SEASON 2
166. Rubeus Evens The Score Rini steals Sailor Moon's locket and crystal in an attempt to go home to the future to see her parents. In the process, Rini provides Rubeus with the opportunity to send Emerald to do his dirty work and capture Rini. The future of Crystal Tokyo will fall under the domain of the Negamoon if Emerald succeeds. Emerald fails to capture Rini, but Rubius does capture Sailor Mercury, Sailor Mars, Sailor Jupiter and Sailor Venus. 167. Rubeus Strikes Out With the other Sailors imprisoned in Rubeus' ship, Sailor Moon goes on board to confront him. Just as it looks like Rubeus has the best of Sailor Moon, Rini finds the source of his strength, a large dark crystal, and she manages to dislodge it. This allows Sailor Moon to defeat Rubeus, and free the Scouts. Rubeus then sets the ship to self-destruct hoping to destroy Sailor Moon, Rini, and the Scouts, but in the end only he is left on the ship as it explodes. 168. The Secret of the Luna Sphere Eager to impress Prince Diamond, Emerald sets out to get revenge on Sailor Moon for Rubeus' death. With orders from Wiseman, she poisons Rini's dreams of her home and parents in an attempt to undermine the future Crystal Tokyo and lead Rini over to the dark crystal. They discover that the voice of the Luna Ball, Pu, is really Sailor Pluto, who guards the doorway of Time. She tells the Scouts they must travel through time, to the future, to save Rini. 169. Emerald Bakes Up Trouble (Emerald Takes Over) Rini recovers from her dream fevers, only to become more attached to Darien, sending Serena into a pitiful mood of self depreciation. While Serena is distracted and drowning her sorrows in cakes at an "all you can eat" bakery grand opening, Emerald attempts to sway the populace of Tokyo over to the side of the Negamoon. Emerald is foiled however, when the sweet cakes get the better of her and she loses control of the situation. 170. Promises Fufilled When the newest rage is "love" bracelets, Emerald tries to take over all the people who make and wear them. When the bracelets are worn they are to promote friendship, but they are tainted and instead make the wearer very confrontational. Emerald's hope is that enough negative energy will open the doorway for the Dark Crystal of the Negamoon to lodge itself firmly in Tokyo so Prince Diamond and the Wiseman can take over. 171. No Thanks, Nurse Venus When the Sailors are stricken with a bad case of the flu, all the scouts fall victim to Mina's (Sailor Venus) well intentioned, but catastrophic attempts at being nursemaid. Rini tries to help Mina and when they go to the hospital to get Serena some medicine, Emerald is waiting to infect them with the Dark Crystal Flu. The scouts arrive just in time to save Rini and Mina and stop the threat of the evil virus. 172. Dog Day For Artemis Luna teases Artemis about several issues and he goes off to sulk. Meanwhile, Emerald tries to turn the animals of Tokyo against humans in an attempt to take over for the Negamoon. When Artemis becomes a victim of Emerald's evil plan, Luna realizes her feelings for him and comes to his aid. 173. Smart Payoff (Lonely Amy) Amy's classmates accuse her of cheating because she does so well in all her school work. Saddened, she decides to go to an extra curricular school to study to prove herself. Emerald targets the school as a breakthrough point for the Negamoon "dark" crystal energy. Victim of the negaenergy, Amy thinks the other Sailor Scouts are no longer her friends and attempts to destroy them on Emerald's command. 174. Child's Play Rini makes a new friend at school just as Emerald and her droids target the school as another entry point for the "dark" Crystal Energy of the Negamoon. When Emerald fails at securing the point, Prince Diamond summons Emerald back with a change of plans per the Wiseman. Sapphire, Diamond's brother, believes the Wiseman is only out for himself and tries to warn Emerald and Diamond. 175. Future Shocked The Scouts, Tuxedo Mask, and Rini travel to the future to try and save Rini's mom and Crystal Tokyo. Sailor Pluto warns them to stay together, but they get separated in the time warp. Prince Diamond falls for Sailor Moon and vows to maker her his queen. A jealous Emerald schemes to eliminate Sailor Moon and capture Rini in order to win Diamond's admiration and affections. Wiseman tells Diamond that they must convert Rini, "Small Lady" over to the Nega side. 176. Legend of the Negamoon The Scouts, Tuxedo Mask, and Rini meet King E., the King of Crystal Tokyo of the 30th Century. His striking resemblance to Tuxedo Mask reveals that Tuxedo is the future King. He explains that the people of the Negamoon once lived on Earth but were banned to Nemesis, now known as the Negamoon. They were so angered about their banishment, they vowed revenge on Earth and are close to achieving it now that they identified Rini as the heir to the throne. Prince Diamond meets Sailor Moon and tries to win her over with hypnosis. 177. Jealousy's Just Rewards The Wiseman convinces a captive and frightened Rini that the Sailor Scouts and her parents never loved her and that she should devote herself to him. Emerald also falls victim to Wiseman as he fools Emerald into believing she would be Queen of Crystal Tokyo with Diamond as her King if she succeeds in eliminating the Sailor Scouts. She fights to her death. 178. Birth of the Wicked Lady Convinced she is not loved by anyone, Rini is finally swayed to the side of the dark crystal and she becomes Wicked Lady, a loyal lethal agent of Wiseman. Meanwhile, Sapphire, fearful of Wiseman's true intentions, tries to lobby Diamond to work together to eliminate Wiseman. The Sailor Scouts try valiantly to get Rini back to her old self by trying to stimulate her memories of happy times togehter, but to no avail. 179. Brotherly Love Convinced that Wiseman is only out for himself, Sapphire tries to convince his brother, Prince Diamond, to rebel with him against the evil. Diamond, however, is turned against Sapphire by Wiseman's mental manipulations. Sapphire goes to see the four sisters on present day Earth and warns them of impending doom. Meanwhile, the power of the "dark" Negamoon Crystal is starting to take a hold on present day Tokyo. 180. Diamond In The Rough Wiseman, aware of Sapphire's loss of loyalty decides to do away with him. He sends Diamond back to Earth to track Sapphire for him and when Diamond finds him, Wiseman destroys him. Diamond realizes he will now lose his love, Sailor Moon, as he has lost his brother. Sailor Moon goes into the Dark Crystal to meet Diamond face to face. Her deep love for Tuxedo Mask keeps her from falling victim to Diamond's brainwashing. Instead Diamond falls victim to Wiseman, who destroys him. 181. Final Battle In the tradition of Sailor Moon, there is a big face off! Together, the Scouts must stave off Rini in her evil incarnation of Wicked Lady, while trying to undo the strangehold Wiseman has on her mind. Through the process of reminding Rini of all her happy memories they break the spell. So enraged at this defeat, Wiseman attempts to destroy Sailor Moon and the Silver Crystal. Rini, realizing Sailor Moon is her ally and her mother, calls upon her inner strength to use her own silver crystal. Sailor Moon turns into Neo-Queen Serenity and Rini into her empowered self and together they destroy Wiseman. 182. Follow The Leader Still pumped from the glorious victory over Wiseman and Dark Crystal, the Sailor Scouts reminisce about all their finest battles and try to decide who deserves the most credit for all the saving they have done.
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