Chapter 2
"Discovery"
I awoke in a cold sweat. They were in danger. I got out of bed and walked into the bathroom in my hospital room and changed into my slightly bloody uniform. I had to save them. I leaped from my second story window to the street below and landed softly and quietly. I took off running full speed to my apartment, knowing full well that I would probably have to fight whatever was trying to take them. I didn't realize what I was doing or how I had done it, all I knew was they were in trouble. I made it to my apartment complex in minutes, they were crying out to me. I got my keys ready and ran up the stairs. There was no light seeping under the door because the blinds were drawn. My door was still locked which relieved me for one second before I realized that someone was already inside looking around. I needed not a second thought, I took out my keys, crammed them in the lock and unlocked the door then burst in and tackled the prospective thief. "She" cried out in pain as our bodies met in a bone crunching crack. I was sufficiently satisfied that she was knocked out and went over and flipped on the lights. It was Mina. I was hit by a tidal wave of grief, so much that I forgot that she was unconscious "Oh Mina, I'm so sorry. I didn't know it was you, will you ever forgive me?" Then I remembered that she was out cold. I put her on the bed and looked for injuries. But there was nothing serious, she would just be a little sore in the morning. I got a glass of cold water and threw it on her face waking her up sputtering and blubbering.
"Where am I? I'm not in my dorm." Then it hit her."Andrew, I'm in your apartment and you just tackled me." She stated, sounding slightly disgruntled.
"I'm sorry Mina, but I knew someone was coming for them and I had to protect them, it was dark too," I paused."And how exactly did you get into my apartment without my keys, and what are you doing here in the first place?" I asked her. She got one of those sad faces that you get when you have to tell a secret.
"I was looking for something to link you to a person I know named Starscream." She said solemnly.
"You mean something like these." I said as I pulled out the two thin blades that were hidden in a wall compartment.
"Oh, my god. It is true. You are Starscream." She said in a sort of mix of awe and terror. Then my little friend Menk appeared and she jumped back with a scream.
"What? What's wrong? It's just Menk. He won't bite." I said with a softness in my voice that always helped people listen. Menk flew into my lap and snuggled up on my warm legs.
"Where did that thing come from?" Asked Mina who still looked quite fearful.
"It is called Menk, not "Thing" and he can turn invisible." I said back, getting quite tired of explaining Menk. He read my thoughts and disappeared into the air just like he came.
"Now why are these swords something that would link me to this Starscream person?" I asked, having no understanding at all.
"They are his weapons, also why are you so protective of them? What is so special about them?" She asked obviously trying to pull us away from the question of "How did you get into my apartment?".
"I honestly don't know, all I know is that I've lived in the gutter of this city until I was old enough to get a job and found out I had a knack for cooking which landed me the job at the restaurant and allowed me to rent an apartment and get some decent food, and all I know is that I've had these swords since as far back as I can remember. I've also known Mew since as far back as I can remember and he has helped me all the way." I finished the tale with a tear in my eye. "I never did know who my parents were."
"Andrew, that's what you've had go through for most of your life. I can hardly understand how you lived for so long." Mina said wiping a tear from her own eye.
"Neither could the doctors, I had malnutrition to the point that I should have no immune system but I never got sick and after a couple of weeks of tests that came up with no answers they just gave up trying to understand how I survived." I knew I was lying to her some because I could only remember being alive for one year. But I couldn't tell her unless I knew I could trust her.
"But why are you out of bed and how did you get out of the hospital? Oh, you're bleeding again. Does it hurt?" She asked me but it didn't, I hadn't noticed it until she pointed it out.
"No, and I not quite sure how I got out I just heard this calling that told me to get out of bed and get dressed then it goes black." I told her, it was strange but I felt as if I could relate anything and everything to her.
"Well I have to go but first I'm going to take you back to the hospital, okay?" She asked, and it was perfectly okay with me. The pain had started seeping through my thoughts. She stood up and winced."You know, you didn't have to hit me quite so hard." She said through her own pain.
We got in her van and drove back to the hospital, and I went back to my room. I wondered as I went back to my warm bed and the comforts of sleep, "What is she so in a hurry to get to."
She arrived at Darien's apartment a full four hours after she had left and knew that Darien would be gone because he had a meeting with Amanda's father, the new CEO of Neostar. She walked up, and when she got to the door she used the skeleton key to open it and was immediately tackled by Rini.
"Welcome home, Darien!? Hey, Mina. What are you doing here?" Asked Rini as she removed her weight from Mina's chest who was now whimpering slightly from the pain the new hit had caused.
"I need to talk to Luna P." She said recollecting herself.
"Why do you need to talk to Luna P? Are we going to travel through time again?" Rini said perplexed. Mina didn't take the time to answer the questions, she just gave Rini the key. Rini shrugged and held it up in the air.
"Kitty magic, make Lunaball again!" She shouted. The key reformed into the round ball. Rini handed Mina the ball. Mina took a seat on the couch and touched the little ball's right eye. The shadowy image of Sailor Pluto appeared in the screen.
"Oh, hello Mina. Why do you need to talk to me?" Asked Sailor Pluto.
"I may have found another Knight but I have my doubts and I need to talk with you." Mina said quickly. Sailor Pluto nodded understanding the seriousness of this and instantly teleported Mina to the Gates of Time.
"So what was that you were saying about finding another Knight?" Asked Sailor Pluto. Mina related everything she knew to Sailor Pluto.
"Well one night I'm having dinner with my boyfriend when some guy starts shouting "demon", so I run out and transform and try to fight it but it whoops up on me then some guy named Starscream appears and saves me then gets in a fight with the attacker and he gets cut in the arm with a scythe then the next morning my boyfriend comes to class and has a bloody wound where Starscream got hit. I went to his apartment and looked around and he comes crashing in and tackles me, then he starts talking to me and pulls out a pair of swords like the ones Starscream had, then this little thing he calls "Menk" appears and scares the hell out of me. He starts explaining to me that he has had those swords since he was little and he also had "Menk" since he was little." She stopped to take a breath, and being the polite person Sailor Pluto was, she had waited for Mina to stop to ask her the question.
"Mina, you keep on mentioning a pair of swords and the name "Starscream", yes?"
"Yes."Answered Mina, sounding a little peeved.
"Well there was a very powerful Negaverse warrior named Starscream who had a pair of vicious swords that looked like this," Sailor Pluto paused a moment and made an image of the two swords Andrew had, appear in the air then continued."But he was killed when Sailor Moon and Sailor Saturn destroyed the Negaverse a year ago." She finished and looked at Mina's face seeing the picture of absolute horror painted on it."What is the matter?" Asked Sailor Pluto, already knowing the answer.
"Those are the swords Andrew and Starscream had." She stated briefly before falling completely silent, then she perked up."Serena said that when she first saw Darien she had a feeling like she knew him from some previous life and I got the same feeling from Andrew, or Starscream or whoever he is, do you think he is my destined partner like Serena and Darien?" Asked Mina excitedly.
"It is possible, but very unlikely, but I will check the future any ways since so many people are traveling back and forth through time and making changes." She droned on as she closed her eyes and created a looking portal into the distant future. Her eyes shot open, and the portal opened as well. The scene was a dark room with a bed in the center, the covers flying around and moaning coming from the bed.
"Oops, I don't usually make looking windows for other people, let's speed forward a couple of hours." She closed her eyes again and the scene faded from view. It reappeared with a distinct picture of Andrew clad in his Knightly garments standing next to Mina."There he is with you in the future, but that is strange because he was never supposed to escape from the Negaverse, Mina you mentioned a creature named Menk, correct?" Asked Pluto.
"Yes, it was a little thing about the size of a house cat and had long feet and a tail and floated in a pink energy ball." Answered Mina while racking her memory.
"Hummm, never seen a creature of that description let me take a look at the time ways. Maybe I can find some spectral trails." Pluto closed her eyes, Mina was starting to get tired of her doing that. Her eyes popped open and a bead of sweat fell down Pluto's face.
"What's wrong Pluto?"Asked Mina who was also starting to sweat.
"This Menk creature came from farther in the future than I can see and not only that but it seems to be almost undetectable. This creature saved Andrew from the Negaverse. Let me make this easier and make a piece of your past a little clearer." This time when she closed her eyes, Mina was enveloped in a wave of colors and sensations. She appeared on a strange looking planet watching a golden bubble floating to a small pool of water and then she noticed a woman that looked quite a bit like Queen Serenity and two boys standing next to the pool. One of them looked to be about 17 while the other was about 7 by the looks of it. They continued to watch as the bubble touched down and coasted to a stop. It disappeared and in its place stood Queen Serenity, Princess Serena, and the other scouts including Mina. They walked forward and Queen Serenity struck up a conversation with the other woman.
"Tranquility, I haven't seen you in ages. Your boys are growing into fine young men." Said Serena's original mom. Tranquility answered back.
"Yes, Andrew just finished Knight training, and Mies just learned how to use his power." Her voice sounded much like Serenity's except ever so slightly different. Mina's attention was drawn to Andrew who was staring at the thirteen-year-old Mina with a look of love. The little boy Mies ran up to Serenity yelling.
"Aunty Seren, how is cousin Meatball head doing?" He asked, so it was a universal reference. Mused Mina. Serena gave him a mean look and walked over to the boy standing a couple of feet from her, it was of course Darien. Mina decided to follow herself and Andrew to wherever they were going. They stopped walking and sat on a stone bench and started talking.
"Mina you know I love you and I wish we could be together but you have to go back to Venus and protect it, and Princess Serena, but promise me one thing right now because you know I'm terrible at goodbys. We will meet again someday when times are better."
"Oh, Andrew. I promise." And with that they kissed a long and drawn out kiss which brought a tear to Mina's eye. Then there was another swirl of color and Mina was sometime in the future and watching the Negaverse invade the kingdom. She walked over and saw Andrew fighting with those two swords in his Starscream outfit and he was doing quite well until a large black bolt of crackling lightning found his back causing him to stagger, fall, and be taken by the Negaverse monsters, and the rest she could guess. The swirl of color returned and brought her to the present.
"Pluto, didn't they have an Imperium-silver crystal too?" Asked Mina sobbing slightly at the fate of all those poor people.
"Yes they did, you obviously know those swords Andrew carries with him. They are the planet's Imperium-silver crystal and Andrew had them because he had the potential to use them much better then his mother was ever able to but he had not been trained enough to employ their power. That is how he escaped the Negaverse, the Mew creature taught him how to use the swords power to transport him and his brother to Earth, but because of his low proficiency with them he was only able to transport them to the 21st century but not to have them reborn from a human woman so they simply appeared in the alleys of Tokyo and lived about a year there before their powers activated and like Darien even though he has no recollection of what he does he is transforming to save you Mina, it is the ultimate power of love." Sailor Pluto finished with a sharp inhale of the magic air filling The Gates of Time.
"So what you're saying is that Andrew is a literal alien, has power that should be somewhere around equal to Serena, and is my destined partner?"Asked Mina strangely.
"Yes, that's about it."Answered Pluto. Mina got a look in her eye.
"Yes! I got a destined boyfriend who's really cool!" Shouted Mina to no one in particular."Thanks for the help Sailor Pluto." Said Mina as she willed herself to return to her normal time.
As she disappeared, Sailor Pluto shouted to her."Come visit anytime."
Mina reappeared in Darien's apartment, and to be exact on Darien's lap who had taken up residence on the couch to watch the evening news.
"Mina!? How did you get there?" Asked Darien, who was slightly perplexed. Mina extricated herself from Darien's lap and sat on the floor.
"I was talking to Sailor Pluto. I was right, Andrew is a Knight. He was part of a family of people who defended another planet in another galaxy, and apparently he and Serena are cousins. This guy fell in love with me but I had to go back so we ended up having to say goodbye. After that his planet was attacked by the Negaverse and he was captured and taken away but eventually he escaped and get this, he is my destined boyfriend like you and Serena. Plus he was never supposed to escape the Negaverse but some little time traveling thing went back and helped him save himself. He ended up on Earth just a year ago and he wasn't reborn." She said with a look of intense happiness on her face.
"Whoa, Mina, that's a lot of info to swallow. So let me get this straight. This guy is your soul mate, and he was never reborn, and was captured by the Negaverse and was never supposed to escape but he did with the help of some little creature from the future. Right?" Asked Darien with an even more perplexed face on.
"Basically. This is so cool! I have a boyfriend in the future, and he's an alien. I love this." Said Mina ecstatically. Darien just gave her a weird look then Mina's communicator beeped. She flipped open the watch to find Serena staring at her.
"Mina, get to down town immediately. There are some weird looking guy and a bunch of monsters wreaking general havoc down here." Said Serena quickly. Mina didn't even respond she just took out her transformation wand and shouted those magic words."Venus Star Power." The uniform appeared on her as usual and she looked back to see Darien doing the same. They both exited the apartment out of the window. They appeared on the scene to see Starflash destroying things left and right, with about seven big, burly monsters helping him along the way. Mina listened closely and heard him shouting."Sailor scouts, come out and fight me or I'll level this whole town." Sailor Venus and Tuxedo Mask obliged happily. Tuxedo Mask made his quick speech from on top of a lamp post.
"If you want a fight, then we'll give you a fight." While Sailor Venus made it from on top of the fountain in the middle of the park.
"You can't hurt all these innocent people, in the name of Venus I will punish you." Stated Sailor Venus.
"Ah, Sailor Venus. Come back to get your ass kicked again?" Asked Starflash. Mina was still a little sore in the chest from the beating that bastard gave her.
"Hey, Venus. Would you mind not stealin my material?" Asked a sarcastic voice from behind Venus. She knew who it was immediately.
"Sorry Sailor Moon." Mina said back. Then one of the creatures made a move and instantly ended up with a rose in his hand.
"Sorry, no sneak attacks." Said Tux readying another rose.
"I'm really getting tired of this dry wit. Planets, attack!" Shouted Starflash. The battle ensued. Starflash went specifically for Sailor Moon, he pulled out those weird scythe things and tried to chop Sailor Moon's legs off but she jumped over them. She landed a couple of feet back and drew her scepter for the Moon Spiral Heart Attack, when a large blast of Negaenergy hit the Scepter, knocking it from her hand and numbing her arm with freezing cold pain. Sailor Venus wasn't faring too well either. Four of the "Planets" were attacking Sailor Venus and quite frankly she was having trouble keeping track of all the things attacking her.
"God damn it! Why do I have to take on four of these things?" And as if answering her call two of them fell into halves,
"Need a little assistance, scouts?" It was Starscream.
"Discovery"
I awoke in a cold sweat. They were in danger. I got out of bed and walked into the bathroom in my hospital room and changed into my slightly bloody uniform. I had to save them. I leaped from my second story window to the street below and landed softly and quietly. I took off running full speed to my apartment, knowing full well that I would probably have to fight whatever was trying to take them. I didn't realize what I was doing or how I had done it, all I knew was they were in trouble. I made it to my apartment complex in minutes, they were crying out to me. I got my keys ready and ran up the stairs. There was no light seeping under the door because the blinds were drawn. My door was still locked which relieved me for one second before I realized that someone was already inside looking around. I needed not a second thought, I took out my keys, crammed them in the lock and unlocked the door then burst in and tackled the prospective thief. "She" cried out in pain as our bodies met in a bone crunching crack. I was sufficiently satisfied that she was knocked out and went over and flipped on the lights. It was Mina. I was hit by a tidal wave of grief, so much that I forgot that she was unconscious "Oh Mina, I'm so sorry. I didn't know it was you, will you ever forgive me?" Then I remembered that she was out cold. I put her on the bed and looked for injuries. But there was nothing serious, she would just be a little sore in the morning. I got a glass of cold water and threw it on her face waking her up sputtering and blubbering.
"Where am I? I'm not in my dorm." Then it hit her."Andrew, I'm in your apartment and you just tackled me." She stated, sounding slightly disgruntled.
"I'm sorry Mina, but I knew someone was coming for them and I had to protect them, it was dark too," I paused."And how exactly did you get into my apartment without my keys, and what are you doing here in the first place?" I asked her. She got one of those sad faces that you get when you have to tell a secret.
"I was looking for something to link you to a person I know named Starscream." She said solemnly.
"You mean something like these." I said as I pulled out the two thin blades that were hidden in a wall compartment.
"Oh, my god. It is true. You are Starscream." She said in a sort of mix of awe and terror. Then my little friend Menk appeared and she jumped back with a scream.
"What? What's wrong? It's just Menk. He won't bite." I said with a softness in my voice that always helped people listen. Menk flew into my lap and snuggled up on my warm legs.
"Where did that thing come from?" Asked Mina who still looked quite fearful.
"It is called Menk, not "Thing" and he can turn invisible." I said back, getting quite tired of explaining Menk. He read my thoughts and disappeared into the air just like he came.
"Now why are these swords something that would link me to this Starscream person?" I asked, having no understanding at all.
"They are his weapons, also why are you so protective of them? What is so special about them?" She asked obviously trying to pull us away from the question of "How did you get into my apartment?".
"I honestly don't know, all I know is that I've lived in the gutter of this city until I was old enough to get a job and found out I had a knack for cooking which landed me the job at the restaurant and allowed me to rent an apartment and get some decent food, and all I know is that I've had these swords since as far back as I can remember. I've also known Mew since as far back as I can remember and he has helped me all the way." I finished the tale with a tear in my eye. "I never did know who my parents were."
"Andrew, that's what you've had go through for most of your life. I can hardly understand how you lived for so long." Mina said wiping a tear from her own eye.
"Neither could the doctors, I had malnutrition to the point that I should have no immune system but I never got sick and after a couple of weeks of tests that came up with no answers they just gave up trying to understand how I survived." I knew I was lying to her some because I could only remember being alive for one year. But I couldn't tell her unless I knew I could trust her.
"But why are you out of bed and how did you get out of the hospital? Oh, you're bleeding again. Does it hurt?" She asked me but it didn't, I hadn't noticed it until she pointed it out.
"No, and I not quite sure how I got out I just heard this calling that told me to get out of bed and get dressed then it goes black." I told her, it was strange but I felt as if I could relate anything and everything to her.
"Well I have to go but first I'm going to take you back to the hospital, okay?" She asked, and it was perfectly okay with me. The pain had started seeping through my thoughts. She stood up and winced."You know, you didn't have to hit me quite so hard." She said through her own pain.
We got in her van and drove back to the hospital, and I went back to my room. I wondered as I went back to my warm bed and the comforts of sleep, "What is she so in a hurry to get to."
She arrived at Darien's apartment a full four hours after she had left and knew that Darien would be gone because he had a meeting with Amanda's father, the new CEO of Neostar. She walked up, and when she got to the door she used the skeleton key to open it and was immediately tackled by Rini.
"Welcome home, Darien!? Hey, Mina. What are you doing here?" Asked Rini as she removed her weight from Mina's chest who was now whimpering slightly from the pain the new hit had caused.
"I need to talk to Luna P." She said recollecting herself.
"Why do you need to talk to Luna P? Are we going to travel through time again?" Rini said perplexed. Mina didn't take the time to answer the questions, she just gave Rini the key. Rini shrugged and held it up in the air.
"Kitty magic, make Lunaball again!" She shouted. The key reformed into the round ball. Rini handed Mina the ball. Mina took a seat on the couch and touched the little ball's right eye. The shadowy image of Sailor Pluto appeared in the screen.
"Oh, hello Mina. Why do you need to talk to me?" Asked Sailor Pluto.
"I may have found another Knight but I have my doubts and I need to talk with you." Mina said quickly. Sailor Pluto nodded understanding the seriousness of this and instantly teleported Mina to the Gates of Time.
"So what was that you were saying about finding another Knight?" Asked Sailor Pluto. Mina related everything she knew to Sailor Pluto.
"Well one night I'm having dinner with my boyfriend when some guy starts shouting "demon", so I run out and transform and try to fight it but it whoops up on me then some guy named Starscream appears and saves me then gets in a fight with the attacker and he gets cut in the arm with a scythe then the next morning my boyfriend comes to class and has a bloody wound where Starscream got hit. I went to his apartment and looked around and he comes crashing in and tackles me, then he starts talking to me and pulls out a pair of swords like the ones Starscream had, then this little thing he calls "Menk" appears and scares the hell out of me. He starts explaining to me that he has had those swords since he was little and he also had "Menk" since he was little." She stopped to take a breath, and being the polite person Sailor Pluto was, she had waited for Mina to stop to ask her the question.
"Mina, you keep on mentioning a pair of swords and the name "Starscream", yes?"
"Yes."Answered Mina, sounding a little peeved.
"Well there was a very powerful Negaverse warrior named Starscream who had a pair of vicious swords that looked like this," Sailor Pluto paused a moment and made an image of the two swords Andrew had, appear in the air then continued."But he was killed when Sailor Moon and Sailor Saturn destroyed the Negaverse a year ago." She finished and looked at Mina's face seeing the picture of absolute horror painted on it."What is the matter?" Asked Sailor Pluto, already knowing the answer.
"Those are the swords Andrew and Starscream had." She stated briefly before falling completely silent, then she perked up."Serena said that when she first saw Darien she had a feeling like she knew him from some previous life and I got the same feeling from Andrew, or Starscream or whoever he is, do you think he is my destined partner like Serena and Darien?" Asked Mina excitedly.
"It is possible, but very unlikely, but I will check the future any ways since so many people are traveling back and forth through time and making changes." She droned on as she closed her eyes and created a looking portal into the distant future. Her eyes shot open, and the portal opened as well. The scene was a dark room with a bed in the center, the covers flying around and moaning coming from the bed.
"Oops, I don't usually make looking windows for other people, let's speed forward a couple of hours." She closed her eyes again and the scene faded from view. It reappeared with a distinct picture of Andrew clad in his Knightly garments standing next to Mina."There he is with you in the future, but that is strange because he was never supposed to escape from the Negaverse, Mina you mentioned a creature named Menk, correct?" Asked Pluto.
"Yes, it was a little thing about the size of a house cat and had long feet and a tail and floated in a pink energy ball." Answered Mina while racking her memory.
"Hummm, never seen a creature of that description let me take a look at the time ways. Maybe I can find some spectral trails." Pluto closed her eyes, Mina was starting to get tired of her doing that. Her eyes popped open and a bead of sweat fell down Pluto's face.
"What's wrong Pluto?"Asked Mina who was also starting to sweat.
"This Menk creature came from farther in the future than I can see and not only that but it seems to be almost undetectable. This creature saved Andrew from the Negaverse. Let me make this easier and make a piece of your past a little clearer." This time when she closed her eyes, Mina was enveloped in a wave of colors and sensations. She appeared on a strange looking planet watching a golden bubble floating to a small pool of water and then she noticed a woman that looked quite a bit like Queen Serenity and two boys standing next to the pool. One of them looked to be about 17 while the other was about 7 by the looks of it. They continued to watch as the bubble touched down and coasted to a stop. It disappeared and in its place stood Queen Serenity, Princess Serena, and the other scouts including Mina. They walked forward and Queen Serenity struck up a conversation with the other woman.
"Tranquility, I haven't seen you in ages. Your boys are growing into fine young men." Said Serena's original mom. Tranquility answered back.
"Yes, Andrew just finished Knight training, and Mies just learned how to use his power." Her voice sounded much like Serenity's except ever so slightly different. Mina's attention was drawn to Andrew who was staring at the thirteen-year-old Mina with a look of love. The little boy Mies ran up to Serenity yelling.
"Aunty Seren, how is cousin Meatball head doing?" He asked, so it was a universal reference. Mused Mina. Serena gave him a mean look and walked over to the boy standing a couple of feet from her, it was of course Darien. Mina decided to follow herself and Andrew to wherever they were going. They stopped walking and sat on a stone bench and started talking.
"Mina you know I love you and I wish we could be together but you have to go back to Venus and protect it, and Princess Serena, but promise me one thing right now because you know I'm terrible at goodbys. We will meet again someday when times are better."
"Oh, Andrew. I promise." And with that they kissed a long and drawn out kiss which brought a tear to Mina's eye. Then there was another swirl of color and Mina was sometime in the future and watching the Negaverse invade the kingdom. She walked over and saw Andrew fighting with those two swords in his Starscream outfit and he was doing quite well until a large black bolt of crackling lightning found his back causing him to stagger, fall, and be taken by the Negaverse monsters, and the rest she could guess. The swirl of color returned and brought her to the present.
"Pluto, didn't they have an Imperium-silver crystal too?" Asked Mina sobbing slightly at the fate of all those poor people.
"Yes they did, you obviously know those swords Andrew carries with him. They are the planet's Imperium-silver crystal and Andrew had them because he had the potential to use them much better then his mother was ever able to but he had not been trained enough to employ their power. That is how he escaped the Negaverse, the Mew creature taught him how to use the swords power to transport him and his brother to Earth, but because of his low proficiency with them he was only able to transport them to the 21st century but not to have them reborn from a human woman so they simply appeared in the alleys of Tokyo and lived about a year there before their powers activated and like Darien even though he has no recollection of what he does he is transforming to save you Mina, it is the ultimate power of love." Sailor Pluto finished with a sharp inhale of the magic air filling The Gates of Time.
"So what you're saying is that Andrew is a literal alien, has power that should be somewhere around equal to Serena, and is my destined partner?"Asked Mina strangely.
"Yes, that's about it."Answered Pluto. Mina got a look in her eye.
"Yes! I got a destined boyfriend who's really cool!" Shouted Mina to no one in particular."Thanks for the help Sailor Pluto." Said Mina as she willed herself to return to her normal time.
As she disappeared, Sailor Pluto shouted to her."Come visit anytime."
Mina reappeared in Darien's apartment, and to be exact on Darien's lap who had taken up residence on the couch to watch the evening news.
"Mina!? How did you get there?" Asked Darien, who was slightly perplexed. Mina extricated herself from Darien's lap and sat on the floor.
"I was talking to Sailor Pluto. I was right, Andrew is a Knight. He was part of a family of people who defended another planet in another galaxy, and apparently he and Serena are cousins. This guy fell in love with me but I had to go back so we ended up having to say goodbye. After that his planet was attacked by the Negaverse and he was captured and taken away but eventually he escaped and get this, he is my destined boyfriend like you and Serena. Plus he was never supposed to escape the Negaverse but some little time traveling thing went back and helped him save himself. He ended up on Earth just a year ago and he wasn't reborn." She said with a look of intense happiness on her face.
"Whoa, Mina, that's a lot of info to swallow. So let me get this straight. This guy is your soul mate, and he was never reborn, and was captured by the Negaverse and was never supposed to escape but he did with the help of some little creature from the future. Right?" Asked Darien with an even more perplexed face on.
"Basically. This is so cool! I have a boyfriend in the future, and he's an alien. I love this." Said Mina ecstatically. Darien just gave her a weird look then Mina's communicator beeped. She flipped open the watch to find Serena staring at her.
"Mina, get to down town immediately. There are some weird looking guy and a bunch of monsters wreaking general havoc down here." Said Serena quickly. Mina didn't even respond she just took out her transformation wand and shouted those magic words."Venus Star Power." The uniform appeared on her as usual and she looked back to see Darien doing the same. They both exited the apartment out of the window. They appeared on the scene to see Starflash destroying things left and right, with about seven big, burly monsters helping him along the way. Mina listened closely and heard him shouting."Sailor scouts, come out and fight me or I'll level this whole town." Sailor Venus and Tuxedo Mask obliged happily. Tuxedo Mask made his quick speech from on top of a lamp post.
"If you want a fight, then we'll give you a fight." While Sailor Venus made it from on top of the fountain in the middle of the park.
"You can't hurt all these innocent people, in the name of Venus I will punish you." Stated Sailor Venus.
"Ah, Sailor Venus. Come back to get your ass kicked again?" Asked Starflash. Mina was still a little sore in the chest from the beating that bastard gave her.
"Hey, Venus. Would you mind not stealin my material?" Asked a sarcastic voice from behind Venus. She knew who it was immediately.
"Sorry Sailor Moon." Mina said back. Then one of the creatures made a move and instantly ended up with a rose in his hand.
"Sorry, no sneak attacks." Said Tux readying another rose.
"I'm really getting tired of this dry wit. Planets, attack!" Shouted Starflash. The battle ensued. Starflash went specifically for Sailor Moon, he pulled out those weird scythe things and tried to chop Sailor Moon's legs off but she jumped over them. She landed a couple of feet back and drew her scepter for the Moon Spiral Heart Attack, when a large blast of Negaenergy hit the Scepter, knocking it from her hand and numbing her arm with freezing cold pain. Sailor Venus wasn't faring too well either. Four of the "Planets" were attacking Sailor Venus and quite frankly she was having trouble keeping track of all the things attacking her.
"God damn it! Why do I have to take on four of these things?" And as if answering her call two of them fell into halves,
"Need a little assistance, scouts?" It was Starscream.
