Hello! There are several people who make their appearances in this chapter:
Bonnie – SM Equivalent: Ami Mizuno
Dee – Rei Hino
Phoenix – Makoto Kino
Enjoy!
Disclaimer:
Sparrowflyaway: Oh, what a pretty lamp! Urgh, there's a nasty smear on the side. Let's give it a polish... *poof*
Genie: Greetings, I am the Genie of-
Sparrowflyaway: ooh, a Genie! Do I get three wishes?
Genie: well...
Sparrowflyaway: OK, my first wish is for a lifetime supply of chocolate, my second wish is for a Sailor Venus costume, and my third is for the rights to Sailor Moon.
Genie: Um, sorry, but you'll have to work hard for a lifetime supply of chocolate, you'll have to make the Sailor Venus costume yourself or get your parents to buy you one, and your third wish, for you to own the rights to Sailor Moon, well, that's never going to happen.
Sparrowflyaway: what do you mean? You're a genie! Can't you just click your fingers and make it happen?
Genie: I've been trying to tell you. I'm the Genie of Good Advice, and my job is not to grant wishes, but to give you advice as to how you can make your wishes come true for yourself.
Sparrowflyaway: awww! Were's the fun in having to work and beg for things? That stinks.
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"Luna, what are we doing here?" Steph asked, standing outside the bowling alley.
"I told you already, Steph, we're going to the Secret Base," Luna replied curtly from her position on Steph's shoulder.
"The Base is in the bowling alley?" Steph asked, glancing through the glass doors at the bowlers inside.
"No, Steph, it's not in the bowling alley. It's in there," Luna said, nodding towards a door in the brick wall of the ice-creamery next to the bowling alley.
"Through there? How are we supposed to get in there? It's all bricked up," Steph said, opening the door to reveal a brick wall. Luna smiled.
"Try focusing on your brooch before opening the door, Steph," Luna whispered, her amber eyes twinkling. Steph closed the door and focused her mind on her brooch, then opened the door again to reveal a set of stairs leading downwards. Steph stepped through the door and shut it behind her, then descended the staris to find a brightly-coloured room. The ceiling was silver, the carpet on the floor was pink, and the walls were all painted different colours. The wall that the stairs ended at was orange, the wall to the left was blue, the wall to the right was green, and the wall opposite the stairs was red. Steph went and sat down on the white couch in the middle of the room and looked around, smiling happily.
"Do you like it, Steph?" Luna asked, jumping onto the couch beside Steph. Steph smiled and nodded.
"Yeah, this is awesome!" Steph said, spotting a small hatch in the green wall. She got up and opened it to find a small box with seven holes in it. "Hey, what's this for?" Steph asked.
"Well, one of the benefits of having our Secret Base situated underneath an ice-creamery is that we get free ice-cream," Luna said, smiling. Steph grinned and took a copy of the ice-creamery's menu from a small silver table next to the hatch.
"How do I order, Luna?" Steph asked, turning to her feline friend. Luna jumped onto the silver table and opened another hatch, revealing a small, sphere-like michrophone. Steph seized it and began ordering flavours. Her ice-cream cone arrived, and she sat down in the pink chair at a large white table. Steph licked her ice-cream and examined the gold crescent moon in the middle of the table.
"Steph, we need to talk about your mission," Luna said, jumping onto the table.
"Mission? What mission?" Steph asked, before taking a big bite of chocolate ice-cream.
"Your mission as a Sailor Scout. We need to find our Princess, the Moon Princess. We also need to find her Imperium Silver Crystal, and prevent the Negaverse from getting it," Luna said.
"Negaverse?" Steph said, her eyes widening. Luna nodded.
"Yes, the Negaverse. They're the ones who sent that youma last night," Luna said curtly. Steph frowned.
"They sound like evil jerks to me," Steph glowered.
"Of course they're evil, Stephanie! They're attacking innocent people and stealing their energy! I'm not exactly sure what they need human energy for, but I'm working together with Central Control to find out," Luna said.
"Central Control?" Steph asked. Luna only nodded and jumped off the table. She went over to a silver computer and turned it on, then picked up a microphone headset and put it on.
"Please enter voice identification passcode," an electronic voice said.
"The Moon and the Kitty are together once more," Luna said.
"Hello Luna. So I see that you have found Sailor Moon," the voice said.
"Yes, I found her. She is rather silly and slow to get going," Steph let out a noise of protest at that, "But she is a very good fighter, and she managed to defeat the youma," Luna finished, glancing at Steph.
"With a little help from V, you mean," the voice said. Luna faltered.
"Well... yes, but Sailor Moon still did very well, considering it was her very first youma," Luna said.
"Yes, she did. But now, Luna, you need to locate the other Scouts. I have a feeling that Sailor Mercury will be the next to awaken, so keep an eye out for her," the voice said, the computer screen changing to display Mercury's profile details. Luna pulled the headset off and placed it down, turning to an incredulous Steph.
"There's a Sailor Mercury too?" Steph whispered, the remains of her ice-cream dripping onto the table. Luna smiled and nodded.
"Yes. Sailor Mercury is the Sailor Scout of Water and Wisdom. She has the highest IQ of all the Sailor Scouts. She is, quite literally, a genius," Luna said, reading from the information on the computer screen. Steph threw her melted ice-cream into a small bin by the wall and walked over to the computer screen, staring at the picture of the blue-haired Scout on the screen.
"Sailor Mercury... She looks a little like my friend Bonnie Mizuno," Steph said, before gasping. "Oh no! I forgot! I was supposed to go to Bonnie's beach party today!" Steph turned and ran up the stairs, leaving Luna sitting at the computer. Luna stared after her for a moment, before turning back to the computer and typing, 'Bonnie Mizuno(?)'. Luna saved the changes, then switched the computer off and ran after Steph.
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"Hey Bonnie! Sorry I'm late, I had.... things to do," Steph said, smiling at her blonde-haired friend. Bonnie turned away from the cd player to smile at Steph
"hey, Steph, good to see you. Help yourself to the snacks," Bonnie said, nodding at a table with multiple tubs and trays on it. Steph grinned and ran across the sand to the table, where she prised open tubs to find biscuits, cake, lollies... She finally found a tub of chocolate eclairs and took one eagerly, then went to seal the tub again, but found that the lid would not go back on.
"Hey, Bonnie? The lid won't go back on this tub," Steph called. Bonnie walked over to the table and looked at the tub, a grin spreading over her face.
"It's upside down, genius," Bonnie said, smiling and shaking her head. Steph looked at the lid and blushed, realising that Bonnie was right; she had been trying to put the lid on upside down. She quickly flipped the lid over and closed the tub, then picked up her chocolate eclair and a can of lemonade and sat down in a shady chair.
"Hey Stephy, what'cha doing?" a cheerful voice called, and Steph looked up to see her cousin Christina Aino walking towards her. With her were two of Steph's good friends, Dee Hino and Phoenix Kino. Steph smiled and waved at them.
"Hi, guys, how are you?"
"I'm totally exhausted, Stephy. I barely got any sleep last night," Christina said, thinking about the Youma battle.
"Yeah, me too. Last night was pretty busy for me," Steph said.
"Really? I didn't think reading comics would be tiring," Christina said teasingly. Steph blushed a little and sipped her lemonade.
"Hey, did you guys hear? A Youma attacked Holly's mum's store last night," Phoenix said. Both Steph and Christina pretended to look surprised, while Dee's look of surprise was real.
"Really? What happened?" Steph asked, hoping that she looked curious.
"Holly said that the youma was disguised as her mum, and it drained everyone's energy. It was going to drain Holly too, except someone called Sailor Moon turned up, and she and Sailor V defeated the youma," Phoenix said.
"Really? So Sailor V and Sailor Moon are working together?" Dee asked.
"Seems that way," Phoenix said, not noticing the akward expressions on Steph and Christina's faces. Suddenly, a scream split the air, and the four girls whirled around to see a youma very like the one at the jewellery store standing in the middle of the beach. With a surge of horror, the girls realised that it had Bonnie held tightly in its fist.
"Help!!!" Bonnie yelled, fighting to get out.
"We've got to get out of here!" Steph and Christina said simultaneously.
"But... what about Bonnie?" Dee asked, looking worriedly at their friend.
"Do you want to end up like her?!?" Phoenix asked, grabbing Dee's wrist and pulling her away. Steph and Christina looked at each other, before diving behind some bushes.
"Chrissy, you stay here. I'm going to get help," Steph said, before standing and walking towards the youma. Christina gripped her transformation pen and transformed into Sailor V with a flash of golden light, prepared to protect her cousin. She quickly found out that Steph didn't need as much protection as she thought, as she heard Steph shout,
"Moon Prism Power!" Sailor V gaped as she watched Steph transform into Sailor Moon.
"S-Stephy... Stephy is Sailor Moon?" Sailor V whispered, staring at her cousin as she whirled around and posed, before removing her tiara and throwing it at the youma. The tiara sliced the youma's arm, and it roared and dropped Bonnie onto the sand. Bonnie scrambled away from the youma as it reached out and attempting to grab Sailor Moon, who was dodging away and shrieking every time it came close to catching her. She soon began to tire, and the youma grabbed her and threw her down the beach. Bonnie clambered to her feet and yelled,
"Hey you Stupid Baka, leave her alone!" Sailor Moon looked at Bonnie and gasped at the blue Mercury symbol glowing on her forehead.
"Bonnie..." Sailor Moon whispered, staring at her friend. Suddenly, Luna jumped out of some nearby bushes and tossed a small gold-and-blue pen into Bonnie's lap.
"Shout 'Mercury Power,' Bonnie!" Luna said. Bonnie stared from Luna to the pen and back again, then held the pen up.
"Mercury Power!" Blue ribbons of light shot out of the pen, making her hair short and blue, and forming a white leotard, dark blue skirt, collar and boots, white gloves similar to Sailor Moon's except with blue bands instead of red, light blue ribbons on her chest and lower back, and a golden tiara with a blue gem on her forehead. Bonnie twirled around and posed.
"Only a Baka like you would ruin a party! I'm Sailor Mercury! And in the name of Mercury, I shall punish you!" she shouted, glaring at the youma. The Youma grabbed the snacks grabbed the snacks table, throwing it wildly at Sailor Mercury. Sailor Mercury ducked, and the table flew across the beach and smacked into Sailor V, who was still crouched behind the bushes, shocked to find that two of her friends were Sailor Scouts. Sailor V was thrown backwards, detransforming as she passed out. Luna, oblivious to this, shouted,
"Sailor Mercury! Use your Mercury Bubbles Blast!" Mercury nodded and held her hand close together, forming a large blue bubble between her hands.
"Mercury Bubbles Blast!" she shouted, releasing the bubble and covering the beach in a thick blanket of fog.
"Hey, where's she go?" the youma asked stupidly, unable to see anything except whiteness. Sailor Moon scrambled to her feet as she saw a figure looming towards her in the fog, but found a gloved hand grabbing her wrist and helping her up as Sailor Mercury's face appeared through the fog. The two Scouts smiled at each other. Sailor Moon then let out a gasp of surprise as a dark-red hand grabbed her around the waist and lifted her off the ground. She shrieked and twisted in the youma's grip, her hands pinned to her sides. Suddenly, a small red object whooshed past her ear and embedded itself in the youma's wrist. The youma roared in pain ad dropped Sailor Moon, who jumped to her feet and ran to Sailor Mercury's side, staring at the object that the youma was tugging at: a red rose.
"Finish it off, Sailor Moon!" a voice called. Sailor Moon and Sailor Mercury looked up to see a tall figure perched in nearby tree. He wore a black tuxedo, cape, top hat gloves and shoes, a white mask, and was holding a rose very like the one embedded in the Youma's wrist. Sailor Moon nodded and took off her tiara.
"Moon Tiara Magic!" she shouted, throwing the tiara at the dark form of the youma, which shrieked and exploded into dust. Sailor Moon and Sailor Mercury high-fived each other and looked around at the snack food scattered all over the beach.
"Oh, man! Now all the food's ruined!" Sailor Moon complained.
"Well done, Sailor Moon," the black-clad figure said.
"Wait, who are you?" Sailor Moon asked, staring at the figure. The figure looked at her for a moment, before saying,
"Tuxedo Mask."
"Well then, thank-you, Tuxedo Mask, for saving me," Sailor Moon said. Tuxedo Mask nodded to the two Sailor Scouts, then jumped out of the tree and ran off.
"Tuxedo Mask... He looks kinda cute," Sailor Moon said, smiling. Sailor Mercury bent down and picked up a sandwich.
"Now these really are sand-wiches," she joked as some sand fell out of the sandwich.
"Yeah, so much for the party," Sailor Moon moaned, looking around. She shrieked when she saw the snacks table lying upside down on top of the bushes where she had told Christina to hide. She ran over, grabbed the table and threw it aside to reveal Christina sprawled unconscious beneath it. Sailor Moon detransformed and gently shook Christina's shoulders.
"Come on, Chrissy, wake up!" Steph pleaded. Sailor Mercury let her outfit fade, staring at Steph.
"You're Sailor Moon?" Bonnie whispered. Steph turned to look at her and nodded. They heard a soft groan, and turned to find Christina blinking slowly at them.
"S-Stephy? W-where's the youma?" Christina whispered. Steph smiled at her cousin.
"It's OK, Christina, Sailor Moon and another Scout called Sailor Mercury showed up and got rid of it," Bonnie said.
"And this other guy called Tuxedo Mask helped too, Bonnie," Steph said. Christina nodded slowly and got to her feet.
"Are you OK, Christina?" Bonnie asked. Christina smiled and nodded.
"Yeah, I'm fine. You OK? I got so worried when I saw that the youma had caught you," Christina smiled.
"Yeah I know. It was pretty freaky, but I'm OK," Bonnie said.
"I guess this means the party's over, huh," Steph said looking around at the beach again. Christina clutched her head and staggered, falling into Bonnie's arms.
"Whoa, I feel kinda dizzy..." Christina said, sitting down on the sand. Suddenly her eyes widened, and she looked around the beach frantically.
"Where'd Dee and Phoenix go?" she asked. As if in answer to her question the two missing girls wandered cautiously back towards them.
"Is it gone?" Dee asked, looking around. Steph nodded.
"Yeah, Sailor Moon, Sailor Mercury and Tuxedo Mask defeated it," she said.
"Sailor Mercury? Tuxedo Mask? Who're they?" Phoenix asked, her eyes widening.
"Sailor Mercury is another Sailor Scout. Tuxedo Mask, well, I'm not really sure who he is, but he's this tall guy wearing a tuxedo and a mask," Bonnie said.
"Cool, so there's another Sailor Scout now. That's three, isn't it?" Dee asked. Steph, Bonnie and Christina nodded.
"It's too bad we can't eat the party food now," Christina said, looking around at the food littering the beach.
"Yeah, and I'm hungry. Who votes for McDonalds?" Steph said. Four hands went up, and all five girls smiled.