Hey! Guess what? Solstice and Eclipse are back! You see, I hadn't typed anything up, because we hadn't written in the notebook in a while, and Solstice went onto this darling website the other day. Then she realized if she was our readers, she would have hunted us down and killed us a long time ago for not finishing. I must say, I agree. Therefore, we have another chapter to keep you entertained while we reawaken ourselves to this strange phenomenon. Be scared, it only took two minutes to start back up.

Chapter 20: The End and Beginning

The group walked out of the apartment to find a mass of zombies waiting at the door. Minako stepped up in full confidence, sword raised.

"I can handle this group." She declared.

Mari and Kira grabbed her simultaneously.

"No."

"Not now."

"Watch the experts."

"Fight later."

Minako blinked at the perfectly timed commentaries from the dynamic duo. "I guess not." She muttered, backing off.

The twins sliced their way out of the door to the open area, zombies at every door. Rei thought for a moment before looking to the others.

"Didn't they figure out when they ordered everyone inside that the zombies would flock to the buildings?" She asked.

"Apparently not." Ami replied, getting the feel of her sword as the group rushed out to meet the undead Mafia. She could swear her own hand used the weapon before.

Kira walked over and quickly took Ami's hand, adjusting the blade with a smile. "That might help."

Sure enough, Ami found the blade easier to control. She was simply holding the hilt incorrectly. Ami looked back to Kira. It was strange, but the girl seemed almost like…

Her thoughts were cut off as a zombie attacked and her sword instinctively came down hard, cutting off the arm that was reaching for her. The zombie paused for a moment, then attacked again. Ami dodged and severed the zombie in half, stopping in surprize when it turned to dust.

"Don't stop, keep fighting!" Makoto called, dodging her third zombie before flinging the mace into the head.

In the middle of the heated battle, Usagi stopped, realizing something as she dodged yet another oncoming attack. Within moments she was transformed and faced the zombies were encircling her. It would hurt, but it was the group's only chance.

"STARLIGHT HONEYMOON THERAPY KISS!" Eternal Moon shouted.

Mari and Kira froze, staring at Eternal Moon in complete shock. As the light ended and nothing happened, the odango senshi stared in confusion at the zombies as they stared back, equally stupefied.

"It worked, didn't it?" She asked.

The zombies resumed attacking and Mari looked to Kira. "Didn't we say magic wouldn't work? The attack was a joke, right?"

Kira bit down a snicker. "I don't know, I'm trying to figure out what that attack was. Endy, she was joking, right?" Kira asked, looking to her brother while suppressing another snicker.

"Can we just keep fighting?" Mamoru groaned, dodging another attacker.

Mari and Kira both giggled, looking at a very displeased eternal moon before giggling again.

"You guys keep fighting, we need a minute to compose ourselves. I mean, what was that attack?" Mari asked.

"Honeystar Twilight Moon Smooch or something…." Kira snickered.

"I thought it was Twilight Honeymoon Kissing Star." Mari laughed, clutching her sides as the two of them came close to crying tears of amusement.

Eternal Moon was fuming and about to attack them when Haruka nearly leveled her with the battleaxe. The screech sent Mari and Kira out of their giggling fits and over to stop Haruka.

"Okay, no more battle axe for Ruka-chan. Switch with Hotaru-chan." Mari said.

"Yay! I get my sword back!" Haruka said, practically snatching the sword from Hotaru and flinging the battleaxe at her. The senshi she left behind were ducking the monstrosity of a weapon with a scowl to the overzealous fighter.

Kira smirked. "That's almost as bad as corny attacks. Though I must say nothing compares to the corny things Tuxedo Kamen used to say." Kira remarked, dodging another zombie and slicing it from the chest down.

"I'm so glad we don't have to listen to those and watch him waste good roses in the process." Mari admitted.

"I heard that Mari-chan!" Mamoru yelled.

"You'll all be hearing less corny things when you die in pits of despair like your sorry little lives." Jarvis announced, appearing with Divyendu.

Mary and Kira rolled their eyes at each other. "Speaking of corny lines."

Divyendu pulled his sword to Kira's neck, temper flared. "I heard that, little pet. You really are nicer when you're upset, contrary to my earlier beliefs."

Kira yanked out a dagger and cut his hand before jumping back. "Sure thing, Daegal." Kira snapped, transforming and pulling out her Sais.

"Everyone, transform, now!' Mari shouted.

The rest of the senshi stood in confusion as Mari shifted into Eclipse and Solstice looked at them as though the nontransformed girls were insane. "She said transform!"

"They'll know who we are!" Minako protested.

"Trust me, they do now!" Solstice shouted. "They probably have a paper like Mari."

Jarvis smiled and conjured two sheets of paper covered with scribblings front and back. Eclipse's jaw dropped.

"You asshole! I bust my butt for three years trying to get ANYTHING on you and you have TWO WHOLE PAGES on us! How dare you!" Eclipse screeched.

The rest of the senshi transformed and Prince Endymion cleared his throat.

"WHAT?" Eclipse snapped.

"Mari, sweetheart, there's also twelve of us." Endymion pointed out.

Kira giggled as Mari slumped down, blushing. "Relax sis, everyone knows you do this." Kira teased.

"Can we pay attention to more important things?" Jarvis demanded, sounding like a snotty child.

"Like what? Please don't say you, either." Neptune retorted.

"Well, now that you mention it, dear, yes, I am important, because I can kill you." Divyendu taunted.

Solstice snickered until Eclipse elbowed her.

"What? What did I do now?" Solstice whined.

"Be nice, he doesn't know we're better." Eclipse shushed.

"Do I have to?" Solstice whined.

"Yes Kira." Eclipse sighed.

"But why?" Solstice pouted, looking like a dog asking for a bone. Divyendu and Jarvis rolled their eyes.

Eclipse thought for a moment on her sister's question, crossing her arms into a thoughtful pose. "Now that you mention it, I don't know. Endy-chan, why do we have to be nice?" Eclipse asked.

Endymion sighed before Mars nudged him, pointing to the buildings. The people of Tokyo were flocking to the windows in order to see what the commotion was. None of them knew the two knew strangers, Pluto, or Saturn, and Tuxedo Kamen was missing with a new stranger in his place.

"Because everyone is watching, and we have to prove we're on the good side." Endymion announced.

Solstice and Eclipse looked up. "Oh shitake mushrooms…" Solstice muttered.

"Did I mention I'm allergic to people?" Eclipse whimpered.

"That makes two of us." Solstice said, facing her sister. "So, are you ready for this?"

Eclipse nodded nervously. "No pressure, only facing guys we've been chasing aside from everything else for three years now."

Solstice pulled out her Sais. "Hey, nothing stands a chance of doing this without me and my Sais. Come on, let's keep our promises to Okaa-chan."

Both girls looked to the rest of the group. "We're ready when you are."

Endymion looked to Eternal moon, who nodded and looked to everyone else with a smile. "Come on guys, in the name of love and the moon and all we hold dear!" Eternal Moon exclaimed cheerfully.

"I thought it would take forever for you to decide." Jarvis snapped, blasting half the senshi into any hard surface as Divyendu took the other half, a mass of dead arms grabbing all but Pluto, Endymion, Eternal Moon, Solstice and Eclipse.

"Now for business. The lot of you, especially Frosty and Fireball, have been a thorn in our sides for years. Crystal Tokyo will arrive in a matter of years. However, our desire for your claims makes the factor of control difficult. Now, we can fight for control, or come to an agreement."

"What do you want?" Eternal Moon asked.

"You give us Crystal Tokyo, and we give back the recently captured Queen of Earth. She's alive, and dying to reach her family again. Answer carefully, we take the first given." Jarvis announced.

Before anyone could think, Solstice stepped forward, her face hard. "I'll never break a family promise over you. Go back to the hell you came from!" She shouted, sending a stream of ice at him as Eclipse ran back and flamed the rest of the senshi free.

The senshi started a mass of attacks, all of them dodged or deflected, in a pattern that Eclipse knew was going to take forever. Eternal Moon let out a screech as she darted from another attack.

"We could have worked it to our advantage!" She insisted at Solstice.

"I'll never break a family promise because of what you think we can do!" the older senshi snapped back.

Eclipse dodged another attack from Jarvis, her own futile against him as her temper rose. She stopped, sick of the pointless challenges.

"That's it! If you two are too cowardly to come down here and fight like you might have gonads, I'm going to assume you don't and this fight will end in five minutes when you come down!" Eclipse shouted.

Solstice smirked, stopping as well. "I second that notion, and I have to say that I really don't think you have them even if you do come down! You're still cowards for not facing the losing battle like a man from the start!"

Jarvis and Divyendu appeared on the ground immediately, with Divyendu's sword on Kira's neck in seconds.

"Say that again, tramp?" Divyendu snarled.

Mercury stepped up towards Solstice. "You heard her right, fight like a man."

Divyendu attacked and Solstice met his sword with equal fury. Eclipse was instantly on Jarvis, her anger venting and rising at the same time. This was going to end if it was the last thing they did.

Ami watched for a moment, helpless. They could attack, but it risked hurting Solstice and Eclipse if they did. Unless….

"Sailor Mars! Do you remember the day in class when they seemed to know what we were thinking? Do you think that would work here?" Mercury asked, rushing to her fellow soldier.

"It's worth a try." Mars said, running with Ami through the other senshi and whispering the plan of attack. Within moments, everyone was aimed at one of the two men.

Solstice hardly noticed. She swore to herself as she felt a knick on her arm. Divyendu was growing uncomfortably close now.

'Solstice, when you hear us attack, move out of the way!' Ami's voice ran in her ear.

Solstice didn't have time to think. Before she knew it the senshi was dodging an attack from her own half sister as well as Divyendu and running into Eclipse, both of them creating a pile behind the mass of attacks at the two enemies.

'How did they think of this?' Eclipse asked mentally.

'Dunno, but it works.'

As the twosome sat back from their sitting pile from the collision, they saw the smoke clear and Jarvis and Divyendu were more than defeated.

Sailor Solstice smirked, walking over with Eclipse to the crumpled masses on the ground. 'Told you we would win.'

"Of course you could beat them, but can you defeat us?"

Endymion turned and paled, clutching both his sisters as they ran up to his side. Standing no less than ten feet away was their Father, the King of Earth, with Titus looming overhead.

"Your mother escaped not long ago, but I wonder, can she even help you against this?" Titus asked. Then with a cruel laugh, the two of them vanished.

Kira swore as she detransformed, running past the rest of the group in fury back to the apartment. After a quick good-bye to Mamoru, Mari was chasing after her.

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