From: phoenix@mediaone.net   
      
   Act 41 - Actually, I'm a Senshi!   
      
   More filler, but with some interesting consequences.   
      
   Summer vacation is coming and the girls are wondering how to carry out   
   their homework assignment to do some volunteer work. Rei continues to   
   worry about Minako, but says nothing to the other girls about it.   
      
   The girls (Usagi, Ami, Makoto and Naru) end up working at a day care   
   center. They dress up in various animal costumes and help clean the   
   area and entertain the children.   
      
   Having seen them together earlier at the Crown, Usagi confides in Ami   
   that they should do something to get Makoto and Motoki together. Ami   
   goes to the Crown and tells Motoki that she saw a new species of   
   turtle at the day care center and he races off to check it out. This   
   leaves Ami and Nephrite (still working at the Crown) together.   
   Nephrite appears to recognize Ami which causes him to rush off calling   
   himself pathetic.   
      
   Motoki shows up looking for this new type of turtle and sees Makoto in   
   the turtle costume she had put on earlier. (I'm sure that must have   
   made his day ^_^;). Usagi is watching them converse, hoping and   
   imagining that they will get together. However, after a few words,   
   Motoki leaves, much to Usagi's disappointment.   
      
   During this time, some mysterious force has been draining people of   
   energy and they are collapsing to the ground. In response, the girls   
   gather the children together, but realize that one is missing. Usagi   
   and Naru go one way to search and Makoto goes another where she runs   
   into Motoki who joins her to help out.   
      
   Makoto and Motoki find the missing child in a tree. Motoki climbs up   
   and helps the child down. While Makoto calls Usagi to tell her that   
   they found the missing boy, Motoki entertains him with a turtle song   
   that Makoto remembers her father singing to her. There is a nice   
   moment here where Makoto and Motoki get a little quality time together   
   as she cleans off his dirty face.   
      
   Youma appear around both Makoto/Motoki as well as Usagi/Naru. Motoki   
   tells Makoto to run and attempts to fight the youma himself but is   
   knocked down. Both Usagi and Makoto realize that they have little   
   choice but to transform in front of their friends revealing their   
   identities (accompanied by some helicopter sound effects background).   
      
   Jupiter dispatches her youma and then apologies to Motoki, telling him   
   that this is her situation, leaving unsaid that she can not have a   
   relationship because her senshi responsibilities come first. Motoki   
   says that he understands and Makoto leaves to join Usagi.   
      
   SM attempts to dispatch her youma, but they transform into a single,   
   much stronger youma. As SM continues to fight, she unintentionally   
   activates the Silver Crystal and transforms into Princess Sailor Moon.   
   PSM deflects the youma's attacks with ease, but one of the reflected   
   blasts strikes close to Naru, injuring her.   
      
   Naru's plight reaches Usagi and she transforms back, allowing the   
   youma to escape. Usagi goes to Naru, noticing the destruction caused   
   by the Princess. She laments to Jupiter that she has the power to   
   destroy the planet.   
      
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