Sailor Moon Episode 95

Episode title: Birthday Blues pt. 2

Original American Airdate: 6/28/2000

Original Canadian Airdate: 10/28/2000

Tuxedo Mask was trapped inside a hard crystal shell. Just then, the Sailor Scouts appeared. Kaorinite disappeared with Tuxedo Mask, and told the Sailors that she would be at the Tokyo Tower. The Scouts saw Neptune and Uranus running out of the parking lot. Serena got up and started to run out of the parking lot.

"Wait, Serena!" Mercury shouted. Serena stopped and turned around. "What are you thinking? They're obviously waiting for you with some sort of trap! You can't just go out on your own without some sort of plan, especially when you can't even become Sailor Moon!"

Serena thought back to Tuxedo Mask being trapped in the crystal. She ran again. Outside, Amara was driving by and stopped. Serena asked her for a ride, and Amara agreed. Serena jumped in and Amara raced towards the Tokyo Tower. The Sailor Scouts came out of the parking lot.

"She's too careless." Sailor Mars said. "How does she think she can help alone?"

All the Sailors could do was watch Serena go.

"Serena?" Michele said. Serena, looking down, looked up at Michele. "Have you and Darien stopped fighting yet?"

"Yes." Serena finally muttered after a lot of pausing.

"I've got a question for you." Amara said. "Do you think it's true that people either go through life helping others or needing help themselves?"

"What are you talking about?" Serena asked.

"What Amara means is that people constantly give things up for the ones they love." Michele said. "Some may even risk their lives for another." Serena gasped. "A person like that would care nothing for himself and would give up everything, including his life for another person's safety and well-being."

"It's mostly love that makes people go to that extreme, usually parent love or the from a friend." Amara added. "But it's one life being helped, or being the helper."

Amara sped through a tunnel, and the lights in the tunnel were red. Serena suddenly gasped as she finally realized something. Amara and Michele were Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune.

"Well, what are your thoughts on the subject?" Michele asked as Amara sped out of the tunnel.

"My thoughts?" Serena said. She gathered herself together. "You're right about people. We all need each other one way or another. That's how life works; there's give and there's take. I think a person who willingly gives up their life for another is courageous. But sacrificing someone else's life is a different story. I couldn't save my life for the cost of losing another. I believe you should try everything possible to avoid the loss of a life. I'm sure if people put their heads together, a sacrifice wouldn't be necessary."

"Well Serena," Michele said, "I see you have passionate opinions."

The car arrived at the Tokyo Tower. Serena looked at the tower's height, and got herself prepared. She ran towards the building.

"Amara, are you sure?" Michele said as they watched Serena go. "I mean... she could die."

"We've got no choice." Amara said painfully. "In order to save the earth and get the Purity Force, we must sacrifice the lives of three people. Unfortunately Michele, she'll have to give up her young life." Amara hit her windshield in anger.

Serena arrived inside the Tokyo Tower. Suddenly, all the windows and doors were blocked by metal shutters. Kaorinite's voice echoed through the room and directed Serena to the elevator. Serena rode the elevator towards the top. In the meantime, the Sailor Scouts arrived outside the tower, and the shutters wouldn't budge. Jupiter was about to blast the door down, but she was stopped. They decided to find another way in.

"Wait, Venus!" Luna said as the Sailor Scouts were running. "The world is depending on you. Do what you know you must." Venus nodded.

Meanwhile, Serena's elevator arrived at its destination. She gasped and cried out when she saw Tuxedo Mask still encased inside his glass shell.

"Come in." Kaorinite said with a smirk. "I see you've noticed our finest exhibit, but don't come any closer, or I'll smash it to pieces!"

"Please don't hurt him!" Serena pleaded. "Take me instead! I'm the one you want, and here I am! Please let him go!"

"Alright." Kaorinite replied. She sent Sanoshenta to extract Sailor Moon's Heart Crystal. It floated before Serena when it was extracted. Before Sanoshenta could get it, the Heart Crystal was snatched, and in a flash of light, Sailors Uranus and Neptune knelt by Serena, almost as if to guard her. Kaorinite, displeased, watched with the rest of the room as Uranus inspected the Heart Crystal. She found nothing.

"What?!" Kaorinite exclaimed. "It's not the one?! What do you mean it's not the one? I saw the intense brightness myself!"

"It seems that the intensity of the light only reflects the purity of the heart!" Neptune said. "It has nothing to do with the powers we're looking for!"

Uranus gladly gave Serena her Heart Crystal back. Serena's body came back to life, and Serena opened her eyes. She was amazed to see Neptune and Uranus kneeling over her.

"Did you save me?" She asked. Uranus and Neptune were glad to have her back.

"Hmph." Kaorinite said. "Pure Heart Crystal or not, you are keeping us from what we want. You must be terminated, Serena "Moon Face", or should I say... Sailor Moon?"

Uranus and Neptune's smiles faded into shock.

"You're Sailor Moon?!" Uranus said in amazement.

"She's not Sailor Moon!" Shouted a voice. Everybody looked over and saw four forms in the shadows. "You've been trying to steal the pure heart of an innocent girl, you tacky tart! I am the one and only Sailor Moon, and I despise your evil ways! You're going down! I'm Sailor Moon, and in the name of the moon, I shall punish you!"

Serena looked on in shock, as Sailor Moon made her speech.

"You're... Sailor Moon?" Kaorinite said. Sailor Moon and the Scouts had stepped out of the shadows.

Oh, it's Mina! Serena thought to herself. Kaori thought there was something different about this Sailor Moon.

"What? How can that be?" 'Sailor Moon' said. "I've got a perfect Dis..."

'Sailor Moon' was interrupted by Jupiter and Mars.

"She's perfectly the same!" They said.

"Of course she is, of course she is! Yeah, yeah, yeah!" Mercury added.

"If that's true," Sanoshenta said, "then tell me who that blond head is over there."

"Couldn't tell you!" 'Sailor Moon' said. "Maybe she's a fan of mine! Or just a nobody."

"You see, a crybaby brat like her could never be a Sailor Scout, let alone Sailor Moon!" Mars added.

Kaorinite, enraged, blew out the windows, and a huge hole in the ceiling. Uranus and Neptune left the scene. Kaorinite, convinced that Serena's brooch was useless, threw it to the ground. She left the job to Sanoshenta, and took off after Uranus and Neptune.

Outside, Kaorinite battled Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune. She exchanged blows with Uranus, and was fine.

"Hope they taught you how to be a loser in evil school, otherwise you'll fail!" Uranus shouted.

"Say good night, Kaorinite!" Neptune shouted. Kaorinite, unamused, prepared herself. Meanwhile, Sanoshenta was attacking the Sailor Scouts with its glass spray. 'Sailor Moon' and Sailor Mercury jumped over it.

"SAILOR KICK!"

'Sailor Moon' kicked Sanoshenta in the face, sending Sanoshenta flying. It landed on the ground and broke its arm. It panicked for a second, then took out a piece of paper from a small envelope, and read it.

"In the event of a broken limb, you are insured for one used replacement." Sanoshenta smiled in relief. It was prepared to attack, but 'Sailor Moon' attacked first with a golden chain of energy. Sanoshenta dodged it.

"I think she may be overplaying her role." Serena said. Luna brought her brooch to her.

"MOON COSMIC POWER!"

"You!" Sanoshenta shouted.

"You got that right!" Sailor Moon shouted. "And I'm certainly intelligent and courageous! I'm Sailor Moon! And in the name of the moon, I will punish you!"

"MOON SPIRAL HEART ATTACK!"

The Daimon pod popped out of the glass shoe and broke. Tuxedo Mask was finally freed from the glass encasement. Sailor Moon ran to him and hugged him tightly.

"Oh, Darien..." she sobbed.

Rats, I've got morons on my team! Kaorinite thought, sensing Sanoshenta's death.

"WORLD SHAKING!"

Uranus' energy ball missed as Kaorinite leapt high into the air. Uranus leapt to meet her, and they exchanged blows, both of which were blocked. When Uranus landed, one of the folds on her sleeve slipped off, sliced, revealing a bleeding wound underneath it. Uranus, being able to size up Kaorinite's powers, warned Neptune about her. Kaorinite looked at her bracelet. It began to flash with white light, and suddenly, huge sections of the tower exploded. The Sailor Scouts, still inside from the battle with Sanoshenta, felt the quakes. Sailor Moon said to go help Uranus and Neptune.

"Why should we go help those traitors?" Jupiter said.

"Because," Sailor Moon said, "they helped me! I don't really believe their wicked! Think about it! They actually gave me back my life!"

"Alright, then it's settled!" Mina said. "Let's get a move on right now!"

"Hold on there a minute, Venus." Sailor Moon said, going up to Venus. "As much as I appreciate your help, lose the disguise!"

"Huh? Why? What's wrong with it?" Venus asked. "I asked Luna to use the Disguising Pen to help."

Meanwhile, Kaorinite had taken a swing at Uranus with her extendable hair, but missed.

"Hey, swamp witch!" A voice shouted. Kaorinite looked at a girder and saw five forms. "This communications tower sends television signals to the entire country, and you destroyed it! I loathe you, and on behalf of television lovers everywhere..."

"We will punish you!" Said the whole Sailor Scout troupe. The Sailor Scouts descended onto the scene. Sailor Moon asked Kaorinite if she wanted to run away. Kaorinite had no intention of running away.

She picked up the glass shoe, and poured some of the red fluid from Tomo's test tubes into it. The shoe turned into the shape of a sword, and Kaorinite's strength was renewed. With her new weapon came the powers of Sanoshenta, and with a swing of her new blade, Kaorinite was able to fire a volley of glass spray. The Sailors dodged the attack, and Sailor Moon noticed that Uranus was injured.

"It's really not that bad." Uranus said.

"Why don't you just leave this to us and get out of here?" Sailor Moon said. Before Uranus could form a complete response, Kaorinite shot another glass spray at the tower girders. They turned to glass and fell, crumbling around them. The Sailors dodged it, and the girders missed Neptune and Uranus. Sailor Moon told them to leave.

"Save yourselves." Jupiter said in disgust. "Since there's no Pure Heart with special powers here, there's no need for you to stay, right?"

"Alright then." Uranus said with a half smile. "Let's go, Neptune. They're offering to sacrifice themselves for us. I guess we should take them up on their kind offer and leave them to fight Kaorinite." She and Neptune turned and left.

"Too bad!" Kaorinite said. "The fun is just about to begin!" She lifted up her wrist, and her bracelet flashed. A green barrier appeared in front of Uranus and Neptune, blocking their exit. "It's impossible to leave." Kaori said. "Now do you surrender?"

"Never!" Mars shouted.

"Surrender this!" Jupiter shouted, powering up.

"MARS FIRE SURROUND!"

"SUPREME THUNDER!"

Jupiter and Mars' powers were blocked easily by Kaorinite. Venus thought they should split up, but Mercury had another idea: The Sailor Planet Power attack.

"No, we can't!" Mars said. "We'll die before our powers achieve the ultimate force!"

Kaorinite was about to hit the Sailors with another glass spray, but a red rose flew at her wrist and knocked the sword out of her hand. Tuxedo Mask appeared, and drew his cane. He and Kaorinite jousted, while the Sailors, including Uranus and Neptune, watched. Sailor Moon stood up.

"COSMIC MOON POWER!"

"MARS STAR POWER!"

"MERCURY STAR POWER!"

"JUPITER STAR POWER!"

"VENUS STAR POWER!"

Sailor Planet Attack

"SAILOR PLANET ATTACK!"

Kaorinite had hit Tuxedo Mask with a glass spray, which hit his cape and weakened him. He fell to the ground below the beam which hit Kaorinite with all the powers of the planets. She shrieked as the power surged through her, and knocked her backwards. Soon, all that was left was quiet. Kaorinite's barrier was gone, and Neptune and Uranus had disappeared.

"Is she finished?" Sailor Moon said. Just then, Kaorinite rose to her knees shakily, using her sword to prop her up.

"I guess that's the best you can do if that's the limit of your powers." Kaorinite said, smirking.

As Kaorinite arose, Uranus, around a corner, suddenly recalled Serena's words in the car. Kaorinite shot another glass spray at the Sailor Scouts.

"WORLD SHAKING!"

The power of Uranus' attack plowed through the glass spray, and hit Kaori in the stomach. Kaori screamed in pain, and suddenly, the glass spray turned on her. It encased Kaorinite in a thick glass shell. The Sailor Scouts watched as more girders crashed to the platform, and sent Kaori's shell falling to the darkness below. The Sailor Scouts looked about, wondering where Neptune and Uranus went.

"You know," Neptune said to Uranus, "I can't help but wonder why you helped them too, Uranus."

"Something came over me, really." Uranus replied. She had recalled Serena's views in the car.

That night, Darien and Serena sat together just outside Raye's room.

"I'm sorry your birthday wasn't what you hoped." Darien said.

"It's okay." Serena replied. "I'm just glad everyone's alright. I'm sorry for treating you badly. I sure don't deserve you sometimes, but you're always there for me."

Inside, the girls were complaining about various things. Raye encouraged them to leave.

Meanwhile, Dr. Tomo had received a call.

"Yes? ...Really. Kaorinite is dead, is she?" He said. "You will now take over where Kaorinite left off. I'm trusting you, Eudial, so don't let me down."

The woman on the other line smirked evilly as she hung up the phone.

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