Part IX
Having these limbs back again was a wonderful feeling. Every movement that she made seemed so graceful, it was not like having the cumbersome limbs of a man. No she was a woman again and her light, delicate form passed through the night with ease. Healer was close beside her mimicking every movement that she made to easily cross the tops of the city buildings.
The nightscape was spectacular and she felt alive again with the exhilarating rush that she was receiving. They were nearing the area where the others would be battling. Healer dashed in front of Sailor Moon and perched herself on a nearby roof-top.
(AN: the Kenada Sailor Moon will be referred to as SM and the faux Sailor Moon will be referred to as FSM. I'll try not to confuse you too much ^_^)
SM came up behind her and whispered quietly to her. "What's going on?"
Healer didn't take her eyes off of the scene below. It was hard to make out anything with all of the fog that was present. A few flashing lights, power calls and then there was nothing. "Something's wrong. Everything just stopped."
"We should go down there." SM said as she stood up from her crouched position and prepared herself to leap from the structure.
"Wait." Healer's arm caught hers. "We can't just barge in there, we'll sneak behind from over there," Her finger pointed out to their destination just in her sights. "and come around from that direction. That way we can get a good look of what's going on without being noticed." SM nodded and went on her way.
~@~@~@~
"Neptune!" Uranus screamed as she saw that she had been captured. A tall woman with a long fitted black dress held her captive. The woman's arms wrapped around her neck and her waist while pulling her chin up to expose her throat.
"I don't know why you try and counter me Sailor Uranus."
"Oi, oi. don't be so full of yourself." Uranus looked at her sideways.
"I know all of your secrets and I know just how to hurt you." She smiled evilly as she tightened her hold on Neptune.
Neptune stood silently not even gasping for air, which she so desperately needed. Uranus's emotions surged through her and threatened to get the best of her. Her chest heaved with each breath as she contemplated what to do. She couldn't use her powers or she would risk Neptune being hit also. No matter how good Neptune was she would never be able to free herself in time to miss the oncoming attack. Uranus's eyes narrowed as her space sword appeared in her hand. Where was everyone else? The thought crossed her mind but she didn't dwell too long on it as her Neptune needed her.
The distance between Uranus and the woman holding Neptune hadn't seemed so great when she had begun her attack but it now appeared that the distance was growing greater. Uranus ran with all of her speed and power and the farther away her target seemed to get the greater her speed and power. Finally she began to gain on the fleeting Neptune. With her sword raised above her head she let out a scream as the blade came plummeting down into the chest of the woman in black.
As the sword penetrated her body her face twisted into a dark and evil smile. It actually sent a chill up Uranus's spine as she stepped back in horror. As the woman let go of Neptune, her form disappeared before it hit the ground. The woman pulled the space sword from her bloody chest and held it out in front of her asking one question. "Why?" She staggered towards Uranus who wasn't moving, holding the sword in both of her hands with a complete look of betrayal on her face. When her weight took over and her strength gave out she collapsed into Uranus's arms.
Uranus was too shocked to respond to any of this and just looked down at the woman in horror. She picked her head up briefly to look around for the fallen Neptune but saw no sign of her. When she looked back down however she found a bloody Neptune in her arms, lying in her lap. "No, Neptune." Uranus began to panic as she didn't understand what was going on. What happened? Where did that woman go?
Neptune turned her head up and opened her eyes. "Why?" She asked just before she slipped into unconsciousness.
An evil laughter echoed through the room and the woman from before appeared standing in front of the two senshi. "I told you. I know all of your secrets and I know just how to hurt you. all of you." She laughed as chains appeared on Uranus and Neptune's wrists, ankles and necks. "Stay here while I round up your friends." The woman smiled smugly as she once again disappeared into the darkness.
"Oh Neptune." Uranus began to cry over her limp body. "How could I have not seen this?"
Neptune responded by opening her eyes. "It's alright. I know you didn't mean to."
"You'll be alright, ne?"
~@~@~@~
Mercury's form lay motionless on the ground before Maker. Maker examined the area to see what had hit her and if there was any threat to her. There appeared to be no one around and who ever or whatever had done this to Mercury must have left her for dead. Maker cautiously walked over to the fallen Mercury.
Her knee bent and Maker knelt down beside the blue haired girl. "Mercury?" she shook her lightly. There was no response. Maker being the wise and sensible senshi that she was took her glove off and ran her fingers down Mercury's wrist to feel for a pulse. To her relief she found one.
Just as Maker let out her sigh of relief she felt fingers close in around her neck. Her eyes flew open and she looked straight into the face of her assailant. It was Mercury. "Nice to see you again Maker." She said sadisticly. "Maleficent figured that I was the best person to kill you. Does it hurt?"
Maker struggled to get free her fingers slipped and clawed at Mercury's gloved hand as she tried to loosen the other girl's hold on her. "What are you doing?"
"Does it hurt?" Mercury asked again. "Not so much the pain of your life slipping away, but instead the pain in the fact that it will be me. the one you love that kills you?"
Maker's face turned to an expression of distaste as she stopped struggling when she realized that it was hopeless and that it wasn't really Mercury. "Yes." Maker breathed out.
This single word seemed to please her captor more than anything. She tightened her hold on the taller girls throat as a man stepped out from the shadows behind her. Tuxedo Kamen came up behind her and encircled his arms around her waist. Maker was forced to look on the scene as he planted small kisses up Mercury's neck.
Just when Maker felt as though she couldn't take it anymore she was knocked free from Mercury's hold and fell to the ground.
"You're not Mercury." Jupiter said as she stood between Tuxedo Kamen, Mercury and Maker. "Mercury would never do that." She crossed her arms around her chest as she began to spin. "JUPITER OAK EVOLUTION"
The attack was sent all around the room but above Maker's head saving her from the power. Mercury and Tuxedo Kamen were unaffected by the attack and proceeded to counter it almost immediately. "Would Mercury do this?" Mercury asked as a sword appeared in her hands and was thrust through Jupiter's midsection.
"NO!" Maker screamed out in terror. "STOP!"
"Oh it will end soon enough." Tuxedo Kamen laughed as chains appeared on Jupiter and Maker in the same fashion as Neptune and Uranus'.
~@~@~@~
Venus was sitting at a booth in Crown when she noticed an explosion outside of the window. She pulled her transformational pen out and was about to say her phrase when she noticed that she was already in her sailor fuku. "What?" She looked down at herself.
Realizing that wasn't really what was important at the moment she rushed out to see what was going on outside. Healer was in a battle with a woman in a long black fitted dress. "See it's no good, she came anyway." The woman said to Healer as she fired another shot at her.
Healer looked over in Venus's direction. "RUN!" She called out before firing back a shot.
Venus was confused and stood there like a deer in headlights. What was going on? She turned around to see the building she had just come from but it was gone and fog replaced it.
"You can't return to that sweet dream now my dear." The woman said to Venus as she noticed what she was doing. "Your friend here foolishly tried to save you by putting you there where I couldn't get you but you found your way to us anyway."
Healer winched at the pain in her arm as she had been hit before. Venus rushed to her side seeing that there was no way for her to escape and nowhere for her to run. "You shouldn't have come." Healer said looking at her with a smile.
"I had to come, I felt drawn here. I know now that it was because of you." Venus smiled back.
"Isn't this touching." She mocked their moment. "Are you ready?" She asked putting her hands on her hips. "Too bad, here I come."
The attack headed straight for Healer but before it hit her it passed straight through Venus's body. Healer opened her eyes and saw Venus's pained expression before she collapsed on top of her. "Again." Healer muttered. "You've sacrificed yourself for me, again."
Just as they had done before, the chains appeared on Venus and Healer.
~@~@~@~
"Where am I?" Mars asked as she made her way through the blinding fog. Her arms were stretched out in front of her to assure her safe passage through the area. There were no signs of anyone around her but a sudden feeling of evil encased the area around her. It was stagnant and foul and tried to make it's way into her being. "What do you want?" She spun around aimlessly calling out the force behind this surge.
"What do I want?" The voice asked still having no face to put with it. "Isn't it obvious?. I want you senshi dead!" The last part was said with force and conviction as a figure came from the shadows of the mist to lunge at Mars' throat.
Mars struggled to free herself from the hold that the being had on her. She couldn't use her powers since her captor had her from behind.
"You're pathetic, you have the thought in your head that you can beat me?" The voice asked from behind. "I know all of the secrets of the senshi, but you, there was no one I could use to turn against you, to twist around to defeat you. You love them all and that will be your downfall." The thing, whatever or whoever it was released her into the complete oblivion of the dark fog.
"Rei-chan? What are you doing? Come and stay with me." Usagi appeared before her in her school fuku and a smile.
"Usagi?" Mars asked incredulously.
"We saved you special seats to our next recital." Michiru smiled at her holding Haruka's hand in one hand and her violin case in the other. Everyone was there surrounding Mars in a circle.
"Minna? What happened?"
Without any further warning the circle began to grow smaller as her 'friends' closed in on her and prevented her escape. The civilian senshi changed in a blink of an eye into their sailor fukus threatening to attack. Their power calls rang into the night air clearly and Mars knew this was going to be the end if she didn't do something quick. She turned in circles to look at their faces. Her eyes stopped on the Sailor Moon. "MARS" Her flaming bow appeared in her hands "FLAME" as her fingers drew back the arrow of fire bringing it across her chest and putting all the feeling that she had into it. The release. "SNIPER"
The arrow soared straight for Sailor Moon as the others around her disappeared. The look of shock was burned into Mars' eyes as she stood and stared at the fallen girl.
"STAR SERIOUS LASER!"
The attack hit her square in the back and Mars was thrown across the room. "F.Fighter." she managed to mutter out before the blood from the cut on her forehead began to seep into her eyes.
Fighter appeared out of the darkness and rushed over to where Sailor Moon had fallen. Mars tried to struggle to her feet. Sailor Moon saw this and grabbed Fighter close to her. "It's an illusion, she did this, that's the enemy." She said to Fighter as she smiled evilly towards Mars.
Fighter stood up leaving the crumpled Sailor Moon behind and faced her attention to Mars. "I don't know how you thought you could hurt her and get away with it." She said as she walked closer to Mars. Her target was clear, she didn't even stop to think for a second that Sailor Moon would have been lying to her.
Mars was still weak from the blast she had just received from Fighter, she couldn't make it to her feet. Not to worry though because Fighter helped her up by placing her hand around her neck and lifting her from the ground.
"NO!" A voice came from the darkness, but it was a familiar voice this time.
Fighter's attention turned over to the fallen Sailor Moon and she just shrugged. It hadn't been her who called for her to stop, who was here now? Seeing that Mars would be of no threat to her, Fighter dropped her to the ground and headed towards the voice.
"Fighter? What did you do?" SM appeared from the shadows holding her broach. She looked over at Mars on the ground off to the side and immediately went to her aid not even noticing FSM behind Fighter.
Fighter's head quickly swiveled back and forth from one Sailor Moon to the other. Which one was the real one? She didn't know any more.
SM held Mars in her arms as her gloved hand came up to touch her face. "I knew that wasn't really you. Please don't leave me again. Will you stay with me this time?" Mars asked before she disappeared in SM's arms.
"REI!!!" SM screamed as tears began to come to her eyes. When every last speck of light that had once made up Rei's body had vanished she stood with tear filled eyes.
FSM stood also coming up behind Fighter. Fighter didn't make any motion to go near either one of them.
"Fighter why?" SM asked while continuing to cry. "Why would you do this to Mars?"
Fighter's face fell, she couldn't stand the sight of her Odango crying, even if she didn't know if she was the real thing or not. A heart wrenching feeling swelled in her body. Had she done wrong? Had she done something to hurt her Odango?
An evil laughter filled the space they were in and the woman in the black dress appeared before them. "You are the last of the senshi. What a weak and pathetic challenge you have made." The woman hovered above them. "The human race is now ours for the taking, and I Maleficent will dictate how this planet shall be formed." Her arms were raised above her showing her power and expected victory.
"You can't own the human race." SM shouted at her. "That's wrong."
Not to be out done FSM began to lecture Maleficent too. "That's right. I will not allow you to do as you wish to this planet or the people that live here."
SM was shocked to hear these words come from FSM's mouth. Fighter had now turned her attention from the Sailor Moons and was now on Maleficent. Whichever one was real, she would end up having to defend both of them. "STAR SERIOUS LASER"
The attack did nothing and was reflected back to hit SM. She lay crippled on the ground hurt badly from the attack. "Oh, I'm sorry. Did I hit her?" Maleficent asked sarcastically. "Do you want to try again?" She mocked Fighter.
Fighter looked in awe at what her power had done to SM and didn't dare think of firing another shot. "No."
"It's true, your love and compassion are your weakness. The entire human race has the same weakness. Your feelings. I will take them away from you, an army can't have feelings. An army should do as they are told without any second thoughts." Maleficent took an invisible seat in the air as she proceeded to explain her plans to the senshi below her.
"I've spent years devising a way to biogenically engineer the human race to meet my strict requirements. It was too much of an endeavor to create a new race, and instead much easier to just manipulate an already existing one. You will become my work horses and reshape this planet the way that I see fit."
"My kind can not live in this filth that you've created on this planet so therefore we will be giving you the task of cleaning it so that we may come and inhabit it. As you cannot do this with your current strength and bodies, we will engineer you to have better, stronger ones. Then we will take away all thoughts that you have, all thoughts and feelings you ever thought you could have will be gone. A worker that has no thoughts or feelings can not bring about an uprising now can they?"
SM stood up from her crumpled state on the ground to defy the woman. "Well there's just one thing you forgot in your 'perfect' little plan." Maleficent looked at her questioningly. "You forgot that I'm here and that I'm not going to let you do as you wish!" SM's tier appeared before her as she closed her eyes. "SILVER MOON CRYSTAL POWER KISS!"
The brilliant light filled the area and dissipated the fog that surrounded them. The buildings and various other city objects were now visible around them but Maleficent seemed unharmed.
"What was that?" Maleficent questioned looking at SM with fear in her eyes. "You were supposed to be gone."
"Well I'm not!" SM looked confident as she came up to stand in front of Fighter and FSM.
"No, you've been gone for so long. I thought you were dead?" Maleficent's fear was apparent and so was her weakness.
"SILVER MOON CRYSTAL POWER KISS!" Her attack once again soared towards Maleficent. This time however it did some damage. Maleficent fell towards the Earth as she panted for air. The space around them began to crumble as the ground split open in various places.
The violent shaking caused the senshi to fall to the ground also and FSM took this opportunity to attack SM while Fighter was preoccupied. With a single flick of her wrist she caused a sharp rock to come up behind SM. The rock was hurled with great force at SM's back. Just before it hit her, the ground opened up behind FSM and caused her to fall desperately into the gorge behind her. With only her fingertips for support she hung there.
The rock finally came in contact with SM as she bent over to try and help up FSM. If Seiya really loved this girl then she couldn't rightly let her die. SM was also knocked into the gorge and was too hanging on with only her fingers.
The two Sailor Moons hung there in peril with no way out and death pulling at their feet in the form of gravity. Their holds were threatening to give out at the same time until Fighter's hands reached over to save them at the last minute.
SM and FSM looked up to see Fighter's strained face looking down at them. She had blood trickling down her temple and looked as though she had been hit pretty badly. Fighter knew she didn't have much strength left but was going to fight this with every last ounce of her being. When the burning in her muscles became too much she knew that she could only save one of them or lose both of them.
"It's ok." SM smiled at Fighter dangling from one of her arms. "You can let me go. If you truly love this girl then I don't want to be the one to hold you back. let me help you save her. just let go."
"But I can't." Fighter struggled.
"You have to let one of us go!" FSM shrieked from her other arm.
SM smiled at Fighter once again. "Maybe she really is the real thing. maybe she really is that girl that you loved so long ago. I don't blame you for not thinking I am that same girl from way back when. I don't really know if I am." Tears began to form in SM's eyes. "All I know is that whoever I am now, be it Usagi or Kenada I will always love you."
FSM looked over at SM in awe and felt a drop fall on her cheek. She looked up to see Fighter crying and allowing her tears to fall on her face. "Fighter?" FSM asked. Fighter turned her eyes to look directly in her face.
"I'm sorry." She said. "If you truly are Usagi, I'm sorry. I can't live in the past and I know that now, right now, I love Kenada. I love him even if he isn't Usagi."
There was a shear look of terror on FSM's face as she felt her hand and hold slipping from Fighters. She looked at Fighter's face as she closed her eyes and released her hand. FSM changed into a woman that resembled Maleficent but with a red dress before she plummeted into the darkness below.
SM watched as the woman disappeare and knew at that moment for sure that she was the one and only Sailor Moon. She turned her gaze back up to look at Fighter's face and saw that her eyes were open and that she had seen the whole thing and also knew that she had made the right decision even if there was any doubt in her mind.
Having these limbs back again was a wonderful feeling. Every movement that she made seemed so graceful, it was not like having the cumbersome limbs of a man. No she was a woman again and her light, delicate form passed through the night with ease. Healer was close beside her mimicking every movement that she made to easily cross the tops of the city buildings.
The nightscape was spectacular and she felt alive again with the exhilarating rush that she was receiving. They were nearing the area where the others would be battling. Healer dashed in front of Sailor Moon and perched herself on a nearby roof-top.
(AN: the Kenada Sailor Moon will be referred to as SM and the faux Sailor Moon will be referred to as FSM. I'll try not to confuse you too much ^_^)
SM came up behind her and whispered quietly to her. "What's going on?"
Healer didn't take her eyes off of the scene below. It was hard to make out anything with all of the fog that was present. A few flashing lights, power calls and then there was nothing. "Something's wrong. Everything just stopped."
"We should go down there." SM said as she stood up from her crouched position and prepared herself to leap from the structure.
"Wait." Healer's arm caught hers. "We can't just barge in there, we'll sneak behind from over there," Her finger pointed out to their destination just in her sights. "and come around from that direction. That way we can get a good look of what's going on without being noticed." SM nodded and went on her way.
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"Neptune!" Uranus screamed as she saw that she had been captured. A tall woman with a long fitted black dress held her captive. The woman's arms wrapped around her neck and her waist while pulling her chin up to expose her throat.
"I don't know why you try and counter me Sailor Uranus."
"Oi, oi. don't be so full of yourself." Uranus looked at her sideways.
"I know all of your secrets and I know just how to hurt you." She smiled evilly as she tightened her hold on Neptune.
Neptune stood silently not even gasping for air, which she so desperately needed. Uranus's emotions surged through her and threatened to get the best of her. Her chest heaved with each breath as she contemplated what to do. She couldn't use her powers or she would risk Neptune being hit also. No matter how good Neptune was she would never be able to free herself in time to miss the oncoming attack. Uranus's eyes narrowed as her space sword appeared in her hand. Where was everyone else? The thought crossed her mind but she didn't dwell too long on it as her Neptune needed her.
The distance between Uranus and the woman holding Neptune hadn't seemed so great when she had begun her attack but it now appeared that the distance was growing greater. Uranus ran with all of her speed and power and the farther away her target seemed to get the greater her speed and power. Finally she began to gain on the fleeting Neptune. With her sword raised above her head she let out a scream as the blade came plummeting down into the chest of the woman in black.
As the sword penetrated her body her face twisted into a dark and evil smile. It actually sent a chill up Uranus's spine as she stepped back in horror. As the woman let go of Neptune, her form disappeared before it hit the ground. The woman pulled the space sword from her bloody chest and held it out in front of her asking one question. "Why?" She staggered towards Uranus who wasn't moving, holding the sword in both of her hands with a complete look of betrayal on her face. When her weight took over and her strength gave out she collapsed into Uranus's arms.
Uranus was too shocked to respond to any of this and just looked down at the woman in horror. She picked her head up briefly to look around for the fallen Neptune but saw no sign of her. When she looked back down however she found a bloody Neptune in her arms, lying in her lap. "No, Neptune." Uranus began to panic as she didn't understand what was going on. What happened? Where did that woman go?
Neptune turned her head up and opened her eyes. "Why?" She asked just before she slipped into unconsciousness.
An evil laughter echoed through the room and the woman from before appeared standing in front of the two senshi. "I told you. I know all of your secrets and I know just how to hurt you. all of you." She laughed as chains appeared on Uranus and Neptune's wrists, ankles and necks. "Stay here while I round up your friends." The woman smiled smugly as she once again disappeared into the darkness.
"Oh Neptune." Uranus began to cry over her limp body. "How could I have not seen this?"
Neptune responded by opening her eyes. "It's alright. I know you didn't mean to."
"You'll be alright, ne?"
~@~@~@~
Mercury's form lay motionless on the ground before Maker. Maker examined the area to see what had hit her and if there was any threat to her. There appeared to be no one around and who ever or whatever had done this to Mercury must have left her for dead. Maker cautiously walked over to the fallen Mercury.
Her knee bent and Maker knelt down beside the blue haired girl. "Mercury?" she shook her lightly. There was no response. Maker being the wise and sensible senshi that she was took her glove off and ran her fingers down Mercury's wrist to feel for a pulse. To her relief she found one.
Just as Maker let out her sigh of relief she felt fingers close in around her neck. Her eyes flew open and she looked straight into the face of her assailant. It was Mercury. "Nice to see you again Maker." She said sadisticly. "Maleficent figured that I was the best person to kill you. Does it hurt?"
Maker struggled to get free her fingers slipped and clawed at Mercury's gloved hand as she tried to loosen the other girl's hold on her. "What are you doing?"
"Does it hurt?" Mercury asked again. "Not so much the pain of your life slipping away, but instead the pain in the fact that it will be me. the one you love that kills you?"
Maker's face turned to an expression of distaste as she stopped struggling when she realized that it was hopeless and that it wasn't really Mercury. "Yes." Maker breathed out.
This single word seemed to please her captor more than anything. She tightened her hold on the taller girls throat as a man stepped out from the shadows behind her. Tuxedo Kamen came up behind her and encircled his arms around her waist. Maker was forced to look on the scene as he planted small kisses up Mercury's neck.
Just when Maker felt as though she couldn't take it anymore she was knocked free from Mercury's hold and fell to the ground.
"You're not Mercury." Jupiter said as she stood between Tuxedo Kamen, Mercury and Maker. "Mercury would never do that." She crossed her arms around her chest as she began to spin. "JUPITER OAK EVOLUTION"
The attack was sent all around the room but above Maker's head saving her from the power. Mercury and Tuxedo Kamen were unaffected by the attack and proceeded to counter it almost immediately. "Would Mercury do this?" Mercury asked as a sword appeared in her hands and was thrust through Jupiter's midsection.
"NO!" Maker screamed out in terror. "STOP!"
"Oh it will end soon enough." Tuxedo Kamen laughed as chains appeared on Jupiter and Maker in the same fashion as Neptune and Uranus'.
~@~@~@~
Venus was sitting at a booth in Crown when she noticed an explosion outside of the window. She pulled her transformational pen out and was about to say her phrase when she noticed that she was already in her sailor fuku. "What?" She looked down at herself.
Realizing that wasn't really what was important at the moment she rushed out to see what was going on outside. Healer was in a battle with a woman in a long black fitted dress. "See it's no good, she came anyway." The woman said to Healer as she fired another shot at her.
Healer looked over in Venus's direction. "RUN!" She called out before firing back a shot.
Venus was confused and stood there like a deer in headlights. What was going on? She turned around to see the building she had just come from but it was gone and fog replaced it.
"You can't return to that sweet dream now my dear." The woman said to Venus as she noticed what she was doing. "Your friend here foolishly tried to save you by putting you there where I couldn't get you but you found your way to us anyway."
Healer winched at the pain in her arm as she had been hit before. Venus rushed to her side seeing that there was no way for her to escape and nowhere for her to run. "You shouldn't have come." Healer said looking at her with a smile.
"I had to come, I felt drawn here. I know now that it was because of you." Venus smiled back.
"Isn't this touching." She mocked their moment. "Are you ready?" She asked putting her hands on her hips. "Too bad, here I come."
The attack headed straight for Healer but before it hit her it passed straight through Venus's body. Healer opened her eyes and saw Venus's pained expression before she collapsed on top of her. "Again." Healer muttered. "You've sacrificed yourself for me, again."
Just as they had done before, the chains appeared on Venus and Healer.
~@~@~@~
"Where am I?" Mars asked as she made her way through the blinding fog. Her arms were stretched out in front of her to assure her safe passage through the area. There were no signs of anyone around her but a sudden feeling of evil encased the area around her. It was stagnant and foul and tried to make it's way into her being. "What do you want?" She spun around aimlessly calling out the force behind this surge.
"What do I want?" The voice asked still having no face to put with it. "Isn't it obvious?. I want you senshi dead!" The last part was said with force and conviction as a figure came from the shadows of the mist to lunge at Mars' throat.
Mars struggled to free herself from the hold that the being had on her. She couldn't use her powers since her captor had her from behind.
"You're pathetic, you have the thought in your head that you can beat me?" The voice asked from behind. "I know all of the secrets of the senshi, but you, there was no one I could use to turn against you, to twist around to defeat you. You love them all and that will be your downfall." The thing, whatever or whoever it was released her into the complete oblivion of the dark fog.
"Rei-chan? What are you doing? Come and stay with me." Usagi appeared before her in her school fuku and a smile.
"Usagi?" Mars asked incredulously.
"We saved you special seats to our next recital." Michiru smiled at her holding Haruka's hand in one hand and her violin case in the other. Everyone was there surrounding Mars in a circle.
"Minna? What happened?"
Without any further warning the circle began to grow smaller as her 'friends' closed in on her and prevented her escape. The civilian senshi changed in a blink of an eye into their sailor fukus threatening to attack. Their power calls rang into the night air clearly and Mars knew this was going to be the end if she didn't do something quick. She turned in circles to look at their faces. Her eyes stopped on the Sailor Moon. "MARS" Her flaming bow appeared in her hands "FLAME" as her fingers drew back the arrow of fire bringing it across her chest and putting all the feeling that she had into it. The release. "SNIPER"
The arrow soared straight for Sailor Moon as the others around her disappeared. The look of shock was burned into Mars' eyes as she stood and stared at the fallen girl.
"STAR SERIOUS LASER!"
The attack hit her square in the back and Mars was thrown across the room. "F.Fighter." she managed to mutter out before the blood from the cut on her forehead began to seep into her eyes.
Fighter appeared out of the darkness and rushed over to where Sailor Moon had fallen. Mars tried to struggle to her feet. Sailor Moon saw this and grabbed Fighter close to her. "It's an illusion, she did this, that's the enemy." She said to Fighter as she smiled evilly towards Mars.
Fighter stood up leaving the crumpled Sailor Moon behind and faced her attention to Mars. "I don't know how you thought you could hurt her and get away with it." She said as she walked closer to Mars. Her target was clear, she didn't even stop to think for a second that Sailor Moon would have been lying to her.
Mars was still weak from the blast she had just received from Fighter, she couldn't make it to her feet. Not to worry though because Fighter helped her up by placing her hand around her neck and lifting her from the ground.
"NO!" A voice came from the darkness, but it was a familiar voice this time.
Fighter's attention turned over to the fallen Sailor Moon and she just shrugged. It hadn't been her who called for her to stop, who was here now? Seeing that Mars would be of no threat to her, Fighter dropped her to the ground and headed towards the voice.
"Fighter? What did you do?" SM appeared from the shadows holding her broach. She looked over at Mars on the ground off to the side and immediately went to her aid not even noticing FSM behind Fighter.
Fighter's head quickly swiveled back and forth from one Sailor Moon to the other. Which one was the real one? She didn't know any more.
SM held Mars in her arms as her gloved hand came up to touch her face. "I knew that wasn't really you. Please don't leave me again. Will you stay with me this time?" Mars asked before she disappeared in SM's arms.
"REI!!!" SM screamed as tears began to come to her eyes. When every last speck of light that had once made up Rei's body had vanished she stood with tear filled eyes.
FSM stood also coming up behind Fighter. Fighter didn't make any motion to go near either one of them.
"Fighter why?" SM asked while continuing to cry. "Why would you do this to Mars?"
Fighter's face fell, she couldn't stand the sight of her Odango crying, even if she didn't know if she was the real thing or not. A heart wrenching feeling swelled in her body. Had she done wrong? Had she done something to hurt her Odango?
An evil laughter filled the space they were in and the woman in the black dress appeared before them. "You are the last of the senshi. What a weak and pathetic challenge you have made." The woman hovered above them. "The human race is now ours for the taking, and I Maleficent will dictate how this planet shall be formed." Her arms were raised above her showing her power and expected victory.
"You can't own the human race." SM shouted at her. "That's wrong."
Not to be out done FSM began to lecture Maleficent too. "That's right. I will not allow you to do as you wish to this planet or the people that live here."
SM was shocked to hear these words come from FSM's mouth. Fighter had now turned her attention from the Sailor Moons and was now on Maleficent. Whichever one was real, she would end up having to defend both of them. "STAR SERIOUS LASER"
The attack did nothing and was reflected back to hit SM. She lay crippled on the ground hurt badly from the attack. "Oh, I'm sorry. Did I hit her?" Maleficent asked sarcastically. "Do you want to try again?" She mocked Fighter.
Fighter looked in awe at what her power had done to SM and didn't dare think of firing another shot. "No."
"It's true, your love and compassion are your weakness. The entire human race has the same weakness. Your feelings. I will take them away from you, an army can't have feelings. An army should do as they are told without any second thoughts." Maleficent took an invisible seat in the air as she proceeded to explain her plans to the senshi below her.
"I've spent years devising a way to biogenically engineer the human race to meet my strict requirements. It was too much of an endeavor to create a new race, and instead much easier to just manipulate an already existing one. You will become my work horses and reshape this planet the way that I see fit."
"My kind can not live in this filth that you've created on this planet so therefore we will be giving you the task of cleaning it so that we may come and inhabit it. As you cannot do this with your current strength and bodies, we will engineer you to have better, stronger ones. Then we will take away all thoughts that you have, all thoughts and feelings you ever thought you could have will be gone. A worker that has no thoughts or feelings can not bring about an uprising now can they?"
SM stood up from her crumpled state on the ground to defy the woman. "Well there's just one thing you forgot in your 'perfect' little plan." Maleficent looked at her questioningly. "You forgot that I'm here and that I'm not going to let you do as you wish!" SM's tier appeared before her as she closed her eyes. "SILVER MOON CRYSTAL POWER KISS!"
The brilliant light filled the area and dissipated the fog that surrounded them. The buildings and various other city objects were now visible around them but Maleficent seemed unharmed.
"What was that?" Maleficent questioned looking at SM with fear in her eyes. "You were supposed to be gone."
"Well I'm not!" SM looked confident as she came up to stand in front of Fighter and FSM.
"No, you've been gone for so long. I thought you were dead?" Maleficent's fear was apparent and so was her weakness.
"SILVER MOON CRYSTAL POWER KISS!" Her attack once again soared towards Maleficent. This time however it did some damage. Maleficent fell towards the Earth as she panted for air. The space around them began to crumble as the ground split open in various places.
The violent shaking caused the senshi to fall to the ground also and FSM took this opportunity to attack SM while Fighter was preoccupied. With a single flick of her wrist she caused a sharp rock to come up behind SM. The rock was hurled with great force at SM's back. Just before it hit her, the ground opened up behind FSM and caused her to fall desperately into the gorge behind her. With only her fingertips for support she hung there.
The rock finally came in contact with SM as she bent over to try and help up FSM. If Seiya really loved this girl then she couldn't rightly let her die. SM was also knocked into the gorge and was too hanging on with only her fingers.
The two Sailor Moons hung there in peril with no way out and death pulling at their feet in the form of gravity. Their holds were threatening to give out at the same time until Fighter's hands reached over to save them at the last minute.
SM and FSM looked up to see Fighter's strained face looking down at them. She had blood trickling down her temple and looked as though she had been hit pretty badly. Fighter knew she didn't have much strength left but was going to fight this with every last ounce of her being. When the burning in her muscles became too much she knew that she could only save one of them or lose both of them.
"It's ok." SM smiled at Fighter dangling from one of her arms. "You can let me go. If you truly love this girl then I don't want to be the one to hold you back. let me help you save her. just let go."
"But I can't." Fighter struggled.
"You have to let one of us go!" FSM shrieked from her other arm.
SM smiled at Fighter once again. "Maybe she really is the real thing. maybe she really is that girl that you loved so long ago. I don't blame you for not thinking I am that same girl from way back when. I don't really know if I am." Tears began to form in SM's eyes. "All I know is that whoever I am now, be it Usagi or Kenada I will always love you."
FSM looked over at SM in awe and felt a drop fall on her cheek. She looked up to see Fighter crying and allowing her tears to fall on her face. "Fighter?" FSM asked. Fighter turned her eyes to look directly in her face.
"I'm sorry." She said. "If you truly are Usagi, I'm sorry. I can't live in the past and I know that now, right now, I love Kenada. I love him even if he isn't Usagi."
There was a shear look of terror on FSM's face as she felt her hand and hold slipping from Fighters. She looked at Fighter's face as she closed her eyes and released her hand. FSM changed into a woman that resembled Maleficent but with a red dress before she plummeted into the darkness below.
SM watched as the woman disappeare and knew at that moment for sure that she was the one and only Sailor Moon. She turned her gaze back up to look at Fighter's face and saw that her eyes were open and that she had seen the whole thing and also knew that she had made the right decision even if there was any doubt in her mind.
