Demoted

Chapter 3
Questions

Artemis walked in, looking around. "So, any luck?"

"It seems that Chibi-Usa is at the Time Gate, but I can’t tell if this has affected her. From what I can find it seems to be affecting Senshi and those with similar powers."

"Hm... Is there any way to get to the door?"

"Setsuna might still be able to allow us passage. I’ll ask as soon as she wakes up."

"Alright. Have you picked up on any effects in the Dark Kingdom?"

"No, whatever this is it seems to be originating in somewhere in the Kuiper Belt." (FYI, the Kuiper Belt is a series of planet sized objects that Pluto is a part of. Other bodies include Sedna and Eris [informally nicknamed Xena until recently])

"Hm... All small planets...How much power is emanating from it?"

"Doesn’t seem to be that much compared to what we faced before, seems the problem is in the wavelength of the energy."

"Well, how big is that?" he asked, sitting next to her and looking at the screen

"My guess is about the same as the Senshi’s are, er used to be. But I can’t even tell if this thing is even alive."

"Well, we need to find a way to cut off the energy prematurely, so we can get whatever it is to notice and come down here" he said

I may find a way but it will take a little time for the computer to give us a detailed scan.

"Alright, but the most important thing right now is to both start up this business, and find who all this has effected. Who knows? Maybe all teens are like this..."

"Or at least those who have Senshi like powers, but if this thing gets stronger it may affect everyone, including us. What name do you think we should give this place?"

"Hm... Galaxy Nursery?" he said, shrugging

"Sounds good." Now we just forge the needed paperwork and we should be in business by tomorrow."

"Alright, I’ll take care of that" he said, printing out several sheets

"Ok, by tomorrow it should be set up. We should try to get some sleep before then.

"Alright" he said, looking over to her and smiling. "See you in bed" he said, winking as he turned back and filled out the papers

"We’re not married let, you get the couch tonight."

"Oh, meOW" he said, chuckling

The next morning Galaxy Nursery was open. "I wonder who will come first?" wondered Setsuna/

Luna came into the nursery. "Everyone awake?" she asked, clicking on the light

"Um. I think so but we all have work for you two." said Ami. "And you my want a nose pin."

"Yeah" Ami said sadly, as she sat down, the rest of the group now getting up from their slumber

After everyone was ready Artemis looked out the front door. "Wonder who our first customer will be?"

"I have no idea. But I have a strange feeling that is might not be very surprising" Luna said, walking over to the front desk and sitting

Setsuna crawled up in a black one-piece outfit with snaps at the bottom. "Thanks again for finding these for us. It would be odd to try to explain little senshi out fits to visiting parents." "No problem, just make sure everyone acts the part."

Artemis was in the changing room, nose pin on his nose, changing both Usagi and Minako at the same time. "Jeez guys, you shouldn’t have eaten so much" he said, wiping them

Around then the bell at the door rang. "Welcome to Galaxy Nursery Mrs.?" Luna said. "Osaka. And this here is little Naru. Mrs. Tsukino recommended this place to me after she said that her daughter plays here."

Artemis walked out, now holding the blondes. "Who’s here?" he asked Luna, looking at the new customer

"Artemis may I have a word with you?" Luna drug him out of earshot. "That’s the mother of one of Usagi’s friends from school, and that baby is that friend. The odd thing is that she said that Usagi’s mother told her about this place. It looks like those who know those who are regressed have their memories altered."

"Hm... then there is a possibility that this power might be more then we could take. If we don’t do something soon... Then we might forget that they are Sailor Scouts" he said, thinking deeply

"It might also have something to with the fact that we aren’t from this planet. Naru seems to be a baby in mind and body so those with powers might be able to fight this off longer."

"Alright, but we probably only have a month, like the girls" he said, looking at Usagi, who in turn was looking at Naru. "Well, I guess our guess was correct" he said, sighing

"And if this is the case I guess we can expect the relatives any of them have to come and pick them up at the end of the day." A couple of hours later parents had brought more babies, a number of them familiar to the senshi. At that point they heard Rei crying. "Don’t know why I did that." she said. "Looks like the instincts of your body are making you act in certain ways even though you have the mind of an adult." said Artemis.

"So... Whenever I feel uncomfortable, I am going to whine?" she asked, looking up at the white haired man. He nodded. "That blows" she said, sniffling

"It’s not just that." motioning to Kunzite and Minako who were giggling while playing a game. "You’ll all also be more playful.”

She huffed, turning away from the two. "I refuse to act like that" she said, very defiantly

"You may not feel that way for long." said Luna. "Although I would expect you and Haruka to throw a temper tantrum first." she whispered to herself.

"Hey, I heard that!" she yelled up to the tall woman, pointing at her, a vein pulsing in her forehead

"It’s just about nap time. We’ll research more then and try to reverse this."

"Yeah, and we might want to stay on our toes. I can sense a strange energy around..." Artemis said, carrying several of the new girls

Meanwhile a shadowy figure picked from behind a tree. "Don’t worry you’ll all see why I’m doing this, that is after I take over for your new playmates."

Artemis twitched, setting them all in their respective cribs. "There it is again. Luna, don’t you feel it?"

"I felt a wave of dizziness, but there is definitely some kind of presence nearby."

"Think we should check it out?" he said, tucking them in and putting on a night light

"Wait, now it’s gone. Whatever was here has left. We should run a scan of the area though just to be safe."

"Alright, I’m on it" he said, walking over to their special hidden computer system, typing in some information

"Nothing, whatever it was it was careful to not to leave any tracks behind. That indicates it’s intelligent."

"From the power we felt, they were temporarily in the area. What do you make of it?"

"It doesn’t seem to be evil in and of itself. But it could be a neutral power someone is using against us. Maybe we should examine the Kuiper Belt again."

He nodded and typed information in, zooming in on that specific area

"That’s weird; the strength of the energy was grown. Not by much but it’s giving out some interference."

"Hm... Think they are preparing for another attack?" Artemis asked, leaning back

"No, more like they just finished one. Perhaps every person that’s affected either by regression or memory rewrite seems to make whatever it is stronger."

"Well then, we have to find a hole in the power and start draining it" Artemis said. "Then we get at least some power to fight back"

"It’s hard with all the interference, whoa just felt dizzy again." "Same here. You think they’re attacking us?"

"Do you think we should go check it out?" Luna asked, standing and looking at he companion

"Of course. Still we can’t be sure if they are regressing us or trying to rewrite our memories."

"Alright, let’s test. Artemis, who is Minako?" she asked quickly

"My charge and Sailor Venus. Ok now your turn when we came in here the top of the cribs was level to our thighs where does it stop now?"

"Should still be the top of our thighs" se said, walking into the crib room again

"Hello there." said an odd looking woman standing in front of the cribs. "I know you want find out what’s going on but that’s going to have wait until after your nap." she then raised a dart gun and then every thing went black for the two human felines.

 

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