SailorStar9: With Chapter 81 out, this is Chapter 82 of this fic. Remember boys and girls, reviews are an author's subsistence. Really, is it so difficult for you guys to review instead of just putting this fic up in your favorites and alerts?
Pairings: Tieria/Ami, Mamoru/Usagi and quite possible Setsuna/Hotaru.
Standard BS Disclaimers: I do not own Sailor Moon, Gundam 00 or the pairings. If I did, the other Senshi would be as powerful as Sailor Moon and kicking MOTD ass more often and VEDA would have least an anti-hacker program installed. The only thing I do own is the plot.
Chapter 82: A Time of Shock! True Identities Revealed to One Another
Time passes...
"This is Eudial." Eudial placed a call to Professor Tomoe. "Actually, I'm calling because I noticed something strange. A human shadow appeared amongst the data for the Grail."
"Just as I thought." the recent information confirmed Professor Tomoe's suspicions. "That is the user of the Grail. If the Grail ends up in the hands that will aid us, the world of darkness that we long for will be completed. However, if someone who is against our beliefs gets ahold of it, our objective will be crushed. We must get ahold of it before anyone else, no matter what the cost."
In the Hikawa Shrine...
"I'm done!" Usagi declared happily, completing a mock test. "These are really hard problems, I'm so amazing."
"Wait," Ami cut in. "The calculations are off here." she corrected Usagi's work.
"I don't wanna do this anymore." Usagi wailed.
"Don't cry each and every time." Rei chided.
"I'm sick of all this." Usagi whined. "I don't want to go through such pain."
"So what about this pain?" Rei snapped. "Have you forgotten when a Daimon took out your Heart Crystal?"
All the girls, minus Minako, nodded in unison.
Upset that she was the only one among the Inner Senshi not have have a Daimon hunt her for her Heart Crystal, Minako went all out to prove that she, indeed did, have a pure heart.
First, from clearing out the crane machine of all its trinkets, to browsing the bookstore on guidebooks regarding the purity of hearts, to consulting Haruka and Michiru and finally, running about blood donation stations and donating blood.
In the Witches Five's workspace...
"Eudial," Professor Tomoe started. "Have you found a new target?"
"The owner of a Pure Heart type that I can't yet figure out." Eudial admitted. "However, I feel that the Sailor Senshi will once again get in our way."
"Very well, I shall prevent their intrusion." Professor Tomoe inserted a sawn -off doorknob into the Daimon generator box and injected a Daimon Egg into the door. "I will make a Daimon just for that."
Eudial located Minako on the streets as the blond was running about to the next blood donation station. "Captured!" the red-haired Witch fired her Capture Gun, extracting the unaware Minako's Heart Crystal.
"Minako!" Usagi rushed out of the bushes she was hiding from and ran towards the other blond. She stopped when the blank-eyed Minako cradled her Heart Crystal to her body.
"A pure heart..." Minako giggled. "It came out."
"I'm glad for you, Minako." Usagi sweatdropped. "Now hurry up and put it back inside."
"Impossible!" Eudial glared, quickly driving off after Minako who had fled with her Heart Crystal. She chased into a nearby underground carpark, where she found the blond collapsed on the floor with her Heart Crystal floating above her body. "What horribly strong mental powers." she exited her car.
"Wait!" Usagi shouted. "Don't come any closer to that girl."
"How arrogant." Eudial scoffed. "Come out, Daimon!" she summoned Daimon Doorknobdar. "Go lock up."
Said Daimon sealed up all possible exits.
"Who is it?" Eudial sang, spotting Haruka and Michiru standing in the back. "If you didn't stick your nose into other people's business, you'd live longer." she mocked.
"Hold it right there!" Usagi barked, as Eudial reached for Minako's Heart Crystal. "Moon Cosmic Power, Make Up!" she transformed. "Wanting to cherish a pure heart, to come after the innocence of such a maiden, is something I can't forgive. I am the Sailor Senshi of Love and Justice, Sailor Moon! In the name of the Moon, I will punish you!"
"Doorknobdar, kill her." Eudial ordered.
"I'm for locking up, and not really good for combat." Doorknobdar reminded.
"Do it!" Eudial barked.
"Doorknob Reluctance Attack!" Doorknobdar charged at Sailor Moon, clashing her with the metal door.
Minako's Heart Crystal was knocked out of Eudial's hands by one of the dolls Minako gave Michiru.
"Uranus Planet Power, Make Up!"
"Neptune Planet Power, Make Up!"
The two Outer Senshi also transformed.
"World Shaking!" Sailor Uranus wasted no time in firing her attack at Eudial, who teleported to dodge the energy ball.
"Most unfortunate." Sailor Neptune added, taking a close look at the Heart Crystal. "This isn't a Talisman." she returned the crystal to Minako.
"Exploding Flame Burst!" Sailor Mars' multiple fireballs burnt through the shutters.
"Doorknobdar, get every last on of them!" Eudial screamed.
"Deep Submerge!" Sailor Neptune's water sphere knocked the Daimon off her feet.
"Moon Spiral Heart Attack!" Sailor Moon charged up her attack.
"Witches Eudial Fire Buster!" Eudial countered the attack with her flamethrower.
The deflected 'Moon Spiral Heart Attack' hit the Daimon, destroying her.
"Don't move." Eudial barked. "Even Sailor Moon's ultimate attack is no match for the Fire Buster which is currently being registered as a practice model. Now, all of you get together in one bunch." she ordered. Otherwise, I'll make a roast out of that girl lying on the floor."
"Venus Planet Power, Make Up!" the furious Minako knocked the flamethrower out of Eudial's hands and she called out her new power-up.
"They're all Sailor Senshi?" Eudial gaped.
"Light Shower!" Sailor Venus destroyed the Fire Buster with her rain of light bullets.
"Just you wait and see!" Eudial screeched and retreated.
"Wait, Haruka, Michiru." Sailor Moon called out to the two Outer Senshi who was about to leave the battlefield. "Please tell me, what is your objective? Why do you try to get the Talismans, even if it means sacrificing human lives?"
"Don't probe where you don't have to." Sailor Uranus rebuked.
"It's better if you don't get too deeply involved." Sailor Neptune advised.
SailorStar9: Any OOC-ness is regretted. *Sighs* Don't you just hate plot bunnies sometimes? Read and review.
