SailorStar9: And so another chapter goes up. This is Chapter 9. Read and review.
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Chapter 9: Game Master Arc: Puzzled
It was a sunny day in Shinjuku, but despite that fact, a good area of the city was covered by snow. In the centre of that area, the Senshi were fighting yet another group of videogame characters.
"Burning Soul!" Mars' attack blasted a hole in one of the creatures. The two creatures they were facing were snowball-shooting snowmen with a mean attitude.
Jupiter was punching the other creature around, while Venus watched. Her light attack didn't seem to affect the creatures at all, so she had decided to stay out of the battle.
A fast combination of punches and kicks from Jupiter sent the creature flying around, crashing into the other one that had been injured by Mars' attack. Mars aimed at the two creatures as they struggled to get up, then summoned her attack "Burning Soul!"
Jupiter sighed as both creatures melted into a pond. The ice and snow around the area started melting away "This wasn't even worth the effort."
Mars nodded "Yeah... I thought that Game Master guy would try something different after our last battle... And of all the stupid things he could try... The Snow Brothers..." She shook her head half-amusedly.
"Well, this was different." Venus noted "We had to fight amidst all this snow..."
"We?" Mars muttered.
"Hey, I tried, but my attacks just didn't affect them." Venus said defensively.
After school, the group met up at one of Nasuti's mansions. "Well, I think we should start training for real. We'll need it if the Game Master keeps using videogame characters..." Ryo went into team leader mode.
"Hey, they're just videogame characters, how hard can they be?" Ditea asked.
"Well, for starters, the Rockman crew kinda gave us a beating. We won, but it was a real tough battle." Ami commented.
Shin nodded "Right. And for all we knew, he could send the Street Fighters or the crew from Mortal Kombat next..."
Lunari looked at the others "Well, I think they're right. I, for one, would like to learn how to fight those creeps."
Litana grinned "Maybe that way you'll stop running around like a scared pig every time someone shots a laser at you..."
"Can it, Litana." Lunari muttered.
"Okay, so how should we start?" Touma asked.
"You guys are the ones with the combat training..." Ami reminded.
Seiji muttered, "Right. Let's see..."
Shuu charged at Ditea, who waited until the last second before reacting. With a swift move, she grabbed his arm and tossed him over her back, sending him crashing to the ground.
Ryo nodded, "See? Use your enemy's power against him."
"Wow... D did that?" Lunari asked in awe.
"Hey, what's the big deal? Anyone can beat Shuu." Seiji joked.
"I heard that." Shuu muttered from the ground.
Litana noticed Ami was reading a book and sighed "Go figures..." She then did a double take as she read the book's title. "You're not serious, are you?"
Ami looked away from the "Advanced Martial Arts Volume 1" book she was reading and shrugged "I've been fighting since I was 13, so I've most of the basics down pat, so I thought I'd start learning the hard stuff."
Shin looked at her and sighed, "It's there something you can't learn from your books?"
"Yeah, you could teach me how to get injured every time I fight a battle." Ami joked when her communicator started beeping. She looked at it and frowned, "Go figures... Something's attacking the city."
"Where?" Ditea asked.
"Everywhere, I guess... There's energy readings all around the city. "
"Well then, let's split up and fight them!"
"Wow, she's acting like a leader..." Lunari started.
"You already used that line, Lunari." Ditea muttered.
Shuu sighed, "Never mind that, let's take care of the Space Invaders or whatever they are..."
"Well, this ain't Space Invaders..." Mars commented as they reached one of the places the enemy was attacking.
The others just looked at the chaos in front of them. Massive Tetris pieces were falling on the streets and over the buildings. "Tetris?" Jupiter muttered.
"We were the ones complaining about him not being original, though..." Venus noted.
"Girls, try and stop the pieces from falling into someone... I'll try and locate where they're coming out from." Mercury suggested and produced her computer.
"Okay team, you heard her." Mars said "Let's play Tetris!"
"Who made her the boss?" Venus muttered. Jupiter just shrugged.
Suiko, Kongo and Rekka had arrived to the second attack point when Suiko noticed he massive paddle-like spaceship flying around, and the car-sized metal ball that was bouncing from it and into the ground and buildings. "Who gave him the idea to use Arkanoid?"
"Holy bricks, Batman!" Kongo exclaimed.
"Why did I get stuck with you two?" Rekka deathpanned. "Guess all we have to do is to find Doh..." And sent his 'Flare Up Now' attack at the ship, but it skilfully avoided it and managed to make the metal ball bounce towards them.
"Here it comes again!" Kongo warned and everyone dodged the massive ball once again.
Tenku and Korin reached the third attack point, they saw Saturn was already there, looking up as a half dozen red balls bounced back and forth crushing cars and trees. "Why isn't she attacking those things?" Korin pondered.
Tenku rose an eyebrow "Wait, don't attack them..."
"Why?"
"Ever played Pang?" Tenku asked.
Korin rose an eyebrow "Litana saw Nanako playing that game once... These balls split each time you hit them."
"The more the merrier." Tenku muttered.
Saturn ignored the duo and focused in one of the balls. She reached out her hand and shot three attacks, aiming each of them slightly below the previous. The ball split in two smaller balls, which were both hit by the second attack, splitting into four even smaller balls, which were vaporized by the third blast.
"How did she do that?" Korin muttered.
"As Tenku just said, ever played Pang?" Saturn shrugged.
Venus leapt aside barely escaping from being crushed by a massive T-shaped piece. The other Senshi were shooting up at the pieces, while Mercury tried to figure out where the pieces were falling from. Mercury looked up with her visor and frowned, "Well, there's some kind of portal right over our heads, the pieces are popping out from it... The problem is, that thing's way up..."
"Way up as in a few hundred meters?" Mars asked after vaporizing a square piece.
"Way up as in a few thousand meters." Mercury noted.
"Where is a missile when we need it?" Venus muttered. "Never mind that. Think a 'Stardust Stream' would be enough?"
"Weren't hurt to try." Mars shrugged.
"Stardust Stream!" the four Senshi blasted the rainbow-colored energy beam into the sky and blasted the portal away.
"Wow..." Venus exclaimed blinking.
"I guess I'll never row a boat through that lake again..." Mars noted.
"Wise choice." Jupiter added.
"Flare Up Now!"
"Super Wave Smasher!"
The paddle-shaped ship dodged both attacks and sent the ball flying on a building's roof.
"That thing's causing a lot of damage." Rekka noted.
"We must stop the ship if we want the ball to vanish." Suiko explained. "We need Touma for this; he can fly over the paddle to keep it distracted while we wait for the right moment to attack."
"Leave the distracting to me." Kongo grinned. "Ultra-Ballistic Iron Rock Crusher!"
"Well, he's got it distracted." Rekka joked, Kongo's attack blocking out any escape route. "Good thing that paddle doesn't move sideways."
"Can we just shoot?" Suiko sighed.
"Okay, okay." Rekka muttered. "Flare Up Now!"
"Super Wave Smasher!"
Both attacks hit the paddle, vaporizing it. The metal ball shot up into the sky and exploded in mid-air.
Korin and Tenku dodged as the last red ball fell towards them. Saturn grabbed her Glaive and summoned her attack, "Death Ripple!"
The two Troopers watched as the energy ripple zigzagged around the ball, blasting each smaller ball that sprouted off it, and vaporizing them all.
"Impressive." Tenku whistled. "I never knew you could use that attack in this way."
"Mercury told us to improvise." Saturn shrugged when a blast of energy hit just in front of her, sending her crashing on her back.
"Saturn!" Tenku cushioned the youngest Senshi's fall.
Looking up, the group could see Game Master floating there with his arms folded and a mocking grin on his face.
"Well, well... I think it's about time I show you my power, Senshi..." The guy commented.
"Just who the heck is he?" Korin muttered.
Saturn stood up and scanned him with her visor "He's human, but he's being controlled by something else..."
Game Master laughed "Me? Controlled? I'm the Master, and I'm here to destroy you all!" He shot another blast at Saturn, who deflected it with her glaive. Game Master rose his hand and a mirror appeared in mid-air, sending the attack back at the Senshi of Death, taking her completely off-guard. Saturn fell to her knees.
"Why you…" Tenku growled. "Arrow Shockwave!"
Game Master chuckled and summoned a shield. "I have the power of all videogames... I am invincible!"
"Says you!" Rekka snapped as the rest dashed towards them.
Game Master looked at the group and frowned "I'll destroy you all later."
"Heh... What a wimp." Kongo muttered as their foe vanished.
"Saturn, are you okay?" Mercury asked as she checked on her.
Saturn nodded "I'm fine, it's just..." Before she could finish the sentence, she morphed back to her civilian form. Hotaru sighed and looked around, "I can't still fully control my 'Eternal' power."
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