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Chapter One - Jasper

Andrew wiped down the counter as it was after closing time at the arcade, and he looked over at the guy sitting in the booth towards the back, again. He was still there, and he had been sitting there for three hours. He knew it was time to ask him to leave so he could close up.

Andrew sighed and walked over to the booth, "The Arcade closed as of fifteen minutes ago. I have a couple of things to clean up if you want to finish your coffee, but then you will need to head out."

The guy just smiled at him and said, "Andrew, we need to talk. We must talk in private, and it needs to stay between us. Why don't you finish up and then join me back here."

Andrew stared at him, not knowing if he was willing to stay and speak to the stranger. He pulled out his cell phone and decided to text Jadeite. He figured Darien would be busy. As he held his phone out to text him, the stranger said, "Jadeite won't know who I am either. I'm not ready for him to know I'm here yet, so please don't text him."

"How do you know who I was about to text?" Andrew was distraught now. He wondered if any of the aliens were able to read minds. Surely that wasn't out of the realm of possibilities with everything else he had seen.

"I actually know you really well." The stranger sighed and said, "You, Jadeite, and Darien are close. Darien just got married, so you wouldn't bother trying to text him this late at night. Who else would you text?"

"How do you know who I'm closest to?" Andrew wanted to know what was going on, and the stranger didn't seem threatening, so he sat down.

"Good. Well, Uncle Andrew, my name is Jasper, and this is even stranger than what I prepared myself for."

He was about to say more when Andrew interrupted, "You're older than my sister, so there's no way I'm your uncle. Stop this and explain yourself, or I will call the police." Andrew had instantly grown suspicious.

The stranger laughed, "Fair enough. You aren't actually my uncle, but I have called you that since I was able to speak. I'm from the future, and I need you to keep what I'm about to tell you just between us. I need an ally here, and you're the one I can trust the most not to say something you shouldn't."

"You're from the future?" Andrew looked puzzled and then said, "Well, Jasper is a kind of stone, so does that make you one of Darien's generals in the future?"

Jasper looked pleased, "Nope, but excellent guess. Can I have your promise that you won't say anything to the rest of the group?"

"You can have my promise that, if I believe you, I will use my best discretion when sharing information with others. Take it or leave it." Andrew leaned back in his seat and waited for the response.

"Deal. Well, I'm not only from the future, but I am also the son of Jadeite and Molly. You and my father are really close friends, so I have always referred to you as Uncle Andrew. The two of you are Darien's closest friends, and in the future, you and dad still fight over who would have been his Best Man."

Andrew looked owl-eyed at Jasper and let out a long breath, "Wow… well, how… there's so much that I want to ask you. I don't know where to start." He paused and then made a decision, "Why come back in time? What are you trying to accomplish?"

Jasper smiled and said, "That's exactly what I thought you would ask first. You always have a way of cutting to the heart of the matter. I'm here to stop the future that I have come from. In at least a month, but maybe longer, an alien egg filled with dark energy will be hidden on this planet and left to grow. Once it hatches, which will take six months, it will release a large source of evil. In my timeline, that source was left undetected, and it infected Darien and Serena's daughter, turning her evil and causing her to fight against us with a group called Black Onyx." He paused and let Andrew start to digest all of that information.

"So we just have to destroy an egg, and everything will be fine?"

"First, I need to find the egg, and then we need to destroy it. No one was able to figure out where it was buried since it had hatched long before it infected Celestine." Jasper explained.

"I take it Celestine is their daughter," Andrew stated and leaned forward, resting on his elbows.

"Yup."

Andrew thought for a minute, "Why come to me?"

"You're like a vault when it comes to information in the future. Believe it or not, but everyone knows you're trustworthy and a trusted confidant of King Endymion. People use an expression when they are explaining they will keep a secret, 'It will be like you told Andrew.' The implication, of course, is that the secret is safe."

"Wow, just… really? I'm that well known in Japan?"

Jasper laughed, "Actually, it is said in every language on Earth. I think people started the expression in Monaco of all places."

Andrew ran his hand through his hair, "It's a lot to take in. Where are you staying tonight? Do you need a place to stay?"

Jasper looked at him, "You just met me, and you're offering me a place to stay?"

"Shouldn't your uncle invite you?" Andrew asked, amused with how shocked Jasper looked.

"You trust me already?"

"I do." Andrew paused and said, "So are you going to tell me who I marry?"

"Do you really want me to?"

"You told me that Jadeite and Molly marry," Andrew reasoned.

Jasper rolled his eyes, "One, they are already engaged. Two, I haven't told them that."

"True." Andrew stood and then said, "You keep talking while I finish closing up. Follow me over to the counter. I have to restock napkins first."

Jasper stood and walked over with Andrew, "What do you want to know?"

"Do I call you by your real name, or do we hide that because of your parents?"

"So, you've decided to keep the secret?" Jasper looked pleased.

"Did you really doubt I would?"

"No, but it's nice to be sure you already agree."

"Yes, I agree to keep the secret. Now you can tell me what you are hiding. Something must have happened to make you feel like you had no chance in the future to fix things, and you had to come to the past."

"I can't tell you everything. For right now, will you accept the fact that I'll admit that's true, but I don't want to tell you?" Jasper hoped Andrew would be okay with it.

"I can, and I appreciate the truth."

"I'll stick with that. If there's something I don't feel I should say, I'll tell you, and I won't lie to you about it. Can you accept that I will be lying to others and believe that I'm truthful with you?"

"I'll try. If I'm struggling with it, I will let you know." Andrew hoped what he said sounded fair.

"Fair enough for me." Jasper paused and shook his head. "It's weird to be in the position where I know more than you."

"I'm going to be honest and admit I don't get why anyone would have heard about me." Andrew tried to fathom being known worldwide.

"Well, you know about Crystal Tokyo..."

"No, I don't."

"Oh, wow. Well, the Earth will eventually come under attack, and Serena and Darien will save it as Endymion and Serenity. The whole of Earth will look to them as leaders. He becomes King Endymion, and she becomes Neo-Queen Serenity, and she brokers alliances with planets from all over the galaxy. You're Darien's right-hand man, and everyone knows it."

"What?! I serve the King of Earth? "

"Well, actually yes, but you also serve Neo-Queen Serenity, who is the Queen of the whole solar system. Hence her Sailor Scouts being from different planets."

"That's a lot to take in. Wait, and their child has become part of Black Onyx… shit. I just figured it out. Serena's dead, isn't she?" Andrew grew upset.

Jasper looked shocked and slowly nodded his head. "I didn't want to say something because it will be hard not to let on that you know."

"I get it. Damn it. Now their daughter, who is possessed by dark energy, rules the solar system, and Darien is a wreck, so he isn't any help." Andrew managed to reason out quickly.

"You got it in one guess. It was just awful. You can't imagine the sorrow I've experienced lately, both suffered by others and myself. It has been a tough time."

"I hope never to experience that. So, what do I need to do to save my friends and their child?"

"I need you to convince them to help me find an evil alien energy egg and trust that I'm here to make the future better. And yes, you can use my real name."

"You will tell them you're from the future?"

"It's too easy to slip and let something out, I know. So yes, and it would explain to them how I know them. I feel I need to give them something so that they will trust me." Jasper hoped that was the right decision.

"Okay, well, that works for me… We discussed this already, didn't we?"

"What do you mean?"

"You and future me planned this out, didn't we?" Andrew didn't know how he knew that, but he did.

"Yes, we did. It was your idea in the first place to send me back and to find the egg. I'm really good at detecting alien power and tracking. You approached me."

"That's strange to think about. Do you have a place to stay?"

"Yes, you told me about the apartment building Darien lived in, and I rented a place there."

"Seems like we had this all planned then." Andrew smiled.

"Mostly yes, we figured whatever adjustments needed to be made could be made by the two of us," Jasper told him honestly. He was pleased with this Andrew.

"I need to head home/ I have class in the morning, and I'm getting a headache. I need a little time to process everything you told me."

"Hey, this is already going according to our best-case scenario. Here," Jasper handed Andrew a piece of paper. "This has my phone number on it, call me any time. I will call you tomorrow."

"Don't you need my number?"

"You already gave it to me." Jasper smiled at him. "I will head to my apartment. I also wrote the address down for you. Good night."

"Good night."

That night, Andrew closed up with his head filled with the future and what he needed to be doing to help Jasper and save Serena. It sounded like the whole galaxy would suffer without her, but he was most worried about Darien.