Chapter 1: All for nothing

Disclaimer: I don't own Transformers or Sailor Moon, they're the property of Hasbro and Naoko Takeuchi respectively. Any other copyrighted material found in this story is the property of its respected owner. Good Reading.

Present Day

Walking down a sidewalk, with streetlights brightening the surroundings, a long blond haired girl minds her business. Wearing a baseball cap, long coat and jeans, she is well dressed for the slightly chilly night. She glances over her shoulder occasionally, and upon hearing what sounds like a slight growling, quickens her pace. A ruckus from behind causes her to stop and upon turning around, a large dog like creature emerges from an alley way. It's eyes glow a bright purple/pink colour as does the veins that line the muscular body, and the animal stares down the girl with a menacing expression.

A cynical smirk comes to her face. Got ya. She thinks to herself.

Suddenly, the young woman makes a run for it. The animal quickly sprints into action and chases her down. Dodging obstacles and knocking over various objects behind her, she tries to slow down the approaching creature. She is quite a fast runner.


Standing in a dark room, next to a window, Sailors Moon and Mercury, along with Tuxedo Mask sit idly by, waiting to see if the creature took the bait. Directly opposite from their room, and across the promenade of the U shaped building stands and waits Sailors Mars, and Jupiter, and finally on the ground level inside the blacked out lobby are Uranus and Neptune. All patiently sit back, and try not to fall asleep, hoping to get this thing, and finish it once and for all.

"Why does she always volunteer for duties like this?" Asks Tuxedo Mask.

"I have no idea, but it worries me." Replies Sailor Moon.

"Same here. She's always taking on the most dangerous tasks, and is always in the thick of the fight. I know Mina's very focused being a soldier, but it's approaching lunacy." Adds the very tired eyed Mercury taking a moment away from her miniature super computer.

"I'm sure there's a method to her madness. In any case, let's keep our mind on the task at hand." Concludes the capped warrior rubbing the bridge of his nose.

*There she is. Get set guys* Announces Mars over the radio.

Running across the promenade, the cleverly disguised Sailor Venus rushes to the lobby doors and stops. Turning about, she gets a look of confusion and inquiry. The creature is no longer there. Just disappeared. Slowly walking to the middle of the open space, Venus looks up at the window where Serena, Amy, and Darien are situated, and gives an I don't know body posture.

"Amy. Where's the creature?" Asks Sailor Moon, but gets no response. "Amy, where is the creature?" And again, no reply.

Looking over, she sees that Sailor Mercury is fast asleep.

"Hey sleepy head. Wake up." Serena orders and taps the girl's head.

The blue haired damsel opens her eyes in startled fashion and quickly looks around. "What. What?" She spits out.

"The creature Amy! It's not with Mina. Where is it!?" The odango hair styled woman bellows.

Upon hearing this, Amy quickly gets to her feet, but fumbles and drops her super computer.

*What's going on guys? Where's the creature?* Questions Sailor Mars over the air waves.

"Pull it togeth..." Bellows Tuxedo Mask, but stops by the loud, sudden sounds of exploding glass, screams and vicious howling.

Sailors Moon, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Tuxedo Mask look outside their windows at the disturbance in the courtyard. Shattered glass everywhere, Sailors Neptune and Uranus lying on the concrete ground, struggling to get up, and Venus huddled down for protection from the flying shards.

The monster however, isn't the dog like creature they were chasing for the past several days, but a towering abomination. A dozen feet tall, wide shoulders and powerful appendages, it sends out an ear piercing howl as it slowly strolls about, looking for prey.

*What the hell is it!?*Yells out Mars on the commlink.

The deranged enemy grabs a very disoriented Sailor Neptune with its massive grip and throws her into a nearby wall knocking the Guarding of Neptune into unconsciousness. Looking to the window across from her, Sailor Moon clicks her radio and points to the monster.

*Jupiter, Mars! Drop that thing!* Commands the moon princess.

Without a word said, a volley of flame and lightning impact the creature's position relentlessly. Running down the stairs and into the promenade, Moon, Mercury, and Tuxedo check their fallen friends. Venus with her chain weapon in hand, suffered no injuries from the blast, Uranus regains her senses, while Neptune remains motionless and transforms back to her civilian form.

The creature quickly shakes off the effects of being bombarded and rushes the crowd of enemies. However, it abruptly trips and falls on its face, as Sailor Venus wraped her chain around one of its legs and pulled with all her might. The precious seconds this bought allowed Mars and Jupiter to jump out their window and join the fight on ground level.

The pair again launch a volley of fire and lightning at the abomination, landing multiple hits. The creature howls in pain, then slams its massive arms into the ground, causing the Sailor Soldiers to lose their balance. Grabbing Venus' chain, it pulls with all its might, sending the Guardian of Venus flying into its hulking grasp, and raises her to its demonic visage. The sudden sensation of sharp pain over several places on its body causes the hideous thing to loosen its grip on the woman. Using the distraction of Tuxedo Mask's attack, Venus grabs a compact looking object and slashes at her enemy's face. Pink/purple fluid pour from the deep cut, as Venus drops to the ground ready to strike again.

She grabs her chain and whips it around the beast's neck, a sudden, and extremely bright light emits from the chain causing the creature to twist its head around as it's blinded. Sailor Jupiter rushes to her side and adds her incredible power to pull the freak down. With Sailors Moon, Mercury and a very pissed Uranus ready to defeat the monster once and for all, it teleports away in a loud POOF sound, with just a dark dissipating cloud that mark it's spot.

"You have got to be kidding me!" Shouts Sailor Uranus. "Dammit!"

Transforming back to their civilian forms, the atmosphere quickly turns to anger, and disappointment. They have been battling and trying to track this thing down for for a week, even laid this plan to lure the creature here and ambush it, but it was all for nothing. Now, they'll have to do it all over again.

"Just what happened?" Queries Raye.

"We're the ones who got ambushed." Answers Lita while rubbing her eyes from the sudden bright light of Venus' chain. "Question is how?"

As they talk amongst themselves, pondering just how the tide turned against them, Amy stays silent, knowing the reason why. It's my fault. I fell asleep, let everyone down, and almost got Michelle killed. The blue haired woman thinks to herself.

Scratching her nose, and walking about the monster's last position, Raye looks over at the team genius. "Hey Amy, you got any ideas?"

Her eyes doting back and forth, Amy remains silent while contemplating what to answer. She knows what she did will probably anger her friends alot, especially Amara.

"Hello. Amy, I said you got any ideas on how this thing ambushed us and....mutated?" Again inquires the black haired girl.

Amy, feeling her stress level dramatically rise, lowers her head, and regretfully replies. "I'm sorry." She softly says. "It's...me. It was all my fault that...this happened."

The sailor soldiers stop and give each other querying stares, wondering what she means by that. Darien and Serena open their eyes their widest, fully knowing what is going to be said. He ponders interrupting, but the love of his life, Serena puts a hand on his shoulder and shakes her head. Amy will just have to take her licks like everyone else. Hopefully her gentle and kind character can take it.

"What do you mean by that?" Requests the elegant looking Raye.

"I was extremely tired and fell asleep." Confesses the shame filled Amy. "When I woke up, I got startled and dropped my computer. That's when they creature...attacked. I'm so sorry! It won't..."

"WHAT!?" Responds a very irritated Amara upon hearing this confession.

Mina runs a hand through her long blond hair and shakes her head in disapproval. As if you did that. She says to herself.

Lita closes her eyes and crosses her arms, clearly un-impressed. Way to go genius. The tall brunette thinks.

Raye stares at the ground and bites her tongue. Glancing at her cellphone, she sees it's almost five am. "I gotta go to work in an hour and a half." She leaves without saying a further word.

Marching up to the blue haired damsel, Amara vents her irritation. "You were sleeping!? We needed you to track and analyse this thing and you decided to take a nap? What the hell were you thinking!?"

"I'm sorry." Apologizes the cowering girl. "I was just exhausted..."

"Oh you're sorry. Michelle and I were almost killed because of you!" Cuts off a vicious voiced Amara. "Did you even scan that creature before it vanished!?"

Amy lowers her head some more and looks away slightly.

"That figures!" The short haired blond huffs. She then grabs her fellow Sailor soldier by the collar and puts her up against the wall.

"You're hurting me." Exhales a scared tone Mercury, tears beginning to form in her closed eyes.

"That's nothing to what Michelle felt!" Sternly replies Amara.

Feeling a strong grip on her shoulder, the hate filled woman turns around and meets the expression of an annoyed Lita.

"You made your point Amara! Let her go!" Orders the tall girl.

"Come to your girlfriend's rescue Lita?" Comes the taunting reply.

"She's not my girlfriend." Replies Lita with an air of bitterness.

A moment later, Amara releases her grip and goes to her lover's side. Michelle begins to slowly regain consciousness after Darien used his power of Psychokinesis to heal her wounds, and is carefully brought to her feet with their help.

Steadily, everybody begins to depart; Amara drives Michelle to the hospital, and Lita gives Amy a ride home. Serena looks over and sees Mina grabbing the side of her head, must be one of her headaches again.

"Hey Mina. You ok?" Asks a tired voiced Serena.

"Yeah, the exhaustion is just making my head throb. See ya." Replies the increasingly distant Mina as she leaves.

Letting out a long breath, Serena feels a pair of hands embracing her shoulders. Turning around she looks into her husband's eyes and embraces him tightly. Darien compassionately wraps his arms around the trembling body his beloved wife of three years, and attempts to ease her stress.

"Don't worry Serena. We'll get it again, not like it's the first time an enemy ever got away from us." He tells her softly.

"It's not about the monster Darien." Serena responds with shakiness in her voice. Looking up, her face filled with sadness and tears forming in her eyes, she vents her frustration. "It's...everything else. Ten years of this, and we have nothing to show for it. The girls are getting at each others throats, and I don't know which to side with. Mina is becoming more and more distant, it's as if she doesn't want to be friends anymore. Amara, Michelle, and Hotaru are losing their trust in me. Raye is beginning to side with them, and even sometimes challenges my authority. All that I seem to have left as friends are Amy and Lita, and they're hanging with each other more often now. I...I think I'm losing my mind."

She swallows hard, trying to keep some degree of composure as a leader and future monarch, but it doesn't seem to be working. "I'm completely stressed and tired of this Darien, I don't want to keep doing this anymore."

Rubbing her head gently, he attempts to comfort his dis-stressed wife as the burden of command begins to overwhelm her physically and mentally. He knows that she and the others are suffering from war weariness, something that can be a means to their end.


A little distance away, on a urban expressway that runs above the local roads, a large black SUV is parked next to the concrete guard rail and overlooks the U-shaped building where the fighting took place. Once the girl and her lover leave the area, the SUV gets on its way. Driving along the urban expressway, the brand new Chevrolet Suburban, with its novelty license plate that reads TRL-BRKR easily dwarfs the vehicles that pass it. It even receives some gawking stares, as the Japanese have never seen such a large SUV on their roads before.

After a few minutes, it crosses lanes to get to a coming off-ramp. Suddenly, the SUV gets rocked by a violent impact on its broadside. The sheer force of the hit sends the Suburban through the concrete guard rail, crashing to the ground below. It hits the ground front end first, then tips over on its side.

Appearing at the large gap in the concrete, a police car observes the wrecked SUV below. After a few seconds, the police retrofitted Saleen Mustang drives off, light bar flashing, siren blaring, and a ominous phrase on its rear fenders: To Punish, and Enslave.