SailorStar9: With Chapter 42 uploaded, this is Chapter 43 of this fic.
Disclaimers: Me no own, you no sue.
Chapter 43: Lightning Vs. Lightning
An orange-haired woman was standing in front of the two shadowy figures, awaiting for their orders. They both looked at her for a few seconds then one of them spoke up. "Eudial, you'll replace Kaorinite in the search for the Talismans."
"Kaorinite was the strongest of your group, but you have your own share of power too," the second figure added.
"That I do," Eudial said with a smirk.
"Remember the Senshi killed Kaorinite. It's not wise for you to underestimate them."
"I know. And I think I already have a target in mind. The one that can control the same element as I do."
"Good choice. Go and check her crystal out. If any Senshi interfere..."
"...Make them regret it."
Eudial nodded and walked out of the room.
Several hours later, the party had ended and everyone had given the older Usagi their presents. She was right now looking at the necklace Mamoru had given her. It was a golden necklace with a small moon-shaped diamond hanging from it.
Kyouya looked at Chibi-Usa for a second then frowned, "I can sense your power is amazingly high... Could you please transform?"
"Moon Crystal Power!" Chibi-Usa transformed into her Senshi form. "What now?"
Ami produced her computer to type a few keys and gasped. "No way..."
"Anything wrong?" Chibi-Moon asked, though she already knew what the 'problem' was.
"Guys..." Ami said. "You're not going to believe this, but..."
"But what?" Nabu asked.
"Well... Chibi-Moon's 10% stronger than Moon."
"What?" Minako asked.
"Is that possible?" Makoto pondered.
"I've been in Crystal form for only a few weeks, but my training has been tougher than yours." Chibi-Moon said.
"So even if she's younger, she's already stronger than her mother." Judai said. "Amazing..."
"Technically, I'm not. You can't even imagine how strong Queen Serenity is." Chibi-Moon noted.
"Oh right," Touma said. "But while your battle power is higher than any of us, I'd still think your fighting skills are not."
"Is that a challenge?" Chibi-Moon asked.
"You bet, rabbit." Touma said.
"You wouldn't dare hurting an innocent young girl, would you?" Chibi-Moon asked with mock puppy eyes.
Touma sighed, "We'll see... Genbu Armor!"
"This will be fun." Minako grinned.
"20 dollars on the pink-head." Kyouya pointed to Chibi-Moon. The others sighed.
Tanzanite stood in a defensive stance and nodded. "Go ahead."
"I cannot beat you in hand-to-hand combat, I'll admit it. But I can always try!"
"Hope she doesn't get hurt." Usagi commented.
Chibi-Moon rushed at Tanzanite and punched forwards, aiming straight for his face. The Shitennou, however simply dodged aside and delivered a knife hand to her waist. Chibi-Moon staggered back.
"Damn I just lost 20 bucks." Kyouya muttered. The others glared at him.
"Giving up already?" Tanzanite asked.
"What about testing how strong my attacks are?" ChibiMoon asked.
"Well..."
"Moon Princess Screen!"
"Yikes!" Tanzanite leapt aside, barely dodging the energy blast. "Yes definitely it's stronger than Moon's attack." he added as the beam cut through several trees.
"All that power in a small cute pink package." Judai mused.
"So, is that your best attack?" Tanzanite asked.
"You don't want me to use my best attack." Chibi-Moon said.
"Yes I do." Tanzanite said.
"Okay then. But don't tell me I didn't warn you."
Tanzanite stood ready to dodge the attack as ChibiMoon started gathering energy in her hands. For a split second he considered running away, but shrugged the thought off.
"Moon... Pink... Sugar... Heart..." Chibi-Moon said as the energy gathered in her hands started cracking and pulsing.
"Pink Sugar Heart? She has to be kidding." Kyouya gaped in disbelief.
"CRUSHER!" Chibi-Moon shouted, and the energy shot up from her hands.
"I think she missed." Minako said.
The energy gathered right over Tanzanite's head in a split second, and then formed a truck-sized pink heart that fell on the Shitennou.
"That must hurt," Ami winced.
"She was not kidding," Kyouya said open-mouthed.
Tanzanite crawled out of the heart and looked up at Chibi-Moon who was smiling at him. "That... was unexpected," he said, "And painful."
"Still, the name..." Rei said.
"Is appropriate. It's a pink heart, and it crushes. Take my word for that." Tanzanite said.
"That attack equals the Moon Princess Beam's power," Ami, who had used her scanner to read the power of the pink Senshi's attack, added.
"I think the bad guys will be in a world of pain next time they show up." Makoto said.
The heart vanished and everyone looked at Chibi-Moon.
"What? You didn't expect it to stay there forever, did you?" the pink-haired Senshi said with a shrug.
A woman with short, blond hair and glasses walked up to the two shadowy figures. "Did you call me?"
"Yes. Eudial will surely need help getting those crystals," one of the figures said.
"So you want me to go help her."
"Exactly," the other figure said. "Don't fail us, Mimette."
"I won't," Mimette said with a smirk.
Usagi dashed into the classroom and found everyone already in the classroom except for the teacher. "Well, I think I did it..."
"Hey Usagi, I thought you'd learn to wake up in time by now," Minako said.
"I guess I was tired after yesterday's mess," Usagi said with a shrug.
"You ate enough to recover your energy, though..." Rei commented.
"Can it, Rei." Usagi muttered.
"Hey guys!" Umino said popping up between Rei and Usagi. Rei promptly swung her fist at him, but he somehow dodged it.
Meanwhile in the opposite side of the classroom, Haruka and Michiru were observing the others.
"So who do you think will be the next target?" Haruka whispered.
"I don't know. There's not many of them left. And besides we don't even know who will be our next enemy." Michiru said also in a whisper.
"Well as long as it's not as tough as Kaorinite."
Later, Makoto and Nabu were walking back home from school, not knowing someone was following them.
"... So he tried to kill the fly with a .45 gun."
Mako looked at Nabu for a second then chuckled. "You make it sound like your father's a psycho."
"Well he is." Nabu said matter-of-factly.
"I agree." Umino said popping out from nowhere.
"Been a while since he did that," Makoto muttered.
"Did you have any special reason to do that, or you just like being punched around?" Nabu asked with a glare.
"Just wanted to tell you a weird woman's been following you guys for a while. It's probably one of those evil creatures the Senshi are always fighting," Umino said.
Makoto looked back and saw an orange-haired woman with sunglasses looking at them from around the corner. "Damn it..."
"Well, hope you won't get hurt, guys. Bye!" Umino said and rapidly walked away.
"Weirdo..." Nabu muttered.
"Yeah, but he was useful this time around," Mako noted.
"So what'll we do?" Nabu asked.
"She probably know who we are already," Makoto said. "Let's try and ambush her." Both took off running down the street.
"Damn they figured it out," Eudial muttered and followed them.
Meanwhile, not too far from there, Usagi and Chibi-Usa were heading towards Mamoru's apartment building.
"So, why did you come back?" Usagi asked.
"Oh I didn't tell you. Well, Pluto said you'd need me."
"I guess the more, the merrier. But isn't there some risk of changing the future or something?" Usagi asked.
"I don't think mom would agree in sending me back here if she knew it was risky."
In that moment, they both saw a bright light coming from behind a building a few blocks away. "What was that?" Usagi asked.
"Let's find out." Chibi-Usa said. Both run in the direction where the light had come from.
A minute earlier...
Eudial was angry. She'd been following her two targets around for a while, waiting for the right time to attack, but now she'd missed them when they run away. As she walked around a corner, however, she found them. Or rather her face found their fists.
Makoto and Nabu looked at the woman they had just punched unconscious and grinned. "Too much for the forces of evil." Nabu commented.
"Ice Buster!"
Makoto and Nabu leapt aside as a ray of ice shot by. Mimette walked out of the shadows and looked at them, "I see you're smart enough to beat Eudial, but I don't think you'll be a challenge for me, Mimette."
"Jupiter Power!"
"Seiryuu Armor!"
"I see you will try anyway. Too bad. Ice Buster!"
"Jupiter Stun Spark!"
The attacks crashed into each other and vanished. Mimette frowned.
Nephrite produced his sword and glared at the woman. "Leave now, there's no way you'll beat us."
"I don't need to," Mimette said.
"Lightning Buster!" Eudial shouted from behind the two fighters. A bolt of lightning hit Nephrite's back, and his crystal popped out from his chest and fell on Mimette's hand. Nephrite's eyes glazed over and he fell face-first on the ground.
"Damn you..." Jupiter said, glaring at Kaorinite.
"What can you do, kid? One Senshi alone is no challenge for us."
"Then make it three. World Shaking!"
Mimette got knocked to the ground by the attack, and Neptune rushed by and grabbed the crystal. "This isn't a talisman..."
"Too bad." Uranus said. "Let's go."
"Wait. Two against one is unfair," Neptune said.
Uranus looked at her for a second then walked away. Neptune looked at Jupiter and tossed the heart crystal at her, then followed Uranus.
"Looks like they left you all alone, kid." Kaorinite said.
"I don't need them." Jupiter said. "I'll beat you two on my own."
Eudial smirked "And just what will you do to beat us, kid?"
"Jupiter Crystal Power!"
"What?"
Jupiter's suit was surrounded by a wall of lightning which vanished as fast as it had appeared, leaving him wearing a green Crystal suit. "Now you die."
"You must be kidding. No matter how much you power up, you won't beat us on your own." Mimette said.
"Lightning..." Jupiter run toward Mimette, an aura of electricity surrounding her. She then leapt at her and the electricity all gathered in her feet. "KICK!"
Eudial gasped as Mimette was knocked through a wall by the kick. "Impressive."
"You're next," Jupiter said. her suit reverted back to normal and she cursed under her breath.
"As I said, you cannot beat us both." Eudial said.
"Thunderbolt!"
Eudial laughed and slapped the attack away. "If that's all you've got, this will be too easy."
Jupiter fell to one knee. Her transformation to Crystal had drained her she didn't have enough energy left to try anything. "I'm not... going to let you win."
"Ice Buster!"
Jupiter gasped then slumped to the ground. Her heart crystal, together with Nephrite's one, fell to the ground near her body.
"I didn't thought they'd give us so much trouble," Mimette commented walking towards Eudial.
"Pink Sugar Heart Crusher!"
Both Eudial and Mimette were slammed into the ground by the attack. Sailor Moon and Sailor Chibi-Moon both rushed into the scene. "Mom, I'll keep them busy, you get those crystals back." Chibi-Moon said.
Moon nodded and grabbed the crystals. Mimette and Eudial had meanwhile managed to crawl out from under the massive heart-shaped attack and looked at Chibi-Moon. "Pink?" Mimette muttered.
"What's wrong with pink?" ChibiMoon said with a glare as the massive heart vanished.
Moon had meanwhile returned the crystals back to the two fighters. "What did I miss?" Jupiter said.
"Consciousness, for starters," Moon joked.
"Are the witches gone?" Nephrite asked, too weak to move.
"Lightning Buster!"
"Ice Buster!"
"Guess not." Nephrite muttered.
Chibi-Moon dropped to the ground and planned her next move. Damn it's two versus one. And with their power level, it's like fighting Mako and Ami together.
"Giving up yet?" Eudial asked.
"Not a chance..." ChibiMoon muttered. "Moon Sword!"
"She has one too?" Moon asked amusedly. Chibi-Moon's sword was, in fact, identical to Moon's own sword.
"If you think that sword will help you," Eudial said. "You're wrong. Lightning Buster!"
Chibi-Moon snickered and swung her sword at the attack. Both Eudial and Mimette gasped as the lightning wave vanished. "What?"
"This is a little trick I learnt from Tanzanite. Eat volts, witch!" She swung her sword forward, barely missing Eudial. The electricity charged inside the sword, however, run through the ground and hit her nonetheless, sending the orange-haired witch slamming on the blond witch.
"The girl has some nasty tricks." Nephrite commented.
Eudial glared at Chibi-Moon and teleported out of the scene. Mimette looked at the pink-haired Senshi and smirked, "I admit defeat this time. But don't think you'll be so lucky next time." With that, she also vanished.
Chibi-Moon shrugged and walked back to the others, "Are you guys okay?"
"Yeah, just a bit bruised." Jupiter said. "You are full of tricks. " she added.
Chibi-Moon smiled, "Well, you guys taught me most of them."
"What's with the sword?" Nephrite asked.
"Long story... But it's not the same Moon has, just like my crystal ain't the same Ginzuishou."
"Weird."
"Shouldn't you keep that kind of things secret to us?" Moon asked.
"Don't worry, if I ever say something you're not supposed to know, you'll hear Pluto's booming voice," Chibi-Moon joked.
"Why did you want to help them?" Uranus asked Neptune.
"You know they'd do the same for us." Neptune said.
"We cannot worry about that. We have a mission to complete."
"I know that. But maybe if we work together, we'll find what we're looking for."
"They'll never understand it. They don't want to sacrifice anyone."
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