AN: Chapter 3!! Don't you just love me? SORRY I KNOW THIS IS LATE, I have been SOOOOOOO busy!!! Ok, a few things here:
I just wanted to wanted to tell you that last chapter, when 17 and 18 where talking about making the senshi their slaves, IT WAS NOT SUPPOSE TO IMPLY ANYTHING SEXUAL!!! I had just realized it might sound like that after I posted it. I hope no one read that and thought *um, ok, maybe I should just stop reading this...* It was NOT suppose to mean anything like that!! There will be sexual references in her, but again, nothing explicit in this version, and nothing extreme in the NC-17 version, which I will do when I get to that part. There also is no rape or anything.
Ok, I felt kinda weird writing that, but I just wanted to clear that up. ALSO I know I said that they would be captured last chapter, but they weren't, sorry about that! Next chapter they are captured.
Disclaimer: Alright, I might stop these, because I said them in the last chapters and it's the same story! ANYWAY, I don't own them, so you can't sue me, so NAAAAAAHHHH!!! *sticks tongue out*
QUICK NOTES:
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AND HERE'S THE STORY!!
CHAPTER 3
Five girls peered out from different hiding places at the droids. There were only six of them; not very strong ones either. The droids had just come across a group of homeless girls, and were advancing on the scared group. One of the five girls hiding nodded to the others. She jumped out of her hiding place and began shooting at the droids. The other four girls followed suit.
They didn't know what they were in for.
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Serena jumped out from behind the building, shooting at the droids before they could so much as turn around. She saw bullets fly past her at the droids, and knew her friends had joined in. The group of homeless girls snuck away, and the senshi were careful not to hit them. They didn't send any shots that way in case a droid dodged and it hit them.
Serena had a gun in each hand, and was shooting like there was no tomorrow. A third of the bullets hit armor and didn't damage the droid, but the others hit home. She didn't miss a shot. The other girls were having as much success as she was, and the droids were destroyed in less than two minutes. Serena slid one gun into a holster at her waist and kept the other one ready. She made a motion with her head to tell the others to follow, and started running down an alley. As fast as she was, she made sure the others could catch up, and they were soon running beside her. At the end of the alley, instead of running out, she threw herself against the wall without even slowing down. The others were not surprised by this, and did the same.
Serena peered around the wall of the alley. When she was sure the coast was clear, she beckoned to the others and slid around the wall and into the street. She stayed in the shadows of the buildings, her back still pressed up against the wall. They kept going until they reached a nook in the wall and slipped in.
"Ok," Serena whispered, "Here's the plan. We got rid of those so fast, we can still get more. We head towards the West exit. If we see more, we take them out. Then we follow the plan. If it seems that we can take out all the droids at the gate quickly, we will do that and get out of there before backups can come. Understood?" Four heads nodded. "Any problems? Suggestions?" They all shook their heads. Serena always wanted to make sure everyone was ok with the plans; if they weren't, she would always change them. "Good. Let's go."
Once again, they crept into the shadows of the street and made their way to the west gate.
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"Droids ahead, type Gama, about seven. No humans nearby." Ami told the group. "About forty feet north-west." Ami had explained type Gama to the group earlier, so everyone knew what she meant.
"Everyone willing to fight them?" Serena asked. Everyone nodded. "Good; we'll ambush them if we can. We'll move fast; we don't want them sensing us and ambushing us."
They started running. They were faster than humans, but not as fast as the androids, unfortunately. They stayed in the shadows and kept alert in case there were droids with cloaked energy that Ami's computer couldn't pick up.
Serena raced ahead, feeling the wind whip at her long hair, which was currently up in a looped braid. She barely felt the road beneath her feet as she ran, legs pumping, a fierce, determined look in her eyes. She saw the droids ahead of her as she turned a corner. Still running at full speed, she made her plan. She flipped into the air and over a low wall of rubble from a crumbling building, flipping over in the air until she came to land behind the droids. Before she had fully landed, she was shooting with one gun and taking the other out of it's holster. The droids spun around and began to shoot back at her with guns forming from their arms. {AN: any one seen the betrayers from Cleopatra 2525?}
Serena silently cursed at this new feature. She ducked and did a somersault behind another wall and immediately resumed shooting from her new shelter. She saw the other girls out of the corner of their eye. They ran up and ducked behind walls and mounds of rubble before started their assault on the droids. There were eight of them, but two quickly went down under Serena's rapid fire, and another followed shortly thanks to Lita's new MXT, which hit pretty hard. Serena inwardly groaned and sent a mental message to Lita to save the ammo for the ones around the city. Unfortunately, as skilled as the girls were, telepathy was not something they could do. Serena just hoped that Lita had enough ammo left later, or ammo for something more powerful. She smiled as she saw Lita switching to another gun after only a few shots.
'I know she has more ammo than that for the MXT, which means she's saving some. Good.' Serena knew she shouldn't have worried; Lita was smart when it came to gun handling and ammo stores. But today she seemed to be worrying about everything. 'Oh brother, I'm turning into a paranoid worry-wart,' she thought in exasperation as she took down another droid with Ami's help. An energy blast hit the wall right beside her and she ducked behind the wall, heart racing. 'oh god, the was close. I wish we had more protection. Gotta stay alert, Sere.'
She stuck her head and hands back around the wall and kept shooting. The next energy blast would have taken her head off if she hadn't been paying attention, but she threw herself behind the wall in time. This was harder now that they had those gun slash arms. She risked taking a look at the others when she started shooting again. They were alright; just a little bruised. Raye's hair was tousled and she had a small cut on her forehead where she must have been hit by some flying rubble. Serena made a mental note to take a look at it later. There were indentations in the mound of rubble she was behind, where energy blasts had hit. In fact, all the girls hiding places had indentations, but none had gone through.
Lita and Mina looked a little worn out, but they were fine. Ami had a scratch on her left arm that was causing her to shoot with only her right gun. Serena saw all this in less than twenty seconds. Any longer and she would have been hit by another energy blast coming her way. When she came out for the third (?) time to shoot, she saw that there was only one left. With shots from Lita, Raye, and herself, the droid blew up. Mina cheered.
"Hah! An explosion! We got an explosion! Woo hoo!" She and Lita shared a high five. The other girls came out from their shelters, Ami busy typing on her computer before she had reached the others.
"No sign of other droids within the vicinity, besides the ones guarding the West exit," she reported, lifting her head from the screen.
"Good, then let's go." Serena made a running leap over another wall of rubble and started jogging towards the west exit. She didn't run like she had before. She knew that now they were getting closer to the exit, they might meet up with more droids, and they had to take it slow so they didn't run into any. They could take out a few, but if they ran into a big group, they were in trouble. Besides, without the advantage of surprise, they could easily be hurt.
The set off in the shadows, Ami still scanning for droids. Lita was trying to examine Raye's cut as they went, and Raye was trying her best to get Lita to leave her alone. Raye told Lita that she was fine, and they could take care of it later, and besides, Ami's was worse. Lita immediately rounded on Ami, who protested that it was just a scratch. Mina tugged down her pants, which had been rolled up to above her knees, so that she could cover a cut on her leg before Lita saw it. Serena saw what was happening and tugged part of her hair from the doubled ponytail so that it would cover a light gash on her temple. She hadn't even noticed it until after the fight had ended.
Lita was now trying to wrestle a med-kit out of Ami's pack, and Ami was insisted she was fine and they didn't have time to stop. Lita countered that she would take care of it while they were walking, but Ami said that it would slow them down and that she needed to concentrate on her scanning anyway. Lita grumbled and dropped the med-kit back into the pack. Ami reached behind her and closed the pack securely.
"Guys, remember to keep it down, ok? We don't want droids ambushing us." Serena reminded them. The others nodded and Lita apologized. Serena turned her attention back to the streets, mentally thanking whatever powers were left in their forsaken world that Lita hadn't seen her cut. It wasn't that bad; not deep enough to get stitches. But it was fairly wide and didn't look to pleasant. She grinned as she thought what Lita would say.
"What?!? You're hurt Serena! No, don't give me that 'It's Nothing' routine, that is something! Ami, give me that med-kit! No, I know you need to concentrate, but I will take care of Serena and Raye while you scan. I won't slow us down, I promise. Now give me that med-kit or I'll take it myself and then take care of you too!"
Serena chuckled under her breath, but no one heard. Ami was busy scanning for doids on her computer, Lita was looking around warily with her guns ready, and Mina and Raye were discussing strategies as they walked. Serena heard Mina saying something about her bombs, and she turned around.
"Speaking of bombs, you do have them, right Mina?" she asked.
"Right, I just have to add the chemical that makes 'em go BOOM and we're all set."
Serena nodded. "Good." She turned around and started walking again. "We're almost there. We're going to have to hurry when we get there before they sense us. Those knew gadgets that can sense us are REALLY annoying, and we don't want to get caught."
Suddenly Ami gasped. "Oh my god... no... This can't be right!" Serena spun around to look at her. Ami was typing furiously at her computer, leaving Serena to wonder once again how she could type so fast with such a small computer and not miss any keys or press extra ones. "Oh no... it has to be a mistake.... it's not possible... is it?"
"What? What happened, Ami?" Raye asked, a little frantically.
Ami looked up, her face pale. "I just picked up about forty new droids at the West exit. They came out of no where! I should have picked them up when they were farther away, but it's like they just teleported there from a long way away, but they CAN'T teleport, and even if they COULD I would have picked up an energy reading. But they just... appeared there!! And these are stronger! Stronger than any we've faced before!"
"How much stronger, Ami," Serena asked quietly.
"I don't know... but even if they were the weakest... we could never take on forty," Ami replied in a shaky voice.
Serena turned away so the others wouldn't see her pale face. The others just starred wide eyed at Ami in shock. Serena sighed.
"Should we try our original plan? See if they all leave?" she asked Ami, not turning to face her.
"No... With forty of them, they wouldn't all leave... and they will have better equipment. They would probably be able to sense us right away and come after us."
Mina gasped and took a step back, and Raye put a comforting hand on her shoulder.
"First," said Ami slowly, "We should see if they're there." Serena turned to look at her with confusion in her eyes. "It might be a trick," Ami explained. "There might be something making my computer think they are there." Serena nodded.
"We'll go back a ways and take a look from a roof-top. If they are there, let's make sure there are forty and not a lot less. Ami, you use your visor to make sure some of them aren't holograms. They could have messed up your computer and set up holograms so that we think they are there, but they aren't. Next, we'll try the other exits. Agreed?" Serena turned to look at the other girls
"I agree," said Ami, "but what if they aren't real but they aren't holograms? What if they are robots, but they don't actually do anything?"
"Well," said Serena slowly, "with your visor you can find out if they are robots or just holograms or made of something else... you should also be able to see some of their circuits, right?" Ami nodded. "Well, then you can see if they are actually functioning droids or just hunks of metal." Serena sighed again. "Of course, they may just be the weakest droids that make your computer think they are much stronger... but even so, with that many we won't stand a chance. Alright, does that sound good Ami?"
"Yes, we should be able to find out more about them that way. It sounds like a good plan."
"Alright, then let's go."
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"No holograms. All droids. All functioning. I'm trying to see if I can find out their power from their circuits." Ami reported.
"Alright, if they're all real, then Lita and I will count them," said Raye. She grabbed one of the pairs of binoculars and kneeled in front of the wall. The were on a roof top about half a mile away from the West exit. Raye rested her elbows on the top of the crumbling wall and started to count the androids. Lita did the same.
"I count thirty five," Raye said ten minutes later. But it's a little hard to tell with all their moving around, and some are behind others, so it's a rough estimate."
"I counted thirty nine the first time, and forty one the second," Lita added. Serena sighed. This was not good.
"I guess then it doesn't really matter how strong they are, but what did you get, Ami?"
"I couldn't tell from the circuits I saw through my visor, so I tried different things with my computer," she said as she unhooked her visor. "I tried several different things to over ride a signal, or to fix bugs, but it is always the same. They are stronger than the others we've faced."
Serena sighed and covered her face with her hands. "This is not good," she moaned.
"It'll be ok, Serena," said Lita.
"Yeah, it always is. We'll get out of this!" Mina added cheerfully. Serena dropped her hands and smiled at her friends.
"Thank you. You guys always say the right things." She stood up and stretched. "We should find somewhere to hide. The other gates will be the same. When they find out we're here, they will be after us faster than.... ah, whatever. Anyway, we need to go." The others nodded and they climbed down the stairs from the roof. With a sigh, Serena plopped herself onto a chunk of concrete.
"Alright, let's see; we can't leave the city. They will most likely search every building and every alley even if they have to lift up the roofs of the buildings. The park is barren; no trees, no plants, no nothing. I don't know how we could hide there. Any ideas?"
"Maybe... we could go to the sewers? It's not pleasant, but I don't know where else we'll go,..." Ami suggested. Serena looked up.
"Yes, that's perfect! We can get out through the sewers! It's the only way. Everyone agree?" Everyone agreed heartily. There was a time when they wouldn't have even considered going into the sewer, but they knew it was their only choice. Their only hope.
"Ok, we'll rest here for twenty minutes. We can use that time to clean our wounds, if you are one that has some. After that, be ready to go." Serena said.
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A half hour later, Lita was struggling with a manhole cover.
"Damn! They sealed it shut! Look!" She pointed to the edges of the cover. Sure enough, someone had melted the iron, and now the manhole cover and the iron frame where one piece of metal.
"Damn, and we don't have anything to break the seal. Our guns won't shoot through that, and even if they could, they would have made sure to reinforce it," Serena said.
"So what are we going to do?" Mina asked, fear evident in her voice.
"Let's look for more. They may have missed one. Man, I wish they hadn't collapsed all the underground subways." Raye said.
"Good idea, they may have missed some that were under rubble. We'll stick to small streets. Of we see a gap between manholes that could have another manhole in it, we can look under the rubble. Everyone good with that?" Everyone said they did. "Good. Now, we'll stick together, I don't want to split up when there are droids on our tails. Besides, we have no one of contacting one another. If we don't fine one today, we find somewhere to stay for the night and try again tomorrow."
They started searching empty streets. The streets they were in were hidden by shadows, and littered with rubble. They hoped that the droids wouldn't find them there. Ami was scanning for droids and also the metals found in the manhole covers while the others looked. She would know the second any droids came within one hundred feet of them, unless their energy was cloaked, which was what they had decided had been on the new droids at the city exit. They had to be pretty powerful to cloak their energy. So all the girls were alert in case any of those droids was nearby.
As they searched, they had no idea they were being watched.
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