Sailor Moon Episode 129

Episode title: The Trouble With Love

Original American Airdate: 10/6/2000

Original Canadian Airdate:

More homework help for Darien. This time, Amy was having trouble coming up with an answer. Darien told her that she had to use Quadratic Equations. Amy's mistake was using Pythagorus' Theorum instead. Darien told Amy that she was great at geometry, and he enjoyed working with people who enjoyed learning. Serena was intensely jealous of course, and broke her pencil. The girls were all studying at Darien's apartment.

"Break it up, you two!" Serena said, seperating Darien and Amy as much as she could.

"Jealousy just arrived." Rini muttered to Raye.

Mina reminded Serena that Darien was coming to their study sessions to help everybody.

"But I don't want him all cozy with anybody but me!" Serena shouted.

"You're just jealous!" Raye said casually. Serena objected, and the two stuck their tongues out at each other.

"Just spare us the 'he's mine' stuff for one day if you can." Mina said.

Lita suddenly sniffed the air. She said, "Is it just me, or is something burning?"

Diana bounded to the balcony and saw smoke billowing out from below. She screamed, and yelled, "Inferno!"

The girls all leapt up in panic, knocking over a lamp. Raye had gotten a fire extinguisher, but tripped on the lamp, and pulled the trigger on the extinguisher. The CO₂ in the extinguisher sprayed all over the apartment, coating absolutely everything in a coat of white powder. When it settled, the girls were scattered all over the apartment, and it was in shambles. Darien slammed his computer shut, and white powder flew away. All five girls sat ashamed in front of Darien.

"The inferno you so bravely battled was a fish that got burned two floors down." He said.

"I'm sorry." Diana said sorrowfully.

"Don't feel upset, Diana sweetie." Raye said. "If Serena hadn't been so jealous, none of this would have happened."

"Exactly!" Amy and Mina said.

"You did start the tiff that got everyone all heated up for nothing, I might add." Darien said.

"So what are you going to do, Darien?" Lita asked. "There's no way you can stay here for a while."

Darien had his arms crossed as he thought about his situation. "Yes, I know." He said. "And the timing couldn't possibly be any worse. This report's gotta be finished tomorrow."

Raye chimed in. "Come stay at my temple. There's lots of room for as long as you need." She said. Serena wasted no time in getting jealous over this.

"We can't bring him to our house!" Rini said. "How would you explain him to mom and dad?"

"Don't worry, future queen!" Diana said, hopping into Darien's lap. "I'll watch over him! "It's plain to me that you guys don't really trust each other, so I'll go to Raye's temple, and act as Darien's chaperone until this place is livable again!"

Mina blinked and blushed. Serena objected, but had to deal with things the way they were.

Meanwhile, that night, at the circus tent that was STILL in PLAIN view of the ENTIRE CITY OF TOKYO, Zirconia was getting more impatient. He wondered what was taking so long. The Trio, with all due respect, said that they already had more power than any human, and asked why wait for Pegasus. Hawk's Eye wondered what was so special about Pegasus.

"I don't explain my orders!" Zirconia said. "I told you to find the dream where Pegasus lives, the one who hosts his life. I will tell you what you need to know in due time. Now, get back to work!"

The Trio bowed to Zirconia, and retired to their bar. Fish Eye was feeling like Zirconia's puppet, not knowing most things about Pegasus. Tiger's Eye in the meantime, was doing a psychic reading to find his next target. He picked up a picture of Raye.

Meanwhile, Raye and Grandpa were welcoming Darien to their temple, while the girls, cats and Chad spied on them. Grandpa said he'd wake up Darien at daybreak for chores, and Raye said that Darien had classes, and couldn't do chores. Grandpa surmised that Grandpa liked Darien, and Raye blushed, saying he was only a friend.

"You know, someday I expect to have lots of little great grand-babies running around here, and Raye will need someone to help her run the place while I play with them!" Grandpa said. "You look like you're in shape! Clean cut, too! If you've got half a brain, you'd be an excellent candidate!"

Serena growled. "Back off grandpa, he's my candy date!"

The girls pulled Serena back into hiding. Chad in the meantime, picked up his suitcase, saying that he could never remember one time when he got even one kiss from Raye.

"As if you're in the same ballpark as Darien, Chad." Serena muttered. Chad's ego was bruised.

Amy said, "Serena, Raye and Darien are just friends, like brother and sister, ever since those few dates they had."

Chad's heart broken, he dropped the suitcase on his toe and shrieked in pain. Rini didn't know that Raye and Darien had gone out. Chad wondered why Raye never told him she was single. Mina said you never forget your first love, and Lita said that Raye and Darien only had puppy love. Amy said that Raye was looking for true love, and Darien had found it. Chad stumbled into a tree, and was not in good shape at all.

That night, Darien was working on his paper. Diana was sitting on a pillow on the floor, watching him.

"It's so peaceful here, your highness." Diana said. "It's the perfect place for you to get your work done."

Darien chuckled. "Don't call me 'your highness', okay Diana? Just Darien will do." He replied. "Darien is my earth name."

"But your highness!" Diana pleaded. "If you'll please excuse me, I'm gonna go stand guard by the door. You're the king in training, and you've gotta get good grades! I won't let that whacky grandpa bother you while you're studying! Your highness!"

Darien had gotten up to take a small break, and went to take a bath. Even future kings got to relax.

Raye had decided that what she needed to relax was a good hot soak in the tub. Her grandpa wanted her to stay at the temple for her life, but she wanted to travel and try new things. She walked into the tub room.

Darien shouted, and Raye screamed. Raye ran out of the bathroom, blushing so brightly, she almost illuminated the night sky around the temple. Chad came running down the hallway, wondering what was wrong. He saw that it was only Darien in the tub.

"Wait!" He said. "Tell me that he was already in..."

Raye threw him to the ground. He wondered what he did. Raye shouted that what he didn't do, was tell her someone was in the bath.

"Great." Chad said as Raye ran off. "Now she's mad at me, Darien. Thanks. I just got back in her good graces from the last stunt I pulled."

Raye ran to her room and closed the door.

"Aren't you up past your curfew Raye?" A voice said. Raye wondered who it was. With some struggling, the source of the voice came out from under Raye's table. It was Serena.

"You know who I am now?" Serena said, crawling out.

"Little Red Maniac Hood?" Raye said.

"Do not insult the ninja! I am the Red Ninja, Protector of Love! Now, what were you doing outside your room at this hour?!" Serena said.

"I confess! I went to take a hot bath all by myself!" Raye said sarcastically.

"Take a bath?"

"To relax."

"To relax?"

Raye sat down, and started to undo the ribbons in her hair.

"And your hair's already dry?!" Serena exclaimed. "And you're wearing your clothes from before!" Raye started turning very red. "Hey, why are you blushing like that?" Serena said.

"It's been quite a night, Serena." Raye said.

"What's going on Raye?!" Serena screamed.

"I barely peeked, I swear!" Raye said.

"Barely peeked at what?"

"At Darien. He was already in the tub when I went in!"

Serena blew up. The two started to fight like they had never fought before. Meanwhile, an angry Chad was keeping a fire strong. The fire was what heated the bathroom. Darien opened the window, and said that Grandpa told him that Chad would help him if he needed anything.

"Like needing all your meals in your room so you never have to mingle with us?" Chad hissed.

"No." Darien said. "I just wanted to tell you that it's hot enough."

He asked Chad to let the fire calm down. Instead, Chad scalded Darien by making the fire stronger. In the meantime, Rini was looking out at the twinkling lights of Tokyo. She was in her pajamas and ready for bed. She closed her window, and her new gift given to her by Pegasus shone. Pegasus appeared in the globe. Rini asked why some people get jealous when it comes to love. She talked about how Serena always seemed to get so strange and worried that someone would snag Darien.

Pegasus replied, "That's because when we're in love, we want the other person only to have eyes for us, Rini."

"But Darien's true!" Rini said. "He totally spoils her. Anyway, when I'm in love, I'll never be jealous."

"Love is very complex, dear Rini." Pegasus said. "It can make you feel lots of emotions you never expected. Serena needs someone to help her control her jealousy instead of trying to control Darien, or their love may not last."

Rini gasped. "If she doesn't, I won't be born!" She fell backward.

The next day, Darien had started again on his report. Diana noticed that Darien was starting to look tired and achy, and she offered to be a heat pad for his sore shoulders. Meanwhile, Raye had just awoke, and was getting ready to start her day, tired as she was.

"It's going to be a long day, I can tell." Raye said to herself.

"That's okay. The Red Ninja is patient and silent." Serena said. Raye saw Serena perched in a tree. "I've learned a thing or two from Luna." Serena said. "Number one being 'never trust the enemy'!"

Raye, fed up, told Serena for the millionth time that she and Darien were over. Serena accused Raye of saying Darien wasn't good enough for her.

"Are you sure you should call yourselves friends?" Diana said, happening upon the encounter. Raye and Serena looked at her. "Anyway, keep it down! The future king can't concentrate!" Diana hopped back into Darien's room. Serena was angered by Diana, and almost fell, but jumped into the bushes. She clumsily tried to find her way out, and Raye called for Chad. Chad was nowhere to be found.

In actuality, Chad was meditating on his own in the temple. Grandpa tapped him on the shoulder, which failed to get his attention.

"CHAAAAAD!"

Chad jumped, and finally gave his attention to Grandpa. He asked if screaming was necessary, and Grandpa told Chad he needed to shape up. Chad begged and pleaded to remain at the temple and close to Raye. Grandpa said he had no intention of kicking out Chad. He had a special new training program for him. Chad focused himself and began his mission.

Chad and Grandpa started out in their place of training - a Tokyo street. Chad's mission was to strike up a conversation with a girl, and win her heart. Grandpa got things started with a pair of ladies, and Chad said hello. The duo screamed and took off running down the street.

Meanwhile, Raye was sweeping at the temple. She stopped for a moment to meditate and rest. Tiger's Eye in the meantime, saw Raye as he approached the temple. He came up silently behind Raye, and studied her. He reached out to touch Raye. Suddenly, she grabbed hold of her broom, and swung it at Tiger's Eye, thinking it was Serena. Her broom flew into a bush, and a cat jumped out and ran away. She looked down at the fallen Tiger's Eye.

"Oh, I thought you were the Red Ninja!" Raye said apologetically. "Sorry about that! I don't normally attack visitors. You startled me, that's all." She said. She picked up her broom. Tiger's Eye was saying that he had come to her to tell her he loved her. Raye wasn't listening though, and she was hitting the bush with her broom, trying to get Serena if she was hiding there.

"I'm declaring a sudden love for you, and you're not even listening to me!?" Tiger's Eye shouted in anger. He drew his whip. Raye raised her broom to hit the bush again, but it flew out of her hand. She turned and saw that it had been taken by a whip. She looked at Tiger's Eye, and he revealed his true form. In three counts, Tiger's Eye had Raye trapped, with her Dream Mirror exposed.

"Serena, you're acting like a big fool, and it's not attractive." Rini said. Serena the Red Ninja was scaling the outer walls of the temple instead of going up the stairs.

"Am not!" Serena said. "I'm the Red Ninja of Love, protecting my honey bunch from the jaws of Raye!"

"But you know your jealousy is going to create trouble for us all." Rini said. She reached the top a lot faster than Serena did. Rini told Serena that love is complex, and makes one feel things they never thought they would.

"Have you been reading my romance books again?" Serena asked. Their attention was suddenly caught by Raye's screams, as Tiger's Eye looked in her Dream Mirror.

"MOON COSMIC DREAM ACTION!"

Try as he might, Tiger's Eye couldn't find Pegasus in Raye's Dream Mirror. He knew Raye would have to go.

"Not so fast, slimeball!" A voice shouted. It was that of Sailor Moon.

"You can't put an end to her lovely dreams just because they're not what you want them to be!" Sailor Mini Moon shouted. "And she hasn't even found her true love yet! There's no way we're letting her miss out!"

"As long as we keep Darien off limits!" Sailor Moon said quietly. "We're Sailor Scouts!"

"We will right wrongs and triumph over evil!"

"I am Sailor Moon!"

"And I am Sailor Mini Moon!"

"We are the keepers of Dream Land! Your worst nightmare!"

Tiger's Eye was once again undaunted, and he called forth his Remlis. A parasol flew into the air and gently floated downward. It turned itself over, and the Remlis was sitting on the underside of the umbrella. Tiger's Eye ordered it to attack, and it rushed at the Sailor Scouts. The Sailor Scouts dodged the attack easily. They were covered in an odd type of liquid. They both shouted for Darien, but Darien thought they were playing a game. He decided to stay in and finish his report.

Meanwhile, the monster was spraying hard jets of water at the two Sailor Scouts. It suddenly stopped, born with the attack. The monster landed on the ground, and used its parasol to create a rainbow. Small tissue-made ghosts started pelting the Sailor Scouts. Sailor Mercury suddenly appeared.

"SHINE AQUA ILLUSION!"

The ghosts were knocked away. The other Sailor Scouts appeared.

"VENUS LOVE CHAIN ENCIRCLE!"

The Love Chain bound the monster for a moment.

"SPARKLING WIDE PRESSURE!"

The monster attempted to block the shot, but the parasol was burnt to a crisp. Sailor Mercury told Mini Moon to step things up.

"Pegasus, protect people's dreams!"

"CRYSTAL TWINKLE BELL!"

Pegasus' power was activated, and Pegasus appeared. The monster charged Sailor Moon and Mini Moon, and Sailor Moon struggled to her feet.

"MOON GORGEOUS MEDITATION!"

With the monster destroyed, Raye was released when Tiger's Eye retreated. Sailor Moon caught her and made sure she was alright.

Later that day, Serena asked Darien, rather harshly, why he didn't come help when they were calling for help. Darien said,

"I thought it was a joke. Sorry."

Meanwhile, Chad was grovelling to an embarrassed Raye. Raye told him to stop, but he just continued apologizing.

"Please have mercy!" He begged.

"Granted." Raye said, annoyed.

"Thank you!" Chad said. "Thank you, Raye! I am your servant! Give me orders!"

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