Usagi woke with a start just after midnight, her labored breathing and pounding heart sounding loud in her quiet room. She had just had a nightmare that had chilled her to the bone. It was eerily familiar in a way that she could not understand. As Usagi thought back on the dream two images flashed through her mind. One was of a young man she did not recognize in armor defending her. The second was of a group of girls in what appeared to be different colored uniforms, fighting a red-headed woman surrounded by a black cloud.

Suddenly, drawn by a force she did not understand, but felt she had to obey, Usagi stood and dressed. Then she snuck out of the house. Normally she would never have considered leaving the house in the middle of the night; in fact she normally would have just rolled over and gone back to sleep, but something about this dream, the images in her mind, and a plain and simple gut feeling, led to this very un-Usagi like act. As Usagi started walking down the street outside, something drew her gaze toward the full Moon. Suddenly the moon seemed to shimmer with a silver light and Usagi was gone from the sidewalk.

Usagi stumbled at the sudden change in scenery and looked around in shock. She stood on a grey plain, ruined pillars and buildings all around. All of it tickled something in the back of her mind. Almost as if she had been there before. As she continued to look around her gaze lifted to the sky. She gasped in shock to see the Earth hanging above her in the star-filled sky.

“I’m on the Moon?!” Usagi asked herself incredulously.

“Welcome, my daughter,” said a voice from behind Usagi.

The voice seemed to pull at her memory and make her heart skip a beat to be hearing it again as Usagi spun around to face a tall woman. She looked extremely familiar but Usagi could not place why. She wore her long silver hair in two buns like the style Usagi had always favored, and she wore a simple silver dress with a light purple bow in the front. Then, another woman stepped up next to the first. This second woman was wearing a uniform like the ones in Usagi’s dream, with a white body suit and dark green almost black skirt and collar accenting with garnet colored bows and a chain holding keys around her waist. She was holding a long key-like staff in her right hand and had long dark green hair, half pulled back into a single bun. This second woman tapped her long staff against the ground. Usagi’s eyes widened with shock and recognition as memory after memory crashed through her mind and she promptly crumpled.

The first woman turned to the second. “Thank you for bringing her here,” she said. “I will call you when it is time to return her.”

The second, uniformed woman bowed. “As you wish, Your Highness,” And she vanished from sight.

Sometime later Usagi awoke to find herself in what had been a bedroom and she was lying on the remains of what at one time had been a large four poster bed. The first woman from earlier was standing, looking out through a ruined archway, and turned as Usagi stood.

“Mother?” Usagi asked in Lunarian, shocked to see the woman that had once been her mother, standing there. Usagi’s mind had gone into overdrive trying to process everything at once, past and present trying to reconcile within her mind.

Queen Serenity, last ruler of the Silver Millennium stood and nodded. The Queen then found herself being hugged so hard she thought she might have to pry the girl off of her. The Queen laughed musically as she cradled her daughter. Remembering the last time she held her daughter like this the Queen sobered.

“My Daughter, I have failed you," Queen Serenity said quietly in the same language Usagi had spoken. Usagi shook her head against the Queen. “But I have, little one,” she continued. “I could not save you or our kingdom. And in the end I could not even save myself."

Usagi looked at her in shock. “But you’re here!” She said. “I can touch you!”

The Queen smiled sadly. “No, my dear,” she said. “I am only a spirit now. If I was to leave the palace grounds I would no longer have form. My spirit is bound to these lands and it cannot be undone.”

"Mother… what did you do?” Usagi asked finally letting go of her mother and looking out at the ruins of the palace that had once been her home. She remembered the battle and what had happened to drive them all to their deaths. Usagi suddenly sobbed. “I’m so sorry mother," She said with tears in her eyes, "I should have thought about the consequences before doing what I did.” The Queen stepped up next to Usagi and wrapped a bare arm around her shoulders trying to comfort the crying girl.

“You had no way of knowing what would happen after you died. Only Pluto could have known, and you know how she is,” she said as mother and daughter shared a dry chuckle, both thinking of the stoic Guardian of Time and how she would never tell them anything when they wanted to know.

“Why did you have Pluto bring me mother? I just dreamt of the Fall tonight. Why so soon?” Usagi asked.

Queen Serenity took Usagi’s hand and guided her out of the door and down a couple of still standing halls, until they reached a circle of destruction. In the center stood a broken crystal pillar. The Queen stepped into the circle, followed by Usagi. But when Usagi stepped into the circle her clothing shimmered to form an off the shoulder white gown, a crescent Moon formed on her brow and her hair turned silver to match the Queens. Usagi stopped short, darker blue eyes wide and Princess Serenity stood in her place.

“Wha-?” Princess Serenity began, before trailing off in confusion.

Queen Serenity smiled at her. “By coming here you have gained the ability to become who you once were. To become what destiny chose for you. The Crystal Tower, though shattered, has restored your ability to be the Princess of the Moon, and is what has kept my spirit here all these years.” The Queen pointed at the base of the blackened crystal tower. “When I used the Ginzuishô to try and seal Metallia away, the Tower shattered from the force of evil I was trying to contain. With you and Prince Endymion dead, and your Sailor Senshi also dead, I did the only thing I could. I sent all of you and as much of this Moon kingdom forward as I could. Looking for a place where all of you could grow up together. And where you could find your Prince again, and be able to have the love that you lost. But the power to keep you all safe came at a great price for me,” The Queen sighed, eyes sad. “The power it took to both seal the Dark Kingdom away and send you all forward came at the price of my life.”

Serenity watched her mother say this as she knelt at the base of the shattered tower. “But why have Pluto bring me here tonight?” She asked again, stepping closer to her mother. “I only just dreamed of my last moments tonight and then not very clearly,” The Princess said confusion evident in her voice, she wanted to understand.

Queen Serenity suddenly looked very somber. “I had Pluto bring you here because you should not have awakened until your eighteenth birthday. The fact that you dreamed of your last moments now, two years before you should have slowly remembered, means that the Dark Kingdom has escaped from the seal I put on them so long ago. My seal held for a hundred thousand years while humanity developed anew, but now they have escaped. And Beryl has captured four souls that I never wanted to see in her hands again.”

Serenity gasped, “The Shitennou?”

Queen Serenity nodded sadly, “I healed them before sending them forward. But it seems Prince Endymion’s most trusted advisor's and friends were ensnared again by Beryl. I send them forward so that your Senshi, as well, could have a chance at love lost.” The Queen held a hand out to her daughter as she stood. Princess Serenity stepped forward and grasped her mothers hand.

The two stood there for a moment enjoying one another's presence. Then the Queen shut her eyes in concentration and Serenity could feel the power slowly start to build. And she watched as a compact formed in the air between them. Once it had completely coalesced between them the Queen took it before it could drop to the ground and flipped it open. There was a space inside that looked like it should hold a jewel and the Serenity suddenly knew that the compact was for her.

“Unfortunately, you are going to have to fight Metallia and her minions,” The Queen said, sounding like she would like nothing more than to take her daughters burden from her, “You are going to have to find the Senshi and awaken their powers. Luna will help I sent her and Artemis to Earth as well look for her, you will need her. I have also given you the power to become a Senshi. You cannot reveal who you are to the world. You may tell your Senshi but they must understand the need for secrecy about your identity.” The Queen shut the compact with a snap and held it out to her daughter. “This is your transformation broach. You will need it to transform into Sailor Moon. Your activation words are Moon Power, Make Up!” then she smiled. “Try it.”

Princess Serenity looked at her mother dumbfounded. Shaking her head a bit to clear her thoughts she took a step back away from her mother. The Princess raised the broach to the sky and called out “Moon Power, Make Up!” and gasped as the transformation took place. Her dress melted away to be replaced by a white body suit with a blue collar and skirt, with a red bow in front and back, followed by elbow length gloves and knee high red boots. Red jewels appeared on her buns, white hair clips and a gold tiara, with a crescent moon in the center settled into place, her hair going back to blonde. All this happened in a spit second flash of light and as the light faded Sailor Moon looked down at herself. “I look like a combination of Mars and Mercury,” she said, with a small smile.

The Queen chuckled dryly, "This is the first time since my grandmother's time that we have had to call on the power of the Moon to create a Senshi of our own."

"You mean you could have been a Senshi?" Sailor Moon asked surprised, her mother had never told her during the Millennium.

"Indeed I could have been, but there was no need for me to have the power and by the time it was needed you had already fallen. But now you can take up the mantle of the Senshi of the Moon. Hold your head proud at your position and always remember where the power comes from."

Moon nodded and smiled, "I will," She promised.

Queen Serenity smiled slightly as well, though there was sadness in it, “Now, I have kept you here long enough. It is time for you to return home.”

I am home! Sailor Moon wanted to say, but she only nodded her head and let her new transformation go. In doing so she also changed back into Usagi.

Setsuna! Usagi heard the Queen call silently. It is time.

Usagi sniffed and hugged the Queen. “If you need guidance, just call,” The Queen said tapping her temple to show Usagi what she meant. “Remember, no one is to know that you are the Princess, besides your court. And you are going to have to find the Ginzuishô on your own I hid it so that the Dark Kingdom would not be able to find it. But that also means that I cannot tell you where it is because Selene forbid they might find a way to get the information out of you. And I don’t want anything to happen to my daughter.”

Usagi nodded, “Not one little hint?” she asked plaintively as Sailor Pluto appeared behind the Queen. The Queen shook her head with a smile.

Pluto opened a portal with a small smile, and waved Usagi toward it. Usagi walked toward the portal, and when she got there reached out and gave Pluto a hug which the stoic Guardian of Time returned warmly, “Its good to have you back, Princess,” the Senshi told her.

“Just remember,” Queen Serenity said, “The crystal will follow your heart.” She smiled at Usagi one last time, and the now confused girl stepped into the portal.

Before she knew it, Usagi was standing on the sidewalk this all started on, with the feeling almost no time had passed. Thank you Setsuna! Usagi thought, knowing the Senshi of Time had pulled a little trick of her own and she smiled when she felt Pluto's laugh in her mind.

Usagi returned home and climbed back into bed, as though she had never left, but before she fell asleep she realized that she had no way of finding the other Senshi.

At the same time Usagi was falling asleep back asleep after her midnight trip, a small black cat sat on the sidewalk outside thinking hard, the crescent Moon on its forehead glowing slightly.