Hello reader. This is a side project of mine that I've put together during a boring Monday of school. I don't know how serious or committed I'll be to this, but I'm just gonna put it down and see what happens. This will probably also contain tidbits from other fiction verses.
Note: This is a very dark story, which will probably encompass a lot of mature themes (much more graphic than my current DBZ crossover). Just giving the heads up.
This takes place two years after Sailor Stars and around volume 15 or so of Bastard! I'm gonna be changing some stuff around in the latter though. The enemy isn't God, the angels, or demons (as you might have surmised from the description). I'll be using the Japanese Sailor Moon names for now, but may switch to English if I don't like the way they sound (I tend to like some Japanese names better, and some English names better).
Ok, I hope you enjoy this.
Eighteen-year-old Usagi Tsukino trudged back toward her dingy apartment from Tokyo University. Her usual drooped expression was cemented on her face. Gone was the cheerful, happy-go-lucky expression she wore in the past. Her deep sapphire eyes that once sparkled so frequently with joy were now dim. Their sparkle only sparsely returned.
Her friends were deeply worried about her. With each day Usagi's depression seemed to deepen. She appreciated her friends'…her remaining friends that was…efforts to cheer her up, but such efforts were only temporary. The atmosphere in the world that she loved continued to bite into her like cold steel on a constant basis.
It was hell…pure unadulterated hell. And one's soul could only go so long without being singed by the flames. Usagi laughed at her thoughts of the past. Thoughts of being Neo-Queen Serenity with her beloved King Endymion and Princess Small Lady were completely lost now, ghosts of a past that was no longer to be.
Six months after the defeat of Chaos an unstoppable tide of shape shifting aliens from another dimension had invaded Earth, and Sailor Pluto informed Usagi, the entire galaxy. The invaders, who called themselves the Perdare, came like a horde, quickly taking control of Earth and overwhelmed what scattered defense that Usagi and the other Sailor Soldiers could put up.
And they were brutal conquerors, proclaiming their superiority via "right by might" and, in the name of the "God Emperor" set up a galactic tyranny.
All of the Perdare were adept fighters, skilled in armed and unarmed combat. The lay warriors known as Enforcers were also somewhat learned in magic. But it was the Enforcers' commanders, known as Agents that posed the real threat. Agents, in addition to being extremely strong, fast, and agile, were powerful magicians. They were the backbone of the Perdare's empire. Indeed, they were so skilled that they routinely overwhelmed Tokyo- and Earth's local light of hope- the Sailor Soldiers. Only Sailor Moon and Sailor Saturn could fight against Agents directly. The other Soldiers' attacks were not strong enough to do significant damage unless they managed to catch the Agent off guard. And even then, the Agents often overpowered Sailor Moon and Saturn in battle. To say the least, their physical combat skills far exceeded any Sailor Soldier.
Indeed, the Agents took Usagi's loved ones from her. At the outset of the invasion, her parents and little brother were killed. One of the Agents, apparently the chief field operator for Tokyo, Agent Surus, explained this away to her as "collateral damage."
Six months after that, Usagi's beloved Mamoru was also taken from her. Brave man that he'd always been, he foolishly tried to rally the people to fight against their new oppressors during an incident wherein Agent Suffralus, one of Agent Surus' partners demanded that a shopkeeper lick his boots when he objected to a group of Enforcers not paying for the items they'd taken from his store. Needless to say, Tuxedo Mask was no match for Agent Suffralus. He was cut down like, in the words of the Agent, "a pest." Suffralus and his Enforcers then proceeded to slaughter the crowd.
Usagi was crushed. She cried nonstop until she had no tears left and her eyes were dry. Her friends tried to comfort her but it was almost to no avail. She had considered suicide, even going so far as holding up a razor to slit her wrists, but couldn't go through with it.
She wailed and asked Setsuna why the future she'd been promised hadn't come to pass. The Guardian of Time replied that the future she was shown was actually a parallel universe and only represented one possible outcome, a future which the God Emperor and his vast armada of legions erased.
After that, one by one, her friends were killed in their seemingly futile resistance to the hellish Perdare government. Minako and Makoto were killed by Tokyo's familiar Agents. A snitch looking to earn favor with the invaders ratted Rei out to the authorities for practicing Shinto underground. This earned her a visit from Agent Adjutate, the third in the trio of Tokyo's senior Agents. She was killed for "practicing an unofficial religion." Anything that went against worship of the God Emperor was outlawed.
All that was left were Usagi, the felines, and the beleaguered Outer Soldiers. They continued to fight, and Usagi resolved to never give up. She owed that to her loved ones. Sailor Moon was still Tokyo's secret hope, even though many people now scorned her in their utterly defeated condition. Such states of affairs often lead to a pathetic, brainwashed existence.
A piercing shriek resounded through the air and Usagi narrowed her eyes. There she saw a woman being groped by an Enforcer, with others in the squad moving in to take part. All of the aliens were in human form, clad in their blue uniforms, but their laughs were beastly and inhuman. All reveled in their ill-gotten power. Usagi's sad eyes hardened into the classic determined expression of Sailor Moon. All that was required was a change of attire, and Usagi spotted an alley to do just that.
"Moon Eternal, Make Up!" Usagi shouted. In a flutter of feathers and lights, she transformed into Eternal Sailor Moon, emerged from the alley and quickly jumped into action.
"Heh heh!" The lead Enforcer laughed. "C'mhere! I have an itch that needs scratching!" He smirked and grabbed the woman's breast, which caused her to screech even more.
When she recoiled, the other Enforcers pushed her back into her assailant's grip. She screamed when she felt her blouse being ripped off, but was completely pinned down by the Other Enforcers, rendering her unable to fight back. The leader was about to suckle her neck when a voice cried out.
"STOP!"
All five Enforcers looked up in its direction, and on top of a building they saw her- the thorn in the local administration's side.
"How dare you assault a cute girl who was simply minding her own business! Our lives are not your playthings! Agent of love and justice! Pretty Sailor Soldier!" She spoke and posed. "Sailor Moon!" She turned and pointed at the Enforcers. "In the name of the moon, I'll punish you!"
The Enforcers snickered and released the woman, who ran away screaming, trying her best to cover up her tattered blouse.
"This is better!" The lead enforcer crowed.
"We'll be handsomely rewarded if we bring this girl's head back to Agent Surus." Another followed.
Sailor Moon widened her eyes when each of them pulled out a gun and fired blasts of energy at her, but she was ready. The blue beams of plasma struck the building she was on, but Sailor Moon had long since jumped to the ground. She spotted four of them together- perfect targets. Her sapphire blue eyes hardened as she pulled out the Eternal Tiare.
"Starlight Honeymoon Therapy Kiss!" Sailor Moon shouted and unleashed her attack.
The four Enforcers gasped as they saw pink beams of light come toward them and then felt themselves being smacked.
"BEAUTIFUL!" They shouted as they died.
Sailor Moon out of the corner of her eye noticed the last Enforcer, the lead, charging up a small bolt of lightning and unleash it at her. She was wide ahead of him however, and dodged the blast, responding by unleashing her own attack- an old one, but still stylish!
"RAINBOW MOON HEART ACHE!"
"WRAGHL!" The Enforcer gurgled as he felt the giant pink heart crash into him, pulverizing his body. "LOVELY!" He cried before he met his end.
Usagi looked at her work, satisfied that she'd saved at least one person from the Perdare. She was about to leave when she heard slow, deliberate footsteps walking over the pieces of the shattered magical heart she'd just used. She cautiously turned and narrowed her eyes nervously as she saw an Agent- clad in black and in the form of a human.
"Sailor Moon." He stated calmly.
She narrowed her eyes in anger. It was Agent Adjutate, the one that killed Rei.
"You don't look happy to see me." He said as he walked toward her. "But then again, what are you but a bottom feeding terrorist?"
"The only terrorists around here are you and your kind!" She spat.
"You assault the officers of His Holy Majesty, the God Emperor, but I'm the terrorist?" He snidely laughed.
"In the name of the moon, I'll punish you!" She declared in her classic pose.
Adjutate smiled and calmly cracked his knuckles. He rushed toward Sailor Moon with blinding speed. She screamed and clumsily dodged a fist that would have connected with her abdomen. It easily cracked through a brick wall. The agent's green eyes locked onto Sailor Moon's as he kicked her in the shoulder, causing her to fly back and cry out in pain.
She struggled up from the ground, breathing in relief that her shoulder wasn't broken. Her relief was quickly broken by the force she felt squeezing her neck. She looked up in horror to see the smirking agent strangling her as he clenched his teeth.
As Sailor Moon struggled with death mere moments away, she was surrounded by a silver light- which proceeded to send the agent tumbling back and shouting in surprise and pain. She looked down and saw that the Imperium Silver Crystal was glowing within her brooch. Thankful that she had the powerful artifact to watch her back; Sailor Moon pulled out the Holy Moon Chalice and merged it with the Eternal Tiare.
"Silver Moon!" She called out. "Crystal Power Kiss!"
"GAH!" Agent Adjutate cried out as the silver beam hit him in the stomach, smashing him into the nearest building.
Sailor Moon narrowed her eyes when she found out he wasn't dead. She thought of attacking again, but saw that he would recover before she could. Wisely, she jumped away, to the top of a building, and sped off.
Agent Adjutate looked around, concluding that she was long gone. Another stalemate from that puny human.
"What was that…" He asked, wondering about the silver glow. "Why is that human so hard to kill…?" He pondered the question as he walked back toward his headquarters.
"I can't believe you Usagi!" Haruka huffed as Usagi drooped on the living room couch of the said Haruka and Michiru's chateau on the outskirts of town the next morning. Michiru herself was rubbing Usagi's back while her lover paced back and forth. The now fourteen-year-old Hotaru simply sat on one of the lavish chairs nervously holding her magazine. "You know better than to fight an Agent by yourself!"
"I couldn't just let those guys hurt her!" Usagi objected. "The Agent snuck up on me! …Ow!" She rubbed her still severely bruised shoulder.
"But Usagi…those are the same type of situations that got Minako, Makoto, and…" Michiru trailed at the name. "…killed."
"We can't let the same thing happen to you too!" Haruka wouldn't relent.
"Why does it matter anymore?" Usagi burst out as tears began to flow from her eyes. "It's not like I'm going to be Queen! You heard what Setsuna said, that future is gone! It doesn't matter if I die! The future doesn't depend on it!"
Haruka and Michiru eyed Usagi with shocked eyes.
"Of course it matters Usagi."
Everyone turned to look at the smiling Hotaru.
"You matter to us Usagi. We don't want to see another friend die. You still are our Princess and we still believe in you. We won't let anyone snuff out our hope in you."
Usagi smiled. "Thank you Hotaru."
"Don't you have a class Usagi?" Michiru asked, and Usagi weakly nodded. "Hotaru has to get to school as well."
"C'mon, I'll give you guys a ride." Haruka offered.
Usagi nodded and Hotaru got up. Michiru smirked and shifted her eyes as soon as the sound of the front door shut.
"How long have you been here?" Michiru asked without turning her head.
Green-haired, garnet-eyed Setsuna Meioh walked up next to her friend, staring forward.
"Long enough." She answered simply. "I'll keep an eye on her."
"It must be more entertaining than guarding the Space-Time Door." Michiru smirked.
Setsuna only continued to stare forward.
"Humans…I don't understand how they can drink this putrid liquid." Agent Suffralus scoffed as he poured the brown substance the humans termed 'coffee' out onto the carpet. The humans performing menial labor would clean it up. Suffralus cracked a cold smirk at his partner Adjutate, who was still grunting in pain with movement.
"We need to get rid of Sailor Moon and those other…'Sailor Soldiers.' The injured Agent said in a cold monotone.
Their partner and superior, Agent Surus, sat at his desk going over a few manila folders. They were all located in the commandeered City Hall, with the Agent's offices located near the local administrator.
"So you say you've narrowed the search down." Adjutate spoke toward Surus.
He looked toward his two partners across the desk, and slid the first manila folder their way.
"Usagi Tsukino, an eighteen-year-old human that attends Tokyo University as a freshman."
The two junior agents looked at the file of information to see a smiling girl with long blonde hair in pigtails. Information included her place of residence, financial status, family and medical history, known associates, and other essentials.
"And you think this clumsy looking girl is Sailor Moon?" Agent Adjutate asked skeptically, wondering how such a girl could have hurt him so sorely.
"But now that you think of it…she does kind of look like Sailor Moon." Agent Suffralus mused as he compared her picture with the picture of Sailor Moon on the wanted poster hanging on the wall of their office.
"Haruka Tenoh, her domestic partner Michiru Kaioh, and Hotaru Tomoe." Agent Surus stated calmly as he passed along three more manila folders. "All are known associates of Miss Tsukino."
"And…? These are just hunches based on appearance." Suffralus dismissed, as he noted that the three looked a bit like Sailor Uranus, Neptune, and Saturn respectively.
"No it's not. During business hours, every time the Sailor Soldiers appear, these girls are reportedly not in their place of business. I've gone over countless security camera recordings and compared those times with the known times of Sailor attacks. During the hours when these girls are supposed to be in their respective places of business, their absence is a dead match to the time of the Sailor attacks."
"Interesting…" Adjutate stroked his chin.
"It's certainly enough for us to question them." Suffralus said.
"Yes. Sailor Pluto is a bit more mysterious." Surus stated. "But…they do have an associate by the name of Setsuna Meioh." He said, passing along a picture. "She doesn't seem to be in town as much, so we know less about her. That's a hole we'll have to plug. In addition to all of this, Miss Tsukino definitely has motive to strike back at us. I remember talking to her grief-stricken self after her family was casualties in the first phase of military operations. And…the deaths of Tuxedo Mask, and Sailors Jupiter and Venus match the disappearances of Minako Aino, Mamoru Chiba, and Makoto Kino- all were friends of Miss Tsukino and the others. Chiba was in fact her long time boyfriend, and Rei Hino, whom you, my Adjutate, killed, was also a good friend."
"So all of them should have motive then- especially Tsukino." Agjutate mused.
"Precisely." Surus said. "I think it's time we round these girls up."
All three Agents calmly and silently walked out of the office without a word. Sailor Moon and the other Sailor Soldiers were their local administration's top priority. Nipping this in the bud would stamp out the hope of any humans to throw off His Holy Majesty, The God Emperor. They would do their job in obedience to Him with no objections.
In a dark room in a far away place, a middle-aged man typed away at a computer. Two women, one with strawberry blonde hair and the other with deep red hair stood over his shoulder.
"So, it's as you suspected." The man turned toward the strawberry blonde. "The Agents plan on going after her."
"Are you going?" The much younger red-haired girl asked in surprise as the strawberry blonde began to walk away.
"I won't let those bastards lay one finger on her!" The older woman answered as she turned back. "I owe that girl my soul. I have to protect her." She vowed and walked away again without turning back.
The red-haired girl turned toward the couch on the darkened room, wherein a tall man with long white hair that extended to his mid-back was lounging around as if nothing bothered him.
"LUSHE!" The girl shouted.
The man shifted his light blue eyes toward her. "What do you want Yoko?" He asked in his deep, confident voice.
"You don't intend to help her out at all?" The girl, now identified as Yoko, asked in concern.
"Galaxia can handle it." The man replied. "If she can't take down three Agents then maybe she's not of much use to this little rebellion."
"You've seen what she's done! We're damn lucky we have Galaxia! She's one of the best we've got!" Yoko huffed.
The man noised in satisfaction. "So, that means I am the best in your eyes." He smirked seductively.
"Ugh!" Yoko huffed and sweat dropped.
The middle-aged man, named Abigail, watched the scene expressionlessly, but finally spoke up.
"You know…the Dark Schneider I know would never turn down an opportunity to kick somebody's ass."
The white-haired man's eyes lit up and he smirked and laughed.
All right…so there's the end of this part of the experiment. I hope you the reader, enjoyed it and the rest of your day. :P
