The thing was, as Beryl laughed, the shadows of Metalia leaking through her, that Usagi was worried. Okay. she was more than a little terrified, seeing the fact that none of their attacks seemed to do much more than slight, gazing injuries, that no blow was able to actually do anything to the cackling mad woman before them. But still, even as she and her friends were ragged, bleeding... they were not broken. Love and justice would prevail in this frozen Antarctic domain! And then there was another bolt of rotten light, of negation and despair, of flaying screams and tears that forced them to move.

"Hold that there please." A pair of silver needles struck the spell, struck the cascading entropic bolt (hah! And Ami thought she didn't read those word a day calendars!), holding it in mid air. And then, there was a man there. Well, he looked like a white guy, wearing glasses and a lab coat, looking at the frozen bolt of power with not a worry or care. Rather, he hummed, as he looked it over, ignoring everyone else. It was only after a moment or two that she noticed something. Beryl seemed to be worried and unsure.

So, if he made her nervous, that meant he was a good guy right? So, she bounced up to him, opening her mouth... even as he raised a hand. "Look. Miss Tsukino? I am busy examining the possessed idiots shoddily made spell. Really, her spellcasting has devolved to Moon Kingdom levels..." He tsked, not shaking his head... and huh. Beryl was not ranting, but was trying not to be noticed, even as Metalia was actually being still and not leaking out of her? That was... okay, she may not be the smartest, but...

"What do you mean by that!" Ami seemed mad, offended even, as the guy, who was all kinds of plain and not handsome, looked up at her with an unamused expression.

"Because, as it was ten thousand years ago, and remains now apparently, Silver Millennium magic is less understanding what magic actually does and more 'oh, lets throw fuck load of magic at something and season it with a spike of intend and see if that bullies reality into doing what we want! Oh, it didn't work? We need to throw more power at it!'" His tone was dry enough that she could actually feel some of the water evaporate, which was neat, even as Ami reddened. "Or can you provide me the full breakdown of your spells from base principles?"

He sighed, as he waved a hand. "Boys, please secure Beryl." There was a squeak, as the possessed former human turned the flee... and as harpoons of bone impaled her, motor cycles flying over the snow and ice, what seemed to hollering yankees on them, racing around and cocooning their enemy. All in all, the pretty guardian of the moon would admit to feeling confused, even as she spoke, her tone unsure.

"Ah, who are you?"

At that, the man raises an eyebrow at Tuxedo Mask. "You know, I'm not surprised that you lunars wouldn't know, but you would think that Endymion would have informed you of the earth side politics. We were a federation of allied states, much the same way the Moon Kingdom ruled over the other worlds, just without, you know, the massive amounts of mind control." He sniffed. "Because sure, the modern day propaganda and advertising services are a nice little glimpse, but seriously, would it have killed you lot to have people beyond the nobility to have thoughts in their head you didn't place there?"

Wait, that sounded evil, even as all her friends spoke, trying to defend her. "I mean hell, just look at this class C psionic backlash entity possessing Endymion's ex wife!" Some of those words were more important than others, as she felt her mind screech to a halt, as she could all but feel everyone's eyes getting wider and wider.

"Ah, he couldn't have been married, he went with me?" Because they loved each other, and she wouldn't have done something like that, right? Even Tuxedo Mask seemed to be confused, unsure thing things... before the lab coat guy moved, silver needles poking at... was that a ghost overlapping with him?

"Okay, all the signs of soul deep memory deletion done by a total hack. And freaking hell..." The motor cycles rumbled, as Aino frowned, as she seemed to see something, which is why, because she was smart, slid up to her.

"Ah, whats going on?" Because hey, love was what she knew, right? Or maybe she should have asked Rei, because hey trained priestess and all!

"Lover boy has enough compulsions and ;love spells on him that his actual personality is almost completely buried. All signs point to it being so sloppy that it could not have been done intentionally." Lab coat guy sighed, as he picked up her boyfriend, starting to walk off with him. Then, Ami spoke, her tone confused.

"What do you mean by a class C psionic backlash entity?" She sounded worried, confused and just a little shaken, as really, none of them knew what was going on, because it was supposed to be just showing up, declaring love, justice and blasting the bad guys and going home to wat ice cream, laugh and gossip about cute boys!

Still, glasses blinked. "Oh, that. As far as I can tell? Physical manifestation of the removed free will and negative feelings from a few thousand years of the Moon Kingdoms mind control effects, with at least one 'erasing evil in the heart' ritual that finished the whole fuck up." Holes opened in the ice and snow, as the people seemed to be heading underground. "After all, it all needed to go somewhere, all those souls crying out for release, for an end. Still, I'm just going to go and get these idiots exorcised and detoxed. Have a nice day."

There was a click and clang, the doors sealing themselves... and all the scouts present were left with far more questions than answers, and slight headaches, as they milled about the aftermath of the anticlimactic battle, before deciding to just head home and sleep on it.