Ami, Rei and Makoto around sitting around the table in the secret karaoke room. Rei sighs, and looks at the door.
‘Usagi’s late.’ Makoto says.
‘It’s her job to help clean up the classroom today.’ says Ami.
‘Even so.’ Makoto says.
‘I’m gonna go see what she’s up to.’ Ami smiles.
Makoto gets up and heads to the door.
‘She’ll be fine.’ Rei says, ‘She’s not a child.’
Makoto walks back to the table.
‘Well, true, but this is Usagi we’re talking about, she could be klutzing out somewhere.’ Mako replies.
Rei narrows her eyes.
‘If you go that far, that’s a little bit nosy, don’t you think?’ She asks, arms crossed over her chest.
Makoto presses her lips together, and sits down. ‘I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it.’

In the front of Crown Karaoke, Motoki is taking digital photos with his turtle.
‘Good afternoon!’ Usagi calls cheerfully, flashing her card and hurrying down the call.
‘Usagi-chan,’ Motoki calls. ‘Sorry that I was such a bother the other….’ He trails off because she’s already gone.

Usagi bursts through the door of the secret room. ‘Hey, listen to this!!’
She begins excitedly. But the other three stand up, with stern expressions on their faces.
‘Usagi you’re late.’ Makoto says.
‘Where were you?’ asks Rei.
‘Here, look at this! Look!’ Usagi shoves a flyer at them.
‘A contest for the best costume of the character designed by Aino Minako?’ Ami reads.
Usagi snatches the flyer back. ‘It’s for the character Aino Minako designed. See, her here.’
She points to the character on the flyer which kind of looks like a flying unicorn.
‘You’ve seen it before right?’ She shows the flyer to Makoto.
‘So, basically it’s a cosplay contest?’ Makoto asks.
‘Right! And Aino Minako is coming to the event! And if you win, you get a limited addition Nako-nako stuffed toy! I want it!’ She clasps her hands dreamily.
‘That’s what you called us here for? Why don’t you just enter if you want?’ Rei says, annoyed.
‘Oh. So, you won’t huh, Rei-chan…’
‘Of course not.’ Usagi turns to Ami and Makoto.
‘What about you guys?’ She asks them excitedly.
‘I have cram school!’ Ami protests quickly. ‘And I want to research Sailor V.’
‘Yeah.’ Makoto says. ‘I like Minako, but I’m not interested in stuffed animals and that kind of thing.’
‘Well then….Please! Help me!’ Usagi cries, clasping her hands together.
‘Huh?’ the girls ask.
Usagi takes a workbook out of schoolbag.
‘See…I actually did my homework, but I messed up and threw the notes out. And the test is the day after tomorrow, and the contest is the same day! If I do this, I won’t be able to get ready in time for the contest! Please help me out!’ She begs.
‘What are you doing?’ Rei asks.
‘I guess we’ve got no choice…’ Mako takes the workbook. ‘Well, if we split the pages between the four of us…’
‘Not me.’ Rei says. Rei turns to Usagi.
‘Usagi, you’ve got to take responsibility for your mistakes. It’s not good to always rely on others.’
‘Usagi knows that!’ Makoto says sharply. ‘But friends help friends when they’re in trouble!’
‘Looking after her too much is a minus for everyone involved!’ Rei yells back.
Ami watches them with wide eyes.
‘If you do that you won’t become strong.’ Rei says.
‘People become strong by helping each other!’ Makoto cries.
‘Everyone has to become strong on their own!’ Rei yells back.
They glare at each other.
‘Wait! Wait!’ Usagi pulls them apart. ‘I’m sorry! It’s ok! I’ll do it myself! So just forget about it! Okay?’ She looks at them with big, distressed eyes. They continue to glare at each other.
‘You’re so cold…’ Makoto says to Rei. Rei just glares at her.

In the Dark Kingdom, Zoisite is playing the piano. Jadeite comes in. ‘I’ve got a favor to ask.’ He says. ‘I’m busy aligning my soul with Sailor V.’ Zoisite tells him.
Jadeite slams his hands on the piano. ‘I want to beat the Sailor Senshi!’ He yells gruffly.
Zoisite plays a riff on the piano, and smiles.

Queen Beryl’s throne room.
‘Jadeite said that…’ She murmurs.
‘He boasts like that when he continuously fails to collect energy!’ Nephrite cries. ‘Shouldn’t you be rid of him by now?’
Queen Beryl turns on him sharply. ‘Nephrite! Don’t you think that it’s most lovable for those who want to be loved by me to try as hard as than can, rather simply talk?’
Nephrite winces, and bows. ‘Just as you say, your Majesty.’
Under his breath he mutters. ‘Damn you Jadeite!’

Makoto walks through the forest, holding a wish plaque that says ‘I want to get Nako-nako!’. Usagi’s voice echoes in her head.
‘I’m going to finish the workbook today, so I won’t have time to do it myself, would you please hang this for me?’
Makoto rememebers Usagi asking that, and her replying, ‘I know what you’re trying to do…’ Usagi had run after her clasped her arm.
‘Please! Talk to Rei-chan! Ok?’
As she walks through the forest, Mako looks at the plaque and sighs. Mako walks through the enterence to Hino Shrine. When she reaches the temple, she hears Rei on the phone.
‘I don’t want to go! Will you please tell him that I’m sick of pretending to be a family!’ She scrunches up her face, as if she’s going to cry. ‘That’s fine! I don’t want to see him!’ Rei closes her cell phone. Mako walks up to her.
‘Is there something wrong?’ She asks.
‘You were spying on me!?’ Rei cries.
‘I didn’t mean to.’ Makoto protests.
‘Well, leave me alone then! I don’t think that friends have to tell each other everything!’ Rei yells.
‘Oh yeah? Well, I’m not asking for you to tell me!’ Makoto yells back, walking away. She pauses, looking at the plaque in her hand, and back at Rei for a moment, before leaving. The wind blows through the trees.

In the Tsukino house, Usagi is at her desk studying. The pen falls from her hand. ‘I wonder if Rei-chan and Mako-chan made up?’ She thinks. Then she picks up the pen, smiling. ‘Ok! I’ve got to do my best!’ She says to herselfs, continuing to study. Shingo peeks through the door, eyes wide. He goes back into the kitchen where Ikuko-mama is sitting.
‘So, how was she? Was your sister studying?’
‘Yep.’ He replies. ‘Hard to believe. And she was really concentrating!’
‘I wonder what’s up? She’s been like this since yesterday….’ Ikuko-mama wonders.
‘But hey, this may be a good thing!’
‘I don’t know.’ Shingo says. ‘Sometimes when people study too much, they go crazy.’
Ikuko-mama looks at him. ‘Crazy?’

‘Alright! I’m done!’ Usagi yawns. ‘Now I just have to get ready for the contest!’ Usagi has put on her costume, which mostly consists of a red cowboy hat and a blue shawl with a horn affixed to it, and is standing in front of the mirror, practicing the poses and the sound (Kupi) that Nako-nako makes. Ikuko-mama, who has come in to bring her tea, is staring at her in horror. Usagi turns to look at her. ‘Kupi?’ She asks, cocking her head.
Ikuko-mama drops the tray and runs over to Usagi. ‘Usagi what is this!’ She rips the hat off her, and hugs her. ‘You don’t have to study anymore, ok!?’ she wails.
‘Mama, really?’ Usagi asks.
‘Yeah.’ Ikuko-mama nods.
‘Kupi!!!’ Usagi cries, punching the air.
‘No! No Kupi!!’ Ikuko-mama cries frantically. ‘No Kupi Usagi!!’

Juuban Junior High. Usagi and Naru-tachi are dressed in their Nako-nako costumes, practicing in the hall. Usagi yawns, and Naru scolds her. Makoto and Ami watch from the classroom door.
‘Wow, Usagi really did it…’ Mako says. Ami nods. ‘Yeah, and she’s really looking forward to the contest too. I can’t go, but…you’re going to support her, right?’
‘Oh…yeah…’ Mako touches the wish plaque still in her pocket.

In the Dark Kingdom, Zoisite opens his sheet music. ‘Let your soul fly to Sailormoon.’ He tells Jadeite.
‘Where is she?’ Jadiete asks.
‘I don’t know. All you have to do is let your thoughts fly to her.’
Jadeite closes his eyes and Zoisite begins to play.
Makoto walks through the Hino Shrine grounds, holding the plague. Suddenly she sees Rei being forced into a fancy black car by men in dark suits. ‘It couldn’t be…a kidnapping?’ The car drives off and Mako takes off running after it.

The car arrives in the parking lot of a tall building. Rei looks out the window with a dark expression. ‘Well, get out.’ Says a woman next to her. Meanwhile, the Aino Minako Nako-Nako contest is underway. Usagi and her friends stands in a line waiting with many other people, all in their Nako-nako costumes. ‘There’s so many people!’ Naru says. ‘I wonder if Minako’s here yet…’ One of her friends muses.

Makoto follows the woman through the hall of the fancy building, until she disappears into a room. Mako puts her ear to the door to listen in. But suddenly the men in suits surround her, clapping a hand on her shoulder. ‘What are you doing?’ They ask. ‘Why don’t you just come with us?’
But Makoto yells ‘Let go of me!’ and shoves one of them away, throwing the other down on top of him. ‘Don’t mess around with me!’ She cries.
The door opens. The woman looks at the men on the floor and looks back at Makoto.
‘Who are you?’ She asks.
‘I’m…’ Begins Makoto, but the woman doesn’t let her finish.
‘Someone!’ She starts to call out.
‘It’s alright, Kurata-san. She’s my friend.’ Rei says.
Makoto pushes her way into the room, glaring at the woman. She stops short when she sees Rei. Rei has her hair up, and make-up on, and is wearing a filmy white sweater over a pink shirt and long white skirt. Maktoo stares at her.
‘Leave us alone.’ Rei says to the woman.
‘But…’ She protests. ‘Please.’ Rei said. The woman looks at Makoto, and finally says. ‘Your father will be arriving soon, so keep it short.’ She leaves the room.
‘Your father?’ Makoto asks, surprised.
‘Yesm He’s a politician and he’s really busy, so we meet for lunch once a month.’ Rei explains.
‘Oh…’ Makoto looks down. ‘Just to tell you, I didn’t come because I was spying on your private life. I just happened to pass by and see you, and…I thought…it might be a kidnapping…’
Rei watches her, surprised. ‘So…you came to rescue me?’
Makoto smiles sheepishly and looks away. ‘How stupid am I?’ Rei smiles a faint smile.
‘You were right.’ She says, walking across the room. ‘Because I didn’t want to come here.’

Zoisite is still playing the piano. Suddenly Jadeite’s head snaps up, his eyes open. In the room the contest is being held, the BGM changes suddenly from ‘C’est la vie’ to the Zoisite’s piano music. Usagi looks around. ‘What’s this sound?’

Makoto watches as Rei sits alone in a chair, staring off into the distance. The woman comes back in, and tells her to her hurry because her father has arrived at the restaurant.
‘This is for an article, so remember that.’
‘An article?’ Rei asks. ‘About the ‘Ideal Family’ ‘.
The woman explains. Pulling Rei by the hand. Rei rips her arm away.
‘Ideal!?’ She cries, half in tears. ‘He didn’t even come home when my mother was dying! How about I tell the reporters that!?’ Makoto stares at her. ‘Rei-san…’ The woman says, but Rei continues.
‘What does he mean, ‘ideal’!? He’s just doing all of this because he’s worried about his image as a politician!’ She presses her lips together tearfully.
‘Rei-san, your father doesn’t mean….’ But Rei cuts her off.
‘Get out!’ She cries, pushing the woman towards the door.
‘Rei-san, calm down!’ The woman struggles with her, but Makoto comes to help her push.
‘Who do you think you are?’ The woman asks Makoto. Makoto simply looks at her, opens the door, and shoves her out, while Rei watches in amazement. Makoto ignores the woman’s protests, and close the door on her, standing in front of it. Makoto looks at Rei, who looks back at her. The woman goes to tell Rei’s father that she will be a little late, after knocking on the door in vain.

Rei sits on the bed. Makoto sees a present on the table, with a card saying, ‘To Rei, from Papa’. She picks the card up.
‘It’s just for show.’ Rei tells her.
‘You see, Papa hates the powers I have, that’s why he gave me to the temple to take care of me.’
‘Really?’ Makoto asks.
Rei nods. ‘But I don’t need a father. I can live just fine on my own. I’m actually grateful because it’s made me strong. But…I’m sick of putting on a show.’ She removes her white heels.
‘Run away then.’ Makoto says.
‘What?’ Rei looks up at her, startled.
‘Let’s run away.’ Makotp looks at the card, and then thows it behind her. ‘I mean, enough already, right?’

Room Service enters Rei’s hotel room. When it comes out again, it is Makoto, disguised at the Room Service wheeling the cart. She knocks on the silver tray, and Rei pops her head out.
‘All clear.’ Makoto says with a smile.
‘I thought you were going to say that families should get along.’ Rei tells her.
‘I was going to.’ Makoto admits. ‘But then I thought about it, and I don’t have a family, so…’ She grips the handle of the cart tight, and begins to push it fast.
‘…I really don’t know!’ Rei shrieks as Makoto begins to run with the car. They push the cover off Rei, who is sitting on the cart in her Miko clothes. ‘Stop.’ Rei cries.
‘No! I won’t”’ Makoto cries back, as she pushes the cart through the hallways.
‘We must look so stupid.’ Rei says.
‘Who cares’ Makoto replies.
‘Here we go!’ Makoto yells.
‘Go!!’ Rei yells.

The girls laugh and laugh. The stop the cart inside the parking lot. ‘If we don’t go soon, the contest will have ended.’ Makoto says. As she picks up her school bag, everything falls out, because it was unzipped. Rei helps her pick up her things. She notices some little stuffed Nako-nakos on a keychain.
‘Ooh, you like cute things…’ She teases.
‘No, that’s just…’ Makoto tries to protest.
‘Wow, it’s handmade, isn’t it?’ Rei asks, standing up and dangling the little keychain.
‘I like them! You got a problem?’ Makoto asks defensively. Rei hands Mako back her cute things one by one, and finally the girls laugh together. Suddenly their cellphones ring. They take them out.
‘Big trouble!’ Says Luna.

In the convention center, all the would-be Nako-nakos are passed out, except for Usagi, who tries to wake up her friends, as Zoisites music plays faster and faster. ‘Fly!’ Zoisite yells to Jadeite, who closes his eyes and teleports onto the stage.
‘I’ve found you…Sailormoon!’ He yells, walking threateningly towards her.

‘He’s…Jadeite!’ Usagi recognizes him from last episode, dodging his blows and transforming. As she’s still in her ending pose, Jadeite starts to strangle her. She manages to get away, but he kicks her in the chest and she falls to the ground.
A car drives up to the convention center and the window rolls down. Minako looks out, a smile on her face. Suddenly the radio begins to play Zoisite’s song.

Minako looks around, and starts when she sees Zoisite in the rearview mirror. She looks around frantically only to see him this time at her window. She puts her hands over her ear.
‘Stop the music!’ She yells. Her driver shuts off the radio. Zoisite is gone. Minako looks down, breathing heavily. The man besides her asks, ‘Minako-chan, is something wrong?’

Jadeite throws an energy ball at Sailor Moon. She falls to the ground. ‘This is where it ends!’ Jadeite tells her.
Jupiter and Mars come cartwheeling onto the scene, kicking Jadeite and sending him flying against a wall.
‘I’m the soldier of flame and passion!’
‘I’m the soldier of strength and courage!’
‘In the name of Mars….’
‘In the name of Jupiter…’
‘We’ll punish you!’

Jadeite tries to fight them with knives. They fight, and the two senshi wrestle his knives to the ground.
‘Flower Hurricane!’ Jupiter yells.
‘Akuryo Taisan!’ Mars yells. But Jadeite reflects their attacks with a huge ball of energy, which keeps growing larger.
‘I’ll send you to Hell as well!’ He yells.
But no sooner has he said it when he groans in pain, and something red glows in his stomach. He disappears.

Jupiter and Mars look around, bewildered.
‘What was that all about?’
‘Dunno…’ On the floor, Sailor Moon wakes up.
‘You two made up…’ Usagi says with a smile. Jupiter and Mars look bashful. ‘I did it all on my own.’ Sailor Moon tells them.
‘And I’m gonna enter the contests, and get the Nakonako! I’m so tired…’ She adds, and promptly falls asleep.
‘Usagi?’ Mars asks.
‘She’s asleep?’
‘Well, she did stay up all night for a couple nights in a row.’ Jupiter says.
‘I guess she won’t be entering the contest.’
‘There’ll be another chance.’ Mars says.
‘Good work, Usagi.’ Jupiter strokes her hair.

At the Nakonako contest, the announcer tells the contestants that because of scheduling problems, Minako isn’t coming anymore, but that she has signed the Nakonako for the winner.’ Makoto sneaks into a seat, wearing a Nakonako costume. Her eyes widen as she catches sight of Rei, also in costume.
Rei leans over, ‘Such a pushover for Usagi….’ She says.
‘Which one of us?’ Makoto asks.
‘We have to win.’ Rei says. ‘If we don’t win, there’s no point.’
Makoto agrees.
‘That’s right!’ Rei says. The girls try their best to do good impressions of Nakonako, with all the cute posing, and Kupi!ing, but…

They walk dejectedly down the hallway, each holding ‘consolation prizes’.
‘Usagi…’ Makoto begins. ‘…will never hear about this…’ Rei finishes.
‘Right.’ Makoto says.
In bed that night, Usagi mutters ‘Kupi’ in her sleep. From the floor, Luna muses, ‘I have a feeling the enemy is growing stronger. If Usagi and the others don’t truly awaken as senshi, they might be in danger…’

In the Dark Kingdom, Zoisite kneels down, he hand on Jadeite’s head, who lays unconscious on the floor. ‘This is what happens when people who aren’t used to it try to fly.’ He says, laughing. ‘But…I felt her…’ He continues, sitting back at his piano. ‘Sailor V….’