Metal Star
Act One: Dead Kittens! Jupiter and Venus in a Pinch!
Summary: The mysterious metayouma begin causing havoc on earth. When Sailor Venus and Sailor Jupiter track down the source of the metayouma alone and try to kill Robotnik, Venus finds herself in the middle of Robotropolis and Jupiter is captured. The remaining senshi take on the metayouma with the aid of otherworldly animals…Sailormoon/SegaSonic AU/SatAM crossover
"Hey everyone! Minako-chan here! I'm the pretty sailor suited goddess of love and beauty, Sailor Venus! When romance gets you down, I'll be there to patch things up! I'm the leader of Princess Selenity's guardians, so it's my job to take charge when Usagi-chan won't. When I'm not fighting the forces of evil, I enjoy volleyball, shopping, and guy-hunting. Leave all your love problems to me!
The Sailor Soldiers have been fighting a lot of robots lately, or metayouma as we call them. They seem to know exactly what we're planning all the time; so keeping up with them has been a challenge. Ami-chan thinks they might have a way to spy on us. Personally, I think she's paranoid.
Anyway, we're not making any progress by chasing them around and defeating every one we see. There's always more no matter how many we kill. But what's really strange is that every time we rip one of them apart, an animal is stuck in the debris. Usagi-chan cried a flood when she found a dead rabbit in the ruins of one of them.
Mako-chan suggested that we track down whoever is creating these metayouma and finish them off once and for all. We've had a hard time convincing Usagi to go because she doesn't want to kill any more innocent bunnies. She wants to wait and find another way to stop them. Mamoru's tried his hardest to get her to go, but she won't even listen to her soulmate. Usagi's as stubborn as she is klutzy. It's a dangerous combination, it really is.
Ami wants to use her computer to find out who's behind all this first. Rei says it's safer that way, and we'll be better prepared. I'm worried about the city, though. These metayouma are coming at us really fast, and if we wait, will we be overwhelmed with thousands of them? Surely Usagi wouldn't want that many rabbits traumatized like that? No, I don't want to wait for more information. This could be a life or death issue here. I've talked to Mako-chan about it, and she's agreed to come with me. We're going to end this tonight. After all, to see a just cause and fail to act is laziness. And soldiers need to work hard."
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"Sparkling Wide Pressure! Dammit, won't you die already!"
Jupi-chan's always impatient when it comes to killing youma. I guess I'm like that too. I'm watching her kill more of the metayouma while I dig through the remains of another one. Maybe I'll find some kind of mark that will tell us where these things are being made. When I shift a large sheet of blood-stained metal aside, I find a mangled kitten. She's dying. I bite back a shriek and wrap her in a jacket I found on the street a few blocks back. Usagi would have Mako-chan's head for this if she was here.
As terrible as it is, I wipe away the blood from the metal scrap with my glove and I find a logo imprinted on the surface. The logo is the face of a caricature of a man with a bean shaped face. He has one of the ugliest moustaches I've ever seen, and his eyes seem to glow with menace. I recognize this face. It's impossible. It can't be him. But what if it is?
I call to Mako-chan when she finishes off the other metayouma and show her the logo on the scrap. She recognizes the face too. It's Dr. Robotnik, the villain of the Sonic the Hedgehog video games. Usagi-chan has a Sega system in her room, and she plays those games all the time. I've made it a commitment of mine to always beat her scores. But that's just a video game, right? I mean, if Robotnik was making metayouma in Tokyo, wouldn't Sonic be here? Maybe not.
Maybe this is all a game. Whoever made these robots probably adopted the Robotnik logo as a joke. He probably stuck the poor bunnies in there as a joke too. Kami, whoever would draw inspiration from that joke of a villain has to be insane. But if I believe that, then that means it could be Robotnik himself. That might not be so impossible. After all, didn't Usagi once think that Sailor V was nothing more than a video game? This must be what she felt like when she became Sailor Moon for the first time.
Mako-chan tells me that we should damage one of these metayouma just enough so that it goes back to the factory for repairs. But we'll need to find a big one that this person would consider worth repairing. It seems like our chance is here, because at this moment, a large metal monster resembling a bull is bearing down on us. I reach for the chain around my waist and prepare to lasso it, and I see Mako-chan prepare to spring, her fists raised. I take one last glance at the dying kitten in the jacket, and it seems that she died. Kami, Usagi-chan would REALLY kill me if she was here.
Suddenly, I feel a chilled cord seize my chest, my arms tied down. I struggle against it for a few moments, but another cord binds my legs together. I turn my head to the left and I see Mako-chan struggling to free me without using her electricity, because that would hurt me too. She picks up a bloody scrap from the nearby remains of the kitty-robot and tries to saw the cords apart, but they grab her too. Her weapon is pulled away and she groans as she is tied up. The other senshi will kill us if they ever find about this, I think. Especially Usagi-chan. I don't think she could forgive us for killing the kitty.
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I wake up, and my limbs are free again. That's strange. What's even stranger is that I'm looking directly into the face of Dr. Robotnik, as impossible as that sounds. His face is behind a metal tube that's surrounding me. I look behind him and I see Mako-chan trapped too. She's still asleep, I think. Jupi can sleep even later than Usagi sometimes. I think it's because she won't go to bed until she gets that new recipe she invented just right. It's always worth it, though. Usagi will tell you that anytime.
The first thing I decide to do is get out of this stupid trap.
"Crescent Beam!" The golden light escapes from my finger and saws straight through the tube. I carve a hole in the glass and give it my best Sailor V kick. I tumble right out and find myself at Robotnik's feet. Boy, those are some enormous feet. He lifts one foot and attempts to squash me, which might have been comical if his boots weren't solid metal. I roll out of the way and leap into the air, trying to make a hole in his head with my Crescent Beam. I miss and the ends of his moustache get a trim. He sneers and presses a button on his wrist.
Uh oh. More metayouma fly out the door to my left and charge at me. I shriek and run to Jupi's cage, carving a hole through it and grabbing her hand. She doesn't respond. I notice that the air seems a little different in here. I glance at Mako-chan and kick her. She fails to respond once again. I realize that he must have used sleeping gas on her, so I quickly leap out of the chamber and charge at him. He's smiling like the eggheaded maniac he is. I twirl my chain in my hands and prepare to strike…
…but I miss. Again. I end up lassoing a support pole behind him. He steps out of the way and lets me swing around the pole. I try to kick him in the face in mid-swing, but he ducks and I let go of the chain. I hear him press a button and a portal is opened in front of me. I try to stop, but one of the metayouma appears out of nowhere and pushes me foot first into the portal. Man, Usagi's definitely going to have my head now. If I ever see her again, that is.
Act Two Preview: "Hi there, it's Minako-chan again. After I accidentally flung myself into that portal at Robotnik's factory, I've ended up here in an industrial wasteland. There's nobody here except more metayouma. But what was that blue blur that ripped through twenty metayouma in two seconds flat?"
Stay tuned for Act Two: Escape from Robotropolis! Venus and Sonic's Meeting
A/N: Thanks for reading this, guys! I hope this is better than my other stories (which I shall definitely try to update eventually). Go ahead and review if you'd like. Act Two should be up in a few days if all goes well.
