SMSTSS 33: The Horror of Sailor Moon! – By DS Wynne
Disclaimer: SM, R1/2, ST, and other properties belong to their respective owners
Special Note: This story crosses over with a number of horror films helmed by John Carpenter.
Author's Note: I'm not taking this story very seriously, as you will soon find out. As always, C&C are welcomed. Enjoy!
Part 10
Meanwhile, in the basement, the real Usagi was re-emerging as her own person, even as she defeated the alien cells with her own…
BLOOP-BLERP!
From the mass of flesh, a skeletal hand was emerging, even as muscle, cartilage and skin formed around it. And then, another hand emerges from the biomass as well, before forming into a complete hand…
Usagi wanted to scream, as flesh and bone formed around her being. However, her training from the so-called "witches" of the Bene Gesserit from far off into the future prevent the Moon Princess from relying upon her instincts, which wanted her to scream.
Usagi pulled herself from what was left of the bio-mass, now converted to globs of protoplasm, even as the signature crescent moon mark began to glow softly. Technically, she needed to eat in order to replace the amount of energy she used to successfully regenerate into her mature form. Thankfully, Usagi's access to her Lunarian heritage was intact, a sign that the fake Usagi has yet to steal Usagi's birthright, besides her likeness.
'I…I got to rest now,' Usagi thought to herself, as she crawled along the icy floor to the power generator, which would provide some warmth to her.
'I got to…prepare…for the end…"
Meanwhile, back upstairs, MacReady was testing everyone's blood for signs of alien infestation…while sticking a flame thrower in everyone's face, even as he was heating a wire that would be used for the test.
"I think this is CRAP," said Childs replied.
"You said that the first time, so shut your mouth," MacReady said.
"Look, Mac, we're sorry for what happened," said the cook Nauls nervously. "I…I just assumed that you were one of those things, man."
"Apology accepted," MacReady said sarcastically, as he heated a wire to completion. He had already tested Windows blood, since he had helped MacReady collect blood samples from the others.
"Now, I figure that one of you is those things, since all it takes is one drop of blood to infect the rest of us."
"How do we know that YOU are one of those things?" asked Fake Usagi. "You're the one who shot Clark."
Earlier, Clark, who handles the dogs in the kennel, tried to remove the flame thrower from MacReady, only to be shot dead by MacReady
"You don't, which is why I am going to test myself…now," MacReady replied. He then stuck the hot needle in a Petri dish filled with a sample of his blood.
Sssssss…
"See?" MacReady replied. "Now, for you…Usagi."
Fake Usagi squint her eyes, as she permanently made her cells inert. Thanks to almost absorbing the real Usagi, she learned to a few tricks about bio-manipulation. In this particular case, Fake Usagi had made sure that her blood would not react to the burn…
Sssss…
"I guess you're not one of those things, Bunny," MacReady said with relief.
"I guess not," Fake Usagi replied. She had felt the death of her cells, but maintained her composure.
"Now, let's test Clark and Doc," MacReady said, as he proceeded to use the same methods of testing on the aforementioned corpses. While Clark was getting shot by MacReady, Doc had tried to revive Norris, after Norris had feinted from a heart attack, only to learn, too late, that "Norris" was also that "thing", and was killed spectacularly before the Fake Norris was incinerated.
Ssssss…
Ssssss…
"Well, I guess Clark was human, which makes you a murderer," Childs said with contempt.
"That's not fair," Usagi said.
"Oh, shut up. You come here claiming to be one thing, and yet you turn out to be some government 'spook' with knowledge of aliens. How do WE know you didn't already know about these things, and that we are nothing more than guinea pigs to the Feds?"
"Knock it off, Childs," Garry said. "I was told about Ms. Tsukino's background, but was asked not to divulge it on a special request by our boss. So, if you're going to blame anyone for this, blame me."
"Perhaps I should-"
"Okay, let's continue," MacReady said, as he prepares another test. "Now, for the rest of you."
Palmer looks about meekly, as he turns to face Fake Usagi. Fake Usagi simply nods her response…
"There's no way the rest of us is that thing," Garry said. "We destroyed it after it took Norris."
"Sorry, Garry, but we can't take any chances," MacReady said, as he picks up the Petri dish that was labeled "Palmer". "And that is why you're going last."
"Me?"
"Yeah, Garry," MacReady said, as he is about to put the hot wire into Palmer's blood sample. You're and Doc are the only ones who could have gotten to that blood bank, since you two have the key-"
Suddenly, as soon as MacReady places the hot wire into the blood, all hell broke loose, as the blood sample leaped out of the Petri dish screaming. MacReady immediately drops the dish, allowing the blood to scamper off.
Someone screamed, even as "Palmer" began to morph into something horrific.
"Get us out of here!" Garry yelled.
Fake Palmer began to break free of his binds, just as it leaped upon the ceiling.
"Damn it!" MacReady yelled, as he realized that dropping his flame thrower in fright had caused it to malfunction, after picking it up. He then turned towards Windows, who was standing in a corner in fright.
"Windows! Use that flame thrower-!"
Awoken from his shock, Windows attempted to grab the flamethrower, but was stopped by the pulsating Palmer…
"RRRAUGH!" Fake Palmer roared, as he lashed out his tongue, and yanks Windows into his gapping maw.
CRUNCH!
"Arrrrrrgh-!" Windows yelled, as he was thrashed about the room.
Meanwhile, Fake Usagi smiled, as the crawling blood went into her.
'Waste not, I would like to say,' Fake Usagi thought, as the telepathic link between her and the now-infected Windows was established. As a 'super-Drulan', Fake Usagi could absorb a victim while copying it, acquiring everything that victim knew or experienced. However, her options were running very thin, forcing Fake Usagi into considering a wasteful option.
'I'll have to sacrifice one more, if I am to make it to the coast,' Fake Usagi thought. 'To think of all the minds and bodies that will soon belong to me…'
"Kill it, KILL IT!" Childs yelled.
MacReady was able to get his flame thrower on, just as Fake Palmer released Windows.
FWOOSH!
Fake Palmer screamed, as he was torched. Flaying about, Fake Palmer bursts through one of the wall and into the snow in an attempt to stop the burning.
Luckily, MacReady had a stick of dynamite ready to go.
THROW!
BOOM!
"Hey!" Childs yelled. "Don't forget Windows!"
MacReady immediately runs inside, and sees that Windows was already mutating. He took his flame thrower, and torches him.
FWOOSH!
"Okay, man!" Childs yelled. "Let me out!"
"Bunny," MacReady said, as he moves to release Fake Usagi. "Help me do this…"
"Okay," Fake Usagi said sweetly, as she was let loose. "What do you want me to do exactly?"
"Separate them, but keep them tied up."
"Of course, Mac," Fake Usagi replied, as she goes to work…
After testing Childs and Nauls, MacReady tests Garry, even as both Childs and Nauls were pointing flame throwers at Garry. When Garry passed MacReady's test, Garry looks up at MacReady.
"I know you gentlemen have been through a lot," Garry said evenly. "But when you find the time... I'd rather not spend the rest of the winter tied to this damn couch!"
Fake Usagi chuckled, as she goes over to untie the human. The Tau'ri was a wonderful species to unnerve…
"What's next?" Nauls asked.
"We check on Blair, and then we do a thorough house cleaning of this place," MacReady said.
"Then what?" Childs said.
"We burn this place to the foundation."
"MacReady, why?" Garry asked.
"That thing could be anyone or anything. Do you think a mouse wouldn't be infected? What about bacteria? Blair was right about one thing. If that thing makes it to the coast line, humanity is DONE."
"Then about us?" Nauls said.
"Best thing we can do is consolidate supplies and hold out, and wait for a rescue."
"You're taking an awful chance, Mac," Fake Usagi said.
"With the world at stake? You damn right I am."
"Then we better get to work," Garry said tiredly, as he looks around the recreation room. He didn't want to retire so soon after a disaster like this one…
"Then what are we waiting for?" Childs said. "Let's burn this place down!"
MacReady simply nods his head, and then heads out the door to get ready to test Blair, who was detained in another isolated shed…or so they thought. Upon reaching to the shed, they realized that Blair was gone. In fact, he had built a small cavern where he was building a small space craft…
"That bastard," Childs said, as he and the others took a look at the small space craft. "All this time, Blair was faking it."
"We don't know that," Fake Usagi said, as she lightly touched the paneling of the space craft.
"We have to destroy it, and make sure that there is nothing that can leave this area alive," MacReady said. "That means everything has to go, including our backup."
"But, that'll leave us in dire straits!" Garry said.
"No choice, Garry. I'm sorry…"
MacReady then turns towards the others.
"You got that?"
Everyone else turned to look at each other before nodding in agreement.
"Understood," Childs said.
"We're with you, man," Nauls said.
"Then let's get to work," Fake Usagi said. "After all, we have a thing to destroy…"
Over time, the Outpost 31 was prepped for destruction, and over time, Fake Blair was eliminating the others, starting with Garry and Nauls. Childs had wandered off, later claiming that it had thought that he had spotted the thing. Soon, at the foundation of the Outpost, MacReady was alone with the thing.
"DAMN!" MacReady said, as Fake Blair had taken the detonator while morphing into a tentacle thing. MacReady then turned to warn Fake Usagi, only to receive a surprise.
"Bunny!" MacReady yelled. He then turned towards Bunny, but stopped, as Fake Usagi's chest bursts open, revealing a maw and several tentacles that acted like tongues.
"I'm sorry, Mac," Fake Usagi said. "But you are not going to win."
"How did you-?"
"How did I fake the test? Simple. I can control my own cells, and the cells of my many parts. In this particular case, I killed the cells in the sample that I provided for your 'test'."
"What now?"
"After you have been assimilated, I will wait for the rescue," Fake Usagi said. "And then, I will remake this lovely world of yours in my own image…"
Pause.
"What do you think?"
"I think you're one twisted 'witch'."
"I know, ain't I? Now, it's time for you to say good-bye…"
Pause.
"Good-bye, MacReady-"
SPLURCH!
A blade made from light and silver runs through the torso of the Fake Usagi from behind.
"What?" Fake Usagi said, as she turned her head around, unnaturally so, until she sees Sailor Cosmos.
"You could have used your experience to help others," Sailor Cosmos said. "I've saw what the Dominion had done to you. That was not right. But instead of using that pain to become something more, you became a devil that destroyed lives…"
Pause.
"I can't let your crimes go unpunished."
"So, you say," Fake Usagi said. "But there is more to me than meets the eye."
"I know, I saw what you've seen, remember?"
"Oh. Maybe we can talk about this some more?"
"I'm done talking," Sailor Cosmos said, as she pulls out her Moon Sword, and uses her training in the use of the Force to fling the Fake Usagi into Fake Blair.
"Mac, duck!" Sailor Cosmos yelled.
FWOOSH!
Mac ducks just in time.
"Ahhhhhhhhh!" Fake Usagi and Fake Blair said, as their bodies began to merge.
"Mac, you have to leave this place," Sailor Cosmos said. "Find Childs. He's okay."
"How do I know that you aren't a thing?"
"I've saved your life, yes?"
"You got a point there. And Childs?"
"I had briefly merged with the mutant Durlan, and know everything that he knows. Childs is unaffected."
"What about you?"
"Don't worry about me," Sailor Cosmos said, as he crescent moon mark glowed. "I'll take care of this…thing. You, are going to sleep now."
And, with a flash of light, MacReady was unconscious…
The next thing MacReady knew was waking up in a private hospital room. He immediately sat up, only to be handled by a nurse.
"Commander MacReady, you have to take it easy," said the female nurse.
"Where am I?" MacReady said desperately.
"You're at McMurdo Station, commander," Ranma Saotome said, as he walked into the hospital room.
"And you?"
"Colonel Ranma Saotome, United State Air Force, and presently the Homeworld Security liaison to the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce…or 'UNIT'," Ranma said.
"This isn't a dream."
"No, it isn't, commander. Antarctic Outpost 31 is gone, and only you and Josiah Childs are the only survivors of the alien contact."
"Wait, you know about that thing?"
"Yes, we do. When we went looking for survivors, we found two Lunarian cocoons, with you in one, and Childs is in another, and a data box filled with data on the mutant Durlan. Subsequently, our investigation of the Norwegian outpost confirmed everything that the data box had."
"So, what now?"
"Now, both Outpost 31 and the Norwegian outpost are under quarantine, and samples of the creature are being painstakingly collected for study. Since we know what we are up against, we will definitely handle the samples with care."
"I hope you know what you are doing, because one of those things took out dozens of people's lives," MacReady said.
"I hope so, too, commander," Ranma said. "But I wanted to ask you a personal favor."
"What do you want?"
"I wanted to know what happened to Usagi Tsukino…"
Weeks later…
"Welcome to the first day of class, at the University of California Los Angeles," said a diminutive older Asian man, as he spoke to his new graduate students. "I am Professor Howard Birack, and I will be teaching you 'Theoretical Quantum Mechanic in Metaphysics' this semester…"
The professor leans back on his desk, and looks at his students with a discerning eye. He spots one student with a very unusual hairstyle…
"You, there," Birack said, as he points to the student with the unusual hairstyle.
"Hmmm?" Usagi said, as she looks up from her reading.
"Introduce yourself to the class, Miss…?"
"Oh, my name is 'Serena Moonchild'," Usagi said with a pleasant smile. "But you can call me 'Usagi' for short…"
Tbc.
Next Time: Can Sailor Moon face the "Prince of Darkness" and survive? Be here for the final leg of the John Carpenter Near-Apocalypse Trilogy! See you then…