Shadow Moon

**Shadow Moon** is the form Sailor Moon has taken after being forcibly infused with machine technology by Shadaloo.

## Appearance

Unlike Shadow and Shadow Lady Shadow Moon’s body hasn’t been blacked out. however like them her mind and personality have shut down all but the most basic functions, making her little more then a mechanical construct controlled by the Doctor and Rose.

## Story

Knowing that they would be expecting Shadow and Shadow Lady, Rose sent Shadow Moon to retrieve Shampoo. So while they dealt with the guards she plowed Kuno, Kodachi and Makoto. She was also able to easily overcome Sailor Jupiter and Ranko due to the fact that the nanites in her body negated the laters anti magic ability. When Saki arrived at Hotel with a group of fighter to rescue Kasumi, Shampoo, and Usagi while annoyed the Doctor assured Rose that they wouldn’t get far with the magical wards in place. That view changed when he watched Frost blast through a door which she shouldn’t be able to do. He realized that she must have had one of the neutralizing keys. With about 20 minutes estimated before the group found the stones, Rose ordered for Shadow, Shadow Lady and Shadow Moon to stop or delay them.

Since the nanites were only recently inserted into her the Doctor was worried that she would be able to resist them given the reports on her power. This is why he was skeptical about sending her after the Senshi, but much to his glee she completely outmatched them with minimal resistance. No longer worried about Usagi’s consciousness reasserting itself he ordered her to just keep the Senshi there hoping that they would continue to fight so allowing him to test Shadow Moon’s full capabilities.

By the time the second stone was destroyed the Doctor decided to cut his loses and after initiating the buildings self destruct sequence went to where the Senshi were fighting to order Shadow Moon to come with him. However much to his surprise she refused his order. Once the alarm sounded Rose had over road his command and ordered his death. Neither the Senshi nor the Doctor could react in time as she cut him down. Relaying that she had accomplished her order she asked what her next order was. Rose ordered her to return to her after she disposed of the Senshi.

Though they didn’t like it the Senshi were forced to fight full force and hope that Shadow Moon could make it through it alive. However by this point she the nanites with in her had gained enough control that she could use her magic again. So after blasting Mars into a wall she summoned the Moon Stick. With access to her magic now, the battle had turned very quickly against the Senshi and in a last desperate stand, Sailor Saturn was shielding them using her Silence Wall against the worst of the attack, but her strength was quickly fading under Shadow Moon's onslaught.

To prevent this Usagi having become aware of what was going on destroyed her star seed. Shadow Moon after gasping in pain suddenly lost all her strength and fell to the floor only to be caught by Tukedo Kamen. Sailor Moon’s consciousness reasserted itself seconds before all life left her body. Then as Tuxedo Kamen begain to register what just happened she was suspended in the air as she transformed into Eternal Sailor Moon. Her uniform started to disintegrate leaving nothing but her wings which continued to grow, before unleashing a purifying wave of light.

## Ability

Shadow Moon’s body is infested with nanites, which run throughout her entire body, even her brain. They control her by putting Usagi’s consciousness into a dream-like state where she is hanging out with her friends playing games unaware of what is going on. This causes brief periods of delay between orders and the nanites convincing Usagi that everything is fine when she starts to notice discrepancies.

They can’t control her magical abilities due to their limited understanding of it. Instead they feed off of Sailor Moon's normal energy field and convert into some sort of electro-magnetic field. This allows her to attack with a powerful light whip that is strong enough to allow her to take on the entire Sailor Senshi including Tuxedo Kamen by herself. However the longer the nanites replicate the more control they gain over her magic. Upon gaining full control and thus full access to her abilities the nanites no longer have a need for Usagi. While they would have left her in the in the dream state, only vaguely aware of what she is doing, once she became aware of what was going on they essentially condemned her to a black hole of nothingness.