* Act 2: Ami - Sailormercury *

In the Dark Kingdom…
Queen Beryl: “Still have not found the Magical Silver Crystal?”
Jadeite: “Yes. I am very sorry.”
Queen Beryl: “Our great ruler longs to gain the power.  Go and collect energy, however, you must quickly locate the Magical Silver Crystal.”
Jadeite: “I will carry out your instructions.  I,  the Dark Kingdom’s minister, Jadeite, will not break my promise, Queen Beryl.”

At Usagi’s house…
Usagi: “I’m home!”
Usagi’s mom: “Home already, Usagi?”
Usagi and Luna go in through the door.
Usagi’s mom: “Hey, it’s the kitten with the moon-shaped bald spot, the food’s not ready yet.”
Luna scratches wildly at Mrs. Tsukino’s face.
Usagi: “Mama, I’ve told you over and over already, her name is Luna, and if you call her bald, she’ll scratch you.”  My name is Usagi Tsukino, 14 years old, second year junior high.  I like eating, sleeping, and having fun.  I’m a bit of a crybaby, just an ordinary cute girl.
Usagi’s stomach growls.
Usagi: “I’m hungry already.”
Luna calls out and peeks in the door of Usagi’s room.
As if she has to ask to come in.
Usagi: “Luna, can you just stay with my family and not watch over me?”
Luna waves her paws wildly.
Luna: “What did you say!? You have to consider that you haven’t been a soldier of justice for long yet!? The enemy is showing up! Furthermore, I still have a lot of things to tell you.”
Usagi remembers her encounter with the demoness.
Usagi: “They are such terrible affairs, I don’t want to bring them up again.”
A talking cat named Luna has bestowed upon me the ability to become a soldier of justice.  But truly, I don’t dare believe…
Usagi: “These enemies… what are they, Luna?”
I don’t like scary things at all…
Luna: “They are not human… you know that, don’t you, Usagi?”
Luna: “A wicked race,  they are not of this world.”
Luna: “Usagi, you must quickly find the other soldiers who will be your companions, after that search for the princess and protect her.”
Usagi: “Companions and princess, huh?”
I want to eat some roast beef…
Usagi suddenly sees Tuxedo Mask’s face in her mind.  She lights up.
Usagi: “Tuxedo Mask, also Sailor V!  They’re surely my companions, right?”
Luna: “Your next companion… you’ve already seen her face.”

Night falls, and Usagi sleeps soundly in her room.  Luna goes off to the Crown Game Center and fiddles around with some of the computers there.  A profile appears on the screen.  There is a picture of a girl with chin-length hair.  
Name:  Mizuno Ami
Birthday:  September 10
Blood Type:  A
Age:  14
 	The girl’s forehead glows faintly in the picture.

In school the next day…
Ami is walking around wearing her eyeglasses while reading.  
Student 1: “Are the test results available already?”
Student 2: “Look, look! It’s section 5’s genius girl, Mizuno Ami!”
The test results are posted on the wall, with Ami’s perfect score of 900 in first place. 
Student 3: “In all the subjects, her performance record is always number one.” 
Student 4: “I heard she’s really not human.  Her I.Q. is 300.”
Students murmur about as Ami walks on by. Usagi stares open-mouthed.  “Oh… Genius girl?”
I used to think she was a teacher.
Naru: “Hey, Usagi, mornin’!  You’re not late today.”
Umino: “Just now the Crystal Seminar was here! Isn’t that the most exclusive after school class? Ms. Mizuno attends that!”
Usagi: “Crystal Seminar, isn’t that the private school near the Game Center? Papa said enrollment there is very expensive.”
Umino: “Ms. Mizuno’s mother is a doctor.”
Naru: “Intelligent, well-to-do, so greatly different from me.”
Student: “The difference between you is, she’s not easy to get along with.”
Naru and the student walk away towards their class.
Student: “I heard she doesn’t have any friends, she usually just studies.”
Usagi is holding her grade report.
Language:  52
 		English:  20
		Math:  10
		Social Studies:  32
Usagi: “Ya, what tragic test results, mama will surely kill me.”
Usagi imagines her mother looking angry with horns sprouting from her head.  She hears her mom’s voice telling her she has to attend after school classes.  She’s such a nag lately.
Usagi sees Ami walking in front of her. It’s section 5’s genius girl.  Luna leaps at Ami and mews.
Ami: “Huh? You scared me. It’s a cat?”
Usagi: “Luna!?”
Ami holds and pets Luna.
Ami: “If I didn’t live in such a big building, I would have kept a kitten.”
Ami hugs Luna close to her face.
Ami: “So soft…”
Obviously… what everyone’s been saying isn’t really true.
Luna jumps back at Usagi.
Usagi: “Yeow, Luna!”
Usagi holds Luna.
Usagi: “Ha ha, she always greets others this way.  I’m sorry, you weren’t disturbed, were you?”
Ami: “Ah, this kitten suddenly just dropped down from the sky, I thought it was an angel.”
Usagi: “Luna… is an angel?”
Ami covers her mouth and turns red with embarrassment.
This person seems so loveable.
Usagi: “You are section 5’s Mizuno Ami, right? I am section 1’s Tsukino Usagi.  This cat is Luna.”
Usagi is shown looking devilish with horns and a tail. I’ll ask for her advice on tests and find out the secret to her success, after that, I’ll be a genius too.
Luna leaps away again.	
Usagi: “Hey, Luna!?”
Usagi: “Um, Ms. Mizuno, have you gone to the Game Center?  Huh?”
Usagi: “There’s a Sailor V game, it’s very difficult, it takes quite a while to finish.”
Ami: “Ok, I’ll go this time.”

In the Game Center…
Usagi: “Oh no, I don’t have a hundred yen.”
She turns to Ami.  “Ms. Mizuno, would you like to play?  It’s very amusing!”
Ami sits down and plays the Sailor V game.  Pretty soon, there is a commotion around her.  
People: “Everybody look!”
Guy: “Wha? What’s up?”
A surprised Usagi looks and sees that Ami finished the Sailor V game and got the highest score ever.
Guy 2: “The highest score!?”
Usagi: “You really played something fierce, Ms. Mizuno!”
Game Center guy: “Wow, a girl capable of finishing it in such a short time…”
An ornate pen pops out of the slot at the bottom of the game machine.
Ami: “Huh? A thing tumbled out, is it a prize?”
Ami uncaps the pen.
Ami: “A fountain pen came out.”
Usagi: “Oooh… it’s really good, really good.  I’m very envious! I want one too!”
Usagi then proceeds to kick and punch the Sailor V game machine.
Usagi: “It won’t come out again! Quickly, come out!”
Finally, another pen falls out.
Usagi: “There! This is so great!”
Usagi holds up the pen. “How cute!”
The Game Center guy is flabbergasted.
Game Center guy: “Usagi, I’m begging you, don’t destroy it.”
Ami giggles.
Ami: “Ms. Tsukino is really amusing.”
Usagi: “Call me Usagi, and I’ll call you Ami, Ok?”
Ami: “All right.”
Ami looks at the clock.
Ami: “No way.  It’s already quite late, I have to go to my after school class.”
Usagi: “Oh, today is your class day? It’s nearby, right? Crystal Seminar?”
Ami: Yes, I go there everyday.”
Usagi: “EVERYDAY!?”
Ami: “My forte is studying, I want to be a doctor like my mother, so I have to work hard.”
Usagi: “A doctor? Awesome!”

The Crystal Seminar building is shown.  Students are typing on computers.  The teacher looks at Ami.
Teacher: “Ms. Mizuno, I have big expectations from you.  It seems you are an outstanding talented person, that you have the world on your shoulders.  Everyone knows that your goal is to learn and elevate your level.”
Ami: “Yes…”

	In school, in the girls’ locker room…
Naru: “Let’s go eat in the ice cream bar after school, Ok?”
Usagi: “Yeah, let’s go, let’s go!”
Girl: “I want to go too.”
Usagi turns and sees Ami going off by herself.
Naru: “The whole neighborhood’s starting to go to the Crystal Seminar.”
Girl: “Now everyone’s going.”
Usagi: “This seminar is then effective?”

	A room full of computers is shown.  Students are seated individually in front of the monitors.
Teacher: “The whole composition will be done with the computer, the content should be interesting, then input into the disk, it can be finished at home or in school, everyone must learn like crazy.  The contents of the disk must be attractive.”  
Usagi is standing outside the Audio Visual Room.  “Disk?”, she murmurs.  Ami is inside, concentrating.  “No way… there’s a notation that’s muddled…,” Ami thinks.  “I’ll just take the disk and study the contents.”  Ami then takes the disk from the drive.
Ami: “I’ll jot it down as well so I can easily remember.”
Usagi stands in the doorway and calls out to Ami.
Usagi: “Ami! You’re right here.”
Usagi: “The session is finished and you’re still studying.  Wow, you used the fountain pen, huh?  I have one too, look, look!”
Usagi points to the pocket of her shirt where the fountain pen is clipped.
Usagi: “Hey! Today after school let’s go eat at the ice cream bar, ok?”
There is a sound and the students behind a wide-eyed Usagi rush off red-faced (I think Usagi farted.).   
Student 1: “I’ve got to hurry to the after school class.”
Student 2: “Me too.”
Ami is shown with an exclamation point.  Ami remembers what her teacher said… “Everyone knows your goal is to always work hard.”
Ami: “ I have to go to the Crystal Seminar.”
Ami then walks off.
Luna meows at Usagi.
Usagi: “Luna… Ami rejected.  She looks haggard from always studying.”
Usagi: “Maybe I should go home and study too!”
Usagi sees a disk.  
Usagi: “Wha? What’s this?”
Usagi: “Ami left this?”

	Outside the school, a woman is distributing Crystal Seminar flyers like crazy.  Numerous students are given flyers.
Woman: “Come all! The enrollment fee is waived this time!”
She hands Usagi a flyer.
Woman: “You will get higher grades!”
Usagi reads the flyer.  It  has Ami’s picture on it and the picture of a diskette.  The flyer says: “New development! This girl used the Crystal Disk and became a genius! A genius! Mizuno Ami…”
Usagi: “It’s Ami! Crystal Seminar’s leaflet.”
Usagi: “New development!! The Crystal Disk will make you a genius!!”
Luna: “Not if Usagi participates, you need to study some too.”
Usagi: “Yeah, no way, that’s a weird kind of after school class.”
Usagi crumples the flyer and throws it behind her.
Luna: “Hey! Don’t throw that on the street!”
The flyer hits a guy on the face.
Guy: “Hey! Odango Atama, I’m not a garbage can, you know.”
Usagi: “Wha… it’s the last time’s…”
Guy: “A moment ago… did that cat just talk?”
Usagi and Luna get sweatdrops and their eyes widen.  Usagi quickly turns around and walks away red-faced.
Usagi: “How, how can that be? Good bye…”
The woman hands the guy a flyer.
Woman: “Here! You should enroll now!”

Luna examines the flyer they got from the woman.  
Luna: “Usagi, this looks like the thing Ami left, it’s the Crystal Disk.  Let’s go to the school and borrow a computer.  Obviously, there’s something fishy.”

	In school, Usagi and Luna work on the computer.  Luna inserts the disk and views the contents.
Luna: “Is this the Crystal Seminar’s handout?  It seems like an ordinary problem.  Everyone’s enthusiastic about it, and still have expectations.” 
Usagi starts banging on the computer with her fists.  
Usagi: “Isn’t there anything inside?”
Luna: “Usagi, you’ll ruin it.”
A voice is heard.
Voice: “Make a contribution…”
Usagi: “What’s that?”
Voice: “Become our great ruler’s servant, must collect information on the Magical Silver Crystal…”
Luna: “It is…!  The enemy’s brainwashing program!”
The guy Usagi threw a paper at is watching from behind.  The voice repeats the message over and over.
Usagi looks out the window.
Usagi: “Luna!!”
There are a lot of students gathered outside.
Usagi: “It’s a whole crowd proceeding to the Crystal Seminar!”
Ami is among the students.
Usagi: “Ami!? Her face is so pale!  Ami also got brainwashed?”
Usagi: “I want to go save her!”
Luna: “Usagi, the fountain pen!”
Usagi: “Huh!?’
Luna: “The pen that you got from the Game Center! Throw it up in the air!”
Luna: “Shout out the transformation phrase!!”
Usagi: “Huh?! What’s the use of this pen?”
Usagi thows the pen high up above her head and shouts “Moon Power!!”.
Usagi: “Transform into a doctor.  I am the university’s resident on duty!”
Usagi is now dressed in a doctor costume with a stethoscope hanging around her neck.  She strikes a pose.
Luna: “Usagi, hurry!”
Usagi runs toward the Crystal Seminar building and rushes past the cashier.  
Usagi: “I received a call that there’s a person in trouble due to a sudden illness… please let me go to him!”
Usagi follows the group of dazed students.
Usagi: “Ami!?”
Usagi goes to Ami and slaps her cheeks to wake her up.
Usagi: “Don’t be brainwashed! Wake up!”
The woman who was distributing the flyers laughs.
Woman: “This disk will absorb energy.”
The woman looks at the flyer.
Woman: “I will use this genius girl’s brain, little by little Tokyo, no, Japan, will be dominated.  The Magical Silver Crystal will immediately be found.”
Usagi: “Everyone!  Stay away from the computer!  You’ll turn into disabled people!”
The woman turns to Usagi.
Woman: “Who?”
Luna: “Usagi, transform into Sailormoon now!”
Usagi: “Huh? Be what?”
Luna jumps onto Usagi’s head.
Luna: “This form cannot fight.  Quickly!”
Usagi: “Oh… I have to fight after all… sigh…”
Usagi: “Moon Prism Power Make Up!”
Usagi transforms into Sailormoon.
Sailormoon: “Using innocent students’ minds to carry out your brainwashing, it’s unforgivable…”
Sailormoon: “The soldier for love and justice Sailormoon is here!!”
Sailormoon: “In place of the Moon I will punish you!”
The woman sends a flurry of papers towards Sailor Moon.
Sailormoon: “Yikes!”
Sailormoon is hit by papers all over and gets scratched.   The paper cuts bleed.
Sailormoon: “These papers are as sharp as razor blades.  Stop, stop! I’m getting cut all over!”
Sailormoon gets red-faced and starts to cry.
Sailormoon: “How very painful, after school class and test papers are so troublesome…”
Sailormoon: “Luna! Waaaah….”
Luna: “Usagi!! Don’t cry, you’re sending out supersonic soundwaves!  If you’re not careful, Ami will…”
Sailormoon: “That’s right, Ami…”
The woman is holding Ami by the neck, strangling her.  
Woman: “Why are you not brainwashed?  You’re really lazy, you haven’t checked out the disk to study?”
Ami: “So difficult… I’m not lazy, I depend on my own ability to study… no…”
Luna: “Ami!  The fountain pen!  Throw the fountain pen up in the air!”
The woman poises her long nails to take a final slash at Ami.
Woman: “Die!”
The fountain pen clipped on Ami’s pocket glows.  The symbol of Mercury appears on her forehead.  The woman is blinded by the light.  Luna stares with wide eyes.
Woman: “What’s this?  Aaaah… my body is becoming cold.”
The woman puts her arms around herself.  The surroundings grow hazy.
Sailormoon: “Mist!?  Luna!  Where are you?!  Ami!?  Why can’t I see?”
Sailormoon: “Luna!?”
Woman: “Where!?”
The woman grows fangs and long sharp nails, turning into a demoness.
Woman: Hoo hoo I’m gonna slash you.
Sailormoon feels someone behind her.
Tuxedo Mask: “You have a chance! Kick it!”
Sailormoon: “Sailormoon Flying Kick!”
Sailormoon does a split kick in mid-air and hits the demoness’ face.  Tuxedo Mask catches Sailor Moon.  
Tuxedo Mask: “Enemies are present, be careful!”
Sailormoon: “Tuxedo Mask!?”
Sailormoon and Tuxedo Mask look into each other’s eyes.
“It couldn’t be… have I met you?” Tuxedo Mask thinks.  He then puts Sailor Moon down.
Tuxedo Mask: “Go and save your friend quickly.”
The demoness sneaks up behind Sailormoon.
Demoness: “There you are.”
Sailormoon: “Moon Frisbee!”
The tiara hits the demoness in the midsection and her body is cut in half.
Demoness: “Yaaah!”
Sailormoon: “Tuxedo Mask!?”
I haven’t met you.
Luna: “Usagi.”
Luna hands Usagi her mask.
Sailormoon: “Luna! How’s Ami?”
Sailormoon: “The mist has disappeared!”
Sailormoon sees Ami in a sailor suit similar to hers.
Sailormoon: “Ami!?  That costume…”
Sailormoon is open-mouthed with awe.
Luna: “Indeed as expected it’s not anticipated!  Her brain will be our intelligence!  Having some control over water, summoning the mist, she is the guardian of Mercury.”
Luna: “Sailormercury!  We have found you!”
Luna: “You are a soldier! Ami.”
Sailormercury: “Sailormercury!?  I am a soldier?”
Sailormoon: “Ami is a companion?  This is really great.”