Chapter I

At the Palace of Crystal Tokyo, Sailor Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Venus, stood on one of the many balconies, watching the storm. They all noticed that only four of the five Entrance Gates were closed. They also noticed that the land around the great city was being torn up by the ferocious storm. The four Senshi looked back at Gate number one and wondered why it was still open, there were no vehicles at the gate.

King Endymion, or Darien as he is sometimes known as, approached with Neo-Queen Serenity and asked, "Why is Gate one still open, what's going on down there?"

"Darien, please calm down, they probably have a good explanation," returned Serenity.

"They better have!" retorted Endymion.



Unfortunately for everyone at the Palace, Garic and Norman had a very good reason to keep the Entrance Gate open. There was a motorcycle rider, only feet from the head of the storm. Behind him, as the storm moved, the land around him was being destroyed. Lighting bolts flash trying to strike the running rider. They hit the ground inches behind him.

It seemed he was running from the storm, trying not to get killed. He reached the gate and whizzed by the checking station at 120 mph. Quickly, Garic and Norman shut the Gate before the storm reached it. As for the rider, by the time the two guards turned around to have a word with the rider, they noticed to their horror that he had crashed ten feet from the booth and the bike twenty feet from the rider.

"We never heard him crash," Norman said.

"Never mind that now. Call an Ambulance!" yelled Garic, as he ran to the rider.

"Right!" returned Norman.

Garic reached the rider and checked to see if he was alive. He was barely, but the bloodstain that ran down from his helmet signaled that the rider was badly injured.

"He's just barely alive," Garic sighed.

"The Ambulance is on its way, I'm going to check on the wreckage." Norman reported as he came by.

Garic nodded and stayed with the rider. Norman walked over to the cycle and surveyed the damage. To his amazement, the bike was not damaged. "What the…?" he said after setting it on the kickstand.

"What?" Garic, looked up with his hands on the rider's helmet, ready to take it off.

"The motorcycle isn't damaged from the fall," Norman looked astounded. Sirens could be heard from a distance and were getting closer by the second. "Nothing to worry about right now, but who is this guy anyway?"

"Wish I knew, lets find out," Garic pulled the helmet off the rider's head to reveal who he was. "He looks as old as the King, Queen, and the Senshi," Garic said in astonishment.

The rider began to come to and tried to speak, but only fragments of words could be heard.

"Now, now stranger. You just relax and don't talk, help is here." An ambulance and two fire engines arrive at the scene.



"Serenity! Endymion!"

Ami, rushed into the throne room with Mina. Ami, out of breath, looked at Mina to report for her.

"Entrance Gate Number One and the city is secure, but there has been an accident with a motorcycle rider. The rider has been taken to a nearby hospital and his bike has been impounded for further investigation."

"I see," answered Endymion as he sat in his chair with Serenity sitting beside him, "but did you find anything out about this rider or who he/she is?"

"No we didn't, but with your permission, I personally would like to investigate this situation to find out who this person is." replied Mina.

"And find out why this rider came here with all the other trouble we have. I will grant your request, but Lita is coming with you. And one final question Mina."

"What might that be?"

"Why do you want to lead this investigation?"

"Simple, I have nothing better to do for the moment."

Endymion rolled his eyes at her.

Both Senshi, transformed and set to go, understood and nodded at Endymion. They walked out to start their mission.



Not until fifteen minutes later, did they both arrive at the city impound. It was already three thirty and the storm has settled itself over the city, placing it into eternal darkness. There was no rain, no lightning, no thunder, nothing. Just silence and black clouds. The illuminated city showed where the vehicle impound was, so the two Senshi found it with ease. They quietly entered the vehicle impound, trying not to be seen, and found the mysterious rider's motorcycle. Quickly, they began to investigate it.

"Nice bike, strange it wasn't damaged in the wreck," said Mina.

"Why do you say that?" asked Lita.

"Well, when any vehicle crashes, wouldn't it at least be dented, scratched up or even in pieces. The paint isn't even scratched off."

"Yeah, you have a point."

"Right...what do we have here?" Mina curiously ran her hand over a small switch at the rear of the cycle.

"What? What's wrong?"

"I've seemed to have found a small switch. I going to flip it and see what happens, stand back."

Lita stepped back as Mina flipped the switch. There is a quiet whoosh and a small secret compartment opened outward, revealing a medium sized rectangular box.

"What is it?" Lita came forward.

"I don't know, but let's find out" Mina opened it slowly. She gasped, "Magnificent…truly magnificent."

Inside sat a shinning white crystal with a heart-shaped locket on top it. The crystal resembles a cross, almost. Long points come downward from the sides of it. The locket is made of gold with a ruby heart and tiny emeralds surrounding the heart. The edges of the locket have small diamonds all around. Mina opened the locket to see what was inside and would have fainted if Lita didn't catch her.

"Are you okay?" Lita asked.

"I...I...I can't believe it...here," she handed it to Lita. Lita looked into the locket and fell into a silent stare.



'Where am I? What happened? What is this place? Why…'

"Mr. Star…Mr. Ryan Star?" a nurse entered the room asking, "How are you feeling?"

Ryan turned his attention toward the nurse, his thoughts shattered. He replied, "I've felt better, but what happened and where am I?"

"You are in Crystal Tokyo City Hospital. As to what happened, you were involved in a accident when you entered the city." The nurse answered.

"Accident?" Ryan thought for a moment, "Right, I remember now. How long have I been out?"

"A little under an hour. But there is one thing I would like to know," The young nurse stood next to Ryan. Ryan sat up, cringing in pain, but was able to make it. "Take it easy now, don't exhaust yourself." She said as she knelt down next to him. Her short brown hair hung down behind her neck with green eyes that seem to know every illness known to man. She looked at Ryan with those green eyes. Her tall, slender figure was something a lovesick man could ever want. Ryan looked at her for a moment, almost as if he were in a trance, but he then shook his head slightly and snapped out of it.

"What would you like to know?"

"How did you crash?" Her straight, white teeth show in a lovely smile.

Ryan's face expression changed into a warm smile. "Well, I disengaged the brakes on my motorcycle. The only way I could stop was to hit the pavement."

"Hit the pavement?" She raised an eyebrow at him.

"Crash. 'Hit the pavement' is a race slang for a crash."

"Oh." Her sweet smile returns. "Why would want to disengage your brakes, Mr. Star."

"Please call me Ryan and I had to disengage my brakes to allow myself to out run that storm outside. On a motorcycle, the tires sometime rotate on an angle if they are not put on correctly. The result is that the tire will rub up against the brakes causing it to ride slower than normal."

"Okay, I understand now, but what so special about that storm outside Ryan?"

"It was sent after me by the terrorist group called the 'Zion Federation', Ms…Ms…"

"O'Brien. My name is Heather O'Brien. And I can't believe that group has power like that."

"A pleasure to meet you Heather. And yes, with magic roaming supreme in the world, anything is possible. Now I got a question for you."

"Okay."

"When can I get out of here? I'm somewhat on a mission"

Heather laughed. "The doctor said you can leave whenever you ready. You're very lucky that you didn't suffer any broken or bruised bones."

"Feels like it."

She laughed at him again. "Your very funny, aren't you Ryan."

"You can say that. So I can leave at any time?"

"Yes, of course."

"Great! I'll leave right now. I really need to get going anyway."

"Very well, this packet has everything that you will need to know about our city and a few of your belongings." She hands him the packet.

Ryan took the packet full heartedly. "Thanks a lot, I'm going to need this."

Heather stood up and turned to the door to walk out. "Oh, by the way, you lost a lot of blood from the accident. The packet on your shoulder is putting blood back into your body so you might want to be careful when you ride again."

"Oh, okay…thanks I'll keep that in mind."

She smiled at him one last time. "I'll see you again some time Ryan."

"Okay, bye Heather."

"Bye." She walked out of the room, shutting the door behind her.

Ryan shook his head to relieve the pressure inside. He opened the packet to see what's inside. He took out the contents from inside: his keys, wallet, his riding clothes (his only pair of clothes), a map of the city with the vehicle impound circled in red, his watch and a C.D. He got up, bit his tongue in pain, and sets everything down on the bed, except his clothes and entered the restroom to clean up.

Five minutes later, he came out changed, cleaned, refreshed and ready to go. He set the hospital clothing on the bed. Ryan then pocketed his watch, keys and wallet into two separate pockets. He took the rest of the items and returned them to the packet and left the room.



On the sidewalk in front of the hospital, a figure quickly crossed the street to the other side. Ryan thought to himself that it was a good thing that the vehicle impound was right across the street from the hospital. Ryan walked up and entered the office of the impound. He approached and spook to the clerk on duty.

"May I help you?" asked the clerk at the desk as Ryan approached him. He eyed Ryan seeing that he was wearing a brown leather jacket, a white T- shirt, blue jeans and brown-black hiking boots.

"Yes, I have a motorcycle that's impound here," returned Ryan.

"Your name Ryan Star?" the clerk asked.

"That would be me." Ryan showed the clerk his license.

"Your cycle the white and red racer?"

"That's the one."

"Just sign here. It's outback, ready to go. I'll open the gate for you."

Ryan nodded and signed the paper. He looked around the little office seeing how clean and tidy it was. Little pictures hung from the wall, some file cabinets are in the corners of the office along with other little items. He shrugged and walked out back to the lot.



After completing the instigation and found everything they need to know, Sailor Venus and Sailor Jupiter heard and saw the office door open. The two Senshi quickly ran and hid behind some crates by the back wall. They hid from whoever was coming out of the office. To their surprise, the mysterious rider came out of the office looked for his motorcycle. Mina and Lita do their best not to be seen by the rider. The duo could see the rider in full detail now.

Ryan saw his bike and walked over to it. He smiled at the fact that there is no damage done to it. Suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, Ryan spotted something sparkling a short distance away. Ryan tried not to notice, as he bent down to re-engage the brakes. He followed with his eyes, only to notice that he was looking at a shoe. He pulled out a small canister of gas from the side of the cycle along with a tranquilizer pistol. Ryan loads it. He followed the shoe with his eyes up a slim, but a smooth and delicate leg, and saw a short orange skirt. Ryan reached over to the hidden compartment and opened it to only find the contents are gone! Furious, he shut it swearing under his breath. Ryan saw the two Senshi move in anticipation behind the crates and spotted a golden blonde and light brown hair, caught in the wind.

'I knew you would come after me when I came here Mina,' Ryan thought to himself. He rose up, pulled the lock back on his gun and pushed a trigger on the canister to arm it and hides it behind him.

"I know your back there, Sailor Senshi! Come out with your hands where I can see them!" Ryan waits patiently for a response. "We don't have to make this violent." He threw the gas over where they were. It exploded and released its contents.

The two Senshi seem hesitant for a moment, coughing and sputtering.

Now that they knew they have been seen, the two frantically flee from Ryan and ran right into his firing range. Ryan fired once and, to his luck, hit Sailor Venus, who was carrying his precious cargo. He backed off and waited for a reaction.

Mina realized that she had been hit, looked back at Ryan with horror on her face. Ryan looked right at her and said with no sound, "Gotcha," as Lita grabbed Mina's arm and pulled her up. The two quickly ran off.

'That should do it,' Ryan thought to himself, 'that dart should put her to sleep for a few hours and help me track them all the way to the palace.' Ryan realized that the two Senshi were ahead of him. So, Ryan quickly hopped on his bike, put his gun away, put his helmet on, started the motorcycle up and quickly sped out of the impound.

Unfortunately, the ancient tracking system built into the bike was a bit slow due to the futuristic city, but Ryan found the trail very quickly. Ryan hoped that the dart had not been pulled out, for the dart acts as the tracking device.

Finally, after twenty minutes, Ryan followed the two Senshi to the palace. Fortunately, no one was out on the streets do to the storm. "Guess it must have scared everyone off," he said to himself. Ryan looked up and saw the two enter the palace. He especially noticed that Sailor V was a bit sluggish when she entered. "Good, the dart is taking its toll on her," commented Ryan. He raced off towards the palace, activating only the rocket boosters and wall gripping tire spikes on his cycle.



In the throne room of the Palace of Crystal Tokyo the others waited patiently for Lita and Mina to return from their investigation.

"I wonder what's taking so long?" Amee asked.

"Patience Amee," answered Darien, "We must let them conduct a full investigation."

Ami nodded in understandment. Suddenly, the balcony doors opened with a crash and Lita walked in with Mina hanging on her shoulder. "I need some help here!" she yelled. Ami and Raye ran over to help Lita. They took Mina onto their shoulders and Lita took the box from Mina. Mina was to weak to report in, so Lita did it for her. Mina collapsed in Amee and Raye's arms.

Lita then walked over to Endymion and Serenity to report in.

"Lita, what's going on?" Endymion asked frantically.

"We found the mysterious rider's cycle and the rider found us."

"Continue," Endymion replied, rising up with Serenity to help Raye and Ami with Mina. Serenity stepped in front of him, "I think you should listen to what Lita has to say. I will help with Mina."

Endymion nodded in agreement and turned to Lita. Serenity walked quickly over to Mina's side.

Lita continued, "After we conducted our investigation, we discovered this inside the riders motorcycle," she handed Endymion the white box, "then the rider showed up to claim his cycle and spotted us."

"What did he look like?"

"I don't know, Mina is the only one who can tell you that. She got a good glimpse when he shot her."

"He shot her! With what?"

"Let me finish, he acted as though he didn't notice us, did something to his bike, then rose up with a gun in his right hand and a canister of gas in the other. He warned us to come out in the open but when we didn't move, so he threw the gas into the area where we were hiding, making us flee and when we were in the open, he opened fire and hit Mina."

"With what? Tell me!"

"With tranquilizer gun."

"A tranquilizer dart did this to Mina?" he looked over his shoulder and saw that Mina had been laid down on a sofa to rest.

"Yes that's what did this, but the item is in that box should be very surprising to you."

"I hope this rider has an antidote," Endymion opened the box and looked into it. He nearly dropped it. He walked back to his chair in shock, his only reply was, "I haven't seen this for a very long time. Was there anything else?"

"Yes, a locket, Mina has it around her neck."

"A locket!" he yelled in surprise, "Inside the locket, was there two pictures? One of the rider and one of Mina?"

"Why yes, but how did you know?"

"Because I know who this mysterious rider is…" Endymion sat back down in his chair.

"I was wondering the same thing Darien," a voice came from the open balcony.