The Cursed Bus: Enter Mars, the Guardian of Fire

Passengers boarding a bus close to the Hikawa Shrine keep disappearing, and Usagi, Ami, and Luna set out to learn why. Their inquiry brings them to the shrine, home to Rei Hino, a young miko blessed with keen spiritual sight. The trouble traces back to cursed charms sold at the temple, where Jadeite has taken a disguised post to feed his scheme for Queen Beryl.

Working under the name Jed, Jadeite activates charms that drop their buyers into a trance, then herds them onto bus number 66, which drives off into a black hole. Usagi uses her Disguise Pen to board as an attendant and is swept into another dimension along with Rei, whom Jed hurls through a portal once her fire reading exposes him. The driver reveals itself as the youma Kigaan. As the sign of Mars burns on Rei's brow, Luna urges her to raise the transformation pen and cry "Mars Power, Make Up," and she rises as Sailor Mars, incinerating Kigaan with Fire Soul. With the black hole closing in, Ami's prayer back at the station unknowingly holds it open, and Tuxedo Mask carries everyone to safety.

Based on the manga's third chapter, the episode reworks several details: in the source Nephrite debuts, no youma appears, and Jadeite falls to Mars at once. This is the first time a guardian other than Sailor Moon destroys the monster of the day, and the only occasion a lone senshi, Ami, supports her without the others. Rei's crows Phobos and Deimos join the fight, and Sailor Moon comes away convinced that Mars has fallen for Tuxedo Mask. The DiC dub aired it as "An Uncharmed Life" on September 19, 1995, following the Japanese broadcast of May 16, 1992.