The Outer Limits
Chapter 7
* At School *
Tommy saw Stacey walking down the hall towards him, he waved to get her attention.
"Tommy!" Stacey ran over.
"Hey Stacey. I was wondering… would you want to go to the Crown Parlor after school with me today?"
"That would be great! I'll meet you in front of the school then?"
"Okay, bye Stacey." Tommy and Stacey walked off towards their separate classes.
* After School *
Stacey waited for Tommy, leaning against the wall outside of the school. She had already told Amanda and Susan she wouldn't be walking with them. Finally, Tommy walked out of the school.
"What took you so long?" She asked.
"What took me so long… Stacey, the bell rang like 5 minutes ago."
"Oh..." Tommy laughed. They walked off of the school property and down several roads towards the Crown Parlor/Arcade. (FYI: In chapter 5 Sailor Universe and the monster destroyed a video arcade, that arcade was NOT the Crown Arcade.) After walking most of the way there in silence Stacey spotted a girl running across the intersection up the road in front of them. A first it seemed normal but then a scaled monster came running after her.
"Whoa, did you see that?" Tommy asked in amazement.
"Yeah, but she's in trouble. We have to help her." Tommy nodded to Stacey and the two ran after the monster and girl. Chasing the pair was a bit tricky since the girl was trying to get the monster off her trail by running down a street and changing direction constantly, going down a straight road turning to the left, then going right, and in every direction.
"How are we going to catch up to them?" Tommy asked running beside Stacey.
"Well there's a road to cut them off if she makes a turn down this street. We should separate. I'll try to cut them off and you keep running after them so we don't lose them."
"Ok." Tommy kept running as Stacey ran down the empty road.
"This makes everything so much easier…SPACE POWER!" Now as Sailor Space, she sprinted a lot faster down the road to cut them off. Just as the girl was making a turn to go down another road Space jumped in front of the monster and let the girl keep running. Tommy stopped when he saw the monster stop and the pink clad sailor.
"Get out of my way human, I need that girl's energy for my Mistress' plans!" The monster growled at the girl in front of him.
"No way!" Space jumped over the thing's head and was about to summon her attack when the monster swung around and brought his arms swinging with him. Space noticed this in time and braced herself for the hit, but she didn't feel anything. She opened her eyes and saw a boy (her age) in a cape and top hat in front of her. /He took the hit for me. / Space thought to herself in surprise. "Hey thanks buddy." Space walked backward a little jumped back over the monster.
"Sure, anytime." The Knight replied. Space brought a hand up to her tiara and took it off.
"Space Tiara!" The tiara glowed and Space threw it at the scaly monster. The thing dissolved into a pile of dust and blew away. "Ha Ha, Space Dusted." The Knight laughed at the sailor. She turned around to face the boy. "What's so funny?"
"'Space Dusted'?" He laughed again.
"Well, I thought it was good." Then Space laughed with him. It did kinda sound corny.
The Knight extended his hand out to Space. "I'm Energy Knight." She took his hand and shook it. "Sailor Space. Thanks for taking the hit for me. I just hope that girl is ok."
"I think she'll be fine. Just a little shook up." Space agreed. The girl looked around, as if looking for something. "What are you looking for?"
"Umm there was this guy following the monster with me. Did you happen to see him?"
"Oh you mean Tommy? Yeah, he never left." He told the senshi.
"Then were is he?" Space continued to look around.
/ I hope I'm right. / "Uh, Stacey it's me…Tom."
"NANI!" Space's month hung open in surprise. "I swear this stuff is planed!"
"What do you mean?"
"I'll tell you after our date." Space went back to being Stacey and Energy followed suite. Stacey grabbed his hand and they both went back in the direction of the Crown Parlor.