Memories are Back: The Afghan Cities' Past

**"Memories are Back: The Afghan Cities' Past"** is the 9th episode of fanmade Sailor Moon R.

## Summary

The past wars with Talibans are involving in Afghan Cities' memories, they can't stop it but Sailor Soldiers can.

## Plot

Mrs. Sakuragawa announces a tomorrow school festival for her students. Kabul and Kandahar get excited for it, Herat thinks about playing music at the festival while Mazar thinks about the same. Then she orders them to perform a song at the stage in the school festival tomorrow, Herat immediately agreed, so did Mazar, Kandahar and Kabul.

After school, the girls wait for Afghanistan to exit her school for news. When Afghanistan came out, Kandahar cheerfully told her the news, making Afghanistan very surprised and rushes home to practice her vocals, Herat practices her guitar, Kandahar practices her bass, Mazar goes to a music shop to practice the drums and Kabul practices her keyboard.

Suddenly the girls remember the past wars they had in their homeland, Herat tries to turn the music to forget about it, but it's still in her head. For past some hours and it was already night, Mazar exits the music shop after successfully practicing her drums and gets bothered by the past memories. That leads to a plan by Ail and An to steal their energy while the girls can't fight with the memories they had.

The next day came and Kandahar was already excited for her day, so was Kabul, Herat, Mazar and Afghanistan. The class started in Afghanistan's school, making Albania realize she is alone in her classroom, her teacher told her to leave the school since Afghanistan was invited to perform with Afghan City High School at their School Festival. Afghanistan successfully practiced her vocals and her voice. Mrs. Sakuragawa orders the girls to perform the song called Sacred World for the festival, making them surprised and agreed with it.

Usagi and her friends visit the Afghan City High School's Festival seeing Natsumi and Seijuro joining as well. At the stage, Afghan Cities setup their instruments for their performance, Afghanistan can't get her memories off her head, so can't Kabul, Herat, Mazar and Kandahar making them dizzy for a bit. People then stare at them for being on the stage and moving back and forward.

Kabul says it's time for their play, while so many people gather in front of the stage, seeing them on it. The girls start to perform the song Sacred World, and the people began to wave their colorful glow sticks. Ail and An then started to ruin the concert by summoning a cardian to steal the Afghan Cities' energy while having past memories about the wars.

The people started to run away as fast as they can, and Usagi and the others started to transform to destroy the cardian. The Cardian begins to steal the girls' energy, while falling on the stage floor still thinking about wars. Sailor Moon appears behind the Afghan Cities introducing herself once again. The cardian starts to attack her, while Sailor Mercury hits the cardian with Shabon Spray Freezing. Sailor Moon uses Moon Princess Halation and destroys the cardian, but there was more energy gathered for Makai Tree.

Herat started to wake up and successfully forgets about the memories, so does the other girls'. Herat thanks the soldiers for doing so, Sailor Moon helps Herat up, saying your welcome with a happy smile. The Afghan Cities then successfully perform the song and the School Festival was over.