Sailor Moon felt along the wall of the room. It was cold and hard. Hearing her own raspy breathing made her go faster. She was worried that she might give out, the Silver Crystal was all that was really keeping her going. Suddenly her hand felt a lever and her feet stepped up onto a small ledge. It was one of the empty goo chambers. Suddenly Usagi got an idea. She took the Silver Crystal and willed it to let out a great burst of energy. She felt her heart skip a beat or two before it managed to start up again. "I'm defying death." she thought. She could overwhelm Jadeite's system... she had to try. Sailor Moon felt the Crystal's power to be faltering slightly. It wasn't working. The energy was just being added to Jadeite's collection. She was helping him. Sailor Moon sunk to the ground and her head fell to her hand as she cried.

Four bodies hung lifeless in vats of red ooze. The bodies of Sailor Mercury, Sailor Mars, Sailor Jupiter, and Sailor Venus. They had been dead for a good length of time. Jadeite had kept them around so that he could admire his own greatness. Jadeite: defeator of four Sailor Senshi. He had moved them to a small chamber off his throne room so that he wouldn't have to walk as far to admire his prizes. But Jadeite was not admireing them now. That was good, for all of a sudden one of the Senshi's hearts started to feebaly beat again. It was hardly pumping, though the beats were growing faster and stronger as the minuts rolled by. Suddenly Jupiter took a breath of air, and promptly choked on the goo. She let out a burst of electricity and the goo splattered all over the little chamber. Venus's heart had started as well and about five minuets after Jupiter she too was alive and free. Mars followed, then Mercury and they all hugged and laughed and whiped excess goo off eachother so they wouldn't have a continueing energy drain.

"When my heart started again I felt the warmth of the Silver Crystal." murmured Sailor Venus, who was still rather shakey.

"I felt it too." said Sailor Mars.

Mercury smiled "Sailor Moon must be here too."

"It's about time!" snapped Mars.

"We need to find her and get out of here. Then maybe we can defeat Jadeite." said Jupiter, rubbing her chin thoughtfully.

"There is no way we can defeat Jadeite as we are now. The only reason we are alive now is because of Usagi. And there is no telling how much energy she has." Mercury sighed.

"Lets just try and sneak out of her and find Usagi." Venus headed for the door. She looked both ways and then snuck out. The Senshi followed.

Usagi was sitting on the ground. She had looked the walls over thrice and could find now way out. Furthur more her breathing was getting worse and she felt like she was slipping again. Suddenly she heard something. It sounded like several small explosions. A vision filled her mind of four ghosts back from the dead. Mercury...Mars...Jupiter...Venus... all of them. Usagi looked over at Luna and Artemis, who were still out cold but breathing shallowly. Usagi heard the explosions again. A large crack appeared on the wall and suddenly Usagi forced herself to jump clear. She lay panting on the ground when Sailor Jupiter burst through the wall, stumbled, fell and rolled across the ground aways.

"Hi Usagi." ^_^ Said Jupiter, proping herself up on her elbow. Venus and Mars came through the wall as well and looked down at Usagi. Mercury followed, walking slowly so she wouldn't trip while she analyzed the structure of the building with her goggles and computer.

"Hi guys." gasped Sailor Moon.

"You aren't doing so well." sighed Sailor Venus, pulling Usagi up and supporting the girl on her shoulder. "Come on Usagi-chan, we just have to do a Sailor Teleport and we'll go home to rest.

"Luna and Artemis... Mamo-chan, we can't carry them too." moaned Moon.

"We'll just have to." sighed Jupiter. "Look, after we've left this place we can camp out at my apartment and your parents can just keep worrying untill we've saved the world. We can sleep a while."

The Senshi nodded tiredly, all of them were weak and limp with lack of energy. Jupiter hauled Luna up, Mercury helped with Artemis and Mars helped Tuxedo Mask up. They all stood in a circle touching in someway and concentrated. The Senshi called upon every molecule in their bodies. Every atom, every partical.

Jadeite suddenly got a twinge. Something was interupting the delicate balance of energy that enveloped his lair. He had felt a similar burst just a short while ago. The Senshi! It couldn't be! Sailor Moon was dead, her pitiful freinds had lost their lives long ago to the gel, and that stupid Tuxedo Mask and those felines couldn't produce this much power. Jadeite zoomed to the room where the most power was radieating from and came just in time to see...

"Please let this work." thought Sailor Moon despreatly.

"Get us out of this hell." whispered Venus.

"Deliver us oh Lord..." prayed Mercury silently.

In a flash of multi-colored lights the Senshi disapeared. "HOW CAN THIS BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE?" cried Jadeite in horror.

Five girls, a man, and two human cats collapsed on the floor of Makoto's appartment and didn't rise. Slowly the fuku on the five girls faded as did the man's tuxedo. They lay in a heap with out moveing, just sleeping.

^_^ Hello again. I might get one or two more chaps out today if I'm lucky. That'll be it for a week though, I'm off to Greece in the morning! Wheeee! {runs around flapping arms. bumps into a pillar} Anywho, sayo! I have to go off and write more! And play Zelda! And listen to Phantom of the Opera Techno Remix alot because I'll be without it for a week! That is what I shall do!!!! Wheeeeeeeee!
{runs out of room sreaming like a banshi}

PS: If you are wondering why Mercury is praying, when none of the Senshi really seem very pro-religion besides Mars, it's simply because Ami has always struck me as the very pious going-to-church-every-Sunday kinda girl. Can't you just see her in a cute little 1950s white dress going to a cute little Southern Baptist church? heeheee. Anywho, sayo! ~Ane Hoshi :D