And to start things off .... a switch to present tense!!!
This is probably the shortest episdode in the whole story.
Sailor Moon: World Rebirth -Part 1, The Gathering
Episode 1 'Fortress Rescue'
*-Two years later....-*
It was a beautiful sunny afternoon nowhere near Earth. Or at least as
beautiful as it could get. If you called gray skies and no birds of any kind
beautiful. Or a world of a frozen iceland. Alright, you'd have to really use
your imagination to think of it as beautiful, but if you were alive in this
place you would believe whatever would keep you alive and somewhat happy. Of course
happiness is an emotion; maybe it would have been some use if the beings on
this planet had emotions...
A giant bird streaks across the sky. Or at least it looks like a bird. It's
actually a fortress of some truly evil beings...
In a corner of a hallway in the vast fortress there is only darkness. Then
there is a light. A young woman appears in a cloud of pink smoke. She's only
about 15 or 16 and she is on the most dangerous mission she's been on in her
life. Her long pink hair is hidden from view in the hood of her cloak. Her
red eyes shine in the little bit of light in the room. She pulls a bandana
out of a pocket and ties it around her forehead, to cover the glowing
crescent moon on her forehead. The passage darkens once again.
The young woman creeps silently through the halls without much effort. She's
been training for this for the last six months. She finds the entrance to
the prison cells to have more guards than she can handle. She swears and
moves on. She reaches the doors to the control room when she hears voices
behind her, getting louder. Thinking quickly she glances around the hall for
a place to hide. Above her is a ventilation shaft. With flawless grace she
lifts the grating up and to the side. She's up, only a little off balance.
The grating is replaced just as three shadows enter the corridor.
The vent leads across the control room. At the other side she is now
entering the left wing. Unknown to its captives, this fortress is actually a
flying ship, shaped like something similiar to an Earth bird. It flies over a barren wasteland of
a destroyed planet. Most of the planet has gone into a cruel ice age. The
lucky ones now live in this ship. If you can think of evil ever being lucky.
This side of the ship is practically empty. It is mostly used for storage
and power generators. Unknown to most of the ship's crew, there is also
something else here....
The young woman continues down the hallway. At the sixth door she stops. She
recognizes one of the symbols on the inventory list for the room. From marks
on the floor she figures where the door should be. She places her bare hand
on the wall but finds that the door has solidified. Referring back to her
training, she places her other hand on the wall. She directs energy into the
wall. There's a slight glowing from one of her pockets and then the wall
liquidifies. Actually, liquid isn't the right word, but it makes it so that
she can pass through the wall.
She walks through the room until she reaches a shelf in the corner. She
lifts a box off the shelf and lifts up a lid on the top of it. Inside is an
orange pearl-shaped crystal. She lifts it out. She then pulls a circular
disk out of one her pockets. On top of it are two indents. She pulls a white
crystal out of another pocket and places it in one of the holes. She places
the orange one in the other. She begins to feed energy into the orange one.
The orange slowly darkens towards black. But at the same time a woman is
appearing to the side. She has shoulder length blonde hair and fair skin and is about 18.
When it's done, the crystal which is now black shatters.
The new girl drops to the floor, but in a few seconds her energy partially
returns. She looks up with a hopeful smile.
"Thank you, whoever you are. You don't know how long I've been trapped in
there. What are you going to do with me?" the newcomer asks.
"Do you still have your transformation wand Venus?"
Venus reaches out, calling upon her powers after what seemed like forever.
Nothing happened. "It's not here." Venus stammers. The young woman puts a
hand on Venus' shoulder.
"Do not worry Lady Venus, it's as much as I expected."
"Minako."
"Huh?"
"Call me Minako. What can I call you?"
"For now, you can call me ........Haiku"
"That's better. Now what did you mean by you expected me to be stripped of
my powers.?" Minako asked while getting used to being able to move her body again.
"I never said your powers were stripped," Haiku answers. "They weren't stripped, but were
altered. After .....rebirth, the world was rebuilt, so that outside forces
are used to summon magic. But in this world there is no magic. I expected
that your powers would be useless after not being used after so much time.
Only when you had gained complete control of your previous powers would they
have worked here. And by then I hope to be long gone from this evil place.
Now come on. We've stayed here already for too long."
"Where are we?"
"We're in a ship that's flying over a barren wasteland. It is Exile. I was
sent here to find you. There should be another senshi in the prison cells.
Here are some clothes."
Haiku hands Minako a bag and she opens it. She pulls out a shirt, tunic, and
pants. "What are these?!"
"Well, they're better than what you're wearing now." Minako looks down at
what she is wearing -nothing.
"Heh. I guess I won't do much good like this." She changes quickly. Haiku
hands her a bow and a quiver of arrows of different coloured shafts. "A
bow? What am I supposed to do with this?"
"Your powers are gone and I'm not going to trust you with a sword, so I'm
giving you a bow." Minako straps the bow to her back. As Haiku turns, Minako
sees that under her cloak Haiku is wearing pretty much the same as herself
except that she has a sword strapped to her back and other small things,
including a bandana across her forehead.
"Well, I was pretty good at archery." Although Minako is only making the comment to
lighten the mood, she still remembers the times she had tried archery -hitting everything
except the target....
They leave the room, Haiku returns the doorway to the way it was before, and
they silently creep down the hall. "You know," Haiku says, "I was told that
you had really long hair."
"Yeah well, that's a story I really don't feel like recalling."
When they reach the ceiling vent, Haiku jumps up into it in one swift
motion, and pulls Minako up after herself. The two make their way across the
control room, and when no one is around, jump down the vent at the other
side. They make their way, dodging guards, to the prison cells. Now there
are only two guards. "Use the red arrow," Haiku whispers. Minako just nods.
She reaches back and pulls out a red arrow without even looking. As if this
were a chore, she slides the arrow into the bow and fires. The guard it was
aimed at suddenly finds an arrow growing out of its chest. Or what is supposed to be
its chest. The guard bursts into flames and runs into the other guard,
lighting it on fire too. In a couple of seconds, they're gone.
"Wow! What was that?!"
"Just because you can't use magic, doesn't mean you can't use magical
weapons. Come on. We must hurry."
They run down the hall to the cells. In the cell to the right there is a
woman a little older than Minako. She wakes up when they enter the hall, and
stands up. "What are you doing?" she asks.
"No time." Haiku says quickly. There is no visible way to open the cell.
Haiku grabs two of the bars, and they melt in a few seconds. Haiku hands the
woman a bundle, similar to the one she gave Minako. "Change quickly."
"Why don't I just transform?"
"It won't work. There is no magic in this place. Just trust me. Change into
these so we can get out of here." The woman slips out of her prisoner
clothes and puts on Haiku's. She looks at Minako's bow and Haiku's sword.
"What about a weapon?"
"Well, try to bring your staff to your hands." The woman waves her hand in
the air and her staff appears.
"That's weird. I'm not even transformed. Also my talisman in gone, but I
can't remember why. But, I thought you said my powers wouldn't work. I
summoned up my staff didn't I?"
"It has no power. Magic works differently now. But I can reshape it so you
can use it to some good." Haiku reaches out and grasps the staff. The staff
glows and shapes itself to a spear. "Now you will be able to do some damage
with it."
"Thank you. I know you Minako, but what is your name? Call me Setsuna."
"Haiku, for now."
The three hurry out of the hall. "Now where do we go?" Minako asks.
"Down." Haiku places her hands on the floor and makes a hole beneath them.
They fall down to the engine room. "We must cripple this ship, so that it
will cause no more pain." The three of them land behind a giant power generator.
"The best way to do that is to knock this ship out of the sky. Across to the
other side of this chamber are two more generators. They are the three main
engines for this place. I need you two to go and destroy them." Haiku
unsheathes her sword. "When you go, I will destroy this one. When this ship
re-enters the planet's atmosphere, you will be teleported to my ship. Stay
alive until then."
"Right!"
Minako and Setsuna make their way over to the generators and strike at the
same time. Setsuna with her spear and Minako by firing an arrow. The
generators explode, sending them to the floor. Then Haiku strikes her's. It
explodes in a similar fashion, but Haiku has a magical shield formed to
protect herself. The ship starts to drop and fall apart at the same time,
because the destruction of the generators has started a chain reaction. A
ceiling brace falls and traps Minako's leg.
"Help Setsuna!" Setsuna runs over to Minako and tries to roll the beam off
of her leg. "It hurts a lot. I think it's broken."
"I can't get it off. Damn it! Can't this hunk of metal fall any faster?" A
live electrical wire falls on to Setsuna's back, electrocuting her. Her
unconscious body lands on Minako.
"Ohmygod, Setsuna! Wake up! Wake up please...." Tears sting Minako's eyes as
the ceiling collapses .....
**********
This is probably the shortest episdode in the whole story.
Sailor Moon: World Rebirth -Part 1, The Gathering
Episode 1 'Fortress Rescue'
*-Two years later....-*
It was a beautiful sunny afternoon nowhere near Earth. Or at least as
beautiful as it could get. If you called gray skies and no birds of any kind
beautiful. Or a world of a frozen iceland. Alright, you'd have to really use
your imagination to think of it as beautiful, but if you were alive in this
place you would believe whatever would keep you alive and somewhat happy. Of course
happiness is an emotion; maybe it would have been some use if the beings on
this planet had emotions...
A giant bird streaks across the sky. Or at least it looks like a bird. It's
actually a fortress of some truly evil beings...
In a corner of a hallway in the vast fortress there is only darkness. Then
there is a light. A young woman appears in a cloud of pink smoke. She's only
about 15 or 16 and she is on the most dangerous mission she's been on in her
life. Her long pink hair is hidden from view in the hood of her cloak. Her
red eyes shine in the little bit of light in the room. She pulls a bandana
out of a pocket and ties it around her forehead, to cover the glowing
crescent moon on her forehead. The passage darkens once again.
The young woman creeps silently through the halls without much effort. She's
been training for this for the last six months. She finds the entrance to
the prison cells to have more guards than she can handle. She swears and
moves on. She reaches the doors to the control room when she hears voices
behind her, getting louder. Thinking quickly she glances around the hall for
a place to hide. Above her is a ventilation shaft. With flawless grace she
lifts the grating up and to the side. She's up, only a little off balance.
The grating is replaced just as three shadows enter the corridor.
The vent leads across the control room. At the other side she is now
entering the left wing. Unknown to its captives, this fortress is actually a
flying ship, shaped like something similiar to an Earth bird. It flies over a barren wasteland of
a destroyed planet. Most of the planet has gone into a cruel ice age. The
lucky ones now live in this ship. If you can think of evil ever being lucky.
This side of the ship is practically empty. It is mostly used for storage
and power generators. Unknown to most of the ship's crew, there is also
something else here....
The young woman continues down the hallway. At the sixth door she stops. She
recognizes one of the symbols on the inventory list for the room. From marks
on the floor she figures where the door should be. She places her bare hand
on the wall but finds that the door has solidified. Referring back to her
training, she places her other hand on the wall. She directs energy into the
wall. There's a slight glowing from one of her pockets and then the wall
liquidifies. Actually, liquid isn't the right word, but it makes it so that
she can pass through the wall.
She walks through the room until she reaches a shelf in the corner. She
lifts a box off the shelf and lifts up a lid on the top of it. Inside is an
orange pearl-shaped crystal. She lifts it out. She then pulls a circular
disk out of one her pockets. On top of it are two indents. She pulls a white
crystal out of another pocket and places it in one of the holes. She places
the orange one in the other. She begins to feed energy into the orange one.
The orange slowly darkens towards black. But at the same time a woman is
appearing to the side. She has shoulder length blonde hair and fair skin and is about 18.
When it's done, the crystal which is now black shatters.
The new girl drops to the floor, but in a few seconds her energy partially
returns. She looks up with a hopeful smile.
"Thank you, whoever you are. You don't know how long I've been trapped in
there. What are you going to do with me?" the newcomer asks.
"Do you still have your transformation wand Venus?"
Venus reaches out, calling upon her powers after what seemed like forever.
Nothing happened. "It's not here." Venus stammers. The young woman puts a
hand on Venus' shoulder.
"Do not worry Lady Venus, it's as much as I expected."
"Minako."
"Huh?"
"Call me Minako. What can I call you?"
"For now, you can call me ........Haiku"
"That's better. Now what did you mean by you expected me to be stripped of
my powers.?" Minako asked while getting used to being able to move her body again.
"I never said your powers were stripped," Haiku answers. "They weren't stripped, but were
altered. After .....rebirth, the world was rebuilt, so that outside forces
are used to summon magic. But in this world there is no magic. I expected
that your powers would be useless after not being used after so much time.
Only when you had gained complete control of your previous powers would they
have worked here. And by then I hope to be long gone from this evil place.
Now come on. We've stayed here already for too long."
"Where are we?"
"We're in a ship that's flying over a barren wasteland. It is Exile. I was
sent here to find you. There should be another senshi in the prison cells.
Here are some clothes."
Haiku hands Minako a bag and she opens it. She pulls out a shirt, tunic, and
pants. "What are these?!"
"Well, they're better than what you're wearing now." Minako looks down at
what she is wearing -nothing.
"Heh. I guess I won't do much good like this." She changes quickly. Haiku
hands her a bow and a quiver of arrows of different coloured shafts. "A
bow? What am I supposed to do with this?"
"Your powers are gone and I'm not going to trust you with a sword, so I'm
giving you a bow." Minako straps the bow to her back. As Haiku turns, Minako
sees that under her cloak Haiku is wearing pretty much the same as herself
except that she has a sword strapped to her back and other small things,
including a bandana across her forehead.
"Well, I was pretty good at archery." Although Minako is only making the comment to
lighten the mood, she still remembers the times she had tried archery -hitting everything
except the target....
They leave the room, Haiku returns the doorway to the way it was before, and
they silently creep down the hall. "You know," Haiku says, "I was told that
you had really long hair."
"Yeah well, that's a story I really don't feel like recalling."
When they reach the ceiling vent, Haiku jumps up into it in one swift
motion, and pulls Minako up after herself. The two make their way across the
control room, and when no one is around, jump down the vent at the other
side. They make their way, dodging guards, to the prison cells. Now there
are only two guards. "Use the red arrow," Haiku whispers. Minako just nods.
She reaches back and pulls out a red arrow without even looking. As if this
were a chore, she slides the arrow into the bow and fires. The guard it was
aimed at suddenly finds an arrow growing out of its chest. Or what is supposed to be
its chest. The guard bursts into flames and runs into the other guard,
lighting it on fire too. In a couple of seconds, they're gone.
"Wow! What was that?!"
"Just because you can't use magic, doesn't mean you can't use magical
weapons. Come on. We must hurry."
They run down the hall to the cells. In the cell to the right there is a
woman a little older than Minako. She wakes up when they enter the hall, and
stands up. "What are you doing?" she asks.
"No time." Haiku says quickly. There is no visible way to open the cell.
Haiku grabs two of the bars, and they melt in a few seconds. Haiku hands the
woman a bundle, similar to the one she gave Minako. "Change quickly."
"Why don't I just transform?"
"It won't work. There is no magic in this place. Just trust me. Change into
these so we can get out of here." The woman slips out of her prisoner
clothes and puts on Haiku's. She looks at Minako's bow and Haiku's sword.
"What about a weapon?"
"Well, try to bring your staff to your hands." The woman waves her hand in
the air and her staff appears.
"That's weird. I'm not even transformed. Also my talisman in gone, but I
can't remember why. But, I thought you said my powers wouldn't work. I
summoned up my staff didn't I?"
"It has no power. Magic works differently now. But I can reshape it so you
can use it to some good." Haiku reaches out and grasps the staff. The staff
glows and shapes itself to a spear. "Now you will be able to do some damage
with it."
"Thank you. I know you Minako, but what is your name? Call me Setsuna."
"Haiku, for now."
The three hurry out of the hall. "Now where do we go?" Minako asks.
"Down." Haiku places her hands on the floor and makes a hole beneath them.
They fall down to the engine room. "We must cripple this ship, so that it
will cause no more pain." The three of them land behind a giant power generator.
"The best way to do that is to knock this ship out of the sky. Across to the
other side of this chamber are two more generators. They are the three main
engines for this place. I need you two to go and destroy them." Haiku
unsheathes her sword. "When you go, I will destroy this one. When this ship
re-enters the planet's atmosphere, you will be teleported to my ship. Stay
alive until then."
"Right!"
Minako and Setsuna make their way over to the generators and strike at the
same time. Setsuna with her spear and Minako by firing an arrow. The
generators explode, sending them to the floor. Then Haiku strikes her's. It
explodes in a similar fashion, but Haiku has a magical shield formed to
protect herself. The ship starts to drop and fall apart at the same time,
because the destruction of the generators has started a chain reaction. A
ceiling brace falls and traps Minako's leg.
"Help Setsuna!" Setsuna runs over to Minako and tries to roll the beam off
of her leg. "It hurts a lot. I think it's broken."
"I can't get it off. Damn it! Can't this hunk of metal fall any faster?" A
live electrical wire falls on to Setsuna's back, electrocuting her. Her
unconscious body lands on Minako.
"Ohmygod, Setsuna! Wake up! Wake up please...." Tears sting Minako's eyes as
the ceiling collapses .....
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