Sailormoon Sailor Universe Episode 202
New Sailor Soldiers! Who Is The Next Ruler Of The Universe?
Usagi’s voice: Yuko, Keiko, and Akiko are sailor soldiers! We have a new ally!
Sailors Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia transform back into Yuko, Keiko, and Akiko.
Nine sailors (shocked): What? You are they?
Yuko: What do you mean? You know us?
All of the sailor soldiers transform back to normal form.
Yuko, Keiko, and Akiko (surprised): Oh!
Yuko (calm down): We definitely need to talk.
[Title Screen]
Nemesis and Cassandra are sitting in the hall with Three Winds standing in front of them and facing them.
Nemesis: You make me very disappointed!
Boreas: We are very sorry, general. But we did try our best. They were too strong.
Cassandra: Nemesis, don’t get angry. After all, the Winds already had their punishment. (Turn to Winds) Boreas, Notus, Zephyr!
Three Winds: Yes, your honor.
Cassandra: Go and finish your job. Pay attention or you will be like Eurus!
Four inners, four outers, Graces, Mamoru, and Usagi are sitting around a table in Usagi’s home. Luna and Artemis are sitting on the table.
Yuko: Actually, we don’t know the whole story. Let’s begin with King Derek and Queen Frederica. They are the rulers of the universe.
Mamoru: What do you mean by rulers?
Yuko: It is not like that they control all of you. It is just that they have the greatest power of the universe, the Universal Crystal.
Setsuna: Universal Crystal?
Haruka: You haven’t heard of this?
Setsuna: Never!
Michiru: How about you, Hotaru-chan?
Hotaru: Me neither.
Yuko: It is not that surprising. I told you. As the guards of Princess Irene who is going to be the next ruler of this universe, we don’t even know the whole story. We don’t expect you to know what is going on.
Ami: So, what is it?
Yuko: The story is a little bit complicated. But please don’t say anything until I finished, ok? It is very important.
All (nod): We promise!
Yuko: Let’s begin this way. The story started many years ago. Princess Frederica and Princess Athena were sisters, born in planet Elysium in the Angel Constellation. They were both beautiful and talented. However, their personalities were different. Frederica believed in that a ruler should rule in peace, i.e. no punishment, no fighting, and no revenge. Athena believed in another way. She thought that a ruler in order to rule, she had to be clever and smart. She had to be powerful and able to control the others. She believed in that a ruler could not rule without punishments. Personally, I think that is not a wrong thing. I do believe that somehow some people do need punishments in order to make orders. (Haruka and Michiru nod.) Anyway, Princess Frederica married to Prince Derek from planet Zion in the same constellation, got the Universal Crystal, and began to rule this galaxy. We don’t know the detail process of how she did it. But we do know that the ruler has to be in love in order to own the Universal Crystal. Possibly Princess Athena thought that since she was more talented and beautiful than Frederica, she should be able to fall in love first. She was so disappointed that she left Angel Constellation and no one knew where she went. Many years later, Princess Victoria, who said she was Queen Athena’s daughter, came to our planet and kidnapped our King and the Queen for the Universal Crystal. Fortunately, Princess Irene, who was in training on her own planet Protector, was sent out here and reborn with memories erased right before her parents were kidnapped.
Usagi: Why did she need to be memories erased? And why she was reborn here?
Akiko: I remember that Yuko told you not to interrupt.
Yuko: It’s fine. We are not sure the reason. Possibly the Queen didn’t want Princess Irene to remember a thing and live happily here, and also the Queen believed that the King and she were able to defend so they did not want Princess Irene to stay on the planet and face the war. After all, our king and queen consider the happiness of their children more than anything. About why she was reborn here, it was because we all knew that the Silver Crystal had the second largest power in the whole universe, just less than the Universal Crystal.
Akiko: Queen Frederica was just too kind. Anyway, Princess Victoria could not find the Universal Crystal from the king and the queen, so she killed them and decided to go after our prince and princess. We left our planet to come here to protect our princess. We must find her before Victoria gets to her.
Mamoru: What is Universal Crystal? I thought they said that they were looking for Hope and Love Crystals. And why do you just come here to find you princess? How about your prince? And I still don’t quite understand what do you mean by King Derek and Queen Frederica are the rulers of this universe.
Keiko: Actually, Universal Crystal is created by the Hope and Love Crystals of the heirs of the rulers of the universe. Every creature in this universe carries a Hope or Love Crystal. Hope Crystal has gold light and Love Crystal has silver light. We need the Hope or Love Crystal from an heir combines the power with the Hope or Love Crystal from his or her lover to create the Universal Crystal. It doesn’t matter who carries which, but it must be one Hope Crystal and one Love Crystal. And your concern about the ruler thing, actually, as the ‘rulers’ of this universe, all they needed to do was to protect any planets within this universe and keep orders in this universe. They still lived on a normal planet just like you. Whenever there was a problem going on any planets, they would notice and would send someone to protect the planet. It happened once when the Silver Millennium was attacked.
All (surprised): What???
Keiko: We don’t know the whole thing. The only thing we know about is that the Queen sent out her son, Prince Eric, to save you that time.
Usagi: But I don’t remember that I saw anybody…
Akiko: We don’t know. Prince Eric had never come back since he left. However, this is a part of the secret of the royal family. We knew it because we lived in the palace and we were so close to Princess Irene. Queen Frederica announced that Prince Eric was on training on a far planet. I believe that our enemies don’t know the truth and that’s why they asked for both Prince Eric and Princess Irene.
All: Oh…
Yuko: Do you have any more questions?
Ami: You mentioned that every person carries a Hope or Love Crystal. Does it mean that boys carry Hope Crystals and girls carry Love Crystals, or vice versa? Otherwise, what shall we do if the princess is carrying a Love Crystal and she is in love with a boy who is carrying a Love Crystal too?
Yuko (smiles): You are very careful for what I am saying, Ami-chan. That’s good. But don’t worry. That is not a fact saying that which gender carries which kind of Crystal. However, a Hope Crystal will only fall in love with a Love Crystal, and vice versa. Actually, we don’t know Princess Irene is carrying a Hope or Love Crystal. We don’t really care the gender physically, but more concern about the person’s heart.
Mamoru: If the Universal Crystal is created by love, owned by the ruler, and only used by the ruler to protect the universe, what will Victoria want that for?
Akiko: The Universal Crystal is created by love. However, anyone can use it to do anything, as long as you have it and know how to use it. But as far as we know, you can create higher power if you use it with your beloved one. That’s true.
Minako: You mentioned that Princess Irene was reborn here. That means that she is still a baby. How are we going to find a lover for her?
Keiko: Because of the time differences between planets and Victoria spent plenty of time searching of other planets, our princess should be a teenage by now. Ever since Victoria attacked, we don’t have the time and people to protect you from what all of you have been through. We are sorry for that. On the other hand, we cannot ‘find’ a lover for her. There must be a perfect match for her out there. She has to meet him herself. Possibly, the one is here. That’s why all this happened.
Akiko: Keiko! Are you insane?
Yuko: No, Keiko may be right. Who knows? Destiny or fate is something very special. You may lose something but something else much more wonderful may be waiting for you at the same time.
Ami: You believe in fate?
Yuko: We don’t know if fate exists. When human say fighting against, or controlling fate, actually, you mean fighting against your bad path. If fate really exists, it is not something you can change. We just believe that there must be both good path and bad path in our life.
Ami: I don’t understand.
Yuko (chuckles): Don’t worry about it. It’s one of the most famous philosophies in Angel Constellation. It will take a normal human’s life long time to figure it out. Anyway, Princess Irene will remember everything once her Hope or Love Crystal is revealed. There is one thing though I need to remind you all. Victoria’s army is very strong. All of the members are well organized in groups and fight in groups. The power of it is like doubled in that case, so all of you must be careful. And among all, we have to stick together. Sailor Moon, although you are holding the Silver Crystal, it seems to me that you cannot release the true power of it. It is not in the finest states yet. That’s another thing you should be careful.
Mamoru: You haven’t seen her to use it…
Akiko: Yes, we haven’t seen it. But we have heard about it. Every time you used the Silver Crystal. The power was great and destroyed your enemies. But still, it was not the true power of it. It can do better, like making all your enemies a new life, creating a new planet for them, but not just destroyed them or dragged them away.
Everyone is in shock, especially Usagi. They didn’t know that.
Usagi: Are you going to find some more helpers to come here? We are not going to fight with just thirteen of us, are we? Like you said, we don’t have enough power to fight now. I do know some good fighters that we can trust. May be we can ask them for help. I just don’t know how to contact them. May be you can do it…
Yuko: We are not saying we don’t have enough power to fight now. It just that you don’t have the power to give them a new life. You are able to kill them with our help. They don’t really know much about what they are looking for and they don’t know our princess is really here or not. That will buy us some time. I think that they just know to get the Hope and Love Crystals but don’t know how to combine them and use them, and neither do I. However, we are definitely not able to fight with Princess Victoria. That’s why we have to find the princess as soon as possible. We don’t know what kind of power of her next henchmen would have. About helpers, we don’t want too many people to know about this and we definitely don’t have the time to go to some distant planet to search for warriors. In addition, if we put too many sailor soldiers here, they will definitely be sure that our princess is here.
Rei: And what are we going to do now?
Keiko: The three of us will continue to look for Princess Irene with our power, the power that we used to look for her. It is similar to the power the Four Winds used but gentler. You don’t know how to do it, so you do the old thing. Whenever an enemy shows up, go to check on it and save the victims. That’s all we can do for now.
[CM Break]
After the Graces left, all of the others stay at Usagi’s home to discuss the situation.
Usagi: I wish the Three Lights were here. If they were here, they would help us. I trust them. They are going to be our biggest help without causing any troubles. But I don’t know how to contact them. We would have a bigger chance if they were here.
Everyone else has strange look, especially Mamoru.
Mamoru (thinking): Usako acted very strangely recently. She talked about the three lights or the Star Lights all the time. I realized that Seiya-kun had to be in love with her. Although, she said that he was her best friend, I think that maybe just because she does not know his true feelings and does not notice her feelings to him.
Usagi (shaking her hand in front of the others eyes): What? Hello?
Haruka: We don’t need them to be here. We can take care of ourselves.
Usagi: I believe that three more sailors will definitely make it better.
Haruka: I am more worried about those ‘Graces’. Are we going to trust them?
Ami: But if we don’t trust them, who are going to give the power to Usagi-chan to destroy the enemies? We have tried too many times not trusting people and almost got ourselves killed. We should try to be like Usagi-chan. Try to trust the others.
Michiru: I agree with Ami-chan. After all, this time is out of our control.
Then Ikuko comes back so all except Usagi leave.
Today is a sunny day. Everyone is at the Ichinohashi Park happily except…
Usagi (crying loud): I can’t believe that I failed the open contest. What should I do? Everyone will laugh at me. Woo… What should I do?
Rei: I don’t think that people will laugh at you because of this contest.
Usagi: Rei-chan, you are very kind. But this is a open contest of all main subjects to all the student in Minato-ku. The results will go to all the school in here. Everyone will know my name and laugh at me…
Rei: What I mean is that people will not laugh at you because you failed this contest. You are well known to be a loser. They will laugh at you anyways.
Usagi (angrily): Rei!
Once more, Usagi and Rei get into a fight and the other inners get sweat-drops.
Makoto: By the way, Ami-chan, I heard that although you got perfect, you were not the first one in Minato-ku. What happened?
Usagi (stopped fighting with Rei immediately): What? Ami was not the first one? Then who was it?
Ami: It was a girl named Niiyama Chiyoko, 16 years old, a first year high school student at Rei’s school.
Rei: I know that girl. She is very famous at our school. She is the chairlady of the Western Calligraphy club and a famous member of the Drama Club and the Choir. She has been the number one student in her class every year. She is good at everything, like studying, writing poems and calligraphy, playing piano and chess, painting, singing, and so on. She is even quite good in sports too. And most of all, she comes from a very rich family. But her parents are working in New York. Only she lives in Minato-ku, with her housekeeper and some other servants.
Usagi: Wahoo! Why haven’t you ever mentioned her before? We should meet her. Oh, is she too proud to meet people? Possibly, rich people are very proud…
Rei: No, it is the opposite. She is very nice and always helps the others. Otherwise, she would not join the student union chairlady election. It is just that we don’t have much time to make friends with everybody we meet, right?
Ami: Let’s get a chance to meet her. I really admire her.
Suddenly, they hear screams. Everyone gets up and runs to transform.
Usagi: Moon Eternal, make up!
Ami: Mercury Crystal Power, make up!
Rei: Mars Crystal Power, make up!
Makoto: Jupiter Crystal Power, make up!
Minako: Venus Crystal Power, make up!
At the same time, in a different place, the Graces feel that the sailors transformed.
Yuko: We have to go to check on them. They need our help and power. May be one of the victims is the princess.
Keiko: Right! Let’s go!
Yuko: Aglaia Graceful Power, make up!
Keiko: Euphrosyne Graceful Power, make up!
Akiko: Thalia Graceful Power, make up!
Meanwhile, the Three Winds are standing in front of a bunch of people and their Hope and Love Crystals.
Notus: None of them is the right one. Nemesis is going to be really mad.
Zephyr: Let’s get out of here and find new targets.
Moon: You are not going to do that!
Three Winds look back. Five sailors are standing behind them.
Moon: Have these people done something unforgivable to you? Why don’t you leave them alone? For Love and Justice, the sailor-suited pretty soldier, Sailor Moon!
Mercury: Sailor Mercury!
Mars: Sailor Mars!
Jupiter: Sailor Jupiter!
Venus: Sailor Venus!
Moon: In the name of the moon, I will punish you!
Zephyr (teasingly): How lovely! The same line every time!
Moon (shouting angrily): You shut up!
Boreas: You cannot hurt us with nine of you last time. What makes you think that the five of you can have a chance?
Uranus: Did you say that there are only five of us?
Uranus: Sailor Uranus!
Neptune: Sailor Neptune!
Pluto: Sailor Pluto!
Saturn: Sailor Saturn!
Zephyr: Howling Desert!
Four inners use their attacks to block out the attack from Zephyr. Suddenly, a young lady walks through the park and sees the sailors and the Three Winds.
Boreas: Zephyr! Go and check on that babe. We can take over here.
Mars: That’s Chiyoko-san!
Sailor Mercury and Sailor Mars try to go to save her but …
Notus: Crying Forest! (Opens his right hand to the sailors, a sound and energy of rainstorm, raindrops, comes out from his right hand and attacks the sailors.)
Boreas: Freezing Ice! (Opens his left hand to the sailors, a sound and energy of snowstorm, including ice, comes out from his left hand and attacks the sailors.)
All sailors, including Sailor Moon, use their attacks to block out the attack from them.
Boreas: You should be more worried about yourselves.
At the same time, Zephyr reaches for Chiyoko.
Zephyr: Let me take a look at your Crystal, little babe!
Just before the energy hits Chiyoko, she tries to jump away, but still gets hit and she falls on the ground.
Zephyr: Not bad for a human, now, let me finish my job.
This time, when the energy is about to hit her. A man comes, holds her in his arm, and jumps to somewhere else. It’s Tuxedo Kamen!
Tuxedo: Don’t you think you have enough for today?
At the same time, the Graces give their power to Sailor Moon again.
Moon: Silver Moon Crystal Healing Kiss!
The attack reaches Zephyr and he is vanished.
Notus (unhappily): We will be back!
Then, the Two Winds leave. Tuxedo looks at Chiyoko and she has already fainted. All sailors come to them.
Moon: Is she all right?
Tuxedo: She’s fainted. We should take her to the hospital.
Hi! It’s Princess Cynthia again. I mentioned the copyright thing in episode 201 so I’m not going to say that again to bore anybody. You should see “something” by now. So I’d like to make things clear. This story is not against Mamoru. I like whomever Usagi loves and whoever loves Usagi. I just think that Seiya should also have a chance. I was satisfied with the ending of the manga but not the anime. Don’t get me wrong. I love every character in the story, even the enemies. I prefer the story line and the themes to separate characters. I write this story because in the manga version, Seiya considered his mission more important than Usagi who showed no interest to Seiya at all. But it is a different case in the anime version. Seiya was deeply in love with Usagi and was willing to sacrifice himself in order to save her. And Usagi showed interest in Seiya too (I believe you have already known why I say that). All right, e-mail your comments to me at princess_cynthiak@yahoo.com.hk . See you next time!