From: phoenix@mediaone.net   
      
   Act 33 - Ami is Changing Schools?   
      
   Still filled with apprehension, Usagi presents her case to Luna, Ami,   
   Makoto and Rei back at the secret base. Luna refuses to endorse a   
   relationship between Usagi and Mamoru and even attempts to forbid it.   
   However, Ami speaks up first in support and then Makoto joins her. Rei   
   attempts to oppose the union, but in the end she cheerfully accepts it   
   as well, instructing her friends that they will need to take special   
   care of their very important princess to help her prevent disaster.   
      
   Usagi is overjoyed at her friends acceptance of her relationship and   
   literally leaps with happiness.   
      
   In the Dark Kingdom, Zoisite is still recovering from the severe   
   beating he received from Beryl when he refused to reveal Mamoru's   
   location in the last act. In the meanwhile, Kunzite is plotting   
   against Beryl to keep her from getting Metalia's power.   
      
   This act combines two completely different stories, but both with the   
   same issue, that of a domineering parent. The motivation of each   
   parent appears to be different, but their goal is the same.   
      
   Ami and Rei head home from the Crown and we get a small peek into   
   their lives as they each return to an empty home. Ami's mother is   
   always at the hospital and Rei is separated from her father because of   
   his treatment of her mother before she died.   
      
   Another Metalia created youma appears and is confronted by Rei. For   
   maybe the first time I've seen, her flame attack actually burned the   
   youma (usually there is no effect or it is destroyed completely). The   
   youma disappears as Ami runs up to offer her help. Before they can   
   leave, a policeman comes up and questions them on why they are out so   
   late.   
      
   The next morning, Usagi is walking to school as Ami tells her about   
   the policeman and how he might call her mother. Usagi had just   
   received a text message from Mamoru when Naru suddenly appears and   
   asks why she's so happy. Mio playfully snatches the cel phone from   
   Usagi and looks a bit upset as she sees the message from Mamoru. Naru   
   chastises Mio and takes the cel phone back. Mio asks Naru about her   
   'condition' (The last I remember, Mio had somehow caused Naru to   
   double over in pain when Naru confronted Mio about her treatment of   
   Usagi). However, Naru answers cheerfully (and apparently sincerely)   
   that she was saved thanks to Mio. In the meanwhile, Ami gets a text   
   message from her mother to stop by the hospital.   
      
   Mamoru and Usagi meet at the Crown where a very surprised Motoki now   
   realizes that they must be an item. Later, at an outdoor cafe, Usagi   
   shyly and gleefully presents Mamoru with his muffler. He teases her,   
   saying that it is rather poorly done, but puts it around his neck   
   anyway. Usagi demands it back and they engage in a playful tug of war   
   as she tries to pull it off his neck. Mio is spying on them from   
   behind a tree and she is _not_ happy.   
      
   Now this is interesting. For the second time we see a quick scene   
   change between Beryl and Mio and they appear to be somehow in touch   
   with each other. Beryl is also not happy about this development.   
      
   At her mother's hospital, Ami's worst fear is confirmed as her mother   
   tells her that the police call her last night. Ami's mother points out   
   that Ami has been missing cram school and she fears that Ami's friends   
   are having a bad influence on her. She wants Ami to transfer to a   
   different school.   
      
   Rei is in the same boat. She is stopped on the street by her father's   
   assistant who wants her to come with him to meet her father who also   
   received a call from the police. Rei refuses and runs home to her   
   room. She vows never to forgive her father for abandoning her mother   
   when she was dying.   
      
   The girls are back at the secret base where Rei is arguing with Ami   
   about standing up to her mother. Makoto breaks the tension by   
   suggesting they go out for cake.   
      
   As the girls are walking down the street, Rei's father pulls up in a   
   car and finally confronts her in person. Rei sends the girls on ahead   
   while she stays behind to continue the argument with her father. He   
   finally becomes angry enough to slap her. Sobbing, she renounces him   
   and then runs off as she senses the presence of a youma.   
      
   The youma had reappeared and is terrorizing people throughout the city   
   streets. Rei appears and transforms. Upon seeing Rei, the youma   
   strokes the burn it had received from her earlier. This fight has just   
   turned personal. Rei is too distracted by her argument with her father   
   to fight back. The youma is seconds away from victory when Sailor   
   Luna, Moon and Jupiter show up to drive it away.   
      
   Rei's father instructs his assistant to bring Rei back, even if he has   
   to use force.   
      
   Ami's mother is sitting on a bench, waiting for Ami to show up so they   
   can interview for a new school. Ami approaches her from behind, looks   
   at her mother for a long moment and then runs off.   
      
   Things do not look good for either Ami or Rei.   
      
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