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Night has just fallen, both on Earth and on a small asteroid not all that far away. The sky is clear. Something in the stars above seems still. Only a few twinkle in the dark, just as they always have.

But something else is happening in the shadows. Something not so normal, not so peaceful.

A girl moves quickly through the Earthen night. She has gathered as many senshi, knights and cats that she knows — and many others she has just met. Here, under the streetlights of a city she only recently began to call home, she reaches out to a senshi next to her so that they all link hands…

And she calls out to her other home among the stars.

———

It is still night when they arrive, but it is a different night. When once you saw the moon in the sky, here you see none. Where there was a street, you see a winding path leading up. Where there were lights, you see crystals that glow.

But it is still the same stars, still the same sky.

You are not as far from home as it may seem — even on Urania.

———

The senshi that called you all here places a sphere she is holding on a dais. If you have been to this world before, you recognize the basic design. The sphere lights up and you can see stars and constellations in its surface.

It clears the fog before you and you see a tower floating in the distance — dark, spiraling and so very, very ancient.

“This is the Observatory.”

Urania says this as she leads you slowly up the winding path to its large and arching doorway — nothing much but the light of a few crystals in the ground to keep you from toppling over the sides of the bridge-like path and into the unknown.

But you can easily follow Urania by the stars she leaves behind as her, a new one lighting her path after each new step.

“It was important to me in the past and yet, since I have awoken, it has not been accessible to me. Its entrance was hidden by this fog. Who knows if I would have ever found it on my own.”

Her voice is solemn, quite unlike herself. But you see a gleam of that old smile and sweetness when she shows you her two things: the sphere with the constellations that she holds in her hand and a little dragon that is curled around the other.

“I found this sphere on my world and this precious little one on Earth. One thing from each helped me get here. Isn’t that interesting?”

The tiny dragon does not seem so happy to be here again and it disappears into its pocket dimension.

“Oh. Yes. Back to why I brought you all here.”

You are now in front of the door and you can begin to feel… it’s quite hard to describe, at first. It’s dark and distant. But it’s definitely coming from somewhere behind the door. It doesn’t belong there, but you can’t make out why. At least, not at first.

“Perhaps I should show you? Maybe that will explain it better than my words ever could.”

She holds up a hand in the dark and presses it against the door. Suddenly, in the dead of night, there is light! It swirls from her hands into the door and it weaves a pattern of starlight in its surface, star and constellations patterns appearing just as quickly as they disappear, reacting to the one person in all the worlds it ever would — the senshi of this world.

The doors open just a crack — no more! — and a force at once foreign and unmistakable seeps from within, like a darkness trying to snuff out any light it can find.

It’s clear as day now what is inside the Observatory. Chaos.


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Sessrumnir, Knight of Jupiter

“So this is Urania,” Sessrumnir said quietly, mostly to himself as he stood beside Alastor and took in their surroundings. He had his arms crossed comfortably over his chest, and made sure that even if he was looking elsewhere, he could still see Ephesus and Amarynthos in his peripheral.

He didn’t need anyone to respond. If anything, he was just filling the heavy quiet among them as Urania showed them the Chaos lurking behind the door of the Observatory. The hair on the back of his neck was already on end since arriving. He knew why they were there. He knew how dangerous it was to tackle Chaos.

They came close to not making it out of Alastor’s world.

But with everyone working together, they managed it. Not without some bumps and bruises of course.

The sphere Urania showed momentarily caught his attention, but he knew better than to think that every spherical object related to the stars originated from Sessrumnir. They certainly didn’t hold the monopoly over spherical, magical objects and maps and star charts, but maybe something in his starseed pulsed with an echo of pride for the work the Wonder did.

Ephesus, Knight of the Moon

Ephesus didn’t mind Alastor and Sessrumnir being protective and staying close. It was sweet. Amarynthos staying close was sweet too, but while Ephesus would have liked to hold his boyfriend’s hand, he instead held onto his staff and listened carefully to what they were being told, and paid attention to what they were being shown.

Although, once the door cracked open and Chaos was right there, Ephesus couldn’t help but take a cautious step back. He just hoped Amarynthos didn’t mind that he was practically hiding behind him.

“You don’t think spraying it with water would make it go away?” he asked quietly with a wary smile up at Mary. He didn’t want to sound like he was making jokes or not treating this seriously. He wasn’t! Things on this world already reacted differently than expected. Instead of fighting the bears that appeared, he’d helped to calm them down, and they helped him and Alastor get the key for Urania to get out of her cage. So maybe this Chaos would be different as well?

Somehow he doubted it, but he wanted to be hopeful. Even if he was kind of scared of how heavy and intimidating it felt.

Reims, Squire of Ganymede

“Have you tried, I don’t know, blowing the whole place up?” Reims wondered out loud. But if people looked his way, he quickly closed his eyes so he didn’t have to see, and pretended that his ears weren’t burning red either.

“Just saying! If everything is contained inside one place, then why not just get rid of that one place? What do we have to do? Hold hands and sing kumbaya while standing around it?”

He didn’t know how Senshi purged Chaos from their worlds! He knew it was done before. Amarynthos and Ephesus said they were there when they helped Alastor (whom Reims assumed was the brooding guy with the long black hair and shiny clothes near them -- he definitely looked more like an alien than the guy with scars across his face).

Of course, he also didn’t want to seem stupid around his friends. At least as long as they still wanted to be friends with him. That was yet to be determined and would only be put into question once he let them know his identity. But for now…

He’d been asked by Ephesus if he was available to help, since apparently Ephesus had been to Urania before. At first Reims wasn’t too sure because he was still feeling awkward and guilty, but thought it would be a good chance to have Rose meet the others. She needed a connection to people other than him, anyway. And he’d been pleased to find out that Yvoire and Dering were going to be there too.

“Rose, have you met any of my friends before? Or at least Dering since, I mean, since you’re both…” he gestured broadly to both of their outfits and the symbols they had. “Um… he’s gonna teach me to play the violin. Eevie and I clean up our wonders together. And Amarynthos and I--” he suddenly stopped. He was going to say they played baseball together which was true if Amarynthos was really Elliot, which made the most sense since he and Ephesus were always together but…

“Uh… Amarynthos and Ephesus and the rest of us went to beat up some Negaverse officers before. This is Rose,” he finished anticlimactically and shut his mouth before he could say anything else.

Dering, Squire of Lysithea

Dering looked startled at Reims’ suggestion because even though he had yet to find anything substantial on his Wonder, he couldn’t imagine blowing any part of it up. But then, he also didn’t have Chaos there. Probably. It didn’t feel like there was, but he would be the first to admit that he was inexperienced and still learning.

Which was, in part, why he didn’t feel like he belonged here. Thankfully, he wasn’t the only Squire, and it was a relief to be with his friends.

Even if they were suggesting blow the place up.

He waved a sheepish, awkward hand at Rose, but he looked at Urania with an apologetic look, as if she would even see him in the crowd of people. He was standing next to Reims, but that was as much of a presence as he had. He didn’t even know if he’d spoken loud enough for her to hear.

“It’s, um. It’s nice to meet you,” Dering said, and held out his hand for her.

Amarynthos, Squire of the Moon

Not so far away, Amarynthos turned to wave at Rose. They hadn’t had time to talk yet but the night was young. He was careful not to stay mostly in place so Ephesus had a sizable figure to hide behind.

Amarynthos kept his voice somewhat quiet but in doing so lost none of his friendliness. “We didn’t have to blow anything up on Alastor. I think. Ephesus said Urania’s got a lot of neat technology and magic here, so I’m sure she’s got a plan. Besides, there could be something important in there.”

Like magic bears. Or ancient records. Or weapons. Or a Mauvian. Or any number of things that he couldn’t quite imagine because he was too distracted thinking about why the Chaos had chosen there to fortify itself.

Guine

Reims, Ephesus

Sunshine Alouette

Rose, Yvoire

Super Sailor Perdita, Senshi of Plenty

Perdita tried not to laugh at Connie’s rambling. Facing Chaos was no laughing matter, after all. She would know; she’d faced it on Alastor before. But Connie’s sweetness and excitement made it difficult for Perdita to remain as stoic as she might have otherwise. She couldn’t suppress a few quiet snickers but hid them behind one of her gloved hands.

“You never know,” she said in a low voice, wary of their conversation carrying beyond them. “There were things sort of like ghosts on Alastor. Were either of you there? It was… a little unsettling. Chaos manifested as, like, visions… or memories, maybe? Nightmares? So the toilets might not be haunted in the traditional sense, but there might be something similar.”

Once she had control of her amusement, Perdita grew more serious, peering at the cracked open door. She had the familiar sense of wishing that Oberon had been able to come, but pushed that down, too. She and Connie and Belmont could look out for each other. There were plenty of others here. She saw Alastor and Sessrumnir. She might not know either of them well, but she knew she could trust them and rely on them if necessary.

She would be fine. She’d done this before. They could do this again, together.

“Stay close,” she warned Connie and Belmont. “Whatever ends up happening, we’ll be in more trouble if we get separated.”

Super Sailor Selinur


Selinur had arrived and was keeping to himself, for now, as he took the time to look around at the planet. He'd been here before to help Urania woth another issue, something likely related to the chaos here, he knew she'd been working hard on her planet and he needed to do the same. He'd been to his planet, he couldn't avoid the place despite how it hurt to be there, but he hadn't faced any challenges yet.

"What happened to the other buildings, if you don't mind me asking." He finally spoke up, curiosity shining in his eyes. He was eager to learn and find out what had happened here, and not just because of the suffering this planet had faced from chaos. But he thirsted for knowledge and secrets.

"How was it that the people came to an end? Perhaps there is an answer to be found in what happened to everything else?" He questioned, looking to find out whatever he could but also he did wonder if learning from the past would help here and now - would give an answer of what they were fighting and how to go about it. "It might also be good to know what this has done, in the past, to living beings." Was it like on his planet and an illness which had swept through the population with nothing stopping it? How had this fog, or darkness, worked to bring a planet to an end. "Anything you can tell us might help."

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Sessrumnir, Knight of Jupiter

“No one is going to blow up anything,” Sessrumnir said gently to reassure the distressed Senshi. At least not without her express permission. There was enough chaos the last time there were any explosives being used, and Sessrumnir wasn’t in the mood to repeat that.

“There's a lot of teenagers here,” he said quietly to Alastor, taking a step closer to him so he could share his thoughts without upsetting anyone. It wasn’t said as a bad thing. Just an observation. So many there seemed young, or inexperienced. He knew not to be deceived by the lifespan of some, such as Alastor. But even with all of Alastor’s wisdom and experience, being on Earth, being here, was new.

“When you were here with Effie, could you sense anything?” he asked, and he knew it was a vague question, but he trusted Alastor to know what he meant. There were just some things that only intuition could answer. They’d managed to get rid of the Chaos from Alastor, so maybe there was something he was more in tune to than others would be.

Super Sailor Selinur


Spotting the female behind Urania the ancient senshi raised a brow and cocked his head to the side. How interesting....he knew who this one was. She'd visited in the ancient past, when he'd been young still, and he was certain there was even more information locked away on his planet about her. He just needed to visit the library to look it up, even if it would take a lot of time to find, he would find something on her if he wished to go looking. If she had visited his planet, as he knew she had, something had been written about her and stored away.

His tail swayed and his ears tipped forward as he stood watching and waiting to see if he'd get some information, because even if it wasn't useful to the mission he did want information. That was one thing he always wanted - information. This blue haired ancient was certainly agressive...at least in words, though from what he did remember it wasn't just all words. This one would back that agression up physically. At least there was more muscle here to handle this chaos. Another world which would surely be reclaimed by it's senshi...another bit of the cosmos cleared of chaos.



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