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The morning came and the senshi gathered outside. The enemy's base was in a wormhole. The only way to reach it was to sailor teleport. With the few remaining senshi it would have been a strain if it hadn't been for Cosmos's phenomenal power.

"What is this place." Healer asked as they all looked around. They appeared to be in a psychedelic tunnel. The colors swirled around them and appeared to be moving. There was only two ways to go, right or left.

"We are in the veins of time." Artemis explained. "It would have been very helpful to have Pluto here with us now." The others agreed but there was nothing that they could do about it now.

Almost instantly the floor gave out below Jupiter's feet and she was swallowed up as if she was never there. Laughter could be heard echoing through the tunnel. "I see you've found us Sailor Senshi. Enjoy your stay, once we dispose of you Chaos will rein again!"

Jupiter fell hard against the floor. She had appeared to have been dropped from the ceiling. When she got up she looked around and saw that the space she was in had no walls, the floor stretched for infinity. Once on her feet, Jupiter walked around to gain her bearings of her surroundings. She saw nothing until he came into sight. A man, who she immediately recognized as Meiki was chained to the floor with his head bowed down, as he was the last time she had seen him in Michiru's mirror. "Meiki."

Meiki's head came up to face Jupiter. "I see you've come." He held his arms up as high as the restraints would allow him to. "Please, free me."

Jupiter had no idea what to do to release the chains. She made her way over to him and started to pull at the cuffs that bound his hands. "I can't they won't budge." She was a strong girl and the iron cuffs did not give way under her tight grip.

"You can charge them with your electricity." Meiki told her with a smile on his face. "Just put you hands on the cuffs and concentrate all of your energy on them. Don't worry about me, your powers can't effect me."

Jupiter did as she was told. With her hands placed on the cuffs they started to glow. She could feel her own powers burning her hands, but she sensed that it was starting to work and didn't dare let go of her hold on them. The smell of burning flesh was all around them. Just when she thought that she couldn't take anymore she let out a scream, surging the last of her power into her hands; the restraints were blown off of his wrists in a brilliant explosion

"Thank you Sailor Jupiter." Meiki said as he caught the collapsed girl in his arms. Meiki was an average sized man for his apparent age. They would have no chance to escape until Jupiter regained her consciousness.

"Face us you cowards!" Sailor Cosmos was visibly angry and yelling about herself. "Bring back Jupiter and Meiki!"

"Sailor Cosmos, I think we should head in this direction. We can't afford to waste anytime here." Tuxedo Kamen told her. The others seemed to agree with him.

"We should split up to cover more area quickly." Uranus suggested. "Neptune, Tuxedo Kamen and I will go this way while the rest of you should head that way. Contact us on the communicators if anything happens." Before anyone could object the three started in the previously pointed out direction.

"You're leaving her?" Neptune asked Uranus when they were out of earshot.

Uranus didn't say anything but looked at Neptune with an angry look. Neptune knew not to press the subject any further and walked on in silence.

Venus, Cosmos, Healer and Fighter head in their designated direction. All of them were looking around to find some sort of way out of this tunnel. "What if this just goes on for ever? What are we going to do? We won't get anywhere at this rate." Healer began to lose faith.

"It's all right." Cosmos smiled at her. "We'll get everyone back." Her words were reassuring to Healer but seemed somewhat shaky coming from her mouth.

"Where are your other friends?" Kenboushou appeared before them. "Oh well, I'll deal with you now anyway."

"STAR SERIOUS LASER!" Fighter's attack soared at the man with incredible speed. He made no motion to dodge the attack. The laser would have made a direct hit but just passed straight through him. "WHAT!"

"You fool, you can't hurt me." With these words a large electrical orb was emitted from his hands and thrown straight at them. Venus was hit. Badly.

Healer ran to her side. "No, stay with us." She pleaded with Venus as Venus seemed to be losing consciousness.

"I'm sorry. Protect Usagi in my place." Venus barely got out before she was limp in her arms. Tears appearing on Healer's face seemed to magnify the anger in her eyes.

Knowing that her powers were useless against him Healer did the only thing that she could and charged the man with all of the strength. "Healer NO!" Fighter screamed.



"Where are you going little girl?" The man asked before Healer was upon him. She ran into him making no contact but instead passed straight through him just as Fighter's attack had done previously. As she was on the other side of him with her back to him he fired again knocking her full in the back. She had no chance to block the attack and was knocked on to her face. She must have fallen unconscious immediately. "Anyone else want to try?" He laughed as he turned his focus back to Cosmos and Fighter.

Healer and Venus disappeared into the floor just as Jupiter had. "No, they're gone."

"Foolishness will get you no where. Surrender yourselves or be destroyed." There was an over confident smirk on his face.

"We will never surrender to you!" Cosmos said in an equally confident tone. "You'll pay for what you have done." She pointed her staff at him angrily.

"I wonder if they are all right?" Neptune said out loud. This was the first conversation that had gone on between the three since they had parted away from the main group. She looked from side to side to see the faces of the two that were on either side of her. Nothing. They kept walking, the tunnel seemed to be never ending and they were starting to get very frustrated.

"Damn it! Will this thing ever end?" Uranus was not one to keep the emotion of anger inside her.

"Oh it will." A voice said behind them. "It will end for you very quickly."

The three turned around to see a white haired man standing behind them with his arms crossed. "What do you want?! Return Jupiter and Meiki to us! Now!" Tuxedo Mask boldly demanded.

"I'm not like my brother, I don't feel like playing with you. He had fun with your other friends, but I'll just take you to him so that he can dispose of you." Wasureru smiled smugly as he raised his hands above his head. A glowing energy seemed to form between his hands. Uranus noticed this and made a move to take out her sword. Before she could come anywhere near him he launched the ball of light towards them, encasing them in it.

Between Cosmos and Kenboushou appeared a brilliant light. When the light disappeared it displayed a weakened Neptune, Uranus and Tuxedo Kamen. "Uranus." Cosmos gasped as she ran over to the group. Uranus smiled at her trying to relieve her concern. The five then turned to the two men before them.

"Healer and Venus." Meiki said, with these words Jupiter woke up. Meiki made his way to the two senshi that had just arrived. They appeared to be unconscious and badly beaten. He quickly did a run over of both of them and then turned to Jupiter. "They'll be alright." He smiled.

Jupiter tried to prop herself up with her hand and failed miserably as the burnt flesh of her palm stung when she put pressure on it. Meiki made his way over to her and assisted her in getting to her feet. "If these two are here I wonder how everyone else is doing." She said once she was stable on her feet.

"I don't know but I say we go and find out. Now that you're awake we can escape from here." He started walking away from Makoto when she put her hand up on his shoulder.

"What about Venus and Healer? We can't just leave them here."

"We can't very well carry them either. We will come back for them when we've found the others." Meiki's words left no room for debate. "They will be alright, trust me Jupiter." His expression turned kind and Jupiter seemed to trust his words.

Without asking any questions or waiting for any action from the two men Uranus launched her attack. "WORLD SHAKING!" The ground they stood on shook while Uranus's attack plummeted towards the men, neither of them seeming to care.

Uranus wasn't upset that the men were unaffected by her attack, she was pissed that they stood there with their cool faces as if they were mocking her. "Haha, don't make me laugh." Kenboushou stated. "Which one of you would like to be first? If you would like I can kill you all together." He had his hand out as though giving them an offer.

"You can burn in hell!" Fighter yelled as she prepared to attack. "STAR SERIOUS LASER!" Again the enemy was unaffected by the attack. Not even a scratch. "This isn't working. We need to do something else." Fighter turned to look at Cosmos.

"What do you want? Why are you doing this?" Cosmos asked, maybe if she knew what their motive was she could stop them. "Why?"

The brothers looked at each other and then faced the group again. "It's not like you can do anything about it now, so we might as well tell you. We are going to bring Chaos back to power in this Galaxy." The man with the white hair began to explain. "Once Chaos is in power we will become supreme rulers of this galaxy by controlling people's minds." The man made his hand into a fist and squeezed it hard in front of himself.

"No one would be able to go up against us if we had Chaos on our side, and besides, with Chaos in the minds of all the people in this galaxy, we have an oblivious army!"

"You can't control Chaos, it will over take you. It will kill you." Fighter said with a smile on her face. "You are fools. It's just using you."

When she finished her comment Kenboushou shot an energy beam straight at her chest. Fighter had no time to react, the beam hit her hard in the chest and she was thrown back down the tunnel. She got up, blood was trailing from the corner of her mouth and she was holding her arm. She made her way back to the group. "Is that all you have." She pressed her luck and tried their patients.

"You'd better learn when to keep your mouth shut little girl." Wasureru warned her. He walked over to her, he was an arm's length away from Fighter. He reached out and took Fighter's gloved hand. Fighter could feel his solid hand touching hers.

'Now I can hurt him, he is solid.' Fighter thought as she tightened her grip on his hand. He seemed surprised as she spun him around to be held in her arms. Putting her left arm under his neck and bracing the back of his head with her right hand she quickly turned her arms and snapped his neck. "Goodbye." Was all that she said.

Uranus shot Fighter a smile and appreciated how she handled the situation. Just as she would have done. Fighter let the man's limp body fall out of her arms and to the floor and then turned her attention to the other man. "I'll kill you for that." He screamed as he powered up again. Fighter just smiled smugly. "Better keep your eyes open." The man said as he began to multiply. Soon there was a good dozen duplicates standing in a circle around the senshi and Tuxedo Mask.

"Neptune now!" Cosmos called out.

"SUBMARINE REFLECTION!" Neptune called out as she turned herself round to shine her mirror on all of the men. It didn't work. The mirror detected and destroyed nothing.

"Your powers have been analyzed, try all you'd like, there's no way you can beat me!" They all laughed in unison.

"Tell that to your partner!" Uranus threw this back at him. Two of the duplicates charged Uranus. When they became solid to grab her she split them in two with her space sword. Soon two duplicates would attack everyone, while they were distracted the real man grabbed Cosmos.

The duplicates soon disappeared and everyone turned their attention to the man holding Cosmos, their princess. "Is this the one that was so important to you?" The man asked while holding her in a threatening position. "This will be payback for my brother!" He seemed quite upset.

"NO!!" Fighter screamed. 'Not now, not her.'

"Release her immediately!" Uranus demanded.

Tuxedo Kamen began to charge the man with his cane. "I wouldn't try that, or do you want something to happen to her?" He fired an energy ball at Tuxedo Kamen knocking him down to the ground. He soon began to fire random shots all about the tunnel, some would rictoche off the wall. He finally stopped when he heard Uranus's blood curdling scream.

"Noooo!!! Neptune!!!!!!" Her voice mirrored true pain. Neptune's bloody figure was lying in her arms motionless. 'No, don't leave me! I can't stay here alone, I love you Michiru.' Haruka cried over Neptune, this was the first time anyone had seen the brash girl shed a tear.

Fighter and Uranus were the only ones left standing to fight. They knew that they couldn't attack him because he was using Cosmos as a human shield. "Fighter, fire at him, make it a weak hit. You have to hit Cosmos, we have to make him think that we aren't afraid to hurt her." Uranus spoke just loud enough that Fighter would be the only one to hear her, she never once took her eyes off of Cosmos.

"What!? I can't hurt Odango, I can't." Fighter replied with a tug at her heart.

"You have to, it's the only way to save her!" Uranus grabbed Fighter's arm in the process. Fighter wiggled her way free.

"STAR." Fighter began as she brought her hand back behind her. "SERIOUS." Stars began to collect around her frame. Then he did it, he turned the captive Cosmos around so that Fighter could see her face and the tears that marked it. Fighter fell to her knees on the floor. She couldn't do it.

"WORLD SHAK." Uranus was cut off by Fighter. "Get off of me, we have to do this!" Uranus pleaded with Fighter. While Fighter was on Uranus the enemy shot a large electrical ball at them both.

"NO!" Cosmos yelled as she was powerless against the situation. She watched them get hit and writhe in pain. "NO!" Another shot was blasted at them and they could do nothing to escape it.