URANUS AND MERCURY'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE!!
Part 5

By Sailor Nimnard

Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters, I just borrowed them for my little
story.

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Mercury stood stunned for a moment then remembered Uranus was passed out on the floor.
She quickly made her way to her comrade and did a brief scan to check her condition. The scan
revealed that Uranus had several cuts and bruises, but no major damage. This would be
fortunate if they were to escape with their lives. Mercury stood to do a scan of the room they
were in, finding there was only one entrance. Strangely, there were no life signs within a
300 meter radius of her position. Mercury jogged to a nearby table and grabbed a glass of
water. Returning to Uranus, she promptly dumped the contents on her face. This, of course,
brought Uranus back to consciousness with a splutter for air.

"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO THAT FOR?!" Uranus asked.

"We need to get out of here, fast!"

"Why should we bother, you gave them the time key. We probably don't have anything to
go back to anyway. I know I don't already."

Mercury looked with concern at her friend. Then she remembered her other friends, some
of whom where no longer living, if what Pluto said was correct. "We have to get back, Uranus.
Serenity needs us. We have four hours to get away from here, otherwise, the Queen will be
missing two more senshi."

"And how are we supposed to get back to our dimension? You gave away our only chance
for returning. We can't contact Pluto, either, thanks to Kaolinite taking the Luna-P. Why
can't she just be dead!? How many times has she died anyway?"

"She could ask you the same thing. Now, let's not dwell on the negative. We need to
get out of here, and fast. We both still have daughters to return to, we don't want to leave
them orphans!"

"Oh, yes! I forgot about that! What do you plan?"

Mercury paced around the floor a little while she formulated her plan. After several
minutes, she stopped and turned to Uranus. "We only have one way out of this room. Where
we go after that is anyone's guess. Let's just get a moving before our hostess changes
her mind!"

"Right!"

Both women ran towards the door and out of the room.

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"VILUY! Have you been able to enter the Plutomaru?" Kaolinite asked as she hovered
over the device.

"We haven't tried the key you gave us yet, as I wanted to run some more scans on the
exterior. We have all the time in the world since we do have a time machine and one of
Pluto's time keys. Just relax and let myself and the other workers do our job. We don't want
to leave any room for error."

"We may have all the time we need, but I have been waiting for hundreds of years to
extract my revenge on all the sailor senshi. I don't want to wait any longer than I have to.
Just use the key to open it up and have a team start working inside as well!"

Viluy gave the hovering witch a dirty look, but then gestured for some of the lab
workers to come to her. She then produced the key that had been given to them from Mercury
and inserted it into the lock. A slight humming noise could be heard coming from the machine.
Soon, it started to glow until the intensity of the light it was emitting was too bright for
everyone to keep looking directly at it.

"Viluy! What is happening?! Why isn't the door just opening?!"

"I don't know! I need to take some scans, but can't see anything!"

The brilliance of the light and the humming continued to increase until a slight popping
sound was heard and the machine was gone.

Kaolinite was so shocked that she landed on the ground and ran to Viluy. "What happened
to the machine?!"

"I'm not sure. I must have triggered the travel function. It must have gone to another
dimension."

"YOU FOOL!" Kaolinite waved her hand, and Viluy was turned to dust. She slowly turned
to scan all of the startled faces of the others in the room. "Anyone care to join her?" she
ominously whispered.

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"Why did you give her the time key, Mercury?"

"I needed to do something to save you."

"I don't need to be saved! I am perfectly capable of taking care of myself. Definitely
better than you!"

"A simple 'thank you' would be nice."

Uranus just 'humphed' as she turned back to look down the long corridor they had entered
when they left the great hall.

"Who said I gave her the time key, anyway?"

Uranus just ignored the additional comment as she continued to walk forward. Mercury did
her best to keep up with the rapid pace of the larger woman. "Where are we going anyway?" she
finally said.

"I'm not sure. We just need to get out of this building and away from here as soon as
possible."

"STOP RIGHT THERE!!"

Both women stopped as they recognized the voice of the woman behind them. They turned
around simultaneously and Mercury was the first to speak.

"Kaolinite, I don't think our four hours have passed yet. Remember, we had an
agreement."

The floating woman laughed her characteristic laugh, then shot a black bolt of energy
at the smaller girl. "Mercury, I really am surprised at you! I would have expected something
like this from Uranus, but not you, little one!"

Uranus helped Mercury back to her feet, then kept her arm around the smaller girls
waist for support.

"What the hell do you want now, bitch!?" Uranus hissed through clenched teeth.

"Why, you still haven't learned how to treat a proper hostess." Another bolt of black
energy slammed into Uranus causing both women to fall to the floor.

Kaolinite glided over to float above the two fallen senshi. "Mercury, I have under-
estimated you. You are no longer the shy, quiet one, are you? Where is the real time key?!"

Mercury looked defiantly at her nemesis and answered "I gave you the time key! It isn't
my fault that you didn't know how to use it!"

Uranus just looked at the two arguing women, confusion apparent on her face. "SOMEONE
TELL ME WHAT IS GOING ON HERE!"

"Ask your little friend there!"

Uranus gave Kaolinite a sour look, then turned to look at Mercury. "What is she talking
about?"

"I'm really not sure." Mercury replied honestly.

"You both are so difficult! I shall enjoy your deaths! I really doubt that you don't
know what happened, Mercury, but I will tell you anyway since you don't appear to be willing
to tell Uranus. It's the least I could do before you both suffer long, agonizing deaths."

Uranus and Mercury just looked up at the hovering woman, waiting for her to continue
speaking.

"It seems that Mercury gave us a faulty time key. When it was inserted into the
Plutomaru, it activated the device, but it didn't allow entry into the vehicle. Your precious
little time machine has disappeared somewhere in the dimensions!"

Mercury decided to speak up at the last comment. "It hasn't disappeared! It returned
to our dimension! The homing mechanism must have worked! That was the fail-safe device I
installed on the Plutomaru! If the machine is activated by anyone other than a sailor senshi,
the device automatically returns to Crystal Tokyo!"

Kaolinite's eyes narrowed as she looked at the two senshi. "Well, how nice that the
machine could return home. Too bad that you can't!" Two more bolts of black energy flew
from her fingers at the women still on the floor.

Uranus and Mercury screamed in agony and writhed around in pain on the floor. Kaolinite
stopped after a few moments, and began laughing. "Oh, I'm not going to kill you two just yet.
I promised to give you slow and painful deaths. Now, I just need to decide if I want this
enjoyment for myself, or if I shall make it a spectacle for everyone to enjoy."

The floating woman was interrupted from her thinking as she saw some figures approach
far down the hallway. "Well, you two, it seems my decision is made for me. I'll kill you
here, but there will be a small audience to enjoy the entertainment with me!"

Kaolinite landed softly on the ground, and closed her eyes. She drew her hands together
in front of her appearing to build up power. A dark cloud began to form around her as the
figures drew closer.

Suddenly, attacks rang out from the approachers, and their voices were heard shouting
in unison.

"BURNING MANDALA!!"

"SPARKLING WIDE PRESSURE!!"

"DEEP SUBMERGE!!"

All three attacks hit Kaolinite as she was deep in concentration. She was thrown back
a few feet, but managed to stay standing. The energy that had built up around her was
slowly dispersing from the interruption. She quickly looked up to the strangers and shouted
out "MARS, JUPITER, AND NEPTUNE?! I thought you were already dead!!"

"DON'T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU HEAR, KAOLINITE!!" Mars shouted back.

By this time, Uranus and Mercury had gained enough strength the sit up and were looking
at their fellow senshi in disbelief. The three other senshi stopped a few meters from
Kaolinite, and took defensive stances.

Kaolinite quickly overcame her shock, and started laughing again. "So, you three have
come to save your precious Uranus and Mercury?! Well, I'll just let you know now that all five
of you combined aren't strong enough to defeat me! I shall enjoy killing all of you!!"

Mars, Jupiter, and Neptune were quick with their next attacks.

"MARS FLAME SNIPER!!"

"JUPITER OAK EVOLUTION!!"

"NEPTUNE SUBMARINE REFLECTION!!"

All three attacks found their marks on the redheaded woman. This time, she stumbled and
fell a few meters from her previous position. This gave the three senshi time to run to
Uranus and Mercury, who were still sitting on the ground.

"HARUKA!" Neptune cried as she grabbed Uranus in a fierce hug.

Jupiter and Mars both embraced Mercury as she still sat on the ground.

"Oh, isn't this touching!" Kaolinite giggled as she hovered in the air. "I told you
that you aren't powerful enough to stop me! You will never get through my youma, either!"
Kaolinite waved her hands, and suddenly all of them were transported into a large arena-like
structure. Around them were thousands of youma, waiting to attack from the stands. In the
arena were also the rest of the Deathbusters and the AnimaMates.

"We will take turns in killing you little annoyances!!" Kaolinite shouted. "I'll
be the last to go, since I wish to enjoy watching your deaths!!"

The youma began howling in a deafening roar. They also began streaming out of the stands
and advancing on the senshi. Another unexpected attack rang out from the ceiling of the
arena. "DEAD SCREAM!!" wiped out all of the youma within 30 meters of the senshi.
"VENUS LOVE AND BEAUTY SHOCK!!" hit Kaolinite as she hovered in the air.

"GREAT!!" the redhead yelled. "Now I can kill all of you!! Are there any other
surprises that I need to expect?" Kaolinite yelled.

Just then, a giant white ball of energy began to form above the center of the arena. As
it grew, a figure became visible inside the circle.

"Well, if it isn't Neo-Queen Serenity herself! This is excellent! I can wipe out all
of you once and for all!!"

Serenity raised her head to gaze directly into Kaolinite's eyes. For some reason,
Kaolinite felt a chill run down her spine.

Serenity finally took the opportunity to speak. "I am sorry if my senshi have caused
you any problems. That was not my intention. I wished to have you spend the remainder of
your lives here on this world in peace."

Kaolinite yelled back enraged "This is not some sort of paradise! This is Hell!! We
don't want to live here for eternity!!"

Serenity continued to look directly into Kaolinite's eyes. "I am sorry if you are not
happy here. I did not wish to punish you. I just wanted you to have a peaceful existence.
If that does not make you happy, then there is only one thing I can do." Saying that, Serenity
took the Silver Imperium Crystal and raised it above her head. Waves of bright light came
flooding out of the crystal. All of the occupants of the arena, as well as the entire planet
were bathed in the white energy. When the energy subsided, only Serenity and her senshi
remained. "Rest in Peace." Serenity whispered, then disappeared in a flash of light.

The remaining seven senshi gathered near the center of the arena. Neptune snuggled close
to Uranus and laid her head on the taller woman's shoulder. Jupiter, Mars, and Venus circled
around Mercury and squished her in a group hug. Pluto walked up to them and softly put her
hand on Uranus' free shoulder. "Nice to see you again." Pluto said.

"I thought you three were dead." Uranus finally spoke.

Neptune smiled while saying "No, we were just on our way here. We didn't have the
exact coordinates, so Setsuna thought it was best everyone here thought we were dead in case
we didn't make it."

"Also, in case someone overheard our conversations." Pluto added.

"Wow! It's great to see you, Mercury! You, too Uranus!" an excited Jupiter said.

Mars and Venus just nodded their heads emphatically in agreement with Jupiter.

"Well, I suppose we should get home. It was a good thing you sent the Plutomaru back,
Mercury. That is what enabled Venus, Serenity, and I to get here when we did. I don't even
want to think about what might have happened if we hadn't have gotten here in time."

"Yes, thank you. All of you." Mercury said.

"Thanks from me, too. I guess if it wasn't for me, none of us would be here." Uranus
quietly added. "By the way, why didn't Saturn come?"

"Oh, well, she stayed behind with Chibiusa since someone had to watch the kids."
Neptune said while smiling at Uranus. "I know someone who has been wanting to meet you."

"We really have a daughter?" Uranus asked.

"Yes, did you think Setsuna made up the whole thing? She'll be 10 in a couple of
months."

Mercury listened while the two older senshi spoke, then said "Pluto wasn't kidding
about us having children?"

Mars spoke up "No, our daughter can't wait to meet you." Mercury looked questioningly
at the fire senshi, then grabbed her in a big hug and said "Thank you!"

"Okay, we can finish this up in Crystal Tokyo! Let's get going!" Pluto waved her
staff and a dimensional portal was created. All of the senshi walked into the opening and into
the palace of Crystal Tokyo.

"Hey Mercury! Think you can finish my simulator now?"

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Well, I think that pretty much finishes the story. If you have any comments, etc. you
can leave them here or e-mail me at i_am_evilus@yahoo.com. If anyone would like anymore
stories from my twisted little mind, let me know. SEE YA!