When Usagi awoke, she could only stand up, looking at her bulging stomach.
“I’m a mother,” she said, caressing the bulge.
“Indeed.”
She turned, seeing Sailor Pluto before her. “Setsuna, what’s going on?” she asked, forgetting to refer to the Senshi of Time by her Sailor Title.
“A very ... very bad thing, something that I cannot fix for at least a month,” Pluto said mournfully.
“Explain,” said Usagi, her face seeming to take on the Princess Serenity look.
“I was trying to correct a ... anomaly in the space-time continuum that threatened Senshi interest,” she said. “But the anomaly refused to disappear, further twisting itself into the Senshi business.”
“An anomaly?” Usagi asked.
Pluto nodded, trying to word her responses to give no clue that the anomaly was really the person currently married to the Princess. “However, my efforts overtaxed the Gates, and thus reality reset itself into ... this.”
“Are the others okay?” asked Usagi.
Pluto nodded. “They all exist here, and like you, they may recall their old lives. However, as time goes forward, the lives they would have led in this timeline will seep into their brains. I’m afraid that before I can even correct this, you all will recall the full lives of your counterparts in this universe.”
Usagi slowly nodded, still rubbing her distended belly. “What are we like here?” she asked.
Pluto sighed. “We are currently in a place called Konoha, a ninja village.”
“Ninja?” asked Usagi.
Pluto nodded. “We each exist here, but come from similar families. For example, Hotaru lives here with her father, but they adopted a younger boy who was orphaned during a demon-invasion some twelve years ago.”
“Demons?” asked Usagi, eyes wide.
“A demon fox,” said Pluto. “The village was able to seal it inside a boy, which you adopted. The you of this universe did not have the Ginzuishou, so they could not negate the demon. The Fourth Hokage, a leader of the village at the time, sacrificed his life to do so. Since he was friends both with your husband here, and you, you both chose to adopt the boy, and ensure the village did not treat him as the demon itself.”
Usagi slowly nodded. “Can I purify him?”
“No, the Ginzuishou cannot be called here,” said Pluto. “However, your husband has been teaching the child to wield the power, without falling to the influence.”
“Huh?”
Pluto sighed. Sometimes, Usagi was still Usagi. “He’s teaching the child to wield Black Moon energy without being evil.”
“Oh,” said Usagi nodding. “But wait, if I’m married to this guy, what happened to Mamoru.”
Pluto sighed. “He is married to one of my sisters.”
“You have sisters?” asked Usagi, astonished.
“In this world I do. Like I said, the reset changed a lot of things. Do you know Beryl exists here, but as a good guy?”
“What?” asked Usagi.
“She married Mamoru shortly after you married Ranma,” Pluto said, cringing at mentioning the name of the chaos that she had tried to remove, pointing to a picture on the wall.
Usagi walked over to it, spying Mamoru and Beryl in the photo, wearing wedding attire, with the man she woke up to and herself standing to the side. “How?”
“Ranma and you were engaged to be married when you were younger, the same with Beryl and Mamoru,” Pluto said sadly. “She is not the Beryl you remember, but the Beryl long before Metallia turned her. If she has any memories from our world, she would recall them as nightmares.”
Usagi slowly nodded, part of her saddened that her love had been replaced, and that his had been replaced with an enemy from long ago. “Children?” Usagi asked, spying several other photos of herself and her new husband with several other kids, including Chibi-Usa.
“Many of the Senshi have children here,” said Pluto, deciding not to tell Usagi that Beryl was Setsuna’s half-sister here. “Our ages also seem to be varied, so we are not all of the same age group. From what I have learned, Hotaru has your husband as a teacher.”
Usagi could only blink, spying a photo of her new husband with two Outers, and children among them. “Michiru and Haruka have children?”
“They are still together,” said Pluto. “But they sort of ... asked your permission to use your current husband as a sperm donor for children.”
Usagi could only blink. “What?”
“Your husband, with your permission, donated the needed ... stuff ... so that both could have children,” added Pluto, trying to not upset the Princess. “They each have one boy, Michiru has a young girl, and Haruka is expecting twin girls.”
Usagi slowly nodded, before making her way to her bed, and proceeding to lie down.
“I think I may have overdid it,” Pluto sighed, as Usagi proceeded to pass out.
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