title: The Clash

author: Usagirl

email: usagirl666@hotmail.com

author notes: I am going to try to get at least one chapter to any one of my stories out every two weeks. Some might be long. Some might be short it just depends.

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Makoto rushed down the halls racing back to her room. 'Oh I got to tell them....Minako needs to know... Poor Usagi. What am I going to do?' That was when she heard it. It was like a small alarm but the noise increased in volume. And instinctively she twisted and turned down hallways and at last came to a very large room. It's walls were an icy white and there seemed to be maps and what seemed to be a large computer system/ Little lights on the board were flashing. As time went on more dots appeared Makoto felt a spark in her stomach. It filled her with a sense of impending doom. This had happened before...along, long time ago.

'I remember this...' Her eyes closed and the scenes from that day started to renew in her head...Those forbidden thoughts that had been locked away so long ago.

Luna shouted, "We are under attack!" Her feet pounded against the linoleum floor. "Every one get to you stations!"

"We aren't prepared, someone call the senshi!" Artemis's voice called out. "And no one know where the Princess is!"

Sailor Venus ran out from the control room, her eyes flashing with such alertness and superiority that seemed foreign. She waved her hand first to Sailor Mars and Mercury and then at me.

"Somebody find the Princess and hide her. Jupiter come with me and..." She ran out of the room with me close behind.

'She said somebody find the Princess... I know she was talking about the moon princess....So that means...that means...' Makoto face blanched and her eyes grew hazy. 'That means Minako isn't the moon Princess...Then who could it be...Could it be... She thought she was going to collapse right when the others raced into the room. Haruka was at the front of the group, which included Ami, Minako, Rei and Mamoru, and saw the haunted look in Makoto's eyes. Haruka stared into Makoto's eyes.

'She knows...' By the way Haruka was looking at her she knew she wasn't suppose to tell anyone, let alone know what was going on. Before she could say something Ami's quiet voice interrupted, "What is that noise? It's hurting my ears."

"The alarm," Makoto whispered.

"Alarm? What alarm? And how do you know Makoto?"

Haruka spoke up, "She is starting to remember it, the pain. The fighting...The dread... Aren't you?" Makoto slowly nodded her head. Haruka briefly nodded her head. Makoto caught a flicker of what seemed to be remembrance in Haruka's eye. " Well for the rest of you this is the Palace's control room and war room. And the alarm you hear now is..."

"The alarm that warns us when the Negaverse is about to attack. The louder the noise gets the closer they are." Usagi stood there, her hair undone and her eyes red and swollen. Mamoru gasped as he saw her.

'Such beauty such grace...even with her eyes red and swollen...' He looked down knowing he was the cause of those tears, that caused her eyes to look that awful red color. Michuru and Setsuna stood behind her looking down worriedly.

Setsuna looked up and questioned Haruka, "Why is the alarming going off?"

Haruka flushed, "Err.. I haven't checked yet."

Setsuna sighed and shook her head. The sounds from her heels clicked ominously on the linoleum floors. Her hair fell over her face as she bent over the large computer.

"I thought I just heard the alarm," Luna stated at she all but ran in the room. Artemis was right behind her. The room was deathly silent. All eyes were on Setsuna. Her face had turned an ashy white.

Usagi felt a moment of dread. She looked quietly over at Mamoru. His eyes were fastened to Setsuna.

'I don't want to lose you again my love... I just don't want too...I can't. I would rather die then go on without you...'

Usagi's eyes turned back to Setsuna. "Setsuna, what does the report say?" Silence was her answer, "Setsuna?!"

Setsuna backed away from the computer shaking her head back and forth, "No it can't be right...It cant be," She whispered, "We aren't ready..."

Curious eyes looked around the room then fastened back to Setsuna's. A feeling of dread came over the room.

"Setsuna," Usagi whispered while putting a serene hand on her soldier, "What is it..."

"They are coming...Oh... They are coming... We aren't prepared...We are not prepared!"

tbc...

Like it? Hate it? Please Review. And I am sorry it is such a short chapter but I am trying. honestly I am. I would of made it longer but that would mean a longer wait and I wanted to get it out soon. More on the way.

~usagirl