the end in the beginning

by max333

Its been a month since Galaxia left, Usagi, the girls, Mamoru and their friends are all in a new phase of their lives just as a new enemy emerges, bent on destroying them. Will the strength of the senshi together be enough? With old friends and new friends coming in to help everyone must fight to protect everything they hold dear.

28. rise of the generals

LoveInTheBattleField: thanks.

1 review, nice. This story is starting to come to an end here, I've got nearly all of it written out so I do believe that this'll only be up to 30 or 31 tops chapters before its done. A long journey this has been, but I hope you've all enjoyed this. I'm still debating about another story to write, I may have the last sequel of the vampire and lycan one to do but I'm not sure if I should do that or something else entirely. Either way enjoy and let me know what you think!

The end in the beginning ch.28

Minako POV

I cannot believe the plan that we have to come together with. Both Mamoru, Artemis and Luna have valid points. For the last hour we've been coming up with a plan to get Usagi out that doesn't involve seriously injuring one of the good guys. This plan however did tick off several of the girls, most notably the outers were pissed off by the events that happened. Haruka initially yelled at Mamoru.

Michiru tried to reason with Ami on why brute force was more tactically useful to which Makoto and Rei were both agreeing and disagreeing on it. Setsuna was also debating between Mamoru and Haruka while Hotaru and Jadeite both were watching everyone go back, Jadeite stopped trying to talk after the first five minutes and merely sat by Hotaru who at first seemed skeptical but once she got a chance to talk to him warmed up to him.

From where they sat and how they observed everything going on you'd think they were observing a focus group debate going on. I did this myself though just from another side of the room. It took the rest of the group at least fifteen minutes of back and forth with their sometimes barely decipherable remarks as they vented to finally hear something resembling not only silence but also reasoning.

I made sure to let everyone vent out their frustrations before I finally saw that the shouting and decibels had lowered. The frustration was still there but the anger had been vented out enough to be able to get a word in and be the voice of reason in this maelstrom of events. Everyone was a little bit on edge for good reason. After those near twenty minutes went by ideas started to pop out of everyone. Not all at once but one by one someone would hear something and work off of it for the same or different angle and little by little we had a plan of action.

"So, the plan is simple then." I stress out nearly an hour into this debate as everyone starts to calm down and pinch the bridge of my nose at the next words that are coming out of my mouth, "Can't believe I'm saying this but we 'rescue Usagi' from our own countries military no less..." I pause to emphasize on that as it seems the irony is being ignored here, either that or no one wants to point it out as the fact that she has to be rescue and from our military is what's throwing the girls off and making everyone uneasy.

Rarely does Usagi actually need rescuing from being held captive within the enemy's lair and the few times she's been taken its actually contributed in some form to ending our enemies. It's why she goes into battle and follows her gut, its why we follow and listen to her. "So that we can defeat this psycho-bitch and stop her from trying to take over the world." Ami nods in a less than enthusiastic response for obvious reasons as I continue on.

"And oh yeah, this plan includes Mamoru fake giving himself up to psycho-bitch so he can find out where this bitch plans to resurrect the royal earth family's kingdom since the place is in about a billion little scattered pieces since it was destroyed about a millennia ago." Mamoru muttered, "I still don't see how it will be possible." To which Ami interjects, "Actually thanks to the shifting of tectonic plates over the last thousand years the pieces at this point would be buried and scattered just about anywhere in Japan and that's for the parts that actually survived being broken down by natural means."

I pinch the bridge of my nose again, "And it's not exactly as if we can use the Mercury computer to find them." she shakes her head, "No, without something from the original kingdom to look for I can't do a search like that. Only an estimated search from where the kingdom used to be and even that is only tangible to a certain degree since it's been so long. After all there's no record of its actual existence." she supplied.

"She's right, there's never been any record of the earth kingdom in place. It's like once the war during the silver millennium happened that time period disappeared, and people forgot about its existence all together." Mamoru muttered as if trying to figure it out. "It did exist…" Rei added gaining our attention, "But like most places that get wiped off the planet it went from being a real place to a myth and a legend." He nodded.

"Without someone to corroborate its existence or to notate it there's no tangible proof it was ever there. Everyone that KNEW about the royal earth family and the moon family were killed in the war. I wouldn't be surprised that IF someone survived the war and DIDN'T get sent and reborn into the future, they went off somewhere else and let the past be in the past. There's plenty of cases of that happening all over the world." Michiru's words have us all realizing that there's plenty of reasons why the earth kingdom never came to pass.

"They probably didn't want to remember the greatest tragedy to hit them all. All over some random woman's jealousy to." Haruka snuffed. "So, the remains of the earth kingdom could be buried a hundred feet below us and we wouldn't know." She added as Ami was about to say something when Haruka cut her off, "I know its deeper it was just a point to make." She nodded realizing that now wasn't the time to correct.

We all sighed at the turn the conversation to save Usagi went, "And yet this evil princess is doing this so she can wreak havoc on earth…that about cover it?" this causes everyone in the room to go silent while in agreement. It's Mamoru who adds on or rather edits my words, "More like I'll go seek out her out and tell her I'll join her, give her what she wants in exchange for Usagi's immunity to her wrath."

This gets the girls look to him and for one of the few times I can see their loyalty in him to get their princess, our princess, our friend back…there's seldom few times this happens where it's needed to. "That way she won't try to look for her and we can use it as a way to delay her from her objectives. We have to seek her out so we can stop her from hurting more people." we don't deny his words as he's only speaking the truth it's just hard that we even have to do this, it's not our usual thing.

Last time Usagi went missing as her Moon counterpart we knew WHERE she was. We knew WHO she was with but not this time. This time we had her location narrowed down to Japan on earth. That's when Rei joins in, "He's right. I'm mean at this point what's to stop her from throwing more monsters out at us and while were distracted by them, she takes Mamoru to some random locations were unaware of anyways and does what she wants." I watch as he bristles at the thought of that.

"No this is a better option; we just need to find Usagi and get her back to make everything happen." I see Mamoru working out some things in his head though. "So, I'll use my connection with Usagi to find her, then you guys go get her out and you all come to where we'll be at thanks to the tracing device, I'll have on me, and you all with Usagi will get there and we can all get rid of this woman and save the day…that's the plan." He confirms since we all know we don't really have a way of keeping track of him.

Makoto then asks, "I hate to ask but…what if she turns you into her bitch?" the frown was clear on his face as he turned to her, "Hey I'm sorry to say it but you are the one that's the most prone to getting turned dark side here." She defends herself. I see him gripping his fists in anger, yet he knows it's the truth so in a tight voice he responds, "I'm aware of that however…" he purses himself and straightens out his form.

"I've been harnessing the power of my own crystal and thanks to it I've become much more powerful than ever before. In fact…I was waiting for the right time to do this but I do believe we need the assistance." Its then that he pulls out three very familiar looking stones that has everyone at attention. I can see that all the girls except for Rei, Pluto and Saturn don't appear to be approving of this new development.

"I still think this could prove to be a mistake." Rei voices despite the hurt look on Jadeite's face as she refuses to acknowledge it. there's no mistaking it though. Haruka then goes to Rei's side, "I think she has a point. They once fought you guys, heavily at one point or another. Tried to kill you all and yet you want to bring them back cause you think we need their help?" I then see that even Michiru is sensing the growing hostility in the room.

She tries to breach it with, "I think what they mean is that the men in those stones are still the same men that fought against you. They have no memories of who they were as your generals. Not to mention what powers they have won't be much by comparison to ours that we've mastered. Jadeite, while yes he's been somewhat helpful is still a wildcard." I can see his visibly bristling even though he has, according to Makoto and Mamoru themselves helped out when fighting the evil princess.

Its Makoto who steps in and remarks, "I think the reason why Mamoru and Jadeite have a point to bring them back is simply because one, we need the backup…" she looks to Rei on that who silently fumes a bit, "And two, let's face it Usagi wouldn't want us to hurt anyone that's an innocent, and despite the things that they might be doing to her in there…" she stops for a moment as all of our imaginations run a bit wild.

"She would still avoid using deadly measures as possible." Rei sighs as does Michiru knowing the truth of it. "We protect the innocent; we don't punish the guilty. That's not a part of this job." The rest of the girls including Mamoru and Jadeite nod knowing how accurate her words are. It's then that Rei speaks up, "We don't need back up its all of us going in for her!" her voice has a slight edge to it.

Ami then points out, "Actually its best that we have only half of us go in and the other half out here." Making both Rei and Haruka look at her as if she was crazy. Ami then explains, "Think about it. We need to have senshi ready to track down where psycho-princess, or whatever were naming her is taking Mamoru to." I could see them realizing why separating would be needed for this mission.

"We need to have senshi there to do recon when they get there that way when the other senshi break Usagi out their already prepped on where to go and how to get in or whatever else they find out. Which is also why they see now the need for the generals. To rescue Usagi, follow Mamoru and beat this bitch down along with her monsters we need the assistance. It seems Ami's words get through to the girls.

Haruka seems to be sighing in mild defeat, "Okay point taken, so you want to bring the generals back so they can be what lookouts or something?" that's when Ami's expression turns more serious than before. "Not just lookouts, but snipers. And NOT lethal snipers. Just those out there to help neutralize any soldiers that are in the way and make them sleep off the next few hours and not be harmed." The girls I can see nod.

We don't want to actually kill anyone but the evil princess and her monsters. "We're looking for hassle free and quick but silent and definitely NOT deadly. We can only do this though if we use very little powers. I then pop in my agreement, "Yeah that's the best way of doing this." Haruka I can tell is still doubtful so Michiru jumps in with, "They have a point. The more powers we use the more they'll want to come after us all for whatever they're already trying to do to Usagi." It hurt to know this, but it was the truth.

Haruka then looks to Michiru and asks not in a condescending manner but in a 'answer me this?' manner, "And what's to stop them from stopping AFTER we save her and this planet…again." She was met with stony silence as we didn't know what to say. She was absolutely right, "They will never stop coming after us if we go forward with this plan. The moment we free Usagi the military will just try to keep hunting us down one by one till we're either dead or in a cage and we can't leave her in there."

I understood where she was coming from. We were caught between a rock and a hard place. We couldn't leave Usagi in their hands and the moment we rescued her we'd become number one on the list of people to be hunted or worse. I jump in knowing I have to reign this in, "Before this gets out of hand…" I look to Haruka, "First off you may have assisted in saving the planet a few times, but we've been doing this since day one here." Haruka went to argue her point but I nearly snapped her off. Slightly surprised she gave me the floor and mentally looked to be telling me 'go ahead'.

"Usagi's been in it from the jump here in Japan. She was the first senshi here activated. What's going to stop them from all of that is showing them how bad it'll get in the battle against princess psycho-bitch." Makoto couldn't stop the small snort that popped out at my words but shut herself up knowing now wasn't the time. "Let them see that we're the ONLY ONES who can take her out and that we still, even after everything their putting us through, were still protecting them from what they can't control."

My words seem to reach Hotaru and Setsuna though. Michiru seems to even be accepting this, "Hell we might even be able to work out a deal of working together with us staying to only monsters and them to human criminals." I can see that my words strike within the rest of the girls and make even the two men here acknowledge my words and see the reasonability within them, "Okay say that's possible…" Haruka begins.

"And that your idea has some merit, how do we do that? How do we get the military to back off and let us do our job?" I couldn't help but smile at that. "I have a plan for that. Remember that Rebecca news caster?" they all nod at that, "Well I'm pretty sure there's something up with her…" the girls all agree in kind. "No doubt there." Makoto voices as Ami adds, "She does seem to know too much."

I smile still, "Something doesn't sit right so I say when she mysterious shows up just somehow KNOWING where we are that we give them all a show and confront that mystery princess on who she is, what her plans are. We'll do it in front of everyone and get her to admit to why she's doing this to everyone." I see everyone accepting this plan as Ami affirms, "Wait you want to use the media that she's been trying to use against us against her?" I nod as the idea sinks in and the wheels turn in her head.

"As long as their kept at a safe distance AWAY from the dangers this could work." Ami mulls as she paces about a small bit, "We could spin this around on her and level the hate and negativity towards her. She'll be so distracted that we could actually, once Usagi's back, defeat her." There's a growing sense of hope that was rising within us all I could feel it in the air as the girls and guys were getting riled up.

"Hopefully we can destroy her and if not, we'll seal her back up and destroy the place to bury her in it. That way there's no chance of her revival." The last words from Ami prompt Haruka to voice out, "So what do we do next?" it's when Mamoru moves to take the stones out and put them on the nearby table that the girls gather around him and them. When he begins to use his powers to revive the gentlemen within the stones, we all see the glowing light from within them as curiosity makes us all not breach his focus.

That is until Michiru asks, "What about their memories? Isn't Usagi needed to help with that part? To heal them?" he pauses briefly then refocuses again which just causes Haruka to ask now, "What are you doing?" it's then that Rei uses her senses to configure what he's doing before any of the girls get jumpy. She appears quietly focused till her features soften up a little bit, "He's using the planets energies to heal them." Her voice sounds almost like she's in a state of awe for his actions.

"Similar to Usagi's method only this takes more time, more power and more energy." There's a caution in her voice that prompts Ami to try and stop him, "Mamoru if this is too much don't do it." yet he gently pushes her back, "It's actually good if I do, do this." He then turns to look at her, "If I'm too weak afterwards it just means that that mystery woman won't be able to use my powers to do what she wants." He tries to smile through the focus but gives up after a minute as Ami remarks, "No she will…"

We can tell she's not done as he maintains the energies, "But you'll be too weak to stop her from taking what she wants from you." She then covers her mouth as if she struck gold with her next train of thought and looks to Jadeite who looks to her confused as to why her attention is on him all of a sudden, "That's why also didn't touch where Beryl resided." Now she had our attention as Mamoru continued to pour energies into the stones.

"She wanted Mamoru to waste his powers in bringing back the generals so he wouldn't be strong enough to fight her powers to control him or 'free' him as she puts it." this strikes us as shocked as she turns back to Mamoru and says, "If you're too weak she'll get what she wants from you and use it to activate the golden crystal herself." He doesn't stop though as he continues and begins to glow a near gold color himself.

His words are stronger than I would have given him credit for, "I know that might be her plan, but I also know that I trust in my connection to NOT falter with her. I've been training for months now and I know that with the generals here to help and guide I can do this. She won't get into my head. I'm a lot stronger than I used to be." We all watch as he pulls the rest of the powers in needed to bring the generals back to life.

It's at this point that all of us back up as three men are now laying in loose fitting clothing, not undergarments but loose-fitting tops and bottoms as they come to and see the many young women surrounding them. I can only imagine how off putting, weird and different they must be feeling right now. They haven't seen the outside of the stones in years and that was more as holographic images.

"You guys you?" Makoto asks, weary for obvious reasons as she tests to see if they're really themselves or the negaverse versions of themselves. It takes the generals several minutes to compartmentalize things as they recall everything about themselves and what happened and what they did. I can see so much guilt and anger directed towards themselves that the girls I can see are lowering their guards.

Even I can see how Malachite is frustrated with what happened then and now. It's a very tense twenty minutes as they go from pacing about in agonizing guilt and anger, to catching up on what's going on to finally realizing that we are here. So stuck in their own agony and misery over their actions both past and present they couldn't see us for a moment. Yet when they did it was like life came to them.

Like the very sight of us here brought life to their eyes. I for one saw how Malachite looked at me. The amount of love that came to the forefront, and mine you he's not a very open man. Not even in the slightest. Yet with me, once I got past that stony exterior, he was a very compassionate, loving, kind man who would kill the devil himself if it meant I was safe. I saw that man as he stood rooted to the spot, he was in.

I could see his need to come to me, to envelope me in his arms yet he remained standing there, waiting for me to come to him. Not wanting to scare me off and I really did appreciate him for that. Especially since this was a new area for me to. I had dealt with crushes in the last few years, but never once had I experienced true love. Not like I had with him. My dreams of meeting him again at night didn't compare to how this was I reality.

I was blind to how the other girls were doing with the other generals as was he. I took a few steps forward, wanting to feel the fact that he was actually here, breathing and in person. Mine again when Mamoru, getting a second wind, becomes noticeable for using too much energy. This doesn't go unnoticed with Malachite. I can tell that as much as he wants me in his arms right now, we have other things to focus on.

He chastises Mamoru for using too much energy and strength. He gently orders Mamoru to go rest and recoup his strength. It's only when Mamoru actually does as asked, and lays down on the couch, having used up a lot of energy that I can't stop the need I have, and I go to be in his arms finally. He engulfs me in a hug as I feel a wave of relief hit me all at once. There's deep seated longing within me.

A part of me that says I've come home. I don't even know why but I feel like crying. He holds me close and whispers in my native Venusian language, something I had even forgotten I knew, "I'm home my love…I'm never going to be separated from you again." I lift my face up as he wipes away a tear that I didn't even know was coming down my cheek. "I know." He leans in and gives me a tender kiss.

It's heartbreakingly fragile at first before I feel him giving in. I do as well and for a few moments were in our own little world of rekindled love. I had long ago forgiven him for the transgressions that happened. I knew it wasn't really him that did it but the evil that was possessing him that did it. I wasn't naïve to what he's done but I also wasn't going to punish him for something he had no control over.

What kind of person would that make me? He then proceeds to apologize so profusely I have to tell him to stop. He doesn't feel it's enough though as he does the same with the rest of the girls that he attacked. I know Rei can be stubborn and overly so at times to, yet even I can see that while she doesn't want to accept this, I can see that she's relenting a little bit each time and even accepts the other general's apologies.

I think it's just jadeite's that's the hardest one for her. As we notice Mamoru struggling to find sleep, I see Zoisite going over towards him as he puts a sleeping meditation over him that allows him to slip into a slumber. "Don't worry he just needs ample rest; he won't get that if he's worried about Usagi or the rest of us." He expresses. "Did you give him a dream?" Ami asks him as he smiles towards her gently.

"I placed him in a dream he's had many times before. One that sooths comforts him. A dream with just Usagi and him." We then take notice and see that Mamoru is in fact looking much more relaxed than before. "He's going to need all he can get." Zoisite then looks to us, his expression turns more serious, "I can feel it in my bones. Things are going to get worse before they get better and there's nothing standing in that princess's way except for us so we HAVE to be all that we can be to beat her."

It's at this point, that Ami nods and says, "We are, and we will continue to improve ourselves as a whole and individually, but right now we could also use some rest." Zoisite nods towards her, "You do that, we'll focus on building up our powers in the area and make sure to avoid being in the view of people." Rei looks ready to protest along with Haruka before Michiru calms them both down, "Excellent idea." Yet she sends a glance to me on what she thinks should also happen, "GO for it we need to recoup."

As the guys leave out, Jadeite included, I turn to Luna and Artemis, "Do us a favor and keep an eye on them. Not that we don't trust them, or trust in Mamoru's abilities but their literally fresh from being in those stones. If any news reporter gets wind of them back here or if their recognized…" Luna nods, "Don't say another word, were on it." she and Artemis both leave out to go watch over them.

Haruka mutters, "Can't believe they bought that." I shoot her a look, "It's not something to buy, it's something to test. There's no instant trust here. Just like there wasn't for you guys." I shoot back to her, "They'll earn our trust as they work on their powers and we will learn to trust them." She looks away, "Looks like you were already learning to trust with the leader." She adds as I bristle now.

"Last time I saw him in the past he was my husband. Last time I saw him here he was brainwashed into believing I was the enemy. Now he's free of that and free to be himself again." I notice Rei's eye roll and before I can help it, I remark, "And unlike some people I'm not going to punish him for something he had no control over." She shoots me a glare and before she can say anything I remark, "Now I'm going to go get some rest. I honestly suggest you all do the same thing."

We did fight a lot today and I was worn out. To many monsters, to many issues and now to much emotional crap happening. We needed to regroup and work on a communication system that included the guys now. I just had a feeling thing's would take a moment to get a rhythm going in and we really didn't have time to waste. We needed to free Usagi and the sooner we did that the better we all were…everyone.

Usagi POV

It's been hours now. I can feel how roasted my body is feels. Granted I used the power I had in me to utilize the shield to protect me for a while but that wasn't an indefinite use of protection. I knew it wasn't so when I let it down, they struck back harder than before. Same demands to, this time I felt a renewed sense of energy though. The break, the reprieve I gave myself during the shield helped a lot in letting me endue more.

Not that I wanted to, but it helped me. I needed it because I knew when the girls came for me, when they were recouped from the fight themselves, they would come for me and I would be ready to help them fight. Or hopefully, and more preferably get out before they came for me. It's why I also stopped using the shield from my tiara. I needed to conserve my energy now and my power so I could get out.

I wasn't banking on the girls coming for me, nor Mamoru, even though I KNEW they would, I wanted to get out without having them to get involved. Besides the last thing I need is for these people to figure out where my power is coming from. Just when they look at me and stop the electric shock I manage to get out between breaths, "Please listen to me." I see the one guy arch his brow at me.

"Tell us what we want to know." He demands. I ignore his request. "You're making a big mistake. The bad guys are out there now." I practically shout, "She's going to try to take over the world if you don't let me go to stop her!" yet I can tell my words have once again fallen on deaf ears. They continue to push my body harder than before. Accelerating the voltage as if to see how much I can handle.

The voltage has definitely weakened me, yet I know if I could get enough of a break, I could free myself. I just want to be freed because of their understanding and knowing that this is not helping anyone. Besides, if I show them what I'm really capable of I just know deep down that I'll be wishing I had the electricity back. They might try to use actual weapons, bullets…and I don't know if my magic can resist that.

Power blasts are a hell of a lot different than bullets. I know our enemy has the bullet proof shield, but I don't know if mine is and I'm not able to test out that theory anytime soon. I hear the guy behind the window sigh, "Simply answer the questions and the pain can be temporarily stopped." I can't believe this. I roll my eyes, "Oh gee temporarily, why didn't you say so sooner." I mouth off.

"I gather my breath for the second round, "For the thousandth, redundantly repeated time…" I was beyond tired of this crap, "Yes I'm the senshi of the moon, but no I don't live on the moon." This was another round of questions I had been given in the last hour since I hadn't been forthcoming about my powers. Nothing had obviously changed and there was no point in bringing up the former moon kingdom that was a whole other level of not getting into this that I didn't want to bother with.

Not to mention they wouldn't ever be ready to hear about that. "I was born and raised here on earth. My family and their extended family have lived here in Japan for generations and no THEY didn't come from the moon...and for the last time I'm NOT the enemy!" I snap as I've become incredibly exhausted mentally, emotionally and physically by this. I gather my breath once more as they look at me with blank faces.

Their emotionless expressions just make me wonder where their own humanity is in this. Its then that I feel a sense of urgency. I can feel Mamoru trying to connect with me. I can feel his own helplessness as being unable to get to me. If anything, it makes me want to fight that much harder to get out. His reaching out to me is another means that he needs me, and I know I need him. His encouragement and support.

I can feel his call deep within my heart. Usako…I could feel his pain at wanting to help and hating that I was imprisoned especially while a sociopathic princess was on the loose. It seems our situations were nearly a reverse of years ago when he was taken by Beryl and I was the one suffering on the other end at home, crying and wishing that he was there with me. Only I had no intention of being stuck here that long.

He may have been brainwashed into staying but these people weren't aiming to do that…at least not yet. Feeling a renewed sense of fire within me I shouted out, "You have to let me go! She will destroy everything we all hold dear! Please I'm just trying to help you!" as the pain begins to start up again, I send him back words of comfort that I would be out soon. I just didn't know how or how soon that would be.

So, when it stops suddenly, I'm wondering if I got through to them only to find that the military guys who grabbed me up are entering in through the only door in the room. I raise my head up and swallow the dry lump in my throat. My lips are getting cracked at this rate and I haven't fully opened my eyes in hours. The electricity is eating away at not just my energy and power but at my hydration levels. I'm way beyond hungry and thirsty now but food and water are the last things on my mind.

I'm too stressed to even think about eating. "Oh, it's you guys…" I mutter, "Didn't know you were in the business of working with the enemy." I snap, clearly agitated from all the badgering I've already gone through. He ignores that comment though and instead demands, "Tell us how to use your powers and this can all stop." The room is silent as I look at everyone in my vantage point and make a note of possible security outside the door to get past.

"After all what's been happening so far to you this is just the taste of what's coming your way." a threat for sure. "Make it easy on yourself and tell us what we want to know. Eventually we will find your friends and they will get the same thing as you, but we know that you're their ringleader." The demand however is nearly the same as any other enemy we've encountered and it's sad that its coming from them of all people.

"No, that's not all you want." I sigh as I look directly at him. The anger in me gets channeled into a new type of energy. One that fuels my passion for justice and knowing what type of person I'm dealing with and I know he sees it within me to, "We both know in the end if you can't control me or the others as weapons for your own use then you want to copy it so your own people can use it and kill me anyways." it's then that he smiles.

It's a near cruel one that speaks of 'you're brighter than we took you for'. "You may be blonde but you're not without your brains." He comments as I shake my head, "What can I say the term dumb blonde died out years ago." I can't help but remark that. He lets out a small chuckle, "You've got a quick wit to. Tell me will that survive in here or help you survive?" I lower my gaze for a moment.

It's unbelievable how things are going so I lift up my head and turn the sass on full blast, "How about you tell me why you're treating me like I'm an enemy of the country." I pause as I gauge his reaction and its nothing, "Especially after what we've all done for the planet, repeatedly." no words from him so I continue, "We're not the threat. She is and the longer I'm held captive in here is all the more time she has to enact her plan with our world and take over." I try to reach him with my words.

Yet his response is the one that stuns me into disbelief, "And how do we know that the 'evil' you speak of didn't come here specifically for you? That you didn't bring it with you and use OUR planet as a battlefield." For a moment I ponder his words knowing that there might be some validity to them but knowing in the end that the monsters would have come here regardless of our presence here.

I snort derisively at him, "Really? Why does any enemy that earth has faced over the past millennia come here? For its resources. It has plenty of them and you think that this enemy is specifically here for ME? Even I can't take credit for that. Especially since I've lived on this earth my whole life. It's my home...our home." I can't help but let a smile out as I think about my years here.

"Its home to all of us…" I know they know the feeling, so I drive it home with, "And I'll be damned if I let an enemy turn the world into a wasteland which is what she plans to do with it." however no one appears to be even giving a flicker of emotion to what I'm saying. "We've all been working to save this planet." I try as I hope that by showing them that we've all been working together in our own ways shows them I'm not the enemy.

"Every time a threat hits earth that we can fight we fight it till our last breath. We always just manage to do it because we know that it's much more than what any force on earth is equip to handle." I could tell he didn't want to accept that but it's the truth and he needed to hear it eve as he bristled at my words. I had a feeling that many military people were like this. No wanting to admit that regardless of their faith and belief in the government they didn't want to see that everyone and everything had its limitations.

This world cannot handle our enemies that seek both resources and power. I could only imagine what would have happened had we NOT been activated when Beryl was around, "She engineered all of this, your hatred of us, the media coming at us, she did this to pull off the biggest distraction ever so she could take what she wants. You're all being played by her!" yet all I've managed to do was piss him off.

He steps forward, his face tinge red with anger as he frowns and shouts back at me, "The only one trying to play here is you and I'm sick of your avoidance of the questions." He nearly spits his words out as he continues to go on, "You're the only one that's playing here moon brat." I couldn't help the irony here or maybe there was a link with his words that I hadn't seen before, either way I can't help myself.

"Funny, moon brat..." I nearly smile at him, "Like I don't here that often enough by our enemies." The implication is enough for him. His face goes beat red with anger as he rages into my personal space, getting into my face to the point where I can feel his breath on my skin, its quiet disgusting actually but perhaps that was his aim, "Tell me what I want to know!" I keep my cool though.

I can tell that I'm having an effect now and I use it to my advantage. To show his subordinates that I'm not the enemy nor am I wrong. I look at him dead in the face my own expression now one full of knowledge and grace, something I couldn't have mustered up five minutes ago had I tried yet now comes easily as feel my inner fire reaching out long enough now that the electric shock has stopped long enough.

I lean forward the extra few inches, getting into his as well, my words true and cutting as ever, "I was brought into this world of fighting evil at the age of 14." I could sense some of the guys behind him reacting to that, yet I remain on course for my life's journey for them to hear. I want them to see that I'm good and that I fight for it and that keeping me in here is wrong. "I've died and come back to life ready to fight another battle." Sometimes a few times over we have, and it sucked every time, but we'd do it again in a heartbeat.

"My friends have done the same thing, and we still stand tall fighting side by side in this ongoing battle to protect the earth from those who invade it for power and to use its resources and we do it without asking for ANYTHING." I get further into his space as he moves back just a fraction of an inch. "Just to be able to live as normal a life as possible." I can sense that I'm beginning to reach some of the people behind him.

"I've defeated enemies time and time again. I've been hit with energy balls, power blasts, been beaten down by the enemy. I've watch as we all work as a team to end the reign of the next bag guy that tries to use us all and kill those that stand in their way. I've lost my friends time and time again, watched them get killed before me, had them dying in my arms even..." I can tell on another sensing level that many of the people behind him know exactly what I'm talking about, I wouldn't doubt how they know either.

"And yet somehow we keep being given the gift of life cause deep down the universe knows were needed to keep fighting the good fight." I know that that alone has to have some impact on them. Cause as anyone who's fought in war or been in a battle and wondered why their still alive, who's lost a brother or sister to combat…they would know…they would get it. They would understand that level of pain and agony.

I can even see a glimmer of understanding in the man's eyes before me, yet he covers it not wanting to admit that we might actually have a moment of understanding. "That we're all the stands between evil taking over this planet and making it and its inhabitants either its bitch or dead so it can suck it dry." Like we haven't had that happen before to...as unfortunate as that is for us. "So, you want information there it is, and it's all the information you'll ever get from me." I don't lean back as he steps back a small pace.

It's small and subtle but it's there. He was backing down and despite the fact that I was the one bound and being essentially tortured for information I slipped into the metaphorical control booth and steered it in my direction. I felt my own inner strength rising up again. "We're the senshi...were survivors and we will always be." I couldn't help but feel a strong sense of confidence at what would undoubtedly happen next.

Yet I would face it with determination and prevail over what they decided to do to me next, "So go ahead…" I motion to the room that's been responsible for my pain in here so far, "Turn up the notch on the electrodes on your way out. We've dealt with worse from our enemies." I can see he's wrestling with something as he comes forward a half a pace as if he's just itching to make me break yet realizes I'm not where near my breaking point.

"Let me put your mind at ease on some things." He goes at it with a somewhat gentler tone than previously given. It also makes me incredibly suspicious of him and doubtful that he's going to ease up on things, if anything it seems like he's doing what he can to make it worse, so HE feels more in control now. Especially since I definitely took it metaphorically from them all earlier with my words.

"Since you feel you can handle anything we dish then you won't mind that you're not leaving anytime soon. As far as we're concerned, due to the nature of where you came from, cause let's face it, no human on earth has this kind of power nor should they." I could feel my anger rising up at his words and what he's making sure to obviously say. Using his position to do what he can to keep me locked up in here.

"You can't..." he cuts me off though, "Plus your powers, added to the factor that we have no idea who you act through on your vigilant quests that you and your rag tag team of senshi go out on, you are going to remain held in this facility with no one coming to get you through any means." if he thought that was a threat, he was wrong. The senshi would figure out a way to get to me, I was just aiming to be out before then.

"You're being held here indefinitely till we can figure out completely what to do with you." I nearly chuckled, he had no idea what to do with me other than experiment and figure me out. I knew that might take potentially years and we simply didn't have that kind of time. "You're wasting your time." I tell him as he states, "You've ben wasting our time and that ends now." I shoot him a bored glare.

"Your being considered an alien that has no permissible rights here so might as well stop trying to 'reach us'." his smile is agitating as I see his objective with his words. How he plans to keep me here. "There's no saving us when we save ourselves and everyone else. We always have and always will save ourselves. We don't need a bunch of little girls coming in here to do the jobs that we have been trained to do." his last words are smarted off.

He starts to leave out making all of the others with him retreat their gazes from me. I couldn't stop the soldier and princess within me from lashing out at his retreating form...nor did I want to, "Is everything we've done over the last few years a joke to you?" my tone obviously changes which garners all of their attention towards me. I couldn't help the near chuckle that came out of my mouth.

"Don't need us? What a joke." I couldn't help but sneer at him. Not the rest of them as they had been silent the whole time just him. "We're the only ones who can save you from her." I couldn't help the overwhelming satisfaction I felt knowing I was right in this. They were in over their heads with her and were either to stubborn, bull headed, pig headed or egotistical to admit to it, or perhaps all of the above.

"We have been saving YOUR asses for the last few years from evil forces that came down to earth to try to either destroy or take over." I begin, "You can't deny that every time a new enemy comes by that when you put your guys on the battlefield no one knows WHAT to do then it mysteriously goes away and without warning." I could see the anger welling in him again at my words, but he couldn't say a damn thing about the truth.

"That's because that's US, the senshi, handling business. We deal with forces beyond your means. We have been for so long now because we have been gifted with the power to do so." I lower my tone to drive home my last point. "There's no one else who can handle our powers, no way to replicate them, no way to 'retrofit' it or whatever else you're trying to do. It's as a much a part of us as breathing is. So, your efforts here are a waste."

I look over at the scientists that are watching the display before them then back to the military guys, "We have saved this world several times over and now we have a new threat." my voice hardens up as years of knowing what we've done comes rushing forward, "One that plans to take over again..." I nearly role my eyes knowing how many enemies we've had that have tried and have failed in doing so.

"So if you want to hold even a smidgen of control that you feel you need to have due to your position in power then you need to let US, the so called 'little girls' who are actually battle harden young women who have done more good than you could ever image and given up so much to protect those we love and fighting for earth, do OUR jobs to save YOUR asses…again." the anger is now mixed with a deflating ego which I can see is also mixing itself with not wanting anyone else to see it to.

He's losing the verbal fight...again. "It's the only way. You're good and needed for human threats that this world deals with on a daily basis. That's your job and your damned good at it or else you wouldn't be where you are, but this, this is OUR turf, OUR fight." I nearly snap towards the end. "These are our enemies that only WE can take out as we have been taking out the former for years now."

They had to be getting this, they had to be hearing this and taking it into stock so someone with the few brain cells they have could muster the courage to do the right thing and let me out. If much more time went by, I'd have to hurt innocent people to get out and I didn't want to do that, it's not who we were...not who we are. Yet I was going to have to question what became more important, avoiding hurting someone in here that was holding me captive, or hurting them to get out so I could help save everyone else.

It was a conundrum I had been avoiding facing yet I might not be able to avoid it for any longer and might be forced to act on. "So, if you think that capturing and torturing me to try and FIGURE me and my powers out is going to help you or solve your problems, instead of being rational and understanding as I was trying to be on the battlefield with you before you ordered your people to stun me, then you truly don't know the duty of a senshi." he pursed his lips together not having much else to say.

"We protect the innocent from outside invaders; we don't punish the guilty here on earth. That's YOUR job. So, as I've stated before if you DON'T let me out, you're going to find yourself in hell on earth cause that's what she's going to bring you all if you DON'T let me go." I can see that my words have their desired effect on the other people in the room. The main guy that was talking to me leaves out and signals the rest to follow him.

Yet I notice one of them, a young man lingers around briefly as he looks directly at me. I let him see the truth in my words, the pain I've been dealing with and hope that beyond anything right now that he will see the error in the ways of his superiors and do the right thing by letting me out at some point. Before it's too late for everyone. He leaves off seconds later as I ponder my options in here while they take a break from the torture.