A girl, with two long blonde pigtails and a duo of small round buns perched on top, wailed as she raced down the street. Three other girls were waiting on the street corner for her. One of the girls had a short blue bob, another had a long, dark-brown braid, and the last, a tall girl, had a red-brown, unruly pony tail. They were all wearing school uniforms, and the blue-haired one was continually glancing at her watch.
"What am I going to do?!?" cried Serena as she reached them, "WAAAAHHH!!!!"
Tears fountained out of Serena's eyes as Ami asked, "What is it Serena? For once, you are on time. Why are you crying?"
"I just remembered that our big term paper is due next week, and I don't even have my sources yet!!!" wailed Serena, without stopping the flow of tears.
"Serena!" cried Ami, "We've had five months to work on this paper! And you haven't even started! I'm only on my twenty-third draft and I don't think mine will be ready on time."
"Yeah, Serena," said Lita, "I didn't like my topic at first, but then Miss Haruna let me change to the history of French food, and it's fun. I've learned a lot. What's your topic?"
Serena turned her hand over and looked, "The Origins of Early Socialism," she said, "Do you think that'll be an easy write?"
Terra's eyes widened, "Well, Serena, I wouldn't say that. When I was a freshman, my topic was a doozy too, the Origins of Freud's Psychology. It took me five weeks to write it, not one. Anyway, it sounds like the hardest topic. How'd you get a doozy like that?"
"I forgot all about choosing it until that day, so I got Melvin to think of one for me. Do you really think it will be that hard?" asked Serena.
"Serena, can you even spell socialism?" asked Terra.
Serena looked at her hand again.
"Without your hand, Serena," said Ami sternly.
Banging her fist into her hand and hurting it ("Ow!"), Serena yelled out, "Melvin!!!! You are toast!!!"
Opening Theme (Moonlight Legend)
Series Title, Sailor Moon: Remembered Senshi
Episode Title, (2) Infinite Problems
In the void of negative space, a woman floated slowly from side to side. Her unruly, fire-red hair flowed wildly down her back, and her clothing conjured a thought of the Dark Kingdom generals. Two shards of crystal floated above her hands, bathed in unearthly light.
They had once been shining green, but now, they seemed to be almost diseased. One was continually rocked by wild black flashes, as if there was a battle raging on inside of it. The other looked as if a pink fleshy tumor was slowly devouring it. The color of the latter was not unlike raw meat.
The woman laughed wildly and thrust her hands forward, causing the two crystals to rise up and float parallel in front of her. The two crystals had jagged lines, as if they were pieces of each other, but not complete. Two figures appeared in the shadows of the void. The woman laughed again, and beckoned,
"Come out my servants. I call you out!"
The figures slowly eased into the half-light, and the woman smiled a wicked smile.
"The time has come, Chaos and Void. We must seek the last piece of the crystal."
She twirled her hands around and a black wand streaked with silver with a meat-pink stone set atop appeared, accompanied by a volcanic-red stone.
"Here is your changing stick, and this stone will help you in your quest.
You must find the last piece of the crystal. This lava-red stone will react when you near the carrier of the final piece. I will check your progress from time to time. Now, my children, go and find the crystal."
They nodded simultaneously. She opened a purple dimensional portal, and they stepped through it in unison. She laughed triumphantly as a deep blue shroud appeared behind her. The shroud disappeared and a slim man was left standing, staring at the back of her head. He was similarly clad, and his skin was chalk white and his eyes were a flat unemotional black. His hair was the same flat black and it clung to his head lifelessly.
"They were not ready, Kazracite," he intoned in a flat voice that matched his eyes.
The woman started, then turned in a whirl of fright and fury. Seeing the man, her fury turned to mocking contempt.
"Oh, it's just you, Qintozite. I thought it was someone important."
"You are lucky it wasn't Lord Dis. He wouldn't take to it kindly if he found that you'd sent his prize pupils out to capture that errant stone of yours."
"It's none of his business what I do with them. They are mine. I found them and trained them to be who they are. For that matter, Qintozite, I don't see how it is any of your business either. Naverght left me in charge when he left. Since no one has heard anything of him for over a thousand years, I'd say that it's time for me to come into my power."
"Naverght did not leave you in command. You are just under the delusion that he did because of your immature feelings toward him, which I may add, he never reciprocated."
Kazracite flamed, literally, for when she was truly angry, the air around her had a way of combusting.
"Naverght loved me! He would have done anything for me!"
"Really? I thought he was rather taken with that woman from Ceres, or so I gleaned from Titanite's reports."
"That's a lie! He never loved anyone but me!"
"On the contrary, I believe he never loved anyone, period."
With that, Qintozite raised his hand and disappeared in a shroud of midnight blue.
"What does that sorry damnable creature know?! Naverght loved me, I know, and when I get the Ceres Emerald Jadestone back, I will prove it!" she fumed, and then she too disappeared in a burst of flame.~*~
With a supreme burst of her efforted run, Serena managed to get to class on time. She seated herself beside Molly as Miss Haruna called out her name on the roll call.
"Present!" she responded jubilantly.
Miss Haruna looked up for a moment, and then smiled, "I'm glad you FINALLY made it to school on time! Maybe putting Melvin beside you was a good idea."
Miss Haruna had recently relocated Melvin to the desk beside Serena, in hopes that some of Melvin's habits would rub off on her.
Miss Haruna sighed heavily and thought, "If habits were rabbits, no doubt Serena would have some, and some good ones at that."
She finished the roll and was about to start the day's history lesson when the headmaster of the school popped his head in the door and inquired about the health of the class.
Miss Haruna replied in a fidgety manner, "All is well."
She had a sneaking suspicion he was going to ask a favor.
Sure enough, he walked into the classroom followed by a young woman of about fourteen years. She was of average height, with cherry red hair pulled up into two pony tails that nearly brushed the ground. Her eyes were of a charming pink, and she was a bit chubby in some places. Her uniform fit her well, as if it had been custom tailored, and she had a bouncy countenance. She beamed, and her smiled was a thousand kilowatts.
"Students," began the headmaster, "This is Luttra Mobius, she's a transfer student from, where did you say?" he asked, turning to look at her.
"Austria!" was her bubbly reply.
"Good," he turned back to the class, "Now I hope you make Luttra feel happy while she's here."
Before Miss Haruna could reply, he escaped the room, leaving her to stare at the empty door way and her enthusiastic new student. After a moment's consideration, she placed her directly behind Melvin and beside Serena and Molly, whom she thought would be the most friendly.
"Now students," said Miss Haruna, after that item had been attended to,
"I'd like you all to stand and give me an account of your progress with your research projects. All except you of course, Luttra, you will be exempt from this assignment, since you haven't nearly time enough."
An impish smile claimed Luttra's face as Miss Haruna spoke the words 'not nearly time enough.'
Miss Haruna called Melvin first. He gave a detailed account of his research into the social behavior of the naked mole rat and how it affected and mirrored the modern world.
She then called Lita, who gave a thorough account of french food and announced that a great portion of her project would be samples, prepared authentically. Miss H nodded approvingly.
Molly was next. Her paper was on ancient jewelry in Japan. She even had actual reproductions of pieces she could exhibit and explain. Miss H was pleased.
After all the other students had been called, except Serena and Luttra. Miss Haruna looked around expectantly and asked, "Is there anyone else who hasn't gone?"
Melvin helpfully raised Serena's hand, even though, Serena was trying hard (or so it seemed) to focus on her text. Miss Haruna then asked Serena to stand and recite. Serena was so absorbed in her math text that she didn't respond. Miss Haruna smelled a rat, or a rabbit more precisely. She snuck up behind Serena and looked over her shoulder. Sure enough, inside the text was a comic book called 'Child of the Star Rabbit' featuring a buxom young woman with long, cherry-red pigtails in a super heroine fuku holding a plucky, green, rabbit-like creature on the cover.
Miss Haruna got down close to Serena's ear (she, I should mention, was still oblivious to the entire matter) and yelled at the top of her lungs, "ARE YOU READY TO RECITE MISS TSUKINO!?!"
Serena jumped straight into the air several feet, spilling her comic book and text onto the floor. She landed in a heap of arms and legs on the floor. Miss H confiscated the comic book and hauling her up, demanded Serena to recite.
Serena looked about herself for some means of escape. She found none, but the new girl, who was standing directly behind Miss Haruna began mouthing words to her.
Serena caught her meaning and began reciting what the girl said, trusting to fate.
"My topic was the early socialists and the organisms, er I mean origins of socialism. I found out lots of stuff about several men, including Bakery, (Luttra shook her head forcefully), um I mean Backing (the negatives continued), no, no, I meant Bakunin! (a big positive nod). Then there was this french guy with lemonade? (She shot a questioning look at Luttra. Luttra continued to nod.) And there were zebras? Sorry about that Miss H!"
Miss Haruna sighed heavily.
"Well, she WAS on time today and seemed to know her topic at least passably well. I did confiscate that comic book of hers, so that's at least reasonable punishment." Miss H thought. She was in a pleasant mood because of the raise in teachers' wages that she'd discovered this morning. She decided not to give Serena detention, in the hopes she'd use the extra time to work on her pronunciation.
"Very well Serena. Carry on," said Miss Haruna.
The astonished and over joyed Serena flashed a gleeful smile of thanks to the red-haired girl. This time as she sat down, Serena opened up her math book and actually tried to study.
~*~
The dark portal opened up in a copse of trees, not far from Crossroads Junior High. Two women stepped out of the darkness and were blinded by the extreme luminescence of the sun. After a few moments of recuperation and adjusting to the sunlight, the black-silver-haired one turned to the pale, grey- haired one and said,
"Void, we must have energy! If we are to accomplish our goals, we should find energy immediately."
Void nodded and added, "But it would be admirable if we could find sustenance on the way to our goal, Chaos."
She pulled out the red lava-stone and it yanked her forcibly towards the east, straight for Crossroads Senior High, unfortunately, Crossroads Junior High stood directly in the way.
"I agree," said Chaos, pulling out her charge, the strange stick. She and Void raised their hands to the sky with the wand clutched between them.
"CHAOS NIGHT POWER!" a thundering yell.
"void night power!" a soft whisper.
~*~
Serena was trying hard to study her text, and failing. She kept dreaming of Tuxedo Mask. She couldn't wait until she got to see Darien that evening. Even though Luna had been against it, Celeus had re-woken the protector of Sailor Moon with the logical argument that he was a powerful ally. Needless to say, Serena loved Celeus now, and adored Tuxedo Mask even more. Celeus maintained that he had re-woken Tuxedo Mask because he had was having unfavorable premonitions, but Serena didn't care why he was awake, she just knew that he was.
Suddenly, she felt a feeling in the pit of her stomach that she hadn't felt in a while. It was a vibe. Not a full fledged premonition like Rei or Celeus got, but a distinct feeling of dread. She looked over at Lita and she nodded. They asked to be excused to got to the rest room in tandem. With a sigh, Miss Haruna excused them, and they scampered off.
Less than a minute after they left, Miss Haruna heard muffled screams from the court yard of the school. In alarm, she looked out the open window and saw an enormous slug catching students and draining them of their energy.
Reading quietly in her seat, Luttra realized what was happening. She looked frustrated and rolled her eyes.
"Goddess, can't I have a moment of peace?" she thought.
Silently, she snapped her fingers and whispered, "Time Sleep" and caught all of the other students, and Miss Haruna, out of time.
Standing free of her desk, she pulled off her diamond shaped pendant, and held it in the air.
A pink-grey mist encircled her as she spun. The mist first circled around her to form a grey body suit similar to a bathing suit, with two straps. It whirled around her hands to reveal two short pale grey gloves that widened to bells at the wrists. The mist swept to her feet to show a pair of faded pink flats, and continued up her knees to make a pair of knee-high, grey, silk stockings. The mist flashed down her waist, and there was a faded pink skirt made out of angular pieces of material, with slits going all the way up. The mist whirled around her chest and back to make two triangular, faded-pink bows, and then swirled around her neck to make a grey and pink choker, and over her ears and forehead to make matching grey and pink earrings and tiara. The pendant took it's place above the bow. Finally, the mist curled in her hands to make a lyre, the Quantum Harp. She posed, the harp in one hand, the other on her hip, briefly, before jumping out the window, into the fray.
She was surprised to see two other girls facing off with the monster. The smaller, blonde one yelled, "I am Sailor Moon, champion of justice. I will right wrongs and triumph over evil and just plain ol' icky things. In the name of the moon, I'll punish you!"
The taller, brown-haired one announced, "I am Sailor Jupiter, and in the name of Jupiter, You'll be escargot before you hurt anyone!"
Luttra smiled to herself and yelled, "I am Sailor Infinity, and in the name of the time stream, I'll make you wish you had never even been conceived of in this reality!"
"Huh?" asked Sailor Moon, "Who are you?"
"Infinity. Nice to meetcha! Psst, I'm on your side," replied Infinity.
"I know that!"
As they conversed, the slug monster slid up to them faster than Sailor Moon or Sailor Infinity could have imagined. With a squelching sound it absorbed Infinity's foot. In distress, she yelled,
"Eww! Mondo total gross out! Ick, ick, ick. Zap him before he ruins my shoe and sucks my energy!"
Sailor Jupiter, who was a safe distance away, yelled "JUPITER THUNDER CRASH!"
The snap of electricity did indeed zap the slug monster, and it released a rather unpleasant aroma and Infinity's leg. Not even escargot miss, Jupiter, could deal with that odor for long. They all held their noses to half cooked slug. However, the monster had not been fatally injured, and now, it was rather angry.
A miffed Sailor Infinity raised her Quantum Harp into the air, plucked a string and yelled, "INFINITY STRING PLUCK!"
The air around the slug monster began to vibrate, and soon, the slug itself was vibrating. The sound grew higher and higher as the slug vibrated faster and faster. When Jupiter though it could go no faster, she yelled,
"Now, Sailor Moon!"
Sailor Moon started to pull off her tiara for the wind up, but suddenly, the vibration stopped and the slug was no longer there. Not even a pile of ashes. The slugs atoms had been shaken so badly that they ceased to be slug atoms and had, in fact, become hydrogen particles and alpha rays. The slug had been literally shaken apart.
Awestruck, Sailor Moon looked at Sailor Infinity in respect. Suddenly, a resemblance in Sailor Moon's mind clicked, "Wow! You look just like Cherry Usako, the Child of the Star Rabbit from my manga! Can I have your autograph?"
Infinity grinned, "Sure, I'll bring it the next time we meet! TTFN!" With that, she was gone.
Sailor Moon got stars in her eyes as she said, "Wicked cool! I wonder what that means. Probably important Sailor Speak!"
Jupiter laughed and said, "Relax Sailor-Moon-brain, it means Ta ta for now."
Sailor Moon grinned and said, "TTFN!"
~*~
On top of Crossroads Junior High, two figures sat pondering their newest confusion.
"Sailors? Infinity, Moon, Jupiter?" They had destroyed Chaos' slug. Were these Sailors going to hamper their efforts at finding the Ceres Emerald Jadestone? Only time would tell, Void decided. "Only time will tell."
End Second Episode
Roll credits and play ending song (Forever)
Final Draft Completed August 4, 1998 (4:34PM)
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