Chapter 3
"The Remembrance"
No one spoke, the battle adjusted itself and started again. Now Starflash was once again taking on Starscream, except this time he had one of those Planets with him, splitting it down to one planet for Sailor Venus, one for Tuxedo Mask, and one for Sailor Moon. Starscream came in slashing in a pincer movement giving Starflash one way to go, and he went that way but he didn't realize that one of the Planets was directly behind him and they both bumped into each other falling down in a heap, leaving them at the mercy of Starscream and Sailor Venus."Star Criss Cross Slash!" Shouted Starscream activating his special attack, while Mina yelled."Venus Love Chain, Encircle!" And the golden chain shot out and converged with Andrew's Criss Cross creating a shimmering blade of energy which annihilated the Planet who had been shoved in front of it. Sailor Moon had already dusted her other one after the feeling had returned to her arm. Tuxedo Mask was making a pincushion out of his Planet. Starflash was the only remaining enemy."So Starflash, what was all that big talk about kicking my ass again?" Asked Mina Sarcastically. Starflash looked around and got a grim look on his face. The air suddenly seemed charged with energy, and it all seemed to be converging on him. A large number of black clouds began forming above the park. A large bolt of lightning crashed down right next to Sailor Moon who just barely jumped aside. An unbelievable number of lightning bolts began raining down on the area, all of them trying to hit one of the Knights or Sailor Scouts. One bolt singed Starscream's arm causing him to lose his balance and topple over and another one almost took him out but Darien's incredible speed saved him.
"Thanks man." Said Starscream reluctantly. Ever more bolts were crashing down every second and it was becoming very hard to dodge them all. When one of them hit Starflash, breaking his concentration and stopping the storm. Actually no, that bolt was a little to green to be a natural bolt of lightning.
"Hey, Dickhead! You call that lightning, I'll show you lightning." It was the unmistakable voice of Jupiter."Jupiter Fusion Annihilation!" A hundred tiny balls of electricity blazed toward Starflash. They hit and caused thousands of tiny eruptions of plasma to leap up and burn his body. He survived the attack and collapsed to the ground.
"Dammit! Sailor Jupiter! You'll pay for that!" He screamed toward her then he pulled himself up and made another portal.
"Oh no you don't!" Shouted Mina trying to reach him before he went through. She jumped into the air, but he stepped through the door first, causing Mina to get a face ful of concrete. She stood up bleeding a little from some of the new cuts on her face, then she fell back and this time it was Starscream's speed that saved her from any more pain.
"You know it does help to be realistic when trying to catch somebody." Said Starscream. Tuxedo Mask looked around.
"Uh guys, I seem to remember there being seven monsters and we only killed six." And as if cued the seventh Planet jumped out and clothesline Starscream, sending him flying back to smash into a nearby car. He fell to the ground, out cold. Then his costume disappeared. Mina stood under her own power and turned to the monster who was waiting for her to take the first shot. Rage boiled up in her eyes and they started to glow. She raised her hands, which were also starting to glow. Jupiter remembered this from a year back.
"Extreme Love and Beauty Smash!" A blaze of rainbow colored energy shot down her arms and smashed into the Planet's chest causing it to disintegrate. The creature fell back, but was gone before it hit ground. Mina's eyes and hands stopped glowing. She shook her head and ran over to Andrew."Andrew, are you okay?" She asked the prone form. He didn't move for a second but then his eyes opened slowly.
"Princess Mina, is that you." He said sounding slightly horse. Mina felt a tear roll down her cheek and she shoved her face onto his shoulder."Shhh, shh. It's okay I remember every thing now. I told you we would be together again someday." Mina continued to cry, but these were tears of happiness Andrew had his memory back and Mina just wanted to savor the moment.
"Well I'll be damned, all he needed was to be knocked out." Said Tuxedo from behind.
"Oh! Mina, your face. It's all cut up. What happened? Did you do a face plant in the concrete?" Asked Andrew sounding very sympathetic. Mina could feel the pain again and it burned like hell. She got up and said a few quick words."I think we should get out of here before the news gets here." Sage advice, and they all disappeared into an alley where they changed and everybody went home.
"Mina, what did you do to your face?" Asked the doctor that Mina had gone to see.
"Well I sorta fell face first onto the ground when I was running." She answered back trying to make this go as quick as possible, doctors always freaked her out for some reason. In the other room Andrew was seeing a doctor about his broken arm and rib. She said that his chest would have to be taped up for a while, but he wasn't worried. He already knew that Vegan
Family healed about twice as fast as normal humans and the Moon family healed a little slower then that so he wasn't worried about Mina either. He went home with Mina that day and decided to show her the apartment. She stepped in, and looked around. She was amazed at how spacious it was then she remembered Andrew's salary and was a little less amazed at how he afforded it. Andrew popped off into the kitchen leaving her alone in his apartment. She looked around further and found some Neostar stuff, like one of those Neo-Reality hookups on his computer and shuddered thinking of what he could do with a sword like the ones that had started popping up in "Assassin". Ever since the whole thing with John Soren (a.k.a. Terrak.) Amy had let up on Neo-Reality and let everyone else play and Mina had in particular had been doing quite well, she was incredible good at "Assassin" (most likely a benefit from the gun she had carried for so long.), Serena had given up on all of it since she had some weird reflexes. Raye never tried it, and Lita was the best at the fighting games, literally she could whoop up on anyone in less then sixteen seconds. Haruka was the best at racing games and the Neo-Reality only seemed to enhance that. Michiru just watched and never played. Mina refocused her thoughts on what she was doing now. The whole place was amazing and a high salary had the tendency to do that. Andrew poked his head into the living room.
"Hey, Mina. What would you like for lunch, I've got or can make almost anything." He asked. Mina thought for a moment.
"How about a salad, with a Diet Coke?" She answered. Andrew gave her a quizzical look.
"What type of salad? Cesar, seafood, fruit, potato, vegetable, pasta, chicken, tuna, tossed, or maybe waldorf?" Mina stood perplexed for a second then answered.
"Ummm, how about the fruit?" She asked wary of the new monsoon coming her way.
"What type of salad dressing? French, Italian, Russian, Cesar, Thousand island, buttermilk, country french vinaigrette, creamy peppercorn, Greek seasoning, green goddess, Italian vinegar and oil, salsa salad seasoning perhaps?" Once again she paused for a couple of seconds then answered.
"I think I'll try the Green goddess."
"Excellent choice Ms. Aino." He popped back into the kitchen and Mina was quite relieved there weren't any more choices. Mina picked up the remote and switched the TV on and it came on showing a disaster area.
"Today, a large beam of energy shot down from the sky and destroyed the building that I am now standing in the wreckage of." The area was dark and black and the news reporter had goose bumps even though it was a beautiful Spring day. She thought about it and came up with one answer, the Negaverse. But until they announced themselves Mina couldn't do anything so she decided to try and enjoy her meal. Andrew came back with a bowl and a jar, a sandwich, one Diet coke and a Coke. Mina gratefully accepted the salad and drink.
"You make your own dressing?" She asked looking at the jar that the dressing was in.
"Yeah, I've got a lot of spare time since I found a way to store the already cooked crab and then warm it up without losing any flavor. So I just make a lot of it on Saturday and they warm it up when they need it." He seemed to be a nice person and a genius. Mina could hardly believe it. They spent quite a while talking and eating. Then the phone rang, Andrew went over and picked it up.
"It's for you." He held the phone out to Mina. She took it and put her ear up to the receiver.
"Mina," It was Amy."Would you head down to the docks, I think I may have found a way of finding these guys. Oh and bring Andrew." Before she hung up Mina answered with a half hearted "Sure.". She turned to Andrew and since he had heard the conversation he simply got up and put on his shoes while Mina did the same. They were off pretty quick and made it to the docks in an hour. They waited five minutes until they heard Amy's voice coming from the main road to the docks. She was shouting something, Mina strained to hear."Go away you weird little kid!" Was what it sounded like but she wasn't sure. Amy breasted the hill and they saw her walking while looking backwards and shouting at this weird huge eyed kid, which was pretty scary since his eyes were even bigger then most of the anime Mina had seen. They walked up to her to close the distance faster, when they got there the little kid finally left. Amy turned and saw them.
"Oh, thank god that weird little kid stopped following me he was starting to really scare me. Oh, yeah. Like I said before I may have found a way to find these Negaverse creeps. But first I need to talk to Andrew. Okay?" She asked Mina, Mina nodded and stepped aside. Amy walked up to him took his measure and said."Do you remember anything about these guys that you fought with that was particularly special?" Andrew gave a shudder and dredged up those horrible memories of the past. He closed his eyes and thought for a moment.
"They all came from a planet called, well never mind the native name since you can't pronounce it if you have a tongue, but the name I heard was Redsun. They had a hierarchy that went Sun, star, planet, moon, and asteroid. There was only one sun, and the only reason I was a star was because of my tremendous ability. Now I believe that their planet was slowly dying and the main problem was water. These things need to wash themselves in salt water twice every day to survive. So I'm guessing that they landed their ship somewhere in or near the ocean. That's where you'll find them most likely." He said taking in a gulp of the salty air, and leaned against the wall. Mina saw a look of frustration on Amy face and guessed that Andrew had just explained her plan for her. Mina stifled a giggle, and told Amy about the building that had been blown up near the docks. Amy shook her head.
"Well by the placing that you just explained I guessing that it was the smelting plant so that means they need metal for something, but what could it be." Then suddenly they were surrounded by planets all carrying large metal weapons, and right behind them all was Starflash.
"Well I'm starting to think they are going to use the metal for weapons, what do you think?" Andrew asked in a sarcastic tone as he pulled out his swords and transformed. Mina and Amy did the same, then Mina called the other scouts before the planets could start the battle."I count about seventy planets, so I'd say we're adequately screwed now, wouldn't you?" Said Andrew again, but Mina wasn't planning on giving an answer.
"Now who has the upper hand Starscream? Planets, Attack!" Shouted Starflash and all the planets jumped on top of the beleaguered warriors of Justice. Andrew fought hard and long before a lucky blow crumpled him to the floor unconscious. Mina was ripping through them with her love chain but soon she felt drained and collapsed, exhausted. Amy was able to freeze a lot of them but one of them toppled on top of her and trapped her. They had killed sixty-five in there valiant effort but now all of them lay on the ground one way or another.
"The master will be unhappy about how many planets we lost but he will still be overjoyed at having three new hated enemies to torture." Suddenly a bright white light came from Andrew's swords, His eyes shot open. He stood up easily, as if nothing had happened. He had a fire in his eyes that Mina had never seen. Starscream burst into movement, the first being to throw five daggers into the remaining five planets. The daggers hit them dead center in the chest, and she saw them burst through the back of their chests, killing them instantly. Then he shot forward and rammed Starflash in the mid section. The air shot out of Starflash's lungs in a long drawn out gasp. He was holding himself up with his arms, trying to get air back into his body. Starscream stood up swords raised, getting ready to finish the battle when a blast of Negaenergy came rocketing in and was narrowly deflected by Starscream's left sword, while the other fell and cut the concrete. Now Starflash was standing next to the new comer. He stood around six foot four, with brown hair and his eyes were purple. He wore an exaggerated cape. His arm moved in and upward punch maneuver and a large Nagita, the same thing that Sailor Star Hunter carried appeared in his hands. He twirled it and spoke.
"Sailor Scouts! Today you will die. I Starblood Swear that if not today that sometime soon, now let's get it on." He shouted, Mina had gotten back up, having regained enough energy to fight again. Andrew had also cut the offending creature on Amy in half so she was also standing now. They separated, Mina and Amy stepping to the side with Starflash, while Starscream and Starblood stood rigid, staring at each other. A quick spark and Andrew was in front of Starblood slashing his blades home, but Starblood leaped straight up and landed on top of them, his foot struck out, giving Andrew a swift kick to the jaw. He reeled back but only for a second. The swords flashed back up, the Nagita came back up as well. They met in the center of the room with their respective masters behind them. The battle was mesmerizing, but so was the one between the two scouts and the warrior Starflash. He fired twin blasts of Negaenergy at them and they both dodged aside, and fired their own attacks.
"Venus Love Chain Encircle!"
"Mercury Shine Aqua Illusion!" Their attacks lanced out and caught him in the leg and arm. Freezing his arm and making his leg bloody. He was angry and that was bad. He threw up a force field, then began gathering dark energies. They were at a loss for what to do. Amy had nothing that could possibly pierce the shield and Mina didn't know how to preform the "Extreme Love And Beauty Smash". He laughed an evil laugh which was quite disturbing considering that he was in an evil force field. He spoke.
"Well scouts, you can kiss your new little Knight goodbye because he is about to go up in smoke!" He pointed his hand at Andrew and it started to glow an exact negative of the area around it. Mina had to think fast. She had an idea.
"Venus Love Chain Sword!" She shouted causing a golden chain sword to form in her hand. A beam shot out form Starflash's outstretched finger and Mina threw the sword which intersected the beam and sent it right back at the caster.
"Ahhhr, Shiiiiiiiiiiit!" Were his last words as the beam came back into the force field and created a black whole that sucked him in whole. Amy looked at Mina slightly dumbfounded. Before she could ask there came a scream from the other battles direction. They both turned around to see Andrew with the Nagita planted in his arm. Mina was slightly relived to see that Starblood had two deep gashes on his body which were still bleeding. Andrew slashed at the Nagita and ripped it from Starblood's hands, now weaponless he fired a blast of Negaenergy at Andrew. He did a sideways flip to dodge it and landed on his feet and slipped a little, causing him to lose his balance, "Wait no he feinted that one" thought Mina. Starblood came in with his newly picked up Nagita but Andrew was ready and gave him another slash on his chest this time. Starblood being satisfied with the damage he had inflicted, disappeared. Andrew just lay there, not moving, Mina ran over and found him unconscious. But definitely alive. His Knight cloths had vanished already so Mina and Amy transformed back and took him to the hospital. Mina thought in her head that they had been there a lot in the last couple of years.
She stayed there with Andrew the whole way, and eventually sat down by his bed to wait for him to wake up. Amy had to go back to her dorm, so she just left them there Mina not really caring. Night came and Andrew finally woke up. Mina gave him a hug being careful not to touch his arm. He spoke, his voice slightly horse.
"Mina, are you okay?" He asked, having a look of compassion on his face.
"Yes Andrew, I'm fine the little bastard never touched me."
"I almost forgot, did you kill Starflash?"
"Sort of, you see he fired some beam at you and I did a new attack and reflected it back, killing him instead."
"Oh, that's great! Thanks for getting me to the hospital, I'm sure I'll be fine now." He said then rolled over and started to fall asleep again. Mina just looked and decided that she would stay there through the night. She left the room grabbed a pillow and curled up on her chair and drifted off to sleep.
Back on the ship Starblood was reporting in.
"Starflash is dead, he was killed by his own attack, I was able to measure Starscream's ability and have discovered that he is a little better then me." His report was given quickly and without emotion. There was no answer but another telepathic message."Kill them all and I will make you a king when we conquer this world." Yes master, I will obey." And he disappeared in a white flash of light.
Starblood appeared in an alley in Tokyo, Starflash had tried to get the
Sailor Scouts simply by attacking them like all there enemies had before and he had failed, so Starblood was going to try and get them from the inside. But first he would need to get an identity. He went toward the customs building which he had conveniently landed next to. "Yes, I would do much better then Starflash did, yes I would." he thought.
Mina woke up in the morning to find Andrew still asleep, so she popped out really quickly and bought some breakfast stuff from McDonalds. When she got back, he was still asleep so she set the food next to his bed and let the aromas wake him up.
"Is that McDonalds I smell?" He asked with his eyes still closed. He opened them up and propped himself up in his bed. Mina noticed that the gash in his arm had already turned into a scar, "This guy heals really fast." Thought Mina. Andrew was eating his food elegantly, which was weird for Mina since she was so used to seeing Serena gobble her food down in a couple of seconds. She decided to start a conversation.
"Hey Andrew, did you sleep well last night? I was right over here but in my dreams I had this weird feeling of foreboding." She asked creasing her brow and frowning. Andrew looked up from his food and answered.
"I slept really well but I got the same feeling." A look of concern crossed both of their faces and they remained silent for several minutes. Andrew and Mina checked out after he finished eating and went back to Andrew's apartment. Mina was liking this year a lot. Yes she was.
"The Remembrance"
No one spoke, the battle adjusted itself and started again. Now Starflash was once again taking on Starscream, except this time he had one of those Planets with him, splitting it down to one planet for Sailor Venus, one for Tuxedo Mask, and one for Sailor Moon. Starscream came in slashing in a pincer movement giving Starflash one way to go, and he went that way but he didn't realize that one of the Planets was directly behind him and they both bumped into each other falling down in a heap, leaving them at the mercy of Starscream and Sailor Venus."Star Criss Cross Slash!" Shouted Starscream activating his special attack, while Mina yelled."Venus Love Chain, Encircle!" And the golden chain shot out and converged with Andrew's Criss Cross creating a shimmering blade of energy which annihilated the Planet who had been shoved in front of it. Sailor Moon had already dusted her other one after the feeling had returned to her arm. Tuxedo Mask was making a pincushion out of his Planet. Starflash was the only remaining enemy."So Starflash, what was all that big talk about kicking my ass again?" Asked Mina Sarcastically. Starflash looked around and got a grim look on his face. The air suddenly seemed charged with energy, and it all seemed to be converging on him. A large number of black clouds began forming above the park. A large bolt of lightning crashed down right next to Sailor Moon who just barely jumped aside. An unbelievable number of lightning bolts began raining down on the area, all of them trying to hit one of the Knights or Sailor Scouts. One bolt singed Starscream's arm causing him to lose his balance and topple over and another one almost took him out but Darien's incredible speed saved him.
"Thanks man." Said Starscream reluctantly. Ever more bolts were crashing down every second and it was becoming very hard to dodge them all. When one of them hit Starflash, breaking his concentration and stopping the storm. Actually no, that bolt was a little to green to be a natural bolt of lightning.
"Hey, Dickhead! You call that lightning, I'll show you lightning." It was the unmistakable voice of Jupiter."Jupiter Fusion Annihilation!" A hundred tiny balls of electricity blazed toward Starflash. They hit and caused thousands of tiny eruptions of plasma to leap up and burn his body. He survived the attack and collapsed to the ground.
"Dammit! Sailor Jupiter! You'll pay for that!" He screamed toward her then he pulled himself up and made another portal.
"Oh no you don't!" Shouted Mina trying to reach him before he went through. She jumped into the air, but he stepped through the door first, causing Mina to get a face ful of concrete. She stood up bleeding a little from some of the new cuts on her face, then she fell back and this time it was Starscream's speed that saved her from any more pain.
"You know it does help to be realistic when trying to catch somebody." Said Starscream. Tuxedo Mask looked around.
"Uh guys, I seem to remember there being seven monsters and we only killed six." And as if cued the seventh Planet jumped out and clothesline Starscream, sending him flying back to smash into a nearby car. He fell to the ground, out cold. Then his costume disappeared. Mina stood under her own power and turned to the monster who was waiting for her to take the first shot. Rage boiled up in her eyes and they started to glow. She raised her hands, which were also starting to glow. Jupiter remembered this from a year back.
"Extreme Love and Beauty Smash!" A blaze of rainbow colored energy shot down her arms and smashed into the Planet's chest causing it to disintegrate. The creature fell back, but was gone before it hit ground. Mina's eyes and hands stopped glowing. She shook her head and ran over to Andrew."Andrew, are you okay?" She asked the prone form. He didn't move for a second but then his eyes opened slowly.
"Princess Mina, is that you." He said sounding slightly horse. Mina felt a tear roll down her cheek and she shoved her face onto his shoulder."Shhh, shh. It's okay I remember every thing now. I told you we would be together again someday." Mina continued to cry, but these were tears of happiness Andrew had his memory back and Mina just wanted to savor the moment.
"Well I'll be damned, all he needed was to be knocked out." Said Tuxedo from behind.
"Oh! Mina, your face. It's all cut up. What happened? Did you do a face plant in the concrete?" Asked Andrew sounding very sympathetic. Mina could feel the pain again and it burned like hell. She got up and said a few quick words."I think we should get out of here before the news gets here." Sage advice, and they all disappeared into an alley where they changed and everybody went home.
"Mina, what did you do to your face?" Asked the doctor that Mina had gone to see.
"Well I sorta fell face first onto the ground when I was running." She answered back trying to make this go as quick as possible, doctors always freaked her out for some reason. In the other room Andrew was seeing a doctor about his broken arm and rib. She said that his chest would have to be taped up for a while, but he wasn't worried. He already knew that Vegan
Family healed about twice as fast as normal humans and the Moon family healed a little slower then that so he wasn't worried about Mina either. He went home with Mina that day and decided to show her the apartment. She stepped in, and looked around. She was amazed at how spacious it was then she remembered Andrew's salary and was a little less amazed at how he afforded it. Andrew popped off into the kitchen leaving her alone in his apartment. She looked around further and found some Neostar stuff, like one of those Neo-Reality hookups on his computer and shuddered thinking of what he could do with a sword like the ones that had started popping up in "Assassin". Ever since the whole thing with John Soren (a.k.a. Terrak.) Amy had let up on Neo-Reality and let everyone else play and Mina had in particular had been doing quite well, she was incredible good at "Assassin" (most likely a benefit from the gun she had carried for so long.), Serena had given up on all of it since she had some weird reflexes. Raye never tried it, and Lita was the best at the fighting games, literally she could whoop up on anyone in less then sixteen seconds. Haruka was the best at racing games and the Neo-Reality only seemed to enhance that. Michiru just watched and never played. Mina refocused her thoughts on what she was doing now. The whole place was amazing and a high salary had the tendency to do that. Andrew poked his head into the living room.
"Hey, Mina. What would you like for lunch, I've got or can make almost anything." He asked. Mina thought for a moment.
"How about a salad, with a Diet Coke?" She answered. Andrew gave her a quizzical look.
"What type of salad? Cesar, seafood, fruit, potato, vegetable, pasta, chicken, tuna, tossed, or maybe waldorf?" Mina stood perplexed for a second then answered.
"Ummm, how about the fruit?" She asked wary of the new monsoon coming her way.
"What type of salad dressing? French, Italian, Russian, Cesar, Thousand island, buttermilk, country french vinaigrette, creamy peppercorn, Greek seasoning, green goddess, Italian vinegar and oil, salsa salad seasoning perhaps?" Once again she paused for a couple of seconds then answered.
"I think I'll try the Green goddess."
"Excellent choice Ms. Aino." He popped back into the kitchen and Mina was quite relieved there weren't any more choices. Mina picked up the remote and switched the TV on and it came on showing a disaster area.
"Today, a large beam of energy shot down from the sky and destroyed the building that I am now standing in the wreckage of." The area was dark and black and the news reporter had goose bumps even though it was a beautiful Spring day. She thought about it and came up with one answer, the Negaverse. But until they announced themselves Mina couldn't do anything so she decided to try and enjoy her meal. Andrew came back with a bowl and a jar, a sandwich, one Diet coke and a Coke. Mina gratefully accepted the salad and drink.
"You make your own dressing?" She asked looking at the jar that the dressing was in.
"Yeah, I've got a lot of spare time since I found a way to store the already cooked crab and then warm it up without losing any flavor. So I just make a lot of it on Saturday and they warm it up when they need it." He seemed to be a nice person and a genius. Mina could hardly believe it. They spent quite a while talking and eating. Then the phone rang, Andrew went over and picked it up.
"It's for you." He held the phone out to Mina. She took it and put her ear up to the receiver.
"Mina," It was Amy."Would you head down to the docks, I think I may have found a way of finding these guys. Oh and bring Andrew." Before she hung up Mina answered with a half hearted "Sure.". She turned to Andrew and since he had heard the conversation he simply got up and put on his shoes while Mina did the same. They were off pretty quick and made it to the docks in an hour. They waited five minutes until they heard Amy's voice coming from the main road to the docks. She was shouting something, Mina strained to hear."Go away you weird little kid!" Was what it sounded like but she wasn't sure. Amy breasted the hill and they saw her walking while looking backwards and shouting at this weird huge eyed kid, which was pretty scary since his eyes were even bigger then most of the anime Mina had seen. They walked up to her to close the distance faster, when they got there the little kid finally left. Amy turned and saw them.
"Oh, thank god that weird little kid stopped following me he was starting to really scare me. Oh, yeah. Like I said before I may have found a way to find these Negaverse creeps. But first I need to talk to Andrew. Okay?" She asked Mina, Mina nodded and stepped aside. Amy walked up to him took his measure and said."Do you remember anything about these guys that you fought with that was particularly special?" Andrew gave a shudder and dredged up those horrible memories of the past. He closed his eyes and thought for a moment.
"They all came from a planet called, well never mind the native name since you can't pronounce it if you have a tongue, but the name I heard was Redsun. They had a hierarchy that went Sun, star, planet, moon, and asteroid. There was only one sun, and the only reason I was a star was because of my tremendous ability. Now I believe that their planet was slowly dying and the main problem was water. These things need to wash themselves in salt water twice every day to survive. So I'm guessing that they landed their ship somewhere in or near the ocean. That's where you'll find them most likely." He said taking in a gulp of the salty air, and leaned against the wall. Mina saw a look of frustration on Amy face and guessed that Andrew had just explained her plan for her. Mina stifled a giggle, and told Amy about the building that had been blown up near the docks. Amy shook her head.
"Well by the placing that you just explained I guessing that it was the smelting plant so that means they need metal for something, but what could it be." Then suddenly they were surrounded by planets all carrying large metal weapons, and right behind them all was Starflash.
"Well I'm starting to think they are going to use the metal for weapons, what do you think?" Andrew asked in a sarcastic tone as he pulled out his swords and transformed. Mina and Amy did the same, then Mina called the other scouts before the planets could start the battle."I count about seventy planets, so I'd say we're adequately screwed now, wouldn't you?" Said Andrew again, but Mina wasn't planning on giving an answer.
"Now who has the upper hand Starscream? Planets, Attack!" Shouted Starflash and all the planets jumped on top of the beleaguered warriors of Justice. Andrew fought hard and long before a lucky blow crumpled him to the floor unconscious. Mina was ripping through them with her love chain but soon she felt drained and collapsed, exhausted. Amy was able to freeze a lot of them but one of them toppled on top of her and trapped her. They had killed sixty-five in there valiant effort but now all of them lay on the ground one way or another.
"The master will be unhappy about how many planets we lost but he will still be overjoyed at having three new hated enemies to torture." Suddenly a bright white light came from Andrew's swords, His eyes shot open. He stood up easily, as if nothing had happened. He had a fire in his eyes that Mina had never seen. Starscream burst into movement, the first being to throw five daggers into the remaining five planets. The daggers hit them dead center in the chest, and she saw them burst through the back of their chests, killing them instantly. Then he shot forward and rammed Starflash in the mid section. The air shot out of Starflash's lungs in a long drawn out gasp. He was holding himself up with his arms, trying to get air back into his body. Starscream stood up swords raised, getting ready to finish the battle when a blast of Negaenergy came rocketing in and was narrowly deflected by Starscream's left sword, while the other fell and cut the concrete. Now Starflash was standing next to the new comer. He stood around six foot four, with brown hair and his eyes were purple. He wore an exaggerated cape. His arm moved in and upward punch maneuver and a large Nagita, the same thing that Sailor Star Hunter carried appeared in his hands. He twirled it and spoke.
"Sailor Scouts! Today you will die. I Starblood Swear that if not today that sometime soon, now let's get it on." He shouted, Mina had gotten back up, having regained enough energy to fight again. Andrew had also cut the offending creature on Amy in half so she was also standing now. They separated, Mina and Amy stepping to the side with Starflash, while Starscream and Starblood stood rigid, staring at each other. A quick spark and Andrew was in front of Starblood slashing his blades home, but Starblood leaped straight up and landed on top of them, his foot struck out, giving Andrew a swift kick to the jaw. He reeled back but only for a second. The swords flashed back up, the Nagita came back up as well. They met in the center of the room with their respective masters behind them. The battle was mesmerizing, but so was the one between the two scouts and the warrior Starflash. He fired twin blasts of Negaenergy at them and they both dodged aside, and fired their own attacks.
"Venus Love Chain Encircle!"
"Mercury Shine Aqua Illusion!" Their attacks lanced out and caught him in the leg and arm. Freezing his arm and making his leg bloody. He was angry and that was bad. He threw up a force field, then began gathering dark energies. They were at a loss for what to do. Amy had nothing that could possibly pierce the shield and Mina didn't know how to preform the "Extreme Love And Beauty Smash". He laughed an evil laugh which was quite disturbing considering that he was in an evil force field. He spoke.
"Well scouts, you can kiss your new little Knight goodbye because he is about to go up in smoke!" He pointed his hand at Andrew and it started to glow an exact negative of the area around it. Mina had to think fast. She had an idea.
"Venus Love Chain Sword!" She shouted causing a golden chain sword to form in her hand. A beam shot out form Starflash's outstretched finger and Mina threw the sword which intersected the beam and sent it right back at the caster.
"Ahhhr, Shiiiiiiiiiiit!" Were his last words as the beam came back into the force field and created a black whole that sucked him in whole. Amy looked at Mina slightly dumbfounded. Before she could ask there came a scream from the other battles direction. They both turned around to see Andrew with the Nagita planted in his arm. Mina was slightly relived to see that Starblood had two deep gashes on his body which were still bleeding. Andrew slashed at the Nagita and ripped it from Starblood's hands, now weaponless he fired a blast of Negaenergy at Andrew. He did a sideways flip to dodge it and landed on his feet and slipped a little, causing him to lose his balance, "Wait no he feinted that one" thought Mina. Starblood came in with his newly picked up Nagita but Andrew was ready and gave him another slash on his chest this time. Starblood being satisfied with the damage he had inflicted, disappeared. Andrew just lay there, not moving, Mina ran over and found him unconscious. But definitely alive. His Knight cloths had vanished already so Mina and Amy transformed back and took him to the hospital. Mina thought in her head that they had been there a lot in the last couple of years.
She stayed there with Andrew the whole way, and eventually sat down by his bed to wait for him to wake up. Amy had to go back to her dorm, so she just left them there Mina not really caring. Night came and Andrew finally woke up. Mina gave him a hug being careful not to touch his arm. He spoke, his voice slightly horse.
"Mina, are you okay?" He asked, having a look of compassion on his face.
"Yes Andrew, I'm fine the little bastard never touched me."
"I almost forgot, did you kill Starflash?"
"Sort of, you see he fired some beam at you and I did a new attack and reflected it back, killing him instead."
"Oh, that's great! Thanks for getting me to the hospital, I'm sure I'll be fine now." He said then rolled over and started to fall asleep again. Mina just looked and decided that she would stay there through the night. She left the room grabbed a pillow and curled up on her chair and drifted off to sleep.
Back on the ship Starblood was reporting in.
"Starflash is dead, he was killed by his own attack, I was able to measure Starscream's ability and have discovered that he is a little better then me." His report was given quickly and without emotion. There was no answer but another telepathic message."Kill them all and I will make you a king when we conquer this world." Yes master, I will obey." And he disappeared in a white flash of light.
Starblood appeared in an alley in Tokyo, Starflash had tried to get the
Sailor Scouts simply by attacking them like all there enemies had before and he had failed, so Starblood was going to try and get them from the inside. But first he would need to get an identity. He went toward the customs building which he had conveniently landed next to. "Yes, I would do much better then Starflash did, yes I would." he thought.
Mina woke up in the morning to find Andrew still asleep, so she popped out really quickly and bought some breakfast stuff from McDonalds. When she got back, he was still asleep so she set the food next to his bed and let the aromas wake him up.
"Is that McDonalds I smell?" He asked with his eyes still closed. He opened them up and propped himself up in his bed. Mina noticed that the gash in his arm had already turned into a scar, "This guy heals really fast." Thought Mina. Andrew was eating his food elegantly, which was weird for Mina since she was so used to seeing Serena gobble her food down in a couple of seconds. She decided to start a conversation.
"Hey Andrew, did you sleep well last night? I was right over here but in my dreams I had this weird feeling of foreboding." She asked creasing her brow and frowning. Andrew looked up from his food and answered.
"I slept really well but I got the same feeling." A look of concern crossed both of their faces and they remained silent for several minutes. Andrew and Mina checked out after he finished eating and went back to Andrew's apartment. Mina was liking this year a lot. Yes she was.
