Punishment
First Torture: Being Rent
authored 5-23-01
modified 4-9-02
1st AN: I've taken the explanation of Pluto's disappearance during the SuperS season in my own hands...let's see what happens!
2nd AN: MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD! If you don't know what happens at the end of the SMS and Stars seasons, _do_not_ read this if you don't want it spoiled. You've been warned. ~.^
3rd AN: I have neglected the fact that in the manga Setsuna stopped time to stop Diamond from joining the two Imperium Crystals. That bit just wouldn't fit in. So as background, include everything EXCEPT that episode. (I know, stupid author, but work with me.)
***
"We're going to crash!"
"No!" Haruka grappled with the throttle to pull the helicopter out of its tailspin.
"Haruka!" Michiru braced herself for the explosion as Daihmon coated the windshield.
Suddenly, silence blanketed them, and with their eyes squeezed shut, the Senshi couldn't tell whether they were dead or deaf. Tentatively, Haruka opened one feral eye. IN front of her, shards of glass, tongues of flame, and bits of Daihmon-coated helicopter hung suspended in midair.
"Haruka?" Michiru's voice was barely audible.
"We're alive?" Haruka was incredulous, half-expecting to wake from this dream to find her life extinguished.
"Uranus. Neptune." A musical, husky voice caught the senshi's attention. Behind them, Sailor Pluto stood, holding her Garnet Staff aloft, her form surrounded by filamentuous time-space strings.
"Pluto! How--" Michiru gasped.
"Time will not stay stopped for long. I have broken the biggest of the Three Taboos by halting its flow." Her rod glowed a blood-red, a color deeper, more foreboding than the Orb's normally crystalline hue.
"What will happen to you?"
"I must be punished. Go. And if you find the real sovereign--" The red light flickered, and so did the form of Hades' Senshi.
"Yes, Pluto? If we find the real sovereign?" Haruka was eager. But before Pluto could respond, a flash of light dissolved Uranus and Neptune into gilded beams of light which slipped their way quickly to the roof of Mugen Gakuken. The Senshi stumbled but kept to their feet when they landed. Above them, the helicopter exploded in a flash of Death and a roar of fire.
"PLUTO!"
"PLUTO!"
But they knew a human being could not have survived the blast.
First Torture: Being Rent
authored 5-23-01
modified 4-9-02
1st AN: I've taken the explanation of Pluto's disappearance during the SuperS season in my own hands...let's see what happens!
2nd AN: MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD! If you don't know what happens at the end of the SMS and Stars seasons, _do_not_ read this if you don't want it spoiled. You've been warned. ~.^
3rd AN: I have neglected the fact that in the manga Setsuna stopped time to stop Diamond from joining the two Imperium Crystals. That bit just wouldn't fit in. So as background, include everything EXCEPT that episode. (I know, stupid author, but work with me.)
***
"We're going to crash!"
"No!" Haruka grappled with the throttle to pull the helicopter out of its tailspin.
"Haruka!" Michiru braced herself for the explosion as Daihmon coated the windshield.
Suddenly, silence blanketed them, and with their eyes squeezed shut, the Senshi couldn't tell whether they were dead or deaf. Tentatively, Haruka opened one feral eye. IN front of her, shards of glass, tongues of flame, and bits of Daihmon-coated helicopter hung suspended in midair.
"Haruka?" Michiru's voice was barely audible.
"We're alive?" Haruka was incredulous, half-expecting to wake from this dream to find her life extinguished.
"Uranus. Neptune." A musical, husky voice caught the senshi's attention. Behind them, Sailor Pluto stood, holding her Garnet Staff aloft, her form surrounded by filamentuous time-space strings.
"Pluto! How--" Michiru gasped.
"Time will not stay stopped for long. I have broken the biggest of the Three Taboos by halting its flow." Her rod glowed a blood-red, a color deeper, more foreboding than the Orb's normally crystalline hue.
"What will happen to you?"
"I must be punished. Go. And if you find the real sovereign--" The red light flickered, and so did the form of Hades' Senshi.
"Yes, Pluto? If we find the real sovereign?" Haruka was eager. But before Pluto could respond, a flash of light dissolved Uranus and Neptune into gilded beams of light which slipped their way quickly to the roof of Mugen Gakuken. The Senshi stumbled but kept to their feet when they landed. Above them, the helicopter exploded in a flash of Death and a roar of fire.
"PLUTO!"
"PLUTO!"
But they knew a human being could not have survived the blast.