Nebula Senshi Arc
Episode One
Written by: Kchan

Disclamer: I have not created SailorMoon or any other characters from the show. The animated television series SailorMoon is produced by Toei Animation Co. Ltd, and is based on the manga series by Naoko Takeuchi, first published in Japan by Kodansha Ltd.  I have made this fanfic to express how much I really like the show Sailor Moon!!

Episode One: Messenger from beyond the galaxy! The dark new enemy starts the battle.

    Luna stared at the small hamster speak at her and Artemis before he fell on the ground. She hadn’t an idea what it was saying for it sound like gibberish coming out of his mouth. She looked over at Artemis who approached it and gently touched it with his paw. 

“Is it alive?” She asked quietly as he kneeled down beside it and put his ear to the hamsters face. By the looks of it, Luna assumed that it was dying, and wondered why a dying hamster would suddenly appear behind them, especially in this dark hour. She looked over her shoulder where Sailor Moon and the other senshi were. They were fighting a horrible unknown dark force that had caused Sailor Neptune, Pluto, Uranus, Saturn and Jupiter to vanish without a trace. She closed her eyes and prayed that her princess could fight this new enemy off and save them. 

“It is alive.” Artemis exclaimed as he rolled the hamster on its back. Luna turned back and walked a little closer to Artemis. 

“Why is it here?” Artemis looked at her and gave her a blank stare. 

“I don’t know, but I doubt this is a coincidence. With this new enemy coming out of the blue and taking half of our senshi away from us, I can’t just brush anything off now.” He looked over at the small hamster and poked it once again. 

“Artemis, that’s not going to help it you know.” She sighed and went over to the hamster and noticed that it had a small object on its wrist. “What do you suppose that is?” She asked Artemis. He didn’t answer as he was looking at the battle far away. 

“Do you think they are doing ok?” Luna asked him. 

“I hope so. This is so sudden and without warning. I hope Eternal Sailor Moon can defeat it.” Luna’s heart skipped a beat when he said this as she sat by him. 

“She’s done it before…” 

Artemis nodded and whispered very quietly, “Yea, but all the other times she had knowledge of the enemy before hand…” Luna rested her head on his shoulder and closed her eyes. 

“We need to believe in Sailor Moon. She’ll save the Earth again, like always.” She felt Artemis’s tail wrap around hers. Then she heard a grunt. Both her and Artemis turned around and saw the hamster sit up and raise a paw up to its face. 

“It’s awake, Luna!” Artemis walked over to him and Luna followed behind. 

“11110, 110101, 100011, 1001!” it said as it lowered its paw and struggled to get up. Artemis gave it a very strange look. 

“Luna, did you hear that….?” Luna returned a puzzled look back at him. “Yes, it just spoke in a bunch of numbers, I think.” The hamster looked back and forth between them and looked just as puzzled. Then it laughed and touched the thing on its wrist. 

“Do you understand me now?” It spoke with a very weak voice. Artemis gave it a tight smile. 

“Yes...what do you want?” He asked. Before the hamster answered, a large explosion shook them and caused them to lose their balance. Luna looked over to the battle site and saw nothing but darkness. 

“Artemis! Look!!!” She yelled. He ran beside her and stared. 

“I don’t know what to tell you Luna…” he said as Luna started to feel hopeless. 

“SAILOR MOON!” she screamed and started to run towards the darkness. Artemis ran in front of her. “Where are you going?” “I’ve got to help her!” He grimaced and shook his head. 

“What can you do? We can’t help. We’ll just get in the way.” Luna started to cry. 

“She needs me. I know it. I can’t watch her die.” Artemis sighed and looked like the weight of the world fell on him. 

“I know how you feel. I want to help her and Minako….” They both became silence until they heard the hamster speak again. 

“I can tell you what they are fighting against.” Both of them looked at him incredulously. “You?” Artemis started but was quickly interrupted. 

“Yes, and I can’t start with small talk. Listen very quickly and let’s go to them right now.” He crawled up on Artemis’s back. 

“You got to be kidding.” Artemis said as rolled his eyes. 

“Artemis remember what you said earlier about this not being a coincidence?” Artemis nodded. 

“Fine.” He started to run towards the darkness with Luna right beside him. 

“Please help us then Mr. Hamster.” The hamster weakly smiled at her and stared at the impending doom before them. 

“That is Dark Matter. It eats anything thing light.” 

“Light, what are you talking about?” Artemis interrupted. 

“Light as in photons. It lives to devour the light and make everything dark, that is how it lives, and it hates the light. I assume it came here to eat the brightest light in the universe. She is the only one that can defeat it though.” 

Luna spoke quietly, “You mean Sailor Moon?” The hamster looked at her with a quizzical look. 

“Is that what she is called here? Yes, I suppose I do mean her. He touched his wrist and had a small screen appear in front of him. Luna stared in awe. “My last data I have before I…” he sneered a little bit “uh..crashed here, shows that only a small part of Dark Matter is here. He’s like a paradox. He hates light as it burns him terribly, yet he knows he has to eat it if he must survive. The data shows that part of him is a little that way. Turn slightly to the north.” 

Artemis snorted. “I’m not a car you know.” 

Luna sighed. “This hamster is not polite, but I feel he is a good guy. This information is alarming, and sounds sort of familiar…” her thoughts were interrupted as the hamster continued to speak as he made the tiny screen disappear. 

“I bet he is hiding just outside of your solar system, trying to determine how bright um Sailor Moon’s light is. Once he determines her strength he’ll launch a full attack and devour the rest of your planets. 

“What do you mean the rest?” Luna asked nervously. 

“You mean the outer planets of our solar system don’t you?” Artemis said quietly. 

“Yes, as I was approaching here, those orbs, uh, planets were completely black and almost the same color as the emptiness of space.” Luna felt tears go down her cheek as she thought of Sailor Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus and Pluto and how they vanished without a trace. 

“Can, they be brought back?” Artemis asked. They ran closer to darkness as he asked this, and saw that it was becoming difficult to see. After a long pause, the hamster finally answered. 

“I believe that the brightest light can bring them back, along with my friends, the Nebula Senshi.” Luna and Artemis both stopped and stared at each other. 

“Nebula..” Artemis started. 

“Senshi?” Luna finished. 

“Yes, I would love to tell you about them, but we must hurry and get to your Sailor Moon. I must give her Lady Helix’s gift and tell her how to use it in order to defeat this monster, this Dark Matter.” Luna and Artemis gave each other a determined look and ran into the dark city. Luna noticed as they got closer, the harder it was not only to see, but to move and to breathe as well. It felt like her life was being sucked out of her and if it wasn’t for the fact that Artemis was purely white, this journey towards the center of darkness would have been impossible to see and continue on. 

“How can Artemis see…?” Luna pondered as she was now close behind him on his tail. 

“Luna! Look!” her thoughts were interrupted as they entered in what seemed normal space again. 

“So this is what you did huh Comp?” Luna looked up at the hamster on Artemis’s back. 

“What?” She asked as she once again went beside Artemis. 

“My computer crashed in order to protect the brightest light, and I thought what it did was futile, but looks like it had some results. It put up this weak shield we are walking in.” 

“Weird.” Was Artemis’s only reply to what his small passenger said as he and Luna started looking for signs of life, particularly their senshi. Their search was short as the small hamster exclaimed at the same time Luna spotted someone so familiar. 

“There’s a senshi…” the hamster pointed as Luna started to dart ahead. 

“Sailor Mercury!” she ran over to her with Artemis right behind. Luna couldn’t believe how much in pain she looked as she got closer to her. The blue haired senshi slowly lifted her head and looked at them. 

“Luna….Artemis…Sailor Moon is…” Sailor Mercury struggled to speak as it was evident she was in immense pain. Luna could see no bruises and she looked as pristine as ever, besides the way she acted and the way she sat on the ground, staring at it like it was the only thing keeping her there. 

“What is wrong Mercury?” Artemis asked. 

She weakly smiled and stared at them with her visor still on. “We are being eaten alive, and Sailor Moon is going to….” She gasped and almost landed face down on the ground. “I can’t explain it, but….I…can’t. Talk to Sailor Mars….she…she.” 

Luna felt the tears go down her face and put her paw on Sailor Mercury’s hand. “It hurts to speak doesn’t it? Don’t worry, we’ll find her. Catch your breath.” Luna couldn’t believe her friend was in agonizing pain as she nodded her head in affirmation. 

The tiny hamster spoke up. “Dark Matter.” Luna could hear the fierce hate in it’s small voice. “I sense another senshi, one of fire?” The hamster pointed towards a piece of a building that had collided with the street. 

“Come on Luna, let’s see if that’s Sailor Mars.” She took one last long look at Sailor Mercury and noticed that she was starting to look like Sailor Jupiter did, before she faded away. Luna ran after Artemis and couldn’t face to watch another friend disappear. “Sailor Moon what has happened to you? Usagi-chan please hold on until we can bring this alien hamster to you.” Luna thought as she and Artemis approached where the hamster pointed. After a few meters, they saw the firey senshi, Sailor Mars, in the same condition Mercury was in. 

“Luna? Artemis? Is that you guys?” Luna was elated! Sailor Mars sounded fine, she just had a hard time standing up. 

“Yea, it’s us. Sailor Mercury sent us to find you.” Artemis told her as he sat by Luna. 

“Then Mercury isn’t fairing well.” Mars looked up at the sky as she said this. “You guys, Sailor Moon is going to do something incredibly stupid, unless you can get to her. I wish I could but…” She looked over at them and smiled sadly. 

Luna gasped, and Artemis whispered, “No….” 

“I can’t see anymore…” she said softly. She slumped against the slab of the building and sighed. “I can’t see anything…so I’m useless. Please find her and…” tears started to fall down her face as she hit her fist against the wall. “make sure she doesn’t use the ginzuishou to kill her self in order to save us. Sometimes she will do stupid things you know, never good at tests but always there for us.” Mars opened her eyes again and stared blankly. “But I’m selfish. I don’t want her to die. I rather live in darkness, than know she’ll be gone.” 

“Don’t worry…” Artemis said after a very long pause. "We will find her." 

“I know. Go to Sailor Venus. I think she and Tuxedo Mask are the closest to her. Last thing I saw they were near the park or something, and hurry!” Artemis started running off after Sailor Mars said that. Luna hated leaving her, but she knew Artemis was worried about Sailor Venus. So she left, feeling like she betrayed another friend. Luna had a hard time catching up with Artemis as they ran along the street. She assumed that the strange hamster had another ‘sensing’. Luna pondered why the hamster can sense the senshi, but not the strongest, Sailor Moon. She couldn’t figure out how he could even sensed senshi but realize it was pointless to think about it, nothing was normal anyway. She finally caught up to Artemis is a small wooded area of the Juuban district. She found him sitting on the ground in front of a oak tree. As she got closer, she saw Sailor Venus leaning against it. 

“Mina…Minako….” She heard Artemis exclaim as she saw him crying. She noticed Sailor Venus was having hard time breathing, just like Mercury was earlier. Luna couldn’t believe it. How did this happen? How did her senshi end up like this? As these questions remain unanswered in her mind, she felt a small paw touch hers. She looked down and saw the hamster. “May I have a ride?” Luna looked confused but nodded her head. She felt him jump and land on her back, and it felt like almost nothing on her. 

“Let’s go. I’ll tell you as we get there what Sailor Venus said.” Luna walked a little bit looking over at Artemis lie down in front of a broken Sailor Venus. She couldn’t bear it and started running. The hamster didn’t object but started to speak. “She’s dying, but she isn’t dead. I assume he is her guardian, right?” Luna didn’t answer and continued running. “She said that Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask were consumed into the darkness. As she was running to help, she told us that she ran into a dark invisible wall, blocking her out. Then she said she saw an immense explosion and the wall and was lifted infront of her eyes. I assume this was at the point my ship crashed into this place, but anyways she said she ran and briefly saw Sailor Moon and then…” 

Luna stopped running when the hamster paused. “…and then?” she finally asked. 

“She doesn’t remember. She remembers seeing Sailor Mercury and Mars being thrown up into the air like rag dolls and blown away by a dark force. She said she woke up against that tree and….” Luna was getting sick of this pain in her stomach as she already knew the ending. She lifted her paw and wiped the tears that kept falling. “That’s when she stopped talking. Like the previous senshi of ice, she needed to focus on breathing instead of talking.” He became silence as Luna glared at the ominous expanse in front of her. 

“Can you sense Sailor Moon?” Luna spoke after a while. 

“No. She has a different energy source than anything else, and I’m not that great at this…” the hamster quietly answered. Luna saw that the darkness was slowly filtering it’s way into the shield the hamster was talking about. She took a deep breath and started to run. 

“Where are we going?” 

“To find Usagi-chan and help her defeat this thing you keep talking about.” 

“Usanda who?” 

Luna laughed a little bit. “That’s her real name, Usagi. My Usagi-chan. I can find her.” She ran until she couldn’t see anymore, and until it started to become tougher to breath. 

“Stop! This darkness is…goin…to crush..us…” the hamster struggled to say. 

“No. I’m not…I…will…find…her.” Luna felt a warm glow in her heart, and she knew she was on the right track. Then she thought really hard of her Usagi and saw that the crescent moon on her head became a beacon of light. 

“Ama…zing…” was the only thing the hamster could blurt out. Luna was crawling now as she followed her heart to Usagi. She knew she could make it. After what felt like an eternity traveling in a tunnel, Luna spotted her. 

“Is that her?” the hamster asked. Luna stood up. The darkness had melted away as she and the hamster found themselves in a small light shield. Luna saw her, the familiar long gold pigtails flowing in the wind, the feathers of her wings and her yellow skirt shimmering in the light of the glow from Luna’s crescent moonlight. She turned around and saw them. 

“Luna…?” That’s when Luna felt the joy and happiness burst out as she ran towards her. 

“Usagi-chan!” Eternal Sailor Moon knelt down and embraced her cat as they both started to cry. “I told them I would find you…and I have.” Luna heard a small gasp as she said this. 

“Who’s that?” Eternal Sailor Moon asked as she lifted Luna into her arms as the hamster held on. 

“This is…” Luna started but was interrupted. 

“Dark Matter…..” the hamster said in a monotone voice. Eternal Sailor Moon turned around and Luna saw what it was referring to. Luna couldn’t believe it, but it was nothing, absolutely nothing. No light, no trees, no street, just emptiness there. 

“You call this Dark Matter?” Luna said to the hamster as he crawled onto Eternal Sailor Moon’s shoulder. 

“Yes, that’s what my friends fought. That’s just a portion of it.” 

Sailor Moon looked at Luna and then at her shoulder. “You know about this thing? Are you here to help me, because I’m about out of ideas….” Luna knew what that meant. She had gotten there in time then, because Usagi didn’t use the ginzuishou yet. Luna breathed a small sigh of relief as she turned her attention to the tiny rodent now on Sailor Moon’s shoulder. 

He bowed and smiled up at her, the first time Luna recall seeing it look happy. “I’m from beyond your Solar System, actually the galaxy and I’ve come here with a message and a gift that should help you get rid of this…” He turned and glared at the nothingness. “…this monster that has killed so many all ready.” He shook his head as his mood switched. 

“Wow, you’ve traveled far, especially for a hamster.” Sailor Moon said as she laughed nervously. 

Luna felt the sweat form on the back of her head. “That’s her reply to this little guy? She’s still the same Usagi.” She thought as looked over at the hamster. 

“Um, yes. What is a hams....oh never mind. I don’t have time, and neither do you I’m afraid.” The hamster touched the strange thing on his wrist and a small oval mirror hovered out of it. 

“Nice watch!” Eternal Sailor Moon exclaimed as the mirror went in front of her face. “What is this?” 

“This…” the hamster solemnly spoke as he looked from Sailor Moon’s face to back to Luna. “Is the second most powerful weapon the Helix Nebula has. Lady Helix has sent it to you, in hopes that it will amplify your immense light and destroy Dark Matter. 

Sailor Moon stared at it and blinked. “My immense light? It’s lovely, but I’m afraid I don’t get what you mean.” 

Luna smirked at Usagi’s naivety. “He means the ginzuishou .” Luna paused and gave the hamster a startled look. “If she uses her ginzuishou …” 

Luna started talking to it as Sailor Moon interrupted. “Oh I understand. This mirror will somehow make my ginzuishou stronger? I’ll do it! I was about to use it anyway. How do I….” 

“Eternal Sailor Moon! You can’t use the ginzuishou , you’ll die!” Luna looked at her and the hamster and saw his upset look. 

“What do you mean she’ll die? The mirror will simply amplify her existing light, and if she calls on the other senshi I’m sure this will be more than enough to destroy this little part of Dark Matter.” 

“Luna I need to save the world.” Eternal Sailor Moon’s voice said as she started to sound somber. “I have to bring back the others…that have already disappeared.” She then looked at the hamster. “Thank you for bringing this to me, now I want you and Luna to go over to…” she paused as the hamster interrupted her. 

“Your welcome your majesty, but I have to tell you what Lady Helix told me about it. She said that there is a strange side effect that happens with it, but I don’t remember what else she said.” He paused and stared at is feet. He spoke very softly…”I’m sorry I wish I could remember, but I was distraught at the time…” 

Sailor Moon smiled. “Don’t be sorry. You’ve done so much for me, coming this far with this small object to help me I don’t care about the side effect, but just saving my friends and this wonderful world I live on. If this gift can do that, you and your Lady Helix deserve more gratitude than I can ever give. Now please…” Sailor Moon looked over at Luna and gave her a smile, “Please go over to Tuxedo Mask, he’s using his strength to keep this barrier up. He’ll keep you guys safe, while I use my ginzuishou and this mirror.” Luna nodded and looked over at the hamster, as Sailor Moon gently put them on the ground. “Everything will be ok Luna, and after this is over you’ll be back to your normal duties of nagging me to get my assignments done. “ She then pointed to the edge of the light shield and smiled. “That’s where Tuxedo Mask is. Get going now.” Luna sighed as the hamster once again got on her back and looked at Usagi. 

“She’s so mature now…but I hate it when she has to carry the weight of the world.” Luna walked over to where Usagi pointed to and heard the hamster speak. 

“That’s part of my ship! I bet this is helping her friend keep this shield up.” Luna didn’t reply but went over to Tuxedo Mask and saw that he was slumped against the metal object the hamster referred to as his ‘ship’. He looked over at them. 

“Luna? You need to get behind this little wall here. It has amazing properties I can’t describe.” She nodded and went behind it and wondered why he didn’t ask any questions. Luna closed her eyes as she felt a warm glow. She knew Sailor Moon must have been using the ginzuishou. She kept her eyes close as she heard the hamster babble about how Tuxedo Mask was glowing. Then she felt nothing and opened her eyes. Luna saw now a world of white instead of black. She saw Princess Serentity, now surrounded by Prince Endymion, Sailor Mercury, Mars and Venus and she saw Artemis right beside her. 

“What is going on?” He asked her as she saw them all hover far above their heads. 

“I don’t know…” Luna replied as she felt her words fly out of her mouth and then saw nothing. It was a strange feeling as Luna felt herself be lifted off of the ground. Luna awoke seeing two small brown eyes, an orange furry face with black hair looking at her. 

“Whaaa?” 

“I’m glad you are awake. Your Sailor Moon wants to speak to you.” The hamster said as Luna sat up. She saw the world looked the same again, even the buildings seemed repaired. She saw Eternal Sailor Moon lying on the street, and ran over to her. “Usagi-chan?” No reply came from her friend. Luna looked at her face and saw how pale yet peaceful it was. “Usagi-chan?” Luna whispered. She let out a small gasp as saw Usagi’s baby blue eyes opened and struggle to focus on looking at Luna.

 “Luna? Artemis? Little hamster?” Usagi uttered out as Luna looked and spotted the hamster and Artemis beside her. “I think I know what the side effect is…” she gave Luna a quirkly smile as she continued to speak. “…but I’ve temporary fought that thing off.” She closed her eyes for a moment and then looked at the rodent that was in-between Luna and Artemis. “As I was using that mirror, I briefly saw what happened to your Nebula…and your friends. Strange thing is that they are here on Earth…” The hamster flailed his arms and got closer to Eternal Sailor Moon and knelt infront of her nose. “I think two are here and the others are scattered. The one that has your world’s strongest weapon is across the ocean. You got to bring that to me and….” She paused and stared blankly for a moment. “Luna, I’m losing my thoughts…everything is becoming cloudy. I think I’m forgetting who I am.” Luna and Artemis both stood up and looked at each other. 

“How is that possible?” Artemis asked. 

“Side effect.” She laughed and petted the hamster’s head. “I bet you couldn’t recall because you forgot. Funny huh?” The hamster shook his head and gave Luna a disturbed look. 

“I don’t know how long this is going to last.” He said with some slight panic in his voice. 

“I’ve always wanted to be ordinary…with my friends…” Eternal Sailor Moon said as she slowly drifted asleep. “Usagi-chan!” Luna couldn’t believe it, but some how she knew it was true. The factor that proved that to her was when Eternal Sailor Moon detransformed into Usagi. 

“Oh no…she’s lost her powers?” Artemis muttered as he, and the hamster were being lifted into the air. 

“What’s going on now?” Luna heard the hamster say as she was hovering beside Usagi. She then saw a flash of light that pierced her eyes and causing her to close them. She awoke finding herself in Usagi’s bedroom. 

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    It had been a week since Luna was teleported from that battle ground into Usagi’s bedroom. Not only had Usagi lost her memory of being a Sailor Senshi, but she couldn’t understand Luna. Every time Luna spoke, Usagi would pet her and treat her like a cat, which stressed Luna out even more. Usagi did however remember her friends, Minako-chan, Rei-chan, Ami-chan and of course her Mamo-chan, but didn’t remember Mako-chan or the others that had disappeared. Luna quickly discovered the memory curse as she and Artemis had come to label it, also affected the remaining senshi. For some reason though her, Artemis and Mr. Hamster were not effected. Mr. Hamster concluded it was because they weren’t needed in giving Eternal Sailor Moon the energy needed to ward off Dark Matter. That made sense to Luna, but didn’t give her any comfort. Time and time again she would try flooding Usagi with her crescent moon on her forehead, but it failed each time. The only thing that consoled her was the fact the Mr. Hamster told them of how his memories of what happened to him before he came to Earth flooded back to him. She hoped this would happen soon to Usagi and wondered if there needed to be something trigger it. While this was happening she was helping Artemis and Mr. Hamster try to formulate a new plan of action. Mr. Hamster was very adamant on finding his senshi ever since Eternal Sailor Moon told them they were on Earth some where. He just left yesterday to go to a place in America called Seattle. Artemis and the hamster had figured out some strange method with the rodent’s technology to track her and only her down. Artemis later told Luna it was because the watch on his hand could detect those from it’s homeworld. Luna really didn’t care much, and was too worried about Usagi-chan. Artemis assured her that when the hamster found this senshi with the weapon Eternal Sailor Moon was talking about that this would bring her memory back. Luna prayed that would be true. So as she was thinking of all these things, she heard a familiar voice talking downstairs, about a new movie coming out. 

Luna sighed. “Usagi you got your wish, but the world still needs you. I don’t know how long we have until Dark Matter comes back….” She jumped up on windowsill in Usagi’s bedroom and stared out the window. “Usagi-chan…how can I bring you back? I miss talking to you…”

END Episode One.