Sailor Moon Fan Fiction / Digimon Fan Fiction / Crossover Fan Fiction ❯ Sailor Moon Online: Gaiden ❯ Story 13: Without Sailor Moon ( Chapter 13 )

Welcome back, everyone! In this latest story, we are going to explore what happened to the Sailor Scouts and Earth Prince while our Moon Princess was stuck in SAO. You know that they haven’t been just ‘twiddling their thumbs’ during this time, but you have only seen glimpses of what happened to them during SAO. Well, folks, it is time for you to get deeper into the story and you might be surprised what you read. Now, before I begin this next one-shot, I must give thanks and credit to Belletiger and Kanius as well as Kanius’ YuYuGiDigiMoon fanfiction series, especially his The Invasion of the Rajita story, for giving me permission to use the idea of Valkyrie Sailor Soldiers and everything that’s a part of them in my fanfiction. I would like to give thanks and credit to Kanius and his YuYuGiDigiMoon series, including this author’s Dawn of Chaos story, and LazerWulf for giving me permission to use the idea for their version of Sailor Charon, namely the fact that she is Sailor Pluto’s sister among other things. I would also like to give thanks and credit to Matty G91 and this author’s story of Kamen Rider Lunar for giving me permission to use Kamen Rider Lunar, his looks, and everything about him as well as the UNI-SHOCKER organization.

 

Now, with that out of the way, as they say on SAO: Link Start!

 

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Warning: These stories may and will contain mature level intense violence, blood, gore, death, mild to explicit suggestive themes, including mind-control and brainwashing, mild to explicit bad language, and mature adult themes/situations!

 

Second Warning: Some to a lot of OOC (Out of Character) actions and mannerisms in these series of stories!

 

Prelude: A castle of stone and metal floating in the sky that consist of one hundred floors. Within this massive structure, there are countless cities, villages, towns, forests, plains, lakes, and whatever you can imagine. There is only one staircase that connects one floor with another and these staircases are located within dangerous mazes filled with monsters. The players with navigate through these floors to the top with nothing than the weapons in their hands. And yes, I said players.

 

This is the world of Aincrad, a floating castle in a virtual sky, and yes, I said VIRTUAL sky. This world and this floating castle world are in a realm made of digital information…the world of Sword Art Online. A world that was supposed to be game, but because a nightmare prison when its creator, Akihiko Kayaba, trapped the ten thousand players within this virtual world and if they die here, they will die in real life. The ten thousand players struggle in this ‘game death’ to reach the top of the floating castle where the final boss and the key to their freedom waits.

 

You may know this story and the stories that come after it, but do you know all of the stories? All of the tales that happened within the floating castle? What about the tales that happened after the floating castle was conquered? There are stories connected to the ‘tale’ of this floating castle, its ‘history’, and its ‘aftermath’, but they weren’t told…until now. These are those stories…

 

Sailor Moon Online: Gaiden

 

Story 13: Without Sailor Moon

 

Note: This story takes place during and in-between Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 of Sailor Moon Online.

 

November 7, 2022, Tokyo, Juuban District

 

Rushing through the streets of Juuban and Tokyo is Darien Shields, wearing a motorcycle outfit and riding a motorcycle in which he is racing through the streets as fast as he can with a look of pure panic in his eyes. After Sailor Moon freed Sailor Galaxia from the wicked entity of Chaos and dispelled all over the universe to seal it away, Darien spent time with the others before deciding to go to America for a year, but only for a year or so. He had recently come back and gotten within the best college in Tokyo in which he left on a ‘field course’ to study all of Japan’s hospitals and ‘medicine practitioners’ as part of his studies at his college. But now, he is racing back into the city after learning about what’s being described as the ‘SAO incident’ and he remembers talking with his lover, his princess, Serena, about Sword Art Online since her uncle, Akihiko Kayaba, was the creator of the game and the NervGear. While not as much a gamer as his beloved, Darien had respected Kayaba since he knew that he had created a revolution not just in gaming, but a new frontier for humans to explore: The virtual and digital frontier.

 

But right now, he has just heard that same name has trapped around ten thousand people in that game and programmed their NervGear to destroy their brains if they died in that game or anyone attempted to remove the NervGear itself in which he had just heard that 213 people had already died on the first day alone when their family and friends attempted to do so. Knowing that Ikuko Tsukino is the sister of Akihiko Kayaba and her children are his niece and nephew, in which Sammy was a beta tester for the game, Darien knew that it was easy for Serena to get a hard copy of Sword Art Online and she had told her himself. As he races through the streets, he hopes and prays that for some reason… any reason, she didn’t put on the NervGear and is trapped in that ‘death game’.

 

Darien thinks in his mind, “Please… Please Meatball Head… Please be okay!” Soon enough, Darien arrives at the hospital in which if Serena is one of the victims, which Darien hopes against hope, she would be taken here due to the conditions set up by Akihiko Kayaba to allow the transfer of his ‘victims’. After finding a place to park, he rushes into the hospital proper and finds a doctor that he is a good friend with. Darien screams out, “Doctor Namishima!”

 

The doctor looks at Darien and he asks, surprised, “Darien?”

 

Darien runs over and he says, his voice full of panic, “Doctor Namishima, are the SAO victims being brought to this hospital?”

 

The doctor responds, a bit nervously, “Yes?”

 

Darien asks, hoping that the answer to this question is ‘no’, “Was a girl that goes by the name of Serena Tsukino admitted?”

 

The doctor asks, “Why do you ask Darien?”

 

Darien yells out, “She is my girlfriend!”

 

The doctor’s eyes widen, his expression becomes solemn, causing Darien’s eyes to widen, and the doctor says, solemnly, “I don’t know how to say this Darien… But yes, your girlfriend is one of the ten thousand victims of this horrible incident.” It was like a bullet was shot straight through his heart as his worst fears were confirmed and the doctor tells Darien, “She was just admitted. Actually, she is one of the first ones admitted when we learned how to transfer them without triggering the sequence that causes the NervGear to destroy the brain. She is a special hospital room under guard.”

 

Darien asks, “Under guard?”

 

The doctor responds, “She is the niece of Akihiko Kayaba, the man behind this madness. And right now, more and more people are dying every day and it is for her own protection in which the government is doing its best to make sure that the relation between Kayaba and the Tsukino family aren’t found out.” Darien realizes that it is for good reason in which they might take out their rage against Kayaba against his helpless beloved despite her being a victim of her own uncle’s madness.

 

Darien tells the doctor, pleadingly, “Namishima-sensei, please! I need to see her!”

 

The doctor responds, with a solemn nod, “Follow me, Darien. Her family and friends are already there and when they confirm you are her boyfriend, I’m sure that they will let you in.” Darien nods as he follows the doctor to a wing of the emergency treatment area of the hospital where there is a room with two military/police guards in which Darien is admitted into the room where he finds, much to his horror and disbelief, Serena’s motionless form on the hospital bed, the NervGear attached to her head, and her body connected to various sensors with needles connected to bags to put water and nutrients that her body needs to survive and stay functions. Surrounding her are the Sailor Scouts, all of them having looks of horror and disbelief on their expressions, and her family with her mother crying by her bedside, Sammy, a look of horror on his face with tears streaming down his cheeks, and Kenji, with a look of pure rage in his eyes.

 

Raye notices him and she says, weakly, “Darien…” However, Darien could only look in disbelief as he sees the love of his two lifetimes lying in that bed, motionless, and he stands there before he stumbles forward in which Amara stops him.

 

Amara tells Darien, “Easy, Darien. We don’t know if anything could set off that thing on her head.” Darien nods his head weakly and he is sat by Serena’s left side on the bed.

 

He holds her motionless left hand and he says, tears in his eyes, “Serena… Sere…”

 

Ami says, weakly, “She can’t hear you, Darien. She can’t hear anything of us. Her mind is trapped in SAO.”

 

As Darien starts to shed tears, Sammy says, in disbelief, “Why? Why is Uncle Kayaba doing this?! I don’t understand!”

 

Kenji says, in a calm tone, but his rage evident in his voice, “I don’t know, son. I just… I just don’t know! And right now, I don’t care why!” Kenji bangs the wall with his right fist and he yells out, angrily, “We believed in him! He betrayed us! All of us! He betrayed our princess most of all! We thought that he was creating a brand new world… A new frontier! I didn’t care much for the games, but even I knew that the creation of the Full-Dive could bring humanity into a new age! And now, he has turned it into a nightmare! He has betrayed our trust and he has betrayed my girl’s trust! He believed in him most of all! And now, he has taken her away from us! When I find him, he is going to wish that he was never born into this world!”

 

Ikuko says, weakly, “Kenji, please don’t… this… this isn’t helping our girl… our princess…” On the meanwhile, Darien is thinking about all of his memories with Serena, in their past life as Princess Serenity and Prince Endymon, and today, from their first meeting and all of their adventures after Serena became Sailor Moon. After Galaxia, he thought that he and his lover could finally enjoy a time of peace before they had to become Neo-Queen Serenity and King Endymon of Crystal Tokyo, but he always knew that future could always be destroyed at a moment’s notice since Trista always said that ‘the future is like molding clay and can shift forms at any time’. Now, the love of his life is trapped in a virtual world and could die at any time at the hands of her own uncle, a member of her own family that she beloved which was evident in the way that she talked about Kayaba in her own worlds. The knowledge of this turned Darien’s sorrow into anger and rage and he quickly gets up from his seat and starts to stomp off.

 

Lita says, stopping him, “Darien, where are you going?”

 

Darien responds, pure rage in his voice, “Where do you think, Lita?! I’m going to Argus right now!”

 

There are gasps and Michelle says, “There are police and government agents already there! You won’t be able to get in!”

 

Darien yells out, enraged, “I don’t care Michelle! I’ll find a way in and I’ll make them tell me where Kayaba is! And when I find him, I will force him to release Serena-chan and the others from this nightmare immediately even if I have to beat him to an inch of his life!”

 

Raye stomps over to him, slaps him in the face, and she yells at him, “Idiot! Don’t you think that any of us don’t want to do the same?! But that’s not going to help Meatball Head right now! How do you think that she will feel if she knows that we let ourselves get consumed by anger and rage over her and do the unthinkable?! Do you?!” With tears in her eyes, Raye glares at him and Darien’s eyes widen in which Raye struck the point home as Darien turns to look at the motionless body of his lover.

 

Kenji says, with a serious tone and the look of rage in his expression still evidence, “And even if you do find him, I doubt that there is anything that you can do. The bastard is a genius and knowing Kayaba, he has trapped himself in the game to make sure that no one can make him tell how to stop this ‘death game’ of his, but then again, he could have made it that he couldn’t stop it even if he tried.”

 

Trista says, solemnly, “Those are distinct possibilities.” Darien lowers his head knowing Kayaba, being as smart as he is, had taken steps, even with himself, to make sure that no one outside would be able to stop his ‘death game’ and now, he, along with everyone else in the room, are helpless to do anything to help Serena on their end.

 

Darien slams his fist onto a table that’s nearby and he yells out, “Why?! What kind of man does this to their own family?! Especially one who’s family cared about him so much before now?!”

 

Just then a male voice calls out, “That’s what we are hoping to find out.” Everyone looks to the source to see a man with short messy black hair, circular-square glasses in front of his brown eyes, and wearing a green business suit with a blue tie walking into the room.

 

Lita yells out, annoyed, “Who the heck are you? How did you get in here?’

 

The man takes out some kind of government identification and he replies, “My name is Seijirou Kikuoka and I work for Ministry of Internal Affair's Telecommunications Bureau, Advanced Network Division, Second Office. However, we are more commonly known as the ‘Virtual Division’. I believe that it is much simpler than that way.”

 

Ami asks, surprised, “You are from the government?”

 

The man, Seijirou Kikuoka, responds, “Yes. I have been named the head of the government tasked force ‘investigating’ this…this ‘incident’.”

 

Lita yells out, annoyed, “Incident?”

 

Seijirou says, putting his hands, “Please, I am trying to be kind and trying to blow things out of proportion more than that are.”

 

Amara tells Seijirou, “I doubt that you can do that Seijirou-dono.”

 

Seijirou says, “Yes, you have a point, Miss Ten’ou.”

 

Amara asks, surprised, “You know who I am?”

 

Seijirou responds, with a kind smile, “Who doesn’t know you?”

 

Michelle tells Amara, with a kind smile, “He does have a point.”

 

Amara nods her head in agreement and Seijirou says, “I’m actually surprised that Miss Tsukino knows people and are close friends to people as friendly as you, but based on what I read on, it really isn’t too surprising.”

 

Mina asks, surprised, “You read up on Serena?”

 

Darien says, “That’s not surprising since he has been made the head of this ‘case’. He read up on Serena and thus, all of us, to learn about who and what he is dealing with to resolve this nightmare as soon as possible.”

 

Seijirou says, “Correct, Shield-san. I wish for this horror to already end since over two hundred people are already dead.”

 

Kenji yells out, angrily, “So, why aren’t you at Argus? Or looking for Kayaba?!”

 

Seijirou says, “I can assure you that I have people already at Argus and personal looking into Kayaba, but right now, his whereabouts are unknown. His residence is completely empty and Argus personal haven’t seen him since the day before. However, we are still interviewing them to see if there are any clues, but they can’t exactly help us since they are completely locked out of the servers that run Sword Art Online.”

 

Ami asks, surprised, “Completely locked out?”

 

Seijirou says, “Yes, they are. They have absolutely no access into the severs and the administrator accounts are overwritten. Basically, they might be able to use them to get inside of SAO, but if they do, they won’t be coming out. Kayaba’s account access outranks all of theirs and we can’t risk their lives since they seem to be completely innocent of Kayaba’s actions. It seems like that they had absolutely no idea at all that he would do this.”

 

Ikuko says, “Neither would we! I can’t understand why he would do this!”

 

Seijirou says, pointing to Serena, “Forgive me for being callous, Ikuko-san, but what happened to your daughter reinforces what you are saying quite perfectly.” Everyone looks at the motionless Serena on the hospital bed with the NervGear attached to her head keeping her imprisoned in SAO and plenty get a solemn expression. Seijirou says, “If you had anything to do with Kayaba’s actions, why would he put your daughter in danger in the first place? In fact, he could have prevented her from getting the game at all or at least, prevented her from logging in. And yet, here she is…another victim of his…insanity.”

 

Hotaru asks, “So, why come to visit her and Serena’s family?”

 

Seijirou says, “While the Tsukino family is COMPLETELY innocent of Kayaba’s actions, which my and the ever-growing opinion of government, there might be a clue to figure out Kayaba’s intentions if we learn about his history and there is only so much that you can learn from his records. That’s why we need your help and theirs.”

 

Sammy asks, annoyed, “What do you mean ‘our help’?!”

 

Kenji tells Sammy, “Sochi, he means that by learning about our history of interactions with ‘him’, they might get an idea on why he is doing this and where he could be to find him. And then make him stop this nonsense!”

 

Seijirou says, with a sigh, “That may be hard to do even if we find him.” Everyone looks at Seijirou and he says, “You must understand that this isn’t something that a rational person would do. A rational person wouldn’t trap ten thousand people in something that’s supposed to be the next generation of gaming entertainment and turn it into a struggle for life and death. And yet, Kayaba has done this. Reasoning with him may prove impossible.”

 

Ikuko says, worriedly, “No! There has to be a reason! I just can’t believe that he would…He was always…Serena and my brother….!!” Ikuko then starts to cry and Kenji comforts his wife.

 

Seijirou bows and he says, “I’m sorry. I guess that it was too soon to come to you for help. You are already in deep shock, some more than others, but trust me, I have your daughter’s interests and the interests of everyone affected by this ‘tragedy’ in mind.” Seijirou takes out a card and he says, handing it to Darien, “I must go. Right now, I have to organize the rest of the transport of the other surviving victims, thus far, to the hospitals to put them in life-support like Serena-san, but I fear things are getting worse.”

 

There are looks of shock and surprise and Mina asks, “Worse?”

 

Seijirou gives a sigh and he says, “This is off-the-record and I must ask you to keep this to yourselves for the time being. And I also must warn you that this might upset you.”

 

Darien says, “You have my promise that it will remain in this room for now.” Darien looks at the others and a lot of them nod their heads in agreement.

 

Seijirou says, “Several hours after Kayaba’s announcement, the first death after the initial two hundred has been confirmed.”

 

There are gasps of shock and horror and Raye asks, “Did someone else not heed Kayaba’s warning?”

 

Seijirou says, shaking his head, “No. Someone ‘died’ in the game causing the NervGear to fry their brain. From what little information that can be gathered from the severs, this person jumped off the floating castle and triggered ‘instant death’ situation.”

 

There are more gasps and Mina says, shocked, “Oh, Kami!”

 

Darien says, “Most likely, this person believed that he wasn’t killing himself. This person believed that doing that would force him to log out and return to the outside world.”

 

Seijirou says, with a nod, “It is the most likely theory, Shields-san.”

 

Amara says, “The person just couldn’t believe something so…farfetched. Being trapped in a game and dying there meant dying in real life.”

 

Lita says, with a nod, “No kidding. It seems like science fiction, an anime, or something like that.”

 

Seijirou says, nodding his head, “Indeed. So, it is understanding that people are hard-pressed to believe that they are in such a situation in real-life, physical or virtual, and my colleges fear that it will only cause the death rate to rise. As the ‘players’ are trying to venture through the game, the mentally of that fashion will cause them to make ‘mistakes’ and any ‘mistakes’ could prove fatal.” Fear and worry goes through Ikuko’s heart and mind and she looks at the motionless body of her daughter with great fear and concern in her eyes. Seijirou says, “When you are able to speak to us, we’ll be waiting.”

 

Seijirou bows in front of the group and Trista asks Seijirou, “Seijirou-dono, may I have a word with you?”

 

Seijirou asks, curiously, “Yes?” Trista then escorts Seijirou out of the room as everyone else looks at the motionless form of our Moon Princess can’t help to worry and wonder.

 

November 7, 2022, Tokyo, Unknown location

 

Somewhere within Tokyo, a group of shadowy figures are gathered together and there are holographic screens showing news reports about what is being called the ‘SAO Incident’.

 

One of them asks, in a male voice, “Did everyone feel that?”

 

Another one says, in a female voice, “Yes. The balance has been thrown off. It is obvious that this chaos is part of it.”

 

The first one that spoke says, “But this ‘incident’ isn’t enough to throw off the balance as it could. There is something more. Everyone can feel it.”

 

A third figure says, in a male voice, “Yes, it feels like the powers of the Sailor Scouts have grown…weaker.”

 

The first figure says, “It’s true. The powers of the Sailor Scouts seem to be weaker than before. Most likely, due to this ‘incident’, but we can’t exactly be sure.”

 

The second figure, the female one, says, “You think that one or more of the Sailor Scouts were trapped and killed? That would be good.”

 

The first figure says, “No. Their powers are weaker, but they aren’t gone. They haven’t returned to the ‘cosmic forces’ where their powers came from which is when Sailor Scouts that haven’t been reborn go back to.”

 

The second figure asks, “Then why are their powers weaker?”

 

The first figure says, “I believe that you might have been half right. One or more of them might be trapped in that ‘death game’.”

 

The third figure asks, curiously, “The weakness in their power is significant. I doubt that it can just be one.”

 

The first figure says, “Unless…”

 

The second figure asks, curiously, “Unless what?”

 

The first figure says, “Unless SHE is ‘involved’ in this ‘incident’.”

 

There are gasps and the second figure asks, “You mean…?”

 

The first figure says, “Yes, if it is true, it could explain a few things. If SHE is trapped in there, this could be an excellent chance.”

 

The second figure asks, “But how can we be so sure?”

 

The first figure says, “We may have a way.”

 

The third figure asks, “How?”

 

The first figure says, “A few surviving comrades from the base at the North Pole inform us of a possible solution.” The other figures look at each other and while the first figure’s facial features can’t be seen, we can see a sinister smirk coming from this figure’s face.

 

November 10, 2022, Tokyo, Juuban District, Cherry Hill Shrine

 

Within Cherry Hill Shrine, the Shinto temple that also serves as our Sailor Scout of Mars’ home, Darien and the Sailor Scouts are assembled together and discussing SAO. Yesterday, they were at hospital and by Serena’s body in which they managed to use Michelle’s Aqua Mirror to manage to see their princess within her virtual avatar in the virtual world of SAO and using their powers, manage to ‘connect’ with her to give her the courage to fight for her freedom and the freedom of everyone else trapped inside of that virtual ‘death game’. Right now, they are discussing the current situation dealing with SAO.

 

Amara asks Trista, “So, you and Ami-chan are part of the government task force that’s dealing with this mess?”

 

Trista says, with a nod, “Indeed. Along with Ikuko-san as well.”

 

Darien says, “By this time, the government completely and absolutely believes that Kayaba is doing this on his own. He left quite a bit of evidence to show that.”

 

Lita says, with a snarl, “No freaking kidding!”

 

Darien says, “However, because of that, the government is fearing for the safety of all of Kayaba’s family. They are moving to ‘erase’ all traces of Serena’s and her immediate family’s ‘connections’ to Kayaba and just in case, they are keeping a constant guard at Serena’s hospital room with the staff only knowing that Serena is ‘important’ and that there are people that would want to use her ‘inability’ to protect herself to ‘give her harm’. And they said that THERE ARE NO QUESTIONS ASKED.”

 

Trista says, nodding her head, “I believe that’s a wise decision. If our princess’ family connection to Kayaba was discovered, her life would be in greater danger than any of the others trapped in SAO.”

 

Mina yells out, “But that’s stupid! She is a victim just like the rest of the people that are trapped in that horrible ‘death game’!”

 

Amara tells Mina, “It won’t matter to the grieving families, friends, and other ‘loved ones’ of those that died because of Kayaba…” Amara says, with a solemn tone, “And those that are still dying and will die.”

 

Hotaru asks Amara, “Amara-papa, you are making it sound that this will last a long time?”

 

Michelle sighs and tells Hotaru, “Firefly, this isn’t going like the battles that we have fought before. This is much different.”

 

Amara says, “The best way to end this is a way to log the people out of SAO without frying their brains and that won’t be easy.”

 

Hotaru looks at Ami and Ami says, solemnly, “The NervGear is an incredible piece of machinery and I am hard-pressed to understand it in which finding a way to disable will be very hard. It seems to be designed and most likely, it is designed not to be tampered with unless there are consequences for the one wearing it.”

 

Trista tells Hotaru, “And that means that we won’t be able to get Serena-hime and the others out of SAO too soon.”

 

Amara says, “And that means that more people are going to…suffer.” Amara says, with a plain tone, “And more people that ‘suffer’, the angrier friends, family, and loved ones of those victims are going to grow in numbers wanting revenge.”

 

Hotaru asks, worriedly, “And they will want to take their revenge against Serena and her family just because they are related to Kayaba?”

 

Amara says, solemnly, “Sad, but true, Firefly.”

 

Lita says, angrily, “But that’s not fair!”

 

Darien tells Lita, “I know that it isn’t fair, Lita-chan. We all feel the same, but it is human nature.”

 

Amara says, with a nod, “True…But it doesn’t mean that we don’t like it.”

 

Raye says, “And that’s not the only thing that we need to worry about.”

 

When everyone else focuses on Raye, Ami asks, “What do you mean Raye?”

 

Just then the two talking felines, Luna and Artemis, appear and Luna asks, “Does this have to do with putting those seals in Serena’s hospital room?”

 

Mina asks, confused, “Huh? Why did you do that?”

 

Raye says, worriedly, “I can feel it.” Raye asks Amara, “And you can, too, can’t you?”

 

Amara says, “So, you felt it, huh? That’s not good.”

 

Mina asks, confused, “What do you mean?”

 

Michelle says, “Amara has been feeling a powerful darkness in the air and it is growing.”

 

Ami asks Raye, realizing something, “Has the fire shown you something?”

 

Raye says, “Yes. It tells me…that evil has sensed Meatball Head’s ‘absence’. Somehow, they know that Sailor Moon has been ‘disabled’.”

 

There are gasps of shock and Darien asks, seriously, “Are you sure?”

 

Raye says, with a nod, “I’m very certain. Somehow, THEY know. And the world is in more danger than ever before since Meatball Head being trapped in SAO has caused the world to become unbalanced.”

 

Hotaru asks, curiously, “But how?”

 

Amara says, “Serena is the strongest of all since she wields the power of the Imperium Silver Crystal and with Serena ‘captured’ in SAO, it means that a great power of ‘light’ has been put ‘out of action’ meaning the ‘darkness’ can make advances.”

 

Lita says, “That means that it is left to us to fill in the gap.”

 

Raye asks, curiously and in a serious tone, “Can we? Has there been a serious fight that we were TRULY NEVER had Sailor Moon on our side?” The Sailor Scouts and Darien look at each other in which Luna and Artemis do the same knowing that there are going to be new battles ahead and they may be harder than they have ever faced before.

 

November 10, 2022, Tokyo, Unknown location

 

At the unknown location, the figures that were talking before are surrounded by various youma similar to the ones that the Sailor Scouts, namely the Inner Sailor Scouts, have fought during their battles with Queen Beryl/Metallia and the Negaverse are looking at someone in front of them.

 

One of them says, with a male voice, “Your knowledge in the Sailor Scouts is most appreciated.”

 

The figure ‘on the floor’ says, with a sly tone, “Beryl was stupid not to listen to me and don’t give any excuses for her.”

 

Another figure says, with a female voice, “We are not. You are right, Jadeite.”

 

The figure ‘on the floor’ walks forward, revealing none other than Jadeite, and he says, with an evil grin, “Queen Beryl should have at least listened to me before she sealed me up. I could have given her the key to victory, but she let her emotions get the better of her. Now, she is nothing more than dust thanks to the one that she hated the most.”

 

The male figure says, “Indeed, Jadeite.”

 

Jadeite says, “I’m still find it shocking that Moon brat is none other than the Moon Princess herself, but then again, I should have known tuxedo clad fool was none other than the reincarnation of Prince Endymon.” Jadeite says, with an evil smile, “However, I love the fact that it is none other than a member of her own family that has backstabbed and trapped her. It is so perfectly ironic and it makes drool in excitement knowing that her demise will come by the hands of someone that she once loved so much.”

 

The female figure says, “Don’t be so sure that she will die in SAO, Jadeite.”

 

Jadeite asks, with a glare, “What’s that supposed to mean?”

 

The male figure says, “Ever since your last defeat by Sailor Moon, Sailor Mercury, and Sailor Mars, all of the Sailor Scouts of the Solar System have gathered together now. The Outer and Inner Sailor Scouts are now one even through they don’t always agree. Plus, Sailor Moon has grown stronger too. Watch, Jadeite.” Soon after, holographic screens show Jadeite all of the adventures of the Sailor Scouts since the defeat of the Negaverse: From the Doom Phantom to Sailor Galaxia/Chaos. Jadeite is shocked by a lot of what he sees.

 

Jadeite yells out, shocked, “Wait! That little brat becomes the ruler of the planet?”

 

The female figure says, with a nod, “In the current timeframe, she is destined to become Neo-Queen Serenity, ruler of the new Silver Millennium, with her husband, King Endymon, and their daughter, Princess Rini, who is also Sailor Mini-Moon, Sailor Moon’s successor as a Sailor Scout.”

 

Jadeite says, with a snarl, “Like mother, like daughter.”

 

The male figure says, “Correct, Jadeite. However, we said the ‘current time frame’ and as you know, the future is always in motion. It doesn’t mean that the future will end the way that they have seen it in their earlier adventures. It can always change.”

 

Jadeite says, with an evil smile, “Yes.” Jadeite says, “Then we should make sure that Endymon’s wretched princess doesn’t have a chance to take the throne.”

 

The female figure says, “If you mean by taking her out directly, it is impossible at this time.”

 

Jadeite asks, confused, “What do you mean?”

 

The female figure says, “Sailor Mars has sensed our growing strength even through she can’t sense who we are and where we are, but she can tell that we are waiting to make our move. She has placed a powerful protection field around Sailor Moon’s hospital room with another barrier around the hospital that her body is staying at. They have placed the broach with the Silver Crystal that location to allows it power to keep Sailor Moon’s body from decline as much as the others and also to protect it from us. The barrier is very powerful and has multiple layers. Attacking her directly is impossible.”

 

The male figure says, “And most likely, Sailor Mercury has set up other defenses that we have no idea about. They are more capable than when you fought them, Jadeite.”

 

Jadeite says, with a nod, “Point taken. They have grown stronger than I last fought them.”

 

The male figure says, with an evil sly tone, “But then again, we have grown stronger than you have last fought them and we have fought Sailor Venus.”

 

Jadeite says, “I was surprised that elements of the Dark Agency survived. We thought that you were wiped out by the time that we started our attacks here.”

 

The female figure says, with a sly tone, “You need to give up more credit, Jadeite.”

 

Jadeite asks, “So, what shall we do now?”

 

The male figure says, “Now, we make our move.”

 

Jadeite asks, “Do we gather energy?”

 

The male figure says, “No, Jadeite.”

 

Jadeite asks, curiously, “No?”

 

The male figure says, “We have been gathering our strength ever since Sailor Venus went off to join with the rest of the Inner Scouts and her princess, foolishly thinking that we were no more. We have been waiting in the shadows as we gathered our strength and ‘feeding’ off the remnants of the negative and evil powers of their defeated foes including Chaos. However, this time, we will not remain in the shadows. No, this time, we will step into the light and make the humans fear us, Jadeite. We are coming out of the dark, Jadeite. This time, we are taking the fight to the Sailor Scouts themselves in the light of day.”

 

Jadeite gives a look of surprise from this statement, but he then gives an evil smile and he says, “That sounds excellent.”

 

November 11, 2022, Tokyo, Juuban District

 

Within the Juuban District, Amara and Michelle are driving through the streets in a sports car with Amara driving in her ‘usual fashion’.

 

Michelle says, with a smile, “Easy, Amara-chan.”

 

Amara tells Michelle, “I wish that I could.”

 

Michelle tells Amara, “We, all, feel the same way as you do, Amara-chan.”

 

Amara says, “At least, Ami-chan and Trista have joined up with the government task force that they set up and the transfers happened safely with no incidents.”

 

Michelle says, with a smile, “That’s a good thing.”

 

Amara says, “That’s the only good thing to happen in this mess. I still can’t believe a member of Kitten’s family could something like this.”

 

Michelle says, “Nobody really suspected that he could. He had everyone fooled.”

 

Amara says, with a snarl, “If we ever find him…No, we will find him and we will make sure that justice will be served.”

 

Michelle says, “It doesn’t seem so easily. The government took all of the information that Serena-hime’s family could provide and they are no closer to find him. He made sure that there were no clues in his office at Argus or at his living quarters. He had thoroughly prepared for this.”

 

Amara says, with a nod, “He was preparing for this for a long time and he didn’t care who got her including Kitten. From what we knew, she loved him like a second father and now…”

 

Michelle says, finishing and nodding her head, “He betrayed her in the worst way possible.” Michelle tells Amara, “However, Serena is in SAO and fighting to help herself and everyone else still alive in there to escape.”

 

Amara says, “Yes, but we can’t help her at all! We are…”

 

Michelle says, with a warm smile, “I know, Amara-chan. We may not be able to help her, but we aren’t helpless. What we can do is keep the ‘outside world’ safe for her when she gets back from SAO and try to end SAO as soon as possible from our end.”

 

Amara sighs and she says, with a smile, “Yeah, you’re right.” Just then there is a massive explosion a short distance away and Amara stops the car in which as she pulls the car over to the side in which she yells out, surprised, “What the heck was that?!”

 

Michelle says, “I don’t know.” Immediately, Amara and Michelle leap out of the car and head to the source of the explosion where they are shocked to find a huge female youma wearing armor that designed to look like pieces of a semi-trailer that act as her clothing.

 

Amara asks, surprised, “A youma?! In brought daylight in a major crowded area?!” Soon after, the youma rampages through area and attacking civilians while NOT absorbing their energy.

 

Michelle asks, “He’s attacking people with draining their energy? Why?”

 

Amara yells out, “We don’t have time, Michelle! They need our help!” Michelle nods her head in agreement and she and Amara take out their transformation wands.

 

“Uranus Crystal Power, Make-up!”

 

“Neptune Crystal Power, Make-up!”

 

In classic fashion, Amara’s and Michelle’s clothing melts away as they are replaced by their sailor fukus and when their transformations are done with Super Sailor Uranus and Super Sailor Neptune in which they leap into the fight.

 

Sailor Uranus shouts out, “Hey, you overgrown garbage van!” When the youma looks at Sailor Uranus, she shouts out, “Soldier of the Wind, Sailor Uranus!”

 

Sailor Neptune yells out, “Soldier of Waves: Sailor Neptune!”

 

Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune say in unison, “In the name of the planets and these people, we will punish you!”

 

The youma retorts, with a sly sneer, “Give me a break! I’m Dragster and I’m going to mow you down!” The youma, Dragster, charges right at Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune.

 

“Uranus World Shaking!”

 

Sailor Uranus unleashes her planet-shaped energy sphere of wind energy at Dragster, but the attack instantly dispels and the youma just cheers in reply in which Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune leap out of the way of the youma as she smashes through cars and walls of buildings.

 

Sailor Neptune says, “That youma is strong!”

 

Sailor Uranus says, with a serious tone, “No kidding!” Dragster bursts back through building walls and sending cars flying through the air in which civilians yell as the debris lands nearby.

 

“Neptune Deep Submerge!”

 

Sailor Neptune fires her planet-shaped water magic attack at Dragster, but it dispels when it hits Dragster and the massive youma keeps going!”

 

Sailor Neptune shouts out, “No way!”

 

Sailor Uranus says, seriously, “Move, Neptune!” Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune dodge another assault and the youma then move to attack the innocent people trying to get away.

 

Sailor Neptune shouts out, “No!” Sailor Neptune leaps in-between the innocent civilians and the youma attacking them in which she brings out her Aqua Mirror.

 

“Submarine Reflection!”

 

Sailor Neptune unleashes a powerful stream of water from her Aqua Mirror in which it manages to slow down Dragster, but it doesn’t come close to stopping to the powerful youma.

 

“Space Sword Blaster!”

 

Sailor Uranus attacks Dragster from the side with a wave of energy from her Space Sword, but the attack doesn’t even cause her to flinch causing Sailor Uranus to shout out, stunned, “No way!”

 

Sailor Neptune says, straining to hold Dragster, “This youma…is stronger…than any…enemy…that we faced…!!” Sailor Neptune grunts as Dragster breaks her attack in which the shockwave from the backlash sends Sailor Neptune to the ground, hard!

 

Sailor Uranus yells out, shocked, “Neptune!” But before Sailor Uranus can say or do anything else, Dragster is upon her and slap Sailor Uranus right into the side of a car causing her to gasp out as the air is knocked out of her while the side of the car that she hit caves in due to the sheer force of the impact which also shatters the windows.

 

Dragster says, with a sly sneer, “Ha! You, Sailor Wimps, are no match for us!”

 

Sailor Neptune thinks in her mind, “Such power!”

 

Dragster then looms over Sailor Neptune and the youma yells out, “And you’re the first to go!”

 

Sailor Uranus says, weakly, “No…Neptune…”

 

“Pluto Deadly Scream!”

 

Just then another planet-shaped energy sphere, colored pink this time, slams into the side of Dragster, but like the other attacks before it, the attack is negated when it hits Dragster and Dragster looks to see Super Sailor Pluto.

 

Sailor Pluto says, “If you think that you are so superior fighting a helpless foe, then you aren’t as strong as you think you are! I’m the guardian of time and the underworld: Sailor Pluto!”

 

Dragster says, with a sinister smile, “And you are just meat to me!” Dragster charges at Sailor Pluto and she just stands there.

 

Sailor Neptune shouts out, “Pluto, g-get out of the way!” But when it seems that Dragster is going to ram into Sailor Pluto, she side-steps Dragster and manages to trip causing her to fall and barrel through a building and into the next street where she slams into the hard ground with a huge ‘crash’ which sends a lot of dust and debris high into the air.

 

Sailor Pluto leaps over to Sailor Neptune, who gets to her feet, and asks, “Are you okay?”

 

Sailor Uranus stumbles over and she asks, with a grunt of pain, “Do we look okay?”

 

Sailor Pluto says, seriously, “We need to combine powers! Put your weapons with Garnet Staff and combine powers! Hurry!” Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune nod their heads as Sailor Uranus touches her Space Sword to Pluto’s specter while Sailor Neptune does the same with Aqua Mirror causing all three Sailor Scouts to glow as they focus their energies to the front of Sailor Pluto’s Garnet Staff as Dragster bursts through another building only to see what’s happening.

 

Dragster shouts out, surprised, “What?!”

 

Sailor Pluto yells out, strongly, “Now! Full power!” All three Outer Sailor Scouts fire a combined beam of aqua-blue, orange, and dark pink energy that slams into Dragster with terrific force and the powerful youma strains to hold it back while the three Sailor Scouts strain to beat him. After a minute or so, the three Sailor Scouts’ combined attack get through and Dragster roars out as she is vaporized by a strong explosion that leaves a significant crater in the concrete when the explosion, along with the dust and debris, dies down.

 

Soon after, Sailors Uranus and Neptune collapse to their knees and Sailor Uranus says, “That bitch was tough!”

 

Sailor Pluto says, sweating somewhat, “And I fear that she will be a rule and not the exception, Uranus.”

 

The other two Sailor Scouts look at Sailor Pluto in shock and Sailor Uranus says, “Please tell me that you made a mistake or stupid joke.”

 

Sailor Pluto responds, “I believe that the words are this: I wish.” Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune look at each other and hope that Sailor Pluto is mistaken.

 

November 14, 2022, Tokyo, Juuban District, Cherry Hill Shrine

 

Within Cherry Hill Shrine, Sailor Pluto’s words are proven true as we find Darien and the Sailor Scouts assembled together in Cherry Hill Shrine, Raye’s/Sailor Mars’ Shinto shrine home, where we find Hotaru using her healing powers on Lita’s left arm.

 

When she is done, Hotaru asks Lita, “Is that okay?”

 

Lita flexes her arm and she responds, with a grin, “Good as new! Thanks, Hotaru!”

 

Hotaru says, with a smile, “I’m glad that I could help, Lita-chan.”

 

Amara tells Trista, “You weren’t kidding, Trista.”

 

Darien says, “They know.”

 

Trista says, with a nod, “Yes. They know that Sailor Moon can’t help us right now. They know that we are weakened.”

 

Mina asks, “Are you sure?”

 

Darien says, “The attacks started only shortly after Serena got trapped in SAO. This is no mere coincidence.”

 

Amara says, with a nod, “Agreed.”

 

Lita asks, “But how do they know?”

 

Trista says, “Probably. They have beings that can sense the ‘cosmic balance’ like Amara and Raye can do.”

 

Raye says, “But that wouldn’t give them an idea that Meatball Head was ‘out of action’! They would need to know…!!” Raye and Amara gasp as they leap to their feet.

 

Lita asks, “What?”

 

Raye says, with a serious tone, “Trouble!”

 

Amara yells out, with a serious tone, “Outside!” Everyone then runs outside and when they are outside, they gasp to see Jadeite, looking transparent, and floating in the skies above them.

 

Ami says, shocked, “Jadeite!”

 

Hotaru asks, “You mean the first general of the Negaverse that you, Raye, and Serena-hime fought?”

 

Darien says, with a nod, “That’s right, Hotaru.” Darien says, with a sneer, “Jadeite and the other generals of the Negaverse are also former members of my ‘elite guard’ back when I was Prince Endymon of Elysium, the central kingdom of Earth at the time of the Silver Millennium, but they betrayed me for Beryl and Metallia.”

 

Lita yells out, annoyed, “What does he want?”

 

Jadeite’s hologram shouts out, “Attention people of Tokyo! I’ll make my point, plain and clear! I am the enemy of the Sailor Scouts that has been sending the monsters that have been rampaging for the last three days!”

 

Raye says, with a sneer, “I knew it! I should have known that it was him!”

 

Ami asks, “But how is he still around?”

 

Darien says, “I don’t know, Ami. I thought that he was finished when we battled him at the airport.”

 

Jadeite’s hologram yells out, “I bring a challenge to the Sailor Scouts and their friend, Tuxedo Mask! Meet me where we have fought in our last battle before now: The Tokyo airport! If you don’t comply, I will attack the Argus headquarters and sabotage the SAO servers!”

 

There are gasps of shock and horror and Mina yells out, “No, he can’t!”

 

Jadeite’s hologram shouts out, with an evil sly tone, “Come and get me if you dare!” Jadeite, via the hologram, laughs evilly before the holographic video fades out.

 

Raye yells out, angrily, “Jadeite!”

 

Lita asks, “Could he know?”

 

Darien says, seriously, “I don’t know how, Lita!”

 

Amara says, “It could be possible that he is just using the SAO victims as hostages to lure us into his trap. He may not know that Sailor Moon is trapped in SAO.”

 

Darien says, “I hope so, Amara. Right now, we don’t have a choice. Serena’s life is in danger.”

 

Lita says, “No damn kidding! We have to help her!”

 

The others nod their heads in agreement and Trista says, “But it will be a difficult fight. If the youma have gained greater power, then it is possible that Jadeite has gained greater power too.” The others can’t help to mentally agree with Trista and they feel that this could be their toughest fight yet especially WITHOUT Sailor Moon to aid them.

 

November 14, 2022, Tokyo, Kawagoe

 

In the area of Kawagoe, Saitama prefecture, there is old Japanese-style house, lingering alongside the dated streets of southern Saitama containing a two-story main residence building and a private dojo in which inside of the main residence building, we find a young girl of around 13 years of age with short black hair and dark grey eyes, almost blackish which is staring at the television with news reporters going on about the ‘monster attacks’ that are happening in broad daylight in Tokyo with the Sailor Scouts becoming more ‘public’.

 

The news anchor, a young man, says, “It has been around three days, but the whole district of Juuban seems to be under siege. These ‘monster attacks’ have caused millions of dollars of damages and hundreds have been wounded thus far. Thankfully, there have been no fatalities, but experts believe that can’t last forever. With the nation and the worlds already shaken with what is being called the ‘SAO Incident’ with the world’s first VRMMO being turned into a ‘death game’ for those trapped within, the world can’t help to wonder if Tokyo if not the whole nation and the world is under siege. These ‘monster attacks’ aren’t new to the district and in fact, the district has been well-known for these ‘monster attacks’, but all of the attacks, too numerous to be just an ‘illusion’, paranoia, or something of the like along with so many eye-witnesses and victims giving off similar if not the same stories, have been ‘isolated incidents’ which haven’t spread into major attacks like these thanks to the mysterious Sailor Scouts. Beautiful young women with attire and powers that you would have thought only seen in anime and manga. The famous ‘magical girls’ of Juuban, who are usually lead by the mysterious Sailor Moon, have taken care of these ‘monster attacks’ while people don’t suffer major injuries. They have been going on for the past two years in Juuban and seem to have been contained…until now. Usually, these ‘monster attacks’ have been isolated incident with a single victim and sometimes with eye-witnesses that witness the event in which the majority of them have been ’in the shadows’. But now, the attacks have become all-out battles with areas of Juuban becoming literal war-zones with major damage and people getting caught in crossfire in which the ‘monsters’ have targeted the people. The Sailor Scouts stepped ‘out of the shadows’ to battle the monsters, but they and their ally, the mysterious Tuxedo Mask, are BARELY able to fight them in which takes an extended time period before they finally put down the monster and taking much more effort than they had to before in which they are suffering nasty injuries in the process…”

 

As the news anchor continues to give their report on the situation in Juuban, the young teen girl thinks, “Oh, great! First, my big brother is trapped in that stupid game and now, it looks like we’re going to be trapped with in a full-scale ‘monster war’ soon! I feel…I feel so helpless! Kazuto…big brother…what should I do? I wish that you were here!”

 

Tears start to stream down the young girl’s eyes as we hear the news anchor say, “One thing is well-known about these latest ‘assaults’: Sailor Moon is missing. With the recently appearances of the Sailor Scouts and their ally, Tuxedo Mask, to fight these monsters, their iconic leader seems to be missing from the action. What is happening? Where is Sailor Moon…?” As the news anchor continues, there is a faint glow from the forehead of this young girl, but it vanishes as quickly as it appeared, so, if somebody else were around, they wouldn’t have noticed.

 

November 14, 2022, Tokyo, Juuban District

 

At the hospital where Serena’s body is, we find Darien looking down at her motionless form within her hospital bed.

 

Darien goes over, takes her motionless hand, and he thinks, gently squeezing it, “Serena, please give us strength. Our enemies have grown strong while they were hiding from our sight and they are using your inability to help us to try to destroy everything that you hold dear. But while you can’t be here with us, physically, we know that you are here for us in spirit. Don’t worry, Meatball Head. We won’t let you down!” Darien gently releases Serena’s hand and leaves the room.

 

November 14, 2022, SAO

 

Within the virtual world of Sword Art Online, we are on the fields of the main fields of the first floor of Aincrad/SAO where we find a female player wearing a white hooded cloak wearing mainly ‘starter gear’ with a one-handed sword known as Anneal Blade in her hands. She then stops in her tracks and takes off her hooded to reveal the face of none other than our Moon Princess in which she puts her free left hand over her virtual avatar’s right hand as well as looking up into the sky.

 

Our Moon Princess thinks in her mind, as she looks into the virtual skies, “Darien-kun?”

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November 14, 2022, Tokyo

 

At Tokyo’s main airport, in the evening hours, we find Tuxedo Mask and the Sailor Scouts assembled together at the airport which has been evacuated in which Sailor Mercury is scanning for any signs of their enemy.

 

Sailor Jupiter asks, “Find anything Mercury?”

 

Sailor Mercury says, shaking her head, “No, Jupiter.”

 

Sailor Uranus says, “Well, the enemy is around here. I can feel it.”

 

Sailor Mars says, with a nod, “Uranus is right. I can feel the evil around here.”

 

Sailor Venus asks, “Then why does Mercury’s scanners detect anything?”

 

Sailor Pluto says, “They could have gained ways to jam her visor’s and computer’s scanners.”

 

Just then Sailor Mercury says, “Wait!” Everyone looks at Sailor Mercury and she then tells everyone, “I’m getting a reading. It is coming from…above?!”

 

The others get confused and Sailor Saturn asks, confused, “Above?” Everyone looks towards the skies and they don’t see anything at first, but they hear something. The sounds that they are hearing is similar to the sounds coming from a jet and the group sees someone or something coming out of the clouds.

 

Sailor Saturn asks, “What is that?”

 

The ‘figure’ keeps coming in which when they get a good view, Tuxedo Mask and our Sailor Scouts gasp in shock in which Sailor Jupiter yells out, flabbergasted, “You have got to be kidding me!” What Tuxedo Mask and the Sailor Scouts are looking at a youma that looks a lot like a B-52 bomber!

 

Sailor Venus asks, shocked, “How did they get that?”

 

As the bomb bay doors of the ‘bomber’ open up, Sailor Uranus shouts out, “Does it really matter? Move!” Soon enough, the Sailor Scouts and Tuxedo Mask scatter around as the ‘bomber youma’ unleashes a rain of bombs in which when they hit the ground, they cause strong explosions that are demolishing much of the area around the airport in which they barely avoid getting hurt by the shockwaves from said explosions through one manages to through Sailors Venus and Jupiter into the side of car causing them significant damage to the car while stunning the two Sailor Scouts and causing them some minor injuries.

 

Sailor Saturn says, concerned, “Venus! Jupiter!” Sailor Saturn leaps into action and gets to the two injured Sailor Scouts in which she uses her powers to quickly heal them and restore their strength.

 

Sailor Jupiter says, with a smile, “Thanks, Saturn.”

 

Sailor Saturn says, with a nod, “I’m happy to help.”

 

The others gather around Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn and Tuxedo Mask says, “They must be using the fact that Sailor Moon isn’t with us to their advantage.”

 

Sailor Uranus says, “She is the only one of us that can fly.”

 

Sailor Mars says, annoyed, “Great! Insult and injury all in one!”

 

Sailor Pluto says, “I believe that’s the meaning of this fight, Mars.”

 

Just a female voice booms from the ‘youma bomber’, with an evil sly tone, “Bingo, Sailor Dopes! Without your precious Moon Princess, you can’t hope to beat me since not only she is your strongest member, but she is the only one among you that can fly! You can leap higher than regular humans, but you can’t reach me here!”

 

Sailor Jupiter shouts out, “Don’t need to, Nega-trash!”

 

The ‘youma bomber’ retorts, “Heh! If you think that you can be Skyler with empty threats, think again, Sailor Wimps! Now, fire in the hole!” Just then out of the ‘bomber youma’s’, Skyler’s, still open bomb bays, a ridiculous amount of ordinance including mini-guns, rapid-fire cannons, and even a 105mm howitzer come out and aim for Tuxedo Mask and Sailor Scouts.

 

Sailor Uranus yells out, “Scatter now!” The Sailor Scouts and Tuxedo Mask immediately scatter as Skyler unleashes an all-out assault with all sorts of fire causing immense danger to the area of the airport that our hero and heroines and all around since Skyler doesn’t seem to be willing taking aim at them.

 

As explosions hit all around them, Sailor Mars shouts out, “She isn’t aiming at all!”

 

Sailor Jupiter says, “She is just spraying the whole of the airport trying to get to us!”

 

Sailor Uranus says, “And eventually, she might if we don’t keep moving!” Right now, all the Sailor Scouts and Tuxedo Mask can do is avoid getting hit by the attacks and the explosions, with shockwaves, caused by the attacks by the massive youma bomber.

 

Sailor Saturn shouts out, worriedly, “What can we do?!”

 

Sailor Venus yells out, “You got me!”

 

Tuxedo Mask roars out, “We need to stop her or the whole area of the airport and beyond will be destroyed!”

 

Sailor Venus shouts out, “I’m open to suggestions!” She yelps out as she dodges another series of attacks and explosions from Skyler in which the Sailor Scouts are unable to do anything in which they don’t have time to even use their powers to attack with Skyler laughing evilly at their seemly helplessness.

 

Skyler yells out, “Give it up, Sailor Failures! Without Sailor Moon, you are nothing! You can’t win!”

 

Sailor Jupiter shouts out, in a determined tone, “Wrong, you piece of Nega-trash! She might not be here physically, but Sailor Moon is still with us!”

 

Sailor Uranus yells out, strongly, “And for her and this whole city, we will fight and win!”

 

Tuxedo Mask thinks in his mind, “That’s right! We can’t give up! Serena is counting on us to keep the city and the world safe for her until she or we find a way to end SAO! We have to win this fight! There are too many lives on the line, but this youma is incredible! She is nothing like the youma we have fought before and we can’t get to her in which we can’t get to her to attack! We need to distract her…!!” Just then an idea forms in Tuxedo Mask’s mind and he quickly gets to the highest part of the airport still standing: The air control tower. It has suffered some damage, but nothing critical to its structure. Tuxedo Mask shouts out, “Hey, youma!” The youma turns towards Tuxedo Mask and he yells out, “Come and get me!” Skyler, thinking that Tuxedo Mask is an easy target, turns towards Tuxedo Mask.

 

Sailor Mercury shouts out, confused and concerned, “Tuxedo Mask, what are you doing?!”

 

Sailor Venus yells out, “Get out of there!” However, Tuxedo Mask doesn’t and when Skyler gets close, Tuxedo Mask unleashes a storm of roses that unleash their petals causing them to hit Skyler in her ‘head’ where they gather and blind her.

 

Skyler shouts out, “Hey, I can’t see!” Tuxedo Mask, quickly and easily, bounds off the roof and runs to safety as Skyler crashes into the tower causing it and her to crash to the ground with a mighty ‘crash’ and ‘thud’.

 

Sailor Jupiter says, “He got her!”

 

Tuxedo Mask yells out, “Combine powers! We can’t take the chance that she could withstand the attack and get back in the air!”

 

Sailor Pluto says, strongly, “Follow Tuxedo Mask’s plan!”

 

Sailor Neptune says, with a nod, “Wise idea!” Soon enough, as Skyler struggles to recover, the Sailor Scouts assemble together and combine their powers together.

 

“Sailor Planet Power!”

 

The Sailor Scouts unleash a powerful rainbow-colored attack right at Skyler as the bomber youma regains her senses only to scream out in pain and agony as she is slowly vaporized into nothingness and when the smoke and dust clear from the powerful attack, the Sailor Scouts collapse to their knees or sit on the ground from exhaustion due to the sheer power that they had to use in their attack.

 

Sailor Venus asks, weakly, “D-Did we win?”

 

Sailor Jupiter says, with a nod, “Y-Yeah, we did.”

 

Tuxedo Mask says, with a smile, “Sailor Moon would be proud of you.”

 

Sailor Pluto says, with a nod and smile, “And you, too, Tuxedo Mask. You are the one that led us to victory this day.”

 

Tuxedo Mask says, “True, Pluto. Today, anyway, but it is only just the beginning.”

 

Sailor Pluto says, with a nod, “I fear that you may be right.” As the Sailor Scouts and Tuxedo Mask rest from their harsh fight, they don’t know is that someone from some distance away is watching them before turning to leave them by bounding by the rooftops into the night.

 

November 14, 2022, Tokyo, Juuban District

 

Returning to the Juuban District, we are inside of a shop known as Osaka-P, a jewelry store, which also acts as the current home to the Baker family and right now, we are inside of a room where a cat with brown fur, large blue eyes, and a rainbow-colored star is resting on a tablet until this feline hears a door open and sees Molly Baker, childhood friend of Serena Tsukino, enter the room.

 

The cat then says, in a female voice, “I take it that you didn’t need to help.”

 

Molly responds, “Thankfully, Aurora. But it was close…I mean REALLY close.”

 

The cat says, “I know that you want to help them, Aurora, but our mission takes importance.”

 

Molly says, “I understand, Aurora.”

 

Molly sighs and the cat, Aurora, tells her, “I know what you are feeling, Molly. However, there is nothing that you can do. You have to leave up her guardians to figure out a way to get her and the others out of SAO or she fights her way to freedom.”

 

Molly says, with a nod, “I know, Aurora. However, I can’t help to feel so helpless. Serena and I were childhood friends in two lifetimes and like in the Silver Millennium, our ‘duties’ caused us to go apart. And now, she is fighting for her life in that horror that was supposed to be a ‘new adventure’ for so many people.” Molly says, with a sigh, “He betrayed her in the Silver Millennium and now, he betrays her in this life too.”

 

Aurora says, “We had hoped that the two of ‘them’ weren’t the same person, but there was nothing that we could do. We had no evidence and he gave no clue at all that he would do something like this.”

 

Molly asks, “What do you think that he wants?”

 

Aurora tells Molly, “You may be missing fragments of your memories, but you know what he wants.”

 

Molly gives a sigh and she says, “We had hoped that she would be able to live in peace.” Molly asks, “Do you think that she has awakened?”

 

Aurora says, “I’m not sure, Molly. However, she is the most powerful Sailor Scout of them all, so, her powers may take time to fully awaken, so, it isn’t outside of the realm of reason that her ‘awakening’ has started.”

 

Molly says, “Things aren’t going to be same for Serena and all of us.”

 

Aurora says, with a nod and solemn tone, “I agree.”

 

November 14, 2022, Tokyo

 

Back within the headquarters of the group that Jadeite is now allied with, they are seeing the results of the battle.

 

One figure says, in a male voice, “It seems like the Sailor Scouts and Tuxedo Mask are more capable than we thought.”

 

Another figure says, in a female voice, “Indeed.”

 

Jadeite says, with a sneer, “They got lucky. That’s all.”

 

The male figure tells Jadeite, “Luck was what beat you, correct?” Jadeite glares at the male figure and he says, “Forgive me for reopening that wound, but my point is by underestimating an enemy, you will bring about your own downfall.”

 

The female figure says, “Beryl learned that the hard way.”

 

Jadeite says, with a nod, “Point taken. I won’t go down like the worthless witch.”

 

The male figure tells Jadeite, “For now, we are returning to the shadows.”

 

Jadeite asks, confused, “What? Why?”

 

The male figure responds, “While we could apply pressure, there are certain ‘factors’ that may cause us trouble and we may need to take care of. Take a look at this.” A holographic screen forms in front of Jadeite and Jadeite’s eyes grow wide.

 

Jadeite asks, surprised, “Are you kidding me?”

 

The male figure says, “No, Jadeite. There are quite a few ‘unknowns’ and before we make our next move in our various plans, we need to make sure that these ‘unknowns’ are known to us. We want you to investigate them, so, you will be ‘out of the spotlight’ for a while.”

 

Jadeite asks, curiously, “What was the point of the attacks?”

 

The male figure says, with an evil sly tone, “To keep the Sailor Scouts and your former prince on edge.”

 

Jadeite says, with a sinister smile, “I see. They know about me, but they don’t know about you…yet. Once I don’t appear and the attacks die down, they are going to wonder what’s going on.”

 

The male figure says, with a nod, “Correct, Jadeite. However, we will make ‘spoiler attacks’ to make sure that the Scouts don’t get too suspicious on what’s going on.”

 

Jadeite says, with a wicked grin, “This is going to get interesting. Interesting indeed.”

 

November 14, 2022, Tokyo, Juuban District

 

In the skylines of Juuban District of Tokyo, our Sailor Scouts and Tuxedo Mask are looking down at the hospital where Serena’s body is lying while her mind remains trapped in the virtual world of SAO. All of them then looks into the distance and with determined looks on their faces to defend their home while Serena remains trapped in that nightmare.

 

The End…for now

 

That’s it, everyone! You must be saying: Hold on! Wasn’t their first encounter with these kind of youma back in mid-May of 2024 of this story series? Not exactly. They don’t know about the revived Dark Agency just yet. All they do know is that Jadeite is back and he declared that he was responsible for the attacks, so, it means that they may think that Jadeite is responsible for this series of attacks. Also, the attacks are going to ‘die down’ in which the series of attacks are going to get worse through not constant. However, it doesn’t mean that the Sailor Scouts can’t beat them with Sailor Moon unable to assist them. It is just going to be tougher for them which I feel that I proved in my story. So, what do you think? Please read and review, but please no flames! Before I go, if I don’t post anything else before the end of the year, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Later and best wishes, Crossover Fans!