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New Moon of the Dark Kingdom Chapter Hundred and Forty Nine - Battle Royale

Zoisite and Kunzite have found true love, but when some old friends, a vengeful god, and a pair of evil twins are gunning for the Shitennou all at once, life is not going to be easy

[Scene: Metalia inferno. Kunzite lets out a savage roar as he sends a pair of energy blade flying toward Dev, who is surrounded by a web of of threads of dark energy.]

[The blades slice through the webbing, dissolving the threads they touch. At the last second, Dev leaps ten feet straight up, and the blades pass through harmlessly before returning to Kunzite, while Dev stands on a thread with his arms crossed like a tightrope walker] ]

Dev: Thanks for the help, old man. Only a few thousand threads to clear before we can reach our time door.

[Leaps down and stands passively in his previous spot.]

Beryl: [snarling at Kunzite as she works her long nails behind her summoned crystal ball] You incompetent fool! Do I have to do everything myself?

El: You're wasting your time. You can't beat us. Why don't you spare yourselves the humiliation and just let us go home?

Dev: It's no use. They have taken the Unbreakable Oath of Enslavement. We have to fight.

Beryl: A ceasefire? [bitchcackles] Those are demanded by cowards, from a position of weakness! Today is your day to die!

[Dev's eyes widen in alarm as Beryl summons forth energy and directs her gaze at his sister, but El does not look concerned]

El: Shield yourself, Dev.

Dev: Shield...myself? [uneasy] El this isn't what we practic-

El: Do it!

[Dev has already surrounded himself with a bubble of dark energy. El makes no move.]

Beryl: DIE!

[The room washes out as a bolt of pure white light flies towards El, who smiles grimly and holds up a prism. She does a back bend as she hold the prism to the light, splinting the beam into colored rays that shoot in all directions, severing the majority of the threads of magic that Metalia left behind.]

[With her back still bent, El drops a small glass object to the floor, which skitters over to Beryl, where it unfolds and enlarges, trapping Beryl frozen in a pyramid of glass.]

El: One down. Four to go. Who wants to be trapped next?

Dev: Bravo, my love! A few more shattershot attacks like this from the Shittenou and we should be able to waltz right home.

[Jeddy laughs mockingly]

Jeddy: Sorry to kill the little buzz from the little catfight, sweetheart.

[fans out into four identical Jeddy's]

Jeddy 1 - 4: But lets see how well you fare hand to hand against the masters of illusion!

[El leans forward and raises her palm to her mouth, as if blowing them a kiss. A gold shimmer fills the air, and Jeddy's 1,3 & 4 turn to face Jeddy 2. Jeddy 2 seems startled by this, as Jeddy 1 pins his arms behind his back and 3 & 4 start beating him]

[El drops a glass pyramid during the pummeling. As it surround Jeddy 2, the others vanish and the single remaining Jeddy is trapped, frozen in time.]

El: [turns and gives her brother a guilty look] I'm sorry. I seem to be having all the fun.

[Dev points to Kunzite, who is standing protectively in front of Zoisite, and Neffy, who is swaying drunkenly, smirking in amusement.]

Dev: Don't worry. You know I'm saving myself for the big guys over there.

Kunzite: [snarling at Dev] You dare to make a mockery of the Four Heavenly Kings!

Dev: Absolutely not. I wouldn't dream of taking your job.

El: [shakes her head] So mean.

Dev: Yeah? Well I'm a rotten kid.

Kunzite: And all bad kids, you could benefit from a time out. [his hair whips around and his eyes for white as a hemisphere of dark magic surrounds Dev and El]

Kunzite: Your powers cannot harm, nor penetrate that orb, and slowly very slowly it will shrink until-

[Dev steps forward placing his palms on the inside of the shield. His eyes glow white as well as the shield evaporate, seeming to suck the energy right out of Kunzite as he does.]

Kunzite: How on earth-

[El drops a glass pyramid to trap Kunzite while Zoi screams in outrage.

Zoi: ZOI!

[Zoi directs a wave of razor petals at El, but before they reach her they turn harmlessly into butterflies. She points to the cloud of butterflies and they turn into hummingbirds, who divebomb Zoi.]

[As Zoi shields his face, El drops a glass pyramid to trap him as well.]

[All alone, now Neffy looks as his trapped comrade, then back at the twins, swaying a bit drunkenly.]

Dev: So what's it going to be, Neffy?

El: Starlight attack?

Dev: Soul shadow?

El: We know how to counter them all.

Neffy: I don't doubt you do. [slurs drunkenly as he summons an apple] It's clear you two little pests have done your homework, so my magic will be worthless in this battle. And since I have no intention of being humiliated by a pair of eleven year olds, I think I will just stand here and enjoy my apple.

[The twins watch as Neffy bites into the apple. The wait warily, then Dev clears the threads separating him from his sister.]

[When they are clear, she runs up and hugs him.]

El: Dev. We survived.

Dev: Yes, but we lost the crystal.

El: So what do we do?

[Dev gives a warning look toward Neffy, who is watching them while eating his apple with seeming indifference.]

Dev: There is nothing left to do but go home. [They give Neffy one last cautious look as they walk hand in hand to the time portal, glowing darkly, still crosscrossed with hundreds of Metalia's thread of dark energy like barbed wire.] I just need to clear all these away.

[While he examines the threads, Neffy finishes his apple and tosses the core over his shoulder. He charges at Dev, giving him a swift kick from behind, sending him flying into the threads which zap him as if electrified.]

El: HEEEEY! [El scream of rage is cut short as Neffy punches her across the face.]

[Both twins are on the ground, and look up at Neffy in newfound terror.]

Neffy: Clearly this Big Daddy never told you what I used to do for a living. [laces his fingers and cracks his knuckles] You see, I don't need magic to defeat the likes of you.

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New Moon of the Dark Kingdom Chapter Hundred and Forty Eight - Adversaries

Zoisite and Kunzite have found true love, but when some old friends, a vengeful god, and a pair of evil twins are gunning for the Shitennou all at once, life is not going to be easy

[Scene: Metalia's Inferno. Beryl and the Shitennou have been teleported in by Metalia who had fled to safety, ordering Beryl and the Shitennou not to leave until Dev and El are disposed of.]

[Zoi looks up at Kunzite and moves closer to him. Kunzite pulls him even closer. Meanwhile the Heltry Twins are tangled up in webs of dark energy in opposite corners of the room, while a portal to their own time is on the far wall behind them, completely blocked by the network of threads of dark energy.]

El: [frowning down at the threads of dark energy binding her arms and body] Well this is certainly inconvenient.

[She tries to pull an arm free and lets out a scream of pain, but her arm is undamaged]

[Meanwhile, her brother looks down, and grins. He touches a thread and it makes a sound like a harp being plucked, and then it vanishes]l

[He hits another one, which makes a slightly different sound before vanishing.]

Dev: They operate on harmonics, my love. Like music. You just have to hit each with the right resonance.

[El tries touching one, and it lets out a hideous screech before sending painful shockwaves through her body.]

El:  That’s easy for you to say!

Dev: [tapping away threads] Hang on. I'll free myself and then I'll come get you.

[El stares at the Shitennou]

El: I don't think 'hanging on' is a viable option at the moment.

[She lets out ear-rending scream as she pulls herself free by sheer force.]

Dev: [Calming zapping threads off him] Suit yourself.

El: [whimpering in pain] God I hate how much fortune favors you sometimes!

Beryl: HEY!

[The twins direct their attention to Beryl and raise their hands in surrender]

El: Please! Don't fight us! Our quarrel is not with you. Only Metalia!

Jeddy: [laughs] You don't want to fight us because you know you will lose.

Dev: No. [In wide-eyed certainty] We won't.

El: [nods frantically] We absolutely won't. We've been preparing for this battle our whole lives. There isn't a spell you can throw at us we won't be able to counter.

[The Shitennou laugh mockingly]

El: It's true! You haven't seen the future! Metalia didn't create us out of the goodness of her heart. She created us as your replacements!

Kunzite: That just sounds like all the more reason to kill you.

El: Oh...you reeeeaaaallly don't want to fight us. We obliterated a god.

Jeddy: Yeah. We saw. Together, you could probably take us. If you got lucky. But separated?

Neffy: [swaying] That's right...kids... [hiccups] We know all about you... and all your little secrets...

[Beryl's jaw drops and she stares at Neffy in disgust]

Beryl: You're DRUNK!

Neffy: And you're ugly... in the words of my old drinking buddy...Winston Churchhill...or was it W C Fields...I never could tell them apart... [hiccups]

[Beryl huffs and looks away from him]

Beryl: The point these two witless imbeciles are trying to make is...that we know all about you! We know who you are and what you are!

El: No you don't. Otherwise you wouldn't be so eager to fight us.

Jeddy: You're Metalia's biological children.

Dev and El: NO WE’RE NOT!

Jeddy: What?

Dev and El: SHE'S NOT OUR REAL MOTHER!

Kunzite: ...what?

El: Our real parents loved each other! But our mother wanted children and she couldn't have them! So she made a deal with Metalia! Two perfect children, a boy and a girl!

Dev: Only Metalia corrupted us in the womb. Clearly our real mother hadn't read enough fairytales to know that a deal like that never ends well.

El: Metalla turned us into flesh eating monsters and we devoured our real mother from the inside.

Dev: When our father saw us, he fled in horror.

El: And Metalia collected us and made everyone pretend she had given birth to us herself!

Dev: Be we hated her! So she got rid of us!

El: And then our real father came back for us! And we became a family again!

Dev: And he explained that since we were conceived out of true love, we could never truly be completely corrupted by Metalia's influence!

Neffy: Did your "Big Daddy" tell you that?

[They nod vigorously]

Neffy: Did it ever occur to you that maybe he fed you a bunch of bullshit fairytales to keep the two you in line?

El: ITS THE TRUTH!

Beryl: It's not! You are not any known species, so you don't have a mother and father! You are energy creatures, made by Metalia, so we're not falling for your lies!

El: They're not lies! We're just a pair of frightened children who just want to go home to our Daddy.

[The Shitennou laugh again]

Jeddy: Frightened little children? Ha! You're no innocents. We all saw that makeout session you had in Zoi's bedroom.

[Zoi stares at Kunzite]

Zoi:  What makeout session?

[El and Dev exchange glaces and then start laughing]

Zoi: The incestuous weirdo twins made out with each other in my bedroom?

Kunzite: Yes.

Jeddy: No, not with each other. They- yow. [As Beryl brings the scepter down on his foot.]

Zoi: Why would they do that in my room of all places?

[The twins laugh harder]

Kunzite: Oh, this funny to you?

El: Very.

Kunzite: [between gritted teeth]  What, exactly, do you find humorous about this

Dev: You see, we could explain but it will only make up sound worse, so I think it's best we just keep our mouths shut.

[Kunzite pushes Zoi behind him, glaring, and summons a pair of energy blades.]

[The twins stop laughing]

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New Moon of the Dark Kingdom Chapter Hundred and Forty Seven - Out of Time

Zoisite and Kunzite have found true love, but when some old friends, a vengeful god, and a pair of evil twins are gunning for the Shitennou all at once, life is not going to be easy

[Scene: Metalia's inner circles. Time has stopped]

[The Heltry twins enter, cautiously]

El: Did we do it?

[Dev's gaze sweeps from the glowing energy blades suspended in midair, to Kunzite, frozen in midsnarl, to Metalia, standing immobile with her mouth open]

Dev: I believe we have.

[Seconds pass, and Metalia remains immobile]

El: Oh! Yes! It worked this time!

Dev: That's because she never saw it coming.

[El laughs a mocking laugh as she looks at Kunzite.]

El: He looks mad.

Dev: I'll bet he is.

El: Not a lot he can do about it, praise darkness.

[They walk past him, El kissing her palm and smacking it against Kunzite's mouth in passing, then stop in front of Metalia]

El: Would you look at that hag. So weak, so helpless, so completely at our mercy...why...is that a tinge of terror I detect in those soul-draining eyes of hers?

Dev: She had nothing to be afraid of, until she forged the tools of her own destruction.

El: Well, what are we waiting for. Let's roast this bitch. [Raises the God Gun]

Dev: [lowering her arm] Not so fast...

El: Dev! We don't have a lot of time! This temporal bubble is going to collapse in less than five minutes!

Dev: [Gathers his sister into a bear hug] And I want every single one of them.

[Rests his forehead against hers and takes a deep breath]

Dev: If there is an afterlife, I want you stay where you are. Because I will find you. I don't care what hell dimension we are in, or what I have to do, I won't let you suffer alone.

El: [her eyes fill with tears] Oh Dev. I...I'm not good with words like you are, but I want you to know that you have been the best brother a girl could ever hope for, and I want to be with you always.

[Dev nods, sniffling and pulls her closer, his hand tangling in her hair]

Dev: We can into this wretched world together and we are going to leave it together, and the thought of it fills me with great joy.

El: Me too. I love you, Dev.

Dev: I love you, El.

[They kiss. It's not a passionate kiss, but it is still an inappropriate kiss, filled with the warped affections of two innocents who have been through a hellish existence with nothing to rely except each other.]

El: Ready?

Dev: Almost. Lets make a portal home.

El: [laughs mockingly] My brother. The eternal optimist.

Dev: [shrugs] It can only help, so why not?

El: Why not, indeed. When we go poof, the portal poofs with us. Plus, if it will make you feel better...

[They clasp hands and the ground trembles as a glowing purple portal forms in the far wall of the chamber]

El: Happy now?

[Dev nods]

Dev: Ready?

[El nods]

El: Lets do this.

[They stand apart and raise the God Gun, aiming it right at Metalia. Each twin takes a deep breath and with one last solemn nod to each other, they pull the trigger]

[The God Gun makes a faint clicking noise, but nothing else happens]

[The twins exchange a look and pull the trigger again, and then again, and then again]

[Click. Click. Click]

Dev: El! What the hell is going on! Why isn't this working!

El: It...it's got to be a loose wire. [Grabs the God Gun to pry off the cover]

Dev: A LOOSE WIRE?

El: [prying off the cover] These things happen all the time. I'll just tighten it up and we'll be in business.

Dev: A LOOSE WIRE? WE HAVE LESS THAN TEN SECONDS BEFORE TIME RESUMES!

El: THEN MAYBE YOU NEED TO SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LET ME CONCENTRATE!

DEv: [pacing and running his hands through his hair] OH MY GOD, EL! A LOOSE WIRE! YOU KNEW WHAT WAS AT STAKE HERE! HOW COULD YOU BE SO SLOPPY!

El: YEAH! WELL I DON'T SEE YOU-

[Her voice stops abruptly into a rattle as the cover flies off and they see an empty cavity where the Silver Crystal should be]

Dev: THE SILVER CRYSTAL!

El: IT'S GONE!

Dev: WHERE IS IT?

[The twins stare at the God Gun with their mouths hanging open, then Metalia, who is slowly jerking back into motion, then each other, before each letting out a terrified scream]

[Metalia grins balefully as time resumes, she holds out her palm as the twins are blasted into opposite corners. Then the half of the chamber that the twins are in fill with darkly glowing webs, pinning them in place, and completely blocking the portal with a thousand threads of dark energy]

[Kunzite, Beryl, Jadeite, Nephrite, and Zoi appear looking a bit startled and wearing Dark Kingdom uniforms]

Metalia: [coldly] Torture these two in whatever manner you see fit. Defile these two in whatever manner you see fit. But nobody leaves this chamber until they are disposed of permanently.

[And with that, she teleports away, leaving her children to fight the final battle]

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New Moon of the Dark Kingdom Chapter Hundred and Forty Six- In the Hands of Destiny

Zoisite and Kunzite have found true love, but when some old friends, a vengeful god, and a pair of evil twins are gunning for the Shitennou all at once, life is not going to be easy

[Scene: Seattle General. Usagi and the C'est La Vie gang are staring out the window at green lightning and clouds that swirl like a whirlpool.]

Makato: Oh. This is bad.

Minako: Ya think?

Usagi: We need to teleport! Now! Quickly everyone join hands! Rei! Have Artemis guide us!

Mamoru: Do you think we can make it in time?

Usagi: We have to try!

A calm female voice: No. You do not.

[They are turn and see a tall, stunningly beautiful woman with dark skin and long mallard-green hair standing in the doorway, holding a giant key]

Usagi: Puu! You're alive!

[She runs up and hugs Satsuna]

Satsuna: I never died. My place is at the Time Door. Not the Moon Kingdom.

Usagi: You're the Guardian of Time! You've come to make everything right again!

Minako: Wow. Talk about a Dues Ex Machina. *

[*She's glad, but if the planet wasn't in mortal peril, she would consider this a pretty lame twist]

[Satsuna looks at the group and then gives them a sad smile]

Satsuna : No. I'm afraid not. I protect Destiny, I do not meddle in it. I've merely come to pledge fealty to the new queen, now that she has proven herself worthy in the eyes of the spirit of her mother.

[Bows low to Usagi, while Rei stares with her mouth open]

Rei: What the hell! Get off your high horse and help us save the planet!

Makoto: Yes, what she said!

Minako: I don't wish to be rude, but if we don't stop those twins, Usagi won't have anything to be queen of!

Ami: And you are the Guardian of Time, and these two are time travelers. They are interfering with Destiny.

Satsuna: And you think Time Travel cannot be a natural facet of Destiny?

Rei: Look out the window, bitch!

[Does, but only for an instant]

Satsuna: You have done all you can. This is a battle between gods, not mortals, and neither side will be pleased if you try to interfere. There is nothing you can do anymore. Other than die, needlessly.

Minako: I don't accept that! Apparently, I'm the only one here who has any clear memories of the twins, but they are actually pretty cool, as far as evil demi-gods go. I'd hang with them. We've just got to go talk them out of launching a suicide attack again Metalia!

Mamoru: I agree. [putting his hand on Minako's shoulder] Though they might be cut from an evil cloth, we must show them that with the thread of love, and the needle of friendship, they might sew themselves into golden soft garments of virtue!

[Satsuna sighs sadly]

Satsuna: I'm afraid it's not that simple. The two had a rough beginning, and were abandoned into a demon wilderness during their weakest and most formative years, but they were rescued and raised by a loving father who dotes on them and has steered them to the path of righteousness.

[The others stare, openmouthed]

Satsuna: They are creatures forged out of Love, as well as Evil. You can't reform them any more than they have already been reformed.

Usagi: But...then...why are they doing this?

Satsuna: They wish to assassinate Metalia to prevent her from committing acts of unspeakable cruelty to the people they love most. To spare them, they are willing to sacrifice themselves, their loved ones, even the entire universe.

Usagi: But...this is all the more reason for us to help them! There has to be another way!

Satsuna : My queen. This isn't your fight. You've already done more than enough.

Usagi: But can't we-

Satsuna : No. You can't.

[Satsuna turns and walks away]

[Meanwhile...]

[Metalia's inner circle. A ball of cracking black antimatter is forming between her hands.]

Metalia: They are coming.

[Kunzite says nothing. He merely scowls, crouched, a pair of energy blades gripped tightly in his fists]

Metalia: [smiles] They are finally running to their deaths, the young fools...It is time to end them once and for all!

[The ball of dark energy increases in size and intensity.

Matalia: Here they come [rises] THREE! TWO! ON-

[Kunzite lets out a savage howl and rises to his full height, blocking her shot]

Matalia: WHAT YOU DOING YOU FOOL! GET DOWN!

[By reflex the ball of antimatter vanishes as Kunzite crosses his arms over his chest and lets out a battlecry as he hurls the energy blades in the direction of the archway.]

[In that instant, time in Metalia's inner circle stops.]

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Some sad news today - Canadian actor Denis Akiyama, voice of Malachite (aka Kunzite) in the DiC Sailor Moon dub has passed away at the age of 66. He was a very prolific actor, working in live action, animation, and video games. A memorial website has been set up for fans to leave testimonials, and a memorial service will be held on July 5th, 2018. More information here.

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New Moon of the Dark Kingdom Chapter Hundred and Forty Five - Divine Intervention

Zoisite and Kunzite have found true love, but when some old friends, a vengeful god, and a pair of evil twins are gunning for the Shitennou all at once, life is not going to be easy

[Scene: Seattle General. Absolute carnage.]

[Mamoru, Minako, Rei and Makoto are lying, unmoving in pools of blood. Usagi is crying, while Ami surveys the scene, clearly dazed, trying to make sense of it. A nurse leaps up from behind the bed and flees screaming.]

[This seems to rouse Ami from her shock. She moves from body to body, trying to find signs of life.]

[Across the room, Minako moans in pain and trying to pull herself up with one arm.]

[Ami runs to her, turning her over and cradling her in her arms, surveying her for injuries.]

Usagi: Minako! You're alive!

Minako: Yeah, I'm alive. [groans as she wipes blood from her face and screams a bit as she tried to save her bad arm] Geez you almost sound happy.

Usagi: I am happy. I thought you were dead.

Minako: [coughing up a bit of blood] Yeah, well, I don't think I'm out of the woods yet. And I pretty sure Mamoru, Rei and Makoto are a lot more dead than I am.

[She looks at her friends, her mouth in a grim line.]

Minako: You still think there is good in everyone, you ninny? Even Beryl? [Gestures at the fallen] Get a clue, slut. This is what happens when you try to find the good in people like Beryl.

[Usagi sits on Mamoru's bed and cradles his head in her lap]

Usagi: No. This is what comes from retaliation.

[Strokes Mamoru's hair]

Usagi: If everyone had managed to stay as calm as Ami, none of this would have happened.

Minako: None of this- [laughs mockingly] There is no use in talking to you. You're hopeless. That why your mother-

[long silence]

Ami: [to Minako] That's why her mother did what?

Usagi: [to Ami] That's why my mother told Venus she would never let me be queen.

Minako: [ashamed] You...knew...

[Usagi nods]

Usagi: [petting Mamoru's hair] I knew. She told me. I asked her to prepare me, so I could be a good queen, and she told me that day would never come...I was too weak...too foolish...too tenderhearted...a good queen, she said, must hand out punishments without pity, as well as rewards...a good queen must make enemies...enforce unpopular laws...do things that hurt people...often innocent people...in the interests of protecting her kingdom...

[Her blue eyes look up, fierce with determination]

Usagi: But she was wrong! A good queen must simply do the right thing! ALWAYS! No matter how much her heart is breaking! A good queen must have the strength and the courage to do right by her subjects! No matter how much it hurts!

[She gazes down at Mamoru]

Usagi: Forgive me, Endymion. I told you I understood, but I didn't. I thought I did, but how could I? [cradles him in her arms] When I was Selenity, I lived a happy, carefree life. How could I understand what it meant to forgive the unforgivable? To defend the people who took everything away from you? [a single tear falls, splashing Endymion on the cheek] I'm sorry, I belittled your suffering, that I told you to work past it. Now that she's taken you from me [raises her head to include Rei and Makoto] All you from me, I finally understand what you mean when you said we were asking too much...and this suffering. This heartache. Is nothing compared to the suffering and the loss you had to endure as Beryl's slave...I look around and I don't ever want to forgive her!

[Stands]

Usagi: But a good queen must always do what has to be done!

[Raises her hands to the heavens]

Usagi: MOTHER! I KNOW YOU ARE WATCHING ME! I FEEL YOU IN MY HEART! GIVE ME YOUR POWER! HELP ME SO I CAN HELP THE PEOPLE OF THIS PLANET!

[All at once a heavenly glow surrounds Usagi and her simple dress morphs into a royal gown while a silver crystal in the shape of a chrysanthemum appears in her hands.]

[The room is bathed in prisms out light, and Minako gasps as her arm straightens and her wounds close.]

[Makoto, Rei, and Mamoru are also healed in the same manner and they stir and come back to life.]

[Usagi drops her arms, still in her princess gown and cradles Mamoru in her arms again.]

Usagi: Endymion?

Mamoru: No. Not Endymion. I'm just Mamoru now. And I remember everything.

Usagi: Everything?

Mamoru: My parents. Th[e accident. The life I had before I lost everything. I remember Endymion, but not very well. Like he was a character in a story that gave me nightmare as a child, but don't have the power to scare me anymore.

Usagi: [laughing] Oh, Mamoru. I'm so happy.

Mamoru: And there is something else. I'm in love with you. Madly, passionately, irreversibly in love with you. I tried to fight it while I was being haunted by Endymion. But I'm not going to fight it any more. There isn't any need too. I no longer have to worry about polluting your life with my darkness.

Usagi: [giggling] Oh, Mamoru. I'm so glad.

[Usagi brings her lips down to his and he raises his lips to hers, and they kiss.]

[The kiss goes on for a while, then they break it off to see how the others are doing.]

[Minako, Ami and Makoto are staring and smiling, but try to look away when Usagi and Mamoru notice them. Rei is staring out the window.]

[Usagi giggles some more but stops when she remembers Rei and Mamoru used to date, and Rei never got over him, and she feels bad for her friend.]

Ami: Um...should we bow, Your Highness?

Usagi: [smiles] No, silly! And no need to call me 'Your Highness'. My mother brought us all back so we could have happy, normal lives, so no one of us is better than the other. I'm just happy that everything can go back to normal now.

[Rei turns away from the window]

Rei: You call this normal?

[She points to a maelstrom of swirling mist and green lightning just outside the window]

[The girls and mamoru crowd around the window]

Makoto: What is this?

Rei: The end of times. And there’s no way we can get there in time to stop it.

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Nonsensical babbling

Just been rewatching Kunzite’s arc again and I’m just filled with so many different nonsensical thoughts and feelings, like:

Why does everyone (and Endymion) think Kunzite’s methods are poor?? Dude’s first attempt is DNA testing??? And he thinks absurdly like Sailor Moon??

Endymion is always like “don’t under-estimate her” but Kunzite never actually does??? If anything, he always correctly estimates just the right amount to draw Usagi in (LITERALLY “Moon Princess Ski Contest” and and “Group of 5 Gets Princess Skating Lesson 4 Free” never seems suspicious to anyone off AT ALL)

In fact, his issue is actually OVERestimating Sailor Moon’s capabilities once she’s in: she may be powerful enough to fight him off when he had the other Senshi beat buy that don’t mean that power translates equally in any other sport or skill

Also, minions always mess up?? Like I’m not sure why the Shitennou insist on using underlings all the time; Kunzite and Jadeite trusted their subordinates and that’s usually where things spun out of control. Neph and Zoi were much more successful by being hands-on

Tbf tho Kunzite has always had someone to do his legwork for him, and that person had an extremely good track record…why break what’s not broken? Except, none of his chosen subordinates could ever replace Zoisite

Have you guys ever noticed how Kunzite’s choice of subordinates all seem to resemble or echo Zoisite in some way? They’re all hella gorgeous, genuinely refer to him with respect, and are elegant and gymanstic-y

Chalk the above point up to another Kunzite Grief Theory, or How Kunzite Works Best With A Partner theory

Dude also literally finds an FBI agent and probably found out Sailor V’s identity how did this not become more of a leverage in the season UGH

That’s it for now but guh so many Kunzite feels poor boy

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Queen Beryl and the Shittenou

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Chapter Hundred and Forty Four - Worst Case Scenario

Zoisite and Kunzite have found true love, but when some old friends, a vengeful god, and a pair of evil twins are gunning for the Shitennou all at once, life is not going to be easy

[Scene: The center of Metalia's inferno. Kunzite is crouching with an energy blade in each hand glaring at the exit. Metalia is still seated at the go table]

Metalia: I see now. To love is weakness and insanity. But to be loved. That is true power!

[points at Kunzite who does not turn]

Metalia: You are First Among Kings. Your power eclipsed only by the gods, but this Zoisite of yours has you completely ensorcelled. And it's not merely his beauty, or his youth, or his skill in the bedroom, or the novelty of him would be wearing thin and you would have tired of him by now.

Kunzite: You are correct, Mother. I am completely and utterly enthralled by everything that he is.

Metalia: Interesting...to enslave a greater being so thoroughly, without even having to try...

You know, they say a mother's love is unconditional, but I've seen enough women abuse and murder their offspring to buy into that lie...But a child's love for its mother...? I've seen children put up with all sorts of torture from the females who bore them, hoping for just the tiniest crumb of approval...

Yes. I can see why I decided to beget a child now, but my mistake was in creating two of them! Their bond as twins must have distracted them from their true purpose, which was to whimper and seek my approval. When the time comes, I will create just the boy... No, the girl...No, the...you know what? I'll create them both and then get rid of the one I like the least.

[Kunzite turns and glares at her with his mouth hanging open]

Kunzite: Mother, are you really this stupid?

[Meanwhile: At Seattle General. Beryl is standing in doorway of Mamoru's hospital room.]

[Mamoru reaches for Usagi, pulling her roughly to him in a fit of mindless terror]

Mamoru: SELENITY! NO! GET AWAY!

Beryl: [Has no idea what is going on] What's wrong with him?

Minako: [Knows exactly what is going on] Bitch, that was your cue to get your bitch ass out of here.

[Minako shoves her out the door and Beryl rakes her claws across Minako's face]

[Minako staggers back as three bloody stripes appear on her face]

[Mamoru lets out a scream and reaches for the nurses cart, grabbing a pair of scissors.]

Usagi: Mamoru! No!

[He crouches on the bed, and lets out a savage cry as he hurls them right into Beryl's heart]

[For a moment, Beryl just stands there. Looking down in dismayed astonishment. She reaches with a trembling hand.]

[Then her lips curls and she hurls a blast of dark energy at Mamoru sending him sprawling.]

[He crumples in a smoking heap, and the monitor screech and display flat lines.]

Usagi: NOOOOO! MAMORU!

[Minako lets out a cry and leaps at Beryl with a sword of light in her hands]

Usagi: MINAKO! STOP!

[Beryl wheels on Minako and releases another blast, which sends Minako flying into a wall, her arm at an odd angle. She sinks, leaving a smear of red behind her head]

[Rei and Makoto come at Beryl from opposite directions. Beryl lashes out with her hands, her clawlike nails first into Rei's throat then Makoto's chest.]

[They fall. Dead.]

[Beryl looks to see who is still standing. She sees Usagi trembling and sobbing by Mamoru's bedside and Ami nearby, looking grim and determined. She approaches Usagi with the grace of a cobra.

Ami: [Standing protectively in front of Usagi] Stay back! I won't let you harm the princess!

[Beryl approaches them and Usagi sobs]

Usagi: Forgive me, mama. I'm not strong enough.

Beryl: You're not strong enough to kill me?

Usagi: I'm not strong enough to forgive you!

Beryl: [taken aback] Forgive me?

Usagi: [sobs] I'm not strong enough to forgive you and..I'm not strong enough to help you save Metalia!

Beryl: [laughs] I don't need your help. And I certainly don't need your forgiveness.

[She leaves, stepping over the corpses of the fallen girls, and takes one last look at Mamoru's corpse before pulling the scissors from her chest and tossing them away.]

Beryl: I was going to heal him, you know. This is the last time I do anything nice for anyone.

[Back in Metalia's inferno. The youma stop working abruptly and turn to face Dev and El, then all drop to a bow]

El: What's going on?

Dev: Why have you stopped?

Thetis: This is it. They have removed all of the traps between here and Queen Metalia.

Dev: Are you certain?

Thetis: Of course they are certain. None would dare to put our beloved Emperor Devon and Empress Eleanor at risk.

El: [gasps] This is it then...

Dev: [hoists the Godgun over his shoulder and offers his hand to his sister] Come my love, lets go make history.

[They clasp hands, smile at each other and take off running for Metalia's chamber, while the youma cheer them on.]

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Has someone posted this already? I couldn’t find it to reblog it. Someone on a myu Discord I’m on uploaded this for me, and I thought I would share.

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Prince Endymion with his Shittenou. (Why does Endymion look like Marth from Fire Emblem here?)

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The Shittenou

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Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women, also gay.

Happy Pride Month Eleanor Roosevelt was queer, the Little Mermaid is a gay love story, James Dean liked men, Emily Dickinson was a lesbian, Nikola Tesla was asexual, Freddie Mercury was bisexual & British Indian, and black trans women pioneered the gay rights movement.

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New Moon of the Dark Kingdom Chapter Hundred and Forty Three - A Spider in the Ointment

Zoisite and Kunzite have found true love, but when some old friends, a vengeful god, and a pair of evil twins are gunning for the Shitennou all at once, life is not going to be easy

[Scene Metalia's inferno. A pair of glowing blades appear in Kunzite's hands]

Kunzite: I CAN'T TAKE THIS! I'M GOING OUT THERE TO KILL THOSE TWO LITTLE MONSTERS ONCE AND FOR ALL!

Metalia: Without magic? Against thousands of armed youma?

Kunzite: YES!

Metalia: Oh great. My idiot son is going berserk again.

Kunzite: I AM KUNZITE! SOVEREIGN OF THE EARTH, SUPREME RULER THE DARK KINGDOM, AND FIRSTBORN SON OF METALIA! I WILL NOT ALLOW HER TO BE MENACED BY A PAIR OF FIFTH GRADERS!

Metalia: [oddly touched] You care about me that much?

Kunzite: OF COURSE I DO!

Metalia: You know, I was going to let the Death Phantom kill you. I told your brothers I was bluffing, but I wasn't. I would have watched you die and felt absolutely nothing, except for the satisfaction that I'd cheated that old windbag out of what he really wanted.

Kunzite: OF COURSE I KNEW THAT! I KNOW YOU BETTER THAN ANYONE!

Metalia: [touched] In spite of that you still want to protect me?

Kunzite: LOVE ISN'T SOMETHING THAT IS EARNED! IT IS SOMETHING THAT IS GIVEN!

[Metalia thinks about this]

Metalia: This...love...I have never felt it. I've watched it makes fools of people and considered myself lucky, but maybe there is something to it...Do you love me more than your monkey?

Kunzite: DON'T BRING ZOISITE INTO THIS!

Metalia: Answer the question.

Kunzite: YOU ARE MY MOTHER AND HE IS MY HUSBAND! THE FEELINGS ARE COMPLETELY UNRELATED!

Metalia: But if you have to choose...?

Kunzite: IF YOU MAKE ME CHOOSE I WILL CHOOSE HIM!

Metalia: You admit that?

Kunzite: YES MOTHER! HE IS THE ONLY SOURCE OF HAPPINESS IN MY LIFE! IF YOU TOOK THAT AWAY, IT WOULD SOUR THINGS BETWEEN US FOREVER!

Metalia: Huh.

[Meanwhile, at Seattle General. Mamoru has his face in his hands and is rocking in his hospital bed.]

Rei: Look, I'm not trying to be a bitch or anything, but we're running out of time. Artie wants me to tell you that if we're to save the world, we need to get moving.

Ami: [looks up from her handheld] We should try this without him. There is a .59 probability that Selenity's teleportation factor was linked to her essence rather than her powers.

Usagi: Just a minute. [Sits on the edge of Mamoru bed and clasps his hand] Can't you see how much he is hurting? I'm not leaving him like this.

Makoto: [looking out the window at the green maelstrom] Hurry. A storm is coming. I feel it.

Minako: [Looking in her compact] Let her speak. Artie said we still have time.

Usagi: [holding Mamoru and stroking his hair] Please, Mamoru. You have the heart of a hero. You're going to help us, whether we need you or not. Not as a favor. Because it is the right thing to do. For you and for everyone else.

Mamoru: [panicked] I know that. You think I don't know that? You don't understand. I can't work for the same side as Beryl. I can't. Not against a pair of kids she's probably tortured since infancy.

Ami: What indication is there that they've been tortured?

Mamoru: They're traveling through time to kill their mother so she can't give birth to them. They've been tortured!

Usagi: We're not doing this to help Beryl. We're doing it to help everyone else. Especially those kids.

[Mamoru shakes his head in derision.]

Rei: Enough with the kumbuya. We need to go.

Usagi: Rei. Stop being so mean! [To Mamoru] I mean it. What they are doing will destroy them. There has to be a better way-

Mamoru: What if there isn't? We don't know them, what right do you have to judge them like that? What if they need to die to keep from growing up into evil monsters like their mother? Why should we mettle when we don't even know who they are or what they've been thorough?

Usagi: Because, just like you said, evil is a choice. If they chose to be good, they can be good. It might not come as easily to them as it does for us, but nobody is beyond redemption. Not them, not Beryl, not even Metalia-

Mamoru: [even more frantic] You sound like you did back in the Silver Millennium. Right before Beryl killed you.

Usagi: Beryl's different now. They all are. I've seen them change, especially Kunzite. He is different now that he has Zoi. I don't think he enjoys being evil anymore-

Mamoru: Zoi threw a spear through me and laughed while I was dying. I don't think it was Kunzite who changed!

Minako: Look. I hate to break up such a tender moment, but Artie said time's up. We need to get moving. [closes the compact] Everyone link hands. We'll try this without Mamoru.

Mamoru: No... I'll help...just not willingly.

[Mamoru and the girls all join hands]

Minako: Rei, you will need to guide us.

Rei: Artemis said the twins are in a magic free zone. I'll get us as close as I can, but then we will have to run.

Mamoru: [Pulls his hands away in a panic attack] I can't do this.

Minako: You have to.

Mamoru: I know...Just...Grab my hands!

[Usagi and Minako seize Mamoru's wrists]

Rei: Ready?

[They close their eyes and concentrate, only to be interrupted by a knock on the door.]

Nurse: Time for some meds.

Mamoru: Oh. Thank god.

[The nurse wheels a metal cart in and prepares a syringe]

Minako: Sorry, but now is not a good time. Could you maybe come back in an hour?

Nurse: [not even pausing] If you can get his surgeon to sign off on it.

Mamoru: No. Let her medicate me. This will go lot smoother if I'm sedated.

[The nurse pokes the needle into Mamoru's IV line]

Nurse: This is going to feel all warm and tingly.

[Almost at once Mamoru's face goes chalk white and he stares straight ahead in absolute shock.]

Nurse: Mamoru? Are you ok?

[Mamoru doesn't answer, but keeps staring straight ahead, a choking noise forming in his throat. His vitals are going haywire on the monitors]

[The nurse pulls the needle from the IV line]

Nurse: Mamoru?

[He keeps staring straight ahead]

[The others turn to see a tall and elegantly dressed young redhead in the doorway]

Beryl: Mr. Chiba. Would you mind if I ask you some questions about the attack at the hotel?

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New Moon of the Dark Kingdom Chapter Hundred and Forty Two- Lines in the Sand

Zoisite and Kunzite have found true love, but when some old friends, a vengeful god, and a pair of evil twins are gunning for the Shitennou all at once, life is not going to be easy[Scene: Dev and El are watching the youma disarm traps.

El: What do you suppose is going to happen to us when we kill Metalia?

Dev: I try not to think about things like that.

El: I do. It gives me comfort to analyze all the probable outcomes.

Dev: [tickles her] Ok, then maybe the Karmic overload will redeem us of our evil natures and we will sprout angel wings and fly straight up to Heaven.

El: [giggling] What would the two of us have to do in Heaven?

[Dev stops tickling her]

Dev: Good point. Maybe they will create a very special five star resort hell just for the two of us.

El: If we even have an afterlife, once we get erased, which I pretty much doubt...So, when we kill Metalia, do you think we will blink out of existence?...or will we fade away like that Mcfly kid did in 'Back to the Future'?

Dev: What is 'Back to the Future'?

[El gives Dev an incredulous look]

El: Oh man. [sulks] The fact that you will never get to see the glory that is 'Back to the Future' is probably the most tragic element of this entire scenario.

[Meanwhile: at the center of the Inferno]

Metalia: They are getting closer! I am concentrating on my determination never to create them! That should be enough! Why do they still exist!

Kunzite: [without looking away from the entrance] Did you ever want to conceive children of your own before this, Mother?

Metalia: Never!

Kunzite: Then nothing has changed!

Metalia: Did you just snap at me.

Kunzite: Yes, woman! I just snapped at you! Because I'm trying to concentrate on keeping you safe and you won't stop yammering!

[Scene: Seattle General]

Minako: And just who are you calling a traitor, Mamoru Chiba?

Mamoru: You. Because that's what you are. Minako Aino. The glorious leader of the C'est La Vie Gang until she sold us all out. Just like she did a thousand years ago when she gleeful sold out everyone and everything to impress a Shitennou. And here she is, doing it all. over. again.

Ami: That's not a fair thing to say, she-

Minako: [unfazed] Thank you for the moral support, Ami, but I can handle this. [To Mamoru] Mamoru. I apologize. What you say is completely fair and very true, but this isn't about helping the Shitennou. This is all about saving the world and everyone in it.

Mamoru: [scoffs] Saving the world...The world is not going to end because Rei had a bad dream!

Rei: I have a gift-

Mamoru: Yeah? Well so do I! I draw my power from the earth, don't you think I'd sense if it was in any serious jeopardy. [gestures at the window] This is just a glorified sunset. It's going to heal itself just fine without us helping it!

Makoto: I hope you're right. But if you're not...

Mamoru: Then what? Everyone dies? I've been dead. Death is not the worst thing that happened to me. Beryl is the worst thing that happened to me! [stares at Minako] You were right before. It's worth risking a planet full of people to rid the universe of an evil like Metalia and her Shitennou. Because a hundred years from now, we will all be dead again anyway. But Metalia will still be alive. Unless these Heltry Twins kill her and end her reign of evil once and for all!

Ami: Except we don't know that they won't be worse.

Mamoru: [scoffs] Oh so we are going to kill a couple of kids because they might be a threat somewhere down the line? Now we really aren't any better than Metalia!

Usagi: Nobody is going to kill anybody! We're going to talk to them. Try to get them to listen to reason.

Mamoru: And what if they won't listen! What if they force you into a kill or be killed situation! You don't have your powers anymore! Which is probably for the best since I don't know what would be worse, watching you die, again, or seeing you murder a pair innocent kids who are just trying to make the world a better place!

Minako: They're not innocent. I've used my true sight on them and they are made up of pure evil-

Mamoru: So what! Evil isn't who you are! It what you do! And as far as I know, these two kids we are going after have never done anything wrong!

Minako: They trashed your car.

Mamoru: They...what?...that was them?

Minako: [nods] I'm afraid so, manbitch.

Mamoru: [morose] That car was all I had in the world...Why would they something like do that?

Rei: Because THEY'RE EVIL?

Mamoru: [sets his mouth into a grim line] Fine! They destroyed my car! Beryl destroyed MY LIFE! She murdered my parents right in front of me! She tortured me for two decades, until I was broken in every way it is possible to break a person! [To Usagi] You made me better. You healed me with your love and with your magic, and she killed you for it. Right in front me. The only person I allowed myself to truly love- [buries his face in his hands]

Usagi: [hugs him] I understand. And at any other time I would love you all better, but right now, we have a planet to save.

Mamoru: [pushes her away] You don't understand anything! [Gestures to all the girls] You knew the Shitennou what? Two years? Most of which was icecream and rainbows, until they stopped pretending to be your friends long enough to murder your planet? Beryl was never my friend! The Shitennou tortured me when I was a child. I wasn't strong enough to fight back...but these two twins...I can't imagine they were treated any better than I was, but they somehow pulled each other through...and now we have to fight them? In order to protect Metalia? [buries his head in his hands] Do have any idea how messed up that is!...I won't help you... You can't ask this of me...

Makoto: We're not asking anything of you. You just got out of major surgery. You couldn't even help us if you wanted to.

Rei: Yeah. About that...Artemis said we won't be able to stop the Heltry Twins in time unless we teleport, and Selenity gave Endymion all her powers.

Makoto: Damn.

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New Moon of the Dark Kingdom Chapter Hundred and Forty One - Tortoises and Hares

Zoisite and Kunzite have found true love, but when some old friends, a vengeful god, and a pair of evil twins are gunning for the Shitennou all at once, life is not going to be easy

[Scene: The inner circle of Metalia's Inferno. Metalia looks up from the Go board.]

Metalia: I feel a strange sensation.

Kunzite: Oh? How so, Mother?

Metalia: I'm trying to focus on the game. But all I can think about are those two little brats in the chamber on beyond that archway. They are so close. I want them to show themselves so that I can kill them and be done with it, but they are moving so slowly. And the closer they get, the more time seems to slow, though I know that is merely an illusion, born of my mind. Have you anything experienced anything like that, boy?

Kunzite: Yes, Mother. It's called "fear." You've been invincible for so long you've never had to experience it, but now you are facing a credible threat for the first time in many thousands of years.

Metalia: I don't like it.

Kunzite: I don't like it either.

Metalia: You don't like fear?

Kunzite: I do like fear. Fear breeds wisdom. I don't like it that YOU are afraid.

[Kunzite abandons the game and stares at the archway.]

[A quarter mile away. Metalia's inferno. Thetis approaches Heltry twins]

Thetis: I would estimate that the traps are now 25% contains, based on the Shitennou's schematics.

[Drapes his arm around El and pulls her close]

Dev: Glad to hear it, excellent work.

Thetis: I am a bit concerned that you are satisfied with the pace this is progressing.

Dev: The humans have a saying, 'Slow and steady wins the race.'

Thetis: Yes, but every second of delay is a second you put yourselves at unnecessary risk.

El: [shrugs] Who is there to stop us?

Thetis: Nobody, Praise Metalia, but as the Dark Kingdom's most loyal servant, I'd feel remiss if I didn't propose a way to do this faster.

Dev: Of course, Darling Thetis, My sister and I are always open to suggestions.

Thetis: I'm certain this would go a lot faster if you didn't concern yourself with potential casualties.

[El's jaw drops]

El: What are you saying!

Dev: [smile benevolently] Yes. What exactly do you propose, my dear Thetis?

Thetis: I think we should march the most expendable youma, linked hand in hand, through in a broad line, to arm the traps, and repeat the process until all the traps are gone, or until we have taken enough casualties to where this plan is no longer feasible. But in any case, it will buy us some precious time.

El: [bristling] What the HELL, you blackhearted SEAHAG! Those are YOUR OWN PEOPLE!

Thetis: [nods] We're youma. We are designed to be disposable.

El: Would you listen to yourself? I ought to punch you right in the face! No wonder Jadeite thinks its okay to just walk all over you!

Thetis: [bows] I live only to serve my betters in the Dark Kingdom.

El: YOUR BETTERS? REALLY?

Dev: [chuckles] Allow me. [disengages from his sister and pulls Thetis aside with his arm around her shoulder] You'll have to excuse my sister. She's always had a soft spot in her heart for your kind.

Thetis: Why?

Dev: Don't really know, exactly. I think it had something to do with way we were raised, or because she's been the scapegoat often enough to want to stick up for the little guy. But an any case, I find it endearing. Especially given all the times your kind tried to hunt us down and kill us when we were toddlers-

Thetis: Why would the youma try to kill you as toddlers? [narrows her eyes] You are Queen Metalia's children, aren't you?

Dev: [chuckles nervously] Uh...That was a joke...merely a figure of speech...I didn't mean that...the way it sound...at all...

El: Ok! Enough schmoozing...[Barges in] Look, lady! We're from the future! We won't be born for another decade or so! So we can't send your people on a death march, because any youma who was supposed to be alive thirty years from now, but dies today, creates something called a 'temporal anomaly', and we're trying to avoid those at all costs. Ya dig?

Thetis: [Nods and smiles] Yes. I understand perfectly now. Why didn't you say so to begin with?

[Meanwhile, in Seattle General]

[Makoto looks out the window and the gathering green gloom]

Makoto: I don't like this. Whatever it is, it seems centered right over us. Like a dark cloud of doom.

Rei: Artemis thinks it's a temporal rift opening up.

Ami: Why here?

Rei: It's not just here. They will open up wherever destiny is being altered.

Makoto: Destiny?

Rei: Artemis said to think of time like an ocean, and people like ships. By traveling back in time, the Heltry Twins, who he said are Metalia's children from the future, stirred up a huge storm that blew all of the surrounding ships off course. Now the storm is about to end, so the ships are all sailing back to their original paths. That's why we don't remember the Heltry Twins. But not all the ships can get back to where they were supposed to go, which is wrecking havoc with the fabric of the reality.

Usagi: In other words, they're changing history, and the universe doesn't like it.

Rei: Yes. Exactly!

Ami: And if they do something really major, like kill a goddess before she can give birth to them?

Rei: We'd better not find out.

Usagi: Then lets go stop them!

Makoto: You have a plan?

Usagi: Yes! Of course! My plan is to rush in and save the universe by any means possible!

Makoto: Sounds good to me. I'm in.

Minako: Me, too.

Usagi: Yay! C'Est la Vie Girls, forever!

[Puts her hand out and Makoto puts her hand over it, then Minako, then Rei, then Ami]

[Minako gives Mamoru a sidelong look and shimmies the group closer to Mamoru's hospital bed so that Mamoru can join in.]

[Mamoru crosses his arms and raises his nose]

Mamoru: I want nothing to do with this. And neither should you, traitor.