2509/The Outer Senshi and the King

The Outer Senshi and the King
Date of Scene:	05 May 2025
Location:	Crystal Tokyo
Synopsis:	In a moment of quiet, the Outer Senshi of Radiant Heart speak with the King of Crystal Millennium. He has questions, they have questions, they mess with each other a little bit, and spoilers are had by all.
Cast of Characters:	Mamoru Chiba, Hotaru Tomoe, Haruka Tenoh, Setsuna Meiou
Tinyplot:	BMC: Dimension Future
Tinyplot2:	Black Moon Clan

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Mamoru Chiba has posed:
It's after the group has split up to check out the library, the survivors, the kitchen, and the guest rooms (suites? wings? suites), and everyone's had a chance to put their things down, and some people have even left the palace again in order to acquire the rest of the survivors that had been collected. It's after King Endymion himself has had a moment to collect himself, and it's the Outer Senshi he actually approaches first.

Pluto is with them and there's a little one. Two unexpected additional senshi! In addition to the what, couple dozen other heroes that came along with Chibiusa? So much. It's so much.

He does his best to broadcast his presence instead of just appearing in their midst, but his motion is (for some reason) silent, so he clears his throat, too.

"I'm sorry my wife isn't here to greet you," is how the King of Earth and the Crystal Millennium decides to open, with quiet understated humor. "But I'd like to be able to introduce you all properly when she awakens. I know the three of you," he says with a nod to the three elder Outers, gaze lingering with brief thoughtful consideration on Pluto, but then his ghostly blue eyes are on Hotaru. "But I've never had the pleasure of meeting your counterpart, young lady."

Hotaru Tomoe has posed:
Sailor Saturn had turned to look at the king when he approached... and then she did a very small, very delicate little curtsy, her hands gripping her skirt, her glaive standing at attention besides her.

"Ah, I imagine you wouldn't. Allow me to make a formal introduction?" she offered.

She stood up and then gripped her glaive it was actually a bit *terrifying* how her voice managed to just boom through the castles when she spoke. "I am the emissary from the abyss of Death. Protected by Saturn, the Outer Planet of Destruction, the Guardian of Silence. I am Sailor Saturn."

And then... She blinked a few times, before giving a light squeak. "O-oh! Um, s-sorry. I ummmm... wow. Errrrr... I imagine... in a world... where things... went... differently... well..."

"... I was supposed to die a long, long time ago. Me surviving really just... caused a lot of trouble for everyone, so... I'm guessing that just didn't happen here. A-and, don't worry! I ummmm... I'm still kind of in training, so I can't really do all of the... wipe all of existence thing out now. I doubt I could even do it here. A lot of the glaive's power is currently locked away until Saturn says I'm 'ready'."

... Though, the outers could likely tell... that introduction a moment ago? THAT had been 'Saturn'. The one within her. It seemed she wanted to make the introduction just right.

... Listen, she'd wanted to meet the royal family for TWO LIFETIMES. LET HER HAVE THIS.

Haruka Tenoh has posed:
    Michiru and Haruka had retaken their henshin forms after a short break - in this place, in this situation, it seemed better, both from a protocol sense and to be more ready for fighting, so they stand in their Sailor Soldier uniforms as Endymion arrives, exchanging silent glances with Pluto.

    Ands then the silence is broken by Hotaru - no, by Saturn - herself. There's a moment where the two of them pause and facepalm just a little bit. But then Neptune smiles softly and comes up behind Saturn, putting a comforting hand on her shoulder. "She's the fourth member of our little orchestra." Neptune says. "A Soldier-In-Training, as she said, Sailor Saturn."

    "She's actually been fighting for a long time, just not as Sailor Saturn. We figured that part out recently - it was A Thing." Sailor Uranus says.

    "You know, you might want to dial back talking about the whole... end everything thing." Uranus advises as she kneels down and ruffles Saturn's hair. "She's a good girl, really." she says on Hotaru's behalf.

Setsuna Meiou has posed:
Through one thing and another, Sailor Pluto had been with one of the groups that came in slightly after most of the rest of the Outers, but as soon as she was in the castle, she gravitated to be near them...and then she summoned the Garnet Rod, leaned against it...then closed her eyes and just stood there...apparently lightly napping as she had gone the entire time from lurch into the future until now without sleeping.

As Endymion clears his throat, the tallest Senshi cracks one eye, then stands up and does a quick bit of brushing down her fuku, patting her hair down, then rubbing her eyes clear before she turns to give a small bow to the King.

The Garnet Rod, meanwhile, just stands where she left it as if it were attached to the floor now.

At his question, however, rather than a simple response from Sailor Pluto...she instead turns to look at Uranus and Neptune.

What follows is obviously a quick, wordless conversation between three people who know each other very well as they go back and forth with each other trying to hash something out...

...and then Hotaru just goes and tells him.

Pluto sighs and facepalms in time with the other two Outers, then steps forward to Saturn's other side and rests a hand on her other shoulder.

She looks down at Hotaru, then up at the King, and follows on to Uranus' comment by firmly saying, "...the BEST."

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
King Endymion's eyebrows go up; he blinks at Saturn, then glances up at the others again, and after a fraction of a second he goes, "OH! You're-- we never knew why there was no Sailor Saturn, we didn't think there was one at all. For literally a thousand years, we haven't even had a way to look, or research it..."

And then the King smiles in Galaxia-never-happened and he says kindly to Saturn, "You're a Sailor Senshi. I believe wholly that you wouldn't wipe out existence unless you were absolutely positive there was no hope, and, well-- I know your Queen pretty well. When you're married to hope itself..." he shrugs, smile still in place.

Even his smile is tired, though.

"I'm not able to respond to the self-deprecation in any way that would satisfy either of us," he adds gravely, "but I also cannot believe someone as honest as you are could ever be the kind of problem that is better dead than alive."

His attention goes back to the taller senshi, and his smile falls to pleasant seriousness. "I'm pleased," he says, "to have all of you here to help us. And I believe you about Sailor Saturn, here. But tell me, Pluto, if you can do it without troubling yourself, how were you able to leave your post? And-- is that how Small Lady was able to travel through time to bring so many people to help?"

And then he looks at them together again and looks briefly amused. "And do, please, ask me any questions you like and I'll try and answer, all of you."

Hotaru Tomoe has posed:
Sailor Saturn blinked a few times and then she whirled around, her eyes sparkling when she looked up at the other three senshi. "Y-you think I'm doing a good job? You do? really? Really really?" she asked, rocking back and forth a little, hopping up and down a little. "Eeeeee! And... and thank you. I-I'll keep trying my bestest to not disappoint you! I'll follow the examples you've all set forth to be just as good as senshi as you!" she said firmly! Determined as ever, before looking back to the king.

Then, well, she looked sad.

"... I'm sorry. My... destiny was to die before we met. I... imagine in this world? That destiny occurred. But... ummmm... I can say this... it makes me... incredibly happy... to know, that you have looked for me. In this world. And... once this is dealt with? I'd be happy to tell you the details I can. Because there is always a chance another me will be reborn here... and... if I am? I'll... definitely need you. All of you."

"... And I'll definitely be afraid. And try to hide, for fear of being a danger. I ummmm... yeah... your wife really is pretty neato... her daughter is pretty cool too. I like her. She's cool."

Haruka Tenoh has posed:
    Neptune runs her hand through her hair. "Well, if she died young and wasn't reborn, then the only memories would have been from the Silver Millenium, yes..." she muses.

    "Of course you're doing a good job." Uranus says, her attention more on her present than this alternate future when it comes to Saturn. "You fight bad guys with us and you do your homework and you're not..." she pauses. "You're a good girl." she says and ruffles her hair again. She decides this is NOT the venue to discuss Mistress Nine or mention Hotaru being tall and evil, or working with Obsidian, or anything other than being good.

    "...I'd like to know, what's your relationship with your own world's... us?" Neptune asks Endymion. "I think your daughter was surprised to interact with us, from what I've heard?" the Soldier of Sea asks.

    "Yeah, that doesn't make a lot of sense to me so I was curious too." Uranus chimes in.

Setsuna Meiou has posed:
As Endymion turns to ask Pluto about how she's here, the woman in question snorts and shakes her head, "The one sort of leads to the other, your majesty."

She leans over slightly...and the Garnet Rod is suddenly there for her to lean against, "In our timeline, shortly before a young woman met a small strange black cat...SOMETHING happened. Or rather, several somethings."

A frown crosses her face, "To be perfectly honest, to this day I still don't know precisely if it was any of several events or that all of them happened at essentially the same time...but the effect was to knock the Gates offline and into standby...nonfunctioning Gates don't need to be as strictly guarded, so there was enough wiggle room to allow me to actually visit Earth for more than brief visits."

After a moment, she frowns as something occurs to her, then she gives the King a rather pointed look, "...wait. Do you mean to tell me that my counterpart is still running on the taboos that your Mother-In-Law laid on her?"

After a moment, a sigh is heaved and her shoulders sag, "...she is...of course she is. Because she's me being too duty focused to even THINK about trying to ask the Queen to visit..."

Sailor Pluto then looks back to Endymion, "...as far as how she was able to travel through time, from what I understand, she got ahold of one of my spare Keys...or my counterpart might have given her one. Either way, when she went to use it there was a rather significant Temporal Event that shunted her back in the past and to our timeline...which, given that you're surprised by all the non-senshi that came with, is somewhat different than yours."

She then drops to one knee as well, then leans over and hugs the exuberant Hotaru for a moment before giving her a smile, "...we know you won't disappoint us...you're already doing great...and one day, you will be MAGNIFICENT."

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
"I'm certain there must be a reborn Saturn in this world," King Endymion tells Hotaru, firm and serious. "And I'd love that information, and so would Serenity. The more of us there are, always, the better. It's a big system, and unlike you with all of your friends and their magic, we're all it has."

Then he looks to Haruka and Michiru, and he nods to Michiru first, then Haruka. "They come here for the holidays, but mostly stay further out, on hand for the outer colonies if there's trouble or they need help. The Queen and I can't really leave Earth very often, especially not at the same time-- she's seen them more often than I have. And Small Lady's usually asleep by the time the holiday partying usually starts..."

Then Setsuna is explaining, and it's the King's turn to look surprised. "Ikuko-mama...?" the literal king of the world asks uncertainly, before everything makes sense. "Ah, Queen Serenity. As far as *I* know, she didn't levy anything, but once Neo Queen Serenity awakens, she might know better. The Taboos, from what I understand, are part of the laws of spacetime. I would ask her father about them, but you couldn't pay me enough pre-apocalypse good sake to talk to the personification of Time. But-- I wonder if the event was something that can be prevented, or if it's like solar storms and you just have to..."

He glances at Hotaru. "...weather it."

Hotaru Tomoe has posed:
Sailor Saturn preened and managed to look, just a tiny, itty bit... smug. Like a kitty that had eaten the canary, and yet been praised for it because, like. The canary had a knife or something. Yeah. She took down tweety but it was EVIL Tweety. With a gun.

"Yeah, the world we're from is a... lot... different. A lot more... magic... people, for one. The rules are different. We're... special, I think? But... there's a lot of special people. I don't think the threats from here that came back to our world expected anything approaching it. While they were... threats... they were kind of needling in on a *lot* of people's turfs, as it were. And they managed to make *everyone* angry. I imagine the rules here, and the rules there, are a lot different, because of that..."

"... Do you think that means like... Rashmi will end up in a Sailor Fuku by the time we're done if she's here long enough?"

Haruka Tenoh has posed:
    "Man, they're still doing the whole lonely guardian thing?" Uranus says, rubbing the back of her neck. "Usagi-chan had better not be thinking of sending us to do that in our time." she says, turning to Neptune.

    "I don't see it, unless it was incredibly necessary. But they have less Soldiers here, so maybe it was." Neptune replies. Then she turns to Endymion. "But if they were focused on threats external to the Solar System maybe they would have been caught blind by the threat from inside, if they went where they said they did." Neptune notes.^r
    "Well, what's most important now is figuring out how we can help you all out the most." Uranus says after a moment. "The Guardians of our Outer System crossed through time and space to help you, after all." she says, a bit dramatically. "And they're screwing with our world too... so what I really want to know more than anything is how to make them STOP."

Setsuna Meiou has posed:
Saturn blinks at Endymion's mention of Ikuko...then smiles a bit and nods, "...sorry, yeah. Your OTHER Mother-In-Law."

She then sighs and shakes her head, "I'm probably going to have to go have a chat with her."

She pauses, then taps her lips with a finger before in a more questioning tone saying, "Me?"

Another beat, then, "...Us?"

Finally, she sighs, "...whatever. I need to go have a conversation with myself...but I'll go find myself later."

After a few moments later, Pluto snorts a little and softly says, "...well, when we get back I can claim I 'found myself' and be utterly honest...dunno if I can claim 'inner peace' with a straight face, tho..."

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
"Lonely?" repeats Endymion, taken mildly aback again. "There are thriving communities out there, and they love Uranus and Neptune. They do guard against external threats, but they do it in arm's reach, have a lot of support, and can teleport back literally any time they want to. We don't force anyone to be near us -- and there are full colonies out there that are fine with us as long as we're over here. And I can understand that. There are people *I* can't stand, but I have to put up with them because I'm the King." He looks-- wry. Tired, still, but less pinched around the eyes than he was half an hour or so ago.

He crosses his arms loosely, letting his sceptre hang from the one hand before dismissing it into nothing-- he drops it and it never hits the floor. And he listens to Hotaru, and... he looks sad. "We could have used this kind of help a thousand years ago, too. But it is what it is, and you're here now, and-- you're the shape that our hope has taken. We're all counting on you." A beat. "No pressure."

Then he nods at Haruka, one corner of his mouth twitching very slightly at the Drama, but that's all. "How to make them stop is what your friends are trying to figure out in the library, I believe. If they did go to Nemesis, and they're powered by Dark Energy... well, I imagine an awful lot of purification and beatings and purification would stop them. It's just..." he shakes his head. "For reasons that are probably obvious, we can't natively do any purifying right now. My wife is the only one who can cleanse the world of darkness."

Finally, the king smirks a little at Pluto. "You went for a swim in lake you?"

Hotaru Tomoe has posed:
Sailor Saturn blinked a few times, glancing back at Uranus. Lonely guardian thing... Huh... However... Endymion cut that off quickly, at least, making her smile. "It's good to know they're happy. And don't worry, Pluto, I don't think anyone would expect you to say it with a straight face. Hee hee. Oh. OH! Oh my gosh, was that a PUN? Were you actually making a pun at us?!" she asked, sparkling at Endymion, hands clasped together with delight and leaning forward. "Yesssss!"

"And don't worry, your highness, we're going to do amazing. We handle this kind of stuff allll the time. Like, we had a lot of threats back home before this happened. Heck, you were one once! Well, kind of. If you DO find me? You and I will hopefully get along great. Back in our world you were a big powerful villain named Hematite for a bit, and I was your sidekick, Firefly!" When she said this, she had her hands behind her back, leaning forward a bit, grinning, looking positively adorable.... and the outers might notice she had her fingers crossed. Yes, she was playing with him a little bit.

"But it was mostly just cause you had a huuuuuuuuge crush on Sailor Moooooon, and cause my da... because I was very sick at the time. Now, while everyone couldn't come here to help, the people who did come are tough. And we do have like... ummmmm... Actually I think we have.... Five purifiers? A pretty cure... Sailor Moon... a Hope, AND TWO mermaids! Did we have any other purifiers? Though that might even be a bit of overkill depending on how we apply them..."

Haruka Tenoh has posed:
    "We have more than that, actually." Neptune notes. "It's hard to keep track myself, though. Maybe I should make a list..." she says, tapping her chin.

    Uranus smiles. "Well, that's good to know - the thing about the communities and all." she says with a smile. "But you know, when you look like that, it makes me want to take you out on a motorcycle ride so you can get away from all of that responsibility for a bit." she says. "I don't know if you and this Uranus are that close, but I helped you get yours and learn a bit, on our world... Wait, do you still have Motorcycles here... do you have advanced future motorcy-" and Neptune put a hand over Uranus' mouth.

    "We're not here for you to find new and improved ways for you to daredevil at high speeds." she says. "And don't worry, Your Highness - we're here to help, and we're going to help. We have a track record when it comes to apocalypsi." she says, bemused momentarily she needs to know the plural of Apocalypse.

    "Yeah, I guess that's true, if their world didn't have a Sunbreaker, and if it doesn't have Puella, it couldn't have Walpurgisnacht, so we're a few world-ending-disaster endings ahead." Haruka aghees, cracking her knuckles. She decides not to say anything about Hematite except. "Yeah, even when you were a bad guy, Usagi couldn't leave you alone." she agrees. "That's a love that'll cross time and space. I'm glad you both have your own or someone would try to stay or take the other with..."

Setsuna Meiou has posed:
Pluto blinks over at Endymion, "...wait. You guys named a lake after me? Does this mean that hack Degrasse-Tyson didn't get big in this timelne and make snotty comments about planets?"

She's not bitter.

Not at all.

A few moments later, she then shakes her head, "I dunno if my counterpart actually HAS found 'inner peace' or is just faking it REALLY well. Might be a bit of both. Take it from one who's done it...standing a watch like that kind of makes you run in cycles."

Hotaru's comment to her gets a smile and a headpat from the older guardian, who then stands up and absently brushes off her skirt a little bit before tilting her head at Hotaru's comment about purifiers.

She frowns a bit and taps a finger to her lips again as she says, "I never got to see, but do the Cures ACTUALLY purify? From what I was told their method of 'purifying' was more along the lines of 'beat the stupid and/or Dark Energy out of them'."

Pluto then shrugs and says, "...granted, that's a, like, third-hand description from our local TSAB Enforcer who still hadn't gotten the word 'impossible' out of his vocabulary yet, so I'll grant that it could be a bit inaccurate."

Sailor Pluto watches the others as they find out that their parts of the system aren't as distant and lonely as they'd assumed, then she looks over at Endymion and raises her mouth with one gloved hand to conceal a giggle before she waves to get his attention, "...so when Sailor Moon told me about your counterpart, she left out exactly WHO you were...so I offered them a safe bolthole when he made a break for it...when that finally happened, we did a series of lightning strikes to retrieve all your court and essentially decapitated most of Beryl's outfit in a few quick strokes. It set her WAY back."

Like perhaps everyone she knows, any story that involves Beryl screaming in frustration and rage is a source for amusement.

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
Insert White Guy Blinking Dot Gif, King Endymion looking at Saturn. He drops his arms to his sides and finally just asks, "... what? Bloodstone? Really?" A beat. "You don't look like you'd choose to be the sidekick of an edgelord," he adds suspiciously, but he's starting to smile. "I'm sure we'd get along very well, though. And it's excellent to know that my younger counterpart had the good sense to fall in love with Sailor Moon."

He nods to Neptune. "More than that is amazing. I'm sure with all of you together, you'll make short work of the problem."

Then both corners of his mouth start curling up at Haruka. "Oh, there are still motorcycles. There are hovercycles. There are also antiques, and--" he glances at Neptune, "--we can talk about that later."

Can he keep it in? 'A few apocs behind' indeed. CAN HE?? No. He doesn't sound angry, just a little incredulous in a 'someone is wrong on the internet' way. Because even King Endymion is still Mamoru. "Did you fight Beryl? Nehelenia? Magic tree and flower aliens? Dracula? Zombies? Because... we have had plenty of apocalypses, and we dealt with them on our own. But this one... this is the one that, if you weren't here, it would have our name on it."

Then he reaches up and rubs the back of his neck, looking a little sheepish-- and he glances away from them, then laughs quietly, looking down before looking up. "Sorry. I may be slightly stressed. My wife usually fixes these things, and I can't fix her right now. Thank you. Thank you for coming, and helping us. Thank you for bringing our precious daughter home, and thank you for taking care of her and making friends with her."

When Pluto's the one blinking, the King looks back at her and his mouth opens, then shuts. He takes a second then tries again. "We didn't but we could, but-- who made snotty-- what?" Then he shakes his head. "She's not alone all the time, but most isn't very good either. I've talked with her about it extensively, but she keeps reassuring me that the visits are enough for her. And -- she's not telling me an untruth when she says it, but I-- I think sometimes it's more that she doesn't quite know what she's missing, and that's... I've been there."

At the very last, he stops, he freezes.

'You were Hematite.'

'Retrieved all your court'--

--he saw the shitennou he SAW them he's afraid to talk to them it's been over eight hundred years he SAW them--

"Oh."

The rest of it trickles in and King Endymion slowly starts to have an expression again, and finally he snorts. "That sounds like it was amazing. She must have been furious."

Hotaru Tomoe has posed:
Sailor Saturn blinked a few times. "Are... you kidding me?" she asked, before she leaned back, her glaive appearing behind her, crossed behind her in a diagonal as if she was leaning against it. "Ohhhhh ho ho ho ho ho. You believe that you can possibly defeat us, you insignificant pests? No, for it is us, the dark warlords of eviiiiiiil, who will remain triumphant and gather all of the footballs of darrrrrrkness, with which we will rull the court of UMBRA! Oh ho ho ho ho ho!" she laughed, before giving into a fit of giggles. "Edgelords who *know* they're edgelords are the *best*. Besides, like, the shittenou were being a lot more managed and weren't really in on it, if you catch my drift, and were actually kind of under the sway, you know?" Saturn said with a shrug and a 'what can you do?' smile.

However... her eyes were *gleaming* as he went on about what was to come. "We get to fight DRACULA?! YES! Wait, no, that's probably Norie. Um, we actually... kind of befriended Norie. She's my senpai. As for zombies... no. we did fight a unicorn who ate the sun, though. Oh, and an apocalyptic witch. Ohhhh. And I wanna see what kind of speed thingies Uranus can get up to in the future..." she said, with an even bigger grin.

"... Also, yeah, we have a lot of aliens. That was where my first magic stuff came from, actually. There's a whole bunch of aliens who crashed on earth. Oh! I have a haunted demon doll, too. I didn't bring her, though, I didn't think it'd be appropriate and I didn't want her to get scared or hurt or haunt anyone."

"... Do you think like... Puellas count as zombies? Is it rude to ask that?" she asked the other three.

Haruka Tenoh has posed:
    Neptune doesn't -say- anything to Endymion's comment about the danger they have faced, because Saturn handles that quite well. So instead she just gestures to the child.

    Uranus only comments on Saturn's last line. "Yes, it's probably rude to ask anyone if they count as a zombie, so you probably shouldn't." she suggests. "Especially not Amy." she adds after a moment.

    "And... yeah, you were a jerk for a bit but we set you straight. Well, our Mamoru was. But he's got the kindest heart, so he was never really gonna go all in on it." she says, laughing. "Now, the rest of your crew, they got into it a little more... Zoisite and Nephrite, we have a bit of history and crossed blades." she notes. "But in the end they followed you from the Darkness into the Light too." she says.

    "And that's what I think we're going to do for this whole world, in the end. It might be dark now, but we're going to bring it into the light." Neptune says. "So... your wife... is there anytyhing we can do to aid her?"

    "Yeah, then we'd have three Usagis." Uranus adds. "That would be a lot of Usagi."

Setsuna Meiou has posed:
Pluto asides to Endymion, "...Puella are magical girls who get their souls bound to a magical rock which gives them powers they use to fight with...they also get a singular wish out of the deal..."

She then turns to look down at Saturn, "...so since their souls are bound to an item outside of their bodies and can move and function without it in their direct possession, technically they are liches, not zombies."

Speak not to me of the Monstrous Manual. I was there when it was written.

A sigh is then given as Endymion describes how her counterpart is feeling. Her voice drops an octive or so and takes on a perhaps recognizable cadence and timbre as she absently gestures back and forth and says, "...the Gates of Time are funny..."

She sighs and turns to look off into the distance, "...at first you hate 'em...then you get used to 'em..."

Pluto then turns her head slightly to glance at the others, "...enough time passes...you get so you DEPEND on 'em..."

There's a brief pause, then Pluto gives herself a little shake and smirks at Endymion, "...oh, yes. Her frustration was MAGNIFICENT."

Quietly, in the back of her head, she takes some notes and resolves to get some observers on the ground in Wallachia back home.

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
"Norie...?" echoes King Endymion, shaking his head slowly. "No, it was Dracula. You really can't mistake him. The real reason I switched to a white tuxedo."

A beat.

"You wouldn't want the zombies, they're how Crystal Tokyo happened," he says equally seriously. "The entire world except for most of Tokyo was taken over by zombies. All the other apocalypses were in the 90s, or were Death Phantom bringing back murder, which was just maddening instead of an apocalypse."

Endymion just pretends he was never defensive for five seconds a minute ago, and then it's not hard to, because Uranus keeps going. Finally the King says, "It sounds like-- they had someone to speak for them, and someone to stop them with a gentler hand. Maybe. I can't pretend to know."

He shakes his head. "Three Usagi seems like a lot of cupcakes."

He looks once more to Pluto, and there's the thoughtful consideration again-- and he quirks another little smile, this one to all of them. "None of you seems lonely. I'm glad. And does that make my wife and I liches as well...?" he starts to ask, then holds up a hand. "I apologize, I need to focus elsewhere. Diana or Small Lady should be able to show you around further."

With that, he just disappears with no fanfare. Gone between frames.

Hotaru Tomoe has posed:
Sailor Saturn gave a small shrug. "Eh, I don't know. I mean, I think I was a zombie for a bit. Or a... body snatcher? Alien? What would that be? I definitely wasn't a me, at that time," she said with a shudder.

She then glanced to Pluto, a... rather conflicted look on her face in relation to the idea of that gate...

"... I don't know if they had a gentler hand or any of that. They just had a lot of people who cared about you, and wanted to help you and Sailor Moon save them when they were being dumb. And it's times like that, well... when we can do anything."

However, when he suddenly disappeared? She blinked, staring... Before chuckling. "So... How long do you think he'll believe that Firefly was his lackey?"

Haruka Tenoh has posed:
    "We had other tools than it seems like you had, Your Highness." Neptune replies. "More of them, and different too." she says softly. "It's hard for us to realize all of the differences between this world and our own. We share so much and yet... so little." she says. "Please don't take it as a negative."

    Uranus nods. "I would never assume that you or the others didn't do all they could. I know that Mamoru - and therefore Endymion - has one of the strongest and also gentlist hearts in our world, and so if you're truly him, I can only say that you deserve better, and I'm going to do my best to bring the world back, so that this place is an example of what it is rather than a haven from it." she says, indictating the castle as 'this place'.

    Endymion leaves, and then the outer senshi are standing together and Uranus smiles a bit. "I have to be honest... I'm looking forward to all four of us being able to fight together soon... they're not gonna know what hit them."

    "Who is they?" Neptune asks.

    "Doesn't matter." Uranus replies witgh a smug smile.

Setsuna Meiou has posed:
Sailor Pluto hrms and taps her lips at Hotaru's question, "...considerably longer if you can get one of the Shittenou onboard. You know them better than I do, would any of them help you keep the gag running longer?"

In response to Uranus, however, Pluto doesn't say a word...and instead just snorts and holds up a fist to bump.