Chapter 12
The Reunion and The Transformation
When the girls had finally gotten up and dressed they exited the room holding hands and went in search of their brothers. Finding them in the kitchen they entered and Rei asked.
"You guys ready to go?"
"Actually Mamoru just called and invited us to go play basketball with him at the gym that way you girls can have a fun reunion without the guys, we will show up later at Haruka and Michiru's to watch movies" Youchiro said smiling at the girls.
"That ok?" John asked.
"Yeah its fine guess we will see you in a while then" Mina said secretly happy the guys went coming, that way they could talk about their senshi days without having to worry about John. They didn't have to worry about Youchiro he had found out about the group a long time ago and has always kept their secret. Mina guessed that Mamoru had thought of this when he asked John to go play basketball which Mina knew John was good at and enjoyed.
The girls had just reached Juban park and saw the group huddled around a few picnic tables. Everyone was their except Ami and Makoto.
"Hey guys" Mina said cheerfully. "Setsuna its so good to see you again" Mina said while giving time senshi a hug. Rei followed and did the same.
"You haven't changed a bit" Rei said smiling at the gorgeous green haired and crimson eyed women.
"Actually I haven't changed a bit in a very long time Mars" Setsuna said. Rei smiled Setsuna often called them by their past life titles. Rei always thought that it was because she was alive and knew them back then and it was hard to change what you call people.
"So Minako where's your boyfriend everyone has been telling me about I'd love to meet him" Setsuna asked Mina was about to say John wasn't her boyfriend when Haruka walked up with Hotaru and Chibiusa cutting off the conversation.
"So Sets were have you been we haven't seen you in about a week and you didn't show up to pick up Hotaru." Haruka said.
"Well their has been a problem with the time line. Something has happened I'm not sure what but there are a few possible outcomes and some of them aren't good." Setsuna said worried.
"What" Hotaru said "How can you not know what has caused it, when ever there was a shift in the time line before you always knew why"
"There have been a few instances in the past were things like this have happened but it was a very long item ago around and before the time of the silver millennium."
"Yes I remember my mother talking about this and she specifically told me not to say anything she said what will be will be and if I try to stop it, it may cause more damage then help. I am sorry because its going to really suck if it goes the way it did in my future" Chibiusa said sadly looking at the ground.
"Then you shouldn't talk about it Small Lady not even to Hotaru I know you guys are close but this is a matter that could change the future. I don't know what has caused it this time but it does not look good for one of you in some of the possible futures. One is so bad that it may stop the coming of Crystal Tokyo and if that happens it may stop your birth altogether" Setsuna said looking at Chibiusa. All the women looked worried but Hotaru looked down right scared at the possibility.
"don't worry girls I'm sure everything will work out" Michiru said trying to lighten the mood.
Just then Ami and Makoto showed up and the topic was changed to that of Usagi's wedding.
"I'm so excited" Usagi said. "But I'm not sure if I should put you all in different colored dresses or one color. What do you guys think, I've already chose the style I just have to decide on the colors?" They talked about dress colors for a while until Haruka got bored and asked if they wanted to play a game of volley ball. Everyone immediately agreed except Rei and Setsuna but Rei was quickly convinced to play by a pouting Minako.
"Please Rei come on you can be on my team" Mina said grabbing Rei's hand.
"Fine" Rei said begrudgingly not being able to say no to her love. But still showing her displeasure in her tone.
"What about you Sets? come on we need you for even teams" Haruka said to the time senshi. Having lost her only ally in the battle against looking stupid and having to wear a bathing suit. (it was beach volley ball the park had a special area with sand filled nets) Setsuna gave in to her blond friend.
"Fine but I didn't bring my suit" She said.
"Don't worry Michiru brought it for you" Haruka said with a smile. As they all went to the changing room to put on their swim suits. They emerged and started walking to the nets,
Hotaru, Chibiusa, Makoto and Usagi all had one pieces on. Hotaru's was dark purple, Usagi and Chibiusa's were both pink and in the exact same style, and Makoto's was a deep green. The other girls were all wearing bikinis in different styles. Haruka's was bright yellow and had spaghetti straps Michiru's was the same style but an aqua green the same shade as her hair. Ami's had normal width straps and was ice blue. Rei's was of a similar but not exact style as Ami's but with boy short bottoms and was a deep red. Setsuna's and Minako's were both halter tops, Mina's being bright orange and Setsuna's was a light purple.
When they made it to the court they immediately started to argue over teams.
"Lets do this fairly and have two captains, Haruka can be the leader of one team and Minako can lead the other" Setsuna said. "Haruka gets to pick first since Minako used to play volley ball and she has an advantage" Setsuna finished in a matter of fact tone. Everyone immediately agreed. The two captains walked a little away from the group and separated to as to be able to keep the two teams apart.
"Ok" Haruka started. "I pick Michiru" She said 'No surprise their' everyone thought
"alright" Mina stated "I get Rei"
"Setsuna" Haruka said next.
"Makoto" was Minako's next pick.
"Hotaru" from Haruka.
"Ami" this from Minako.
"Chibiusa" from Haruka "and that leave you with Usagi" Haruka said smiling.
"Hey how come the princess's are picked last aren't you guys supposed to like us" Chibiusa said frowning. Haruka answered.
"Well Usagi is a klutz and you are form the future were there is no volley ball so you wont know the rules that's why you were picked last."
"That's not nice Haruka" Usagi said while everyone laughed.
"I'll remember this slight when I'm queen" Chibiusa joked making everyone laugh harder.
"Hey why did we even bother to pick teams we just split ourselves up into Outer and Inner senshi look even our leaders are our captains." this came from Hotaru while grinning.
"Oh my gosh your right even in little games like this we seem to separate ourselves" Ami said smiling.
They all laughed as they took their respective sides on the court, and the game began. It started out light and fun until Mina spiked it dangerously close to Haruka who decided that it was a challenge to see who could hit who. After a while the challenge turned into an out right war and the volley ball game was forgotten and the two girls chased each other around trying to belt the ball at each other by simply throwing it. The other team members feeling slighted decided that throwing the ball was no fun but a wrestling match was in order. Well all except Setsuna and Ami who found it amusing but decided they were not going to participate.
Just when the wrestling was winding down Mamoru, Youchiro, and John showed up all wearing shorts with t-shirts in their hands from playing basketball.
"Hey girls having fun I see" This from Mamoru. "We finished playing early so we thought we would join you". Upon hearing Mamoru's voice Ami and Setsuna turned to look at the boys. When John and Setsuna's eyes met John immediately began to glow a bright orange color, shining with the shape of the sun on his forehead. For a split second he wasn't wearing shorts he was wearing a uniform exactly the same as the one Endymion wore except instead of black and blues it was white and gold.
When his clothes changed John was seeing visions, memories rushed back to him causing his head to ache. He saw himself and all the others a long time ago. And he remembered everything, and then he was back on earth wearing shorts his t-shirt forgotten on the grass were he dropped it. Everyone was speechless and was just stairing at John until they heard someone speak.
"Solarus" this was whispered by Setsuna.
"Pluto" John nearly yelled back as he ran forward picking Setsuna up swinging her around and kissing her deeply, Setsuna put her arms around his neck and reciprocated, John continued to kiss her deeply making everyone slightly uncomfortable standing their watching the two supposed strangers making out rather vigorously.
A/N I quickly fell in love with my side character John and wanted him to be a closer part of the group so I paired him with Setsuna. He was also Endymion's best friend in their past life.