Written by Moonlight Netknight
email:  Netnight15@aol.com
http://www.capecod.net/mthompso/fanfic/tuxp7.txt

Hi again all you fan fiction fans!  Well, wasn’t the last chapter interesting....
Well I suppose some of you may have figured out who those new tuxedo are...  
DONT YOU DARE TELL.  I want those who haven’t figured it out to be surprised :-p  
So without further delay....


Tuxedo Saga 
It’s been a blast!
Chapter 7

	Serena is walking slowly back from school, staring at yet another failed
 math test.  She sighs as she turns the corner and stops.  
	“OK...Mom and Dad are gonna kill me if I show them this ......  As if 
fighting those Negacreeps weren’t enough trouble, I gotta worry about getting 
grounded because of this......”  She begins to crumple it up and tosses it over 
her shoulder as she continues home.  “Oh well, what they don’t know couldn’t 
hurt.”  
	“Ouch.  What it with that”  someone calls from behind.  Serena freezes 
as she realizes she wasn’t looking when she threw it.  She slowly turns around 
and sees the person she just hit with her paper looking at it.  
	“A 45?”  He asks her with a slight smile.  “Maybe you shoulda tried 
something radical, like studying?”  He has big blue eyes, blond hair that is 
cut somewhat similar to Darien.  Only he looks around Serena’s age and is 
wearing a school uniform that is like the one the boys at Mina school  wear.
	Serena marches right up to him and snatches the test out of his hands.  
“Give me that!”  
	“Woah!”  HE steps back, handing the test to her. “OK.  OK.  It’s yours.”
	Serena begins to march away ticked off and even more determined to 
simply get home.  
	“Hey, aren’t you Serena?”  He asks while she walks away.  Serena stops 
dead in her tracks. 
	“Yes I am.  Have we met?”  She asks nervously.
	“No, but Mina told me alot about you.  I’m Mark”  He replys.
	Serena sighs a breath of releif as she relizes he’s not just some creep 
from the Negaverse.  She begins to walk back.
	“Mind if we walk on the way?  I kinda got to get to my friend Raye’s house.  
So you know Mina?”  she inquires as they start walking.
	“We have a couple classes together.  That and we occasionally eat lunch 
together.”
	That gets Serena attention.  “Oh really?  You two an item?”
	He really turns bright red at that question as he replies.  “Me , Mina?  
An item?  Not really?”  He turning brighter red by the second as he thinks, “Yeah 
right, I wish.” Serena notices his change of color to a bright blush and could tell 
right then and there he obviously lying through his teeth.  
	“If you say so”  Serena replies with a slight smile.  They both stop dead 
in their tracks as they notice something.  Serena recognizes it from the time before 
the rest of the scouts were awakened.  Mark notices the same deja-vu feeling.  
They slow turn for a moment into each others eyes as that feeling fades. 
	“Have we...?”
	“Met before.....?”  They wonder.
	“Major deja-vodoo feeling there”  Mark laughs.
	“Totally... Definetly weird....”  Serena giggles.  She looks around as 
she notices this is the bus stop for the temple.  “Well this was a short walk.  
This is my stop.”  Serena tells him in a disappointed tone.
	“Ok.  I gotta get to practice or I’m gonna be late.”  Mark replies, also 
bummed as the bus pulled up.  Serena steps onto the bus as the door opens and she 
steps on.  
	“Talk to ya later.  Nice meeting you.”  Serena says as she hangs out the door.  
	“Bye!”  Mark waves as she climbs the steps.  “Oh almost forgot.  Could ya
 tell Mina I said hi?”
	Serena giggles a bit before replying,  “Oh, I will.  Bye!” She chouts as 
the door closes, almost on her nose.   “Hey!  Careful with that thing!”
	“Sorry, didn’t see you there.”  the busdriver replies.
	As the bus pulls away Mark hums as he continues down the street, towards  the 
dojo on the corner.  “Man”  he mumble to himself.  “Did she look familar or what.  
I know I’ve seen those meatballs before.”

******

	Nephlyte steps out of his bright red corvet and looks up at a tall, vine
covered mansion, worn quickly with age.  He shrugs as he begins to focus energy 
around him.  Green and white energy float around him and then flow along the 
ground and onto the building.  With a shimmer of green light, Nephltyes old mansion 
is restored to it former glory.  After looking it over and admiring his work, 
he slowly walks towards it.
	“Funny, this place really got old fast.”  Npehlyte says to himself.  “It 
was only a couple of months I was gone and this is what happened to it?  Looks 
like something made it rot, bad.....  Wonder what it was....”  After puzzling 
over this question for a moment, he forgets about it and casually walks in.

******

	Darien is walking.  He can’t even see what he is walking on.  All he 
can see is that he is moving forward.  The ground beneath his feet has no 
substance to it.  The air he breaths has no taste to it.   All he can see and 
feel is two things.  Serena in her princess form, and a great pain right in 
his heart as he sees her detroyed.  The image repeats, but the pain in his 
mind and soul grows.  But he keeps walking towards his only love.  Serena
	“Why do you keep moving forward?”  An omnious voice calls from all 
around Dariens  “As long as you try to be close to her, she is still in grave 
jeopardy.”
	“How......?”  Darien manages to ask while fighting the great pain within 
him.  “How can loving her destroy her.   ANSWER ME!!!”  he screams with all 
his strenght as he collaspes on whatever he is walking on.  “Who?....What are 
you?”
	“Who I am is not important right now.  What I know is.”  There is a 
great and fear and silence as the voice pauses;  The silence comes from the 
lack of sound.  The Fear, from Darien.  
	“What is happening?”  Darien asks.
	“Time itself is coming to a crossroad.  This time, this place, and the 
people will come.  The pinacle of power is rising and if you stray and do not 
follow your destiny all will die......”
	“My destiny?....” Darien ponders as he sits up, gasping for air in his 
bed.  He looks around at his room, his normal, solid, dark, room.  He shakes 
his head as he lays back down.  Looking at the blinking alarm clock.  
	“These nightmares are getting worse.”  He mutters as he sits up again 
and sits on the side of his bed.   The alarm clock read about 12:05 and is 
blinking so it has been only five minutes since the blackout or brownout ended.  
He looks around at the room, trying to tell what time it is.  He glances over 
to the hallway and almost sees the clock in the hall, but is blinding halfway 
by the door.  He rises to his feet, and tiredly drags himeself across the room.  
He moves his bedroom door and moves it to the side to see the blinking clock.  
He pounds his fists to the wall.  Not in frustration about the clock, but his 
own mind.
	“Am I going insane?”   he mutters as he drops his head.   He glances 
over to the vase across the room.  It is filled to the brim with roses.  
Then, in the middle of all the rose, he see one standing higher than all the 
rest.  As he looks closer he sees that rose, glowing with a faint red aura 
glowing aruond it.  He stared in amazement and began to walk towards it, but 
suddenly, the glow faded.  The rose floated down and became one with the bunch 
once more.  
	“This is getting too weird.”

******

	“This is getting too weird”  Artemis mutters as he continued to type 
on Amy’s mini-computer.  He is sitting on proch outside the shrine, along with 
the other girls.  They are all axienously waiting on what he has to say.  After 
a few moments he stopped and read the information on the screen.  “I have a 
bunch of readings of those two new warriors and I still can’t even get half an 
idea on what there power level is.”
	“What do you mean?”  Serena asks.  “Why is their power levels important.”
	Artemis sighs and looks up.  “Because.  One of them canceled out a blast
from Nephlyte when his power was more than enough to almost completely defeat you.  
The other stopped Cumulasite cold when we couldn’t even land a hit on him.”  The 
girls were silent for a few mintues after he said that.  
	“Could they be more powerful than us?”  Mina asked.
	Sighing, Artemis replied  “We have no idea what power types they used 
and how powerful they are.  We have to know two things.  How powerful they are 
and if they are on our side”.
	“Ha!”  Serena laughed.  “Of course they’re on our side.  They saved 
us twice.  They fought the Negaverse and won.”
	“We can’t assume anything yet meatball brain,”  Raye retorted.  “We 
barely know anything about them.  Who knows their agenda?”
	“Well I trust them!  And don’t call me meatball brain!”  
	“Yeah!”  Raye snorts back.  “But you also trusted Alan and Ann.”
	Serena almost looses it right then and there.  She is silent for a few 
moments in anger, but tries to contain her self.  “Watch it Raye Hino....”  
Serena growls back.
	Raye is slightly shocked by Serena’s anger.  She usually the picture of 
clamness of whimpyness.  This out of character for Serena signals Raye to 
also step out of her normal character and stays silent, backing off.  You couldn’t 
cut the tension now in the air with Venus’s crescent beam.  Artemis pauses for 
a moment, then snaps back to reality and returns to the computer.  After a few 
moments, he looks up once again.  
	“Amy?” he asks.  “Do you remember that old program you tried to use 
to extract the Moonlight Knight’s identity?” 
	Amy thinks for a moment and then replies. “I think it’s still in the 
school computer’s hard drive.”
	Every is shocked by that.  They practically fall over they are so surprise.
	“ARE YOU NUTS AMY?”  Lita shouts at her.
	“Wha... What do you mean?”  Amy wonders confused.
	“You left a program that could be used to reveal ANYONE’S secret identity 
ON A SCHOOL COMPUTER?!?!?”
	Amy is begining to understand.  “I guess so.....”
	“DID IT EVER OCCURE TO YOU,”  Raye jumps in,  “THAT SOME KID COULD USE 
THAT PROGRAM TO FIND OUR SECRET IDENTITIES??”
	Embarrassed Amy studders to find the words she is looking for.  “I didn’t 
think.....”
	“YOUR RIGHT YOU DIDN’T THINK”  Lita and Raye yell in unison right at Amy.  
They’re breathing down her neck and Amy looks like she almost about to cry.  
Mina all of a studden steps in between the two angry scouts and Amy.
	“Chill.”  is all Mina says while putting a hand on Amy’s shoulder to comfort 
her.  “It’s not important who made the error.  It important to find out what we 
can do to fix that error and fast.  We’ve all made mistakes.  Let’s start fixing 
this one before you two blow a fuse.”
	Lita and Raye take a deep breath and begin to calm down as they back 
off.  Serena is still obviously angry because she has yet to look into anyones 
eyes.  She calmly starts walking away, towards the temple steps.  
	“Where are you gong Serena?”  Luna asks her,  surprised at Serena’s cold 
behavior.  
	“Where else?”  Serena replies calm down more so.  In a more relaxed voice, 
“To the school to get the program and find out what we need to know.” She waits 
a moment then inquires with a smile forming out of the corner of her mouth, “Is 
anyone else coming?  Or am I going to have to find out how to use that program and 
computer all by  myself?”
	The scouts look around and nod in unison agreeing.  “Let’s go.”  Mina 
smiles as they follow Serena out of the temple and onward to the school.

******

	Melvin slumped over in his chair and stared at the computer screen.  
He exhaustedly typed on the computer.  Yawning he reached for the mouse and saved 
and printed his work.
	“Thought I’d never get this stupid thing done.”  he muttered as he picked 
up his printout.  He looked it over a couple of times then turned his head as 
he heard someone talking just out in the hall.   “Who would be still at school 
this late?”  he pondered as he looked through the partially opened door.  He was 
a bit surprised to see Serena of all people at school.
	“I’m sure the program is fine Amy.”  She said to Amy who was walking next 
to her.  Mina, Raye, and Lita were also there.  “Who knows who even looked 
through that computer last couple of weeks.”
	“I did do a pretty good job of hiding in a couple of sub folders and 
hiding the files themselves.  Unless someone was specially looking for that program 
they wouldn’t of found it.”  Amy replied nervously.
	“But someone still could of found it by accident.”  Lita reminded them.  
“Worst of all we have know idea if someone has used it still then.”  
	“I supose I could run a scan on that file and see the last time it was 
accessed.”  Amy reaasured her.
	“Well lets just hope it’s still there.”  Mina mentions.  “It could really 
be useful in....”  Melvin can’t hear what she says because she had moved to far 
away and into the other computer room.
	Dieing with curiousity, he steps into the hall and steps queitly down 
the hall.  He doesn’t make a sound as he peeks into the computer lab.  All the 
girls are looking at the somputer screen and Amy types at a high speed.  She paused 
for a moment and smiles a bit.  “Good news.  No one has accessed the program since 
the day I made it.  And I’ve put the scans we have into the program.”  She taps the 
mouse button twice and two figures appear on the screen.  
	Sweat begins to form on Melvin’s brow as he sees the two figures are Tuxedo 
Mind and Heart.  Below numbers are flying across the screen.  
	“Good news is that this program is still intact enough to run the 
deconstuction of the faces behind the masks.  And the scans we took are enough 
to run the program.”  Amy seems pleased as the program runs.  She frowns as the 
she read something at the bottom.  “Good thing this computer hasnn’t crashed 
since I made this program.  The file structures is very weak.”
	Melvin began to slowly back away.  Then he sprinted down the hall making 
very little noise as he went.  He dissappeared into another room as the program 
continued to run.  
	“So what do you think we can do once we found them out?” Mina inquired.  
“What then?”
	“Well....umm.... I haven’t thought that far ahead I guess.”  Serena 
studdered out.  “I guess we can chat or something.”
	They all face faulted on that.  “Serena......  What are we gonna say to 
them?”  Raye grumbles.  She continues in a only slightly sacrastic tone “Oh hi!  
We know your secret idenities and we know your super powerful warriors and we just 
want to make sure your not here to take over and/or destroy the earth.” 
	“Ha.  Ha.  Ha.”  Serena replied in an more than slightly sarcastic tone 
of voice.  
	“You guys hear something?”  Lita interjected.  
	They fall silent for a moment trying to hear what Lita was talking about.  
Then they hear it.  It sounds almost like a low hum but it’s different.  A second later 
they are in complete darkness as three of them let out a slight scream.  Then the 
emergency lights kick in and realize it was only a blackout.  
	“Damn....”Amy mutters not quiet under her breath.  That gets all of 
the scouts attention.  As they turn to her.  
	“Woah.  What’s wrong Amy?”  Mina asks her, shocked at her language.
	“The computer’s power was cut.”  Amy informs them with a cold tone.  “The 
program was running so there’s only bought a chance in a billion I’ll be 
able to recover it.  The whole file system is probably completely screwed.”
	For about 10 seconds, everyone aside from Amy had completely confused 
looks on their faces.  Amy exhaled and relaxed a bit before saying “In basic 
terms it’s busted.”
	“Oh”  Serena, Lita, Raye, and Mina said in unison.

******

	In a the basment of of school, the lights are only begining to turn back 
on.  But the entire room is lite up with blue light.  Light not from the overhead 
lights, but from sparks.  The fusebox is practically exploding, as a blue tulip 
laid imbeded in it.

******

	Andrew grumbled as he stepped off of the bus and onto the sidewalk.  
He looked around at the city he hadn’t seen for almosst 3 weeks and sighed.  
Totaly ticked off he draged himself down the street.  
	“I can’t freaking believe this...”  he mumbled under his breath as 
he began walking up to the arcade and took a quick look in and almost dropped 
his bag and his jaw when he saw wha tit looked like inside.
	“This....this can’t be right... I must be at the wrong place.  It 
has to be.”  he said as he picked up his bag and continued to walk angry and 
now confused home.  Putting his hand to his head he tried to imagin the last 
few days had not happened.  He shook his head finally realizing it was all very 
real.  He also a very real Serena, Lita, and Mina were walking just less than 
a block away from him.  He managed to crack a smile as they approached.  
	“Hey Andrew!” Serena called out in her usual cheery manner.
	“Hi gang.”  Andrew managed to say without totally sounding rude.
	All three of them were quiet for about three second till Lita spoke 
up.  “Something wrong?” 
	“Well......”  Andrew mumbled as he debated weather or not to tell them.  
	“Come on Andrew what sup?  Your not telling us something.”  Serena 
demanded.
	Giving up andrew sighed.  “You know how I went on that incredebly long 
plane trip when i heard Rita got sick?”
	“Yeah.”  they replied.
	“Acutally I kinda fibed.  I heard she was hurt, bad.  That’s why I 
left in such a rush.  I caught the first plane there and then took a ‘crash 
course’ in chartering a plane to get me to the field hospital.”  He blurted 
out.
	“Oh my god....”  Lita gasped.  “Is she ok?”
	Andrew took a really deep breath trying to hold in his anger.  “She 
perfectly fine.  Not a scratch on her.”
	“Huh?”  Mina asked.  
	“I thought you heard she was....?”  Serena asked.
	“Whoever got that information completely made it up!”  Andrew blurted 
out as his anger continued to rise.  “If I ever find the baka that didn’t 
that I’ll......ARGH!!!”  He screamed releasing some of that pent up anger.  
	“Woah!”  Serena said trying to calm him.  “Try to relax.  It was 
probably just some prank caller.” 
	“Yeah!  The good side was that you got to see her after all that time.”  
Lita said trying look on the bright side.   
	“That’s true.......”  Andrew mumbled calming down a bit.  “But the scary 
part was who ever it was knew just about everything about her.  What she looked 
like, where the site was she went to study, when she left, and.....”
	“And?”  Mina asked curiously.  
	“This.”  He said in a calm voice as he held out his hand.  Opening 
his palm a single small gold heart locket lay in his hand.  He opened it up 
and inside was a picture of Rita and him.  “I gave this to her the day she 
left.  No one in the whole city knew about it.  I special ordered it from 
from Europe and I printed the small picture inside myself at the school’s 
photolab.”
	“I dont understand.”  Serena admited.
	“Rita is the only person in the world that knew i gave it to her.”  
Andrew continued.  “She swore she didn’t tell anyone else who went with her 
about it.  It never left her neck the whole time.  The next thing I know 
this ends up in a package and the second I get it in the mail the phone 
rings.  The voice on the other end tells me to open it and I do.  I find 
this and the person on the other end tells me she was hurt in a rock slide.”
	“That’s when you left?”  Serena asks him.
	“Yep.”  he replies.  “I make three calls.  One to Darien to tell him 
the sick story so everyone’s not worried.  The second to my boss to tell him 
I have an emergency and I wont be able to work for a couple weeks.  I had a 
few weeks vacation so I take that time and he hires a replacement.  Then I call 
the airport and get the next flight out.”
	“Did the person on the other end tell you anything?”  Mina wonders.
	“Nope.  The weirdest thing is when I finally do meet up with a perfect 
uninjured Rita and I show her the locket, she takes the chain and shows me the 
exact same locket.  Same picture, same style, same everything.  This is the 
locket and so was the one around Rita’s neck.”
	“Woah......”  Serena exclaims.  “Major league weird.”
	“Totally”  Lita and Mina agree in unison.  
	“I gotta head home and unpack...” he mumbles tired and still angery.  
Trying to perk up a bit, “Catch ya later?  I phoned my boss and should be 
back by Wednesday.”
	“Sure”  The girls reply 
	“Bye!”  He calls back as he waves and continues on his way.
	“That is major league weird.”  Serena mentions as they continue on 
their way to the temple.  “How can he get the exact same locket in the mail 
if Rita still has it when she’s in Africa?”
	“It’s not possible.  That just it.” Mina sighs
	“Think this has anything to do with the Dark Moon?”  Lita sugests.
	“Why would the Dark Moon want Andrew to leave town?”  Serena wonders 
skeptically.  “It doens’t make sense.”
	“Wait a sec!”  Mina says as something clicks in her mind.  “Andrew leaves 
town, the arcade is remodeled, the Dark Moon  suddenly uncovers our identies, 
and the device planted by Luna at the arcade is missing.  It all connects!”  She 
exclaims
	“We gotta tell the others bout this!”  Serena annouces as they begin 
to race towards the temple.

******

	Nephlyte stands in his mansion in the woods, once mre looking into 
the heavens for guidance.  He gazes as he sees the stars fly by and planets 
float one by one in their orbits.  
	“Powers of the stars, show me my fate.”  He whispers as he closes 
his eyes in mediation.  “Show me what is to come of the future so I may be 
ready.”
	He waits a few moments and looks up towards the sky.  Two planets blinks 
but for a moments, but then pass.  Nephlyte shakes his head in disappointment.  
“Nothin...”  he mutters.  “The stars can’t even tell me what to do.”
	He breathes a sigh and then the lghts begin to fade.  He turns and 
heads for the door.  Before he can reach them he notices something.  “Wiseman.”  
	Wiseman’s projection appears out of the floor and floats into being.  
“How did you notice it was me?  I block my mind, still the air before and 
while I enter, and emit no energy.  How did you know?”
	“I just know.”
	“Very well....  What have you forseen in the stars this night?”  Wiseman 
inquires changing the subject.
	“The stars have told me nothing.  The only thing I could see 
happening was a few planets will soon come into earth’s zenith over tokyo.  
Mars and Jupiter.”
	“That’s all?”
	“I’m afraid so.”
	“Searching for your future as well I take it?”  Wiseman asked.  
Nephlyte felt a cold sweat form at that question.  He paused for a moment 
then noded yes to it.  
	“I will tell you your future.  It is with the NegaMoon.  If you 
stray then you have no future.  Understood?”   Wiseman informed him 
sternly.  
	“Hai.”  Nephlyte replied bowing as Wiseman faded away.  

******

J’ai fini le chaptre sept
(I’ve finished Chatper 7)  Yeah!!!!!!

Took me a while and i know some of you are disappointed I’ve taken so long 
but dont fret mon amie.  More to come and no end in sight for this ongoing 
Saga.
The next might take a while
i'm major league busy with wrestling and such so have patience for patience 
is the essence of virtue


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