"Wha--where am I?" she asked, clutching her head. She looked down and gasped. "And what am I wearing? This is all--tight, and--disgusting!" She then looked up and cried, "No! Tuxedo Mask! Darien!" She immediately dove under Venus's whip and slid over to snatch Tuxedo Mask's staff. She grabbed it, and slashed the whip, almost completely.

"Oh no! It didn't work!" she panicked. "Time for some fire power!" She threw her power, "Mars, celestial, fire, surround!" The quick celestial slashed the remaining of Venus's whip, and the whip fell off of Tuxedo Mask. Still, the black thunder was still going to destroy Darien; so Mars, with tears sliding down her cheeks. She made a split second and life-risking decision.

"Darien!" cried Raye. She jumped, shoving Tuxedo Mask away. She and Tuxedo Mask slid across the bald grass top. After sliding for a time, her arms and upper body were on top of Darien, with her face buried in his dirt-wise and fairly bloody shirt. She looked up at Tuxedo Mask's face. He was shocked, but happy.

"Mars? Raye? You--you're back! You're back to normal!" rejoiced Darien.

Jupiter stepped forward.

"Are you such a traitor Mars?" she interrogated.

Mars turned around and looked at Jupiter. Suddenly, the head vamp appeared, grabbed Mars before anyone could say or do anything, and bit into her neck as before. She made a little crying noise, she arms outstretched but unable to move. Tuxedo Mask gasped. Not again! he thought. He was so scared that he wasn't able to move. Afterwards, the vamp dropped Mars to the ground as if dead and disappeared. After a moment, Mars arose, dazed but back to evil again. She stood up and glared at Darien.

"Time for some fire in this flick, don't you think, Scouts?" she asked.

"Umhmm," agreed the rest of the Sailorscouts.

Man, for a minute, I thought I had that old Sailormars and Raye back again, thought Tuxedo Mask. He stood up and stood in fighting stance with his staff out in his right hand.

Once again, the Scouts and Darien started to fight. Jupiter with both hands shot black thunder at Tuxedo Mask. He jumped out of the way. Of the place where he landed, Mercury spun her ice swirls and aimed it at him. Right when he landed, Tuxedo Mask jumped out of the way again. Mars fired her coils of fire and almost encircled Tuxedo Mask. He jumped repeatedly out of the way of the Scouts' powers. Finally he fell on his side when Venus whipped her whip and Mars coiled her fire at the same time. The Scouts then fired all of their powers at the same time, sending Tuxedo Mask to a tree where he just leaned there, rubbing his head. The Scouts shot their powers again at Tuxedo Mask. He couldn't and didn't move because of terror and physical pain like no one could imagine. Everything seemed hopeless until he they heard some other girl voices:

"Aries, fire-flames, FLASH!"

"Aquarius water-waves SPLASH!"

"Sagittarius lightning-arrow STRIKE!"

"Virgo virgin flowers SLASH!"

Arie's fire-flames fought against Mar's fire while the water-waves fought against Mercury's ice-swirls. The lightning arrow punctured through and against Jupiter's black bolts of thunder, and the virgin flowers split Venus's whip into two. Suddenly the whole Starlight team stood in front of Tuxedo Mask, in position order.

"Leave Tuxedo Mask alone!" ordered Starlight Libra. She and the other Starlights announced, "We're the Starlight Soldieresses and we told you so!"

The Sailorscouts looked up and saw the Starlights.

"Hm!" swung Mars. "Like you could ever beat us! Evil always conquers good!"

Starlight Aries stepped forward in fighting stance.

"Sailormars, you've got that vice-versa!" she declared. "It's good always conquers evil, not the other way around."

Sagittarius stepped forward.

"Look Jupiter, and the rest of you," she proclaimed, "we're only trying to help you. We don't want to hurt you, in our view."

Darien stood up, rubbing his head. Cosmic Caper helped him up.

"Are you alright?" he asked.

Tuxedo Mask answered, "No, I must have some serious injuries. I have a head injury with a bloody gash on my forehead, I'm bruised just about everywhere and bleeding in some places, and I think I might have some burns and fractures, maybe even broken bones."

Night Phantom gave Tuxedo Mask a hand.

"We're sorry we couldn't get to you earlier," he apologized. "We should've just ran that errand tomorrow."

"It's okay," reassured Tuxedo Mask. "The physical pain doesn't matter to me. I just worry about my internal pain the most."

Venus then stepped forward.

"You want a fight? You're going to get a fight!" she assured. She took out another pair of whips and slapped them on the floor.

" 'Cause this is the last fight you're going to ever get!" promised Mars.

"And while you're at it, give us the Silver Crystal!" ordered Sailormoon.

"And hand over Renee!" cried Mercury.

Dar' examined the Scouts for the first t time. He couldn't believe his eyes.

"Since when did Serena, Amy, Raye, Lita and Mina wore these kind of clothes?" he asked.

"Since they became evil," answered Tuxedo Mask. "They usually already do, especially Mina, Lita, and Raye, wear those types of clothes. Mina, really. Lita always wears tight skirts and Raye wears her temple robe. Oh--the clothes isn't important! Getting them back to normal is. Let's get back to this."

Dar' helped Tuxedo Mask up, leaving Darien staggering and collapsing on the way.

"Are you sure that you can survive this? If you want, we can take over and you can go to the hospital to get some medical treatment," suggested Phantom.

"No, I have to continue," replied Darien. "Besides--, I promised the Sailorscouts that I'll get them back to normal. I can't break that promise."

"Are you sure?" asked Caper.

Darien gently pushed him aside and answered, "Yes, I'm sure. Please Dar', you're making this worse. I have to continue."

Dar' didn't try to stop Tuxedo Mask this time, and so they resumed their battle. As they looked up, they saw that the Scouts and the Starlights were standing in position, ready for battle.

Suddenly, Mercury swirled her ice swirls and water-freezing waves at everyone everywhere. Everyone jumped out of the way but Aquarius. She X her arms, whirled around while background water rushed to her arms, and she flung her arms out, splashing the water-waves everywhere against Mercury's, "Aquarius water waves, SPLASH!" Mercury held her arms out for her ice swirls to keep shooting, and Aquarius kept holding her arms up to keep her water waves shooting out.

Jupiter looked at the rest of the Starlights and sneered,

"Well, why don't I take the pleasure of taking care of you next?" She prepared some black thunder and bolts, and black lightning in each hand and fired at all her enemies. Just about everyone jumped out of the way. Sagittarius and Libra leaped back in. Sagittarius bent and raised both of her arms, the right slightly higher than the left and looked above, commanding, "Sagittarius lightning bolts CRASH!" She brought her arms down and blasted the lightning, while Libra just raised her arms and commanded hers, "Libra Lovely Fireworks, BLAST!", shooting out her fireworks. Sagittarius's lightning and Libra's lovely fireworks fought against Lita's powers. (turning into a pattern, huh?)

Next, Mars started to short her ice fire and regular orange hot fire out. Aries and Scorpio took advantage of this time as a time to strike Mars. They both stood next to each other. Aries used her power first. She swirled around with her fingers circling fire around her. After that, she (with both arms) shot coils of fire encircling each other against Mar's fire, "Aries fire-flames FLASH!" Scorpio each showed her index fingers on opposite sides of her body separately and then brought them together, forming a star of fire, ordering, "Scorpio fire-star FLASH!" Both of the two Starlights' powers fought against Mar's fires.

Meanwhile, Venus was attacking the other Starlights. She used some ancient Asian powers, such as slashing some fabrics at the Starlights and using her whip(s). Starlight Virgo and Cancer partnered up against Venus. Virgo prepared her power and commanded, "Virgo greenery flower veins SMASH!" Cancer prepared hers by raising her right arm straight above her with her left arm curved at a 90 degree angle onto her right elbow, then brought her right arm quickly down, discharging her left and commanded, "Cancer shooting star SOAR!" All of the powers backfired each other, surprisingly.

At finally, it was Sailormoon against all of the guys: Tuxedo Mask, Cosmic Caper, and Night Phantom. Before Sailormoon got a chance to fight, Tuxedo Mask stepped forward with his arms reassuringly high.

"Now, Sailormoon, let's not fight," began Tuxedo Mask. "Let's just end this, right here and right now. Starlight Libra can help you and the rest of the Scouts get back to normal again. We could--"

"Hah! No way!" cried Sailormoon. "I like this life better than my old one!"

Darien was prepared for that statement, "Which old life? Your old life or your present new life?"

Sailormoon ignored him. "Don't ask!" She swirled around, slashing her hair as she went. She jumped and swirled, forcing Tuxedo Mask and the rest of the guys leaping for their lives. While Tuxedo Mask was leaping, he threw 3 roses at Sailormoon, all in different directions. Sailormoon just blasted the roses back at him, ending up at a tree. Dar' leaped and tried to grab Sailormoon by the neck & missed.

Virgo took advantage as this was the time to attack Sailormoon. She leaped high into the air and tried to use her power to tie her up to allow a chance for Libra to heal the Scouts. She swirled with her arms protectively around her breasts and then let her right hand fingers create a V, commanding, "Virgo greenery flower veins strap!" The veins aimed but missed. She floated to the ground, concerned, "Oh no! How am I now suppose to help the Scouts to be healed? There's got to be a way!"

Meanwhile the other Starlights were getting exhausted of fighting. They were starting to sweat and clench their teeth. The Scouts however, weren't tired at all.

"Sailormars! You've got to snap out of this! We've got to stop fighting. We're your friends!" cried Aries, panting.

"Yeah! Don't you remember that we use to fight the Negaverse together! You've helped us, and we've helped you!" choked Scorpio.

Mars didn't listen. She started to advance with her powers against the Starlights while the Starlights seemed like they were losing.

Tuxedo Mask, Caper, and Night tried to stand in a triangle to surround Sailormoon. She was surrounded, but she disappeared for a while.

"Huh?" asked Tuxedo Mask. "Where did she go? Sailormoon!"

Sailormoon appeared behind him unnoticed and struck him with a powerful blow on his back. Darien yelled and staggered forward in pain, but tried to fight it. Sailormoon swung a kick onto Tuxedo Mask's face, falling onto his back, paralyzed with pain. Caper and Night saw what was happening and tried to help, but couldn't even get close. Sailormoon and Tuxedo Mask were inside an invisible force field. Then, she got on top of him, just about to finish him off. Darien tried to swing some of his weapons, but he was struck motionless off his arms and legs. All he could do was look, cry, and speak.

"Sailormoon! Stop! I'm your friend, Darien! You don't want to this. Can't you remember? Any of you Scouts?" begged Darien. Sailormoon didn't pay attention. She placed her hands (full of lightning) and started to shock Darien, laughing. He yelled in pain but this time, he couldn't fight it. He grew weaker. He remembered when he almost got killed by Zoicite and he remembered all the happy times he spent with Serena and the girls. He even remembered him and Serena kissing, going out on date's Raye and Serena, studying with Amy, winking at Mina and combated with Lita. He started to lose his grasp of life, his eyes full of streaming tears as his started to close. It was getting harder to breathe and see. He could no longer think. He started to gasp for breaths and frantically tried to move. How could she do this to me! thought Darien, for the last time. He was struggling to cry out SM's name. He just looked at his true love as she continued to hurt him (more likely killing him) with the only hope that SM would eventually remember everything and be okay.

Now all of the Starlights noticed Darien's battle, and so they gave one mighty double blast for each of their opponent Scouts, blasting both sides away from each other. The Starlights then joined hands and commanded each of their powers:

"Libra sapphire power!"

"Scorpio power!'

"Sagittarius power!"

"Aquarius power!'

"Aries power!'

"Cancer power!'

"Virgo power!"

Then they all commanded, "Starlight Sailor Constellation Power!" Each of the colored powers joined together and broke through the shield, breaking Sailormoon and Tuxedo Mask free from each other (about 1.5 yds away). Darien just lay there, groaning and gasping for breath, struggling to get up. The Starlights and guys helped him but he refused. All the Scouts were at about the same area. Aries cried, "Libra, here's your chance!"

"Right!" obeyed Libra. She flipped out her Star Wand and swirled it around her, ordering, "Libran healing sparks, heal!" She stood rigid with the wand shooting out sparks that healed the Scouts, completely enough that they collapsed and their dark crescent moons on their foreheads disappeared. Tuxedo Mask saw it and was happy, but then shut back his eyes, almost lifeless.

Slowly, the Scouts came to with the Starlights kneeled before them. The Scouts sat up, each of them complaining that they've a headache.

Sailormoon was the first to ask, "What happened? I feel all light-headed. Uh.." then looked down, as well as the other Scouts.

"Eeck! What am I wearing! Black, leathery, revealing clothes!" SM cried.

Mars looked down and cried, "Ugh! What is this!"

Jupiter could hardly move in her outfit as she declared, "This is gross! I can hardly move!"

Venus cried, "I must have some fever when I chose to wear this!'

And last, Mercury cried,"Eeew! Does anyone have a coat I can cover myself in! This is disgusting!"

Sailormoon then asked, "What happened to us, Libra?"

"As far as we knew, you & the other Scouts were under Rube's spell, trying to destroy Tokyo, us, and Tuxedo Mask," explained Libra, smiling.

"Oh no, what have I done!" cried SM. She glanced all over. "Wh--where's Tuxedo Mask?"

The Starlights moved away to her. SM automatically rushed over to Tuxedo Mask's side and held him up. He then awoke, looking up at SM.

"Sai--Sailormoon?" asked Tuxedo Mask. SM was full of tears.

"Darien?" she wept. She helped him sit up and hugged him. "I'm so sorry that I've hurt you so much! I'm so sorry!"

Darien unhesitantly hugged SM back and answered, "It's alright Sailormoon." She groaned and then looked into her eyes. SM examined Tuxedo Mask all over and almost fainted.

"Oh--oh my gosh! What have I done! How could I have done this!" she cried. She started to weep.

Tuxedo Mask smiled with tears and relief, "I'm alright. Really I am, emotionally. Right now, knowing that you're okay and back to normal is all that matters."

Sailormoon smiled back and helped Darien back up.

"We need to bring you to the hospital," chimed in Mercury. "You're seriously hurt."

"Yeah, we can worry about ourselves later, but you really need some help," replied Jupiter, grinning.

"I agree," agreed Venus. "We don't want you to be hurt seriously, too."

Mars waltzed over and placed her right hand on Darien's limp shoulder of pain while she replied to Darien and the Starlights, "Tuxedo Mask and Starlights, I really want to thank you all for bringing us back from Rube's evil domain. And Darien, I knew that you would keep our promise. Thank you for keeping it." She smiled a beautiful and encouraging smile. Darien, whose face was battered up and hurt, broke out a great, suave smile.

"You're welcome, Raye," remarked Tuxedo Mask. He then looked at the Starlights. "But most of your thanks should go to the Starlights. They were the ones who really helped me."

Suddenly, there was a big explosion of pink lightning and gusts of misty wind. Everyone shielded themselves from the blast and then looked all around.

Sailormoon (who was still weak from her recovery) stepped forward, ordering, "Who's there! Show yourself!" Then she added, "Is that you, Rube?"

And surely enough, it was Rube. He appeared before the Sailorscouts and the Starlights, and looked real piqued.

"So Tuxedo Mask, Starlights; you've all managed to get back the Sailorscouts," cackled Rube. He then glared specifically at the Sailorscouts and challenged, preparing his arms to blast something at someone, "But what will you do to keep them!" He fired a deadly blast at the Scouts, paralyzing to the ground, unconscious. All of the Starlights (except Tuxedo Mask) shielded themselves from the deadly blast.

Tuxedo Mask was the one whose heart was just about shattered. He saw things as if they were in slow motion as all of the Scouts fell to the ground again, especially Sailormoon. Out of all his pain, he still bolted to catch SM before falling. She landed in his arms, unconscious. Inside he was yelling in rage, "No, NO! Not again! Why must this happen to them again!" Each Starlight went over to one of the Sailorscouts' sides, trying to wake them to see if they were okay.

Rube just floated there, all triumphant. Darien was too shocked and sad to cry, even though there was a big chunk rising in his throat. He frantically tried to wake SM.

"Sailormoon?" called Tuxedo Mask. He started off by calling SM's name softly, and then gradually louder. Finally he yelled, "SAILORMOON!"

All of the Starlights were trying to wake the other Scouts, too. They were checking pulses and other vital signs.

Tuxedo Mask was trying to speak to SM mentally, saying, "Sailormoon; Serena, you can't leave me. What will I do if you do? Serena, oh, can't you hear me? It's me, Tuxedo Mask! Darien! I've always wanted to tell you this, but I couldn't. What I want to say before you leave me and the world for good is--is--I -- I love you."

By now, all of the Starlights were looking at Darien SM, all shook up. Some of them, especially Libra, Virgo & Aquarius, had tears streaming down their faces. Dar' wrapped his arms around Dya, and Li wrapped his around Virgo's. They examined Tuxedo Mask, who he carefully lifted up SM, bent down and kissed her. Then he carefully put her down on the grass.

Rube just laughed, "Not even the powers of love can bring back your girlfriends, Tuxedo Mask! You might as well give up!" He placed his hands together and blew a strong force at the Starlights and Tuxedo Mask, blowing them away violently. They all landed sliding on their backs against some trees. Rube saw his chance and started to teleport the Scouts back to his own place. Before he could do that, Tuxedo Mask grabbed his staff and challenged him to fight. Rube just closed his eyes and blew another force at Tuxedo Mask. He shielded himself with a cape and stood resisting the forces. Afterwards, he jumped about, slashing roses and his staff at Rube. Rube got slashed on his right arm by one of Darien's rose, and then angrily blew away Tuxedo Mask against the tree, just about unconscious. Some of the Starlights went over to Darien's side while some of them went off to try to challenge Rube to fight themselves.

Libra shot out her Lovely Fireworks while Aries fired her Fire-flames, and Scorpio forced her Fire-star. None of their powers worked. Rube just stood their, resisting every power. He forced his arms down again, creating shades of purple fog around the Sailorscouts, making them disappear with him. Tuxedo Mask just stared, shocked and crying in sadness, pain and rage. He struggled up. Dar' gave him a hand, but Darien started to get tired; not for just fighting, but from losing a big amount of blood. He faced everyone, about to cry.

Libra stepped forward and stammered, "Tux -- Tuxedo Mask?"

Tuxedo Mask just fell on his knees, then onto his front. He was breathing rapidly. All of the Starlights rushed to his aid.

Libra felt his pulse and replied, shakily, "He needs to go to the hospital. Darien's just about in shock!"

Darien's eyes were about to close.

Aries took his hand and asked, gently, "Darien? Tuxedo Mask? Can you hear me? Please, make a sound or do something so I know!"

Darien just gasped his true love's name, "Sa--Sailormoon..."

Virgo was relieved for now. She bent down and asked, "Darien, if you can hear me, try to change out of your hero costume."

"We're going to take you to the hospital," said Scorpio.

Amazingly, Tuxedo Mask started to get up. The others told him not to, but he shoved everyone out of the way and remarked, "I--I'm fine. I need to find the porthole into the Negaverse--to save the Scouts." He collapsed again.

"Please, Darien, just change out of your clothes and we can get you help," begged Sagittarius.

"I--I'm not--that important," replied Tuxedo Mask, "Getting--getting the Scouts back is."

Aquarius used her persuasive powers and persuaded, "Tuxedo Mask, you won't even get close to get the Scouts back if you don't get help. Please, just get some help and we'll do everything to support you."

Tuxedo Mask looked up at his Starlight friends and finally nodded. He changed into his normal clothes (so the Starlights) and stood up. Dar' and Li helped him walk to Dar's rented van, where they allowed Darien to sit up front while the Starlights were squished in the back and in the trunk's extra 3 seats. Dar' then raced to East Tokyo Hospital, to the emergency room.

When they arrived, all of the helped Darien out of his seat and limped toward the doors. He was much better now and can walk normally, but he was still losing quite a bit of blood. The doctors helped him right away, casted and bandaged Darien, gave him a number of antibiotics, and told him to stay overnight. The Starlights decided to stay there too, so Dya, Lea, Stephanie, Shannon, and Melanie first went back to their hotel to wash up and bring some things to the visitors' overnight and waiting room, for themselves and the others. Dar' and Li and the other Starlights stayed at the hospital, for the time being. By the time Dya and the girls got back to the hospital (one & a half hours later), Dar' was standing there, talking to the doctor. Dya and the girls rushed to Dar' with Dya the first asking, "How's Darien doing?"

"Has he improved?" asked Lea.

Dar' just smiled, "Come see for yourselves!" He led the girls into the room. There, they saw Darien propped up against some pillows with bandages everywhere, and one huge one on his head, just like the one when Mercury bandaged him in. Darien was tired, but he was smiling, vaguely.

"Hi, everyone," greeted Darien.

Dya and Lea brought some things out behind their backs, which were some balloons and food.

Darien just laughed, "Oh, I think I'm a bit took old for balloons, but they're so cute!"

Melanie took the food from Lea and handed it to Darien, saying, "Lea brought some food for you, just in case you didn't like the food at the hospital too much. It's just a salad, sushi and stuff."

Darien couldn't help smiling, "Thanks a lot, guys. You shouldn't have." He paused and then replied, "I think I'll take a little rest now. The shots that the doctor gave me are starting to activate." He lay back, placing the food and balloons on the near by table. Then he lay back, and fell asleep.

Dya turned to Dar' and asked, "Dar', what did the doctor say about Darien?"

"The doctor says that he might have some serious bruises and cracked bones. He also said that the electric shock already wore off and he's going to be okay for that. But, the head injury might result in a bit migraine feelings of headaches from now on because of how it was injured," explained Dar'.

Shannon looked at her feet and remarked, "Well--that's assuring news..." and didn't finish her sentence.

Stephanie volunteered, "I'll stay with Darien for a while, just to watch over him. You guys can stay overnight at the visitors' waiting room."

"Are you sure? I mean, I can stay here and you can rest," replied Melanie.

Serene stepped forward and offered, "Why don't we just take turns? That way, it will be equally fair."

Everyone looked at each other and agreed softly, "Alright."

So Stephanie was first. She took off her shoes into her slippers, and she took out a blanket from her gym bag. She then went over to one of the big chairs with a stool and curled up into her blanket. She closed her eyes and fell into a restless sleep, waking up every half hour to check on Darien and waking to every sudden sound. The others went into the visitors' room and curled up in a blanket with one of the armchairs/sofas, and fell asleep. Dya slept side by side with Dar' on the sofa. All of them were dreaming, but wake up frequently in worried matters of the Negaverse and Darien.

* * *

Meanwhile, in the headquarters, Rube had the Scouts on the ground. They were all still unconscious from there surprise attack, but they don't have any upside down black crescent moon on their foreheads. Pervertively, all of the Scouts were on the naked with only a thin white sheet over them. They weren't all lying in the orderly way. Rube decided to take a break and try to rearrange his plan.

"Maybe I should get more allies from these Scouts," he pondered, evilly. But her was also wondering, "How can I with a female earthling? This doesn't seem right. But I desperately need to boost up my plan to take over this waste dump of a city." Then he decided, "Maybe I should." And he set to do it with each of the Scouts.

* * *

Back in the hospital, it was about 3 a.m. when Stephanie fell asleep, restlessly. She decided not to take turns with the others girls, anyways. She awoke at about 9:30 a.m., and quickly got up. She stretched, and then went over to Darien, who was still sleeping. Hmm, Stephanie thought, guess those antibiotics are pretty strong if it makes a guy as strong and resistant as Darien to sleep still. She looked at his chart at the foot of the bed, which she knew it wasn't really for her eyes to see.

"Conditions look pretty good," Stephanie concluded from her medical experience. "Maybe he'll be well pretty soon." She placed the clipboard back onto the bed and went over to Darien's side. His heart/breathing pulse looks okay, but something was wrong. Darien started to shake and talk in his sleep, calling out each of the Scouts' names:

Tuxedo Mask was in what looked like Rube's illusion dimension. He wasn't wearing his hat nor mask, and he looked around. Suddenly he heard Sailormoon crying out to him, "Darien? Can you please help me? Please, Rube is about to...AHHHHHH!"

A black energy went through her. SM stumbled forward, but then her regular Scout outfit turned into her black evil outfit. She had a dark crescent moon on her head as she stood up. She glared at Darien while Rube appeared. He stood next to her and lifted SM up. The Scouts were also dressed in black and surrounded Rube. Rube bent over and started to kiss SM and each of the Scouts, with them kissing him back. Darien stepped forward and halted, "Wait! Sailormoon! Raye! Jupiter! Mercury! Venus! Don't be fooled by this jerk. He's disgusting! Please, I can help you!"

The Scouts and Rube just shook their heads and blasted Tuxedo Mask away. Rube continued to massage, and Tuxedo Mask was being hurt on the spot. He can't stand SM kissing and holding another guy besides him. He was tearing tears and compressed his hands on his head, crying, "NO!!!"

That's when he woke up.

He woke in a violent tremble in the hospital bed, gasping and sweating. Stephanie was startled, and that's when all the rest of the team came in. They rushed to Darien's side.

"Darien! Are you alright?" asked Stephanie. She was gasping too.

Darien looked around, and fell back, still gasping.

"It was only a dream," he replied, "The Sailorscouts..."

Dar' looked terrified, "What about the Scouts?"

Darien calmed down and explained, "I think Rube might have down something else to the Scouts that might freak us out. Not only brainwash, but something else."

Melanie came over can stood next to him.

"Hey, Darien, it was only a dream," she soothed. "Calm down. You need to regain consciousness of where you're at."

Darien obeyed and then let out a long huge sigh. He started to let out a small smile.

"Okay," replied Darien. "When I get out of this hospital, my first mission is to get the Scouts back."

Melisa shook her head, "No, you're first mission is to take a rest. We'll go and get the Scouts."

Darien sat up and explained, "But I promised the Scouts I'd get them back. I'm okay.." He started to get out of bed, but his friends stopped him. Darien, feeling like there's no way to keep resisting, went back to bed. Just then, the doctor came in.

"Hi, Darien," greeted the Doctor Tsuni. He beamed at him as he took his chart with his gray hair.

"Hey, Dr.," greeted Darien. He tried to sound as energetic as possible.

The Dr. amazingly just looked over the chart in 30 sec and then remarked, "Well, Darien, you're a amazingly strong guy. No one has ever actually got out of the hospital this early with these type of injuries, and you're the first. Looks like you're going to be out of here today."

Darien whooped for joy inside.

"BUT," halted Dr. "you have to get to bed went you get home, immediately. You need time to recover."

The Darien slowed his rejoice. Inside his was thinking, "Aw I knew there was a catch. But I just have to get the Scouts back before Rube does anything more serious to them!" Darien looked at the Dr.

"Dr. Tsuni," struggled Darien, "How are my injuries? Are they that serious?"

The Dr. looked at Darien's chart and answered, "Well, Darien, like I told your friends, you might a series of cracked or fractured bones, but you don't want to risk getting out of rest early. You definitely have bruises in many places, such as your arms and legs. I just looked over your tests, and it seems to me that you have some pulled & strained muscles. But the most that I'm worried about is your head injury. Tell me, Mr. Chiba, is this your first time with an injury like that?"

Darien looked down and then answered, "Well, no. When I was little, I got into a horrible car crash, and that gave me amnesia. Years later, I think it was last year, I got into some sort of accident with my head, but I wasn't sure how it happened. That's basically my story."

Dr. Tsuni said, "Hmm, that might be true. Your head has experienced some hard attacks, and this hit will probably make you have some random migraines and headaches, but everything is going smoothly. I can tell that you also have a big cut on your right arm by something. Can you explain to me what is was?"

Darien's mind played back the scene where Lita caught his rose and slashed it back at him. He remembered how painful it was, but he couldn't feel it now because of the antibiotics. This replay caused Darien to bring on some tears,but he fought it and lied, "I think it was cut by a sharp tree branch when I fell."

The Dr. nodded, "Well, okay Darien. Looks like you're going to make quite a few appointments to check to see if you're okay. In the meantime, you can get dressed to leave this place. But, you must get some rest immediately when you get home. I've never let a patient out this early after shock and this type of injury before, but if anything happens, come back immediately, understand?"

Darien nodded with a grin, "Sure. Thanks, doctor."

"Alright, later Darien," he saluted as he left the room.

Darien then lay back, excited. Dya came over with Dar' with excited looks on their faces.

"Oh, Darien you get out of this hospital!" cried Dya.

"Yeah, man," remarked Dar', "I guess you don't have to worry about needles anymore!"

Darien laughed as he sat up.

"Lea, do you know where's my clothes?" he asked.

Lea looked around and found them in the room's dresser. She took them out, which were all mended nice and clean, and handed them to him.

"Thanks, Lea," thanked Darien.

Li stepped forward, "Darien, you need help slipping on your shirt? Dar' and I could help you."

Darien seemed embarrassed, but it seemed that he just noticed he only had bandages wrapped around him without any shirt with the exception of a blanket. He nodded, "Alright." The girls turned to leave as the guys helped Darien move around to get dressed.

After a while, the girls were allowed back in. Darien was just about out of bed in his regular clothes. The only bandages visible was the one wrapped around his head and the ones for the cuts on his arm. He then had a bit of a compromise with some of the nurses at the main desk, and then he was on his way to leave. He was satisfied.

When he and the others were outside, he started to walk faster and declared, "Now I can go to get the Sailorscouts back."

Dya halted him and replied, "No, Darien, you can't. Like the doctor said, you just have to get back to your place to get some rest, or else you can wind up with some more serious injuries in the future."

"But, I just have to," pleaded Darien. "You don't understand, I have to."

Everyone stopped walking for a moment. Melisa, also with awesome ways of persuasion, persuaded, "Please, Darien, you just have to get some rest. If you don't get rest before you go out, you might not even get close to succeeding of getting the Scouts back, like I said before. If you get some rest, for sure you will succeed. Do this for not only yourself, but the Scouts." Then she tried something super-casual, "What would the Scouts suggest for you to do if they were here right now?"

Darien thought about that, and finally gave in. "Alright, I'll go back to my place and take a rest for a while. But only for while! Not for a long time."

The Starlights and Darien drove back to Darien's apartment and they got off. Li and Dar' helped Darien into bed, and he mainly rested for the afternoon. Some of the Starlights went back to the hotel to get some things to help him feel better. They then had lunch, which Lea and Shannon prepared from their cooking talents. They had a great talk of fun, and for the first time in a long time, Darien didn't really think/feel the physical and emotional pain about his injuries or the Sailorscouts at the moment. He did break his record of not thinking about them for about half an hour.

Randomly, each of the Starlights each took off and came back later to buy some things. Some of them each takes turns to look after Darien, who fell asleep for about four hours straight. Dya was more relieved that Darien was on his way to recovery. But in his dreams, Darien had dreams about the Sailorscouts. Instead of dreaming about the bad events, he mostly dreamt about the happy times, although there were some replays of battles he recently had with them. By the time Darien woke up, it was about five o'clock in the evening. He sat up and looked around the room. Melanie was sitting there watching him with some medical equipment. When he sat up, he gently rubbed his injured head. He glanced over at Melanie and asked, "Hey, Melanie. What time is it?"

Just as the others came in, Melanie answered, "It's five on the dot, Darien. How are you feeling? Any better?"

Darien smiled and looked at the others as he answered, "I'm feeling a lot better, thanks. He still saw a lot of beautiful light coming in from his window.

Lea asked, "You need anything?" She smiled but with also some concern in her behavior.

Darien responded, "Well, no." He flung his sheets aside and stood up, stumbling around for a moment.

"I guess I'm just dizzy," he answered. He walked carefully to the bathroom. After a few moments, he washed his faced and walked out. He went into his living room, where the Starlights followed him to.

"Darien, what now?" asked Melisa, cautiously.

Darien looked at the moonlight and answered, "Hmmm. I guess I have to set to work." He turned around and strolled back to his room.

"What do you mean?" asked Li.

Darien crowned his eyebrows and answered vigorously, "I need to go to face off Rube. It's time that he should pay for what he did to the Scouts." He opened a drawer and pulled out the package the Scouts last left him. He opened up Mercury's computer and took out their letter.

Dya peered over Darien's shoulder and asked, "What's-- that?"

He answered, "The Sailorscouts left me this little package, and I have a positive guess that they gave me this to help get them back. I guess I need to figure out how to use this."

Lea replied, "But Darien, you've just got out of bed and you're still weak from your injuries. Why don't you just let us handle this. You need to recover."

Darien responded patiently, "I can't break their promise." He turned to them and said, "Besides, I already got medical treatment to help me, and it helped a great deal. The pains I feel right now are my head and arm wounds. Everything else is just fine. I don't even feel dizzy anymore."

Dar' and the rest decided not to protest anymore. He walked toward him and said, "Darien, if we go in there we have to work together to get them back. We can battle Rube while you and Libra help the Scouts to their normal turf, deal?"

Darien nodded in an instant. "Deal," he agreed. He and the rest of the Starlights nodded. Darien opened the computer once again, and turned it on. Stephanie walked over.

"I can help you, Darien," she suggested, "I saw Mercury use her computer before, and maybe I can help."

"Thanks, Steph," thanked Darien. She then took the computer and typed in a few things, then the hidden info came on. She looked up and said, "Ready to transform, everyone?"

Everyone nodded their heads and took out their transformation tools and transformed.

"Libra sapphire power!"

"Scorpio power!'

"Sagittarius power!"

"Virgo power!'

"Cancer power!'

"Aries power!"

"Aquarius power!"

All of the guys transformed too. Tuxedo Mask looked at the calculations in Mercury's computer and concluded, "I guess we have to see what happens at Raye's temple. That's where the porthole into the Negaverse is located at. I don't know if We could open this ourselves or lure Rube in to open it for us."

Aries shook her head, "Come on, let's go! We have to get there to figure it out anyways."

"Right!" agreed everyone. Everyone charged forward, with Libra in front.

They all arrived at Raye's temple in about 15 minutes of running. The Starlights and the guys were all exhausted. Tuxedo Mask then took out the computer and programmed it on. He then saw that there were several of Raye's charms in the computer and he instantly took them out. He looked puzzled as he asked, "What are we suppose to do with these?"

Aries strolled over and gently took them from him. She examined them and looked up. She and the rest saw a flash of some kind of force field at the grove of birch trees.

"What's that ?" inquired Cancer. She started to jog towards it. Sagittarius stopped her.

"Wait, let me go see," she replied. She cautiously walked toward the force field. Right when she's at the border of the force field, She stretched her legs out and brought both of her arms crossing each other to block the force field. She then walked slowly at the force field (with the team waking behind her) until it hit her. She screamed in an instant but still stood there, blocking the force field, clenching her teeth. Starlight Libra asked, "Are you alright?" She looked majorly concerned along with the others.

Finally, Sagittarius couldn't take it anymore. She backed out, panting. Everyone came to her aid, but she was fine.

"I examined the force," remarked Sagittarius, "and it seems that it's a pretty strong force. Even though I can block it for a while, it seems that we need something stronger than lightning."

"Does it have to be related to lightning or something opposite of lightning?" asked Aquarius.

"I'm not sure," Sagittarius answered. "Guess we'll give both ideas a shot."

"I'll go first," volunteered Aquarius. She swirled around along with her arms and then created an X with them, commanding, "Aquarius water waves, SPLASH!" The water shot right at the force field with no effect. The water shot back out at Aquarius and she caught it back.

"Oh great," she grumbled, "that didn't work."

Aries stepped forward and concentrated her powers. She then replied to everyone, "Looks like we technically need the most powerful and strongest force on earth; fire." She turned to Tuxedo Mask. "I guess this is where Raye's fireball charms come in."

Tuxedo Mask was a bit relieved, and gave the charms to Aries. She took one in each hand's pair of index and middle fingers, crossed her arms, and concentrated her powers, "Zhongguo Reben huo zi li, wo jiao ni lai! Po huai zhe xie ji huai de li liang! E ling tui chu! (Chinese Japanese Aries fire power, I command you to come! Destroy this evil force! Evil spirits, be gone!)!" Aries then threw the charms at the lightning shield, and then turned to Scorpio, "Come on Scorpio, let's show this Negaforce some fire power!" Scorpio agreed, "Right!"

Aries commanded her two coils of fire, "Aries fire-flames FLASH!"

Scorpio ordered her power, "Scorpio fire-star FIRE!"

Both of the Starlights' powers darted towards the force and destroyed it along with the help of Raye's charms. Then the black porthole of the Negaverse appeared, inviting them to go in.

Tuxedo Mask stepped forward. "Well, I guess this is it. When we get in, Starlight Libra and I are going to get the Scouts. You guys, if you see any Negacreeps or Rube charge against your wills, you can go fight them off. Ready? Let's go!"

"Right!" charged everyone. Tuxedo Mask lead the Starlights inside, running vigorously. Tuxedo Mask wasn't wearing his hat nor mask, so it made it easier for him to see. After about five minutes of running, there was a blinding flash of white light. Everyone paused and shielded their eyes. Afterwards, everyone observed that they were in a multi-dimensioned area, but the surroundings quickly vanished into a dark area. They all heard a voice snarl,

"Welcome Tuxedo Mask, and Starlights! So glad that you can make it here."

A spotlight flicked on, showing Rube with crossed arms in mid-air. He changed some how, into a black clothed version.

Tuxedo Mask stepped forward, "We don't want to fight Rube. All we want to do is to get the Sailorscouts back, and that's it. Honestly, we don't want to fight."

Rube lowered himself from the air and retorted, "Oh, no. No, I'm keeping the Scouts, 'cause they can help me make more minions to destroy this world."

Tuxedo Mask gasped slightly and worriedly interrogated, "Wha--what do you mean? What have you done to them?"

Rube just cackled slyly.

Sagittarius commanded, "Hey Negacreep, the guy asked you a question. Answer it..."

"...or I'll turn you into a pile of crummy wet sand!" finished Aquarius. She looked ready to kill.

Rube chuckled again and directed the Starlights & Tux to Rube's right. "Go see for yourselves."

The Starlights and Tux glanced at the direction Rube was pointing at. Tuxedo Mask started to hyperventilate. A spotlight started to show on all of the Scouts. Everyone but Rube gasped in horror. Obviously, the Scouts were nude. The only thing that are covering each of them is a plain white sheet. Tuxedo Mask was shocked and demanded once again, "What have to done to them? And where's Sailormoon?"

Rube just laughed.

"Stop laughing you damn bastard! Answer the question!" swore Scorpio. Everyone gasped and looked at her for a brief 3 seconds. They all knew that the only time that Scorpio swore is when she's fatally furious. Scorpio knew that will truly piss Rube off.

Rube looked piqued as his eyes started to glow like fires in a rainforest. "Excuse me, Scorpio? Now, that really pulled the last straw. My minions are going to take care of you once and for all! Oh, I'll tell you what I did to each of them, especially Sailormoon!" He glared at Tuxedo Mask our of the corner of his eye and emphasized, "Let's just say , that I 'did' and 'had' what I needed and had to do, to create more minions to destroy your miserable planet!" Rube disappeared. In a few seconds, 8 monsters appeared all prepared to fight.

Tuxedo Mask gasped as the message started to replay in his head. He couldn't believe it. "I can't believe this! How could Rube do this to each of the Scouts! How could he rape them, just as Serena was before!" He started to rage inside.

"Starlights! Let's get to work!" cried Tuxedo Mask. He and Libra took off to get to the Scouts and looked for Sailormoon first. He couldn't find her.

"Starlight Libra, do you see Sailormoon anywhere? I can't find her!" panicked Tux.

Libra glanced all around and answered sorrowfully, "Sorry, I don't see her." She looked sad, but quickly adjusted herself. "But Tuxedo Mask, let's help the other Scouts, before Rube does something more to them!"

Tux nodded sadly. He first went to Raye. She was lying there with the sheet barely covering & wrapping her necessary parts with her arm on top. Her left arm was flared outward and she was sweating.

"Raye? Sailormars? Can you hear me?" Tux pleaded. He grabbed one of her arms and shook them. "Come on Raye, wake up!" He checked her pulse as he is to all of the Scouts. In the distance, he could hear all of the rest of the other Starlights fighting with determination.

Tux next tried Mina. She was lying on her left with her right arm what looks like holding up the sheet and holding her heart. He tried waking her and lay her correctly on her back. Since the sheet was barely covering her breasts, Darien gently pulled that part of the sheet higher up her chest. Afterwards, he tried Lita. Her hair was all messed up with her arms outstretched connecting each other above her head. He could tell that Lita's leg was slightly curved over her other. Libra already tried Amy and the others, but Tux tried her again anyways. Amy was lying there with one hand over her breasts and one of them palm-up by her side. Her left leg was mostly revealed, except for her foot. Tuxedo Mask just about given up as he stood up.

"They won't wake up!" cried Tuxedo Mask. "I tried all of them, but they won't respond to any of my tries! What has Rube done to them!" He began shedding tears, silently.

Libra stood up and replied, "Wait, Tuxedo Mask, look. Look at each of their foreheads. There's no inverted black crescent moon on any of them! Looks like Rube was lazy enough to not turn them back on his side again, which is great!"

Tuxedo Mask stopped his weeping and examined each of the Scouts.

"You're right, Libra, but why won't they respond?" he asked.

Libra stood thinking for a moment. "There are pulses on them, right?"

Tux nodded, "Yes..."

"That means that Rube must have placed them under a spell to keep them asleep as long as he wants them to," Libra explained, gleefully. She yanked out her Star Wand and added, "I can use my Star Wand and revive them, to break the spell. Want me to try?" She smiled.

Tuxedo Mask smiled back, but was still unhappy that he didn't find Sailormoon. "Go ahead, give it a whirl."

Libra nodded. She swirled around with her Star Wand, creating sparks and commanded, "Libra loving sparks, REVIVE!" She positioned herself and sparks showered over the Scouts. Libra stopped after two minutes, all exhausted. After about 10 seconds of waiting, Tuxedo Mask's wish came true; the Scouts are starting to awaken. He knelt down in front of them as they sat up.

Raye was the first to come to her senses. "Ow, my head hurts." She placed her right hand on her head & looked up. She was overwhelmingly happy, "Tuxedo Mask! Darien! It's so great to see you!" She calmed down as she almost jumped to hug him, but looked down and asked, "Where am I? And--what! Why am I all..." She trailed off as she desperately tried to get more sheet to cover her as the front almost fell down to expose her chest. She blushed a bit, looking shocked and asked, "Oh Darien--, uh, you didn't look..."

Tuxedo Mask smiled and answered, "No, don't worry, I didn't. I respect you, and I don't feel that it's right." Raye nodded and just sat there.

Lita and Amy both say up at the same time.

"What happened?" Lita asked, rubbing her head, dazed. "Tuxedo Mask--" She gasped. "Oh my gosh! Why am I all-- nude?" She clamped her hand over her mouth when she said that word and tried to cover more of herself. Amy did the same. Mina awoke and asked, "Tuxedo Mask? Why do I-- feel all..."

"Hurt?" asked Tux, relieved but concerned.

"No--that's not the word I'm looking for," she answered. She turned to Libra. "Libra, what's the word.."

Libra responded, "Painful?" She looked concerned.

"No," disagreed Mina, again. She perked up and answered, "Why do I feel so--touched? Yeah, that's it. Why do I feel like I've just had se--" She gasped, and so did the other girls.

"Yeah, me too!" cried Lita in sadness.

"Me three!" answered Amy. She started to check herself.

"And me too!" cried Raye.

Amy turned to Darien and asked, "Darien, I know you didn't.... but who did? And did we all really actually had ..." She didn't finish her sentence because she started to cry in embarrassment. Libra went to her's and Lita's aid, saying that everything will be okay.

"What do mean it'll be OK!" cried Raye in her sobs to Tuxedo Mask. "That means we lost our virginity against our will! I feel so used, and violated!" Tuxedo Mask tried to comfort her and Mina. He patted their shoulders, but Raye resisted and flung out of Tux's grip, along with Mina.

Cancer out in the distance cried, "Libra! Please, we can really use your help!"

The Scouts stopped crying as they looked up.

"Okay," sniffled Mina. She stopped. "We've got to help the other Starlights."

Lita & Raye maintained their aggressive moods, and asserted, "You're right. We've got to help them." Lita clenched her fists. "I'm going to whoop their butts for what they've done to me!"

"Me too!" agreed the other Scouts. Tuxedo Mask stood up. The girls each stood up holding their cover sheets. The force field where Rube held all of their wands and communicators shattered. The communicators appeared back onto each of the girls' hands while their appropriate wands flipped toward them. They caught the wands with their other free hand, each promising a threat. Tux couldn't help smiling.

"That overbearing lout is going to pay for what they done to me!" promised Raye.

"I'm going to turn his back into fettacini!" cried Lita, angrily.

"He's going to get a major makeover, courtesy of the Sailorscouts and Starlight Soldieresses!" yelled Mina.

"He's going to pay for what he's done to me, my friends, and universe!" shouted Amy.

Each of the girls held up their wands and transformed right in front of Tuxedo Mask, surprisingly;

"Mercury star power!"

"Mars star power!"

"Jupiter star power!"

"Venus star power"

All commanded together, "Sailorscout power! Transform!"

Unbelievably, Tux watched each of the girls transform into their Scouts forms.

"Mars, celestial, fire, SURROUND!"

"Shine, aqua, ILLUSION!"

"Jupiter, thunderclap, ZAP!"

"Venus crescent-beam, SMASH!"

All of their powers sprung toward each of the vampires and wounded each of them. The Starlights and vamps were surprised.

"Get away from them you nasty monster!" ordered Sailormars. "I am Sailormars!"

"Or I'll turn you into ice!" threatened Mercury. "I'm Sailormercury!"

"You're going to pay of what you done my friends and me!" cried Jupiter. "Sailorjupiter!"

"And you haven't a heart or a soul! I shall punish you on behave of Venus!" screamed Venus. "Sailorvenus!"

The Scouts came together and cried, "We're the Sailorscouts! And we're going to punish you!"

The vamps, still wounded, cried, "Well, isn't that touching!" They sprang their attacks on the Sailorscouts and the Starlight Soldieresses. They all just jumped out of the way.

"Huh, where did they go?" asked Mars.

Jupiter outraged, "Come on out, you cowards! You're gonna pay for what you did to us!" Jupiter was about to throw her thunderclap, but was forced to restrain herself as the vamps cackled, "Are you sure about that? Like you have anyway to beat us!" The vamps disappeared.

Meanwhile, Renee (knowing that who all the Scouts are) outside of Raye's temple replied into the force field absentmindedly, "Mommy..." She tried her best to not to think about the future about her city, mommy and daddy, and stuttered worriedly, "Sailormoon..."

Right after Renee mentioned Sailormoon, the Silver Crystal inside Tux's pocket began to glow brightly. Tuxedo Mask gasped and everyone turned around.

"Huh?" he managed to ask.

"What's that light?' asked Sailormars.

Tux reached into his left pocket and gently took out the Crystal as he held it in his hands. The Crystal's energy started to drag Tux to his left, but he tried to restrain himself, thinking it was Rube using that force.

Then those vamps appeared again, each of them behind the Scouts.

Aquarius cried desperately, "Sailorscouts! Watch out! Behind you!"

The Scouts whirled around and saw the Negavamps charging towards them. Mars didn't freeze up like last time. She aimed at the vamps' hearts & commanded, "Mars, fire IGNITE!" The fire charged at the vamps and destroyed one of them. The rest continued to charge, with the Scouts paralyzed with fear. Tuxedo Mask saw what was happening, and reacted quickly. He grabbed a rose and slashed it through another vamp, destroying that one. Afterwards, his memory replayed again; him slashing a rose and Lita in her evil form catching it and threw back at him, cutting his arm. Tuxedo Mask clenched his teeth of pain in his right arm.

Libra cried, "Ready to put these vamps away!"

"Ready!" cried everyone.

Sagittarius took immediate action and cried, "Sagittarius lightning arrow STRIKE!"

"Aries fire-rays DASH!" ordered Aries.

"Cancer shooting star SOAR!"

All of those powers were directly aimed at the vamps...

"OK everyone," shouted Jupiter to the other Scouts, "Do your stuff!"

"Right!" agreed the excited Scouts.

"Mars, celestial, fire, SURROUND!"

"Mercury ice-storm BLAST! Shine aqua illusion!"

"Venus crescent beam SMASH!"

"Jupiter thunder DRAGON!" Then she ordered, "Jupiter thunderclap ZAP!"

All of the powers combined with Starlights and Sailors destroyed all the vamps in one mighty swoop. All that left of them was dust.

Rube appeared, angered, "Well, you've won this won Starlights and Sailors! But you still haven't found Sailormoon yet! Well, don't bother, 'cause I'm keeping her!" He thrusted a black wind at the warriors, leaving them trying to cover themselves.

"No! Sailormoon!" cried Tux.

Once again, Renee out in Raye's temple, replied, "Sailormoon..."

Just then, the wind died down a bit, but was still blowing. The Crystal in Tux's hands started to glow brightly again, at his left. As he was holding the Crystal in his hands, in his eyes only he saw a sort of red-streaked lightning as he gasped, and then had a vision, seeing Renee holding a bright figure in her hands, saying, "The Crystal..."

Then it came to him. Somehow, he figured out that his future daughter was trying to tell him that the Crystal was trying to do something. The Starlights and the Scouts looked up at Tux as the wind stopped.

"Renee..." he managed to say. He turned toward the other warriors, "Sailormoon's Crystal..."

Rube just snared, "Pyah! Pathetic! All your standing around won't do anything. That Silver Crystal is mine!" He thrusted a bolt of black lightning at the warriors. They all just stood there. Tux tried to shield himself, but somehow, he couldn't really move much. He gasped, "I can't move!"

The bolt was just about to hit the warriors, but it was rejected back at Rube. He cried, "Huh?" He leaped out of the way and landed on his left, moaning in pain. The Crystal in Tuxedo Mask's hand continued to glow as it was pulsing in equal beats. Mercury added, "Maybe it's trying to locate Sailormoon... since the Crystal is in her ownership."

Tux and the other warriors started to walk in the direction where the pulsing was faster, and the others followed him.

"I think you're right, Amy," complimented Mars.

All of the warriors walked until the Crystal's light beat against a figure who seems to be sleeping with a white sheet over her nude and crystals around her. The Crystal's power beamed at the figure's body. Everyone gasped as they couldn't believe it; the person there was actually Sailormoon!

Then, the atmosphere's spotlight turned on her. Serena, rightfully called, was lying in a proper position; strictly on her back with her legs straightly pointing forward, with her hands clamped together, just like the once sleeping Neo-Queen Serenity and Snow White.

"Serena?" asked Tux. He brought in some tears as he continued to hold the crystal.

"Sailormoon?" gasped the other warriors.

Behind them, Rube staggered up as he laughed, "There's no point in trying to wake her up, Darien! And the rest of you! I've placed a tough spell on her, so she could wake anytime I want her to, totally under my control!"

Tux just gasped while Virgo defended, "Unleash the spell off Sailormoon, or I'll turn you into the compost heap!"

"Yeah, right!" he snapped. He formed the most powerful bolt of Dark Energy and threw it at the warriors. The warriors quicked joined hands and commanded of their individual powers, then together commanded, "Sailor Starlight Power!" All of the 11 heroines beamed their powers at Rube, where he turned it into Dark Energy. It was reflected back at them, and they were helpless. They couldn't move at all. Tux was especially scared; not for himself, but for the others. He started to pant loudly.

Miraculously, the Crystal in Tux's hands glowed its brightest as it shielded everyone from the deadly blast. The power hit Rube, and blasted him back into a dangerous porthole, where the warriors thought they heard Rube's last words, "You haven't seen the last of me!" Everyone thought at the moment that he was banished forever (which was almost, but wasn't).

Meanwhile, the Crystal remained in its glowing form.

Li replied, "Maybe its trying to wake Sailormoon up..."

Tux looked at him and smiled, "I hope you're right, Night."

Sagittarius remarked, "Besides, what else would that thing do? Make us hyper?"

Everyone cracked out a laugh.

Suddenly, the Silver Crystal flashed a very blinding light as everyone shut their eyes, and then reopened them. They saw that the powers of the Crystal was going into Serena, and changed her into something amazing; Neo-Queen Serenity and her gown and crown! He gasped as his clothes changed into in purplish and older version of himself; right into Neo-King Darien! Everyone gasped in surprise.

Mars stepped forward and stammered, "Darien..."

"Tuxedo Mask.." trailed Venus.

"Your Majesty..." replied Mercury.

"Queen Serenity..." gasped Jupiter.

All of the Starlight warriors replied, "Sailormoon...Tuxedo Mask..."

Tuxedo Mask replied, "I guess this is the way that the Crystal is trying to wake up Queen Serenity."

"Queen Serenity?" asked Virgo.

Libra answered, "That must be Sailormoon."

Then, the moment that everyone's waiting for; Queen Serenity sat up on the platform, eyes still closed. The Crystal in Neo-King Darien's hand drifted to Neo-Queen Serenity, then lifting her hands up to support it. Then her eyes slowly opened as she and Darien changed back into their hero forms. Sailormoon saw Tuxedo Mask, and they emotionally embraced.

"Oh, Darien!" cried Sailormoon.

"Serena..." embraced Tux.

All of the warriors just shedded a few tears of happiness, especially Venus and Virgo.

Tux released his grip and looked in Sailormoon's eyes with tears.

"I'm so glad that you're back," replied Tux. "I missed you so much."

Sailormoon smiled and stammered, "I'm so glad to hold you again." She slowed her rejoicing and looked at Tux's wound. She started to look ashamed and sad, "Oh Tuxedo Mask, did I actually hurt you physically that much? Oh, what have I done!" She almost started to cry, but she restrained herself and looked away, with her head in her hands.

Tuxedo Mask smoothed SM's back and kissed her head as he comforted, "It's okay, Serena. I'm okay. As long as you're safe and sound in my arms, I'm happy." He wrapped his arms snugly around her; arms, breasts, and all. Sailormoon lay under Tuxedo Mask's neck and head, weeping silently. She smiled as she wept, partially. She then looks up at everyone and replies, "Thank everyone...for bringing me back. Thank you Starlights." She turned to her friends and answered, "Thank you, Sailorscouts." She looked into Darien's eyes and embraced, "Thank you...my loving king." Both Sailormoon and Tuxedo Mask embraced again. The atmosphere changes back into the atmosphere of Raye's temple. Renee was standing outside. When she saw that everyone was back she rushed up to Sailormoon (surprisingly!) and hugged her.

"Oh, you're back Sailorscouts and Sailormoon," she cried. She shedded a tear of happiness as she added, "Mommy."

Everyone was smiling, and the Starlights were shocked.

"Renee...is Sailormoon's daughter?" asked Aries.

"Then that means..." trailed off Scorpio.

"Tuxedo Mask is her father!" finished Libra.

Everyone gasped. Tuxedo Mask (rightfully called Darien at the moment), Sailormoon, and Renee were all standing next to each other, which looked like a cute family portrait. After finishing hugging Sailormoon and Tuxedo Mask, Renee ran up to Starlight Libra and the other Starlights and hugged them too. When she was hugging Darien, she whispered in his ear, "Daddy."

"Thank you, Starlight Libra," thanked Renee, smiling. She turned to all of the other Starlights and added, "Thank you, all of you Starlights."

Starlight Libra looked down at Renee and replied, "You're welcome, Renee. You know, you helped also."

Renee looked up and questioned, "I did?"

All of the Starlights, including Li and Caper nodded as Libra continued, "You gave all the Scouts the rightful courage from your heart, even though it was silent. And you gave Tuxedo Mask an encouragement to succeed going on to get all of the Sailor Soldiers back." She smiled.

"Yes, that's true," chimed in Tux. "I had some kind of flashback, seeing you holding on to the Crystal. I knew right away that you were trying to tell me about how to use it. Thank you, Renee."

Sailormars stepped forward and crouched down, replying, "And Renee, even when I was evil, I felt your presence of your power. You got all of us Scouts back, even though it wasn't too physical. You helped mentally, and that's a great accomplishment." She beamed at her.

Sailormoon looked down and responded, "I'm so proud of you Renee." She hesitated to say, but just included, "My daughter."

The grouped just stood together, all in silence and happiness. Tuxedo Mask, though, was still rejoicing inside. Raye, Lita, Amy, Mina and Serena were finally back with him. He was so glad he could hold and kiss Serena again. He missed Raye and the others too. But right now, he just stood there with his future wife and daughter; and with the Starlights, smiling. He inside wanted to just forget about the Negaverse for the while, as he stood their with his friends. He swirled Sailormoon into his arms as he gave her a loving, romantic kiss. Sailormoon went along with the kiss, so happy that she could be with her love of her life again. Darien couldn't have been happier.

The End!!!