until you run out of juice," Black Lady snapped.

"Oh, that's quite right. And I'm sure you remember how I used to be, I could only let a minimal part of my power out, unless I wanted to risk going berserk and destroying everything around me."

"Sure do, that's what makes you a loser."

"That's what made me a 'loser,'" Hana said.

Black Lady didn't need to ask what she meant, because Hana had unleashed her power as soon as she stopped talking. Unlike what she remembered, this time Hana wasn't recklessly creating a psichic storm. No, this time, she was focusing all that power into her mind, into her body, burning her from inside with psichic energy.

"This can't..." Black Lady screamed in pain before she could complete her phrase. How could this slut be so powerful? She could hardly think straight right now, she couldn't teleport away, she only had a few more seconds before it was over. No, she couldn't die yet, not like that. Not while fighting one of those lame sidekicks.

Hana looked at Black Lady in shock as the woman started moving. "What the heck..."

"You forgot about this, moron? I can't be defeated by the likes of you, because I can power up when I know I'm about to be defeated."

Hana seemed surprised at that for a few seconds as Black Lady slowly moved to her, then smiled. "Then it's a good thing I was only using a portion of my real power."

Black Lady felt the new surge of energy hit her and screamed again. No, that couldn't be, this bitch was as strong as a Holy Senshi! And she couldn't block this kind of power, she couldn't copy it, if this kept up, she was going to...

Younger Saturn gasped as Black Lady vanished. "Did you kill her?"

Hana was still staring at the spot where her target had been. "No, she left. She must be stronger than I thought, if she could teleport even with my power turning her mind into jelly."

"Thanks for the help."

"Are you okay, girl?"

"Yeah, don't worry. But why are you here?"

"I've been visiting all the worlds in this system, out of boredom. It was fortunate that witch attacked today, since I arrived from Jupiter a few hours ago."

The two walked back to the city, and once inside, Kyouko looked at the girl. "What you did out there... How can you unleash that much power and not lose control of it?"

"Because I've stopped fearing my powers, girl."

Kyouko nodded at that, and then realized something. She had seen a lot of records of the old era, and of the battles the Senshi had during the Crystal Tokyo era. She had seen her mothers train, in the present. While Saturn's powers were nothing to underestimate, they looked far easier to control than those of the Moon Senshi.

Maybe that was it, that was the reason why she couldn't use those powers. It's not that she couldn't use them, but that she was, at least at a subconscious level, afraid of using them and losing control. She would have to talk to Usagi about it, but right now, she had to warn everyone back home about the 'new' evil being that had showed up.

Another advantage of being a Senshi was that she could teleport anywhere she wanted, at least within the limits of the solar system. It took a lot of practice to know how to do it safely, but it was good that she had learnt it, or she would have to call someone else to take her to Earth, or used the normal transport means. Spaceships weren't slow, but instant teleportation was definitely better.

Thus, she was standing in the throne room of the Crystal Palace, only half an hour after her battle with an ancient evil, and had told the Queen. Hana had tagged along, but they thought the Queen would be alone at the time. However, Younger Moon was there too, and hadn't taken the news lightly.

"That bitch is back? How can that be?"

"Maybe that's related to something else we're keeping an eye on," Serenity said.

"You should have killed that thing back then."

Serenity looked at her daughter and nodded. "Maybe I should. But I still think death was too light a punishment for her crimes."

"Death will be her punishment this time around," Moon said.

"She didn't seem much stronger than last time," Hana noted, "I suppose one Holy Senshi, specially the Elders, would be able to deal with her."

"That's right, you almost killed her," Kyouko noted.

"But she escaped, something I don't see as possible, unless someone helped her from the outside."

Serenity sighed. "From the outside, indeed. I think now I know what he is planning."

"He?" Hana asked.

"I'll see if I can tell anyone about this, but first I have to talk to Pluto."

Moon saw Serenity about to leave and frowned. "Like hell you're not going to tell me."

"Now, Chibi..."

"Don't bother, mother. That bitch almost killed my daughter, so I want to know who she's working for."

"If I knew, I would tell you," Serenity admitted. "Come with me."

Kyouko blinked as the two women vanished. "Wow, wonder what all that's about?"

"Same here." "Can't you read their minds?"

"I never do. Besides, Serenity is my friend, if she doesn't want to tell me what she knows, then she must have a good reason for it."

Usagi appeared in the room again, looking straight at Kyouko. "So, had fun out there?"

"Wait, wasn't grandma going to..."

"She already explained it. We've just spent a few hours in the 'limbo,' and I pretty much know all they know about it. Whatever it is."

Kyouko shook her head. "As for your question, yes, I had fun."

"Even though that enemy was far stronger than you?"

"Specially because of that."

"She's your daughter, no doubts about it," Hana noted.

Usagi laughed. "Of course." She paused for a moment. "I didn't thank you for saving my daughter's life."

"No need for that," Hana said dismissively, "it was a chance to test the limit of my powers."

"It's a pity I stopped training that many centuries ago."

"You weren't a match for me to begin with, not with psi powers, at least."

"Then why did you train me, the younger me?"

"Because you needed those powers in several battles."

"Oh, right." Usagi turned to Kyouko. "As for you, girl, you need to rest. Let's go home."

"Can you train me?"

Usagi shook her head. "Daughter, I don't think you can reach Holy level fast enough. If you're thinking about fighting her..."

"That's one reason, but I want to know if I can use lunar magic."

Usagi couldn't help but smile at that. She was sure Kyouko could use that kind of magic, the only thing stopping her was herself. She would have to thank Black Lady for causing this change of heart in her daughter. And by thanking her, she meant kicking her ass back to whichever universe she crawled out from.

"That was indeed entertaining."

"Not for me."

"Yes, I realize now that in order to make things more amusing, I will need to unseal your highest level of power."

Black Lady frowned. "Unseal my... I can do that myself!"

"No, you can't, for not even you know just how powerful you can be. "

"If it helps me killing those bitches, then go ahead."

"Never said I needed your permission," the creature said.

Black Lady felt it almost immediately, a surge of power coming from within her, her very flesh being overloaded with energy. This kind of power was simply amazing, there was no way the Senshi could stop her!

"It is done," the creature said, "but you may want to test your powers here before you go play with the Senshi."

"Of course," Black Lady said. "But letting them rest isn't good."

"Only thing I'd worry about, is my own boredom while I wait. But don't worry yourself with that, because I have already sent someone to keep them busy for a while."

Black Lady couldn't help but smile at that. If not for the fact he was using her for his own amusement, she could have liked this bastard's way of doing things.

A/N: This will be the last arc for Cyber Moon, but I may do some stories related to this one later on. However, once I'm done with this arc, I'll work on finishing my other projects (three fanfics for Pokemon, one for Digimon, and a rewrite to Summoner Wars.)

And I'm going to go back to Genesis in a near future and 'fix' it. That part of the saga looked good back when I finished it, but after reading it again, I realized there's many things I can improve, or even add, without affecting the other two sagas.