episode 117: who's really who? A strange, supernatural shadow on Mistress 9's face. Tomoe laughs, "Finally, the dark age will come, and the cursed light age will cease to exist!" An odd hum from the Mistress. "All of our evil-doing will finally pay off! The world will bow to its true ruler!" The blue shadow fades, leaving a smiling Mistress 9. Both look into the Tau Nebula projection facing them, a huge image of their home, and a weird red ball approaching the Earth...outside the Mugen School, the five girls prepare for the final confrontation - "Mercury Star Power..." "Mars Star Power..." "Jupiter Star Power..." "Venus Star Power..." "Moon Cosmic Power..." "WE ARE ONE!"... Uranus pilots her helicopter as she, Neptune, and Pluto in back head towards Mugen. "Our fate has been resting on this day," Uranus says, Neptune agreeing. Uranus says regretfully, "We must make any sacrifices necessary..." In the back, a saddened Pluto looks down, remembering Serena vow to let there be no sacrifices... Mistress 9 on her throne says, "The Purity Chalice is coming to us." Tomoe questions, "Are you sure?" "I will it to come to me, and it comes. But until I am fully established, no one can enter this place."...outside, a purple force firld forms around the building, only a star-shaped opening on top can let anyone in. Mars suddenly gasps her chest - "Don't you feel it? Look!" Inside Mugen, all the daimon eggs begin to breaks, millions of them. The unborn daimon take the form of red liquid, and it begins to pour out of the building, covering the forcefield! Mercury analyzes the situation. "The only way we can get in is to use the Sailor Teleport." Jupiter clutches her fist, ready to begin...when the liquid begins to take on a humanoid form! And these humanoid forms begin to charge at the Scouts, as well as the liquid! It begins to overwhelm them. "SPARKLING WiDE PRESSURE!" "CRESENT BEAM SMASH!" "MARS FIRE IGNITE!" All the girls attack in a fabulous scene, but the monsters are hardly sent back. "MOON SPIRAL HEART ATTACK!" A huge pink heart forms, covering the street block, and eradicating all the monsters... or are they? They begin to re-form once more! Inside, we hear Hotaru's voice - "This is wrong! Rini is only a little girl!" "Are you OK, Sovereign?" asks Tomoe. Mistress 9's eyes glow red..."This space has become the Omega Zone. No one can enter...without my permission." Her hand becomes distorted, a horrid blue color, twisting...reaching into a small vortex, her hand extends through to the outside... the Scouts again try to face the horrible daimon. "MOON SPIRAL HEART ATTACK!" The daimon retract for a minute. "Now, let's teleport!" they cry. But before they can...the hand reaches out of the vortex - grabbing Sailor Moon by the throat! The others reach out to her, but it is too late. Moon has been pulled away..."Now what can we do? We can't teleport with only four!" cries Jupiter. In a flash, suddenly, the daimon all retract, binding with the forcefield, adding to its stregnth... above, in the helicopter, Uranus notes the daimon barrier. "Maybe we can go through that star-shaped hole?" She starts to manouver the copter through it - when the daimon begin to attack! Wrapping themselves around the blades, the engine overloads. With final screams from the three Soldiers, the copter explodes in air!... Wravaged metal. A glowing blue. Everything is in a quite still...Uranus, voice echoing, says softly. "It's over...we're alive?" Neptune looks at her in shock. In a corner, Pluto's hair blows like the wind, and her staff glows with many color. "I've stopped time to save you, now GO!" "You stopped time for us? You COULD?" wonders Uranus. Pluto stammers, "I'm not allowed, it's forbidden. My time as time-guardian is over. NOW GO!" Neptune cries, "Can't we save you?" Pluto smiles at them. "If you meet the true Sovereign..." But in a yellow flash, Uranus and Neptune are gone...they land hard inside the Mugen building. Above them, the copter finally dissolves into flame. Pluto is gone as they look to the sky... "Clever Scouts, stopping time to save themselves and get inside," says Mistress 9. Tomoe, bascially sucking up, says, "But the Sovereign of Silence is MUCH stronger, I'm sure." Suddenly, she quipps, "I want YOU to take care of them." "ME?" "Use the figures you created!" A red light overtakes her, and she turns into the body of Hotaru...outside, the girls try to figure out a solution as the barrier grows in stregnth. "We can use the Sailor Box!" Mars suggests. "We all take a corner, and contact telepathically."...Mars kneels on pavement. "Mars in contact!" Mercury kneels on the bridge. "Mercury in contact!" Jupiter on the ground, "Jupiter ready!". Venus on the side of the building, "Venus prepared!". And suddenly, their bodies begin to glow their aura color...we see the determined faces of the soldiers as their aura colors extend from their bodies, forming a square around the growing barrier... a dark room. Moon grasps her aching throat. "Guys, is that you?" A figure lies on the ground - "HOTARU!"... Uranus and Neptune run down one of Mugen's corridors, where hundreds of white rubber figures lay lifeless on the walls. Tomoe laughs at them. "I want you all to become daimon containers...just like my favorite one, TOMOE!" And out of nowhere, Dr. Tomoe turns into a HUGE, flower-like monster, with one huge eye in the middle! "URANUS WORLD SHAKING!" The blast hits the monster. Broken apart, it falls in little clumps on the ground...but rushes immediately over to each rubber figure! And one by one, the figures "blow up", becoming living creatures! Uranus and Neptune go to attack, but the figures only dodge, or the rubber just absorbs the blasts! Using their thin arms, two of the monsters wrap themselves around Uranu and Neptune! All seems lost... A familiar voice - "Use the treasures." Suddenly, the treasures appear shining in front of them! Holding the mirror up, the illusions of the monsters disappear when they look at themselves in the mirror - except for one. Uranus takes the saber out of its case and thrusts it into the monster's eye! It is destroyed! Uranus and Neptune run off. "That sounded like Pluto," Neptune remarks sadly...That was me. "PLUTO!" cries Uranus. You must hurry. "Take care!" cries out Neptune, and with the spirit of Pluto aiding them, they take off...laying on the ground is Dr. Tomoe. "Ho...taru..." Moon runs over to the downtrodden Hotaru. "Hotaru, are you alright?" "I'm fine...there's negative forces in there! I heard that if Super Sailor Moon shines the Chalice there, they would be gone...HURRY!" Moon smiles, "I'll save you and Rini, for her sake." Hotaru continues, "Serena, please hurry!" Moon stops for a moment. "Is that really Hotaru in there?" 'Hotaru' looks surprised, then smiles. "Hotaru? Sort of...ONLY HER BODY!" In a matter of moments, Hotaru once again becomes Mistress 9, hair extending on the ground! The Tau Nebula projection is revealed as Uranus and Neptune storm through the doors. "We finally found you!" shouts Uranus. "Your future will never take place!" cries Neptune. Mistress 9 just laughs and turns to the projection. "Please wait a minute, Pharaoh 90...I have a few loose ends to take care of." The black silence as the mysterious Pharaoh 90 approaches the Earth. Mistress 9 laughs, "Finally, the world will be plunged into Silence!"... Pharaoh 90, the lord and master of the heart snatchers, is finally coming to put the Earth into Silence! Can it be stopped?...