New Dimensions Episode 4: Violets
~ Fallen Firefly
Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon or Gundam Wing
Author's Note: Thanks to all who reviewed my story and thanks to Jenn who corrected me! Sorry you all, I spelled "Sore" or "Sore Throat" wrong... geez... Well I'm sorry about that. Oh and on the part when Ami was putting "Mild in her coffee" it was supposed to be milk. -_- My goodness... Well here's episode 4. I prefer episodes rather than Chapters ^_^. Enjoy... please! Oh and maybe in this chapter or the next, I'm not so sure yet, there are going to be strange scenes that have nothing to do with the story but with what's happening in Hotaru's mind. If all of a sudden Hotaru goes crazy and IF IT'S IN BOLD, then that means the Hotaru in her mind. If it's not in Hotaru's mind, then Hotaru is physically going crazy and banging herself on walls. Do you all get me? This might not be in this chapter though all right? I'm still wondering whether or not to put that in this chapter.
***WARNING*** Boring chapter ahead and I'm dead serious when I say boring but I'm hoping that you won't stop reading this fiction because of it?? Please continue to read. I know that it will get better on afterwards!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hotaru's eyes fluttered open. She was lying on her stomach. She looked around the empty streets. There was dirt on her face and some on her all black outfit. She sat upright and gasped when she saw Ami, her one and only friend, lying down on the sidewalk unconscious.
"Psst... Ami... wake up Ami." Hotaru whispered loudly as she shook Ami's shoulders.
"Hmm? Huh?" Ami groaned as her eyes opened slowly and she looked up at Hotaru.
"Ami, do you know where we are?"
Ami sat up straight and looked around. She looked straight in front of her and saw the same alley where Minako, Setsuna, and her first teleported through, the only difference was that instead of the clean streets she remembered so well, she saw a lot of trash and dirt everywhere. She flipped on her mini-computer. "I hope it works here." She mumbled as she pressed the small dark blue button, which turned it on.
"Ami, look!" Hotaru nearly screamed as she pointed to the sky.
Ami looked up from her small computer screen only to look at a giant object falling from the sky. "Oh my goodness!" she screamed as she grabbed Hotaru's hand and they quickly ran across the street into the alley. They ran to the very edge of the alley. Ami slid in first and held the smaller Hotaru in her bosom as they both looked with fearful eyes at the giant object falling faster and faster towards the spot where they were. It crashed to the ground causing an immense cloud of thick and brown dust to surround them. None of them made a sound as both of them felt the immense stinging of sand, dirt, and rubble hit their bare legs.
Ami slightly opened her eyes to see the giant object sliding across the ground towards them, surely they can be crushed but miraculously, the object slowed down and stopped just inches from the terrified teens.
Ami began to breathe again and Hotaru turned around to see the most bizarre object ever. Ami gasped when she saw it but there was no reaction from Hotaru. What they saw before them was a giant metal hand, which was closed in a fist. It was so large compared to them.
"Look." Muttered pointing to the dark sky. Ami gasped when she looked up. There were more objects falling from the sky landing in unknown places only causing more and more dust storms. Ami never forgot about the computer. She looked at the screen she had turned on a while ago. "Date... hmm, same date no doubt about that... year... what?" Ami thought out loud.
"What year is it?" Hotaru asked.
"After Colony... 1...9...8." Ami muttered. She thought back and remembered the scene: "Alright. How does... A.C. 195 sound?"
"Oooh! I bet it's gonna be one of those, meal in a pill places! Where teachers are robots and everything is served to you in a tiny tiny little pills and---"
"I highly doubt it Minako." Ami said as she raised her hand to calm her hyper friend.
"That's it!" Ami exclaimed and she snapped. "I know. Instead of taking us to the original dimension we were before, she took us to the same place but three years later! No wonder this city is in ruins. A war has probably passed I'm guessing. Hmm..." Ami continued to talk to herself while Hotaru only stared at Ami with a bland expression on her face. When Ami saw this, she realized that Hotaru had no clue about what Ami was talking about.
Ami tried to clue her in: "Hotaru... do you remember those boys over at Makoto's sleepover?"
With the same blank expression on her face, Hotaru slowly shook her head 'no'. "What sleepover?" she questioned.
Ami remembered Setsuna saying outside of Hotaru's bedroom while Hotaru changed her clothes (A/N Not in last chapter): "She won't remember those boys... hopefully... and maybe if things go well, we will only be an old memory."
"Never mind." Ami muttered then thought to herself, 'After sending those boys back, out three hours in that dimension were three whole years here.'
A gust of icy wind blew stopping Ami's train of thought. Hotaru didn't shudder even though she was terribly cold. The cold didn't affect Ami at all though.
"Where are we going to stay tonight?" Ami asked.
"Well, I guess we will be looking for a hotel or something." Hotaru replied.
"But... do you have any money?"
"An empty hotel Ami. I don't have any money."
"What? An empty hotel?"
"It's better than nothing. Unless you have other ideas."
Ami looked down at the floor and shook her head. They began walking past the giant metal hand and down the street. They passed a few rotting cadavers and they stepped over bloodstains on the ground. Ami gasped and covered her mouth when she saw a dead baby girl, her pink dress with blood all over it. A tear fell from her blue eyes and they continued to walk.
Ami looked down the street and saw a familiar looking flat building with a worn sign that said, "N BBLE S" and she remembered that café being the "NIBBLERS" which was where she first met the boys.
"Here." Hotaru mumbled standing in front of a building. "This must have been a hotel." She walked inside and Ami followed.
They both walked to the counter and Ami pressed the bell. *Ding*
Hotaru sweat-dropped and looked at Ami. Ami looked back at Hotaru. "Let's just go pick a room." Ami suggested.
"Hehe... yeah." Hotaru said sarcastically.
They were going to walk up the stairs to see what rooms were left in the hotel when a large object came out of nowhere and blocked their way. Hotaru looked up only to see the biggest man in her life.
"Excuse us." Hotaru told him as she began to walk to the side of him. He blocked that way.
"Uhm... Hotaru?" Ami tried to get Hotaru's attention. "Maybe we should find a different place to stay."
"Sir, what part of 'excuse us' don't you understand?"
A long and deep "Mmm" was heard from the mad as he crabbed Hotaru's arm and with little power pulled her towards him. "Do you want death or pleasure before death?" he asked his voice booming.
Ami gasped and immediately she wanted to faint but tried to stop herself (A/N Can you actually stop yourself from fainting?) because she was scared she might get raped. Instead, she lost all feeling from her legs and fell to the floor. She looked at Hotaru.
"Your disgusting." Hotaru told him monotonously.
The giant man smile and under his bears, Hotaru saw brown teeth. "Ugh..." she groaned as she yanked her arm away from the man.
"Come Ami..." Hotaru said as she began to walk away.
"You are not going anywhere." The man said as he grabbed Hotaru by her waist with both of his hands and pulled her towards him.
Hotaru fell on her knees. She let him pull her in and kicked him where it hurts the most.
"Crap!" the man yelled. He covered his soon the bleed area. "Damn you!"
Hotaru jumped up and kicked the man's neck, which caused him to fall in pain.
The quickly pulled out a gun and pointed it to Hotaru. Ami crawled down underneath Hotaru and kicked the gun out of the mans hands. She stood up quickly. The man pulled out a sword.
"Damn, where did that come from?" Hotaru mumbled quickly with one eyebrow raised.
The man jabbed the gun in Hotaru's direction. Hotaru jumped and landed on the sword blade. Then she jumped once again and kicked the man's face. (A/N As you can see, I don't know how to write fighting scenes well which will probably mean that there are not going to be much fighting scenes in this fic. Sorry to all of you peoples who like them! ^_^')
"Perfect." A feminine voice said from the shadows. "Just perfect. You two girls are exactly what we need."
Hotaru and Ami both looked at each other confused.
"Who said that?" Ami asked the darkness.
A woman came out of the darkness. She was dressed in an all baby blue gown. She had thick bright blue hair in a ponytail to the side. A blue lollipop was out of her mouth and in her hand. She had blue-eyeliner and blue eye shadow as well. Blue lipstick and her nails were of course... blue.
A blush crept on Hotaru and Ami's cheeks as the woman walked closer to them saying, "How would you two ladies like to work for me?"
"And do what?" Ami asked again.
"Food and shelter will be provided."
"And do what?"
"Your pay would be in the thousands." The blue haired lady continued ignoring Ami.
"And do what?"
"So what do you say?"
"And do what lady?" Hotaru asked getting annoyed.
"It's not just one thing." The lady neared Ami. She was just about her height or maybe just a few centimeters taller. Ami got a real look at her beauty when she neared her. Ami gulped. The lady continued, "Mercenary... assassin... and bounty hunter. My name is Aeris (A/N pronounced air-iss). If you say yes to my offer I will be your boss. Your skills are exactly what I need and the pay is excellent. What do you say?"
"I'll do it." Hotaru said. She shrugged carelessly. Hotaru had no problem with the job. Of course, her fighting for love and justice and protecting all of society was just an old memory locked in a vault with a forgotten combination in the deepest darkest shadows of her mind.
Ami on the other hand, hated the idea. She was disgusted by the idea of being an assassin. Also, she had no real experience with any weapons, only her powers that came from her body. Hotaru though, had a glaive to help her... if she remembered how to use it. (A/N Once again, please forgive me for speeding up in this story. This might be a long chapter, MIGHT!)
"Follow me. It's nowhere near here." Aeris said. "It's at the L1 Colony Cluster. Might take some time to get there from Earth but we will get there none the less." Aeris said.
"Wait, colony cluster?" Ami asked.
"Yeah... colonies." Aeris pointed to the sky.
"What exactly are they?"
"You girls live during this time and you don't know what colonies are?"
"We usually don't get out much." Ami lied.
Aeris sighed, "There are actual towns and cities up there. My office is up there also. Earth is just a piece of crap now. If you want the job lets go to the colony and lets do it fast because I have an appointment at three in the morning. My shuttle is not too far from here. Just about a thirty minute walk."
"So... the colonies, how many people actually live there?" Ami asked trying to keep up with Aeris's fast pace.
"Hundreds I guess... never really known. But the number has really declined now after the war with Marimeah that's for sure. So many were drafted and so many died. Oh well..." Aeris dismissed the subject.
"But..." Ami continued. "Why would you need us to be mercenaries? You would pay us to fight for what army and what war?"
"You'll see soon enough. I'll start you off with assassinations and bounty hunting. There are a few wanted people still after the war but I'm pretty sure you can get them in no time."
"And why do you need us to do the work? I mean... if you want these wanted people that badly, why do you need our help? You look perfectly capable of doing these things yourself."
"Because there are too many wanted people for me to handle by myself. I need partners you know and I think you guys are the perfect ones."
"Assassin, mercenary, and bounty hunter. How much pay are we talking about?" Ami continued to ask questions.
"We are talking about in the thousands. Not only are you going to get hundreds of thousands from the government, but you will get your fair share from me too. Couple of thousand dollars a mission I guess. I'll see how much I can squeeze in."
"How rich are you exactly?"
"Pretty rich I guess."
"So how long will it take for us to go to the L1 Colony cluster?"
"It will take a while. Few hours I guess. I slept on my way here."
"And why did you come here?"
"To see if anyone was capable enough to complete my tasks."
"So you want us to be assassins and bounty hunters. What would happen if you assassinate someone and then you find a wanted person and turned them in and they recognize you?"
"My... my... aren't we overly inquisitive? You will just have to be able to cover yourself up that's all."
Hotaru didn't bother to ask questions. Ami seemed to get all of Hotaru's questions answered except for one. "Uhm... what's going to happen to that guy back there?" Hotaru asked.
"I told him to do that to you but to not violate you in any way. Gave him Five hundred dollars and I told him to knock himself out in this wasteland. Pretty cheap if you ask me."
Instantly, Hotaru knew that she would become a good friend with this Aeris. She seemed a lot like Hotaru in many ways except she talked a lot.
"You know what? You two would look very beautiful if you knew how to do your makeup." Aeris told Hotaru and Ami.
Ami looked down. She has never put makeup on except for very little bit of blush every now and then, and that was only for important school activities. 'Oh my gosh! School! I forgot about that!' Ami mentally screamed at herself.
"What are we going to do about our education?" Ami asked.
"Well that can be easily taken care of. You will be tutored by some of the greatest minds. Mostly you guys will be going through training. How to make explosives out of simple materials, learn the different types of guns, learn where to hit the person although I'm pretty sure that the mute one here won't need help with that." Aeris laughed at her own joke. Hotaru didn't seem amused.
"Any way..." Aeris continued. "Is that fine with you to be tutored?"
Hotaru nodded. Ami nodded. "Allrighty... good." Aeris said.
"When will we start out training?" Ami asked.
"Immediately." Aeris replied.
"Well I'm sorry Aeris but I am going to have to say no to your offer. Hotaru and I. You see, back where we came from, we always fought for justice and for the good of the people. Assassination was the last thing on out list so we are going to have to say no."
Aeris laughed and stuck her lollipop in her mouth. "Back where you came from? And where exactly was that?"
"Ja... uhm... Japan but... a long time ago Japan. Like... over two hundred years ago Japan."
"So you mean to tell me that you girls are over two hundred years old?"
"No... we are both sixteen."
Hotaru looked at Ami and asked, "Ami who said I'm going to decline her offer? I'm going to take it."
"But Hotaru, that would go against everything we stand for!"
"And what exactly is that?" Hotaru questioned.
"Don't you remember? Sailor Soldiers?"
"What are you talking about?" Hotaru asked Ami.
Aeris interrupted. "Looks like all this dust is affecting your head. That's okay if you decline my offer. I'll still give you a ride out of this hell hole and to the colonies but let me tell you right now that you are not going to get anywhere without money and an education and previous experience with something and the only place you can find that now is with my offer."
"But I can't!"
"All right then I guess you can't but I can see you going nowhere and very fast too. You are perfect for the job. You and the silent one are. So you tell me if you want to go or not."
Ami looked over at Hotaru and them back at Aeris and gave in.
Author's Note: You might be getting pretty bored with this chapter and please forgive me if you do. I'm sorry but I'm trying the best I can to get this chapter actually moving. I hope I don't lose any readers because of this. Please continue to read this story. It will get better later on. I promise. If not you can flame me. Oh, and I'm sorry if I begin to speed up in this chapter. You will see when Hotaru gets her first mission… oops ^^
Ami and Hotaru sat in the same room. It was furnished like a hotel, with a small refrigerator, their own special bathroom with marble floors. The walls were a violet color while the ceiling was a dark purple. Aeris was kind enough to decorate the room to Hotaru's liking. Ami's room was next door. Her room looked very similar except her walls were blue. They both shared a bathroom.
"Hotaru, try to remember. We fought for love and justice. You are the princess of Saturn. Don't you remember?"
"Ami can you quit with that? I have no idea of what you are talking about. You are creeping me out."
"If you take this job, then you will be going against absolutely everything we stand for."
"Look if it bothers you so much to take this job, then don't take it all right? It's as simple as that... but I am taking the job. I need the money. I think I'm ready to become a prostitute. That's how desperate I am ok? I give you half of my money and you and you can have the room next to mine if you want but I just want you to know that I'm taking this job ok?"
Ami looked down at her feet and nodded in defeat. She couldn't do anything to change Hotaru's mind. Hotaru was obviously desperate for money.
"I uhm... I have to use the bathroom." Ami said and walked inside the giant bathroom. She sat on the edge of the bathtub and opened her computer, if her transmission goes through, she will be able to send Setsuna a message.
***
An image of Setsuna popped up on her computer screen. She was in her Sailor outfit.
"Setsuna... Hotaru took the job of an assassin."
"I know." Setsuna replied calmly. "I was watching everything from the time gate."
"What are we going to do? Us Sailors are known for doing good to society."
"Yes but do Sailor Soldiers exist in that dimension Ami?"
Ami thought for a minute. That was correct. Ever since she was here she has heard nothing about Sailors helping those in need. If a war had just past and there was no mention of them from Aeris then that obviously meant that there is no such thing as a Sailor.
"You have to remember that you are in a different dimension Ami and that there might not be any such thing as a Sailor. Who knows, maybe by that time, Crystal Tokyo has been destroyed. You just have to remember where you are and what you do. So if your conscience bothers you when you go out and kill people for money, then don't do it. You heard Hotaru. She said that she'll give you some money and a place to stay so I don't see what's bothering you so much."
Ami looked at the computer screen. "Ok." She said.
***
Aeris popped her head inside Hotaru's room. "Hotaru! Sorry to get you started so early but I need someone detained and right now."
"Who?"
"Heero Yuy. Apparently, he snuck into out base last night and stole valuable information. What I need you to do is not to kill the boy because we might need him later on but we need you just to get the disk with the information on it. It won't be too hard I guess, but be careful."
"Wait... how do you know this person did this?"
"The loser forgot about the hidden cameras." She said in a flat voice. "But don't worry, I don't think it would be too hard for you. I mean with your skill and everything. Their base is about forty-five minutes from here so I need you to get a red disk. That's where he put the information. Don't you love those color, hidden cameras? Well whatever. Please hurry up and get ready. Plus you have to locate where he is so it might take you a while. I suggest you get started."
"Ma'am." Hotaru said and saluted Aeris.
"Awe, so cute. You don't have to salute to me. I'm not worth it... trust me." She said and she left the room.
Hotaru shrugged and looked for an all black outfit in this new walking closet of hers.
***
"YOU IDIOT! You mean to tell me that you didn't even try to block the hidden cameras?" A Chinese teen screamed at a boy with messy hair.
He didn't reply. He wasn't even paying attention.
"Heero!"
"His plan is quite simple really." A man with gravity defying hair said in defense for Heero. "If the base checks their cameras, which I'm sure they will, they will see that it is Heero, they will see the disk that he put the information in, and they will try to get the disk only."
"But then wouldn't they kill Heero also?" Quatre asked worriedly.
"I don't think someone will be able to kill Heero." Duo said, messing with his braid. "I mean, he's the 'Perfect Soldier' and all."
Heero rolled his eyes.
"But Heero was smart enough to make copies of the information to us right?" Trowa asked.
Heero held up five disks. One he put in his pocket and the other four he threw to each of the boys.
"All right my man!" Duo told Heero and left the room.
Heero walked up to the hall, which led to his room. He was ready to go to sleep. In the privacy of his room, Heero yawned while taking off his green tank top (A/N And I know all the girls reading this wish that they were there to watch that! ^^). Then he walked to the bathroom to brush his teeth, take a quick shower, and go to bed.
***
'Heero Yuy' a certain purple-haired girl typed quickly into her own personal laptop that Aeris gave her. It was a beautiful purple thing that was so light and compact yet can hold so much information. It even had it's own personal search engine that Aeris had made herself with all the information on about practically everything.
Instantly when Hotaru pressed the Enter button, article after article about a boy named Heero Yuy popped up. All of them were classified information and needed a password to get in but having a boss with skills like Aeris had, that wasn't a problem. In just a short time, Hotaru found out that instantly she had access to all of the pages.
"Aeris, you are an angel." Hotaru said under her breath. "Eureka." Hotaru mumbled when she found the page she was looking for.
"Heero Yuy: Current Location- Peace Million II (L1 Colony Cluster)"
She quickly grabbed a pen and wrote in perfect handwriting "HY- Peace Million 2" to make sure she won't forget.
***
Heero was in "a deep sleep" when a silent firefly opened the door to his room.
'Red disk. Red disk.' She repeated in her mind as she slowly walked over to a desk in the end of the hallway where a closed laptop was and about twenty disks were laid all around sloppily.
Hotaru, thinking she saw a red disk, hurried up to the desk and sighed in disbelief when she saw that about half of the disks were red.
"This boy is smart." Hotaru said with an evil grin on it as she picked up two disks and examined them.
Heero silently turned in his bed and looked at what he expected to be a man but his eyes slightly widened when he noticed with the little light that the night provided that it was a girl and not a guy. What she was wearing was interesting also (at least to Heero it was). From what Heero can tell, it was an extremely short shirt that ended just under her small breasts and a leather jacket over that, which was only slightly longer than the "shirt" that she was wearing underneath. Her whole back and stomach was exposed showing her slight curves and even tan. Her pants were also leather and were low-rise too---this Heero noticed immediately.
He slowly got out of the bed and picked up his gun, which was on the bottom of the bed waiting to be used in case of a sudden emergency.
Hotaru was so concentrated that she didn't notice the very slight shuffling noise Heero had made when he stood up from his bed (without his shirt on ^^).
'Damn it.' She thought to herself seeing that the only way she was able to find out whether or not it was the disk she was looking for was to test each one on her laptop. Seeing that she would make too much noise in just taking out her laptop alone, she decided to use some sleeping gas to make sure that he would sleep while she tried to do it. But instead of going through all of that trouble, she just turned on Heero's laptop instead (A/N ^_^;). As she tried red disk after red disk, she was just about to give up when she had only three disks left.
She placed one in and opened it. Then opening the file and realizing that that was the disk she was looking for, she nearly wanted to scream. She quickly took the disk out of the laptop and placed it one of her pockets on her sleeves. Then she decided to shut down Heero's laptop when she heard the click of a gun being armed. She was just going to turn around when she felt a metal and circular object being pressed to the side of her head. Knowing that it was probably Heero Yuy, she was getting ready to elbow him, quickly move to the side and run but she realized that he was totally anticipating that move. He had already had a strong grip on both of her hands.
Hotaru mentally cursed herself seeing that all of her possible escape routes were completely impossible.
"Now I'll be nice if you tell me what base you work for, who you work for, and why you are here." He whispered into her ear.
Hotaru could feel her face turning red when she heard the deep whisper in her ear even though she had no clue of what the person behind her looked like. She blushed furiously when she felt a six pack up against her back. (A/N And we all know we wish we were Hotaru at the moment even if he is going to shoot us!)
"Classified, classified, and classified." Hotaru replied coldly.
She can feel the gun being pressed harder onto her head. Thinking of impossible escape routes, she decided to try one. She quickly hopped up in the air (A/N and you know how those Sailor girls can really jump from roof to roof) and did a few back flips in the air until she was next to the door.
Heero pointed the gun at her and said, "Stop or I'll shoot." Hotaru was at the doorway. She was holding the disk between two of her fingers, her index and her middle finger. "Thanks." She said and disappeared. Heero quickly turned on the light and looked out of his room to see if she was still running down the incredibly long hallway but he noticed immediately that she had disappeared from the hallway also.
"Damn." Heero said to himself as she was walking over towards the desk where all of his disks were when he noticed something on the wall next to the door. A purple Violet flower with a strong stem had penetrated the wall. This was the mysterious girls' trademark. A Violet.
Well what did you think of the story? Sorry for it being so long but to tell you the truth, it was a lot longer only this is the edited version. I finally realized that the original version of this chapter had a lot of useless information, mainly a lot of flashbacks of Ami. Good thing I got rid of all that that useless stuff because I think I would of lost all of the very little readers that I have. Oh yeah and what I said before about if something totally bizarre happens in the story and it is in bold, it is what is happening in Hotaru's mind right? Well I didn't put that in this chapter because that was part of the useless information part so... yeah. It will definitely be in the next chapter though, believe me. So please review. I get too carried away with all of these Authors Notes neh? -_-'