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The war with the Dark Kingdom is going badly, and the Sailor Senshi naturally have a problem. Usagi never became [[Sailor Moon]], nor is she the Moon Princess, so the leadership of the Senshi falls to Minako, as Sailor Venus. All of Sailor Mars' attempts to divine the location of the Moon Princess have, so far, failed. But just as they are about to give up hope, Mars finally locates the Moon Princess; her name is Takamachi Nanoha, age 16. She's back on planet for her brother's wedding.
That's the good news. The bad news is that Nanoha's still recovering from her injuries incurred during the timeskip between ''A's'' and ''[[
Even worse, Queen Beryl has noticed that her most hated rival, the Moon Princess, has returned from wherever she was hiding, and she's not about to let things go, no sir.
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* [[A Handful for An Eye]]: Ami throws a handful of magically created ice crystals into the face of a youma to distract it long enough to transform.▼
* [[Alternate Universe]]: Nanoha got injured at 16, not 12 like in canon. This is an author-induced change invoked partially to reduce the squick factor in the [[May-December Romance|Nanoha/Mamoru]] pairing and partially to assist with the problem of two middle-school students living on their own and not attending school (High school being optional in Japan).
* [[Anger Born of Worry]]: Fate scolds Nanoha for overexerting herself again, telling her how much she's worried about her.
* [[Anvil
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* [[Back
* [[Bad Boss]]: When anything goes wrong with her plans, Beryl will torture someone for being at best incompetent and at worst a potential traitor.
* [[Badass Family]]: The Takamachis. Apart from Nanoha, both Shiro and Miyuki had their chances to shine.
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* [[Blood From the Mouth]]: Precia, who is dying from her radiation poisoning.
* [[Blood-Splattered Wedding Dress]]: Miyuki's bridesmaid's gown, after the fight breaks out. The actual bride's dress did not end up like that (or at least not as severely), as Shinobu wasn't participating in the fight.
* [[
* [[Bouquet Toss]]: Minako would have caught it, if she hadn't immediately rushed to Nanoha's side after her collapse.
* [[Boxed Crook]]: The Sailor Senshi, having assaulted Fate and Arf in their attempts to reach out to Nanoha, get the same treatment as some of Nanoha's [[Heel Face Turn|former]] [[Defeat Means Friendship|enemies]] did, avoiding formal punishment by means of community service.
* [[Calling the Old Man Out|Calling The Old Woman Out]]: {{spoiler|Nanoha plainly tells the spirit of Queen Serenity that she and her advisers failed to keep Princess Serenity's behavior in check or even groomed her to be a responsible leader. Therefore, they are partly responsible for the disaster that ended the Moon Kingdom. Furthermore, Nanoha [[That Man Is Dead|insists her name is not Serenity]], and that [[You're Not My Father|her mother is Momoko Takamachi.]]}}
** {{spoiler|Fate to Precia, after Precia loses it and attacks Alicia in anger.}}
* [[Cast
** Nanoha and Shamal both realize the similarities to Hayate's situation, and share some of the information with Hotaru. They don't mention [[The Corruption|the defense program]].
*** Technically, they do, they mention that they've seen that sort of thing before, and that they ended up blowing it up to get rid of it.
* [[Chronic Hero Syndrome]]: Nanoha. Better than half the conflict in the first part of the story stems from this; if the Senshi succeed in asking Nanoha for her help, she'll try to help them as best she can [[Heroic RROD|regardless of what it may cost her]].
** Hotaru is willing to heal anyone she sees get hurt even though she knows that most of her patients hate her and will only hate her more afterwards. This behavior doesn't change even after learning that {{spoiler|due to her [[Cast
* [[Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends]]: {{spoiler|Mamoru gets paired off with Rei in one of the omakes}}.
* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: Raising Heart in one of the omakes, destroys the [[Transformation Trinket]] Nanoha gets from the arcade machine.
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* [[Conflict Ball]]: The author forces Luna and the Senshi to juggle ''several'' of these for the first few chapters. Luna arguably hasn't ''stopped'' since the fic began.
* [[Crazy Prepared]]: ''This'' trope, more than anything, is why Jadeite's attempt on Nanoha's life failed. ''Everyone'' at the wedding who could fight came armed and prepared to do so, ''just in case''.
** Justified. If you've seen [[Triangle Heart 3 ～sweet songs forever～]], you ''know'' [[Someone Set Up Us the Bomb|what happened]] the last time the Takamachi family had a get-together.
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Nanoha, meet Jadeite. Jadeite, meet Nanoha's [[Wave Motion Gun|Divine Buster]].
** Both of the attempts by Tuxedo Kamen and the Inner Senshi to get rid of Fate fail. Rather badly.
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* [[Deadly Dodging]]: A key part of Miyuki's strategy when attempting to take out Beryl.
* [[Disco Dan]]: Despite all reason, Luna continues to act as if the Moon Kingdom is still in existence, just severely diminished. This leads to problems when she refuses to explain herself to Fate during the early chapters due to her, now nonexistent, position as one of Queen Serenity's advisers.
* [[Do Not Call Me "Paul"]]: Inverted, {{spoiler|Nanoha rejects her past name and sticks with her birth name. At least part of this is due to the [[I Hate Past Me]] trope further down the page.}}
* [[Due to
* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: {{spoiler|Alicia's first best friend on Earth? Hotaru Tomoe.}}
* [[Everyone Can See It|Everyone Could See It]]: {{spoiler|Apparently pretty much all of Nanoha and Fate's friends had a betting pool going on when they'd hook up for several years.}}
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* [[Game-Breaking Injury]]: One of the factors about Nanoha that makes Fate keep rebuffing Luna. After Nanoha kills Jadeite, she faints. Shamal then orders Nanoha not to use ''any'' magic for the foreseeable future.
* [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]]: When Nanoha goes all worrywart about Princess Serenity's memories affecting her psyche, {{spoiler|Fate decides to [[First Kiss|make her]] [[Relationship Upgrade|feelings known.]]}}
▲* [[A Handful for
* [[Heel Realization]]: {{spoiler|Precia, in her dying moments, realizes that she should have treated Fate as a daughter and used her remaining time to set things right}}
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* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Mamoru after {{spoiler|Nanoha and Fate get together and he realizes just how unlikely he was to get together with her}}.
* [[Idiot Ball]]: Again, Luna and the Senshi for the first few chapters. Also again, Luna apparently doesn't want to let go of it.
* [[I Hate Past Me|I Hate My Previous Life]]: {{spoiler|Nanoha was very disapproving of how Princess Serenity lived her life. As such it became an [[Awful Truth]] for the Senshi as their sacrifices were wasted due to Serenity's suicide.}}
* [[Ill Girl]]: Nanoha, still recovering from her wounds.
* [[Impaled
** Also {{spoiler|Zoicite, by [[Weak but Skilled|Mercury's]] "Fractal Ice Prison".}}
* [[I Need a Freaking Drink]]: Jupiter's reaction to having the war end {{spoiler|because the princess is a lesbian and not interested in Endymion}} in an omake. The rest of the Senshi agree with her.
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* [[Japanese Honorifics]]: Initially not present, but show up in later chapters.
* [[Jaw Drop]]: The Senshi, when they find out that Nanoha is gay in the fic proper.
* [[Kill It
* [[Kill Screen]]: Nanoha reaches this in the Sailor V game, which everyone had previously thought to be [[Unwinnable]] - ''on her first try''. It required her getting a million points when the previous high score was 150,000. The game ended gracefully without anything strange happening beyond getting extra prizes (a disguise pen, a senshi communicator, and the [[Sailor Moon]] transformation brooch - none of which she has actually used.)
** Justified in that it's actually a Senshi training simulator in disguise and Nanoha is already a veteran [[Magical Girl]].
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** {{spoiler|Along with the murder of people who were likely to recover, and anyone catching her in the act.}}
** {{spoiler|And yet even this isn't enough to stop her snapping for a second and [[Moral Event Horizon|blasting Alicia with lightning]] when Alicia sides with Fate over Precia (who has just been torturing Fate in front of her).}}
* [[Married to
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* [[Minor Injury Overreaction]]: Beryl treats the small cut on her face given to her by {{spoiler|Miyuki}} as if it were horrifically disfiguring.
* [[The Mole]]: {{spoiler|Nephrite as Masato Sanjouin.}}
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*** It should be noted that the TSAB's jurisdiction has never been firmly defined, either in MGLN canon or in the fanfic itself. Given that the assault in question was on one of their officers, it was inevitable that they'd get involved.
* [[Mundane Utility]]: Ami uses her [[An Ice Person|ice powers]] to make a glass of lemonade into a snow cone in one omake.
* [[Murder the Hypotenuse]]: This seems to be one of the major reason Beryl started her rebellion in the first place, jealous that Prince Endymion chose Princess Serenity over herself. Of course, she's gunning for [[Defeat Means Friendship|Na]][[Person of Mass Destruction|no]][[Training
** The pettiness of starting a war for this is [[Lampshaded]] both by the cast and in an [[Hilarious Outtakes|Omake]] in which {{spoiler|Nanoha ends the whole war when she points out [[Les Yay|she's gay]].}}
** Also, {{spoiler|after Miyuki is interrogated by Beryl}}, she says to her face that Nanoha has no interest in Endymion at all, and is perfectly happy with Fate. And that if Beryl hadn't ordered the attack on the wedding, Nanoha wouldn't have even gotten involved. Beryl goes into a combination of [[BSOD]] and denial mode.
* [[Mythology Gag]]: Nanoha notices that the bodyguard of a family friend bears a close resemblance to Fate, referencing said bodyguard's existence in [[Triangle Heart 3 ～sweet songs forever～]]. At least some wedding guests thought they ''were'' siblings.
* [[Out-of-Character Moment]]: Some see Nanoha's [[Calling the Old Man Out|Calling The Old Woman Out]] as this, not necessarily because of her arguments (Nanoha is considerably more responsible than Usagi or Serenity), but because throughout, Nanoha is completely blunt and holds nothing back. Others suggest that her emotional state at the time influenced it.
** Numerous other examples as well for many characters, to the point of being [[In Name Only]] in some examples. For instance, when you consider that even ''[[Complete Monster|Quattro]]'' couldn't provoke Nanoha into using lethal force in the main series, her vaporizing Jadeite without so much as batting an eye can't be anything ''but'' this.
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* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: Luna never bothers to explain to Fate ''why'' she needs to talk to Nanoha. [[Justified Trope|Justified]] when Artemis later explains that was how he and Luna used to do things back during the Moon Kingdom; they're used to having the authority to get things done without being questioned.
** If you go over the opening chapters and look at what each party is saying to the other from only one perspective at a time, it's more understandable as to ''why'' said poor communication turned out so disastrously. As Fate said, "It doesn't matter what is true, but what the person ''believes'' to be true."
▲* [[Post Mortem One Liner]]: "Was there anybody ''else'' who had a reason why these two should not be wed?"
* [[Power Creep, Power Seep]]: Naturally, there has to be a bit of power level balancing to be done with this sort of crossover, given the two different magics at work. Gets sort of ridiculous in chapter 6, however, where Jupiter is said to have knocked out two TSAB [[Mooks]] with her ''bare hands''.
** Possibly justified – Jupiter is the only one of the Inners with any kind of formal martial arts training, and the average TSAB mook is a [[Squishy Wizard]] due to the TSAB putting more focus on magical combat than hand-to-hand. When Makoto trains with Zafira, who ''is'' extremely skilled, she gets her ass kicked several times before she manages to win even a single spar.
** Done ''extremely'' weirdly. [[Word of God]] says the Senshi are badasses for holding off the Dark Kingdom for a year by themselves and their power levels are roughly equivalent to A-rank mages by the Bureau's reckoning, which is a significant boost over their usual performance. In practice, however, they fight with no more competence than they showed in the anime -- arguably ''less'' of it -- and struggle to defeat enemies that A-rank mages should be able to steamroll. For instance, one of Precia's [[Mecha
* [[Prophecy Twist]]: Nephrite foretells that the Moon Princess will come to harm at the wedding ceremony. Beryl takes that to mean that the Moon Princess will die, and has Jadeite attack the wedding. {{spoiler|Nanoha lives (of course), but injures herself further after using a Divine Buster on Jadeite.}}
* [[Protected
* [[Punctuated!
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'''Nanoha''': "Don't call me that! [[I Hate Past Me|That selfish, irresponsible, cowardly child is not me]]! I'm Nanoha, not Serenity! Na. No. Ha!"
'''Nanoha''' "And they will. Not. Hurt. Anyone. Else." }}
* [[Reincarnation Romance]]: [[Deconstructed Trope]], as Nanoha's persona [[I Hate Past Me|does not mesh well]] with Serenity's, which only makes sense considering that the only reason that Nanoha ended up as Serenity's reincarnation was because Queen Serenity [[For Want of a Nail|botched the Reincarnation spell]]. As a result, she has nothing in common with Mamoru/Endymion, leaving them unable to re-create their past lives' relationship.
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* [[Screening the Call]]: Fate doesn't want Nanoha to return to active duty until she's fully recovered from her injuries, and thus prevents her from finding out the Senshi's reasons for looking for her or that they are looking for her until shortly before the wedding. [[The Call Knows Where You Live|Not that Beryl's going to take that chance...]]
* [[Screw Destiny]]: In regards to Nanoha/Mamoru vs Nanoha/Fate subplot. [[Word of God]] says that Nanoha/Mamoru is not set in stone just because of the [[Reincarnation Romance]] angle, and the author has noted in proofreading discussion that Mamoru is making [[Loving a Shadow|a crucial mistake]] in thinking of Nanoha as "the Princess" and not as "Takamachi Nanoha".
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** Though technically it took Mamoru and Usagi coming to know each other in their present lives before they actually really liked each other in canon, something that is oftentimes ignored.
** For what it's worth, many reviewers have noted that Nanoha wouldn't be quite as good a match for him as Usagi is, but take that as you well.
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** Of course, Vivio is under the impression that she's doing the same thing when she stops Chibi-Moon.
* [[Shout-Out]]: The disguise pen-fake Nanoha gambit in chapter 12 ends on one of these. The chapter is even called Operation Bowser.
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* [[Silly Reason for War]]: The TSAB's opinion of the events that destroyed the Moon Kingdom.
* [[Social Services Does Not Exist]]: Averted. A officer tells {{spoiler|Precia}} that {{spoiler|Alicia}} is running afoul of the truancy laws.
** Later on, {{spoiler|Ami/Mercury}} wonders what will happen to her if the authorities find out about her situation while {{spoiler|her mother is still in a coma}}
* [[Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace]]: Miyuki decides to treat Jadeite's attack on her brother's wedding as one of these after the fact (See [[
* [[Switching POV]]: The narration switches between focusing on the Nanoha cast and the Sailor Moon cast, which determines which characters are referred to by name or how situations are described. For example, Fate finds "the cat" to be a nuisance who can potentially interrupt Nanoha's recovery, while Luna thinks that "the Dark Senshi" has brainwashed the princess and is threatening the fate of the world. After the two sides start working together, this effect lessens, though.
* [[Teeth-Clenched Teamwork]]: The Senshi, without Usagi, do not get along as well as in canon.
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* [[That One Player]]: Nanoha, to the Sailor V game. The only thing she found difficult about it was that the console was designed for right-handed players.
* [[Tranquil Fury]]: Nanoha is not pleased with {{spoiler|her sister getting kidnapped.}}
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* [[Transformation Trinket]]: Nanoha gets one from the Sailor V arcade game. {{spoiler|Fate promptly ships it off to the TSAB to be studied when she realized Luna sent it to Nanoha.}}
* [[The Unmasqued World]]: {{spoiler|The truth of the wedding attack is public as there are too many witnesses and photos of the Senshi, and Nanoha's family are now being hounded by lots of interested people.}}
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* [[Villain Ball]]: If Beryl wasn't so determined to kill Nanoha, it's ''highly'' likely that Nanoha and Fate would still be suspicious of the Sailor Senshi. [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain|Way to go, Beryl...]]
** {{spoiler|Precia's method of drawing energy at a hospital is arguably too blatant and serves to draw the attention of the TSAB fairly quickly, resulting in Alicia ending up in Bureau custody}}.
* [[We Could Have Avoided All This]]: A common theme in [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (
* [[Wedding Smashers]]: Jadeite tries to attack Nanoha at her brother's wedding. ''[[Crazy Prepared|Big]]'' [[Curb Stomp Battle|mistake]].
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Mercury and Venus call out Mars and Jupiter for their attacks on Fate, noting that, among other things, it makes them harder for Nanoha to trust.
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