Sailor Moon Alternate Re-Write

by Sailor Mars Fanatic

This is an alternative retelling of the events of the first season of Sailor Moon with unique changes and plot twists. It is based upon the old English dub that was produced by Dic.

40. Chapter 40

CHAPTER 40

Luna and Artemis had been training the Sailor Scouts very intensely for their biggest battle ever. Jedite, Titus and the Dream Dolly had warned them about the Negaforce and the five torturers known as the Doom and Gloom Girls.
"The Negaforce is an extremely powerful spirit entity. It has no physical form," Jedite explained, "While all of us were floating together in our cramped prison in the deepest recesses of space it discovered us and wanted to know who and what we were."
Titus took over, "When Queen Beryl told it about everything that had happened to us it said that it had been planning to conquer and control the universe itself for a long time. It needed to find some allies who would feed it huge quantities of energy to allow it to break free from its limited boundaries and unleash fury and destruction upon all who it wanted to enslave."
Jedite continued, "Queen Beryl made a deal that we would all serve the Negaforce if it would release us and Queen Beryl would be ruler of the universe only second to the Negaforce itself. So we made our way back to the universe Queen Serenity had banished us from."
Titus took her turn again, "We discovered that Serenity had also sent us a thousand years into the future. The moon was a vacant lifeless satelite and all traces of life on the planets had faded into obscurity. Except for the earth."
"So we started to attack the earth people for energy to nourish our new master. Then you all began to appear starting with Sailor Moon. Though none of us made the connection with the female warriors we encountered on the moon long ago at first."
As Jedite told them this part the girls were amazed and wide-eyed but then Titus said something that made them shudder.
"The Negaforce voluntarily expended some of its power reserves to create five feminine creatures it called the Doom and Gloom Girls. And believe me if they get their hands on you it literally means doom and gloom for yourself."
The Dream Dolly who was sitting nearby nodded her head and spoke up for the first time in this briefing, "That's right. Our queen uses them as her personal torture chamber operators. I myself have tended to my dear friends after they were punished for failing some of the missions you Sailor Scouts thwarted. They had their backs brutally flogged red raw and their thumbs and big toes crushed painfully."
The Sailor Scouts all gasped in horror.
Jedite and Titus concurred, "That's right. None of us were ever really safe from them while we were alive. If any single one of us rubbed our queen up the wrong way we would have been handed over to those Doom and Gloom Girls."
"You can't afford to underestimate the dangers you'll be going up against."

They all thanked Jedite and the others for this important information and then the two Guardian Cats had begun training the Scouts for four days straight in every moment of their spare time. On the afternoon of the fifth day it was a Friday after school. Everybody met at the Cherry Hill Temple in private chambers where Grandfather and Chad couldn't hear them.
"So we're finally ready to attack Queen Beryl," said Raye.
But then Serena nudged her and said with a cheeky grin, "Hey Raye. Very important question. Did you remember to kiss Chad goodbye?"
Raye reacted with annoyance but Luna and Artemis called everyone to order.
"Okay girls. This will be a tough battle but Luna and I are counting on you."
"Are you all feeling confident?" Luna added but Serena snappily answered.
"Yeah. We've trained enough. Moon Prism Power."
As she transformed the others followed suit.
"Mercury Power!"
"Mars Power!"
"Jupiter Power!"
"Venus Power!"
They all joined hands in a circle and closed their eyes. "Believe in yourselves and you will succeed Sailor Scouts," Artemis assured them.
Concentrating hard they silently shimmered and vanished without a trace.
"They're on their way Luna."
"Do you really believe they are capably ready Artemis?"
"I know that at least four of them are Luna. But Serena?" Artemis blushed and gulped. "Well I hope she's ready. But her attitude of commitment was rather appalling. You saw yourself how she snapped just now and said they had trained enough. She really didn't want to train as much as we all forced her to. She was always grumbling about having no time to visit the Arcade or watch TV or anything."
Luna sighed, "I feel the exact same way Artemis. But she and her friends will be facing the Queen of the Negaverse, this evil Negaforce and its terrible Doom and Gloom Girls. Serena must be prepared and ready."
Artemis said, "Well maybe she'll luck out and clutz her way through it while the enemies all miss her and accidentally destroy each other?" But he was speaking with uncertain hopes and he and Luna both knew it.
Through a crack in the open door Jedite, Titus and the Dream Dolly had all been watching and listening in secret. They all looked at each other with worried expressions.

Meanwhile in the Negaverse Queen Beryl had finally been pushed past the boundary of whatever trace of reason she could have been said to have. When Malachite's grisly corpse was discovered and the Seven Shadows couldn't be found anywhere her anger was literally insane. To the horror of the small remaining handful of her army she had jumped up out of her throne and pointed her finger in their general direction as they all stood in front of her and screamed at the top of her voice, "The six of you will all pay dearly for the loss of the Mighty Shadow Warriors anew! I command the Doom and Gloom Girls to seize you all with the assistance of Prince Darien!"
"Wait but Queen Beryl," Gureepo began to say as Prince Darien and the Doom and Gloom Girls surrounded her, the other two members of the Plant Trio, Yasha, Castor and her sister Pollux.
"Have mercy on us."
"Please. This wasn't our fault."
They all made similar pleadings as they were roughly seized. But things were even worse than they feared as their enraged queen gave her heartless decree.
"I don't care whose fault it may or may not have been. I have decided that since my race is just about completely extinct it may as well be wiped out. Therefore I hereby turn you all over to be tortured every day for three hours by the Doom and Gloom Girls until you slowly die one by one. Then as the very last of the Youma people I shall create a new breed of race with Prince Darien of the planet Earth in its place."
Her terrified soldiers screamed and to her satisfaction the Gemini Twins actually burst into tears. She laughed at their faces with their eyes scrunched up and salty tears running down their cheeks. Darien assisted the Doom and Gloom Girls to drag them and the others off to the torture chambers. Yasha's ribs had been pretty much healed and so had Pollux's arm but they now had even worse pain like their comrades. This had been going on mercilessly three hours every morning for the past four days while the Sailor Scouts were undergoing strict training procedure and they were now suffering their torment for the fifth consecutive day as the Scouts transported to the caverns they had explored earlier.

Following the directions Luna and Artemis had given them the five girls arrived at Queen Beryl's throne room, where to Serena's horror she saw Darien dressed up in his regal clothing and with a crown added atop his head. Also he was seated on a throne that had been built into place next to Beryl's throne. There they were seated next to each other's side as if he was her king.
She screamed attracting their attention, "It can't be! Darien!"
Sailor Mars was furious, "Well done Sailor Moon. You've cost us the element of surprise."
The other three Scouts were also exasperated and they gave a three-fold groan while Beryl and Darien rose hand in hand.
Beryl sneered, "Well. Well. Well. So you thought you'd pay us an unannounced visit, did you?"
Sailor Jupiter raised her fists and shouted, "You're going down for the count Queen Beryl.
Sailor Venus said, "Come and meet our challenge."
"We'll destroy you and redeem our friend from your mind-control," concluded Sailor Mercury while Darien just stared at them with a steely glint in his eyes.
Beryl raised her scepter. "You're not fighting me at this point Sailor Scouts. First I challenge you to square off against the Doom and Gloom Girls. If you can defeat them, then I will accept your challenge next."
Sailor Mars was very confidently sure of their abilities. "Bring them on then Beryl. What are you waiting for?"
"Not here. I know the perfect venue for you to fight against them," with those words Queen Beryl pointed her scepter and beams of light shot out surrounding each Sailor Scout who disappeared with a cut-off shriek.
Still holding Darien by the hand she spoke into the crystal on the end of her scepter, "Doom and Gloom Girls. Queen Beryl here with urgent business. Leave your prisoners in the torture chamber for now. I have a special task for you to accomplish."

In the meantime the Sailor Scouts found themselves surrounded by miles and miles of snow in a sub-arctic climate. Sailor Moon shivered and sneezed. "Some perfect venue this is. That dirty sleaze of a nega-queen."
"None of us are particularly comfortable Sailor Moon," agreed Sailor Jupiter, "But we must be ready to fight as soon as these Doom and Gloom Girls appear."
Sailor Mercury was shivering with the cold but she steadied herself as much as possible while her fingers worked the keyboard of her data computer. "I'm picking up readings from this direction. Towards that volcano shaft. Follow me."
As they were walking along the snow with the bitter wind blowing their hair towards the left side of their heads, a hole suddenly opened up under Sailor Jupiter's feet. Long thick rope-like tentacles wrapped around her body pinning her arms to her sides and she was pulled down in a split second.
"Sailor Jupiter!" Even Sailor Moon momentarily forgot about how dreadfully cold she was as she and the others ran to the hole and peered down through it on their knees. They could see nothing but they heard Sailor Jupiter call up to them.
"The Doom and Gloom Girls have me. I'll try to break free. JUPITER THUNDER CRASH!"
There was a bright light as the sound of booming thunder echoed up to the others' earshot from way down below. But afterwards they heard Jupiter's voice again.
"It's no use. I couldn't hurt them. They're too strong and they're transporting me away. Be careful Scouts," with that her voice faded and Sailor Mercury gasped.
"They've taken Jupiter captive!"
Sailor Moon prepared to jump down the hole but Sailor Mars and Sailor Venus stopped her. "Let me go! Jupiter needs help!"
Sailor Venus said, "It's too late Sailor Moon. They'll already have taken her back to the Negaverse with them."
Sailor Mars added, "Yeah. She's their prisoner and we must all stand together now if we hope to have a chance of saving her."
Sailor Moon was very upset but she calmed down as her friends spoke to her. Then they all stood up ready to make their next move.

Sailor Mercury suddenly heard a beeping noise coming from her data computer. She realized that it intensified as she directed her computer towards a certain direction.
"What's that noise mean?" Sailor Venus wondered as she and the others all made a move towards it. But Sailor Mercury stopped them.
"No. This could be another trap. You three stay in the direction of the volcano. Let me check this out by myself."
"But Mercury," Sailor Moon tried to protest, "This is very dangerous."
"I know," she answered, "But were any of you seriously expecting that our mission would be easy and free from harm?"
Sailor Moon and the other two were silent and solemn as the truth of Sailor Mercury's words hit home.
"All right. But be careful," Sailor Moon reluctantly turned away from her.
"I will. Don't worry about me," assured Sailor Mercury and Venus wished her good luck.

So Sailor Mercury went her own way following the trail of the beeping signal. She was keeping a wary look out all around her when suddenly a giant flaming fireball erupted out of the ice ahead and began to move straight at her. The bright flames reached out like fingers ready to grab something to shove into a mouth and consume.
Quickly pocketing her computer she responded in her defence, "MERCURY BUBBLES BLAST!"
The wall of fire froze over into a giant slab of molten rock. But she realized too late that it had only been intended as a distraction. The very same fate befell her as had befallen Jupiter. The snow opened up under her and the tentacles seized her. Her friends watched horrified from several feet away as Mercury was snatched out of sight.

Back in the Negaverse Mercury found herself chained to the walls of the torture chamber next to Jupiter. Queen Beryl stood in front of them smiling maliciously.
"Two of you are ready. Three to go. As soon as the Doom and Gloom Girls have you all you will all die. It will not be a quick death of course. But you will die much faster than these pathetic wimps."
She drew attention with her outstretched arm to the Plant Trio, the Gemini Twins and Yasha all chained on the opposite wall. They were bruised and bloody from the relentless torture. They were also weak with hunger as they were given nothing but bread and water once a day.
"Queen Beryl. How can you do this to us?" Housenka moaned.
"We were loyal and faithful to you," added Suzuran.
Beryl laughed, "Loyal? Ha! You were all weak and pathetic simpletons. To me you were all just pawns in my game for universal conquest. When you outlived your usefulness I always intended to destroy every last one of you."
Sailor Mercury gasped and cried out, "You actually planned to eventually exterminate even your own people?"
Queen Beryl turned her head back towards her and replied, "Not from the very beginning I admit. I wasn't going to just have nobody left to serve me. But from the moment I first lay eyes on Prince Darien of earth my heart was smitten hopelessly for him. For the very first time I knew I had found somebody I could truly love and share the universe with. And now that I have fully won him over to me through my magic means I no longer need to keep any of my own race alive. I can start anew and produce a perfect race of beings through my union with Darien."
Sailor Jupiter was furious. "You are so vile and twistedly deranged!" she struggled in vain against the chains as she said this but Beryl only laughed all the more.
Sailor Mercury couldn't help but feel sorry as the Youma all started to weep and bow their heads where they hung. "This must be a dreadful realization for them," she thought, "They may have been our enemies but I pity them deeply in this instance."

Back to the others Sailor Moon was really upset. She fell down on her knees and pounded her fists in the snow. "First Jupiter. And now Mercury," she groaned and wailed, "It's all going wrong. We shouldn't have come. We're not ready yet. Artemis and Luna didn't train us hard enough."
"What's that you're saying Sailor Moon?" Sailor Mars raised her eyebrows as she spoke. "Don't you remember how you were always grumbling and complaining that we were being trained far too much? That you needed to take a break and go to the arcade and relax? And now you say we weren't trained enough?"
Sailor Moon raised her head and began to argue with bitter tears. "That is beside the point Mars. The point I'm making is,,"
But before she could say anymore Sailor Venus yelled, "Sailor Moon. LOOK OUT!"
Venus had been observing the snow on which Sailor Moon was crouched and her eagle's eye had detected a faint tell tale shift beginning underneath her. Lunging forward she shoved Sailor Moon aside a split second before the usual sort of hole opened up and she was seized and pulled down by the tentacles that were intended for Sailor Moon.
"No! Not you too Venus!" Sailor Moon shouted in despair, but Venus' voice came echoing up.
"Try this you creeps! VENUS CRESCENT BEAM SMASH!"
The power of her beam attack came shooting up out of the hole like fireworks. However she yelled urgently, "It's no use. All I could do was momentarily stun one of them. The others still have me and now she's already recovered. It's down to you and Mars now Sailor Moon."
As her voice went silent Sailor Moon began to cry and express her grief while Sailor Mars bowed her head in solemn respect at the capture of their three companions.
"Let's not hang around Sailor Moon," she took her by the hand and pulled her up. "We can't quit now. We must keep going for the sake of our friends and the universe."

As she pulled Sailor Moon along after her thoughts were racing through Sailor Mars' mind. Eventually Sailor Moon begged her to stop for a moment.
"I can't run anymore Sailor Mars. I must catch my breath."
"Sailor Moon. There's something I must say."
Sailor Moon puffed and panted while she stared at her friend wondering what was coming.
Sailor Mars steadied herself before speaking, "Even though I have often been angry with you for annoying or aggravating me, I know in my heart that sometimes I have been at fault also. One case in point being the background as to why I refused to take you with me on the cruise ship long ago that turned out to be a Negaverse trap. I chose to invite Amy to go with me telling you that I'd never invite you because you had gotten us kicked out of Dreamland Park a short while prior to that event."
Sailor Moon remembered that bitter memory. They had fought and ran resulting in both of them stumbling and getting into a furious fight over their ice cream cones that went splat on the ground. Then the park security had thrown them outside for disturbing the peace.
Sailor Mars went on to elaborate, "True you had insulted me to begin with by telling me I was slurping my ice cream. But I really should not have started to call you Meatball Head in response. I was laughing at you so meanly when you fell that I ran into that rubbish bin. We were both partly right in blaming each other for losing our ice cream. But we were also partly to blame ourselves. I want you to know that I'm very, very sorry for that incident and all the other times when I've acted nasty or unkind."
Sailor Moon was too upset to argue or deny anything Sailor Mars said about her own faults and failings. In fact it took the shock of what had happened to the others to make her realize the truth of Mars' words. She threw her arms around her and began to cry again. This time for different reasons. "I'm sorry for my selfish criticism Mars. Can you forgive me?"
Sailor Mars smiled and hugged her back. "Of course. If you can forgive me Moon."
They held each other tightly and Sailor Moon cried on Sailor Mars' shoulder.
But suddenly the snow opened up under their feet and they were both tightly bound together and pulled downwards. "We caught the last two birds with one stone," the Doom and Gloom Girls chortled triumphantly. Sailor Mars couldn't even attempt to use her fireballs with Sailor Moon pinned to her in a big embrace and of course, Sailor Moon couldn't reach for her tiara. They struggled in vain as they were taken to the Negaverse and chained to the torture walls next to their friends. Queen Beryl stood facing them. "You are in for it now. The Doom and Gloom Girls will be here to commence torturing you to death in half an hour. I shall be able to hear all your screams echoing through the corridor to my throne room. I shall be seated next to Darien my king enjoying the sound together with him. Keep that in mind while you suffer Sailor Moon."
This was too much for Sailor Moon and she wailed, "No! This cannot be true! Not my Darien!"
Queen Beryl made her exit in immense satisfaction savouring these despairing cries as a foretaste of what was to come.

Back at the Cherry Hill Temple Jedite, Titus and Dream Dolly were wondering how the Sailor Scouts were handling the fight when suddenly Nephlite's spirit materialized in the middle of their room. Dream Dolly gasped and Titus cried, "General Nephlite!"
Jedite sprang to his feet out of his chair. "Nephlite. Why have you come to us?"
"Jedite I bring urgent news. Sailor Moon and her friends are in terrible danger. They've been captured and they will soon die horribly in Queen Beryl's torture chamber."
They were all aghast to hear this. Titus spoke first, "We have no choice. We must go to rescue them."
"Will you accompany us Nephlite?" Jedite asked but Nephlite's spectral form shook its head.
"Unfortunately I am bound to the realm of the earth because of the strong bonding between me and Molly at the time of my death. Even though I can sense what is happening back in the Negaverse and I can choose freely to help others besides Molly I cannot leave this dimension. I am obliged to stay nearby her for her protection. It is all up to the three of you to do what needs to be done."
"We understand. Thank you General Nephlite," said Titus. "Dream Dolly quickly grab your first aid kit and medicine supplies. Just in case."
Nephlite wished them good luck and watched them gather into a huddle and concentrate on transporting themselves to the Negaverse.
When they were gone he departed to keep his vigil over Molly.

When they arrived Titus and Dream Dolly had assumed their monstrous forms ready to fight if need be. But they all crept close to the shadows. They were ready to defend themselves but they certainly were not looking for any encounters before rescuing their friends if they could help it.
Fortunately Beryl and Darien were on their thrones and she was fawning over him. Holding his hand, running her fingers through his hair as he obligingly lifted his crown and telling him how adorable he was to her. Otherwise she may have seen in her crystal that intruders were present and realizing who they were she would have alerted the Doom and Gloom Girls to hunt them down with pleasure.
They reached the door. It was securely locked but they concentrated their energies once again and it clicked open on their touch. The Sailor Scouts were amazed with surprised joy.
"It's our friends from back at my Temple," said Sailor Mars.
"You've come to save us," gasped Sailor Venus. Sailor Moon was speechless with elation at this deliverance but Yasha and the others all whimpered and sobbed expecting no rescue from the people they had been trying to track down and destroy.
Jedite and the others indeed just scowled coldly at them while they magically unlocked the Scouts' shackles. "Okay, let's all go and leave this riff-raff," Jedite spoke with disdain but Sailor Mercury objected.
"No. Please free them too."
"Why?" Titus cried, "They would have killed us under Beryl's orders. She in particular," she pointed an angry finger at Gureepo who cringed, "almost killed dear Dream Dolly with her powers."
"Please listen to me," Sailor Mercury pleaded, "Queen Beryl was planning to kill them eventually after they killed you. She told us while we were hanging here with them that she only sought to keep her army alive while they suited her purpose. She wants to make her race extinct and start anew with Darien as her king."
Jedite and Titus were horrified. "You mean when she had my girlfriend and I punished for letting our soldiers be killed it was only because she wanted to be able to kill them herself along with us?"
Titus was speechless with an enormous gasp.
"Yes it is true. Jedite. Titus. Please put aside the past," Sailor Mercury implored. "Now it is time for the survivors of this sadistic despot's army to stick together. Won't you free them? And Dream Dolly, you can tend to their wounds while the rest of us stand ready to fight off the Doom and Gloom Girls as best we can. Except for Sailor Moon. She should go and confront Queen Beryl before the other enemies arrive here."
"Hey! Do I really have to face Beryl on my own?" Sailor Moon was suddenly very timid but Sailor Mars admonished her.
"Think about it this way Sailor Moon. Don't you need to try to personally redeem Darien from Beryl's brainwashing? You must save him so you and he can be together as you were always meant to be."
Sailor Moon thought about this as Mars went on, "And so it is fitting that you accomplish it by yourself for the sake of your love and for another thing, these Doom and Gloom Girls are very powerful. You saw how we couldn't defeat them when they captured and separated us from each other. We need the four of us to stay and fight together along with Jedite and Titus in order to beat them if we possibly can. That's why you need to do this without any of us and you'd better go now. They're due to arrive very soon."
Sailor Moon knew in her heart this was the truth, so she swallowed down her hesitation and ran off as everybody wished her the best of luck while they all prepared themselves for the battle.
The other Youma were all so weak that they fell to the floor as soon as they were unshackled. They were overcome with emotion as the Dream Dolly began to tend to their sores and gave them sips of revitalizing energy syrup to overcome their malnutrition. Gureepo was crying most of all after having heard that she had almost caused the demise of the person who was now showing such unmerited compassion to her.

As Sailor Moon was making her way towards the throne room her mind was churning over many thoughts. How could she possibly heal Darien? The Doom and Gloom Girls had confiscated the Crescent Moon Wand before she had been chained up awaiting her ghastly execution. Where was it now? Did Queen Beryl herself have it?
Then she placed her hand in her pocket and felt the locket. Of course. The locket. The symbol of their undying love. She had exchanged it back and forth with him. If anything would break the spell surely this was it.

She boldly entered to find to her shock Darien bending down on one knee and kissing Beryl's hand. "Darien no! I'll set you free from her."
Queen Beryl turned in surprise. "Well well. I didn't expect you to show up Sailor Moon. I don't know how you escaped but no matter. Darien draw your sword and kill her now!"
With a crazed wild glint in his eyes and a loud war cry, Darien sprang to his feet and brandished his fearful weapon. As he bore down on her Sailor Moon desperately used her tiara to block him and hold him back. She didn't use the full power of course. But the tiara hovered spinning in the air against Darien's solar plexus and he could not reach her to slash with his sword. His eyes bulged out of their sockets and he grunted and gasped at the exertion of him trying to go forward while the tiara was firmly restraining him. "Darien. I know you're not evil. I know you love me," as Sailor Moon cried out these words Darien dropped his sword and collapsed onto his side gasping for breath. The tiara stopped spinning in mid-air and fell clattering to the floor.
Queen Beryl was not perturbed in the least. "All you are doing is delaying the inevitable Sailor Moon. Darien belongs to me now and he will destroy you for me."
Darien grabbed his sword, raised himself up and yelled, "Prepare for oblivion Sailor Moon!"
But Sailor Moon had dug out the locket, their locket, and had opened it up so that the music would play. Darien paused in wonderment. "That-that music. It reminds me of something."
"Darien. Queen Beryl may have possession of your mind. But I possess your heart." Sailor Moon held the locket up to him in both her hands. "Listen to the lovely melody Darien. Remember? This is our locket. It represents everything we mean to each other. We're not enemies Darien."
"What are you wasting time for? Darien! Kill the little wench. She's our enemy."
Darien turned his head back in response to Queen Beryl's exasperated outburst. Then back at the locket. The music was enchanting. "It-it's beautiful."
Sailor Moon pleaded, "Just reach out and touch the locket. With one finger. Please do it."
Darien reached out and as he touched the locket he felt himself purged of all the evil magical corruption and influences of the Negaforce. Bright light burst out from him illuminating his form and blinding Queen Beryl in rage.
Dropping down on his knees he embraced Sailor Moon. The sword fell to the floor and a bright red rose appeared next to it mysteriously. "I do remember everything. I'm free again. My lovely princess."
"Oh Darien."
They hugged affectionately and kissed but Beryl was very angry. "You traitor Darien. I shall destroy you both and search for a better person in the universe to be my king."
With that she produced a sword of her own and charged with a loud roar. Darien spun round and while Queen Beryl had her sword raised over her head he grabbed not his own sword, but the rose. He threw it at her stem first and it struck her in the chest, stabbing her like it was a knife the stem sank into her heart, the bright red flowers protruding just like a hilt. She dropped her sword behind her back and clutched her chest in horror and disbelief. "No," she staggered on her feet and summoned up a portal which she practically fell into and vanished.
"You got her Darien," Sailor Moon was very impressed.
"Sailor Moon. The battle is as good as over now," Darien spun himself around and transformed into Tuxedo Mask. "You have saved me by the power of our love that we share. My memories were overcome for a time. But Beryl had no understanding of the deepness of how much you meant to me. If she had she would have killed you herself immediately and never tried to command me to do it."
Sailor Moon had tears of joy in her eyes. "Thank goodness dear Tuxedo Mask. Now let's make sure our friends are all right. Side by side as it was meant to be."
Tuxedo Mask grinned and his eyes shone behind his mask. "As it was meant to be from the day we first met all those many centuries ago."

But even at this moment Queen Beryl was prostrating herself before the presence of the Negaforce inside its private chambers. She was gasping and clutching at the rose in her chest with one hand while she struggled to keep herself propped up with her opposite arm, "Oh Great Negaforce. Please help me. I'm dying."
The Negaforce didn't really care about Beryl anymore than she had genuinely cared about her people. But still it needed Beryl in order to gain success in its plans to conquer the universe. "Don't worry. I know how to save your life."
Queen Beryl raised her head high in hope as the Negaforce went on to explain, "I have enough energy to infuse myself within your body. I will become part of you and your fatal wound will be neutralized."
"Oh hurry Mighty Negaforce before it's too late," Beryl implored but even as she spoke it was already entering her body and her mind. She felt power return to her. She jumped straight up on her feet and taking hold of the rose yanked it out of her body. There was no blood and even the tiny hole in her chest was gone like it had never been made at all. She literally felt in her heart that she was healed and not going to die. Quite literally in more ways than one.
"Thank you my master. Thank you," she expressed her joyous gratitude but the Negaforce spoke inside her mind.
"Pick up that wand nearby." It was Sailor Moon's wand. "Together we shall harness the power of the Silver Imperium Crystal and destroy Sailor Moon once and for all. Then we shall go on to conquer the universe together in this form. We may even figure out how to release the Shadow Warriors again to serve us."
"I hear and obey my master," snatching up the wand Queen Beryl departed back to her throne room. Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask were just about to leave and go searching for the others when she appeared giving them a nasty sudden surprise.

"I have returned and I'm stronger then ever! Die! Both of you!" As she sent a barrage of energy from the Silver Crystal Sailor Moon quickly pushed in front of Tuxedo Mask and before even he knew what was happening her clothes had mysteriously transformed into the regal royal robes she had worn on the Moon Kingdom. Raising her hands she summoned up reserves of immense power from her past life and blocked Beryl's blast. It was like a twisted game of tug of war. Only instead of pulling the combat parties were pushing against each others' efforts.
"Even though you have my Silver Crystal Beryl as Princess Serena I still possess the power to fight against it when you use it to attack me."
Beryl grunted and snarled, "You have the Negaforce to fight against. Not just me. You won't win."
"Princess! I'll help you!" Tuxedo Mask soared into the air over her head and into the path of the beam.
"No! Tuxedo Mask! Don't!" Princess Serena cried out in despair as he was struck by the blast she had been fighting against. As he crashed to the ground Beryl paused to see what the effect had been. Princess Serena ran to his side and spoke to him. "Tuxedo Mask! Are you all right? Speak to me!"
As he looked up at her, his mask having slipped off his face and hanging askew, he had a vacant look in his eyes. He struggled to speak, "Who are y-y-you? W-where am I-I-I? Aaaah!" with that he pulled away from her and crawled off to the side.
Beryl laughed, "It would appear I've taken away his complete identity. Now he has no idea who he is or anything that has happened up to this point, let alone his love for you pathetic Princess."
Princess Serena wailed with enormous grief. "No no no! This can't be!"
"But it is. And now that I know what this attack does, I'll do the same to you. To turn you into what amounts to an empty shell of yourself amuses me so very much."
With that she attacked and Princess Serena only just managed to put up her guard in time. She strained hard but Beryl cackled maniacally, "You can't hold it back forever. The Negaforce and I will win."
Princess Serena felt herself losing strength while she fought back valiantly. Soon she wouldn't be able to withstand much longer. Then she would suffer a fate worse than death.

Suddenly she sensed some presences next to her and heard some familiar voices.
"Hey Serena. I'll help you with this assignment if you want," it was Sailor Mercury and she added a merry little laugh to what she had just said.
"You're so stubborn Serena. Let us help or I'll never speak to you again," it was Sailor Mars though she did give a curt smile as she spoke gruffly.
"Yeah. Let us help you put her away. Still too many boys we need to meet," that was Sailor Jupiter.
Finally Sailor Venus said, "Let us help. We haven't known each other long enough for it to end yet."
Princess Serena had tears in her eyes for more reasons than just the strain and exertion. "My friends. Of course I need your help. Join your power with mine please."
As they all joined hands around her in a circle Beryl taunted them, "It doesn't matter. With the Negaforce behind me I will still defeat you. I will erase all your identities at once."
Then they all looked up at her. Mercury and Venus turned their heads as far round as they could to stare her in the eye and Serena was in the center of the ring surrounded by her four friends.
"MERCURY POWER!"
"MARS POWER!"
"VENUS POWER!"
"JUPITER POWER!"
Princess Serena still had her hands outstretched above her head and she yelled as loud as she could, "IN THE NAME OF COSMIC MOON POWER UNITE WITH THE POWER OF MY FRIENDS TO VANQUISH THIS EVIL!"
All their powers combined together and the effect was indeed very strong. In her maniacal ego Beryl had underestimated the strength of all the Sailor Scouts combined with their princess. Now it was she who was straining and exerting herself as she gripped the Crescent Moon Wand she had stolen so tight as if she could crush the handle in her two hands. Even the Negaforce realized the difficult situation it was in. Sweat poured down Beryl's forehead and saturated her clothing as she gritted her teeth and pushed her muscles with what strength she and her master had between them. "This cannot be," she struggled to talk during the process. "I can't be beaten. We can't be beaten oh Negaforce. Together we should be invincible."
At that moment Beryl finally caved in. Her body was in agony as if she had been trying to lift a very heavy load beyond her muscular capabilities and she gasped as she collapsed to her knees. Her eyes bulged in sheer terror as the Sailor Scouts shoved the beam of energy back at her. It picked her up and threw her backwards several feet to land in a crumpled heap. The wand flew through the air and disappeared in a dark passageway nearby. But although Queen Beryl took the full brunt in such a relatively small space the backwash of such an enormous build-up inevitably came into contact with the five girls and they fell to the floor unconscious. Tuxedo Mask had already fainted from fright where he had crawled away from the place where Princess Serena had been standing.

Luna and Artemis were feeling sort of both happy and sad. Jedite and Titus had delivered the five Sailor Scouts safely back to them at the Cherry Hill Temple along with Tuxedo Mask. Yasha, Castor, Pollux and the Dream Dolly had assisted them, carrying the unconscious bodies between them while the Plant Trio stayed back at the Negaverse keeping an eye on Queen Beryl. They had explained that after Sailor Moon had left them all at the dungeon, the other four had succeeded in overpowering the five Doom and Gloom Girls with the help of Jedite and Titus. They had chained them to the wall as their prisoners and the Scouts had left to join up with Sailor Moon while all the Youma remained to keep watch and make sure the Doom and Gloom Girls didn't escape. Then after a little while they suddenly screamed and vanished into wisps of various coloured gas.
"We figure that the Negaforce must have been destroyed," Titus explained. "It had created and sustained their existence by its personal power. Also we haven't been able to detect it anywhere. That gives credence to the theory that it has been obliterated, thus taking its creations with it."
Jedite continued, "We went looking for our friends and found them all knocked out just like our diabolic queen. We've brought them back and now we'd better get back to Gureepo, Housenka and Suzuran. We intend to take our ex-monarch back to our home planet and try her for her crimes."
They performed their final helpful act by arranging everybody on beds and Luna and Artemis had thanked the Youma profusely and bid them goodbye and good luck as they all de-materialized. Then they settled down to wait for them to awaken. But when they did they had a terrible shock.

As the girls woke up they all began to ask each other who they were and what they were doing here. The same thing with Darien, who had lost his mask, cane and top hat. To the dismay of Artemis and Luna none of them knew anything about their pasts or their identities and pandemonium reigned. Eventually Chad discovered them. He did not know where Darien had come from but since he seemed to be suffering from the same state of amnesia as the girls he alerted Grandfather and ambulance men were sent for to take them all to the hospital. Eventually each of the girls' families were able to convince her of what her name was with the help of the doctors and therapists and to persuade her to come home with them. Darien had no family but his friend Andrew the Video Game Arcade manager was very helpful and supportive and so Darien came to accept his name though his full background remained a complete mystery to him, just like Serena and the others.

Luna asked Artemis, "What do you make of this?"
"I'm not sure Luna. Somehow our Scouts and Darien must have had their memories all wiped clean like deleted computer files in their fight against Queen Beryl."
"Can't we do something about it?"
"I don't know what we can do. If we only had the Crescent Moon Wand with the Silver Imperium Crystal perhaps we could use it to restore their memories. But Jedite said none of them were able to find it. It simply vanished."
Luna began to cry. "You mean they'll never be the girls we know and love so much once more? That we'll be nothing but ordinary cats to them and the memories of the Moon Kingdom will be forever lost?"
Artemis tried to cheer her up. "Don't cry Luna. Remember Queen Beryl will no longer threaten the peace of the universe. At least that's some consolation," he then sighed deeply, "But I hope with all my heart that their memories will return someday."
Luna sniffed, "Y-yes. Think of Prince Darien and Princess Serena. Their love will be lying in dormancy. That's one of the saddest things of them all."

As for Queen Beryl when she awoke her subjects found that her mind was a complete blank also. They could hardly punish her in these circumstances so they just took her back to their world where she took up residence in a small cottage while they prepared to create a new world of peace and happiness for themselves putting the sordid affairs of the past behind them.

But meanwhile back on earth everybody wondered why their defenders, the Sailor Scouts, had vanished suddenly with no trace. Some people like Molly were very sad. They were dearly missed by most of the general public though they themselves had no idea what people were talking about when they mentioned them. Luna and Artemis deeply grieved the loss of their friends though they were also deeply proud of them for what they had accomplished. Darien meanwhile carried on looking after himself as best he could though he wished he could discover who he really was. Apart from this things were quiet and happy for a long time.
But soon a mysterious object began making its way toward the earth. It was very strange as up close it seemed to resemble a big tree with lots of leaf-filled branches, a thick fat trunk and hundreds of long thin roots just dangling in space. However it was clearly heading straight for earth as if purposely intended. What was it? What would it mean for the people of earth? And what would happen if it did pose a threat? Could the Sailor Scouts be miraculously re-awakened?

THE END?