Author's Note
I don't OWN Sailor Moon…. Yet the story concept is mine…. Please don't take it without my consent…. PLEASE……….
I apologize in advance for my long set of notes today.
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Serena or Catarina?
Chapter 25: Is This Really Good-Bye?
"So Princess, now that you remember who you are—can you answer that question you promised to answer?" Thomas asked. Catarina smiled weakly, realizing that he would ask that eventually.
"Oh come on! We're eating!" Sailor Moon cheered. "Let her eat! I'm sure she's starved."
The thought of food forced Catarina to look at Sailor Moon.
"For the love of Galileo—Luna was right," Catarina whispered.
"You eat like a pig!" Sailor Chibi Moon shouted at her, as Sailor Moon turned on a dime to her future daughter.
"Look who's talking stuck-up brat!"
"Big fat meanie!"
"How dare you?"
"Sailor Neptune, is this really the person that Sailor Mars asked me to pretend to be?"
"Yup," Sailor Uranus answered for her.
"For the love of Galileo," Catarina sighed.
"Well, you can go back to Amer—wait, never mind," Sailor Venus said warmly at first, but stopped herself. "You have to stay here, don't you?"
"She ain' gotta choice," Sailor Nebula said, stuffing down a salad. "She has to go back to her people."
"They've needed her here for so long," Sailor Sandstonia said distantly.
"But they'll still want to dominate the universe," Terrance said sadly. "Her arrival will never change that."
"So are we going to run through the Negaverse to get back then?" Sailor Jupiter asked.
"No way!" Sailor Nebula laughed. "I'll get a ship and you can get a lift home."
"No, I'll take care of it," Catarina said suddenly. They looked at her. "I owe you all that much. You've brought me back to my home and given me back my memories."
"You don't have to," Sailor Mars said.
"She is that girl, isn't she?" Jennifer thought, smiling. "Poor devoted guardian."
"But I want to," Catarina said, smiling.
"That can't be normal," Sailor Sandstonia said, motioning to Sailor Nebula, who placed a hand to Catarina's forehead.
"No fever," Sailor Nebula replied, as Sailors Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Mercury, Mini-Moon, Neptune, and Uranus laughed.
"What's so funny?" Sailor Moon asked.
"We did the exact same thing when she laughed," Sailor Mars replied.
"AND YOU DIDN'T RECORD THAT MOMENT?" Thomas exclaimed. "SHE NEVER LAUGHS!"
"Now now, relax," Catarina said. "Just because time changed me doesn't mean that you can assume I have a fever!"
"So Princess, can you really find a vessel again? And how will we explain everything to Her Highness?"
"Allow me," Catarina said, standing as she reached the nearest palace wall, which by that point was about two hundred meters from the picnic. She placed her hand to the wall. There was silence, as the group watched her appear to talk to the ice. "I DEMAND TO SPEAK TO THE QUEEN—Yes—yes—No—yes, please—Thank you."
She came back, and almost immediately after there was a ship as well as a troop of Imperial soldiers coming out of the palace.
"Wow," Sailor Mars said.
"We now have a ship and the queen has been informed," Catarina replied. "This way Sailor Moon, scouts. I'm sure you're in a rush, correct?"
"Yes," Sailor Moon exclaimed, running to the ship as she looked back, waving to Thomas. "Thanks Thomas! You were a real help!"
One by one the girls got to the ship, waving farewells to the three princesses, the three men, and the queen.
"Now you can meet the others!" Sailor Sandstonia exclaimed, excited.
"Others?" Catarina asked, a sweat drop trickling down her face.
"Yeah, you can take up yer role as Emissary and meet wit' a bunch of violent princesses!" Sailor Nebula added.
"Violent princesses?" Catarina asked again, taking a step back.
"Yeah, you were always good at taking care of the REALLY violent one, Sailor Galia," Sailor Sandstonia added. Catarina guessed that there must have still been things she didn't remember, and this was one of them. Looking at the two totally serious girls, and the two guys who were staring her down, she got a plan.
"Oh no! I need to input the coordinates into the ship or those girls will never get home!" Catarina cried, as she ran on board, and started typing into the control panel.
"Is it just me, or is she running away again?" Sailor Nebula asked, then realized what she was saying as the ship started up. "NO! COME BACK HERE CATARINA!"
Yet the ship was already gone…
…
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"Maybe we shouldn't have told her about Sailor Galia yet," Sailor Sandstonia said, as silence prevailed…
"You're staying with us, aren't you?" Sailor Neptune asked.
"It's true, my people are violent, bloodthirsty, and I have a fiancé waiting at home," Catarina said, navigating the ship manually. "But I could never go to a home that thinks that they should take over the universe. So I'll send the ship back with a message, and hang out on Earth a little longer."
"But now they know what you look like!" Sailor Moon pointed out. "You can't hide anymore!"
"Guess a name change is in order," Catarina hummed. "I've always fancied Karen."
"You're seriously going to leave your people like they are? That place was a wreck!" Sailor Jupiter demanded.
"Yes," Catarina replied. "But they'll change their ways if they want me back. Believe me; they'll change before a month's time if they really wanted me back."
"You're threatening them?" Sailor Mars asked. "I think I could live with you on Earth for a little while longer."
"MARS!" Sailor Venus scolded. "Don't ENDORSE her plan!"
"She isn't afraid of my driving, so I guess she can stay," Sailor Uranus said, as the group gave her looks.
"Not you too," Sailor Mercury sighed.
"Yeah! I got a reading partner again!" Sailor Chibi Moon cheered. The group stared at her. "What? I like reading with her! She's fun!"
The group continued to stare…
Three days later…
"Look what I found Terrance!" Thomas announced, as they investigated the empty and returned ship. He held a note. The two read the note together.
Terrance, I'll come home to you and Thomas one day. When that day comes, I will announce my love for either of you. Until then, however, I expect you to work together, and defend our people. I have sent my official terms of return in a mirror mail to mother. I expect a lot of changes, and if they never come, then we may never cross paths again. Just so that neither of you worry, I refuse to battle and I will wait for those changes to come.
Love you both, Your Princess.
"She won't ever come back," Thomas sobbed dramatically. "She is just toying with our emotions and will never decide who she loves more!"
"Damn conspiracy theorist," Terrance grumbled. "I don't want to have to listen to you whine the WHOLE time she's gone."
"Shut up!" Thomas growled. Thomas walked away, as Terrance looked at the PS that his princess had cleverly hidden in the stationary of her message.
Terrance, my love, please wait for me.
Off in the nearby space, a ship was stationed, and two girls sat inside of it.
"We have to get her back," Mandessa announced.
"We have no choice. She's our emissary and it's high time she started doin' her job!" Jennifer proclaimed.
"Honestly, do you think we scared her with that talk of the others?" Mandessa asked.
"I reckon not!"
"Right," Mandessa replied, hopeful.
"At least the other worlds aren' intent on this dominatin' the universe stuff," Jennifer sighed. "She's setting a mighty fine example to her people though."
"Just be careful with the controls. I don't want to be trapped in the middle of Nega Space like you did the last two times we've used the Infinity LS Jumper."
"I'll be careful as a kitten!" Jennifer announced as Mandessa grabbed her seat.
"That's what I was afraid of," she muttered, as the ship roared to life, and the two took off for Earth once more…
THE END