The Astro Senshi
By: Andrea MacFarlane aka Serendipity/Serenity Night/Night
Chibi-Serenity@ChibiUSA.org
(c) July 2000

Konnichiwa minna-chan! I get to go to my friend's 18th b-day today! It's gonna be a blast, LITTERALLY! She loves fireworks so a bunch of us pooled our money together, with some help from our parents, and we're going to write her a message in the sky at night in fireworks! It's going to say, Happy Birthday Nicole! Get Drunk And Have Fun! It's Your Day Today!, It cost us a pretty penny to have a message that long but I think it's worth it and so does everyone else. Okay enough about that! I know you don't wanna read about me so on with the story details. I know I left you guys off in suspense but I HAD to! It was just to comical, my sister is reading it to and when she finished the chapter she came up to me and yelled, "Where's the rest of it?! That can't be it!" so that's why I left it like that. She's standing over my shoulder as I type this, I type at 47 words/minute so she has no problem reading as I go. *OW, Ow, OWWOWOWOWOWOW!!!!* She's HITTING ME! Help!!!!! Okay she's gone now. Anyways in this chapter Lynne gets really annoyed by you know who, but something happens to change her attitude. Now she doesn't know what she's feeling about him. The senshi fight a new breed of demons/monsters. But the new senshi handle it better then Archimedes thought they could. Still they're all in for a grueling training session at the abandoned farm. Each will practice his or her strong point as well as major weaknesses. Archimedes doesn't like it that Jason is hanging around Lynne so much, what could this mean? Okay enough! I've told you to much already! Read!
Wow what a long intro!

Dedicated to: Megan Hitchens aka neosailorvenus of Grep Sailor Moon *Hi Megan!*^_~

Chapter 4: Flaming Foes

Sailor Saggitarius arrived at the scene to see nothing there.
{Did Archimedes give us the wrong location? He wouldn't do that though. Maybe this thing is hiding somewhere....} S.Saggitarius thought just as a ball of fire flew past her head.
"Hey!" she yelled as she whipped around to see a dozen creatures made of lava and a woman dressed in a flaming red outfit.
"It is your dooms day today little girl. My name is Azlava and my demons will make mince meat out of you before you can even blink." Azlava said confidently before she vanished in a blazing fire.
"Oh I don't think so. Need a little assistance Saggitarius?" Sailor Pisces said as he arrived at the scene with Aquarius right behind him and Gemini with Cancer a few metres away.
"No I don't need your help. I've done this stuff before so just leave me alone." S.Saggitarius replied in a snarl as she readied her attacks.
"Centaurus Saggitarian Hoof!"
Her attack had no effect on the demons. "What's going on? Their supposed to be dust!" she said frantically as she dodged a fireball.
The group of monsters split up into teams. 3 of them attacked each of the senshi.
They attacked Pisces next after they figured that Saggitarius was no immediate threat to them and could be taken care of later.
"Under the third zodiac sign of winter, I am Sailor Pisces!"
"Tidal Wave Crash"
S.Pisces begins to raise his right hand into the air. Behind him, you can see a huge tidal wave rise into the air. As he says Crash, he thrusts his right hand forward, sending the tidal wave crashing into the fire demons. They harden on contact into rock and then they turn to dust.
"Hey that's pretty cool!" He says as he runs to help out S.Saggitarius.
Sailor Cancer is being surrounded by the fire demons, "Okay I hate being trapped like a rat. What do I do?" she yells at no one inparticular.
"Look inside your heart!" Archimedes yells at her as he flies by.
"Cancer looks down at you from the skies and informs me of your wrong doing. As a mother hen guards her chicks I will protect the people of earth from those that seek to do evil. Stop your futile quest or I will destroy you."
"Maternal Instinct!"
She puts her hands palm to palm. A light bluish line emits from her hands and the line and surrounds the other senshi. The line than flares up and the demons outside of the barrier are temporarily stunned and blinded.
Sailor Cancer jumps from the middle of the monsters and rushes over to Sailor Gemini.
"I need some help here Gemini!" she yells as she reaches S.Gemini.
The three monsters that were attacking Gemini are coming out of their stunned state and the three that had been attacking Cancer run over to get their target.
"I'll handle this don't worry." S.Gemini said as she prepared her attack.
"On behalf of Gemini and The Celestial bodies above. You will perish."
"Twin Gemini Fusion!"
Holding out her hands they begin to glow and two balls of pure energy burst forth and come from both sides to smother the fire demons before joining into a single ball and exploding outwards destroying the three demons that just arrived.
"Yes! That was great! Come on let's see who else needs help." S. Cancer said as she dragged S. Gemini after her.
Aquarius looked devilishly at the demons coming towards her, "I don't think so buddies." She said.
"From the depths of the sea, I am here to protect the Innocent! I am Sailor Aquarius!"
"Icy Tornado!"
Using the Ocean Heart and the Atlantis Staff she twirls it above her head and it creates a tornado, she drops the tornado to the floor and points the ocean heart into its center. A blast of freezing water enters its core and as it nears the demons it starts to shoot out ice beams and freezes the demons. They shatter into a million pieces.
"Time to join everyone else." S. Aquarius said as she wiped her hands clean.
"I don't need your help Pisces. I can handle them. Just go!" S. Saggitarius yelled at him as she blocked a hit and dodged a fire blast.
"You do need me. Just let me help you." S.Pisces said as he sat on a roof watching her beat off the demons.
"No I don't, I...AAAGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!" S.Saggitarius had been hit by a fire blast on her right shoulder.
"NOO!!!!" S. Pisces cried out as he ran to her side, "Are you alright?"
"NO! So get away from me. I've told you not to distract me and what do you do, DISTRACT ME!" S. Saggitarius yelled in pain as she clutched her wounded shoulder.
"Saggitarius ArroAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!" S. Saggitarius screamed when she raised her arms to shoot the magical arrows the pain in her shoulder became unbearable and she lost all the energy in her attack.
"Don't refuse my help now Saggitarius, your in no shape to battle." S. Pisces sternly ordered as he launched another of his attacks.
"Torrential Storm!"
As Sailor Pisces says his attack, a small globe of sky blue energy builds between his hands. On the word 'Storm', he thrusts his hands into the air, launching the globe. The globe bursts a short time later, showering the fire demons with a barrage of stone-hard raindrops. Dusting them instantly.
"There that's taken care of, how's your shoulder?" S. Pisces says as he walks back over to S. Saggitarius.
S. Saggitarius has a scowl on her face as she says, "It's none of your business, leave me alone. I told you I didn't need your help. I could have taken them out."
"With that burned shoulder?! I don't think so! You would have gotten hurt even more, maybe even died. Who knows what could have happened to you!" S. Pisces said hysterically.
"Exactly! Who knows! I might have even won if you hadn't interfered! Don't you ever do anything like this again or I'll kill you myself!" S. Saggitarius yelled as she walked away from the scene and the sirens began to come closer in the distance.
**Back at the Centaurus Household**
"Lynne! Honey is that you? It's time for dinner! It's your favourite, pepp & cheese pizza with black olives!" Lynne's mother called from the kitchen.
"I'm not hungry mom, I'll have some later though thanks. I'm going up to my room take a nap. All that swimming really made me exhausted." Lynne replied as she climbed the stairs to her room.
Lynne reached the top of the stairs only to be bowled over by her sister Megan, "HiLynneByeLynne! Goingtothedinerforsomehamburgerswithmyfriendsbebackby9pm.Tellmomforme." Megan rushed out as she bolted down the stairs and out the door.
"Megan! That girl is going to get in a lot of trouble one of these days. Mom just finished making dinner. Oh well, Hey Mom! Megan left for the diner to have burgers with her friends! She said she'll be back at 9pm so don't worry!" Lynne called down to her mother before entering her room.
"How's your shoulder Lynne?"
Lynne jumped at the sound of the voice by her window.
"Cheryl? How did you get up here? Actually why are you up here?" Lynne said as she peered out her window at the figure sitting in her tree.
"Actually Lynne it's Sailor Cancer at the moment, I've come to heal you. I saw you take that blast and thought you'd like to have it fixed right away instead of having to sleep on it all night before it went away. We senshi heal with sleep you know. So how about it?" S. Cancer explained as she crawled in through the window.
"Oh would you! Thanks, I don't want to worry my mom if she she's it." Lynne stated enthusiastically.
"No problem, just try to move as little as possible." S. Cancer said as she placed her hands on Lynne's burn.
"Nursing Touch"
S.Cancer's hands begin to glow a light blue. The blue lght then travels into Lynne and she glows a light blue. It begins to heal the burn, leaving nothing to but the memory of it ever being there.
"Are you okay Lynne? Did I do an okay job?" S. Cancer asked as she examined the Lynne's shoulder area for any left over burn.
"Yes I feel great! Thanks again. Ahhh! I feel great! In fact I'm not even tired anymore! Wanna go for a walk with me?" Lynne breathed excitedly.
"Okay sure. Where do you wanna go?" Cheryl agreed as she detransformed.
"Well there's this great coffee house that I know of...." Lynne started to explain as they headed out of the house and into the city.
**On Another Plain**
"You have failed me Azlava, what do you have to say for yourself?"
"My queen please give me one more chance, I shall not fail you, I promise." Azlava cringingly stated.
"Very well, but your next failure will result in being a test subject for Psi-Corp. They'll tear your brain apart! You'll still be alive when they do it as well. Leave me now, come back to me before the hour is out and explain your plan to destroy the little pests on Earth that prevent me from gathering the required amount of energy I need to go there." the evil queen ordered and Azlava vanished in her usual burst of flames.
**Back on Earth**
Jason was sitting in his room when a news flash interuppted the regularily shcedueled program.
"Pete's Diner here in the city has been assualted. Hostages are being held inside. An eye witness proclaims that a man inside just snapped and pulled out a gun, one of the waiters and a patron of the establishment are dead, many others are injured. The terrorist demands $500,000 for the safe return of the remaining citizens. The city is debating on whether or not to send in a swat team and risk lives, or to send in a negotiator. More updates are to follow, we now return you to your regualrily shedueled program.
The news flash blinked off and the show returned.
"Looks like we got trouble." Jason said as he ran out the door of his house and rushed towards Pete's Diner.
Lynne and Cheryl saw the news flash, looked at each other and took off out of the coffe shop towards Pete's Diner.
Cheryl whiped out her cell phone and got Himeko on the line, "Get down to Pete's Diner immediately and grab Channon while your at it. We've got a situation on our hands!" Cheryl yelled into the phone when Himeko picked up the line.
"I'm on my way." Himeko confirmed before slamming down her reciever.
"I trust their coming. I just hope that my sister isn't still there, or this will get very personal." Lynne scwoled as they continued to run for the diner at top speed.
Jason, Himeko, and Channon crossed paths a block from the diner, "How did you guys find out about this?" Jason asked as they gathered into an alley.
"Cheryl called me and I called Channon, how did you here?" Himeko explained as she checked around for anyone watching.
"I saw a news flash. Okay there's no one around so let's transform." Jason replied.
"Pisces Star Power!"
"Gemini Star Power!"
"Aquarius Star Power!"
Lynne and Cheryl arrived at the scene, "Hey look over there Lynne! There are three very familliar light squences, I bet you ten to one it's the rest of the senshi. Let's go find out." Cheryl predicted as she ran pulling Lyne along with her.
Sailor Pisces, Gemini and Aquarius were about to run out of the alley when two figures ran into them.
"Oooofffff!" cried the group.
Lynne landed on top of S. Pisces, and Cheryl bowled over S. Gemini and S. Aquarius.
"Well look at that, our fearless leader has shown up at last. What took you so long?" S. Pisces said with a grin and a chuckle.
"Just shut up Pisces. My sister's in there and if we screw this up I'm going to blame you." Lynne said as she crawled off of Pisces.
Channon checked around and then satisfied, she nudged Lynne and the two girls transformed.
"Cancer Star Power!"
"Saggitarius Star Power!"
"Come on, let's go rustle us up a terrorist." S. Pisces said western style.
The other senshi glared at him and then followed S. Saggitarius out of the alley and on to Pete's Diner.
**At Pete's Diner**
"Captain the negotiator won't be able to come in time. He's stuck in traffic on the 401 highway. It's bumper to bumper. What are we going to do now?" the private officer explained as he relayed on the CB radio.
"We'll have to send someone else in and hope they do a good job, find out if anyone here would be willing to talk with the man inside." the Captain replied.
"Will we do mon Capitan?" S. Pisces asked as the group walked over the police tapeline.
"Who are you? How did you get past the policemen?" the Captain asked in an outrageous tone.
"Let me handle this one Pisces. Captain Davis, who we are does not matter, what we can do does. We can stop the terrorist inside that building. Now either you co-operate and let us do this our way or we'll do it and you can lose some of your men. It's your choice Captain Davis." S. Saggitarius said seriously.
Captain Davis straightened his posture and replied, "Alright we'll do this your way. But if anything goes wrong we're pulling you out anyway we can got it. So what do you want us to do?"
"Your not going to do anything except tell the guy in there that we're coming in." S. Saggitarius ordered as she handed him the nearest bull horn.
Captain Davis sighed as he took the bull horn and turned it on, "Listen up inside! We're sending some people in, DO NOT SHOOT THEM! They are not armed, they're wearing some funny costumes but that's it!" he called into the bull horn.
"Very funny Captain." S. Saggitarius commented as the group entered the establishment.
**Inside Pete's Diner**
"Who are they sending in Megan? I'm scared, what if he shoots them?! What then?" Megan's friend asked shrilly.
"Shut up will you. All I can see from behind this table is that about 5 people have come in. Maybe they've come to save us." Megan said as she peered over the top of the table.
"Well the captain wasn't lying was he. You are in costumes. You know Halloween isn't for another couple of months." the terrorist mocked.
"That isn't funny. Plus the Captain didn't totally lie when he said we weren't armed. Though he didn't know that." S. Saggitarius smirked as she somersaulted over his head and kicked him in the back. It caused him to fall over and drop his gun.
"Maternal Instinct!"
The attack paralyzed the terrorist and gave the other the senshi a chance to attack him.
S. Aquarius drop kicks him while S. Saggitarius prepares an attack of her own.
"Saggitarius Arrow Barrage!"
As her energy arrows reach their peak they fly back towards the terrorist but instead of hitting him, S. Saggitarius concentrates her energy and they encase him in a jail like confinement. The arrows continue to glow and when the terrorist tries to free himself he is severely shocked.
"I'll go get the police in here to take care of him." S. Gemini says and then jogs out the door of the diner.
Cheers from the rescued patrons resonates through the diner as the police and S. Gemini walk in and they realize they've been saved.
"I vote we should get out of here before they start to question us." S. Gemini whispers to S. Saggitarius.
"I agree. Come n guys we're leaving now." S. Saggitarius orders and turns to leave but someone grabs her arm.
"Oh thank you! Thanks a lot!" it was Megan, S. Sagittarius' sister.
"Uh yeah your welcome. I gotta go, come on guys we gotta book it." S. Sagittarius nervously said as she walked out of the diner and jumped to the roof tops with the other senshi.

Stay Tuned For Chapter 5: Dousing the Flame

How did ya guys like that one? (neosailorvenus I told you your character would get into trouble with the police. I just didn't say what kind! HAHAHA!) In the next chapter no new senshi come in but more things heat up between Lynne and Jason. A new twist happens at school to! So you'll just have to wait! heheheh! Okay enough of that. Sorry this chapter was late. The next one will be on time!

Any comments or flames email me at Chibi-Serenity@ChibiUSA.org