(Steve Stachowicz)
gerrek@hotmail.com
(Matthew Frey)
drakkenfrey@hotmail.com
Web page: http://www.geocities.com/tokyo/shores/2307
SWORDS OF DESTINY SIDESTORY
By
Eric Thorsen and Stacko
TIME CONQUERER’S
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** The characters and concepts used in this story are the property
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PROLOUGE
Looking out the view screen in the room he was in, Luthantis
stared out at the void of null time. He was standing there at his
full height of eight feet. He appeared to look human, but he had
yellow eyes and his arms appeared to have two elbows. He wore his
usual General's attire as he waited to strike another world.
After conquering the last world, he was bored. The last
world was enjoyable, but it only lasted for a little while.
They had used a lot of their supplies to conquer that world;
they also lost a few good men. But after they had quickly
defeated that world's champion's leader, the world quickly fell.
The remainder of the champion's became slaves for them. But
like every slave, they try to escape. Now they are down to only
one out of the four. He sighed as he looked away from the view
screen. He wanted to attack a new world, but he had to wait
until his supplies were replenished.
He sat down at his desk and looked over reports that he
came accustomed to. While he was reading over one of the reports,
the sounds of a female pleading and screaming in pain were coming
closer. He looked up from his report just as the door to his
office slammed open and two of his officers walked in with a
struggling female. He immediately recognized who the female
was; it was the last of the slaves from the last world.
The girl was struggling in the bonds that held her wrists
together, which was tied to a long rope that was held by one of
his officer's. The girl was young looking and was very much
dwarfed in size compared to them. She had short, blonde hair
that was mostly covered by grime and was a tangled mess. She
had sparkling blue eyes that showed she was very frightened at
being where she was, but it also showed intelligence that she
knew how to use. When she first became a slave, her eyes
showed an unwillingness to do what her
Captures wanted, but she quickly broke.
She was wearing the remnants of what was originally a
skintight outfit of sorts. It was obvious by the holes and the
scraps still on her that just kept her modest. What was still
left on her was very stained to tell what the original colors
were. Through some of the holes, large scabs, cuts, and bruises
could be seen from various punishments she was dealt with.
"What is it, Rafiss?" Asked Luthantis somewhat bored,
looking at the officer that wasn't holding the girl.
"This slave was caught trying to escape, Sir." Rafiss
replied at attention.
"I see." Luthantis said as he looked at the girl. He saw
her cower under his gaze as he saw the look on her face that she
knew she was going to die. "I'm busy right now, so I can trust
your judgment on the punishment. Keep her alive though, dismissed."
"Yes, Sir." Replied both of the men.
The two men bowed, turned and left the room. Luthantis
saw the look of horror on the girl's face as the man holding
the rope tied to the girl was tugged and she fell down. They
pulled the girl with them as she started to struggle and yelling
'no' as she was practically dragged out of the room. Rafiss
closed the door after the girl was dragged out and went to
punish the girl. Luthantis could hear her plea of mercy as
they dragged her down the hall.
After the noise quieted down again, he resumed reading
the report he was reading before he was interrupted. Shortly,
his communication console started beeping. He set the report
down and turned on the monitor of the console. Shortly, the
image of one of his scientists appeared on the monitor.
"Yes?" Luthantis asked.
"To inform you, Sir. The supplies have come in and are
being stowed as we speak." Replied the scientist.
"How long before we can strike another world?"
"Once we consult the computer for a world, it should be
one day, Sir."
"Very well. I expect the coordinate to that world's Time
Gate in two days."
"Yes, Sir."
Luthantis turned the monitor off, disconnecting the call,
and leaned back in his chair smiling.
* * * *
At the Gates of Time, Sailor Pluto was relaxing while she
read a book. She was taking some time off after she sent Chibi-
Usa back to the past again. Chibi-Usa wanted to be with her
friends again and had been granted permission from her mother to
go. So after Pluto sent her to the past, she sat back and started
to read a book, knowing about the timeframe where Chibi-Usa is now
at.
For most of the Senshi, they have all graduated from High
School. They all passed their entrance exams with no problems,
except Usagi who just barely passed hers, and having selected the
colleges they wanted to go to. They all were enjoying their
vacation before they had to start college. It was that timeframe
that Chibi-Usa wanted to be at.
During mid-thought, Pluto suddenly felt a disturbance in the
time stream. She quickly placed the book down and grabbed her staff.
She stood up and tried to find what the disturbance is that she
sensed. But after a few moments, she couldn't find what the problem
was. She became worried that she couldn't find the disturbance.
She was about to inform Neo-Queen Serenity about the
disturbance when she noticed something in the corner of her eye.
She turned and saw a man with a gun aimed at her. She quickly
let loose a 'Dead Scream' and smiled when the man screamed in
pain. Then all of a sudden, she was tackled from behind and
dropped to the floor, causing her to loose her staff.
Pluto quickly brought her elbow back and rejoiced when
she felt her attacker’s nose break and the man quickly got off
of her. She quickly got back up and looked around. She noticed
that four more men had showed up and had guns aimed at her.
She jumped out of the way when they opened fire and grabbed
her staff. She couldn't sense on how they were getting to the
Gates of Time. She couldn't recognize them as any of the Enemy's
that the Senshi fought before. She quickly took the four men
out as several more showed up.
"Stop her!" Yelled a voice from behind the men.
Pluto looked at the person who yelled and gasped wide-eyed
as she caught sight of him. When she noticed the symbol on the
man's chest, she became very afraid. The man shouted out orders
to take her out before she could do anything else. She quickly
realized that they wanted to use the Gates of Time, so she went
to try and shut it.
The man realized what she was about to do and ordered people
to stop her. She could hear them trying to stop her, so she hurried
up on what she was doing. Just moments before she was able to fully
shut the Gate; an energy blast hit her in the back of her head.
She quickly dropped to the floor, blackening out for a moment, due
to the impact of the beam. She regained consciousness enough to
look on in horror as the enemy was going through the gate.
After she saw the last one go through, she slowly made it
to her feet, using her staff as a crutch. She scanned the gate
to see when they went and gasped as she found out that they went
back in time to moments after Chibi-Usa arrived in the past.
She knew she had to warn the others and close the Gates of Time
before the enemy could use it again.
She limped to the gate and entered it. She hoped she
could inform the others in time, before the world was taken
over. She tried to think straight, but the headache she has
gotten was getting worse. She could tell that she was about
to pass out again, so she hurried up and shut the gate and go
tell the others. Her last conscious thought was her watching
the gates close as blackness over came her.
CHAPTER ONE
It is a nice sunny day out at the Tsukino residence.
Usagi's mother told her that they were going shopping for new
clothes and uniforms. Usagi was happy and a little reluctant
to go to the mall. She wanted to go to the mall, but not to
get new uniforms. She agreed to go and was a little surprised
when Chibi-Usa wanted to go along also. Usagi made a silent
comment that only Chibi-Usa could hear, about the real reason
why she wanted to go along, Chibi-Usa just smiled.
Since high school ended and Usagi graduated, life for her
was going pretty easy. After the trouble with Rochefort and the
Negaverse, the Sailor Senshi had no one to worry about. There
were the few occasions with some immortals that came after Scott,
Makoto, or Kevin, mostly Kevin. Those problems were quickly
taken care of.
The relationships between some of the Senshi and the
Planetary Guards had increased. Usagi was happy that Rei and
Kiersten now had boyfriends and were basically almost engaged
to them. Then there was Kevin and Makoto. She couldn't believe
how their relationship was going. Knowing that both of them are
immortal and will live forever, she just wondered what would
happen if one of them was killed by another Immortal. Usagi was
happy for Makoto when Makoto showed off her engagement ring.
The wedding is scheduled for next month.
The next couple was Ami and Scott. To Usagi, their
relationship was just as tough as Kevin and Makoto. How will
they live their life, knowing that Scott will never age while
Ami will grow older and eventually die of old age. Usagi and
the others always gave Ami some teasing after they heard how
Scott proposed to her. Kevin told everyone that he never knew
Scott had it in him to propose the way he did.
When Scott took Ami on a date, at a nice restaurant, after
they had finished eating, Scott went down on his knee in front
of her and had started singing "Will you marry me?" loudly. Ami
froze when Scott started singing out. What made her blush in
embarrassment was when Ami didn't respond right away, Scott
started going to other people in the restaurant and asking them
if Ami should marry him. Ami quickly agreed to marry him, just
to shut him up. After Scott had placed the ring on her finger,
the entire restaurant cheered for them.
She was glad that Mamoru didn't propose to her in that
fashion. Usagi was taken on a nice date, and her proposed to
her, much to her father's displeasure, and she accepted. She
wanted to get married as soon as possible, but relented to get
married after she got out of college, to at least make her father
happy. She found that Ami was also waiting until they were out
of college to get married. So all three of them had talked about
all of them getting married. They were still discussing about
that subject yet.
Now Usagi's mother wanted to get her some new clothes and
uniforms. Since Chibi-Usa had nothing to do that day, she wanted
to go along. So they all headed to the mall to start looking for
clothes. Usagi went to many shops, looking for new clothes and
had several bags with clothes in them. Chibi-Usa also had gotten
some new clothes since they were shopping. They were headed to
the next shop when Usagi noticed a familiar couple.
"Ami! Scott!" Shouted Usagi to the couple.
* * *
Scott was over at Ami's apartment, helping her pack
her stuff to send to her place in Germany for college. Since
Ami's mother was at the hospital, she asked Scott if he would
be able to help and take Ami out to get new clothes for Germany.
Scott agreed and when they were done packing up most of the things
Ami would need, they headed to the mall.
While at the mall, Ami thought of a way to get back at Scott,
of when he embarrassed her at the restaurant when he proposed to
her. So she took him to every lingerie shop she came across and
showed him every type possible she could get a hold of and always
asked for his opinion. After the first couple of stores, she
could see that Scott was getting nervous. After the forth shop,
Ami stopped teasing Scott and made her final purchases. After
they left the shop, they headed to buy other clothes. En route
to the store, they both heard someone familiar shout.
"Ami! Scott!"
Both of them turned to where they heard the yell from, and
saw Usagi, with her mother and Chibi-Usa, waving at them to get
their attention. Ami waved back and both of them made their way
over to Usagi. When Ami and Scott reached where Usagi is, Usagi
noticed the sly grin on Ami's face and the look of embarrassment
on Scott's face. She wondered why until she looked at the bags
that Scott was carrying, and what stores they were from and
realized what probably happened.
"Usagi! What are you doing here?" Ami asked.
"Out shopping for new clothes." Usagi replied.
"Same here."
"I can see that."
As Ami and Usagi continued chatting away about their
shopping and what they've been doing lately, Scott walked over
to Chibi-Usa and Mrs. Tsukino. Chibi-Usa smiled as he walked
over to greet them.
"Hello Chibi-Usa, Mrs. Tsukino-san." Scott said when he
got there.
"Hello Scott." Chibi-Usa replied.
"Hello, Mr. Schwartzstern." Mrs. Tsukino replied.
“Where’s Sasami?” Chibi-Usa asked.
“She’s back home for a ‘Right of Passage’ ceremony. She
should be back by next month.” Scott replied
"Oh, okay. Are you helping Ami with her shopping?"
Chibi-Usa asked.
"I sort of got roped into it. Dr. Mizuno had to work,
so she asked me if I could take Ami shopping." Scott replied.
"I see she took you to a lot of 'Interesting' shops."
Chibi-Usa said, smiling at Scott's blush.
"Chibi-Usa, it's not nice to tease people." Mrs.
Tsukino scolded.
"Sorry, Auntie." Chibi-Usa said.
"Has she been behaving herself at your shop?" Mrs. Tsukino
asked Scott as she saw that Chibi-Usa was really sorry.
"She and Hotaru have been a big help." Scott said as he
then messed up Chibi-Usa's hair a little. "Little Bunny here
has made life a little easier."
"Hey, I'm not a bunny." Chibi-Usa said a little angrily.
"You'll always be a little bunny to me." Scott said to
her as she pouted a little and then smiled up at him.
Just then, Ami and Usagi walked up to them.
"What you grown-ups talking about?" Usagi asked when
she got up to them.
"Nothing you little kids would understand." Scott said
smiling at her.
"Hey, I'm not a kid." Usagi whined.
"You are compared to my age." Scott whispered in Usagi's
ear.
"Humph." Usagi said as she turned up her nose.
"So what's going on?" Mrs. Tsukino asked the girls.
"Since we're both out shopping for clothes, why don't we
go together?" Usagi asked Scott and her mother.
"I don't have a problem with that, do you?" Scott asked
Mrs. Tsukino when he faced her.
"No, I think my daughter would like the company." Mrs.
Tsukino replied.
"Okay, let's continue then." Scott said as he shifted
the bags he had and they all continued shopping.
* * * *
At a secret place outside of Tokyo, Luthantis and his army
of soldiers were plotting their attack. Luthantis went to the
scanning room to see how the status was going. He entered the
room and found a lone scientist working at a computer. When
the door opened, the scientist looked over his shoulder to see
who entered. When he saw it was Luthantis, he returned to
working on the computer.
"What do you got?" Luthantis asked.
"I have figured out that the leader of this world's
defenders is known as 'Sailor Moon'." Replied the scientist.
"What can you tell me about this, 'Sailor Moon'?"
Luthantis saw the scientist type into the computer.
"Well, her and up to fourteen, at times, others, make
up a group called the 'Sailor Senshi'. They fight in order
to make the world a peaceful one. According to local
information, they fight for 'Love and Justice'."
"I see. What do you got on their structure of their
group?" Again he saw the scientist typing again.
"From what I can tell, it's basically consists of three
groups. One group would be equivalent to being like law
enforcers, another would be considered soldiers, and the last
would be like the special ops group."
"What do you have on their leader?" The scientist typed
into the computer again.
"This is what surprised me."
"How so?"
"Their leader is their strongest fighter, but is also their
weakest link. You take her out, and the 'Senshi' have a hard time
fighting their enemies."
"Have you identified their leader?"
"Yes."
"Where is she now?" The scientist typed again.
"In a shopping mall in the Juuban district."
"Alright." Luthantis said to the scientist as he then left
the room to inform his army the new plan of attack.
* * * *
The group was just about done shopping; they were in the
last store they were going to be in. Scott was loaded down with
several more bags that Ami gave him. While Ami and Usagi talked
and continued shopping, Scott and Mrs. Tsukino chatted about
other items, with only Chibi-Usa catching the double meaning of
most of what Scott said. They were about to leave when all of a
sudden; they could hear gunfire and people screaming.
They turned in the direction of the screaming and saw other
shoppers running away from what appeared to be three heavily
armored troopers. They all knew from looking at those men, they
were not human. They were shooting over the heads of the shoppers,
to make them run and scatter. Their armor appeared to be similar
to what the 'Predator' wore in the movie, with only minor differences.
A forth person appeared from behind the three troopers and
it looked like he was scanning for something. The forth person
pointed in the direction of Scott and the others. The three armed
men turned in their direction and aimed their guns. Scott realizing
what they were about to do, when the armed men aimed their guns. He
shoved Ami and Chibi-Usa out of the way, while dropping all the bags
he had, and then tackled Usagi and her mother as the gunfire went
over their heads. Scott yelled in pain as a shot hit him in his arm.
While holding his arm, Scott looked back at Ami and Chibi-Usa
and sighed with relief; both were all right but looked very frightened.
Scott got Ami's attention and yelled to her to get the others. Ami
quickly understood what he meant, nodded, and grabbed Chibi-Usa and
ran off. Scott looked over at the four men and saw that they were
advancing to where they were, appearing to be holding some sort of
restraints. He looked down at the two women and saw that they were
very scared.
"Run!" Scott urged the two women.
Scott got the women to their feet and started to run away
from the men. Scott heard the men shout something and grabbed
for their guns. The area that Scott and the two women were in
was suddenly covered in gunfire. They continued running through
the mall while dodging the gunfire from their pursuers. Scott
was wondering why they were after them, when he noticed that most
of the gunfire was aimed towards Usagi.
He realized that their new enemy must have figured out who
Usagi was and wanted her out of the picture before she could have
a chance to transform. Scott knew he had to protect Usagi, but
he also had to protect Usagi's mother. He couldn't keep track of
both of them, so he hoped he was about to do wouldn’t be a mistake.
He was glad that his arm was healed when they turned a corner in the
mall; Scott shoved Mrs. Tsukino into a nearby store doorway. Scott
silently apologized to her for what he did. He then continued
running and told Usagi what he did when she wondered where her
mother went.
When Scott had shoved Mrs. Tsukino, she was shoved into a
rack, full of clothes. The rack fell and covered her with clothes.
She was knocked out cold for a minute when her head had hit the
floor. When she came to, she remembered the danger that her
daughter was in and wondered why those armed alien's were shooting
at them. She got out of the pile of clothes and looked out of the
store she was in.
She noticed that the armed men were still chasing her daughter
and Scott. She was wondering why they were after her daughter and
Scott. She couldn't think of any reasons why anyone would be after
her daughter, she couldn't think of any reason why they were after
Scott also. So she decided to follow them, at a great distance,
to see if her daughter was all right.
* * * *
Scott and Usagi kept running and dodging gunfire as they
made their way outside of the mall. They were about at the doors
when a shot clipped Scott in his right leg. He dropped to the
floor, grasping his injured leg in pain. Usagi heard his scream
of pain and turned to see Scott on the floor. So she ran back
to help him.
"Run, Usagi. It's you that they’re after." Scott yelled
at her as he tried to shove her towards the doors.
“I won’t leave you.” Said Usagi as she tried to help Scott
back up.
“Don’t worry about me. Save yourself.” Scott kept arguing
with her.
“I’m staying with you.” Usagi said.
Before Scott could argue again, they heard several clicking
from guns. They both turned to face the sound and saw three guns
aimed at them. They both raised their arms and waited for the
guns to go off. They closed their eyes and waited. Just as the
guns were going off, they heard the familiar attack phrases of
Pluto Knight and Sailor Venus.
“(PK PHRASE)”
“Venus Love-me Chain Encircle!”
Scott and Usagi opened their eyes and saw Pluto Knight in
front of them, with his right arm straight out in front of him,
and what appeared to be small energy balls hovering in front of
him. Behind the three men was Sailor Venus, with her ‘Love-me
Chain’ around the three men.
“You two all right?” Pluto Knight asked.
“Yeah. What kept you guys?” Scott answered.
“Hey, me and your sister were on a date.” Replied Pluto
Knight. “That and there are a lot more of these guys outside.
The others are taking care of them.”
“Thanks.” Usagi said.
“You two better get going, we’ll take care of these guys.”
Pluto Knight said.
“Okay. Be careful.” Scott said as Usagi was helping him
up.
“We will.” Replied Venus as she held on tightly to her
chain.
Scott got fully to his feet and realized that his leg had
healed enough so he could run again with a minor limp. Scott
and Usagi decided to find a deserted area so they could change
and help the others. They turned a corner and ran into two more
of the armed men. Usagi gasped as she and Scott stopped running.
Scott took a look at the two men and saw that one was
standing there with no helmet on. The way he was dressed
identified him as probably the leader. The other man was on one
knee and had what appeared to be a modified bazooka aimed at them.
Scott looked at the leader and saw that he was smiling a little at
Usagi while looking up and down at her. Scott looked over at Usagi,
who was standing next and a little behind him, and saw that she was
very scared. He turned back to the leader and watched as he told
the other man to fire. Scott reacted and jumped in the way of the
blast. The blast hit him in his stomach and then the world went
black for him.
* * * *
Luthantis looked on as the soldier with him fired the
blaster. He watched as the man that was with their target jumped
in front of the blast. The blast hit the man and the impact of
the beam caused him to go into their target. Both of them fell
to the floor unconscious, with a small green glow surrounding
them.
"Target taken care of, Sir." Replied the soldier as he
checked over their target.
"Good. So far everything is going according to plan."
Said Luthantis. "Too bad the boys couldn't capture her; she
would have made a fine looking slave."
"Sir!" Came a shout behind them. Luthantis and the other
man turned and saw another person running to them.
"What is it?" Luthantis asked when the man reached them.
"There is another Time Guardian around." Replied the man.
"That will prove to be a problem. Send out the message
that target has been taken care of retreat back to base."
"Yes, Sir." The two men said and saluted and left.
Luthantis watched as the men left him and then looked down
at the fallen pair and smiled at them.
"Soon the World will be ours." Said Luthantis and then
vanished from sight.
* * * *
Scott came to a few minutes later, having a headache and
a dull pain in his stomach. He opened his eyes and found himself
lying on his back with his head on the lap of Sailor Saturn. He
looked up at her and saw the look of concern on her face. Scott
started to look around and found Mercury kneeling by his side,
and it looked to him that she was scanning him with a concerned
look. He continued looking around and found Usagi was awake, and
holding her head as if she has a headache, with her head on the
lap of Chibi-Moon.
“How do you feel?” Mercury asked Scott.
“Like I went head on with a truck.” Scott replied.
“I can’t find anything wrong with either of you. Usagi
told us what happened.” Mercury said.
“What happened to the people that were attacking us?”
Scott asked.
“They all of a sudden vanished.” Saturn said.
“Usagi!” Yelled a female voice behind them. Everyone
faced the sound and saw a worried Mrs. Tsukino running over to
them. She ran over to her daughter. “Oh my God! What happened?
Are you all right?”
“Yes mom, I’m all right.” Usagi replied to her mother.
“What happened?” Mrs. Tsukino asked anyone.
“Um ….” Usagi started but died off as she looked over at
Scott.
“After we lost the ones chasing us with the guns, thanks
to the Sailor Senshi, we came across two more of them. One of
them fired some sort of cannon at us and I jumped in front of
your daughter to protect her.” Scott told Mrs. Tsukino.
“Oh thank you. Are you all right?” She asked.
“According to Sailor Mercury here,” Scott indicated
Mercury. “There’s nothing wrong with us, but she doesn’t seem
that is right.”
“Thank-you for your help.” Mrs. Tsukino said to Mercury.
“No problem Ma’am. We got to get going now.” Mercury said.
Scott and Usagi shakily stood up, with Usagi mostly leaning
on Scott. The three Senshi made sure that were okay and were
about to leave when Mrs. Tsukino called out to them.
“Wait!” Mrs. Tsukino called out.
“Yes?” Mercury asked.
“My niece and my daughter’s friend. Do you know if they
are all right?” Mrs. Tsukino asked.
“I’m sure they are. If we see them, we’ll tell them to
come here.” Mercury replied.
“Thank you.”
Mercury and the other two Senshi quickly ran away, leaving
Scott, Usagi, and her mother standing there. Mrs. Tsukino started
to check her daughter over and making sure she was all right.
During that, Scott apologized to Mrs. Tsukino for what he did.
She accepted the apology and understood why he did it. After
several minutes of Usagi being checked over by her mother, they
all heard the cry of “Auntie!”.
They all faced the sound and saw Ami and Chibi-Usa running
towards them, carrying several bags. Mrs. Tsukino went and
hugged Chibi-Usa and made sure she was all right. After that
was done, Mrs. Tsukino asked about the bags and Chibi-Usa replied
that on the way back to them, they came across their stuff and
grabbed what was still salvageable.
They said their good-byes and Usagi, Chibi-Usa, and Mrs.
Tsukino left the mall, followed by Scott and Ami. Usagi and
Scott were still walking a little unsteady, and had to lean on
someone to walk. The effects of whatever the ray was, apparently
was wearing off, and they started walking better.
Usagi, Chibi-Usa, and Mrs. Tsukino went back to their place,
while Scott and Ami headed back to Ami’s place. En route back to
Ami’s place, Ami was informing Scott on what happened, and Scott
told her all he could on what happened to him and Usagi. When
they got back to the apartment, Ami resumed scanning Scott for
whatever the effects of the blast had on Scott.
* * * *
Wesley and Kiersten were on date when they got the call
from Ami about the attack on the mall. Kiersten looked a little
disappointed, but she knew her job. After the fight with the
mysterious enemy, they had resumed their date.
“How are you doing?” Wesley asked Kiersten.
“A little mad that they interrupted our date.” Kiersten
replied.
“I know what you mean.” Wesley commented quietly.
“I’m also mad that they just disappeared just like that.”
Kiersten snapped her fingers. “We went through all that trouble
to capture them, and they just vanish.”
“Yeah, that surprised me too. The only thing is that I
could have sworn I felt something when they did vanish.”
“Let’s not worry about that now. I just want to have a
nice date.” Kiersten said, as she got closer to Wesley.
“All right.” Wesley said as he placed his arm around her.
They resumed walking in the park where they had settled
to finish their date. They walked around the park, enjoying
each other’s company. They sat down on a park bench and sat
there watching what was going on around them. They held hands
and Kiersten rested her head on his shoulder. They sat that
way for several minutes.
Suddenly, Wesley felt a tingling sensation go through his
body. He sat up straight and started looking around. Kiersten
was looking at him with concern and mostly confusion.
“What is it?” She asked.
“I sensed a disturbance in the Time Stream.” Wesley
replied.
“Shouldn’t your sister be able to take care of that?”
“Normally, yes, but something doesn’t feel right.”
Just then, a bright flash of light happened near them,
and when they were able to see again, they saw Sailor Pluto
lying on the ground. Wesley and Kiersten ran to Pluto to
see what was wrong. They took quick glances around to see
if anyone saw what happened and was glad that no one was
around. Wesley grabbed his jacket and wrapped it around
his sister so no one could easily identify her as a Senshi.
He then picked her up and looked over at Kiersten. He saw
that she had picked up Pluto’s staff and had a defeated look
to her face.
“It looks like we got to end our date.” Wesley said.
“It’s no fair. It seems that someone just doesn’t want
us to be on a date today.” Kiersten complained.
“Don’t worry; I’ll make it up to you.” Wesley said and
then saw Kiersten’s sly smile.
“I’m sure you can.” Kiersten said slyly.
They quickly walked back to Wesley’s car and placed Pluto
in the backseat, Kiersten had set the staff next to her. Then
they both got in the car and drove off. Wesley said that they
should take her to Kevin’s place, because they couldn’t quite
take her to a hospital. Kiersten agreed and Wesley grabbed
the cellular in the car and dialed Kevin’s place. After several
rings, the other phone was picked up.
“Moshi, Moshi. O’Connell residence.” Came an elderly
voice on the other end.
“Jervis, this is Wesley.” Said Wesley.
“Yes Master Wesley.” Jervis said.
“Is Kevin there?” Wesley asked.
“Yes. Master Kevin is here with his sister and her
friend. Do you need to talk with him?”
“Yes. Tell him that the Gryphon needs to talk to the
Dragon.”
“Very well, Master Wesley.”
After Jervis sent the phone down, he went to go get
Kevin. After a short wait, Kevin answered the phone.
“Wesley, what’s up?” Kevin asked.
“We got a problem.” Wesley replied.
“What is it?”
“My sister appeared in front of me and Kiersten and she
is unconscious.”
“Where are you guys?”
“En route to where you are. Can you get the others, this
seems important.”
“Okay. How long until you get here?”
“Another twenty minutes, at least.”
“Meet you when you get here.”
“Okay.”
Wesley hanged the phone up and continued driving in a
hurry. They got to Kevin’s castle in twenty-seven minutes.
When he pulled up to the main entrance, he found Kevin, Michiru,
and Haruka waiting for them outside. They took Pluto out of
the car and up to a guest bedroom. Along the way, Kevin
explained on what is keeping the others.
Makoto is picking up Rei and James, Scott and Ami is
picking up Minako and are on their way. Because of what
happened at the mall, Usagi’s mom isn’t letting Usagi or
Chibi-Usa out. Hotaru is with Chibi-Usa to keep her company.
Mamoru is en route. They said that they would inform Usagi
on what is happening. Once they got Pluto in bed, they
waited for the others to show up.
Around another forty-five minutes later, everyone had
shown up and was in Pluto’s room looking at her and Ami,
who was scanning her, was wondering what is wrong with her.
After several minutes, Ami closed her computer and faced
the group.
“I can’t find anything wrong with her physically. Her
brain pattern is very odd, like she is doing things but not
really.” Ami told the group.
“What do you think is wrong with her?” Wesley asked.
“As far as I know, she’s in a coma.” Ami replied.
“How long do you think the coma will last?” Michiru asked.
“I don’t know.” Ami said defeated.
“Don’t worry, Ami, you’re not expected to know everything.”
Michiru told her.
“We can’t help her by standing in here. Let’s go to another
room.” Kevin told the group.
They all left the bedroom and headed to the castle’s version
of a living room. Upon entering the room, Scott found the closest
chair and sat down in it, holding his head like he was in pain.
Kiersten noticed that and was concerned for him.
“Hey, old man, you all right?” Kiersten asked Scott.
“Yeah. It’s just this headache. Whatever they hit me with
is still doing wonders to me.” Scott replied.
“Usagi said she still has a headache also. That was one of
the reasons she stayed home.” Kiersten said. “Hope it gets better.”
“Thanks, Cass.” Scott said.
“Well, it’s pretty late. If anyone wants to sleep here,
they can.” Kevin said yawning.
“Thanks Kevin, but my parents expect me back.” Kiersten
said to Kevin.
“That’s okay, Kiersten.” Kevin said.
“I’ll call you tomorrow to see if there is any change.
Got to take Minako back home.” Scott said standing up with
Ami.
“Later, Scott-ol’-bean.” Kevin said.
So Scott, Ami, and Minako left for home, leaving the
others at the castle to sleep for the night.
CHAPTER TWO
Morning came the next day at the Tsukino residence.
Usagi woke up and looked around her room. She saw that
everything was still the same as she went to bed. She
noticed that her headache was gone, so that made her happy.
Usagi knew that Luna was over at Kevin’s place, trying to
figure out what is wrong with Sailor Pluto. The only problem
now that was worrying her was who this new enemy was and why
did they want her dead. She also wanted to know what that
blast that hit Scott and her was suppose to do. According
to Ami, there is nothing wrong with either of them, but she
wasn’t so sure.
Since she was hungry, she decided to get out of bed
and get dress so she could eat some breakfast. She got
out of bed and made her way to her dresser while taking
off her nightgown en route. After dropping her nightgown
on the floor, she pulled out a bra and put it on. She
found that the cup size and over all, the bra seemed a
little big on her. So she took it off and tried on another
one. She found that that one was a little big on her also.
She went to the next one, which was an old favorite pink
one of hers, and smiled when it fit her.
Usagi then got dress in a pink skirt, which she could have
sworn went down to mid-thigh instead of just above her knees,
and a white blouse, which she found that the sleeves seem a
little longer than normal. She then went into the bathroom to
do her normal routine in there. When she was done, she headed
down to the dinning room for breakfast.
When she got down to the room, she only saw her mother
and Chibi-Usa sitting there eating. She remembered that her
brother and father had left yesterday for a weeklong father/son
outing. So she sat herself down next to Chibi-Usa and got her
some breakfast. As she started to eat, she noted the strange
looks that her mother and Chibi-Usa were giving her.
“How are you feeling today, dear?” Mrs. Tsukino to her
daughter.
“I’m feeling a lot better today. The headaches gone.”
Usagi replied.
“Did you do anything to yourself today?” Mrs. Tsukino
asked.
“No, nothing special, why?” Usagi asked now confused on
where these questions were headed.
“You look younger, that’s all.” Mrs. Tsukino said.
“Yeah, you almost look to be my age.” Chibi-Usa said.
“Huh?” Usagi said confused.
Usagi turned to look at Chibi-Usa and noticed that she
was about looking at her eye to eye. Needless to say, Usagi
freaked. She got up from the table and ran up to the bathroom.
She took a good look at herself in the mirror and all the size
problems with her bras finally made sense and she screamed.
Chibi-Usa and Usagi’s mother ran up to the bathroom when
Usagi screamed. They found her curled up in a ball staring at
the mirror wide-eyed. They went over to her and tried to snap
her out of her dazed zoning. They made her look at them, but
she was mumbling incoherently at them. They made her stop
mumbling and start acting normally. They tried to figure out
what was happening to Usagi when Chibi-Usa made a comment that
it was probably something from what the men at the mall hit her
with, and if so, Scott was hit with it also.
“That’s right!” Usagi exclaimed.
Usagi quickly stood up, knocking Chibi-Usa and her mother
down, and ran out of the bathroom to a phone. They got up and
followed Usagi to where she ran off too. They found her in Mrs.
Tsukino’s bedroom on the phone, looking impatient. Then it
appeared that someone answered o the other end, because Usagi
started talking very fast.
“Amiit’sme,Usagi. Ithinkthatthebeamdidsomethingtome
becauseIlookyounger.” Said Usagi. She then took a few breaths
and then started again. “I think that the beam that hit me and
Scott may have done something, because I look younger now. …
I look younger, which my mom pointed out, and I am the same
height as Chibi-Usa. … I don’t know, let me ask.”
Usagi turned to yell for her mother, when she saw her
standing by the doorway with Chibi-Usa.
“Mom, can I go over to Ami’s, please, please, please.”
Usagi pleaded with her mother.
“Why do you want to go?” Mrs. Tsukino asked her daughter.
“Ami is really smart. She may know what is happening to
me.” Usagi said after quickly thinking of a reason to tell her
mother.
“All right.” Mrs. Tsukino replied to her daughter.
“Thanks Mom.” Usagi told her mother then went back to the
phone. “Ami, she said yes. I’ll be over shortly. Is Scott
there? … Okay. See you shortly, bye.”
Usagi hung up the phone and was heading out to get her
jacket and purse when her mother stopped her.
“Honey, I’m coming along.” Mrs. Tsukino told her daughter.
She saw her daughter give her a surprised nervous look. “You’re
my daughter, and if Ami finds anything, I want to be there.”
“Okay.” Usagi said defeated, because she couldn’t think
of a reason to not have her mother along without revealing the
connection to the Sailor Senshi. All three got their things
and left for Ami’s.
* * * *
After Usagi hanged up the phone on her side, Ami placed
the phone back on the receiver. What Usagi told her made her
a little worried. When she scanned them at the mall, she
couldn’t find anything wrong with them. If it was true, she
had to see if Scott was having any side effects. So she
started to look for him. She hadn’t seen him when she woke
up. After a few moments of looking, she heard the shower
running. So she went to the bathroom and waited for Scott
to get out.
Scott walked out of the bathroom ten minutes later,
wearing nothing but pants and drying his hair with a towel.
Scott looked out from under the towel and saw Ami standing
there with a worried look to her face. Scott became concerned
when he saw her.
“What’s wrong, Ami?” Scott asked.
“Usagi just called.” Ami said.
“What is wrong?”
“Do you feel any different?”
“No, why?”
“Usagi said that maybe the ray that hit you two might have
done something. She says that she now looks younger and is the
same height as Chibi-Usa.”
“And you want to make sure there is nothing wrong with me?”
“Yes.”
“Okay. Let’s go to the living room so you can scan me.”
They both headed into the living room and Scott placed the
towel on the armrest of the sofa and sat on the sofa, waiting for
Ami. Ami sat next to him and pulled out her computer from sub-
space. Scott sat patiently as Ami started to scan him. After
several minutes, Ami’s computer beeped to indicate that the scan
was done. Scott looked at Ami and saw her shocked and worried
expression. He became a little nervous.
“What’s wrong?” Scott asked worried.
“According to the scan, you now have a body of an eighteen
year old.” Ami replied.
“What are you saying?”
“That whatever the ray was, it is reducing you physically
in age.”
“Can you find a way of stopping it? What is the rate of
me growing younger?”
“Hard to say.” Ami replied to his first question. “I
need to scan Usagi also to determine the rate. But at present
rate, if you keep reducing four years a day, you have four more
days until …”
“I vanish from existence.” Scott finished for Ami when
she stopped talking. She then slowly nodded.
“I don’t know of a way, sorry.” Ami told Scott breaking
down and crying. Scott reached over and pulled her in a hug
and petted her hair, trying to calm her down.
“That’s okay. We’ll find something out.” Scott said
trying to calm her.
“You better get dress; Usagi will be getting here soon.”
Ami said after she calmed down and wiped away her tears.
“Okay.” He said as he released her.
Scott then got up from the sofa and went to finish getting
dress. He picked up his towel and looked over at Ami as he saw
her putting away her computer. He noticed that she had a glum
look as she stood to head to the kitchen. Scott twirled the
towel up and snapped the towel on her butt. She jumped a little
and squealed in minor pain. She turned around and glared at a
grinning Scott. She then tackled him, screaming at him about
how he was going to pay for what he did.
* * * *
Usagi, Chibi-Usa and Usagi’s mother arrived at the door
to Ami’s apartment and was about to knock when they heard Ami’s
voice shouting threats at Scott and Scott yelping in pain, while
he was laughing. For Usagi and Chibi-Usa, they were wondering
why Ami wasn’t acting her usual self. Usagi finally decided to
knock on the door and whatever was going on inside the apartment,
suddenly stopped and they heard Ami’s voice saying, “They’re
here.” They heard some shuffling around inside, then the door
opened to reveal Ami.
They saw that she was breathing hard and her hair was
messed upped a little. Her clothes were slightly a mess also.
They looked at her and saw that she was a little flushed from
whatever she was doing.
“Hello.” Ami said when she saw who was at the door.
“Ami-Chan, what was just going on in there?” Usagi asked.
“Scott snapped a towel on me, and I got back at him.” Ami
replied.
“We heard.” Chibi-Usa said giggling.
“Sorry about that.” Ami said looking down blushing.
“Don’t worry about that, he is your fiancé after all. What
you guys do behind closed doors is none of our business.” Usagi
told Ami, who blushed even more.
“Come on in.” Ami invited after she regained her composer.
Everyone walked into the apartment and took seats in the
living room while Ami went to get some drinks from the kitchen.
Usagi looked around and noticed that Scott wasn’t around.
“Where’s Scott?” Usagi asked.
“Right here.” Scott said behind her. He had put on a t-
shirt when Ami opened the door. Usagi looked at him and saw
that he didn’t look any different, but he did notice that Usagi
did look a little different.
“Hey, no fair. You’re not any younger.” Usagi whined.
“That’s not true, Usagi. I am getting younger.” Scott
told her in order to stop her before the crying came.
“You are? But you don’t look it.” Chibi-Usa said.
“It is true.” Scott replied.
“How do you know that you are?” Mrs. Tsukino asked Scott,
as Scott noticed Ami returning from the kitchen as she set the
drinks down and sat next to Usagi.
“Sailor Mercury scanned me recently and told me I was
about four years younger.” Scott said getting a surprised
reaction from everyone else.
“But how come it looks like you didn’t age, unlike me?”
Usagi asked.
“You do know how old I am, right?” Scott asked.
“Yes.” Usagi said when she remembered how old Scott
really is.
“That is why. My body stopped growing when I was
eighteen.” Scott replied.
“Oh.” Usagi said feeling stupid at forgetting that
Scott was two thousand years old.
“Why did Sailor Mercury say about your age reduction?”
Mrs. Tsukino asked, wanting to get down to business.
“Well, she said that at present rate of reduction, I have
around four more day’s before I …” Scott just trailed off.
“Grow too young.” Mrs. Tsukino ended; everyone missed
the shocked expression Usagi had when she thought of her fate.
“You could put it that way.”
“Does she know of a way to stop it?”
“She needs to compare me and Usagi first. She asked if
we could meet her somewhere.” Scott saw the entire girl’s look
of surprise, especially Ami’s. He just gave her a look to tell
her to let him handle it. “Ami has to go see the movers
concerning about moving her things to Germany.”
“Oh yeah, I forgot about that momentarily. I wish I could
go along, but I have things to take care of.” Ami said after
she figured out what Scott was planning. Ami noticed Usagi and
Chibi-Usa’s confused look. “Don’t worry Usagi; I’m sure Scott
knows what he is doing.” She whispered in Usagi’s ear.
“That’s alright, Ami-Chan, I’m sure you must be scared
about what’s going on.” Mrs. Tsukino said to Ami.
“Oh, uh, yes, I guess you could say that.” Ami replied.
“So where are we going to meet Sailor Mercury?” Mrs.
Tsukino asked Scott. Ami also waited for his answer also.
“I was figuring at my shop would be a safe place for
everyone involved.” Scott replied.
“Okay, when do we leave and how do you get in contact
with Sailor Mercury?” Mrs. Tsukino asked.
“I was told by her on how to get in touch with her.”
Scott replied.
“Shall we go then?” Mrs. Tsukino asked.
“Okay. Let me get my jacket and make a call to Sailor
Mercury.” Scott said.
Scott got up and went to the back to get his jacket.
Ami followed him and they quickly talked on what he said. He
explained to her that they needed a reason for her to not be
there while Sailor Mercury was. He then explained about when
he left with Usagi and her family, about her to follow them
and then transform to reach his shop. Ami didn’t like the
idea, but she understood that if Usagi’s mom didn’t show up,
they wouldn’t need to deal with having to lie to her. Scott
got on his jacket and gave Ami a hug and kiss, telling her
that everything would be all right.
Scott then left Ami standing there and went to see what
Usagi and the others were doing. Scott saw them standing by
the door waiting for him. Scott told them he was just about
ready and went over to the wall where he had his sword leaning.
Usagi and Chibi-Usa knew what he was getting, but their mother
only saw Scott open his jacket and place something inside.
Scott then walked over to them and escorted them to his
shop. Mrs. Tsukino asked what he put in his jacket; he just
replied that it was something that he carried all the time.
She just let the matter drop since Scott wouldn’t say what it
was. After they left, Ami waited ten minutes and headed over
to Scott’s shop.
* * * *
They arrived at Scott’s shop a little while later. Scott
let them in the back door and to the house part of his shop. He
had them sit in the dining room while he went into the kitchen
to get them some drinks. After he gave them something to drink,
he told them that he was going to wait for Sailor Mercury
downstairs.
After he left them, Mrs. Tsukino looked around the place
amazed. She was amazed by the way the place looked and set up.
Chibi-Usa commented on she met the person who designed the place
when she and Hotaru went with Scott to the Masaki shrine. Mrs.
Tsukino said that was nice and Chibi-Usa made another comment
about one of the walls in the dining room. Mrs. Tsukino took a
look at the wall that Chibi-Usa was pointing at and only saw a
wall with several square glass sections that appeared opaque.
“What’s so special about that dear?” Mrs. Tsukino asked
Chibi-Usa confused. Usagi was also confused at what she meant
also.
“I’ll show you.” Chibi-Usa said.
Chibi-Usa got up and went down a hallway. A few moments
later, Chibi-Usa appeared on the other side. What they saw
mostly was a silhouette; the glass was very hard to see through,
they could only make out the shape of Chibi-Usa. Chibi-Usa waved
at them and then moved away from the glass. She returned to the
dinning room and sat down.
“Okay, now what was so special about that wall?” Mrs.
Tsukino asked again as Chibi-Usa smiled devilishly.
“I was standing in the shower stall waving at you.”
Chibi-Usa replied.
“That is what is on the other side of the wall!” Mrs.
Tsukino exclaimed. “And you’ve taken showers here!”
“Don’t worry, Auntie. Scott told us about that wall before
we took a shower here. He stay’s down in his shop while we take
a shower.” Chibi-Usa explained. “Hotaru and me didn’t believe
it until we saw it. He told us that the architect was playing
a joke on him. Scott didn’t really pay attention when he
approved the plans, besides; this is Miyuki’s place now.”
“Oh, I guess that’s okay then.” Mrs. Tsukino said.
Just then, they heard footsteps approaching and turned
and saw Scott approaching with Sailor Mercury. Scott showed
Mercury a seat and noticed the surprised look on Usagi’s face,
the not-so-happy look on her mother’s, and the devilish grin
Chibi-Usa was giving him. He thought that it was better not
to know what was going on and went to go get a drink for
Mercury. When Scott came back with the drink, they got
down to business.
“Do you know what is wrong with my daughter?” Mrs.
Tsukino asked Mercury.
“I don’t really know, Ma’am. I need to scan your
daughter first.” Mercury replied.
“Please, go ahead.” Mrs. Tsukino said. Mercury took out
her computer and started scanning. After a little bit, Mercury
started to frown. “What is it?”
“Your daughter has a physical age of fourteen now.”
Mercury replied.
“What is wrong with her? What is causing it?” Mrs.
Tsukino asked.
“I’m sorry, but I don’t know what is going on. I would
figure that whatever those people shot at Scott and your daughter
is what the cause of this mess is.” Mercury said. “When I
scanned them, yesterday, there wasn’t any trace of them de-
ageing.”
“Any way of stopping it?” Usagi asked hopeful.
“I’m sorry Usagi, I don’t know of what is causing it in
the first place in order to stop it.” Mercury apologized.
“Will they keep getting younger?” Chibi-Usa asked.
“As far as I can tell, yes they will. At the rate of them
getting younger appears to be four years every time that they
reduce in age.” Mercury said.
“So unless there is a way to stop it, what will happen to
them?” Mrs. Tsukino asked and saw Mercury just look down. “I
see.”
“I’m sorry, Mrs. Tsukino.” Mercury said.
“Don’t worry; I have faith that you will find a cure.”
Mrs. Tsukino said.
“So Usagi will grow younger and have the intelligence of
an eighteen year old?” Chibi-Usa asked. Mercury scans again
and then frowns. “What is it?”
“The chemical balance in the brain is reversing …” Mercury
started before Scott interrupted her.
“So what you’re saying is that when we get younger, our
minds are growing younger also?” Scott asked.
“Um, yes.” Mercury replied.
“Thank-you for your help. If anything comes up, how can
I get a hold of you?” Mrs. Tsukino asked.
“Contact Mr. Schwartzstern and he’ll get a hold of me.”
Mercury said.
“Okay, thank-you.” Mrs. Tsukino said.
“You’re welcome. Sorry I couldn’t help out more until I
study these figures.” Mercury said.
“I know you will try your best.” Mrs. Tsukino said.
Scott escorted Sailor Mercury out of the dinning room as
the rest just sat and looked a little gloomy. They sat there
for a while when Mrs. Tsukino remembered a question she wanted
to asked Sailor Mercury and excused herself from her daughter
and ‘niece’. After she left the room, Chibi-Usa went to see
if her mother was okay.
“Mom, are you going to be okay?” Chibi-Usa asked Usagi.
“Um, yes, I guess I am, for now.” Usagi replied after
she got over the shock of Chibi-Usa calling her ‘mom’. Then
she looked downcast from what she knew was in store for her.
“Don’t worry, Ami will find a cure. I’m sure of it.”
“How can you be sure?” Usagi asked as she saw Chibi-Usa
grin evilly at her and leaned in to whisper in her ear.
“If you die now, then how can I still be here?” Chibi-Usa
said smiling.
“That’s right!” Usagi exclaimed. She then gave Chibi-Usa
a hug and after a bit, they broke the hug when Mrs. Tsukino
walked back in looking somewhat dazed. “Are you all right, mom?”
“Yes dear. We should get going now.” Mrs. Tsukino said.
“Uh, okay.” Usagi asked confused.
They all got their stuff together and when Scott came back,
they said good-bye to him, which surprised him somewhat. As the
women were leaving, Scott saw the look of that they didn’t know
what was going on. Scott said good-bye to them, and he would see
them later, as he walked them out.
* * * *
Mrs. Tsukino left her daughter, and who she thought was her
niece, in the dinning room and headed downstairs to where Scott’s
workshop was. As she was heading down, she saw that Scott was
talking to Sailor Mercury. As she was getting closer, she noticed
that they didn’t see her yet, and when she got into hearing range,
she stopped dead in her tracks. She couldn’t believe what she was
hearing.
“… I don’t want to lose you.” Mercury said.
“Ami, don’t worry about it. I’ll be fine.” Scott said.
“What happens if I can’t find a cure?”
“I have faith in your ability. Believe in yourself.”
“Okay. See you back at the apartment?”
“Yes, later Ami.”
Scott went up and gave Mercury a hug and kiss. After they
broke the kiss, Ami left Scott’s shop. When Scott turned around,
he could have sworn that someone was standing behind him. He
shrugged and went back up stairs. When he got up there, he was
surprised when Mrs. Tsukino was basically ushering Usagi and
Chibi-Usa out the door. After they left, Scott locked the
place up and went back to Ami’s apartment.
* * * *
Scott arrived back at Ami’s apartment half an hour later.
He entered and found Ami sitting in the living room looking at
her computer. He looked at her and saw she wasn’t too happy at
whatever she was doing. He walked over and sat next to her.
He placed his arm around her shoulders, and she tilted her head
so it rested on Scott.
“What’s wrong, Ami?” Scott asked concerned.
“I’ve been trying to find what is causing you and Usagi
to de-age, but I can’t find any trace of anything in you guys
to cause it.” Ami explained.
“Could it have been a side-effect of that ray hitting me,
and my immortality altering it?”
“I’ve already tried that one. It doesn’t cause it, but it
is still making you two grow younger.”
“Anything else you found?”
“Only two things.”
“What are they?”
“One, your rate of growing younger is different from Usagi.”
“How so?”
“You took the brunt of the blast and passed on whatever
it was to Usagi when you landed on her. So you’re going to
grow younger at a faster rate than Usagi.”
“Do I still have the same amount of time yet?”
“I don’t know for sure, but I would say yes.”
“What is the other item you found out?”
“Because of the length of time you’ve been alive, the
rate of your mind growing younger is dramatically slower than
Usagi’s rate.”
“So I could be a three year old and still have all my
knowledge?”
“As far as I know of. Why are you back so early?”
“After you left, I went back upstairs and Mrs. Tsukino
was practically pushing Usagi and Chibi-Usa out the door.”
“Could she have been worried about what is happening to
Usagi?”
“I don’t know. We should call her and the others to let
them know what is going on.”
“You’re right.”
Ami called everyone on their communicator and started
to fill everyone in on the latest news she found out. After
she was done telling everyone, they got the latest on Pluto
from Wesley. Pluto was still unconscious, but it appeared
that she was having some nightmares where it appeared she was
fighting someone and barely winning. Ami told him she would
be over when she could, to check it out.
Before everyone signed off, Scott asked Usagi what was
up with them leaving in such a hurry. She told him that her
mother wanted to ask Ami a question before she left. Scott
told her that he didn’t see her mother until he got back up
to where they were and watched them leave in a hurry. He
wondered to himself if she saw him talking to Ami before she
left his shop. Usagi didn’t know the reason why they left
in such a hurry because her mother wouldn’t talk to them.
They let it drop for now until a later date and then went
on with what they were doing.
CHAPTER THREE
“What information do you have on this second Time Guardian?”
Luthantis asked one of his scientists.
“I’m afraid Sir, not much.” The Scientist replied. “This
is the first time we’ve dealt with a world that had two guardians.”
“So what do you have?”
“We’ve figured out that his Time power is weaker than the
other guardian. He is really no problem to our cause, but he
does have the ability to access the Time Zone. We have located
where he is living.”
“When can we strike this place he is living at?”
“As soon as you can gather the strike force.”
“Good.” Luthantis smiled and walked out of the room.
* * * * *
It’s been two days after Mercury had a talk with Mrs.
Tsukino. In those two days, both Scott and Usagi has been getting
noticeablely getting younger. After Ami scanned them, it was
determined that Usagi was twelve years old and Scott was fourteen.
Usagi was getting depressed as the days went on as she realized
that she would have to tell her father what happened to her, she
was glad that her mother would be there to help her. Ikuko, not
wanting to see her daughter depressed, invited Scott, Ami and
Kitomi over for dinner. They set the time for dinner and arrived
a few minutes early.
“You’re early.” Usagi exclaimed when she saw who was at the
door. “Come in, come in.”
“So how have you been holding up, Usagi?” Scott asked after
he entered the house.
“It looks not as well as you have been holding up.” Usagi
replied after she shut the door.
“Well, if it wasn’t for how my life has been, I would
probably be going crazy right now.” Scott told her.
“You have a point there.” Usagi said with a small smile.
“Don’t worry, Usagi, we will be all right.” Scott told her
as he gave her a small hug for reassurance.
So they sat at the table and enjoyed the dinner that Ikuko
had made. Throughout the meal, Ikuko asked several questions about
why they think they were attacked. They answered as best as they
could, without revealing the whole truth. As Ikuko noticed that
Usagi was getting uncomfortable answering the questions, she stopped
her questioning along those lines and started asking Scott about
himself.
“So what brought you to Japan, Scott?” Ikuko asked.
“Two reasons actually.” Scott said. “The first being a
friend of mine needed help with a family matter, which I’ll will
not talk about, since it is a private family matter. After
that was taken care of, I decided to stick around for a while.”
“What was the second item?” Ikuko asked.
“I had some personal business dealing with the Nashimoto
Clan Shrine.” Scott replied.
“What did you have to do there?” Ikuko asked.
“I was named as the last living member of that clan.”
Scott replied.
“You’re a Nashimoto?” Ikuko asked surprised.
“Yes, my ‘relative’ was adopted into the Clan several
generations ago, and I’m now the last living member.” Scott
said, with everyone but Ikuko catching the other meaning in
that sentence.
“What about Miyuki?” Chibi-Usa asked, just minorly
confused with what Scott had said.
“She was a Ronin that I adopted into the clan.” Scott
said. “When something happens to me, she or her children will
be the next Head of the Clan.”
They continued talking about general topics of Scott’s
life and future plans, along with Ami’s future plans. After
they were done eating, they cleaned the table and moved to the
living room to continue talking. As they were talking, Ami’s,
Usagi’s, and Chibi-Usa’s communicators started beeping. Usagi
and Chibi-Usa quickly shut theirs off, but Ami wasn’t quick
enough. So Ami played it off as she was checking her watch and
saw that it was an urgent message from Makoto. Ami looked at
her mother pleadingly and Kitomi sighed as she saw the worried
look in her daughter’s eyes.
“Oh that’s right dear, you have an appointment tonight,
didn’t you. We seem to have lost track of time, why don’t you
take Scott with you.” Kitomi said, come up with an excuse for
her daughter and Scott leaving.
“If it’s all right with Ikuko, can we take Usagi and Chibi-
Usa?” Scott asked Kitomi, but was really meant for Ikuko.
“Where are you two going?” Ikuko asked curiously.
“To Drakkenheim Castle.” Ami replied.
“Do you two want to go with them?” Ikuko asked her daughter
and ‘niece’. Both of them were nodding their head rapidly. “Okay,
then you can go with them, just don’t be out to late.”
“Don’t worry, Ikuko, we’ll be sure to bring them back at a
reasonable time.” Scott said.
“Thank you.” Ikuko said. “You know, it’s going to take
me a while to get use to a person that looks like a child calling
me by my name.”
“Do you want me to call you ‘Mrs. Tsukino’ while I’m young?”
Scott asked.
“Don’t worry about it, you four have to get going, so get
going. I’ll just have a nice conversation with Kitomi while you
are gone.” Ikuko said.
“Okay, see you two later tonight.” Scott said as the four
of them hurried out the door and made their way to Drakkenheim
as fast as they could.
* * * * *
Kevin, Makoto, Wesley, Minako, Kiersten, James, and Rei
were at the nearly completed Drakkenheim for a get together and
have dinner. Their main topic’s of discussion was how the
rebuilding of the castle was doing and what they were going to
do about the situation with Scott and Usagi. Kevin explained
that the reconstruction of the castle was just about done in
another couple of months and then they could refurnish it. They
continued eating as they continued talking.
“What are we going to do about Scott and Usagi’s situation?”
Kiersten asked.
“I don’t know.” Kevin replied. “None of the scientists I
know seem to have no idea what is happening to them.”
“How is Setsuna doing?” Rei asked.
“Still unconscious.” Wesley replied.
“Any idea what is wrong with her?” James asked.
“No, but it looked like she was attacked when she appeared.”
Wesley replied.
“Do any of you think that Setsuna’s attack and the problem
with Scott and Usagi are related?” Makoto asked.
“Could be.” Kevin said. “Those beings showed up and attacked
Usagi like they wanted her out of commission for some reason and then
Setsuna appeared and she is unconscious and looked like she was
attacked.”
“Do you think they know Usagi is Sailor Moon?” Rei asked.
“Who knows, did you get anything from your fire readings?”
Kevin replied.
“Nothing on those beings, but the only thing the fire
showed me was Scott and Usagi being reduced to infantcy and
then the picture disappears.” Rei replied.
“Do you think that Scott’s Immortality is what affected
the ray that is now making them grow younger?” Kiersten asked.
“I have no idea. This situation is confusing me also.”
Kevin replied. Suddenly Wesley hissed in pain and held his head.
“What’s wrong?” Both Minako and Kiersten asked.
“Don’t know feels like all of my senses were on fire for a
moment.” Wesley replied.
“What could that mean?” Makoto asked. Suddenly an explosion
was heard inside the castle.
“You had to ask.” Kevin said as he went to the intercom.
“What’s going on?”
“Several unknown beings just appeared inside the castle.”
Jervis’ voice said through the intercom. “I have the others
evacuating. The beings appear to be heading towards where you
are.”
“Thanks Jervis, you better hide yourself.” Kevin said.
“I will Master Kevin.” Jervis said before Kevin turned
of the intercom.
“Let’s transform.” Kevin stated as he turned back to
the group.
After they transformed, Jupiter quickly pushed a button
on her communicator to alert the others. As she finished
pushing the button, the door to the dinning room exploded and
in rushed seven of the beings that they all ready fought. The
Senshi and Knights were reluctant to use their powers inside
the castle, so they ran outside the castle.
As they made their way outside of the castle, minimizing
the damage to the castle, they realized that is what the beings
wanted, since there were more waiting outside. So they started
unleashing their attacks on the beings and the beings started
attacking back. As they fought, Dragon suddenly realized that
the beings were trying to separate everyone from Gryphon. It
was then that certain clue's about Setsuna’s attack with Usagi’s
and Scott’s that made Dragon figure out the beings were after
Gryphon.
“Gryphon, they’re after you!” Dragon shouted.
Dragon realized that Gryphon couldn’t do anything since
he was getting ganged up. When Dragon saw one of the beings
approach with an unknown weapon, and started aiming at Gryphon.
Dragon pulled his sword out of sub-space and killed the being
he was fighting, and made his way to the gunner. He avoided
the beings that were trying to block him, and made his way to
the gunner. Just as the gunner was about to fire, Dragon
thrust his sword into the gun. Suddenly the gun exploded,
killing the gunner and Dragon.
* * * * *
Kevin came too outside of the castle, laying on his
back, with Scott looking over him. He looked around and saw
that Ami was nearby scanning him with her computer, and Makoto
was nearby with a worried looked to her face. He then noticed
that he was in his normal clothing.
“It’s about time you woke up.” Scott said.
“Anybody get the number of that Mack truck?” Kevin
groaned out.
“No, but I’m sure you can fine it when you get back to your
feet.” Scott said.
“What happened?” Kevin asked.
“Well, after you took care of the gunner, all of the beings
disappeared, even the dead ones, and we found you on the ground
as you are.” Makoto said.
“Whatever was in that gun, it definitely packs a wallop.”
Kevin said
“Well, whatever was in that weapon, it has a minor effect
on you that’s fading rapidly.” Ami said.
“What is it?” Kevin asked.
“Whatever powered the gun, it caused you to de-transform,
besides killing you.” Ami replied.
“What else did it do?” Kevin asked.
“Because of the blast, you are unable to transform for
about a day.” Ami replied.
“That’s it?” Kevin asked.
“As far as I can see, you are all right otherwise.” Ami
said.
“Then I guess we stopped them for now.” Kevin said.
“So what happened, they were gone by the time we got here.”
Scott asked.
Kevin explained what he thought was going on, after they
got back inside. He explained that he figured out that they were
after Wesley, but he didn’t know why, other than thinking that
the beings were trying to take them out one at a time. After
they got done discussing possible ideas of what is going on,
Usagi said that she had better start heading back home. Scott
and Ami realizing that she was right, told Kevin to come up with
a good reason to have Ami have an appointment at the castle.
Kevin told them he would send some bogus paperwork in the morning
for Ami. They thanked Kevin and Ami, Scott, Usagi, and Chibi-Usa
headed back to Usagi’s home.
* * * * *
After Scott and the others left for the night, Wesley was
in Setsuna’s room, watching over her. He watched as she slept
and appeared to have a nightmare by the way she was mumbling in
her sleep. He felt helpless knowing there was nothing he could
do to help his sister. He sat down in a chair next to the bed
and held her hand for a while.
After a while, a thought came to him. A memory from his
Silver Millennium time came to him on how he was able to talk
to his sister back then. He transformed and called off a
‘Temporal Shield’. He was probing for his sister and when he
was about to find her, something was blocking him off. So he
stopped the probe and de-transformed, wishing there was something
he could do to help Setsuna. So he just sat there, watching her
and held her hand.
* * * * *
After Ami and the others left, Ikuko and Kitomi sat in the
living room drinking tea. They talked about what each other has
been doing lately. During a silent moment, Kitomi noticed that
Ikuko wanted to say something, but seemed a little reluctant to
say what it was.
“Is something wrong, Ikuko?” Kitomi asked.
“I really don’t know how to word what I want to say, it’s
kind of hard for me to bring this up.” Ikuko replied.
“Just start from a beginning, it always helps.” Kitomi
replied.
“I’ve been noticing for the past several years that my
daughter would get a page or a message, and then run off for a
while. When I asked her about that, she would tell me something
about her friends needed some help.”
“My daughter has been doing the same thing now since we
moved here.”
“Well, the part I’m having trouble trying to talk about,
happened after the attack in the mall and the situation that my
daughter is in with your daughter’s fiancée. When my daughter
noticed that something was wrong with her, she had asked to see
your daughter. When we arrived at your place, we found out that
Scott was having a similar condition. It was then that he told
us that Sailor Mercury wanted to see my daughter. We went over
to Scott’s shop to meet her, and as she was leaving, I remembered
a question I wanted to ask her and when I caught up with her, she
was talking to Scott like they knew each other very well. I could
have sworn that Scott said that her name was the same as your
daughter’s.”
“It seems like they weren’t being as careful as they should’ve
been.”
“What do you mean?”
“Let me take a wild guess here, you’re wondering if Sailor
Mercury and my daughter are the same person?”
“Yes.”
“You are correct, they are the same person.”
“How do you know?”
“It was by accident that I found out. It happened before
the ‘Comet Incident’, I was able to get off work early, so I was
home when Scott came in carrying Sailor Mercury in his arms. I
could tell that they didn’t expect me to be home at that time,
and I was about to yell at Scott for cheating on my daughter when
I received the forth greatest shock of my life since I moved here.”
“What happened?”
“Sailor Mercury called me mother, actually it was more of
a gasp, but the truth was in front of me.”
“What did you do?”
“Well, after Scott put my daughter to bed, because she really
looked exhausted, he told me everything he could tell me. He
explained from what the others told him on how my daughter became
Sailor Mercury all the way to way he brought my daughter back home.”
“Why did he bring her home like that?”
“My daughter was in a fight and nearly exhausted herself;
she couldn’t even change her clothes, so Scott was nice enough to
bring her home for her to rest, and was caught by surprise upon
seeing me in the apartment.”
“How did you react to all of that?”
“As I said, I was still recovering from three previous shocks
when I was faced with that. After I had a good night sleep,
everything that was a mystery about my daughter’s behavior suddenly
didn’t seem like a mystery to me, it actually answered some questions
I had. When my daughter woke up, I had a talk with her about what
she was doing and was it something she really wanted to do, also
why did she keep her being Sailor Mercury a secret from me.”
“It seems you took finding that out rather well.”
“If it wasn’t for the pervious shocks, I probably would
have lost it.”
“You’ve said about these shocks, what are they?”
“Well, the first one was when my daughter told me she was
dating a man that was several years older than her.”
“I know that one, poor Kenji is still not taking that one
well. What were the others?”
“Well, the second was when Scott returned some of my family
heirlooms, and gave me and my daughter the proper amount for the
heirlooms that he was unable to return to us. I was still surprised
over the amount for several days.”
“How much was it?”
“Over several million yen.”
“Whoa.”
“The third I can’t tell you. I made a promise not to tell
anyone about it, but let’s say that it almost made me tell Scott
that he couldn’t see my daughter again.”
“It was that bad?”
“Yes it was.”
There was a moment of silence for a bit, when Ikuko thought
up about another subject.
“Have you found out who the other Sailor Senshi are?”
Ikuko asked.
“No, but I really wasn’t trying to. When I asked Scott
about it, he told me that if I looked hard enough, I would be
able to figure out who they were.” Kitomi replied.
Kitomi watched as Ikuko sat in thought for a while. She
just sat that drinking her tea, waiting for Ikuko to start
talking again. It was several minutes later when Ikuko gasped
at a thought that came to her.
“Something wrong?” Kitomi asked.
“It’s not something I want to talk about right now.” Ikuko
said.
“You’re thinking that your daughter may be a Sailor Senshi?”
Kitomi guessed.
“How’d you know?” Ikuko asked surprised.
“Just a feeling, I have similar thoughts about it. I mean,
my daughter really didn’t have friends until she moved here, and
now she has several friends and she is a Senshi. My guess is
that the friend's she hangs out with is the other Senshi members.”
Kitomi said.
So the both of them talked about Ami and her fellow Senshi
as they waited for Ami and the others to return from Drakkenheim
with Usagi and Chibi-Usa.
* * * * *
After a while, Ami, Scott, Usagi, and Chibi-Usa returned.
Kitomi and Ikuko asked if they had a good time, they replied they
did, nothing really happened when they got there. They said their
farewells to each other and Scott, Ami, and Kitomi left to head
back to Kitomi and Ami’s apartment. The last thing that Usagi,
Chibi-Usa, and Ikuko heard from them was Scott asking if he could
stay the night.
As Usagi and Chibi-Usa was heading to their rooms, Ikuko
asked if she could have a talk with them before they go to bed.
Usagi and Chibi-Usa looked at each other and shrugged their
shoulders and sat down on the couch in the living room. Ikuko
came and sat down on a chair facing them. There was a moment
of silence as Ikuko thought of how she was going to discuss what
was on her mind.
“What’s up, mother?” Usagi asked.
“Me and Dr. Mizuno had a nice talk while you guys were
away.” Ikuko started saying after a bit.
“What did you two talk about?” Chibi-Usa asked.
“Well, we were talking about our daughter’s and why they
seem to run off a lot.” Ikuko said. She noticed that her
daughter and ‘niece’ seem to get a worried look.
“What did you come up with?” Usagi asked, dreading the
answer.
“The reason that you two seem to run off a lot is, that you
two are Sailor Senshi.” Ikuko replied. Usagi and Chibi-Usa got
surprised looks and suddenly both of them started stuttering
denials. Ikuko held up her hand to silence the both of them.
“There is no use denying it, I know it’s true. The more I thought
about it, the more the unknown pieces seem to fit. The pieces were
there, I just seemed to miss it until tonight.”
Usagi looked over at Chibi-Usa and saw her worried look.
Usagi then sighed in defeat when she realized that she couldn’t
do anything but tell the truth.
“You are correct mother, we are Sailor Senshi.” Usagi
said. “I am Sailor Moon and this is Sailor Chibi-Moon.” Usagi
then looked at her mother to see her reaction. “Are you angry
with us?”
“At the moment, no, but can you two tell me how it all
started, from the beginning, and then we will see how it goes
then.” Ikuko said.
“Okay.” Usagi said.
Usagi and Chibi-Usa started telling Ikuko about how they
became Senshi. They told the history of the Silver Millennium
and how they were reborn in this generation. Usagi told about
how it was destiny about her and Mamoru getting married. The
only thing they left out was Chibi-Usa’s connection with being
from the future. So Ikuko sat there and took in what was told
to her. When Usagi and Chibi-Usa finished talking, Ikuko just
had one final thing to talk about.
“There is just one more question I need to ask you two
about.” Ikuko said.
“What is it?” Usagi asked.
“Who are you really?” Ikuko asked of Chibi-Usa. “I know
you are not really my niece, so who are you?”
Chibi-Usa suddenly got very scared and was about to
hypnotize Ikuko again, but when she was about to do it, Usagi
placed her hand on Chibi-Usa’s shoulder and shook her head no.
She looked at Usagi and had a pleading look to her eyes and
Usagi smiled at her reassuringly at her.
“You are correct mother; she is not your niece.” Usagi
said.
“Who is she, and why did I think that she was my niece?”
Ikuko asked with a little bit of anger in her voice.
“The reason that you thought that she was your niece, is
because we hypnotized you to believe that she was, so she could
live here.” Usagi replied.
“You hypnotized me to let a stranger live here?” Ikuko
demanded angrily.
“Mother!” Usagi shouted getting her mother’s attention.
“If you give me a chance to explain everything before you start
yelling at us, everything will be explained.”
“All right.” Ikuko stated more calmly.
“To let you know, her name really is Usagi, so not to
confuse the two of us, we started calling her Chibi-Usa.” Usagi
started explaining. “As I said, she isn’t your niece, but she
is a member of this family.” Usagi stopped to take several deep
breathes before she said what she wanted to say next. “She’s
your grandchild, my daughter.”
“What!” Ikuko exclaimed in surprise as she stared at the
two on the couch.
Usagi clamed her mother down enough to explain what she had
said. She explained that Chibi-Usa was really from the future,
and was sent back to the past to learn life during this day and
age. She then explained that Chibi-Usa was her and Mamoru’s
daughter. Ikuko had asked some questions and Usagi and Chibi-Usa
answered to the best of their ability. When they were done
talking, they sat there waited to see what Ikuko was going to do.
“Have the two of you been truthful with me?” Ikuko asked.
“Yes.” The both of them replied.
“Now I know what Kitomi meant by getting so many shocks in
a short amount of time.” Ikuko said quietly, but loud enough to
be heard by the other two.
“Mother?” Usagi asked confused.
“Oh, I’m sorry Usagi, just talking to myself.” Ikuko said.
“Are you okay with what we told you?” Usagi asked.
“Well, I think I’m still in shock a little bit from what
you told me, but I am happy you told me the truth.” Ikuko said.
“So … um …” Usagi tried to ask a question.
“I think I know what you are going to ask me, think about
this. I have just found out that my daughter, who I thought was
an innocent child, is a reborn princess from a kingdom long ago
and is a super hero. To top it off, is the leader of that group.
Then on top of that, I found out I have a granddaughter from the
future visiting.” Ikuko said.
“So what are you going to do?” Usagi asked.
“There’s not much I can do now, you are a grown woman now,
present situation excluded.” Ikuko said. “Now that I know what
is going on, I will help you two out as best as I can in the
future.”
Both Usagi and Chibi-Usa smiled at the acceptance from Ikuko.
Then Ikuko turned and faced Chibi-Usa.
“Now you young lady.” Ikuko said. Chibi-Usa became mildly
worried. “Come here and give your grandmother a hug.” Chibi-Usa
smiled and ran over and hugged Ikuko.
After that was over, they realized that it was getting late
and Usagi and Chibi-Usa headed up to go to sleep. Before Usagi
made it half way up the stairs, her mother had one final comment
for her.
“Usagi dear, we will have a talk about you and this Mamoru
at a later time.” Ikuko said.
“Yes mother.” Usagi said and then dropped her head in defeat
and then continued up the stairs to her room and then went to bed.
CHAPTER FOUR
The next morning, Ami and Kitomi were having breakfast, waiting
for Scott to wake up. After another few minutes, they heard some
movement down the hallway and some grumbling sounds. A moment later,
Scott walked into the dining room. Ami and Kitomi were about to start
teasing him, until they noticed his appearance. They suddenly were
staring at him wide-eyed when Scott noticed their looks and he became
confused.
“What?” Scott asked confused, still somewhat sleepy.
“Have you looked at yourself recently?” Kitomi asked.
“No, I just woke up, why?” Scott asked.
“You’ve become younger again.” Ami replied.
Scott fully woke up at that moment and looked down at
himself. He then looked up at Ami in surprise.
“Ami?” Scott asked. Ami catching what he wanted quickly
pulled out her computer and scanned him. After the scan was
complete, Ami frowned. “What is it Ami?”
“According to the scan, you now have the physical age of a
ten year old.” Ami replied.
“This is going to cause many problems.” Scott said as he
now noticed his younger sounding voice.
“I suggest that you stay here for a while, also you may
want to close your shop until your helper returns from visiting
his family.” Kitomi said.
“As much as I hate to do that, but you’re correct.” Scott
said after thinking about it for a moment. “Can’t have people
thinking that Ami is sleeping around with younger men.”
“Scott!” Ami exclaimed and blushed in embarrassment at
what Scott just said. Then suddenly stared in anger at Scott
and her mother when they started laughing and realized that Scott
was joking around with her again.
Just as Ami was about to voice her opinion of their joke,
the phone started ringing. Since she was the closest to the
phone, she went to answer the phone. She found out that the
person on the line was Usagi’s mother. Ami became more surprised
when Ikuko addressed Ami as Sailor Mercury and was about to start
her denials when she heard Usagi and Chibi-Usa shout over the
phone that Ikuko knows everything. Ami sighed and asked what
the call was for.
Ikuko explained that Usagi had grown younger again. Ami
told her that Scott had reduced in age also, to that of a ten
year old. Ikuko said that Usagi appeared to be around that age
now. Ami wondered what she was going to do, since she still
couldn’t figure out what is causing them to grow younger. Ikuko
told her she believed in Ami, that Ami would figure it out.
Ikuko then told Ami that Chibi-Usa was taking Usagi out to get
some new clothes, and since Scott is now younger, maybe the two
of them should join Usagi and Chibi-Usa on that shopping trip.
Ami asked Scott if he wanted to go get some new clothes, and
after he looked down at himself, he agreed to go along. Ami
then told Ikuko that they would join Chibi-Usa and Usagi at the
nearby mall. They set the time and place and headed over there
after they finished breakfast and got Scott in some clothes that
would fit him.
* * * * *
Scott was sitting next to the fountain with Chibi-Usa after
he was done shopping for his new clothes. Ami was with Usagi in a
clothing store for women and Scott had decided to wait outside the
store until they were done. Chibi-Usa, being considerate for him,
decided to stay with him to keep him company. So as they were
sitting there, they talked about general items as they waited, but
the main talk was Chibi-Usa asking Scott how he was dealing the
change. Scott told her he was handling it as best as he could.
He then noticed that Chibi-Usa was squirming around a bit
and looked kind of pale. Scott asked her if something was wrong
and Chibi-Usa excused herself and ran to the female restroom.
After several minutes, Chibi-Usa returned paler then when she had
left. She came back and sat next to Scott and remained silent
when Scott was looking at her questioningly.
“What’s wrong, Chibi-Usa?” Scott asked concerned. Chibi-
Usa blushed and looked down, still not saying anything. “What’s
wrong, you can tell me, it’s Uncle Scott.”
Scott noticed a small smile appear momentarily when he
mentioned the ‘Uncle Scott’ part. After a couple more minutes
of just sitting there, Scott was about to give up when Chibi-Usa
leaned over and whispered her problem to him. As she was telling
him, he understood what the problem was, but he knew he really
wasn’t one to tell her how to deal with it, but he knew who could.
When she finished talking, she looked at him pleadingly. Scott
smiled at her and squeezed her hand reassuringly.
“What’s wrong with me?” Chibi-Usa asked a little bit scared.
“Nothing’s wrong with you.” Scott replied. “It’s just
your body catching up with you.”
“What do you mean?” Chibi-Usa asked confused.
“I don’t think I can really explain it to you properly,
but I’m sure Ami can.” Scott said.
“What can I do?” Came a female voice in front of them,
causing both of them to jump a little. Both of them looked and
saw Ami and Usagi standing there with several bags and a confused
looked at them.
“Usagi, can you take Chibi-Usa with you and take the bags
to the food court, me and Ami will catch up.” Scott said after
he regained his composure.
“Okay.” Usagi said and grabbed the bags Ami had and Chibi-
Usa grabbed Scott’s bags and Usagi pulled Chibi-Usa along. “Come
on, let’s go.”
“What’s going on?’ Ami asked when Usagi and Chibi-Usa were
gone.
“I think Chibi-Usa just had her first period and she’s a
little shakened up about it. I think you should have a talk with
her about it.” Scott replied.
“Okay.” Ami replied.
“We better hurry before Usagi makes trouble.” Scott said
and Ami smiled.
The both of them headed towards the food court to catch up
with Usagi and Chibi-Usa. As they got there, Ami pulled Chibi-Usa
off to the side after they ordered their meal. As Ami was talking
to Chibi-Usa, Scott and Usagi collected the meal and sat there
waiting for Ami and Chibi-Usa to return. Scott was sitting there;
looking in the direction Ami and Chibi-Usa were, watching them talk,
when all of a sudden he felt something hit his temple.
He looked at Usagi and found her with a straw in her hand,
smiling at him. He looked down and saw the straws wrapper on the
table. He saw a straw by him and smiled back at her. Usagi
suddenly looked surprised as Scott fired a straw wrapper back at
her. The wrapper ended up getting stuck in her hair. Usagi then
started shooting back with whatever she could grab. They kept
throwing stuff at each other until they heard a person clear
their throat.
“What are you two doing?” Said an angry female voice.
The two of them looked up and saw an angry Ami and a smiling
Chibi-Usa.
“Sorry Ami.” Usagi said meekly.
“Scott, you should know better.” Ami said.
“Sorry, got caught up in the moment.” Scott replied.
“Let’s eat; we’re leaving after we’re done. And no more
trouble with you two.” Ami said.
Scott and Usagi finished eating and Ami took them back to
Usagi’s house. When they entered, Ikuko was surprised to see
them back so early and asked what was going on. Ami replied
that Scott and Usagi were becoming a little restless. Ikuko
frowned at Scott and Usagi and both of them looked sorry. Ikuko
then commented about calling a friend of theirs and go do something
for the rest of the day. So Ami called Kevin and Makoto and they
said they would be right over.
* * * * *
Kevin and Makoto arrived a short time later and Ami explained
what was going on. Makoto mentioned that there was an amusement
park nearby that they could go to. Usagi suddenly became excided
and practically dragged Scott out the door, telling the others to
hurry up and went outside.
“Is it me or does Usagi seem to be clinging onto Scott a lot?”
Makoto pointed out.
“I don’t know, but it might be because he is going through
the same thing, and her ten year old mind is acting accordingly.”
Ami said.
“Could be, but let’s go before she comes back and drags us
out.” Kevin said and the three of them started heading towards
the door. It was then that he noticed that Chibi-Usa wasn’t
following them. “Chibi-Usa, you coming?”
“I’m not feeling well.” Chibi-Usa replied.
“What’s wrong?” Kevin asked.
“Um …” Chibi-Usa didn’t know how to respond.
“She’s having a little female situation.” Ami said confusing
Kevin but Makoto got what Ami was saying.
“Oh, I got some medicine for you.” Makoto said to Chibi-Usa.
“Thanks.” Chibi-Usa said smiling.
“While Ami and Kevin keep the children busy until we get
there, I’ll give you some. We need all the help we can to keep
an eye on them.” Makoto said.
“Yeah, you don’t have to go on any rides; you can just
play some games.” Kevin said.
“Okay.” Chibi-Usa said, knowing that they wouldn’t stop
until she agreed.
So Kevin and Ami kept Scott and Usagi, mostly Usagi,
occupied as Makoto gave Chibi-Usa the medicine she was talking
about. After they arrived at the amusement park, Usagi was dragging
Scott to the first ride she came across. The others had a laugh at
the situation that Scott was in. After an hour of riding rides,
they were sitting at a picnic table for a breather. On the table,
were several prizes they had won. The favorites for Chibi-Usa and
Usagi were the plush bunnies that Scott had won for them. Just
then, Kevin, Makoto, Ami, and Usagi heard some familiar voices
that called out to Ami and Makoto, which caused Usagi to tense up.
“Ami, Makoto, Kevin!” A female voice called out. Everyone
turned around and saw some old classmates of theirs.
“Madoka, Kitsune, what are you two doing here?” Makoto
asked.
“Having fun.” Madoka said.
“What are you three doing here?” Kitsune asked.
“Having fun and watching the kids.” Kevin replied.
“Hey!” Chibi-Usa complained at being called a kid, but
they ignored her.
“Who are the two little ones?” Madoka asked, noticing
Scott and Usagi. Kevin was about to reply when Scott cut him
off.
“I’m Devon and I’m here with my date, Serena, Chibi-Usa’s
little sister.” Scott said, as he placed his arm around Usagi
and bringing her in close. Makoto, Ami, and Chibi-Usa were
surprised at what Scott had said, and Usagi blushed at what
Scott had said and did.
“Nice to meet you Devon, Serena, but we got to go now.
Talk to you guys later.” Madoka said to them.
“Bye.” Said everyone on the table.
“Bye.” Said Madoka and Kitsune.
After the two of them left, everyone at the table, except
Usagi who was busy blushing and looking down, faced Scott.
“What was that about?” Kevin asked.
“Well, we couldn’t tell them that Usagi here was their
classmate, when she is supposed to be eighteen and not ten.”
Scott said, and everyone noticed that Scott still had his arm
around Usagi and she was minorly leaning into him. “Plus I’m
sure they know that ‘Scott’ is Ami’s boyfriend and is twenty-
three and not ten.”
“Okay, I can understand that, but why the other stuff?”
Ami asked.
"For calling Usagi Chibi-Usa’s little sister, all I can
say is that if they really looked, they could see a family
resemblance.” Scott said shrugging. “As for the ‘date’ part,
me and Usagi are the same age, just something I came up with.
Since I’m ten, I can’t be Ami’s date, since she’s eighteen. So
unless Chibi-Usa here wants to be my date?” Scott then leaned
his head on her arm and looked up at her and she backed away
surprised. “I just thought to let your friends think there is
something romantic going on.”
“Scott.” Ami said with a hint of anger in her voice.
“Uh oh, Ami’s angry.” Scott said and then grabbed Usagi’s
hand and started running away from the table with Usagi. “Quick,
Usagi, Ami’s going to get us.”
Usagi was giggling madly as they ran into the crowds and
disappeared from their sights.
“Ohhh, I’m going to get back at him.” Ami said gritting
her teeth.
Suddenly there was an explosion nearby and they all turned
to see it. The four of them saw several of the beings appear and
started a bunch of mayhem. They ran behind a tent and transformed,
except Kevin, who looked confused at why he didn’t transform.
Suddenly he remembered what Ami told him yesterday and cursed.
He told the girls to go ahead and he would he with them shortly.
After the girls left, he tried transforming one more time, and
this time he was able to transform. He then joined the girls face
the beings, but all four of them failed to notice that a small
group of the beings were following Scott and Usagi.
* * * * *
When the beings were noticed, Scott grabbed Usagi’s hand
and ran off. Scott noticed that the other’s had transformed and
were facing the group of beings. Just as Scott and Usagi turned
a corner, they became face to face with a small group of the beings.
Usagi screamed, but Scott quickly turned and ran in a different
direction, pulling Usagi along with him. Scott noticed that there
were only three beings there, and they were now chasing after them.
Scott knew that in this race, the beings were going to catch up with
them.
Scott noticed that they were approaching the haunted house,
and that gave him an idea. He pulled Usagi towards the haunted
house and entered the place. Usagi realized where they were and
became scared and griped Scott’s arm tightly. Scott told her what
does she want to face, the haunted house or the beings following
them. Usagi nervously swallowed and put a brave face and pulled
Scott farther into the house.
As they entered a forested area, Scott pulled Usagi into a
high grass area. As they hid there, Usagi nervously asked Scott
what they are going to do. Scott looked around to see what he
could do, but no ideas were coming to him. When the beings entered
the room they were in, Scott had to cover Usagi’s mouth before she
screamed out and held her close. Scott looked through the grass,
hoping the beings couldn’t detect them, and watched as the beings
approached their location. Then Scott saw something that made him
start thinking. He watched as one of the haunted houses display
scared one of the beings. Scott smiled inwardly at an idea that
was forming in his head, especially when he noticed that the beings
didn’t detect them. When the beings left the room, Scott released
Usagi and she punched him lightly for grabbing her like he did, he
then quietly talked to her.
“Ouch, that hurt.” Scott complained quietly.
“It was supposed to.” Usagi said just as quiet.
“I got an idea on how to get those beings.” Scott said.
“How are we supposed to do that, if we transform, our
powers are weakened.” Usagi said.
“My idea doesn’t call for us transforming, it calls for
something else.” Scott said and then whispered his idea to her.
When he was done whispering, Usagi had a sinister smile to her
face. They then set their plan into motion.
* * * * *
At the mean time, the others finally managed to either kill
a few or drive the beings away. They caught their breath for a
moment and Mercury pulled out her computer and scanned the area.
She gasped at the results that came to her.
“What is it?” Jupiter asked.
“There are three more of those beings are still here, and
they’re in the same location where Scott and Usagi is at.”
Mercury replied.
“Where are they?” Dragon asked.
“The haunted house.” Mercury said.
“Let’s go.” Chibi-Moon said.
They ran towards the haunted house, hoping that they wouldn’t
be too late. As they arrived at the haunted house, the three beings
came running out of there in a hurry, with a scared look, and
teleported away. They were confused on why the beings acted as they
did, but they wanted to know if Scott and Usagi were safe.
As they entered, they started looking around for Scott and Usagi.
Mercury pulled out her computer and told the others that Scott and Usagi
was in the room ahead of them. They entered the room and didn’t see
them anywhere. Just then, an item came out of no where, and hit Mercury
dead center on her chest, leaving a slimy area. Then other things started
moving around and Chibi-Moon screamed in fright at what she saw moving.
After Chibi-Moon screamed, everything stopped moving and Scott popped his
head out from the nearby tree branches.
“Oh, it’s only you guys.” Scott said chuckling.
“What were you doing?” Dragon asked.
“Defending ourselves, we thought those beings called in
for reinforcements.” Scott said matter of fact. “Sorry for
scaring you like that.”
“Where’s Usagi?” Chibi-Moon asked.
“Hey Usagi, it’s safe, it’s the guys.” Scott yelled out.
Usagi’s head popped up from the tall grass at the far end of the
room.
“Come on; let’s go home, the parks closed now.” Dragon
said shaking his head at what happened.
“Shouldn’t you guys change back?” Scott asked. The others
changed back just as Usagi reached them.
“How did you guys scare those beings?” Makoto asked.
“Well, it was like this.” Scott started saying as he climbed
down from the tree.
Scott and Usagi told them how they saw that the beings that
were after them, got scared at what were going on around them. So
they started using the place to scare them. As they were talking,
they went to collect what they could from their stuff they had left
behind. Most of their things were destroyed, but Usagi and Chibi-Usa
were glad that the plush bunnies were safe. After that, they headed
back to Usagi’s house to drop Usagi and Chibi-Usa off. As they walked
to the door, Usagi turned to face Scott.
“Hey, aren’t you supposed to kiss your date goodnight?” Usagi
asked Scott, and then looked ready to receive a kiss.
Scott realized what he caused, decided to play along in order
not to hurt Usagi’s feeling and kissed her on the lips for a little
bit longer than should have. Usagi was blushing hotly after the kiss
ended. Chibi-Usa had to drag Usagi into the house because she wasn’t
moving. Makoto and Kevin decided to head home and left Scott at Ami’s
mercy. Kevin and Makoto told them that they would inform the others
about what happened. As Ami and Scott were heading back, Ami told Scott
that she wanted to have a talk with him, and Scott looked like he
really didn’t want to have that talk.
CHAPTER FIVE
The next morning came and found that Scott and Usagi had
reduced to six years old. That day had Ami visiting a counselor
for the entire day, and with Kitomi at the hospital, Ami left
Scott over at the Tsukino home until she was able to pick him up.
So Ikuko was glad to watch over Scott, it gave Usagi someone to
play with. Chibi-Usa had Hotaru over to keep her company for the
day. Ikuko had to go shopping, so she asked Chibi-Usa and Hotaru
if they would watch over Scott and Usagi while she was gone. She
mentioned that they could go to the park for awhile if they wanted
to.
So the four of them headed to the park, after Usagi ‘persuaded’
them to go, and they brought along Luna and Diana to help watch over
them. As Chibi-Usa and Hotaru were sitting at a picnic table, they
watched as Scott and Usagi chased Luna and Diana around the park.
They chuckled as they watched what was going on and they talked about
general things for a bit. They continued talking until several
shadows covered them. They looked up and saw for male classmates
of theirs.
“Well, well, well, what do we have here, the freak and her
friend.” One of the boys said.
“Leave us alone, Tojiro.” Chibi-Usa said.
“I don’t think so.” Tojiro replied as he then pushed Hotaru
off the picnic table and onto the ground. Chibi-Usa was going to
go help Hotaru out, but another one of the boys grabbed her and
held her fast.
“Now, now, no interference from you.” The boy said as he
held onto the struggling Chibi-Usa.
“What do you want?” Hotaru asked.
“To get a freak like you out of our school.” Tojiro said
as he then started slapping Hotaru across the face. He continued
slapping her until his hand was stopped by a hand grabbing his
wrist. He looked at the person and saw that it was Scott holding
his wrist.
“I would really like it if you would stop hitting her.”
Scott said. Tojiro jerked his arm free of Scott’s grip.
“Why do you care for this freak?” Tojiro asked.
“I have my reasons.” Scott replied.
“What? You in love with her?” Tojiro asked mildly
interested in the answer.
“In a way.” Scott replied.
“Hey guys, hear that, the freak is robbing the cradle.”
Tojiro said and the other boys snickered. “Well, why don’t you
go and be with your freak girlfriend.”
As Tojiro went to push Scott into Hotaru, Scott twisted
around and grabbed his arm. Tojiro suddenly found himself face
first in the ground with his arm twisted behind him. Two of his
friends seeing what happened, went to rush Scott. Scott used
Tojiro as a spring board and kicked one of them in the chest
and the other in the face. Chibi-Usa broke free and kicked the
boy holding her in the groin. Tojiro was about to hit Scott,
but he was suddenly hit in the back of his head.
As Tojiro landed, holding his head, the others saw Usagi
standing there with a thick stick and looking angry. The other
boys got up, picked up Tojiro, and ran away. After the boys were
gone, Usagi dropped the stick and sighed in relief. Scott checked
on Hotaru and Hotaru told him she was all right. Chibi-Usa
commented about heading back to Chibi-Usa’s house. Once they got
back, they saw that Ikuko was home and she gasped at the sight of
Scott and Usagi.
“What happened to you two?” Ikuko asked.
“Well, we were playing in the park when four boys started
picking on Hotaru and Chibi-Usa.” Scott said. “Usagi and I
‘persuaded’ them not to.”
“You fought them?” Ikuko asked.
“They sort of forced my hand.” Scott said.
“We’ll have a talk about that later, but the two of you
go upstairs and take a bath right now.” Ikuko stated.
“Together?” Scott asked surprised.
“Yes together, it will save time and water, now get going.”
Ikuko said.
“But, Mrs. Tsukino, I don’t think that would be a good idea.”
Scott tried saying, with Usagi nodding her head with Scott.
“I don’t want to hear any lip from you two, now get up there
and get a bath.” Ikuko said with a small amount of anger.
Scott rushed up the stairs after Usagi and was reluctant to
enter the bathroom, because he saw Usagi enter before him. He
was standing out there wondering what to do when Ikuko came up
the steps and saw him standing there.
“I thought I told you to get in the bathroom and get a
bath.” Ikuko said.
“But Usagi’s in there.” Scott said.
“I know that, get in there so I can wash your clothes,
go on now.” Ikuko said.
Scott sighed in defeat and entered the changing area of
the bathroom. He removed his clothes and gathered his courage
and entered the bathroom part. He blushed hotly as he saw Usagi
enter the furo. He noticed that Usagi had a blush going as he
entered the wash area. He quickly washed up and was reluctant
to enter the furo with Usagi. After a little teasing from Usagi,
Scott entered the furo. As Scott sat in the furo, he was blushing
and looking down, not facing Usagi.
Just then, he was splashed with some water. He looked up
in surprise and saw Usagi grinning at him. He continued looking
at her in surprise as she went and splashed him again. Scott got
out of his dazed state and then grinned evilly as he then splashed
her back. The both of them got into a splashing fight and kept
going at it until Ikuko came in and stopped them. She made them
get out and get ready for bed. Scott wondered why they were
getting ready for bed, but one look from Ikuko and he didn’t
argue.
Scott knew that he was going to be staying late, but he
didn’t know that he would be staying over night. During the
bath, there was a serious thunderstorm came in and by the time
the bath was finished, the rain was really coming down. After
the bath, Scott was given an old shirt of Kenji’s to use as a
nightshirt. After the talk about fighting he received from
Ikuko, he was placed in Usagi’s room to sleep. As Usagi was
lying on her bed, and Scott was on a futon on the floor, he
could hear her whimper every time lightning flashed and thunder
roared. During a sudden flash of lightning and thunder, Scott
found that Usagi was suddenly in his bed with him.
“Are you okay, Usagi?” Scott asked quietly.
“I-I-I’m scared.” Usagi said and Scott saw tears in the
corners of her eyes.
“Don’t worry, Usagi, I’ll protect you.” Scott said as he
then wrapped the blanket over the both of them.
A couple of minutes later, the bedroom door opened and
Chibi-Usa entered the room. Scott saw her look around the room
and settle on him and Usagi. He noticed that she also had tears
in her eyes. He waved her over and covered her in the blanket
with Usagi and him. All three of them fell asleep even though
the thunderstorm was still going on. Ikuko checked up on her
daughter, because she knew that her daughter had a fear of
thunderstorms. So when she looked in the room, she smiled at
what she saw. Her daughter and her granddaughter were in the
same bed as Scott, and he had his arms wrapped around both of
them protectively. When a boom of thunder sounded, no one
flinched, so Ikuko left them and went back to bed.
* * * * *
Early in the day, Kevin, Makoto, James, Rei, Wesley,
Kiersten, Ami, and Minako were at the Tokyo Aquarium to talk
about what they were going to do. Since Rei’s grandfather was
having a meeting at the shrine, they came to the aquarium to talk.
They were trying to figure out what they were going to do about Scott
and Usagi, and the people that caused their problem. They were no
farther figuring out what to do when the aquarium was attacked by
the beings.
They quickly transformed and started attacking the beings.
Throughout the attack, Gryphon was getting the nagging feeling
that he should know something but it was just out of his reach.
It was when he saw one of the beings fire their weapon that he
got a surge through him and that was when it clicked, the beings
were using time to their advantage. Once he figured that out,
he had to warn the others.
“Watch out, they are using time to their advantage.”
Gryphon shouted out.
Once Gryphon shouted that out, the beings knew that they
better make their escape. So they shot out the windows to the
display aquariums and made their escape as the windows broke
and the place was suddenly filled with water, dousing the Senshi
and the Knights. After the water quit filling the room, the Senshi
and the Knights noticed that Mercury and Minerva were dry, while
they were soaking wet.
“How come you two are dry?” Mars asked.
“It’s a secret.” Minerva replied smiling.
“Minerva.” Mars growled.
“It’s a side benefit of our powers.” Mercury replied.
“What do you mean?” Jupiter asked.
“Let’s get out of here and I’ll tell you.” Mercury said
and they all agreed. After they changed back and were far enough
away they stopped at a nearby rest area and waited for Ami to tell
them what happened.
“Okay, Ami, spill it, how you and Kiersten are dry as a
bone.” Makoto said.
“It happened when Scott told me about my past self and what
I could do.” Ami started. “Since a sub power of mine is to handle
water, so I just controlled the water around me to not get on me.”
“Uh, okay, what about Kiersten?” Rei asked confused.
“A part of my power is telekinesis. So I just didn’t let
the water touch me.” Kiersten smiled.
Some of them grumbled at the smiling faces of Ami and
Kiersten, about their abilities of staying dry. It was then that
they noticed the storm clouds coming in and decided to head home.
When Ami got back to Scott’s place, she decided to call Ikuko and
told her that she could come pick Scott up, by Ikuko didn’t want
her to go driving in the storm and told her that he could stay the
night. So Ami told her she would pick him up in the morning.
* * * * *
In the morning, Ami came and picked Scott up. While she was
there, she was wondering why Ikuko was laughing when she came, and
Scott, Usagi, and Chibi-Usa was blushing. Once Ami stepped inside,
she asked what was so funny. Ikuko told her that when Usagi told
her about Scott starting a little harem, and after Ami nodded knowing
about the running joke about the harem, was told that Usagi and Chibi-
Usa were now added to the list. Ami asked what she meant, and Ikuko
told her that she found her daughter and granddaughter in the same
bed as Scott when she went to go wake them up. She’s been teasing
them ever since.
After another round of teasing was finished, much to the
dread of Scott, Usagi, and Chibi-Usa, Ikuko asked Ami if there was
any change to the condition to Scott and Usagi. Ami did a quick
scan and found out that Usagi was now four and Scott was now five.
Ikuko asked if they came up with any cure yet and Ami sadly shook
her head. Ikuko thanked her anyway and Ami and Scott left. As
they were driving back home, Ami was filling Scott in on what
happened yesterday.
“So after a while of fighting, Wesley shouted out that the
beings were using time to their advantage.” Ami said, and noticed
Scott was in deep thought. “What is it Scott?”
“Can you go to my shop real quick, I need something, it’s
very important.” Scott replied.
“What is it?” Ami asked confused.
“Let’s just say I may have an idea on what happened to
Setsuna.” Scott replied, and Ami knew by his tone of voice, that
was all he was going to say.
So Ami drove to Scott’s shop and Scott went looking for the
item he wanted. Ami asked to help him, but he just said for her to
stay where she was while he looked for it. Ami didn’t like it, but
Scott didn’t give her much of a choice. After several minutes,
Scott returned carrying a leather pouch. Ami asked what was in it
and Scott told her a bunch of old herbs. Ami was still confused,
but she knew that if Scott didn’t want her to know, she would have
to wait. As they got back in the car, Scott asked Ami to take him
over to Kevin’s place. Ami looked at him questioningly, and headed
over to Kevin’s place, knowing that Scott won’t answer the questions
she wanted to know.
CHAPTER SIX
Ami arrived at Kevin’s place and met Kevin at the door. He
escorted them to the living room where Makoto and Wesley were sitting.
After Kevin went and got some refreshments for Ami and Scott, they
talked about what they were doing there. Scott asked Wesley everything
he felt or seen in dealing with the beings. Wesley told Scott
everything he could about what he sensed or saw. Scott just sat there
in deep thought and the others wondered what he was thinking, and it
was Kevin that voiced the question.
“Hey, Scott, what are you thinking?” Kevin asked. Scott
jumped at little and looked over at Kevin as he was taken out of
the deep thought he was in.
“Oh, I need to use the bathroom.” Scott replied calmly.
The other’s just stared in surprise at Scott as he jumped
off the couch and ran to the bathroom. What they failed to notice,
due to their shock, was Scott had grabbed a small bowl before he
entered the bathroom.
When Scott was in the bathroom, he turned on the sink faucet
and waited for the water to become hot. Once the water was hot
enough, Scott added a small amount of water into the bowl and
turned off the faucet. He grabbed the pouch he had brought and
added the contents into the bowl and started to mix them. He
mixed the herbs until they formed a thick paste. When Scott
approved of the consistency, he grabbed the pouch and the bowl
and headed over to Setsuna’s room, after making sure that the
others weren’t looking for him.
As he entered Setsuna’s room, he found it rather dark. He
made his way over to the bed and found Setsuna having a restless
sleep. So he climbed up on the bed and startled himself over her
waist to stop her tossing and turning. When she settled down
enough, Scott grabbed the bowl and started spreading the paste
substance on her face in a certain pattern. When he was done with
her, he placed some of the paste on his face in a different pattern.
When he was done, he set the bowl on the night table, closed his eyes,
and started chanting until he went into a trance.
When he opened his eyes, he found himself in a stone walled
hallway. He looked around, trying to get his bearings, when he
heard a familiar female voice scream in pain. Scott made his way
over to the sound and looked around a corner. He saw one of the
beings, with a whip, whipping the bare back of a chained Setsuna.
She was dressed in her sailor fuku, but the back was ripped off
as the being continued whipping her, leaving several welts on
her back to match the ones that were already there bleeding.
She was chained at the wrists and the chain was fastened to the
wall, having her facing the wall. Scott became angry and found
a blunt object that was nearby, and hit the being in the back
of the head.
The being fell to the ground unconscious and Scott went
over and grabbed the keys and went over to Setsuna. After Scott
had unlocked her chains, and set her down, being careful of her
back, and held her until she regained her senses. After a couple
of minutes, Setsuna started coming around. She looked around
some what confused before she settled on Scott.
“Scott?” Setsuna asked weakly.
“Hey Kiana, how you doing?” Scott asked in return.
“I feel like crap.” She replied.
“You look like it.” Scott replied.
“Very funny.” She said sourly.
“I thought it was.” Scott said. “But I’m glad you’re
still here.”
“What do you mean?” She asked confused.
“Another day or two and you would have been stuck in this
nightmare permanently.” Scott replied to Setsuna’s wide-eyed fear.
“Why do you look so young?” Setsuna asked once she got
over her fear.
“These beings were after Usagi and I placed myself in the
way of their weapon blast and now me and Usagi have been growing
younger ever since.”
“I see.”
“You know who these beings are?”
“Not really, but I heard rumors of them.” Setsuna said
when she noticed Scott seem to sense something.
“I don’t have much time here left, so I need you to do
me a favor.”
“What is it?”
“I need you to find Cologne and get the mushroom she has.
She’s … Argh.”
When Scott collapsed into Setsuna, she looked up and saw
that the being had regained consciousness and had shot Scott.
She set Scott down and grabbed the object Scott had and proceeded
to continually hit the being. She kept hitting it until it died
and there was a small puddle of blood around the body. She
dropped the object and tried to go check on Scott, but before she
was able to get Scott, a bright white light happened, and she had
to close her eyes from the brightness.
When she opened her eyes again, she found herself in a
darkened bedroom. She tried to sit up, but found out there was
a weight on her. She looked down and saw there was someone
laying on her. At a closer inspection, she saw that it was Scott,
and he appeared to be unconscious. She smiled when she found he
was all right, so she wiggled herself out of bed. When she got
out of bed, she found out that she was wearing a nightgown. She
didn’t think much about it and picked Scott up and headed out of
the bedroom.
* * * * *
Kevin and the others were sitting in the living, talking
about what Scott was thinking before he ran to the bathroom.
They were also talking about why he wanted Wesley to answer his
questions. They were wondering if he knew something. It was
then that they started to think that something was up, since
Scott was taking a little too long in the bathroom.
“I’ll go and check on him.” Ami said as she was about
to get up off the couch.
“That won’t be necessary.” Came a voice from behind them.
All four people quickly faced the person and stared in disbelief.
There standing at the doorway to the hallway to the bedrooms was
Setsuna, carrying Scott in her arms.
“Sis, you’re awake.” Wesley said in disbelief.
“I wouldn’t have, if it wasn’t for Scott here.” Setsuna
replied.
“What do you mean?” Ami asked worried.
“He brought me out of the trance I was placed in.” Setsuna
replied and then noticed that the others were looking at her
strangely. “What is it?”
“What is that stuff on your face?” Makoto asked.
“What stuff?” Setsuna asked confused and then wiped her
face with her hand and it came back with some stuff on her
fingers. She then started wiping her face to get the stuff off
her face as Makoto handed her a rag. “I don’t know, I never
really noticed it. But now that you mentioned it, I think some
was on Scott’s face.”
“What is wrong with him?” Ami asked as she started a scan
on him. It was about that time that Scott started coming around
and Ami was by his side. “Scott, are you all right?”
Scott looked up and looked around the room in a confused
look. When Scott centered his sight on Ami, he smiled happily
and latched himself on her in a hug. “Mommy!”
Everyone in the room suddenly stared at Scott and Ami as
Ami was staring wide-eyed at Scott. Ami subconsciously wrapped
her arms around Scott and held him. She looked at the others
with a plea for help. Makoto realize what needed to be done
and came over to Scott and Ami.
“Hey there, Scotty, why don’t you come and sit over with
Auntie Makoto so ‘Mommy’ can finish what she was doing.” Makoto
said smiling at Scott.
“Okay.” Scott said cheerfully and released Ami and skipped
over to Makoto. Makoto sat down and pulled Scott onto her lap
and then looked over at Ami.
Ami realized what Makoto was asking and looked at her
computer and saw that the scan was finish. She quickly looked
at the results and gasped at what they said. Everyone knew
something had happened as Ami looked at Scott with worry. Scott
was too busy playing with Makoto to notice the look Ami was
giving him.
“What is it Ami?” Kevin asked her quietly.
“Whatever Scott did to wake Setsuna up, it cost him.”
Ami replied just as quiet. “He is now a four year old with
the same mentality of being a four year old.”
“This isn’t good, is it?” Wesley asked.
“I believe that is correct.” Ami said sadly.
“Well, you better take him home and keep an eye on him.
Besides, I think Setsuna needs to take care of some personnel
business before we can do anything anyway.” Kevin said.
“You’re right. I better head home anyway; I have a seminar
to attend tomorrow. I’ll talk to you guys tomorrow.” Ami put
away her computer and stood up. “Come on Scott, we have to head
home.”
“Okay Mommy.” Scott said cheerfully and hoped off of
Makoto and ran over to Ami and wrapped his arms around her
leg. Ami smiled at the others and left Kevin’s place, with
Scott in tow.
* * * * *
Ami arrived at her mother’s apartment and met Kitomi in
the living room. Kitomi looked at Ami suspiciously as she saw
Scott clinging to Ami’s leg.
“Something I should know about, Ami dear?” Kitomi asked.
“Scott has regressed to be a total four year old.” Ami
replied after she sighed. “Scott, why don’t you go and get
ready for a bath?”
“Okay mommy.” Scott said and ran off to the bathroom.
Kitomi looked at her daughter in confusion.
“What was that about?” Kitomi asked.
“Whatever he did to wake a friend of ours out of a coma,
he fully became a four year old and now thinks I’m his mother.”
Ami replied.
“I see.” Kitomi replied smiling.
“Mother, this isn’t funny.” Ami said. Kitomi still smiled
and just then Scott came out naked.
“Mommy, can you help me with the bath?” Scott said sadly.
Ami looked at her mother pleadingly.
“You need to take care of your ‘son’ now daughter.” Kitomi
said smiling. Ami sighed since she wasn’t going to get any help
from her mother. Before they left the room, Scott had one more
question.
“Mommy?” Scott asked.
“Yes Scott?” Ami replied.
“Can I sleep with you tonight?” Scott looked at her
pleadingly. Ami could hear her mother laughing and dropped
her head in defeat.
“Sure Scott, you can, but let’s get your bath first.”
Ami said as she took Scott’s hand and lead him to the bathroom.
After Scott had his bath, he got in an over sized shirt and slept
in the same bed as Ami. Ami fell asleep, wondering if she was
going to lose Scott for a second time in her life.
CHAPTER SEVEN
Ami awoke the next morning by feeling something wet, before
a certain smell reached her nose. She sat up quickly and looked
over at Scott. She noticed that Scott was younger again, to the
point of being a toddler. So due to Scott being a toddler, Scott
had wet the bed. At that point, Scott woke up and started crying.
Ami quickly got Scott out of the soiled shirt and held him to try
and calm him. She realized that Scott was somewhat dirty and
needed to be cleaned, so she started towards the door. When she
opened the door, her mother was standing on the other side.
“Is everything okay, I thought I heard …” Kitomi started
saying when she noticed Ami was holding a baby in her arms and
gave Ami a questionable look.
“Scott grew younger again.” Ami replied.
“I can see that.”
“And he also peed in the bed.” Ami said and then heard her
mother chuckle. “That isn’t funny mother.”
“I know dear.” Kitomi said smiling. “Let me handle Scott
and you better handle your bed.”
“Okay.” Ami said and then handed over Scott to her mother
and then started heading over to her bed and started removing her
sheets.
“You can consider this ‘Mother Training’.” Kitomi said
before heading towards the bathroom. Ami sighed at what her
mother said and resumed working on her bed.
After Ami got the bed as clean as she could, she left it
to dry out and went to get dress. After she was dress, she met
her mother in the kitchen, feeding Scott applesauce. When Ami
made a comment about that, Kitomi said that it was the only
stuff they had that they could feed him. Kitomi also pointed
out that what Ami was going to do with Scott when she goes to
her seminar. Ami realized what her mother was talking about.
She thought of Usagi’s mother and decided to give her a call,
after she scanned Scott to determine his age. It was Chibi-Usa
that answered the phone.
“Moshi, moshi, Tsukino residence.” Chibi-Usa said.
“Hey Chibi-Usa, it’s me Ami.” Ami said.
“Hey Ami, how you doing?” Chibi-Usa replied.
“Good considering what’s going on.” Ami said.
“I know the feeling.” Chibi-Usa said. “Hey, Usagi grew
younger again.”
“Scott did too, if they run the same, Usagi is probably
a toddler right now.”
“I would say so; Usagi woke all of us up.”
“Is Mrs. Tsukino there?”
“No, she had to make a few errands. Me and Hotaru are
babysitting Usagi at the moment.”
“Oh, I see.”
“What did you want to talk to my grandmother about?”
“Well, I’ve got a seminar I have to attend to and with
Scott in his present condition, I was wondering if she would
watch Scott.” Ami said and then she could hear Chibi-Usa
talking to someone.
“Bring him over; Hotaru is glad to watch him for you.”
Chibi-Usa said after she was done talking to Hotaru.
“Thanks, Chibi-Usa.”
“You’re welcome Ami. We’ll see you shortly.”
Ami drove to the Tsukino residence and dropped Scott off
with Chibi-Usa and Hotaru. Ami thanked them again and left
them for her seminar. After they left the few items that Ami
brought for Scott, Chibi-Usa picked Usagi up and the four of
them went outside to play for a while. After a couple of hours
of playing, Scott and Usagi got into the dirt and became dirty.
Chibi-Usa and Hotaru decided that they better give them a bath
before Ikuko or Ami returned. So they took Scott and Usagi to
the bathroom and got them ready for a bath.
They were about to bathe them when they realized that Scott
and Usagi couldn’t bathe themselves and if they leaned over the
bath, they would get wet. They looked at each other and knew
what the other was thinking. So they got undress and entered
the tub with Scott and Usagi. As they were washing Scott and
Usagi, Hotaru noticed something about Chibi-Usa.
“Have you gotten bigger?” Hotaru asked Chibi-Usa.
“What do you mean?” Chibi-Usa asked confused and then
saw where Hotaru was looking. “Oh, ever since I had my period,
they’ve started growing. I’ve already jumped up a cup size and
grandma says that they may still be growing. I really hate it,
because all my shirts are starting to get tight in my chest area.”
Before Hotaru could comment on what Chibi-Usa said, a
soft blue glow surrounded both Scott and Usagi. To the girl’s
amazement, they started growing younger. When it appeared that
they stopped growing younger, the blue glow disappeared and
then Scott and Usagi started crying. When both of the girls
got over what they saw, they tried calming the crying babies.
Chibi-Usa rocked Usagi in her arms as Hotaru held Scott to
herself.
“Did you see what happened?” Chibi-Usa asked stunned.
“Yeah I did, they look like newborns now.” Hotaru
replied.
“We got to tell Ami what happened.”
“It may help her in …” Hotaru started saying when she
felt a strange sensation on her left breast. She looked
down and saw Scott suckling on her breast. “Gaah!” Chibi-
Usa sees what is going on and started chuckling. “This
isn’t funny.”
“I know, but your facial expression was hilarious.” Chibi-
Usa said still chuckling.
“But my breasts aren’t growing at an alarming rate. Are
you sure it’s not with milk?” Hotaru asked smiling as she pulled
Scott from her breast.
“Now that is not funny.”
“At least he’s calm now.”
“Same with Usagi here.”
“Let’s finish and put them to bed.”
“Okay.”
They finished bathing Scott and Usagi and then dried them
off and set them on the living room floor to sleep and then they
went and got some clothes on.
* * * * *
After Scott and Usagi were asleep, Chibi-Usa and Hotaru
sat down and talked about what happened in the tub. After a
while they realized they didn’t know anything of what’s going
on. Just then, there came a knocking at the front door. Chibi-
Usa quickly answered the door before the knocking woke the kids
up. She opened the door and found Kiersten and Miyuki standing
there.
“Hiya Cuz, how are you doing?” Kiersten asked.
“Shhh, they’re sleeping.” Chibi-Usa said quietly, trying
to make sure that Scott and Usagi didn’t wake up.
“Who are?” Kiersten asked confused, but quietly.
“Scott and Usagi.” Chibi-Usa replied.
“Scott’s here?” Miyuki asked surprised.
“Yeah. Come on inside.” Chibi-Usa said and stepped aside
to let Kiersten and Miyuki through. Once they walked into the
living room, they saw Hotaru sitting on the couch and two babies
sleeping on the floor.
“Hi Hotaru.” Kiersten said.
“Hello Kiersten.” Hotaru replied.
“Hiya little sister.” Miyuki said.
“Hi Miyuki.” Hotaru replied.
“Little sister?” Chibi-Usa asked confused when everyone
sat down.
“Yeah, when Scott accepted to be Hotaru’s foster father,
she gained a whole big family.” Miyuki replied.
“How big?” Chibi-Usa asked.
“I’m still figuring it out, but there is another sister
still around somewhere?” Miyuki replied.
“Oh yeah, we met her already.” Hotaru said when she
remembered Vree.
“So what is Scott doing here?” Kiersten asked.
“Ami dropped him off because of a seminar she had to go
to.” Hotaru replied.
“Oh that, I saw her there.” Miyuki said.
“You were at the same seminar?” Chibi-Usa asked surprised.
“Yeah, it had to deal with some Watcher stuff.” Miyuki
replied.
“If it’s done, she should be here shortly.” Chibi-Usa said.
“Not really. I’m just a researcher, she’s a field operative.
They have an extra seminar afterwards.” Miyuki replied. “And with
her having to deal with the extra curricular activity you guys have,
she has to talk to the heads of the Asian section.”
“About what?” Chibi-Usa asked.
“Don’t know.” Miyuki said. She then noticed that Hotaru had
a questionable look to her face. “What’s wrong sis?”
Hotaru jumped a little when she realized she was caught.
Hotaru proceeded to explain everything that happened in the bath
tub. Neither Kiersten nor Miyuki could answer about the blue
glow, but Miyuki looked at Kiersten pleadingly. Kiersten
remembered that Miyuki didn’t know much about relating to anything
female yet, because Scott had explained to her Miyuki’s past.
She Kiersten then explained as best as she could about what Scott
did to Hotaru and about maternity. When Kiersten was done talking,
both Chibi-Usa and Hotaru now understood what Scott did to Hotaru
was a natural reaction.
Then there was another knocking on the door and Chibi-Usa
went to go answer it. Thinking it was Ami coming to pick Scott
up, but was surprised when she Setsuna standing there with a
confused look to her face.
“Puu, what are you doing here?” Chibi-Usa asked surprised.
“I came to ask for help with a riddle Scott gave me.”
Setsuna replied.
“Come on in, Hotaru, Kiersten, and Miyuki are here, maybe
they can help.” Chibi-Usa said and stood off to the side to let
Setsuna in.
“Thank you, Small Lady.” Setsuna said and walked inside.
Setsuna entered the living room and Saw Miyuki, Hotaru, and
Kiersten sitting on the couch and Scott and Usagi, as Toddlers,
sleeping on the floor.
“What’s up Setsuna?” Kiersten asked.
“I’m trying to figure out a puzzle Scott gave me before he
was unable to talk.” Setsuna replied.
“What is it?” Kiersten asked.
“He wanted me to find Cologne for some sort of Mushrooms.”
Setsuna said and looked around the room and only saw blank looks
on everyone’s face except Miyuki’s. “Do you know something
Miyuki?”
“There is only one answer I know of, and that is for a
person that’s in the Nerima Ward. She works in a restaurant
called the Nekohatten and her name is Kho-Lon.” Miyuki replied.
“She’s named Cologne?” Chibi-Usa and Hotaru asked amazed.
“She’s the Elder of a Chinese Amazon tribe, and the whole
tribe has names like that.” Miyuki said.
“Nerima ward in a restaurant called the Nekohatten?”
Setsuna asked.
“Yes.” Miyuki said.
“Thank you.” Setsuna said.
Setsuna turned and left the house. She closed the door
a little too loudly and woke both Scott and Usagi up. They
started crying and Chibi-Usa and Hotaru quickly picked them up
and tried to calm them down. Kiersten and Miyuki helped them
out and when they were calm, Kiersten grabbed her camera and
commented about taking some pictures of them so they could
remember this time of their lives. Everyone agreed, so Kiersten
started taking pictures.
* * * * *
“What do you have to report?” Luthantis asked his general.
“All troops are ready and waiting for your command.” The
general replied.
“Excellent. Did the plan work for energy draining?”
“Yes sir, the Senshi didn’t know we had drained energy
from other places on the world.”
“Good. Inform me when final preparations are done; we will
attack within an hour after that. We will launch a full strike
all over the world, but we will attack first in Tokyo.”
“Yes sir.”
The general saluted and left the room. Luthantis chuckled
at what is about to happen and was pleased at their latest victory.
* * * * *
After Miyuki and Kiersten left, Chibi-Usa and Hotaru put
Scott and Usagi back to sleep. Chibi-Usa and Hotaru talked for
a bit, but both of them were feeling tired after watching Scott
and Usagi for a while. Hotaru looked over at Chibi-Usa and
noticed that she had fallen asleep. She smiled and leaned back
to get a little sleep herself. As she was about to fall asleep
when one of the babies started crying.
She quickly sat up and listened to the crying and realized
that it was Scott that was crying. So she quickly got up and
went to Scott before he woke Usagi or Chibi-Usa up. She picked
him up and tried to quiet him down. She went to a different
room in order not to wake the others up. She found that Scott
wasn’t quieting down and she was wondering what to do, when she
remembered what happened in the bathtub.
She blushed hotly at what she was about to do. She set
Scott in one arm and lifted a section of her shirt over her bra
and then lifted the bra cup off her breast and then placed Scott
so he could begin sucking her breast. In a manner of moments,
Scott calmed down and began nursing on her breast. Hotaru had
to bite her lower lip to fight the sensations that were going
through her body. She leaned back into the chair and closed
her eyes as the sensations went through her body.
“Now this is a sight I wouldn’t have believed to be
possible.” Came a voice near Hotaru.
Hotaru snapped her eyes opened and saw Setsuna standing
in front of her. She blushed in embarrassment and looked down
in order for Setsuna couldn’t see her blush.
“Having feelings of wanting to be a mother or are you
just having enjoyment with the feelings?” Setsuna asked.
“I couldn’t calm him down and I knew this calmed him,
but I didn’t know how good the feelings would get.” Hotaru
said as she started crying.
“Hush now, I didn’t mean to upset you. I was trying
to joke around.” Setsuna said after she realized she may
have gone too far.
“I’m sorry Setsuna-mama, it’s just …”
“I understand what’s going on. Don’t worry, I won’t
tell anyone else that isn’t in this room.”
“Thank you. What are you doing back?”
“I got done talking to the person that Miyuki told me
about. She said that she would have to check out Scott and
Usagi before she can see if she can help.”
“That’s good to hear.”
“Where are Usagi and Small Lady?”
“In the other room sleeping.”
“Are you going to let Scott keep nursing or what?”
“Ack!”
“Here, let me hold him while you straighten yourself out.”
Setsuna took Scott from Hotaru and let Hotaru, blushing
hotly, straighten out her clothes. Once Hotaru was ready,
Setsuna told her they better wake Chibi-Usa up, so Hotaru went
and woke Chibi-Usa up. Chibi-Usa was surprised to see Setsuna
there and Setsuna told her she was there because she needed to
take Scott and Usagi to see the person Scott mentioned. So
Setsuna also picked Usagi up and was heading out the door
when Chibi-Usa, Hotaru, and Setsuna’s communicators went off.
Chibi-Usa pressed the button and Minerva’s face showed up.
“What’s wrong?” Chibi-Usa asked.
“Those beings are attacking again and this time they are
attacking in full force. We need your help.” Minerva replied.
“Okay, me and Hotaru will be there as soon as we can.”
Chibi-Usa said.
“Uh, what about Scott and Usagi?” Minerva asked.
“Setsuna’s here and she’s taking them to see Scott’s
friend.” Chibi-Usa said.
“Okay, see you two shortly.” Minerva said and then
signed off.
“You two better leave a note for Mrs. Tsukino and hurry
to help the others. I’ll join you as soon as I can.” Setsuna
replied.
“Okay.” Both Chibi-Usa and Hotaru said.
After Chibi-Usa left a note for Ikuko, they left the
house and transformed, then joined the others while Setsuna
took Scott and Usagi to the Nekohatten.
* * * * *
“Hmm, this is something I’ve never seen before.” Cologne
said.
“Can you cure them?” Setsuna asked.
“Truthfully, I don’t know, from what you told me of these
beings that did this, I don’t know if those mushrooms will work.”
“We can only hope.”
“Yes, we can only hope. Let me get the mushrooms ready.
What did you say the girl’s age was again?”
“18.”
“Mousse! Get an 18 cm and a 22 cm mushroom.” Cologne
shouted out.
“Okay.” Came a male voice from the back room.
“What does the size have to do with anything?” Setsuna
asked confused.
“That is the magic of the mushrooms, the size of the
mushroom in centimeters will determine the age of the person.”
Cologne replied.
“How?”
“You ask too many questions; watch the kids while I
prepare the mushrooms.”
Setsuna knew she couldn’t say anything else and just sat
next to the kids and watched them as Cologne did her thing.
She smiled as Usagi grabbed her finger; she wiggled her finger
and watched as Usagi squealed in delight. Twenty minutes later
Cologne came back carrying two bowls. She set the bowls down
and Setsuna saw that inside the bowls was a mashed looking
product. Cologne informed her that the babies had to eat
the entire mashed mushrooms, but since they were toddlers, she
had to mash the mushrooms. So Setsuna feed Usagi while Cologne
fed Scott.
“Now all we can do is wait.” Cologne replied after they
finished feeding the two and set them in a bedroom. Setsuna
then became worried on how the fight was going.
* * * * *
At the fight, the Senshi were having trouble because of
the overwhelming odds. The beings had sent their entire army
out across the world. The beings surprised them and used an
item to trap Gryphon Knight in a ‘Time Trap’. Due to that,
the Senshi and Knights had to fall back to avoid getting
captured. When the Senshi fell back, the beings started
destroying Tokyo, and around the world, started taking
prisoners.
CHAPTER EIGHT
The fighting continued in Tokyo as the beings continued
their attacks and taking slaves. It was spread through the
news that the beings were spreading their attacks to other major
cities throughout the world and were taking slaves back with
them. Back in Tokyo, due to the overwhelming number of enemies,
the Senshi were forced to withdraw to a safer location. They
were forced to do guerilla warfare strikes to stop some beings
group from taking a bunch of slaves. It was all they could
do until the tide turned into their favor.
In the Nekohatten, Setsuna was receiving the latest news
on what was happening. She wanted to go and help her brother,
but she needed to be there for Scott and Usagi. After the
latest report, she began to get impatient. She started pacing
back and forth, mumbling about what is going on.
“Being impatient won’t make anything go faster.” Cologne
said to Setsuna.
“With what’s going on, what is there not to be impatient
about?” Setsuna said frustrated.
“You are worried about your brother.” Cologne said calmly.
“How’d you …” Setsuna said surprised.
“I may be old, but my hearing is still as sharp as ever.”
Cologne replied.
“Oh.” Setsuna said.
“You are also wondering if the mushrooms worked.”
“Yes.”
“I told you there was a chance that they may not have
worked.”
“I know, but I hate the waiting, not knowing if it worked
or not.”
“You don’t have to wait any longer.” Came a male voice
behind them.
Both Cologne and Setsuna faced the direction the voice came
from and saw Scott and Usagi standing in a doorway, with bedroom
sheets wrapped around them. Setsuna noticed a small blush on
Usagi’s cheeks; she figured it was due to them waking up in bed
together. Once Setsuna got over her shock of seeing Scott and
Usagi normal once again, informed both of them what was going on.
Usagi then said that they better join the others quickly and stood
up and was about to leave when Scott grabbed her arm.
“What?” Usagi asked confused.
“There is one thing that the both of us need to do first
before we leave.” Scott said to Usagi.
“What’s that?” Usagi asked confused and saw Scott face
Cologne.
“Is there any clothes we can borrow until we get some of
our own?” Scott asked Cologne. Usagi blushed hotly when she
realized what Scott was referring too.
“Yes, come with me, both of you.” Cologne chuckled and
leads both of them upstairs.
* * * * *
The rest of the Senshi and the Knights were at Kevin’s
penthouse to regroup and take a breather. Without Scott, Usagi,
Setsuna, and Wesley, they were having a difficult time fighting
the beings. They were sitting in the living room wondering what
the next step they were going to do is.
“What are we going to do?” Makoto asked. “These beings
are outnumbering us twenty to one, and now they have spread
world wide.” No one could answer her question.
“I wish Scott and Usagi were here, they would know what
to do.” Hotaru said a little too loud and everyone heard her
and caused a moment of silence where everyone wished the same
thing.
“If my figures are correct, if those mushrooms don’t work,
then they are gone forever.” Ami said sadly. Everyone was
feeling dread and sadness at the thought.
“Then thank goodness that the mushrooms worked.” Came a
male voice from a doorway.
Everyone whipped around at the voice and found Wolf Knight
and Sailor Moon leaning against the doorframe, smiling at the
group, behind them was Sailor Pluto. After everyone got over
the shock, they all ran over and hugged Scott and Usagi. It
took Scott and Usagi several minutes of the rejoicing, before
they had the others clamed down enough before they were able
to do anything. After everyone sat back down, Scott had asked
them what was the latest news, before anyone answered, Kevin
had one question.
“Why can’t I sense you?” Kevin asked and then Makoto
looked surprised when she realized she couldn’t sense Scott
either.
“It may be a side effect of the ray those beings hit me
with and the mushrooms.” Scott had said. “I had my suspicions
when I had scraped my arm at the Nekohatten and then became more
solid when we came here and I couldn’t sense you two.”
“Oh, so you are mortal right now?” Makoto asked.
“Or as close to it as I can become.” Scott replied.
“Now, as I was saying, what is going on?”
“It seems that these beings are attacking world wide.
They are taking slaves wherever they can. We were able to stop
some of them, but they are outnumbering us, especially when both
you and Usagi were out, Setsuna watching over the two of you,
and Wesley trapped in some sort of time trap.” Ami replied.
“A time trap?” Scott asked Ami and saw her nod, he then
faced Setsuna. “Kiana, can you figure out how to get Wesley
out of the trap?”
“I can try.” Setsuna replied.
Setsuna got up and walked over to the room where Wesley
was laying in. As Setsuna approached him, she could sense the
trap that was surrounding him. She placed her hand over his
body and sensed what the aura of the trap was. She closed her
eyes and targeted her powers into breaking the trap. After
several minutes of trying, she was about to give up, when she
sensed a crack in the trap, so she centered her powers there
and tried with all her might. Just as she felt herself about
to pass out from the strain of trying, the trap collapsed and
Wesley was freed. She collapsed from the strain, but before
she landed on the floor, someone had caught her. She looked
up and saw that Scott had caught her. He smiled down at her
and picked her up and carried her to the couch and laid her
down on it. As she was being carried out, she had noticed
that the others had entered the room.
As Setsuna was resting, Wesley had come to and was confused
at where he was. It was when he saw Kiersten and she told him
what had happened that he understood what was going on. He was
glad that his sister had helped him and was glad to see Usagi
and Scott again. Kiersten had informed him what had happened
since he was caught in the trap. When that was done, everyone
met in the living room to find out what they were going to do.
“So what do we know of these beings?” Scott asked.
“Not much, except that there is a lot of them, and their
attacks seem time based.” Ami replied.
“Setsuna, do you know anything about these beings?”
Scott asked.
“I only know of rumors.” Setsuna said.
“Rumors are better then nothing.” Kevin said.
“The rumors are these beings call themselves Time Conquerors.
They travel to other dimensions through the time stream and conquer
the planet’s greatest heroes, and then conquer the world and take
slaves. It’s been rumored that they never have lost.” Setsuna said.
“Well, that sounds just like these beings.” Minako said.
“But that still brings us to the original question, what are
we going to do about these Time Conqueror’s?” Scott said.
Everyone looked around, not really knowing what to do. They
started tossing around ideas on what to do, but there was always
one person that came up with a bad part of that idea. They were
at it for several hours debating what to do, when they heard on
the news the latest reports on what the Time Conqueror’s were
doing. After several more ideas were tossed around, they all
settled on one of them. The Senshi were going to drive the Time
Conqueror’s off the world, while the Knights try and get to the
Time Conqueror’s headquarters and try and make them from entering
other worlds, while also trying to free the prisoners that were there.
Once they knew what they wanted to do, they planned on how
they were going to do it. They agreed that the Senshi would start
at one area and try and drive the Time Conqueror’s out of the city,
and then teleport to another city and drive the beings out of it.
The Knights would some how sneak to one of the portal sites and go
through it and free the prisoners and prevent the beings from ever
attacking another world again. So they agreed and everyone that
wasn’t transformed, transformed and they were ready to go.
* * * * *
The plan that they had come up with was working. The Senshi
had started attacking groups of the Time Conqueror’s while the
Knights made their way to a nearby portal. As the Senshi started
attacking, the Knights used the diversion to make their way through
the portal. Once through the portal, they had to quickly hide before
they were caught. Once they were hidden, they looked around and
realized that they were in a huge ship like structure. Once they
got their bearings, they found where the prisoners were being kept
and made their way there.
Once they made their way to the prisoner section, they
had to take out several guards before they were able to start
freeing the prisoners. After they got the prisoners calmed
down, they told them what they were planning on doing. Once
they were ready to leave, a little girl came up to Wolf Knight
and pulled on his pants leg and he looked down.
“What can I do for you?” Wolf Knight asked the girl in
Russian.
“Those people had led a lady down that passageway.” The
little Russian girl replied as she pointed down a passageway.
“Thank you little one.” Wolf thanked the little and headed
down the passageway with Lion and Tiger Knight following him.
“How did you know that that girl spoke Russian?” Tiger
asked Wolf.
“You be around as long as I have, you pick up certain
things like that.” Wolf replied.
“Oh.” Tiger replied realizing that Wolf would go
philosophical on him if he kept going.
“So what are we looking for?” Lion asked.
“A room where another prisoner may be at.” Wolf said.
“This must be the room.” Lion said.
“How can you tell?” Tiger asked.
“It’s been the only room down this passageway with a red
light near it.” Lion said pointing out the light.
“It’s an electronic lock; it will take a while to open
it.” Tiger replied.
“Not necessarily.” Wolf replied.
“What are you going to do to open it?” Tiger asked.
“This.” Wolf said as he walked up to the lock and smacked
his hands together and started rubbing them in a circle. After
a few circles, he then took his right hand and placed it at the
top of the lock. He then slowly lowered his hand until he
reached the bottom of the lock. Within a few seconds, the red
light turned green and Wolf opened the door.
“How did you …” Tiger and Lion exclaimed in surprise.
Wolf just smiled at them and didn’t answer as he entered the
room.
“You have got to teach me that.” Tiger said as he and
Lion followed Wolf into the room.
Once all three of them entered the room, they looked around
the room and only found a nude female lying unconscious on a table.
Lion looked around for a blanket and Tiger looked away blushing and
Wolf went to see if the female was all right. Lion had found a
blanket and placed it over the female. Wolf had then went and
tried to wake the female up. When she came too, she looked around
in fear as she screamed to get away from them. Wolf then tried to
calm the female down and when she stopped screaming, she realized
that she wasn’t surrounded by her captors, but by fellow humans.
She then latched onto Wolf and started crying. After she stopped
crying, Wolf helped her stand up, but she wouldn’t let him go.
“There, there, everything’s fine.” Wolf said to calm the
female down.
“What happened, I heard a female scream.” Dragon asked
running into the room.
“Nothing much, just that we found another prisoner.” Lion
replied.
“What’s up with her?” Dragon asked.
“I don’t know, but what I’ve seen of her, these beings
weren’t very nice with her. From the marks on her, I know they
beat her very badly, and who knows what else they did to her.”
Tiger replied.
“So what are we going to do with her?” Dragon asked.
“Take her with us.” Wolf said coming over to the group
with the female with him.
“Why?” Dragon asked.
“Her name is Nene, and she is the last of the bunch of slaves
from the last world these Time Conqueror’s conquered.” Wolf replied.
“You mean …” Lion started saying.
“She is the last of her world. These beings ravaged her
world and are now doing it to ours. We got to stop them.” Wolf
said.
“And stop them we will.” Dragon said. “You, Tiger, and
Lion make sure these people make it back to our world. Gryphon
and I are going to make sure these guys will no longer attack
another world, permanently.”
“Alright.” Wolf said.
“And Wolf, remember, you don’t have your Immortality any
more.” Dragon said.
“I know.” Wolf replied. With that, Dragon ran out of the
room and Nene looked up at Wolf.
“Immortality?” Nene asked confused.
“Tell you about it later.” Wolf replied and then led her
out of the room.
So after getting Nene some clothes and getting her a gun,
Wolf, Lion, and Tiger were ready to escort the prisoners to a
portal and back to their world. They made their way to a portal,
but they had to wait because there were too many beings around
to safely make it to the portal. While they were waiting, they
realized that they were spotted, so they had to protect the
prisoners. During them protecting the prisoners, they had
noticed that Nene seemed to take attacking the Time Conqueror’s
very personally.
While the attacking by the portal was going on, Dragon and
Gryphon had made their way to the command center. After taking
out the guards in the room, both of them had come face to face
with the person they figured was the being in charge. After
they started talking to the person, they found out that the
being was the person in charge and that his name was Luthantis.
Dragon and Gryphon tried talking to Luthantis, to try and reason
with him about stopping the attack on Earth. But after a while,
they were realizing that the reasoning was not working.
Back on Earth, the Senshi were successful on causing the
Time Conqueror’s to withdraw from all the cities they were
attacking. Now the Senshi was back in Tokyo, waiting for the
Knights to finish their mission. As time past, they were becoming
more worried on what was taking the Knights so long to get back.
They just stood by and waited, dreading what was going on on the
other side of the portal.
Back in the room where Dragon and Gryphon were talking
with Luthantis, they realized that talking will not work and
decided to shift into their armor. Right when Dragon was going
to attack, Luthantis had erected a force field around him and
they realized that their attacks were not working. Luthantis
started laughing at them in their attempts at attacking them.
Gryphon started getting angry and decided to do one last attack.
“Moment Clever!” Gryphon called out and then attacked
Luthantis.
Luthantis suddenly was surprised as Gryphon’s attack went
right through his force field like a hot knife through butter.
The last thing that Luthantis realized was that the attack
didn’t just go through his force field, but it went through
him also. Once Luthantis fell to the floor dead, the both of
them headed to rejoin with the others. When they joined the
others, they saw that the others had a little trouble being
that they could get any of the prisoners through the portal
when all the beings were coming back in through the portal.
When Dragon joined up with Wolf, Tiger, and Lion, Wolf
explained what their situation was. Dragon look at their
situation and looked over at the portal and noticed something
about it, it was getting smaller. Dragon pointed that out to
Wolf and he nodded in understanding. Both of them realized
that the only way to get to the portal was to bulldoze straight
through the fleeing beings. So they told the other Knights and
they agreed with them. So the ones that hadn’t shifted to their
armor, did, and then they started to bulldoze through the fleeing
beings and started sending the prisoners back through the portal.
Gryphon had gone through the portal and found the Senshi
nearby. He quickly filled the Senshi in on what was going on
and he and Sailor Pluto went over and used their powers to keep
the portal open so that the portal stayed open until the last
prisoner came through. A group of the JSDF was nearby and helped
herd the prisoners to a safe nearby area. Once the last of the
prisoners that were still alive, were ushered to a safe area and
the other Knights came through, Gryphon and Pluto released their
powers and the portal collapsed. Once they knew the prisoners
were safe, the Senshi, Knights, and Nene quickly made their escape
before the JSDF could confront them.
Once they were far enough away from everyone, Wolf
introduced everyone else to Nene and told them of what happened
to her world. Sailor Moon told Nene that they would be glad to
help her out in whatever they could do. Once everyone was
introduced to Nene, they all detransformed. Everyone then started
snickering at what Scott and Usagi were wearing. Scott was
wearing Chinese robe like garment, while Usagi was wearing a
pink Chinese mini-dress.
Scott chuckled back at them when he sudden got a sharp
pain in his head. The others suddenly became worried at what
was happening that they came over to see what was wrong with
him. It was then that Scott suddenly got a familiar feeling
wash over him that he looked over at Kevin and Makoto and saw
that they were also wide-eyed staring at him. Scott suddenly
realized what was happening to him, so he shoved the people
that were near him and told them to stay away. The ones that
Scott shoved were about to go back to him, when Kevin and
Makoto yelled at them to stay away. Everyone was surprised
at their yelling that they stopped.
Scott had used that moment to get far enough away from
the group. When everyone looked over at Scott, they then
noticed a white mist forming around Scott. Then the mist
absorbed itself into Scott and that was when the lightning
started. The only one that now didn’t know what was going
on was Nene, for the others realized that Scott was receiving
a Quickening. After the Quickening ended, everyone rushed
over to Scott after he collapsed.
“What just happened?” Nene asked confused.
“Yeah, what happened? That was a Quickening but Scott
hadn’t taken a head.” Hotaru said confused. Nene suddenly
was staring at everyone in shocked horror at what she just
heard.
“If I piece it together, I think Scott has gained his
Immortality back.” Kevin replied.
“What’s going on?” Nene asked nervously.
“We do owe you an explanation if you are going to stay
with us.” Scott said tiredly. Nene looked over and saw that
Scott was being held up by several people. “But at the moment,
I am to out of it to explain, so I’m going to let Kevin and the
others explain Immortality to you while we head back to Kevin’s
place.”
So everyone started filling in the history of the Senshi
and Immortality to Nene as they made their way to Kevin’s
penthouse.
EPILOGE
It’s been one week after the fight with the Time Conqueror’s
was over, and Scott had arranged a dinner for everyone at the
Nekohatten. Everyone was glad that the latest battle was over,
that they realized that they almost didn’t win it. The two that
were the happiest were Scott and Usagi. They had realized how
close they came from ‘Ceasing to exist’. Both of them, especially,
were glad that the mushrooms that Cologne had worked.
During that week, several things had gone on. One of them
being Sasami returning from her Rites of Passage. She was very
happy that she was back with Scott and the others, she didn’t mind
being back on Jurai, but she had made friends on Earth. With her
Rites of being officially being considered an adult to Jurai eyes,
she had asked to return back to Earth. After she had returned, she
had found out what had happened recently. She was upset that she
couldn’t have helped out and she was surprised at what had happened
to Scott and Usagi. Scott told her it was no problem for her to
be concerned with and told her it was in the past now. She didn’t
like how Scott was dealing with it, but she knew he was right, it
was in the past. She then was asked if she wanted to join the
others at the dinner party, she was reluctant, but when Chibi-Usa
and Hotaru asked her, she agreed.
Another matter was the return of Usagi’s father and
brother. They were supposed to have returned on time, but due
to the Attack of the Time Conqueror’s, their return was delayed.
Before they returned, Usagi and Chibi-Usa had a talk with Ikuko
on what they were going to do about what Ikuko found out recently.
After a long talk into the evening, Ikuko agreed not to tell her
husband or son about what she had learned until it was deem
necessary to do so. Usagi and Chibi-Usa agreed with the terms
that they had made. During times where Chibi-Usa was alone with
Ikuko, she could call her grandmother. They all had a good time
before they went to bed that night.
After the battle was over, Kiersten had pulled Scott off
to the side and told him what he had done with Hotaru when he
was a toddler. Kiersten chuckled at his expression and walked
off. So Scott had decided to set up the dinner at the Nekohatten
to thank Cologne for her help. Everyone was gathered at the
Nekohatten except Kevin and Makoto. They had volunteered to
drop Nene off with Washu. When they did arrive, Scott asked
them if anything was wrong, since they were late.
“No, traffic was a little hectic getting back to Tokyo.”
Kevin replied.
“How is Nene handling it?” Scott asked.
“She seems to handling what happened to her okay.” Kevin
said.
“How did she like living at the Misaki shrine?” Sasami
asked.
“Oh, she and Washu hit it right off, they are good friends
now.” Makoto replied.
“It’s the least we could do for her.” Scott said.
At that point, Cologne and Shampoo brought out the dinner.
“Thank you for your help.” Usagi said to Cologne.
“Don’t worry about it child, I did owe Scott a favor,
correct.” Cologne said and then faced Scott.
“Yes.” Scott said.
“So the debt is paid?” Cologne asked.
“Yes.” Scott replied.
“What debt?” Everyone wanted to know.
“A debt to her family, and I’ll leave it at that.” Scott
said and everyone knew they wouldn’t get anything more of it
from him.
After they were done eating, Scott and Usagi had gotten
a gift for Chibi-Usa and Hotaru. Scott handed Hotaru a box and
Usagi handed Chibi-Usa a similar box. Both of them opened the
boxes to reveal Chinese silk dresses. Hotaru’s dress was purple
and had black embroidered fireflies on it. Chibi-Usa’s dress
was pink with white embroidered bunnies. Hotaru and Chibi-Usa
wondered why they got the dresses, and Scott and Usagi told
them they were because they were thanking them for babysitting
them, especially when they were bathing them. Hotaru saw the
look Scott was giving her and she realized what Scott was
referring too. She started blushing hotly and Scott smiled at
her.
Kiersten then handed Scott and Usagi a photo album each.
They looked inside them and saw it was filled with pictures of
when they were toddlers. The pictures were of different poses
of Scott and Usagi, with Hotaru, Chibi-Usa, Kiersten, and Miyuki
in some of them. Scott and Usagi thanked them for the albums
and they let the others see the pictures.
When everything was done, they thanked Cologne and Shampoo
for the lovely meal and they started for home. As the last of
them left the Nekohatten, none of them noticed a person step out
of the shadows and smiled as the last car left.
“Soon everything will be set.” The person said and then
turned and left.