Operation: Reality Check
A Sailor Moon/FRC fanfic
by Roehl Sybing
Episode 1 - "Six-Eighteen"
In one reality......
It was two o'clock in the morning in Tokyo. All was silent, until five voices cried out:
"MOON STAR POWER!"
"MERCURY POWER!"
"MARS POWER!"
"JUPITER POWER!"
"VENUS POWER!"
It didn't take any longer than half a minute when the famous Sailor Scouts were fully transformed into their outfits. They were in front of the temple at the time, with their two guardians, Luna and Artemis, and their ally, Tuxedo Kamen (a.k.a. Tuxedo Mask). The team of eight reached the portal that was recently opened up by one of the monsters of the NegaVerse. For some reason, it was kept open. The Scouts decided to head into the portal and find out what the NegaVerse was up to.
But the strange part was, the Scouts thought, why they are still fighting the NegaVerse. After all, they did defeat Queen Beryl and saved the Earth. But the reason didn't matter. All they knew was that Earth's greatest threat had to be stopped.
The leader of the Scouts, Usagi "Serena" Tsukino, or otherwise known as Sailor Moon, stepped forward, looked into the gateway, and said, "We're supposed to go in THERE?"
Rei Hino (or Sailor Mars) said, "Serena! You're the leader, you're supposed to get in there first!"
"Yeah, I know......but it looks scary..."
Sailor Moon thought it over for a second, and then added, "Oh, all right....."
She jumped into the portal, with all the others following behind her. The portal took them to the NegaVerse, where someone was waiting at the other side. When all eight came out of the gateway, they recognized who was waiting. It was Queen Beryl, the master of the NegaVerse!
After the hole in the wall where the Scouts came out of disappeared, their opponent stood up and said, "Fools! At last, I have you right where I want you!"
Sailor Mercury (a.k.a. Ami Mizuno) stood in front and said, "It's a trap!"
"Of course! You all thought I was dead, but why? I've spent two years, watching you fight others, noticing your weaknesses, and now I've come back for revenge!"
Serena shouted, "We've all defeated you before. You know we're gonna do it again."
"Ah, but the stakes are higher now. I have bigger things in mind! Take this!"
At the wave of their adversary's hand, a flash of light lighted the room, blinding the team of eight. Within seconds all, but Queen Beryl, disappeared. They never knew what hit them.
In another reality.....
By order of the Federal Reality Commission, a team known as the Reality Jumpers were assigned to do a mission in a desert reality. The mission profile involved a six-eighteen: dislocation of multiple entities. With some luck, the FRC was able to locate two entities, so the RJ's were chosen to find them. It was three o'clock in the afternoon in the desert area that was once called Los Angeles, California. All was silent, until a portal opened up out of thin air. Out of the gateway came the five teenagers who made up the RJ's. The team of five, who were thrown out of the gateway and scattered throughout the area, talked into their communicators:
"Jumper leader, Jake Tyler, checking in."
"Jumper one, 'Jackie' Forez, getting ready."
"Jumper two, Mike Conner, ready to roll."
"Jumper three, Chris Davis, starting up."
"Jumper four, Kim Swann, let's get this over with!"
The team scanned the area for two life signs. While they were searching, Mike went up to Jake and said, "Hey, when we find this girl, you gonna ask her out?"
"Only if she's hot."
"Man, talk about picky."
They both smiled and continued the search. After 15 minutes looking around the desert of Los Angeles, Kim spoke into her comm, saying , "Hey! I found them."
The whole team grouped at the area where Kim found the two missing entities. It was just as the description said: a girl with some sort of uniform on holding a black cat. The two were found unconscious. Jake looked at the girl, turned to Mike with some surprise, and said, "Man, she IS hot!"
The team of five, along with the fallen two, returned to their own reality. They then entered the headquarters of the Federal Reality Commission in New York City, where the girl and the cat were being treated.
The RJ's were standing by their patients' bedsides when they woke up. The girl sat up and screamed, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Puzzled, the five looked at each other. Kim looked at the girl, saying "You OK?"
The girl looked at the five and said, "Where are they?"
Chris replied, "Who?"
The girl couldn't say a word. Apparently she was startled.
Later the Jumpers grouped in their war room, which was located at the underground level of the FRC building. They were sitting at a table in front of their videocom. On the monitor was the FRC's tech advisor, the person known as "Hacker One."
"These readings you gave me on the girl and the cat are off the scale."
Jake replied, "What do you mean?"
"Well, for one thing, the cat seems to have an ability to think. The intelligence readings are very unusual for an animal."
"So you're saying....this cat can talk to us?"
"Doubt it. It can think, but I can't tell if it can communicate with us."
Kim added, "Gee, you're making it sound the cat is some kind of alien."
"With the info I have here, I can say that too. Anyway, the girl is another unusual case as well. She has no anomaly signature..."
Michael spoke up, "That's impossible. Now we can't find out where she comes from."
"I know that part. The cat doesn't have one either, so it makes it more difficult. Anyway, the girl also seems to be very powerful. She possesses powers that amaze me. The potential readings are off the charts. However, with what I'm working with here, I can conclude she's human."
Jake said, "Look, get to the main part. Is she the only one that was with her?"
Silence filled the room for a second or two, when finally Hacker said, "I'm not sure. I'm afraid you'll have to find out for yourselves. I'm giving you clearance to interrogate them. Hacker out."
A black screen replaced the picture of the man the RJ's were talking to.
Jake went alone to Interrogation Room 4, where the girl and her cat was held. Once he entered the room, he sat down and said, "Hi, remember me?"
The girl in the chair replied, "Yeah, you were standing next to my bed with some others. Who were they? Who are you?"
"Never mind about them for now. Me, my name's Jake. So, what's yours?"
"My name's Usagi. My friends call me Serena. You can call me that if you want."
"OK...Serena."
"Say, you speak Japanese?"
"Uh...no," Jake pointed to his wrist watch and said, "But this translator helps me understand what you're saying."
"Oh. Can it help you figure out why I'm here?"
"No, I wish I could."
The cat put her head up and said, "Look, you have to get us back to where we were, or the universe is in big trouble!"
Jake kept a straight face, and said, "Oh, so you CAN talk."
"You don't seem surprised."
"I'm not. We knew about you being more than normal."
"Who's 'we?'"
"Well, you're in the headquarters of the Federal Reality Commission, the line of defense of the entire dimensional continuum. Impressive, eh?"
"Yes, I suppose so. By the way, my name is Luna. Anyway, you have to get us back to Tokyo where we belong."
"That's...uh....bit of a problem."
Serena replied, "What do you mean?"
"You see, right now you're in another dimension. That's why you're in the FRC building, so we can figure out which dimension you belong in. You can tell you don't come from here, because, uh, if I remember history, Japan blew up in the great antimatter war of 1984. But that's a bit off topic right now."
Serena said, "Jake - that is your name, right? - where's all my friends?"
"There was no one else with you when we found you," Jake's eyes opened wider as he continued, "So there WAS others with you, was there?"
"We have to find them! Without them, we're all in big trouble!"
"What do you mean?"
Luna added, "What she means is, she and a couple of other friends, well, they make up a team. To everyone else, they are known as the Sailor Scouts. Serena here is their leader, Sailor Moon."
For a half hour Luna explained the story of the famous team that's been defending one universe for so long, and without that team, the universe would be doomed.
"....and the last words we heard from Queen Beryl were, 'I have bigger things in mind.' And that's how we ended up here."
Jake, who was now better informed, stood up and said, "She must mean the entire continuum! Of course, she must have scattered all of you, including this Tuxedo Mask person, across a couple of other realities. She knew you couldn't defeat her armies while divided, and this was the only way to split the team apart!"
Serena replied, "Hmmm, we have to find my friends and major fast before....."
She stopped in mid-sentence as the room began to shake violently. A portal, like the one the Scouts jumped into earler, opened up out of thin air. Out of it came Queen Beryl. She walked out and said, "So, are we having fun yet?"
Serena shouted, "You'll never get away with this, Nega-trash! I demand to know where my friends are!"
"Ah, but that's for me to know and you to never find out!"
Jake moved in front and said, "So you must be Queen Beryl. Anyway, you heard the lady, let her friends go!"
Queen Beryl looked at the two behind Jake and said, "Ah, so it looks like you've made a friend. Too bad I have to get rid of him as well."
With a wave of her hand, a gust of wind blew Jake to one side of the room.
"Now, Sailor Moon, we have some unfinished business to take care of."
Serena was in a defense position when she said, "Maybe this will teach you a lesson!"
She grabbed hold of the tiara on her head, took it off, and said "MOON.....TIARA......MAGIC!"
The tiara flew through the air, leaving a streak of light behind it. It was heading straight toward her enemy.
But Queen Beryl was prepared, "I think not!"
With another wave of her hand, the tiara stopped in mid-air and fell to the floor.
"Now, where was I? Oh yes, I was going to finish you off!"
Her hand signaled again, and from it came a beam of energy that was heading straight toward Sailor Moon and Luna.
Jake, who moved in front of the two, said, "You think that will get rid of us! You got another thing coming!"
Jake reached into his pocket and grabbed a tiny mirror. Without hesitating, he shouted the command that the mirror recognized, "MIRROR.....REFLECT!"
The mirror expanded into the shape of a shield. Jake grabbed onto its handle and shielded the three of them from the incoming energy attack. The full impact of the energy beam was absorbed into the shield. Half a second passed before the shield reflected the attack. Queen Beryl was in the way of the reflected energy beam. She took its full impact and was knocked to the ground.
"Fools! You will never get away with this! This is only the beginning!"
She retreated into the portal behind her and disappeared from the room.
Jake turned to Serena, who transformed back into regular clothes, and said, "You OK?"
"Yeah, just a bit shaken up."
"Don't worry. Everything's gonna be fine."
Jake grouped with his Reality Jumpers for a little meeting. He passed on the story Luna passed on to him and added the incident that occured just a few hours ago.
Chris jumped in, "So what we have to do is find her friends."
"Exactly, and we have to find them fast. This Queen Beryl may be more powerful than I think she is."
At night, Serena and Luna walked home with Jake, because they had no place to stay, so Jake didn't hesitate to invite them home. They had a conversation on the way home, where Jake said, "I'm going to start looking for your friends tomorrow."
Serena replied, "I want to go with you when you find them."
"It's might be too dangerous."
"I don't care. I lost them once, I'm not going to lose them again."
'Well, all right, but you have to be a Reality Jumper as long as you're looking for them."
"Hey, just call me jumper five!"
"Ah, so you catch on fast."
Luna added, "Don't forget about me, you'll need my help."
"Well then, jumper six, I hope a little cat like you can handle it.
"You don't have to worry about me. Your problem is this meatball head here!"
Serena shouted, "Hey! I told you never to call me that!"
Jake laughed, wondering what was going to happen in the missions to come...
TO BE CONTINUED.......