Disclaimer: I don't own anything, I am but a lowly high school student with no money, no job, and nothing of value except my cat, my laptop Steve, and the crapmobile Roxy, all of which you can't have cuz I would fight to the death for them. I fight dirty, I pull hair, I use cheap groin shots. I BITE. Oh yeah, I do own Artemis and Maverick who make their customary cameos as always whenever I need a quick extra in a story.



Authors' notes: ducks thrown fruit, various rodents and volkswagon beetles I know, I know, I really shouldn't start a new story when I already have about four or five on the go, but you know how plot bunnies are.. First you have two, then, before ya know it, you have twenty! Anyway, new chapters of...well...almost everything are almost done. So go read them again soon! AND REVIEW Chibi Duo: promoting yourself is baaad Shh..I know, so review this....



Okay, mostly Sailor Moon in this part, but Gundam will obviously come heavily into play next chapter.



The Necessary Evils



Chapter 1: Watching the World Go Black

by: Random Artemis



Pain. Searing pain screeched up the side of my body. Was this the end? Did it have to end like this?

The youma had torn through us like tissue paper, unsurprisingly. We were off our guard, we had been for over a millenia of peace. The Queen whimpered pathetically in the corner as the Youma rained attack after attack on her, curled protectively over the wailing infant Chibi-Usa. She had long since given up retaliating. Mina had collapsed a few meters away from me, he chest ripped open by a vicious youma with claws. Rei went down, encased in a water bubble, screaming, until she finally stopped twitching and lay still. Ami lay unconscious across the room, bleeding sluggishly from a head wound, she was a ways away from me, so I couldn't judge it's severity. Mako writhed on the floor her hands twitching weakly toward the spear protruding from her back and exiting through her stomach. Haruka and Michiru lay still in each other's arms, and Endymon was pinned to the wall with his own roses like a grotesque, gigantic butterfly on display.



Unbeknownst and unnoticed by the youma, and the other senshi, Pluto opened a portal behind me, and the battle. I tried to call out to the other senshi, but I could no longer make a sound, a harsh rattle in the back of my throat was the only voice I had. I to crawled toward the fallen form of Venus and managed to weakly roll her through the portal, I began to crawl toward Rei, but as I inched painfully nearer, I realized she was already dead, instead I turned to move toward Mako, but a wave of dizziness overcame me. I looked at Mako, I looked back at the portal. I could probably make it to either Mako or the portal without passing out, but not both. I looked desperately to Setsuna, the only senshi still left standing. Our gazes locked, sadness in her eyes, tears blurring the bottom edges of her eyes as she took another vicious blow. "Go." she mouthed silently in absolution, then, like the others fell.

I lurched back toward the portal, tears streaming silently down my face, and toppled through it. It snapped shut behind me, indicting that Setsuna had died. My entire body went numb as I hit the other side and my pain sensors overloaded, I stared at the empty space once occupied by the portal. My mind, finally cleared of it's pain-haze, realized what I had done. I had left them to die, I could have saved them but I left them there. Setsuna could have lived if she didn't sacrifice herself to let me escape. I could have saved them if I'd been stronger, if I hadn't run like a coward. My fault, all my fault. "No!" I wailed mentally. "I change my mind, I change my mind!"

"What have I done?" I realized in horror, just before the world went black. "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry..."





"What the...?" Maverick exclaimed as his jeep screeched suddenly to a stop.

"Ahh!" Artemis screeched, rubbing her neck with one hand, and clutching the dashboard with the other, "I think you nearly gave me whiplash you jerk!"

Maverick's eyes twinkled with mischief, "Wow," he said in mock astonishement, "You THINK?"

Catherine sighed in defeat, once those two got started, no one could stop them. She wished silently for Trowa to come back safely to the circus, or at the very least, for the "Dynamic Duo" as they liked to be called (though they constantly fought over who was Batman and who was Robin) to contract a simultaneous case of laryngitis. Trowa's subtle threats of locking a lion in each of their trailers was pretty much the only thing that could shut the pair of trapeze artists up. She rolled her eyes good-naturedly, and was about to add to the running banter, but then caught sight of what had made Maverick slam on the brakes. There were bodies on the road.

Artemis saw them soon after Catherine, and silently got out of the car, forgetting her argument. There were two of them, the one with long blond hair was lying face down more or less in the middle of the road, and the other was lying, nearly completely concealed in a ditch, only a forearm and hand rested on the pavement. Catherine gulped, she REALLY hoped it wasn't JUST part of an arm in the ditch.

Maverick nudged the blond one with his toe, lifting her slightly, but dropping her once he saw that she had been gutted like a fish, from her collarbone to navel. She wore an orange and white blood-spattered dress-like uniform, and about half her hair had been singed to about shoulder-blade length, the rest reaching her mid-thigh.

Artemis gathered her courage and walked tensely over to the ditch. Thankfully, this one was mostly intact, though it's left arm and leg jutted out at unnatural angles from the body, bones sticking out of the leg. The body had dark hair and wore a darker, but similar version of the uniform the other body wore. Though this one's uniform was less blood spattered, there was still a large cut over her ribs that was still slowly seeping blood...which meant the heart was still beating!

"Mav, Cat! This one's still alive!" Tem called from the ditch.

Maverick and Catherine looked over in surprise, "Good, cuz' I think this one's dead." he replied.



To be continued....



So, what do you think? Should Minako really be dead? How do they meet the Gundam boys? Did all the other scouts die? Should this be a romance?....and no, Artemis and Maverick aren't mainstays in the story (unless of course you want them to be...think a pair of Duo's on crack still stuck in the 'i hate you' kindergarten love) heh....anyway, review! I don't know where I should go from here! REVIEW PLEEEEEEASE? big chibi eyes