Chapter 14 – Hate
As the effect of the hypnosis faded away, Hotaru broke out into sobs and Ami hurried over to comfort her, all the while shooting glances between Trowa to Duo not knowing what she could possibly say. Makoto turned to look at Wufei, feeling different towards him, but Wufei was too busy glaring at Rei and Heero. Makoto wrapped herself in a tight ball sitting on the floor, looking over at Rei feeling all the guilt from the Silver Millennium flooding back to her. Rei refused to look in Makoto or Minako's direction, her angry gaze was focused on Wufei. Heero was staring at Rei, with a cold icy gaze, Rei couldn't force herself to look at him, knowing why he looked at her thus. This was uncomfortable.
Quatre moved to go to Hotaru but the fiery gaze from Minako slowed his steps immediately. Minako knew that in the past Quatre had been her beloved brother, but that was in the past, this was now, and she didn't know this man standing in front of her. Quatre was uncertain of what to do, he wanted so much to go to Hotaru, but he knew that Minako wouldn't let him get past her. Quatre was saved from making this decision when Hotaru broke away from Ami and ran to throw her arms around his neck hugging him tightly.
"Quatre," she whispered and Minako gasped in shock and moved to separate them but Trowa stood in-between her and the couple.
"Leave them be," Trowa said to her and Minako gaped at him, stunned that he dared to speak to her like that.
"You cannot tell me what to do," Minako retorted stubbornly and Trowa raised an eyebrow at her, his face expressionless.
"You are in our world Mina," Trowa said to her softly and Minako tilted her head haughtily.
"My name is Minako, and that makes no difference, as soon as we find the Princess we are going home," Minako replied quickly and Quatre and Hotaru turned to stare at Minako in horror. Minako was going to separate them just as the outer senshi had. Quatre and Hotaru did want that to happen, not again.
"The Princess? Serena?" Heero took everyone's attention when he spoke, thinking of his sister and Minako shook her head.
"No, Serena became Neo Queen Serenity and rules on Earth in a place of peace known as Crystal Tokyo, we are looking for her daughter, Rini, she ran away to this time, we don't know why," Minako explained and Heero was momentarily left speechless by the fact that he was an uncle. Rei however began pacing as everything began falling neatly into place.
"But I am getting a pretty good idea as to why now, damn it Odango, why did you have to meddle with our lives," Rei said the last part more to herself than anyone else as she stole a quick glance at Heero, before looking away.
"You mean you think Usagi send us here on purpose Rei?" Ami asked in a small voice and Rei sighed nodding her head.
"Think about it Ami, it's a trick that is right up Usagi's sleeve," Rei said angrily and Ami nodded knowing what Rei said was true.
Neo Queen Serenity always did what she thought best, even if it wasn't always right.
From the corner, Makoto started to cry, sobbing heartfelt tears.
"Oh Rei, I am so sorry," Makoto said looking up at Rei with a tearstained face and Rei shuddered and turned away from her.
"I…cannot bear to talk with you right now Makoto, when I think of what you did…" Rei let her words fade away as the memory of her death came back to her and Makoto gulped in her tears.
"It was an accident, I meant to kill Heero!" Makoto tried to explain, forgetting that Heero was in the room and Heero stiffened but said nothing.
"In revenge, for what Heero did to Wufei, but what about what Wufei did to me?" Rei asked also forgetting Wufei was in the room and a flash of guilt fell across Wufei's face and was gone before anyone bar Heero noticed.
Trowa had been silent during this exchanged but now he walked into the middle of the room and called everyone's attention.
"This squabbling is getting us nowhere, we all have things to say to each other, perhaps we should separate while we discuss things," Trowa said and Minako nodded thinking it was a good idea.
"Yes, senshi let talk," Minako said and reluctantly the inner senshi all came together to stand in a circle while Wufei, Heero, Trowa and Duo all crowded into another corner. Rashid and his followers left the study. No one noticed that Quatre and Hotaru were not actually present.
Minako breathed deeply before beginning, starting with Rei.
"Now Rei, you are angry with me because I betrayed your marriage to Heero to Queen Serenity," Minako confessed her crimes and Rei nodded.
"Yes."
"Rei that was a millennia ago, you know me and how I am in this time and you know I would never betray you so heinously again, I have learnt my lesson from that time, forgive me Rei, let the past go," Minako begged this of her but Rei was too full of her memories and feelings of her past. Because of her abilities, her past feelings were amplified more than the other girls' feelings.
"I can't, Minako, you were meant to be my best friend, and you betrayed me, all for a man," Rei replied bitterly looking over at Trowa and Minako followed her gaze before looking her in the eyes. Blue met purple.
"I loved him Rei, I can't go back and change what happened," Minako said softly and Rei just stared at her.
"No, we can't change what happened," Rei replied turning away from her and Minako didn't know what else she could say, so Makoto thought she might try again.
"Rei, Minako is right, we can't change what we did, I can't believe I did what I did, we were so young and foolish then, I let my emotions and my temper run away with me, and I am truly sorry Rei, even if you don't believe me," Makoto said this with humility and Rei looked at the senshi of Jupiter and her eyes filled with tears.
"I do believe you Makoto," Rei said faintly and Makoto smiled hopefully.
"Forgive me?" Makoto asked, and was heartbroken when Rei shook her head.
"No I can't, sorry just isn't enough," Rei turned away from them all and Ami laid a comforting hand on Makoto's shoulder.
"Rei you are being unreasonable," Ami said disapprovingly to Rei but Rei wasn't listening she was lost in her own thoughts.
"This is all Usagi's fault, and Rini's, they shouldn't have sent us here, all this did was bring up bad memories that we didn't want to remember," Rei said angrily and Ami took Rei's hand, trying to calm her down.
"Usagi did what she thought was best," Ami was always on Usagi's side and Rei pulled her head away from her.
"Ami, Usagi didn't think, that's what got us into this mess, none of us would be feeling like this if Usagi hadn't sent us here," Rei spat at the ice senshi who winced.
"She was wrong to send us here, like this," Makoto voiced her opinion her voice sad as she looked from Rei to Heero and lastly to Wufei who had his back to her.
"You're right, Usagi made a mistake sending us here," Minako voiced her opinion looking over at Trowa and then back at the girls.
They were silent for a long moment before Makoto spoke.
"Well now what?"
"We leave," Minako said decidedly and Ami looked around suddenly noticing they were missing someone.
"Hey, I have a question," Ami said and Mnako gave her an exasperated glance.
"What?"
"Where is Hotaru and Minako's brother?" Ami asked and everyone watched as Minako's face went from pale to a bright red.
"WHAT?" Minako screeched drawing the attention of the four Gundam Pilots who were still talking quietly in the corner.
"Hey guys did anyone notice Quatre's missing?" Duo asked as the pilots all came together minus Quatre and Heero and Trowa nodded.
"He and the small onna left already," Wufei confirmed he had also noticed and Duo scratched his head.
"I didn't see them leave," he said wondering why he missed their departure but everyone else saw it.
"That's because you were busy ogling Ami," Trowa said reproachfully, not liking how Duo had been staring at his once upon a time sister and Duo blushed, grinning bashfully.
"Sorry man, but she's hot, I can't help it," Duo said, and Trowa didn't like the lusty grin Duo gave him but decided to let it go for now. There were more important matters to attend to, like the fact Wufei and Heero were glaring at each other like they wanted to pull each other limb from limb. Apparently whatever feelings they had from the past had followed them into the future and since Quatre had conveniently gone missing Trowa knew he had to try and diffuse the situation.
"Heero, Wufei don't you have something to say to each other?" Trowa pushed them and he was met with angry stares from the both of them as well as short answers.
"Hn."
"No."
"Wufei, Rei was your twin sister and you killed her and Heero's child…" Trowa tried to appeal to Wufei whose temper flared.
"Don't tell me what I did, I saw what happened as you all did," Wufei spat at Trowa and Duo frowned at the Chinese man, not believing even Wufei could be so unfeeling.
"Don't you feel even the slightest bit guilty?" Duo asked and Wufei looked over at Heero before looking off into the distance haughtily.
"No."
"Heero, you absolutely destroyed Wufei, aren't you sorry?" Duo asked Heero and Heero looked coldly at Wufei.
"No."
"Well this is getting us nowhere," Trowa said softly but their attention was taken by Minako's shrill cry.
Hotaru and Quatre had escaped to his Gundam and at this moment in time, they were flying above the earth, not wanting to return to Quatre's mansion. They weren't saying anything, just flying in silence. Somehow a lot was being said in that silence. Suddenly something below caught both their eyes. It was youma attacking a city, lots of youma, they were everywhere.
"Quatre, call the others, we have to help those people!" Hotaru said desperately and Quatre nodded slamming his palm down on a large red button.
"Way ahead of you," he replied moving his Gundam to land.
"Saturn Star Power!"
"Knight of Saturn!"
The two transformed and ran into the battle hoping the others would turn up soon.
Just when Minako was about to go absolutely insane Heero looked down at his wristwatch and saw that the alert had been made.
"Quiet, Quatre needs us," Heero said and Minako's eyes widened in shock.
"Oh no Hotaru, lets go," Minako said and the Gundam Pilots and girls all raced to the hanger, seeing that Quatre's Gundam was already missing.
Duo went to the control panel and did a quick search on where Quatre's signal was coming form and brought up a visual of the area.
"It's a youma attack," Ami said unnecessarily for they all recognized the beings on the screen destroying life.
"Let's go," Wufei said moving to his Gundam and the others filed into the Gundams as fast as they could, wanting to get to the battle.
An hour later and there were still so many youma. It was like there was a never ending supply of them. The senshi and their knights were fighting as hard as they could, but they were getting tired. No one knew why or how these Youma had come to be here.
Mars was standing facing Heero and had just disposed of her opponent and she didn't see the other youma aiming an attack for her back. Heero saw and moved before he could help himself as he pushed Sailor Mars to the ground and covered her body with his. The blast past over their heads and Mars and Heero were staring at each other in the eyes, Heero lying on top of her. Mars frowned at him, confused by his actions.
"Do you love me Heero?" Mars asked softly and Heero shook his head.
"No," he replied coldly and Mars nodded accepting his response.
"Then stop protecting me," Mars spat at him pushing him off her and running into the battle again, leaving him behind.
Heero watched her go and stood there a few moments.
"I can't stop protecting you," Heero said softly to himself knowing he would never be able to say such words to Mars' face.
He saw from the past, that together, they were doomed.
Quatre saw Saturn fighting by herself and an attack from the youma sent her flying backwards into the ground. Quatre jumped over and aimed his sword at the youma.
"Saturn Cerberus Destruction!" Quatre destroyed the youma and ran to help Saturn to her feet and she smiled at him thankfully.
"Are you okay?" Quatre spoke his voice filled with concern and Saturn nodded.
"Much better now you are with me," Saturn whispered and they turned ready to fight again side by side, their faces devoid of emotion, doing away with the youma easily and efficiently.
Trowa saw that Venus was getting surrounded and automatically jumped to her rescue.
"Venus Eros Light!" he cried out and his attack vanquished four of the ten monsters around her and Venus turned to him with relief.
"Thank you Trowa, I know you didn't have to protect me," Venus said to him humbly and Trowa merely raised an eyebrow and looked over at the remaining six youma.
"Don't thank me yet, it's not quite over," Trowa told her and Venus nodded turning back to the battle at hand, but for a moment when they had been looking at each other, Venus had felt at one with the silent Soldier beside her.
Jupiter knocked one youma down with a hard kick to his head and turned to attack the other she knew had been following her, but she saw the youma was already dead. Standing behind the dead youma was Wufei, the Knight of Jupiter, holding his sword of lightening, shaking his head at her carelessness.
"Watch your back onna," he told her coldly and Jupiter looked at something behind him and smiled a little as she concentrated her power.
"Jupiter Thunder Crash!"
Her attack of lightening shot passed Wufei's head, missing him by inches and destroyed the youma that had been sneaking up on Wufei and Jupiter grinned at him weakly.
"You watch your back too," Jupiter responded and Wufei opened his mouth to say something his eyes becoming warm for a moment but another onslaught of youma stifled his words.
Jupiter hid a smile as she continued fighting, remembering the pride in Wufei's eyes when she had protected him from the youma coming behind him. He had been proud of her.
Duo and Mercury had been working together, and quite well in fact. Mercury would freeze and Duo would destroy them with his sword.
"Hey babe, we make quite a team hey?" Duo called over to her, grinning madly, and giving her a wink and Mercury shrank away from him.
"Yes, quite a team," Mercury replied looking at him, wondering how in the past she could have loved this handsome but goofy young man. In the past she had loved him, but right now, Mercury felt nothing for this man who protected her, but it would quite obvious Duo had other feelings for her. Especially from the way he looked at her, and the way he smiled at her.
The battle wore on and on.
"Why are you here?" Venus screamed out in frustration and the youma she was fighting smiled a little, or tried to smile.
"When the dying Moon Queen sent you all to the future, she accidentally sent us as well, and now we will rule," the youma replied in a husky voice and Venus used her Venus Sword Wink to dispose of that youma as the other senshi and the knights came towards her, all the youma had been defeated.
"I don't think so," Venus said looking down at the body of the youma and they were all blinded by a flash of light.
"I do," a male voice said and the group looked up to see a young man with blonde hair and ice blue eyes standing before them. Someone very familiar.
"Jedite!" Heero spat out angrily, his skin crawling to see the general from the Silver Millennium and Jedite smiled coldly and bowed his head a little acknowledging Heero's presence.
"Hello Moon Prince," Jedite replied and Mercury whipped out her computer and did a scan just to make sure it was really him.
After all, in this lifetime, Mercury, Mars and Sailor Moon had defeated Jedite well and truly, Mercury couldn't believe he was here again.
"How did you get here?" Mercury finally asked after releasing that it was Jedite in the flesh who stood before them and Jedite's face became one of anger.
"After you defeated me at the airport Princess, I went to Beryl to tell her of your identities but she wouldn't hear me out, she encased me in crystal and left me in the limbo of space, when you defeated Beryl once and for all, I awoke to find myself here, with my minions ready to follow me and die for me," Jedite said this with relish waving about his arms as a new army of youma came to stand in a line just metres away and Mars glared at Jedite.
"What do you want here?" she demanded and Jedite breathed deeply.
"I want to rule," Jedite said smiling at Mars he advanced towards her as far as Heero would allow and said sweetly, "with you by my side, princess."
"That will never happen," Heero growled at Jedite, who edged backwards and Mars felt a wave of nausea wave over her. Marry Jedite? How dare he insult her with his…his…disgusting dreams.
"I would never rule with you," Mars spat at him hatefully and Jedite's ice blue eyes stared into hers.
"I can be more of a man than Heero could ever be to you princess," Jedite licked his lips and Mars nearly dry-retched at the very thought, while Duo and Trowa thought ahead and grabbed onto Heero before Heero went to rip Jedite to pieces.
"I am gonna kill him," Heero cried out struggling against Duo and Trowa lunging for Jedite who chuckled and teleported backwards a little to the head of his youma army, ready to do battle again.
Mars looked back at Jedite and remembered in the Silver Millennium that before they were grown up, they had been children. Children who had been friends. Whenever Endymion and his generals came to visit Serena, the senshi were the general's playmates. Their times of games had ended when they were all eight years of age, the senshi hadn't seen the generals again until the ball announcing that they were to be wed and by then they had changed. Endymion trusted Jedite, and the other generals, they had all been trusted friends before Beryl took hold of Relena. Perhaps there was a way to turn him back, to make him good again, the way Endymion remembered him. Mars concentrated her abilities and sensed the aura around Jedite. There was pure evil floating around him, but inside, there was still a little good that was there. Mars ran and placed her hand against Heero's chest to calm him, her back to Jedite and the youmas.
"No Heero! Jedite was once good, you can use your powers to heal him," Mars pleaded with him and Heero gave her an exasperated gaze. He was sick of talking.
"You're forgetting I don't have the Silver Crystal," Heero replied and a young girl, came out from her hiding place holding up the Silver Crystal.
"But I do," she said sweetly and the other senshi crowded around her, Saturn near squeezing her to death with her hug.
"Small Lady!"
"Surprise," Rini said weakly, smiling and Mars advanced on her.
"I am of a mind to put you over my knee and spank you, but that will have to wait," Mars threatened her and Rini giggled nervously running to Heero for protection.
"Here Uncle Heero," Rini handed him the Silver Crystal without hesitation and Heero took it, a reverent look on his face. He had never before held the Silver Crystal in his hands. His mother had never allowed it. Even as he touched the Crystal he could feel the power running through him, he felt the light of the crystal within him.
"Small Lady, why don't you just heal Jedite?" Mercury asked knowing that Rini certainly had the power to do so.
"This is your fight, not mine," Rini said and Mars smiled at her, thinking of how much she and Neo Queen Serenity were alike.
"That's sweet, but…" Mars didn't get to finish as Jedite sent an unexpected blast and it hit her square in the back causing her to fall on top of Small Lady knocking her to the ground. Mars was on her feet in an instant, even though it hurt and glared at Jedite.
"You cheater! We weren't ready to fight," she cursed him and Jedite merely grinned at her, incensing her anger.
Mars began to power up but a cool hand from Mercury calmed her.
"Now Mars, remember we are keeping Jedite alive," Mercury tried to remind her and Mars simmered down a little.
"I really want to kick his butt," Mars said grudgingly and Mercury patted her on the back patronizingly, rolling her eyes at how hotheaded Mars was.
"I know, just hold it in," Mercury entreated her and Mars nodded breathing deeply.
Venus gathered the group into a quick huddle to give out her orders.
"Ok the plan is, we distract him, you guys, give some power to Heero and help him heal Jedite," Venus knew that to heal someone with that much dark energy, Heero would need all the help he could get. Wufei glared at Venus.
"I refuse," he said coldly and Mars couldn't believe he was being so selfish.
"Wufei, if you feel any remorse for what you did to me, you will do this," Mars walked up to him and placed her hands on either the side of his face and brother and sister stared into each others eyes.
After what seemed like a lifetime, Wufei nodded.
Mars smiled at him briefly then looked at the sword he held in his hands.
"Swap swords, take the sword of your planet of birth," Mars said and the men all swapped swords, except for Quatre who gave his sword to Saturn for safe keeping, and all Heero held now was the Silver Crystal.
"Okay let's do this," Venus said and the group split to do their jobs.
Rini ran back to her hiding place, as she couldn't transform into a senshi now that she had given her crystal to Heero. Saturn stayed close by, keeping her safe. Jupiter also stayed close by, keeping an eye on the two young ones.
Mercury, under the cover of Mars and Venus, ran forward and concentrated,
"Mercury Ice Bubbles Blast!"
Her bubbles floated over the youma and over Jedite and froze them into place.
"Now!" Venus yelled in the general direction of the Knight's and Heero stood at the front of the V, with Trowa on one side with Wufei and Duo and Quatre on the other side.
"Focus on releasing your true Planetary Power, with this you will be stronger," Mars yelled to them as a wind started blowing wildly around them. All present could feel their power surging. The Knight's did as they were told and concentrated, until each of them were glowing with a light of their planet.
Mercury looked frantically back at the youma and Jedite as they began to melt.
"Hurry guys hurry, call on your powers!" Mercury cried out and Trowa heard the voice of his sister and nodded.
"Mercury Power," Trowa said as his blue light began growing and passed from him to the crystal that Heero held in his hands.
"Mars Power," Wufei said gruffly as his red light flashed and passed to Heero.
"Jupiter Power," Duo whispered, purposely being eerie and Jupiter rolled her eyes at her brother's antics, but his green light too glowed and passed through to Heero.
"Venus Power," Quatre said his orange light joining the others in the crystal that Heero now held and Heero held the crystal up high.
"Cosmic Moon Power," Heero said and a pink light engulfed them and traveled towards Jedite and his youma.
The light became too bright to see and all present felt the peace of serenity of the Silver Crystal flow through them before they passed out into peaceful sleep.
AN: yay! Another one bites the dust. Well actually this isn't the end, but now the girls can return home. But what will the men do? Poor Heero, I felt so bad giving him a pink light, but when Usagi defeated Metallia, the light that covered everyone was pink so I couldn't help it. Don't worry Heero I still think you are a man lol.