Disclaimer: Sailor Moon and Nadia are
property of their respective owners. I am not using them with
permission, but please don't sue me. I'm but a poor student
writing this as a fan of the animes.
Neo-Queen Serenity gave her husband a loving squeeze on the shoulder.
"Isn't she beautiful?"
"Yes," he whispered softly. "Nadia is one of a kind."
The queen's eyes shut for a moment and opened, "In more ways than one.
Have you heard any word from Mercury on the crystal?"
"She said she would be stopping by shortly, but mentioned it wasn't
something life threatening."
"Mamu-chan, why don't you get some rest and I'll watch over Nadia for a
while till Mercury arrives. I'm sure she'll be bringing Venus along, and
you know how she likes to pull those branks," Serenity grinned and
craddled the infant.
"Yes, I know. And you seem to help her with new ideas on the side."
"Of course, it wouldn't be proper to not lend a helping hand," Serenity
teased back.
The king rolled his eyes and went into the main bed chambers to catch a
nap. It had been two weeks since their second child's birth, Princess
Nadia Chiba of the House of Serenity. Jupitor and Mars were taking care
of affairs of the state while the parents rested for the month. What
surprised everyone though was the child. Embedded in her chest, was a
crystal. Of the quick scans that had been done, neither magic nor
technology could decern of its composition. Mercury had done some
detailed scans, and promised to return with the results as soon as
possible. Between then, the parents were always on the alert for their
baby should something go wrong.
The sun was starting to set through the glass, shaded by the
semitransparent white cloth draps. Nadia and Serenity were on a couch,
content with each other's presense. Mamoru was up and looking out the
window when he noticed Mercury's arrival. Going to the main crystal
palace hall to meet her, "Welcome, you have any news?"
Mercury nodded and they went in.
Mamoru gentally rocked Serenity's shoulder, "She's here."
Serenity's eyes slid open slightly, and was at full attention when her
gaze took in Mercury. "Oh. I'm so sorry to have kept you. How's
everything?"
Mercury chuckled, "It's alright. I have some good and bad news on the
crystal."
Mamoru narrowed his eyes, "What is the bad news first?"
"The bad news is, I have absolutely no clue what it is, or where it
came from."
Serenity calmly asked, and the infant stirred slightly, "What is the
good?"
"It doesn't appear to be harmful, it may even be aiding her growth.
She is currently the healthiest baby girl in the solar system that I've
ever seen this century," Mercury grinned.
"Will she be effected in the future?" Mamoru asked.
"I have no idea about that, only time will tell."
Serenity gazed down at Nadia's face, "She is my baby, she will be
strong."
--- 10 years later
---
Nadia cheered as the hover craft flew through the air, meer
meters separating the craft from the gentle surface of the Atlantic
Ocean. Jupitor bent over at the controls, pushing the craft
faster. Ahead the white cliffs of the former nation of France (now
part of the global nation headed by Serenity) grew into view.
Pulling up, dust few up behind them as they cleared the tops.
"Hey! Turn around, I thought I saw something!" Nadia yelled.
The wind was so loud Jupitor had to slow down, "What did you say?"
"I said, turn around, there was something that caught my eyes!"
As they did a 180 degree right turn, Jupitor wondered what Nadia wanted
to see in the old ruins. "All it is an old foundation, probably some
sort of farmhouse." The craft touched down, and the two stepped
out.
Nadia ran to the ruins and paused at was once an entrance to the
farmhouse. Jupitor walked up behind, and laid a hand on Nadia's
shoulder. "What's wrong?"
"I'm not sure, it seems like I know this place..."
Jupitor gasped and pulled her hand back as if she had just scalded
herself in boiling water, "Crystal! Look at your crystal!"
"Hmmm?" Nadia brought her hand up to the crystal imbedded magically in
her chest and looked down. Words failed to come out her mouth as
she saw it pulsating with blue, warm energy.
Jupitor brought out her communicator, then the world went white.
Jupitor grabbed on to the princess and dived down behind the ruins
praying it would provide some protection.
---
In deep space ---
A white sphere expanded in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean,
growing to over a hundred kilometers in diameter and just as high.
As it started to die out, two more occured in the Pacific Ocean.
The light illuminated reflected off the moon, giving a full moon
in the middle of the day where there shouldn't have been one for another
week. A huge wave of water fell in to fill in the gaps, and
continued to spread as siezmic tremors from the hundreds of cubic
molten rock and debree rushed up to fill the spherical wholes.
---
On the planet Pluto, the time gates ----
Sailor Pluto gasped as she saw the devastation kill billions as
the tsunamis produced wiped out through her view in the time gates.
"NO! How could this happen?! This wasn't supposed to happen!"
she screamed more as a statement of fact than of question.
Steading herself, she now looked into the short-term future.
A fleet of starships, each as large as a small city or island,
each completely automated and powered by technology that hadn't been
seen since the pre-Silver Millenium ages raining firepower down on the
nine planets and their colonies. "Atlantis? Only twice had the
technology been loosed on the earth since then, and even then the time
gates didn't see their coming. Once during the turn of the 19th
century, and the other a few thousand years prior."
She sank to her knees, "We're doomed...."