Sailor Moon Fan Fiction / Digimon Fan Fiction / Crossover Fan Fiction ❯ Sailor Moon Online: SAO Beyond ❯ Off into a New Frontier ( Chapter 4 )

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Okay, everyone, we’re back! And it looks like our heroes and heroines are in another major crisis! You would think that they could catch a break, but no such luck! Before I start, 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.

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Warning: This story contains 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 this whole story!

Sailor Moon Online: SAO Beyond

(Sword Art Online opening music ‘Innocence’ starting)

As a group of rainbow colored birds fly through the air, witnessed by Naruto, Davis, and Asuna, the scene switches to Suguha, Serena, and Kazuto walking down the street, they turn around when they ‘sense’ something and the world around them shatters like a mirror revealing multiple alternate versions of them and the worlds of SAO, ALO, and beyond.

The next scene shows our heroes and heroines looking at the prone form of Suguha, dressed in ‘royal gown/dress’ as Princess Selene, lying in her see-through coffin with tears in the eyes of Kazuto, Naruto, and Serena in which the scene switches Naruto, dressed in his classic attire, but with white cloak similar to his dad’s cloak as Hokage while looking into the wind.

The next scene has Serena looking at her broach and then walking through the hallways of the Moon Kingdom dressed as Princess Serenity and as she looks into the air, her shadow splits into two shadows with one of them looking like her as Valkyrie Sailor Moon and the other looks like Heathcliff.

The following scene has Darien looking at a rose while his ‘alternate forms’ of Tuxedo Mask and Prince Endymon are behind him and then we see Davis looking at two tags that contain the Crest of Miracles and Life when he feels a hand on shoulder in which he looks to see Kari, Veemon, Gatomon, and the rest of the Digidestined and their Digimon looking at him.

The next scene has Leafa stand in the middle a very swallow pond surround by the images of her four ‘doppelgangers’ as Sailor Celestial reflected in the water of the pond as a rainbow light comes from the sky in which when she looks up towards it, she then sees the rest of her friends in their ALO avatars and Leafa smiles as she approaches them transforming into Ark Valkyrie Sailor Celestial in the process.

Then we find our heroes and heroines battling through legions of robots, monsters, and fighting even multiple version of Heathcliff before out of some kind of vortex, Ragnarok appears before all of them with a roar of power and hatred. Various warriors, heroes, and ‘other people’ from the multiverse ranging from Sonic the Hedgehog, Shiroe of Log Horizon, Kite from Dot-hack series, Neptune, Nepgear, and their fellow CPUs/CPU Candidates from Neptunia series, Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk, and others from the Marvel universe, Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and so many others from the DC Universe, and so many more before it focuses on Doctor Ivo ‘Eggman’ Robotnik surrounded by the seven Chaos Emeralds and a mysterious and powerful crystal which reality all around it seem to shatter like a mirror.

Valkyrie Sailor Moon, Kazuto, and the others extend their hands to Sailor Celestial and she takes them as they look at what looks like a giant book in which in the pages, there are pictures of various different versions of all of them and Leafa is holding a smaller version of that same book and reading it to Rain, Seven, Yuuki, Strea, and Yui.

Finally, we return to see Suguha, Serena, and Kazuto at that same street in which Suguha closes that same book and turn to see all of their friends/family/loved ones waving towards them causing the three of them to run over towards them as the rainbow-colored birds create a rainbow in the sky.

(Sword Art Online opening music ‘Innocence’ ends)

Act 1: Sword Art Realities

Chapter 4: Off into a New Frontier

Early June 2026, Enterprise-A

On board the Enterprise-A, we are inside of the sickbay of the starship where our heroes and heroines, joined by Sonic the Hedgehog and his Freedom Fighter friends from his universe, are looking at the image of the ‘broken’ Earth with our heroes and heroines in shock and disbelief.

Kotone says, shocked, “No way…”

Keiko says, stunned and horrified, “The Earth…”

Rika yells out, in disbelief, “What the heck is going on here?!”

With the group in the sickbay, there is Captain Kirk, Spock, [Serena], and [Suguha] in which [Suguha] says, nervously, “That’s a good question actually.”

[Serena] asks Spock, “What is happening?”

Spock responds, “That can’t be logically determined at this time.”

Yolei yells out, strongly, “Can’t be…Hey! Our planet has broken apart!”

Spock says, in his usual stoic manner, “It would seem so. However, sensors report there is still atmosphere and life on the planet.”

There are plenty of confused looks and Lita asks, stunned, “Say what?!”

Mina yells out, confused, “How? It looks like our planet has been blown to pieces! How can still be an atmosphere?!”

Tails asks, “Doesn’t it look like what happened when our planet was broken?”

Everyone looks at Sonic and his friends and Sonic says, with a nod, “Yeah. It looks like what happened after Eggman interfered my reversal of his Super Genesis Wave merging our world with Megaman’s world. The backlash from that not only altered the history of my world, but it also caused the premature awakening of Dark Gaia which broke the planet apart, however, the planet managed to remain linked the core of our world and life was still able to exist due to the fact that Dark Gaia and Chip, Light Gaia, wasn’t supposed to awake again for millions of years.”

Mimi says, nervously, “I hope that doesn’t mean that an ancient monster has woken up.”

Spock says, “I can assure you that’s not the case. From what data we have gathered, it seems like the condition of this Earth is due to being trapped within a ‘warp’ of space-time, a powerful distortion in reality itself.”

Davis asks, confused, “Say what?”

Cody says, “I believe that he is saying that Earth is entrapped in a massive space-time warp and that’s the only thing that’s keeping it together since reality within the warp doesn’t work like ‘normal reality’.”

Spock says, “A bit contradicting and vague statement, but logically correct.”

Tai says, seriously, “Yeah, but what do we do about it? We can’t leave our home like this!”

Sailor Charon says, “There is a solution.” Everyone looks at Charon and she says, plainly, “I believe that the cause of this is the surge of temporal energy that escaped from the battle station when our Sailor Celestial attempted to reverse the damage caused by Doctor Eggman.”

Amara says, “She did contain to reverse and contain the warping of reality in a weakened condition. She was very drained thanks to that freak ripping her energies from her to fuel his machine to rewrite all of reality.”

Sailor Charon says, “Making her unable to contain those energies especially since they went out of control due to Eggman losing control of said machine and energies.”

Amara glares at Sonic and Sonic says, “Whoa! Couldn’t let Eggman rewrite all reality you know? That would be WAY uncool!”

Sailor Charon says, “However, if Sailor Celestial didn’t do what she did, things could have ended much worse.”

Mina asks, curiously, “How could it be any worse?” A lot of the others then look at her as if saying ‘Are you kidding’ and Mina says, nervously, “Oh, right. End of existence. Got it.”

Michelle says, “However, in her weakened state, she wasn’t able to completely reverse everything and this massive temporal distortion has engulfed the planet.”

Sailor Charon says, “Correct. But since her powers were the original ‘fuel’ for this, it is logical to say that her power can reverse it.”

Suguha’s voice then booms out, “Then what are we waiting for?!” Everyone turns to the source to see Suguha getting back on her feet and grabbing her broach from a nearby table.

Kazuto says, “Sugu!”

Kotone asks, curiously, “Should you be getting up?”

Suguha says, “Other than one heck of mirage that I’m going to nurse, I’m fine. Anyway, let me transform, power up, and get Earth fixed so we can call it a day.”

Lita says, “Whoa! Whoa! Hold it girl!”

Sakura tells Suguha, “No kidding! You just got up from trying to repair all of reality when you were weak as a kitten and you were stone cold knocked out. I doubt that your energies had time to fully recharge themselves!”

Suguha says, “I’ll be just fine! I’ve been through rougher than this!”

As Suguha prepares to transform, Ami shouts out, “Wait!”

However, it is too late as Suguha shouts out, “Ark Valkyrie Celestial, Make-up!” But instead of Suguha’s ‘regular’ transformation, Suguha yells out in pain as her body wildly sparks with her broach causing her to fall to her knees.

Kazuto yells out, horrified, “Sugu!”

Serena shouts out, horrified, “Suguha!”

Naruto yells out, horrified and worriedly, “Suguha-chan!” Kazuto, Serena, and Naruto step towards Suguha, but they are blocked by Sailor Charon and held back by Asuna, Darien, Sakura, and Hinata in which Suguha’s body stops sparking causing her to breathe heavily.

Suguha asks, weakly, “What?” Naruto, Serena, and Kazuto surround Suguha and they help her to her feet.

Serena asks Suguha, worriedly, “Are you okay?’

Suguha responds, weakly, “Do I look okay?”

Ami tells Suguha, “You can’t transform right now. Your energies are very unstable.”

Suguha asks, confused, “Unstable?”

Trista tells Suguha, “While scanning your body, Ami had found that your energies have become very unstable due to your attempt to completely reverse Eggman’s ‘Ultra Genesis Wave’ in your weakened condition in which your broach has also become unstable. Remember, you are the Sailor Scout of Reality and you are affected by changes in the fabric of reality of which Eggman’s attempt to rewrite reality qualifies. Trying to reverse it so completely has basically…shorted out your powers causing your energies to become quite to very unstable. Even if that wasn’t the case, your broach is another important element. Serena’s broach focuses the power of the Silver Crystal to transform into Sailor Moon since the Silver Crystal is the core of her powers as well through not completely the source of her power as Sailor Moon. Your broach is different since it focuses your energies within you, as Sailor Celestial, to allow you to amuse your Sailor Scout form. With your broach in an unstable condition, you can’t transform.”

Cody asks, “And since it is both, it is absolutely certain that she can’t transform?”

Sailor Charon says, shaking her head, “Not until her energies stabilize.”

Suguha yells out, stunned, “Are you saying that I’m powerless?!”

Trista says, “Until your energies stabilize and your broach…reboots as the saying goes. However, we aren’t certain when your energies will stabilize enough to harness your powers. Your broach is a different story. It hasn’t suffered any major damage…it is just ‘shorted out’. I believe that it will return to normal in short order, but if your energies aren’t stable, it can’t ‘synchronize’ and then focus your energies to allow you to become Sailor Celestial.”

Davis says, “Meaning that our ‘heavy hitter’ is out of the fight for the time being.”

Sailor Charon says, “Crude, but truthful statement.”

Suguha says, irritated, “Damn it!”

Yolei asks, “Does this mean that there is nothing that we can do?”

[Suguha] asks, “What about me?”

Sailor Charon says, “Yes, since you are another version of Celestial, despite not being as powerful as ours…”

[Suguha] says, annoyed, “Hey!”

Sailor Charon says, ignoring [Suguha], “…the true problem is that it won’t be enough and it isn’t because of your ‘power level’. Eggman had also used the Chaos Emeralds and an Energist crystal, a crystalized form of Etherion, which is harder than Diamond and even the greatest man-made metals and materials of our world.”

Sally says, “The ‘backlash’ caused the Chaos Emeralds to become scattered.”

Sailor Charon says, “The Energist crystal was shattered and broken into many pieces that were also scattered by the ‘backlash’, but they weren’t spread across our universe. They were scattered through Cross Time.”

Davis asks, “Across time? You mean we’ve got to time travel?”

Trista says, “No, Davis. My sister said ‘Cross Time’. It is also known as quantum realities or alternate timelines.”

TK asks, surprised, “Wait! Are you saying that the crystal and emeralds are scattered across alternate versions of this universe?”

Sailor Charon says, “Of course. Of which, this ship comes from one of those timelines and while there are only seven Chaos Emeralds, I’m not sure how many pieces that the Energist crystal shattered into.”

Naruto asks, “Couldn’t you find another one?”

Sailor Charon says, “Remember, Energist is crystalized Etherion and the only known, at least that we know of, sources of Etherion are on here on this ship. Both versions of Sailor Celestial and you.”

[Suguha] asks, surprised while looking at Naruto, “Hold up! You have Etherion?!”

Naruto says, nervously, “Yeah. I’m supposed to be the ‘yang’ to Suguha’s ‘yin’ or the ‘shadow’ to her ‘light’.”

Sakura says, “Basically, Naruto is the ‘counter’ to our Suguha.”

Suguha says, annoyed, “Thanks a lot.”

Naruto says, nervously, “However, her ability with Etherion is light-years ahead of mine.”

Tai says, “Anyway, our main concern is finding those emeralds and that crystal.”

Sailor Charon says, “More so than your currently know, Taichi Kamiya. The situation doesn’t threaten our planet, it is a danger to all existence.”

Everyone looks at Sailor Charon and Yolei says, solemnly, “Oh, boy. Here we go.”

Sailor Charon says, “The distortion surrounding our Earth is expanding outwards, but not just in our universe, it is expanding into alternate timelines, alternate universes, and beyond.”

Davis says, with a sigh, “Give us the short version.”

Sailor Charon says, “If we don’t fix the distortion, our world shall become like a ‘black hole’ that will drain all of reality into oblivion.”

There are gasps of shock and horror and Yolei tells Davis, “You just had to ask.”

Captain Kirk asks, “You have got to be kidding?”

Spock says, “I do not believe that she is ‘jesting’, captain. Sensors show that the distortion has indeed opened what can be called ‘wormholes’ and the distortion around this Earth has indeed become more unstable. It is logical to say…”

Captain Kirk says, interrupting, “Spock, I get the point.”

Darien says, “The main problem is tracking the emeralds and the fragments of the crystal.”

Ami says, “If they are in various alternate timelines, there are an infinite number of universes to search.”

Lita says, “Basically, finding a needle in a cosmic level haystack.”

Amara says, with a nod, “No kidding.”

Matt says, “And I doubt that we have too much time to find them all before all of existence collapses.”

Patamon asks, “So, what are we supposed to do?”

Biyomon asks, nervously, “How are we going to find them?”

Just then a familiar female voice responds, “That’s a stupid question!”

Everyone, minus Spock, gives a look of surprise and Davis says, “I know that voice!” Just then what looks like a sliding door appears in the middle of the room.

Doctor McCoy asks, surprised, “What the hell?!” Just then the door opens and Washu steps out of the door into the room.

Washu says, “Whew! Took me forever!”
Davis says, surprised, “Washu!”

Washu looks at our heroes and heroines and she says, “Hey, guys!” Washu then puts her hands on her hips and she asks, sternly, “Care to mind telling me why Earth is surrounded in a realty-warping distortion, looks broken into ‘multiple zones’ and not to mention virtual worlds as well as the Digital World mixed in with the physical world?!”

There are looks of shock from our heroes and heroines and Rika asks, shocked, “Say what?!”

Captain Kirk asks, sternly, “Excuse me? How did you get aboard my ship?”

Washu says, with a wide smile, “I’m the greatest genius in this universe! You think that your shields can keep me out?! Ha! I’ve broken through better with both of my eyes closed!”

Davis tells Captain Kirk, “Dude, I wouldn’t if I were you! This is Washu, despite her ego, is a VERY, VERY smart person and even I have to admit, one of the smartest people in our universe.”

Captain Kirk asks, shocked, “This little girl?”

Tai tells Captain Kirk, “That ‘little girl’ has lived longer everyone in this room combined and if you aren’t careful, she will turn you into an outer space toad, literally!”

Washu says, with one of her ‘cute faces’, “Ah, come on, would a face like this do such a thing? And you shouldn’t talk about a woman’s age like that!” Tai gives a winch and Washu says, with a sigh and serious tone, “Anyway, right now, our Earth is trapped in a huge reality-warping distortion! Do you know how hard it was for me to break through it? What a pain!”

Shion says, “Things are going to get worse.”

Washu says, “Yeah, I already got that from the readings that I’m getting. We really don’t have much time. So, I think that it is a time for a summary of what’s going on.” Our heroes and heroines then explain about what happened to Washu and when they were done, Washu tells Suguha, “Geez, you really know how to give everyone a headache, you know that? For a whole month, the whole world was focused on you and you gave your mothers multiple heart attacks with your ‘heroic sacrifice’ not to mention your resurrection.”

Suguha says, annoyed, “I know! I know!”

[Suguha] says, “Man! I was shocked when I heard that!”

Suguha says, putting her hand over her heart, “Well, it hurts…A LOT!”

[Serena] says, with a nod, “I know how that feels.”

[Suguha] tells [Serena], “Sis, don’t go there.”

Washu says, “Anyway, I have to agree with what you guys already figured out.” Washu says, with a sly smirk, “It is a good thing I know how to track down those emeralds and crystal pieces.”

There are tons of looks of surprise and Kotone asks, curiously, “You do?”

Washu tells Kotone, with a proud smirk, “Who do you think you are talking to here? I’m the greatest genius in our universe and one of the greatest geniuses in the multiverse!”

Tai says, nervously, “You may be really smart, but there is a lot to be desired of you, Washu.” Washu gives an annoyed look at Tai, but she then gives a smirk.

Washu says, with a smile, “Anyway, if we’re going out on another bout of ‘reality hopping’, we’re going to need help. We should get back to the planet. You would also want to see how the others are doing down on the planet.” Washu says, with a smirk, “And if we’re going another ‘big journey’, again, we’re going to need reinforcements.”

Gabumon says, “Something tells me that you are right, Washu.”

Sakura says, with a nod, “No kidding.”

Hinata asks, “But who?”

Naruto says, with a smile, “I’m sure that Ange and the girls from Arzenal will want to help. Earth is their new home after all.”

Lita says, with a smirk, “You mean Ange will kick our asses on leaving her behind.”

Asuna says, with a giggle, “That would be Ange-chan for you, Lita-chan.”

Kari says, with a smile, “I agree.”

Washu says, taking out a bracelet, “If you are coming down, all of you should wear one of these. This way, you are protected from any effects from distortion warping our Earth and in fact, you might be able to take advantage of it.”

Keiko asks, confused, “Taking advantage of it? What do you mean?”

Washu says, with a smirk, “You are going to have to wait and see.” Washu looks at Captain Kirk and she says, taking out what looks like an electronic notepad, “Here you go.”

Captain Kirk catches the notepad and he asks, “What’s this?!”

Washu says, with a smile, “Your ship suffered a few ‘dings’ against that big bad battle station, right? Well, I’ve got a nice space-station where you get those ‘dings’ fixed.”

Captain Kirk asks, “You have a space-station here?”

Washu says, with a grin, “Built it over a weekend and it is just as good as your massive space-stations back home.”

Captain Kirk gives a look of surprise and plenty of our heroes and heroines say in unison, “Don’t ask.”

[Serena] and [Suguha] say in unison, “Don’t tell.” Soon enough, our heroes and heroines headed down to Earth via the ‘passageway’ that Washu provided to find out what’s happening on their home planet.

Early June 2026, Earth, Tokyo

Down on the Earth, our heroes and heroines are back in Tokyo in which they are greeted by a shocking sight!

Rika screams out, flabbergasted, “WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON HERE?!” Our heroes and heroines are looking around as they see flying Digimon as far as the eye can see and they can see that stuff from the Digital World ‘fused’ and ‘mixed’ with Tokyo.

Yolei says, shocked, “There are Digimon everywhere!”

TK says, stunned, “And there looks like pieces of the Digital World all over the place.”

Ken says, noticing that some areas are ‘pixelated’, “And some areas looks like what happens when something on a computerized screen gets ‘pixelated’.”

Just then a familiar male voice says, “That’s because this world and the Digital World have become fused together.” Everyone looks to the source to see Gennai walking over to them.

Tai says, “Gennai!”

Gennai says, “I’m glad that you are okay. As you can see, Earth has had its ‘Real World’, the Digital World, and even the virtual realms combined into one plane of existence.”

Davis yells out, “Are you saying that the Digi-World, the Real World, and even virtual worlds are combined into one world?”

Gennai asks, curiously, “Didn’t I just say that?”

Lita says, “When you think that things can’t get any weirder in our lives…”

Gennai asks, “May I believe that you know what caused the massive ‘warp’ in reality that caused this to happen?”

Mimi says, with a nod, “Yep.” Soon enough, our heroes and heroines explain what happened to Gennai.

When they are done, Gennai says, “Washu is right. We need to reverse this situation or all will be loss. It seems like all this is holding in place, but it is slowly and surely ‘degrading’ in which our Earth will become a ‘black hole’ that will drag a lot of other worlds, universes, and dimensions, if not all of existences, into oblivion.”

Amara asks, sarcastically, “No pressure, huh?”

Matt says, with a nod of agreement, “Took the words right out of our mouths.”

Gennai says, looking at Suguha, “But with Suguha’s powers in their unstable state, we can’t have her using those powers to try to restore everything back to normal. Her life and more could be in danger. Using her powers in their current unstable condition could accelerate the degradation or destroy everything immediately.”

Suguha says, annoyed, “Thanks a lot. You just said that I’m a bomb until my powers become stable again.”

Gennai tells Suguha, “No insult intended, Suguha.” Gennai says, “Based on what Washu says, I have to agree that you need those emeralds and that crystal.”

Yolei says, “Hold on! If we need an Energist crystal, aren’t there others out there? I know that kind of stuff is rare, but shouldn’t another version of Suguha be able to create another one? That way, we need to find only those emeralds.”

Mimi says, with a nod, “That’s a good point. Energist crystals are crystalized Etherion and we have the person that’s basically the source of Etherion…”

Sailor Charon says, “As I just said, the emeralds and crystal used were the focus to create the ‘warp’ in reality to rewrite it as Eggman intended, so, the particular crystal, which produces certain ‘elements’, is the only one that we can use. Yes, with the right training, the princess and her counterparts could create other Energist crystals, but they wouldn’t be exactly like the one used and we aren’t sure what kind of effects that it would cause.”

Trista says, with a sigh, “My sister is correct on that point.”

Mina says, annoyed, “That’s a major downer.”

Gatomon says, “I had a feeling that was the case.”

Hawkmon says, with a nod, “I have to agree. Nothing is ever that easy, Gatomon.”

TK asks, “When has it ever been easy for us?”

Plenty of the others nod their heads in agreement and Kazuto asks Gennai, “Gennai, you said that virtual worlds have been fused with the ‘real world’ and Digital World, right? Which ones?”

Gennai says, pointing to a location, “Take your pick, Kazuto.” As our heroes and heroines look at that location, they gasp to see none other than the World of Tree of Alfheim from Alfheim Online AKA ALO in the distance.

Everyone is shocked and Keiko asks, “Is that…?”

Izzy says, with a nod, “The World Tree from ALO.”

Rika yells out, flabbergasted, “What the heck is going on?!”

Gennai says, “It is like I said, the ‘distortion’ in reality has fused the Real World, the Digital World, and the ‘virtual worlds’ in this manner and it is not very much stable.”

Tai tells Gennai, “We kind of got that with the whole of existence going down the cosmic drain, Gennai.”

Mimi asks, “What should we do?”

Matt says, “The first thing that we should do is get ready for the trip around the multiverse since we need to find those emeralds and crystal pieces to have a chance to stop everything going to bust.”

Cody says, “We should gather allies for this. We are going to need all of the ones that we can get.”

Davis says, with a nod, “Something tells me that we aren’t the only ones that are going to be after those emeralds and crystals.”

Yolei says, nodding her head, “No kidding.”

Naruto says, with a smile, “Well, I’ll go get Ange and the others at Whirlpool with Hinata-chan and Sakura-chan.”

Tai says, with a nod, “Since you have mastered your dad’s legendary jutsu, you are able to go there since you have seal at your mom’s rebuilt homeland.”

Sakura says, “Yeah. Whirlpool has become stronger especially finding plenty of citizen that have been living in exile. While the Uzumaki clan was the rulers of the nation, they weren’t the only citizens of the nation and the majority of the civilians of Whirlpool were scattered all over the Elemental Nations in which they were hoping for the return of their nation one day.”

TK says, with a smile, “Well, they got their wish.”

Hinata says, with a smile, “It has been only over half-a-year, close to a year actually, and New Whirlpool has become a significant nation again.”

Mina says, with a grin, “With less problems of it being destroyed again.”

Sakura says, with a smirk, “No joke. Once the Elemental Nations learned about the powers of Valkyrie Sailor Scouts and they are allied with the ‘prince of Whirlpool’ and his family, the other nations are thinking twice and three-times about trying to destroy Whirlpool once and for all.”

Serena says, nervously, “Well, we aren’t anything like people like Orochimaru or Danzo.”

Hinata says, “True, but they know that you won’t let them mess with people that you care about just like Naruto-kun.”

Sakura says, “Anyway, we should also check on our families as well.”

The others nod their heads, but then a familiar female voice shouts out, excitedly, “Kirito!” Everyone looks towards to the voice only for Kazuto to get tackled to the roof of the building that our group was on, hard!

Asuna yells out, shocked, “Kirito-kun!” Everyone then sees that the one that tackled Kirito is none other than Strea, in her ALO form, hugging Kazuto.

Keiko asks, surprised, “Strea?!”

Kotone asks, shocked, “What’s Strea doing here?!”

Strea tells Kazuto, excitedly, “It is so good to see Kirito!”

Kazuto tells Strea, grunting, “Strea…could you stop…please…you are…”

Just then another familiar female voice shouts out, “Strea, stop it! You are hurting daddy!” Soon enough, none other than Yui, in her ALO pixie form, flies up and she says, “You are making daddy uncomfortable in all sorts of ways, Strea. Please get off him.”

Strea says, with a pout, “Okay!”

Asuna asks, surprised, “Yui-chan?!”

Yui says, with a kind smile, “Hello, mommy.”

Asuna asks, confused, “What?”

Sakura says, with a plain tone, “Something tells me that it has to due to the fact that ALO has fused with the ‘real’ and Digital Worlds.”

Izzy says, “I believe that’s an accurate statement.”

Just then another female voice shouts out, “Asuna! Everyone!” Soon enough, everyone looks to see Yuuki, Seven, and Rain, in their ALO avatars, flying in and landing around.

Mina asks, shocked, “Yuuki?! Seven?! Rain?!”

Seven says, with a smile, “Privyet, everyone!”

Lita says, “It looks like you were playing ALO when it became ‘fused’ with the ‘real world’ and the Digital World.”

Seven says, with a nod, “Yes. I was doing research within Aincrad when this whole situation happened.”

Rain says, with a nod, “One moment, we were in New Aincrad and the next, we found ourselves in our ALO avatars IRL, but IRL had become one with ALO!”

Asuna says, a bit nervously, “It is a bit hard to explain.”

Seven says, looking at Suguha, “Something tells me that it has to do with her…Or more specifically her power.”

Suguha says, with a solemn tone, “You got that right.”

Suguha groan out and Hinata asks, concerned, “Are you okay, Suguha-chan?”

Suguha says, with a sigh, “Still a bit winded, but I’m okay.”

Ami tells Suguha, “Please take it easy, Suguha. It doesn’t seem like the currently unstable nature of your power’s energies is effecting your physical health, but we need to make sure of that.”

Yuuki asks, curiously, “Is something wrong with Leafa…I mean Suguha?”

Kari says, a bit nervously, “Well…” After Strea stopped hugging Kazuto and Kazuto got back to his feet, our heroes and heroines explain to Strea, Yui, Yuuki, Seven, and Rain about what’s going on.

When they are done, Yui gives a pout-like look on her face and she says, looking at Suguha, “Auntie Leafa, I know that it wasn’t your fault that you got kidnapped by that person to use your powers for his selfish purposes, but you keep putting yourself in needless risk so much!”

Suguha tells Yui, “Come on, Yui-chan. All of existence was at stake. I couldn’t just stick around and do nothing!”

Yui yells out, irritated, “You could have mommy and everyone else help you! Auntie Serena is very powerful herself! The others could have helped you with the strain of repairing the damage that the bad man had done!” Suguha flinches from the annoyed pout and glare that Yui was putting on her and Yui says, with a sigh, “I don’t want to see daddy really hurt ever again…”

Flashback; April 2026, ALO

Within the fields of Svart Alfheim, Kirito is looking into the darkened skies of ALO and he seems to be looking for something or someone.

Just then a familiar female voice says, concerned tone in their voice, “Kirito-kun…” Kirito turns to see Asuna, Yuuki, Strea, and Yui flying up to him.

Yuuki says, solemnly, “We saw what happened via MMO Stream.”

Kirito lowers his head and he says, plainly, “Even there…”

Yui says, worriedly, “Daddy…”

Kirito turns away from them and he says, “I know…I know…I was there…I saw her…beaten up body…her lifeless face…but I…I just can’t…I couldn’t help…if I came back…to ALO…I would find her…flying in the skies…loving the wind passing through and by her…enjoying the sensation of flying through these virtual skies…” Kirito’s hands tighten into fists and tears start to stream down his virtual cheeks. Soon after, Kirito is hugged by Strea, Asuna, and Yui causing them to look with his redden eyes and cheeks with surprise.

Strea says, solemnly, “Kirito…”

Yui says, weakly, “Daddy…”

Asuna says, with tears in her eyes, “Kirito-kun, I’m sorry…I’m so sorry…” Yuuki just looks at the solemn scene with a solemn look in her eyes.

End Flashback; Return to the Present

Back in the present, Yui says, solemnly, “I don’t want daddy to experience such pain ever again.”

Mina says, in a reassuring tone, “Hey! Hey! Suguha-chan is just fine now! She is just a bit…winded.”

Just then a familiar female voice shouts out, “Well, let’s make sure of that!” Suguha then yelp as she was dragged by the back of her shirt by Washu in which she says, with a sly smile, “We need to make sure that she is just fine.”
Davis yells out, sternly, “Hold it!” Before Washu knows it, she is separated from Suguha by Naruto, protected by both Kazuto and Naruto, and Davis tells Washu, giving her a ‘death glare’, “Remember the last time that you decided to ‘help’ us with Suguha?”

Flashback; May 2026

Within Washu’s lab, Washu is giggling like a high school teenager as she looks at a bound Suguha, who is bound to a high-tech lab with her wrists and ankles bound by metal bindings.

Suguha yells out, “What the heck is this?!”

Washu says, excitedly, “Don’t worry, my dear! Just stay calm and everything will be okay.”

Suguha shouts out, annoyed, “You think that anyone can stay calm in this situation?! What’s the big idea?!”

Davis’ voice booms out, strongly, “That’s what we would like to know!” Suguha and Washu look towards the source of the voice to see our heroes and heroines, human and Digimon alike, entrapped in what looks like a vast web of huge spider-like threads in which are sticking to the group.

Lita yells out, annoyed, “What’s the big idea?!”

Washu says, with a sweet smile, “Sorry, but I couldn’t take the chance of you have ‘protests’ to my ‘examination’.”

Amara shouts out, “Well, if you had to trap us, then it is something that we would protest!”

Naruto yells out, strongly, “What are you going do to Suguha-chan?!” Naruto then realizes something and he says, annoyed, “You wouldn’t dare…!!”

Washu says, with a smile, “Oh, come on! It isn’t like I’m going to kill her or something. Ragnarok already did that. But this girl just came back to life!”

Suguha yells out, annoyed, “Yeah, due to a mixture of my powers, Silver Millennium technology, a freaky ‘healing spring’, and a lot of luck! This isn’t an anime, manga, or, especially a game where you have multiple lives or you can ‘revive’ at a certain location like in RPG!”

Sakura says, seriously, “Like seriously!”

Davis says, with an annoyed groan, “And we should have figured that Washu would want Suguha for more than a simple ‘look over’ since she just came back to life!”

Washu says, with a wide smirk, “Yes, you should! I’m our universe’s greatest mind ever! Coming back from the dead isn’t a normal thing by the universe’s standards, you know!” Washu then puts on a pair of white latex gloves, ones that scientist and doctors use, and she says, with a giggle, “Time to get started!”

Suguha gives a really nervous look and Kazuto yells out, annoyed, “Don’t you dare!”

Naruto says, seriously, “No kidding!”

Serena says, with a mixture of concern and anger in her voice, “Stop it now!” However, Washu doesn’t listen as she, with a mad scientist gleam in her eyes, approaches a really nervous Suguha until she finds herself lifted off the ground by none other than Ryoko, her daughter.

Ryoko asks, with a sigh, “What are you up to this time, Washu?”

Washu asks, annoyed, “What do you think that you are doing?”

Just then another female voice asks, “We are the ones that should be asking that, Washu! What do you think that you are doing to Lady Suguha?!” Washu then looks to see Tenchi, his grandfather, Ayeka, and Sasami coming up to them.

Ryoko retorts, “What do you think princess?! The girl just revived from the dead and Washu wants to know how she came back from the freaking grave! Duh!”

Ayeka tells Ryoko, annoyed, “Don’t you think that I don’t already know that?! This is Washu that we are talking about after all!” Ayeka then goes to a panel and Washu yelps as she pushes a button in which the ‘webbing’ entrapping our heroes and heroines vanishes causing them to crash to the ground in a comical manner.

Washu then asks, “Hey, how did you do that?”

Ayeka says, “I’ve been to your room in this house enough times and have enough knowledge of what buttons to push.” Ayeka pushes another button and Suguha yelps as she released from her restraints as she whips over to a machine that’s containing her broach in a force-field in which she turns off the force-field to retrieve it causing her to look at Washu with an angered look in her eyes.

Washu says, nervously, “Uh oh.”

Ryoko says, with a grin, “You are in big trouble now.” Washu then glances over to see our heroes and heroines getting to her feet and Washu getting a feeling that this won’t be good for her.

End Flashback; Return to the Present

Washu gives a nervous look as she remembers that memory and she says, nervously, “Not really.” She then yelps out in pain as Davis bashes her in the head in which she yells out, annoyed, “What the heck was that for?!”

Davis yells out, sternly, “Remember now?!”

Amara asks, with a sly mischievous smile, “Can you hit her again?”

Washu yells out, annoyed tone, “Hey!”

Naruto says, with a wicked smile, “I could fulfil that request.”

Washu says, nervously, “Yipe! Come on, can you really blame me? I’m the universe’s greatest scientist. You can’t really hold it against me.”

Our heroes and heroines say in unison, “Yes, we can!”

Washu gives an annoyed pout and she says, “Well, if you want to get any better idea on when Suguha gets her powers back, you can’t find anyone better.”

Cody says, “As much as we aren’t forgiving Washu for that stunt that she pulled after Suguha revived, she has a point.”

Naruto says, crossing his arms, “I still don’t like it. She possesses quite a few qualities that are similar to Orochimaru and while she is far from that snake, her obsession with knowledge rubs me the wrong way, believe it.”

Sakura says, with a plain tone, “Same here, Naruto.”

Ami says, looking at Naruto, Serena, and Kazuto, “Washu’s equipment may help get a better idea on Suguha’s situation.”

The three of them look REALLY reluctant and Kazuto says, “Not without major guards and insurance.”

Serena says, looking at Amara, Michelle, Hotaru, and Trista, “Amara, I want you and the Outer Scouts to go with Ami to escort Suguha to Washu and watch over her carefully.”

Kazuto tells the four Outer Sailor Scouts, seriously, “However, if Washu tries to become…frisky with Sugu…Please remind her on the reason she should not.”

Amara says, with a wicked smirk, “With pleasure.”

Washu gains a nervous look and Davis says, taking out some kind of remote device, “And you should take this. This is a special device that I had made with Ami’s and Izzy’s help.”

Davis gives the device to Hotaru and she asks, “What is it?”

Izzy says, “It is a device that will disable all of the devices in Washu’s lab.”

Washu yells out, stunned, “Say what?!”

Davis says, with a grin, “I got Ryoko’s help on that one. I made sure that your lab couldn’t detect her for long enough for her to get the data needed on how to do that.”

Washu shouts out, “That’s not nice! It’s like you don’t trust me!” Plenty of the others glare at Washu with looks that say: ‘You have got to be kidding!’ Soon after, Ami, Suguha, and the four Outer Sailor Scouts are assembled together with Naruto, Serena, and Kazuto in front of Suguha.

Suguha tells them, “Be careful.”

Naruto tells Suguha, with a grin, “I’ll be just fine, Suguha-chan, believe it.”

Suguha says, with a grin, “All this time and you still haven’t got rid of your ‘verbal tick’.”

Sakura tells Suguha, “Well, he wouldn’t be Naruto-kun if he didn’t have it.”

Suguha says, with a smile, “Yeah, I guess so.”

Naruto says, annoyed, “Hey!”

Hinata tells Naruto, with a loving tone, “That’s why we love you so much, Naruto-kun.”

Suguha tells Kazuto, “You and sis be careful out there, big brother.”

Kazuto tells Suguha, with a smile, “We’ll be okay, Sugu.”

Serena says, “Come back soon.”

Suguha tells Serena, with a grin, “Come on, sis. I came back from the dead! This won’t be a big deal.” Kazuto and Serena glance at each other before Washu creates a portal in which she, Ami, Suguha, and the Outer Sailor Scouts go through in which closes after they have gone through.

Darien then looks at Naruto, Sakura, and Hinata, “Since Naruto knows his father’s jutsu, he can get to Whirlpool and the Elemental Countries faster.”

Serena says, “We’re going to need Ange’s help on this one.”

Darien says, “We’re going to need more than Ange’s help.”

Serena gives a confused look and Sakura asks Darien, “Wait! You want to go to the other ninja villages for this?”

Darien says, “Not exactly. The Hidden Mist and their home nation, Water, are still recovering from the civil war caused by Obito and his machinations, Stone, despite them backing down, still isn’t ‘friendly’ with Naruto’s family despite Naruto’s father ‘doing his job’ as a Leaf ninja at the time, and Cloud…”

Lita says, “Let’s just say that plenty of us trust them as far as we can spit at them.”

Sakura says, shaking her head, “Despite the Raikage knowing better, there are still those that have an ‘unhealthy obsession’ with ‘improving’ their village’s military strength.”

Kazuto says, with a serious expression on his face, “And quite a few of them had an ‘unhealthy obsession’ with Sugu and her powers as Sailor Celestial, Etherion and all.”
Rika says, with a sly grin, “Well, they learned the hard way that you don’t mess with us.”

Lita says, nervously, “Yeah, Mina-chan had a very ‘unusual way’ to do that.”

Mina says, with a grin, “Well, working with Naruto-kun really helps.”

Plenty of the others think at the same time, “That’s what we’re afraid of.”

Sakura tells Naruto, with a sigh, “You had to be quite the ‘influence’ on her.” Naruto rubs his head, nervously, at Sakura’s statement.

Darien says, “And then there is the Leaf…”

There is a bit of silence and Mina says, annoyed, “Geez! Even after Naruto-kun and Kurama-kun are revealed to be two separated beings, there are still people in the village that just plain asses.”

Lita says, “Well, with what happened between Naruto-kun and the village, which has been mainly unchanged despite our two Earths being fused into one Earth from the ‘dimension fusion’, the Leaf’s reputation has been seriously damaged and quite a number of business have been hit hard…”

Raye says, “Due to the fact that they made Naruto’s childhood a living hell and thus, they brought it on themselves.”

Sakura says, annoyed, “And there is quite a few civilians saying that they have been reduced to ‘second-class citizens’, but we know that it is a lot of bull. After Naruto-kun’s dad died on the day of Naruto-kun’s birth, the civilians manipulated things to gain power causing problems for the Third Hokage-sama and Lady Tsunade.”

Cody says, “Which Danzo allowed in order to manipulate things to get himself to be Hokage and then take back that power, using all the blackmail that he gathered on them, to become the supreme and undisputed leader since he believed that only ninja should lead the Leaf Village…with him as the only ninja leading.”

Yolei says, “Well, Danzo’s plans partially came true since the civilian council can’t do crap unless by Hokage and ninja council oversight in which the ‘original civilian council’, the ones that caused Naruto’s childhood to be a real pain in the butt, got the boot in which they are the ones with the whole ‘abuse’ claims which shows how hypocritic jerks that they really are.”

Sakura says, “And they are in the real small minority since the ninja are glad about that part. They don’t like the damage to their reputation, but they are glad that the Leaf is a ‘ninja run village’ again.” Sakura says, with a sigh, “But they are letting their ‘new power’ go their heads.”

Naruto says, with a sigh, “No joke. It is a good thing that Kakashi-sensei knows better and he is making sure to try to keep things civil there.”

Hinata says, “I was surprised when Lady Tsunade stepped down as Hokage and gave the position to Kakashi-sensei.”

Davis says, “Well, the guy has some major work to do. It wasn’t the war that did the greatest damage to the Leaf, but what happened between the Leaf and Naruto’s family. However, Naruto and his family were in the right with their grievances which is why they took everything that belonged to the Uzumaki back from the Leaf including the Uzumaki clan insignia from them.”

Hinata says, with a nod, “The civilian council tried to wipe Naruto-kun’s clan from history in order to spit him.”

Mina says, with a smirk, “Well, they are learning about now since it is being ‘force-fed’ to them especially with that fact that Tsunade also belongs to the Uzumaki clan as well as the Senju clan with the fact that the Senju and Uzumaki are ‘cousin clans’.”

TK says, “The Leaf ninja weren’t happy when they had to remove the Uzumaki clan spiral from their vests.”

Raye says, “Well, they should have known better.”

Mimi asks Hinata, “So, how are things?”

Hinata says, “The nations are still recovering from the war. With MIST aiding him, he did significant damage to the five Great Ninja Village even with us helping them.”

Mina says, with a grin, “Yeah, they got a good taste of what we can do especially Suguha.”

Flashback; Early March 2026, Elemental Countries

In the Elemental Countries, a group of ninja from the five Great Ninja Villages, Leaf, Mist, Stone, Cloud, and Sand, are behind Valkyrie Sailor Celestial as she stares down at a group of ninja who have been obviously reanimated by the Reanimation Forbidden Jutsu.

As they charged in, Sailor Celestial says, “You, boys, better stay back. I don’t want you getting caught in the crossfire.”

One Stone ninja shouts out, “No way! Those ninja are reanimated due to a forbidden jutsu! They are already dead! You can’t kill them! What is a weird armored plated little girl going to do?!” Sailor Celestial gives the Stone ninja an annoyed death glare that unnerves quite a few ninja and she turns back to the charging reanimated ninja in which she draws her two swords.

“Celestial Atomic Reversal!”

Sailor Celestial creates a white and black sphere of energy that fires right into the center of the mass of reanimated ninja that creates a grey dome in which the reanimated ninja are broken down at the sub-atomic levels and when the grey dome fades away, the reanimated ninja have been completely vaporized! The ninja have their jaw drops on the floor and Sailor Celestial looks at them with a sly smirk on her face.

Sailor Celestial asks, slyly, “Got anything else to say, big mouth?” On the meanwhile, Naruto and Sakura, who were watching nearby, can’t help to smirk at this.

End Flashback; Return to the Present

Remembering that memory, Sakura has a smirk while Naruto is holding his sides as he is in a fit of uncontrolled laughter.

Naruto says, excitedly, “Man! You should have seen their faces!”

Sakura says, with a sigh and smile, “While it was amusing, it did cause quite a few troubles in the end.”

Rika says, with a nod, “No joke! When your world and ours were fused into one world, your homeland had knowledge of Silver Millennium as part of its ‘ancient lore’ and when they learned that their ‘lore’ was the real deal as well as Suguha’s powers, there were quite a few that became ‘too interested’ in her.”

Lita says, with a grin, “Thankfully, plenty of them learned why it isn’t cool to mess with us.”

Mina says, with a proud smile, “Hey! That was my work!”

Raye tells Mina, lightly bopping her head in the head, “Yeah, Mina-chan. And you went over the top with that.”

Mina says, rubbing her head, “I don’t think so.”

Naruto tells Mina, with a grin, “Well, I liked it.”

Mina tells Naruto, with a grin, “I’m glad that I impressed the ‘Master Prankster’.” Plenty of our heroes and heroines get nervous if Naruto is impressed with Mina’s ‘work’ for various reasons.

Darien says, plainly, “Well, getting back on topic, I believe that they aren’t the only ninjas that we can ask for assistance.”

Kazuto says, “And we can trust the Mugen Tenshin and Hayabusa clans.”

TK says, “Good idea. I mean that help isn’t just going to fall from the sky.”

But then a loud familiar female voice shouts out, from above, “Look out! Look out! Look out!”

Davis asks, confused, “Huh?” When the others start looking up, Naruto gets hit from above and he slams down onto the roof of the building.

Hinata yells out, shocked, “Naruto-kun!” Everyone looks at Naruto only to find none other than the human version of the CPU Neptune, known as Adult Neptune, due to her being a more ‘mature’ version of Neptune, at least in a ‘physical manner’, sitting on top of Naruto.

Adult Neptune says, “Ouch! Not again! You are really becoming a pain, Crosite!”

A high-pitched female voice responds, “You think that I’m going to take being trapped in your stupid notebook lying down? No way!”

Serena asks, surprised, “Neptune?!”

Adult Neptune focuses on the others and she yells out, excitedly, “Hey, everyone! What’s happening?”

Sakura tells Adult Neptune, pointing to Naruto, “First off, could you get off of Naruto-kun?” Adult Neptune looks down and she yelps as she finds herself on top of Naruto.

Adult Neptune leaps to her feet and she says, “Oops! Sorry about that!”

Naruto struggles back up to his feet and Hinata asks, “Are you okay, Naruto-kun?”

Naruto says in reply, “Yeah, I’m okay.”

Kari asks Adult Neptune, “Neptune, what are you doing here?”

Adult Neptune says, with a smile, “Well, I’ve been just been exploring around the multiverse after I had gotten back to my home dimension.”

Mimi asks, “You mean the Ultra Dimension?”

Adult Neptune says, “Yep! When I found out that mini-me and Nepgear have been in my home dimension, it was easy for me to find my home world and I have been going back to visit every once in a while. My old friends were really shocked at how big I’ve gotten which really isn’t surprising since I’ve spent more time in other worlds than passed in my home world. But I’ve been mainly visiting other worlds in the multiverse and just helping out as I can.”

Sakura says, with a smile, “Same old Nep!”

Adult Neptune says, annoyed, “Hey, I’m not that old! I’m still a beautiful young maiden at the prime of her life!” Adult Neptune asks, looking around, “So, what’s going on? Where are we?”

Davis says, nervously, “Well, this is our home world of Earth…”

Adult Neptune says, excitedly, “Really? This is your world!” Adult Neptune says, looking around, “Wow! This place looks more exciting than my Gamindustri or Gamindustri that my ‘mini-me’ is one of the rulers of.”

TK says, a bit nervously, “Well, Earth doesn’t normally look like this.”

Adult Neptune asks, curiously, “It doesn’t?”

Darien tells Naruto, Sakura, and Hinata, “You should head off to Whirlpool to see Naruto’s parents and get the help of Ange and the others.”

Naruto says, with a nod, “Right.” Naruto then takes Sakura and Hinata and with a bright flash of the Hirashin, the three of them teleport away to Whirlpool to get more help.

Adult Neptune asks, curiously, “So, what’s up?”

Davis tells Adult Neptune, “We’ll explain along the way. We need to check-up on our families and gather help for our situation.”

Adult Neptune says, excitedly, “Well, I can be help!”

The high-pitched female voice says, “You don’t even know what’s going on, but I’ve got to say that it is really cool!”

Raye says, with a snarl, “I’m not surprised that you think so, Croire.”

Raye asks Adult Neptune, “Is she under control?”

Adult Neptune says, with a grin, “Yep!”

Lita asks Raye, “What’s up, Raye?”

Raye tells Adult Neptune, with a sly grin, “I’ve got an idea on how to make that little bug behave.”

Adult Neptune asks, curiously, “Really?”

The high-pitched female voice says, “Uh oh.”

Serena asks, “What do you have planned Pyro?”

Raye says, with a grin, “I just remembered something about that bug and it might help us find those Energist pieces.”

As Croire was protesting about being called a ‘bug’, Kazuto, Davis, Serena, and Darien ‘sense’ something and Darien says, “Speaking of unwanted help…” Plenty of the others gained confused looks and Darien says, looking in a certain direction, “You can come out now.” The others looked confused, but when they look in the same direction that Darien is looking at in which Miyabi comes out of the shadows.

Lita says, narrowing her eyes, “We know you.”

Miyabi says, with a smirk, “I’m not surprised that you haven’t forgotten me.”

Yolei says, with a glare, “You are part of that so-called ‘evil ninja faction’. The Hebijo Girls Academy.”

Miyabi says, with a smirk, “It is good to know that you ‘so-called heroes’ have good enough memories. However, you are missing one thing.”

Davis asks, annoyed, “Oh, yeah! What’s that?”

Serena’s expression becomes really nervous and Miyabi says, pointing to Serena, “Your Moon Princess’ sensei.”

There are gasps of surprise and Rika yells out, annoyed, “What kind of game are you trying to play?”

Lita yells out, annoyed, “There is no way that Serena would join people like you!”

Just then a female voice shouts out, slyly, “Oh, really?” Soon after, another person emerges from the shadows.

This person looks to be around 21-22 years of age with dark green cap on top of her shoulder-length light brown hair with beyond chin-length bangs framing her face, a pair of oval-framed in front of her dark green-eyes, and she is wearing what amounts to a dark green and black military-style female uniform with a dark green jacket that goes up to her thighs, but the bottom half of the jacket is open to reveal her white skirt, brown stockings that goes up to cover the bottom half of her upper tights, and dark green boots with one-inch heels.

Yolei says, “You are the Miyabi’s fan girl, aren’t you? Imu!”

The young woman yells out, annoyed, “I’m not like pink-haired harpy from that Naruto manga that followed around that Uchiha emo!”

Mina says, nervously, “Girl, you didn’t deny that you were Miyabi’s ‘fan girl’.” The young woman, Imu, gives a look of shock and then a look of anger.

Miyabi sighs and she says, “Imu, calm the heck down.”

Imu gives a nervous blush and she says, nervously, “Yes, Miyabi.”

Miyabi then asks, pointing to Serena, “And why is princess over here not denying my statement like the rest of you are?” Everyone then looks at Serena, who has her head lowered, and looking away from the others causing them to give looks of surprise at knowing what this implies.

Tai asks, curiously, “You’re kidding me?”

Lita tells Serena, “Come on, Serena. This is some kind of joke.”

Serena doesn’t answer and Tai thinks in his mind, “I don’t think that this is a joke.”

Asuna asks Serena, curiously, “Serena-chan?”

Miyabi says, with a smirk, “It is as it is. Your princess is a part of Hebijo Academy.”

Serena yells out, annoyed, “That’s not true and you know it! Just I became your student doesn’t mean…!!” Just then Serena realizes her ‘slip-up’ and she nervously clamps her mouth shut.

Miyabi says, with a grin, “Well, princess, it seems now we know why your friends call you ‘Meatball Head’.”

Raye asks Serena, “Why, Serena?”

Miyabi says, with a plain tone, “Because, despite you calling her ‘Meatball Head’, she seems to have more brains than most of you.”

Plenty of the others glare at Miyabi, but then Serena says, with a completely out-of-character dangerous plain tone, “Miyabi-sensei, you can do whatever you want with me. But when you insult the people that I love, you are taking things too far.” Serena then gives a dangerous deadly glare that’s completely out-of-character for her, surprising the others, and causing Imu to get nervous.

However, Miyabi gains a confident smile and she says, “Not bad, princess. That’s more like it.” Miyabi says, with a plain tone, “You are really naïve. You really think that real combat is like those goofy kid anime enemies that you have been fighting from when you became Sailor Scouts to before SAO? Don’t make me laugh.”

Lita yells out, annoyed, “What was that?”

Miyabi says, with a plain tone, “You heard me. You never got a taste of real combat until THAT DAY back in April.”

Ken asks, “You mean…?”

Imu says, plainly, “Exactly. The day that the ‘mightiest Sailor Scout of all’ got beaten into paste by a REAL MONSTER, not those kiddy anime monsters that you fought before.”

Plenty of the others glare at Imu and Miyabi tells Imu, “Imu, take it easy.”

Imu says, a bit nervously, “Sorry, Miyabi.”

Miyabi says, “However, Imu has a point. Ragnarok wasn’t the exception, he is the RULE. Monsters…REAL ‘monsters’ are exactly like him. They don’t just ‘goof around’ and fight like they do in a kiddy magical girl anime, they fought like ‘it’. They are ruthless. They are relentless. They only seek to kill, slaughter, and destroy. And we, shinobi, outside of the Elemental Countries, know this best since we deal with true monsters…yokai…true demons and fiends. It doesn’t matter if you are Hebijo, Hanzo, Hayabusa, Mugen Tenshin, or whatever. We fight in battles against this ‘monsters’ and they are bloody.”

Sailor Charon says, “Unfortunately, Miyabi-san has a point. All ninja outside of the Elemental Countries get into battles with not only each other, but also yokai as well. And even the most elite members of the shinobi outside of the Elemental Countries have trouble with yokai. However, Elemental Country ninja wouldn’t fare much better against the yokai than our nation’s various shinobi clans do.”

Mimi asks, curiously, “Really?”

Sailor Charon says, “That’s correct, Mimi-san. Youma, like those from the Negaverse, don’t compare to Yokai. Youma are just one word to Yokai: Jokes.”

Plenty of the others becomes nervous, surprised, and/or both and Mina asks, curiously and nervously, “Really? You are joking, right?”

Sailor Charon says, shaking her head, “Yokai are fiercer, brutal, and more dangerous than any of the ‘minions’ of our enemies that we faced up to before SAO. In fact, they are more dangerous than the ‘generals’ of the all the enemies that we faced from when Serena first became Sailor Moon to the end of the conflict with Chaos.”

Miyabi says, with a smirk, “Now, I doubt that you think that I’m ‘blowing smoke’ now.” Miyabi says, looking at Serena, “Princess, there, learned my point plainly.”

Flashback; April 2026

Serena yelps as she rolls across the ground before coming to a stop and she groans as she struggles to get back on her feet as Miyabi structs over to her confidently with Serena’s broach in hand.

Serena says, annoyed, “No fair! Give that back!” Serena prepares to leap forward to get her broach back from Miyabi, but Imu tackles her to ground and restrains her arms behind Serena’s back in which she shouts out, “Hey, that hurts!”

Imu says, “Good! Maybe it will get more blood to that brain of yours!”

Serena says, with a look of hurt in her expression, “W-What do you want? Kicking a person while they are down is…is just wrong!”

Miyabi says, “There is no ‘right or wrong’ in battle, princess. There is only just survival. We are here to knock this and other lessons into that thick head of yours.”

Imu says, “We’re here to break you out of your naïve frame of mine…the frame of mind that got Sailor Celestial killed!”

Serena yells out, her expression starting to get angry, “What?!”

Miyabi tells Serena, glaring at her, “Don’t give me that princess. You know damn well what! You really think that Ragnarok was an exception to the rule of opponents that you will face? News flash, princess! He isn’t the exception, he is the RULE!”

Serena asks, confused, “W-What are you talking about?”

Serena yelps as pressure is put on her arms and back and Imu says, “Exactly what Miyabi is saying Tsukino! Ragnarok is the real type of enemy that you would face in real combat! You and your ‘Sailor Scouts’ have just being fighting nobodies! Peons! Real monsters wouldn’t ‘goof around’ as the monsters that you fought before SAO! Real ‘monsters’ would exactly be like what Ragnarok was! Relentless! Blood-thirsty! Just plain killers!”

Imu says, “We should know since shinobi, here, in Japan no matter what ‘faction’ they belong to face such creatures! Yokai and fiends! Real monsters! And they are killers!”

Miyabi says, with a plain tone, “Several years ago, a team of evil ninja, including Imu and I, were going to fight a group of good ninja, but we were all attacked by a single yokai and only Imu and I survived the battle. Our comrades and the good ninja were slaughtered! Imu and I only survived due to the fact that I had used my special power and it caused me to go into a coma for three years with Imu stuck in a hospital and recovering for around a year herself!”

Imu tells Miyabi, “Miyabi…”

Miyabi holds her hand to ‘keep calm’ to Imu and Miyabi tells Serena, sternly, “The point is, princess, you and your girls were just plain lucky. If you had faced yokai like we, ninja, do, you would have been dead before dawn. You wouldn’t have last a night. That’s what real battle is, princess. It is life and death. Brutal! Cruel! Full of death and destruction! And facing monsters like that, you need to be as unrelenting and unyielding as they are! You may have had some experience in battling for life and death in SAO, but you never truly battle against real monsters. Real monsters don’t follow ‘patterns’ like those generated in VR! And they certainty aren’t even close to those jokes that you fought before SAO. This isn’t a ‘magical girl anime’, Sailor Moon…This is war! And it was that naïve thinking that lead Sailor Celestial to her death!”

Imu says, sternly, “Because you weren’t ready for real monster, you got pummeled into the ground! The only reason that you and Sailor Celestial were still standing was because that the two of you were the most powerful of the Sailor Scouts and for you, your experience in SAO, despite it not ‘fully replicating’ ‘true battle’. But even then, you weren’t ready for such a beast as Ragnarok!”

Serena shouts out, “How could we be?!”

Miyabi says, sternly, “Excuses don’t work in battle! Excuses get people killed! Oh, wait! Someone was killed! Sailor Celestial is nothing more than a corpse now!” Serena starts to struggle and tries to lash out in anger and Miyabi tells her, as tears start to fall from Serena’s eyes, “Lash out all that you want! But the facts are the facts! If all of you were still fighting Ragnarok, she might still be alive now! Or at least, you made sure that your healer, Sailor Saturn, stay conscious, she could have helped the others heal and all of you could have battled Ragnarok and she would have lived! But no, she’s dead!”

Serena cries out, with tears of pain in her eyes, “What do you want from me?!”

Imu yells out, “We want you to face facts and reality, Tsukino! Your nativity in true battle is one of the reasons that your beloved ‘royal sister’ is dead as a doornail! You rely too much on your magical powers and weapons and when they were useless, you were reduced to a ‘rock-and-sock’ battle that got Sailor Celestial beaten and impaled to death!”

Serena says, “We had other powers! Our force abilities and chakra skills!”

Miyabi says, sternly, “Excuses! Didn’t I say that that excuses get people killed?! You had other powers, yes, but did you know how to use them effectively! Hell no! If you did, Sailor Celestial would still be alive!” Miyabi asks Serena, “So, who’s next?!”

Serena asks, confused, “Huh?”

Miyabi says, sternly, “Who’s next to die? Ragnarok wasn’t the end! He was just the beginning! Sooner or later, another like him is going to come out! So, who will die then? Sailor Venus? Sailor Mercury? Sailor Sun? Sailor Star? Oh, wait! Maybe the man that you love so much?!”

Serena yells out, pleadingly with tears in her eyes, “Stop! Stop! Stop!”

Serena starts to trying wail and cry in true pain and agony, but Miyabi forcibly cups her head and she says, glaring at her eye to eye, “No, I won’t! You may have had the power to defeat that beast, but you didn’t even close to the skill to do it. At least, not without a sacrifice. We may not have the powers that you have, but our tactical ability is far superior to yours and we could teach you things that could way up your ability and skills to harness your power to use it.”

Imu tells Serena, “The question is: Do you have the guts to learn what it takes to win without having to lose anyone? Or will another person that you love have to die when ‘another Ragnarok’ comes along?”

Miyabi tells Serena, “The choice is yours, princess.” Imu then gets off of Serena, allowing Serena to get to her feet, but in Serena’s mind, the lifeless form of Suguha in the aftermath with the battle with Ragnarok comes to her mind. Serena wipes the tears off her face and she looks Miyabi with a very determined look in her eyes.

End Flashback; Return to the Present

After hearing that story, Raye yells out, angrily, “You used Serena’s fear and pain to convince her to join you!”

Serena says, solemnly, “Raye, stop.” Everyone looks at Serena in surprise and Serena says, “Miyabi-sensei had…has a point.”

There are looks of surprise and Lita asks Serena, “You can’t be serious…?”

Serena yells out, seriously, “I am serious!” Tears start to fall from her eyes and she says, “We should have seen this coming! Ever since SAO, our battles have been getting more and more intense! We’ve went across worlds including a world that includes an Earth that was utterly devasted by a teenage idol madwoman that caused her world to end just for the heck of bringing despair! Or the fact that we fought in a ‘ninja world war’ with all sorts of insanity! You really think that fighting something like Ragnarok wouldn’t be out of the question?!”

The others look at each other and Matt says, “As much as we don’t like to admit it, but…”

Ken says, with a plain tone, “Serena has a point. Ever since SAO, the battles that we have had to fight have become more and more ‘intense’.”

As the others look at each other, Asuna says, a bit nervously, “Even with Sinonon and I joining the Sailor Scouts as well as getting Naruto, Sakura-chan, and Hinata-chan, who also became a Sailor Scout, we’ve been going through more and more intense battles.”

Matt says, with a glare at Miyabi, “As much as I hate to admit anything to someone like you…you…you are right. We have been going through more intense combat ever since SAO. It shouldn’t have come to be a surprise that something like that…that creature appeared.”

Miyabi says, with a smirk, “Well, it looks like you can bite down your pride and it was kind of that caused Sailor Celestial’s death in the first place.” Miyabi says, with a plain tone, “And don’t give me any crap! You became overconfident after you kept winning battle after battle. You felt ‘invincible’…unbeatable. Princess, there, may have learned from SAO that not even Sailor Moon can save and protect everyone and gotten a good ‘feel’ that she and the rest of the Sailor Scouts like her aren’t ‘invincible’ and ‘immortal’, but the real straw that broke the camel’s back is Sailor Celestial’s ‘death’.” Miyabi says, with a plain tone, “You and the whole world learned this: If the most powerful ‘hero’ could die, what does it say for all heroes? It is just plain fantasy that even the greatest and most powerful are ‘invincible’ and ‘immortal’. No one is ‘invincible’! No one is ‘immortal’! All of us that live can die…at anytime and anywhere! Pride does come before the fall and the ‘fall’ came with Sailor Celestial’s ‘fall’. It is only a miracle that you got her back and that ‘miracle’ can’t be replicated ever again.”

Serena says, “We won’t need it ever again.”

Everyone looks at Serena and Miyabi says, with a plain tone, “Oh. You should remember that everyone does die. Even Lunarian, who don’t physically age beyond their beautiful youthful looks, even die with the passage of time.”

Serena says, with a plain tone, “I’m not an idiot. All of us have to die sometime, but in my book, unless it is due to the passage of time, any death outside of aging is unexpectable. I’ve already seen too much death. Death that was completely unnecessary. People died before they could grow, fall in love, get married, have children, see their children have children, and live their lives until time takes them into the afterlife.” Serena says, with a determined look in her eyes, “I will do what it takes to make sure that there is no more ‘Sword Art Onlines’ and no more ‘Ragnaroks’ because I won’t ever accept any unnecessary death ever again. I will do what it takes. Even if it means dealing with the ‘dark side’.”

There are plenty of shocked looks and Asuna says, lowly, “Serena-chan…”

Kazuto thinks in his mind, “Serena hasn’t fully recovered from what happened to Sugu…In fact, I doubt that even I have recovered from it after Sugu came back to life. It was just over a year after the end of SAO and we have started to heal from it, despite all of the ‘adventures’ that we’ve had in that year since SAO. If it wasn’t for Asuna and the others, I…I don’t know where I could have gone. I can understand how she feels.”

Darien says, “You didn’t come here to play any ‘mind games’. You are here on business.”

Imu says, with a smile, “Very astute. Can’t be surprised since you were always a bright bulb that got even brighter thanks to your training from the Hayabusa and Mugen Tenshin clans.”

There are plenty of surprised looks and Tai asks Darien, “Say what?”

Cody says, plainly, “That doesn’t surprise me.”

Darien says, plainly, “Not surprised.”

Kazuto says, plainly, “Same here. Your fighting skills and abilities have increased far more than what the super-soldier serum did for you.”

Rika says, with a sly grin, “Serena might have regretted doing that to you while that stupid ‘goop’ was on here, but I don’t think so these days.”

There are plenty of blushes and Asuna says, annoyed while poking Rika in the ribs, “Liz!”

Davis says, “Dude, I’m not surprised.”

Ken says, with a nod, “Same here.”

Yolei asks Ken and Davis, surprised, “You’re not?”

Ken says, “Davis has been noticing that Darien’s ‘fighting style’ has become ‘better’ and more ‘refined’.”

Davis says, “When I told Ken about that, he figured out where Darien could have gotten the training from.” Davis says, looking at Ken with a smile, “Ken is going to be an awesome detective someday.”

Ken says, with a nervous smile, “Come on, Davis.” Ken says, clearing his thought, “Anyway…” Ken says, looking at Miyabi and Imu, “Like Darien said, you are here on business and most likely, you have something that we want.”

Kazuto says, with a nod, “I figured the same thing. Most likely, they have one of the pieces of the Energist crystal.”

There are looks of surprise and even Imu has her eyes widening in which Miyabi says, with a sly smirk, “Well done. Exactly what I expected from the ‘Black Swordsman of SAO’.”

Kazuto says, nervously, “Could you please not call me that? It is getting quite annoying.” Miyabi just smirk as she pulls out a piece of larger Energist crystal that Doctor Eggman used in his plans for an ‘Ultra Genesis Wave’ much to the amazement and shock of the others.

Miyabi says, with a smirk, “We’re coming along.” When everyone looks at Miyabi, she says, with a plain tone, “We are far from idiots. This is just the start of some kind of ‘world ending event’ and you are on a ‘quest’ to stop it. However, we’re not doing this out of the ‘goodness of our hearts’. This is just simple survival. We can’t be the shinobi that we are if all existence just comes to an end especially our home world.”

Raye says, plainly, “That’s not surprising.”

Ken tells Miyabi, “However, there is another ‘objective’, isn’t there?”

Miyabi says, with a plain tone and sly smirk, “Maybe. However, you don’t need to know. Right now, something tells me that you need this crystal to restore our world. You also owe us.”

Yolei asks, “Owe you?”

Imu says, pointing to Serena, “Ask her.”

Everyone looks at Serena and she says, with a sigh, “I got their assistance when Suguha was removed from the tomb on the moon.”

There are looks of shock and Tai asks, surprised, “Say what?”

Miyabi says, “Do you really think that it was those ‘good ninja’ from Hanzo and Gessen were the only ones that gave you a hand? You should have looked well to see that certain areas seemed to be ‘lacking’ in security for example.”

Lita asks, remembering and with a shocked, “Wait! That was you?”

Miyabi says, with a sly smile, “Those and our ‘renegades’, now known as the Crimson Squad, made sure of that.”

Imu tells Serena, “Well, Tsukino, it is time to call in that favor.”

Serena says, with a sigh, “Fine.”

Raye tells Serena, “You can’t be serious, Meatball Head!”

Serena tells Raye, with a serious tone, “I am serious, Raye. Don’t make it an order.” There are more surprised looks from the others and Miyabi and Imu can’t help to have confident smiles on their faces in which people like Darien and Kazuto look at Serena with concern for many different and obvious reasons.

Early June 2026, Earth, Masaki household

Within the Masaki household, we find ourselves within Washu’s lab where Washu, Sailor Mercury, and the Outer Sailor Scouts are with Suguha with Washu looking over multiple holographic screens.

Sailor Saturn asks, “How are you Suguha?”

Suguha says, with a sigh, “A bit winded, but I’m okay.”

Sailor Mercury says, “It looks like your chakra abilities and Force based abilities have been reduced slightly, but not significantly.”

Suguha asks, “How can someone get weaker in the Force unless they don’t use it or cut themselves off from it?”

Sailor Mercury says, “You haven’t become weaker in the Force. The instability in your energies is what’s causing it. While Force based abilities and chakra abilities are mainly separate from your ‘main energies’, namely your Sailor Scout powers of over reality and Etherion, they are what gave you those powers.”

Sailor Uranus says, “It makes sense since she absorbed the power of Pain…Or should I say, Madara’s Rinnegan from Pain before the small shiver of Etherion that he accidently took from her caused major damage in all sorts of ways.”

Washu says, “And the Force is part of what we call the ‘Star Wars universe’ in which that universe is a part of the multiverse…Well, you get the idea.”

Sailor Mercury says, “And Etherion is part of what created what’s known as the ‘Force’ in those universes. However, as I said, while her ‘core powers’ are what gives Suguha the ability to use chakra and the Force, they are mainly separated from her ‘core powers’, her Sailor Scout powers, but they are still connected.”

Suguha says, “And with my powers in an unstable state, they are a bit weaker until my powers stabilize again.”

Washu says, excitedly, “Bingo!”

Suguha asks, a bit annoyed, “Well, could you tell me on when my powers will stabilize again?”

Washu says, a bit nervously, “Well, I can’t give an exact date, but…under a year.”

Suguha yells out, annoyed, “Washu, the whole multiverse is going to go under WAY ‘under a year’, so, you are going to give us better than that!”

Washu says, “Hey! I may be the greatest genius of our universe and one of the top geniuses of the multiverse, but I don’t get everything in a snap! Somethings take a bit of time!”

Sailor Uranus says, “Time is a luxury that we don’t have.”

Just then there is a beeping sound and Sailor Mercury says, taking out her communicator, “It’s the others.” Sailor Mercury activates her communicator and she says, “Mercury here.”

Shion’s face appears on the screen of Mercury’s communicator and she says, “It’s me.”

Sailor Mercury says, “Shion!”

Everyone looks towards Sailor Mercury and Shion says, “We may have something that Washu can use to help us find the Energist crystal pieces.”

Washu asks, curiously, “Really?”

Shion responds, “We already have a fragment of it and I think that you remember Croire, correct?”

Sailor Saturn asks, “You already have a fragment?”

Sailor Neptune asks, with a sly smile, “The world traveling Neptune with Croire have come back, hasn’t she?”

Shion says, with a nod, “That’s right, Michelle.”

Washu says, with a wide grin, “Okay! Now, we are talking! Since that bug of a fairy has the ability to travel between not only other universes, but alternate universes, timelines, and dimensions, she could prove useful in finding those fragments! We just hit a gold mine!”

Sailor Uranus says, “And that’s one little pest that I don’t mind you using an experiment for.”

Sailor Saturn says, nervously, “Uranus-papa…”

Suguha asks, “Wait! Neptune said that while she can use Croire’s powers while she was trapped in her book, Croire can still mess up her teleportation due to that fact. What’s stopping her from doing that to us?”

Washu says, with a wide sly grin, “Oh, when you thought of me, you got insurance that little bug won’t be trying anything.” Washu gives a wide sinister grin causing the others to get quite nervous from that.

Suguha says, nervously, “Okay…”

Sailor Uranus says, with a wide mischievous grin, “Shion, get that little twerp that Neptune has in her book soon as you can.”

Shion says, with a nod, “Understood.” When Shion’s face ‘vanishes’ from the screen as the communication link is cut, Suguha and Sailor Saturn look at Sailor Uranus and Washu quite nervously for obvious reasons.

Early June 2026, Earth, Elemental Countries, Whirlpool

Within Whirlpool, which looks like a mixture of Feudal Japan mixed in with modern and futuristic buildings, Naruto, Sakura, and Hinata are with Naruto’s parents, Minato and Kushina, along with Ange, Tusk, Vivian, Hilda, Salia, Chris, Rosalie, and Momoka.

Hilda says, with a sigh, “Geez! That girl is always causing us a headache.”

Hinata says, “Hilda, it isn’t like she does it on purpose.”

Momoka says, with a nod, “It’s true. It isn’t Lady Suguha’s fault that everyone wants her incredible powers.”

Hilda says, “Yeah, true. But it still doesn’t mean that she hasn’t been one major headache over the past few months. The girl gets brutally killed by a ‘living murder machine’, her body gets stolen from her tomb just after she was buried, going through heck to find her, four doppelgangers then appear, one of them revealed to be that Yuuko bitch, she then conspires with two nutjobs to create a nasty ‘death game’ that kills a lot more people than the one that Serena and Asuna were trapped in for two years, and then it is revealed that Suguha DID come back from the dead and comes back with a BANG!” Hilda says, with a grin, “I remember when we found out that girl came back.”

Chris says, with a grin, “No joke!”

Flashback; May 2026

Within Whirlpool, we find Ange, Tusk, Vivian, Salia, Hilda, Chris, Rosalie, and Ersha are assembled together as they prepare their Para-Mails/Ragna-Mails for launch.

Ange says, “Come on, let’s move it!”

Rosalie asks, annoyed, “Hey, who put you in charge, princess?”

Just then Momoka’s voice yells out, “Lady Angelise! Lady Angelise!” Everyone looks to see Momoka running towards them.

Ange looks at Momoka and she asks, “What is Momoka?”

Momoka says, excitedly, “Lady Angelise! You aren’t going to believe this! It is about Lady Suguha!”

Rosalie says, with a huff of annoyance, “Not this again! Look, the girl is dead! Dead as a doornail! She got killed by that brute of a monster! Those four ‘copycats’ AREN’T her!”

Hilda says, with a plain tone “Not to mention that ‘Robo-version’ of her is actually a bad guy and she is causing havoc all over Tokyo by teaming up with a psycho causing a ‘death game’ that’s killing thousands in the city.”

Ersha says, concerned, “It is utter chaos. The people are dying in droves. Men, women, and even children…”

Momoka says, excitedly, “Well, it has stopped! They stopped all of the killing!”

There are looks of surprise and Tusk asks, curiously, “What? Are you sure?”

Momoka says, “We just got word back from Lady Serena and the others! And the fact that Lady Suguha has indeed returned! She has come back to life!”

Ange, Tusk, Vivian, Salia, Hilda, Chris, Rosalie, and Ersha say in unison, surprised, “What?!”

Vivian asks, excitedly, “Oh, wow! Really?”

Just then a familiar female voice shouts out, “You got that right, Vivian!” Everyone gasps in which they look to see our heroes and heroines with Ark Valkyrie Sailor Celestial up in front.

End Flashback; Return to the Present

Back in the present, Hilda says, with a grin, “I’ve got to say that I was shocked to see Suguha’s new ‘power-up’.”

Ange says, with a grin, “Knowing that she could beat you with just a pinky.”

Hilda says, with a glare and smirk, “Yeah, right, princess!”

Salia tells Hilda, “Not that I agree with Ange, but we are dealing with a person that has the power to rewrite the fabric of reality. Someone who is practically a deity unlike Embryo. I think that there is more power in Suguha’s pinky than all of our Para-Mails AND Ragna-Mails combined.”

Hilda says, pointing all over the place, “And it’s this power that’s cause us a real migraine right now.” Everyone looks around to see all sorts of Digimon all over the place along with a lot of place being ‘digitized’ due to the ‘world merger’ on Earth.

Sakura asks Hilda, “So, we can count on you giving us a helping hand?”

Ange retorts, “Are you kidding. Of course we’re damn well helping! This Earth is our home and we’re not going to allow some freak to destroy it with his stupid plans! This ‘Eggman’ sounds like an uglier version of Embryo!”

Sakura tells Ange, “All power-hungry and egoistic morons are always just plain ugly no matter how they look on the outside, Ange.”

Ange says, with a smirk, “Doesn’t mean that they don’t get uglier, Sakura.”

Rosalie says, with a plain tone, “Hey, let’s not stand around here! I’ve had plans!”

Hilda tells Rosalie, with a smirk, “You mean get to GGO and get more money by hunting monsters and people in order to rip off rare items.”

Hinata asks, curiously, “GGO?”

Ange says, “Gun Gale Online. Ever since you introduced us to your VR technology, Hilda and the others have been excited by actually diving into games. Lately, they have been going to this one known as Gun Gale Online where it is set in some kind of post ‘end of the world’ like Sala’s Earth was before the ancestors of her power turned themselves into dragons to clean up their Earth. They have all these guns where you fight monsters and other players. Weirdo laser guns and real guns. They also have a ‘money conversation’ system where you can use real money to buy in-game items, but you can also convert ‘game money’ into real money.”

Naruto asks, surprised, “Really?”

Hilda says, with a grin, “And Rosalie has made a ‘killing’ off killing monsters and beating the crap out of other players.”

Rosalie says, “Hey! It’s all legal! Not my fault that they don’t watch their backs! Plus, they deserve it for always hitting up on us all the time! It is so annoying!”

Hilda says, with a smirk, “Turns out that not a lot of girls play that game.”

Naruto retorts, nervously, “Gee, I wonder why.”

Sakura and Hinata nod their heads in agreements at Naruto’s implied meaning of his words and Hilda says, pointing to Salia, “Well, I think that it is better than that ‘fairy game’ that you play along with her.”

Naruto, Sakura, and Hinata look at Salia in surprise and Salia yells out, with a slight blush in her cheeks, “I don’t play that ‘fairy game’ and I don’t even play these silly VR games.”

Hilda asks, slyly, “Oh, really…Salian-chan?”

Salia gives an ‘eep’ in shock and Ange says, with a sly smirk, “That’s an interesting fact to know.”

Salia says, with a glare, “Hilda…Ange…”

Sakura asks, with a sarcastic tone, “Are you done yet?”

Minato asks Naruto, “Do you need us to come along?”

Naruto tells Minato, “No, dad. We’ll be just fine. And right now, Whirlpool…No, the whole of the Elemental Countries is going to need you and mom. Look at this place! Look at the whole world! It has gone bonkers!”

Kushina retorts, “Yeah. Combining the ‘flesh and blood’ with the ‘digital’ will do that the world, you know?”

Minato asks Naruto, “Do you think that this will be enough?”

Sakura tells Minato, “We’re not sure, Minato-sama. To be honest, we’re going to need additional help.”

Minato asks, “Where do you plan to get that help?”

Naruto says, with a sigh, “Gaara can’t leave his village since he is the Kazekage. Mist is out since they are still recovering from Madara’s and Obito’s plan and the war. Stone and Cloud are definitely out. And that leaves one place to turn…”

Kushina says, annoyed, “Not that fucking place!”

Minato tells Kushina, “Kushina…”

Kushina tells Minato, sternly, “No, Minato-kun! That place may be your home, but you do remember what they did to our son?!”

Minato tells Kushina, “Of course I do, Kushina-chan! And they got the punishment that they rightfully deserve! However, they have started to clean up their act.”

Kushina says, crossing her arms in front of her chest, “Ha! They are just sucking up to us and Sochi-kun, so, they can get back their status as ‘number one ninja village’ again as well as get their hands on Sochi-kun’s and my heritage. Those civilians and elders may be out of power, but it will make them more desperate to get back that power and since it was us that took their power in the first place, they would just love to do anything to strike back against our boy since they will feel that he is the main reason that they lost their power.”

Sakura says, “Kushina-sama has a good point, Minato-sama.”

Kushina says, “Plus, they put Kakashi of all people in charge as the next Hokage.”

Minato says, “I have mixed feeling for it too. He isn’t like the others, but…”

Kushina says, plainly and interrupting her husband, “…But he has screwed up quiet well.” Kushina says, looking at Sakura, “However, Sakura wasn’t much better than a lot of them from that village, but she has proven again and again that she is loyal and trustworthy to our Sochi.”

Sakura gives a nervous glance at that and Minato asks Naruto, “So, you plan to get the rest of your former classmates?”

Naruto says, with a nod, “Yep, pops. They are the only ones that we can trust.”

Kushina tells Naruto, with a teasing smile, “You should hurry up and join up with the rest of your harem, Sochi-kun.”

Naruto, Sakura, Hinata, and Minato blush at that and Naruto yells out, embarrassed, “Mom, you know that it isn’t like that!”

Kushina says, with a sly smile, “Like you weren’t really ‘excited’ when Suguha-chan came back to life!”

Naruto, Sakura, Hinata, and Minato blush at those words and Naruto shouts out, with an embarrassed flush on his cheeks, “Mom!”

Minato says, “Needless to say, we were still shocked by all this and your mother and I had come back to life too.”

Flashback, Mid-April 2026, Whirlpool

Inside of her place as Daimyo of the rebuilt nation of Whirlpool, also known a New Whirlpool or Neo Whirlpool, Kushina is looking at stuff as she hears a knock on the door.

Kushina asks, “Who is it?”

A female voice responds, “Lady Serenity to see you, Kushina-sama.”

Kushina says, “Send her in now.” Soon after, the door opens and revived former Moon Queen walks into the room. After the door closes behind her, Kushina says, “I knew that you would want to see, Serenity.”

Queen Serenity asks, “Is this true?”

Kushina says, “See for yourself.” Kushina then shows off various newspapers and magazines with pictures of Sailor Celestial’s four ‘doppelgangers’.

Queen Serenity says, her eyes widening, “My words.”

Kushina tells Queen Serenity, “By the looks of it, there are four of them. Right away, we can tell that the ‘armored one’ is someone wearing an Iron Man-style suit of armor in the image of your daughter, Serenity-dono.”

Queen Serenity asks, “The tomb?”

Kushina says, “We just got back a report from our son and the others from Japan. The new tomb…is empty. And the coffin…it looks like it was opened from the inside based on what Ami’s report says.”

Queen Serenity says, her eyes widen, “Then could it be? Serenity and the Inner Scouts have come back before…”

Kushina says, with a sigh, “We got reports from our son and the others that they have met up with them. They may have memories of Suguha, but my son, your son, and your eldest daughter say that they don’t believe that ANY of them are Suguha.”

Queen Serenity says, solemnly, “I see.”

Kushina asks Queen Serenity, “Are you sure?”

Queen Serenity tells Kushina, “I trust the judgment of my son and daughter as well as your son, Kushina.”

Kushina tells Queen Serenity, “There is still hope that she…”
Queen Serenity tells Kushina, “There is always hope, Kushina.” Queen Serenity says, with a solemn expression, “But I just don’t know what to believe. My daughters and the Sailor Scouts of my kingdom have come back from death, but in certain ways, they weren’t situations of TRUE death. And now, there are four people that are out there that are continuing my daughter’s work with the question on who among them is my daughter.”

Kushina says, “My son and your children will find out the truth.”

Queen Serenity says, “I know that you will. It isn’t a question of ‘if’, but when, Kushina. And my trepidation of what truth that they find out.” Kushina nods her head and she gives a mental sigh as she glances out the window of her office in which there seems to be no one there, but out of the window, Minato is standing out of sight and looking into the distance.

End Flashback; Return to the Present

Back in the present, Minato says, “We got information that you sent us about the situation back in Tokyo every day and Serenity agreed that none of them were Suguha…at least in her book.”

Hinata says, with a nod of agreement, “None of them were. However, one of them, Elysium, the ‘masked doppelganger’ of Suguha, took her body from the new tomb that we constructed and used that hidden underground ‘chamber’ that Kayaba had constructed there back in the Silver Millennium in which she used that ‘healing pool’ to revive Suguha.”

Sakura says, “Kayaba had found the pool in the Silver Millennium and constructed that ‘base’ in which he ‘modified’ the ‘healing pool’ into a ‘healing chamber’ where it could heal the most lethal of injuries, but only if the person was still alive. It wasn’t meant to revive the dead at all. It was only because of Suguha’s powers as Sailor Celestial and her being the ‘carrier’ of Etherion in which the energies in her body mixed so perfectly with the chemicals of the ‘healing pool’ allowed her body to be fully regenerated and revived. Like Ami said, it was a one-in-a-billion miracle.”

Kushina says, “Like our revival and Serenity’s revivals weren’t as miraculous? Anyway, if you are doing to this, you should get going.”

Naruto says, with a smile, “Right mom.”

Hinata asks, “Can you inform Lady Serenity about the situation with Suguha?”

Just then a familiar female voice says, “I already know.” Everyone then looks to the source of the voice to see the former Moon Queen walking up to them and Queen Serenity says, “I’m glad that my daughter is okay, but this whole situation is concerning. The use of my daughter’s powers on this scale has caused an incredible imbalance and time is a luxury that we don’t have.”

Ange says, looking around at all of the chaos, “We kind of got that.”

Hilda asks, looking at Naruto, Sakura, and Hinata, “Need a lift?”

Naruto says, with a grin, “Nope. Got that covered already, Ange.” Ange just gives a nod and smile as Naruto looks at Sakura and Hinata in which they nod their heads.

Early June 2026, Earth, Tokyo

Within Tokyo, we are inside of a high-tech lab where we find a familiar teenaged young lady with brown hair in two buns and jade green eyes in which she is wearing a ‘female scientist lab outfit’ where we find our heroes and heroines, minus Naruto, Sakura, and Hinata, assembled together with the young lady looking at Suguha with an annoyed look.

The young lady tells Suguha, “Geez, girl. You have been back from the dead for just a month and you nearly get yourself killed…AGAIN.”

Suguha says, nervously, “It is not like I do it on purpose.”

The young lady says, with a sigh, “Yeah, I know. I know how it feels since I ‘replaced’ you for a time.” The young lady says, with a sigh, “Sometimes, I still don’t know how you are able to handle it.”

Suguha says, with a smile, “The others told me of the rough time that you had, Alita.”

The young lady retorts, “Rough time? That’s the understatement of the millennium.”

Davis says, looking around, “It looks like you are doing well being a ‘super brain’.”

Yolei tells Davis, “Super brain? You mean MEGA brain! Man, Alita-san, exposer to Suguha’s powers really enhanced your intelligence.”

The young lady, Alita, says, with a solemn sigh, “No kidding and it can be a real headache.”

Mina says, “Yeah, since you are one of the smartest people in the world with the ability to build futuristic technology from bubblegum wrappers and paper clips.”

Alita says, with a sigh, “Science is a little more ‘extensive’ than that, Mina.”

Ami says, with a nervous nod, “Yes, that’s true…”

Suguha tells Alita, “You seem….different, Alita.”

Alita says, with a smile, “Walk in a mile in your shoes for a bit and survive and you do get a bit of confidence. Still a bit annoyed that you gave me an impossible task.”

Suguha asks, “Which was?”

Alita responds, with a kind smile, “To do and be better than you. How can anyone that saved the human race and all life on the planet from extinction be exceeded?” Suguha gains a nervous look and Alita says, “I read the numbers. Even if that blasted didn’t completely demolish all of Tokyo, it would have utter devasted Tokyo, killed millions, and covered in the Earth in an ash cloud that would have destroyed all life on our planet.”

Suguha says, with a plain tone, “It wasn’t even a question. It was my duty to protect people as a Sailor Scout. The fiend just killed and destroyed mindless. I had stop it no matter what it took.”

Darien says, with a smile, “I think that many of the others agreed that you did an excellent job in Suguha’s…absence.”

Alita says, with a sigh, “Well, I had to do something. Something that I created was being used to hurt and kill people.”

Suguha tells Alita, “Alita, you aren’t Kayaba. She never created that technology to hurt people.”

Alita says, with a sigh, “Doesn’t mean that I should have seen people warping it that way.”

Mina says, “Man! You had it rough!”

Alita says, with a smirk, “Rough? That’s an understatement of the century. Example: Remember that masked version of you that put you in that pool to ‘nurse you’ back to your feet? She had your powers, but none of your ‘sparkling personality’. She put me and your ‘baby sister’ through the ringer.” Alita rubs her jaw and she says, “I still feel that.”

Flashback; Mid-to-Late April 2026

In the streets of Tokyo, Alita, in her armor designed to look like Sailor Celestial, is with Sailor C, the Sailor Scout form of Suguha’s clone, as they look at Elysium, who was known at the time as the ‘Soldier of Reality’. The three ‘doppelgangers’ of Sailor Celestial are looking each other with Sailor C and Alita glaring at Elysium.

Elysium asks, plainly and sternly, “What do you think that you are doing?”

Alita yells out, “That’s what I should be asking you!”

Sailor C says, seriously, “No kidding, girl! That was seriously fucked up!”

Elysium says, sternly, “Those people were being hurt and terrorized! Justice had to be served!”

Alita says, with a serious tone, “You may have a point about that! Yes, what happened with those people was wrong, but it doesn’t give you the right to vaporize a person doing his job!”

Sailor C says, with a nod, “No joke! Through I’ve got to admit that the dude really had something bad coming to him.”

Alita mentally slaps herself for Sailor C’s remark and Elysium says, sternly, “There is no excuse for terrorizing the innocent! If you, imposters, aren’t part of the solution, then you are part of the problem!” Elysium uses her energy manipulation power to fire powerful heat energy beams at Alita and Alita fires energy beams from her armored hands, like Iron Man’s repulsors, in which the two clash with each other in which Elysium doesn’t seem batting at eye, Alita is straining in which sparks are coming from her armored hands. Elysium says, plainly, “You are hardly a challenge, imposter.”

Sailor C leaps by Alita’s side and she yells out, “Well, what about me?!” Sailor C draws her kitana blades and unleashes a powerful elemental attack that mixes in and boosts the power of Alita’s attack in which, together, they start to push Elysium’s attack back and Elysium pushes more power into her attacks causing the ‘energy sphere’ formed by the clash of attacks to grow and spark. After a few seconds of stalemate, there is a massive explosion that sends a shockwave that destroys all of the windows in buildings for countless miles around while leaving a crater that’s ten foot long, fifteen feet wide, and FIFTY feet deep where the ‘clash of powers’ happened! The explosion also sends all three ‘doppelgangers’ for the Sailor Scout of Reality flying backwards and creating a massive amount of smoke that engulfs a huge amount of the city of Tokyo around the area that they are fighting in. As the smoke and dust finally dispel, Sailor C and Alita are getting back to her feet.

Alita asks Sailor C, “You okay, girl?”

Sailor C says, with a nod, “Yeah, but that was nuts!”

Just then alarms in Alita’s armor go off and she yells out, “Incoming!” Elysium then rockets in, rams Sailor C and Alita, and rams them through several buildings before heaving them into parked vehicles where Sailor C slams down on a roof of a parked car, causing the roof of the car to collapse due to the sheer force of the impact, while Alita bashes into the side of a parked van.

Elysium says, sternly as hints of anger are in her voice, “I will not tolerate you any more, imposters! I am a soldier of justice and justice will be served! And you will pay for your interference with your lives as punishment!” Elysium fires another beam of heat energy right at Alita, but she, once fire, counters with her energy beams from her repulsors-like devices from her armored palms resulting in another clash of powers in which Sailor C flies up to face Elysium, however, much to Elysium’s shock, Sailor C transforms her kitanas into one large hammer and slams the hammer into Elysium’s armored head causing her to slam into the concrete ground with a massive ‘thud’ causing the concrete ground to massive crack.

Elysium struggles to her feet and Alita shouts out, “Hey, little ‘Miss Justice’!” Elysium turns to face Alita only to get slammed by a powerful beam of elemental energy from the chest piece of Alita’s armor which sends Elysium crashing into the side of a building with a massive ‘wham’!

Sailor C says, with a grin, “Nice!” Sailor C tells Alita, “I know that we had our ‘disagreement’, but right now, I think that we can agree that this ‘psycho super-girl’ needs to be taken down a peg.”

Alita says, with a nod, “For once, we agree.” Just then massive foot long and wide blades form out of Alita’s armored wrists.

Sailor C asks, amazed, “Whoa! That’s incredible! How did you do that?”

Alita asks, confused, “Nano-bot technology! Don’t you watch science fiction?”

Sailor C asks, excitedly, “Cool! Can I get a set of those?!”

Alita says, seriously, “This isn’t the time!” The alarms in Alita’s armor go off and she yells out, seriously, “Here she comes!” As if on cue, Elysium, swords drawn, zooms in and starts to clash blades with Alita causing a strong shockwave to shake the area when they clash.

End Flashback; Return to the Present

Back in the present, Amara says, “I remember that fight. The three of you caused significant damage, but then again, who can blame you and Suguha’s and Kazuto’s new ‘baby sister’? Elysium was all business.”

Alita says, with a nod, “No kidding. She was trying to really kill us!”

Trista says, with a plain tone, “Like it or not, the two of you represented Suguha in different ways. Elysium represented Suguha’s power and skill and in an ‘altered way’, her ‘morality code’ and sense of duty as a Sailor Soldier. However, the ‘mortality code’ was warped since Elysium didn’t have what you represented of Suguha…her humanity.”

Darien says, “Elysium wasn’t evil. In fact, she was the furthest thing from evil. However, her sense of justice was warped due to the fact that all that she had from Suguha was her powers and skills as Sailor Celestial with a bit of her memories. She didn’t have Suguha’s humanity…her heart. That made her very…misguided.”

Alita says, with a plain tone, “She may have been misguided, but that didn’t make her NOT dangerous.”

Flashback; Mid-to-Late April 2026

Back to the fight between Elysium against Sailor C and Alita, the intense fight has caused quite immense danger to the area of Tokyo that they were fighting in with Elysium holding her own against the two of them. At this point, in fact, Elysium ruthlessly kicks Sailor C through the side of another building with a loud ‘crash’ while beating Alita into the side of another building before blasting her with intense heat energy beams using her energy manipulation powers.

Elysium says, with a stern tone, “I have had enough of this! This farce has gone on long enough! You, imposters, will need to your lessons by being put down like the dogs that you are! Maybe in your deaths that you will see that I am the ONE TRUE Sailor Celestial!”

Sailor C’s voice then booms, “Well, you are going to see that this dog’s bite is worse than his bark!” Elysium turns towards the direction of Sailor C’s voice only to get bashed in the face by a round mace causing her armored mask to break apart and Elysium to stumble back causing her assault on Alita to stop in which she immediately activates her armor’s jet boots to rocket right into Elysium where Alita slams Elysium into the side of another building so hard that her form is imprinted into the reinforced concrete wall of the building.

Alita then starts to pound Elysium in the face and she yells out, strongly, “If you want me to believe that you are Sailor Celestial, THEN ACT LIKE HER! The guy may have been doing his job in an illegal manner, but you had no right to try to fry him like that! That’s not how she acted! That’s not how Sailor Celestial is at all! You may have her power, but you don’t have her heart! And without that, YOU WILL NEVER BE SAILOR CELESTIAL!!!” Alita then unleashes an assault from her armor’s repulsors that’s so strong that it causes an explosion that sends Alita flying back several dozen yards until she slams into the side of another car, badly caving in the side of the car that Alita slammed into.

Sailor C goes over to Alita and she asks, concerned, “You okay?”

Alita stumbles back to her feet and she says, plainly, “Yeah.”

Sailor C says, “Girl, remind me never to piss you off again.” Sailor C and Alita then look to see Elysium emerge from the smoke and dust caused by the explosion created from Alita’s last attack on Elysium, which has shown to have ‘removed’ a huge chuck from the side of the building, but Elysium is only suffering a few minor bruises and a cut, however, nothing really serious in terms of injuries. Sailor C says, annoyed, “Oh, great.” As the two sides prepare to fight each other, again, they are stopped as a massive lightning bolt slams in-between the two sides.

Just then a female voice booms out, with a strong and angered tone, “THAT’S ENOUGH!!!” All three ‘doppelgangers’ for Sailor Celestial look up to see the Moon Kingdom Sailor Scouts, led by Sailor Moon, in which the majority of them have very cross looks on their faces, especially Sailor Moon.

Sailor Mars yells out, angrily, “What the heck are you doing?!”

Sailor C says, pointing to Elysium, “Stopping that nut of a doppelganger for Sailor Celestial before she causes more harm!”

Sailor Venus says, annoyed and pointing all around, “Well, you look like you did a good job of that already.”

Sailor C rubs her head, nervously, and Alita says, “I am sorry about that and I wish that I didn’t have to do that, but it was the only way to stop her.” Alita points to Elysium and she yells out, strongly, “That nut of a fake tried to fry an extortionist!”

There are looks of shock from the Moon Kingdom Sailor Scouts and Sailor C says, with a nod, “Yeah! Quite literally! He was a worthless rat, but that was taking things too far! Believe it!”

Everyone thought that they hear a familiar blond-haired ninja sneeze and Sailor Moon asks Elysium, sternly, “Is that true?”

Elysium responds, plainly, “That fiend was terrorizing and harming innocent people. He had to be stopped!”
Sailor Venus says, slapping herself on the head, “Oh, geez!”

Sailor Moon tells Elysium, sternly, “That’s not how we work! That’s not how Celestial worked either! We are the protectors of truth and justice, yes, but we don’t take the law into our own hands! We ARE NOT judge, jury, and executioner! We are fighting to maintain the balance of light and darkness and good and evil, but if we act like our enemies, then we are no better than our enemies! If you can’t understand that, then you are no Sailor Scout much less anything like Celestial! You are NO SAILOR CELESTIAL!!!”

Elysium gives a look of shock and she then goes into deep thought in which Sailor C says, excitedly, “You tell her!”

Alita says, annoyed, “Not the time, girl.” As Elysium’s armored mask reforms in front of her face, she then starts to fly up into the sky.

Elysium says, plainly, “Maybe…Maybe you are right.” Elysium says, looking at Alita, “Maybe being Sailor Celestial is more than the power…more than the skills…The heart is a part of it. The heart that overcame many forms of ‘darkness’ and ‘demons’ to break limits. You win…for now. I need to look over on how to be Sailor Celestial…on how to be me. But make no mistake. When I am done, I will prove that I am the one true Sailor Celestial once and for all. You have given me that challenge and the TRUE Sailor Celestial would NEVER back down from that challenge.” Elysium then flies off at super-sonic speeds as everyone else looks on as she leaves.

End Flashback; Return to the Present

Back in the present, Mina says, “Well, it shows that Elysium wasn’t a bad girl.”

Trista says, “That fact was that she had a hard time being like Suguha since she was artificial life-form and she had taken human form when she had tapped in Suguha’s powers to ‘construct’ a physical form for herself. While she had gained a physical form based exactly like Suguha’s body, it doesn’t mean that she could be like Suguha. She was an artificial creation that took human form and while she had Suguha’s physical form, doesn’t mean that she had Suguha’s ‘emotional capabilities’.” Trista says, looking at Alita, “You were the representation of Suguha’s ‘heart’ while Elysium represented her power, her skill, and her duty as a Sailor Soldier. Without that part that you represented, Elysium wasn’t Suguha…She wasn’t the true Sailor Celestial.” Trista says, looking at Suguha, “Each of us, as Sailor Scouts, are more than just our powers, abilities, and skills, I believe that Elysium represents that lesson all too well.”

Plenty of the others nod their heads in agreement and Alita asks, “So, how is that new ‘younger sister’ of yours doing?”

Kazuto says, with a smile, “She has been doing just fine. We’re going to visit her next.”

Tai tells Alita, “You probably already realize what we are going to ask.”

Alita says, with a smile, “I already figured. I’m in.”

Suguha says, with a smile, “Thanks, Alita.”

Alita says, “No problem. It is already a given.” Alita says, looking outside with a serious expression, “You are going to need all of the ‘technical help’ possible. I looked at the numbers. We don’t have much time and we need to get our butts moving.”

Yolei says, with a nod, “You got that right.”

Early June 2026, Earth, Tokyo, Kirigaya household

Within the Kirigaya household, we find Kazuto and Suguha with Midori and Suguha’s clone, now called Stella Kirigaya, in which Midori is hugging Suguha while Stella is with Kazuto.

Midori says, with a smile, “I’m so glad that you are okay!”

Suguha tells Midori, “Geez, mom. I’m fine. I’m just temporary ‘de-powered’ mostly.”

Stella says, “No kidding, sis.”

Midori releases her daughter from her hug and she says, “I wish that you would stop doing such things. We…We nearly lost you once before.”

Suguha says, with a sigh, “I know, but it is kind of part of who I am. And I just couldn’t let all of existence go ‘bust’ like that.”

Midori says, with a sigh, “I know, sweetie. I know, but…we just got you back…and I’m afraid that you will be…gone…and never come back…”

Suguha hugs her mother and she says, comfortingly, “I already told you, mom. I’m not going anyway…never again.” Midori nods her head and gently wipes the tears from her eyes as well as shaking off any thoughts that would lead her down ‘dark memories’.

Kazuto tells Stella, “How are you doing Stella?”

Stella responds, “As fine as one can be as a ‘normal girl’.”

Suguha tells Stella, “Sorry about that Stella.”

Stella says, with a smile, “It’s okay. It is your powers after all.”

Suguha says, plainly, “Well, like Elysium, you had abilities that I didn’t have.”

Stella asks, curiously, “You sure that you didn’t find anything ‘unusual’ about me?”

Kazuto tells Stella, “Ami and the others went through your DNA with a fine tooth comb…a subatomic comb at that. You are just a complete genetic duplicate of Sugu. Half-Earthling and half-Lunarian just like her. You are a…” Kazuto stops saying words in which Suguha gives a plain look, knowing what he is going to say next.

Stella says, with a smile, “Geez, ‘sis’, you know as well as I do that I’m a ‘copy’ of you.”

Suguha tells Stella, “Just because you are my clone doesn’t make you a ‘copycat’, Stella.”

Stella says, with a smile, “Thanks. I’m glad that you allowed me into your family.” Stella says, with a smile, “They weren’t too excited about me when we first met.”

Flashback; Mid-April 2026

Within the Kirigaya household, Kazuto is walking through the hallways of his home and thinking about all of the events that have happened so far since around the start of the month. Namely, the death of his sister, Suguha AKA Sailor Celestial, during a battle against Ragnarok in which Suguha gave her life to stop the killing machine, Suguha’s funeral in the rebuilt, former, ruins of the Moon Kingdom and her burial in the royal tombs in the Moon Kingdom, the thief of her body from the tomb, the retrieval of Suguha’s body from the tomb and placing of it in a new tomb on Earth, and now, there are four ‘doppelgangers’ of his sister ‘running around’.

Kazuto thinks in his mind, with a sigh, “This is starting to become like a crazy anime, manga, or fanfiction.” Kazuto walks the hallway to his room, but he then starts to hear noises coming from Suguha’s room causing Kazuto to gain a curious look in which he thinks, “Am I hearing things?” Kazuto gently presses his ear against the door and his eyes grow wide as he hears a female voice from the door in which he opens the door causing him to yell out, “What’s the heck is going on here?!” Kazuto is then surprised by a yell of surprise from Sailor C, who is sitting on Suguha’s bed and doing her nails.

Sailor C shouts out, surprised, “Hey, what’s the big idea?!”

Kazuto gets over his surprise and he shouts out, “That should be my question! Who are you?! And what the heck do you think that you are doing?!”

Sailor C responds, with a smile, “What do you think? Doing my nails! A girl has got to look her best for her fans, you know! Anyway, you already know who I am…big bro!”

Kazuto asks, “Big bro?” Kazuto then looks at Sailor C and he says, “Hold on! You are one of Sugu’s ‘doppelgangers’!”

Sailor C retorts, “Doppelganger? As if! The name is Sailor C!”

Kazuto says, annoyed, “Sailor C, huh? Personally, your ‘argument’ for being Sugu ‘reborn’ isn’t very good.”

Sailor C asks, “Why not?”

Kazuto tells Sailor C, “Sugu is a girl, but she isn’t a ‘girly girl’!”

Sailor C yells out, annoyed, “Hey! Who are you calling a ‘girly girl’, big bro?”

Kazuto says, with a plain tone, “And Sugu called me ‘big brother’, not ‘big bro’.”

Sailor C says, scratching her scalp, “Yeah, you have a point.”

Kazuto asks, seriously and sternly, “So, who are you? Really?”

Sailor C says, nervously, “Geez, big bro…”

Kazuto says, seriously and interrupting Sailor C, “Don’t call me that!”

Sailor C says, nervously, “Okay! Okay!” Sailor C says, with a pout, “Someone needs a hug.” Kazuto just glares at Sailor C and Sailor C says, with a sigh, “Okay, I get it. You see, I’m not exactly your sister…I’m her clone.”

Kazuto asks, surprised and his eyes widening, “Excuse me?”

Sailor C responds, “Clone? You know, genetic duplicate? You did see science fictions movies, anime, and manga, right?”

Kazuto says, “I get it.” Kazuto asks Sailor C, “So, you are Sugu’s clone?!”

Sailor C says, with a smile and nod, “Yep!”

Kazuto thinks in his mind, with a sigh, “Oh, boy.”

End Flashback; Return to the Present

Back in the present, Suguha tells Stella, “Big brother told me that you didn’t make a ‘positive impression’ on him.”

Stella says, with a smile, “Yeah, I might be your clone girlfriend, but there is a difference between you and I.”

Suguha says, plainly, “Obviously.”

Kazuto says, “Yeah, but her claim to be your clone was verified, Sugu.”

Flashback; Mid-April 2026, Moon Kingdom

Within the rebuilt Moon Kingdom, our Sailor Scouts, Digidestined, and SAO survivors, with Naruto, Hinata, and Sakura, are with Sailor C within the ‘medical center’ in the Moon Kingdom Palace with Sailor Mercury and Sakura as they are looking over holographic screens, Sailor Mercury’s personal computer, and a tablet-like device in Sakura’s hands.

Sailor Moon asks, “So, Mercury-chan?”

Sailor Mercury says, “She is absolutely right. She is an exact genetic duplicate of Suguha. From her half-Lunarian and half-Earthling nature down to the exact genetic coding of her eyes and hair colors.”

There are looks of shock and Sailor C says, plainly, “Told you so.”

Sailor C starts to walk off and Sailor Uranus asks, “And where are you going?”

Sailor C retorts, “What do you mean? I’ve got work to do back downstairs.”

Sailor Uranus says, seriously, “We don’t know anything about you! All that we know is that you are a clone of one of our most powerful members that died recently by a…living Doomsday weapon! We don’t know created you!”

Sailor C says, with a shrug, “Beats me too.”

There are looks of surprise and Ken asks, “Wait! You don’t anything about the people that created you?”

Sailor C says, shaking her head, “Not a thing. All I do know is that I’m a clone of Sailor Celestial and I was raised and trained in some kind of pocket dimension or whatever…”

Tuxedo Mask then asks, interrupting Sailor C, “Wait! Pocket dimension?”

Sailor C says, “Yeah, I wasn’t ‘grown’ like other clones that you see in sci-fi flicks, televisions, anime, and manga. I was made to age naturally in a weirdo ‘pocket dimension’ like…Oh, like that ‘time chamber’ in Dragonball Z!”

Davis asks, “The hyperbolic time chamber?”

Sailor C says, with a grin, “Bingo!” Sailor C says, “You see, I lived and trained in there! I was download with all of the memories of Sailor Celestial that they could get their hands on and they trained me in kendo and such, which I really loved, for about 17 years which was about 17 days for you guys.”

Our heroes and heroines look at each other and Sailor Neptune asks, “But that means that you were ‘born’ before Suguha died?”

Sailor C says, with a shrug, “Guess so. But I decided that these guys and gals were some kind of super-secret organization that, if they weren’t evil, they wanted me for their own agenda and since I was raised to be like Sailor Celestial, it was so not for me. They raised me too well to be a ‘good girl’ and doing ‘bad stuff’ was so not going to happen. So, I used my powers to create a bridge out of my ‘home’, escape them, and took off to Tokyo. I figured that since my ‘big sis’ did the ‘big fade’ that I was perfect for the job, but when I came to make my mark, I find that three real ‘doppelganger’ had come out of the woodwork and had the nerve to call themselves the real Sailor Celestial.”

Sailor Venus says, “One, one of those three AREN’T claiming to the be the real Suguha. And two, you, in a way, are also claiming to be the ‘real deal’.”

Sailor C says, with a shrug, “Yeah, I know. I’m a clone of Sailor Celestial, but who better to continue her ‘nerve-ending battle’? I just do in my own fashion. Besides, I may look different, but my powers are much like my ‘big sister’s’ powers.”

Sailor Mercury says, with a nod, “It’s true. Her energies are similar to Sailor Celestial’s energies, so, her powers are similar.”

Sailor Uranus says, “Similar.”

Sailor C says, “Oh, boo, picky. Picky!” Sailor C then creates a pair of pink sunglasses and she puts them in front of her eyes in which she says, “Anyway, it was nice talking with all of you, but I’ve got to get back down to Earth and kick evil ass. And right now, instead of ‘heckling’ me, you should be wondering what those other ‘doppelgangers’ are up to. This is so too much like a certain American manga superhero’s adventure when he died and came back from the dead. So, you might want to look into that ‘Robo-Sailor Celestial’.”

Yolei says, “Technically, she is a cyborg, meaning a ‘being’ that’s a mixture of organic and machine. Not a robot, which is all machine.”

Sailor C asks, with a smile, “Yeah, I know. And in that superhero’s ‘death and revival adventure’ wasn’t that ‘cyborg dude’ a bad guy that tried to destroy all life on Earth?” Our heroes and heroines look at each other intently and Sailor C says, with a grin, “Catch you later.” Sailor C then goes over to Naruto, kisses him on the cheek, much to his shock and surprise, and she says, “Especially you, Whiskers.” Sailor C gives a wink of her eye before she teleports away before the others can say or do anything which left a blushing Naruto in her wake.

End Flashback; Return to the Present

Back in the present, Suguha, with her arms crossed and with an annoyed look on her face, says, plainly, “Sakura told me about that one.”

Stella asks, with a nervous smile, “What?”

Suguha shakes her head and Kazuto says, “Anyway, we did learn what gave you powers similar to Sugu.”

Stella says, “Yeah, on the day that my day as ‘Sailor C’ was over…”

Flashback; Early May 2026

Within reconstructing Shibuya Ward of Tokyo, people are running from a massive muscular tiger woman youma that looks like an andromorphic cheetah is on a rampage in which Sailor C flies in.

Sailor C shouts out, “Hey, kitty cat! Time to put you down!”

The tiger youma looks at Sailor C and she yells out, slyly, “Look what the cat dragged in!”

Sailor C asks, annoyed, “Seriously?”

The tiger youma retorts, “You won’t be so sarcastic when I turn you into my scratching post! You AREN’T Sailor Celestial!”

But then a familiar female voice retorts, “No, but I AM!!!” The tiger youma turns her head to the source of the voice only to get booted in the face by Ark Valkyrie Sailor Celestial’s right armored boots and sending her flying right through a parked van, cutting the van in half, and the tiger youma crashes into the side of a building causing the youma to form an imprint of itself against the wall due to the sheer force of the impact. Sailor Celestial says, annoyed, “You know, I just got back and I find stupid youma like you causing trouble!”

The tiger youma struggles back to her feet and she says, with a snarl, “So, you have returned! When I’m done with you, you are going to wish that you remained in your grave!”

Sailor Celestial responds, with a smirk, “That’ll be the day.”

The tiger youma shouts out, strongly, “That day is now!” The tiger youma rushes in at super-human speed, but when she gets close to Sailor Celestial, Sailor Celestial easily side-steps the tiger youma, trips her, causing her to fly forward, and Sailor Celestial then grabs her left leg before she can ‘fly’ away in which Sailor Celestial bashes the tiger youma causing the concrete ground to greatly crack from the powerful impact. Sailor Celestial releases the tiger youma’s leg and leaps backwards in which she draws her swords causing them to glow. The tiger youma roars out as she leaps to her feet, but she then roars out in pain and agony as Sailor Celestial unleashes a powerful elemental energy wave that vaporizes the youma into nothingness.

Sailor C says, amazed, “Whoa.”

Sailor Celestial puts her swords away and she asks Sailor C, “Sorry, was that a ‘private party’ or could any Sailor Scout join?”

Sailor C says, with a smirk, “And they say that I’m wisecracker.” Soon enough, the Sailor Scouts appear on the scene and join Sailor Celestial as well as her clone in which they get to work helping the wounded from the attack. Afterwards, they are talking with police and paramedics.

The police officer says, “You, girls, really know how to take care of those things.”

Sailor Uranus says, with a plain tone, “Sometimes not quick enough.”

Sailor Celestial asks, “Have they been THAT bad?”

Sailor Venus says, nervously, “Yeah, they have been coming out of the woodwind since…”

Sailor Orion says, plainly, “Just after the battle with Ragnarok.”

Sailor Celestial says, narrowing her eyes, “I see.”

Sailor C says, “Like vultures, they came out to party when you weren’t around to swat them like flies.”

Sailor Celestial says, with a sneer, “What doesn’t that surprise me? Parasites like that always tend to wait for such chances.”

Sailor Venus says, with a smirk, “Well, now that you are back, they are going to be shaking in their boots!”

Sailor Sun says, “I don’t think that it will be that easy, Venus.”

Sailor Jupiter says, excitedly, “Come on! Look at her! She is more powerful than ever before!”

Sailor Pluto says, plainly, “True, but that’s a problem in itself. We aren’t sure of her new form’s limits. The question is: How MUCH more powerful is Sailor Celestial? She has just gained this new form after regaining her powers. We, barely, know much about our Valkyrie Sailor Scout powers and now, we have just learned that this is the TRUE FORM of the Valkyrie Sailor Soldier: The Ark Valkyrie Sailor Scout form.”

Sailor Mars says, plainly, “And it is WAY more powerful than ‘level two’ and ‘level three’ of our ‘original’ Valkyrie forms in which only Sailor Moon and Sailor Celestial were able to achieve.”

Sailor Star says, pointing in a certain direction, “Everyone…” When the rest of the Sailor Scouts look at where Sailor Sun is looking, they see a large crowd looking at them or more specifically, at Sailor Celestial herself.

Sailor Celestial asks, nervously, “Why is everyone looking at me?”

Sailor Uranus says, pointing to Sailor C, “Blame it on your ‘replacements’.” Sailor C rubs her head, nervously, and Sailor Uranus says, “For the past half-a-month, they kept us asking: Who is the REAL Sailor Celestial? We knew that this girl and the others weren’t you, but the rest of the world didn’t know you as well as we did. They had the world in a tizzy.”

Sailor C says, with a nervous smile, “In my defense, I did say that I’m a clone of you.”

Sailor Orion says, “With all the confusion caused by them, it is going to be understandable that people are going to be doubtful that you are you despite Kazuto and us making the announcement that you are THE ONE AND ONLY Sailor Celestial.”

Sailor Celestial says, with a sigh, “Well, it is understandable. Dying and coming back from the grave only happens in anime and manga.”

Sailor Venus says, “Well…”

Sailor Mars tells Sailor Venus, plainly, “THAT only happened because of certain circumstances.”

Sailor Celestial says, looking around, “Man! This place…!!”

Sailor Moon says, solemnly, “There is still much reconstructing to do. Our battle with Ragnarok caused immense damage to the whole of Tokyo especially Odaiba, Juuban, the home of most of us, Sailor Scouts, and here, in Shibuya…”

One paramedic then says, overhearing, “Well, at least we are alive to rebuild.” When our heroes and heroines look at the paramedic, he says, “If it wasn’t for you, it would have been much worse. That…creature was going to destroy us all and you managed to stop him.”

Sailor Celestial says, putting her hand over where Ragnarok had impaled her in their battle around two months ago, “Yeah, barely…and many people still died…”

The paramedic says, with a kind smile, “Yes, but if you didn’t win, none of us would be here to talk about it or being arguing about who is the real you.” Sailor Celestial gives a light smile, but she then ‘senses’ something and she walks over to what looks like a pile of rubble.

Sailor Jupiter asks, curiously, “What’s up?”

Sailor Celestial says, activating a visor similar to Sailor Mercury’s visor, “Just a feeling…”

Sailor Star asks, curiously, “A feeling?”

Sailor Celestial gives a gasp of shock and she yells out, “Mercury, user your scanner here!”

Sailor Mercury activates her visor and she asks, “What’s wrong?” But then she is shocked at what she sees on her visor and she shouts out to the police officers and paramedics, “Get over here right away! There are people down there!”

There are gasps of shock and one police officer yells out, surprised, “What?!” However, Sailor Celestial doesn’t wait as she unleashes a powerful attack to vaporize much of the rubble and she leaps over there in which she uses incredible super-human strength to lift an amount of rubble equal to the amount of several cars out of the way before leaping into a deep hole with Sailor Moon, Sailor Star, Sailor Sun, and a few other Scouts following afterwards. As the police officers and paramedics start to gather around, Sailor Celestial emerges with a woman in her mid to late thirties with brown hair and onyx eyes with a young pre-teen girl of black hair and brown eyes in which they look barely alive looking heavily starved like they haven’t had much food over a month or two.

Sailor Celestial shouts out, “Medics!”

Another police officer shouts out, “Move, people! Move!” As the police and paramedics starts to tend to the young woman and pre-teen girl, a mother and daughter, the other Sailor Scouts bring out ten more men and women from the hole that Sailor Celestial just made with the emergency personal, here to help after the tiger youma’s rampage, are assisting in a makeshift triage center.

A paramedic tells the Sailor Scouts, “They are survivors from the battle with Ragnarok.”

Sailor Mercury says, “It looks like they managed to take shelter within an old World War Two shelter of some kind.”

The paramedic says, “Not surprised that they are still around. Despite the rebuild of Tokyo after World War Two, the shelters were kept around for various reasons especially due to the nature of our city and our nation being close to the ‘Ring of Fire’ and those tectonic plates after all.”

Sailor Mercury says, with a nod, “They were kept around many of times due to them aiding in the structural stability of our cities’ large buildings and skyscrapers since we have practically earthquakes every single day just not all of them like the infamous Nineteen-Twenty-Three Kanto earthquake and the American San Francisco earthquake of Nineteen-O-Six.”

Sailor Celestial asks, “How come they weren’t found until now?”

Sailor Uranus says, “We are still finding people that were trapped in collapses and then some all over the city for the past two months, Celestial.”

Sailor Celestial gives a look of surprise and Sailor Moon says, solemnly, “Our battle with Ragnarok caused MASSIVE damage all over the city with Juuban, Odaiba, and here, in Shibuya, taking the worse, but people were killed, injured, and trapped in the rubber everywhere.”

Sailor Mercury tells Sailor Celestial, “After what happened with you, we were assisting rescue parties a lot, but it was difficult. Remember, the blood that you shed turned into a lot of ‘power crystals’.”

Sailor Celestial asks, “Like the one that Alita used to fuel her armor?”

Sailor Uranus says, with a nod, “Yeah. They also caused plenty of people to gain various powers and abilities and they, along, with new youma attacks, like the one that you just stopped, made it difficult for us to search for all of the victims of Ragnarok’s rampage. Add the fact about the whole situation with your ‘doppelgangers’ and their ‘antics’…” Sailor Uranus looks at Sailor C and she rubs her head, nervously.

Sailor Mercury says, “Thankfully, these victims will survive, but they will have months of recovery. Some food and water storages were somehow trapped with them, but it wasn’t enough to sustain them all unless they really STRETCHED those stores outwards. Any longer and they wouldn’t have made it.”

The paramedics says, “But thanks to you finding them, they will make it.”

Sailor Celestial then goes over to the young pre-teen girl and the pre-teen girl asks, weakly, “You are Sailor Celestial?”

Sailor Celestial says, with a smile, “Yeah, it’s me.”

The pre-teen girl says, with a weak smile, “I knew that you…would save mommy…and the rest of us…I knew that you would…you are a hero…and a hero…never leaves anyone behind…”

Sailor Celestial says, with a kind smile, “That’s right, sweetie. I’ll die before that ever happens.” Sailor Celestial gently pats the young girl’s head before walking back to the others.

Sailor C says, “Well, there is a happy ending.”

Sailor Celestial says, with a nod, “Yeah.” Sailor Celestial tells Sailor C, “Anyway, we need to talk.” Sailor C then gets nervous as she sees that Sailor Celestial and the other Sailor Scouts were giving her plain looks. A bit later on, they are on a nearby rooftop and they are having a discussion.

Sailor C asks, looking at her broach, “So, my powers are similar to how that cyborg got her hands on Celestial’s powers?”

Sailor Uranus says, “In a way, yes, but your broach is different. The Dark Broach allows the holder to tap into any Sailor Scouts’ powers, even Celestial, but your Phantom Broach is different. It allows the wielder to tap into any spiritual, cosmic, and any ‘other power’ as long they have something to act as a ‘focus’ to allowing the Phantom Broach’s user to tap into that power.”

Sailor Mercury says, “I didn’t get a good look at your broach before, so, we didn’t know these facts. However, now, I can say that like Alita-san, the ‘core’ of your version of Sailor Celestial’s powers is due to the fact that that you have a ‘power crystal’ similar to the one that she used to fuel her armor.”

Sailor Pluto says, “Which is the reason why they ‘raised’ you to be similar to Celestial. It isn’t enough to be her ‘genetic duplicate’. You have to embody her ‘spirit’. Because you were similar to her in that way, you had similar powers. However, there are critical differences between you and the TRUE Sailor Celestial, so, it is the reason why your uniform and powers are different than Sailor Celestial’s powers and uniform. But, since you are similar to the true Sailor Celestial, in ‘body’ and ‘spirit’, you were able to tap directly into Sailor Celestial’s energies.”

Sailor C says, with a smile, “However, since the real Sailor Celestial is back, my days as superhero are over.” The Sailor Scouts are a bit nervous about this and Sailor C says, with a smile, “Hey, it’s no problem! There is only ONE Sailor Celestial and you don’t need a girl that could allow enemies to mess with your powers.”

Sailor Venus says, “Hey! We didn’t say that!”

Sailor C says, with a grin, “Yeah, but you have a point.” Sailor C then touches her broach and she transforms into her civilian form in which Sailor Celestial and the others are amazed at her civilian form.

Sailor C’s ‘civilian form’ has her looking exactly like Suguha, but her lips seem to be very glossy pink like she has pink lipstick on her lips and while her body shape is a strong yet more ‘womanly’ version of Suguha’s form making rival or even exceed the best female super-models in the world. Her ‘civilian form’s’ clothing consists of a tight fitting black shirt with pink hearts on it, VERY tight fitting blue jean shorts with a matching black belt, pink colored fingerless fighting gloves, exposing her pink colored fingernails, and knee-high latex high-heeled boots with four inch knife-like heels.

Sailor C, now in ‘civilian form’, sees the amazed looks of the others and she asks, “What?!”

Sailor Orion says, “You look much like Suguha, but you…”

Sailor Venus says, with a whistle, “Wow! You are getting it on girl!”

Sailor C asks, curiously, “Really?” Sailor C says, looking over herself, “Wow! I’m quite the looker!”

Sailor Uranus asks, “You sound like you never went out of your Sailor Scout form?”

Sailor C replies, with a smile, “Actually, I never transformed out of my ‘uniform’ ever since I escaped where I was ‘born’.”

There are gasps of shock from the Scouts and Sailor Jupiter asks, stunned, “Seriously?”

Sailor C says, “Come on! I’m a clone of the most powerful girl…most powerful person on the planet who, no insult to present company, just bit the ‘big one’. Said person’s ‘demise’ causes the whole world especially her home to go into the ‘gutter of darkness’ and ‘crying out’ for a heroine. I come into the picture and since it is also a fact that most powerful Sailor Scout’s identity was also revealed during her whole thing with her ‘outing’. Those kind of things don’t exactly give much chances for a ‘civilian life’.”

Sailor Star says, plainly, “She has a point.”

Sailor Moon gains a solemn look and Sailor Celestial says, “Could we not talk about secret identities getting revealed? It is kind of a real ‘downer’ right now.”

Sailor Sun says, with a smile, “I’m sure that everything will be okay.”

Sailor C says, “Anyway, it was good while it lasted.”

Sailor Jupiter asks, “And you are okay with this?”

Sailor C says, with a smile, “I’m NOT Sailor Celestial. She is.” Sailor C motions to Sailor Celestial and Sailor Celestial makes a smile that says ‘Thank you’ in which she closes her eyes causing her broach and her sigil to glow in which Sailor C’s broach glows at the same time. The two broaches open up and a rainbow crystal comes out of Sailor C’s broach where it goes into Sailor Celestial’s broach causing Sailor Celestial’s broach to close as soon as the crystal goes in.

Sailor Moon tells Sailor C, with a smile, “Thank you.”

Sailor C says, “No problem.”

Sailor Sun asks, “So, what will you do now?”

Sailor Celestial says, “That’s simple. She is going to live at my house.”

Everyone looks at Sailor Celestial and Sailor Uranus asks, “Really?”

Sailor Celestial puts her hands on her hips and she says, plainly, “Yeah, really. I mean, she is practically family…sort of.” Sailor Celestial says, with a smile, “Plus, I always wanted a sister and maybe now, I can have someone to really spar with.”

Sailor Moon asks Sailor Celestial, “Don’t you have Kazuto?”

Sailor Celestial says, with a smile, “He’s good, but big brother’s sword style works better in VR. Let’s just say that I’m ‘bonked’ him many more times than I can count.” Sailor Star giggles at this while Sailor Orion smirks at this in which Sailor Celestial says, looking at Sailor C, “But someone trained in my style of combat, there is a challenge.”

Sailor C says, with a smile, “You might get more than you bargained for.”

Sailor Celestial says, with a smile, “We’ll see.”

Sailor Mercury asks, “So, what’s your name?”

Sailor C asks, “What do you mean?”

Sailor Celestial tells Sailor C, “We can’t call you ‘Sailor C’ anymore.”

Sailor C says, with a shrug, “That’s the only name that I have. They really didn’t give me a name. Since I am your clone, they didn’t give me a name of my own.”

Sailor Uranus says, annoyed, “Not surprised about that. You were only an experiment. Not a living being to them.”

Sailor Venus says, excitedly, “I know what a good name would be!”

Sailor Mars says, “Then no, Mina-chan.”

Sailor Venus says, annoyed, “Hey!”

Sailor Star asks, “So, what name would be good for her?”

Sailor Saturn then asks, “What about ‘Stella’?”

Sailor Sun says, with a smile, “I think that’s a good name!”

Sailor C says, “Stella Kirigaya.”

Sailor Celestial tells Sailor C, with a smile, “I think that it is perfect for you…sis.” Sailor C, now renamed Stella Kirigaya, can’t help to smile at those words.

End Flashback; Return to the Present

Back in the present, Kazuto says, “It has been quite a change…having another sibling and all.”

Midori says, with a smile, “Well, I’m certainly glad to have her. Now, I have two wonderful daughters instead of one.”

Suguha says, “Yeah, and whose help we are going to need.” Suguha asks Stella, “You still have the Phantom Broach?”

Stella retorts, with a sly smile, “You really need to ask sis?”

Suguha looks at her mother and she says, “Sorry, mom, but my new sis is going to need to come with big brother and I.”

Midori gives a sigh and she says, with a weak warm smile, “I know that I can’t stop you, but I nearly lost you once. It was a miracle that gave you back to me and gave me another wonderful daughter. Promise that you will come back to me.”

Suguha tells Midori, warmly, “That’s a promise that I intend to keep.”

Kazuto says, with a warm smile, “And I’ll make sure that she does, mom.” Soon after, Midori hugs her children, all THREE of them, in which tears come down her eyes.

But then a familiar female voice shouts out, “Hey, you don’t have say goodbye yet!” Midori, Kazuto, Suguha, and Stella yelp and turn to the source of the voice to see Washu coming through one of her Japanese sliding door style portals in which she is giving a wide smirk that unnerves the Kirigaya family at what she is thinking and planning.

Early June 2026, Within Mars’ orbit

As the newest scene unfolds, we see the planet Mars and we look across to the far side of the planet where we find a massive space station floating in orbit around this area of Mars with the space station rivaling the Death Star in Star Wars in size, but unlike the Death Star, this space station, while circular in shape like the Death Star, looks like massive snow globe with several massive metal rings surrounding it and within the ‘globe’, there are massive futuristic cities inside. Deep within the space station, we not only find our heroes and heroines, but we also find Katsuragi and her classmates and fellow shinobi in-training from Hanzo Academy, Yumi and her comrades from Gessen Girls’ Academy, Miyabi, Imu, and their comrades from Hebijo Clandestine Girls’ Academy, and the former members of said Academy known as the Crimson Squad. There are also Tusk, Ange, and the other remaining members of Arzenal. There are also Hibiki, Hikari, Tsukiumi, Akitsu, Matsu, Uzume, Musubi, and Kazehana. However, we also see none other than Naruto’s, Sakura’s, and Hinata’s former comrades from the Leaf including Mighty Guy and his team, Neji Hyuga, Tenten, and Rock Lee, Team 10, including Asuma Sarutobi, Ino Yamanaka, Choji Akimichi, and Shikamaru Nara, the rest of Hinata’s former team, Team 8, with Kurenai Yuhi, Kiba Inuzuka, and Shino Aburame, Yamato, the Jonin with the First Hokage’s cells infused in him to give him the power of the Wood Style, and finally, Jiraiya, one of Naruto’s former teachers. Then there is also Alita, Suguha’s former ‘armored doppelganger’, and Stella, Suguha’s clone and formally known as Sailor C in which now, she is now Suguha’s ‘younger twin sister’. There is also Tenchi, Ayeka, Sasami, Ryoko, Mihoshi, Tenchi’s father, and Tenchi’s grandfather, Katsuhito Masaki. Finally, there also the families of our heroes and heroines, minus Naruto’s parents, Hinata’s father and sister, and Sakura’s parents.

Tenchi asks, amazed, “Geez, Washu, when did you have time to build all this?”

Washu says, with a smirk, “Oh, this? Not really much for the greatest genius in the universe and the multiverse!”

Ryoko says, annoyed, “Here we go again.”

Washu gives a glare at Ryoko and Davis tells Washu, “We don’t have time, Washu.”

Yolei says, “Yeah, our world is…falling apart!”

Ange says, with a plain tone, “Along with the rest of existence itself, so, I think that we should get to work.”

Washu says, with a sigh, “Yeah! Yeah!” Washu then moves over to a large machine with a small circular force-field in the center and within that force-field, it is none other than Croire entrapped within the center of the device.

Mina asks, “So, that’s Croire?”

Croire screams out, “No damn kidding that it is me! Let me out of here!”

Adult Neptune, who is standing nearby, shouts out, “Nope! You are going to stay there until you finish helping us save worlds and then you are going back in my Nep Note!”

Croire shouts out, “No way!”

Adult Neptune says, “You don’t have a choice. You have been really bad, Crosite, and you are going to stay ‘locked up’ until you become a good little fairy!”

Sakura says, with a plain tone, “Yeah, I don’t see that happening any time soon.”

Suguha asks, “So, how is this guy going to help?”

Washu says, with a grin, “Simple! This guy has the ability to cross universal and dimensional boundaries in which he can go into different universes, dimensions, and ‘timelines’.” Washu then pushes a button on a holographic keyboard and an image of the piece of the Energist crystal Eggman used then appears in which Washu says, with a grin, “And then there is piece of that Energist that you managed to obtain.”

Naruto asks, “How is that going to help?”

Washu says, with a grin, “Simple. Thanks to this little piece, I’ll be able to find the other pieces of that crystal and we can travel between worlds to find them.”

There are gasps of shock and Hilda asks, “Are you kidding?”

Ange tells Hilda, “Are you seriously asking that since we came from another Earth?”

Ken asks Washu, “But what about the Chaos Emeralds?”

Just then a high-pitched male voice says, “That’s easy!” Everyone looks to see Tails flying down in his usual fashion and he says, “Working with Miss Washu, we’re also able to track down the Chaos Emeralds thanks to all of the data that I had complied on them. And since they were used with that crystal, a bit of the crystal’s energies had ‘infected’ the emeralds and making it easier to track them.”

Washu says, with a sly smile, “Ah, it feels refreshing to talking to a fellow genius. Not as smart as yours truly, but quite refreshing.” Washu says, with a grin, “However, he is still quite young and it might be interesting to help him bloom into a genius of incredible caliber.”

Tails says, a bit nervously, “Thanks, but my works don’t compare to yours.” Tails says, with a smile, “I mean, you build an entire space station that’s way better than any of Doctor Eggman’s evil space stations. And it isn’t the fact that they aren’t weapons of mass destruction. I can tell that they are WAY more advanced than Eggman’s work!”

Washu says, with a sly smirk, “Naturally!”

Ryoko tells Tails, “Watch it, kiddo! Stroke her ego too much and it will go to the ends of the multiverse!”

Washu glares at Ryoko and Davis asks Washu, “If it is so advanced, then why didn’t you just teleport us here? Why did you have to use Ayeka’s reborn ship and Ryo-Ohki transport us here?”

Washu says, a bit nervously, “Well…to make sure that no one infiltrates this place, I put a top notice security system including a shielding system that prevents ANY AND ALL kinds of teleportation including the Sailor Scouts, my own, and any kind of teleportation technology in which there is no way to bring it down.”

There are plenty of stunned looks and Lita asks, stunned, “Seriously?”

Washu says, with a shrug, “Hey, got to make sure that no one that we want here can get here that easily, you know? We do have a lot of ‘sensitive stuff’ in here.”

Tai tells Washu, “That’s putting it lightly.”

Jun says, plainly, “I saw plenty of that ‘sensitive stuff’ and I am wondering one thing.” Jun looks at our heroes and heroines and she asks, annoyed, “Are you crazy?!”

Davis says, nervously, “Good question.”

Washu gives an annoyed look and Ayeka asks, “Anyway, Miss Washu, it means that you can track down what we need to repair the damage done?”

Washu says, with a grin, “You got it.”

Ryoko yells out, annoyed, “Well, what are you waiting for? Open the portal so we can get going!”

Washu says, taking out a remote, “Heh, you are thinking so small. I’m not going to open a gateway to the ‘other world’…I’m going to use this wonderful machine to transport us to that world.”

Plenty of the others give surprised and shocked looks and they say in unison, “Say what?!”

Washu says, pushing a button on the remote, “Here we go!”

The others gasp in shock and Davis, Jun, Tenchi, and Ryoko say in unison, “Washu!” However, it is too late as the machine activates, the ‘force-field orb’ contain Croire starts to glow, causing Croire to scream out, and the whole of the space station starts to glow before it vanishes nearly instantly to whatever world it is heading for as our heroes’ and heroines’ latest journey starts…

End Chapter 4

Well, you can say that the true start of this first ark of this story is now. And yes, I know that this and the previous chapters had A LOT of ‘flashbacks’ in it, but this is due to the major time-skip between this story and World’s Song not to mention the ‘major events’ that happens especially what happened in the Prologue of this story. There are going to be plenty of ‘flashbacks’ in this story, mainly focused in this ark. It is make sure that the ‘holes’ in the Hollow Fragment ‘timeline’ are filled, so, please, bear with me. As I said before, the events of the Prologue are important to this story’s plotline and the ‘relationships’ between Naruto, Serena, and Kazuto with Suguha, which will you start seeing in the next chapter. Now, please read and review and no flames! Later and best wishes, Crossover Fans!