That brings up another topic; the possibility of Emerald winning.  If 
he does that, then he loses.

Why?  Standard Time Paradox.(Patent pending)

He wins, Serenity vanishes, the world is still trapped in ice.  
Emerald can't go back because he's still fighting the demon who froze 
the world, so he doesn't and Serenity pops back into existance 
because he never went back.  Then he does go back... then he doesn't..
. so on and so forth.

You make one common logical error.  If there is no Serenity, who is to 
say that no other heroes will arise to fight, and possibly defeat, the 
demon.  Also, I believe that he has decided that it was _Serenity_ who 
summoned the Ice to defeat the fire-spawned demon.

So, the events that would occur w/o Serenity would be:
  1) Demon invades.  Initial casualties would be higher, because of the 
lack of Serenity's leadership, unless Emerald sticks around long enough 
in this time to ensure adequate defenses will arise.
  2) Demon is defeated by some method other than the Ice, again, 
possibly instigated by Emerald.
  3) Emerald retires as a Happy Camper.  -_*

   Of course, that raises an interesting alternative for Emerald, one 
which his failure to consider is probably his biggest flaw.  He has been 
running on the assumption that the Senshi and Serenity of his time are 
the same people.  This is absurd.  As any student of chaos theory will 
tell you, any alteration of initial circumstances in a complex scenario 
will yield vast differences down the line.

   Therefore, the best way to prevent the future he fears might be to 
describe it, in detail, to the Senshi of Now.  After all, the idea of 
brainwashing an entire planet, which might seem the only possible way of 
saving it to Serenity would be anathema to Usagi/Sailor Moon.

   Then he could actually try to work with them to devise a better way 
to head off the demon, possibly even _before_ it strikes.  Voila!  One 
happy ending for all.  Of course, then Future2 Serenity would send back 
Emerald at the appropriate opportunity to make sure he performed the 
same task and ensure the integrity of the timeline.

Now, as we all know (thanks to Star Trek, Back to the Future, The 
Time Tunnel and others), when a paradox like this happens, it's 
resolved one of two ways...

1) The cause of the paradox (in this case, Emerald) is wipped from 
existance.
OR
2) The world acts as an extra in Dragon Ball: Z and blows up.

  Nope.  The third possiblity is that world accomodates the flaw by 
altering events to fit.

--Freemage

But then again... with the way this story is going... I wouldn't be 
too surprised if number two was your choice. ^_^

The Flashman
(Proud member of The Church Of Tsukino Usagi)
Loyal G-Fan
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