Operation: Realty Check
A Sailor Moon/Reality Jumpers FanFic
By Roehl Sybing
Episode 7: Point of Origin
"Oh come on clock, move!" thought Jake. It was 2:57 PM on Monday at Brooklyn Technical High School. For the past twenty minutes he had been scribbling in notes about either the physical science midterm or about Serena.
Finally, the bell rung at exactly three o'clock. Everyone ran out of the class and out of school. Everyone including Jake. He remembered back at study hall when he received a message on his pager. The message read: "To all Jumpers; meet in DT 8 at 330P." Now, in English, that would mean something's up in Dimensional Travel Room 8 at the FRC that must be dealt with at 3:30 PM.
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At 3:14, Jake rushed to the Mag-Lev transport to the FRC building. After the usual routine of security inspection, he ran to the open elevator going to floor 83. A minute passed before Jake flew out of the elevator when he reached the target floor. Once he was in front of DT 8, Jake looked at his watch. "D*mn!" he said. "It's 3:31!" He opened the door to see the rest of the Jumpers: Jackie, Mike, Kim, Chris, Serena, Mina, and Luna along with Hacker One. They were all sitting in chairs, apparently waiting for Jake.
Hacker, pointing at his own watch, stood up, "You're a minute late, Tyler."
"Correction," Jake said in a different tone. "One minute and fourteen seconds. Uppt, sixteen seconds. Eighteen, nineteen..."
"OK, we get the picture. Just sit down."
Jake grabbed a folding chair and sat in the center of the small room. As he was sitting down, Serena said, "Uh...hi, Jake..."
Acting a little shy, Jake replied, "Um, hi...."
For a few seconds, the room was quiet, until Hacker spoke up, "Anyway.....with a bit of luck, I've been able to locate where the NegaVerse originates. The other day, this Queen Beryl was able to escape, but she kept her escape portal open long enough for me to get a lock on the point of origin."
Mike asked, "OK, I bet there's a point to all this, right?"
"Of course there is. If you're up to it, I'd like you guys to attack the NegaVerse. Hopefully you can defeat them at their source, knocking them out for awhile. At full force, they proved to be very dangerous opponents. So, what's it gonna be?"
Everyone nodded their heads, meaning they would accept the challenge.
"Very well, I will activate the machine here..."
Luna sat up and said to Serena and Mina, "Well, you know what to do..."
The two girls nodded their heads again and shouted,
"MOON STAR POWER!"
"VENUS STAR POWER!"
Flashes of light came from both the two girls and the dimensional travel mechanism as Serena and Mina transformed into Sailor Moon and Sailor Venus.
Once Hacker One entered the coordinates to the "entrance to the NegaVerse," he said, "OK, I advise that you be careful. Like I said, the full extent of power from this enemy equals major trouble."
"No prob," Jackie replied, "Don't you worry 'bout us."
All eight Jumpers ran into the portal and disappeared, with the gateway closing after it.
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The place was cavern-like, with a few stalactites and stalagmites sticking out from the ground and ceiling. Very little light traveled through the area, meaning darkness ruled the place. Just then, a portal opened from the ceiling, and out of it dropped Jake. He fell on his back, and he couldn't see a thing.
"Hey guys?!?" he shouted. "Did you guys get out yet? Ya know, it's dark in here...."
At that moment, someone fell on Jake as he yelled, "OW!"
Recognizing the voice, Jake said, "Mike, get off me..."
Mike couldn't, because one by one the rest of the Jumpers, who were all screaming, fell on top of each other. When Luna fell from the portal and on top of Sailor Venus, who was on the top of the pile everyone toppled over. In the darkness, Jake blindly searched for his communicator, turned it on, and shouted, "D*mn it Hacker! Get that thing fixed!"
Hacker's voice came out of the speaker, "Sorry 'bout that! Hacker out."
Before Jake got up, he reached for his flashlight. When he switched it to ON, the cavern became filled with light as he saw his other Jumpers. He said, "Hey, you guys OK?"
Altogether, everyone else said, "WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE?!?"
"Shh! They might hear us...."
Everyone was on their feet after a minute. Sailor Moon looked up and turned to Sailor Venus, "Hey, 'member this place?"
"Yeah, we were here like two years ago, right?"
Chris asked, "Jake, what are we looking for?"
"I bet there's some kind of energy source around here. There must be; where's Queen Beryl getting the energy for traveling?"
Luna replied, "Well, Queen Beryl used her minions to draw energy directly from humans."
Sailor Moon said, "But we wasted them all a long time ago!"
Jake got his scanner and asked, "So where is she getting her energy from now?" He rotated in all eight directions until something picked up on his scanner, "I was right! Our energy source is over this way."
The Jumpers followed Jake in the direction the scanner was pointing. They walked for twenty minutes until they reached the entrance to a room. There, the scanner pointed out they were a hundred feet from their target, straight ahead.
"Hold it!" Jake said. "I read about twenty life signs in that room. And they don't look human."
Kim replied, "Well, I suppose we get rid of these people, right?"
"I'll take care of it," Sailor Moon said. She took the tiara off her head and said,
"MOON TIARA MAGIC!"
Kim kicked the door opened and got out of the way, because Sailor Moon's tiara came flying off her hands and into the room. Nobody knew where it landed, but a big flash of light was emitted from the insided of the room. Everyone covered their eyes for a few seconds. When it was safe to look inside the room, they saw that nine or ten of the entities were on the floor, unconscious.
"......Youma, right?" Kim asked to Luna.
The cat said, "You're catching on...."
Sailor Moon saw her tiara, which was in the center of the room. She ran to get it, but was hit and fell to the ground by a beam of energy. The rest of the team looked up to see where it came from. It came from another group of youma, all twisted in features like the previous group, on the other side of the room. This group scattered across the room to attack the Jumpers. With a bit of hesitation, Jake said to the team, "Sailor Venus, go get Sailor Moon over there on the floor. Kim, give me your fire gun. All of you, try to stall while I head into the next room."
Chris asked, "Energy source, right?"
"Right."
Kim handed Jake the gun. He ran across the room, shooting any monster near him, as he tried to make it to the next room. The rest of the youma didn't notice he was gone.
Jake went into the next room. He noticed it was much bigger than the cavern they were in before; he couldn't even see far enough to see the end of the room. Just then, some sort of black hole opened up directly above and ahead of Jake. A strange and distorted voice came from it, "Who dares enter attack the NegaVerse?"
Jake was silent as he aimed the fire gun at the hole. He pressed the trigger, and fire came spitting out of the gun. As small amounts of "ignited jelly" came closer to the hole, the flames were quickly put out.
"FOOL!" the voice screamed. An energy beam came out of the black hole and hit Jake, bringing him to the ground.
Another voice was laughing, this time a woman's laugh. Jake recognized that voice, the voice of Queen Beryl. She materialized out of thin air and said, "HA HA HA! I see you've met my 'boss.'"
"You'll, ow, never get away with this...."
"Hey, you attacked me first, right? Ah well, now I must kill you!"
Jake laughed a little, "YOU'RE going to kill me?"
"Well, not me, actually. Prepare to die, boy." She disappeared as suddenly as she came in.
"Geez, what a nutcase," Jake thought. He tried to stand up, but noticed someone behind him. What he saw was someone dressed in a type of clothing someone would wear at a costume party. "Who're you?" he asked.
The man standing in front of Jake replied, "I am your worst nightmare."
"Riiiiiiiiight. So, what do you think you're gonna kill me with?"
"With this," the man said as he drew a sword.
Jake, who became surprised, jumped back and thought, "Oh sh*t, me and my big mouth...."
The man stepped toward Jake and swung the sword a few times. Jake turned around and ran from his adversary. The man then ran after him, pointed his sword at Jake, and fired a few beams of energy at Jake. The shots missed Jake by a couple of inches, but Jake knew he was going to get hit sooner or later. He tripped on a rock and fell to the ground, again. On the floor, he turned around so that he was face up. But he saw that the man was looking over him with his sword pointing at Jake's shirt pocket. Jake suddenly became scared.
"This was all too easy," Jake's enemy said as he laughed. The sword started glowing, signaling it was firing another shot. Another energy beam hit Jake's shirt pocket, but was thrown back at the man. He screamed and was pushed to the floor.
Jake wondered what happened for a moment, and then realized something. He left his pocket mirror inside his shirt. "Hmm, what're the odds of THAT?" He sighed a breath of relief and stood back up. Looking over his defeated enemy, he said, "Don't mess with me...."
Weakly, the man looked up and said, "Who....who are you?"
Jake thought, "Oh no, not again." He remembered back to the other day when he, along with Serena, battled someone brainwashed and sent from the NegaVerse.
At that moment, the man was covered with some sort of light and disappeared.
Startled, Jake said, "Eek! Better get out of here." He found the exit and ran toward the previous room, where a battle was already in progress between the Jumpers and the youma. He ran past the monsters and headed straight for his team. "Guys!" he screamed. "TAR out of here!"
Chris, who was in the back of the battle, reached into his pocket to get the track-and-return device. He turned it on, causing a portal to open behind him. He handed the device to Jake and jumped into the gateway. Kim ran to Jake, "Give me my gun!" She picked up Luna, grabbed the gun from Jake, fired it toward another NegaVerse monster, and ran into the portal.
"Hey! Wait for us!" screamed Jackie and Sailor Venus as they also headed into the portal.
Jake shouted, "C'mon, Sailor Moon! We gotta jet!"
"OK!" Sailor Moon said. Jake took Sailor Moon by the hand and jumped into the closing portal.
TO BE CONTINUED....