"Who the hell are you talking about?" I demanded furious, "I was lured into a trap here by that freak of a Sentiment with the Hood!" This seemed to get a reaction out of the Armor clad man.

"THAT MONSTER IS HERE!!!" He screamed, "Wasn't my world enough for that monster!"

"Marcia!" Two voices called out, we both turned to see the source of the voices it was Luna and Setsuna.

"S-Serena?" The armor clad man choked out, without a moments hesitation he hugged Luna in a loving embrace.

"Um...have I missed something here?" Luna finally asked confused at the embrace.

"Serena it's me Cillen!" Cillen reassured her showing a wedding ring identical what Luna had on her, "Y-you remember me right?"

"I-I'm not Serena Cillen..." Luna answered sadly, "You know she died...It's me Luna..."

Cillen let Luna go clearly upset, and took of his helmet...he looked exactly like that doctor Raines...but how? I asked myself.

"...I'm sorry I should have known it was you." Cillen spoke up, "I really hate Time Travel."

"Will someone please explain what's going on?" I finally spoke up. Setsuna brought us all up to date with the current situation. It turns out that this Cillen was chasing after an imposter who stole a time gate key from Setsuna and was using it to allow the Memoria to travel back in time.

"Wait so the Memories Sentiment we've seen running around is the original?" I asked Cillen.

"Yes...worst of all he's my father, Cyrus Raines." Cillen confirmed, "He was a head researcher who discovered the Memoria Virus and weaponized it."

"...Erm would anyone mind giving me a better explanation?" I asked confused.

"Allow me, my dear apprentice." Setsuna offered. "Earth and Eques are separate planets in neighboring star systems and are connected by the same meteorite that brought the building blocks of life to this planet. One fragment collided with Earth and the other Eques."

"In 589 AE (After Earth) roughly 2000 years from now, humanity found Eques and settled there after so long in space. Earth was destroyed by massive war which caused by the Earth running out of natural resources." Cillen added, "I was born on September 3rd 1148 AE, this where the Memoria that invaded Eques and Earth are from, but the original Memoria date as far further in the future than I am."

"As I was saying," Setsuna continued, "I was given the duty of guarding the time gates during the Silver Millennium, and everything was going smoothly until the Memoria invaded my own timeline which is an alternate to this one. My friends tried to stop the Memoria but we had no choice but bring down the Silence Glaive in a last ditch effort to stop the Memoria. We succeeded but at too high a price...My friends and family we're dead, I still don't know how I survived but I ended up absorbing their star seeds...which turned me into the Sentiment you see today."

"I-I'm sorry to hear that..." I reassured her, Setsuna gave me a small smile in return.

"In the original timeline Equestria was all life on Equestria was destroyed when Twilight Sparkle and Sunset Shimmer destroyed a Nightmare possessed Celestia." Setsuna continued, "This was the same Eques humankind would eventually find."

"So what changed?" I asked,

"The Memoria invaded..." Luna added, "I was fighting the False Moon, or Dark Matter as we called it. I even had to succumb to the Nightmare once again...I won, but I was rendered amnesic, locked into a human form and thrown so far into the future where I met and married Cillen."

"Before the Memoria first appeared in my timeline, Luna took on the identity of Serena...who was a childhood friend of mine." Cillen added, "The real Serena died because of a accident in one of the labs, I assume they never found the real body..."

"I regained my memory not long after the Memoria began wiping out everything." Luna continued, "We...even had a daughter..."

"That bastard father of mine murdered her in cold blood and used her body as a part of some sick experiment." Cillen spot out in disgust. "I don't remember what happened to the rest of my family...my guess is they became the Memoria that were hunting me down."

"And now they're here trying to destroy this world too." I confirmed, "And the man responsible has been playing us for fools the entire time."

"Yes...I barely survived our last encounter..." Cillen confirmed, "He even took the Betrayal from me..."

"What is the Betrayal exactly?" I asked curious.

"It's humankind's answer to Equestrian magic, it's a weapon called a GEARS...that's short for Genetic Encoded Assault Relic System, Serena...or rather Luna was the one who designed it." Cillen explained, "It uses a genetic code to create a sentient weapon that can harm and even kill the Memoria, only a person with the DNA it's created from can use it properly, in the hands of anyone else it's just a weapon that kills Memoria."

"Is this what you meant by the Betrayal being a part of me Setsuna?" I asked the older woman,

"Yes, though I do wonder how your DNA managed to survive for so long," Setsuna answered,

"It wasn't hard considering we had 6 billion samples of DNA stored on the ship when Humankind left Earth." Cillen answered.

"Well I suppose there's only one question left then..." I stated with a sigh, "Why did you make me your apprentice Setsuna?"

"Simply put...to save you from a horrible fate." Setsuna replied, "I'm the one responsible for the current form you're in now, think of it as a form of defense against the Memoria or rather an immunity from being transformed into one." Cillen and Luna shot her a raised brow wondering how she managed such a feat, "As a Sentiment I cannot harm another of my kind as our powers cancel each others out, and partly because I wanted to bring back the Senshi as a form of honoring my friends."

"I...see." I went quiet.

"At the present moment you and I are the only Senshi here, but there will be others in the near and far future." Setsuna added, "I needed someone to take up my mantle as Sailor Pluto to repair these time cracks that have been appearing because of the Memoria. As time is Sailor Pluto's domain."

"That's a pretty heavy burden." Cillen stated, "We all learned one thing from the Memoria Marcia, and I suggest you take this to heart."

"..." Luna went quiet.

"My best friend once told me when his wife became a Memoria..." Cillen said sadly, "It's a funny thing isn't it? The more you want to hurt someone, the easier it is to make them stop living. But no matter how much you love someone, you can't bring them back from the dead."

"..." Everyone looked at Cillen with a solemn expression.

"When you encounter a Memoria...forget about the person they were loved one or not, fight them with every bit of hatred you have because the person they were originally is dead." Cillen warned, "Killing and being forced to forget them is a much kinder mercy than letting them live like a monster."

"Marcia..." Luna knelt down, "We know this going to be hard, but do this for the sake of protecting everyone you love. This is why we are doing this so these monsters can never harm anyone ever again."

"We'll explain more later...just get some rest okay." Setsuna reassured me.

I soon found myself alone on the hospital roof top, I was looking out trying come to terms with what had happened. I noticed a faint glint of metal where the Memoria had been killed, I walked up to it for a closer look and found the glint belonged to a small heart shaped locket.

I wondered if the person creature was dropped this when that freak turned him into the Memoria. I opened it out of curiosity, hoping it would give me some clues of the creatures true identity.

All that I could find was a folded note and picture that was taken years ago...it was a picture of me as a newborn child, my mother, and a man I had no memory of, no matter how hard I tried to remember his face.

I unfolded the note and gasped at what it turned out to be...it was a child's drawing of a happy smiling family. It was the same one that I drew that was crumpled up and threw away all those years ago...I drew it for someone important to me...that's all I could remember that much.

Is this what Cillen was trying to say, to kill one of those monsters means forgetting everything about the person they were. The thought of it alone was possibly the worst form of torment, and I wouldn't wish it upon anyone.

"Marcia?" A voice called out surprising me, "What are you doing up here all by yourself?" I turned to the source of the voice, it was Shaun and Matt.

"What's wrong Marcia?" Matt asked beating Shaun to the punch.

"Someone important left me this locket," I told them, showing the locket in question. "It's got a picture of me and my mother inside it, along side someone I can't remember."

"Are you sure you're alright?" Matt questioned, "You look like you've been crying."

"H-have I?" I asked embarrassed, "I didn't realize that I was..."

"Matt leave her alone." Shaun said flatly, "I really don't think this is the time or place. C'mon Marcia lets get you inside before it get's too cold."

I nodded my head and followed them both back to our room. Matt bid us good night but i could tell he was concerned about me. As far as he's known me he's never seen me this upset.

"Mommy?" Sunshine asked, "Mommy are you okay?" I picked Claire up and hugged her.

"I'll be okay my little sunshine." I reassured her, holding my daughter close. Shaun just stood there a knowing worried look on his face, I knew I couldn't hide anything from him. "I...just forgot someone I didn't realize they were that important to me that's all."

I mouthed a "I'll tell you later." to him, right now reassuring my daughter was more important.

"Do you want me to sing you to sleep?" I asked Claire with a small warm smile, "It is past your bed time you know." Claire nodded happily, while Shaun just raised a brow out of interest.

"Will you sing my favorite?" I nodded yes.

"You are my sunshine..."

It wasn't long before she fell fast asleep, I admit I was surprised a little by Shaun joining in I didn't know he could sing so well.

"Mom told me that my grand mother used to sing that song to her when she was a child, and my mother used to sing it to me when I was younger than Claire..." I told Shaun, as I knew what he was about to ask.

"What did you mean earlier...?" Shaun asked, "I haven't seen you this upset in ages." I said nothing but I gave Shaun the locket. He examined it out of curiosity, and like I did he found the picture.

"This is definitely your mom, and I'm assuming that's you as a baby but who's the other guy?" He asked.

"I'm assuming that's my father," I answered, "In fact I know it is, but I can't even remember anything about him..."

"Yeah I think you said he left your mother for another woman," He recalled, "It's vague but I do recall that you seemed to get upset when ever he was brought up."

"That's just the problem, I can't remember why I get upset...why I got angry at the sight of him, all I know is that I just did." I confessed, "I can't remember anything about him, that picture is the only thing I've got to go by."

"Are you sure it was your father?" Shaun asked. "I mean really sure?"

"My mother still has the other half of that locket." I explained to him, "It's meant to be part of a set."

"I suppose it's best to ask her in the morning." Shaun added, I agreed that might be the best course of action. I got up and got undressed, Shaun noted something was different about me. "Um Marcia?"

"What's wrong Shaun?" I asked, "You've seen me get undressed plenty of times by now, don't tell me you're still uncomfortable about that?"

"No I'm just wondering why your cutie mark has an extra gear on it." Shaun pointed out.

"Hm?" I raised a brow and looked, apparently there was indeed a fourth gear added to my cutie mark. "Last time I checked there was only three."

"Y'know I've been wondering about that." Shaun commented, "You originally had just the one gear and the heart was a dark blue, not red."

"I never told you what my cutie mark means?" I asked him.

"I don't think you've ever mentioned it." Shaun replied, "You'd think I'd ask considering all the times I've been staring at it recently."

"You always were an ass man Shaun." I joked, "Remember that strip club Jay dragged us into?" Shaun let out a snort, not wanting to remember Jay's last attempt of Shaun being his wingman as he called it.

"Well if you want to know..." I drifted off, "My cutie mark means two things: You know how quick I am to pick up new things right?"

"Yeah once you get the gears turning there's no...oh I get it" Shaun realized what I was referring to, "I keep forgetting that you're a complete tech geek."

"Exactly." I said proudly, "The other meaning is..." I hesitated a little, "A reminder that I have people who love and cherish me, so I'm never alone again." I kissed him on the cheek, earning myself a blush from him.

"Well we'll be able to go home soon..." Shaun suddenly brought up.

"Do you really think it'll be that awkward?" I asked straddling him. "Shaun...I didn't think you of all people would be saying that considering you were quite happily plowing me into next week earlier, I think we're past awkward at this point."

"Oh are we going to play it that way are we?" Shaun asked with a chuckle, "I'm sorry but who was screaming loudly? Last time I checked you were always one of the quiet ones."

"That reminds me..." My tone suddenly turning dangerous, "What was on that video you mentioned that was on my PC at home? Matt hasn't been able to look at me the same way since."

"Oh that video...well..." Shaun trailed off, "I didn't realize your pony form was...so flexible."

"Shaun..." I replied, a stern look in my eyes, "Remind me to smack Matt next time I see him..." Shaun suddenly felt a bit sorry for Matt.

"I'm fucked aren't I?" He asked.

"Shaun..." I gave him a deadpan look, "Look to your left." Shaun did what he was asked and saw a pink pair of lace panties. "Did you know those barriers I can conjure up are sound proof?" I continued, "Someone could scream the place down inside them and nobody could hear a damned thing."

"Really?" Shaun asked not quite getting the hint.

"..." I gave him an unamused look, "Just shut up and fuck me already blondie..."

Author's Note

Here's the new chapter for you all. Hopefully this'll answer a few questions I've been getting recently.

Next chappy will be up soon.

• silent out.