Life had never been what you could call "normal" for Tsukino Usagi, her beloved and their friends. That said, for all the battles and all the pain, once the danger was past, life went on much as before. They graduated from High School (and Mamoru from college) and looked forward to better days. What they had learned from a trip to the future haunted them all, though. If what they had seen was correct, their world would end one day so that a paradise might rise.

Their world did end, but in a way they never could have predicted. One unscrupulous man by the name of Kashu Hikaru uncovered the secret of Usagi's double life through a blood test she had taken to get into college. At first he wanted to do little more than gain notoriety, but instead became obsessed by the desire to posses Usagi's unearthly beauty and power for himself. Kashu Hikaru had been a pawn of dark forces that sought the ruin of the Moon Princess and her Prince. His lusts led him down a path that eventually killed him, but not before the world found out just who and what Tsukino Usagi was. One by one, most of the Senshi's private identities were ferreted out and made public.

Much to the shock of everyone involved, the Senshi found out that they were not exactly "human" anymore - at least not Terran human, that is. Queen Serenity explained to her daughter (in a dream) that she had sent them along with everyone and everything she could into the future the night the Silver Millennium had fallen. They were who they had been a thousand years ago, right down to the last chromosome. If that knowledge was not enough to shock them, the old Queen told Usagi that she'd also sent as many as she could manage of the Moon Kingdom's people into the future as well.

The world has never been accepting of those who are different. In the fear whipped up by a media greedy for ratings, the public turned on the heroes who had saved them again and again. The last heirs of the Silver Millennium endured fire, unwanted publicity and physical attacks. When a mob trapped Usagi and Mamoru in a church in which they had just exchanged wedding vows, the world watched as the two seemed to die to save the huge crowd from the deadly fury of a propane explosion.

Usagi had learned through this time of trial to use the Ginzuishou in a new way. It was called "The Balance" and it increased the power she was capable of by a hundred-fold. The danger to her was also increased exponentially. That kind of power was euphoric, but deadly. All the Queens before Usagi who had gone into the Balance burned out, unable to resist the seductive call of the power that consumed them. But the soul bond between the last Princess of the Moon Kingdom and her Prince was stronger than even the fatal bliss of the Balance. Mamoru's golden crystal bound him to the earth. His rock steady love for her was the only thing that kept Usagi tied to the here and now.

With his help, Usagi went once more into the Balance with the great power of the Moon Kingdom. She used it to release the pieces of the Silver Millennium sealed inside her closest friends. This was how Usagi would know the reborn children of the Moon. Each would have a small piece of her Kingdom sealed inside them. By freeing the parts the Senshi held, the Moon Castle and the immediate grounds had been restored.

Of all those they knew to be of the Silver Millennium, only Setsuna's twin sister, Lorilei, had never awakened as a Senshi (Sailor Charon was a failsafe weapon - a sure way to destroy the Timegate if it ever fell into an enemy's hands. Since Charon would mean death for both of the twins, it was hoped that she would never awaken!). She still showed up as a base-line human on the genetics testing most governments were moving to implement. With her skills as a concert pianist, she had the perfect excuse to move around the world helping to find those lost children of the Moon Kingdom who were now awakening.

It is now a little over six months since the end of "Fatal Exposure". The new Queen and King of the Silver Millennium are trying to adjust to life as exiles from Earth. The Senshi are adapting, some better than others, but all bound by their love for and duty to Usagi and Mamoru. Things are still changing back on Earth, not necessarily for the better. And the dark force is still out there waiting for the right moment to strike...