It was a Saturday. Rei and Ami were both getting impatient. Mako was never this late. She should have been at the temple at 9 o'clock and it was 3 hours after the fact.
"This is getting ridiculous.", Rei said impatiently. "I'm going over to her place."
"I don't know about that.", Ami replied. "If she's not here, than she's probably not awake at all. It's not like her to oversleep."
Before they could discuss it further, their friend turned up, albeit looking slightly pale. Rei went over to her friend, only for the Brunette to reach out and grab her, sucking out her energy. "Must… feed…" the pale figure wheezed out. Thinking quickly, Rei pulled out a charm and stuck it on her friend's face. Mako convulsed briefly, before returning to normal. "What happened?"
"We were hoping you could tell us.", Ami replied. "Where've you been?"
Mako thought for a moment, trying to remember, before she recounted "Last night, I was at this new club at the mall. I went inside and it was absolutely packed. Then the DJ started moving his arms in this weird way and then things went blank. When I woke up, I felt this weird feeling in my neck and felt this weird compulsion to steal energy." After telling her story, Mako had Ami use her Mercury Computer to scan her for abnormalities. The bluenette was shocked by what she saw(or rather, pretended to be shocked).
"According to these readouts, you're turning into a Youma. In a normal human, this process would have already completed itself. But due to your abnormal physiology, your body is rejecting the change for now."
Rei was worried about the use of the words "for now". "How long until the transformation completes itself? And can it be reversed or stopped?"
Ami continued reading the screen. "At the current rate of progression, 18 hours, 23 minutes and less than 15 seconds. As for stopping it, we'll have to destroy the one that did this to her. Presumably the DJ."
"Well then, ladies," Mako began "who's up for goin' clubbing."
Later that day, the girls were walking up to the Dark Club with a platonic friend of Ami's, one Ryo Urawa. Ami had suggested bringing him because 3 girls going in together would look off. So she had brought a friend from school who had feelings for her. They went into the club without a hitch. Then at the first opportunity, Ami ditched Ryo and the three girls transformed into their alter egos. But then they saw Jupiter's skin turn green and her fingernails elongate into claws.
"Oh dear," Mercury gasped "it appears that being in her Sailor Guardian form removes the additional protection from the Youma infection. But I don't know why it works like that."
"I'll tell you why!" Sailor Mars and Sailor Mercury turned to face the source of the voice. It was the DJ, who jumped with an inhuman strength towards them. "It's because I prepared that batch of my venom specifically for Jovian DNA." Then he assumed his true form, an unholy cross between a plant and an insect. And then he began speaking in rap.
"Yo. The name is Flytrap. I'm coming at ya through the medium of rap. I'm the new biggest thing in town, and you girly girls are goin' down."
Mars made to attack the Youma, only to be hit by a high pitched scream from her left, knocking her down. She turned to see another girl, the same girl that Makoto had met the night before, who now assumed a vampiric appearance.
"I didn't want to make a fuss, 'bout the fact that there were two of us. You don't need to look so green. Allow me to introduce my partner Kyurene."