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&&&[Begin Chapter 5.]

	Serena peeked into the room nervously, looking around to see
what was in the room. The only one in was a person who was in a 
chair, turned away from the door. Serena came in slowly and sat 
down.

	"I'd like to have an argument." Serena said. The person in 
the chair turned around.

	"Don't give me that, you empty-minded spaghetti-brained
meatball-head!" Raye said. Serena was shocked.

	"Wait, I came to-" Serena began.

	"So here comes Serena, Ms. Leader of the Sailor Scouts that
can't-" Raye said before being cut off.

	"LOOK! I just want to have an argument, Raye! Why do you 
have to be so mean to me?" Serena whined. Raye calmed down.

	"Oh, I'm sorry. This is abuse." Raye said, indicating the
sign on the door. A look of realization crossed Serena's face.

	"Okay, then can you tell me where I can get an argument?"
Serena asked.

	"Down the hall, to the.. left I think. You can't miss it."
Raye said. Serena brightened and walked out.

	Serena followed the hall but forgot to ask whether it was
Raye's left or her left. She decided on the right door.

	As soon as she opened it..

	*WHACK!*

	Serena was hit on the head with a mallet. A girl in a blue
dress stepped out.

	"OW!" Serena said, rubbing her head. The girl shook
her head.

	"No, no. It's more of a 'WAAH!'" She said.

	*WHAM!*

	"AAH!" Serena said, covering her head.

	"No, that's not it. It's 'WAAH!'" She said.

	*WHAM!*

	"WAAH!" Serena said, covering her head again.

	"There! You've got it!" She said happily.

	"Look, I just want to have an argument!" Serena said.

	"Oh, sorry, it's hitting on the head lessons in here,"
The girl said, indicating a multitude of girls inside malleting
various boys. Many names were shouted out before a chorus
of "NO BAKAAAA!"s were yelled as they swung their Heavy Blunt
Objects(tm.).

	"Arguments are across the hall." The girl said and went 
back in and closed the door. Serena shrugged and went to the
other door.

	Opening it, she looked in, seeing a chair turned away
from the door. Warily, she stepped inside, closed the door,
then sat down.

	The chair turned around to reveal a man with black hair,
blue eyes, and was wearing a green tuxedo.

	"I'd like to have an argument." Serena said.

	"No you wouldn't." The man said.

	"Yes, I would." Serena said.

	"No, I don't think you would." The man said.

	"Yes, I want to have an argument!" Serena said forcefully.

	"No you wouldn't." The man replied.

	This went on for quite a while...

	"Look, I may not be the best student in the world, but I
know that an argument is more than me saying, 'Yes, I would,'
and you saying, 'No, you wouldn't.'" Serena said.

	"No it isn't." The man said.

	"Stop that!" Serena said. The man rang a bell on his desk.

	"Time's up." He said.

	"Wait.. No it isn't!" Serena said, standing.

	"Yes it is." The man said. Serena let out a sigh of
frustration.

	"Let's go ask someone else, then!" Serena said, dragging
the man out of the room.

	Picking a random door, Serena knocked. The door opened 
and..

	*WHACK!*

	The man was hit on the head with a mallet.

	"AAH!" He said, rubbing his head.

	"Needs work." The girl said.

	*WHAM!*

	"WAAH!" Serena said, covering her head.

	"Ooh! You could learn a few things from her!" The girl
told the man.

***

	"JADEITE!!!!!" Beryl screamed. Jadeite appeared.

	"Wh.. what is it, my queen?" Jadeite said. Beryl had
finally learned to pronounce his name right. This could not
be a good thing.

	"This is your last chance, Jedite. You have consistently
failed after promising victory each time!" Beryl said. Jadeite
relaxed. If she mispronounced his name the second time, then
it couldn't be all that bad. As a matter of fact, Jadeite appeared
to be on the verge of singing.

	"I know, Queen Beryl. That's why.." Jadeite began, music
turning on in the background.

	"STOP THAT! THERE WILL BE NO SINGING!" Beryl said. The music
died down.

	"Alright. For your viewing pleasure, I have set up a crystal
ball for you to see my victory. I have a direct confrontation
planned." Jadeite said confidently, "Also, should you wish to
contact me directly, I have a communicator for you."

	Jadeite handed Beryl a rectangular device and vanished.

	"Bets, anyone?" Beryl asked rhetorically.

	"Fifty on Starlight Knight!" Zoicite said.

	"Ten on Sailor Moon!" Kunzite said.

	"Seven hundred on Sailor Mercury!" Nephrite said with a 
smirk.

---

	Atomic Starlight Knight rubbed his head. He REALLY needed to
find a better way to let out his frustrations. Setting up an
elaborate scenario just to get into an argument with one of
Terra's friends was a little extreme, even for him. But if Jadeite
could do set up something strange to do a menial task, so could he!

	<Although, you have to admit, that the green tuxedo was
kinda funny.> A.S.K. thought.

	<Yeah, she didn't even recognize you!>

	<'Disguise Power, change me into something else.'?! What
kind of line is that?!>

	Sometime before that incident with that doll-with-multiple-
heads-and-vomited-fire youma and that wacky palace with all those
electronic pandas, (deep mental breath) he had been able to analyze
the energy pattern of the Luna Pen.

	<Yeah, quiet. I know I can't quite get that 'disguise
power' thing to look quite right.>

	<Maybe it has something to do with the fact that you were
half a block away when you tried to analyze it.>

	<You always end up turning into something even stranger
than you are now!>

	<Hey, don't knock it. I'm getting better at it. Really, I
am.>

	<Yeah, I suppose you're right. I mean, it's not like you
end up accidentally disguising yourself as a supermodel anymore..>

	<It was an honest mistake! I had to do a LOT of
modifications to the energy to get it to work regularly. Then
after that, I still had to do quite a bit of tinkering. The Luna
Pen, as I recall, was not designed for use by anything like me.>

	<Right. It wasn't supposed to do that!>

	<Face it! You just don't want to admit that you copied an
energy source that was made for fashion-obsessed teenage girls!>

	<How was I supposed to remember that?! It's been several
thousand years since I last saw that energy type!>

	<HA HA!> A particularly belligerent part of A.S.K.'s mind
thought.

	"Shut up, Shut up! Everyone just SHUT UP!" A.S.K. yelled,
pounding on his head as hard as he could.

###

	Ah, yes. The Luna Pen...

	"Disguse Power, change me into.. a Cup of Tea!" Princess
Terra said. The energy flickered, attemped something, then
promptly faded, leaving Terra exactly as she was before.

	A tea kettle appeared out of nowhere and dropped to the 
floor. It opened and Arby poked his head out.

	"I'll not stand for this!" Arby said defiantly, dripping
hot water.

	"Oh, sorry, Arby!" Terra said in an embarrased tone.

	"I am not a cup of tea!" Arby said. Terra thought about it.

	"You could be.." Terra said. Arby ducked back in.

	"Alright, but I won't like it." Arby said from inside the
kettle.

	"So, is that how it is supposed to work?" Terra asked
Princess Serenity.

	"No, that is not quite how you use it." Princess Serenity
said.

	"Well, then, Serena, what should I say?" Princess Terra
asked. All these nicknames. Princess Serenity absolutely refused
to call her 'Princess Terrifying,' so Terra merely took to 
calling her 'Serena.' And, well, it stuck. Serena took back the
Luna Pen.

	"Like this: Disguise Power, change me into a Beautiful
Ballroom Dancer!" Serena said as the Luna Pen did its work,
modifying her outfit to a formal ball gown. Terra inwardly
cringed, but managed to stay in character.

	"Interesting... I just can't think of anything to say when
I activate it." Terra said nicely.

	In reality, she just couldn't bring herself to say any key
words that might trigger the Luna Pen. She couldn't handle
'totally cool,' 'glamorous,' 'beatiful,' or any other adjectives
that reminded her of exactly what kind of society she was
presently in. As a princess, now approaching the later teen years,
she was expected to attend all royal social functions, such as
dances, balls, public addresses, and so on. She had expressed a
'dissatisfaction' with going to these things, at least as much as
her chosen outward personality could allow, which wasn't much.

	It was, in actuality, a monumental feat of thought and
action control. Here she was, nine BILLION years old, having
to act in certain ways, actually obey someone *else*, and
conform to the population.

	It had all been a very novel experience, especially being
talked down to, as if she were some sort of inferior. Extremely
fascinating.

	"Princess Terra, your presence is required in the throne
room at once." A messanger said, entering.

	It had gotten old very fast.

	"Very well, I will arrive soon," Terra said aloud, then
under her breath, "If I don't blow this place up first."

	"Princess?" The messenger asked. Terra stopped and
assumed an innocent expression.

	"What? Me? I don't know anything. I'm just a little
mindless girl that's going to BLAST EVERYTHING IN SIGHT!!!!"
Terra wanted desperately to say, but ended up saying,
"Nothing. I didn't say anything."

	Life has its little disappointments.

	It also has its challenges.

	One of the more challenging challenges awaited her when
she arrived in the throne room. Queen Serenity was present,
as was an unfamiliar woman dressed as a Sailor Senshi.

	"What is it, mother?" Terra asked sweetly. Serenity
turned to face her.

	"It is a matter of the utmost importance," Serenity
said, "This is Sailor Pluto, the guardian of the Gate of
Time."

	"Hello, Sailor Pluto!" Terra said brightly, "What's this
about?"

	"It concerns you." Sailor Pluto said in a manner befitting
one who has seen time from the outside.

	"What about me?" Terra said, feeling nervous at the type
of power Sailor Pluto radiated. It was something that could best
be described as.. attempting to see through her, trying to tell
who she was, what she had done in the past.. what she would do
in the future..

	"She needs to find out more about you. As long as you've
been with us, we still do not know very much about you." Queen
Serenity said. Terra involuntarily took a step back.

	"I.. told you all I remember." Terra said uneasily.

	"Still, we do not know if any of your memories have been 
altered," Sailor Pluto said, "And we must find out for sure. Also,
we have to find any possible connections to someone named
'Metallia.'" The energy Sailor Pluto radiated seemed to be
attempting to begin a search of some kind.

	Terra was inwardly screaming at herself to get out of
here. If all that was being said and done was any sign, they
would be doing a temporal scan; a sort of personal record
of all that someone had done. It was supposedly an infallable
way of determining truth, by looking at a person's entire
existence. If she stole a cookie from a cookie jar when she
was two, it could tell. 

	By the locals' standards, she had done a great deal
more than steal from a cookie jar. Terra started to analyze
the energy, in some hopes of being able to block it.

	"It is completely painless, I can assure you." Queen
Serenity said.

	Terra backed off a little more as she tried to recall
exactly how many civilizations she had destroyed.
	
	"We really need to do this. There is a great evil coming,
and we must know if there is *anything* you may have experienced
that could help us," Sailor Pluto said.

	Oh, of course there were things somewhere in Terra's past
that could be of use. *Many* things. She hadn't had anything to do
with any being known as 'Metallia,' but she had many experiences
destroying evil. Unfortunately, the methods she used destroyed the
good just as readily, and that would be.. somewhat less than
acceptable. As a matter of fact, if they saw even a glimmer of her
real past, they'd probably call in the guards, the Senshi, ANYONE
who could destroy something of her caliber.

	<They'd probably succeed, too.> She thought grimly. As
much as she murmured about blowing the place up, the past
few battles had terminally sapped her resources. She was in
absolutely no condition to go head-to-head with anything
on the scale of a Senshi right now.

	Sailor Pluto stared at her intently. Terra felt the energy
going in for a detailed search. She desperately did what she could
to block or divert the scan.

	Sailor Pluto had, for a moment, a shocked expression. She
quickly recovered.

	"So when do we begin?" Terra asked nicely. Sailor Pluto
smiled.

	"We are already finished."

	Since that point, Terra had to periodically block scans such
as those. It became a reflex after a while.

	Sailor Pluto had apparently only gotten a fragment of a
particle of her real existence. The rest she got was a fabricated
history telling how Terra had been kidnapped from her home world.
What made the story interesting were the real parts that got
through. After her kidnapping, the story said, her world was
destroyed by a monster very similar to what she had been turned
in to. Now, her only remaining friend from home was someone who
called himself Tim, whose only way of coping with the tragedy was
to vent through fighting. Scenes of this type were available by
the thousand in her life. All very heart wrenching, very tragic,
and very, very convincing. She also hoped that it didn't also
sound very, very contrived. By some miracle, it didn't.

	"Poor girl. Small wonder she blocked out her memories of
the event." Sailor Pluto said to herself as Terra was allowed to
leave the room.

###

	<Alright! Who ordered that flashback?!> Atomic Starlight
Knight asked himself.

	<I did.>

	<Oh, well, isn't that just lovely..>

	<Oh, quiet. And while you're at it, jus-> Atomic Starlight
Knight began to think to himself before being cut off by Jadeite's
head and shoulders suddenly appearing over the city.

	"Sailor Scouts, I challenge you to a final battle." Jadeite
began.

	<Well, looks like Jadeite's at it again.>

	"Meet me at the airport after dark, or this will happen,"
Jadeite said as the city burst into flames.

	<Umm.. Can he do that?>

	"This was just an illusion, but it will become reality if
you do not come." Jadeite finished as he vanished, along with
the flames.

	<Guess not.>

	<I suppose we'll have to blast him again.>

	<Yeah, and maybe we can blow something up on the way!>

	<YEAH, BABY!>

	A.S.K.'s thought pattern followed this line until he had
to tell his alternate personalities to, once again, be quiet.

	*WHAM* *WHAM* *WHAM*

	"SHUT UP!!!"

	Then, to Atomic Starlight Knight's dismay, all of his
other personalities burst out into a chorus of "Disco Inferno."

---

	"Alright, let's call this emergency meeting to order!"
Luna said, attempting to stop another violent argument beween
Raye and Serena.

	"You've been practicing. Have you been arguing with Darien
again?" Raye asked tauntingly.

	"Um, Scouts?" Luna asked hopefully.

	"No, Raye. I signed up for a course. I had my first lesson
this morning." Serena said seriously. Raye blinked.

	"An.. argument course.. Oooookay.." Raye said.

	"What were you doing in the 'abuse' section, Raye?" Serena
asked.

	"Charity work. My sponsor donates forty dollars per
session." Raye said. [Yes.. Dollars. NA continuity subdivision.]

	"AHEM!" Everyone turned toward Luna.

	"Right!" The Scouts said at once.

	"Jadeite will be expecting you tonight at the airport. If
you don't show up, he may destroy the city!" Luna said.

	"We beat him before at least a dozen times already," Serena
said, "Why should this be any different?"

	"He has obviously prepared something. If he is that
confident after all his defeats.. we may have to consider the
possibility that he was playing with us all along." Luna said.

	"For three months?!" Raye asked incredulously.

	"I said that it was a *possibility*." Luna said.

	"It is highly unlikely, given the nature of his defeats."
Amy said after having carefully calculated a few factors on her
computer.

	"But it could be, ya see." Arby said.

	"We'll find out tonight." Luna said.

---

	<Those last few attacks of his had to be some kind of joke!>
Atomic Starlight Knight thought, looking through a newspaper,
having nothing else to do for the few remaining minutes until
Jadeite showed up.

	A.S.K. finally ran into an article detailing an epidemic of
a strange disease that left its victims in a coma for a day, then
recovering without any other effects.

	This caught A.S.K.'s eye. He finally came to a realization.

	<The last few attacks HAD been jokes!> He thought, finishing
the article.

	<He must have drained thousands from the look of this!>

	<Remember how strengthened the Negaforce could become after
draining ONE being, let alone several thousand?>

	<YIKES!! He's been preparing this for weeks!>

	<And we only have THREE minutes to get there in time!>

---

	Jadeite stood over the unconscious forms of fourteen people.

	"Can't be too careful.." Jadeite said, absorbing the energy
into himself. Jadeite was again on the verge of singing.

	The music began and..

	"Jedite, there will be NO SINGING!" Queen Beryl said through
the communicator. The music died down.

	"Oh, all right." Jadeite said. He started to feel something
coming. "Assume ominescent stuck-up megalomaniac position and.."

	"I am Sailor Moon, Champion of Justice I-"

	"Yadda yadda yadda. Prepare to die." Jadeite said, summoning
a particularly nasty youma he enhanced for this battle.

	The youma jumped into the Sailor Scouts, claws slashing.
They judiciously dodged. Well, stepped aside, actually.

	Having missed them, the youma rammed facefirst into a five
foot thick concrete wall.

	"Destroy them, my servant!" Jadeite said dramatically.

	The youma pulled itself out of the wall and growled in
agreement. It once again lunged at the Sailor Senshi.
[Scouts.. Senshi.. Eh, po-tae-toe po-ta-toe..]

	"Mars Fire, IGNITE!" Sailor Mars said, burning the youma.

	"AUGH! You have destroyed me!" The youma said,
disintigrating.

	"Got your monster, Jedite! Err... Jadeite!" Sailor Mars
said.

	"Bah. Can't anyone say it right?! Overworked, underpaid,
No respect." Jadeite grumbled.

	"What?" Sailor Moon asked. Jadeite snapped his fingers.

	"Round Two." Jadeite said. The youma reformed into
something twice as evil looking. It cackled at the expressions
on their faces.

	"Moon Tiara Magic!"

	The tiara flew at the youma, smashing into a shield which
blocked it completely. The youma smiled and stalked toward them.

	There was a bright red flash and a rose imbedded itself
into the concrete.

	"Remember, Sailor Earth, you can do anything as long as
you-URK!" Tuxedo Mask said until the youma flung out black
ribbons and snagged his throat.

	"OHOHOHOHOHO!!!" The youma laughed evilly, flinging
Tuxedo Mask into the ocean..

	*SMACK!*

	HARD.

	"Tuxedo Mask!" Sailor Earth gasped out worriedly.

	"OHOHOHOHOHOHO*WHAM*!!" The youma laughed until Sailor
Earth gave it a sharp uppercut, sending it back into the wall.

	The youma recovered after three seconds, attacking again.

	"Mercury Bubbles, BLAST!" Sailor Mercury said, blanketing
the area in a thick fog.

	"OHOHOhoho.. wait.. I CAN'T SEE!" The youma said, lunging
blindly.

	"Moon Tiara Magic!"
	"Mars Fire, IGNITE!"

	This time, the attacks penetrated the shield, vaporizing
the youma completely. Again. The fog dissapated.

	"Very nice," Jadeite said calmly, "But how about this?"

	The airplanes came to life and started to move toward the
Sailor Senshi. Sailor Moon reached for her tiara.

	"If you do, they'll be taking that out of your allowance!"
Luna warned. Sailor Moon's hand dropped quickly.

...

	Atomic Starlight Knight surfaced, dragging an unconscious
Tuxedo Mask out of the ocean. A.S.K. shook his head. He was going
to make his grand entrance when Tux-boy here nearly bit the dust.

	"You blast 'em, THEN you make the speech." A.S.K. said
exhasperatedly, setting Tuxedo Mask on the ground before going to
help.

...

	One of the planes exploded in a brilliant shower of sparks.

	"What the...?" Jadeite said. The distraction gave Sailor
Mars an opening.

	"Begone, evil spirit!" Sailor Mars said, tagging a ward
directly on the center of Jadeite's back.

	The planes began following Jadeite.

	"How did you do that?" Jadeite asked, then realizing that
he had something on his back.

	"Your thoughts are evil, Jadeite, and now your evil is
working against you!" Sailor Mars said. Sailor Moon, Sailor
Earth, and Sailor Mars were now moving to get in range for
a finishing blow.

	Off to the sidelines, Luna was staring incredulously at
the burning wreckage of the plane. Starlight Knight appeared.

	"Do you know how much those cost?!" Luna asked in shock.

	"I'll send 'em a check." Starlight Knight said calmly.
Luna stared at him in disbelief.

	The Sailor Scouts were concentrating intently on Jadeite.
Jadeite, on the other hand, had just taken notice of Starlight
Knight.

	"GRRRRR!" He growled, anger finally showing since he had
something stuck on his back, and seeing the one who had done
exactly the same thing so many years ago. The ward on his back
burned off.

	<So, by the way, what was he gathering all that energy
for, anyway? I mean, it can't take THAT much energy to do what
he did.> Starlight Knight thought.

	Jadeite began to glow with a bright red aura.

	<What's he doing?>

	The aura brightened.

	<Something tells me we're about to find out.>

	The aura flared around Jadeite, leaving him with an angry,
puffed-up hair style.

	"W..what's he doing?" Sailor Moon asked nervously.

	"Kame.." Jadeite began, gathering energy.

	<Somehow, I doubt that this is a good thing.>

	"HAME.." Jadeite continued.

	<AAAAAAAHHHH! DO YOU FEEL THE POWER READINGS ON THAT?!!?>
Starlight Knight thought, deciding that he had better work on
stopping whatever it was from happening. He started tapping his
own resources.

	"GET OUT OF THERE!!" S.K. yelled to the Sailor Scouts. They
turned to look at him. "GET OUT!" He pushed Sailor Mercury behind
him.

	"PSEUDO STELLAR QUANTUM PHASE NANO-MOLECULAR
DISINTIGRATION-" Starlight Knight said quickly, but even as he
did, he knew it wasn't going to be quite enough, but he was going
to try anyway.

	"HAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!" Jadeite finished, unleashing a MASSSIVE
HUMONGOUSLY HUGE blast of energy. It swept through the ranks of
the Sailor Senshi, causing them to vanish in its wake. Sailor
Mercury froze at the sight of this from her position behind
Starlight Knight, who was suffering his own shock as he felt the
link between him and his real mind shatter.

	"-WITH A DOUBLE PIKE AND A HALF TWIST!!!" S.K. finished,
tapping EXTREMELY large amounts of energy from his reserves,
throwing his own blast, nearly as large, in hopes of cancelling
it out.

	The blasts met in the air.

	*KABLAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEE!!!!!!*

	They each cancelled the other out. The entire airport area
was gouged out, leaving a crater a mile deep. The explosion could
be seen from orbit.

...

	A few minutes later, the smoke cleared. Two energy shields
flickered with its passing.

	Jadeite's enhanced aura was gone, but he still looked ready
for anything that may still come.

	Starlight Knight stood, heavily damaged, face scratched,
armor broken in several places, and looked generally weakened.
There were many reasons for that, the primary being that since
the link was broken, he had to maintain his existence by tapping
the resources he had left. Compared to earlier today, he was down
to less than ten percent.

	Sailor Mercury stood virtually unscathed, but looked
severely traumatized by the experience. Well, wouldn't you be?

	"At (ragged breath) what time (ragged breath) did I
(ragged breath) lose control here?" Starlight Knight asked
rhetorically.

	"Impressive show, TIM!" Jadeite said maniacally, "But
now is the time for you to DIE!"

	Jadeite prepared another blast. S.K. stood firm.

	"NO!" Sailor Mercury cried out, "MERCURY ICE STORM!!!"

	An intense blizzard ripped around Jadeite, leaving him
frozen solid. The fierce wind shattered the ice.

	Jadeite vaporized.

	"Moon dusted." Sailor Mercury said weakly, then collapsed,
sobbing.

	"We.. lost.." S.K. realized to his horror. Even if they
had destroyed Jadeite, the loss of everyone else was impossible
to count as a victory.

	"It (sniff) sure seems that way." Sailor Mercury said.

	"We're not supposed to lose! Let me see that script!"
S.K. said, using what limited things he remembered from his
many encounters with Sailor Pluto. "We.. did.. and it was
apparently the only way things could have happened.."

***

	"And, Neflyte, I guess that you're the winner.." Beryl
said. Nephrite's followers cheered as he was handed seven
hundred [Units of Negaverse currency.] from each of the other
generals, who grumbled.

	"Finally!" Nephrite said. "Time to buy that Pioneer LD/DVD
combo player!"

***

	"It's horrible." Sailor Mercury said, looking at the
tremendous destruction that had been caused.

	"Yes, it is.." S.K. said sadly, then thought of
something. He snapped his fingers, "Wait.. who am I kidding?
Like I'm going to let it end like *this*! Who cares if I screw up
the time stream!"

	"What are you planning to do?" Sailor Mercury asked
hopefully.

	"I have to go find some humpbacks.." S.K. mused.

	"Humbacked... people?" Sailor Mercury asked, hopes fading.
S.K. looked at Mercury strangely.

	"Whales, Mercury. Whales. About forty tons each, I don't
remember exactly how long they are... But the point is.. Oh, just
wait here." S.K. said.

	"Where are you going? For how long?" Mercury asked, unsure
about being left alone after all this.

	"If I'm right, then I'll be back in.. negative ten minutes."
S.K. said, then vanished.

---

	Atomic Starlight Knight fiddled with the controls,
actvating and energizing the systems in his starship, still
docked on his base in Jupiter.

	[All Systems are functioning within normal parameters.]
The computer said cheerfully in a Majel-Barret-Roddenberry voice.

	<You know, my computer sounds a lot like Troi's mom.>

	<Quiet, you!>

	"Prepare to open bay doors." A.S.K. said. He winced as a
shockwave rippled through his existence. Being someone who now
only existed simply as a temporary floating entity that only
remained alive through stored energy reserves had its 
disadvantages. The chief one being that he could not last for
very long, even with the added energy bonus, either. He couldn't
even recharge, that being the function of the real body.

	He walked toward the gantry to enter the starship. He was
nearly there when he felt a familiar presence and automatically
shielded against it.

	[Intruder Alert.] The computer noted.

	"I cannot allow you to do this." Sailor Pluto said, exiting
a time gate.

	"Explain." A.S.K. said simply. He was in no mood to be 
stopped at this particular moment.

	"You said it yourself. This was the only way it could have
happened. Mercury, the only survivor of this, becomes hardened by
the loss of her friends, she fights against the Negaverse with
great strength and valor, eventually finding Sailors Venus and
Jupiter. She became an excellent tactician, eventually sneaking
in and destroying the Negaverse and the Negaforce once and for
all." Sailor Pluto said, telling exactly what A.S.K. had found
out through duplication. He had already decided against it.

	"Out of my way, human, or be destroyed." A.S.K. said 
angrily, fighting off another shockwave that racked his existence.

	"You would never do that. I know you," She said, "And by the
way you said 'human' you'd think you weren't one yourself."

	"I'm not." He said, walking around Sailor Pluto, putting his
hand to the plate on the right of the gantry hatch.

	"You cannot get in there. It is keyed to the monster that
built this place and it alone." Sailor Pluto said.

	Annoyed, he dropped his temporal shielding as the hatch 
opened. "Care to re-examine that last statement?"

	Sailor Pluto had finally gotten a good look at A.S.K.'s
real history. Let's just say that it was bad enough for Sailor
Pluto to gasp at.

	"MONSTER!" She yelled at A.S.K.

	"Yeah, yeah. Blasts and bombs may weaken my shields, but 
words will never-"

	"DEAD SCREAM!" She said, summoning her attack.

	"Of course, I could be wrong on that account." A.S.K. said,
slamming his hand down on a big red button marked, 'Emergency.'

	Several bolts of lightning-like charges intercepted the
energy before it reached him, throwing Sailor Pluto against the
wall, breaking her grip on the Time Key, which landed on the other
side of the room.

	"You know, you're right. I'd rather destroy a stained-glass
window than someone as yourself, but since I can't have you
following me, either.." A.S.K. said, preparing an energy blast of
his own.

	Sailor Pluto watched this, but was, amazingly, surprised
when A.S.K. targeted the Time Key, shattering it.

	"Have a nice day." A.S.K. said, hatch closing behind him.

---

	[Warp Speed achieved.]

	"Good, continue plotted course." A.S.K. said.

	<A slingshot around the sun, pick up enough speed, you're
in time warp, if you don't, you're fried.>

	<Too bad the computer core was wiped. I had to program most
of the factors from memory.>

	<Do that very often?>

	<First time.>

	<I.. see.>

	[Warp six achieved. Warp seven. Warp eight. Warp nine.]

	The starship flew in close proximity to the sun, throwing
it into time warp...

---

	The aura flared around Jadeite, leaving him with an angry,
puffed-up hair style.

	"W..what's he doing?" Sailor Moon asked nervously.

	"Kame.." Jadeite began, gathering energy.

	<Somehow, I doubt that this is a good thing.>

	"HAME.." Jadeite continued.

	A bucket materialized above Jadeite, upside-down.

	*SPLASH!*

	Jadeite-chan dropped out of her attack, spluttering,
tearing the bucket off her face angrily.

	Starlight Knight didn't know how it happened, but laughed
at it anyway. He remembered that prank he played so many years
back and laughed some more.

	"Aiya!" S.K. said, laughing, "You get dumped on by Spring
of Drowned *CUTE* Girl! Very tragic story of girl who drown in
spring twenty thousand years ago."

	Something else materialized.

	"Sweeto!!" *GLOMP!*

	"GRRRRRRR!" Jadeite-chan growled cutely, attempting to get
rid of the little thing, prying with her hands, then with a
crowbar, then finally blasting it into Geosynchronous Orbit.

	"You know, Jadeite, you're really *CUTE* when you're
angry!" S.K. said, almost rolling on the ground with laughter.

	"Youuuuuuuuu," Jadeite-chan said cutely, preparing another
blast, throwing it at the Sailor Scouts and S.K.

	The energy blast impacted a BIG energy shield.

	"What the.."

	A seven-hundred meter long starship uncloaked, locking a 
tractor beam onto Jadeite-chan, then moving out of the
atmosphere at speeds technobabble can only dream about.

	"Well, that was anticlimactic. Bye!" S.K. said, leaving,
hoping to see more explosions elsewhere.

	This left four Sailor Scouts, one Arbyfish, and one moon cat
staring at the scene.

	"Um, what just happened?" Sailor Moon asked.

	"I don't know.." Luna said.

---

	"Well, Hank, we finally got the Hubble Telescope working."
A man said, drinking his coffee.

	"Right, Jib, now let's see what's out there, in the vast,
unknown cosmos." Hank said, sipping his own coffee.

~Happosai flew by, knocking the telescope off axis.~

	The scene now depicted a huge starship locked in deadly
combat with someone in a general's uniform.

	"Well, who wants lunch?" Hank asked, looking around to see
everyone intently staring at the screen.

---

	The starship fired relentlessly with its phasers, 
shooting off quantum torpedoes in groups of three, bashing into
the shield Jadeite had surrounded himself with.

	Jadeite retaliated with his own blasts, eventually knocking
through the starship's shield, doing heavy damage.

...

	A severely beat up Atomic Starlight Knight pounded on his 
control panel, which wasn't responding. His energy was nearly
depleted.

	[Shields are offline.] The computer said cheerfully.

	"Oh, great." *SMASH!*

	[Weapons are offline.]

	"Perhaps today IS a good day to die! PREPARE FOR RAMMING
SPEED!!!" *BLAM!*

	[Hull breach in sections three through fifty.]

	"What does that have to do with anything?!" A.S.K. yelled.

	Jadeite burst through the floor, landing in front of A.S.K.

	"PSIONIC BLAST!" A.S.K. yelled, grabbing Jadeite's head,
sending a massive shockwave through Jadeite's mind, burning out
his translator.

	Jadeite blasted A.S.K. off of him, back into his chair.
He groaned as his last seconds passed.

	"Any last words before I complete my revenge?" Jadeite
asked. A.S.K. sat straight on his chair.

	"Yes." A.S.K. said in the youma language, fading from 
existence, then switching back to English, {Computer, Activate 
Self-Destruct Sequence.}

***

	[Queen Beryl?] Jadeite asked through the communicator.

	"Excellent work, Jedite! You finally managed to get one
of-"

	[He just vanished, and.. now the computer seems to be
speaking.]

	"Speaking? Let me hear."

	[Six..Five..Four-]

	"GET OUT! GET OUT OF THERE!!" Beryl yelled through the
communicator.

***

	[GET OUT!] Beryl yelled. Jadeite looked around for some
reason why.

	[Two.. One.]

	Boom.

---

	The Sailor Scouts, now in civilian form, looked up at the
sky, watching the pretty fireworks demonstration.

***

	"Hmm. That's it for Jadeite, it seems." Queen Beryl said.

	"YES! I win!" Zoicite said. Everyone, grumbling, handed
Zoicite her money. [HaHa! Yes. NA continuity. Zoicite's a she!]

	"Neflyte?" Beryl called. Nephrite came forward.

	"Yes, Queen Beryl?" Nephrite said confidently.

	"You're next." Nephrite gulped.

	Jadeite appeared in front of Queen Beryl, clothes smoking,
and looking on with a dazed expression.

	"Jedite? I thought that last one would have killed you!"
Beryl said in astonishment.

	"I know, but I was saved at the last minute," Jadeite said,
music beginning.

	"NO SINGING!" Beryl said, covering her ears. But it was too
late to stop..

	"o/The ship was exploding!/o" Jadeite sang.
	"o/All our hopes were imploding!/o" Jadeite's followers
choroused.

	"No singing!!" Beryl said commandingly, standing.

	A few minutes into the song, Beryl managed to get in a clear
shot, encasing Jadeite in crystal. Everyone stopped. Beryl sat 
down.

	"Now let that be a lesson to everyone!" Beryl said, sending
the crystal into storage. "Neflyte, tell me, what is *your* plan?"

***

	<That was weird. The water, the temporal signature, 
everything.> Atomic Starlight Knight thought, trying to figure
out why something that looked exactly like his starship would
be flying around and blowing itself up.

	<It made a teriffic explosion, though!>

	<Yeah, it did! Anyway, the ship seemed to have been from
some errant timeline.>

	<How'd that happen?>

	<Something happened, and now it didn't, yet it did or it
would have.>

	<Huh?>
	
	<I don't know. I hate temporal mechanics. Do one thing
wrong and the whole thing blows up in your face.>

	<I don't envy the job of anyone who has to deal with THAT.>

@@@

	Some distance away, Sailor Pluto had a BAD headache.

@@@

	The three goddesses, working with fire crews, fought
desperately to save the universe.

	"Someone's been creating paradoxes!" The youngest said, 
smashing bugs left and right, dodging the flames. "The computer 
can't take it! It's gonna blow!"

	"'Niichan!!" Another called in desperation.

	Their brother appeared at a terminal, quickly punching a few 
keys.

	The computer burst into another round of bugs and flames.

	He put in a disk.

	"Come on, load, LOAD!" He commanded the drive.

	The flames subsided and the bugs winked out of existence.

	"That was close! Good thing I just finished that patch!" He
said, slumping against the chair. The goddesses couldn't help but
agree with him.

&&&[End Chapter 5.]

Apologies to Chris Angel for that last part...

Other than that, how'd I do for this chapter?

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-BEN