Sailor Moon: World Rebirth -Part 1, The Gathering
Episode 9 'Takeover'
When Ami had entered Kaipo there were still retlocs guarding the shores. It
took a while, but she eventually found a place to leave the ship. Then she
sent the ship off, on the strands of magic, back towards Afkzo. Haiku had
drawn her a map that showed where she had left her space ship, Sparrow, so
it was pretty simple where Ami had to go. She travelled and slept in fields
where the grass was fairly high, and when she reached people who knew her
she also got a good meal. She reached Haiku's landing point on the second
morning.
"Let's see, Haiku's ship should be right about here." Ami gasped as she
stopped in front of a giant hole in the ground. Someone had taken the
Sparrow. On a closer examination of the site, Ami found that the ship had
been dragged away, but not in the direction of the Command City. How could
anyone but the people of the city have the technology to drag something that
heavy away? She did not know, but Ami could tell from the tracks that this
had happened in the last 24 hours. She set off, following them immediately.
The tracks led to a house that looked perfectly normal for a house in this
part of the world. There was a regular door, but the tracks seemed to lead
up to nothing. There was a fence surrounding the house, and a great amount
of space beside it where the tracks suddenly disappeared.
At the top of the fence was barbed wire. Ami would have
taken a running start and jumped over the fence, but the gate was open so
she went through there instead. As she passed through she felt a tingling
sensation and then was met by another surprise. In the great big empty space
she had seen earlier, now stood a futuristic looking building. The tracks
left by the Sparrow led up to a very big door. Beside that was a regular
sized door that was open. Ami entered through there.
Inside was a workshop. In various places along the walls were computer
outlets. A man in a white lab coat was working with something on a table and
faced Ami when she entered the room. To her left was Haiku's ship, the
Sparrow. "What are you doing in here?" the man growled.
"I came to get back this ship. You took it from where my friend left it and
I was coming to get it for here. I would like to have in back please."
"No. I found it. Its mine now."
"You didn't find it, you took it."
"I don't care. And also, since you've already seen too much of my workshop,
I'm not going to let you leave." As Ami watched the man threw off his
trenchcoat and his face which was actually a mask, and underneath Ami found
that he was a robot. A human cyborg. From each of its hands extended large
spikes. The door from which Ami entered, shut closed. "I think you've made a
fatal mistake. Ha ha ha." Before Ami could react the robot shot a few
spinning blades at her. "Eat my spinning blades." Being the only thing she
had time to do, she brought her arms up in front of her face.
At the last moment before the blades hit her they stopped in front of her
and shot off to the side, and back to the robot. "On second thought, using
my blades on you would be a complete waste. Even if I hurt you a little
you'd probably cry out in pain. That's the problem with humans, they get
hurt and die too easily. Never a real match. Especially little girls like
you. Wimps are no fun to fight and-"
"Enough!" All this time, the robot was making Ami angrier and angrier.
"You're going to regret being over confident. Mercury Eternal, Unite!"
"I'm pretty soldier Sailor Mercury. I gave you a chance but it seems that
you are evil. On behalf of Mercury, I'll punish you."
"Oooh I'm scared. Bows and a really short skirt. You're going to get me now.
You've earned my blades this time for trying." This time Ami was ready for
his attack. She ran forward and did a flip over the spinning blades and gave
the robot a foot in the chest. The robot fell backwards. "It seems I
misjudged you."
"You got that right. Mercury Polar Ice Sheet FREEZE!" Sailor Mercury brought
her arms together and shot a beam of ice energy at the robot. The robot met
the attack with a laser of its own.
"Finally, a challenge."
"You think this is a challenge? I'm only using a fraction of my power
because I wanted to go easy on you."
"What?! How much more powerful can you possibly be."
"ICE SHEET ENCASE!" From the beam of ice came a wave of ice that began
to circle the robot, faster and faster. When it reached a certain point it
sank into the robot, and when Sailor Mercury stopped her beam of ice, she
found that the robot was completely frozen. "A lot more powerful than I
needed to be to do that."
Ami decided to take a tour of the room. "Now, how and where am I going to
take this ship?" As she passed a wall she heard a mumbling noise. It was
coming from a door. Sailor Mercury opened the door, to find a closet. A man
who was tied up and gagged fell out. Sailor Mercury pulled away the gag.
"Oh thankyou, thankyou. I'm Professor Rinkvle. Would you please untie me?"
"Uh, sure." Sailor Mercury froze pieces of the ropes and they easily came
off. She helped the man to his feet. He took a look around. he walked over
to the frozen statue of the robot.
"I built him myself. The robot, I mean." He walked over to the other side of
it. "He was just supposed to help me with my projects but I built him too
well and he tied me up and threw me in that closet. I can't thank you
enough. Is there anything I can do for you?"
"Yeah. Your robot dragged my ship in here and I need to drag it back out of
here so I can fix it somewhere."
"Why don't you just fix it here. I'm sure I have, or can get a hold of the
materials here, and I can help you."
"All right." Sailor Mercury changed back to Ami and she and Prof. Rinkvle
got into a detailed technical discussion that very few people would be able
to understand, even if they tried.
********
On the arches of the entrances of each Command Citiy one could find the
names of the region and then 'Command City'. So when Haiku, Rei, Minako, and
Makoto entered the desert city and expected to see 'Akfzo Command City',
they were surprised to see 'Akfzo, Kingdom of Karn'. Once in the city, there
was a fountain, some statues including a statue of someone named Karn, and a
posting board. All of the sheets on the board had been ripped off and
replaced by one. It read: "This is now the Kingdom of Karn. I, the
great Karn, shall be ruling from where no one will find me. To my advantage, the
Creator has been disabled, and the Command Point is powerless. If you
thought it was bad before, just wait. You'll be begging for the Creator to
come back. My first two laws are: No standing around in the streets, unless
you're worshipping me or reading this posting. Also, no leaving the city.
Once you're in, you're in for good. This city isn't going to be a hell with
no people in it. Defiance of these laws will bring severe punishment.
Hahaha.
Karn the Great"
"It looks like we have another problem," Minako said.
Makoto pointed off down the street. "Yeah, but first let's get the diving
gear. We should be able to get it from the mall down the street."
Walking down the street Rei commented, "This city sure looks dead. I can
feel evil spirits just swirling through this place."
"I think that's the idea," Haiku said. There were very few people on the
streets and those that were, were walking really fast. The girls went in to
the main shopping mall and bought the diving gear and climbing gear that
they needed.
"So where exactly are we going to find this Karn. There weren't any clues on
the announcement."
"Maybe we should just stand around so he'll come get us."
"No, we want to take him by surprise."
"That's going to be too difficult and we don't have the time."
"How about we transform and blow up that statue of him by the front. If he
has just taken control of the city now, there's no way he's as strong as the
Creator, and just two of us beat the Creator."
"Alright. The statue it is." Rei held up her transformation wand and Minako
and Makoto went back to back.
"Mars Eternal, UNITE"
"Jupiter Eternal, UNITE"
"Venus Eternal, UNITE"
When they reached the statue Haiku said, "I think you should take this one out
Minako."
"Right. VENUS CRESCENT CROSS," and when the cross hit the statue, "CRUSH!"
The statue exploded outwards sending rock flying everywhere. Dark energy
began to swirl around the courtyard they were in. They moved themselves in
between what was left of the statue -nothing- and the entrance to the city.
On the other side of where the statue should have been the swirling dark
energy focused. A second later a man all in black appeared a foot off of the
ground and landed on his feet.
"How dare you defy the rule of the Great Karn. I don't how you did this, but
you're not going to live long enough to tell me." Karn shot out his hands
and the senshi got blasted back off their feet. He pulled out two swords
from his back and charged the senshi. Haiku charged him with her one sword
and came down in and arc that sent one of Karn's swords flying. She very
quickly disarmed him and dodged out of the way.
"Mars Flaming Inferno BLAZE!" Karn was toasted.
"Jupiter Lightning Wave Capture!" Karn found himself in a prison of
lightning. If he touched one of the sides he got a shock.
"If you don't let me go right now I'll set the Creator to get you."
"The Creator already wants to get us. Who do you think defeated it in the
first place."
"Uh, you guys did. Uh oh. I'm in trouble now. FORCES OF DARKNESS SURROUND
ME. RETURN ME TO MY TRUE FORM." The dark wind surrounded Karn and he began
to grow. When he was too big for Jupiter's prison he broke right through. He
grew into a 20 foot high chaos dragon. "Not! I am the gold chaos dragon. You
have no chance to defeat me."
Sailor Venus shook her head. "I can't believe our luck. Whenever we fight
one of these things we always have the senshi of the same power. Venus
Crescent Cross .........Crush!" The attack hurt the dragon a little but not
enough.
"You need to focus all of you're energy into one beam. Try saying all of
your words for your attack at once," Haiku advised.
"Venus Crescent Cross Crush!" This time Minako shot out a beam of
golden energy. Unfortunately the
gold dragon just flew out of the way of the beam. "Whew," Sailor Venus commented,
"That attack sure takes a lot out of you." The dragon shot dark energy all
over the place and hit all of the senshi. He went for another attack but
Sailor Venus countered. "VenusCrescentCrossCrush!" When the dragon realized
what was happening he brought his widespread attack into one beam to meet
Sailor Venus. At first Sailor Venus was able to hold her own but then the
dragon began to overpower her. "What am I going to do?" she cried.
"You need to resummon your cross," Haiku instructed, "But continue with the
beam at the same time."
"How do I do that?"
"Just focus and do it quickly."
"Alright. Venus Crescent Cross." Very quickly, as not to weaken her attack,
she swung her arms back and forward again to form another cross.
"Now," Haiku said, "Everyone attack the cross."
"Mars Flaming Inferno Blaze."
"Jupiter Lightning Wave Shock."
Haiku held out her hand (That actually held her crystal but no one could
see), and shot a beam of energy from it. Sailor Venus' cross was flashing
all kinds of different colours. "Send it now." Haiku called.
Sailor Venus shot the powered up cross through her own beam of energy. It
easily went right through the dragon's beam and into himself. "CRUSH!" With
a blast of energy there was a great big explosion and the dragon blew up.
All that was left was a single scale, that wasn't even above anyone, that
floated down to Sailor Venus. She attached it to her back bow. "When will
those chaos dragons realize that you can't get away with taking over
settlements."
Before the senshi left the village, they took down the announcement from
Karn and replaced it with one of their own. When it was done it read: "The
short rule of Karn the Great has ended. Now this city has to choose its own
leader. It is true that the Creator has been disabled for a time, but it
could end anytime. Enjoy these times now.
The Sailor Senshi"
And below that was the message: "If you crave the old times, or something
better, meet your destiny at The Gathering. If your cause is true, when the
sky turns green, you will find your way to Crescent Island.
The Gatherer."
*****
Episode 9 'Takeover'
When Ami had entered Kaipo there were still retlocs guarding the shores. It
took a while, but she eventually found a place to leave the ship. Then she
sent the ship off, on the strands of magic, back towards Afkzo. Haiku had
drawn her a map that showed where she had left her space ship, Sparrow, so
it was pretty simple where Ami had to go. She travelled and slept in fields
where the grass was fairly high, and when she reached people who knew her
she also got a good meal. She reached Haiku's landing point on the second
morning.
"Let's see, Haiku's ship should be right about here." Ami gasped as she
stopped in front of a giant hole in the ground. Someone had taken the
Sparrow. On a closer examination of the site, Ami found that the ship had
been dragged away, but not in the direction of the Command City. How could
anyone but the people of the city have the technology to drag something that
heavy away? She did not know, but Ami could tell from the tracks that this
had happened in the last 24 hours. She set off, following them immediately.
The tracks led to a house that looked perfectly normal for a house in this
part of the world. There was a regular door, but the tracks seemed to lead
up to nothing. There was a fence surrounding the house, and a great amount
of space beside it where the tracks suddenly disappeared.
At the top of the fence was barbed wire. Ami would have
taken a running start and jumped over the fence, but the gate was open so
she went through there instead. As she passed through she felt a tingling
sensation and then was met by another surprise. In the great big empty space
she had seen earlier, now stood a futuristic looking building. The tracks
left by the Sparrow led up to a very big door. Beside that was a regular
sized door that was open. Ami entered through there.
Inside was a workshop. In various places along the walls were computer
outlets. A man in a white lab coat was working with something on a table and
faced Ami when she entered the room. To her left was Haiku's ship, the
Sparrow. "What are you doing in here?" the man growled.
"I came to get back this ship. You took it from where my friend left it and
I was coming to get it for here. I would like to have in back please."
"No. I found it. Its mine now."
"You didn't find it, you took it."
"I don't care. And also, since you've already seen too much of my workshop,
I'm not going to let you leave." As Ami watched the man threw off his
trenchcoat and his face which was actually a mask, and underneath Ami found
that he was a robot. A human cyborg. From each of its hands extended large
spikes. The door from which Ami entered, shut closed. "I think you've made a
fatal mistake. Ha ha ha." Before Ami could react the robot shot a few
spinning blades at her. "Eat my spinning blades." Being the only thing she
had time to do, she brought her arms up in front of her face.
At the last moment before the blades hit her they stopped in front of her
and shot off to the side, and back to the robot. "On second thought, using
my blades on you would be a complete waste. Even if I hurt you a little
you'd probably cry out in pain. That's the problem with humans, they get
hurt and die too easily. Never a real match. Especially little girls like
you. Wimps are no fun to fight and-"
"Enough!" All this time, the robot was making Ami angrier and angrier.
"You're going to regret being over confident. Mercury Eternal, Unite!"
"I'm pretty soldier Sailor Mercury. I gave you a chance but it seems that
you are evil. On behalf of Mercury, I'll punish you."
"Oooh I'm scared. Bows and a really short skirt. You're going to get me now.
You've earned my blades this time for trying." This time Ami was ready for
his attack. She ran forward and did a flip over the spinning blades and gave
the robot a foot in the chest. The robot fell backwards. "It seems I
misjudged you."
"You got that right. Mercury Polar Ice Sheet FREEZE!" Sailor Mercury brought
her arms together and shot a beam of ice energy at the robot. The robot met
the attack with a laser of its own.
"Finally, a challenge."
"You think this is a challenge? I'm only using a fraction of my power
because I wanted to go easy on you."
"What?! How much more powerful can you possibly be."
"ICE SHEET ENCASE!" From the beam of ice came a wave of ice that began
to circle the robot, faster and faster. When it reached a certain point it
sank into the robot, and when Sailor Mercury stopped her beam of ice, she
found that the robot was completely frozen. "A lot more powerful than I
needed to be to do that."
Ami decided to take a tour of the room. "Now, how and where am I going to
take this ship?" As she passed a wall she heard a mumbling noise. It was
coming from a door. Sailor Mercury opened the door, to find a closet. A man
who was tied up and gagged fell out. Sailor Mercury pulled away the gag.
"Oh thankyou, thankyou. I'm Professor Rinkvle. Would you please untie me?"
"Uh, sure." Sailor Mercury froze pieces of the ropes and they easily came
off. She helped the man to his feet. He took a look around. he walked over
to the frozen statue of the robot.
"I built him myself. The robot, I mean." He walked over to the other side of
it. "He was just supposed to help me with my projects but I built him too
well and he tied me up and threw me in that closet. I can't thank you
enough. Is there anything I can do for you?"
"Yeah. Your robot dragged my ship in here and I need to drag it back out of
here so I can fix it somewhere."
"Why don't you just fix it here. I'm sure I have, or can get a hold of the
materials here, and I can help you."
"All right." Sailor Mercury changed back to Ami and she and Prof. Rinkvle
got into a detailed technical discussion that very few people would be able
to understand, even if they tried.
********
On the arches of the entrances of each Command Citiy one could find the
names of the region and then 'Command City'. So when Haiku, Rei, Minako, and
Makoto entered the desert city and expected to see 'Akfzo Command City',
they were surprised to see 'Akfzo, Kingdom of Karn'. Once in the city, there
was a fountain, some statues including a statue of someone named Karn, and a
posting board. All of the sheets on the board had been ripped off and
replaced by one. It read: "This is now the Kingdom of Karn. I, the
great Karn, shall be ruling from where no one will find me. To my advantage, the
Creator has been disabled, and the Command Point is powerless. If you
thought it was bad before, just wait. You'll be begging for the Creator to
come back. My first two laws are: No standing around in the streets, unless
you're worshipping me or reading this posting. Also, no leaving the city.
Once you're in, you're in for good. This city isn't going to be a hell with
no people in it. Defiance of these laws will bring severe punishment.
Hahaha.
Karn the Great"
"It looks like we have another problem," Minako said.
Makoto pointed off down the street. "Yeah, but first let's get the diving
gear. We should be able to get it from the mall down the street."
Walking down the street Rei commented, "This city sure looks dead. I can
feel evil spirits just swirling through this place."
"I think that's the idea," Haiku said. There were very few people on the
streets and those that were, were walking really fast. The girls went in to
the main shopping mall and bought the diving gear and climbing gear that
they needed.
"So where exactly are we going to find this Karn. There weren't any clues on
the announcement."
"Maybe we should just stand around so he'll come get us."
"No, we want to take him by surprise."
"That's going to be too difficult and we don't have the time."
"How about we transform and blow up that statue of him by the front. If he
has just taken control of the city now, there's no way he's as strong as the
Creator, and just two of us beat the Creator."
"Alright. The statue it is." Rei held up her transformation wand and Minako
and Makoto went back to back.
"Mars Eternal, UNITE"
"Jupiter Eternal, UNITE"
"Venus Eternal, UNITE"
When they reached the statue Haiku said, "I think you should take this one out
Minako."
"Right. VENUS CRESCENT CROSS," and when the cross hit the statue, "CRUSH!"
The statue exploded outwards sending rock flying everywhere. Dark energy
began to swirl around the courtyard they were in. They moved themselves in
between what was left of the statue -nothing- and the entrance to the city.
On the other side of where the statue should have been the swirling dark
energy focused. A second later a man all in black appeared a foot off of the
ground and landed on his feet.
"How dare you defy the rule of the Great Karn. I don't how you did this, but
you're not going to live long enough to tell me." Karn shot out his hands
and the senshi got blasted back off their feet. He pulled out two swords
from his back and charged the senshi. Haiku charged him with her one sword
and came down in and arc that sent one of Karn's swords flying. She very
quickly disarmed him and dodged out of the way.
"Mars Flaming Inferno BLAZE!" Karn was toasted.
"Jupiter Lightning Wave Capture!" Karn found himself in a prison of
lightning. If he touched one of the sides he got a shock.
"If you don't let me go right now I'll set the Creator to get you."
"The Creator already wants to get us. Who do you think defeated it in the
first place."
"Uh, you guys did. Uh oh. I'm in trouble now. FORCES OF DARKNESS SURROUND
ME. RETURN ME TO MY TRUE FORM." The dark wind surrounded Karn and he began
to grow. When he was too big for Jupiter's prison he broke right through. He
grew into a 20 foot high chaos dragon. "Not! I am the gold chaos dragon. You
have no chance to defeat me."
Sailor Venus shook her head. "I can't believe our luck. Whenever we fight
one of these things we always have the senshi of the same power. Venus
Crescent Cross .........Crush!" The attack hurt the dragon a little but not
enough.
"You need to focus all of you're energy into one beam. Try saying all of
your words for your attack at once," Haiku advised.
"Venus Crescent Cross Crush!" This time Minako shot out a beam of
golden energy. Unfortunately the
gold dragon just flew out of the way of the beam. "Whew," Sailor Venus commented,
"That attack sure takes a lot out of you." The dragon shot dark energy all
over the place and hit all of the senshi. He went for another attack but
Sailor Venus countered. "VenusCrescentCrossCrush!" When the dragon realized
what was happening he brought his widespread attack into one beam to meet
Sailor Venus. At first Sailor Venus was able to hold her own but then the
dragon began to overpower her. "What am I going to do?" she cried.
"You need to resummon your cross," Haiku instructed, "But continue with the
beam at the same time."
"How do I do that?"
"Just focus and do it quickly."
"Alright. Venus Crescent Cross." Very quickly, as not to weaken her attack,
she swung her arms back and forward again to form another cross.
"Now," Haiku said, "Everyone attack the cross."
"Mars Flaming Inferno Blaze."
"Jupiter Lightning Wave Shock."
Haiku held out her hand (That actually held her crystal but no one could
see), and shot a beam of energy from it. Sailor Venus' cross was flashing
all kinds of different colours. "Send it now." Haiku called.
Sailor Venus shot the powered up cross through her own beam of energy. It
easily went right through the dragon's beam and into himself. "CRUSH!" With
a blast of energy there was a great big explosion and the dragon blew up.
All that was left was a single scale, that wasn't even above anyone, that
floated down to Sailor Venus. She attached it to her back bow. "When will
those chaos dragons realize that you can't get away with taking over
settlements."
Before the senshi left the village, they took down the announcement from
Karn and replaced it with one of their own. When it was done it read: "The
short rule of Karn the Great has ended. Now this city has to choose its own
leader. It is true that the Creator has been disabled for a time, but it
could end anytime. Enjoy these times now.
The Sailor Senshi"
And below that was the message: "If you crave the old times, or something
better, meet your destiny at The Gathering. If your cause is true, when the
sky turns green, you will find your way to Crescent Island.
The Gatherer."
*****