LoveInTheBattleField: thank you and you to.
1 review, nice, were getting to the end here, I want to say maybe up to 35 chapters we'll be going but I'm not sure yet, but we are almost at the end. I am still debating on what the next story is to make as I do have an outline for the vampire one, a third installment made but I'm also not sure if I should let it go and leave the storyline where it is. You let me know what you think in the comments section, so enjoy!
The end in the beginning ch.27
Tuxedo Mask POV
The bubble drops me near Jupiter who is dusting her hands off from killing the monster when she spots me. "What happened?" she asks, "Where's Moon?" she looks for her as I look from her to where I was and realize what just happened. "No!" I shout and rush back to where everything happened. Jupiter follows me, not even questioning what was going on. She jumps into possible battle without any knowledge of what actually happened, "What's going on? What happened Tux?" she demands once we arrive to see everyone is cleared out.
I feel my knees weaken out before drop to them realizing what I failed to do...again. "They took her." she saved me...again… "Who took...Wait..." She comes up to me, grabs me by the lapels of my jacket and pulls me upwards back to my feet towards her in anger, "Don't be saying what I think your gonna say!" she threatens. I look at her dead in the eyes and push her off of me not in the mood for it right now, "You know exactly what I'm saying." I snap, my anger trying too re-direct towards her.
Her hand covers her mouth, "No... but she's stronger than them." she protests, "Doesn't matter. She'd never hurt a human being…it's what that bitch princess and THEY were counting on." Jupiter looks off towards the lake nearby but knows I'm right and doesn't refute it. "We have to regroup." she goes to call in for help on the matter when I see the evil princess begin to re-materialize. I push Jupiter out of the way and shot a blast towards the crazy bitch that just won this round.
My powers feeling fueled up from my anger at what just happened. "Ah Jupiter, not so nice to see the tom boy princess again." she smarts off towards Jupiter as she jumps back up herself, "Tell me something, did your parents ever manage to find a prince that didn't mind such a boyish princess to deal with…someone who actually thought you were worth it?" her words make Jupiter throw a thunderclap towards her.
She deflects it as she laughs, "Still with a temper I see...you haven't changed much at all." she snickers. "No matter, I have other interests at stake here now that the moon witch is out of my way." that's when as I prepare to defend myself. Before I even prepare a blast though Jupiter jumps in the way, "Over my dead body psycho bitch." Her fingers are crackling with lightening as she's waiting for a wrong move to be made.
"He's our princess's prince and our friend...our brother." her words make the evil princess scoff, "He wasn't HER prince!" she snaps and sends out a blast that with Jupiter's own thunder mixed with my own blast, as I step out from behind her creates a powerful hit in the middle. The combustion of it nearly throws all of us backwards a few paces. Anger is deep within all of our attacks right now.
Moon's would have decimated her earlier but her shield was up. She knew Moon's could do serious damage to her, now she's on the offensive attacking outward. This makes me realize she sees Moon as more of a threat due to nearly ALWAYS having the shields up compared to now and NOT having the shield up around Jupiter and myself. This was definitely information that was needed.
Her words however spark anger within me. Especially after what just happened. "I will ALWAYS be her prince and if you continue to think this and continue to pursue this then you are a fool without equal." I tell her, feeling my royal side coming out. This however only angers her as she goes to hit us both. We are however ready to fight but down with energy due to the previous fights we encountered and nearly tapped out.
At least Jupiter is. I throw my own energy into warding off her blast as I urge Jupiter to leave only for her to look at me like I'm crazy, "Not a snowballs chance in hell." she adds her own powers to the attack which does help but not for long. We're almost over-whelmed when a third power comes in and blasts at her from the side. It shocks us all as we all look around for a moment trying to determine where it came from.
I finally manage to locate Jadeite standing in place, "Get away from our prince you..." that's when he gets a good look at her, "I remember you…" he looks to me. "Endymion, this is the new enemy?" I nearly roll my eyes at his timing of recollection here as it's not the best. Yet at any other time it could be seen as a tad comical, "Yes!" I snap out trying to get him to sense the tone I'm using for this for him to get the picture.
"Seriously?! That former stuck up princess that was kicked out of the kingdom is now the enemy?" The words and how Jadeite presents them as if he were making fun of her enrage her into attacking him but his difference in powers stun her physically. She actually gets halted for a moment, as she decides instead to shoot out another attack at him as he dodges it with ease. This only enrages her further.
"You will die you pathetic piece of trash!" she yells at him, "My powers may not be from evil but they aren't that much different from yours, besides it's not the powers that are evil but the person using them and yours like ours are controlled by your emotions so go ahead give me your best shot." he counters her verbally as she acts out on rage again only this time to get hit by Jupiter's floral hurricane which does the small job of disorienting her further in the process as she gets spun around a bit.
She screams out her irritation and sends out a shockwave of power that throws us all off and disappears in the process. When Jadeite looks up and see that she's gone he shouts, "Yeah you better run!" As we all get up its then that he notices something off, "Where's Sailor Moon?" the words hit me as I swallow thickly, "We need to get back to base...the military here...they took her." now his face falls into that of confusion and determination.
"The earths military took her? Then let's go, request her back!" he demands and starts to walk off as if trying to track them himself. While I appreciate his enthusiasm, it hurts that we can't immediately do as he wants to. "We can't it's not how it used to be. Things don't work like that anymore." He looks at me confused, "Why not? Don't we control the military here?" he asks as I realize that I never really explained how things have changed here in that sense. We went straight into power up training after I told him about the enemy.
It was the duration coming back that Jupiter and I explain to him how things have changed and how we can't just simply to demand to have Moon back. Once we arrive back at the arcade where our base is located at, we de-transform as they begin to go in. "Give me a moment." I ask them as Makoto nods knowing I need a moment. Once more Usagi saved my life. Once more she sacrificed herself to protect others.
I had to let that sink in so I could figure out what to do to get her back. There had to be a way. I know that with everything that we've done there had to be a way to get her back. I head inside fully prepared to take any wrath that the girls and the felines had for me. I see them arriving one by one inside, now also de-transformed and looking battle ridden. Rei looks like parts of her own hair got singed a bit.
Ami looks worn down, Minako has a bruise still on her arm, Makoto is merely looking slightly defeated yet she doesn't say anything to the girls. Probably waiting for me to speak up. I then see the outers there now. Looking less battle worn and more agitated that this battle even took place, like it shouldn't have happened and their right. It shouldn't have. It was less of a battle and more of a ploy.
This is the next step in her plans. Get Usagi out of the way so she could get to me and take earth for herself. Getting rid of Usagi was made easier by her getting the military to go after her for their own purposes. That was the point of the media. I realize. It wasn't just to make things difficult for us, it wasn't just to make Usagi look bad, it was to cast a spotlight on our activities and get Usagi pulled out of the fight.
Usagi was…IS…is…her biggest contender. She knows it. All the battle strategies have come into play now. She lets shields down to combat us but has them up to fight Usagi. She knew Usagi is in reality stronger than her. Power wise and probably physically wise to…and definitely mentally. It just pisses me off more that this happened. Yet I can't help but feel a bit upset at Usagi for running into danger like that.
I know Usagi wanted to finish this, but she should have waited for back up. She should have waited for me, not order me to help Jupiter who had the monster on the ropes before killing it, no she should have waited for back up. Instead, she engaged in enemy fire and even though I did get a chance to help, the evil princess made sure that I wasn't allowed to help for long. Usagi just wanted to end the fight and I get that but this time, with her unwillingness to hurt a human by direct force she lost.
I also put blame on myself to though. Here I am working to improve my own powers and I have but to work on diverting enough energy into the powers to take care of so many assailants at once was admittedly a bit exhausting. There were so many troops out there, plus our enemy herself who is very powerful, maintaining those attacks was energy consuming and taking a lot to divert.
She must have sensed this and used it to her advantage. That power blast that came out from her was pretty big and both Moon and myself had only attacked her with monster fighting attacks, not with our crystals. I know that's why we lost that fight. Yet thinking on it now we did put up a hell of a fight with just our basic monster attacks. We actually did have her on the ropes for a little bit before she flung her powers more strongly at us.
I sighed and went inside the room the rest of the way. I could see Luna's worried features. I could tell she was hoping that what she heard over communications was wrong. That Usagi was just lagging behind. Yet once she clearly saw me by myself, she knew, some part of her knew that Usagi wasn't here. I didn't know how to break any of this to her or to the rest of the girls, but I knew I didn't have a choice.
"We destroyed the monsters." Minako gives a status report, "So did we." Rei adds as Makoto merely nods her head 'yeah' indicating she killed her and Usagi's monster to as she looks to me to give the bad news of what happened afterwards. "That was a lot to handle but we did it well." Ami says as the others agree. I clearly my throat but I can't help but begin to focus on Luna, the one person in the room that's known Usagi the longest here.
Luna POV
The world feels like its spinning on its axis right now yet I can't feel a thing emotionally or mentally. It's to scattered. Artemis hacked the choppers camera footage as we saw Usagi get taken in by the military. I think my voice went hoarse from screaming at Usagi, at Moon, to fight back. Yet she refused to hurt the military that were taking her in. She used the last bit of power she had to save Mamoru...again.
Not before hitting that evil princess though. I couldn't stop the scream of anger and pain from erupting within me. Even Artemis for his part not only didn't breathe a word against me but didn't jump when I screamed in my agony. My charge, for as strong, brave, independent, smart and wonderful as she was, could be so foolish at times. She should NEVER have charged after the evil princess by herself.
She played right into her hands. Yes, fine we got a lot more information that's valid and necessary in a fight but without her we cannot fight against the evil princess and now...now...I couldn't stop the tears from beginning to fall. We watched with tearful eyes as the chopper recorded Tuxedo Mask being flown to safety before the dense trees prevented more of his trail from being followed.
"Why didn't she fight back?" I snapped angrily. "We both know she'd never hurt a human. Not even to save her own life." Artemis tells me factually. I can't help but face him angrily, "But now she's caught! She should have fought them back." he nods knowing this, "I know, but its who she is." he tries to comfort me. I however feel inconsolable right now. Its nearly another thirty minutes later when the girls and Mamoru get back here.
All of them look, beaten down and out of breath yet alive. "Where the hell is Usagi, she wasn't responding to any of us?" Rei demands. Its Mamoru that looks white as a ghost as he walks in towards the front of the girls and for once, other than Artemis it seems someone understands a similar level of pain I feel. The love of his life isn't just my charge, but someone I consider like a daughter to me.
A friend. "They took her." his voice was soft, beaten. Rei looks at him, "What do you mean they took her?" Makoto iterates, "The military and that cunning princess set a damned trap for her." the gets the girls alert and scared I can see. "It's why there were so many monsters to fight, to keep us away from Moon so she could go after her alone." I can see Mamoru during this whole thing as he tries to keep steady.
I know he just lost the love of his life to the military, yet I want to be angry at him. He was supposed to protect her and he failed. I stayed where I was and asked in a low tone, "Why didn't you protect her?" he looks straight at me, "I tried…I couldn't get back to her in time." He says, not even trying to deny that he failed her. It only angered me further, "You're her prince…her protector…her future husband and ruler of this WORLD!"
I know my voice is high right now, but I'm beyond upset. The girls barely move as their to stunned by the news themselves. "Luna…" Artemis tries, "No Artemis just no!" I glare at him as I stare directly at Mamoru who looks as defeated by this as the girls do, yet my own anger won't go away. My charge is in trouble and may not be able to get out of this one on her own. "He's supposed to do all of this and failed!" I was becoming near hysterical now before Minako picked me up and began to pet me.
I didn't want to be easily coddled but I needed to feel it. "We'll get her back. Its just a matter of how and when." She says as I nod before looking to Mamoru. That's when I see it. He looks suddenly so alone in the world. Despite being surrounded by friends and loved ones his main connection with us all was through Usagi. Makoto tries to comfort him, but it does barely anything…it's as if he doesn't feel anything and suddenly, I feel bad for taking my anger out on him for this.
"Sorry Mamoru…" he looks up at me. I can see the little lost boy in those depths that wants Usagi there to make him feel like he's not alone in this, yet she isn't physically here. I do see the need to do whatever it takes though to get her back at whatever costs he can make happen. I see the anger at himself for making whatever miscalculation was made in the field. Sometimes I forget that they have to make decisions on the fly and go with their gut rather than based off of a battleplan that was pre-designed.
"No…I'm sorry. There had to be another way to fight her off and yet we just used our monster fighting powers. That was it." He spoke gruffly. "Tell me more." Ami pulls out her computer as she starts to input data. I know this routine though; the girls need something with substance to focus on and not dwell on the loss were all sharing right now. Both Mamoru and Makoto go over what happened and what Usagi had ordered him to do and what he promptly ignored so he could be there for Usagi.
Plus, as we all know, Makoto can handle her own. "This is good…" Ami begins to type away as I feel calmer now but still very worried for Usagi. "This means that she limits her powers based on who she's facing." As Ami goes over it though I can see the wheels spinning around for the rest of the girls. Most notably is Mamoru's worried expression, "What's on your mind?" I ask him, "Besides the obvious of how were getting her back."
He looks to me. His face worried yet appearing like he's about to lose even more, "How the hell am I going to tell her family this?" I can't help but feel for him as while yes, I can be there to help explain it, I can't stop or control how the family will react to this news. "Damn." Rei says realizing the dilemma. "Let's for now make up an excuse for where she is to everyone." Ami comes in with a response.
Mamoru looks like he wants to do it but instead says, "I don't know…I've gotten pretty close with Usagi's family…as we all have in our own ways…" he amends to the girls, "But I don't know if I can lie to them…they deserve to know about their daughter." I can tell he's fighting the dilemma though. "Mamoru – san, I get that they do mean something to you but…" he cuts Minako off though.
"Not to be rude…" he begins, "And yes, I see that it would be easier to make up an excuse and try to figure out a way to get her back during the 'absence' we give them, and hell might even be better, but things have changed now. Her family knows everything, the moment she DOESN'T come home now, the moment they DON'T hear from her they will in fact wonder what's gone wrong." Now the girls and I see his point.
We've gotten so used to keeping the secret that it's our go to for what to do. "While I do recognize your perspective…" Artemis begins, "At the end of the day it would be one step forward, five steps back if they knew the truth." We all look to his form on the controls still, "What we will do is give them this excuse. Whatever excuse we can logically come up with that doesn't invite a lot of questions." The girls nod.
"We give it a few days, as many as we can reasonably pull off. Then we go to plan B of talking to her parents, till then, Ami, you the girls and Mamoru, all of you need to figure out how to get Usagi out of wherever the military took her to. Trace her energy signature, something. There's always a way of finding her." Artemis's take-charge attitude makes me feel a bit better as even I nod and give a hopeful smile to him.
Sailor Moon POV
How I managed to keep my form as Moon as long as I did, I didn't know. Years as being Moon while in enemy hands could be a valid reason. Its' not the first time I've been taken in by the enemy and forced into an unconscious state before being transported to an unknown area. It was usually to try to outsmart me or use my good nature against me. Try to gain the upper hand as Mistress nine once did.
Or even as Diamond once did. Though that was the one occasion that I woke up in different clothes. As his intended future Queen. There's very few things as terrifying as waking up in different clothes than what you were in when you were knocked out. Especially when your made up to look like someone's personal play toy. This however was a whole new level of outsmarting me and using my good nature against me.
That evil princess knew, she just KNEW I wouldn't want to hurt a human being. She used it against me and they took full advantage of it. I admit it was smart and clever but also cowardly to do so as well. To use a person's positive traits to their own beneficial means especially when person that their taking advantage of is simply trying to protect the world is just stupid to another level all on its own.
I just needed to maintain my fuku as long as possible so they DIDN'T see the crystal within my locket. While it was magically protected, they didn't need to know what it did or how it was activated. I didn't want to think about what they'd do with it. Not especially since their greeting of me was in this manner. It was annoying and disheartening to say the least. Especially as it left me to deal with at least a dozen personnel who kept me dosed up.
I didn't know what it was but whatever crap it was, was making me drowsy and unable to keep a clear enough head to figure out where I was going let alone slip out. Though I did hear them talking about dozing me up to often for a normal person of my size yet thy kept doing it. It made me want to fight back yet I couldn't. not just because I was being essentially drugged but because they weren't being evilly controlled.
It's not like I was being handled by people that were being controlled by evil, like had the evil energy in them. I could easily sense that while they had her influence on them there was no actual evil inside of them that spoke of her control of them. No this was a mutual bargain from her to them and it was actually sickening me that they chose to side with her in this just to get to me and use me.
Before I knew it, I was in a greyish room, with a single long width window in it that I was facing. It looked like it was pulled straight out of some campy bad horror movie where the bad guy gets tortured and beaten for information before he or she gets disposed of. I find myself having been strapped down to what feels like as I move around a bit on it, an old single metal bed frame.
The bottom half where the metal poles go across the back for support were digging into my backside as I was bound to it. My wrists were in metal cuffs that were from what I could tell melted in place somehow. Like someone created this torture device with a blow torch. I didn't want to find out WHY this thing was even here wherever here was…not at all. Yet I had a feeling I was about to find out very soon.
However, completely strapped in I didn't have a choice as THAT was how I woke up. It was then than seconds later as I was coming to I felt the electrical currents shooting through me. That was one hell of a wakeup call to have. My hands fisted so hard as I grit my teeth from the pressure of the pain going through me that I felt the tendons pulling and protesting the pain I was putting them in just by gripping them.
When it stopped, momentarily, I felt wide awake than I had in the last few hours. I shakily looked up and saw people through the glass window looking at me. They wore what I saw doctors and scientists wear, the lab coats I couldn't read the ID badges they sported but I had a feeling I wouldn't be caring. My nerves were on fire a bit from the currents, but I was a hell of a lot more aware.
I felt whatever liquid they injected into me finally give way as my form shook it off now. I could tell that stuff was meant to keep a person loopy for hours even after they'd been injected, yet one current of electricity and when I was into much pain whenever it got to high, I'd cry out from the shock of it. I could handle the lower voltage hits though. I tested the metal cuffs on my wrists and ankles but I was I was firmly in place.
I looked at what held them in and saw what I think my father told me once when he was doing some work on the house, were washers. Those spinning things that help keep nuts in place or something. I saw them with a long bolt going through them. My wrists were firmly wedged in between the metal slats so there was no trying to slip out. As I assessed my situation, I was never more grateful than my years of training.
Years of being in combat has trained me on handling large amounts of pain from enemies and to know what to look for by means of escape from them when I did get caught. I've been hit with more power balls than I care to count. Dodged to many power strikes, been in more hand to hand combat fights than I care to list with different enemies, became more acrobatic thanks to it those fights and my pain tolerance increased to a much higher level than I would have thought possible to ever handle.
I just never once even though that it would come from the people we worked to protect. I felt a wave of disappointment hit me as the shocks happened again. I tried to remind myself that this would be over soon. I had rights the same as any other human being. They would release me...right? That's when the next shock hit me. Harder than the last as I actually screamed out that time. I looked around me and tried to find a way out, but the room appeared to be sealed off and only one door went into it.
I knew this was their jobs but wasn't there a line that couldn't be crossed? I was still a human being with free will. Didn't that count for something? It wasn't till after the eighth round of shocks that I finally felt fried enough to try to push up my personal shield to give my body a break. This wasn't one of our typical enemies that blasted me to where I would go flying across the room.
I was stuck, bound to a metal platform bed thing and forced to feel it hitting all over me. I couldn't move much, and I was unable to raise my arms to naturally defend myself and the struggle to make the attempts out of involuntary reaction made the strain on my body worse as the shocks didn't stop. I had to stop it even if only for a little while. The small shield the one from within my tiara that I recently discovered I had.
It wasn't much but I was hopeful that it would help a little bit for this as I tried to stave off the currents currently wracking through my body. Once it's up I felt the relief hit me. My body taking in gulps of it of being allowed to function normally even if for only a brief bit of time as I try to look for and see a way out. Hoping that maybe this time I can find an alternative now that I'm able to think.
Mercury's visor would be helpful right about now but I knew I was on my own right now. I couldn't count or bank on anyone or anything other than myself and I was shockingly grateful that I had been through what I had as I now knew what I could handle under pressure. I try in vain to figure out a way to escape without hurting anyone in here. They're not being controlled by her per say, but they are being manipulated by her without her even using her powers. A clever tactic indeed.
"Tell us how to use your powers and this can all go away." a voice comes out of the loudspeaker above the glass window I see. I notice the guy on the inside talking into a phone so I can assume its him as I respond, "It's not something I can give." Clearly this answer isn't good enough for him. He shocks me again, "Listen to me, I'm the only one who can use my powers." I thought about Chibi Usa though.
How she could gain access to the crystal through her bloodline being my future daughter BUT she didn't have MY powers, she had her own. I wasn't about to go into any of that though. It would not only serve to confuse them further but even IF they believed me, they'd be wanting to go after her for her powers to. I couldn't have that. I'd rather die here than to let them even get within a hair's breath into her vicinity... "When I get out of here that bitch is going to pay for this." I mutter under my breath.
"Tell us how to use your powers." was all he said. It was like talking to a brick wall, "I'm tell the truth, not my fault your refusing to believe it." I try as I get shocked once more. I look around the room once more, "There's no one that can get to you in here Miss Moon...or would you rather I call you Tsukino, Usagi." I glared at him for daring to try to get on a personal note with me especially as he has that stupid smirk on his face.
The one that enemies would get with me when they think they have me down for the count, "Its Eternal Sailor Moon to you." I snapped back, my body beginning to ache from the shocks administered to me. He smiled, the same type of 'I've got her now' smile that I've seen before. I could tell his actions were similar to that of some of my previous enemies. It was a little rattling and disheartening to say the least.
Al these years we deal with the horrors of battle with enemies with powers that want domination yet here I was facing off with another kind of enemy all together. The humankind. "Fine, now how do we use your powers?" I rolled my eyes at him, "You guys must have a really bad connection to not having heard me the first two times around." I couldn't help the second snap at them as he hit a button and sent even more shock waves through me.
"You will give us what we want Eternal Sailor Moon...eventually." he says as he amps up the voltage enough to make me scream louder than before. I can hear my own voice begin to get slightly hoarse from the voltage being used. I can't help but pull at the binds hard enough to cut into my wrists. Not a lot but enough to produce blood. My own speedy healing factor takes care of this but only alerts them to how fast it healed as well.
While he doesn't speak into the phone now and only to his other colleagues behind the glass I try to make out what he's saying yet I can't. I can't read lips like that. I could however guess that judging by the body language that it wasn't good. I could see one of the others inside go get a syringe and little test tubes. I had a bad feeling about where that was going as I watched them leave out of the room.
How did THIS scare me more than the monsters I dealt with that threw giant syringes at me when we battled the dark moon clan? Oh yeah, because these were people that weren't literal evil monsters, or being controlled by them in some form or another who would normally be frightened off by what was happening. Those were actual monsters, droids. Yet it was the people I was trapped with that had me starting to sweat.
One of them came out of the only door in the room and came up close enough to poke my arm with the needle. She went through the medical procedure for it. Tied off my arm with the thin rubber band thingy, then drew my blood into a long syringe. "Please you have to let me go. It's for your own safety." I try to convey to her, yet she looks at me with a cold and distant expression that makes me lose whatever hope I had with her entry in here. "Tell us what we want to know, and this can be over quicker."
I pull my head back as I get a good look into her emotionless eyes. I'm suddenly pretty sure that even IF I could give them access to my powers which I can't and wouldn't at this point, that they wouldn't want me to survive this unless they could use me as a conduit to do their bidding and they knew right now that that WASN'T happening. Coming to this hard realization I put on a face of indifference.
There might still be a way to reach her, to reason with her, but not now. It would take time, "Like I said before there isn't a way. But feel free to keep on trying, you won't get anything out of me." she looks to me in mild stunned amusement. "You'll fold..." she begins to walk out, "They always do." I really wanted to know what she meant by that. but I didn't want to give her the satisfaction of being curious.
She might take it as having installed fear into me, as having won that little mental battle of wits so I held my tongue and waited. There would be a time to escape I just had to wait for the right moment and utilize it to my advantage. So I pressed my fingers gently to the twisty thing on the bolt and started to press. "If you give us the access to your powers this will be over sooner rather than later." the guy tries to convince me.
Having had enough and done with being the nice girl I let the bull out a bit. I knew that following that evil princess into the zone would result in something big happening, I was aiming for at least doing some serious damage to her, gaining that from her, or being able to end this already. Yet I didn't. I didn't go after her with my crystal since she lured me into a trap with our own military.
Though now I'm questioning how she even gained access to them like this. Why would they want to take me over her when she was getting in their cross hairs to? There was a deal going on between them I grasped that much but why come after me and NOT her? What was she promising them other than delivering me to them? Unless it was the simple fact that she told them I wouldn't fight to hurt them.
Tux had the powers to keep them at bay and while I did try to keep them away to I put more focus into my fight with her than in them. There as something else I should have done. That I could have done I know it. I know I should have waited for back up, but my gut told me to keep moving forward. Its usually never wrong. It told me there was something more to Chibi Usa when we first met her.
It told me that Hotaru was still able to be saved inside of Mistress Nine. My gut leads me down the paths that are hard yes but that are the right paths at the end of the day. My gut told me the same thing about running after her in the woods. It was the right decision to make so I know in my gut and in my heart that my being here will lead to something more. Something necessary, I just don't know what that is yet.
Especially not cooped up on this metal bed thing. I pressed further down on the washer and even though it hurt my wrist I kept going, making sure NOT to look at it. I didn't want to draw attention to what I was doing. I'd have to bid my time but with enough work at it I was sure that I could get myself freed up. Then I'd use the reserved powers that I had to transport myself out of here and to our base.
It would be the safest place for me to go to without causing either a scene, scaring someone or without any media or military presence there. I needed a neutral ground. I only wished I could send Mamoru an image of where I was so he could try to find me but while our links were strong and getting stronger, we couldn't send images like that just yet. I could only send him reassuring thoughts that I was still alive.
It would aid him for now, it was help us both for now but I did need to get out of here. I continued to press on the washer little by little, ignoring the pain in my finger from the pressure at the angle I was at. The other lab technician had already left the room to rejoin them in there as I glared at them all. I had to get out of here before something else happened. I felt the washer finally begin to move. I kept the smile off of my face and allowed that tiny bit of relief in as I continued to work gently at it.