Sailor Moon: World Rebirth -Part 3, Hope and Chaos
Episode 25 'Unfinished Business'
A few hours after Usagi had awoken, everything had been explained -well,
almost. All Haiku would say was that she had done some things in the past
which were necessary to the timeline and had awoken the powers which Usagi
inherited as the heir to the throne of the moon. It was around this point,
when everyone had told their story that Usagi brought up the question. "By
the way, WHERE IS MAMORU?!!!" Everyone looked at everyone else. Everyone
that is, except for Minako. "Minako.... where is Mamoru?!"
"Well, he's probably still in the arctic region. He got away but I wasn't
able to. And... he's been paralyzed from the waist down. We can heal that
kind of stuff with magic right?"
"Oh my," Usagi gasped. "We have to go help him," she exclaimed, leaping to
her feet.
"There will be plenty of time for that when the time comes," Haiku said.
Although it pained her to put aside her father, her courage was born from
necessity.
"What do you mean," Usagi cried. "What could be more important than saving
Mamoru?"
"Victory," Haruka answered. "Haiku, what do you know?"
"Although the power of the beyonder appears to be infinite, I now believe
that it is not," Haiku said.
"What do you mean?" Setsuna asked.
"Before I was able to return to this time, he interfered with my travel and
drew me to his base of operations. That was his first mistake. Now we know
that his base of operations is on the moon. Then, while I was fighting him I
saw something very crucial. My theory, is that when he recreated the world,
he had to cast much of himself and his energy into the reshaping of the
planet. His infinite amount of power is now being used to generate the
miracle of life. I saw, that when he powered up to attack me, he drew power
from the planet, or more specifically, the Command Points. They all lit up
just before he attacked. So I'm guessing that if we were to destroy all of
the Command Points the link to most of his power would be cut off."
"But then there would be nothing to sustain the life on the planet," Ami
said. "The Command Points are what generate and regulate the atmosphere."
"I know," Haiku replied. "That's why as soon as all of the Command Points
are destroyed we will have to confront the beyonder and defeat him quickly
so that we can restore the planet."
"I don't think I'm going to like the next part of this plan: how are we
going to pull it off?" Rei asked.
"I don't like it either, but I can only see one way for this plan to work.
Six of you will have to stay here on the planet and simultaneously destroy
the Command Points. Meanwhile the rest of us will use the pedestal I used
during the gathering to transport to the moon and confront the beyonder.
Once there Sailor Moon will be able to completely activate her inherited
power because of the lack of the magic grid." Haiku stopped. "Have I missed
anything?"
"But who will be the ones to stay behind?" Hotaru asked quietly. For a
moment no one moved. Then Rei stepped forward.
"The four of us will stay here," she said pointing to herself and the other
inner senshi.
"As will we," Haruka answered indicating Michiru and herself.
"Guys, no!" Usagi cried out. "You can't leave me."
"No Usagi," Minako said. "It's better this way. Then the two most powerful
senshi will be there to protect you."
"But guys, we don't know that. We all know the balance of power among us has
changed." Usagi countered.
"Actually," Setsuna said. "Since after the Command Points are destroyed and
the magic grid has been shut down we will no longer have access to the
eternal powers, that statement is untrue."
Everyone expected another protest but it never came. Usagi lowered her head.
"Very well."
"Good," Haiku said. "Ami, do you think that my ship has been repaired by
now?"
Ami thought for a moment. "Certainly. I'm sure it must be fixed by now."
"Good. Now here's what we're going to do: It is my suspicion that the
beyonder can detect us whenever we use a sailor teleport so this is going to
take a little longer than we might prefer. Therefore, only Hotaru and I will
travel to the arctic region to heal Mamoru. Then without teleporting, the
rest of you will have to travel to Dohilne to get my ship. Once there you'll
come and pick me, Hotaru and Mamoru up, and then we will begin our plan to
battle the creator. Any problems?" There were none. Although a few of the
other senshi disagreed with some parts of the plan they kept their protests
to themselves as they didn't have any better ideas. Haiku turned to the
little girl. "What will you and your master do now?"
"We will generate a lot of energy to hopefully mask your departure. From
there we will be watching and will be sure to alert you if anything you need
to know about comes up."
"Thank you," Haiku said to her. She then looked up to the other senshi. "My
friends, we are now no longer fighting to protect ourselves, or our world,
but the preservation of our people and the future of our planet. By now you
have all surely seen what each of us can do on our own, and I believe, -no,
I know, that as a team, we can overcome any obstacle, even the one that
stands before us now. Good luck everyone!"
Hotaru closed her eyes and concentrated. A moment later Sailor Saturn stood
in her place. Haiku drew her sword and copied almost the same type of power
she had used to travel to the Moon Kingdom, only without the ability to
travel through time. She and Saturn changed into light and then faded away.
Before anyone else could say anything the little girl spoke.
"With our power we can send you as far as the Command City if you would
like." Sailor Moon nodded. The little girl touched the portal leading to the
beginning of the caverns of Shmite with her hand. "There. Now it will take
you to the entrance of the City." Without a word Usagi passed through the
portal. The other senshi transformed and followed her.
*****
Haruka and Michiru stood in an alleyway across from one of the larger
buildings located in the Command City of Afkzo. One could never be too
cautious when watching for threats. Sailor Pluto had vanished once again but
that was to be expected. Minako and Rei were keeping watch from the top of
the building across the street while Makoto, Ami, and Usagi were meeting
with some of the top officials of the city who had come into power after the
Creator's defeat.
Makoto, Usagi, and Ami were waiting in a meeting room on one of the upper
floors of the building. Although the chairs were all extremely comfortable
they were all too anxious to enjoy it. The people of the city had only been
too happy to help the senshi. The senshi had already proven their worthiness
with their victory at the Gathering "I don't care what you have to say
Makoto, I'm not taking another ship. It's too dangerous for us!" Usagi
exclaimed as the door opened and two men entered the room.
"There isn't any other undetectable way to get there," Makoto answered.
Before Usagi could respond Ami kicked her and looked towards the two men.
They introduced themselves as the chief engineer and as a senator of the
council of six. "And actually," the engineer started matter-of-factly, "you
were speaking of taking a ship when we entered the room? Unfortunately,
that's impossible now that the barrier has appeared."
"A barrier?" Ami asked, "What barrier?"
The man explained. "The information only just reached me. Apparently there
is now a barrier surrounding the entire region which won't allow anything to
leave or enter by the ocean. It only appeared in the last hour.
"Damn it!" Makoto exclaimed as she slammed her fist down on the table. "I
was afraid that something like this might happen."
"Now settle down," the engineer said calmly. "Naturally we have another way
of getting things in and out of the region in case of an emergency; and we
might just have one that will work here."
"Go on," Ami said.
"Well, according to our sources the barrier is only about 30 feet tall so in
theory one should be able to go overtop of it."
"But the Command Points will shoot down anything that tries to fly," Ami
said.
"Yes, that definitely is a problem. The rocket will have to fly very low and
very fast."
"Rocket?!"
"Why, of course. You would never have time to land anything without being
destroyed by a Command Point. Our process is fairly simple. We just launch a
rocket towards your destination and then you parachute out when you're over
the target."
"Sounds crazy to me," Usagi responded.
"Sounds like a pretty good idea to me," Makoto said. "How soon can we
leave?"
"Whenever you are ready. Just tell us where you want to go."
"We want to go to the island of Dohilne," Makoto said.
A puzzled look appeared on the engineer's face. "I'm afraid that I've never
heard of place called Dohilne. Does it go by any other name?"
"No, not that I know of. Do you have a map of the world?"
"Why of course," the man replied as he walked over to one of the walls and
pressed a few buttons on a keypad. It turned out that they entire wall was
actually a huge computer screen as a map appeared on it. Ami walked over to
it and placed her finger at a place in the middle of the ocean. "Dohilne
island is located right here in a string of five islands -or rather four
now."
"That's odd. I've never heard of them before." He shrugged his shoulders.
"All right, we can send you to that point. Do you have the exact
coordinates?"
"Yes," Ami said as she stepped up to the keypad and entered the exact
numbers.
"Well, according to this there is is no land present there but who am I to
argue? I can go over the process with you if you'd like," he offered.
"Ami," Usagi said quickly, "you go over everything while Mako and I gather
up everyone." And she was about to leave when the obvious hit her. "By the
way, where exactly are we supposed to go to get on this rocket?"
For the first time the senator actually spoke. "The rocket is located on the
bottom floor of this building, underground. The launch location is located
outside of the city itself in order to keep the rocket as close to the
ground as possible."
"Okay, we'll grab Rei and Mina first from the roof and then we'll meet you
down there." Usagi decided.
All of them exited the room and headed down the hallway. Usagi and Makoto
entered one elevator to go up while Ami and the two men entered the other to
go down.
Ami leaned patiently against the side of the elevator as the senator pressed
the button for the bottom floor of the building. They were so close, yet so
far away at the same time. "That looks recent," the engineer said pointing
towards Ami's missing arm. "What happened."
Ami glanced down at what was no longer there. "I had a bad encounter with a
bounty hunter in Kaipo. The shores of the region are covered with the
Creator's soldiers." She stopped for a moment. "But I imagine that I'll find
some way to replace my arm eventually. We're just in a little bit of trouble
at the moment which is keeping me really busy."
The engineer was about to say something when the senator spoke instead. "I'd
say that you're actually in a lot of trouble right now. I don't think you'll
need to worry about your arm any more."
"Huh?" Ami watched as the man lifted up one of his arms as the hand changed
into an axe. "Damn it!" The man's arm came down so quickly that she barely
had time to dodge it. Before her eyes the man continued to change. His other
hand changed into a claw and spikes grew out from his arms, legs, and chest.
It was followed up with a couple of horns coming out of his head.
"A mutant!" the engineer exclaimed.
"I don't have time to transform!" Ami cried.
"Exactly." The mutant answered evilly. "Prepare to die!"
"I'd rather not," Ami cried as she swung up a kick towards the mutant's
face. He easily blocked it but she was able to swing over and slam her hand
against the buttons of the elevator which were close to their current floor.
"No you don't," the mutant said when he saw what she was trying to do. He
quickly brought his fist up into her chest and slammed her into the wall.
Before she had a chance to do anything he also brought his hand around her
neck and began to squeeze as he raised his arm with the axe on it. "Prepare
to die."
But unfortunately for the mutant, he had forgotten about the other elevator
passenger and was quite surprised to find 1000 amps of electricity suddenly
flowing through his body. Both of them were sent flying to the sides of the
elevator and the mutant released his hold on Ami's neck. "Curse you," he
said. "Now you'll both have to die."
Fortunately at that moment the elevator door opened. As quickly as she could
Ami used the magic threads to knock the mutant out of the elevator. The
engineer dived to the control panel to close the doors. Fortunately the
mutant was still recovering from the shock and was unable to get back up to
the elevator.
After closing the doors the engineer broke open a control panel as well. He
then proceeded to rearrange the wires and some of the switches.
"What are you doing?" Ami asked.
"You pressed a whole bunch of buttons when you hit the panel. I'm just
disabling the elevator's ability to stop at those floors or any other for
that matter. This is going to be a one-way trip straight down." The elevator
began to slowly move down again.
"That's quite an effective tazer."
"Yeah. If there's one thing us humans are good at it is making weapons to
kill each other with."
***
Sailor Mars and Venus joined Usagi and Makoto without any trouble, although
the two soldiers had apparently seen some trouble going on down at the
ground. Usagi opted for her and Makoto to not transform due to the limited
space in the elevator. They all impatiently waited for the elevator to reach
the ground floor.
When they finally reached the main floor the doors opened just in time for
them to see Sailor Uranus come flying into the lobby from outside through
the front windows. "Uranus!" Usagi cried as she ran out of the elevator.
"Don't!" Uranus shouted. "Go get the ship. Neptune and I will watch your
backs."
"I won't leave you!" Usagi replied as two mutants came crashing through the
windows into the building.
"Soldiers, do as I ask," Uranus said to the other senshi. "World Shaking!"
One of the mutants was blasted back.
Makoto grabbed Usagi and pulled her back towards the elevator. "She's right
Usagi. We have to go now. This is their way." Usagi gave a little bit of a
struggle but she did know that Makoto was right. Meanwhile Sailor Mars and
Venus were having some kind of silent discussion, and Makoto was not
surprised when only Sailor Mars stepped back into the elevator. It was not
until the elevator began to move that Usagi realized that one of her friends
was missing.
"Where's Sailor Venus?! Did she forget to get back in?"
"No Usagi, she's going to stay to help Uranus and Neptune." Usagi said
nothing. If she herself wasn't able to stay at least one of her friends was.
The remainder of the elevator ride was in silence. After going down another
five floors it finally reached the bottom. They exited the elevator to enter
a corridor.
"Jupiter Eternal, Unite!"
Usagi was about to transform but Sailor Mars stopped her. The wings would
get probably just get in the way. The corridor led to a giant room with the
rocket in the middle of it. There were men and women rushing all over the
place between the rocket and computer stations. Sailor Mercury was standing
over by the rocket. She turned around as the other senshi came up to her.
"Mercury," Sailor Mars exclaimed. "Is it ready? We need to leave now!"
"The others are guarding our escape," Sailor Jupiter answered before Mercury
could ask any questions.
Sailor Mercury was about to speak when the head engineer came around. "Good.
You're all here? Let's get you into the rocket. The coordinates have been
programed in." He pointed towards a ladder which led up to a door in the
rocket. It wasn't actually that big -just enough room for the engine and the
sitting room. There wasn't even enough room inside to stand. Sailor Mercury
changed back to Ami so that she'd be able to fit in a seat. She took a seat
at the front, Usagi behind her, and the other two to either side. They had
just gotten the seat belts done up when they heard an explosion followed by
screaming.
"Darn it!" Sailor Mars cursed. "Come on Mako, let's go," she said as she and
Sailor Jupiter got out of their seats and jumped out of the rocket. The door
closed after them. Usagi just stared forward.
"Don't worry Usagi, they'll be all right."
***
Sailor Mars and Jupiter stood in front of the rocket to either side of the
head engineer. "Just get the rocket out of here," Sailor Jupiter told him.
"We'll give you the time." A couple of mutants dropped through the ceiling
and were blasted away before they had a chance to touch the ground.
"I'm beginning the launch process," the engineer told them. He pressed a
button and the whole platform began to move down a side tunnel as the rocket
began to angle upwards at the same time. It had just disappeared from view
when a giant horde of mutants dropped into the chambre -and they just kept
coming.
"Come on you two, just blast as many as you can," the engineer said. "Then
we'll get out of here and collapse the entire underground complex."
"Sounds good to me."
***
"5 SECONDS UNTIL MAIN REACTOR ACTIVATION."
"Is this really going to work Ami?" Usagi asked nervously.
"If it doesn't it at least won't make any difference to us."
"That doesn't help me any."
"Sorry Usagi."
"MAIN REACTOR ACTIVATED." A slight rumbling began. Then suddenly Usagi was
thrown back against her seat as the rocket blasted up through a tunnel and
out of the ground. "THIRTY SECONDS UNTIL DESTINATION ARRIVAL."
"Usagi, when we reach Dohilne island your chair should automatically drop
out of the ship and a parachute should go out, all right."
Before Usagi could reply a warning alarm came on. "We're in trouble now. The
Command Point is firing at us," Ami said.
Usagi nearly jumped out of her seat when a beam of energy passed right
through the seat where Sailor Jupiter would have been sitting. "Get us out
of here Ami; that was too close!"
"There's nothing I can do! The engine has been hit and we don't have enough
momentum to carry us the rest of the journey."
"What does that mean?!"
"We're going down!"
end eps. 25
Episode 25 'Unfinished Business'
A few hours after Usagi had awoken, everything had been explained -well,
almost. All Haiku would say was that she had done some things in the past
which were necessary to the timeline and had awoken the powers which Usagi
inherited as the heir to the throne of the moon. It was around this point,
when everyone had told their story that Usagi brought up the question. "By
the way, WHERE IS MAMORU?!!!" Everyone looked at everyone else. Everyone
that is, except for Minako. "Minako.... where is Mamoru?!"
"Well, he's probably still in the arctic region. He got away but I wasn't
able to. And... he's been paralyzed from the waist down. We can heal that
kind of stuff with magic right?"
"Oh my," Usagi gasped. "We have to go help him," she exclaimed, leaping to
her feet.
"There will be plenty of time for that when the time comes," Haiku said.
Although it pained her to put aside her father, her courage was born from
necessity.
"What do you mean," Usagi cried. "What could be more important than saving
Mamoru?"
"Victory," Haruka answered. "Haiku, what do you know?"
"Although the power of the beyonder appears to be infinite, I now believe
that it is not," Haiku said.
"What do you mean?" Setsuna asked.
"Before I was able to return to this time, he interfered with my travel and
drew me to his base of operations. That was his first mistake. Now we know
that his base of operations is on the moon. Then, while I was fighting him I
saw something very crucial. My theory, is that when he recreated the world,
he had to cast much of himself and his energy into the reshaping of the
planet. His infinite amount of power is now being used to generate the
miracle of life. I saw, that when he powered up to attack me, he drew power
from the planet, or more specifically, the Command Points. They all lit up
just before he attacked. So I'm guessing that if we were to destroy all of
the Command Points the link to most of his power would be cut off."
"But then there would be nothing to sustain the life on the planet," Ami
said. "The Command Points are what generate and regulate the atmosphere."
"I know," Haiku replied. "That's why as soon as all of the Command Points
are destroyed we will have to confront the beyonder and defeat him quickly
so that we can restore the planet."
"I don't think I'm going to like the next part of this plan: how are we
going to pull it off?" Rei asked.
"I don't like it either, but I can only see one way for this plan to work.
Six of you will have to stay here on the planet and simultaneously destroy
the Command Points. Meanwhile the rest of us will use the pedestal I used
during the gathering to transport to the moon and confront the beyonder.
Once there Sailor Moon will be able to completely activate her inherited
power because of the lack of the magic grid." Haiku stopped. "Have I missed
anything?"
"But who will be the ones to stay behind?" Hotaru asked quietly. For a
moment no one moved. Then Rei stepped forward.
"The four of us will stay here," she said pointing to herself and the other
inner senshi.
"As will we," Haruka answered indicating Michiru and herself.
"Guys, no!" Usagi cried out. "You can't leave me."
"No Usagi," Minako said. "It's better this way. Then the two most powerful
senshi will be there to protect you."
"But guys, we don't know that. We all know the balance of power among us has
changed." Usagi countered.
"Actually," Setsuna said. "Since after the Command Points are destroyed and
the magic grid has been shut down we will no longer have access to the
eternal powers, that statement is untrue."
Everyone expected another protest but it never came. Usagi lowered her head.
"Very well."
"Good," Haiku said. "Ami, do you think that my ship has been repaired by
now?"
Ami thought for a moment. "Certainly. I'm sure it must be fixed by now."
"Good. Now here's what we're going to do: It is my suspicion that the
beyonder can detect us whenever we use a sailor teleport so this is going to
take a little longer than we might prefer. Therefore, only Hotaru and I will
travel to the arctic region to heal Mamoru. Then without teleporting, the
rest of you will have to travel to Dohilne to get my ship. Once there you'll
come and pick me, Hotaru and Mamoru up, and then we will begin our plan to
battle the creator. Any problems?" There were none. Although a few of the
other senshi disagreed with some parts of the plan they kept their protests
to themselves as they didn't have any better ideas. Haiku turned to the
little girl. "What will you and your master do now?"
"We will generate a lot of energy to hopefully mask your departure. From
there we will be watching and will be sure to alert you if anything you need
to know about comes up."
"Thank you," Haiku said to her. She then looked up to the other senshi. "My
friends, we are now no longer fighting to protect ourselves, or our world,
but the preservation of our people and the future of our planet. By now you
have all surely seen what each of us can do on our own, and I believe, -no,
I know, that as a team, we can overcome any obstacle, even the one that
stands before us now. Good luck everyone!"
Hotaru closed her eyes and concentrated. A moment later Sailor Saturn stood
in her place. Haiku drew her sword and copied almost the same type of power
she had used to travel to the Moon Kingdom, only without the ability to
travel through time. She and Saturn changed into light and then faded away.
Before anyone else could say anything the little girl spoke.
"With our power we can send you as far as the Command City if you would
like." Sailor Moon nodded. The little girl touched the portal leading to the
beginning of the caverns of Shmite with her hand. "There. Now it will take
you to the entrance of the City." Without a word Usagi passed through the
portal. The other senshi transformed and followed her.
*****
Haruka and Michiru stood in an alleyway across from one of the larger
buildings located in the Command City of Afkzo. One could never be too
cautious when watching for threats. Sailor Pluto had vanished once again but
that was to be expected. Minako and Rei were keeping watch from the top of
the building across the street while Makoto, Ami, and Usagi were meeting
with some of the top officials of the city who had come into power after the
Creator's defeat.
Makoto, Usagi, and Ami were waiting in a meeting room on one of the upper
floors of the building. Although the chairs were all extremely comfortable
they were all too anxious to enjoy it. The people of the city had only been
too happy to help the senshi. The senshi had already proven their worthiness
with their victory at the Gathering "I don't care what you have to say
Makoto, I'm not taking another ship. It's too dangerous for us!" Usagi
exclaimed as the door opened and two men entered the room.
"There isn't any other undetectable way to get there," Makoto answered.
Before Usagi could respond Ami kicked her and looked towards the two men.
They introduced themselves as the chief engineer and as a senator of the
council of six. "And actually," the engineer started matter-of-factly, "you
were speaking of taking a ship when we entered the room? Unfortunately,
that's impossible now that the barrier has appeared."
"A barrier?" Ami asked, "What barrier?"
The man explained. "The information only just reached me. Apparently there
is now a barrier surrounding the entire region which won't allow anything to
leave or enter by the ocean. It only appeared in the last hour.
"Damn it!" Makoto exclaimed as she slammed her fist down on the table. "I
was afraid that something like this might happen."
"Now settle down," the engineer said calmly. "Naturally we have another way
of getting things in and out of the region in case of an emergency; and we
might just have one that will work here."
"Go on," Ami said.
"Well, according to our sources the barrier is only about 30 feet tall so in
theory one should be able to go overtop of it."
"But the Command Points will shoot down anything that tries to fly," Ami
said.
"Yes, that definitely is a problem. The rocket will have to fly very low and
very fast."
"Rocket?!"
"Why, of course. You would never have time to land anything without being
destroyed by a Command Point. Our process is fairly simple. We just launch a
rocket towards your destination and then you parachute out when you're over
the target."
"Sounds crazy to me," Usagi responded.
"Sounds like a pretty good idea to me," Makoto said. "How soon can we
leave?"
"Whenever you are ready. Just tell us where you want to go."
"We want to go to the island of Dohilne," Makoto said.
A puzzled look appeared on the engineer's face. "I'm afraid that I've never
heard of place called Dohilne. Does it go by any other name?"
"No, not that I know of. Do you have a map of the world?"
"Why of course," the man replied as he walked over to one of the walls and
pressed a few buttons on a keypad. It turned out that they entire wall was
actually a huge computer screen as a map appeared on it. Ami walked over to
it and placed her finger at a place in the middle of the ocean. "Dohilne
island is located right here in a string of five islands -or rather four
now."
"That's odd. I've never heard of them before." He shrugged his shoulders.
"All right, we can send you to that point. Do you have the exact
coordinates?"
"Yes," Ami said as she stepped up to the keypad and entered the exact
numbers.
"Well, according to this there is is no land present there but who am I to
argue? I can go over the process with you if you'd like," he offered.
"Ami," Usagi said quickly, "you go over everything while Mako and I gather
up everyone." And she was about to leave when the obvious hit her. "By the
way, where exactly are we supposed to go to get on this rocket?"
For the first time the senator actually spoke. "The rocket is located on the
bottom floor of this building, underground. The launch location is located
outside of the city itself in order to keep the rocket as close to the
ground as possible."
"Okay, we'll grab Rei and Mina first from the roof and then we'll meet you
down there." Usagi decided.
All of them exited the room and headed down the hallway. Usagi and Makoto
entered one elevator to go up while Ami and the two men entered the other to
go down.
Ami leaned patiently against the side of the elevator as the senator pressed
the button for the bottom floor of the building. They were so close, yet so
far away at the same time. "That looks recent," the engineer said pointing
towards Ami's missing arm. "What happened."
Ami glanced down at what was no longer there. "I had a bad encounter with a
bounty hunter in Kaipo. The shores of the region are covered with the
Creator's soldiers." She stopped for a moment. "But I imagine that I'll find
some way to replace my arm eventually. We're just in a little bit of trouble
at the moment which is keeping me really busy."
The engineer was about to say something when the senator spoke instead. "I'd
say that you're actually in a lot of trouble right now. I don't think you'll
need to worry about your arm any more."
"Huh?" Ami watched as the man lifted up one of his arms as the hand changed
into an axe. "Damn it!" The man's arm came down so quickly that she barely
had time to dodge it. Before her eyes the man continued to change. His other
hand changed into a claw and spikes grew out from his arms, legs, and chest.
It was followed up with a couple of horns coming out of his head.
"A mutant!" the engineer exclaimed.
"I don't have time to transform!" Ami cried.
"Exactly." The mutant answered evilly. "Prepare to die!"
"I'd rather not," Ami cried as she swung up a kick towards the mutant's
face. He easily blocked it but she was able to swing over and slam her hand
against the buttons of the elevator which were close to their current floor.
"No you don't," the mutant said when he saw what she was trying to do. He
quickly brought his fist up into her chest and slammed her into the wall.
Before she had a chance to do anything he also brought his hand around her
neck and began to squeeze as he raised his arm with the axe on it. "Prepare
to die."
But unfortunately for the mutant, he had forgotten about the other elevator
passenger and was quite surprised to find 1000 amps of electricity suddenly
flowing through his body. Both of them were sent flying to the sides of the
elevator and the mutant released his hold on Ami's neck. "Curse you," he
said. "Now you'll both have to die."
Fortunately at that moment the elevator door opened. As quickly as she could
Ami used the magic threads to knock the mutant out of the elevator. The
engineer dived to the control panel to close the doors. Fortunately the
mutant was still recovering from the shock and was unable to get back up to
the elevator.
After closing the doors the engineer broke open a control panel as well. He
then proceeded to rearrange the wires and some of the switches.
"What are you doing?" Ami asked.
"You pressed a whole bunch of buttons when you hit the panel. I'm just
disabling the elevator's ability to stop at those floors or any other for
that matter. This is going to be a one-way trip straight down." The elevator
began to slowly move down again.
"That's quite an effective tazer."
"Yeah. If there's one thing us humans are good at it is making weapons to
kill each other with."
***
Sailor Mars and Venus joined Usagi and Makoto without any trouble, although
the two soldiers had apparently seen some trouble going on down at the
ground. Usagi opted for her and Makoto to not transform due to the limited
space in the elevator. They all impatiently waited for the elevator to reach
the ground floor.
When they finally reached the main floor the doors opened just in time for
them to see Sailor Uranus come flying into the lobby from outside through
the front windows. "Uranus!" Usagi cried as she ran out of the elevator.
"Don't!" Uranus shouted. "Go get the ship. Neptune and I will watch your
backs."
"I won't leave you!" Usagi replied as two mutants came crashing through the
windows into the building.
"Soldiers, do as I ask," Uranus said to the other senshi. "World Shaking!"
One of the mutants was blasted back.
Makoto grabbed Usagi and pulled her back towards the elevator. "She's right
Usagi. We have to go now. This is their way." Usagi gave a little bit of a
struggle but she did know that Makoto was right. Meanwhile Sailor Mars and
Venus were having some kind of silent discussion, and Makoto was not
surprised when only Sailor Mars stepped back into the elevator. It was not
until the elevator began to move that Usagi realized that one of her friends
was missing.
"Where's Sailor Venus?! Did she forget to get back in?"
"No Usagi, she's going to stay to help Uranus and Neptune." Usagi said
nothing. If she herself wasn't able to stay at least one of her friends was.
The remainder of the elevator ride was in silence. After going down another
five floors it finally reached the bottom. They exited the elevator to enter
a corridor.
"Jupiter Eternal, Unite!"
Usagi was about to transform but Sailor Mars stopped her. The wings would
get probably just get in the way. The corridor led to a giant room with the
rocket in the middle of it. There were men and women rushing all over the
place between the rocket and computer stations. Sailor Mercury was standing
over by the rocket. She turned around as the other senshi came up to her.
"Mercury," Sailor Mars exclaimed. "Is it ready? We need to leave now!"
"The others are guarding our escape," Sailor Jupiter answered before Mercury
could ask any questions.
Sailor Mercury was about to speak when the head engineer came around. "Good.
You're all here? Let's get you into the rocket. The coordinates have been
programed in." He pointed towards a ladder which led up to a door in the
rocket. It wasn't actually that big -just enough room for the engine and the
sitting room. There wasn't even enough room inside to stand. Sailor Mercury
changed back to Ami so that she'd be able to fit in a seat. She took a seat
at the front, Usagi behind her, and the other two to either side. They had
just gotten the seat belts done up when they heard an explosion followed by
screaming.
"Darn it!" Sailor Mars cursed. "Come on Mako, let's go," she said as she and
Sailor Jupiter got out of their seats and jumped out of the rocket. The door
closed after them. Usagi just stared forward.
"Don't worry Usagi, they'll be all right."
***
Sailor Mars and Jupiter stood in front of the rocket to either side of the
head engineer. "Just get the rocket out of here," Sailor Jupiter told him.
"We'll give you the time." A couple of mutants dropped through the ceiling
and were blasted away before they had a chance to touch the ground.
"I'm beginning the launch process," the engineer told them. He pressed a
button and the whole platform began to move down a side tunnel as the rocket
began to angle upwards at the same time. It had just disappeared from view
when a giant horde of mutants dropped into the chambre -and they just kept
coming.
"Come on you two, just blast as many as you can," the engineer said. "Then
we'll get out of here and collapse the entire underground complex."
"Sounds good to me."
***
"5 SECONDS UNTIL MAIN REACTOR ACTIVATION."
"Is this really going to work Ami?" Usagi asked nervously.
"If it doesn't it at least won't make any difference to us."
"That doesn't help me any."
"Sorry Usagi."
"MAIN REACTOR ACTIVATED." A slight rumbling began. Then suddenly Usagi was
thrown back against her seat as the rocket blasted up through a tunnel and
out of the ground. "THIRTY SECONDS UNTIL DESTINATION ARRIVAL."
"Usagi, when we reach Dohilne island your chair should automatically drop
out of the ship and a parachute should go out, all right."
Before Usagi could reply a warning alarm came on. "We're in trouble now. The
Command Point is firing at us," Ami said.
Usagi nearly jumped out of her seat when a beam of energy passed right
through the seat where Sailor Jupiter would have been sitting. "Get us out
of here Ami; that was too close!"
"There's nothing I can do! The engine has been hit and we don't have enough
momentum to carry us the rest of the journey."
"What does that mean?!"
"We're going down!"
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