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Chapter 12: An Old Enemy

Serena awoke a few hours later to find that she was alone in the room. Stretching a bit, she tested the chain on her ankle once more, but it proved to be useless. 'I could sure use Duo's pick locking skills right now' she thought as she glanced around the room once more. She noticed that a tray of fresh fruit, bread and orange juice was placed on the night stand next to her bed. She noticed that there was a fork and butter knife on the tray as well. 'Well, might as well try' she grabbed both and started tinkering on the ankle bracelet and chain. Strangely enough, she was able to break one of the links on the chain. 'Unbelievable' she grinned, 'I can brag about this to Duo later' she thought and proceeded to stand. She had to hold on to one of the bed posts to steady herself for she was still a bit dizzy. Once she could let go, she carefully approached the door and tested the handle. Noticing that it was unlocked, she opened it carefully and peered outside, 'No guards and the coast is clear. Guess he underestimated me. Can't blame him' she remembered how she was before versus how she is now, 'I've truly changed; for the better I hope'. She quietly walked down the hall staying close to the wall and came upon a door. Opening it carefully, she peered inside but the room was too dark to make sense of what was in it. She continued down the hall and a couple of doors later, she came across a double aluminum doors. 'What could be in here? The exit it I hope' she pressed the button on the wall and both doors opened swiftly. 'Well, here goes nothing' she said and stepped inside.

"WHERE IS SHE?" Darien screamed as he stormed out of the room where Serena was held captive and glared at two of the security guards that were with him.

"Who are you talking about Darien?" Rei asked and he turned around to see the inner scouts approaching with VERY serious faces, "Well?"

Darien frowned. He hadn't told them that he had captured Serena the night before so of course they were going to be pissed, especially Rei. "Serena"

"WHAT?! SHE'S HERE?" the inner scouts were surprised and VERY pissed.

"Why haven't you told me about this?" Rei asked completely annoyed.

"Later Rei. Right now we have to find her" Darien said as he turned and walked away to search for her.

"You're damn right we will" Rei hissed and Darien tensed. You don't piss off the Guardian of Mars and walk away alive.

They all split into different directions to search for Serena. Neither noticed the dark aura that was hovering above them with an evil smile on its face. "The time to awaken is near" it said and disappeared.

Sailor Uranus, Pluto and Neptune were staged at an adjacent building close to the enemy's headquarters and stood by. They were carefully watching and monitoring the entries and exits of people and equipment from the building.

"Did you felt that?" Sailor Neptune asked.

"Yeah. I don't like this" Sailor Uranus said frowning.

"I've felt this dark presence before, but it was destroyed in the past" Sailor Pluto was extremely worried now.

"I've felt it too. But this one is stronger" they all turned to Sailor Saturn. She glanced at the three and then at the building, "we must be aware". They all nodded and kept their watch until the signal was sent for them to act.

Heero and Duo were in the buildings' air ducts crawling to where the servers were located. Duo had memorized the buildings plans before they left, so he knew exactly where they were going. Once on top of the grid of the server room, he peaked inside search of presence and cameras. Once he made sure everything was clear, he took off the screws of the grid and quietly removed it. They both dropped into the room and pasted themselves on the wall to avoid the cameras. They continued to move until they found the blind spot they were looking for and then Heero proceeded to connect his minicomputer to it, since he was the hacking genius of the group, while Duo stood guard.

"Well?" Duo asked one minute later.

"Done" Heero replied and they both could see every corner of the building on the computer and through the buildings' cameras. Heero kept changing the cameras angles through the floors of the building making sure no room was left unchecked.

"I don't see her" Duo frowned as Heero finished scanning the last floor on the top.

He was really anxious now. Could they have taken her somewhere else? Where? He furiously kept typing on his minicomputer until an idea came across him. Typing in a few more keys, he was able to access the security video tapes stored in the servers of the last 24 hours. Scanning quickly through them, he found what he was looking for.

"Pure genius" Duo grinned as he and Heero watched the timeframes from when Serena was brought into the building and was taken to a room.

Heero growled when he saw a tall man with black hair and dressed in a tuxedo come in and out of the same room Serena was being kept. But then he was surprised to see that later on, Serena had peaked out of the room and was heading down the hall until she disappeared from the camera's range. Taking a quick look at video tape details, he noticed that this last section was recorded 15 minutes ago. Before he powered down the computer, he noticed that said man had gone into the room and came out with a very angry look. They also noticed the group of girls that approached them and the way they split after that. Heero and Duo knew what they were searching for so they needed to move fast. Duo and Heero looked at each other when they heard someone typing in on the server room key pad access.

"We gotta go" Duo said and they quickly packed their stuff and were up the ducts and crawling away before anyone could notice that they were there.

Duo knew where they needed to head to next, but it was impossible to get to it through the ducts. He guided them to the exit stairwell of the 4th floor and there they were able to get out and run up the stairs. If he remembers the plans correctly and the details he saw on the video tape, Serena should be on 7th floor of the building. Heero pulled out his communicator and he typed in a few keys that are a signal to Quatre and Trowa as part of their plan. Once they were at the 7th floor, gun in hand, Duo carefully opened the door and scanned the hallway. He noticed the different cameras that were staged across the hall as well.

"Shit" he cursed and closed the door turning to Heero, "any ideas buddy?"

"I'll take them down" he said and quickly worked on the minicomputer successfully shutting down the cameras.

"Let's go" he said and they both ran down the hall, guns in hand, towards the doors that Serena had disappeared to.

Preventers Headquarters

Beep Beep Beep. Both Quatre and Trowa looked up from where he was typing on the main computer and looked to the screen where the sound had come from. Trowa approached the monitor and typing in a few commands, was able to pull out the message that was sent by Heero.

"They found her" he said relieved but then frowned at the next set of the message.

Quatre noticed this and approached Trowa, "What?" Trowa turned to him, "she escaped the room and is now being searched for by them."

Quatre knew what he meant by 'them' and thought carefully, "we need to warn the Outer Scouts now and activate the troops"

Trowa nodded and watched Quatre quickly run to the main computer to start the operation. Trowa turned to the message and frowned, 'hold on kitten. We're on our way'.

Serena had to adjust her eyes to the dim light that was inside the room she had just walked in. She could hear the beeping sounds of computers and the humming sounds of machinery. 'Great. Where did I get myself into now?' she sighed as she carefully walked further into the room in search of an exit door of some sort. As she walked, she could figure out that this was some kind of laboratory based on all the analytical equipment and different species and samples that were stored on the shelves. She reached the back of the laboratory and noticed that there were three doors there.

'Ok, time to choose I guess' she thought and chose to open the door on her right. But before she could touch the knob, she pulled her hand back immediately and held it against her.

"What was THAT?" she was frightened. She backed away carefully, but not before colliding with a table and fell to the floor.

Groaning she suddenly heard the said door opened on its own and Serena's eye widen in fear. There in front of her was a beautiful woman with long dark violet hair and silver eyes. She was dressed in a long sleeve black dress and was holding a long silver staff with a dark orb on it. A strong sense of evil surrounded her which caused shivers down Serena's spine.

"Who are you?" Serena whispered in extreme fear.

"Ahhh so you don't remember me eh? Take a good look Princess" There in front of Serena was a silhouette she remembered so well and wished to forget.

Serena's eyes grew in fear as she recognized the voice and trembled in fear.

"Metallia" she whispered, "but… how…" she started to back up only to collide with a near bench and fell to the floor; her legs losing the energy to run.

"That's right, I'm back and this time" she said as she extended her hand towards Serena a dark energy ball forming in it, "I'll destroy you" she snarled and launched her attack.

Serena gasped and closed her eyes waiting for the pain when suddenly, two shots were heard. Serena quickly opened her eyes and watched Metallia scream in pain. Turning, she could see the source of the shots. Duo was standing and Heero was crouched next to him, both with smoking guns in hand. Relieved, Serena stood up and ran towards them and straight into Heero's arms.

"Thank God you guys are here" she muffled at Heero's chest holding tightly afraid he was going to disappear.

Heero had quickly embraced her as tight as he could, reassuring himself that she was real.

"Sorry we took so long" he whispered and pulled her a bit to look into her eyes and caressed her cheek. She smiled and placed her hand on his, "It's ok; you're here"

"Hey you two, not that I mind the happy reunion, but can someone explain what the HELL is that?" Duo exclaimed and both Heero and Serena turned to where Duo was staring at. There stood a very pissed off Metallia with a dark energy ball above her head, ready to be launched.

"RUN!" Serena cried and the three of them where out the door before the energy ball could hit them. Alarms and sirens could be heard throughout the building and soldiers were running towards them, guns in hand.

"SHIT!" Duo cried as he pulled out one of his grenades, "DUCK!" he cried and threw the grenade towards the group of soldiers. Heero was on top of Serena, covering her from the debris while she had her hands on her ears. Quickly they stood up and ran as hell but were stopped when they encountered a familiar group.

"Oh No" Serena whispered and tensed. Heero and Duo had noticed her reaction and could only guess who they were and quickly stood in front of Serena.

"Well, well if it isn't our runaway princess" Sailor Mars said. They had all transformed, including Darien.

A dark energy ball descended from the ceiling and landed in the middle of the group. There stood Metallia, untouched and unharmed. "You will regret what you did" she hissed.