Sailor Moon Cosmos - Chapter Two

Sailor Moon Cosmos - Chapter Two

Sailor Moon Cosmos - Episode Two: A Blast From the Past
By: Shari Celestine. A.K.A Serenity.
E-Mail: Serenity200@aol.com
URL: http://www.angelfire.com/anime4/scelestine/

~ S.M.C ~
A man stood in his chambers pacing the floor.
“I am so close, so close to achieving the one thing my brother could not. Soon all of Crystal Tokyo will bow before me and crown me as their King. It’s all so simple, collect the seven Dragon Balls from the seven planets and call upon the Eternal Dragon. I’ll make my wish to journey into a past were those damn monkeys don’t exist and kidnap the future Queen and make her mine.”
The man was Prince Garnet, of the Dark Moon Family. Prince Garnet was very handsome with his short reddish brown hair and scarlet eyes. He was the older brother Diamond never told anyone about. Garnet knew his brother would fail to take over Crystal Tokyo, how could he with such weak allies? The Four Sisters turned on him, as well as Sapphire. Emerald was too blinded by love to see the treacherous ground she walked on and the Wiseman…ha. What joke, any one could see his intentions weren’t trustworthy. The way Garnet saw it his brother got just what he deserved.

Prince Garnet walked up to the large screen in his chambers and presses a button on the control panel. A beautiful young woman’s face appeared on the screen. The woman was Aquamarine, she was third in command under the rule of Prince Garnet. Aqua, as she liked to be called, had long aquamarine hair that was braided into two loops on the side of her head and had large beautiful golden eyes.
“Aqua, have you located the last Dragon Ball?”
“Hai we have, Prince Garnet it’s on the planet Neptune. I’ve sent Pearl and Dot to retrieve it, my Prince.”
“Good, hurry up and get the job done so I can make my wish.”
“Hai, my Prince.”
With that the screen went black.
~ S.M.C. ~
In the control room Aqua contacted Dot and Pearl on their communicators.
“Dot and Pearl come in. This is Aqua at HQ, do you read me?”
“Loud and clear Aqua-chan, what’s up? We’re kind of busy here.”
On the big screen two women appeared, they were both dressed in the Dark Family’s (Female) uniform that consisted of knee high black boots, a black mini skirt, and a white shirt (that was short enough to show off the girl’s stomach) that had an upside down black crescent moon in the center.
The girl on the right was Pearl, she is forth in command under Prince Garnet’s rule. Pear had shoulder length silver hair with long extensions on the sides that covered her ears and she had pretty blue eyes. Pearl was very thin and petite but she was not one to be taken lightly because her strength made up for her small size. On her left was Peridot, she was fifth in command under Prince Garnet’s rule. Peridot or Dot as she liked to be called, had light green hair. The top half was tied up into a bun on her head while the bottom was left to fall on her back.. She had matching light green eyes.
“Have you located the last Dragon Ball?”
“Hai, and we have it in our possession but we were unable to take it with out being caught. It seems Neo-Queen Neptune had this baby heavily guarded.” Pearl said.
“Yeah, and now we’re being chased!” Dot squealed running a bit faster.
In the corner of the screen Aqua could see the palace guards chasing her comrades.
“Alright, hold your position and I’ll beam you two up.” Aqua ordered.
“Roger that, over and out!”
Dot and Pearl stopped running and guards immediately surrounded them.
“Hand over the Seven-Star Dragon Ball!” A guard said.
“Nani, this old thing? What would you possibly want with this ball?” Pearl asked tossing the Dragon Ball up into the air and catching it.
“I’m warning you lady…” The same guard said.
“Really what do you plan on doing about it tough guy?” Pearl taunted.
“Grrr. That’s it, men open fire!”
Before anyone could open fire a dark ship appeared in the sky. A hatch opened up and a white light shined over Pearl and Dot transporting them back onto the Dark Family’s ship.
The ship quickly zoomed away from the planet Neptune making a beeline for the planet Nemesis.
~ S.M.C. ~
“Do you have the ball?” Aqua asked as her comrades appeared on the ship.
Pearl smiled holding up a small orange ball with seven stars on it.
“Excellent work girls, Prince Garnet will be pleased.”
~ S.M.C. ~
Back on the planet Nemesis Prince Garnet and his seven henchmen stood around the Seven Dragon Balls they had recently stolen from seven of the nine planets. How they managed to get them so easily was a stroke of luck. The balls united after centuries pulsed with an orange glowed.
“Now I will call upon Shenlong, the Dragon King.” Prince Garnet said raising his hands to the sky. “SHENLONG, HERE MY CRY AND MAKE MY WISH COME TRUE!”
The sky darkened suddenly and lightning rumbled in the distance. The wind picked up significantly blowing trees every which way. The pulsating light of the Dragon Balls intensified faster and faster until they erupted in a burst of light. The light ran up to the sky changing shape, the shape became solid forming Shenlong, King of Dragons.
Prince Garnet smiled a twisted smile.
“WHO HAS AWAKENED ME?” His voice boomed causing the ground the shake.
“I have, I am Prince Garnet.”
“WHAT IS YOUR WISH, HUMAN?”
“I wish that I could travel to a Parallel Universe where the Saiya-jin don’t exist so that I my win over Neo-Queen Serenity and take over the world!”
Shenlong’s large eyes flashed. “IT HAS BEEN DONE! FAREWEEL!”
~ S.M.C. ~
Prince Garnet’s ship landed in the center of Jyuban, luckily for him it was night and the only people who were roaming the streets were drunks. Who would believe them if they said they saw a ‘flying saucer’?
Using the night to his advantage Garnet set up his base. His once large dark ship shifted until it formed a large building in the center of construction sight. The building was made of a steal-type material that made the building look sleek and new.
~ S.M.C. ~
The next morning…
A piercing scream rang out in Japan as a young woman of the age of sixteen woke up.
“K¬¬ā-san, why didn’t you wake me up!” The girl, Usagi, screeched as she jumped out of bed and ran into the bathroom. Minutes later she emerged with two towels wrapped around her. One around her body, the other around her head. Quickly she dressed in her school uniform and slipped on her ankle length socks and shoes before running out the door.
~ S.M.C. ~
In the middle of the park a burst of multicolored light shined from the sky dropping off several figures.
“Ouch! That hurt.”
“Megumi get your foot out of my face!”
“Move your butt out of my face, Mai!”
“I would if Usa would get her foot off my hair!”
“Shut up all of you and get off me!” Tara screamed as she roughly shoved everyone off her.
Off to the side Vegi couldn’t help but chuckle at the scene they made.
“And what the hell is so damn funny Vegi?!” Tara snapped her face becoming red from both embarrassment and anger.
“Quit your yapping foolish human.” Vegi stopped laughing and glared at the Princess of Fire.
“Stop it both of you, this is not the time to start fighting amongst ourselves. We need to plan our next move.” Usa said stepping in between her cousin and ‘friend’.
“Un.” Vegi turned his back on Usa, crossing his arms across his chest.
Gogeta sighed placing a hand on her cousin’s shoulder, “Don’t worry about him, he’s just grumpy right now. Give him some time to cool down.”
“Alright, let’s get down to business. We’re obviously in the past, all we have to figure out is how far back this time is from our own.” Yuri said sounding like her Kā-san.
“Right.” They all agreed.
~ S.M.C. ~
Not too far away school was beginning for most teenagers in the Jyuban area. Amongst those students were Ami Mizuno, Rei Hino, Makoto Kino, Minako Anio, and Usagi Tuskino.
“Oh, it’s a new school year! I can’t wait to see what new challenges await us!” Ami said
“I just can’t wait till I go home, I’m still sleepy.” Usagi yawned.
“Usagi, school hasn’t even stated yet, how could you possibly want to go home?” Minako asked.
“Well Mamo-chan and I have a date tonight…” Usagi blushed.
“Is that all you think about!” Rei yelled.
“No I think about food too!”
Rei slapped her hand on her forehead and sighed.
“Hey look!” Makoto stopped walking and pointed to a building across the street. It was rather large and black. Everything about it was even down to the windows!
“Wow, tinted windows I always thought they only did that on cars.” Minako said.
“I guess it’s a privately owned building.” Ami informed them.
“Look there’s a sign. ‘Black Star High School’” Usagi shrugged. “It must be the new high school everyone was talking about.”
“But that wasn’t supposed to be built until next summer; I remember reading about it in the newspaper.”
“Me too, this is really odd…” Rei said then shrugged. “Well no time to think about that now, we need to get class.”
They all agreed and continued walking down the street unaware of the events taking place inside ‘Black Star High School’.
~ S.M.C. ~

(Inside Black Star High, the Principal’s office…)
“Is everything in order Opal?” Prince Garnet asked. He was sitting behind the principal’s desk in a big leather chair.
A woman about 5’5 walked up to his desk and bowed low, this causing a lovely amount of cleavage to be seen from the low cut shirt she wore, before she answered. Opal as she was called was a very beautiful woman. Her creamy white hair was tied into two ponytails that were thrown over her shoulders. Her light brown eyes shined with a mix of lust and hatred. She also wore the Dark Family uniform but her top was cut lower than the other girls to show off her chest more.
“Hai my Prince, the school will be filled with students within the hour. No one has suspected a thing, it’s as if we were always here, my lord.” She smirked.
“Good, make sure it stays that way. Send in Topaz, I want to speak with him immediately!”
Opal nodded once and then quickly exited the room to find Commander Topaz, seventh in command.
“So far so good, it’s only been couple of hours and I’m already doing better than my brother.” Garnet mused to himself.
~ S.M.C. ~
Opal walked into the ‘Teacher’s Lounge’ it was pretty identical to any other teacher but Opal wasn’t a normal teacher. She walked over to the wall in the back of the room were a poster of an apple lay on the far wall, she raised up the poster and pressed the white button behind it. The wall to her right opened up and she walked in the door closing it behind her. She walked down the long stairwell until she came to a door, on the right of the door was a keypad she punched in her access code and then her voice verification. Slowly the door opened and she walked inside, here was the Black Moon Family’s underground base. There were computers everywhere, people running back and forth yelling things across the room. Ignoring them all she walked up to a man with short messy orange hair. He wore black boots, a pair of white pants, and a white shirt that had an upside down black crescent moon in the center. He wore a doctor’s coat over his Black Moon uniform
“Topaz-kun.” She called his name.
Topaz turned to her, his brown eyes showing his intelligence.
“Hai, Opal-san?”
“Prince Garnet wishes to speak with you immediately.”
He frowned, “I’m not in trouble am I?”
Opal shrugged, “How should I know, its no business of mine.” She said sweetly.
“That’s bull and you know it, you make it your business to know everything that’s going on around here.” He accused her.
“Your right which means I want a full report when you get back. Now hurry up before he has your head for being late!”
Topaz sighed running as fast has his feet would allow.
~ S.M.C. ~
Breathing heavily Topaz entered the ‘Principal’s office’.
“You wished to see me, my Prince?”
“Ah, Topaz, good please have a seat there’s much we need to discuss.”
Topaz took a seat in one of the leather chairs in front of Garnet’s desk.
“What is it, my Prince?”
“I think it’s time we made our first move, let ourselves be known if you will.” Garnet started. “We need to immobilize the Sailor Senshi now before they know what hit them. This way we’ll have the element of surprise on our side.”
“Good plan, my Prince, and I believe I have just the tool you’ll need to pull it off.”
“Oh? Please continue…”
~ S.M.C. ~
“What kind of plan is that?” Satomi yelled.
“Look, until we know what’s going on we can’t do anything. So just sit tight for a while.” Megumi stated.
“What’s the name of the school we’re attending again?” Gogeta asked.
“It’s Black Star High.”
“Sound like our old school back home Vegi-chan.”
Vegi snorted.
“Really what was your school called?” Usa asked.
“Orange Star High.”
Just then Tara, Yuri, Shiori, Megumi, Noriko and Diana in her human form came running up to the group. In their hands were boxes that held their new school uniforms. They dropped the boxes on the ground near the others feet and sighed.
“I’ve enrolled you all into Black Star High and retrieved your new uniforms and class schedules. They resemble the schedules you have back home so you should be up to par.” Diana said wiping her brow with the back of her hand.
“Let’s just hurry up and get changed, school is going to start soon.” Mai said picking up her uniform.
Fifteen minutes later everyone was dressed and ready to go. The uniforms weren’t so bad. They seemed to fit the girls just perfectly. The uniform consists of a thigh length black skirt with two tiny slits on each side, a white buttoned down shirt and a black jacket that falls to their hips. The long sleeves of the white shirt are rolled over the long sleeves of the black jacket. Knee length clog boots complete the uniform.
There was one male uniform for Vegi inside. It consisted of a long black dress pants, a white buttoned down shirt and a black jacket that falls to his hips. The long sleeves of the white shirt are rolled over the long sleeves of the black jacket. Black shoes complete the uniform. Vegi, being the rebel that he was, left the black jacket un-zipped and the first two buttons of his white shirt open revealing his tanned skin.

~ S.M.C. ~

Everything happened so fast in Ami’s opinion, one minute she was eating lunch with her friends the next the building was being evacuated.
“Naru-chan, what’s going on?!” Ami asked seeing the redhead running from the opposite direction, tears were running down her face and blood stained her white shirt.
“Oh it was just awful! One minute we’re playing volleyball the next this ‘thing’ is attacking us! It jumped on Gurio-kun, there was so much blood, Ami I’m so scared. What if he doesn’t make it?!” She hurled herself into Ami’s chest and cried harder.
Minako spotted Ami from across the yard. She quickly crossed the space between them. She leaned over to whisper in Ami’s ear, “We need to go, it’s another attack.”
Ami nodded in comprehension. She grabbed a teacher who was passing by and gave Naru to him to look after. She then took off with Minako to transform.
“Mercury Star Power…Make UP!”
“Venus Star Power…Make UP!”
~ S.M.C. ~
Sailorvenus and Sailormercury raced to the battlefield to join the others. So far it looked as if the Senshi were holding his or her own. The question was: How long would it last? This was obviously a new enemy. Their henchmen were much stronger than anything they had ever faced before. The android looked just like a human girl, a little girl in fact. She had long brown hair that was braded into two braids complete with red bows in the end. She wore a Jyuban High School uniform like the ones the Senshi wore.
Her hands and shirt were covered in dry blood, Gurio’s blood.
“Who are you!?” Sailormoon asked enraged.
This ‘thing’ hurt one of her best friends it would pay dearly.
The android simple smirked before powering up another attack. That’s another thing about this drone, its attacks weren’t normal, it used its own life energy to fight the Senshi, sometimes using had to hand combat.
This wasn’t good, the girls weren’t used to this type of fighting, if they didn’t do something fast they were going to lose and lose big!
~ S.M.C. ~
Ring! Ring! Ring! Ring!
Usa paused in mid bite, with a groan she stuffed her hand in her pocket and pulled out her silver Cosmos Phone.
“Hello?”
“Usa-Chan! You have to hurry the Sailor Senshi are in trouble. It seems like our enemy has finally decided to show itself.” Dina said from the other line.
“Alright I’m on my way. Where are they?”
“At Jyuban High.”
“Okay, ja ne (see ya).”
Usa hung up the phone and sat up. She paid for her unfinished meal before exiting the café to transform.
~ S.M.C. ~
Reporter Hui Yue for The Jyuban Post was first on the scene of the attack on Jyuban High as usual. She was beginning to worry if she would never get another chance to see the Senshi at work once more. It had been well over a month since their last battle and things were getting dry in the newsroom.
With only her camera, a pad and pen she snuck inside from the back and avoiding running teens and teachers to hid up in a tree close to the fight. Now all she had to do it watch and wait.
~ Maybe this time I’ll find out who the Senshi really are! ~
~ S.M.C. ~

“Lighting Flame Attack!” The android whose name they learned was Capri called out her attack again. This time Tuxedo Mask was unable to doge the attack, he had received too much damage, he collapse.
“Mission completed, Amethyst-sama.” Capri stated.
“Well done, my dear,” A female voice said. “You will be greatly rewarded for this.” A swirl of lavender light formed next to the android. When the light died a woman appeared and walked over to the fallen Senshi, a cold gleam in her green eyes. She was dressed in the Dark Family’s uniform her extremely long lavender hair flowed down her back and on the ground like a river.
“Capri, you know what to do.” Amethyst commanded.
Capri began her transformation from a human girl to a missile blaster. Once this transformation was complete she attached herself to Amethyst’s back. Amethyst then pulled out a clear flask with a dark liquid inside and inserted it into the gun like a bullet. Grinning even more now she took a few steps away from the fallen Senshi and took aim.
“Say good-bye to your crime fighting days, Senshi, your mine now!”
She then pulled a trigger and eleven dark beams of energy shot out hitting each Sailor Senshi and Tuxedo Mask in the chest. After about one second large crystals began to emerge from each of their chest, only to be collected in Amethyst’ hand.
“There, that should take care of you. Not so powerful now are you?” She laughed. The sun’ rays bounced off the colleted gems forming a slight rainbow effect on Amethyst face and eyes as she pearled down upon her treasures.
~ S.M.C. ~

“Hey you!” A female voice rang out.
Everyone froze his or her eyes searing for the source of the voice. The sun seemed to shine at that particular moment on a young girl. She had silver hair and sliver eyes and wore a pink sailor fuku.
“Sailormoon?” Amethyst asked confused.
“No! I’m Cosmos Sailormoon!” The girl in the fuku said. She jumped down off the school building landing perfectly on her feet.
“Look kid,” Amethyst said waving her off. “This is grown-up business why don’t you go play with your little dolls before you get hurt!”
Cosmos Moon’s eye twitched. “A little kid am I? Sa (Well), I guess I’ll just have to show you want this little kid can do!” She said pointing to Amethyst. “You have hurt my friends and for that I can not forgive you! The light of a new moon guides me here. I am Cosmos Sailormoon! In the name of the Moon I will punish you!”
The Sailor Senshi looked at this new girl in complete shock, who was she? How could she be a senshi?
Cosmos Moon jumped up into the air and flipped over Amethyst landing in front of the Sailor Senshi. She looked at them over her shoulder. “Its okay minna, I’m here to help you. Just get out of here while I take care of her okay.”
Sailoruranus stood up slowly dusting herself off. “Don’t be silly kid, you don’t know what you’re getting yourself into. Get out of here before you get hurt.”
Cosmos Moon frowned. ~ Why do they always have to make things complicated? ~
“World…Shaking!” Uranus called upon her attack but only a small orb of golden light flicked in between her palms before fizzing out in a puff of smoke.
She looked down at her hands. “Nani?”
“How do you like that Sailor Senshi? Now that I have your Energy Crystals you’ll only be able to use a ¼ of your energy, not counting the energy it takes you to transform. Once you’ve used up your small amount of power you won’t be able to use your powers! You’ll be defenseless! ” Amethyst howled with laughter.
Cosmos Moon looked stricken. “No! How can you do that? It should be impossible to do that.”
“Difficult yes, impossible, no.”
“No! I won’t let you get away with this!” Cosmos Moon screamed suddenly.
Amethyst turned to look at the cold silver eyes of Cosmos Moon and smirked. “Oh really? And just what are you going to do about it, kid?”
Without warning Cosmos Moon vanished.
“Huh? What? Where did you go, kid? I thought you weren’t going to let me get away with this?”
“I’m not!” Cosmos Moon said.
Amethyst saw her running towards her and moved out of the way but at the last second Cosmos Moon vanished again. Then again out of the corner of her eye she saw a flash of silver. Again she moved and again it vanished.
~ She’s moving so fast! I can’t even sense her movements. Who is this kid? ~ Amethyst thought just as a fist came into view. She was expecting it to disappear at the last second but it didn’t. Her head snapped back as another fist found her left cheek pushing her head right.
“Whoa!” Her whole body twisted in midair at a 360-degree angle and she landed face first on the ground, hard.
Sailor Jupiter whistled. “Not bad, not bad at all-”
“Don’t call me kid! I told you my name and it’s not kid! My name is Cosmos Sailormoon.” She snapped looking at Amethyst as she slowly got to her feet. Her clothes were smudged with dirt and grass stains, a trickle of blood ran down both her nose and mouth.
“Come on, let’s finish this.” Cosmos Moon got into a fighting stance.
Amethyst reached up and touched her cheek and winced. “You bruised me! How dare you! Capri, get rid of her!” Amethyst opened up a portal. “This isn’t over, kid, we will meet again.” And then she jumped into the portal.
~ S.M.C. ~

Cosmos Sailormoon looked at the Sailor Senshi again. “You guys had better get out of here! You can’t fight back and I don’t want you getting hurt any more than you already are.”
Sailormars spoke up. “Hey just cause we have a few cuts here and there doesn’t mean we can’t fight!”
“Stop being so stubborn and listen to-” she was cut off as Capri’s attack exploded before her sending her flying into the air. Cosmos Moon landed on her feet turning to the android.
“That was a big mistake, now I’m going to send you to the scrap yard!” She cupped her hands together and a ball of silver ki appeared in her hands. She brought her cupped hands back. “Ka…me…ha…me…HA!” A silver blast shot out of her hands and ripped into Capri’s chest puncturing her metal shell. This caused a chain reaction of explosions blowing her up completely.
Sailormoon’s mouth hit the ground. “Masaka!”
“How did she do that?” Sailorneptune asked.
“Minna,” Sailorvenus whispered. “Look at that!” She pointed to an appendage that was swaying back and forth by Cosmos Moon’s legs.
“Is that what I think it is?” Sailorsaturn asked.
“I don’t know what you think it is but it looks like a tail to me.” Sailormercury said.
Cosmos Moon whipped her brow turning to the other senshi present.
“Please be careful from now on, you only have ¼ of your usual powers making you easy targets. We’ll look after you as much as possible until we figure out how to get your powers back. Until then, ja ne!” She rose up into the air.
“Wait!”
“Who are you?”
“What do you mean by ‘we’ll’?”
“Are there more of you?”
“Where did you come from?”
“WAIT!”
~ S.M.C. ~

Hui couldn’t put her camera down! This was the front page looking dead at her!
~ I can’t believe I got this all on my camera! Sailor Sesnhi Loose Power to New Enemy! New Sesnhi Saves The Day! I can see it now, they’ll sell like hotcakes. ~

~ S.M.C. ~

Cosmos Moon’s sailor fuku vanished in a shimmer of sliver light and Usagi Briefs was left in her school uniform. She looked back at Jyuban High and sighed turned on her heels and walked in the direction of her own school. She needed to meet the others and tell them the bad news she had just discovered.
~ S.M.C. ~

“So your saying she showed up out of nowhere and saved you from this new enemy?” Luna asked the Sailor Senshi.
“Hai, and she had amazing powers of which I have never seen before.” Ami said.
“It was similar to our new enemies attacks. I think they both used some kind of life force as an attack.” Michiru stated.
“Are you suggesting they’re on the same side?” Artemis asked.
“No they couldn’t be, they were bickering too much to be on the same side.” Haruka said.
“Why not? Usagi-chan and Rei-chan fight a lot and they’re on the same side.” Hotaru said.
The girls sweat-dropped. “It’s not the same thing!”
“And the girl had a tail! Did you see it? I’ve never seen a girl with a tail before!” Minako said an astonished look on her face.
“What did she call herself?” Luna asked.
Usagi spoke up in a far away voice. “She called herself Cosmos Sailormoon.”
“Cosmos?” Luna and Artemis said in union sharing a look of confusion.
“Do you know something about it?” Mamoru asked the felines.
“Not very much, we’re as confused as you are.” Luna said.
“But we do know that Cosmos is the highest level a sailor senshi can go. It has never been achieved, unless what you say is true.”
“If that’s the case I really hope this girl and her friends are on our side. If they really are as powerful as Luna and Artemis say they’ll be really hard to beat.” Rei said.
“Hai, especially since we no longer have our powers.” Makoto said sadly.
“We still have them but if we really only have ¼ of out powers we’ll only have enough power to transform and send out one attack, two in Usagi’s case.” Ami said sadly.
“Who ever this new enemy is they must be very powerful, even the new senshi thought the lost of so much of our power was impossible.”

~ S.M.C. ~

“She did what?!” Tara exclaimed in a shrill voice.
Usagi, Gogeta and Vegi covered their sensitive ears at Tara’s outburst.
“Quite down Onna (woman)! You’re giving me a headache!” Vegi snapped. Tara sent him an icy glare, which he returned with full force.
Usa continued ignoring the pair. “That’s what happened, I saw it with my own two eyes. Sailoruranus tried to attack the woman after the fact and nothing happened, her powers are gone!”
“This is terrible! What will they do if the enemy attacks again? I’m sure they’ll try and stop them none the less.” Mai said appalled.
“That’s where we come in, we have to look out for them, protect them. Isn’t that why Neo-Queen Serenity sent us here in the first place?” Satomi said.
“Satomi-chan’s right! We have to protect this world at all coast. Are you guys with me?” Shiori asked.
“HAI” They coursed.
~ S.M.C. ~

The following morning just like she predicted Hui’s article on the defeat of the Sailor Senshi and the arrival of a new Senshi became front-page news. People of all ages, even those who never purchased a paper in their life, were suddenly buying them.

“Hui, I want you to follow this story until the end. If you stick with this we’ll crush our competition and if we’re lucky find the identity of the Sailor Senshi once and for all.” Hui’s boss said with a grin.
“Yes, sir.”