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SailorsPathfinder : Love and Without
By : MakotoJade – makotojade@hotmail.com
Episode 13 : Like a Puzzle Complete
"NNNOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"
Sage screamed as tears burst from her eyes, "RIIIIIISAAAAA!!!!"
It was all happening too fast... one moment they were all alone in the
valley, the next the sky was screaming and Senshi were amassing around them, and
now her best friend had just been hurled into the ground by a large amount of
sheer energy, released by... Sailor Moon...
"NNNNOOOO!!!"
And suddenly, as she cried out once more, she saw a wave of Pathfinders
come running down the hill... yelling, charging... NO!
She screamed to them frantically with her mind, RUNN!! RUN AWAY!!! ALL
OF YOU RUN AWAY!! SURVIVE TO FIGHT AGAIN!! THERE ARE TOO MANY!!! And as she
did, she was surprised once more to see a wave of soldiers now come over the
hill behind them... hundreds of people.
And then the other girls' thoughts screamed back at her,
NEVER!! We fight as SENSHI... as a TEAM!! We WILL WIN this time!!
She smiled wistfully, and then as the thought occurred to her, she cried
out, hopefully loud enough to enter the soldiers' minds as well, REMEMBER!!
Do NOT KILL THEM!! THEY do NOT know what they do!! THEY ARE INNOCENTS!!!
UNDERSTOOD was the wave of reply that came back to her.
She turned as she noticed movement, and came face to face with
Sailor Moon, who was raising her scepter up at her--
"Sailor Moon, I'd like to welcome you to our planet."
"LUMINESCENT BIND!!!"
The blonde dodged, but the pink energy wrapped itself around the Senshi
behind her. The girl in blue fell to the ground, fighting madly against the
pink energy shocking her. The brunette standing next to her suddenly crossed
her arms and began chanting--
"SUPREME THUNDER!!!"
Sage moved hurriedly as the green energy lightning raced towards her...
"ECLECTIC LIGHTNING SURROUND!!"
... only to be met with Leeota's own green lightning. The brunette's eyes
enlarged significantly and with an evil grin and a glare she attacked again.
She and Leeota moved off slightly as they began an all-out assault on one
another.
Sage tried to keep from letting her fear get the best of her... all of
this was happening to quickly, there wasn't time for her to think. As the two
moved past her, she looked up to see a blonde and another brunette; both had
fingers pointed at her.
"Aw man..."
* * *
Risa opened her eyes slowly. Everything hurts... what--
A yellow energy phoenix flew over her, as a blast of purple energy tried
to intersect it. WHAT is going on?? She grunted as she pushed herself up.
She gazed around. Hundreds of senshi threw attacks across the field. Men
and women, some armed with blasters, others simply swinging pieces of wood and
steel, defended themselves and attacked a few of the senshi. What in the name
of Serenity--
Suddenly everything came rushing back into her mind. Her body screamed at
her as she pushed herself to her feet and looked around. Immediately she was
moving, dodging an attack as she shot out her own "RED POWER BLAST" at the
senshi who had fired.
"WORLD SHAKING!!!"
She heard the next attack and dodged before it could hit her -- a sphere
of yellow energy dug into the ground where she had stood moments before. She
instantly recognized the attack, and swung around to look for her attacker.
"Uranus?!?" The back of a familiar looking blonde head was moving away from her
rapidly.
So... all of the senshi of the Earth system survived... Mamoru just
hasn't met them yet. This is bad. All these girls, many of them not even
knowing that they were senshi... brought here... Oh, Lord! What if they did
know? What if they were on a planet like here... at war... can their planets be
without them? We've got to find a way to get them back--
"Dead Scream"
Risa barley heard the whisper of an attack. But her mind registered it
and her body leapt just in time to avoid a sphere of purplish energy. She spun,
"PLUTO?!?!"
The green haired girl had begun to turn away, but she suddenly stiffened
and slowly turned to look into Risa's eyes. "Yes, you are Sailor Pluto." Risa
heard herself talking; wondering what in the hell she was doing, the senshi
standing before her had enough power to flatten her. "Sailor Pluto, Guardian of
Time... and you aren't supposed to be here, you should be guarding the Gate. Do
you understand anything I'm saying?"
The other girl stared at her for a moment longer and then swung her staff
up and began to chant-- "NO! Pluto!!" Risa grabbed the staff and used all of
her strength as she fought the other senshi to hold it there. "Listen to me! I
know you! I'm Sailor Sabi! We've met before, in the palace! On the Moon over
a thousand years ago... but you of all people have to remember! We all served
the Queen, and the Princess, during the Silver Millennium... the Moon Kingdom!!
Please remember!! You have to remember Serenity--"
"Serenity." Pluto's eyes seemed to focus as she blinked. She shook her
head and then looked at Risa, "Sailor Sabi?"
"Call me Risa," Risa smiled at her.
"What's happening, where am I?"
"You're on Sabi, in the middle of a war--"
Pluto's eyes shown confusion. "Wait a minute-- Sabi... Serenity's
curse... It all makes sense now!! I knew it, I-- Wait a minute... war?"
"It's a long story. Suffice it to say if a senshi fires at you, don't
fire back; she's most likely on my side. All of the others, including Sailor
Moon--"
"SAILOR MOON!" Pluto dropped the staff and grabbed Risa's arms; "Sailor
Moon is here? On Sabi?!?"
"Yes, her and the others with the blank stares are all attacking us-- the
people of this planet. We don't want to hurt them--"
Pluto closed her eyes, "Oh, Serenity. I understand it all now.
Everything fits. But she can't remain here, it will ruin the rest of the
scheme..." she looked up at Risa, "You must take me to--"
The green haired girl dove on Risa as an orange bolt of energy streaked
through the space where Risa had just been. Pluto got up first and offered Risa
a hand; "You must take me to Sailor Moon."
Risa stared up in confusion. What did all that she had said mean?
She accepted the help up, "Okay, let's go."
* * *
Through trickery and clever dodges, Sage was still moving and had bound
the red attired senshi, but she was still dodging the one in orange. Sailor
Moon was a pace away, too, blasting energy at Pathfinders and soldiers left and
right. The blue clad senshi was still struggling with her pink energy bonds,
and had somehow managed to bring out a small device that resembled a computer.
Great-- now what is she doing...
Her random thought distracted her for a moment... a moment too long. She
was struck in the shoulder by an orange beam of energy. She fell back,
screaming in pain. The orange senshi loomed over her. Sage quickly rolled and
swept her leg around, knocking the girl to the ground. She leapt on top of her,
"LUMINESCENT BIND!!!" The girl was instantly bound in pink energy and was
screaming a rage of garbled words.
However, Sage didn't even have a chance to enjoy the moment as someone
dove at her from behind. She hit the ground hard, her injured shoulder
spasming-- but she kept moving, the fear of what would happen to her if she just
continued to lay there more powerful than the pain. She rolled and fought
against the person who clung to her.
Finally she overpowered whoever it was and rolled her over, pushing
herself up and holding the other girl's wrists to the ground. "You again?!?"
she asked of the girl, astonished. Somehow, the blue haired girl had freed
herself from the energy bonds. How...? But something else plagued Sage's
mind now... she knew this girl.. from somewhere...
And suddenly, even though the significance was a memory over a millennium
old, it clicked in her head.
"SAILOR MERCURY?!?!"
The other senshi continued to fight against her grip.
"Sailor Mercury!! It's me, It's Sailor Kioku! Remember?! When I was on
the Moon you and I talked about computers and machinery in your workshop!
Remember!? It was so amazing and you were telling me all about the work you
were doing on the moon and..."
She trailed off as she watched the girl stare back at her in shock.
"Sailor Kioku?" the girl asked as she stopped struggling.
Sage was about to grin when someone's foot connected with her side,
thrusting her away from the girl and into the dirt, knocking the wind out of
her. She moaned as she clutched her side, and looked up to see Sailor Moon
lining the scepter up with her head.
"Sailor Moon!! NOO!" Mercury cried as she struggled to get to her feet...
but she couldn't get up in time to stop her friend.
* * *
Risa stopped her first.
She dove headlong into Sailor Moon and the two fell to the ground. Sailor
Moon was turned about immediately and grappled with Risa for the scepter. In
seconds Risa had it and was up and moving, Sailor Moon tearing across the field
after her. Risa stopped suddenly, reaching the edge of the hill. She spun
around, leveling the scepter at Sailor Moon.
Screaming incomprehensibly, Sailor Moon dove at her and the two fell
backwards, rolling down...
* * *
A tall, green haired Senshi helped Sage and Mercury to their feet.
"What's going on?" asked a bewildered Mercury.
"Don't worry," said Sage, "just help us get your friends here back
under control."
Mercury nodded and went over to the orange and red dressed senshi... as
Sage simultaneously recognized them as Venus and Mars. Shocked, she looked back
over to the green haired senshi and realized she wasn't a Pathfinder at all, as
she had first assumed... and then Sage suddenly realized in astonishment which
senshi now stood before her... "PLUTO!!"
The older girl looked at her, and then put a finger to her lips. "Shhh,
don't speak so loud." She pointed to the other Earth system senshi. "They need
not know who I am. But let's worry and talk later... what happened to Risa and
Sailor Moon."
"I'm not sure, I was on the ground, I saw Risa dive into her, but after
that... didn't you see?"
"No, Risa was slightly ahead of me, I had to deal with about four
senshi... and then when I got here I saw you laying there... we have to find
them... quickly."
* * *
Risa dodged and ran again as Sailor Moon blasted pink energy at her once
more. Damnit! She's too good, she already got the scepter away from me...
have to keep moving... not too much I can do... Thoughts got knocked away as
she dove to the ground to avoid another blast. This fight is going nowhere...
and I'm getting tired fast!
Another power burst streaked towards her. She dodged and rolled, but this
time didn't get up in time and she couldn't move fast enough to get out of the
way. Pink energy caught her in the shoulder and she fell back to the ground.
She tried to push herself up, but pink energy struck her in the side of the
head. She fell back to the ground.
Weakly, she opened her eyes and saw Sailor Moon lift her scepter--
When a rose cut into the ground between her and Sailor Moon.
"USAGI!! SAILOR MOON! Please do NOT HARM this girl!! She is a senshi,
just as you are... Usagi..." Tuxedo Mask was suddenly standing but an arm's
length from Sailor Moon. His eyes were brimmed with tears, "Usako..."
She looked at him, her eyes still blank.
"Usagi... please..."
Suddenly she thrust her fist into his stomach and he doubled over. She
shoved him away like a rag doll. He fell back to the ground.
She then turned back to face Risa, a horrifying void in her eyes and her
mouth contorted in a maniacal grin.
Risa's eyes widened in horror as Sailor Moon leveled the scepter with her
face. She struggled to move, but she had nothing left...
"MOON..."
"USAGI... NOO!"
"PRINCESS..."
Risa squeezed her eyes shut and prepared for whatever death may be.
"ILLUSION!!!"
"NNOOOO!"
Pink shards and energy streaked from her scepter. But seconds before it
struck Risa... Tuxedo Mask dove in front of her.
Both of them were slammed across the field. As they landed, Risa
screamed. She painfully struggled and moved out from under his now lifeless
body. She shook him, "TUXEDO MASK!! Mamoru!! GOD NO!! Please GoD NOOO!"
* * *
All of this happened in slow motion for Sailor Moon.
From the instant the scepter fully discharged it's potent force, she had
begun to realize things. First, that it didn't seem like she was doing the
right thing, in fact.. what was she doing... A second ago, she hadn't had to
think at all. Now...
What have I done???
As she stared at Risa crying over Mamoru, her life suddenly came back to
her... everything...
"Tuxedo Mask," she whispered. She suddenly flung the scepter away from
her and screamed. "MAMO-CHAN! NOO!" She recklessly ran to him and threw
herself on him as she sobbed. "What have I DONE!"
* * *
Risa looked at this girl, the girl who was the Princess, and was
immediately filled with bitterness and anger... but also sorrow... and, although
her mind screamed at her not to acknowledge it, a great deal of jealousy.
She saw movement to her right. She looked over to see Sage and several
other senshi standing not too far off, watching the scene.
Risa turned back to the sobbing girl, "Sailor Moon... I..." She reached
to put her hand on the girl-- and sprang back-- touching the girl had given her
some sort of electrical shock. Her eyes widened as a silver gleam began to
shine around the girl.
Risa struggled and pushed herself away from Sailor Moon and the body of
Tuxedo Mask, as both seemed to begin to glow.
* * *
"She's doing it."
Sage jerked her head to the side. Pluto stared at the scene, intent and
calm. "Whaa?"
"She'll make amends, she has to... but it will be her last deed, I
suspect. I always wondered how she did it, what an exciting event to see!"
Sage was baffled, "What the hell?"
Pluto suddenly turned and smiled at her, "Don't worry, you won't remember
a thing."
* * *
Leeota swung another attack at the green senshi-- when suddenly her eyes
were drawn to a silver light emanating from somewhere not too far away. Her
will to fight was suddenly gone as she stared. Somewhere in the back of her
mind she remembered that the green senshi had been attacking her; but she as
well was being drawn to the light.
Both began to walk in it's direction, as did all of the senshi in the
field; leaving baffled soldiers gawking in their wake.
* * *
Sage gasped as the light grew stronger. She turned to Pluto, "Tell me
what in blazes is going ON!!"
But the other girl stared smiling at the scene, "Ah, the Princess...
I have not seen her this young in ever so long..."
Sage looked back and saw that it was the Princess who now cried over
Tuxedo Mask. Suddenly the girl cried into the air, and there was a blinding
flash--
* * *
And then they were all, all of them, every senshi who had just been
fighting in the rolling fields of the planet Sabi, standing together in a place
that Sage somehow knew... but didn't know. The thought occurred to her that she
might have known... long ago...
A woman stood now, in a long white dress, just behind the Princess. She
smiled, and then kneeled down behind the girl and laid a hand on her shoulder.
The Princess slowly looked up, her eyes puffy, her face tear stained, and gazed
at the woman. "Queen Serenity?"
"Mother?"
End Ep. 13
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