"To Every Season" Chapter 6:(PG) by Alina alinasan@yahoo.com Same Disclaimers!!! Author's Notes: 1. T 2. I messed up Mika/Miaka's name...whoops. Just ignore it, because it's just a little typo. "I see the Bad Moon rising....I see, trouble on the rise" -----------------------------------------@-->>> The whorl of energy stablaized at the time Anna had left the palace....but nothing else was the same. The palace room was littered by prone figures, and some strange woman was standing there, who looked remarkably like the woman who was supposed to be training her...except she lopked much more evil. "Well, little girl, you've come to *attack* me have you? Hm....well, that's too bad....for you.." SailorPluto narrowed her eyes "In the name of time, I will stop you from destroying those I love and robbing the meaning from life...I will punnish those who intefere with the moon kingdom and its gaurdians" An evil laugh was the only response "What gauardians? They're no match for me...Pretty little speech, but you're no threat...now that I have the crystal....I am the ruler" "But you can't use that! Only the Moon Kingdom Heirs can...." She said "Well...I am..." The evil grin widened "And you're not! And in a minute, you won't be anything at all..." She screamed "Moon Time Bomb" and threw a giant blast of energy straight at her... A rose cut through the energy, deflecting it's path so that it only hit Anna's right arm...She sank heavily. "You attack scared young girls, doing their duty, and this I cannot permit." A caped man stepped out from a time tunnel. "Defiler of the Crystal Millenimum, its time for justice" "Well...I'm not looking for your permission or your justice!" The woman hurled a blast of MoonTime Bomb energy at him as well. "Tuxedo Max" screamed Serena "She threw her self in front, but was bumped by Mina, who went down with a thud...."I'm ok" she said"You guys just stop that thing" Some sort of crystaline substance was forming on her..Ami bent to analyze it Lita and Raye looked at each other .... "Burning Mandala" combined with "Jupiter Thunder Birds Strike, and a huge blast of energy tumbled towards the figure... It staggered her a little, but not enough to stop her from throwing forth another blast of the Moon Time Bomb...this time, it hit Ami, knocking her over...crystal began to form where the blast had hit her..Lita and Raye bent to help. "AMI" Screamed Serena..."Ok, now TimeTrash, You're about to get Moon Dusted!...Starlight HoneyMoon Therapy kiss" This the woman neatly sidestepped, "I'll destroy you SailorMoon..just like I did Queen Serenity, and the moon princess" The woman cocked her head "Oh, and the moon prince" She said flicking her fingers and throwing a "Time Thorn Strike" She said and a giant vine of thorns snaked out and snared Ion...and began to squeeze...Tuxedo tried to use his cane to free Ion, but instead, the vine snaked towards him, knocking him out. Serena stood up... "I won't let you destroy everything I care about" "I dont' want to do *that*....I have to say, it was pretty impressive that someone went and got you..because without you being alive, I won't exist....so I can't kill you...oh I know I created some paradoxes..but I'm not going to tempt fate or make the rubber band snap" Raye, & Lita looked on...there was no way to attack without hitting Ion. "I'd say you snapped already..."Ion said, as he gasped...He turned to them "Kill us both" "Now now...I can't have you die....so I'll just have to knock you out..and then freeze you as I've frozen everyone else." The vine swung him closer to the wall..."The scouts, well, I can kill them...if you won't cooperate" Nodding, the two double teamed their attack again...This shook the renegade.... The crystal hurt, but Anna was able to shake it off with her staff... She was very weak...but that didn't matter. All she needed was enough breath to whisper. "Dead scream" The blast struck its target, making the vine snap and Ion fell, smashing into the ground. A time thorn seemed to be grotesquely bifurcating his body. "No..." the woman's voice faded as she snapped out of existence... "NO!!!" Anna screamed louder than enough to wake the dead...but it didn't work...She ran, cradling Ion's head..."you can't be dead, you can't be..it's all my fault...." "Maybe I can heal him, and Reenie...and her daughter..." Sailor Moon whispered as she hugged the younger girl..."It will use a lot of power, so you'll have to send us back in time, ok? I powerd the time key before, but I cannot do so now" The girl nodded. She placed the key on Ion. Sailor Moon paused and began to use the power of the crystal to heal...Ion blinked his eyes open...to see SailorMoon collapsing... Tuxedo Mask, picked her up. "She'll be all right..she's just very weak right now" ..As Raye and Lita each took Mina and Ami...The group huddled together..."We just need to get her home" "Dark Dome Open" She said...and watched these people she was so grateful to disappear... She looked around, and surveyed the damage that had been done... Ion looked around the empty throne room..."At what price victory? " He said...He looked over at her...distrusting her....but confused... Anna swallowed...She wasn't ready to face him...not until she knew if Sailor Moon was safe... She stepped into the time stream...Miaka was there "Oh..you did it...you destroyed the monster..." "She was no monster...she was a sailor pluto, who was just corrupted by the power of the time stream..." Anna said... "If she had been trained better, this would not have happened. And if you had been better trained, this would not have occured" "Well, I'm sorry, I won't do it again..." "No you already "did" it....That woman, she looked like the one training me..." "Yeah, I met her...Chrona...and she said *I* trained her...go figure..." "Well, if that is true, in the future do a better job with her...Promise me...."She held out her time staff, and touched it to that of the other SailorPluto...in a gesture reminiscent of something very familiar, to her, she smiled over her shoulder as she prepared to leave..Miaka tried to place where she had seen that before... "I will...." Suddenly, her eyes widened..she knew where she'd seen that gesture.. "Mom..." she whispered. The words barely snagged her conciousness, throwing her aim for Sailor Moon off--she didn't even know what century she'd come from...She'd recognized the rest as the women she'd met in the Silver Millenium (they were about the right ages) but she'd never seen a SailorMoon...and there was something different about the languange they were speaking...Well she still had to find them... * * * * Time resumed in the Silver Millenium, but Anna found no Silver Millenium...just the wrecked remains of the kingdom...and lingering time distortion trails....A faint ghost presence of Queen Serenity appeared, saving her from dying in the lack of atmoshphere.... "SailorPluto...I'm sorry, we lost the battle, that we had just begun with Berryll...I sent everyone to the future, to be reborn..., Except my guardians....I used the crystal to preseve them and their memories...Watch over them, see they end up in a happier time..." "What happened?" Pluto asked, confused... "I stopped time....it caused my death...but....I used my power to save my essence, my spirit.." "You stopped time?" She said in wonderment....what if she had done that? "I know you have this power as well, to close the dark dome over the flow of time,..but I forbid you to use it...you are the link to the past and future...and you must remain in it, if you close time, you will die as well..." Pluto nodded.... "So, will I be preserved as well like you?" The spirit shook her head "No...I'm afraid I used the moon crystal power for this, your power is different...You draw from your planet..." "So what am I to do?" She said ...It was eerily quiet here... "What you have always done...serve and protect our universe....but there is no need for you to do so here. Go in peace, Pluto" The voice vannished. SailorPluto nodded.. Since she couldn't find Sailor Moon, perhaps she'd now face Ion..and hopefully, everyone else had been healed as well...She opened the time stream..and returned to what she hoped was her future....but she ended up in the future's past, just *before* the crystal Millenium started.... "Oh Sailor Pluto...but you're still your younger self!" NeoQueen Serenity said, "We've been trying to find you...we found all the other scouts, except you." Raye, who seemed to have been in a trance of some sort, collapsed against the ground, and was helped to sit up by Lita and Ami....All were in there in their Scout clothes...The world was strange, the terrain seemed entirely composed of crystal ...a very similar crystal to the one that had attacked Ami, and Mina... Everyone appeared a year older than when she'd last seen them...was it just a little while ago? "What happened?" She asked "What do you mean you've tried to find me?" Luna approached her, and began to explain "After the attack on the future's future, we returned with Ami and Mina..We thought they were fine for a year......something in the time stream must have made it dormant. Almost a year later the crystals began to spread again.....We tried to save them. Holly (Hotaru), that is SailorSaturn, tried to heal them, but wound up getting entangled as well. Like a poison, the ice spread....SailorMoon tried to use her power to heal, but it was too soon after her last healing, andshe fell unconcious... We placed all four in a cave in a mountain, so that the ice spread would not take over others...As soon as one got too near them, the crystals took over and ." "Who are you?" She interrputed, as she finally noticed the man who looked exactly like Ion. She felt herself blushing as she stared... "I'm King Endymion, Serenity's husband..." He placed his hand on Serenity's shoulder " Almost a year went by, as we searched for a remedy, but nothing seemed to work...We thought maybe Pluto could help...but no one could find her, er, you...we assume she'd returned to the future...Eventually, we realized the whole world was becomming engulfed by the crystals..and there was no way to stop it..." "It felt really cold, when it took over us" Lita said "But there was no way to stop it...except with sailor Moon's power" She nodded "I took over a millenia to recover from healing everyone in the future...most of that time spent in the crystal...but the crystal seemed to preserve us sailors, and keep us from aging... Eventually, I broke free, and found almost all the other sailors, Darrien, and Luna and Artemis..." Ami continued "The time crystals reacted differently on people...some people didnt remember anything...and many governments were not functioning properly...the whole world was in a dissaray...." "And so one of our hardest missions ever began...then" contiued Raye, who was now looking better "We knew, from the time Reenie visited us, some things about the future...and so we had a vague idea of how to start...but it was not easy." Susannah frowned....Should she jump into the future, to make sure she'd saved things? "I'm so glad you are here, Pluto" Sailor Saturn said, embracing her... "There is a lot of work to be done...and we missed you." She supposed she would have to stay... * * * * Years later, Pluto watched a few days after her 20th birthday (or so she assumed, since tecnically, she wasn't even born yet), as Princess Serenity was born....The minute the small eyes looked at her, she knew she was hooked...This kid is going to rule me, she thought...not intending the pun.. * * * Ion wandered outside...and there, he was overjoyed by the sight of Reenie, and Lena, and all sailors except for that of time, watching the Moon.. .. EPILOGUE: Susanna was stuck in the time corridor, with no time key, no staff and no way out. She didn't even mind...for where was there for her to go if he didn't exist anymore, or if he did, that he hated her so much? Eternity or a second flashed by, and a whorl of energy broke the expanse of nothingness "Hello! Mom?" Said a voice...."Whoops, forget I said that...I've come to save you..." A teenage girl with long hair done up in two buns but otherwise, like hers, stood before her..."Actually, don't forget I said that...it's how I knew to come get you." "Who are you?" She said looking at the girl...She was familiar...but the memory was very old..."Mika?" She whispered "Um, that's me, the daughter of paradox, at the moment...I'm SailorPluto and so are you" "Not anymore..."She said...."I'm nothing now" "No. That's not true...." She waved a hand "Go on, it's time for you to reenter the world...this should be close to when you left" "Oh, and here's a spare time key...you never know when you might need it!" * * * * The moon was shining really strongly in the garden...Ion looked at the roses...To think, was it a few days ago his whole world had almost collapsed, because they had been silly enough to try and create a scout of time? Yet everything in the end had turned out fine....SailorMoon had healed Reenie and Lena ((who were really just frozen by a time crystal)), as well as the other Sailors...He hoped SailorMoon was ok...but what was he saying? That had happened a long time ago--she must have been or he wouldn't have been here. But he knew they also wouldn't have won without SailorPluto...He'd been too harsh on her...accusing her of being a traitor...but how did he apologize? He'd locked her in time...If he ever saw her....a thought went through his mind...what if it was *because* he'd locked her there that she'd turned against the kingdom? Was this all his fault? He shook his head at the twisted path of logic that produced. He knew now with his heart that she was not evil...if anything, she had a love for him so strong, it had endured through centuries...he knew that now...now that he had no way to ever and try and return it..."Oh Susannah..."He said..."If you were here I'd..." "You'd what?" She said gently, as she stepped up behind him... "Susannah" he said, as he turned to face her, discovering an emotion that was centuries old but so new to him... He stared into her dark red eyes, and pushed back the dark hair.... "I was worried that you'd never forgive me" She smiled "Well, maybe never in a million years, but I had a little more time on my side than that" He leaned over to kiss her, when a shrill voice broke in "All right! You're free" They turned to look at a figure, whom Susannah had seen both a lifetime ago and very recently... The girl blushed, down to the roots of her dark/brown orangish hair..."Sorry to interrupt......but I have to say, it's about time you two kissed...Id like to exist you know.." With that strange comment, the girl whispered "Dark Dome Open" And vannished into the time stream... The end....