"What are you doing here, you little runt?"
Usagi had been having a fairly decent day up until now. She had woken up for school on time, successfully snuck off at lunchtime to eat with her boyfriend, managed to neither fall asleep nor give the wrong answers in class when called on, and was just getting ready to go home for a nap when a young pink-haired girl with a hair-style similar to her own landed on her head.
This strange, pink-haired girl was none other than Usagi's future daughter, Usagi 'Small Lady' Serenity, known in Tokyo as Chibi-Usa. Climbing down from her mother's head, she whispered "I'll explain later." As she ran 'homeward', she said "See you later, big sis!"
Usagi blinked confusedly. "Since when does she call me 'big sis'? Wait, if Chibi-Usa's here, there's got to be a reason..." With that thought in mind, she ran off towards home.
Meanwhile, Ikuko was happy to see her younger 'daughter' again. The official story was that she had been in Europe as a foreign exchange student, and had been living with Minako's Uncle. It wasn't entirely a lie on Chibi-Usa's part, as this was perfectly true from her own time-perspective. That is to say, it would have been true had it been said a thousand years later from Ikuko's perspective.
A little later that evening, after Ikuko had shooed the 'sisters' off to bed, Chibi-Usa, Luna and Usagi were talking in their shared bedroom.
"I actually came back to talk to Plu." began Chibi-Usa. "Pluto told me that things weren't moving fast enough for her liking. She also said something about the Black Poison Crystal, but I didn't hear her properly because of the Door of Time."
Luna twitched visibly at the mention of the Black Poison Crystal. "I thought it was destroyed for good when we defeated Wiseman."
Chibi-Usa shook her head. "Yes and no. It was destroyed from our shared time-perspective. The problem was that we destroyed it before it really began existing from this time-perspective." She took a sip of milk. "And it's because of that that we may have a problem. Pluto said that its first target is some place called Youma's Forest or something."
Usagi shuddered and started to whine. "Why is it that even when there's peace, there's trouble?"
Luna and Chibi-Usa sighed, and prepared themselves for the glass-breaking cry that Usagi was famous for. It never came. When they opened their eyes, Usagi had her communicator out and was trying to contact Ami.
"So what kind of game is this, again?"
The Kazetachi people - that is to say, Himeko, Daichi, Aiko, Hasekura, Poomo, Sei, Robelia, Kamilu, Kanro, Hibino, Mercury, and Tin Nyanko - were all sitting in the park across from the Abandoned House, discussing the 'game' that Kanro was making.
"It's called Th' Elsa Alliance. I'd been workin' on it fer a few-"
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! Mercury's computer started beeping.
"Yes, hello, Mercury here... Usagi!? What's the matter?" All eyes were on Mercury.
"I see. Understood!" She closed the palmtop. "I'm sorry, but I have to sit this one out. It was a pleasure to meet you all, and I'm sorry for attacking you like that, Nonohara-san. Tin Nyanko, go find Pluto, we've got a forest to search for."
Mercury jumped off into the distance as Tin Nyanko dashed back to the Abandoned House. Everyone was confused greatly. Kanro coughed and resumed talking. "Like I said, I'd been workin' on it fer a few months now..."
"Your Highness, it is an honor to see you again."
Sailor Pluto bowed deeply towards her former student. Erika had taken Setsuna to the Magic Kingdom palace to meet with the King and Queen of the Magic Kingdom.
"Papa, Sailor Pluto here says that Rhea... excuse me, Tomoe Hotaru, who is Sailor Saturn, is awake and active on the Earth." Erika shuddered as she said this. "However, she says that we have no reason to seal off the Magic Kingdom at present."
The King looked at Pluto intently. "Is this true, Amora? Is Saturn truly being kept on active duty?"
Pluto nodded. The King looked at his wife with a sad look in his face. Pluto sighed, and said "I am Setsuna Meioh now. Saturn had been awoken about a year ago by Earth's reckoning in part of an attack from a Tau System. We succeeded in keeping her from annihilating the Earth, and she has been helping us repel invasions for the past year. Please do not be alarmed, I have been keeping a close watch on her. She is quite pleasant to talk to, and has a friend who will not be born if the Earth is destroyed."
The Queen shook her head. "She's not a Time-Traveler, is she? The rules..."
Pluto nodded. "She was... is... will be Serenity's future daughter, and it was... will become necessary."
A moment of awkward silence passed. Erika looked from her parents to the unexpected guest. "Pluto, I believe it is time for you to leave." She said curtly. "I also must go back and retrieve Kamilu and Robelia. I believe I am required to do so, having said I would do it."
The two of them teleported out. The king frowned, and his wife looked at him. "What happened, dear? Why is our daughter so upset?" She asked. Neither of them had missed the bitterness in the way Erika announced her exit.
Pluto could have lived a million years and still would never get used to how the people of the Magic Kingdom teleported. She and Erika walked out of the Abandoned House just as Tin Nyanko got there. Before Pluto could object, Tin Nyanko grabbed her and started running towards where Mercury was. "We need to find a place called the Youma's Forest."
Pluto blinked confusedly. "The Youma's Forest? Not the Youmaga's Forest?"
Tin Nyanko shrugged. "Mercury said that Usagi said that Chibi-Usa said-"
Pluto tried to stop, but Tin Nyanko dragged her along without noticing. "Small Lady is HERE?" she asked incredulously.
"Technically, she's in Tokyo, but yeah, she's here and she said Youma's Forest."
Great, thought Pluto. At least that explains my headache. But how did she get here if the Door of Time isn't being manned on this side?
"...an' so that's what th' game's gonna be about. Any questions?" Kanro had finally finished explaining about the 'game' that he had just made up on the spot. Hasekura raised his hand. "Yes, you wit' th' amnesia."
Hikaru looked at Kouichi Hasekura a little more closely. Amnesia? What about amnesia? And why was Nonohara's older sister hanging on to him like that?
"Yes, um, well... who are you?" Hasekura asked. "I know your face, but... I wish I could remember something..."
Now Hikaru was even more suspicious. She looked over at Kanro and saw... a second Nonohara? She blinked. No, there's no way, she's over there next to Daichi, and that... person's hair was too long. "I must be seeing things," she muttered to herself, "or else there's two Nonoharas here."
Himeko looked at Aiko, Aiko looked at Himeko, and Erika hid behind Kanro. Kamilu, who had noticed Erika's arrival, laughed and threw a crumpled-up leaf at Hikaru. "Well, yeah, of course there are. We've got Nonohara Himeko right over here, and Nonohara Aiko is right over there. Two Nonoharas, just like you said."
Hikaru flushed a little and muttered an inaudible response, clearly embarrased at her statement of the obvious. Everyone else looked at Kamilu. Some were glaring, others simply shook their heads at how he had worded that. "Now is not the time to be rude to her, Kamilu" pleaded Robelia. "Not with all that's happened."
There was a loud sneeze, a crash, and several seconds of quiet apologies. Mirlo must have sneezed and fell backwards, thought Granny Erica. She pulled herself away from the closet door long enough to see that the house was almost clean, even for having had the Twin Princesses Fine and Rein here to 'help.' She frowned. If the house is genuinely clean, then there's no money in the fortune telling. She dove back into the closet. "Where's that mirror!?"
Fine and Rein asked together "What mirror?"
"The mirror that Riley gave me so that we could stay in contact! I had put it in this closet before we started cleaning! Without it, there's no connection to the Kingdom of Magic!"
Shade coughed, almost nervously, and closed the closet door. Mounted on the outside was a large mirror, embossed with the letters "H.R."
Pokota climbed onto Sophie's shoulders to get a better look. "That was made in the Magic Kingdom! Granny Erica, we found it!"
Everyone looked around. "Erica?"
There was an explosion of noise from the closet. "LET ME OUT OF HERE!"
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