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Episode 24 -	The Moon Must Be Hell!
	tsuki wa jigoku da!
	[The Moon is Hell!]
First aired -	14th March 1997

Aggrieved candidate for the crown Romio has drained almost all the magical energy out of Juraihelm using her NT (New Technology) system, turning the planet into a barren desert. Romio now puts the second stage of her plan to destroy the Earth into action. She activates her enormous magical cannon, which fires a beam of pure, concentrated magical energy at Earth. The beam forms into the shape of a hand, which swings around and hits the planet with an almighty slap. After the earthquakes from this blow subside, viewers on the Earth watch as Juraihelm recedes in the sky above. Oryo, watching along with Sammy and the rest of her class, realise that the Earth is moving away from Juraihelm at incredible speed - Romio's magical cannons have set the planet on a collision course with the sun!

Oryo quickly comes up with a plan. She will return to Juraihelm to see if she can do anything from there, while Sammy stays on Earth in case Romio tries to attack again. As Oryo disappears through the portal to Juraihelm, something else falls back through - Rumiya! Ramia has used the last of her magical powers to send him back to Earth to seek Pretty Sammy's help.

Returning to a scene of devastation on Juraihelm, Oryo finds the barely conscious Tsunami on the floor of the royal chamber and realise that Romio is responsible. Right on cue, Romio enters and, as all super-villains do, explains her fiendish plot. Romio wants to destroy the Earth because its inhabitants, so wrapped up in materialism and intent on destroying their environment, are utterly repugnant to her. Oryo rushes to attack Romio, but she is stopped in her tracks by her NT system, which drains her magical powers as well.

Back on Earth, Rumiya has brought Sammy and Ryo-Ohki up to speed on the situation on Juraihelm. He explains that with everyone on Juraihelm left helpless, only Pretty Sammy can face Romio. Alas, the planned counterattack has already hit a snag - there is no way back to Juraihelm! Fortunately, the ever-resourceful Professor Washu has a solution in the form of a rocket cunningly hidden in a bunker beneath the town centre. Washu is still a little worried about the journey, having never flown in space before, but Sasami's father Ginji comes to the rescue. Aside from being an ex-SWAT team member, he also has a NASA astronaut license, meaning he is qualified to pilot the rocket. Soon, the unlikely crew are boarding the rocket, taking some of Honoka's lovingly-prepared box lunches with them. Rumiya, keen to stay with Misao, decides to stay behind.

As Sammy, Ginji, Washu and Ryo-Ohki blast off, Misao remains worried about her friends' safety. She asks Rumiya to bring her Pixy Misa's magical baton so she can transform one last time. For the first time ever, Misao willingly transforms into Pixy Misa, using her magical phrase "pixy mutation magical recall". After her usual flamboyant entrance, Misa is stuck for a way to actually get to Juraihelm, but when she sees a report on the television of how NASA is sending astronauts to Juraihelm to negotiate with Romio, she strikes on the idea of hijacking the space shuttle Endeavor. In a flash, Misa disappears.

Hiroto, who has long had a secret crush on Misao, is devastated to learn that she is really Pixy Misa. In a valiant effort to help her, he runs home and gets his piggy bank, hoping to follow her into space. Konoha chases after him, only catching up with him at his house. At first she ridicules him for chasing after someone who he doesn't know even likes him, but finally admits that by chasing him all the time she has been doing exactly the same thing.

Meanwhile, Washu's rocket nears its destination, its crew unaware that Pixy Misa is following close behind on the hijacked shuttle. As they are tucking into their lunches, Romio has the rocket in her sights, and she unleashes a barrage of bolts from her magic cannon. Ginji fights to keep the damaged rocket under control, but it is a losing battle. A final blast from the cannon slices the rocket clean in two, and the separate halves crash-land on the surface of Juraihelm. After her rough landing Sammy, separated from the others in the crash, staggers to her feet and beholds with disbelief the desolate landscape that Juraihelm has become.

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