SME-E--Chapter 4

It was now three o' clock in the afternoon as we soon come back upon Juuban Park, where we could see all of the concert attendees sitting down in chairs placed in front of a leveled stage. It was then that we notice on the front row the seven women and three Ed's, all of them waiting for Michiru to come out onto the stage.

It was while the audience was waiting for the violinist to come out, we could see a feminine figure standing on a high branch in a tree that was in the woods nearby. It was one of Master Kurozen's generals, named Dikona.

"Ah, I see we have a gathering of people here in the park…" Dikona stated to herself as she made a smirk on her face, "This type of crowd would be perfect for capturing energy."

Dikona soon turned her head behind her to her left, "I'm pretty sure you can handle the rest, right?"

"Yes General Dikona," stated a throaty voice from behind the woman as the thing behind Dikona teleported away, leaving the general behind. Soon Dikona teleported away from her location.

Meanwhile, back with the three Ed's and the women…

"Geez, when's that Michiru chick gonna come out?" Eddy muttered under his breath, "This waiting for her is getting really annoying…"

"You just have to be patient," stated Rei, who was beside him to his right, "So quit complaining."

Eddy growled slightly to the woman, 'If she weren't so hot, I would tell her not to mess with me!'

Double D, who was beside Eddy to his right, only sighed at their interaction.

In the meantime, Ed, who was sitting by Hotaru to his left, was looking nervously at Hotaru from the corner of his eyes, 'S-She looks so much like the woman from my dreams!'

(Cue Ed's Dream Sequence Memory… Thing…)

Screaming and torture. That was all that could be heard and seen here in Ed's dream. Ed gasps aloud as he could see people suffering and dying in front of him on a field near a town and castle. It was a battle.

"W-What's going on?" Ed questioned aloud with shock.

As if to answer his question, the dream area faded to black, and resurfaced in a different location; a castle-like place out in space… on the planet Saturn. It was in this castle that Ed could see two people standing out in front; both of those people looked like Ed and Hotaru! They both looked to be the age of fourteen. Hotaru was dressed like a sailor soldier in a miniskirt, while Ed was dressed as a knight warrior of some sort. Both of them had a glaive, but Hotaru had a staffed glaive, while Ed had a glaive in a form of a sword.

"What's going on, Your Highness?!" questioned the boy knight to the sailor soldier.

"It looks like we're under attack," stated the girl, "But… How could this have happened…?"

"Princess!" shouted a voice from behind them as a servant came up from behind them, "We've received word that the Moon Kingdom has fallen to an unknown enemy from Earth!"

"W-What?!" gasped both the princess and the knight, "Then that means…" muttered the princess, "I have to set thing back to the beginning, before they get to the other planets."

The knight gasped at what she was saying, "But… There must be another way besides that!" he stated.

"… I wish there was one," stated the princess as she walked a little forward, her staffed glaive in her right hand, "But we have no choice."

"No!" cried out the knight as he ran by her side, which made her stop walking, "You can't do it! D-Do you know what would--"

"Of course I know what will happen to us, Edwin," stated the princess in a soft voice as she placed her left hand on his right, "But it must be done; for the solar system's continuous future."

The knight named Edwin only made a sad look in his eyes as the princess let's go of his hand, "Princess…"

The princess soon walked passes the knight as she then raised her glaive in the air, striking a pose with it.

"… I wish we could be reincarnated, Edwin," the princess suddenly stated as she turned her head halfway to him; he could see tears streaming down her face, "So I can tell you then… that I'm sorry…"

The princess soon focused her attention back on her duty, "Death…" she started to mutter as the blade on her glaive started to glow a sinister purple, "Reborn…" she continued to mutter as she turned staff upside-down towards the ground, "… Revolution!!!" she called out the final word of her attack, tears still streaming down from her eyes…

And then… everything turned back…

(End of Ed's Dream Sequence Memory… Thing…)

"… Ed?"

"Huh?!" gasped Ed a little as he tensed up a little at the voice, turning to the one who called his name.

"It looked like you spaced out there for a moment," stated Hotaru with a bit of a giggle, "Is there something wrong?"

"Umm…" Ed muttered a little, "N-No, nothing's wrong!"

"Oh… Well, alright," Hotaru stated back with a smile.

Ed made a nervous smile back to the woman as he glanced at her every once in a while, 'Is she really the one in my dreams…?' he started to think, 'Or is it just a coincidence…'

Suddenly, Ed could feel his heart rate increasing by the second. He gripped onto his shirt a little as he leaned forward in pain.

This caught both Double D and Hotaru's attention, "Ed? Is there something wrong?!" Double D asked.

"I… I-I need to go!" Ed suddenly blurted out as he jolted up from his seat and dashed off towards the back of the seats to the exit of the park.

"Ed?!" Double D questioned with worry as he got up from where he sat as well and started to run after him. Hotaru made a bit of a worried face as well.

"Hey, Sockhead!" called out Eddy from where he was sitting, "What's goin' on?"

"Eddy, can you follow me please?" Double D stated to Eddy as he passed him.

Eddy made a bit of an irritated sigh, "Geez…" he muttered as he got up from where he was sitting and began to rush after Double D.

It was soon that Double D and Eddy caught up with Ed, who was leaning against on the side of a lamppost nearby, "Ed?" questioned Double D as he and Eddy came up to their friend, "Is there something wrong?"

"I-I don't know," Ed started to mutter, still clutching onto his chest as he did, "My chest started to hurt a while ago."

"Here, let me see what's wrong," Double D stated as he started to examine him. The first thing he examined was his pulse on his right wrist. He widened his eyes at his conclusion, "Oh my, Ed; your pulse is very high--"

Suddenly, a sharp pain in Double D's chest formed, interrupting his sentence, "Gah!" he yelped as he gripped onto his chest from his shirt; he was now in the same state as Ed.

"Double D?" Eddy questioned with confusion at what was going on, "What's with ya all of a sudden?!"

"E-Eddy," Double D started to mutter, "Please, g-go get Ami--" he was cut off by the sharp pain in his chest again.

"Uh, s-sure!" Eddy replied with a nod of his head, "I'll go get her, just hang on!"

It was while he was dashing off towards the audience that Eddy felt a sharp, unbearable pain come into his chest, "Ack!" he yelped aloud, grasping onto his shirt where his chest was.

Now all three Ed's were gasping in pain, "W-What's happenin' to us?!"

"I-I don't know, Eddy…" Double D replied back, trying to regain his composure, could not do so.

"… Planetary Knights…"

"Huh?!" questioned the Ed's aloud as they heard a voice echoing in their minds.

"Say 'Saturn Eternal Armor-Up'…" stated a voice within Ed's mind, "Say 'Mercury Eternal Armor-Up'…" echoed a voice within Double D's mind, "Say 'Mars Eternal Armor-Up'…" echoed a voice in Eddy's mind.

It was as soon as that voice spoke in their heads, the pain in their chests seemed to go away. Soon the three Ed's stood there before Eddy, as always, broke the silence, "Okay, what the hell was that?"

"I… I-I'm not certain…" muttered Double D with a low whisper.

Suddenly, the three Ed's heard screaming back towards where the audience and stage was, "What's goin' on back there?" Eddy questioned.

"I don't know," Ed stated back, "Sounds like something bad is going on…"

'… What did that voice mean by that phrase it wanted me to say…?' Double D thought to himself, 'Should I really say it…?'

Double D narrowed his eyes a little in determination, "Mercury…"

"Huh?" both Ed and Eddy muttered as they looked back at Double D.

"Eternal…" Double D continued to say as he then rose up his right hand into the air and completed, "Armor-UP!!!"

What happened next surprised all three of the Ed's; Double D flashed a dark blue around his body as he transformed right there before his friends. When the light show was over, Double D stood there, now with a completely different outfit. He was wearing something that looked like something out of the middle ages; he was dressed up like a knight without all of the armor, but more like a warrior of some sort, with a dark blue cape over his shoulders and a sword in a sword holster on his right hip of his belt.

"What the--" Eddy yelped a little in surprise, "W-What the hell happened to ya?!"

"I…" Double D muttered as he examined what he was wearing now, practically speechless at his transformation.

Meanwhile, Ed remembered something about his dream, 'Double D's wearing what I was wearing in those dreams!' he paused for a moment, 'I wonder…'

"… Saturn…" Ed started to say, "Eternal…" he continued as he raised his hand into the air, "… Armor-UP!!!"

And, just as he suspected would happen, he started to feel himself transform into different attire, along with seeing a bunch of flashing, dark purple lights. It was when the flashing was over that he got a good look at himself. He was wearing something similar to what Double D was wearing, only in a dark purple color; it was the same thing he wore in his dreams.

Eddy, in the meantime, was flabbergasted at what was happening around him, "W-What the hell's going on, huh?!" he asked his two friends in demand.

"I don't know," Ed started to say, "I heard a voice in my head telling me to say that phrase…"

"… Wait; did you have a voice in you head as well, Eddy?" questioned Double D as he and Ed glanced at Eddy.

"Err… Yeah, I did," Eddy replied back, crossing his arms across his chest as he did.

"Then you should do what the voice says, Eddy," Ed stated, almost in a wise way.

Eddy made a huff after what Ed said, "Why should I?"

A sudden scream of pain cuts off the Ed's conversation short as they paid their attention back towards where the stage was located; it sounded like some sort of battle was going on.

"Is that a reason enough?" Double D stated to Eddy, trying to persuade him, "Someone's life might be in danger!"

"Alright, alright! I'll do what the dumb voice says!" Eddy replied back with a snappy tone of voice. He took in a deep breath and made a sigh, "Mars Eternal…" he started to say as he then puts his right hand into the air, "Armor-UP!!!"

It was after shouting that phrase that Eddy could feel his clothes changing into something different. When the flashing of the red lights were over, he could see what he was now wearing; it was similar to what his friends wore, only in the color of dark red.

"Whoa…" muttered Eddy as he was examining what he wore, "I think I can get use to this."

Soon the three Ed's all glanced at each other, nodding their heads in agreement at what needed to be done, "Let's go," Double D stated as the Ed's dashed off towards the commotion on the stage.

It was when the three got back to the audience and stage; they widened their eyes at what they saw. Everyone in the audience was either slumped over in their chair or lying on the grass; all of them looked unconscious. But, that was not all that they saw…

Up on the stage, the three Ed's could see nine women on the stage; four of them were fighting a monster that looked like a humanized demon of some kind. The other five women were all exhausted from the fight, using all of their energy trying to fight the monster.

"Oh dear…" Double D muttered, "W-We have to help them!"

"You're right," Eddy stated as he started to turn to Ed, "C'mon Lummox, let's--?!"

Before he could even finish his sentence, he saw that Ed was no longer beside him, but was rushing up to the stage towards the fight, "Ed, no!" yelped out both Double D and Eddy at the same time.

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"Hehe," chuckled the monster in a raspy voice, it was now in front of the four remaining Sailor Senshi; Sailor Moon, Mercury, Mars and Saturn, "Your numbers are dropping like flies," the monster soon raised its hand towards the Sailor Senshi, its hand started to glow with a dark energy, "Any last words from you four?"

"I think your scream will be your last words, you demon!" stated a slightly familiar voice as the four remaining Sailor Senshi and the monster soon see a young male figure come up to them from the audience, standing in between the Sailor Senshi and the monster. He had a sword gripped in his right hand, which was now pointing at the monster.

"What is this? Another person to intrude my work?!" the monster stated with a small growl afterwards, "How dare you to come here!"

"Oh, I dare," stated the young man, "My name is Saturn Knight, and you will not get away with what you've done here!"

'W-What…? Saturn Knight?!' Sailor Saturn thought in shock after hearing his name.

"Oh, so you think you can stop me, eh?" stated the monster, its hand started to glow in darkness again, "I would like to see you try!"

It was then that the monster started to charge up his energy in its hand, "Die!"

"No, you're the one that's going to die!" the young man stated as he got into a fighting position with his sword, " Saturn…" he started to say while he started to run towards the monster, who was still charging for an attack. His sword started to glow in a dark purple hue, "… Silent Strike!!!" he called out as his now purple blade struck down the monster with a diagonal slash. The man came to a halt as his blade sliced through the monster's body, with it screaming in agony and pain.

"Game Over!!!" cried out the monster in its final words as it soon turned into dust, with a convenient breeze coming by to sweep the dust away from the stage.

There was a moment of awkward silence on the stage as the four Sailor Senshi and the other recovering Sailors were all looking at the strange newcomer with wide eyes. The young man back was facing towards them; it looked like he was also standing there in shock at what he had just done. It was not until another familiar voice called out at him that everyone would come back to their senses.

"Ed, you dolt!" called out a familiar voice to everyone as two more young men came into the scene, "What the hell were you thinking?! You could've been killed by that… t-that thing!" stated the young man in red.

"S-Sorry Eddy," stated the young man in purple, "I don't know what came over me…"

"Well, at least you're alright now," the young man in blue sighed with relief.

"Hey! Whose side are you on, Double D?!" snapped the young man in red again as the young man in blue only made a roll of his eyes at his attitude, but then remembered…

"… Oh!" gasped the young man in blue as he turned to the nine women there, who were all observing them, "Are you ladies alright?" he asked.

"Y-Yeah," replied Sailor Moon as she and the other Sailor Senshi went over to the three young men, "Who are you?"

"Oh, umm…" muttered the young man in blue, "What do we call ourselves now…?"

"… Uh-oh!" gasped the young man in purple as everyone turned to him, "What is it?" asked the young man in blue to his comrade.

"I-I don't see the others anywhere," the young man in purple pointed out as he glanced towards where the Sailor Senshi were sitting at before the attack happened, "I wonder if they're alright…?"

"… We're all okay, Ed," stated Sailor Saturn, much to the surprise of the other Sailor Senshi and the three young men.

"… Hotaru?!" questioned the man in purple with shock, 'I can't believe it; s-she's the girl from my dreams!'

Sailor Saturn only nodded her head as a flash of lavender light surrounded her, making her change back into her original wardrobe. She was Hotaru again.

There was another moment of awkward silence before the young man in blue interrupted it, "I am guessing we should know the rest of you, right?"

"Yes," replied Sailor Mercury as she and the rest of the Sailor Senshi transformed back into who they really were. It was then that the three young men transformed back into who they really were… It was the three Ed's, as the Sailor Senshi had suspected.

"So, umm…" Eddy started to say as he looked towards the crowd of people out in the audience, who were all still passed out from their stolen energy, "What're we gonna do about them?"

"We have to wait for them to wake up," Rei replied, "That's usually how it is."

"Yes, and I still need to perform the concert," Michiru stated, "It would be rude of us just to leave them like this."

"Hmm, true…" stated Haruka in agreement.

"Well, after the concert is over, I suggest we have a meeting at the shrine," Setsuna stated as the other women replied with a simple nod of the head.

Meanwhile, not too far away, we could see three young figures hiding in the woods nearby, watching the young adults on the stage.

"… I think now would be a good time to get going," stated one of the figures.

"I-Indeed," stated the other figure as the last figure nodded her head in agreement.