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The Tunnel Of Time
A dark, dreary existence. Up ahead a long tunnel is a door showing the phases of the moon. A young woman wearing a sailor fuku stands there, holding the Garnet Rod. Suddenly, in a flash of light, a large man in a Roman toga and a large head appears.
"I am Sailor Pluto," the woman says, her dark green hair reaches down her back, the skirt and bows on her uniform almost black. Several keys hang from her waist.
"And I," says the large being. "Am the Watcher." Pluto looks out, breaking the fourth wall.
"You may know of the Sailor Senshi," she says. "Sailors Mercury, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, the Sailor Starlights, myself, and the Princess; Sailor Moon. You may know of Crystal Tokyo, the Utopia of the future, where Sailor Moon marries her love, Tuxedo Kamen, rules the Earth, and has a daughter. However, this is only one of multiple universes." Sailor Pluto lifts her Garnet Rod, and several images fill the space. One features Gwen Stacy, dressed in a Wonder Woman-ish uniform battling alongside Sailor Moon. Others feature homosexual male Sailor Senshi, Sailor Moon as a mouse, animal based Senshi, lesbian Sailor Senshi, noir based Senshi, military Senshi, et cetera.
"This is the one we're are focusing on," Sailor Pluto said, gesturing towards an image depicting a zombie apocalypse. "I am the Sailor Pluto of this dimension, a dimension where pink lightning will flash, and the hunger will drive. A world featuring a different Crystal Tokyo, where Serenity never battled Beryl, and Tuxedo Kamen was destroyed. This is no world of Sailor Senshi, this is the world of
Sailor Zombies!
Chapter One
"Fire Soul!"
The Youma screeched as the fireball slammed into it. Sailor Mars grinned, and flipped over it, distracting the Youma from the other Senshi. Sailor Venus built up energy for her own attack.
"Crescent Beam!"
The golden beam slammed into the back of the Youma, and it spun around.
"Moon Healing Escalation!"
The golden, healing light filled the Youma, and it screeched "Refresh!" The young woman fell to the ground, the evil energy cleansed from her body. Sailor Moon held the Crescent Moon Rod with the Silver Crystal, and smiled. Another win. The Senshi turned to confront Tuxedo Kamen.
"Mamoru, please," Sailor Moon said, blue eyes pleading. "Return to your kind heart." Tuxedo Kamen paused, before speaking.
"Enjoy your hollow victory," he said. "Before calamity strikes. Farewell, Sailor Soldiers." With that, he left, vanished back to the Dark Kingdom. Sailor Moon fell to her knees, tears in her eyes, her blond braids falling around her body.
"Usagi-Chan," Sailor Mercury said, kneeling next to her friend. "It's okay, we'll bring him back. You two belong together. He'll remember his love."
"Ami-Chan," Sailor Moon said, a watery smile on her face. "Thanks. Your right, everything will be fine." The other Senshi crowded around the Moon Princess, and held her close. Usagi closed her eyes, and felt safe with her friends.
That safety was shattered by a television in a nearby store window, reporting the evening news.
"We got this footage an hour ago," the newscaster said. "From New York City, New York. This amateur footage shows the heroic team known as the Avengers turning against the civilians they have sworn to protect, and eating them. Be warned, this footage is not for children."
The Senshi watched, and saw raw footage of the cannibalistic super team tearing apart Times Square. It was like watching a Romero movie on steroids.
"This can't be real," Sailor Jupiter said, inspecting the footage on screen. Sailor Mercury pulled out her Mercury Computer, and wirelessly downloaded the original footage, then examined it.
"Yes, it is," Mercury said. "It's real. The computer can't reproduce this footage digitally, and the calculations of doing it with makeup effects would cost a fortune. I don't think that even the combined digital affects of LucasArts and the makeup abilities of Romero couldn't produce the results you're seeing."
"So the heroes have turned against humanity?" Sailor Venus asked.
"Not by choice," Mercury continued. "Take a look. By taking a look at the readouts, it seems that the heroes have been turned into zombies, with intelligence and abilities intact."
The girls stood in shock. Super-strong intelligent zombies running around New York.
"Ami," Sailor Moon took a breath. "How long do we have?" The Senshi stared at their Princess, but Sailor Moon only looked at Sailor Mercury.
"By my calculations," Mercury continued, struggling to keep her voice steady. "If the government doesn't do much, then a normal zombie invasion could take over the world in several months to a year, depending on how humans hold up. But, with these being intelligent super zombies, I would say…" Sailor Mercury stopped, not wanting to continue.
"How long," Sailor Mars demanded.
"Forty-two hours," Mercury said. "Maybe less. A definite takeover. Humanity does not have much hope."
Sailor Moon thought. She wished, right then and there, that she could use the full powers of the Silver Crystal. She could save all those people that had been killed, she could turn the heroes back to normal. With her dying breath, she would save the world from the zombies. From there, the Senshi would organize a team with the American heroes to take down Beryl. That's what she would've told her friends, just before using the Silver Crystal. Instead, what she said was, "We have to try and help." The others looked at her, as if she was crazy.
"Listen, moron," Rei snapped. "Didn't you hear Ami? No hope. We should stay here, and defend our territory."
"I have an idea," Sailor Moon said. "Let's assume that Reed Richards, Mister Fantastic, is still alive. With his help, we may be able to augment the current power of the Silver Crystal, and heal the world, maybe even heal Tuxedo Kamen and destroy Beryl in one move."
"The odds of Reed Richards being alive right now is pretty high," Sailor Mercury admitted. "But how will we get there?"
"Sailor Teleport!" Luna and Artemis said. "Combine your powers, focus on one spot, and teleport. That's all you need!"
"And I think that Usagi is on to something," Luna said. "Her healing powers might work the way she's planning. We just have to get to the Baxter Building."
"SHIELD helicarrier," Mercury interrupted. "I just got an SOS from Nick Fury to all available heroes, saying to meet aboard the SHIELD helicarrier."
"SHIELD helicarrier then," Luna said. "Gather in a circle, and focus your energies. We'll come along." The Senshi held hands in a circle, Luna and Artemis in the middle. They soon glowed with colored light.
"Sailor Teleport!"
Thor saw the multicolored light first, and threw is makeshift hammer. The weapon flew, and crashed into the light, and the light vanished.
"Go," Colonel America ordered. "Find out where the light came from."
Sailor Venus fell, and managed to grab a passing flagpole. She spun around it, acrobat style, and fell the remaining feet to the ground. Ducking into an alleyway, Venus pulled out her communicator, and activated it.
"Sailor Moon, Mercury, anyone," Venus said, frantically. Nothing. Venus took a breath to keep her from crying. She stood up, and found herself in Greenwich Village. Up ahead, she could see two figures.
"Sorcerer Supreme, Stephen Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum!" the female in the white disco suit exclaimed.
"What's that? Some sorta' super hero tongue twister?" the man asked. Venus debated for a few seconds, then ran up to the figures. Too bad for Ashley G. Williams that she never saw the zombie duck.
Sailor Moon wanted to scream as she fell, but she didn't want any zombies to hear her. So, she whimpered, and prayed for a quick death, where she wasn't eaten by reanimated corpses. Suddenly, her fall stopped. Sailor Moon opened her eyes, not remembering when she had closed them, and found herself in a net, held up by floating metal spikes.
"My darling," a voice said. "If you can say anything what doesn't involve being a cannibal corpse, now would be a time to say something."
Sailor Moon began to blubber, then cry, loudly.
"Young lady," the voice said again, surprisingly patient. "I am not interested in eating you. I am Magneto, the Master Of Magnetism, and former leader of the Brotherhood of Mutants. I am going to set you down, slowly, and then we can talk."
Sailor Moon took a breath, and gathered her wits. She knew about Magneto, and his evil ways, and she knew she would need her strength. When the net released her, she moved.
"Moon Tiara Action!"
Sailor Moon flung the tiara-discus at Magneto, and made a run for it. Then she remembered the zombies that were out there, and turned to Magneto, her gloved hands in fists. Between death from zombies and death from Magneto, she'd take Magneto, and drag him to Emma's office with her, if she could manage it. Sailor Moon gripped her Crescent Moon Wand.
"Magneto," Sailor Moon announced. "Your crimes against humanity stops now. I know all about your crimes, and not even these zombies will stop me. For love and justice, the Pretty Suited Sailor Soldier, Sailor Moon! In the name of the Moon, I will punish you!"
"My dear," Magneto said. "I am not interested in destroying humanity, but protecting it. I request help, and I am thankful that you have abilities. We must protect as many people as we can." Magneto held his hand out, Sailor Moon's tiara in his palm. Usagi looked at it, then picked up the tiara and put it back on her head, and nodded at Magneto. The two ran towards the west, and down into a subway.
Sailor Mercury and Sailor Jupiter had managed to stay together, and landed at ground zero of the infection; Times Square.
"Of all the places to wind up," Makoto sighed. "This was not the place I wanted to be." Ami, meanwhile, pulled out her computer, searching for a trail to track down the rest of the Senshi.
"Dammit," she swore. "I can't find them, anywhere. My guess is that my computer is somehow being blocked from tracking their magic." Ami then realized that Makoto hadn't responded.
"Mako-Chan," Mercury called. "Where are-" She was interrupted by a scream. Turning, she saw that Sailor Jupiter had been caught in a spider-web, large enough to carry Ami's bed and bookcase at the same time.
"Ami, run!" Jupiter shouted. "NOW!" Ami stood there, rooted in shock, and she watched as Spider-Man crawled down the web to his prey.
"Supreme Thunder!" Jupiter shouted in vain. The lightning bolt missed the Wall Crawler, and he advanced.
"Supreme- augh!" Jupiter tried to convert herself into a lightning rod, only to be bit by the former non-mutant super hero.
"Mako-Chan!" Ami ran towards the web, fear for her friend short circuiting her common sense.
"Just go!" Jupiter shouted. "Find Usagi, and she can heal the world! Don't worry about me! Just run!" Ami hesitated, and, with tears in her eyes, guilt stabbing at her stomach, the Senshi of Mercury fled, noticing, surprisingly, that another zombie blocked her way, a her she didn't recognize.
"Bubble Spray Freezing!" The normally confusion causing mist had a freezing ability added because of her fear. Ami didn't notice, and managed to escape the zombies, and hid in a little alcove. The zombies didn't notice, and instead focused on greeting their new teammate; Zombie Jupiter.
Sailor Mars wandered the deserted streets, a Shinto talisman in her hand, ready for anything.
Please, Kami-Sama, she thought. Let everything be all right.