Author's Notes: Well, I've been promising myself that I'd write this fan-fiction for about two months, having earned some vacation time I've finally set about doing it. I hope you approve. Send all comments to amslerd@globalserve.on.ca Thanks to TheKid for proofing this chapter and providing input! Copyright Notice: Sailor Moon is copyright Naoko Tenchi and is being used without permission (I hope that no one takes offense!) and I reserve all posting rights. Sailor Moon: Who's Reality Is Right? Chapter 1 of ?? It was a day typical of the early autumn in Tokyo, the trees were beginning to lose their petals as time marched onwards, people began to bundle up as the cold winds began to nip at them and school was back in session. In short everything was proceeding as it should. Well, not quite everything. Deep under the frozen tundra in the Arctic was what at first glance would appear to be a gigantic jewel, that in itself would be considered unusual but what was inside the crystal was even more so. It was what appeared to be a person with a look of sheer terror frozen on his face. There were no clues as to how the person had gotten inside or what this apparent tomb was doing in the middle of nowhere. The crystal had been sitting undisturbed for who knows how long but on this day a tendril of what appeared to be a wisp of dark wind made its way towards the crystal, slowly the dark wind wound its way around the crystal and began what would appear to be a systemic probing of the crystal, what it was searching for on the crystal was unclear but by the aggressive manner it maneuvered it appeared to have business of some sort with the being trapped inside. Slowly the crystal began it make squeaking noises in response to the tremendous pressures being applied to it's surface and minute cracks began to form on the crystal's surface, and suddenly without warning the crystal shattered, leaving it's prisoner free but frozen as a fly released from amber might well be. The being made no sound but the dark energy entered through its ears, nose and eyes and suddenly screamed "I'M FREE!". "No" a voice corrected him, "WE are free!" The man whirled at the unseen voice "Who's there?" He demanded. "Show yourself!". The voice replied with a low chuckle that seemed full of menace "Jedite" the voice cooed, "Surely you remember the voice of your regent Metalla!" The man shivered "Metalla? Where is Queen Beryl? The last thing is remember clearly was I was trying to tell her was that I knew the identity of the three Sailor Scouts!" The voice rumbled "Much has changed since you were imprisoned, the Scouts have expanded their number to five, and the Dark Kingdom has been utterly destroyed!" The man seemed to collapse "How can this be?" he whispered. "Hush" commanded the voice, "The time for explanations is not now, now is the time to plan!" and the man walked off apparently talking to himself and liking what he heard chuckling as he was. Back in Tokyo, the first day of school at Crossroads Junior High was proceeding minus it's most famously tardy pupil. "LUUUNNNA!" Why didn't you get me up? The blonde haired girl cried as she raced towards the school. "I tried Serena, but if I had yelled any louder your mother would have heard me talking for sure!" (Not to mention half the neighborhood, the black cat thought to itself.) Without further conversation the two raced towards the school to being yet another year of scholastic struggle for Serena, but if only that was their only concern. Deep in the Arctic the strange conversation was at last coming to a close "Do you understand Jedite?" The man replied "Yes my regent, combining my energies with what remains of your fantastic powers we shall open a portal to the alternate dimension you discovered during your recovery period and take through a human" the voiced hissed "Yes, but it's *when* the human passes through that he becomes valuable to our cause, for passing through the fabric of their own reality the human will be able to bend this reality to their will, or more precisely *MY* will!" The voiced chuckled evily "Now Jedite, to work!" and with that the man disappeared in a dark mist. Serena, stood outside of the school after the final bell and waited for her friend Amy, Serena was lucky to have avoided detention but was wondering where Amy was "If *I* avoided detention today, surely that can't be why she's late leaving the school" Serena's thoughts were interrupted as she spied her friend "Amy? What took you so long?" The blue haired girl replied in an excited manner "I was just making sure there was still space for me in the extra credit computer course, I want to try and stay on top of things in the computer industry!" Serena face-faulted "Amy, you must be the weirdest person I know, who wants to go to school any more than necessary? Are you from another planet or something?" The blue haired girl replied with a soft chuckle "Of course I'm from Mercury!" and with that she giggled and said "C'mon meeting at Raye's temple remember? We'd better not be late or she's gonna have a fit!" and with that they took off in the direction of the Cherry Hill Temple where Raye lived and worked as a Shinto Priestess in training after school. "Wait for me guys!" a voice boomed out, "Sorry I'm late but some dork decided to pick a scrap on the first day of school and I wasn't about to let him get away with it!" The speaker of the voice caught up to the group, the girl was taller than the others by a wide margin and looked as though she could tear a phone book in half one handed if crossed. This was Lita, she had transferred to Crossroads with the reputation as the "Karate Maniac" but in truth was nowhere near the monster that name suggested, it was just that living on your own as Lita had to do since both her parents were killed made one tend to keep their defenses up towards all possible threats. Serena had broken through and found a loyal friend and an excellent cook, both qualities she appreciated dearly. Together the friends made for the temple with all deliberate speed. Raye was glad that the school day was over, every year she hoped she'd be accepted for herself and every year her hopes were dashed yet again with the whispered mutterings of "witch" "spooky" and "strange". While it was true that she was a Shinto Priestess in training she was as they were, human and wanted to fit in but with the taunts renewed her defensive screens went up and that chant of "snob" once again burned in her ears. She raced as fast as she could towards the temple and the refuge that it offered. Mina the last of the group known in secret as the "Sailor Scouts" made her way towards the temple but her guardian cat Artemis who met up with her for the journey sensed something amiss. With a graceful leap he alighted upon her shoulder and whispered discreetly in her ear "Out with it Mina, you've had a face longer than my tail for the past week, what's the matter?" The blond cocked her head "What's wrong? What should be wrong? My nights are taken up being Sailor Venus, my school work suffered last year and will probably suffer again this year and I don't even have enough time to chase guys like Lita does! What should be wrong" The smile on her face sagged a bit. Artemis sighed "I'm sorry Mina, I can't help you there, heck Luna won't even give me a smile! So I'm probably the last one to talk to regarding the last item and as to the second, I've already told you that I'm willing to help!" The blond replied "I know but everytime you help me with my homework I end up embarrassing the teacher who's allergic to cat hair!" Artemis sniffed "Hey, you bathe me every week! What else does she want? To see me bald?" With that the blonde's mood lightened considerably as she pictured a hairless Artemis scowling at her. "Whoa, look at the time Raye's gonna have the mother of all snit fits if we don't book it!" and with that the blond exploded into a run and the white cat held on for his life (number three of nine in case you were wondering, being a magical cat sure was a rough life!) In another parallel universe Dan Amsler was *NOT* having a good day. Ostensibly he was on a two week vacation that he desperately needed (Days before his vacation he took to running to the bathroom in order to curse himself for another minor slip up rather than curse silently at his desk) but today had just been a washout, woken up from a deep slumber at 9:00am by a software salesman he nearly fell onto his cat Tiger who responded as you would expect and took off from the lumbering human who supposedly "owned" him. "Great, now I'm up and have nothing planned for today!" he decided it was better to face the day rather than go hide from it and proceeded to get dressed. He looked at his collection of dolls from one of his favorite shows Sailor Moon "Well, at least I can watch this episode 'live' today" and with that he proceeded to clean himself up. Back with Jedite and Metalla things were proceeding apace "With old man and his goofy sidekick out like lights using this place to get our 'volunteer' will be a piece of cake!" With that he turned to the circle he had carved in the dirt and began a mystic chant in a voice that was a terrible melding of his own and Metalla 'Dark Forces heed my call, bring a breach upon the dimensional wall, send us a servant to do our bidding, so that the Scouts will know that we are not kidding!" With that a tearing sound began and a bright light began to issue from the tear. As the glow began to become blinding suddenly a quintet of voices rang out "STOP RIGHT THERE!" and the Jedite/Metalla hybrid turned to see who dared interrupt their plans. The girl with the two long pony tails spoke "I'm Sailor Moon and on behalf of the moon..." She stopped as she recognized the form "Jedite? Where did you come from?" The one named Sailor Mars spoke "Yeah and where are the caretakers of this temple?" The one named Sailor Jupiter said "enough with the twenty questions guys let's get him!" and with that she launched herself at the invader. "JUPITER THUNDER CRASH" the air filled with electrical energy directed at the trespasser but it bounced harmlessly off an invisible forcefield dissipating to nothing. "Is that the best you can do?" Jedite called out as something began to emerge from the portal. "Well" Sailor Jupiter said "Since you asked so nicely" and with a snarl on her lips she launched herself at Jedite and succeeded in knocking him off balance "JEDITE!" the voice of Metalla screamed, "Concentrate on your mission, or we will be unable to control our 'volunteer'!" Suddenly a voice called out "MOON TIARA MAGIC!" and a glowing disk flew towards Jedite who in his distracted condition was only able to offer up a partial shield to the magical object. "ARGH!" a scream made of two voices in horrible harmony filled the air "Jedite! We must retreat!" Jedite caught sight of their victim who was almost through the portal "But what of our plan?" Metalla hissed "Later, if the spell has worked we should be able to assert control at any time!" and with that Jedite popped out of view into what appeared to be a black tear. With the disappearance of the source the light dissipated and with a THUMP the object that came through the portal hit the ground. "That's it this is the last time I get up so early on vacation!" the shape grumbled. "I must be sleep deprived, I thought I was getting sucked through my TV as I was watching Sailor...." As the stranger said this he gazed upon the beings who had stopped staring after Jedite and turned their attention on him. They gazed upon him with a mixture of curiosity and determination "Who are you?" The blond haired girl asked "Uh, tell me I've gone nuts and this is some sort of major hallucination. Right?" the stranger laughed weakly at his own joke. Suddenly a black cat darted from the shadows and to the strangers surprise and complete confusion repeated the question adding "I know what your seeing is hard to believe but you can see that I can indeed talk and my name is Luna". The stranger turned whiter than the gloves the strange girls wore "Luna? Oh boy, now I *KNOW* I've gone round the bend. Well since you asked my name is Daniel and as far as I was aware until about 5 minutes ago I was watching a show about*YOU* and the other 'Sailor Scouts' is that the correct name?" Now it was Luna's turn to be surprised "Well, it appears Jedite, that was the blond haired man that you might have seen disappear, brought you here". Daniel coughed "And here is Tokyo?" The Scout with long blond hair spoke "Yes, and my name is Venus, this is Mars" indicating the scout with red highlights on her uniform "Mercury" the blue highlighted scout, "Jupiter" the tall Scout in green and finally a girl with two long ponytails and what looked for all the world like a blond meatball at the beginning of each ponytail "Sailor Moon". Daniel spoke again "Also known as 'Mina', 'Raye', 'Amy', 'Lita' and 'Serena' correct?". The Scouts looked aghast, the black cat cleared her throat and spoke again "Well, it seems that you do know a fair bit about us, can you tell us a bit more about yourself?" and with that Daniel promptly fainted the stress of the realizations finally hitting home. What will Daniel do? What will the Scouts do? and what will *YOU* do? Stay tuned I hope for chapter 2 of Sailor Moon: Who's Reality Is Right? --------------47D8477D2B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="real2sm.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="real2sm.txt" Author's Notes: Well, I've been promising myself that I'd write this fan-fiction for about two months, having earned some vacation time I've finally set about doing it. I hope you approve. Send all comments to amslerd@globalserve.on.ca Copyright Notice: Sailor Moon is copyright Naoko Tenchi and is being used without permission (I hope that no one takes offense!) and I reserve all posting rights. Sailor Moon: Whose Reality Is Right? Part Two Daniel had just passed out, the Sailor who caught him was Sailor Venus, but at two hundred pounds he was not an easy catch. With a thud they hit the ground in a tangle of arms and legs. Sailor Mars quickly went inside and got a wet cloth, meanwhile the other Sailors fanned him in order to try and revive him. Daniel stirred, "Ouch", he grumbled "This has got to be a dream, a really strange dream but a dream just the same" The blue haired scout named Amy replied "No, it's not a dream, according to my computer scan you are apparently from another dimension, but as to how you got here or how you are going to get home I have no immediate idea but I will get to work on it". Daniel had finally realized he was on top of someone and turned to apologize and was immediately struck by a face that he could only describe as that of a goddess. He attempted to stutter out an apology "I'm sorry Sailor Venus I normally don't fall on people, then again its not every day I apparently get sucked into an alternate dimension. Or happen to fall on the most beautiful woman I've ever seen!" and with that he blushed deeply. Sailor Venus laughed in the most musical tones Daniel had ever heard "Its okay, this sort of thing happens often" "What?" Daniel asked? "People falling on you or in love with you?" and now it was Venus's turn to flush red. "Ahem" Luna said "I think that we should try to focus on what's happening here. It appears that Jedite and whoever he was talking to had plans for you Daniel and I don't think they were to be any great help to us" The apparent leader of the group, Sailor Moon, spoke "Yeah, I heard just before Jedite disappeared he appeared to be talking to someone about you as some type of slave!" Daniel laughed "Last time I looked I was nobody's slave! Of course also the last time I checked I wasn't in a parallel universe either!" Suddenly, a strange rustling sound was heard and the Scouts looked up into a nearby tree. Daniel couldn't believe what he saw, a man in a black tuxedo holding what appeared to be a rose in one hand. "Sailor Scouts, I came as quickly as I could. Is everything all right?" The girl named Sailor Moon spoke "Yes, everything is okay Tuxedo Mask. We drove off Jedite before he could do any damage except for the person you see standing here. Daniel, I'd like to introduce you to Tuxedo Mask" Daniel could only smile weakly and say "Nice suit" Tuxedo Mask spoke again "Since all appears to be well farewell!" and with that he disappeared as silently as he appeared. Daniel noticed the lovestruck look in Sailor Moon's eyes. He gently nudged Sailor Venus "If I remember my Sailor Moon from my universe correctly, she's stuck on him, right?" Sailor Venus nodded "Yes it sounds like your universe and ours aren't so different in that respect" Luna exasperated tried again "Now that that's taken care of, I think we should try to figure out why you were brought here Daniel" Daniel looked confused "I have no idea what that creep in the uniform wants with me. I have no powers other than my own mind. My body as you can see is no prize either" it was obvious looking at Daniel that he was indeed not a excellent specimen by any stretch. He was 6 foot 2 but was out of shape, looked as though he walked with a stoop and most obvious was afflicted with cerebral palsy. It affected his right side and most strikingly his arm and hand. Sailor Venus spoke "Its not what you look like on the outside that counts, its what's going on inside" For the first time the one called Sailor Mars spoke "Yes, what's on the inside is important. What I'm picking up from you is that you are a good person who only wants to fit in. But I'm also getting a strange feeling from you and I can't put my finger on it. Would you mind if we did a fire reading after we find my grandfather and Chad?" Daniel replied "I'm all for it if it gives us some answers. Oh, by the way do mean the two people unconscious in the basement?" The Scouts looked at him with mouths open "How can you tell where they are?" Sailor Mercury asked. Daniel puzzled said "I don't know all I did was connect with Sailor Mars mind and saw that she wanted to find those people. I just opened my mind further and saw where they were" Luna spoke again "After we rescue them Daniel you and I have to have a private chat" With that the Scouts and Daniel set off for the shrines basement. As the Scouts and Daniel entered the shrine's basement they came upon the unconscious forms of Rei's grandfather and Chad. The Scouts and Daniel brought the two into their respective bedrooms. Amy looked at both of them and indicated they were none the worse for their experience and that all they needed was rest. With the immediate threat dealt with attention again turned to Daniel. Daniel spoke "What is going on here? All of a sudden I'm making like a psychic and finding people". Luna spoke "I'm afraid that this is only the beginning. There is a theory that says if someone is brought through the dimensional wall they would be able to affect the reality of the dimension they entered." Daniel looked ashen "So what does that make me Luna? Am I still human? Or am I something else?" The white cat spoke "We don't want to engage in idle speculation at this point. My name is Artemis by the way. But what should be our concern is making sure that you can control and master whatever powers you have." Luna spoke "Daniel, do you have any type of jewelry?" Daniel looked puzzled "I have this ring that my parents gave me when I turned 16." Luna did the feline equivalent of a smile "Perfect, give it to me." Daniel was puzzled but did as told and placed his ring before Luna. Luna stared intently at the ring, took it in her mouth and proceeded to do a backflip. When she landed and laid the ring back down before Daniel, he immediately noticed the moon symbol carved into the side of the ring, picking it up he noticed that the same symbol was carved on the other side of the ring. Daniel looked confused "Aside from the two crescent moons, it looks like the same ring. What does it do?" Luna spoke "It will act as both a focus and control for your powers whatever they are. It will also serve you as a communicator to the other Scouts and as a homing device should Jedite attack you when you are alone." Daniel spoke again "Okay, now the only thing I'm a little concerned about is whether I need some type of costume to hide my identity. Although no one knows me here other than you, the Scouts and Tuxedo Mask I think the Scouts identities would be in danger if I was consistently around both groups." The Scouts and the cats considered this for a moment. Sailor Venus spoke up "Why don't you see what you can come up with and we'll help you with your choice of costume and secret identity?" Daniel considered this "Okay, but this leads to the next question. Where do I sleep / live? I don't fancy sleeping on the temple steps!" Rei smiled to herself "If it was good enough for Chad" Daniel was going to ask Rei about her mysterious smile when a man appeared at the temple steps. Serena bounded down the steps nearly crashing into the man "Darien, I'm so glad to see you! I'd like you to meet..." before she could finish her sentence Daniel peered at the man and said "Tuxedo Mask?" The man was visibly shaken "How?" Daniel flushed. "Luna! I thought you said this ring would help me control my powers!" Luna explained "The ring will do that but first it must get accustomed to your body's energy signature." Daniel smiled "Yet again my body betrays me!" Darien having gotten over his initial shock of his identity being apparent common knowledge to a stranger came up the steps, "Well" Darien said " I have a spare room in my apartment that you're welcome to " Daniel smiled "Thanks, and maybe you can give me some ideas about a costume!" "A costume?" Darien inquired. Daniel replied "Yep, looks like you're finally gonna have someone around you who *DOESN'T* look good in a skirt in battle!" Darien smiled "You've got a sense of humor Daniel" Daniel replied "Got too, otherwise I'd have gone to this universe's funny farm!" Meanwhile, in a dark cave under the North Pole, Jedite / Metalla was screaming at himself / herself. "Idiot! Because of your failure we don't have any control over our subject!" Metalla sighed "I think I should concentrate now on regaining my power " Jedite was confused " How will you accomplish this?" Metalla laughed "Why by having you collect energy for me! And as an added bonus you will bring our victim here and I will take over his mind " Jedite laughed "I can hardly wait!" It was the next morning and as the sun peeked through the windows of Darien's apartment, Daniel stirred " Man, what a wild dream! " as he looked around he remembered that this was no dream and he was trapped in an alternate dimension with no way of getting home. Darien knocked " Are you getting up yet? It's almost 11 o'clock " Daniel fell out of bed " Ouch! Oh boy, do you have any clothes I can borrow?" Darien replied "I already thought of that a change of clothes is waiting in the bathroom " Daniel acknowledged the gift and ran into the bathroom. After 20 minutes Daniel emerged wearing a dark shirt and light pants " Thanks again, it looks like a perfect fit! " Darien was puzzled " I thought the pants might be a bit short? " Daniel smiled " I think we can thank my powers for that. Saves on tailoring costs right? " Darien laughed " I guess it does! Want some breakfast? " Daniel was one never to refuse a meal " Sure! " and Darien got a first hand look at the male model of Serena with Daniel eating as though it was his last meal. After they cleaned up the dishes Daniel remarked " Normally I don't eat anywhere near that much food, I wonder if it's because of my powers? My body seems to be trying to replace a great deal of energy " Darien agreed this was possible but they should consult with Amy after the girls got out of school. Daniel mused " I was thinking last night about a costume and a name. What about this? " With that Daniel furrowed his brow in concentration and his ring began to glow faintly, his borrowed clothes melted and reformed into a copy of Darien's tuxedo outfit except the colors were reversed with the jacket and pants being white and the shirt black. Darien smiled " Just a bit of a copy don't you think? " Daniel smiled " My thinking was that rather than try to recreate the wheel I should go with what works. Although you can see I made a few changes" Indeed, he had, for he had chosen to delete the cape and hat and changed the mask to a style he remembered from his favorite comic books. Darien looked at him questioningly " Okay, now we have the costume, what about the name? " Daniel smiled " I was thinking of something based on the glow the ring gives off when I use it. How does 'Lord Light' sound? Darien said " Well, I guess it's okay, I mean I'm called Tuxedo Mask after all! " Daniel smiled " Well, the next order of business is to try out my powers on a test drive right? " At that there was a scratching noise at Darien's balcony window and two cats one black and the other white, both with crescent moons on their heads made themselves known. Daniel smiled " Speak of the devil " Daniel was exhausted, they had spent most of the afternoon exploring just what his powers were. They had discovered he had the power of short distance flight and the ability to create objects of white light just by thinking about them. As well he had a limited invulnerability that was weakest around his *LEFT* side, Daniel found this discovery quite interesting but Luna was concerned "Daniel, this means you must be *extremely* careful to use the element of surprise against your enemy, a frontal assault could prove at best, problematic" Artemis spoke "What the thesaurus is trying to say is watch your port side!" this crack earned him a swat from Luna. Daniel said "I think Darien's is probably the best teacher I could ask for in that department!" Darien smiled "If your really good I might even be able to teach you the ability to have cool entrance music when you appear too! The girls love that." At the mentioned of 'girls' a mental picture of Mina came into Daniel's mind "What an angel, but I'd never get the courage to tell her, let alone ask her on a date or anything." A swat on his pantleg from Luna broke him out of his revere "Are we quite finished daydreaming Daniel?" Daniel blushed "Whoops, sorry had something on my mind" Darien coughed "The girls normally have a meeting at the Temple around this time of day, I think we'd better show up, especially since you'll be the topic of conversation! Oh that reminds me, I promised I'd drop in on my friend Andrew at the local arcade, do you mind if we stop there on the way to the temple?" Daniel could barely contain his excitement "An arcade? lead on McDuff!" and as Darien realized the reference the two guys and cats made their way to the Crown Arcade. Metalla spoke to Jedite "What is your progress?" Jedite replied "Excellent my Regent, I've found the perfect energy source that should go unnoticed until it's too late!" Metalla was intrigued "Just what is this great energy source?" Jedite beamed "Video games" Metalla looked unimpressed "The plan is simplicity itself!" Jedite continued "All we do is replace the machines in arcades with our versions that while playing suck out the energy from the players! Since playing an excessive amount of videogames tires out those puny humans so easily they won't even notice!" Jedite beamed "I have everything in place and am awaiting your consent Metalla" The dark shape quivered "Proceed Jedite and may Dark Fortune smile upon you!" and with that Jedite disappeared to begin his nefarious scheme. At the arcade Darien introduced Daniel to Andrew by passing him off as a 'relative from overseas' Daniel exchanged pleasantries with Andrew and went off to see what this arcade had to offer. He noticed that most of the people here were slumped at the machines, some barely standing upright, "Weird". As he moved past a throng of people he bumped into a tall blond man "Excuse me" Daniel said as he moved on to find an unoccupied machine. Jedite smiled "Perfect, a good deal of the energy required *and* our *volunteer" Metalla shall be most pleased!" and with that he began to call for his servant Chomp Man , a large yellow ball with eyes and teeth. Jedite laughed "This should be fun!" and with that he sent Chomp Man crashing through the arcade searching for Daniel as well as any stray energy he missed. Daniel had just finished losing his borrowed money in a Sailor V video game "Damn, these things are *HARD*" and as he turned around he saw Chomp Man headed his way "Oh boy, nothing like on the job training!" and with that he ducked into a washroom held his left fist up and shouted "LORD LIGHT DAWN!" and he felt the rush of power as his clothes melted into his fighting garb "I hope Darien was able to transform, or else this might get messy, for me!" and with that he leaped out to face the opponent. Chomp Man had not been idle as after losing Daniel he went for the next strongest energy source which just happened to be Darien, by this time he too had transformed and was battling the monster to a standstill between his cane & roses. "Could you use a hand Tuxedo Mask" Daniel called out careful to use Darien's 'stage name' "The more the merrier Lord Light!" as the monster took another swing. "Okay ugly lets see you chew on *THIS*!" and as Daniel concentrated a safe made of light suddenly appeared above Chomp Man who only had enough time to look up as the safe came crashing down with a satisfying *KER-THUNK* Tuxedo Mask looked slack jawed and couldn't surpress a grin "Nice touch!" Daniel smiled but the smile was short lived as the safe exploded into sparkles of light "Oh Boy..." Daniel muttered, for although the monster was battered he was far from beaten. Suddenly a voice cried out from above "HOLD IT!" a silouhette appeared in the arcades upper window "You have defiled this innocent arcade and for that you will be punished! I am Sailor Moon champion of justice and on behalf of the... EEK" Sailor Moon's usual battle speech was cut short as the monster whizzed a demolished pinball machine inches from her head. The rest of the Scouts entered through the arcade window and took their positions surrounding the monster. Sailor Mars was the first to take a crack at the monster "Mars Fire IGNITE!" and as the fireball headed towards the monster it appeared to be sucked INTO the monster! "Hey!" shouted Mars, "What's the deal here?" Sailor Jupiter was next to try "Jupiter Thunder CRASH!" and yet again the attack was sucked into the monster! Sailor Moon pulled out her scepter "Okay you 80's oldie! Time for you to get put back into storage closet! MOON SCEPTER ELIMINATION!" this attack unlike the others hurt the monster, but only temporarily as it seemed to 'digest' the attack! Jedite laughed "Give it up Failure Scouts! You and your snappily dressed male friends don't stand a chance!" Sailor Venus was about to give it a shot when Daniel put his hand on her shoulder "Venus we're going to have to work together to get this thing! Are you with me?" Venus stood puzzled until she realized who it was "Sure thing! Venus Crescent Beam SMASH!" and Daniel added his beam of light and as the two beams merged they proceeded to burrow through the creature vaporizing it completely! Daniel smiled "Hey pretty boy! Looks like your friend ran out of quarters!" Jedite cursed "I'll be back, for you Scouts and the two wedding party rejects!" and with that he disappeared! Sailor Mercury "looked over" the people with her visor device "They appear okay but their energy seems to be gone! Normally when Jedite attacked and lost the energy flowed back to them, this is very serious" Tuxedo Mask was the first to hear the sirens "Sorry folks I think the offical cavalry is coming! Time to book it!" and with that Tuxedo Mask & Daniel flew out the smashed front window of the arcade. Sailor Mars commented "Better follow their example guys! Sailor Venus you coming?" the Scout who had just moments ago been pouring her energy along with Daniel's into the creature awoke from her daze "Coming Mars!" She had a starry look in her eyes which did *NOT* go unnoticed by Sailor Jupiter "Hmm, Mina's got that *look* again" she thought to herself. Later at the temple as the girls were discussing their battle with Jedite Amy remarked "It's sure weird that no one's powers except Venus and Daniel's combined were able to destroy that thing!" Serena looked on the verge of tears "I hope this doesn't mean I'm going to lose my powers *AGAIN*!" Just before she could let lose with a good wail she spotted Darien coming up the temple steps "Hi Muffin!" Serena rushed to meet Darien just as he got to the last step "Hi Meatball Head!" he returned. Daniel came slowly up the temple steps "Whoa, ever think of an escalator Rei?" Rei laughed "For someone who dusted a NegaVerse monster you sure are out of shape!" Daniel smiled as he sat down "Two things Rei, first without Mina I'd probably still be there dropping safes on that darn thing, and second, if I'm stuck here I'll be in shape outside of a week, the way trouble pops up around here!" Mina laughed "a safe"? Daniel chuckled "Hey it was either that or a baby grand piano! By the way nice tag team we pulled huh?" Luna interjected "Indeed, I see your training came in handy and although we've seen the costume we never got your 'nom de guerre'" Artemis stirred "She means your secret id in battle" and yelped as Luna smacked him yet again. Artemis muttered "Gotta remember to be farther away when I open my mouth!" Daniel smiled "Well, since my powers are based on light I thought 'Lord Light' might be appropriate" Serena in between bites of cookies Rei's grandfather had laid out said "Cool!" Daniel eyed the cookies hungrily "I hope you don't mind, but I seem to burn a lot of energy doing this 'save the universe thing'!" everyone laughed as Daniel mirrored Serena as he grabbed a few cookies and practically gulped them down. Rei smiled "looks like we have 'Serena: the sequel on our hands here!" As everyone laughed Darien looked at his watch "Oh Serena we'd better get moving if we want to make that movie" Serena practically flew at him "Your right I completely forgot! Let's book it!" as the two lovers hurried off Daniel smiled to himself "Wonder if I should ask Mina out?" Daniel cleared his throat "Mina, Darien gave me a pair of tickets to the concert in the park, would you care to accompany me?" Mina practically exploded in joy "Sure thing! Let's go!" and yet another pairing hurried off into the evening dusk. Lita laughed "If he didn't have those tickets I think Mina would have been *VERY* disappointed" The other girls smiled "It's nice to see Mina with a guy" said Artemis "Even if he's nearly as old as Darien" Ami sat silent for a moment and said to herself "I just hope I don't find a way for him to return anytime soon, Mina seems so happy" What does the night hold for the pairings? What does Jedite have in mind next? Tune in soon for the next chapter of Sailor Moon: Who's Reality is Right?