*AUTHOR'S NOTE PLEASE READ BEFORE CONTINUEING WITH THE STORY* At the begining of this chapter, as you will noticed bellow, I am mentioning the Amazoness Quartet. Where in hell did they come from you might ask?In the last chapter (#7 Island of Zeus) I re-uploaded it after a long while of seeming inactivity on fanfiction.net. Well, I've been busy and stressed and now I have time to write right! I fixed up #7 which I decided was below par. Everything is the same, except that harpy went out and the Amazoness Quartet came in. Re-read if you want, review it again if you want, just letting you know so you don't think I'm on crack or forgetting my own story's plots. ;) sorry it took so long to get back to this! I'll try and keep up! Now on to the story!
***
The Amazon Quartet stood in the corner, watching the girls. "The prophecy eh?" Jun Jun said hoarsely. "The word of the Messiah. In the year 2020 the Sailor Soldiers met a new threat. This was not a threat from Chaos who had been defeated in a great battle in 1996. This threat came from humans themselves. I shall tell you no details for the gems themselves will reveal those memories to you and you shall piece that puzzle together."
Palla Palla picked up where Jun Jun left off." But the actual prophecy was given by the Messiah before a great battle. The prophecy that a great war was coming, unless the man who would start it was stopped. The Sailor Senshi won that battle, but in the next battle all of the Sailor Soldiers representing the Inner Planets were mercilessly slaughtered, except for Sailor Moon. She used her power to seal their souls into four talismans, the gems from their tiaras. It was the last act she made before she disappeared for many years, she has not yet come out, and it is the year 3000."
"The war that is coming has been many years in the making, and only you can stop it. The gems, holding the souls of the Senshi, are extraordinarily powerful and have much energy in them. The man who wants them needs them for some unknown project, but he would start a war to have them, and a war to use them." Explained Ves Ves.
"So the prophecy is that a great war is heading our way and the man who will start the war is after the gems?" asked Ami. "Where do we come in?"
"You were built by the man who is going to start the war. Sailor Mercury first planned you though, after the Messiah had spoken. Sailor Mars had received visions of their death and Mercury knew that they needed a force representing goodness to try and collect the gems before the war-bringer got to them. The elaborate tombs were designed to hold the gems and protect them. It will become clearer to you what your goals are and who your enemy is as you collect the gems and receive their powers and memories." Replied Cere Cere.
Minako had a sudden idea, "Can you give us a clue to where the temple of Mars is?"
The entire Quartet shook their heads. "We know not where the temple resides. We stay here simply so that we could protect this gem while we wait to be awakened to serve Small Lady." Sighed Ves Ves.
The girls thanked the four and prepared to leave Zeus Island. But it had taken many hours to get to, through and out of the Supreme Thunder Shrine and now the army was combing the island. It certainly didn't look good that they had hijacked a plane and were returning with an unconscious young woman.
Even Ami didn't recognize the uniform on the soldiers as being one from any country, and she quickly realized that these must be Adimus's soldiers. In fact, they looked just like the ones that had captured them in the woods weeks ago.
As the party was restrained and loaded onto a high security boat, Rei couldn't help muttering, "Here we go again..."
Adimus himself was onboard the prisoner vessel to greet his captives. "Hello my daughters" he said instantly as he spun dramatically and stereotypically around on his little wooden stool.
"You're a really annoying guy, ya know?" snapped Rei with a sassy sparkle in her eye.
As the prisoners were moved forward into the holding area of the small boat, Ami seemed to have spaced out and had to be prodded forward. She was staring straight at Adimus, hands over her mouth, though the corners of her mouth were turned up beneath her fingers.
All of the girls were put into a small thick walled cell. Even with their cybernetic strength, the walls and door were too thick to bust through. Makoto was still passed out on the floor, and as with the other two cases of gem insertion, she would be out for several more hours.
"What was it Ami? You looked like you had seen a ghost…" asked Minako.
"Adimus. I didn't know him last time we saw him, but after I got my gem, it all becomes clear. The spirit of Sailor Mercury in the gem knows him. I think he was the man she loved. He built us right? Like he and Agate said. It's all come together. And when I saw him, the gem came alive. It sent a wash of some weird sensation over me, like something was trying desperately to get out and become alive." Said Ami, her voice dry and soft and breathless.
"Well we need to get out of here now." Minako aimed her arm at the door but Rei stopped her.
"Do you want to fry us?"
"Good point."
Suddenly the door clanked open. The occupants of the cell were frozen by magnet rays and Jesea came in. Jesea took some magnetic handcuffs and slipped them over Ami's slim wrists. He typed a number onto a key pad and one of the magnets turned off, allowing Ami to move. The two left the cell, the door slameing. Jesea took Ami to a small cabin in the heart of the ship. Adimus was waiting for Ami.
Ami saw him like that, sitting on the bed and the gem took over her cyborg sensibilities. "Adimus…"
Adimus smiled slightly. He was in control. "Come to me Ami. It's been too long…"
Ami stepped forward, her circutry was unable to control the soul flowing forth from the gem. She ran to Adimus and allowed him to strip her slowly and gaze at her. Her cyborg mind completely under control of the gem. Adimus took no cares in pleaseing her, he used her to enhance his emotions. The two seemed tireless in their pursuits, Ami was charged up and Adimus was had boundless energy when it came to this.
It was hours later when Ami returned to the cell. Rei got up and walked over to the blue haired woman. "What happened? What the hell was that about?"
Ami smiled slightly and her eyes had a dreamy look. "It had been so many years. But nothing has changed between Adimus and I, not since that night before the battle. When we celebrated the completion of the cyborgs."
"Snap out of the delusions Ami! It's such a big fat duh that Adimus has changed. He's not the same Adimus as he was back then! Why else would we be in this prison cell? He trusted the real Senshi, if he was really on their side than he'd trust us too. He made us. If you did what you just insinuated…well that's just sick. That's like incest or something!" spewed Minako with a disgusted look on her face.
Ami's eyes were slowly un-dilating as the soul flowed back into the gem. "Shit what the hell have I just done?"
"I think your soul died before Adimus changed. It loved him so utterly that it won't realized he's different until he does something wrong." Makoto mused.
"How come none of you reacted to Adimus as if he were a nice kind person?" Ami snapped.
"Well we are able to control the gems since we don't have overwhelming emotions that make us do weird lusty things." Sighed Rei.
Adimus once again sent for Ami the next evening. During the day Ami had opened her arm up and disconnected the wires plugged into her gem. Armed with a poison bead, one of many Makoto kept in a pouch hidden in her bra; Ami went to face her once-lover. Knowing poison had no effect on her, Ami placed it in her mouth and then kissed Adimus quite fully when she got to his chamber. It had no effect on her since she was keeping her computer head, and she waited for it to work on Adimus. She was a cyborg, doing these things didn't affect her as it would a human. She just had to keep it up until the poison entered Adimus's blood stream. But after forty-five minuets, the toxin hadn't even slowed Adimus down. Ami was worried, this was supposed to work after only twenty minuets. Adimus finally walked across the small cabin after he finished with his business.
"You know Ami, poison doesn't work on me. I'm just like you."
"You…you're a cyborg?" Stuttered Ami, trying to hide her confusion while her computer mind searched desperately for an answer.
"The Adimus you loved, he died long ago. He went underground after you died, I gave him a job. He was brilliant, I wanted that kind of person to become many. I slowly got him to agree to more and more implantation tests, he gave me more and more until I was able to access the one thing I never replaced, his mind, and I gained all his memories, knowledge, everything. His body was everlasting, when that last bit of organic matter died I removed it and placed my own computer chip inside. Yes Ami. I was the first in a long line of independently thinking mechanical humans. And I realized- well, computers don't realize, they decided. Anyway, I decided that humans would destroy themselves. When that time came I wanted to be ready with enough of my clones and semi-clones to create a cyber civilization." Adimus smiled slightly.
Ami gasped. She suddenly realized (or rather decided) two things. The first was that the Sailor Senshi of old had believed the exact opposite of what Adimus had just said. And the second thing was that she was as evil as Adimus if she was his daughter. And then Ami decided that she had to get her friends off this prison ship. She told Adimus that she was going to put her clothing back on in the bathroom. Adimus cocked his head and then remembered that it was part of her programming to act in everyway like a human girl of her age. While in the bathroom, Ami reconnected the circuitry to her gem and put the sapphire back into her hand. She came out of the lavatory with a smirk. And if Adimus were human things would have seemed to go in slow motion for him.
Three things happened. Ami shot Adimus three times in the head with her gem. It caused a great blue light to fill the room and Adimus fell over. The next thing to occur was that Adimus bellowed for Matrika. And then the gem took over and Ami started to make crying noises. No tear fell from her eyes since she was a robot, but she made the noises instinctively. When Matrika came in with Jesea, they carted him off and Ami slumped against the wall. Once she had gotten herself under control, the blue haired waif went back to the prison cabin and freed the others.
Minako led everyone to the bridge of the small ship and saw Jesea there. He was about to stop the ship. "No!" Minako let out a strangled cry.
Jesea looked over at the small herd that had entered the cabin. "Thank you. Thank you for shooting Adimus. And thank you, Ami, for sacrificing yourself. Thanks to you Adimus turned his attentions from Matrika for a while."
Ami nodded and then Makoto spoke. "The army is after us. You can't simply hijack a jumbo jet and get away with it even if you are trying to stop a prophesized war. Keep the boat going. Say, do you know anything about the Mars ruby?"
"Can't say I do no anything about that gem. Although I know where we could find out since Adimus is out of the way."
"Show us now." Asked Rei, though it sounded more like a command. Jesea made sure the boat was on a good course and then led the troop down the hall to a small, inconspicuous, bright red door. It was labeled with masking tape 'Works'. Inside were a lot of computer and one monitor. Jesea quickly activated the setup and searched for the word ruby.
"It's a database of Adimus's mind. A backup copy if you will. In case he crashes, or gets blown away. We don't have to fix him unless we want though. And it's not like Matrika and I really care for the dick. So we'll just use this to figure out where the ruby is." Explained Jesea eloquently. The computer quickly got a fix on ruby and after a little more typing and adjusting, they soon discovered that it was in Africa. In a place known as Eden Marsh.
That night as Matrika and Jesea lay in Jesea's bunk together Matrika rolled over and whispered to the boy next to her "Did we take the right path?" Jesea nodded. They slept in peace that night.
***
The Amazon Quartet stood in the corner, watching the girls. "The prophecy eh?" Jun Jun said hoarsely. "The word of the Messiah. In the year 2020 the Sailor Soldiers met a new threat. This was not a threat from Chaos who had been defeated in a great battle in 1996. This threat came from humans themselves. I shall tell you no details for the gems themselves will reveal those memories to you and you shall piece that puzzle together."
Palla Palla picked up where Jun Jun left off." But the actual prophecy was given by the Messiah before a great battle. The prophecy that a great war was coming, unless the man who would start it was stopped. The Sailor Senshi won that battle, but in the next battle all of the Sailor Soldiers representing the Inner Planets were mercilessly slaughtered, except for Sailor Moon. She used her power to seal their souls into four talismans, the gems from their tiaras. It was the last act she made before she disappeared for many years, she has not yet come out, and it is the year 3000."
"The war that is coming has been many years in the making, and only you can stop it. The gems, holding the souls of the Senshi, are extraordinarily powerful and have much energy in them. The man who wants them needs them for some unknown project, but he would start a war to have them, and a war to use them." Explained Ves Ves.
"So the prophecy is that a great war is heading our way and the man who will start the war is after the gems?" asked Ami. "Where do we come in?"
"You were built by the man who is going to start the war. Sailor Mercury first planned you though, after the Messiah had spoken. Sailor Mars had received visions of their death and Mercury knew that they needed a force representing goodness to try and collect the gems before the war-bringer got to them. The elaborate tombs were designed to hold the gems and protect them. It will become clearer to you what your goals are and who your enemy is as you collect the gems and receive their powers and memories." Replied Cere Cere.
Minako had a sudden idea, "Can you give us a clue to where the temple of Mars is?"
The entire Quartet shook their heads. "We know not where the temple resides. We stay here simply so that we could protect this gem while we wait to be awakened to serve Small Lady." Sighed Ves Ves.
The girls thanked the four and prepared to leave Zeus Island. But it had taken many hours to get to, through and out of the Supreme Thunder Shrine and now the army was combing the island. It certainly didn't look good that they had hijacked a plane and were returning with an unconscious young woman.
Even Ami didn't recognize the uniform on the soldiers as being one from any country, and she quickly realized that these must be Adimus's soldiers. In fact, they looked just like the ones that had captured them in the woods weeks ago.
As the party was restrained and loaded onto a high security boat, Rei couldn't help muttering, "Here we go again..."
Adimus himself was onboard the prisoner vessel to greet his captives. "Hello my daughters" he said instantly as he spun dramatically and stereotypically around on his little wooden stool.
"You're a really annoying guy, ya know?" snapped Rei with a sassy sparkle in her eye.
As the prisoners were moved forward into the holding area of the small boat, Ami seemed to have spaced out and had to be prodded forward. She was staring straight at Adimus, hands over her mouth, though the corners of her mouth were turned up beneath her fingers.
All of the girls were put into a small thick walled cell. Even with their cybernetic strength, the walls and door were too thick to bust through. Makoto was still passed out on the floor, and as with the other two cases of gem insertion, she would be out for several more hours.
"What was it Ami? You looked like you had seen a ghost…" asked Minako.
"Adimus. I didn't know him last time we saw him, but after I got my gem, it all becomes clear. The spirit of Sailor Mercury in the gem knows him. I think he was the man she loved. He built us right? Like he and Agate said. It's all come together. And when I saw him, the gem came alive. It sent a wash of some weird sensation over me, like something was trying desperately to get out and become alive." Said Ami, her voice dry and soft and breathless.
"Well we need to get out of here now." Minako aimed her arm at the door but Rei stopped her.
"Do you want to fry us?"
"Good point."
Suddenly the door clanked open. The occupants of the cell were frozen by magnet rays and Jesea came in. Jesea took some magnetic handcuffs and slipped them over Ami's slim wrists. He typed a number onto a key pad and one of the magnets turned off, allowing Ami to move. The two left the cell, the door slameing. Jesea took Ami to a small cabin in the heart of the ship. Adimus was waiting for Ami.
Ami saw him like that, sitting on the bed and the gem took over her cyborg sensibilities. "Adimus…"
Adimus smiled slightly. He was in control. "Come to me Ami. It's been too long…"
Ami stepped forward, her circutry was unable to control the soul flowing forth from the gem. She ran to Adimus and allowed him to strip her slowly and gaze at her. Her cyborg mind completely under control of the gem. Adimus took no cares in pleaseing her, he used her to enhance his emotions. The two seemed tireless in their pursuits, Ami was charged up and Adimus was had boundless energy when it came to this.
It was hours later when Ami returned to the cell. Rei got up and walked over to the blue haired woman. "What happened? What the hell was that about?"
Ami smiled slightly and her eyes had a dreamy look. "It had been so many years. But nothing has changed between Adimus and I, not since that night before the battle. When we celebrated the completion of the cyborgs."
"Snap out of the delusions Ami! It's such a big fat duh that Adimus has changed. He's not the same Adimus as he was back then! Why else would we be in this prison cell? He trusted the real Senshi, if he was really on their side than he'd trust us too. He made us. If you did what you just insinuated…well that's just sick. That's like incest or something!" spewed Minako with a disgusted look on her face.
Ami's eyes were slowly un-dilating as the soul flowed back into the gem. "Shit what the hell have I just done?"
"I think your soul died before Adimus changed. It loved him so utterly that it won't realized he's different until he does something wrong." Makoto mused.
"How come none of you reacted to Adimus as if he were a nice kind person?" Ami snapped.
"Well we are able to control the gems since we don't have overwhelming emotions that make us do weird lusty things." Sighed Rei.
Adimus once again sent for Ami the next evening. During the day Ami had opened her arm up and disconnected the wires plugged into her gem. Armed with a poison bead, one of many Makoto kept in a pouch hidden in her bra; Ami went to face her once-lover. Knowing poison had no effect on her, Ami placed it in her mouth and then kissed Adimus quite fully when she got to his chamber. It had no effect on her since she was keeping her computer head, and she waited for it to work on Adimus. She was a cyborg, doing these things didn't affect her as it would a human. She just had to keep it up until the poison entered Adimus's blood stream. But after forty-five minuets, the toxin hadn't even slowed Adimus down. Ami was worried, this was supposed to work after only twenty minuets. Adimus finally walked across the small cabin after he finished with his business.
"You know Ami, poison doesn't work on me. I'm just like you."
"You…you're a cyborg?" Stuttered Ami, trying to hide her confusion while her computer mind searched desperately for an answer.
"The Adimus you loved, he died long ago. He went underground after you died, I gave him a job. He was brilliant, I wanted that kind of person to become many. I slowly got him to agree to more and more implantation tests, he gave me more and more until I was able to access the one thing I never replaced, his mind, and I gained all his memories, knowledge, everything. His body was everlasting, when that last bit of organic matter died I removed it and placed my own computer chip inside. Yes Ami. I was the first in a long line of independently thinking mechanical humans. And I realized- well, computers don't realize, they decided. Anyway, I decided that humans would destroy themselves. When that time came I wanted to be ready with enough of my clones and semi-clones to create a cyber civilization." Adimus smiled slightly.
Ami gasped. She suddenly realized (or rather decided) two things. The first was that the Sailor Senshi of old had believed the exact opposite of what Adimus had just said. And the second thing was that she was as evil as Adimus if she was his daughter. And then Ami decided that she had to get her friends off this prison ship. She told Adimus that she was going to put her clothing back on in the bathroom. Adimus cocked his head and then remembered that it was part of her programming to act in everyway like a human girl of her age. While in the bathroom, Ami reconnected the circuitry to her gem and put the sapphire back into her hand. She came out of the lavatory with a smirk. And if Adimus were human things would have seemed to go in slow motion for him.
Three things happened. Ami shot Adimus three times in the head with her gem. It caused a great blue light to fill the room and Adimus fell over. The next thing to occur was that Adimus bellowed for Matrika. And then the gem took over and Ami started to make crying noises. No tear fell from her eyes since she was a robot, but she made the noises instinctively. When Matrika came in with Jesea, they carted him off and Ami slumped against the wall. Once she had gotten herself under control, the blue haired waif went back to the prison cabin and freed the others.
Minako led everyone to the bridge of the small ship and saw Jesea there. He was about to stop the ship. "No!" Minako let out a strangled cry.
Jesea looked over at the small herd that had entered the cabin. "Thank you. Thank you for shooting Adimus. And thank you, Ami, for sacrificing yourself. Thanks to you Adimus turned his attentions from Matrika for a while."
Ami nodded and then Makoto spoke. "The army is after us. You can't simply hijack a jumbo jet and get away with it even if you are trying to stop a prophesized war. Keep the boat going. Say, do you know anything about the Mars ruby?"
"Can't say I do no anything about that gem. Although I know where we could find out since Adimus is out of the way."
"Show us now." Asked Rei, though it sounded more like a command. Jesea made sure the boat was on a good course and then led the troop down the hall to a small, inconspicuous, bright red door. It was labeled with masking tape 'Works'. Inside were a lot of computer and one monitor. Jesea quickly activated the setup and searched for the word ruby.
"It's a database of Adimus's mind. A backup copy if you will. In case he crashes, or gets blown away. We don't have to fix him unless we want though. And it's not like Matrika and I really care for the dick. So we'll just use this to figure out where the ruby is." Explained Jesea eloquently. The computer quickly got a fix on ruby and after a little more typing and adjusting, they soon discovered that it was in Africa. In a place known as Eden Marsh.
That night as Matrika and Jesea lay in Jesea's bunk together Matrika rolled over and whispered to the boy next to her "Did we take the right path?" Jesea nodded. They slept in peace that night.