Reflections of the Past…The Past and Present Show the Future

"How…How…HOW did you escape from the portal?! There is no way that you could have!"

"I never had to escape…I…was never caught in the portal."

"What?"

"Before my armour was swallowed into the portal, I transferred myself back into the main-frame that was my base on the other side of the moon." Duran moved over and sat on the throne that appeared behind him. He continued his story, "After that happened I was helpless, as that was my only mobile form of transportation. Most of my equipment had been destroyed, and my resources were scarce. So I waited and prayed that something may come along. A few years later my prayer had been answered. When the Moon Kingdom fell to the hands of Queen Metallia and Queen Beryl few years later, I was overjoyed to find the queen sending the people to another time where they wouldn't have endure the evil they had been destroyed with. With my last chance, I transferred myself to one of the Sailor Scout wands and waited until they had appeared in the future. In this present time technology was FAR beyond anything that the past had to offer, and with resources abound, I was in a garden ripe for my picking…but…I had no way to harvest this garden. So I placed myself into the laboratory of a mad scientist…and that's when I found out about Dr. Tomoe…it took nearly 2 years…but one day…he found me…and promised to make me a body that would kill those creatures from the White Moon. Although he had his diamond pods to work on, he spent as much time as he could constructing an android like body for me. Before he could finish the entire body he met an untimely demise at the hands of two of the three talisman holders. With my body not nearly complete, and my death about to become permanent, I transferred myself to the body and escaped. Because I had never seen the plans to the body…I had not an idea of how to finish it. The plans…however…were destroyed when the Omega Zone destroyed most of the Mugen area. With the limited technology I could implore in my then current condition. I did what I could to finish this piece of machinery. I did finish…but…I knew that it wouldn't last forever…and I would have to transfer myself back to the armour. This body may be more powerful than my armour…but…it has no self-sustaining systems like my armour. Therefore…once I retrieve my armour…I'm going to transfer the power of this body into the system of my armour and do what I attempted to so many years ago!"

Meta slowly unsheathed his beam saber and replied, "So…what do you want for your SOB story? A cookie perhaps? Maybe I should just skip the cookie…and finish what I started!!" Meta dashed toward Magitack and slashed with his beam saber. Magitack made a simple smile and sidestepped his frenzied attack. Then with a free hand, he charged a shot up and blasted Meta in the back with force that was more than what Meta had expected. He flew into the wall and made a slight moan from the pain in his body.

Magitack unsheathed a beam saber of his own and said slowly walking over to the kneeling Meta, "How do you like my saber? I fastened it with the same technology you have in yours. So many battles…so much data…it's amazing what a little time and energy can create." He looked at the saber a little more and touched it against Meta's armour. It made a sizzling sound before it made a slight cut in it.

Meta rolled away and looked at the area where Magitack had touched saber to armour. It was smoking still warm from the insertion it had made. "Now you've given me one more reason to kill you." Meta got back to his feet and appeared more ready to face his foe. "It's time I send you to the pit for good." He dashed forward and made a carefully placed attack on shoulder. The blade nicked Magitack and he held his opposite hand on the spot where the blade had touched him. "Now…we're even."

Magitack growled and winced a little, "All right…go ahead and get that blasted creature out of here…BUT…if you leave her here and fight…her fate lies in your hands."

Meta looked at Schala and back at Magitack, "And how do I know that you won't just attack me with my back turned toward you?"

"Good point…but how do you know that I won't?"

Meta simply smiled, "Alright then…I'll take your word…but don't think that I still won't be ready in case you double cross me."

Meta walked over, and under to where Schala's body hung many feet above. Meta jumped and kicked the accelerators in his boots flying higher off the floor. When he got to the point of the rope he sliced the rope and grabbed onto Schala's limp body. He drifted to the ground and set Schala someplace safe. He returned his attention back to Magitack who said with an ever- growing grin, "Thank you for doing that…now I can finally complete the transfer!"

Meta gave Magitack a funny look, "What the hell are you talking about?"

"You haven't figured it out yet? I said that Schala would play a VERY key role in uncovering the last person."

Meta shook his head, "That's impossible…if it was…then-." Meta was cut off in mid-sentence as a light started emanating from his body.

"I told you so…"

The energy moved over behind the throne of where Magitack had sat and a small portal started to open up. The other 12 portals that had been slowly converging on that point connected together to form a massive portal. "Oh…shit…"

Magitack laughed and yelled over the slowly building winds, "It's time to finish the battle that we started on the Moon…SO many years ago!!"

*Flashback*

"Is that the best your kingdom has to offer me in the way of a fight? I thought there was someone who bested my greatest warriors! There is no way these pathetic creatures could have! They fell to me so easily!" Magitack said, as Princess Serenity's court lay on the ground beside him dead.

The small Princess now about 5 or 6 clung to her mother for protection and said, "Momma…I'm scared! My friends are dead…and now he's going to hurt us!"

Queen Serenity looked at Magitack fearlessly and said to her daughter, "Don't worry little Princess, I'll take care of this fiend." She pulled out the Crescent Moon Wand and the Silver Imperial Crystal, and attached it to the wand. It glowed brightly, but Magitack simply made a slight laugh. Queen Serenity pointed the wand toward Magitack and yelled out, "Moon Healing Escalation!!" Brilliant colors flashed from the crystal, but Magitack simply yawned as its power scattered as it drew near. The colors also revived Princess Serenity's friends and they moaned wondering where they were.

"Oh yes dear Queen. I forgot to tell you…I prepared myself incase you tried to pull that trick." Magitack thrust his hands forward and said with simple ease, "Now die." He charged a shot up in the palms and fired them toward the Queen and the Princess.

"Tenchi no ki!" a yell rang out and another ball of energy deflected Magitack's blast out of harm's way.

Magitack swore and said, "Who's there!? Who dares to lose their life for this mockery?!"

A warrior no older than 9 or 10 stepped into the light on the edge of the upper balcony overlooking the throne room. His thick navy armour deflected light about the room giving it a somewhat heroic look. "You know exactly who I am."

Magitack twisted his face into an angry look and said, "I had a feeling you would show up you little nuisance."

"Hmmm…it seems I'm a magnet for trouble," the warrior seemed to enjoy saying with a hint of laughter in his voice.

"So overconfident. That is your greatest weakness. No…I take that back. That is merely a great flaw you have. You have a very strong weakness…in the fact-."

The warrior shot at Magitack and made his jump back a little. "Are you done showing your greatest weakness? You don't know when to shut the hell up?"

Magitack pointed his palms in antipode directions. One in the direction of Princess Serenity and Queen Serenity, and the other at all the other innocent people who had shown up for the Queen's birthday. "Try and prevent both from happening." He charged his hands up and fired shots from both palms.

"Please…at least give me a challenge." The navy armoured warrior shot two blast the dissipated both of Magitack's blasts. "If that's all I have to worry about…then why don't I just finish you off?"

"Well…perhaps now I should tip my hand and show you my TRUE power!" He held his hands to the sky and energy started pouring in through his palms. His body began to charge much the same as a battery and he laughed after finishing saying, "Ok little creature! Let's fight!"

The warrior finally revealed his name and posed saying, "Boku wa MetaSigma desu! Tsukini kawate, oshili oshokyo!" (AN: for all you NON- Japanese speaking people it is translated: I am MetaSigma! In the name of the moon, your ass is punished!!) He charged both his barrels and did a corkscrew flip off the rail of the balcony and fired numerous shots at Magitack. Magitack dodged most of the shots, but felt the sting as one hit him slightly in the shoulder. Meta landed on the ground and motioned everyone to escape while he held his foe at bay.

Magitack looked back over at Meta after surveying the damage to his shell and said, "Bastard! I'll make you pay in spades for your foolishness!" The rest of the room emptied as Meta dashed toward Magitack with his beam saber wielded.

"If there's anything that's going to be paid…it's all the innocent victims you killed! They will be paid with your life ending!!" Meta slashed down viciously and missed as Magitack dodged out of the way. Magitack returned with a blast that Meta did a flip out of the way and returned fire. It was hit and miss for the next few seconds when the two fighters stood in duel position and Meta held his saber ready.

Magitack made a slight laugh and said, "Now that we've had our warm- up…how about the real fight begins?"

Meta screamed and attacked Magitack with a flurry of moves. High slash, low slash, overhead attack, it was miss after miss, until Magitack decked Meta with a punch in his kidney that dislodged the weapon from his hands. He coughed and grit his teeth from the pain. Another punch landed on his back sent him into a wall, and he made a slight impact crater upon its holy surface. He knelt on the ground and started to laugh despite the pain he was in. "Uhhh…huhhhh…huhhhh," he laughed slowly getting louder much to Magitack's anger.

"Why…why are you laughing?! What's so funny?!"

"Is that…all you got?"

Magitack growled and accelerated toward Meta. Meta sidestepped his thrust forward and clasped his hands together pounding downward on Magitack's neck. The mechanical villain was mashed to the ground and rolled out of the way before Meta punched at the ground with a harsh right. The two stood a few yards away from each other sweating and breathing heavily. (Sounds like a Dragon Ball Z episode doesn't it!) "Ok…we…end this…now."

Meta laughed and stood in position awaiting his foe's advance, "Just bring it…"

Magitack screamed and attacked. The two engaged in a flurry of fisticuffs and took each hit that was dealt. Punches and kicks flew like crazy and the fight continued.

*End Flashback*

"I won't let you get back into that thing…" Meta said lowering his head.

"What was that?"

"I'm not the same little boy you fought so long ago…I'm different!" Meta raised one arm to the air like he was posing, but yelled out, "The order in the never ending chaos! Give me your power now!! Gigas…Explosion!!!" Meta's navy armour began to glow, and another suit of armour appeared. His raised arm became encased and a thicker, blacker arm replaced the usual exterior. His chest plate was overlaid with dark, metallic armour that had the symbol of omega near the heart. His other arm received the same dark armour as the raised on had been given, and his legs were fortified with a bigger, heavier set or armour. These too were black in color and were much stronger looking than his regular attire. A set of black wings appeared on his back and extended out more like a set of angel wings than a set of metallic wings. "Now…how about we see what you've really learned over the years?" He aimed his arm cannon toward the portals and charged it up quicker than when he would fire a shot from his regular cannon. "Omega Wave!!" The shot whizzed by Magitack's head and accelerated into the opening that was above his throne. The portal crackled and fizzed a little, but continued to grow larger. "Hmmm…I guess I'll just have to turn up the juice a little!"

The entrance doors to where Gigas and Magitack stood opened and Sailor Moon appeared in them. "Meta!" she said in shock at his new display.

"Take Schala and get out of here!" Gigas said firing the accelerators in his boots and attack Magitack with fisticuffs.

"What about you!?"

"Don't worry about me! I'll be fine! Just go!"

"But-!"

Gigas shoved Magitack away and yelled, "GO!!!"

Sailor Moon opened her mouth to speak, but closed it after a few seconds. She nodded and motioned Jupiter to grab hold of Schala. "It doesn't matter if she escapes! She, and you…have served my purposed. I shall simply dispose of you now, and then get everyone else later!" Gigas did a reverse clothesline, and then gave Magitack a mighty rip across the jaw with his right fist. Magitack went sailing into one of the walls hitting it with a thud. Gigas turned his attention back to the ever-closer growing portals.

"There isn't going to be a repeat." He charged his arm cannons up to the very peak limit not breaking the safety features implanted, and aimed for the center of the main portal. "Omega Wave!!" The blasts roared across the ground until they impacted the portal. At first nothing happened, but then the main portal started fluxing tearing the boundaries of it apart.

Magitack looked up at what just had happened and said growing in rage, "No…NOOOOO!!!" The portal imploded upon itself and disappeared. Gigas had a look of obsessed seriousness/confidence and moved his lips slowly up to a prided, angry looking grin.

"So…are you ready to head to your final resting place yet?" Gigas asked.

Magitack closed his eyes and grunted, "I…will not let you defeat me…like THIS!!!" He screamed and his body exploded with rage charging up higher than Gigas even thought possible.

"How?!"

"I may have been set back before, and now I may have been set back slightly, but one thing I will accomplish will be killing…all…of…you!!"

Gigas' eyes widened and he screamed, "GET OUT!!!"

"Energy…blast…EXPLOSION!!!!"

The beam was sent right at Gigas, and behind him was his friends and family. He had no choice but to take the full blast. Sailor Moon screamed, "META! DON'T!!!" The beam impacted Gigas and his eyes shut from the light, and heat of the ray. Tears poured forth and he grunted until he could hold the pain no more.

He ripped forth a massive scream that sounded more like the T-Rex from Jurassic Park, and much louder, "Unnnnnnn…rrrRRRWWWWAAAARRRR!!!!"

"AARON!!!" Sailor Moon screamed rushing to his aid.

Gigas' armour was cracking everywhere, smoldering from the intense heat it had been hit with. Blood was seen dripping on the floor beside him, and he coughed revealing that blood was coming from inside his body as well. "Get…uhh…out…of…here…" Gigas said as Sailor Moon held him with her arms.

"I can't leave you here…" Sailor Moon said crying softly.

"Don't…worry about…me. Get everyone…to safety. I'll…be fine…"

Magitack laughed and slowly walked toward his helpless victim. "What a fitting way to die. Brother and sister. Hand in hand." He charged up another volley of fire and laughed, as the rest of the inner senshi could do no damage to him. "Now then…both of you…die!" He screamed and fired the blast.

"Sailor Moon!!" her friends screamed.

"Usako!!" Tuxedo Kamen said.

The blast appeared to be on a direct impact course to blasting Sailor Moon. At the last second she felt her body turned the other way and covered by Gigas. The blast impacted him in the back and his lungs screamed with excruciating pain. "Aaron!" her eyes continued to plip tears. Magitack fired another volley, and then another, and another, until he has completely destroyed the entire back armour of Gigas. Each shot that impacted him in the back drew more and more pain in his face, and more tears from his eyes.

"U…sa…gi…" Gigas said in a weak, powerless voice, "Get…e..veryone…out…of…h…ere."

"No! I won't leave you here to die! You'll never be able to beat him! Let me help you!"

Gigas looked at her with his blood stained face and the growing amount coming from his mouth, "Get…ou…t. If…you stay…here…you'll…be…k…illed." Sailor Moon shook her head resisting his orders.

"One more shot…and you'll be holding hands in the land of the dead!" Magitack said with confidence, charging up.

"Sai…lor…Moon…go…" Gigas' arm cannons started to charge up with energy, and just as Magitack let go one last blast, Gigas released a blast back, "Omega WAVE!!!"

Magitack looked shocked at how powerful the blast was. It went right through his attack and drilled him into a wall injuring him badly. "Damn…you," he said falling off the impact crater in the wall.

*Flashback*

Magitack crashed into a wall and made a huge crater upon it. He hit the ground and noticed a few of his circuits were dislodged from place causing sparks to shower around. Meta slowly walked forward with his armour somewhat cracked, and blood sipping from his lip. He stopped in front of the downed villain and said, "I'm going to seal you away…forever!"

Magitack made a rising growl and attacked Meta with a punch. Meta made a very slow dodge noticing Magitack's reaction time was greatly reduced. He charged his Sigma-Buster arm cannon and ripped a blast into Magitack, sending him back into the wall making the crater he created even bigger, and causing more circuits to fry and spark. "No…this…can't be! I'm more powerful…than you!" Meta looked at the fear in Magitack's eyes and a portal opened behind him where the impact crater had been created. It began pulling him toward it and with all his might he resisted. "I'll never…let…you…seal me…AWAY!!!" Magitack fired continuous blasts at the portal slightly beginning to disrupt the flow.

He kept firing until he saw a bright light behind him. He turned around and heard Meta yell, "Moonlight, BLAST!!!" The crescent shaped energy ripped through him, and he flew into the portal screaming. The portal closed, and Meta took many deep heavy breaths.

*End Flashback*

Gigas eventually made his way back to his feet and said in a his weakened voice, "I'll…be fine…if I don't…end this now…he'll kill you all. This is a battle that I started a long time…ago…and now…I must finish it…alone." He turned his bloodied head to face his sister. Her crying eyes didn't want to acknowledge it, but she knew that this was a fight meant for him, and him alone. Every bone in her body kept telling her to ignore his suicide comments, and tell him that she would help him to the end, but…her heart told her that he knew what he was doing. She trusted him.

Her lips slowly curled up into a slight smile and she nodded her head slightly. "Just come out of this…alive." She let go of him and ran back over to everyone else, who could do nothing more than wonder in amazement at how Gigas could still keep going despite the beating he'd taken. Sailor Moon said quickly as Magitack started to recover, "We have to get out of here. There is nothing more we can do. If we don't leave now, there will be no last line of defense."

Zerto interjected, "Are you insane?! We can't just leave Meta here alone! He'll die!"

Sailor Moon gave Zerto a look that quickly silenced his comments and she said in quick retort, "He is trusting us to get Schala out alive, and I trust that he'll win!" Everyone had objections, but with the way Sailor Moon was looking it would have no effect on her decision. "Come on! Let's get out of here!" She took off running out of the main chamber back toward the main doors of the arena. Everyone followed her instinctively but Zerto looked back once more at his friend. Then, he disappeared out of site with the rest of group.

Gigas watched as his sister and her court had left and gave a moment of relief. Then, he looked back over at Magitack and thought, "It all ends here blasphemous creature."

Magitack had recovered enough to stand on his own and the two warriors stood in awaiting positions. "I've had enough of your little tricks! It's time you die little Moon child!"

Magitack fired a shot at Gigas with as much power as the first blast that ripped into his body when he protected his comrades. Gigas stood waiting for it, and took the blast straight up. He was knocked back a little, but he absorbed the energy into his armour. Magitack's eyes increased size and he fired more and more shots. Each one absorbed my Gigas, until Gigas released the energy stored up back at Magitack. Magitack was blasted against the wall again, making the impact crated even bigger than before.

Gigas grabbed the wings on his back and attached them to the front end of his arm cannon (Usually his left arm since he's right handed). The wings folded back all the way to his shoulder and started to glow upon wrapping around his entire arm. The wings started to glow even brighter, and then it started to transfer the focal point at the center of the barrel. "Safety overloads disengaged," the voice of Windstrom sounded as the rest of Gigas' arm started to glow the color of the wings.

Magitack was hurting more than before, and could only stay on one knee for the moment. He looked up at Gigas and screamed, "What are you doing?! What is that light?!"

"It's the light…of your destroyer." Magitack tried as hard as he could to get back to both feet, and Gigas started his attack, "Sigma…NO!" The area around Gigas started to warp like time and space was being distorted. He kept gathering energy until a few sparks started to shoot from his armour. The suit was having trouble holding all that energy, but Gigas kept going knowing that he had to make sure that this shot took care of Magitack once and for all. The energy that had originally focused in the center of the barrel was now nearly as big as Gigas and its light was blinding. "HIKARI!!!!!" The blinding light blasted out of Gigas' cannon and sent his body flailing into the wall nearly 50 ft behind him. The incredible wave of power rushed forth toward Magitack and impacted into his body.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" *Fwa-BOOOOOM!!!* The entire room exploded from the incredible amount of energy and the very foundation of the arena started to shake violently. Gigas looked up at the ceiling and gave a slight smile before falling unconscious.

Outside…

The arena began to shake similar to when Uranus would use her World Shaking ability on a yoma. Eventually the structure started to collapse upon it's own weight and crushed into a massive pile of steel girders and concrete. Sailor Moon and her friends had made it to the exit doors just as the building started to crumble. They escaped with but a few seconds, and dove for cover as the dust and debris started scattering like cats running for their lives. After a few minutes Sailor Moon coughed and said, "Is everyone Ok?!"

Sailor Mars was a little bit dusty but said, "Just a few cuts here, nothing bad."

"Same here. No injuries other than some small cuts," Zerto said.

Mercury moaned and coughed. A slightly larger gash was in her leg, but it wasn't anything to worry about. Dust covered her body as the rest of the Senshi, but Sailor Moon couldn't help but cry. Her friends were injured and her heart just couldn't bear to see them in any sort of pain what so ever.

"Don't cry Sailor Moon. Everyone is Ok," Jupiter assured her. Schala moaned a little bit and made a few coughs slowly returning to the world of the living. She looked a little dazed from her encounter, but was wondering what the hell just happened.

"Sailor…Moon?" Schala said rubbing her eyes thinking that she was dreaming. "Where…am I? What just happened?"

Sailor Moon's next instinct was to wonder the whereabouts of her brother. Her first thought was that he was still alive buried in the wreckage, and she rushed over to the debris and started to clear it frantically hoping she would find him close to the front. After a few seconds she stopped her work and fell to her knees crying. Chibi-Moon walked over to her and said trying as hard as she could not to cry, "Sailor Moon…he did it…" her tears could not be withheld any longer and she embraced Sailor Moon crying. Tuxedo Kamen walked over and put a hand on each of their shoulders hoping to comfort them. Even he had tears in his eyes, but he refrained from showing as much emotion as Sailor Moon and Sailor Chibi-Moon. The two girls clung Tuxedo Kamen and sobbed. The Senshi were crying as well. Not once…or twice…but three times. They had to deal with the pain of losing someone important to them. Zerto could muster no tears and simply said with a cracking voice, and holding onto Mars trying to show her comfort, "He's finally…at peace."

A few seconds later a blast ripped out near the top of the debris pile and a hand slowly made its way out trying to get a grip. As soon as the hand got a grip, it started to pull its way out slowly. Sailor Moon couldn't believe her eyes when she saw whom it was standing on top of the pile. "Aaron!" he voice cracked.

Gigas' armour was decimated and anything still remaining was cracked like a spider web. He coughed and said in a firm voice, "It's over." After speaking these words, Aaron fell from the debris pile down the side to the ground and was no longer wearing any part of his armour. His clothes were shredded and blood stained, and burns covered most of his body. It was a gruesome site to say the least, but Sailor Moon rushed over to his aid and set him in a better position.

Schala shrieked, "SHANE!!" and ran over to where Sailor Moon was gently hugging him. "Shane! What happened?! Are you all right?!"

Aaron could barely speak and whispered, "Are you Ok?"

Schala's eyes were full of tears and she nodded, "Yes, I'm fine. Thank you for saving me."

Aaron's ever-growing pale lips moved into a slight smile and he replied, "Thank God." Aaron tried to move his hand up, but had not the strength left to do it. Schala gently grabbed his hand and put it on her cheek. Aaron felt the warm tears that moved down her face, and he wiped one away from her cheek.

"Don't you worry you're going to be fine. You'll be back on your feet soon, and then…"

Aaron shook his head slowly, "I'm…afraid that I…don't have the strength to survive. My…time…has come."

Schala's eyes shook and she shook her head frantically, "No…you're going to be fine! I won't let you die! There is no way I will!"

Aaron made a slight laugh and whispered, "Sailor Moon…take care of Schala for me…and…tell Zerto to tell my parents that…unnnghh…that…their son died…a hero."

Sailor Moon shook her head and said, "You can tell her…that you're a hero. You're going to be fine. Please…you can't die on me again. I've already lost you twice. Don't make me go through it again."

Aaron replied, "Usagi…listen to me…we were born warriors in this…world. At some point…warriors fall. I served…my purpose. I want you…to live a long…and prosperous life…with your husband…" Aaron turned his head to Schala and said, "Schala…"

"Shane…you can't die…I'm in love with you. Please just hold on a little longer and we'll get you to a hospital. Please…" Schala said in a hushed voice.

"Schala…I…know you are. I'm…sorry…to break your heart…but…unnnnhhh…" Aaron's eyelids closed and his hand that had a slight hold on Schala's hand went limp.

"No…no…open your eyes Shane! Come on! Open your eyes!!" Schala looked at the defeated face on Sailor Moon and said in desperation, "What are you doing?! Why aren't you doing anything to help him?!!"

Sailor Moon shook her head and replied, "Schala…I'm sorry. There is nothing I can do. He's dead…"

Schala shook her head frivolously, "No! I won't accept that!!" Schala put her face on Aaron's clothes and cried. Sailor Moon turned her head away and did some silent weeping as well. Tuxedo Kamen and Chibi-Moon walked over to her, and she embraced them both in sobs.

Schala raised her head and looked at the motionless face of Aaron and whispered, "Shane…" A light from the sky moved down upon the pale body of Aaron and Schala looked towards the heavens, "What…what is that light?" The Sailor Senshi pen in Schala's pocket began to glow and shimmered like a majestic diamond.

The light became blinding and everyone covered his or her eyes. When they could see again, Aaron's body was gone and Schala looked around herself fanatically. She looked to the sky once more and screamed out, "SHANE!!!!!!!!!"