An eerie breeze, carrying green leaves and paper leaflets, whistled quietly through the unnatural darkness of Tokyo Central Park. Gathering at the center of the park, it swirled into a miniature whirlwind and exploded into a small, bright flash of light. Expanding suddenly, the light formed an oval-shaped portal.

Out of the golden portal exited two females. The first, about five-foot-seven, stepped out cautiously as if waiting for an attack by some unknown force. Her thick, ebony hair- highlighted with silver- waved fluidly about her as she turned to wait on her companion. Crossing her arms over her chest, she tapped her foot impatiently as her cool, magenta eyes stared at the glowing portal.

Her comrade, about a head shorter, jogged out, her sapphire blue eyes shining brightly as she gazed excitedly around her. Tucking a lock of her chestnut-colored hair behind her ear, she faced the portal and watched as it shrunk down to the size of a pea, then blinked out of existence.

Both women wore the common apparel worn by SailorSenshi: a sailor uniform comprised of a tiara, choker, sailor collar, and a thigh-length pleated skirt that flowed smoothly as they walked. However, slight differences were apparent; the taller of the two wore a silver and black uniform while the other donned a white and black one.

"Man, I'm exhausted," the brunette yawned, stretching her arms high above her head. "Time-traveling always wears me out."

"It really didn't help that you went to bed four hours ago," the other glared. "You knew that we had to leave early."

"Well, excu-u-use me!" she snapped. "It's not like I had a choice." Then she blushed, clasping her in front of her chest as a lecherous smile spread over her face. "I couldn't exactly go to sleep, especially since Gio-kun just came home and..."

"Spare me the details of your sex life," she rolled her eyes as she pressed her hand over the silver button on her chest. Another flash engulfed her, transforming her Senshi garb into a sweater and pair of jeans. "C'mon. Let's go find a hotel and store our luggage for the night."

"You're just jealous 'cause you don't have one," she muttered. After finally noticing the contents of the park, she transformed into her civilian clothing. "Are you sure this is the right time? This doesn't look like Tokyo Park. There's not enough trees and fountains."

"Tokyo Park isn't considered a very important landmark now," the dark-haired girl twirled her hand, summoning a small, silver computer out of Senshi subspace. Typing quickly with her other, she confirmed the trip's success. "Until Mercury modifies it decades from now, it will be very bare compared to its future incarnation." She typed a few more keys, then closed her computer.

"Okay, whatever you say," she shrugged. "I miss Gio-kun, though. I can't wait until this is over."

"Come on," she just rolled her eyes as she dismissed her computer to subspace. "We've got a lot to do and I'd like to finish it by dawn."

Deep within the Forth Dimension, also known as the Gates of Time, Senshi SailorPluto watched the Timestream carefully while sipping a cup of green tea. Suddenly, as she placed the cup to her dark red lips, an alarm sounded. The cup and saucer flew in opposite directions as Pluto summoned her staff.

With a wave of her hand, a holographic image of the Timestream appeared in front of her. The Timestream, graphed like a timeline used in schoolbooks, showed two blips disappear from the 31st Century, reappearing in the 20th. Cursing silently, Pluto flipped open her wrist communicator and tapped the gold button emblazoned with an hourglass.

"Janus," Pluto barked quickly. "Report to the Gates. It's urgent."

"Hai! Janus out," the static-filled voice replied. As Janus' figure appeared in the room, her body froze in mid-teleport, her senses blocked out.

At the same time, Pluto clutched her chest as the room started to spin. A black, shadowy image formed across the room as she adjusted to the strange affect its appearance had on the Gates of Time. Realizing who was in front of her, Pluto, shocked to the core, kneeled and placed her fist over her heart.

"Chronos-sama!"

As his image solidified, Chronos' features became more apparent. A black, tailored suit wrapped itself seductively around his well-developed form. Falling sensually down to the middle of his broad back, a long, greenish-black ponytail swung as he walked toward the Senshi.

"Setsuna-chan, the two that have crossed the Time Barrier were given my permission to use the Time Portal and are not to return until their mission is over," he smiled at her. "However, I will allow you to accompany the Senshi. They will need your wisdom and power in the battles that are to come."

With one last smile, the Deity of Time turned and walked away, his form vanishing with each step.

Two seconds later, the frozen Senshi appeared beside the perplexed Pluto. The Senshi's green hair was held back in a ponytail with an orange band. The bodysuit was white, while a yellow sailor collar, orange, and transparent sleevelets formed the appendages. An orange and yellow ribbon connected the yellow skirt, forming a big yellow bow in the back. Yellow gloves, ending at the elbow, with an orange stripe at the top clung to her forearms. At the center of the yellow bow on her chest rested a gold hourglass embedded in an orange heart.

"What was that all about?" she asked quizzically as she helped Pluto stand.

"It was Tousan, Shizuka-chan. It seems two powerful, unknown beings traveled back to the Twentieth Century. He wants me to go help them. I want you to watch to Gates while I'm gone. If something else happens, let me know immediately."

"Hai. I will," Janus grinned. "See you when you get back, onee-chan."

"Usagi-chan! Usagi-chan! Matte!" Osaka Naru yelled as she chased after her friend. "Did you hear? We have two new students today."

"New students? This late in the year?" Tsukino Usagi raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah. I thought it was strange myself," she shifted her books to her other hip. "We supposed to have an assembly to welcome them."

"Konnichiwa, Usagi! Naru-chan!" Gurio Umino popped out of nowhere, just in time to be clobbered over his head by two books.

"Umino!" Both girls chimed together as they glared at him.

"It's not polite to sneak up on people like that!" Naru looked at him sternly. "You scared the hell out of us."

"Gomen, but I found some information on the two new students." Pushing his glasses back up his nose, he flipped open his notepad and read. "Their names are Yunona Shinrai and Meijino Yume. They're cousins and are from the Shinjuku District."

"Shin-chan.." Usagi mumbled as her eyes grew wide. "What is she doing here?"

"Usagi, did you say something?" Naru looked at her curiously.

"Um...no," Usagi composed herself. "I'll see you both later. Ja!" She waved before flying down the hall. Gotta find everyone. Seeing Minako, she skidded to a halt as she turned the corner. "Minako-chan!"

"Ohayo, Usagi-chan!" she said cheerfully, but noticing Usagi's expression, darkens as the overprotective Senshi of Love, SailorVenus, takes over. "Usagi-chan, what's wrong?"

"Shinrai..." Usagi gasped for breath. "SailorEternity is back!"

"Shin-chan? You're kidding!?"

"Iie. Something bad must be going to happen if she has come back and not contacted us." Usagi looked at her watch, noticing that she had less than two minutes to get to her class. "When you see the others, make sure you tell them what I told you. We'll discuss this at lunch. Ja!"

Five seconds before the last morning bell rang, Usagi rushed in her homeroom door, breathless, and collapsed in her desk.

"Close call," Mizuno Ami whispered from behind her. "Five more seconds and another detention."

"Yeah, yeah," Usagi waved her hand as a sweatdrop dripped down the back of her head. "Had this been me two years ago... Anyway, I found out something interesting..."

"Attention, students and teachers," the husky, female voice of the high school principal, Takeuchi-sensei, announced over the intercom system. "All classes report to the gymnasium for a brief meeting. Arigatou."

As the second year high school students filed out of the classroom, Usagi and Ami joined their two friends, Kino Makoto and Aino Minako.

"What do you think the assembly's going to be about?" Makoto wondered.

"I hope it's about getting grants for new equipment. The Computer Club needs a couple of new modems," Ami added.

"I heard it's to introduce new students," Usagi stated. "Two girls from Shinjuku Gakuen, I believe." Shaking her head, she frowned at Minako before she told them.

Murmurs of curiosity echoed throughout the gym as the last remaining students sat on the bleachers. As Usagi and her friends entered the gym, two of them gasped in recognition when they saw who stood on the platform.

"Shirai-chan! Yume-chan! What are they doing here?" Ami gaped. "Are they on a mission and haven't told us about it?"

"Oh, I hope so," Makoto's teeth flashed as she punched her right hand into her left palm. "It's been so boring around here lately. I'm ready for some action."

Usagi glanced worriedly in the newcomers' direction as she and the others took seats in the front row. When all of the students had been seated, Takeuchi-sensei walked up to the microphone. The murmurs ceased as she began talking.

"Today, as you have probably already heard, we have two new students entering our school. Yunona Shinrai and Meijino Yume are both second year students," she cleared her throat before speaking again. "I expect all of you to be courteous and help them if they need it. Anyone volunteering to show them around stay after the assembly." The principal, motioning for the two girls to join the students in the bleachers, continued with her announcements.

"Also, I'd like to add that out of all the schools participating in the Grants for the Future campaign, our school received the most grants as well as the most money. So on that note...."

All of the students tuned the principal out, except for the few in the Computer Club waiting in anticipation for the New Age Technology Grant to be awarded. It was. With shouts of joy, Ami, the club's president, second year running, nearly skipped down the bleachers to receive the certificate.

The other awards were given to their respective clubs. As soon as Takeuchi-sensei announced their dismissal, the bored students rushed out of the gymnasium and on to the rest of their classes. Usagi, Minako, Ami, and Makoto walked down the bleachers, turning toward the direction of the new students and their principal.

"Takeuchi-sensei, we'd like to show them around," Usagi volunteered. "We're old friends."

"Very well, Tsukino-san," she turns to look at Shinrai and Yume. "If that's alright with you two, of course."

Much to the group's surprise, Shinrai and Yume denied that they ever knew the girls.

"Gomen nasai, but this is the first time we've been to Juuban," Shinrai shook her head.

"I don't know what kind of game you children are playing, but Tsukino-san, if you and your friends are gonna show them around, you should begin now. You shouldn't miss too many of your classes than you have to," Takeuchi-sensei interrupted. With a final shuffle of her papers, she gathered them up. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some paperwork to fill out." She walked briskly out of the gymnasium.

"All right, Takeuchi-sensei's gone," she looks at them sternly, SailorSenshi skills kicking in. "Why are you two here? What's happened and what can we do to help?"

"Gomen ne, but we have know idea what you are talking about," Yume shrugged. "We just moved here this past weekend."

"Nani? But weren't you here three years ago on a business trip?" Makoto raised an eyebrow. "Shinrai, you were going by the name of Jade then."

"Iie," Shinrai objected. "I was in America at that time and Yume was in England."

"Demo..." Minako interjected, but was stopped by Usagi.

Meanwhile across town, another Shinrai had some trouble in a hotel room before checkout time.

"Hey, Yume-chan. Get up! We have fifteen minutes before the hotel manager charges us for another day," Shinrai ordered as she shoved her Senshi comrade. "C'mon. Get up. I'd like for us to complete our plans before the next millenium."

"Yeah, yeah. I'm awake," she mumbled. "What time is it?"

"Nine o'clock," she said as she yanked her blankets off.

"All right! I'm up. Sheesh!"

"Good. You're both awake," a soft voice erupted from the middle of the room, startling the girls.

"SailorPluto!" Shinrai exclaims. "What are you doing here?"

"Chronos sent me. He feels that I should accompany you," she placed her hand over her chest, morphing her black and garnet-colored Sailor fuku into a blue sweater and khakis. "If the two of you were trying to make a quiet entrance into Juuban, it didn't work. It seems you have already transferred into Juuban High School."

"Just great," Yume growls. "I didn't want to trouble Usa-chan while we were here."

"Maybe it's a good thing." Shinrai shrugs. "Knowing the Kuraikishi, they'll attack and we will need all the help we can get."

"Which is why I'm here," Setsuna, adjusting her sweater, sat in a chair. "The Kuraikishi are going to attack soon."