Sailor Moon Act 20: Confusion
By Naoko Tacheuchi

Tuxedo Mask looks on in horror as Sailor Moon is sucked into darkness, but Prince Diamond watches approvingly. Sailor Moon disappears and the Moon Scepter clatters to the floor. Tuxedo Mask and Sailor Venus scream for her. Rini watches in shock.

In her dream, Bunny sees two figures in the distance. As she runs towards them, she thinks it is Darien with an adult-like Rini. The two figures run from her as she approaches. Bunny awakes from her dream, wondering what happened. She is lying on a bed in the strange dress, her brooch beside her on the sheets. She rises from the bed to see some type of projection across the room. As she gets closer, she begins to recognizes it as Neo-Queen Serenity.

Diamond enters the room and welcomes her to the Black Moon"s castle on planet Nemesis. Using only his thoughts, he forced her to sit. He comments that the Silver Imperium Crystal must have gave her the power to wake up this soon on Nemesis.

Diamond begins to explain to Bunny that the illusions put forth by the Queen and the Imperium Silver Crystal " have made our planet Earth soft," and he and others of the current Black Moon Family on Earth, could not stand it. The Wise Man appeared before them and offered them the power of the Black Poison Crystal on Nemesis. The Family used the Black Poison Crystal and embedded a piece of it on 30th century Earth, turning it into a "planet of death". Diamond continues to tell a shocked Bunny that they no longer have an interest in this dead planet. Therefore, they will go to a time before this, before Earth was in control from those of the Moon Kingdom in order to change the past, the great Operation Replay.

Diamond remembers the first attack on Earth, and Neo-Queen came out of the castle. He instantly saw her beauty, but she only glared at him. He needed to see those eyes again. He approaches Bunny and kisses her. She smacks him away and tries to transform but is unable to. Rubeus and Sapphire taunt her from the side.

Neo-Queen Serenity sleeps in the crystal and wonders who disturbed her sleep. She feels the emotions of everyone around her. &Quot;My loved ones... are in danger"

Also on 30th century Earth, King Endymion, Tuxedo Mask, Sailor Venus, Luna, Artemis, and Diana contemplate how to save Moon, Mercury, Mars and Jupiter from Nemesis. They say the only way to get them off the planet is through the power of the Imperium Silver Crystal and that Rini should use it since she is the princess. The Kings says that this is impossible since Rini has no power for one day she just stopped growing and is now over 900 years old.

The King tells the story of the Black Moon"s first appearance. A man revived the crime and murder on Earth, the Mad Dictator Phantom. Neo-Queen Serenity took a stand. She captured him and banished him to Nemesis. Later, rebels appeared from Nemesis who called for an end to the Moon Kingdom on Earth.

Darien holds the Moon Scepter in his hands, distraught over Bunny"s loss.

Bunny is alone in the room and is scared. She scrubs at her face to try and remove Daimond"s kiss. She cries for not being able to use her power and that she may never see Darien again. She wonders if she has not been able to use her powers because her heart is confused. She thinks of Rini and the King, the Scouts, and Darien. &qout;I am not alone." Bunny thinks of Mercury, Mars, and Jupiter to find them.

Amy, Raye, and Lita lay on a dark floor together, untransformed. They awaken from Bunny"s call. They quickly discover that they are in a dungeon of rotting corpses. They try to transform but are unable to.

The Wiseman watches Rini in his crystal ball on Nemesis. She is reminiscing of her happy time in the past with Bunny and why she is the invisible Sailor Moon, for she has a strong heart, and wonderful friends. "I don"t have any power," to herself. She remembers the taunts of the 30th century children for her inability to grow up or use any Moon Kingdom powers. Their words and taunts drive Rini to go into the chamber that holds the Silver Imperium Crystal. She grabs it from the casing, and Neo-Queen Serenity enters the room to find it missing. As she hid from her mother, Earth was attacked by the Black Moon, encasing the Queen in the crystal. Rini blames herself.

Rini hears Luna P Peep in the background and remembers when Pluto gave it to her to feel better. "I"ll go to Pluto. She"s my only friend."

Rini recalls the first time she wandered into the deep hallways of the palace and found herself at the door to the fourth dimension and met Sailor Pluto for the first time.

When Rini met Sailor Pluto, she was given Luna P, which Pluto explained was a charm, and taught her to say the magic word "Abracadabra".

King Endymion comes to see if Rini was with Sailor Pluto. As they talk, Rini is standing away from them. When Rini sees her father, not just herself, can make Pluto happy, she goes away without saying a word, but she drops her time key.

Rini wanders around the time warp, but when she tries to go home, she finds the key is missing. Wiseman comes up to her, calling her to take his hand. When she does, a light flashes and a storm of chaos begins in the fourth dimension. Pluto is knocked unconcious.

Back at the palace, the King senses his daughter in danger, and leaves with Tuxedo Mask. Venus stays behind and goes through history, reading about the Death Phantom who destroyed Crystal Tokyo, and was banished by the Queen to the planet Nemesis.

The King and Tuxedo Mask find Pluto, who confirms something must have happened to Rini. Tuxedo Mask rushes into the storm without a key to find her.

Bunny wanders around the Black Moon castle, looking for her friends whose presence she felt. She leaned up against a wall, drained of energy. In the room, Rubeus talks to Sapphire, who mentions the other scouts were captured just to get at Sailor Moon. Sapphire speculates the planet they are on may just be using the Black Moon family as pawns. In the hall, Bunny collapses, and Diamond carries her away.

In the room, Bunny wakes up and questions Diamond about where her friends are. He tells her they are probably dead, but Bunny does not believe it and runs off to find them.

Bunny comes across Sapphire in the furnace room of the Black Poison Crystal, the only room open to the outside and time travel. Sapphire tells of how the planet is like a bomb, its fusion accelerated to create time travel and the droids. He explains the death of Earth was not in the plan, Wiseman led them to Nemesis. It was Wiseman who urged Prince Diamond to destroy the Silver Imperium Crystal, leading to the attack.

Sapphire uses his droids Veneti and Aquatiki to hold Bunny down as he attacks her with a piece of Black Poison Crystal. Bunny clenches her brooch, and with the power of Neo-Queen Serenity, it flashes, killing the droids, filling Bunny with power. She calls out "Moon Crystal Power Make Up" and morphs. She touches the ground, and far down finds her three friends. She tells them to wake up, as the floor starts to crack. She helps them morph, and they all come breaking through the ground.

Diamond and the others are incredulous at her power. Wiseman enters with a black shadow. Sailor Moon turns and yells at the Black Moon family, telling Diamond he is dangerous in his misuse of power. The presence of Neo-Queen Serenity is evident.

Wiseman tells Diamond not to believe her, that he should crush the Crystal and her. The power in the furnace rumbles, and Rubeus starts to leave, but is called "Coward" by a woman in Wiseman's shadow. Rubeus angrily tells Wiseman to show himself, but is ripped apart by Wiseman's hands.

The woman laughs, as the entire planet shudders. The scouts escape using the time key.

In the time storm, Tuxedo Mask runs across the woman from Wiseman's shadow, who has buns like Rini. Pluto's Garnet Scepter glows as the figures of the scouts appear.

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