Sailor Ceres was getting worried. She had been placed in charge of guarding the prisoner by her Queen. Then Grand Zirconia had shown up and knocked her out with a basic distraction. When she had come to, the false princess and Zirconia were gone. Now she had to report this to her majesty. She knew that Nehelenia would very likely not forgive her transgressions. But despite this, she still had an oath of undying loyalty to her. After all, she was Queen of the lost Moon Kingdom, not this treacherous girl with the Meatball-hair who had claimed that right for months, in a misguided attempt to force a betrayal. Without the Queen, she and her comrades, the Asteroid Scouts would be stuck living primitive, backwards lives on Earth in the Amazon.
Now with the Moon rendered uninhabitable by the Nega-force, her majesty had made plans to turn Earth into her new seat of power. In order to secure this noble goal, they needed to dispose of all those who would oppose the mighty Queen. Starting with the traitor.
Malachite led his party into an alleyway. Since leaving the jewellery shop, he, Amy and the girl named Usagi had been joined by one Sergeant Berthier and by Sailor Uranus, who was planning the final strike on Mistress 9. He now showed them the few warriors of the Nega-verse he had managed to partially purify. Among them was the psychic boy known as Gregory, alter ego of the brutish Bumboo Kid. He had been the only one of Beryl's original shadow warriors to be restored. The restoration had restored the human memories of these poor souls, in addition to giving them the ability to reassume their human forms.
Others restored included Polite Society, formerly the Countess Rose, Papillon, formerly an English businesswoman and Ninjana, formerly a tabloid reporter. Also among the group were three regular minions, who had defected in response to Jadeite's recent bout of insanity. They were named Balm, Iguana and Cyrene.
Malachite watched as Mercury and Bumboo's alter ego had a tender moment to themselves. He'd forgotten about the relationship they'd had. Suddenly the groups were greeted by 2 people they had not expected to see again. Sailor Moon and her bodyguard Sailor Venus.
Lita could only watch as Lizzie recovered from her ordeal, with little more than a migraine. She was more amazed at the blue kitten than the fact a nega-monster had been restored. She had three questions for this strange cat. "Who are you, how did you do that and do you know anything about Luna and Artemis?(who hadn't been seen since the Silence set up shop)"
The blue cat replied in a very sweet voice "I'm called Diana, to answer your first question. To answer the second question, I merely transmitted a signal that cancelled out the impulses that turned her into that creature. I've worked on it for some time. As for your final question, Luna and Artemis are my parents in the future."
"The future?", replied Sailor Jupiter in confusion.
"Well," said Diana "a future. I was trying to return there when an anomaly opened in the time gate. Me and my charge, the Small Lady were sucked into it and got separated." Lita took this in easily, assuming (correctly) that the Small Lady was that little girl she saw earlier. "I wondered around for a while, trying to find out when I was. Soon, I realised I was in an alternate space-time altogether. Probably a result of our recent erasure from our timeline." Lita realised that this cat could be a help to them.
Mina finally had time to register her surroundings. She had barely had time since receiving a new dream mirror. It was disconcerting after several months of having to forcibly serve an evil queen, turning people into mindless minions the same way they did to her, being awake and aware the whole time. Now she could finally think straight after so long in the dark. The first thing she saw was her old friend Katherine from her time in London.
"Hey there, Kitty-cat.", she said with some effort. "How've you been these past few years?"
Her old friend didn't seem particularly shocked to see her, considering how things had been the last time they'd parted. "Well," said her old friend "since we last saw each other, I've been through a few changes."
Mina was shocked at what happened next; Katherine turned into a beautiful, butterfly-like humanoid. But then "Papillon", as she called herself explained how she had been recruited to serve Malachite, been freed from her forced loyalty and joined a small splinter resistance cell.
Then the former friends turned as Sailors Moon and Mercury, along with a strange pink-haired girl, began to talk about the plan. "Were going to stage an attack on Queen Metalia's Sector in order to recover the Crescent Wand and the Silver Crystal. Then we meet up with Lita's group and move on to Sector 2. In a few hours, we'll have most of the city taken back. But we don't have much time. According to Greg (who Mina realised was the only male of the group, besides Malachite), the SEATO (South East Asian Treaty Organisation), in accordance with their European counterpart (NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) are going to drop an explosive on Tokyo tomorrow at 11. The energy released will only make our enemies powerful enough to conquer the world. We have until then to triumph."
Sailor Moon then decided to give a rallying cry "Alright team, move out."