Chapter 11: The New Normal?

"It's been 20 years…" A lady in a sensible dress announces to a crowd at a press conference. "...since the original manga and anime have come out and we are proud to announce that we are ushering in a new chapter in our beloved universe of pretty guardians!"

She turns behind her at a big screen where the logo for "Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon" is shining beautifully. She procures a remote control and clicks on it.

Nothing happens.

She clicks once more, and again and again. Still nothing.

"I am so sorry." She bows in apology to the crowd watching her. "There appears to be some technical difficulties going on…" She then looks to her panicked support team and under her breath, she grumbles. "And somebody's getting fired…" She presses the button more decisively and suddenly, all the lights start flickering.

"Wait, was this supposed to happen?" She looks over to her team.

As the lights flicker, wind starts picking up seemingly out of nowhere. There's a strange electricity in the air. Just then, a massive spherical portal opens up in the middle of the room. The crowd panics. The sensible lady is dumbfounded.

Then, out of the portal bursts out thousands of little cut-out paper birds, flying in a violent, organized flock. Less like a flock and more like a raging river of paper in the convention room's air.

The crowd runs amok as the papers smash and grab at them. The sensible lady is in shock as the Papers make a terrifying beeline towards her, as if aiming for a kill.

"Crescent Moon Shield!" a striking figure yells as she comes between the lady and the Papers. A bright shield made of light with cosmic markings all over blocks and burns the papers as they rush in. It's Sailor V.

Sailor V triumphantly uses the Sakura Star Staff to help boost her own powers.

She turns to the lady to ask: "Are you okay?" but before she could answer, Sailor V gets distracted by the big screen behind her displaying the announcement for "Sailor Moon: Crystal"

"Wow" Sailor V exclaims to herself "I look so skinny!" referring to a drawing of Sailor Venus.

Sailor V is distracted long enough for another stream of papers to ram her against the wall. "Ah!" she screams as the staff is flung away from her grip.

She is stuck on the wall as the papers keep violently rushing onto her. "No! This can't be how I go" she thinks to herself as she begins to lose consciousness from the beating.

"Ka Me Ha Me Ha!" an attack is heard as a beam of pure energy destroys the papers, setting Sailor V free. She falls but is caught by Super Saiyaman.

"Sailor V! Are you alright?" Gohan tenderly holds her.

Sailor V opens her eyes "Oh, hello Gohan!" she smiles, a little delirious.

"Can you two hold off on the lovey dovey stuff until after we've sealed this Spirit!?" a voice is heard behind Saiyaman, it's Keroberos in all his tiny stuffed animal glory.

"What lovey dovey-?…oh!" Sailor V and Saiyaman suddenly notice the position they're in and both quickly pull away from one another, blushing. "Right, let's finish this!" Saiyaman exclaims.

Sailor V nods and hops over to grab her sealing staff just as the papers start reviving themselves. She raises the wand and commands: "I seal you…swarm!"

With a flurry of light the swarm of papers swirl into a violent ball formation then into a vortex that sucks itself into a glowing Clow Card.

The card then flies over to Sailor V, where she sees that this turned into the Swarm Card, another, new piece of her deck.

"Alright, one more down" Saiyaman says. "Should we…"

"Check out the food in this universe?" Sailor V turns to him.

"My thoughts exactly! I just hope it's all normal colored"

"Yeah, I'm still recovering from that world where all the food was blue." Sailor V says.

"Sa-Sailor V!?" They hear a voice behind them, it's the lady from before. She's in shock.

"Oh right! I'm so sorry about all this!" Sailor V bows in apology.

Saiyaman takes his helmet off and bows to apologize as well. "We are interdimensional travelers with a mission to find these spirits that are threatening to destroy the multiverse!"

"I don't know why you're even bothering with apologizing and explaining, they're all just going to forget all of this!" Kero-chan floats over to Sailor V's shoulder.

"Oh, right." Sailor V remembers what she has to do. She pulls out the "Forget" card and uses the wand to cast a spell on the entire auditorium.

The Lady blinks and finds herself in the middle of her presentation again. It's as if nothing happened. Everyone just stares and looks at each other confused.

Later, just outside the convention center, over a fanciful looking pedestrian bridge. Minako and Gohan are in regular clothes, eating some street food while they are debriefed by Kero-chan.

"Okay, so we have a long way to go before we can complete the Clow Book and i don't know how much longer the multiverse can take this much discord" Kero-chan looks over the small handful of cards they've accumulated.

"Not for much longer!" We see the Talking Dimension Hopping Kettle next to Kero. "We really need to pick up the pace here, guys"

"Well, if you could recharge your dimension portals faster, maybe we could?" Gohan says while eating a fistful of nachos. "I mean, not that I'm in a hurry to go home to my own dimension or anything…" he looks over to Minako. Who is looking off into the distance while holding her dango "Minako, are you okay?"

"I'm fine, that lady we rescued, I think she might have invented me?" Minako tells him.

"What do you mean?" Gohan asks

"I think this is a universe where me and my friends are all fictional characters. It's weird." Minako wistfully says to herself as she pulls out a copy of the Sailor Moon and Sailor V mangas.

"Hey, just because our stories are written in this world, doesn't mean they are in ours…you know" Gohan reassures her. "Like, I don't think they would ever write us together…"

Ding!

The Kettle makes a sound. "My Portal batteries are charged. Time to head to the next dimension!"

"You're right" Minako cheerfully replies. "And we still have to find the rest of my friends and save the multiverse from destruction and that's something we have to do together!"

The Kettle activates the portal under the bridge. Minako, Gohan, Kero-Chan and the Kettle get up on the railings. Minako and Gohan hold hands instinctively. They both shoot a hidden glance at each other, just barely out of sync so as not to catch each other's gaze at the same time.

"Let's Go!" Kero yells as they all jump in.

As the portal closes, they don't notice that there's a strange, glowing crack forming on the side of the bridge.