Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon in any way possible.

Renamon

For any of you that don't know this Dwarvanman left in the middle of the story to go to the store.

Usagi

Ugh! When's Dwarvanman getting back?

Cheryl

Well judging by where he's at his shopping list, He'll be here by the end of the chapter.

Usagi

Wait what are you?

Cheryl

I am AI unit 115, but you can call me Cheryl

Renamon

Hey Cheryl, I'm about to teleport to Dwarvanman's location, do you need any help before I go?

Usagi

Aaaahhhh! Monster!

Renamon

Hmph, I'm not a monster. I'm a digimon, and it's because of Dwarvanman and I that this city hasn't been destroyed yet. Any way Cheryl I'll be leaving now, see you when I get back.

Cheryl

Well enjoy the story. I think I may have some explaining to do.

The Sailor Scouts and an Unknown Hero

By Dwarvanman

Chapter 2 A Sleepless Night

Zachary arose from the bed that morning, tired. With his hair mounted on one side of his head and crust in his eyes, he let out a large yawn. He slowly walked down the stairs, one step at a time. But he couldn't get what happened the night before out of his head. He could have sworn that he heard two people or things over his bed while he was sleeping, but when he went to investigate he noticed that nothing had been touched the window was unlocked but no one had disturbed the dust settled on the window sill. Zachary reached the bottom stairs still puzzled, his grandmother sitting in front of the stove working on breakfast. She was always up early in the morning, as most senior citizens are, and always in front of the stove for some reason. "Good morning dear, did you sleep well?" Debra asked.

"Yeah, had a strange dream last night, but oh well." Zachary said walking into the kitchen.

"Well, there's some nice fresh eggs if you want some."

"Thanks grandma I'm starving." Zachary said walking to the counter. He grabbed a plate of eggs and sat down at the table.

He ate them like they were nothing. He sat up and wiped his mouth with his sleeve and that's when it hit him… He +had never change out of his clothes. "You better hurry, you have school in about an hour." Debra said turning off the stove. Zachary quickly ran up the stair and turned on the shower. He hopped in and about thirty minutes later was fully dressed in his new uniform, and was as fresh as a daisy. He grabbed the commemorative pocket watch. And walked out the door. A small laptop case in his hand carrying his computer, a few books, and a pencil, that was made in the United States.

As soon as he got down the stairs he accidentally dropped his pocket watch, but what was revealed inside would change his life forever. Upon hitting the ground, the back of the watch had broken off and revealed inside was a small purple crystal. With a much closer inspection, Zachary saw that it looked to a have smoke fuming inside of it. He picked it up, surprisingly it didn't do anything. But Zachary could feel some type of energy flowing through the strange crystal. "Hmm, this isn't normal. Pocket watches don't have crystals inside of them. Looks like I have some research to do." Zachary said with one eyebrow raised.

Little did he know, that from the roof a particular black cat was watching him. "Could he be really be one of us?" The strange cat said to itself. It jumped down to the side walk almost making no noise.

"Well good thing I grabbed my wrist watch as well. How much time do I have left?" As he looked down at his watch, he could feel a presence behind him and quickly looked in the direction. "Oh it's just a cat. You almost startled me little buddy." Zachary said with a smile. He started walking but suddenly stopped when something dawned on him. There was a golden crescent on its forehead. He turned around again, the cat still standing there, then took a picture of it with his phone, so that he could study it later, but as he looked at the photo he saw that the crescent on its forehead wasn't there. He then kneeled down to get a better look but it scratched him on the side of his cheek making it slightly bleed. "Ouch! Guess I deserved that one, nothing a little bit of cloth and pressure can't solve." He got up then pulled a handkerchief and pressed it against the side of his face. He walked away, as the cat just stared at him cockeyed.

By the time that he got to the school, he noticed that everyone looked exhausted, as if everyone never truly woke up, Just staring off into space, it was amazing that they even made it this far. With Serena, like usual, was asleep face down on her desk. "Hmm, strange. Is this what it's usually like here?" Zachary asked as he walked over to the back of the class room and pulled out his laptop. He then pulled out the gem he found and typed a description of it into google. He eventually found it on some type of webpage about mythical items called, " " it said,

"The soul gem was once a powerful gem of legend. It had the power to steal the energy from any living being, accept for plant life. It was also said to come from the people who came before. Not much is known about this strange gem, and only seems to appear in ancient myths and legends about some type of civilization that lived on the moon."

As Zachary was reading through this, another girl with blue hair walked into the room as Serena started to wake up. "Ami, what's up aren't you supposed to be in class right now?" Serena asked in a yawn.

"That's the point, something's not right here." Ami said. Serena looked around the around the room the only person who actually looked somewhat awake was Zachary who was sitting in the back of the room reading something off of his computer.

"No, he looks just fine." Serena protested. Ami gave what looked to be some sort of scowl and Serena replied with, "Fine. So where do we start?"

"I don't know, but I've never seen him before, so I don't really trust him. I'm going to keep a close eye on him for now." Ami said peering over at Zachary who starring into his computer screen.

Just moments later he broke the silence saying, "Fascinating, I think I'm onto something here." He then looked up to see a girl with blue hair starring him down. There was a small minute of awkward silence before he slowly and silently brought his head back down to his computer screen.

"Why would you suspect Zachary of anything?" Serena asked, looking up at Ami.

"Well… look at him… he doesn't seem to be affected at all." Ami said finally taking her eyes off of him. He slowly began to pack up his computer and put away everything back into his laptop case. He stood up starting to walk toward the door, when he was suddenly stopped by the girl who was just recently starring him down.

"Excuse me, I need to get through." Zachary said looking towards the door.

"Might I ask where you're going?" Ami asked bringing Zachary's attention to her, instead of the door.

"I'm going to see if this school has a library, I've got research I have to do." Zachary said. With that she let him pass.

But not only three seconds after he left the room Ami said, "Come on, let's follow him."

"To the library?" Serena asked. Ami nodded and Serena replied with, "But that's boring."

"Well I'm going with or without you Serena, whatever's going on… I have a feeling that he's behind it." Ami said peeking her head out of the door, trying to see if Zachary was still out in the hall.

"Maybe you're right… Let's go!" Serena exclaimed. And with that Serena proceeded to drag Ami by the arm in the direction of the school's library.

They slipped through as Zachary's head was looking in the other direction of the door, and quickly hid behind one of the shelves. "Hmm, I wonder if there's anything on these moon people…" Zachary said looking through a section of books about mythology. "Let's see here…" He said again pulling out a dusted book called the Mythical Encyclopedia; You're Guide to the Weird and Abnormal. As he started to flip through the book he stumbled across a section titled simply the Negaverse. It read,

"The Negaverse is the polar-opposite of our universe, consisting of anything and everything evil, they eventually brought the downfall of the denizens of the moon long ago. It is said that these beings like to steal the energy from humans, by setting up different kinds of traps or scenarios that will steal the energy from your body…" The text started to fade at this point making it almost unreadable.

Zachary Let out a small yawn then said, "Hmm, guess those Negaverse folks got to me, hehehe. Might as well catch a couple z's while I'm down here." Zachary chuckled as he pulled up a chair and then proceeded to sit in it. He quickly fell asleep as Ami and Serena emerged from the book shelf.

"Alright, time to transform." Ami said taking out her magical transformation wand. And with that Ami transformed into Sailor Mercury.

"So why are we transforming?" Serena asked.

"Do you really want him to notice you poking through his stuff if he wakes up?" Ami asked walking towards Zachary's bag.

"Well, no…" Serena replied.

"Well then go ahead and transform." Ami said opening Zachary's laptop bag. As Serena transformed Ami looked deeper into the bag. All she really found was some paper, pencils, and a Japanese to English dictionary. "There's nothing here!" Ami exclaimed Standing up, then turning around to Serena.

"Well then what does that mean?" Serena asked.

"It means that he's most likely not the cause." Ami said turning back to Zachary who was just now starting to wake back up. He opened his eyes to see to girls in sailor scout costumes stand over him speaking to each other. As slowly started to regain consciousness the speaking became clearer and less muffled as he did when he was half asleep. As slowly and silently as he could got up from the chair, then started to tip toe towards the door, grabbing only his laptop leaving the rest of his stuff there. He was about to slip out of the door unnoticed when Serena spotted him trying to escape from their sight.

"Hey, uh… Kid! Freeze!" Serena exclaimed pointing to Zachariah. And like magic he stopped in his tracks. He slowly turned around and walked towards the two girls with his hands above his head.

"Look guys, I don't know who you are, and I'm pretty sure you don't know who I am, so let's just say I leave and get out of here, and you just go back…"

He was cut off when Ami said, "Just sit down we have some questions for you."

"Oh I see how it is then, were going to play that way aren't we?" Zachary said with a smirk.

Before the two girls could say anything, Zachary stomped on Serena's foot causing her to lift it up and hold her leg in pain. Ami tried to punch him but He stepped out of the way causing Ami to punch the book shelf behind him. As one was holding her leg, and the other violently shaking her hand, Zachary blurted out, "Ha-ha! PEACE!" But as he tried to run out of the door, he ran into the middle part of the frame, holding the double doors together, utterly knocking him out cold. Serena looked over him still a little angry at him, but a little sympathetic seeing the kid literally knock himself out trying to escape. She looked up at Ami looking over him with an evil looking grin. "Stupid kid, when will they figure out that they can't win, no matter how hard they try." She said looking down at the boy.

"Ami are you alright? You haven't been acting like yourself lately." Serena said looking at her still looking at Zachary who was lying unconscious on the floor.

Ami looked up and said, "You're right I haven't been acting like myself, but then again I've already got what I came for." Ami said holding the dark crystal.

"You're not Ami, are you?" Serena asked feeling a sense of panic.

"You're good Sailor Moon. Well, I'll be leaving now." With that she tore off her disguise and phased out of the room. Afterwards Luna came in with the real Ami following close behind.

"Sailor moon what happened here? Why is this boy unconscious?" Luna asked walking next to the boy upon getting a closer inspection she noticed that it was the same one from this morning. "Never mind about him for right now, we have to find that imposter!" Luna said walking out of the library. Serena and Ami nodded then proceeded to leave the library, but not without getting Zachary out of the way of the door.

About an hour went by before Zachary could forcefully feel himself being woken with a voice saying, "Wake up, please wake up, say something if you can hear me. Oh, you better snap out of this." He started to open his eyes at first the figure was blurry, but after a minute, he could see that the person standing kneeling over him was a beautiful girl. She had blond hair with a large red bow in the back of it. Her eyes were a pristine sparkling blue, almost like a sapphire underneath the moon light. She closed her eyes and smiled saying, "Phew, I thought you'd never wake up, are you okay?" Zachary instantly fell in love with her, to him she was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen.

"Who are you?" Zachary asked with a groggy voice.

"I'm Minako, and you are?"

He sat up from the floor becoming more vigilant to his surroundings and said, "It's Zachary, but my friends just call me Zach for short." He said trying to stand up.

"Are you sure that you should be standing, you may have a concussion." Minako said trying to hold him down on the ground.

"Don't worry I'll be fine, I've survived much worse." Zachary said with a smirk. Minako still tried to keep Zachary from getting up. He finally was able to get up start towards the door, kind of wobbling side to side, as the room started to spin. "I… don't feel so good." He mumbled as he fell straight to the ground. As he fell Minako just stood there in shock. Mainly she thought that he was just an idiot for trying to walk whilst having a concussion, but one thing just rang in her head, the fact that he said that he survived much worse, what did he mean by that?