"I don't care." Neo-Super Sailor Jupiter shrugged.
"You should care!" Roshi snapped furiously.
"I'm not saying our senses don't matter, sir. If I or any of my friends lose a sense, the rest of us will be there to compensate for it." Jupiter clarified.
"What if I kept you failures here to build my roads?" Rosh grinned wickedly.
"There are only four roads here. Eventually, I would still find a way to be there for my friends." Jupiter argued back to the jackass.
"Plus, you wouldn't do that regardless." Super Sailor Nova added cleverly
"Excuse me?!" Roshi barked like a rabid dog.
"You are God of Roads. Your monkeys represent a delicate balance in people. Keeping Sailor Guardians here for eternity would annihilate the galaxy's balance. You wouldn't stand for that." Nova spelled out for the idiotic deity. Where Star learned this is anyone's guess. Likely, she had figured it out while trying to get her sense back.
"If my friends can't return with me? Then I won't leave either!" Neo-Super Sailor Venus declared passionately.
"Neither will I. The girls are as much my friends as they are Venus's!" Asteroid stood with his redhead owner.
"Same here." Emily agreed, with Quartz nodding.
"Us too!" Diana stated, and Comet joined her.
"Me four." Nova smiled, with Rose supporting her decision.
"Even if I wanted to keep you here. It would be nice to have as many workers as I can get. I cannot bend my rules and trap those who won the right to regain their sense." Roshi stood firm.
"We're not staying here and not leaving without our friends!" As Venus said this, her pendant and sailor collar began to glow. While the pendant did not change, the green-eyed girl noticed her sailor collar had TWO stripes!
One by one, the Neo Senshi's pendants and collars lit up. Not only did they gain their second stripe? But they regained their senses, too! Neo-Super Sailor Mercury cheered as she could speak again!
"About time!" Neo-Super Sailor Mars said exaggeratedly.
Smiling, Neo-Super Sailor Jupiter tested her body's movements again. Neo-Super Sailor Neptune hugged her sister in happy tears. Neo-Super Sailor Pluto was doing a group hug with Neo-Eternal Sailor Moon and Saturn!
"How disappointing..." Roshi sighed, "But I still have the Dark Kingdom Senshi, their Princess, and the indigo kitten."
"We have names! Regardless, we won't go down without a fight! Dark Kingdom Sailor Solarstream!" Jewel commanded, and together, the Dark Kingdom Senshi threw a sparkling gold, silver, pink, green, and black wave of energy at Roshi, similar to Sailor Planet Attack!
It did hit with enough force to stun Roshi for a few seconds. After recovering, he held out his hand, seemingly blocking the attack halfway through!
"Did you think that was a good idea? Silly little girls. Against a God, that's child's play!" Roshi laughed.
"Sailor Solar Rainbow Double-Edge Sword!" Venus called, but Roshi also used his other hand to block that combination beam, though he struggled.
"Sisters! Brother! We need to help." Quartz said in a demanding tone.
"What can we do?" Comet asked.
"Create a beam with our crescent moon marks! Roshi still has two free arms, so we must strike him differently." Quartz thought out loud.
"What if we attacked from above?" Asteroid suggested.
"That's the best shot we've got!" Quartz decided.
Taking different positions around the God, the teens summoned their birthmark's magic and combined the beams above Roshi's head before bringing it crashing down on him! Not defeated but brought down on one knee as his bone pile got decimated, Roshi conceded.
Breathing heavily, Roshi gazed at them, "Together...you are more powerful...than you appear. You truly understand...how valuable yourselves and each other are. I surrender."
Quartz and his siblings turned back into kittens. Mercury, Saturn, and Pluto pulled off the same maneuver they had used to get to Roshi's realm to get back. When they landed, they were so exhausted they de-transformed. Sadly, the Dark Kingdom Senshi and Elizabeth's senses still did not work!
"Why aren't their senses restored?" Trisha asked.
"Must be one of Roshi's tricks!" Gracie said, heated.
"I don't think so; he surrendered. Maybe because they didn't power up with us?" Crystal theorized.
"If only SOMEONE had some kind of 'magic crystal' to fix everything," Christen commented snidly. Thus making everyone look at Chibiusa, who seemed lost in her thoughts. Christen lost her temper, "PRINCESS!"
"Huh?!" Chibiusa snapped out of her daydreaming.
"Pink Moon Crystal Ex Machina, now!"
Chibiusa knew better than to push Christen's temper when it was already well past its limits. Regardless, she was worried. "Christen, I don't know if my crystal can do this..." Chibiusa had a fearful look in her candy-red eyes.
"It brought the Earth's entire population back from the dead!" Christen emphasized.
"That would kill me!" Chibiusa shot back in anger.
"I'm not asking you to do exactly that, just heal!" Christen defended herself.
As furious and apprehensive as she was, Chibiusa would do anything to help her half-sister, Elizabeth, and their friends. Bathing everyone in the sparkling pink glow, they gradually began to recover! Rushing home, the Neo Senshi could not wait to tell their parents that they just gained their second stripe! However, the Dark Kingdom Senshi's parents noticed how silent and cold their daughters seemed during the celebration.
"I know something happened..." Beryl did NOT like the saddened look in her daughter's eyes. It reminded her of when Endymion broke the evil woman's heart...when she still had one!
"What's wrong?" Jadite embraced his identical daughter while addressing the girls as a group.
"The Neo Senshi got their second stripe, but we didn't." Star disclosed bitterly. She was trying desperately to hold back her tears.
"I think it's time we clear something up," Nephrite conceded. His charming wife was not entirely comfortable with this.
"Yes." Kunzite turned to his blonde wife, unsure how to explain this.
"We don't know if the same applies to Jewel. However, the rest of you aren't true Senshi, as you don't have pendants. We let you act the part because it made you happy. You've gotten stronger, but there's no more flamboyant transformations." Zoisite revealed this to the shocked and disappointed teenagers.
"That sucks." Shadow grumbled.
"This is so unjust!" Ivy blurted out.
"Well...I'm uncertain if it would blend with your transformations, girls. However, I could stitch a second stripe onto your collars if that makes any difference?" Naru provided a somewhat satisfactory solution.
"We don't have a second option. I want something to show for my efforts." Dawn confessed.
As promised, Naru worked tirelessly to stitch a second stripe into the sailor collars until she found a procedure that remained throughout the transformation. As unexpected as it was, Beryl upgraded Jewel as well. So, she received a second stripe on her collar, too!
"Thanks, Mom, but this doesn't feel...earned." Jewel tried her feelings in the right way.
"That's the only time I'm doing this because you don't deserve to be behind the others." Beryl snapped, and she walked off.
"I equal parts like her and hate her," Jewel told her friends, who laughed. Little did the Senshi know getting their third and final stripe would be the most challenging experience because being a Senshi is only half of what they needed to learn, and that is over now!
The End