Sorry, everyone, about how long this chapter took to get out. I'm really sorry. And sorry about it's length too. But I liked how it ended. I hope you guys do, too.
Big big thanks to everyone who kept pestering me to finish this chapter, and to everyone who reviewed. I try to reply to everyone personally if they have a question, so that makes my Author's Notes slightly smaller.
Once again, I'm really really sorry about the length of this chapter.
Disclaimer: I don't own them. Still. But one day, I will……maybe……possibly……ok, so maybe not. I own Danny and Mack, and Jack. Although, they wont have much part in this. Well, Mack and Jack at least.
On with the fic.
Chapter 6: Icy Death
The fog had cleared, but the pilot's anger only increased.
"They know too much." Duo said, angrily. Heero nodded briefly in agreement.
"We need to find them, and quickly. If anyone finds out what we are doing here…" Wufei growled. "Those weak onnas. Five years of undercover work will be wasted if anyone finds out who we really are."
"Heero, can you track them? And find out anything about the Sailor Senshi." Trowa said, taking command.
"Hn." Heero grunted. "Mission accepted." He melted into the shadows.
"Hold on, Trowa. Why the Senshi?" Duo asked, confused.
"If I'm right, they are the missing Sailor Senshi." Trowa said.
"Woah, hold on there! How exactly did you come to that conclusion?"
"Some conversations I heard the girls having. I'm not sure, but I think Serena may be Sailor Moon. And her old boyfriend, this Darien person? He was probably Tuxedo Mask."
"You're joking." Duo said. When Trowa just gave him a pointed look, he whispered, "you're not."
"What else did you hear?" Heero asked.
"Do you know of someone named Prince Diamond?"
"Yeah, he was on the news a couple of years ago. The sailor scouts defeated him."
"Well, supposedly, he's come back, and he's after some princess, that he thinks is Sailor Moon. Also, that thing that Mizuno did, that's one of the Scout's attacks. Sailor Mercury's to be exact."
"Serenity." It was said so quietly that the pilots almost didn't hear it. As one they turned to face the direction the voice came from, and froze.
"Diamond is after Princess Serenity." The man who stood before them looked reasonably harmless. A shock of dark hair framed dark blue eyes. He wore a purple suit of regal design. Nothing out of the ordinary. Except in this case, the stranger was… … … … transparent?
Quatre gave the blonde haired girl a tired glare when she entered. He couldn't muster the energy to do anything more.
"So, Mr Winner, do you have anything new to tell me about your associates?" the girl – Mina, his mind supplied – asked.
"I've told you everything already." Quatre rasped, his mouth dry.
"Well, maybe I haven't been asking the right questions." Mina replied. She nodded to the man at the door, who obediently left, locking the door behind him. Once she was satisfied that she would be left alone, Mina walked up to the camera that hung from the ceiling in a corner of the room.
"I'm going to ask my questions my own way, Father. My special type of interrogation." She spoke into the camera, a smirk on her face. "I wouldn't want anyone copying it now, would I?"
With that, she pulled the cord out of the socket, and turned to face the boy.
"What are you going to do to me?" Quatre asked, slightly nervous of the answer.
"I'm just going to ask you a few questions. Relax." She picked up a pitcher and a cup, and poured some crystal clear water into the cup. "Are you thirsty?"
Quatre shook his head, and glared at her. "What do you want?"
Mina sighed, falling to her knees on the floor beside him. "I just want to know something."
"What makes you think I would tell you anything?" Quatre asked. "After the way you've treated me."
"To satisfy a curiosity." Mina said simply. "I know you are an empath." When Quatre began to protest, Mina raised her hand, silencing the boy. "I know you feel when others are in pain, or suffering, especially if that other is nearby."
"So what if I do?" Quatre spat out defensively, not seeing the point of denying it any longer.
"So you felt something last night." Mina stated.
"Pain, and terror, if you must know. From a girl." Quatre said, still not seeing the point.
"I know it was from a girl, it was from me." She shot back. "A dream I had." She leaned in close. "I want you to tell me what it meant."
The four boys stared at the transparent man in barely disguised shock. All except for Duo, who couldn't conceal his shock.
"Who are you?" Heero grunted out. "Who do you work for?" his gun had not wavered from the man's transparent chest, although if this was a ghost, which Heero doubted, it wouldn't do much good. His mind reasoned that it was a hologram, in which case, a gun was still of no use.
"I am…." The man began, before breaking off. "I was to be Neo-King Endymion, the future king of Crystal Tokyo, when it was formed." He corrected himself with a small audible sigh. "But my past self has been murdered, so that future is no more."
"What are you doing here?" Trowa asked.
"I am here to protect my Queen, and try to ensure that the Utopia I have known may still be realised."
"Uh huh." Duo said. "And in English?"
The man smiled, spreading his hands palm up, in a peaceful gesture. "I need your help."
The Sailor teleport worked perfectly, as usual, Rei thought angrily, suppressing a shiver.
"Who's bright idea was it to teleport us into a freezer?" Rei asked, sarcasm lacing her tone.
Before any of the girls – Serena excluded – could respond, a voice was heard on the other side of the freezer door.
"I swear, Mack, I heard voices in the meat freezer. Someone's in there!" a young male voice came through the cracks in the door.
"You're crazy, Danny!" came another voice. "There's no one in there!"
"Just open it!" the first voice, Danny, requested.
"Girls, we should transform, quick!" Ami said. Rei and Lita nodded, and the three girls transformed into the super heroes, Sailors Mercury, Mars and Jupiter.
Just in time, as the freezer door opened…
"I don't believe him." That was Trowa. They four pilots had listened, somewhat impatiently, to the man who claimed he was the deceased Tuxedo Mask. He had told them that Diamond was indeed after Serenity, the Princess of the Moon, and had asked that they, the Gundam Pilots, protect her.
They pilots had very little problem with this so far. They had protected royalty before. But, in the past, they had actually known the identity of the people they were protecting. The transparent man refused to tell them the identity of the princess.
It was really quite irritating.
Daniel Borne hated the nickname Danny. His first boss, Jack, had given it to him, before he was caught embezzling, and Mack took over. But the name had stuck.
Staring in shock at the four girls who had somehow found their way into the meat freezer in the butcher's where he apprenticed, the 17-year-old wondered what he had gotten himself into.
Three Sailor Scouts, two of whom hadn't been seen for two years, stood protectively over an unconscious blonde girl, their eyes glaring icy death to anyone.
Daniel almost snorted. Icy death? In a freezer? How appropriate.
"What the hell are you doing in our freezer?" he heard Mack ask from beside him.
The scout in red – Sailor Mars – glared at the older man. "Look, we're saving someone's life here. Would you mind moving?" she asked scathingly.
Mack growled angrily, but Daniel, who had seen first hand what their powers were capable of doing – he had accidentally discovered the identities of Sailors Neptune and Uranus, but never told anyone – pulled the man to the side to allow the girls room to pass. Sailor Jupiter picked up the unconscious girl, who he recognised as one of the most famous cops in the district, as passed by without acknowledging either male. Mars followed suit. Only Mercury seemed to remember her manners.
"Sorry for the inconvenience. Please tell no one about this." She said.
"Hey!" Mack called after them. "What about my freezer? You half defrosted it, coming in here with all that magic crap! What about my meat?"
Mercury turned, a smile on her face. "Don't worry. I'll fix it." Calmly, she held out her hand, and shut her eyes, a look of concentration coming onto her face. Daniel saw nothing, but felt a strong, icy breeze flow past him, into the freezer.
When he turned to look, the freezer was exactly that.
Frozen.