For the One I Love
Chapter Eleven
"Warning"
When they all reached Mamoru's apartment, Fighter showed Usagi a seat on the couch. Once Mamoru had taken off his disguise as Tuxedo Kamen, he walked out into the room where they both were.
"I'll be right back. I'm going to go talk to Chibi-Usa for a bit." He pointed above them to indicate where he was going. Usagi didn't say anything; she just nodded her head and looked at the floor in silence as he walked out the door. Soon after, Luna and Artemis came bursting in.
"We saw what happened. Usagi, are you alright?" Luna asked panicked before stopping in her tracks at the sight of Fighter. "You!"
"Don't worry." Usagi said. "She showed up to help us. She knows who I am."
"Don't worry?" Luna mocked. "The enemy shows up and takes Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Venus, gives you an ultimatum, and then this mysterious Senshi shows up and knows who you are?!"
"You can trust me-" Fighter reassured them.
"Then if you're on our side." Artemis cut in. "There's no reason for you not to reveal your own identity to Usagi-chan." Fighter exchanged looks with Usagi for a moment before looking away.
"I can't. Not now." She said. "I have my reasons. But you must believe me, I'm not you're your enemy." She added when Artemis gave her a questioning glare. "I would die to protect you, Sailor Moon."
"Ah…" Usagi didn't know what to say. The tiny black cat looked at Usagi's flushed face and then into the eyes of Fighter.
"Artemis…" Luna sighed softly. "Now's not the time anyway. We have bigger issues."
"Alright." Artemis grunted.
"We have to figure out a way to get Mercury and others back." Luna said.
"Usagi-Chan, do you mind if I turn on the news?" Artemis asked. She shook her head. Sailor Star Fighter watched as the white cat went over to the bed and switched the TV on, then she turned her attention back to Usagi.
"Can I ask you something?" Usagi nodded once more, giving Fighter the feeling she wasn't talking in efforts to fight back her tears.
"That girl you call Chibi-Usa. What do you know about her?" Artemis and Luna looked over. "I'm not asking because I'm gathering information for your enemy." She directed at the cats. "It's just, she confuses me. The only thing I know is she claims to come from the future, she carries a key with her that allows her to do so, and she's a Sailor Senshi. But even then, why is the enemy here so desperate to get her?"
"Sailor Senshi? Chibi-Usa isn't a Sailor Senshi." Luna said bewildered.
"But…" "She told me she was…" Fighter thought to herself. "Could she have been lying for some reason?"
"We don't know much more than you." Artemis explained. "Chibi-Usa showed up wanting to steal the Silver Crystal from Usagi, claiming her name was Usagi too. She brainwashed Usagi's family into believing she was her cousin who was visiting."
"What did you say?"
"It's true." Usagi spoke. "I'm not sure why exactly the enemy is after her, but Chibi-Usa claims they followed her from the future, and hurt her mother."
"That's right…" Fighter remembered the conversation she and Usagi overheard at the construction site. "The enemy is from the tenth planet, Clan of the Dark Moon..."
"Luna, the news!" Artemis shouted. The tiny black cat ran and jumped up on the bed.
"The enormous unidentified flying object, which showed up in the Juban area, disappeared somewhere this evening. However, residents are concerned that this incident will affect them."
"Thirty more minutes." The white cat said.
"Usagi, where are Mamoru and Chibi-Usa?" Luna asked. Usagi was now staring at her locket, which she held in her right hand.
"They're on the rooftop. He's probably trying to comfort Chibi-Usa." Usagi gripped her locket tightly in her hand. "I can't do this anymore! I don't care if the enemy is after her, I can't protect a girl like her anymore!"
"Usagi…" Fighter said.
"I almost want to give the Silver Crystal and Chibi-Usa to the enemy to get my friends back. Besides, if she had never shown up here, this town would still be peaceful."
"Usagi! Do you seriously mean what you just said?" Luna shouted.
"How could I have been serious?" Usagi lifted her face to reveal tears forming in her eyes once more. "But I'm not grown-up enough to stay tough in this kind of situation."
"Usagi…"
"I'm sorry, I must be tired."
"I understand. We'll come up with a good plan. So you go rest for a while." Artemis said.
"I'll help them, so don't stress yourself anymore." Fighter helped Usagi stand.
"Thanks." She said. "I'll go to the balcony and get some fresh air." They all watched as she walked away. Sailor Star Fighter moved over next to the bed with the two cats.
"What will we do?" She asked.
"What about giving Rubeus a fake Silver Crystal to buy us some time?" Luna suggested.
"We'll use that time to get aboard the UFO and to free everyone." Artemis added. "But, what are we going to do about Chibi-Usa?"
"How about disguising ourselves as Chibi-Usa?"
"You two?" Fighter looked quizzically at the pair. "Isn't that a bit… ridiculous? Hmm?" She turned around after hearing a small clicking noise.
"Ehh... I think Star Fighter is right." Artemis said after thinking about it. "I don't think that will work."
"I agree." Luna nodded.
The distant sound of hurried footsteps turned into Mamoru running inside, followed by Chibi-Usa. "The front door is wide open!" He shouted. "Is Usa-ko here?"
"What?" The cats yelled in unison.
"That idiot!" Fighter jumped from her seat on the bed, realizing what the clicking sound before now had been. She raced to the balcony, but there was no one there. "She's not here…"
"I knew it!" Mamoru said.
"Are you saying she went by herself to save everybody?" Luna asked worried.
"She just might have." Artemis sounded equally worried.
"That's absolutely reckless, no matter how you look at it! She'll end up getting herself killed!"
"Eh?" Mamoru turned around and noticed someone else was missing. "Chibi-Usa? Chibi-Usa!"
"I bet she went after Usagi." Artemis ran over to Mamoru.
"Both of them had the same idea! Unbelievable! They think alike as if they were identical twins!"
"Fighter!" Luna yelled back as Mamoru and Artemis began running out the door, but Sailor Star Fighter has jumped from the balcony after Usagi the moment she found her missing.
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The UFO descended from the sky for the second time that night. Usagi, transformed as Sailor Moon watched as it broke into the atmosphere. Rubeus of the Dark Moon Clan's voice echoed out into Tokyo's night.
"It's good of you to come, Sailor Moon and Rabbit!"
"Rabbit?" Sailor Moon turned around and looked down. Chibi-Usa was standing there at her side. "Chibi-Usa, why are you here!"
"I'm going with you!" The girl shouted.
"I am too!"
"Sailor Star Fighter?" Sailor Moon asked.
"I followed you as well. I'm not going to let you do this by yourself!" "Even if you might have once already."
"But if Chibi-Usa comes with me, it will play right into the enemy's hands! Fighter, please take Chibi-Usa with you and stay behind!"
While they bickered, a blue light surrounded Sailor Moon, Star Fighter and Chibi-Usa making them levitate off the ground and pulling them higher towards the spaceship. Sailor Moon felt herself hit the ground with an echoing thud. She looked up to find herself in a room unlike anything she had seen before. Rubeus was standing in front of her, and behind him, were her friends trapped in what appeared to be crystal crosses.
"You guys!" She yelled.
"Welcome Sailor Moon. Thank you for bringing the Rabbit with you. I see I missed one of your friends, but it doesn't matter much, you will all die here anyway."
"Rubeus! Ha you fell for it! She's not the Rabbit, she's my cousin Chibi-Usa!"
"What?"
"Did you really think I would hand over the Rabbit so easily? What an idiot, you totally fell for it!"
"Oy!" Sailor Star Fighter tugged on her hair from behind her. "I don't think taunting your enemy in this kind of situation is a good idea you know." She whispered in Moon's ear.
"Heh, I'll take my time later finding out whether or not that's true." Rubeus smiled. "But before I do, I'll get rid of you!"
"Fair enough!"
"Idiot…" Fighter said under her breath.
"Chibi-Usa, find somewhere safe and stay there. Fighter, please look after her."
"But what about you! I'm not just going to let you fight on your own!"
"Please…" She urged.
"Alright, let's go little girl." Chibi-Usa and Star Fighter moved off to the side giving Sailor Moon the room she needed to battle.
"Okay! Let's fight!"
"Hm." Rubeus smirked. He thrust his hand outwards not even giving Sailor Moon time to prepare for the attack. She flew backwards and came crashing to the floor. Star Fighter clenched her fist; the other held Chibi-Usa's shoulder.
"Don't think this is all you're going to suffer. After all, you've put me through a number of bitter experiences." Sailor Moon picked herself up off the ground.
"Moon Princess Elimination!" Rubeus blocked the attack with his bare hand. "No way! My Moon Princess Elimination…gah!" Everything around Sailor Moon's body began to warp like you'd see in the air in intense heat. Slowly, she felt her body being dragged to the ground. No matter how hard she resisted, she couldn't straighten herself up. "My body feels so heavy."
"Hhaaaha, let me tell you what is happening." Rubeus stood there glowering down at her. "This ship can increase my power many times over! This super gravity is part of that. Incidentally, I can also reverse it. Watch!" Sailor Moon flew from the ground, hitting her back into a giant crystal as she descended. She squinted her eyes open after colliding with it and gasped.
"No way…"
"So you've noticed! That's right. Outside of this ship is space, thousands of meters above the Earth."
"We're in space?" Fighter breathed. "Hey, what are you doing?" Fighter shouted as quietly as possible. Chibi-Usa squirmed free from Fighter's grip and started running. "Damn it." She too crawled out of hiding and perused the child.
"You no longer have anywhere to escape!" Rubeus continued.
Chibi-Usa ran directly at the sleeping Senshi as Star Fighter tried her hardest to catch up. Sailor Moon, who caught sight of them from above watched in silence. "Stupid! Don't go near them! You'll-" Chibi-Usa ran into the force field blocking anyone from reaching the prisoners. The shield coursed through her body in the form of electric dark energy. The pink haired girl began emitting energy from her forehead until she fell back and away from the shield.
"Chibi-Usa!" Sailor Moon yelled still suspended in midair. Fighter momentarily stopped, gawking at the child's power.
"Just as I thought, she is the Rabbit." Rubeus said all too pleased with himself.
Fighter grabbed onto the child and lifted her off the floor. "What do you think you were doing? Didn't you expect something like that to happen?"
"Let go!" She said. "It's my fault they're like this! I have to save them!"
"You can't do it on your own! You're not even a Sailor Senshi are you?!"
"No…" Chibi-Usa said sadly. "But…"
"You should stop wasting your energy!" Rubeus called over to them. "They're surrounded by a high voltage shield."
"I can't give up! Eiyyaahhh!" Chibi-Usa pushed past Fighter and ran at it again, only to be electrocuted.
"Chibi-Usa!"
"Now..." Rubeus turned his attention back to Sailor Moon. "I think it's about time I got rid of you!" She fell back to the ground, flattening against its surface. "Grovel on the ground like a frog and I will squash you!"
"I won't let you! Star Serious-"
"Don't!" Sailor Moon yelled through the force. "Stay with Chibi-Usa, or I won't forgive you!"
"Die!"
"Sailor Moon!" Slowly, Sailor Moon started to get up.
"What?" Rubeus gasped.
Her body was shaking and unstable, but she was managing to stand.
"Unforgivable! No matter what, there is no way I can forgive you!" She said.
"Impossible! You can stand up in this super gravity?"
"I won't give in to you! Chibi-Usa isn't giving in, and Fighter is here with me as well! I can't… I'm Sailor Moon, so I can't give in either!"
"I'm afraid I underestimated you a little. This time, I will use my full power!"
"Star Fighter!" Chibi-Usa yelled as Rubeus and Sailor Moon each prepared their own attacks. "I think this is the source of his power!" She looked over to what the child was pointing at, a smaller version of the black crystals all around them. It lit up every time Rubeus used some if his power.
"So all we have to do is destroy that right?" Sailor Star Fighter readied her attack but Chibi-Usa grabbed onto the crystal first. The power from the crystal acted like the shield did and absorbed her in electric shock. Star Fighter looked up as Rubeus appeared over them, meaning Sailor Moon had fallen somewhere…
"You were fated to die anyway! Prepare to die!"
"Try it! Star Serious Laser!" Sailor Star Fighter blasted Rubeus away from them. He didn't have time to recoil himself before another attack stuck him.
"Moon Princess Elimination!"
With a burst of white-gold light behind her, Star Fighter turned to see Chibi-Usa pull out the crystal by herself. "How did…" For a split second, Fighter saw something gold appear on Chibi-Usa's forehead that looked like… "Is that...?" The crystal broke and Rubeus fell to Sailor Moon's attack as the ship began to fall apart around them.
"Fighter, are you okay?" Sailor Moon walked sluggishly over to her.
"I'm fine, but you're a mess!" Fighter was both agitated and worried. "You should have let me help you before."
"It's okay. You protected Chibi-Usa for me, thank you…"
"Sailor Moon!" Mars, Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter along with Chibi-Usa came over to them. "Sailor Star Fighter? You're here too?"
"Ahhahaa! Do you think you have won? You fools! Eventually this ship will go out of control and explode. You will all become space dust and disappear!"
"If that happens, you will also…"
"That's right!" He stopped Mars mid-sentence. "I cannot return to the future either. But I don't think it will be too bad to die together with you. Hah!" The room became engulfed with flames, Rubeus too was swallowed by the blaze.
"If we don't hurry and get out of here, we'll really end up dying with him!" Mars exclaimed.
"Teleportation." Fighter said. "Do you guys know how to teleport yet?"
"Of course! But Sailor Moon's already exhausted her energy! And then there's you and Chibi-Usa!"
"I can carry my own weight. You don't have much of a choice right now anyway." She said.
"I can still try as well!" Sailor Moon said. "Chibi-Usa, you can join us right?"
"I'll try." She nodded determinedly.
"Good girl. I'll get you something nice later."
"Then, I want to have pancakes!"
"Alright."
"Everyone take hands!" Fighter shouted over the roaring of the dying ship. "Fighter Star Power!"
"Moon Crystal Power!"
"Mercury Star Power!"
"Mars Star Power!"
"Jupiter Star Power!"
"Venus Star Power!"
"Sailor Teleport!"
The next thing Fighter felt was a rush of cold wind and the sound of footsteps on concrete. She opened her eyes and looked up from Earth at the exploding ship in the sky.
"We did it!" Everyone cheered. Sailor Star Fighter breathed a sigh of relief.
"Honestly… I don't know how you ever made alive until high school."
"Hm, what was that?"
"Oh, uh nothing. Well, I best be off."
"Wait!" Jupiter called. "You told us to forget about you and focus on our enemy, but how can we? You're always there to help Sailor Moon and the rest of us. Won't you at least tell us why you're here or where you came from?"
"Let's just say… I've got something in common with Tuxedo Kamen and your little rabbit there…" She looked down into the child's red eyes as the time key clanged against Fighter's chest. "Nngg..."
"Fighter!" Sailor Moon ran over to the Senshi who gripped her head in pain and fell to her knees. "What's the matter? Fighter, talk to me!" Her eyes stung with pain and began to water. All she could feel was something hot pressing against her chest.
"Ouch!" She heard a child's voice say in the distance.
"Chibi-Usa?" Mercury asked her as she pulled something out from around her neck.
"The key suddenly felt really hot. It's never done that before."
"Fighter!" Sailor Moon continued to pry a response out of her. She opened one of her stinging eyes to look at the blonde woman holding her.
"Don't come…"