When Queen Serenity sent everyone to the future to be reincarnated after the decimation of the Silver Millennium, darkness plagued her heart, which was then transferred into the Silver Crystal's power. She felt devastated over the loss of her daughter and her kingdom - her entire life - in one night through one act of senseless violence. Despite her benevolence, the queen felt bitter and harbored a resentment that she might not want to admit towards the Earth people, not realizing they were merely manipulated by Metalia. As such she felt negative emotions toward them - anger, betrayal, hatred - emotions that tainted the Silver Crystal's purity since its power was always tied to the wielder's heart. This darkness in turn also tainted each of the senshi and Serenity's star seed/avatar soul and affected who they became when they were reincarnated on 20th century earth.

They are awakened with bitterness and disappointment due to their memories of what happened in the past as well as the taint on their soul. Their only mission in this era is to punish the earth and everyone in it. Sailor Venus awakened first on her own, remembered everything that happened, and set out to find the Dark Kingdom so that when the rest of the senshi were awakened, they would be ready to attack. The rest of the senshi gradually followed, remembering their past lives when they saw Venus and became aware of what Queen Serenity intended for them to unleash on earth when she sent them here; to punish it. To get revenge. To destroy it the way they had once destroyed the Moon Kingdom.

Ironically enough, during the reboot, the Silver Crystal also quite unintentionally purified the Shitennou, and with Metalia and Beryl being sealed away for good, their darkness no longer corrupted them. They awakened on earth where they belong; by their prince's side.

But now it's the senshi and their princess who are hell-bent on destroying earth.

Can the shitennou return them to what they once were and save their souls, not to mention the world?

When Jadeite used his power in town while near Venus, she recognized him and immediately went to attack him. Several of the other sailor senshi, upon seeing the altercation, were awakened. Usagi transformed into Sailor Moon, surprising the others since they had always known her as only their princess. Their memories returned, Ami and Makoto engaged Jadeite in a fight, but he was saved by Nephrite who then retreated with him. Meanwhile Mamoru had sensed that Jadeite got hurt and immediately helped him when he returned home. Jadeite told the others about the senshi being in Tokyo, but strangely they were intent to kill and did not care much for anything else. Back on the scene of the fight, the senshi saw a pillar of flame in the distance, and concluding that it might be the one still missing senshi, Mars, they went towards it to complete their team and exact their revenge on Earth.

This is an alternate universe reverse Dark Kingdom arc with the senshi and the princess being evil while Mamoru and the shitennou are good. The goal will be for the shitennou to try and make the senshi remember that they used to be good and prevent the destruction of earth via the Silver Crystal that Usagi now wields..