"Which might not work," Rei muttered.
"Why not?" Sailor Moon asked in a pained tone, "I'm sure that I can do it."
"I'm sure that you can do something to empower some other girls, and maybe even some guys."
"Then what's the problem?"
"Which ones shall we pick? The girls who are either trying to kill themselves now, or punishing themselves enough to be ending up dead in the long term? How's about we choose the girls who are hating themselves so much that they're isolating themselves. Or the ones who are debasing themselves. And the guys? They have no reason to trust any girl right now."
"Oh..."
Jupiter frowned at her raven haired friend. "That's harsh, you know. And I'm sure that the girls would love a chance to undo what they've done, and the guys would like to prevent what they went through..."
"Yeah..." the miko admitted. "But I just want to make sure that we know what we might be getting. This is hard stuff, you know, and we're dealing with people who'll have gone through a lot. This is a major horror, and people can be very troubled by it all..."
"But if we can empower them..."
"It might not make them 'Senshi'," Mercury commented.
"Eh?"
"None of us has a specific idea of how the Senshi were created. We were just awakened to powers we already had. Perhaps when we lived on the Moon, we were aware of all the details, but we can't be sure of just how to create new ones."
"If it's a simple act, we could make them."
"However, if there's some sort of specific qualifications or actions needed..."
"We're really screwed."
"Exactly."
"Can't we try?" Venus asked hopefully.
"We can, but..."
"I see..."
"On the other hand, there is another possibility."
"Like what?"
"Now, understand, this is very risky. We'll have to be very careful," the cram student told them.
"What are you saying?"
"We have something that we can use. The Gates."
Saturn looked worried. "Didn't you say that they're what's keeping us here?"
"It is. That's the thing. It's an extremely powerful Artifact, and if we focus on the Time Gate, we can possibly even manage to prevent all that... what happened from happening."
"And the down side is..." Rei murmured, arching a brow.
"No matter what we do, doing this will erode our 'bubble of safety'. It could go from making this big space a little smaller to the point where it'll do the metaphysical version of 'popping', sending us into the new timeline."
"That's a big 'down side'. Why should we try it?"
"If we don't do something, we'll just be here for eternity, watching what goes on back on the Earth through the Gate, even seeing how the 'us' of this 'new' world handle the changes in society."
Her words made all of the other Senshi look grim, while:
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