Hello!  It's me again.  Jendra that is.  I'm back once more.   You know, 
I'm running out of things to write up here.  Of course, standard disclaimers 
should be inserted.  It doesn't really matter if the standard disclaimers 
have anything to do with the story, no one reads them anyway, so just insert 
whatever standard disclaimers you want to.  Mail goes to Jendra@aol.com.  
Oh, yeah, I wanted to thank Will for giving me the kick in the pants I 
needed to rewrite this Chapter into something closer to what it should be.  
The rest of the thanks are down below, because if I tell you what I'm 
thanking them for up here, it will give you too many hints of what's 
coming.  Their names are Jeff, Carolyn and Karen.

Enjoy

Sailor Moon Universal

Chapter Ten  Reenie's Rescue


"REENIE!"  the Scouts and Tuxedo Mask screamed.

Sailor Sol moved towards his sister, expecting her to collapse into tears 
at this blow.  He looked into her eyes and almost took a step back.  Her 
eyes were hard and very, very angry.

"Find them, Mercury," she commanded, "Find them!"

Mercury didn't look up from where she was working furiously.  "I'm trying, 
Serena, I just need a little time."

"My daughter doesn't have time!"  Sailor Sun started to yell.

Tuxedo Mask moved towards her and took her in his arms.  "Yelling at her 
won't help anyone, sweetheart.  You know she's working as fast as she can.  
She'll find her, don't worry."

She buried her head in his chest and let a few tears fall.  However, when 
she spoke, her voice was still hard and unyielding.  "She will find them, 
and we'll get Reenie back, and then Rubeus will pay.  He will pay for daring 
to touch her!  And if he's harmed even one hair on her head..."

The Scouts found themselves shuddering.  Each of them hoped that Reenie was 
unharmed, not only for the little girl's sake, but because they really 
didn't want to know what their normally gentle Princess would do to Rubeus 
if she had been hurt.

"I have him!"  Sailor Mercury suddenly yelled.  "His ship is in a stationary 
orbit over downtown."

"Do you have a good enough lock for us to teleport?"  Sailor Sun asked 
instantly as she turned towards her.

"Yes!"  Mercury said.

"Then let's go!"

Tuxedo Mask seemed to be thinking as the Scouts gathered in a circle.

"Don't," Sailor Sun said.  "Let's keep it a secret for as long as possible, 
teleporting you won't drain us."

"She's acting like our leader," Mars whispered to Venus.

"She is!"  Venus hissed back.

"I know that, but she's never acted like it before."  Mars answered, before 
a glare from Sailor Sun caused her to grow quiet and get into the circle.

Sailor Sun stood in the middle next to Tuxedo Mask.  As everyone stared, 
she shrugged impatiently.  "I'm not sure how Duo powers would work in a 
group and this is no time to experiment.  Let's go!"

"MERCURY STAR POWER!"
"MARS STAR POWER!"
"VENUS STAR POWER!"
"JUPITER STAR POWER!"
"SUN STONE POWER!"
"SAILOR TELEPORT!"

As the Scouts concentrated, their bodies were outlined in light and their 
hair stood out from the power they were generating.  Then they disappeared, 
leaving behind a golden falcon circling the field and a small black ball, 
shaped like a cat's head, floating.


Inside a spaceship, high above Tokyo, the seven reappeared.  As the light 
faded, they stared around at the room they were in.  It was completely bare 
except for a door in one side and what looked like a TV screen on another.

Mercury immediately lowered her visor and started scanning.  She looked at 
the others, shocked, "My visor's not getting any readings on these walls.  
It's like they're not even there!"

Jupiter went over and rapped on a wall, while Mars tried the door.  "It 
sure feels real to me," Jupiter said.

"The door's locked," Sailor Mars said quietly.

"I don't like this," Venus said, looking around nervously.  "It feels like 
a trap."

"How observant, Sailor Venus," a voice chuckled evilly.  Everyone quickly 
turned towards the viewscreen to see Rubeus grinning at them.

"Where's Reenie?"  Sailor Sun asked harshly.

"Why the little rabbit is right here, enjoying my 'hospitality'!" he laughed 
again.  "Too bad Sailor Moon's not here to help you.  But I'm not surprised, 
not after the way you all turned on her.  I never 'dreamed' you would be so 
easy to manipulate."

Sailor Jupiter growled and leapt towards the screen.  "I'll show you who's 
easy to manipulate!" she snarled.  "JUPITER THUNDERCLAP ZAP!"  The lightning
ball hit the screen with a satisfying crackle.  However, when the sparks 
died down, Rubeus was still grinning at them from the intact screen.  "No 
way!"  Jupiter screeched.

"I've been planning this for the past two weeks," he said.  "The room you're
in is shielded against every form of energy; fire, light, ice, lightning, 
even your annoying Sun power and those stupid roses.  It also has a few 
little surprises.  Enjoy yourself, while you still can."  He disappeared.

"I wonder what he meant by that," Sailor Sol mused.

Sailor Mars wasn't paying attention.  "I don't believe it."  Mars said, 
turning to the wall.  "MARS CELESTIAL FIRE SURROUND!" she called out 
confidently.  That confidence faded fast as the rings of fire impacted 
the wall and dissipated without leaving a mark.

Tuxedo Mask threw a rose at the wall and watched it bounce off onto the 
floor.  

Sailor Sol tried his sword with no better success.

Mercury spoke up.  "We'd better do something quickly.  The area of floor 
space has decreased measurably in the last two minutes."  As everyone looked 
at her with blank faces, she rephrased it.  "The walls are closing in on us!"

"Oh come on, can't he think of anything new?"  Sailor Venus asked in 
disgust. "Moving walls have been used in every bad horror movie ever made."
She then noticed the glares she was receiving from the others and flushed.  
"Sorry."

"Should we try becoming Sailor Moon?"  Sailor Sol asked his sister.

She shook her head.  "He's been very thorough so far, I can't imagine him 
not shielding the room from Moon power, just in case she showed up."

"Then what are we going to do?"  Jupiter called out.  "These walls are 
closing fast!"

"He can't have shielded from a power he didn't know about!"  Sailor Sun said 
excitedly.

"Now if only we had one," Mars remarked sarcastically.

"We do," was the answer, "I think only Sailor Earth can get us out of this."

"Of course!" the others yelled, relieved and surprised.

"I don't even know what my powers are," Tuxedo Mask complained as he stepped 
away from the others.  "EARTH GEM POWER!"

Sailor Earth stepped towards one of the unmoving walls.  The one without 
the door, since he thought that one was probably a trap.  He searched his 
mind for his power.  He knew that if he couldn't find it, then his Princess 
would die.  That thought triggered the knowledge.  The walls were only four 
feet apart as it came to him.

"EARTH TECTONIC QUAKE!" he yelled, slamming his hands downward.  The other 
Scouts closed their eyes in defeat as nothing happened.  Then with a loud 
rumble, the floor underneath the wall almost exploded upwards, tearing an 
opening into the next room.  The walls were only two feet apart as he 
stepped through and the others quickly followed.


Reenie glared at Rubeus with loathing and fright.  "You won't get away with 
this.  The Sailor Scouts will save me!  You'll see."

"Oh, I reeaaally doubt that, Rabbit.  That trap they are in was made 
especially for them.  There is no way they will ever get out."  He looked 
down at the scared little girl.  "Now, hand over the crystal!"

"How many times do I have to tell you?  I don't have the crystal.  It's 
Sailor Moon's and she won't give it to me until you're dead and dusted.  So 
there."  she said, sticking out her tongue at him.

"Well, then, you'll just have to take it from her, won't you?"  Rubeus 
laughed.

"I wouldn't do that!"  Reenie said with less confidence than she would have 
wished.  She did 'not' like the way that Rubeus was grinning at her.

"Oh, I think you will," he said easily, flipping a switch behind him.  
"You're getting sleepy now, aren't you?"  He didn't get an answer.  Reenie 
had already dropped to the ground.

Rubeus stretched Reenie out in a specially made capsule and activated the 
crystal the Wiseman had given him.  He chuckled to himself, *When properly 
brainwashed she will be a much better servant than those incompetent 
sisters.*  

The crystal had been specially crafted by the Wiseman to twist Reenie's 
memories of Neo-Queen Serenity and King Endymion.  

Reenie started twisting uneasily under the influence of the crystal.  
Memories assailed her of her life in Crystal Tokyo.  Days when her parents 
were too busy to play with her were changed by the crystal into deliberate 
neglect.  Minor restrictions were turned into a prison like atmosphere.  

Rubeus smiled as he looked down at the little girl.  He watched as her 
golden crescent moon flickered into a black upside down crescent and back.  
More and more the black crescent moon showed.  "Soon, little one, you will 
hate your parents so much that you will do anything to get back at them."  

New memories came pouring into her.  Memories of Rubeus and the Wiseman 
being nice to her.  Telling her that if she couldn't trust her own parents 
she could always trust them.  More and more dark energy poured into her, 
and the black crescent moon was now only flickering, never totally 
disappearing.


As the Sailor Scouts broke out of the shielded room, Mercury's computer 
suddenly started getting readings once more.  "The control room's about 
forty meters away.  Downward!"  

Sailor Earth didn't hesitate, "EARTH TECTONIC QUAKE!" he called pointing to 
the floor.

Sailor Sol and Venus joined him.  "SUN SWORD SLASH!" "VENUS CRESCENT BEAM 
SMASH!"

Within seconds the three had blasted a hole in the floor large enough for 
the largest of them to pass through.  In a flash of rose petals, Tuxedo 
Mask dropped through the hole.  The Scouts quickly followed.

Tuxedo Mask landed easily and moved out of the way as Sol, Venus and Jupiter 
jumped down.  He managed to catch Sailor Sun, and she thanked him absently 
as Jupiter caught Mercury and Mars landed on her feet.  They were in a large 
room with what looked like five large windows looking down on Tokyo.

"Which way, Mercury?" Sailor Sun asked as the others were looking around.

After a quick check, Mercury pointed to the right.  Sailor Sun immediately 
started off and the others hurried after her.  As they walked past the 
windows, they started to shimmer.  What seemed like hundreds of large black 
rats erupted from the windows.  The girls screamed in disgust and started 
attacking.  "JUPITER THUNDER CRASH!" caused lightning to fly out wildly, 
Jupiter not seeming to care what she hit as long as she destroyed the rats.  
Her eyes were wide and staring as she tried to destroy all the rats in the 
room.

"Jupiter!  What's the matter with you?"  Sailor Mercury asked worriedly as 
she started her own attack.  "MERCURY ICE STORM SPLASH!" froze a great 
number of the creatures, but among that horde, it didn't make much 
difference.

"I HATE RATS!!!" Sailor Jupiter gritted even as she attacked again.

"You need to calm down, Jupiter!"  Sailor Venus called out.  Her chain was 
doing even less damage against the rats than Tuxedo Mask's roses.  His 
roses were killing the rats individually, but killing one or two among
hundreds had no impact on the number.

"Yes, control yourself, Sailor Jupiter."  Mars put in as her "CELESTIAL FIRE 
SURROUND!" flew out and crisped another couple of dozen. 

Sailor Sol didn't bother saying anything except "SOLAR FLARE!" his attack 
doing as much damage as Sailor Mars'.

Sailor Sun looked around.  "We don't have time for this!" she yelled.  
"SOLAR CORONA WALL!" she called out.  However, she didn't raise her arms 
to the side to create the wall, or cross them in front of her for her own 
personal wall, instead she raised them above her and clasped them together.  
As the others watched in disbelief, a wall of fire surrounded 'them' burning 
the rats in their path.  Sailor Sun started to walk forward, carrying the 
wall with her. The other Scouts followed promptly, the wall not giving them 
much choice as it moved forward, threatening to burn them if they didn't 
keep up.

"I didn't know she could do that!" Mars whispered to Sailor Sol.

"At the moment, what she can or cannot do doesn't really seem to matter to 
her," he answered.  "She will do what she has to do to get her daughter 
back."

Sailor Jupiter looked at the wall as if she was contemplating going through 
it to get at the rats, but sighed and caught up with the others.

"What's your problem with the rats, Jupiter?"  Sailor Venus asked quizically.

"I hate rats!" she shuddered.

"You told us that!"  Mars sounded exasperated, "Why do you hate rats?"

"I had a babysitter when I was little who told me that if I was bad, she 
would feed me to the rats.  Then she showed me videos of rats eating a baby 
cow.  I had nightmares for years.  I still can't stand rats."  The others 
shuddered in sympathy.

"How old were you?" Sailor Sun asked quietly. 

"Five."  Sailor Jupiter answered.  "So you be careful what kind of 
babysitters you get for Reenie when we get her back, okay?"

"Well, I don't think I will have to worry about that for awhile," she 
answered.  "Because once we get Reenie back, we're going to take care of 
Rubeus once and for all.  And I promised that once that happened we would 
go to the future and help her mother."

By this time they were out of the window room, so Sailor Sun dropped the 
wall.  They were in a short corridor that led to a sliding door.  Mercury 
scanned again.  "It's behind this door," she whispered.

Behind that door Rubeus was gloating as the crystal started the third part 
of its function, blocking all nonchanged or implanted memories.  By this 
time, the dark energy had entered totally into the little girl and the 
black crescent moon on her forehead never even flickered.  That was when 
Rubeus was distracted by an explosion at the door.  As he turned he saw the 
door blown open and the Scouts enter, crouched and ready for a fight.

"REENIE!"  Most of them yelled as they saw her lying under a crystal 
radiating black energy over her.  Tuxedo Mask quickly threw a rose that 
hit and destroyed the crystal.

"Did you really think that would do any good?" Rubeus asked contemptously.

"What have you done to her?"  Sailor Sun growled the question.

"Why, I've made her into the perfect NegaMoon warrior."  He turned to the 
little girl.  "Well actually that's not true.  She's a little small to be 
a perfect warrior.  I think I'll do something about that."  With only that 
warning, he turned to the capsule and pressed a button.  A sheet of clear 
plastic covered Reenie.

The Scouts jumped to attack.  Tuxedo Mask threw almost a dozen roses at the 
capsule cover, but they didn't even scratch it.  Whatever that stuff was, 
it wasn't plastic.  The other Scouts attacked Rubeus, trying to give Sailor 
Mercury the time she needed to hack into the capsule's computer.  

"MARS CELESTIAL FIRE SURROUND!" Sailor Mars sent rings of fire racing 
towards Rubeus.  He sent his own pink lights towards them, impacting and 
destroying them before they even got close.

"VENUS LOVE CHAIN ENCIRCLE!" Sailor Venus whipped her chain towards the 
NegaMoon lord, only to find him not there when it reached its destination.  
He had teleported behind her and sent his attack before she could turn.

Meanwhile in the capsule, lights and energy were swirling around Reenie.  It 
took Tuxedo Mask a few seconds to figure out what else was happening.  He 
turned to Mercury, who stood next to him.  "She's growing!" he exclaimed.

"What?" Mercury responded, shocked out of her preoccupation with her 
computer.  Looking into the capsule, she saw what he meant.  What had 
been a five year old girl now looked almost ten and was still getting 
older.  Mercury went furiously back to her computer.  "The more she grows, 
the more dark energy she can handle.  I've got to stop it."  She worked 
silently once more.

"SOLAR FLARE!" Sailor Sol's attack was less than a foot away from Rubeus 
when he teleported again.  He showed up behind Sailor Sol and started his 
own attack before the boy could turn.  However his move had been 
anticipated, and "JUPITER THUNDERCLAP ZAP!" hit him in the side.  

"I've got the growth stopped," Sailor Mercury muttered.  By that time, 
Sailor Sun was there and staring down at her daughter, who was now her own 
age.  Mercury looked up at her.  "I'm sorry, I can't clear the dark energy 
out of her, it's in too deep."

At that moment, the capsule opened and Reenie got out.  Her hair was still 
in the cone shaped buns, instead of ball shaped ones.  Her hair was longer, 
reaching all the way down to her knees in two ponytails.  She was dressed in 
a long black dress, sort of resembling Serenity's Princess dress. 

"Reenie!  Are you okay?"  Sailor Sun asked worriedly.

Reenie looked at the Scout in front of her.  "Who are you?  And who's 
Reenie? I am Nega-Princess Serenity," she almost spit that word, reminding 
her as it did of her awful parents, "of the NegaMoon."

"Reenie?  What do you mean, 'of the NegaMoon'?"  Sailor Sun and Tuxedo Mask 
looked at each other as they realized what had happened.  "She's been 
brainwashed." Sailor Sun whispered in despair.  She still remembered when 
it had happened to him.  And now her daughter!

The Nega-Princess looked around at the fight going on.  When she saw Rubeus 
get hit, her eyes grew hard.  "NEGAMOON ENERGY DESTRUCT!" she called, 
sending bolts of black energy flying from her hands into the Scouts 
surrounding Rubeus.  They screamed as the energy hit.

"Rubeus, my friend," Nega-Princess Serenity said, "maybe you should leave 
for now."  He nodded and disappeared while the Scouts were still staring at 
her in shock.  She looked at them, "It seems Sailor Moon isn't here.  I 
'will' have the Silver Imperium Crystal." Her voice was implacable.  "You 
know where Sailor Moon is, tell her to meet me in the park, tomorrow at 
noon.  Or I will destroy Tokyo, one piece at a time."  She teleported out 
of the ship and out of range of Mercury's computer.

"What do we do now?" Sailor Jupiter asked into the silence.

"We try to find a way to unbrainwash her," Sailor Sun answered, "When Sailor 
Moon meets her tomorrow at noon."

"You can't!" Venus exclaimed.  "The way she is now, she doesn't know you, 
she's not going to have any trouble with fighting you."

"I'm not going to fight her," was the calm answer.  "I will not harm my 
daughter."

"But she doesn't know you!" Venus argued again.  "What are you going to do, 
give her the Crystal?"

"If it's the only thing that works, yes."  Sailor Sun was still speaking 
completely calmly and only Tuxedo Mask and Sailor Mercury were close enough 
to see the anguish in her eyes.  

"Don't be stupid, Meatball Brain!" Mars added her argument, "You can't just 
give her the Crystal!  You'll doom the future, and she'll never even have 
a chance to be born!" hoping that would cause her to think of the 
consequences.

"Let's continue this argument in more comfortable surroundings."  Sailor 
Sol put in, he didn't like the way the conversation was going either, but 
could feel the implacability in his sister.  He knew she wasn't going to 
change her mind, and nothing they could do would make her.

The others reluctantly agreed and they teleported back to Travis's mansion.  
Luna, Artemis, Apollo and Luna Ball were waiting anxiously for their 
arrival.  Luna Ball headed immediately to Serena once she had detransformed 
and she held it desperately.  The others explained everything that had 
happened.

"Serena," Luna said sharply, "You're not seriously considering letting this 
Nega-Princess have the Crystal, are you?"

"She is not 'this Nega-Princess'!  She is my daughter and I will not have 
her hurt!"  Serena was almost shouting.  "If I can use the Crystal to heal 
her, then I will!  If I can't, I don't see that I have much choice."

"We can't let you do that, Serena!"  Amy put in, "We can't let you be hurt 
to save her!"

"Are you saying you don't want me to be your leader anymore?"  Serena asked, 
very, very quietly.

"NO!" Everybody yelled.  They were not going to go through that again.

"But because you are our leader, it's our responsibility to protect you."  
Raye put in reasonably, knowing their usual arguments would not work this 
time.  "And we believe that doing it the way you're planning, would put you 
at an unacceptable risk."  Raye was trying her best to be calm and keep from 
shouting.

"I think the best thing we can do," Lita said, "is for you to let us attack 
her and get her strength down to a place where the Crystal will work."

"Absolutely Out Of The Question."  Was Serena's instant answer.  "I am not 
going to let you fight her either.  I am going to do my best to get her 
memory back, but I will not let her be hurt.  In fact, I don't even see why 
you need to be there, and I'm sure Amy doesn't want to miss school."

"Serena,"  Travis said sharply.

"I'm sorry, Amy," Serena said contritely, "I didn't mean that.  I'm scared 
about what's going to happen tomorrow and I'm taking it out on you guys."

The others breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed she was going to be 
reasonable.  Only Travis and Darien knew that she was not going to change 
her mind.  Not about this.

"Look, we do this my way, or I'll find a way to make sure none of you are 
there and I go alone."  Serena's voice was hard once again.  "I will not 
take a chance on her getting hurt.  I know that right now she looks my age 
and has all the powers the NegaMoon gave her.  It doesn't change the fact 
that she is actually Reenie.  You know, the little girl with pink hair and 
red eyes that came to the past to try to save her mother?  The kid that Amy 
took to the ice cream parlor and Raye tried to help make curry with.  You 
do remember her, don't you?"

"Of course we remember her, Serena,"  Amy said quietly.  "And we want to 
get her back as much as you do.  We just don't believe that your way is the 
best way."

"Girls," Darien spoke for the first time, "You are not going to change her 
mind, I can tell you that right now.  What we need to do is figure out a 
way to protect Serena without hurting Reenie."

"I think we all need to be there and ready to fight."  Travis said to the 
others.  He turned to Serena, "No, I don't mean ready to fight Reenie, but 
we have to be aware that she might have droids around to help her and those 
we can fight."

"All right, you can come" she agreed, "now the question is, how can we all 
get out of school without raising suspicions.  And what do we tell my 
parents about why Reenie isn't home tonight?"

Luna Ball suddenly floated out of Serena's arms and up to look her in the 
face.  It's eyes started to whirl.  She laughed, "So, Luna Ball, you think 
you can hypnotize my parents again?  Even without Reenie?"  It bobbed up and 
down.  "Well, that's one problem solved."

"I can call in sick,"  Lita said.  "After all there's no one at home to get 
a phone call about it."  

"I can, as well,"  Amy said, "No one would question it."

"Not a problem, since Granpa never answers the phone."  Raye said, finally 
resigned to the fact that Serena was not going to change her mind.

"I'm still on vacation, so it's not a problem."  Darien added.

"Amy, do you think with Luna Ball's help, you can pretend to be my mother?"  
Serena asked intently.  Luna Ball just bobbed in place.

Amy nodded slowly.  It was lying, which Amy hated doing, but if it was the 
only choice... "I suppose so, what do you want me to say?"

"The truth," Serena answered.  "Tell whoever answered that you are my 
mother," she laughed slightly at Amy's expression, "Okay, that part isn't 
the truth, but say there is a family emergency and that you have to talk to 
me.  When I get on the phone, say that Reenie has disappeared and you need 
me and my brother to help search for her.  Mina, you're going to have to 
decide your excuse on your own."

"Gee, thanks," was Mina's response.


The next day went as they had planned, Serena and Travis had little trouble 
getting out of school to search for her little five year old cousin.  
Although convincing Miss Haruna that Travis was needed took a little fancy 
verbal footwork.  By a quarter til noon, the six Scouts, Tuxedo Mask and 
the four others were waiting in the park.  It was the first time Sailor 
Moon had shown up for more than a week, but no one was thinking about that.

The others had been surprised at how well Serena was holding up and taking
control.  Only Luna knew of the hours she spent crying on her bed, worried
about her daughter and herself, afraid the others would get hurt because
of her orders.  And Luna would never tell.

At noon exactly, a flash of light showed the entrance of the Nega-Princess 
Serenity.  Sailor Moon stepped forward, "Hello, Small Lady," she said 
quietly.

"My name is Nega-Princess Serenity," the pink haired one replied. 

"No, little one, your name is Neo-Princess Serenity but you're usually 
called either Reenie or Small Lady."  Sailor Moon answered calmly.

"You don't know what you're talking about," the Nega-Princess snapped.  "Now 
hand over the Crystal."

"No," was the reply, "Only the pure of heart may use the Crystal.  Let the 
dark energy go and I will give it to you."

"You want me to let the dark energy go?  No problem," she laughed, "Here, 
I'll give some to you.  NEGAMOON ENERGY DESTRUCT!"  The black energy lanced 
toward the unmoving Scout.

"Sailor Moon!" the others screamed as it impacted and threw her backwards.  
The Nega-Princess felt a twinge deep inside over what she did, but not 
understanding why, paid no attention.  She looked at the Scouts as they 
ran forward, Tuxedo Mask in the lead.  "NEGAMOON DARKNESS DEMOLISH!" she 
called, sending a large wave towards the Scouts.  They hit the wave with 
everything they had and barely managed to stop it from hitting them.

By this time, Sailor Moon was back on her feet and moving towards the pink 
haired version of herself.  Before the NegaMoon lackey could react, she 
found herself enfolded in Sailor Moon's arms.

"What do you think you're doing?" she yelled, trying to break the grip.  At 
first she had thought it was an attack, but the Scout just stood there with 
her arms wrapped around her and her head buried in her chest.  Sailor Moon 
looked up and tears were rolling down her face.  "Oh, Reenie, why don't you 
remember me?  I love you and I want you to come back to me," she sobbed.

The Nega-Princess pushed her away.  "All you are is the enemy."  She said 
sharply, not going to admit to anyone that she had actually felt warm and 
loved for a minute.  "It's going to come down to a fight between us, and I 
don't want them interfering," she said, her eyes going to the Scouts who 
looked about to attack.  "NEGAMOON CAGE!"  Lights gathered above the Scouts 
and then expanded downwards, imprisoning each in their own individual cage.  
Tuxedo Mask had responded instantly to the light above him and tried to dive 
out of the way, but the cage was faster and he was caught as surely as the 
others.  The guardians were not caught, but could not ignore Sailor Moon's 
instructions about not harming Reenie, and didn't see how else they could 
help.

"Now it's your turn, Sailor Moon," the Nega-Princess hissed.  "Are you ready 
to fight me?"

"No," she said, "I will not fight you, I will however, heal you.  MOON 
CRYSTAL HEALING ACTIVATION!" she called, pulling out the crystal and pouring 
its energy into her daughter.  "Remember, Reenie!  Remember happiness and 
love, remember me and Serena, Tuxedo Mask and Darien.  Remember your 
parents and your uncle.  Remember love, Reenie.  Remember, and let the 
Crystal heal you."

"Love is an illusion.  It's certainly not something I ever got from my 
parents." was the only response to the torrent of power and words coming 
at her.  Looking at the pleading face of the Scout in front of her, for a 
short time, she 'did' want to give in, then she shook off that thought.  
"Now fight me!" she snarled.  "NEGAMOON ENERGY DESTRUCT!" The black energy 
raced towards Sailor Moon.  Once more she stood there and let it hit her.  
The Scouts yelled as she got thrown backwards.  However, the blast was lower 
powered than the ones she had been hit with before and she got up quickly.

"Why won't you fight me?"  Nega-Princess Serenity yelled.

"Because I love you and won't hurt you," was the quiet response.  

"You're probably just trying to trick me," the pink haired one mused out 
loud.

"Is that what you really think?"  Sailor Moon asked.  The Scouts looked on 
in horror and disbelief from their cages as Sailor Moon detransformed into 
Serena.  The fourteen year old looked helpless and totally defenseless from 
where she stood in front of the black dressed girl.  "I cannot attack you 
like this," she said.  

The Nega-Princess was also in shock from that daring move and barely 
realized when the human girl walked forward and hugged her once more.  "I 
love you, my daughter," she said, looking into the other's red eyes.  "I 
will not hurt you, and I do not believe you will hurt me either.  You are 
my daughter and you love me too.  I know you do.  The black crystal may have 
changed your mind, but it cannot change your heart.  Listen to your heart, 
little one.  Listen to your heart and to me, Small Lady.  Come back to me, 
to us.  Please, Reenie.  We love you and we want you back."

"If you really loved me, you would give me the Crystal," was the response.  
Although her voice was steady, her mind and heart were not.  For some 
reason, she could not force herself to hurt this strange, and yet strangly 
familiar, girl.  She couldn't even make herself push the blond away, 
instead standing there quietly in her arms. 

Serena pulled out her brooch and looked at it.  The sight of the brooch 
reminded the other what she was here for and she was able to ignore the 
weird feelings being aroused in her.  "Thanks!" she said, taking the brooch 
and pushing Serena away.  She had not meant to push her very hard, but the 
brooch took up all her attention.  She looked up in disgust when the shouts 
of the Scouts became too loud to ignore.  They were yelling "Serena!"  She 
looked over to where they were staring, and stared as well.  The blond 
haired girl was lying there, completely still.  Her ungentle push had sent 
the other girl straight into a tree, knocking her unconcious.

"I didn't mean to do that!" she gasped, running over.  She turned Serena 
over and stared in disbelief at the blood pouring from the cut where her 
head had hit the tree.  Her heart was filled with remorse over the injury 
that she had caused.  She knew the girl was supposed to be the enemy and to 
be treated with contempt, but she also felt very bad about the pain she had 
caused.  She never noticed the Crystal in her other hand start glowing once 
more.  Little by little its healing energy sought out the damage the black 
crystal had done, starting with the easiest, the blockage that had not been 
completed because of Tuxedo Mask's rose.  Her eyes went wide as memories of 
this girl and of love invaded her very being.  She was so busy trying to 
sort those out, that she barely noticed the teleportation beam that 
transported her, and everything she was carrying, back up to the spaceship.

"Congratulations, Princess," Rubeus said smarmily.  "Not only did you get 
the Crystal, but the Neo-Queen as well.  You are to be commended.  Now hand 
them over, so we can get to work on them properly."

"'Work on them'?" she asked.  "What are you going to do to her?"

"Why take her to the future of course."  He answered confidently.  "With her 
in our hands, Crystal Tokyo will be ours within hours.  All we will have to 
do is torture her for a small while, and King Endymion will give in to our 
every demand to keep her from getting more pain.  Not that his giving in 
will stop us of course.  There are a lot of frustrations we can work out 
on her body."

"NO!  I will not let you harm her!" the Nega-Princess almost snarled.  The 
healing energy started to work faster as her emotions became clearer.  "She 
protected me, now I'll protect her.  How could I have ever listened to you?  
How could I actually believe that you would take care of me?  If threatening 
King Endymion with her doesn't work, how long would it be until you tried 
the same thing with me?"

"Silly girl.  You will not let?  You don't have the power to forbid me 
anything.  Everything you have, I gave you.  I can just as easily take it 
away."  Rubeus laughed evilly at the thought of the Rabbit trying to fight 
him, who was so obviously a wolf.

The Rabbit didn't seem to see it that way.  "I don't really care if you do 
or not.  I have the feeling I would be better off without it."

Rubeus turned and looked out of one of his magical windows,  "Is that truly 
what you think?" he asked in a musing tone.  Before she could react, he 
turned and attacked her.  She screamed as the power went through her.  Her 
abrupt weakening was all that the Crystal needed.  She screamed even louder 
as the white healing energy battled the dark energy she had been infused 
with.  Her crescent moon flashed with the black crescent moon, her size 
alternated between fourteen and five and anything inbetween.  After almost 
five minutes of this display, the Crystal finally won.  Reenie collapsed 
sobbing next to her mother.

"So, you've got all your memories back, huh Rabbit?"  Rubeus laughed, "Your 
memories of how you turned on your friends and hurt your mother.  Do you 
really think they'll ever forgive you for that?  For hurting their princess? 
It's all your fault, you know.  She's lying there almost dead, because of 
you.  She'll never be able to love you again.  It would almost be worth 
letting the two of you live, knowing that she would never again be able to 
love or trust you because you turned on her once and might do it again."

"You're wrong!"  Reenie yelled, neither noticing that Serena's eyes were now 
open and tears were dropping down her cheek as she saw her daughter back 
the way she should be.  Then she heard Reenie's words.  "She'd understand.  
She'd never turn on someone because of something that wasn't their fault.  
You're wrong, you're wrong, you're wrong."  She stomped her foot at each 
repetition.

"She's right," Serena said in a weak voice as she sat up slowly.  "I would 
never stop loving someone for something like that, especially not Reenie."

"Serena?"  Reenie said in relief and delight, as she threw herself at the 
woozy girl.  "I'm sorry, I'm sorry!  I didn't mean to hurt you!  Really I 
didn't!"  Reenie started sobbing again as she felt Serena hug her gently.

"I know you didn't, Reenie, I know it wasn't your fault."  Serena said, 
looking down into her eyes.  "Are you okay?"

"Uh huh," she nodded, "Are you okay?  You were out for a long time!"  
Reenie looked up at the cut on her forehead, "Can you ever forgive me?"
she said in a small voice.

"There's nothing to forgive, little one.  You were brainwashed, there was
nothing you could have done to stop it.  Don't blame yourself.  If anyone
is to blame, it would be me."  Reenie looked up at her in shock.  "I should
have protected you better.  It's my fault you got captured."

"That's silly!  You couldn't have stopped him, it's not your fault!"  
Reenie listened to her own words and grinned up at her mother, "It wasn't
your fault and it wasn't my fault, so it must be 'his' fault!" she crowed.

Serena kissed her forehead and held her closer as she rocked the little 
girl.  Both of them needed the closeness, needed the physical reminder that 
everything was okay.   Reenie looked up when she felt something wet hit the 
top of her head.  Serena was crying, sobbing actually and Reenie started to 
cry too, when she saw the anguish she had put her through.

"I hate to break up this oh so touching scene, but I think it's time that 
we went back to what I want."  Rubues said cuttingly. 

Within seconds Serena and Reenie were on their feet.  "You're not touching 
her!" they both said at the same time.

"Isn't that cute?  They're trying to protect each other.  Too bad its not 
going to do either of you any good."  His laughter was cut short by the 
entrance of ten very angry and worried figures.  The worry decreased by a 
large amount as they saw Serena and Reenie standing next to each other, but 
the anger grew as they saw the cut on Serena's forehead and the tears on 
both girls' faces.

"SOLAR FLARE!"  Sailor Sol attacked first, his rage high at the sight of 
his sister and niece.

Sailor Mars wasn't far behind, sending "MARS CELESTIAL FIRE SURROUND!" to 
all sides of Sailor Sol, protecting him from Rubeus teleporting behind him.  
Instead, Rubeus teleported behind Sailor Mercury, but Jupiter was ready for 
him.  "JUPITER THUNDERCLAP ZAP!" just barely missed him as he teleported 
away.  By this time, the Scouts had learned to have someone watching all 
locations.  He was hit by several roses almost as soon as he appeared.  He 
tried to appear behind the two unprotected girls, only to be attacked by 
something large, flying and with very sharp talons.

"Way to go, Apollo!"  Luna and Artemis yelled, annoyed at their own 
inability to get into the fight.

Reenie glared at Rubeus.  "I wish I could help you beat him.  I hate having 
to stay out of the way."

Serena stared at Rubeus, then looked at Reenie.  "Alright," she said 
abruptly.  "If it's what you really want you can help me defeat him.  But 
be careful, okay?"

"What do you mean?"  Reenie asked, confused.

"You are the Princess of the Moon, aren't you?"  Serena asked smiling.

"Of course I am.  I'm your daughter."  Reenie replied.  "I am still your 
daughter, aren't I?" she asked very quietly.  Obviously it wasn't quiet 
enough, because Serena heard. 

"You will always be my daughter.  Don't blame yourself for what happened, 
little one.  It wasn't your fault.  I promise you, it was not your fault."  

Reenie reached up towards the cut on Serena's forehead.  "I wish I could 
make it go away." she sighed.

"Don't."  When Reenie looked at her in surprise, she continued, "Don't wish 
your life away, I did that once.  It was the worst mistake I ever made 
because I lost the people I loved the most.  Learn from it and don't let 
yourself ever believe that I don't love you.  There is nothing you can do 
to make me stop.  Nothing Reenie.  And you want to know a secret?" she asked 
smiling.

"What?"  Reenie asked breathlessly.

"I would love you even if you weren't my daughter, just because you are you. 
And 'you' are loveable."  Serena smiled down at the little girl who was 
looking a lot happier.  "Now back to what I was saying, if you're my 
daughter, then you should be able to Duo with me.  If you want to."

"I can become Sailor Moon?  Yes, yes, yes!"  she shouted.

"A real mother-daughter bonding experience, huh?"  Sailor Venus called from 
where the Scouts were battling Rubeus.

"If you're going to do something, I wish you'd hurry."  Mars grunted as she 
threw herself out of the way of an attack.

"You know what to do, Small Lady?"  Serena asked as she kneeled down 
and held her transformation brooch in one hand.

Reenie nodded furiously even as she reached out to touch the brooch.  
However, for a moment, her mind was on something else, *She called me Small 
Lady again, I guess she really does forgive me.*  "MOON CRYSTAL POWER DUO!" 
they called.  Everything stopped as the Scouts and even Rubeus turned to 
watch the transformation.  Ribbons and feathers surrounded the two and then 
there were two Sailor Moons standing there.  The little girl was wearing a 
white shirt and blue skirt just like her mother, she even had the red 
stones in her hair.  But her bows and boots were the exact same color pink 
as her hair.

Sailor Moon started her speech.  "I am Sailor Moon, Champion of Love and 
Justice!  For daring to harm my daughter, I will Punish you!"

The other Sailor Moon's pose exactly mirrored her mother's.  "I am Sailor... 
um...uh..." she whispered to her mother, "What should I call myself?"

"I don't know.  How about Little Moon?"

"Sailor Little Moon?  Nah.  I know!" she posed again.  "I am Sailor Crescent 
Moon, Champion of Justice!  For daring to try to make me hate my parents, I 
will Punish you!"

"Back off everyone, this is a family matter."  Sailor Moon said as she and 
Crescent Moon stood in front of Rubeus.

"Do you think I'm afraid of you?"  Rubeus said confidently.

"You should be,"  was Sailor Moon's response.

"MOON TIARA MAGIC!" she cried, throwing her tiara at him.  He moved to one 
side, sneering.

"CRESCENT MOON TIARA MAGIC!" Crescent Moon called, throwing her own at him.  
He stepped to one side of that one, just in time to get caught in the back 
by Sailor Moon's returning tiara.  He never even saw the second one that 
hit him in the side.

As he cried out in pain, Sailor Moon pulled out her scepter.  "I wanted to 
make you pay for every instant of pain you put her through, but I'm not 
going to set that bad an example for her."

"CRESCENT MOONBEAM STRIKE!"  Crescent Moon cried.  Her regular moonbeam came 
into existance around her and she raised her hand into the power, pulling 
it into her fist and sending it towards Rubeus in a bright white stream, 
surrounded by little crescent moons.  He screamed as the power hit him, but 
not for long.

"MOON SCEPTER ELIMINATION!"  Sailor Moon called.  Within seconds, everyone 
breathed a sigh of relief as the man who had plagued them for months was 
turned into moondust.

"YYEEAAHH!!"  Sailor Crescent Moon yelled.  "We beat him.  We beat him." she 
calmed down a little.  "Thank you for letting me fight."

"You deserved it, Reenie." she said, "and I'm very proud of how well you 
did.  But I don't think your father is very happy."  Tuxedo Mask was bearing 
down on them and he certainly did not look happy.

"Sailor Moon, how could you be so irresponsible as to let her fight?  She 
might have gotten hurt."

"Don't worry, Daddy.  I'm fine."  Crescent Moon said, jumping into his arms 
and hugging him tightly.  "And I really, really needed to do that.  Please 
don't be mad at us.  Please?"

"Good job, Crescent Moon," Sailor Sol said from where he was standing 
watching.  As Tuxedo Mask turned towards him he continued, "Stop being so 
overprotective.  She can't fight on her own, only when one of us Duos with 
her and you know very well that we would all die for her.  If a situation 
was bad enough that something could get through us to get to her, I, for 
one, would rather she had a way to protect herself."

Tuxedo Mask calmed down as he thought of Sailor Sol's words and nodded 
reluctant agreement.

Sailor Crescent Moon was thinking of something else.  "You mean I could Duo 
with any of you?"  she asked excitedly.  

Sailor Sol was about to answer when Sailor Mercury's voice came to them.  
"We've got trouble."

"Now what?"  Sailor Moon asked tiredly.  "I really just want to go home and 
go to bed."

"Well we might be getting home a lot sooner than expected, but we wouldn't 
enjoy it much."  Mercury announced.  "The ship is falling and I can't get
control!"

"Let's teleport."  Sailor Jupiter said immediately.

"I don't think we have time,"  Sailor Mercury said quietly.  Everyone 
looked at her in shock.  They looked out the window to see the ocean 
rushing towards them.  Tuxedo Mask grabbed Sailor Moon to him and the 
three stood together, holding on to one another.  Then another joined them.  

Luna Ball had stayed out of the fight, with the cats, and was now 
hitting Reenie lightly on the chest.  Crescent Moon looked down to see what 
it was doing and caught a glimpse of crystal.  Quickly pulling it out, she 
held it up in the air.  "Crystal Time Key!  Take us to the Future!"
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Okay, now for the thanks.  To Karen and Carolyn who both came up with the 
idea of Crescent Moonbeam Strike.  To Jeff, for the idea of the NegaMoon 
Cage, although that started out as a Crescent Moon attack.  I know I came 
very close to the Black Lady of the real Sailor Moon R, I tried writing 
Chapter Ten without it and it wasn't a bad chapter, but I think this one 
is better.  If you really want to read my first draft, which is really 
nothing like this except for four scenes which stayed practically the same, 
write and tell me, and I'll send it to you.

Oh, well, again I thought that was a good place to end it.  If I end it in 
a place that makes you want to read more, than I'm doing my job.  Did the 
Scouts get to the future?  Or did the Time Key misfire again and they all 
hit the water and they died?  Do you even have to ask?  Stand by for Chapter 
Eleven  Cracked Crystal.

Jendra@aol.com