Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon Sailor Stars: The Movie
EfrainMan
EfrainMan9@yahoo.com
I wrote this story 5 years ago (GASP!) when all I had was the DiC dub. That's
why I use some English and Japanese names. I ain't going back to change 'em! :p
Yeah, I know the Starlights don't do anything in my story but fly away, and it's
not in script format, but I couldn't think of anything else for a title.
Sailor Moon is owned by some Japanese people who are not me. Even if did try to
sue me, I wouldn't be able to read the subpoena ;p
"An artist doesn't finish his work, he only abandons it."
-Chuck Jones
Alien terminology:
1 click=2 hours
1 gobj=2 months
1 kecam=around 4 liters
1 pahced=1 kilogram
1 shrem=2 degrees Celcius
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Part 5:
Luna couldn't believe how stupid she was. Going after a Scout with
absolutely nothing that would transform her. She kicked herself, then looked
up at the quartet, three of which had the symbol of Earth on their foreheads.
Then, the three icons emanated a beam of energy which intersected in front of
them. They stopped crying as they stared at the energy coming from them. The
beams stopped after a few seconds, leaving a bright, yet grayish, ball of
energy in front of them. With a slight gust of wind, the energy became a small
stick that, no doubt, was Earth's transformation stick. It dropped to the
ground, where Luna's quick reflexes (and mouth) caught it.
'One problem down,' Luna thought to herself. Khidf's pounding became
harder now, and he would be through in less than a minute.
'Two to go.' She looked at the stick. It was just like the Outer
Scouts' sticks, only the symbol of Earth was inside the star. And right under
the star, there was a bronze ball with four gray spikes on its corners.
"Awright," Luna said with the stick in her mouth.
"Hey, that cat's talking!" all but Amiri said. Luna was surprised that
they heard her.
"Um, yeah. My name's Luna. With a little luck 'thinking: and a lot of
praying' I'll be able to get you out of here."
""What's going on?"" Amiri asked.
""The cat says she's going to help us,"" Paul unbelievingly said.
""Good. We could use some help."" She replied like it was nothing out
of the ordinary. Once again, Luna was stumped.
'Which one?' she asked herself. Then Darien's words came to mind:
". . . was not chosen by bloodline, but by worth."
'But which one?' Luna asked herself again.
"Oh, shit, he's almost through!" Becky shouted.
"WE KNOW!"
'It ain't her,' Luna thought with an annoyed look on her face, 'two
blonde bimbos is enough. And she curses. That leaves two.' Then Luna noticed
the bandana on Amiri's head. The pattern was divided into squares that went
all around the bandana. Half of the squares had all kinds of intricately
colored patterns, swirls, circles, and cloud-like shapes. The other half of
the squares were exactly the same. They had horizontal stripes, each with a
different color. From top to bottom they were gray, pink, blue, red, green,
orange, yellow, aquamarine, purple, white, and gray again. The realization hit
her like a ton of bricks. She threw the stick at her, and Amiri caught it.
"You!" Luna yelled to Paul, "Tell her to hold the stick up in the air
and shout the following incantation," and Paul complied. Amiri wasn't sure
what was going on, but agreed. Just then, Khidf's fist broke through the door
and he started too pry open the metal. He wouldn't stop until he could fit.
"Earth . . ."
"EARTH . . ."
". . . planet power, . . ."
". . . PLANET POWER, . . ."
". . . . . . . . . . make up."
". . . . . . . . . . MAKE UP!" Amiri tried to speak the incantation
as best as she could. Khidf broke through the door just in time to see the
transformation. The symbol of Earth twirled down onto the star on the stick,
which Amiri grabbed with her index finger pointing out and her thumb straight
up. Bright gray energy illuminated from the spiked sphere and now you can see
Amiri's glowing body. With the top view of a hurricane in the background, and
the stick in hand, she stood on her tiptoes and started to twirl around with
the arm holding the stick almost straight up. As she twirled faster, she
started to resemble a tornado, and soon the tornado expanded outward, changing
the background to various clouds on a gray sky. We can see Amiri's head and
face as a gray lipstick is applied by magic sparkles. The bandana was still
around her head, but a gold tiara with a gray jewel was over it. She opens her
eyes as she twirled around and posed: she stood with her legs close together,
and her hands were holding her pigtail over her left shoulder. We can now see
a transformed Super Sailor Earth (she's Super because this IS her planet). The
major color of her Suit was a deep bronze. She was wearing sneakers of the
same color (Air Nikes [rim shot]. These are the jokes people.) The bow above
her skirt was black, like an Outer scout, and attached inside the center of
the bow was a gray Aikuchi style of sword. Finally, the bow on her chest was
gray with a hurricane shaped brooch holding it together.
"Oh, wow! That's cool!" Becky said.
"Thank you," Earth said, "Hey! I can understand you!"
"DAMN!" Khidf shouted, "Another Sailor Scout!" With that, he ripped
the rest of the door off and began his Heat Wave power.
"Quick, do something!" Becky shouted to Earth.
"WHAT!?" she shouted back, "What is going on?"
"Amiri, you are a Sailor Scout," Luna told her, "sworn to defend the
innocent and all that is right. You have magical powers that you use to do
this. The incantation for your power is, uh, Tornado, uh, Rage. No! Rages.
Yeah, that's it."
Earth stood on tiptoes again and held her right arm straight up and
her palm facing up. Her other hand was just under it like it was ready to
catch something that was ready to fall off the other hand.
"TORNADO . . ." A wide column of wind surrounded her, half obscuring
her. Then the column shrank onto her right hand and became a glowing gray
sphere of energy with a ring of energy of the same color around it. She was
then surrounded by a semi-transparent tornado in close proximity.
". . . . RAGES!" With her left hand she grabbed the ring around her
power, spun around once, and threw the ball like a frisbee right at Khidf.
"HEAT WAVE!" Khidf launched his power at the same time, but to no
avail. The sphere dispersed the beam and headed right at Khidf. He was soon
consumed in the gray energy, and was thrown back right through the wall behind
him. It revealed a room with a huge, strange machine in the center. A slight
trikle of gray blood appeared on his lips.
"Okay, let's get outta here," Gloria said.
"Wait," Luna said.
"For WHAT!?" Becky shouted (dang, that girl's louder'n Serena).
"My friends still need help. We need to disable the ship and find
something we could use to teleport someone."
"How?" Paul asked.
"Look around and grab anything that looks like weird equipment. Except
for you, Earth. That big machine over there looks like a power source. When
they finish, you'll destroy it."
"Very well." The three normal people started to look around all of the
ship, picking anything and everything up. When they came back they had a lot
of stuff, mostly Shecou's. Including his music box.
"Good. Now, let's destroy the power source."
*That combination of words is not approved. Do not move and prepare
for termination* The computer's voice completely startled them, and they were
looking around to see where it came from. Then, from a panel in the roof, one
of the internal cannons appeared and pointed to them.
"Awww, MAN!" (guess who) shouted. But Earth was ready, and like reflex
pulled out her sword. She leapt up and sliced right through the cannon. It
fell down in an electric heap.
"Yes!"
"Cool!"
"Good job!"
"C'mon," Luna told Earth, "you still need to destroy the source. Be
careful." And with that, Earth left for the room. "The rest of us should leave
through the front and get this stuff to my friends." They followed Luna out
the front, towards Eternal Sailor Moon's group. Earth, however, was still
having trouble with the cannons, and barely had time to use her power.
"TORNADO RAGES!" The sphere flew across the room and hit the generator
on center, but it did nothing. And now the cannons were becoming more numerous
and powerful. The beams occasionally scratched her, but she was always able to
take them down before they did anything worse to her. As she was waiting for
the next attack, she decided to directly slash the generator. But all she did
was scratch it. It would take her forever, but eventually she would rip right
through the armor. But she didn't have forever as she heard Khidf moaning.
"Allah, what do I do know?" she asked herself. Then she felt some
grooves on her sword. She looked down to see notches on the tsuka. Although
she didn't know it then, it was in Cheyenne. But because this WAS her planet,
she could understand it. It said "Flowering Lace." She decided to try it.
"EARTH . . ." She held her sword in front of her face, just below her
closed eyes. The blade started to glow, and Earth was surrounded by a tornado.
". . . FLOWERING . . ." She started to spin around as gray flower
petals surrounded her and began spinning around her.
". . . . . . . . LACE!" She stopped instantly and held her right arm
straight up. The petals were absorbed into the blade. Then, in a bright flash,
of light, bright gray strands of lace sprang from the blade and headed towards
the generator. The strands tried to break through the armor, but it deflected
them. But they just turned around and tried again. Earth knew they would keep
doing that until they destroyed something or she sheathed her sword again. The
strands would be through the armor in a minute, so she decided to leave.
'Whatever happens when they get through,' she thought, 'I should not
be here.' She turned around to leave, when she saw Khidf standing in the way.
He was in pain, though, and had to use the doorway as support.
"You're gasp not going . . . anywhere." Khidf managed to create a
ball of energy and threw it at Earth. But it (and Khidf) was so weak, she
easily dodged it. It hit the far wall and blew a hole in it. Earth saw the
opportunity, and took it.
"Thank you," she said, "and goodbye." With that, she left. Khidf no-
ticed that the generator was almost pierced, and that lights all over the ship
were slowly dying off.
*NO! I will not-* were the computer's last words as one of the laces
finally broke through the armor.
"Good riddance," Khidf said, and teleported through the hole in the
wall. In a few minutes, he would heal and reunite with his siblings.
Super Sailor Uranus fell onto her hands and knees as she took yet
another punch. A Duldroon stepped in front of her and kicked her in the face,
and she fell onto her back. Super Sailor Neptune and Super Sailor Pluto were
not having better luck. The former was being held up by a Duldroon as another
punched her repeatedly in the face and stomach. The latter was on her back as
two other Duldroons were kicking her all over. A Duldroon jumped up, morphed
her arm into a sharp blade, and prepared to stab Uranus. She managed to roll
backwards, and the daemon missed, but another one appeared right where Uranus
stopped and hit her with its hand, which was reformed into a mace. Then it
picked her up by her collar, reformed the mace into a blade, and prepared to
finish her off. Uranus waited, but the Duldroon just froze. Then it dropped
her as it reeled in mysterious pain. Neptune and Pluto were also released by
their captors, and all the Duldroons were frozen in pain. Then, just like the
first time they fought them, they fell apart into heaps, no longer a threat.
The Outers looked at each other with relieved, but puzzled, faces. Uranus ran
to Neptune and held her. Neptune hugged her back, and Pluto only looked at
them with a big smile on her face. She stood up with some help from her staff
and looked at the ship. It exploded in mushroom cloud that would put Hiroshima
to shame. But most of the explosion went up, and all the Scouts got was a gust
of strong wind. Pluto turned to look at her friends again.
"Alright," Neptune said in a tired voice, "Luna and Artemis did it."
"Yeah," Uranus said in an equally tired voice. Pluto turned again to
see where the others were. She saw energies being thrown about, and knew that
the rest of the Scouts were in trouble.
"C'mon," she said, "the others need us. I think all the cats did was
get rid of the Duldroons. Who knows how many other daemons escaped."
"Okay," Uranus said, "Sailor Moon would probably just fall flat on her
face without us." And with that, they started off as fast as their weakened
bodies would let them.
Super Sailor Mercury was running towards one of the two tunnels inside
the gallery she entered through the porthole. The gallery was filled with all
kinds of artworks, including paintings, statues, and, amazingly enough, ice
sculptures. She was amazed to find they were all holograms, all marvels of
computer imaging. Too bad she no longer had time to gaze at them. The ceiling
where she entered through was destroyed as a cigar shaped ship came through
it. She knew that she shouldn't be there when whoever was inside got out. She
ran towards a tunnel, the only exit, when her computer beeped at her. Whatever
was controlling the fortress uploaded a map to her. She immediately put it on
her visor and saw there were actually two tunnels, one hidden by another
hologram. And that was where she was running in now. There was nothing in the
tunnel, no drawings, no traps, just wall. Then she reached the end where there
was a door of some kind. There was a tiny screen which could only hold two
lines. The first line said "°µ±±·¬§¤?" It was Mercurian. The second line only
had a blinking cursor.
"Password?" she asked herself, "Oh, boy. Um, how about Sailor Scout?"
She typed the words onto her computer and they were copied onto the second
line. The effect was not what she expected as a panel slid out of the ground
behind her and blocked the way out.
"Nope. Hmmm, let me see. Maybe Mystic Ice." Again she typed the words
on her computer, and they were copied again. Only this time, four panels on
the walls around her opened and pointed some big guns at her.
"Whoa! Damn, uh. C'mon, what would such a computerized race use as a
password?" Then it hit her like a Mack truck, "Mercury upgrade." Again she
typed the words on her computer, and again they were copied. But now, the
tunnel went back to normal and the door opened.
"Whew." She went inside and looked around. On a platform in the center
of the featureless room was a floating harp (just like the one on her symbol
as Super Sailor Mercury, only white with the occasional blue). She went up to
grab it, but pulled back when she felt how cold the it was. Rubbing her hands
together from the freezer burn, she wondered how to get it. She went around it
to see the back and saw a wire coming from one of the corners. She decided to
attach it to her computer and see what it did. The moment she did, the harp
and computer disappeared into water-like energy that soon encompassed her. She
felt the power increasing within her as the energies modified her Suit. When
it stopped, she felt a surging feeling inside her so powerful, she couldn't
wait to release it unto some creep. Behind her, an ice mirror appeared, no
doubt so she could see what happened. Her left glove's colors were switched,
the blue was white, and the white was blue. Her visor was activated, but felt
so subtle she probably wouldn't need to deactivate it. The harp was attached
to her back, and felt that she could use its power through the blue glove. But
then she couldn't find her computer.
'Where is that thing?' she thought to herself, 'Great. I get a new
power, but I lose my computer.' The moment she thought the word "computer,"
though, a small keyboard just like the one on her old computer appeared on the
blue glove. She was quite surprised at the level of technology she left her
people at. Then, on the visor appeared the words:
"Upgrade complete. Initiating Super Sailor Mercury Version 3.5"
"Hmmm. Maybe they took computerization a little too far." With that,
she was ready to face the intruders.
Super Sailor Mars was horrified at the monster that stood before her.
It almost got her from that first lunge, but she dodged it. Barely. But it was
a lot faster than it looked. It turned quickly and threw a punch at Mars. She
dodged that one, too. But the monster's momentum allowed him to kick her with
the leg on the same side. Mars was thrown against the rock and clutched her
stomach. The kick burned a huge hole in her Suit, and the flesh below it was
seared. She looked at and smelled her burned tissue, and vomited. She looked
up to see the monster was walking towards her. She knew she had to attack. She
got up and tried to stand on her own feet.
"MARS FLAME SNIPER!" she shouted as she painfully released the attack.
But the energy was only absorbed into the monster.
"NO!" she shouted, "Rrr. MARS FIRE IGNITE!" Again, the attack was only
absorbed. The monster was running towards her now, and she wouldn't be able to
get away fast enough.
'Maybe if my Martian powers won't work . . .'
"Rin, pyou, tou, sha, kai, jin, retsu, sai, zen. AKURYOU TAISAN!" She
sent the charmed paper right onto the monster's forehead. It reeled back in
pain, turned back to stone, and blew apart. In the rubble, Mars noticed a red
tablet which was inside the monster. In Martian, it said:
"If the prophecy is to prevail, a Scout's trust in her world must not
fail. When planet and fire combine, the Sailor's weapon shall be thine." Mars
was at a loss as to what it meant, but took the tablet anyways. She proceeded
inside the arch into a large cave. There were tunnels leading everywhere, but
these didn't concern her. In the middle of the cave, on an island surrounded
by a river of lava, there was chest made to resemble a fire.
'Hmm. It's probably locked,' she thought to herself.
Ordinarily, she would've just bounded over the lava. But now, she had to find
another way. Then she noticed there were some natural columns in the cave,
some close to the river. She chose one, and shouted:
"MARS CELESTIAL FIRE SURROUND!" Half of the rings went to the top of
the column, the others to the base. Now separated, all she had to do was give
it a nudge in the right direction, and it fell connecting the island and the
rest of the cave. She walked across and tried to open the chest, but it was
locked, just like she guessed. She was ready to pound it open, when she saw
that the lid had a design that looked like Martian, but backwards. Then she
realized that it looked just like a mirror image of the tablet. She placed it
on the design and waited. The lock clicked, and the lid opened a smidge. She
lifted it the rest of the way, and was horrified. The only things inside were
a curved piece of rotting wood and what resembled a quiver, but was decayed as
well. She picked them up, and they almost fell apart in her hands.
"These can't be my weapons," she said to herself, "can they? But they
feel right, somehow. They weren't protected. Maybe they weren't completed."
Then she remembered the words on the tablet. 'What did it mean by planet and
fire?' she thought. Then she heard a crash as the column fell into the river.
She realized that when she opened the chest, there was no more reason for the
island to be protected. The lava was quickly wearing it down. She looked at
the melting rock, and realized that that was the answer to the riddle. Lava.
"Okay, so the weapon's in the lava. But where?" Then she remembered
the beginning of the riddle, "Of course I trust my planet, but what prophecy
is talking about? Maybe I was prophesied to finish the weapon myself." She
felt like what she was holding was only a small part of the real weapon. The
tighter she gripped it, the more complete it felt. Like it was supposed to be
melded with her.
"Oh, man!" she exclaimed as she solved the riddle, "I hafta put my
hands in THERE!?" At this moment, she didn't have much of an affinity towards
lava. She kneeled down, closed her eyes, and took a deep breath. She bent over
and slowly moved her hands towards the river. She felt the incredible heat the
lava generated and stopped just above it.
"This is my planet. I should trust it." With that she thrust her hands
in. She screamed in pain as the lava went right through her gloves. She pulled
out her arms as some of the lava still clung to it. Somehow, she felt the pain
subsiding, and she stared at her lava covered forearms. Then, in a bright
flash of light, the lava turned back into her gloves. But they were different.
The left glove was colored red at the hand, and the color of the glove slowly
changed to white at the wrist. The right glove was still white, but it had a
red stripe running from the right side of her elbow, down the arm, between her
thumb and index finger, across the palm, and then down to the left side of her
elbow. As she was looking down, she also noticed her stomach was healed. Then
she noticed that the island was still shrinking. But now, all she did was jump
off onto the rest of the cave. She saw the weird designs on her arms, and
wondered just what they were for. Then she heard a noise coming from outside
the cave. She looked out to see three figures standing in the archway. She
clenched her fist, because she felt they were not benevolent. Then, the stripe
on the arm glowed slightly, and a bow popped out from the stripe and into her
hand. The bow was red around the handle, and the top and bottom looked like
fire. The string appeared as a small flame shot from the top of the bow to the
bottom. Realizing the quiver was probably in the other hand, she looked at it,
and, as easy it is to flex a muscle, an arrow appeared, and the nock fell into
her hand. She placed it on the string and pointed it down, ready to pull it up
and draw the arrow, ready to draw it towards the approaching footsteps.
EfrainMan
EfrainMan9@yahoo.com
I wrote this story 5 years ago (GASP!) when all I had was the DiC dub. That's
why I use some English and Japanese names. I ain't going back to change 'em! :p
Yeah, I know the Starlights don't do anything in my story but fly away, and it's
not in script format, but I couldn't think of anything else for a title.
Sailor Moon is owned by some Japanese people who are not me. Even if did try to
sue me, I wouldn't be able to read the subpoena ;p
"An artist doesn't finish his work, he only abandons it."
-Chuck Jones
Alien terminology:
1 click=2 hours
1 gobj=2 months
1 kecam=around 4 liters
1 pahced=1 kilogram
1 shrem=2 degrees Celcius
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Part 5:
Luna couldn't believe how stupid she was. Going after a Scout with
absolutely nothing that would transform her. She kicked herself, then looked
up at the quartet, three of which had the symbol of Earth on their foreheads.
Then, the three icons emanated a beam of energy which intersected in front of
them. They stopped crying as they stared at the energy coming from them. The
beams stopped after a few seconds, leaving a bright, yet grayish, ball of
energy in front of them. With a slight gust of wind, the energy became a small
stick that, no doubt, was Earth's transformation stick. It dropped to the
ground, where Luna's quick reflexes (and mouth) caught it.
'One problem down,' Luna thought to herself. Khidf's pounding became
harder now, and he would be through in less than a minute.
'Two to go.' She looked at the stick. It was just like the Outer
Scouts' sticks, only the symbol of Earth was inside the star. And right under
the star, there was a bronze ball with four gray spikes on its corners.
"Awright," Luna said with the stick in her mouth.
"Hey, that cat's talking!" all but Amiri said. Luna was surprised that
they heard her.
"Um, yeah. My name's Luna. With a little luck 'thinking: and a lot of
praying' I'll be able to get you out of here."
""What's going on?"" Amiri asked.
""The cat says she's going to help us,"" Paul unbelievingly said.
""Good. We could use some help."" She replied like it was nothing out
of the ordinary. Once again, Luna was stumped.
'Which one?' she asked herself. Then Darien's words came to mind:
". . . was not chosen by bloodline, but by worth."
'But which one?' Luna asked herself again.
"Oh, shit, he's almost through!" Becky shouted.
"WE KNOW!"
'It ain't her,' Luna thought with an annoyed look on her face, 'two
blonde bimbos is enough. And she curses. That leaves two.' Then Luna noticed
the bandana on Amiri's head. The pattern was divided into squares that went
all around the bandana. Half of the squares had all kinds of intricately
colored patterns, swirls, circles, and cloud-like shapes. The other half of
the squares were exactly the same. They had horizontal stripes, each with a
different color. From top to bottom they were gray, pink, blue, red, green,
orange, yellow, aquamarine, purple, white, and gray again. The realization hit
her like a ton of bricks. She threw the stick at her, and Amiri caught it.
"You!" Luna yelled to Paul, "Tell her to hold the stick up in the air
and shout the following incantation," and Paul complied. Amiri wasn't sure
what was going on, but agreed. Just then, Khidf's fist broke through the door
and he started too pry open the metal. He wouldn't stop until he could fit.
"Earth . . ."
"EARTH . . ."
". . . planet power, . . ."
". . . PLANET POWER, . . ."
". . . . . . . . . . make up."
". . . . . . . . . . MAKE UP!" Amiri tried to speak the incantation
as best as she could. Khidf broke through the door just in time to see the
transformation. The symbol of Earth twirled down onto the star on the stick,
which Amiri grabbed with her index finger pointing out and her thumb straight
up. Bright gray energy illuminated from the spiked sphere and now you can see
Amiri's glowing body. With the top view of a hurricane in the background, and
the stick in hand, she stood on her tiptoes and started to twirl around with
the arm holding the stick almost straight up. As she twirled faster, she
started to resemble a tornado, and soon the tornado expanded outward, changing
the background to various clouds on a gray sky. We can see Amiri's head and
face as a gray lipstick is applied by magic sparkles. The bandana was still
around her head, but a gold tiara with a gray jewel was over it. She opens her
eyes as she twirled around and posed: she stood with her legs close together,
and her hands were holding her pigtail over her left shoulder. We can now see
a transformed Super Sailor Earth (she's Super because this IS her planet). The
major color of her Suit was a deep bronze. She was wearing sneakers of the
same color (Air Nikes [rim shot]. These are the jokes people.) The bow above
her skirt was black, like an Outer scout, and attached inside the center of
the bow was a gray Aikuchi style of sword. Finally, the bow on her chest was
gray with a hurricane shaped brooch holding it together.
"Oh, wow! That's cool!" Becky said.
"Thank you," Earth said, "Hey! I can understand you!"
"DAMN!" Khidf shouted, "Another Sailor Scout!" With that, he ripped
the rest of the door off and began his Heat Wave power.
"Quick, do something!" Becky shouted to Earth.
"WHAT!?" she shouted back, "What is going on?"
"Amiri, you are a Sailor Scout," Luna told her, "sworn to defend the
innocent and all that is right. You have magical powers that you use to do
this. The incantation for your power is, uh, Tornado, uh, Rage. No! Rages.
Yeah, that's it."
Earth stood on tiptoes again and held her right arm straight up and
her palm facing up. Her other hand was just under it like it was ready to
catch something that was ready to fall off the other hand.
"TORNADO . . ." A wide column of wind surrounded her, half obscuring
her. Then the column shrank onto her right hand and became a glowing gray
sphere of energy with a ring of energy of the same color around it. She was
then surrounded by a semi-transparent tornado in close proximity.
". . . . RAGES!" With her left hand she grabbed the ring around her
power, spun around once, and threw the ball like a frisbee right at Khidf.
"HEAT WAVE!" Khidf launched his power at the same time, but to no
avail. The sphere dispersed the beam and headed right at Khidf. He was soon
consumed in the gray energy, and was thrown back right through the wall behind
him. It revealed a room with a huge, strange machine in the center. A slight
trikle of gray blood appeared on his lips.
"Okay, let's get outta here," Gloria said.
"Wait," Luna said.
"For WHAT!?" Becky shouted (dang, that girl's louder'n Serena).
"My friends still need help. We need to disable the ship and find
something we could use to teleport someone."
"How?" Paul asked.
"Look around and grab anything that looks like weird equipment. Except
for you, Earth. That big machine over there looks like a power source. When
they finish, you'll destroy it."
"Very well." The three normal people started to look around all of the
ship, picking anything and everything up. When they came back they had a lot
of stuff, mostly Shecou's. Including his music box.
"Good. Now, let's destroy the power source."
*That combination of words is not approved. Do not move and prepare
for termination* The computer's voice completely startled them, and they were
looking around to see where it came from. Then, from a panel in the roof, one
of the internal cannons appeared and pointed to them.
"Awww, MAN!" (guess who) shouted. But Earth was ready, and like reflex
pulled out her sword. She leapt up and sliced right through the cannon. It
fell down in an electric heap.
"Yes!"
"Cool!"
"Good job!"
"C'mon," Luna told Earth, "you still need to destroy the source. Be
careful." And with that, Earth left for the room. "The rest of us should leave
through the front and get this stuff to my friends." They followed Luna out
the front, towards Eternal Sailor Moon's group. Earth, however, was still
having trouble with the cannons, and barely had time to use her power.
"TORNADO RAGES!" The sphere flew across the room and hit the generator
on center, but it did nothing. And now the cannons were becoming more numerous
and powerful. The beams occasionally scratched her, but she was always able to
take them down before they did anything worse to her. As she was waiting for
the next attack, she decided to directly slash the generator. But all she did
was scratch it. It would take her forever, but eventually she would rip right
through the armor. But she didn't have forever as she heard Khidf moaning.
"Allah, what do I do know?" she asked herself. Then she felt some
grooves on her sword. She looked down to see notches on the tsuka. Although
she didn't know it then, it was in Cheyenne. But because this WAS her planet,
she could understand it. It said "Flowering Lace." She decided to try it.
"EARTH . . ." She held her sword in front of her face, just below her
closed eyes. The blade started to glow, and Earth was surrounded by a tornado.
". . . FLOWERING . . ." She started to spin around as gray flower
petals surrounded her and began spinning around her.
". . . . . . . . LACE!" She stopped instantly and held her right arm
straight up. The petals were absorbed into the blade. Then, in a bright flash,
of light, bright gray strands of lace sprang from the blade and headed towards
the generator. The strands tried to break through the armor, but it deflected
them. But they just turned around and tried again. Earth knew they would keep
doing that until they destroyed something or she sheathed her sword again. The
strands would be through the armor in a minute, so she decided to leave.
'Whatever happens when they get through,' she thought, 'I should not
be here.' She turned around to leave, when she saw Khidf standing in the way.
He was in pain, though, and had to use the doorway as support.
"You're gasp not going . . . anywhere." Khidf managed to create a
ball of energy and threw it at Earth. But it (and Khidf) was so weak, she
easily dodged it. It hit the far wall and blew a hole in it. Earth saw the
opportunity, and took it.
"Thank you," she said, "and goodbye." With that, she left. Khidf no-
ticed that the generator was almost pierced, and that lights all over the ship
were slowly dying off.
*NO! I will not-* were the computer's last words as one of the laces
finally broke through the armor.
"Good riddance," Khidf said, and teleported through the hole in the
wall. In a few minutes, he would heal and reunite with his siblings.
Super Sailor Uranus fell onto her hands and knees as she took yet
another punch. A Duldroon stepped in front of her and kicked her in the face,
and she fell onto her back. Super Sailor Neptune and Super Sailor Pluto were
not having better luck. The former was being held up by a Duldroon as another
punched her repeatedly in the face and stomach. The latter was on her back as
two other Duldroons were kicking her all over. A Duldroon jumped up, morphed
her arm into a sharp blade, and prepared to stab Uranus. She managed to roll
backwards, and the daemon missed, but another one appeared right where Uranus
stopped and hit her with its hand, which was reformed into a mace. Then it
picked her up by her collar, reformed the mace into a blade, and prepared to
finish her off. Uranus waited, but the Duldroon just froze. Then it dropped
her as it reeled in mysterious pain. Neptune and Pluto were also released by
their captors, and all the Duldroons were frozen in pain. Then, just like the
first time they fought them, they fell apart into heaps, no longer a threat.
The Outers looked at each other with relieved, but puzzled, faces. Uranus ran
to Neptune and held her. Neptune hugged her back, and Pluto only looked at
them with a big smile on her face. She stood up with some help from her staff
and looked at the ship. It exploded in mushroom cloud that would put Hiroshima
to shame. But most of the explosion went up, and all the Scouts got was a gust
of strong wind. Pluto turned to look at her friends again.
"Alright," Neptune said in a tired voice, "Luna and Artemis did it."
"Yeah," Uranus said in an equally tired voice. Pluto turned again to
see where the others were. She saw energies being thrown about, and knew that
the rest of the Scouts were in trouble.
"C'mon," she said, "the others need us. I think all the cats did was
get rid of the Duldroons. Who knows how many other daemons escaped."
"Okay," Uranus said, "Sailor Moon would probably just fall flat on her
face without us." And with that, they started off as fast as their weakened
bodies would let them.
Super Sailor Mercury was running towards one of the two tunnels inside
the gallery she entered through the porthole. The gallery was filled with all
kinds of artworks, including paintings, statues, and, amazingly enough, ice
sculptures. She was amazed to find they were all holograms, all marvels of
computer imaging. Too bad she no longer had time to gaze at them. The ceiling
where she entered through was destroyed as a cigar shaped ship came through
it. She knew that she shouldn't be there when whoever was inside got out. She
ran towards a tunnel, the only exit, when her computer beeped at her. Whatever
was controlling the fortress uploaded a map to her. She immediately put it on
her visor and saw there were actually two tunnels, one hidden by another
hologram. And that was where she was running in now. There was nothing in the
tunnel, no drawings, no traps, just wall. Then she reached the end where there
was a door of some kind. There was a tiny screen which could only hold two
lines. The first line said "°µ±±·¬§¤?" It was Mercurian. The second line only
had a blinking cursor.
"Password?" she asked herself, "Oh, boy. Um, how about Sailor Scout?"
She typed the words onto her computer and they were copied onto the second
line. The effect was not what she expected as a panel slid out of the ground
behind her and blocked the way out.
"Nope. Hmmm, let me see. Maybe Mystic Ice." Again she typed the words
on her computer, and they were copied again. Only this time, four panels on
the walls around her opened and pointed some big guns at her.
"Whoa! Damn, uh. C'mon, what would such a computerized race use as a
password?" Then it hit her like a Mack truck, "Mercury upgrade." Again she
typed the words on her computer, and again they were copied. But now, the
tunnel went back to normal and the door opened.
"Whew." She went inside and looked around. On a platform in the center
of the featureless room was a floating harp (just like the one on her symbol
as Super Sailor Mercury, only white with the occasional blue). She went up to
grab it, but pulled back when she felt how cold the it was. Rubbing her hands
together from the freezer burn, she wondered how to get it. She went around it
to see the back and saw a wire coming from one of the corners. She decided to
attach it to her computer and see what it did. The moment she did, the harp
and computer disappeared into water-like energy that soon encompassed her. She
felt the power increasing within her as the energies modified her Suit. When
it stopped, she felt a surging feeling inside her so powerful, she couldn't
wait to release it unto some creep. Behind her, an ice mirror appeared, no
doubt so she could see what happened. Her left glove's colors were switched,
the blue was white, and the white was blue. Her visor was activated, but felt
so subtle she probably wouldn't need to deactivate it. The harp was attached
to her back, and felt that she could use its power through the blue glove. But
then she couldn't find her computer.
'Where is that thing?' she thought to herself, 'Great. I get a new
power, but I lose my computer.' The moment she thought the word "computer,"
though, a small keyboard just like the one on her old computer appeared on the
blue glove. She was quite surprised at the level of technology she left her
people at. Then, on the visor appeared the words:
"Upgrade complete. Initiating Super Sailor Mercury Version 3.5"
"Hmmm. Maybe they took computerization a little too far." With that,
she was ready to face the intruders.
Super Sailor Mars was horrified at the monster that stood before her.
It almost got her from that first lunge, but she dodged it. Barely. But it was
a lot faster than it looked. It turned quickly and threw a punch at Mars. She
dodged that one, too. But the monster's momentum allowed him to kick her with
the leg on the same side. Mars was thrown against the rock and clutched her
stomach. The kick burned a huge hole in her Suit, and the flesh below it was
seared. She looked at and smelled her burned tissue, and vomited. She looked
up to see the monster was walking towards her. She knew she had to attack. She
got up and tried to stand on her own feet.
"MARS FLAME SNIPER!" she shouted as she painfully released the attack.
But the energy was only absorbed into the monster.
"NO!" she shouted, "Rrr. MARS FIRE IGNITE!" Again, the attack was only
absorbed. The monster was running towards her now, and she wouldn't be able to
get away fast enough.
'Maybe if my Martian powers won't work . . .'
"Rin, pyou, tou, sha, kai, jin, retsu, sai, zen. AKURYOU TAISAN!" She
sent the charmed paper right onto the monster's forehead. It reeled back in
pain, turned back to stone, and blew apart. In the rubble, Mars noticed a red
tablet which was inside the monster. In Martian, it said:
"If the prophecy is to prevail, a Scout's trust in her world must not
fail. When planet and fire combine, the Sailor's weapon shall be thine." Mars
was at a loss as to what it meant, but took the tablet anyways. She proceeded
inside the arch into a large cave. There were tunnels leading everywhere, but
these didn't concern her. In the middle of the cave, on an island surrounded
by a river of lava, there was chest made to resemble a fire.
'Hmm. It's probably locked,' she thought to herself.
Ordinarily, she would've just bounded over the lava. But now, she had to find
another way. Then she noticed there were some natural columns in the cave,
some close to the river. She chose one, and shouted:
"MARS CELESTIAL FIRE SURROUND!" Half of the rings went to the top of
the column, the others to the base. Now separated, all she had to do was give
it a nudge in the right direction, and it fell connecting the island and the
rest of the cave. She walked across and tried to open the chest, but it was
locked, just like she guessed. She was ready to pound it open, when she saw
that the lid had a design that looked like Martian, but backwards. Then she
realized that it looked just like a mirror image of the tablet. She placed it
on the design and waited. The lock clicked, and the lid opened a smidge. She
lifted it the rest of the way, and was horrified. The only things inside were
a curved piece of rotting wood and what resembled a quiver, but was decayed as
well. She picked them up, and they almost fell apart in her hands.
"These can't be my weapons," she said to herself, "can they? But they
feel right, somehow. They weren't protected. Maybe they weren't completed."
Then she remembered the words on the tablet. 'What did it mean by planet and
fire?' she thought. Then she heard a crash as the column fell into the river.
She realized that when she opened the chest, there was no more reason for the
island to be protected. The lava was quickly wearing it down. She looked at
the melting rock, and realized that that was the answer to the riddle. Lava.
"Okay, so the weapon's in the lava. But where?" Then she remembered
the beginning of the riddle, "Of course I trust my planet, but what prophecy
is talking about? Maybe I was prophesied to finish the weapon myself." She
felt like what she was holding was only a small part of the real weapon. The
tighter she gripped it, the more complete it felt. Like it was supposed to be
melded with her.
"Oh, man!" she exclaimed as she solved the riddle, "I hafta put my
hands in THERE!?" At this moment, she didn't have much of an affinity towards
lava. She kneeled down, closed her eyes, and took a deep breath. She bent over
and slowly moved her hands towards the river. She felt the incredible heat the
lava generated and stopped just above it.
"This is my planet. I should trust it." With that she thrust her hands
in. She screamed in pain as the lava went right through her gloves. She pulled
out her arms as some of the lava still clung to it. Somehow, she felt the pain
subsiding, and she stared at her lava covered forearms. Then, in a bright
flash of light, the lava turned back into her gloves. But they were different.
The left glove was colored red at the hand, and the color of the glove slowly
changed to white at the wrist. The right glove was still white, but it had a
red stripe running from the right side of her elbow, down the arm, between her
thumb and index finger, across the palm, and then down to the left side of her
elbow. As she was looking down, she also noticed her stomach was healed. Then
she noticed that the island was still shrinking. But now, all she did was jump
off onto the rest of the cave. She saw the weird designs on her arms, and
wondered just what they were for. Then she heard a noise coming from outside
the cave. She looked out to see three figures standing in the archway. She
clenched her fist, because she felt they were not benevolent. Then, the stripe
on the arm glowed slightly, and a bow popped out from the stripe and into her
hand. The bow was red around the handle, and the top and bottom looked like
fire. The string appeared as a small flame shot from the top of the bow to the
bottom. Realizing the quiver was probably in the other hand, she looked at it,
and, as easy it is to flex a muscle, an arrow appeared, and the nock fell into
her hand. She placed it on the string and pointed it down, ready to pull it up
and draw the arrow, ready to draw it towards the approaching footsteps.