Chapter Seven: Rationale
"Wait, you are the traitor?" said Luna in confusion.
Coin gave her a nasty grin. "Of course I am, do you not see who I am allied with?"
The Copycats near him giggled to the annoyance of Luna. She could not understand why her "relatives" could act so immature in such a dramatic moment like this.
Luna was about to respond when she heard a sobbing choke. She turned to the sound and saw that it came from Nicole, who was the only person standing between she and Coin. The traitor raised his eyebrows and turned his attention to the Slayer.
"What is it, Ms. Smith?" he asked with an air of annoyance.
It took some time for the Slayer to get a hold on herself before she can answer, "Sir, how could you!"
Luna watched Coin's face shift from one of annoyance to one of pity as he said in a solemn voice, "Nicole, you must understand. This war with the Sues was going nowhere, and we would have lost eventually because of their numbers and enormous power. I betrayed the Organization because I wanted to end this pointless war and hopefully salvage a future for the more compliant MS Slayers."
When Nicole didn't respond to his answer, the former Senator swallowed before saying, "I know it wasn't right of me to switch sides, Nicole. I just hope that you can find it in your heart to forgive me."
Coin walked over to the Slayer to comfort her, but Nicole pushed his arm away when he tried to touch her and snarled, "Get away from me! I don't know you anymore!"
Coin backed away to his two Sue bodyguards from Nicole's hit, and his face turned to one of confusion before becoming one of malice again.
"If you do not wish to join me," he said silkily, "I would just have to kill you, Ms. Nicole Smith."
"Go to Hades," shot back Nicole.
"I see that you are not afraid of death," murmured the twisted spy.
He turned his attention back to Luna, who had been standing kind of still all this time, and commanded, "Shoot her down, Project Fire."
Luna hesitated. While it was true that she didn't like Nicole and that Nicole probably deserved a hard fist to the face, she knew it wasn't right to kill her.
Upon seeing her hesitation, the agent tilted his head and said in a charming voice, "Come on, Luna. We both perfectly know well that you don't like the Slayers at all with the exception of Ms. Dare, of course. I promise you that if you aid me in the destruction of this Organization, I will let your teacher live and also, give you back your memories."
Luna had to admit that Coin's offer was very tempting; not only will her teacher be spared, but she also would finally know who that green-eyed boy from her past was.
Luna looked up back to the traitor and nodded her head. Upon her approval of Coin's offer, the Copycats beside the traitor started to giggle again. Their small laughter was starting to sound a bit unsettling to their relative.
Coin smirked at her agreement. "Good choice, Project Fire. You can start by killing Nicole here."
As Luna pointed her bow at the back of Nicole's head, the giggles of the Copycats became louder and louder. The giggles soon became howls when Luna notched her arrow.
Again, Luna felt creeped-out by her relatives' laughter; she started to wonder if she was making the right choice.
The hand that was holding the arrow began to tremble as she thought about what Rachel would have said if she saw Luna about to execute a fellow Slayer.
"Come on, Luna," reassured the spy in a soft voice, "You were made for this."
The arrow flew and the spy fell to the floor, dead.
Several things happened at once after Coin was hit in the chest: the Copycat Sues who had been flanking Coin rushed at both Luna and Nicole while the daughter of Artemis shifted her aim to target one of them.
Luna let an arrow fly and managed to kill the one that had been charging towards Nicole. However, the other copycat threw a spear at Luna, and she was forced to duck and let the copycat gain ground.
The daughter of Artemis notched another arrow and shot it at the Sue, but the copycat was ready. The Copycat Sue quickly took out a black blade from her belt and managed to parry Luna's arrow.
The copycat sneered at Luna and said, "Not bad, cousin. Not bad at all."
"Cousin?" said back the daughter of Artemis in confusion.
"Didn't I mention that I, Maria Lily Garnet Sánchez, am a daughter of Hades and a sister to Nico di Angelo!" the other Sue declared in a proud voice.
Luna puzzled over her cousin's statement, but she had no time for that. Maria was already summoning skeleton warriors from the ground with her black blade, which was neither bronze nor steel. It took Luna five more minutes before she could remember that Maria's blade was made of Stygian Iron.
Luna started firing many arrows at the zombies, but fired a few at Maria. After all, Luna knew that if she could knock the Stygian Iron blade out of Maria's hands, she might actually have a chance to win
But that was easier said than done as Luna kept fighting the attacking skeleton-men. Her arrows only slowed down the undead, and pretty soon, she was out of ammo.
Without her long-range weapon, Luna had to fight hand-to-hand and although she managed to knock a few skeletons down, the other bone men overwhelmed her with their inhuman strength and numbers and managed to capture her and bring her to their master, Maria.
Maria smirked at Luna. "You might be a Mary Sue, but you aren't strong as I am. Heck, you aren't even stronger than my pathetic brother, Luna Shining Diamond."
"Wait, how the Hades did you know my entire name?" asked Luna.
"All Mary Sues have the ability to correctly guess their opponents' name," explained Maria, "It's just a pity that you won't have a chance to try it out, LSD."
Maria raised her hand, pointed it at Luna's face, and said with a nasty smile, "I'm going to make you wish that you didn't kill Coin in the first place! Arghh!"
The Mary Sue of Hades screamed as a sword poked through her stomach. Luna watched in amazement as the gothic girl before her began to melt away into black dust. Maria's skeletons also began to fade away.
Luna looked up at her savior and saw that it was Nicole Smith. The Slayer's eyes were still red from crying, but Nicole still said in a somewhat calm voice, "Come on, you Mary Sue, we need to go help the other Slayers."
Luna had no choice but to follow Nicole Smith back down the hall to the center of the Organization's base, but on the way, a brown-haired boy almost crashed into them. Nicole, out of Slayer instinct, had swung her blade at the incoming person, but the runner had managed to stop himself in time and avoid getting hit by Nicole's sword.
Nicole was about to swing again when the boy yelled to her, "Nicole, it's me, Matt."
Luna watched Nicole turn red as she lowered her blade. The Sue turned back to Matt and saw that he was casually carrying loads of stuff on his back, despite their combined weight.
"How can you carry all of that?" asked Luna.
"This is nothing," Matt answered with a grin, "Anyways, I can carry all of this easily because I'm a son of Hermes, god of athletics and travel."
"Wait, why are you packing up?" interrupted Nicole, "Isn't there a battle still going on?"
Matt's grin became a grimace. "The battle is lost, Nicole. The Mary Sues are tearing this base apart and more are coming."
Nicole glared at him. "We can still win, Matt! We still have many Slayers on our side, who can help us push back Serenity's strike force!"
If the Slayer expected Matt to brighten up, she was disappointed, for Matt just simply replied, "Nicole, we only have a few Slayers left fighting. Many of them are dead and the rest are currently infected by the OOC Curse."
Nicole was stunned and was only able to mutter, "The Out Of Character Curse? Matt, please tell me that you are joking."
Matt shook his head sadly. "I'm not. I had just witnessed our friends fall to the charms of the Relationship Sues."
Understanding his emotions, Nicole ran into the arms of Matt, who had not been expecting this, and began to hug him.
Matt raised an eyebrow at Luna Diamond while he patted Nicole's back awkwardly with his free hand. Luna shrugged back at him with a face that read, "This is awkward."
The moment continued for about 2 minutes before Matt said in a patient voice, "Nicole, can you get off me? It's not safe around here with all these malicious Mary Sues lurking around."
Luna gave Matt an offended look, but his attention was only focused on Nicole, who complied with his request and released him from her hug. When the three of them were ready, they quickly ran for the western exit.
