Haruka slammed her fist on the table and it shook from the force. "Who exactly does she think she is?!" she said angrily as she continued pounding the table mercilessly. "Uh Haruka…" began Sage. "I mean, even if we were to choose a new leader, it would be Minako not her!" she continued barraging the poor coffee table with her fists. "I will seriously…" "Haruka…." "What is it Sage!" Sage gently grabbed Haruka's hand and pulled it away from the table, "I don't think Michiru would like her table to be full of holes." He said pointing to the dent in the table where her hand had last been. Haruka looked a bit sheepish. "Sorry about that Michiru." Michiru waved it off, "It's alright, now let's get down to business." Everyone nodded in agreement. Setsuna started, "Now that we've lost our worthless allies, we need to get more help. Anyone have any suggestions?" The 5 troopers looked at Anubis expectantly. "What?!" he asked staring back at them blankly. Just then their point hit him, "No…absolutely not." Ryo gave him a pleading look, "Please Anubis, we're desperate, can't you just ask?" the 4 ladies sat watching them confused. "Does anyone mind filling us in on whatever we missed?" asked Haruka annoyed. They ignored her. "Come on Anubis, can't you even try?" asked Rowen. Anubis shook his head, "Absolutely not, she just got married and I don't want to bother her or the guys." The 5 guys stared blankly at him, "What?! Who'd she marry? I thought they all hated each other! How did…" Kento's drivel was cut off by an extremely annoyed Haruka. "WILL SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?" Everyone looked shocked at her and the room became deathly silent. "Oh my Haruka." Muttered Hotaru. Haruka glared at her, "I'm not in the world's best mood so if somebody doesn't tell me what's going on here soon I will seriously go insane!" "I thought you already were…"muttered Setsuna under her breath. Rowen grinned at her remark. "Calm down Haruka." Said Anubis. "We have 3 other armor bearers and one very powerful lady as our allies. Their names are Cale, Sekhment and Dais and the lady's name is Kayura. As I was saying before, Cale and Kayura just got married so I'm not going to go bug them." "Personally, I don't trust them." Said Sage. Cye nodded in agreement, "Neither do I but this isn't a time to get picky is it?" Everyone turned their gaze once again on Anubis. "N O." Everyone groaned. "Then what do we do now?" whined Kento. "How about the Amazoness Quartet?" asked Hotaru. Setsuna looked thoughtful, "That's a good idea." "But aren't they still asleep?" asked Michiru who was leaning casually against Cye. Ryo raised an eyebrow, "What?" Rowen shook his head, "Don't even ask." "We could wake them up like Nephrenia did…" started Haruka then stopped. "Never mind, I don't think we would be able to find them." Setsuna nodded, "I think they're floating somewhere in the asteroid belt in their respective asteroid. It would probably be impossible to get there." Helios who had been silent the whole time finally spoke up in a quiet and hoarse voice, "That wouldn't be a problem. We could use Elysion as a passageway or you could use your Time Gates, Setsuna." Kento who hadn't been paying much attention and was daydreaming was suddenly brought back to awareness by Helios' voice and turned to face the speaker. "Eh? Who's the strange Arabian albino person?" he asked as he turned his gaze on Helios for the first time, noting his strange garb and pierced ears. Rowen and the other four girls couldn't help but burst out laughing. "What? What did I say?" asked a very confused Kento. Helios looked amused, "I assure you sir I am not an Arabian nor am I albino." Kento looked a bit embarrassed and the others couldn't help but laugh even harder. Just then a piercing scream cut off their laughter. Haruka stood up quickly and went to the window. "What's going on out there Haruka?" asked Sage as he went quickly to her side. "It's the enemy." The others quickly went to the window to see what was going on. It seemed as if the movie set of Independence Day had been placed in front of their doorway and the movie was currently being made. A huge disk shaped space ship was shadowing the town; the town on the other hand was in complete chaos. People were running around screaming, the streets were filled with cars, horns were honking, and any imaginable noises usually not heard in this part of the neighborhood were heard. "Look!" said Kento as he pointed at the spaceship. What seemed hundreds of gray colored apparitions were descending from the ship and were entering into the people, controlling them. "This is not good." Said Hotaru quietly; Michiru nodded in agreement. "They're trying to create a commotion to herd the people out so they can control them. They know we will come out to try and help them; this is all a trap." "Of course it's a trap, but for the sake of the people I think we should risk it and save them." Said Setsuna. Michiru shook her head; "We'll be walking right in to their trap. Why should we give them what they want?" "Michiru, if these youmas stay too long a humans' body, they will contaminate the human mind and body, turning them into the living dead." Said Ryo. "It happened to Mia's grandfather, but he knew what was happening and was able to partly fight the evil. But in the end because his body was contaminated by the evil, he died." "But if we get captured, the whole world will be enslaved. In every battle, some must be sacrificed for the overall cause. This has been our philosophy for all these years in which we have been fighting." Cye put his hand on her shoulder, " It's true that we should be careful, but a life without risks is meaningless. So what do you say we risk it on this one?" he asked her. She nodded in submission. "Alright! Let's kick some butt out there!" Kento shouted punching the air with his fist. Hotaru grinned; Kento was certainly one of a kind. "Ok then, we'll split up in pairs and do kind of like a crescent attack. Setsuna, you and Rowen go to the far right, Cye and Michiru will be next to you, and Haruka and I will be after. Kento and Hotaru, you 2 try to go through the mass and split the people up, Ryo and Anubis will follow. Our strategy here is not to kill but to scare the demons out of the people so we can fight them." Said Sage. Helios nodded, "I'll stay here at the apartment and try to link a way in order to find the Asteroid Senshi. Remember everyone, each of these youmas has a different strategy, power, and skill level so do not assume that all of them are the same." They all nodded and rushed out the door.
"Pluto Crystal Power!"
"Neptune Crystal Power!"
"Uranus Crystal Power!"
"Saturn Crystal Power!"
"Armor of Wildfire, Dao Jin!"
"Armor of Torrent, Dao Shin!"
"Armor of Hardrock, Dao Kichi!"
"Armor of Halo, Dao Chi!"
"Armor of Strata, Dao Inochi!"
"Staff of the Ancient, Come to me!"
The 10 of them transformed and began their attack. "Got a question for you." Setsuna muttered as they began their "formation" "What a coincidence, so do I." Replied Rowen. "You first." Said Setsuna as she prepared herself for battle. "Why was Helios so melancholy?" "Helios loves Chibiusa and Chibiusa loves him. He promised her he'd always be there for her and protect her. Guess he feels like he broke his promise to her." "Now your turn." "Um…this is a bit of an odd question but is Anubis a priest?" Rowen laughed, "His power was passed down by 'The Ancient One', the priest who rescued him from Tulpa's evil clutches. Thus meaning he dresses like him. But no, he's not a priest." "Ohhhh…no wonder." Said Setsuna in understanding. Just then, what seemed like the leader of the youmas (head honcho ^^") spoke up, "Soldiers and Warriors of this world, why not give up this tiring unrewarding life and become followers of our Empress Elia. You shall always be rewarded and be promised with all kinds of power." "Ya sure whatever." Ryo yelled at him and pulled out his twin katanas. The others followed suit. "It's time to Partay!" said Kento enthusiastically as he twirled his Nunchuku in the air. Hotaru pulled out her glaive and tested the feel of the weapon. "We're not going to give in, be sure of that!" she said at him. The youma laughed a high pitch scream of a laugh, "Well then, you shall pay the price!" he yelled and sank into the body of his human captive. The hundreds of "humans" then began to attack the 10. Uranus charged, holding her space sword in her hand and slashing out at the enemy. "Anyone who opposes me will get a taste of my sword!" she yelled. Sage followed closely behind her with his No Datchi. The youmas soon knew that these 10 soldiers were not afraid to destroy human life unlike the other senshi in which they had attacked before. Before long the youmas were shedding their human forms of them and resuming their true shape. "Yes! It's worked!" said Michiru excitedly to Cye. He nodded, and tightened his grip on his harpoon.
"Dead Scream!" Pluto yelled and sent her purple ball of energy at the youma she was currently fighting. Nothing happened. "Hahahahaha, you think that your stupid energy ball can defeat me?! You're truly sadly mistaken!" he cackled evilly and threw her attack back at her. Pluto stood her ground with her hands crossed in front of her trying to block the effects of the attack, unfortunately it was too strong and she was blasted backwards into the ground. "Setsuna!" Rowen yelled and jumped in front of her to protect her. "Wwwwww….more victims." The youma smiled. Rowen drew his bowstring back but in the process of doing so was hit hard in the back by another youma that had sneaked up behind him. "My fighting skills really have decreased" Rowen muttered and stood up. He looked around at all the evil faces grinning back at him, faces full and sure of victory. I'm not going to make it easy for them, that's for sure, he thought to himself and began attacking them while trying to cover Setsuna. After felling what seemed like a score of the youmas he looked down to check on Setsuna, to his surprise she wasn't there. "What the…" he groaned. "Looking for me?" Rowen turned around and was surprised to see Pluto standing there, beaten and bruised but nonetheless standing. He sighed in relief, "Are you alright?" Pluto grinned, "It takes more than that to kill the guardian of time, ne?" Rowen grinned back and the 2 of them continued to fight back to back.
"Iron Rock Crusher!" Kento yelled as he twirled his Nunchuku in his hands and slammed it into the ground, causing the ground to heave and about 20 youmas in the path of his attack were destroyed. "Geez, these monsters are way too easy to…oooph!" He was cut of when one of the youmas used its long rapier and knocked him to the ground. Saturn saw it and used her glaive to slash the youma in half. She gave Kento her hand and pulled him up, "Do NOT underestimate the enemy." She said as she cut another youma in half. Kento rubbed the back of his still sore neck, "You got that right."