Usagi looked puzzled. Setsuna checked Garret for a pulse. "He's still alive..." she muttered. She then checked the wound. Pikachu had missed all of Garret's internal organs, and he appeared to be perfectly fine otherwise. Setsuna slapped Garret in the face. "Pikachu's gone. You can quit scaring us all..." At these words, he sat up. Garret looked at Setsuna and spoke. "I hope I at least fooled your brother. Otherwise, my plan backfired." Setsuna looked back at Garret. How did he know of her shame? Without another word, everyone returned to the castle.

Setsuna placed Garret in a bed. She then returned to the dining room, where everyone was gathered. "Why did Garret call me Mariah? Has he finally snapped?" Usagi asked. Setsuna bowed her head. "Quite the opposite. He's remembering the beginning." Everyone suddenly became puzzled. "He is remembering Cetra Mythology. It seems that Garret can now sense those from his past. I have been able to forever, but I just kept quiet." Usagi then looked at Setsuna. "Then, who was Mariah?" she asked. "Mariah was the Queen of the Angels," Setsuna answered. "But I thought Angelina..." "Angelina was just the title. There were a few queens. Mariah just happened to be the mother of Angelina Cara, the one Garret fell in love with." Setsuna explained as much as she could. She looked at the occupants of the room: Aerith, Zack, Ifalna, the Sailor Senshi, Jessica, Akane, Almathea, Cory, and both Angelises. "You all had a part in the beginning." Setsuna announced. She then began to list off who was what. Zack, Aerith, Ifalna, and Angelise Mackenzie knew of their past. The rest were slightly surprised. When they were told, however, they began to remember everything. Makoto suddenly got up and ran into the room where Garret was. She got to his bed and slapped him around, knocking off his glasses. "I knew there was a reason you looked like my ex-boyfriend, Garret... You are my ex-boyfriend!" she grumbled. After repositioning his jaw, Garret responded, "I had two choices. I could have either stayed with you, or have Ami and Rei damn near rip the world a new one because they were jealous." Makoto sighed and sat down. "...You're right. I guess I was just selfish. I..." she began before she felt what she was about sit on. "...better not sit on your glasses." She stood up and gave Garret his glasses. As he reached for them, the damage to his back made itself present to his mind.

Everyone in the castle heard the scream. Setsuna returned to Garret's room and looked at Makoto. "I didn't realize the grudge was that deep..." she sighed. "She was just trying to give me my glasses," Garret spoke through the ever-present pain, "...and the pain finally registered." Setsuna blushed, slightly embarrassed. Makoto helped Garret put his glasses on. "Besides, if I wanted to kill him, he wouldn't have the chance to scream..." she joked. Angelise then walked into the room. She had her head down as she walked over to her father. She looked as if she wanted to speak, bunt instead she cried. Garret put his shredded back out of his mind and spoke to Angelise. "I know you blame yourself for this. It wasn't your fault, angel. And I most certainly do not blame you. Pikachu likes to play with minds. He's played with mine before. We just have to fight him..." he preached. "I know that, dad..." Angelise said, letting the tears dry up, "...but I almost killed you! And you didn't resist it. If I had done it and returned to normal..." she then began to cry again. "I wouldn't let you. Did your mom ever tell you of the time shortly after I died?" Garret shot back. "No, but I saw it through your eyes." she replied. "You had to convince her to live again. You wouldn't give up on her..." she sighed, "and you probably would be the same way with me." Garret nodded. "You bet I would. I would never give up on an angel."

Setsuna looked at Garret's back the whole time. It seemed that the longer he held his daughter, the faster his back began to recover. She then began to think. Could this Angelise be the one? The one who would replace her as ruler of the universe? She knew it was one of Garret's daughters that would succeed her, but she was unsure which Angelise it would be. After twenty minutes of hugging, Garret's back was healed. The only remnant of the brutal beating was a scar in the shape of a heart on his left shoulder blade region. Garret then put Angelise down and smiled. "Feeling better, angel?" he asked. "Yes I am, dad. Thanks for believing in me," she smiled back.

Pikachu smirked as he cleaned his sword off. Edwin was cheering and running about like the fool he was. Just my luck, Pikachu thought to himself. His mother HAD to be both the village slut and the village idiot. He kept smiling, nonetheless. "Garret wanted me to think I finally killed him. Does he make me for a fool?" he bellowed. "He must, if he thought that would work..." Wicked Lady said as she took a drag from her cigarette. "Even I could tell he was still alive." Pikachu looked at his wife and gave her a slightly angered look. "What did I tell you about smoking? I don't like you supporting something more sinister than me!" he lectured. She just smiled back. "Relax. I didn't buy them! Our son stole them when he went to Scotland. They didn't get anything from us!" Pikachu grinned again. "At least Edwin can do something right..." he noted as he glanced over at his son, who was playing Bobbing for Fish. A piranha then bit Edwin's nose. The rat turned away and dictated his next plan. "What I need to do is get into Garret's family structure. If I can plant the seed into one of his sisters..." he began before his wife cut him off. "You're actually thinking of ... ahem... with one of Garret's sisters?" she asked, puzzled. "No, Rini darling. I didn't mean that type of seed. I meant the seed of evil... hatred... distrust... You following me?" Pikachu clarified. Wicked Lady nodded. "If I can somehow make one of his sisters begin to hate him, she would do my work for me!" he laughed. Edwin looked up and finally said something intelligent. "Dad. If it didn't work with his child, what makes you think it would work with one of the muses?" Pikachu looked as if he was going to cry tears of joy. "Simple, my boy. The change won't be so drastic, and it would be almost invisible. Gradually, the distrust would grow, and no one would know why." Edwin looked awed, then returned to prying the piranha off his nose. "Good plan, uncle," a slightly familiar voice spoke. "Thank you, Makoto." Pikachu replied. The woman in question looked similar to Sailor Jupiter, except for the coal-black eyes and matching dress. (And, of course, the hard-to-miss fangs that come with being a demon.) "...and I think I have a good way to lure one into our trap." she spoke, then delivered the plan.

By now it was night. Garret began to wonder around in his wife's courtyard garden. Suddenly, he heard someone speaking. Not only speaking, but speaking in the ancient Cetra tongue... but to whom was the voice talking to? "Mijhan, kajahn... shihan er du? E es kahan. (Mother, father... how are you? I am fine.)" the voice said. Garret caught a glimpse of who it was, and figured it out. He snuck up behind her and spoke in Cetra to her. "Woh es des bradford, specken te ga setsun? (Who is this angel, speaking to the stars?)" She turned around and panicked momentarily. "Garret! You startled me. I was just talking to my parents..." Setsuna replied. He smiled. "To think, the child of the stars is such a beautiful and innocent angel..." Setsuna smiled and sighed at the same time. "They you have my brother..." she moaned. "Let's just forget about him for the moment, can we?" Garret quickly asked. "What did you want to talk about, Garret?" she replied. Garret smiled at her and gave her the reason: "You have such a pure heart. You alone cannot protect it."

Akane suddenly felt as if she forgot something. She couldn't place what she forgot in Tokyo, but she knew she had to retrieve something. She then went looking for her brother to tell him what she was doing.

Garret and Setsuna were now in the dining room, conversing. As he returned with a bottle of wine, she seemed lost in thought. Garret was curious of what was on her mind. "What I saw today proves what I have believed for a long time..." she sighed. He had no clue what she was talking about. "I know I will die without an heir to my throne, Garret. I will die alone..." she stated. Garret shook his head. "Setsuna... you think your future is that certain?" he queried. She picked her eyes up and made contact with his. "I have seen it with my own eyes." she spoke. "I did not get to see who succeeded me, but I could sense a power from her. The power only an angel of love possesses. ...I believe it is one of your daughters..." Garret's jaw dropped. "I sense the same power from both of them. The exact same power. It was as if she split her soul to accommodate being with both her parents..." she pondered. That seemed to make sense. Both of his daughters were the same, except for eye and hair color. He could sense the similarities in them...

Before he could think further, Akane was in front of Garret. "I seem to have forgotten something back home, Garret. I need to go get it." she stated. "I'll go with you, angel..." he began to say before she cut him off. "I'll be fine, guardian. It's not like I'm going to run into Pikachu..."she said as she walked out the door. Unbeknownst to either of them, Setsuna clutched her head in pain. Garret walked after his sister. "You positive you'll be okay?" he asked again. She nodded as she took flight. "I'll be back in a couple of days..." she shouted as she disappeared into the horizon. When Garret returned to the dining room, he saw Setsuna with her head on the table, looking pained. "Don't stand there, go after her... Akane's life may depend on it..." she said through obvious pain. Garret knew one thing: when Setsuna was in this condition, she had just seen a vision of someone's demise. He rushed out the door and flew after his sister.

Akane landed near Kalm and looked for the portal back to Tokyo. She then heard someone moaning. She went to investigate further and saw whom she thought was Maokto sitting on the ground, holding her ankle in pain. "Thank goodness you're here, Hikari. I think I twisted my ankle..." she said. Not wondering how she got from the castle to her before her, Akane helped her up. 'Makoto' then tripped and fell into her arms. "I think I messed it up big time..." she pondered. Akane did not see her fangs as she talked. As she was helping the demon Makoto back to her feet, she was bitten by her. She looked shocked. "Not to worry, Akane. My uncle has plans for you..." were the last words she heard before blacking out. Makoto then placed her weight firmly on both feet as three other figures emerged. "Good show, cousin!" one spoke as she clapped. "Thanks, Rei." she replied. "Why couldn't I bite her?" another whined. "Shut up, Hakura." the third snapped. "You would have bit her to death out of enjoyment." "Ami, do you always have to be so spiteful?" Rei asked. All four looked similar to their Senshi counterparts, except for the sable eyes and the fangs. "It kind of happens when your mother whips you for the hell of it..." she muttered back. As they began to bicker and argue, they didn't notice Garret land.

Garret did a total of about 78 double takes. Who were these women? Why did they look like the elemental spirits? ...and why did they have fangs? Garret's mind slipped and yelled something he wanted to think. "What in the hell is going on here?" he shrieked. The four turned around, and Makoto held Akane close. "Simple, Garret. We're abducting your sister so she can serve our uncle." Rei stated. Ami slapped her upside the head. "He wasn't supposed to know that!" she screeched. Hakura just shook her head and suddenly vanished. Makoto tried to break the other two up. Garret walked over to the three remaining Demon Senshi, determined to get his sister back. If he only hadn't lost track of Hakura...

Hakura clubbed Garret over the head with the hilt of her sword. He fell to the ground, unconscious. "I thought his daughter was better-looking, anyway..." she muttered as she rejoined her cousins. The four and Akane then vanished into a black portal, back to Pikachu's domain.

Akane woke up in a prison cell in Pikachu's castle, with Edwin standing guard. She felt where the demon Makoto bit her... it was still sore. She again looked at Edwin. Why was he wearing a tuxedo? He then came to her cell and spoke to her. "My father has decided to give you a choice on how to hurt your brother..." he said, trying not to giggle. "Either he transforms you, and you physically harm him... or you mentally harm him by marrying me." Akane then took a good look at herself: she was in a wedding dress... She grabbed Edwin through the bars. "Tell your father this, brainless..." she yelled, "I will do neither. I would as soon die!" After saying this, she saw the dagger in Edwin's vest pocket and grabbed it. She pointed it at her heart and gave him an angered look. "Tell your father that his master plan failed again..." she scowled. Then, Edwin did something unexpected: he opened the cell door. "I told him you wouldn't do either of them willingly..." he muttered. Akane dropped the dagger in shock. Edwin was letting her go? Without wondering if this was some kind of set-up, she ran out of the cell and out of the castle unnoticed. When she was out of sight, Edwin gave a menacing smile. "Oh, but you will harm your brother, Akane... all in due time..." Before he could laugh, Pikachu entered the dungeon. "What the hell did you just do, baka?" he screamed in fury. "The seed was implanted... and she would have been no good dead..." he tried to explain. "Shmuck! She hadn't been before the crystal yet! She hadn't been altered! You just let her go!" Pikachu was about to 'go nuclear' (for lack of a better phrase). "But I thought the bite..." Edwin tried to say. "The bite was only to sedate her! Your cousins aren't vampires, kuso yaro!" Pikachu was at wit's end with his son. He had enough of his stupidity. "Prepare to join your mother, Edwin..." Pikachu smiled as he sliced his own son into oblivion. Wicked Lady walked in, wondering what all the screaming was about. "Oh, I just had to terminate our son..." Pikachu replied. Neither of them seemed disturbed by this.

Akane returned to Castle Tonberry, looking for her brother again. Setsuna still had her head on the table, as it had been when Garret left. She had fallen asleep there. Akane woke her up and asked of her brother. Seeing that she was still normal, Setsuna smiled. "He went after you." she spoke, still waking up. "I saw what might happen, and told him. I haven't seen him since." Akane then became worried. She changed out of the wedding dress and went after her brother.

Garret dusted himself off, and looked at the person in front of him. "You okay, Garret?" she asked. The person before him looked almost exactly like Jessica, except for the green-blue eyes, elfish ears, and... fangs... Great, he thought. They sent her to finish me off. "Did you happen to see that demon bitch Makoto?" she asked. Garret was still groggy from being knocked out. Without delay, he asked "Jessica? Is that you?" "No," she replied. "Call me Nova." Garret thought he was dreaming something. "Where the hell am I?" he asked. "Outside of Kalm, in your dimension," Nova replied. MY dimension? Garret thought. You mean... "Yes, those four are from a dimension that parallels this one. Everything is chaos where I come from. The Senshi, except for me, are evil. Your sisters died saving you, and you are part of the last resistance group against Pikachu..." Nova began to describe her homeworld. Garret sighed, not liking the sound this world too well. "Makoto tried to kill you in our dimension, and I went after her. I followed her and the other elementals here," Nova explained. He rubbed the back of his head where Hakura had hit him.

Akane landed near her brother, and smiled while she cried. Garret saw his sister, and fell to his knees. He was slightly surprised when she hugged him. "Don't worry. Pikachu didn't get a chance to hurt me," she spoke. Garret became puzzled. How was that possible? "Edwin was dumb enough to let me go before anything happened to me..." she exhaled. Garret tightly hugged back. "For the rest of my life, I swear that I will not let anyone harm my family," he preached. Thought it will only be ten or so years, he thought, I will protect them to the end...