SMST: My Own Worst Enemy! – By DS Wynne
Disclaimer: SM, R1/5, ST and other genres belong to their respective owners.
Note: This is a multi-genre mini-series.
Special Note: This story takes place before the events of "Blackest Reign and a Dark Night". C&C are welcomed.
Part 10
Thirty-nine weeks ago…
In a chamber underneath the Lilly Financial Group, LLC, Building, a monumental achievement was taken place…
"So, we're set, correct?" Rei said, as he folds his arms with the look of impatience. "The further along we are without access to my other resources, the stronger the enemy gets."
"Of course, Rei," Mr. Ichi said. Ichi represented Requiem's wisdom. Meanwhile, Mr. Ni represented Requiem's strength, while Miss San represented Requiem's guile. Mr. Yon used to represented courage. Of course, in the end, Yon's courage was turned into recklessness, when he went after the Asgardians in order to determine the Moon Princess' weaknesses…
Still, in the end, everything that Yon had experienced was re-incorporated into Rei, the proverbial "nerve center" of the entity known as "Requiem"…
"Yes, sir," Ichi said, as he adjusted his glasses. "But while we have been able to send a test subject from one Sub-verse to another, we have yet to establish a way to have alternate personas to be able to exist outside this compound."
"Why is that?" Mr. Ni asked.
"The adjustments we were able to make to the dimensional transfers are predicated on the amount of chronotronic energy used to maintain the temporal doppelganger."
"I thought we were talking about dimensions, not time travel."
"We are dealing with the inverse of that," Ichi said. "Each of the fifty-two Earth(s) were originally created as identical worlds as a side-effect of the Moon Princess and her allies trying to stop the entity known as "The Anti-Monitor", which occurred at the beginning of Creation itself, after the entity collapsed all, but two universes: the Moon Princess' and her counterpart, the Antimoon Princess'…"
"You will die, Sailor Moon!" said the Anti-Monitor, as he, in his pure energy form, was about to immolate the Moon Princess. Even after "Crescent Flash Rasengan Jutsu"—which combines the "Flying Thunder God Technique" and "Warp Rasengan"—to both crack the Anti-Monitor's armor and destroy his corporeal form, the Anti-Monitor was determine to destroyer his killer.
"Sailor Moon, look out!" Ronin said, as he rushes over to his beloved.
Sailor Moon braces for impact, when Superman intercedes with a massive "power punch".
"No," Superman said, as he delivered his punch.
BOOM!
As the Anti-Monitor' energy form dissipated, Sailor Moon turns towards Superman. She didn't know how she felt, considering the fact that she lived twenty of her life as a man. And yet, Sailor Moon knows she had another life with this man…
"Um…"
"We can talk later," said Superman, as he turns towards his dead daughter Power-Girl. "We have more pressing concerns…"
As Sailor Moon turns towards the prone body of Power-Girl, memories and emotions came to the fore.
"No!" Sailor Moon said, as she runs to her daughter's side. "Lara-!"
After containing her daughter's body in a preservation crystal, the work to reboot the Universe began.
"After much consultation with many of you, I believe we can restart the Universe," said Mister Fantastic. "We can use the Anti-Monitor's planet-size vessel as the bomb, but we would need a trigger."
Mister Fantastic turns towards Dr. Will Magnus, leader of the Metal Men.
"Dr. Magnus?"
"Thank you, Dr. Richards," Magnus said, as he addressed the assembled group. "I know that many of you are both tired and wounded. But it is imperative that we work together to restore our reality, using hyper-science to provide Universe its structure, and mysticism to shape its essence."
"As long as you do your part, you men of Science, we will provide this Universe its soul," said The Phantom Stranger.
"Right," Magnus said, as he rolls his eyes. He didn't believe in magic, but was willing to entertain their belief system…
"But bottom line, it will be up to Sailor Moon to detonate this ship, so that Universe can begin."
"Wait a minute!" Sailor Moon said, as she steps forth. "Look, I understand the need to do this, but a day ago, I had another life. Now, you want me to restart the Universe?"
"You are attuned to this reality more than many of us here," Dr. Fate said. "But if we are to restore what was destroyed, you will have to take a leap of faith."
"It's okay, honey," Ronin said. "I know that you are under pressure, you've been through worse."
Sailor Moon turns towards her beloved.
"Worse than THIS?"
Hiachi Hyuga, Sailor Moon's best friend, also steps up.
"You're not afraid, are you?" Hiachi asked.
"Hiachi, I can face any foe. But…if I mess up, we may never see our families again."
"Ah. Then don't mess up."
"Like that?"
Hiachi smiles.
"Yes, like THAT."
"Humph, you can be so insufferable sometimes…"
Soon, Sailor Moon, on top Gamabuta the Toad Sage, was in the heart of the Anti-Monitor's craft. Everyone else was safely aboard a smaller craft.
"Wow, Minato, this is a sight to see," Gamabunta said.
"Yes, being at the beginning of the Universe is something to behold," Sailor Moon said.
"Actually, I was referring to what was underneath that sailor fuku of yours. Heh."
"Hey!" Sailor Moon yelled, as she instinctively closed her legs. "Stop acting like Master Jiraiya, will ya?"
"Well, fun and games are over," Gamabunta said. "Let's go home."
"Right," Sailor Moon said, as she squats down. She wills her power, using senjutsu, which causes her eyes to turn toad-like.
DOOM!
She then taps directly into her Silver Millennium Crystal's innate power.
TING!
"Senjutsu Ultimate Technique: Rasengan Universal Rebirth!"
She then clapped her hands, and the produced a spinning ball of pure energy. In theory, she would be the trigger of the power core, mixing positive energy with antimatter, as her Rasengan would be used to explode the anti-matter energy within the Anti-Monitor's ship. However, the energy had to equalize exactly, so that a new "Big Bang" can occur…
Quickly, Sailor Moon expands the sphere, so that Gamabunta can hold it.
"You're all set Gamabunta," Sailor Moon said. "Catch!"
Gamabunta catches the sphere of energy.
"Get ready to get us out of here!" Gamabunta yelled, as he slams the sphere of energy into the antimatter chamber.
FWOOSH!
"Now!"
"Instant Transmission Technique!" Sailor Moon said, as she and Gamabunta teleported away. "Let there be light-!"
BA-BOOOM!
And thus, the Universe is reborn…
"And Queen Lunacy is the Antimoon Princess," Rei spat. "Basically, when the Universe rest itself, as far as this reality is concerned, there was just one positive universe, and one negative universe."
"Correct."
"So where did these fifty-two sub-verses come in?" Ni asked.
"The energies that were released during that battle was shifted elsewhere, unused and formless, until the Green Lantern named Hal Jordan decided to use that energy, as the being known as Parallax, to recreate his hometown of Coast City. He wanted to recreate a new timeline where the tyrant King Mongul did not destroy Coast City.
"'Mongul'?"
"He is an arch-villain of Superman's who wanted to turn the Earth into his new 'Warworld'…after the Moon Princess and Superman had won it from him in battle during their 'exile' from Earth years. Well, Superman put himself into a self-impose exile for accidentally killing someone during a universal threat, while Sailor Moon tagged along."
"Superman, we can do it!" said Sailor Moon, as she and Superman faced Mongul the King and Draaga the Champion. For the past year, the two had to fight in gladiatorial games on "War-World", a mobile planetoid that usually shows up to threaten the populace of any given planet, by forcing the strongest of the populace to fight in an arena. Sailor Moon and Superman, weakened from traveling through space under their own power, were captured and made to fight. Now, Superman sported a beard, a long tunic made from his cape, a harness and belt, and headband (which acted like a Universal Translator), and looked liked an Ancient Gladiator. Sailor Moon looked liked she did when she was one of the chief minions of the legendary Splugorth, which basically meant her Sailor fuku was nothing more than rags being held together by light armor, a harness and a chastity belt (with a combination lock).
"You and your woman will pay for going against me, Superman," Mongul said.
"That will be the day, tyrant," Superman said, as he lobbed off a concentrated blast of his "Heat Vision".
FWAK!
"Arrgh-!" Mongul said, before Superman was right on top of his opponent, with fists blazing.
Meanwhile, Draaga, already indignant about fighting a female, faces Sailor Moon.
"Just because you are female, that doesn't mean I will go easy on you," Draaga said.
"'Go easy on ME'?" Sailor Moon said, as she took a practice swing of her "Moon War Scepter", which acted as a mace. "Your mistake."
With that, Sailor Moon uses a battle cry worthy of the legendary warrior princess Xena.
"Ai-yiyiyiyiyyiyiyiyiyiyi-chi-YA!" Sailor Moon cried, as she performs a run and a somersault before she initiates her attack…
Months later on Earth…
"Well, Superman!" Mongul said. "I destroyed one of your precious cities to begin the building of my new 'warworld'!"
"No!" said Green Lantern Hal Jordan, as he sees a powerful engine being placed where his hometown of Coast City used to be. He struggled out of the yellow colored cocoon to no avail. Unfortunately, the power of the Green Lantern was helpless when exposed ot anything that was the color yellow
Superman was in a similarly precarious position himself, being chained to high-grade Kryptonite.
"It's just too bad that Doomsday had killed your woman before I had gotten a chance to do it myself-"
"Well, you still have the chance, Mongul," said a familiar voice from above.
Everyone looks up to see the four Sailor Moons plus Ronin.
"Wait, there are FOUR of you?" Mongul cried out. He then turns towards a fake Sailor Moon, who was called "Cyborg Sailor Moon". This cyborg version of Sailor Moon was really a scientist named Karen Henshaw, who wanted to get revenge of Sailor Moon for not saving her and her family. The reality was that by the time she and Superman had arrived, it was far to late to undo the damage caused by excessive exposure to cosmic radiation. Now an energy being who could use machines as her body, Karen sought to kill Sailor Moon, except that Sailor Moon had been already killed by Doomsday. So, she decided to kill her legacy by posing as Sailor Moon returned from the dead…
"What is the meaning of this, woman?" Mongul demanded. "We had a deal!"
"We still do, Mongul," C. Sailor Moon said, as she morphed her "hand" into an energy cannon. "Now, I can kill the real deal."
Sailor Moon brushes back her short hair. Her regeneration was interrupted when she learned that this pretender had harmed her daughter, Chibiusa, who had been posing as Sailor Moon for a while. Now that she was back, Sailor Moon was determined to stop this madness with the help of her husband Ronin, Metal Sailor Moon (combat armor, a derivative of the famed Iron Man suit, that was made to simulate Sailor Moon's powers), Princess Sailor Moon (an solid energy projection that was created by the Silver Millennium Crystal to act in Sailor Moon's stead, but with the personality of the original Moon Princess), and ChibiUsa.
"Usagi, you'll be able to handle this?" Ronin asked with concern.
"I'm ready, dear," Usagi said, as she cracked her knuckles. "More than you can know…"
Months later…
"I must remake the Universe," Parallax proclaimed, as he had stolen power of the Green Lantern Corp in order to reshape the Universe. "That way, Coast City will be reborn."
"Hal, don't!" Sailor Moon yells, as she slammed her fist in a green bubble made from the power of the Green Lanterns. Unfortunately, Parallax's power levels were at 360000 percent above normal, making him a formidable opponent on a universal level.
"If you do, a temporal paradox might happen!"
"To make sure that I will succeed, I need YOU out of the way-"
"Too bad you've forgotten about us, Hal," said a familiar voice.
Parallax turns to see Ronin, Superman and the combined might of every superhero that survived the assault perpetrated by Parallax, and his underling "Extant" (who looked like a man with a crow fetish), a villain who possessed the power of Kismet: Chaos and Order combined. However, instead of bringing balance to the crisis, his role is to bring about the destruction to the existing Universe, and thus allow Parallax to bring about a new Universe…
"Get away from her, Hal," Ronin said, as he cracked his knuckles.
"We don't want to harm you, Hal," said Green Arrow, Hal's best friend, as he notches an arrow.
"Huh," Parallax said with a smirk. "I guess we have a stand-off on our hands…
"In all cases, the Moon Princess prevailed," Itchi said. "But, the repeated attempts to recreate the Universe had a curious side-effect…
Tbc.