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Emily and Sandra had a somewhat contentious lunch, due to the fact that she had gone to UK under an alias for so long. As most native Kentuckians-and anybody for that matter-feel, there is a horrible feeling learning that the prejudice you have tolerated for so long had actually affected you or your relationships to the negative. Eventually, Sandra felt compelled to apologize, but Emily did not want an apology. She simply wanted a new, more honest relationship with Sandra and her old teammates. Emily herself apologized for not giving the girls a chance to get to know her under her real name, and for her parents, who instructed her to use the alias.
When somebody faces discrimination, especially when one bad apple appears, they are compelled to fend discrimination off at all costs. Emily decided to change her name to something prestigious; it was a name from a bottle of perfume.
"You got your alias off a Gloria Vanderbilt bottle?"
"Yeah. It pleased my father; just be glad I didn't call myself Emily Dior."
"I dunno; Emily Arden sounds kinda good."
"Hey, I heard something about the Iranians in California. Didn't they hold a 'We Love America' rally of some sort outside a government building?"
"Yeah. We held flags of the old Iran off the Shah, and American flags too. They represented the past and the future."
"What was up with the Shah anyway?"
"Shah Reza Pahlavi and his son Mohammed Reza Pahlavi were Pro-American. My parents came over in '77 when there were signs of trouble. My father has military combat weapons given him from the Shah himself."
"So who's the white-haired guy that's been hanging around you? You look so much like him."
"He's my....I've got another secret."
"Well, spill it. I'm game."
"The Vaziris are my adopted parents. He's my real father."
"Okay, that's weird. Where did he come from?"
"I don't know. I don't know about my birth mother, either."
"That sucks. I hope you find her."
"I will. I can feel it."
"You and your feelings. Have you registered as a psychic?"
"No. You know I don't believe in that stuff."
They talked on and on for an hour, then Sandra had to go back to work.
As the two of them went outside, they bade each other good bye.
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At that moment, Metallia's spy was in the restaurant, reporting back to Queen Beryl. She was planning to recapture the girls, and bring them back to the Kingdom. They were to be her vessels for her ultimate plan: to destroy the Earth. The Demon of the Sun wanted to carry out her plans from her true master, the Angel of Illusion. If the Angel of Illusion could not defeat the Ultimate Creator, he would destroy his most prized works in the Universe: the humans and intelligent life on the planets in the Ultimate Creator's universe.
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Juliana and her father were on the phone, explaining to her community college why she had to drop the units. They had just gotten the Dean to excuse them. They hung up and decided to call for Chinese. Usagi checked in on them, and went to tell their suggestion. As they got on the phone....
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Grace was with the friends she had made in high school, that had gone to UK. They were celebrating the end of finals, and waiting for the grades. They were partying at her father's house. She was demonstrating a body shot off a cute guy when....
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Blossom was playing music on her father's baby grand, next to Endymion and Heliodor. Usagi had just come back quietly when....
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Emily called her father.
"Hey Dad, I'm going to come back to the shop."
"How was lunch with Sandra?"
"It was good."
"She wasn't too pleased with your revelations, then?"
"I don't know who my birth mother is." After a pause, she got a hunch. "Hey Dad, don't you think Queen Beryl might try to do something soon?"
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Beryl struck her globe with a long black crystal. "Let the servants come back!"
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At once, Emily felt a gigantic pain in the center of her forehead. She began to scream.
Lord Kunzite shouted, "Emily? Where are you? What's going on?"
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Blossom's head hurt so much; she fell over onto the piano. Lord Zoisite ran over, but began to have a massive headache himself. Still, he clutched on to his baby girl. He would not leave her now.
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Grace's head hurt sharply. She fainted. Her friends were trying to wake her up, when a crash came from the kitchen. Lord Nephrite had dropped a platter of hot wings and fainted himself. As her friends from Georgetown arrived, the friends from UK were hovering over him and Grace, and the Georgetown friends tried to splash ice water on them.
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Juliana felt a sharp pain in the head. She looked at her father, who was wincing as well.
"Dad, what's happening?"
"Metallia's trying to...to...." but Lord Jadeite could not speak. He simply grasped his daughter's hand in loving support.
Whatever Metallia had in store for them, Lord Jadeite would not leave his little girl's side.
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Lord Kunzite kept screaming over the phone.
"Emily! Emily! I'm coming!"
Lord Kunzite appeared in front of Emily, who fainted in his arms.
"I'm here for you, love. I'll put my shield around us."
As the shield formed, there was an ambulance in front of them. A woman stepped out, and was in the shield, motioning to Emily. Lord Kunzite knew she was a youma.
"I will never let you have her!"
"Pull away, sir. She needs air."
"Nice try. I know you're not an EMT."
The woman wrapped a surprise tentacle around them. Lord Kunzite tried to free them, but Emily's body weight was to no avail.
Emily then woke up. She was not herself, however. It was like somebody else was in her body.
"Please, let us go. I will go with you."
The youma let them go. "Emily" turned to her father.
"Would you like to come with me?"
"Not by choice."
The tentacle wrapped itself around Lord Kunzite. "Emily" struck his forehead. Whatever controlled her tried to activate Lord Kunzite's crystal, but it was no use. Kunzite was able to escape. He tried to send a telepathic message to Endymion, but he was not sure if Endymion received it.
The youma opened a portal, and went inside. Emily followed and closed it. Cars in front of the restaurant exploded around it.
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There was a commotion back at the jewelry store. Mr. Vaziri, Mrs. Vaziri, Sandra, Grace's Georgetown friends, Blossom's piano instructor, Endymion, Usagi, and Heliodor were all trying to make sense of what happened.
Endymion tried to get everybody's attention, but it was too noisy. Then, Usagi wolf whistled. Everybody looked at her.
"You were saying, honey?" She giggled.
"Kunzite tried to rescue his daughter from being kidnapped, and he sent the message while Emily left, of what seemed to be her own behavior. My lovely bride and I were knocked unconscious when the youmas came for Blossom and Zoisite. Heliodor, what were you doing?"
"I heard Juliana screaming, and arrived too late. She looked at me with this cold, icy stare. It was like she didn't know me. She then went with some youma into a portal."
"Anybody heard from Kunzite yet?"
"He's at UK hospital. Let's go."
Mr. Vaziri drove his car, while Heliodor drove the van. They arrived at UK's emergency room to find Kunzite in one of the wards.
"Well, if it isn't the Vaziris. Your friend, Mr. K. is ready for you. He's in some sort of shock, claiming his daughter has been kidnapped. He's in bed 24."
The crowd went to see him. He had bandages on his arms and legs, and was in a hospital smock. When everybody arrived, he did not look too pleased.
"I've been trying to let them get me a second one of these things. My &%% is hanging out the back."
Grace's friend Liz asked, "Really?"
"Forget about it."
Heliodor asked, "How are you?"
"Only minor scrapes and wounds. They're giving me some prescriptions to take care of the pain." Kunzite paused, and he then asked, "Why weren't you taken along with the rest?"
"What about you? Everyone else went along blindly like they were hypnotized."
"Upon revival of my memories, I vowed to serve Beryl and Metallia no longer. I guess my death since then freed me from their power."
"I wasn't given a choice. My mother bound me to the stone heliodor at birth."
"Which brings me to the question: Why did you not go with the others?"