Sorry for the cliffhanger before. Here it is!
Forballa had watched the entire battle from his
spaceship, ported near the planet Raihn. He roared in anger and slammed his
fists onto the control panel. He rapidly punched in a few buttons and another
window popped up in front of the old one. A woman shrouded in a shadow
appeared, she stepped out of the darkness slowly, "yes master, what is it that
you require?"
The woman had black hair with silver
eyes, she wore the same outfit as Ruby, but it was black as night. "Master?"
she said with an odd accent.
"Agate, bring the girl with the tail to
your base, make it fast she's going to wake up in a bit, see that she doesn't."
Forballa said angrily.
"Yes sir," she purred, and disappeared.
She reappeared next to Usagi and Serena
in the ruins of what was once south Tokyo. She walked over to Serena and pulled
her transformation brooch off, and put it into her pocket. She grinned at her
catch and picked up the girl with the brown tail. She waved her hand and
vanished. She reappeared back in her base, it was completely dark, save for a
large lamp in the corner. Agate placed the pre-teen onto a flat stone table,
she tapped the side of the table and iron bonds swirled over her, binding her
to it. She placed the brooch on a small table in the corner. She slipped out of
the room and into another one, also poorly lit. She walked to a poster on the
wall, it was a very poor blown up picture of Forballa, she took a chair and sat
on it, staring longingly at it.
Back in the dim room, Usagi stirred, she
basked in the warm light of the land, in an instant her eyes snapped open. She
looked around, struggling against her bonds, she didn't dare to power up.
Forballa was probably right around the corner, he wasn't going to find her, at
least not yet. A ripple in the time space dimension was felt on her right,
Pluto appeared from the rift, garnet orb first.
"Usagi," she whispered, "are you all right?"
"Fine, Pluto, please help me."
"I'm sorry Usagi, I can't change time
anymore than it already has, but I'll help you in another way. It's very
dangerous being here, I'm breaking many rules. So please listen carefully, you
are in the lair of one of Forballa's minions, Forballa has managed to create a
sort of telephone between the two dimensions, he is going to force you to use
your power of changing dimensions, to get you to him, from there he will
threaten you. I ask you as a friend not to give in, it will be more than my
life and your friends if you do. I must go, someone calls," with that she
turned around getting ready to leave.
"Pluto, before you go, I just want to
thank you for everything, I really am thankful, you know that right? Anyway,
you're the one that saved me, it's not my power Forballa is after, it's yours.
You just came to my aid Sailor Pluto, I did nothing."
"That's not true Usagi, you came to me,
you had the power, but I knew nothing of this until you arrived I merely
remembered a poem about a dimension traveler, and I knew that it was you, the
moment I saw you. Goodbye," she said and disappeared.
"Bye..." Usagi whispered, Pluto's words
fresh in her mind. She shut her eyes and thought about what Pluto, her true
friend had said.
"Ungh…" Serena mumbled touching her
aching head. Her entire body ached from head to toe, as the memories of the
previous evening returned to her. She coughed a bit in the cold, and rolled
over, Tokyo wasn't normally too cold, but it was chilly, and she was poorly dressed
for the morning breeze in a t-shirt and miniskirt. But something was missing,
Serena searched her pockets, but found nothing gone. Suddenly it hit her like
one of Jupiter's best lightning bolts.
Her brooch!
With many grunts of annoyance Serena got up
and searched around, mumbling curses and other nonsense words she had made up.
But she found nothing, she groaned. Nursing her bruised arm, she hobbled to the
nearest usable bus stop, paying the fair, she chose the back seat, right next
to the furnace. She started practicing how she would explain everything to
Luna.
Usagi had been up for a while, she had
realized that the bonds had stolen a lot of power from her body. She was now
powerless, just like a pitiful human. She had long since noticed Serena's brooch
lying on the table several feet away, she had tried to reach it, of course. But
she had more of a chance trying to defeat Son Goku. Usagi abandoned the thought
for the moment, and, once again began counting the little holes on the ceiling,
1493, 1494, 1495… After a while she grew bored of that, scrawled the
number she was at down in her mind, and focused on an escape plan. She had
learned, after a day of being trapped in the chamber, that a woman named Agate
came in three times during the day. Usagi was allowed to use the bathroom once
in the morning, and once in the evening. At about noon, (Usagi couldn't be sure
it was dark around the clock) she gave Usagi some food. Several cans of
microwave Spaghetti-O's, and a quart of milk, were poured down Usagi's throat.
That morning she had tried to escape, or
at least tried to find out where she was, but Agate had sensed this and only
activated the golden bonds, and seeing as most of her energy had already been
zapped away, another episode might kill her off. But now she was certain what
the object was, it was Serena's brooch. She fought against her bonds, but a
lone leaf against the wind had a higher chance than she. With a sigh she lay
back, closing her eyes temporarily. How was Gohan doing, in a year, when Sailor
Pluto came back, would they still be best friends? Would he even remember her?
No, she thought, he had to, why would he want to forget her? She opened her
eyes, and stared up at the ceiling, wasn't it about time for her Spaghetti-O's?
"Agate!" she yelled, then cringed at her
boldness.
"Shut up! I'm coming!" the woman said
from the other room, heavy rock filled Usagi's ears as the door swung open. She
was more like an old teenager.
Usagi glared at her as she had a klutz
attack worse than Serena and spilled milk all over Usagi. "Fanks," she
muttered, spitting the white liquid out.
Agate's eyebrow drew dangerously close
together, as her lips pursed into a very severe look. "Shut up brat! Why
Forballa wants you is a mystery to me, now get your lazy hide up. All you do is
lay there while I do all the work!"
Usagi couldn't believe what she was
hearing, first, she was chained there! And second, did she care about Forballa?
Unlike dreamy eyes here, she didn't! "I can't get up I'm chained here!" Usagi
said firmly, she had learned that Agate was a lovesick maniac that only cared
about her appearances and crushes. Her list even topped that of Serena! Agate
could be easily pushed around, if you pull the right strings. But say something
about her hair, or clothes, and see what happens to the ant after the anteater
strikes. Suddenly a plan formed in Usagi's dull mind. She watched as Agate
sighed, her eyes becoming all cloudy as her daydream faded in. She sat on the
table right next to Serena's brooch, and looked at the ceiling.
"Hey Agate you dork! Forballa wants me
because he likes me better! He doesn't want some obsessive old hag!"
Usagi roared, shattering the black haired enchanter's dream.
"Wha?" Agate said murderously. "What?!"
she said, angry red blemishes appeared on her now angry red complexion. "WHAT
DID YOU JUST CALL ME?"
"You heard me granny! And Forballa wants
me, not you!"
Agate jumped up, and shot Usagi daggers.
Usagi prayed her plan would work, she
gulped. If not their wouldn't be anything left of her for Forballa to torture.
"I'm going to flay you 'till there's
nothing left of you!" she blundered.
"Technically there would be, you see the
human body is a complicated network of bo-"
Agate roared, her shouts reverberating
off the walls. She was, however, several good feet away from Usagi. "You little
witch!"
"Wazzat?"
Agate picked up the closest thing that
was in reach, and threw it at her insulter. This just happened to be the
brooch.
Being as weak as she was, the brooch flew
very slowly in the air. Usagi caught it between her teeth. "Moomph Coughmic
Power!" She had the same genes as Serena, thus the transformation began.
Sailor Moon appeared, shorter, more
stubborn, but nevertheless the same.
Agate's eyes widened in shock at what she
had just done. "Golden Bonds of Captivity, Activate!"
To her surprise Sailor Moon's grin
widened. She was no longer on the long table, the transformation had enabled
her to break free and arise. "Nice try, but now it's my turn!" Feeling her
energy coming back in slow amounts, Sailor Moon tightened her fist. It hurtled
through the air, fracturing Agate's jaw. Sailor Moon ran past her, shooting her
tiara at the woman as she ran.
Serena had lost a lot of tears that
night. In one evening, all of her friends had managed to die. Mamoru,
Mako-chan, Ami, Minako, Rei, everyone. And Usagi gone too, she pound her fist
on her bedside table.
"Serena! Wake up! You're gonna be late!"
Ikuko yelled upstairs.
"I'm up," Serena muttered, there was a
loud crash from downstairs.
Ikuko rushed up the stairs, barely
avoiding collision with Shingo. "By the great Kami-Sama!" (AN- Kami is
sometimes reffered as "God") She threw open the door to Serena's bedroom and
sat down next to her. "Alright Serena, out with it, what's wrong?"
Serena's eyes widened, "what do you
mean?"
"Tsukino Serena! It is half past seven on
a Monday morning, and you're asking me what's wrong?" Ikuko stormed.
Serena blinked, "meaning?"
Ikuko's eyes seemed to roll backwards in
confusion. "Aren't you supposed to be in bed?"
Serena, scratched her head, "hey I guess
you're right!" Suddenly her face became serious. "Mom! Put the alarm on snooze,
I have some serious sleeping to do!"
Ikuko looked pleased, then looked at her
watch. "Serena you're going to be late for school!"
"Gads! Not again!" Serena whined, and
raced down the stairs, taking them three or four at a time. She grabbed her
lunch satchel, dashed outside – and back in, forgetting to put on her black
slippers – back out. And, finally, ending her short journey with a head on
collision with the elegant soldier, Sailor Moon, with some – ah differences.
"Serena!" she said angrily, not unlike
Rei usually did.
"What!?" Serena said hastily, not
believing who she saw.
"I need help, I only just escaped, and if
I untransform, then Forballa will get me!" Sailor Moon whined.
"U-Usagi?" (AN: Sailor Moon as in Serena,
when she transforms, will be called Neo Sailor Moon)
"Of course it's me you nitwit! Now help
me, what do I do Serena, please!" Sailor Moon begged.
"Alright, hurry, get in the house. Did
anyone see you?"
"Not that I know of," Sailor Moon
whispered, as they snuck past Ikuko into Serena's room.
"Alright, lemme get this straight. You
can't detransform, and you can't stay transformed, otherwise he'll get you?"
Serena inquired.
"Yes, that's about it. I know the senshi
are dead, I can't sense their powers anywhere. Please Serena! Please help me,
he'll get me Serie."
"Ummm. Try taking it off."
"What?!"
"No! Try to take off the fuku. Then put
on your normal clothes so they won't know the difference." Serena suggested.
"Okay, but turn around, I know we're the
same person and all," Sailor Moon demanded. "And what am I going to wear then?"
she said, trying to get out of the sailor suit. She tugged and tugged at her
tiara, and finally it popped off.
"Here," Serena said, covering her eyes
and facing her counterpart. She dropped a school uniform into her arms.
"Thanks."
Well does everyone like it so far? I
think I'm developing a writers block… Won't last long for me though, not to
worry!