Cyber Moon: Chronicles.
Act 5: Black Lady.
Episode 54: Dark Showdown.
By Razor Knight
Last update: July 9, 2007
"Wiseman!"
"Yes, my Prince?" the cloaked figure asked as he walked out of the shadows.
"I want to know what is it you're doing with those crystal points. The figures were all destroyed, but you don't seem to care."
"The damage to those points is already done. Four of them have fallen, and the fifth will soon follow."
"I've realized all this won't help my people. If this era's Senshi die, then our future will be changed."
"It'll change for good, Prince," Wiseman said. "Trust me, have I ever failed you?"
Dimando turned away from the man, "I've seen your real intentions, Wiseman. I'll ask you to leave my castle once, before I force you out."
Wiseman looked at Dimando for a few seconds before nodding. "I see... I should've foreseen this, you are a smart young man after all. Very well, I shall leave this place, but should you interfere with my plans, I will have no mercy."
"The feeling is mutual," Dimando said.
Wiseman said no more, leaving the room and appearing in Black Lady's room. "We have to leave at once. Dimando has betrayed our cause."
"I could take care of him," Black Lady said.
"Even though you're powerful, I don't think you could. And I need that last crystal point to achieve my full power."
"Then I'll corrupt that last crystal."
Wiseman nodded. "I'll borrow some toys from Dimando, just in case the Senshi are foolish enough to interfere again."
Luna watched Usagi sulking around her bedroom worriedly. "Usagi, you should be resting. We can't be sure when the Black Moon will attack again."
Usagi looked at the cat, her eyes showing worry. "I'm too worried about ChibiUsa to rest."
Luna decided against mentioning rest never being a difficult thing for Usagi before. "Worrying about her won't bring her back."
"You're right!" Usagi said. "I know what to do. Thanks, Luna."
Luna shook her head as Usagi darted out of the room. "Something tells me this can't end up well."
Terry looked up from the blueprints of the airboard he and Ami had been working on for a few days. "Sam?"
"Miss Tsukino is here to see you," Samuel said.
"That's strange," Ami said.
"Why?" Terry said after motioning Samuel to let his friend in.
"It's sunday, and she's up at ten in the morning?"
"Now, Ami, you're starting to sound like Rei," Terry mused.
Usagi walked in. "Oh, hi Ami. I was going to ask you next, so..." She then looked at her friends in turns. "I'm not interrupting anything, am I?"
"We were just working on the airboards," Terry said. "So, what brings you here?"
"I was thinking maybe you could build some sort of device to track down Black Lady. I just want to get her back before she gets hurt. "
Terry sighed. "There's a simple way to get her."
"Huh?"
"I've traced the four points the Ayakashi attacked so far, and they're all a fixed distance to one another, with the exception of two, and the strange thing is, the distance between those two points is twice what it should be. I guessed there had to be another point between those two, and calculated its location."
"So, where's that fifth point?"
"You're standing on it."
"The mansion?" Usagi asked. At Terry's nod, she chuckled. "So it was a haunted mansion after all."
"I've improved my security system a bit," Terry said. "Should those Ayakashi show up, they'll get a warm welcome."
Hours later, the group was meeting at the mansion. "Damn it, it's sunday. Can't we rest once a week?"
Usagi glared at Brad. "Not until my daughter's safe."
Mamoru was looking at the holographic map of Tokyo with the five points marked, and lines between them forming a pentagon. "This is strange... Maybe it's not a pentagon, but a circle."
Terry nodded. "Let me see... There." As he typed commands in a console besides the map, the hologram changed, showing a circle. "Though I fail to see a difference."
"Hmmm..." Mamoru looked at the central area of the 'circle' and rose an eyebrow. "Can you calculate the exact center of that circle, the point where the five points would center into?"
Terry did that, and smiled. "Done, but I don't know wh--Fuck."
"What?" Ami asked.
"How didn't I see that? The Tokyo Tower is at the exact center of that circle."
"Thought so," Mamoru said. "Whatever the Black Moon is planning, it's going to happen at the tower."
Usagi hugged him. "You're so smart, that's why I like you."
"Only like?" Mamoru asked feigning disappointment.
Usagi smiled. "You know the answer to that."
An alarm cut through the tender moment. "What's that?" Rei asked.
"Security breach. Something's inside the mansion," Terry said. He typed a few more commands in the computer and cursed under his breath. "Black Lady, but she's not alone. And she brought one of those crystals, too."
"This time, I'll get her back no matter what," Usagi said.
Black Lady looked at the crystal she'd just placed on a table. "This is it..." Once the last crystal did enough damage, the Wiseman would be able to make the final move to enshroud the Earth with darkness.
"ChibiUsa, stop this!"
Black Lady looked at Moon and the other Senshi, then at the modified drones the Wiseman had given her. "Destroy them."
The drones charged as one, knocking the Senshi out of the mansion through the wall. "Damn it, that's gonna cost me!" Dragon Mercury said before punching the drone that had tackled him down.
Black Lady watched amusedly as the Senshi fought. These drones had been infused with dark energy, which made them strong. And they had the numerical advantage too, to almost two to one.
"Hmph... And this is what Wiseman calls a warrior?"
Mars dodged a drone's jab and noticed the newcomers. "Damn it, the Ayakashi are here!"
Petz looked at the Senshi. "Don't worry, we're not here to fight, we're here to help."
Karaberas nodded. "Wiseman is a traitor, he never wanted to help us, he used us for his plans. Now it's time we pay him back destroying her sock puppet."
"No!"
Cooan glared at Moon. "Out of the way!"
Moon didn't move from where she was, standing between Black Lady and the four women. "I won't let you hurt my daughter."
Black Lady laughed. "Cute. But the bitch is right, out of my way!" She shot an energy blast at Moon, knocking her out of the mansion again.
"ChibiUsa... Why...?"
"You said it yourself, I'm not your daughter. She doesn't exist anymore."
"Dark Pulse!"
Black Lady turned to the Ayakashi as electricity crackled around her body. "I'm supposed to cry in pain now, ain't I?"
"She's powerful, gotta give her that," Beruche commented.
"I'm feeding off this crystal's darkness, as well as the main crystal. There's no way to stop me now, or to stop my master."
"Can't blame us for trying," Petz said. "Okay girls, time for our special surprise."
"Aww, but I thought we were saving it for the Senshi," Cooan protested.
"Well, Dimando said we can't kill them, so let's kill this one instead."
Black Lady's hands lit up with energy, but she smiled as the four Ayakashi closed their eyes. "Oh, are you going to do some ultimate attack of sorts? Hurry up, I'm waiting."
The four sisters opened their eyes and attacked as one. "Black Moon Attack!"
Black Lady used the energy she'd been gathering to counter most of the attack's force. She was still sent reeling back, but laughed as her four foes fell to their knees. "And that idiot Sailor Moon was worried about you four hurting me. You're pathetic."
Petz staggered up and glared at the woman. She knew her energy was almost gone, and her sisters were in the same situation. But she couldn't give up, not until the Black Lady was gone. She couldn't fail Dimando.
The Senshi were just done destroying the last drone. It had been a hard fight, and they were all exhausted, but Moon herself had barely fought, instead focusing in the battle raging meters away from them. "ChibiUsa, don't do this."
Black Lady turned to her as Petz rushed forwards, gathering the last of her energy to form a lightning blade. "You're next, Moongirl, so enjoy the show."
Petz stabbed through air, as Black Lady vanished. "What? Show yourself, coward!"
Her target appeared right behind her, clutching her neck and rising her off the ground. "I'm no coward, bitch. I guess it's only fitting I'm the one destroying you, after all, you were always trying to kill my former self, weren't you?"
"Dark Fire!"
Black Lady chuckled as the attack hit her harmlessly. "Still want to play? Good." She rose her free hand, making sure Petz was facing her sisters. "Die!" She shot a pink energy blast, causing a small explosion to start where the three Ayakashi were. When the light dimmed, there was nothing left of them. "And now..."
"I hope Dimando makes you suffer, you monster..."
"He won't," Black Lady said. Her hands shone with energy, which enveloped Petz. "The Black Moon has already played its part," she added as the energy started pulsing, then another explosion ensued.
Moon's eyes widened as she saw Petz was also gone. "She killed them. "
"Now what?" Mars asked. She barely had energy to maybe summon one more of her attacks, and she wasn't sure it would do much good against Black Lady.
"Now, you die," Black Lady said, then turned around, as if she'd heard something. "Or not. You're lucky, Senshi, the Wiseman needs me elsewhere."
As Black Lady teleported out of the scene, the Senshi all staggered up. "That bitch filled my mansion with holes," Dragon Mercury muttered.
"Don't call her that, my daughter's still there," Moon said.
"If we can't bring her back, though..." Dragon Venus started.
"We have to do it," Moon noted.
Mercury's scanner picked something, and she summoned her computer. A few commands later, her face was pale as snow. "Shit..."
"Ami's cussing, this must be really bad," Jupiter mused.
"It is," Mercury said. "The Tokyo Tower's trapped inside some sort of building-sized version of those crystals."
Moon walked to the mansion and grabbed the black crystal shard. "So that's what they were up to," she said as she crushed the crystal.
Dragon Mercury nodded. "The crystal is emanating dark energy. It will cover the whole city soon."
Venus looked up as the sky darkened. "Weather's so messed up..."
Moon summoned her communicator. "Seia, good to hear from you."
"I bet you already know, but there's a massive crystal all over... "
"The tower, we know. We'll need a transport, pick us up two blocks north from the Zephyr mansion."
Seia nodded. "On our way. This is another final battle, isn't it?"
"Yes," Moon said. "Whatever that monster's doing, it's not going to be good for the Earth."
"I guessed as much. Seia out."
"We really need those airboards," Earth commented.
"Well, if evil overladies stopped attacking here and there, I would have time to build them."
"Overladies?" Mercury mused.
Moon wasn't paying much attention to her friends. Her mind was set in one thing alone, getting ChibiUsa back.
Black Lady teleported on top of the tower, which was now caged inside a massive black crystal. "You summoned me, master?"
Wiseman nodded. "The Senshi are not a threat right now, but the Black Moon is near, and I cannot afford to lose the Dark Crystal."
"You're wrong, we're already here," Dimando said as he and his brother appeared on the crystal spire.
"Good, now I can destroy two traitors in one shot," Wiseman gloated. "But don't worry, you'll be able to fight the Senshi in the afterlife, for they'll soon be joining you."
"You'll have to kill us first," Saffir snapped.
A/N: I think it fitting that the Ayakashi were blasted to pieces by Black Lady. As she said, they'd been trying to kill her for a while.
Minor corrections done to a few episodes of the fourth and fifth arc. Kept on slipping "Dark Moon" where "Black Moon" should be. 'Oops.'
Oh, and as you may guess from the hints, next episode's the last for the Black Lady arc. Next one will be lots of fun, specially for Terry.
