It was another dreary and rainy day at the orphanage for the girls. Lianna and Melanie were in one corner studying up for their math quiz while Rini and Amanda were playing Chess not far away from them. Rita seemed to be concentrating on a flame on the candle that she was burning. "Something is coming," commented Rita suddenly in the silence, looking over to the door.

"We all know the world is going to end sooner or later, so why worry about it Rita?" asked Rini. She turned away from the game and looked over at Rita.

Rita shook her head and slipped off the bed and sliding over toward Melanie and Lianna. "I mean right now. Coming up the stairs," she commented in a tone just over a whisper. Sure enough, five seconds later, the doorknob turned and in the doorway stood the secretary who had given them the letter yesterday. She seemed to be in shock like she had just seen a ghost.

"Miss Tutman?" said Amanda. The woman suddenly dropped on the ground and all the girls could see a knife prodding from her back. They all suddenly got wide eyed as a man walked over the dead woman and into the room.

"Pity. She might have gotten somewhere one day," he commented. He had short blond hair and green eyes that seemed to be watching Melanie intently. He was wearing the garb of a Negaverse General and a black cape with an orange lining. "She had to go and give you that letter before clearing it with the headmaster. Don't worry though girls. I won't make your deaths half as painful as hers was." An orange energy ball was slowly growing in his hand.

His plot was short lived however when a chain of hearts wrapped around his arm and forced the energy into the wall that led to the outside. "Well I may not be Wonder Woman, but I still have a lariat of love an d beauty," commented a female voice that was on the other end of the chain. "I'm Sailor Venus and I won't allow you to terrorize innocent girls. On behalf of my friends, you're punished!"

"Well well well." said the general, pushing the chain off himself. "If it isn't the only scout who thinks she can still take on the Negaverse on her own. Once I kill you off, Mina, I just need to brainwash these brats and no one will stand up to us."

"You're wrong Brian." replied Mina, standing her ground and trying to give the girls a chance to escape before she would attempt to drop the ceiling on him. "There will always be someone who does not agree with what you do here." She motioned only slightly with her hand to tell them to get out.

Brian seemed to notice this, and let most of them get away. However he grabbed Melanie by the wrist and pulled her back. He immobilized her by using her as a shield between him and Mina before pulling a knife out of his pocket and holding it to her throat. "And what does the brave Sailor Scout do now?"

"This isn't her fight. Why don't you just let Melanie go?" asked Sailor Venus, keeping her guard up, but not about to attack.

"Because she's yours. I know you too well Mina. If she dies then you will have lost all your will power to fight. Your husband is already dead. You made the wrong choice long ago and now you are going to pay for it. Plus, if I let her go, that's one more person the Lord will have to watch out for, but then he has all your friends to fight you off. Well except for Ian." Brian had an evil smirk on his face.

"Shut up."

"But I do not wish to OW!" Brian was suddenly attacked by a white cat with his claws out who clawed right into his arm holding Melanie, who immediately ran out to find the others who were being led off by a black cat who was talking to them. After everything in the past minute, she was willing to believe anything.

Artemis released his grip after the girl was away. "Looks like I win again. We'll have that final showdown some other day," replied Sailor Venus, picking up Artemis and using her chain to whip it around a branch just outside the hole that Brian had created and swinging out and onto the ground.

"Who was that?!" gasped Lianna, looking over at the woman in the orange fuku.

"More explanations later, right now we need to get out of here before you're surrounded by a bunch of his goons and we can't fight them all off at the moment," replied Luna. Mina nodded in agreement and ran over to the car that was sitting nearby.

"Everybody in!" The girls all got in, Lianna and Amanda still slightly wondering how much she could be trusted, but then she had just saved their lives. They all made sure to buckle their seatbelts before Mina hit the accelerator and suddenly detransformed right in the driver's seat. "Now that was a narrow escape."