Hotaru first appears in the manga hunched over in pain. Chibi Usa runs to help her, and a monster attacks. Sailormoon and Chibimoon defeat the monster and Hotaru recognizes her as Chibi Usa, much to Sailormoon's surprise. Chibi Usa had gotten a scratch and Hotaru heals it with her strange power.

   When she gets home she has a coughing fit and Kaolinite tries to help her up and she freaks out. Her father, Professor Tomoe, comes into her room and gives her an amulet which makes her feel better. Later Chibi Usa finds her again and Hotaru asks her over for tea where Chibi Usa sees all of her awesome lamps. She has an attack and Chibi Usa shows her the Silver Crystal and Hotaru suddenly longs for it. Michiru and Haruka arrive in a helicopter and take Chibi Usa away.

   Later Chibi Usa decides to give Hotaru a chalice she had made with Mamoru and Usagi, since all of her other friends were giving their project to someone special. Hotaru falls and some really mean girls from the private school come over and start harassing her. She picks up her pencil box and with a cold rage smashes it in her fist. The girls back off, shocked.

   It was raining when Chibi Usa decides to leave for Hotaru's house. Usagi makes an excuse to go with her and Hotaru has another attack while they are at her house. She reaches up to steal Chibi Usa's crystal, but stops herself. Usagi sees a monster in Professor Tomoe's lab and gets Chibi Usa to leave.

   With the appearance of Sailorpluto, the Senshi do some research and find that Hotaru's mother died in a fire caused by Professor Tomoe. Chibi Usa calls and then goes over to her house, but she sees her through the window with no sleeves on and it turns out that her body is made up of biomechanical parts. Hotaru tries to run after her, but Chibi Usa is gone. She starts to cry and the other outers appear in front of her window in normal clothes. She throws her amulet at them and starts to cry.

   Well the Holy Chalice is formed and at the same time, Hotaru starts transforming into Mistress 9.

   The outers explain that Hotaru is vessel where Sailorsaturn sleeps, and that she was never suppose to awaken, but because of the fire incident, she was stirred. When she appears, she will destroy the Earth, as she had in the past, on the moon. The only way to guarantee that this will not happen, is by killing Hotaru.

   Chibimoon runs to Hotaru, but she reaches up and steals her crystal, and completely transforms into Mistress 9. Even though Mistress 9 is dominant, a little bit Hotaru remains. Professor Tomoe becomes a monster and Sailormoon kills him. Hotaru, remembering him before the evil times, says good-bye. Mistress 9 eats the crystal and is going to give it to Pharaoh 90, but Hotaru stops her. She later attacks the Senshi and gets the crystals of the 4 Inners, but Hotaru gathers them up, despite the great pain in causes her, and returns them to their owners, which brings Chibi Usa back to life.

   Sailormoon destroys Mistress 9 but a great void still looms in the sky (actually its the Tau system). She starts to fall out of the sky and the talismans start to glow, and Sailorsaturn appears. She explains that a series of accidents caused her to be awoken and then she proceeds to destroy the void by bringing down her Glaive. (Whether this is part of Death Reborn Revolution is a matter of debate and I will take a neutral stand on it and say maybe it is.) She tells Pluto to shut the time gate and starts the process of destruction. Sailormoon becomes Neo-Queen Serenity and with the power of the chalice, starts the healing process and everything starts to repair itself.

   Then there is a sound to which the outers run and find that Hotaru has been reincarnated. They decide to take the child and raise her.


Well, little did Setsuna, Michiru, and Haruka know what trouble they were getting themselves into. Although she has grown quickly, she still has her terrible twos, but she is soooo cute. At this time, the outers lack powers and the inners are fighting the Black Moon Circus. A bunch of kids gather at the house for violin (or viola, I can't tell) lessons. When Hotaru starts playing, these two images of Chibi Usa and Pegasus appear, so Hotaru chases after them and her eyes become mist-covered as the images disappear.

    That night the family is playing this universe game and things start to go wrong and they muse about why. Hotaru goes to take a bath and sees Saturn, but she gets in the tub and reads some poetry. When she gets out she has seriously aged and he then informs the other Outers about what has happened to Usagi and Mamoru and returns their Senshi powers. They go and fight, but Usagi and Mamoru get sick and go into chibi form. Saturn has taken Chibi Usa to the Amazoness Quartet, who they almost defeat, but their master beats them to the kill, and they are sealed in little balls. Saturn eventually grabs them, and, after Sailormoon wins, Saturn asks that she heal them. It turns out that they are the Quartet Senshi and Chibi Usa's protectors.

    Things go pretty much back to normal and Hotaru starts attending Chibi Usa's school. Then the other outers (after the inners are killed by Galaxia's forces) go to their palaces on their planets to monitor the problems that they are experiencing. Hotaru is playing with Chibi Chibi when she senses danger and goes to Pluto's palace. She is killed there with Pluto and, in the end, returns with the other Senshi.

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