Chapter 2.

Finishing a Battle

"Come on.. you guys, we.. gotta.. get out!" Venus said. She crawled towards the edge of the reverse tornado.

"Don't think so!" Umbriel shouted. "Richter 4 Quakes!" The ground shook underneath Venus and knocked her back to the center.

"I do! World Shaking!!" A ball of power rose up from the ground and hit Umbriel in the stomach, knocking her to the ground. The reverse tornado disappeared and freed the trapped senshi.

"Who did that?!" Proteus turned towards the source of the powerball.

"Deep Submerge!!"

"What..? Ahhhh!!" Proteus was thrown head-over-heels backwards toward her friend by a giant tidal wave. The ice trapping Mercury and Mars melted.

"Where there's trouble, so am I, Sailor Uranus!"

"And I, Sailor Neptune!"

"Who?" Umbriel and Proteus stood up dizzily. Uranus and Neptune appeared from behind a broad lamp post. The smaller girls' eyes widened.

"YOU?!" They screamed.

"Us." Uranus and Neptune said.

"How dare you mock our attacks with your superior ones?" Umbriel shouted.

"How dare you show your faces before us?" Proteus added.

"Since when were our attacks superior?" Uranus asked.

"Our faces are presentable at any time. Even before rats like you." Neptune said.

"Shut up!" Umbriel yelled.

"You two jerks have always mocked us!" Proteus screamed.

"What Proteus? You don't remember when we were small and a friendly little family?" Neptune asked.

"Be quiet! I'm not listening to you!" Proteus covered her ears and curled over.

"And Umbriel, you'll say the same?"

"Leave us alone!" Umbriel stood protectively in front of Proteus.

"You girls were good once." Neptune said.

"BE QUIET!!" Both smaller girls screamed. Their tiaras were replaced by glowing marks of their planets, Neptune on Proteus and Uranus on Umbriel. Except, there was a black "N" slashed over each mark. The light consumed the girls for a moment, blinding the other senshi.

"What's going on?!" Sailor Moon screamed her Serena-scream.

"Ha, just as I thought!" Umbriel's voice came from within the light.

"Of course, what more could we expect from wimps like the Sailor Senshi." Proteus's voice added.

"Come out, you cowards!" Mars shouted.

"Oh, we're coming alright." Umbriel said.

"But you'll wish you hadn't asked." Proteus said.

The light began to disappate and two tall figures began to appear. Each was almost as tall as Uranus and Neptune. The light vanished completely and the senshi saw grown forms of Umbriel and Proteus. They wore the black fuku of the Sailor Star Lights. Every color was lightened, including their hair. Proteus's eyes were silver-tinged sea green and Umbriel's were silver-tinged sky blue.

"Now you see us.." Umbriel said.

"Now you don't..." Proteus said. Both girls began disappearing.

"Cowards." Jupiter shouted.

"You'll see us soon.." Umbriel said.

"But then you won't." Proteus said. They both vanished.

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"All right, now explain that a little slower so Serena can understand." Raye said.

"Shut that big mouth of yours Raye." Serena growled. Raye stuck out her tongue.

"You guys stop fighting, this is serious." Luna said.

"Yeah, if Serena was any slower, she'd be going backwards." Raye laughed.

"No kidding girls, Luna's right." Artemis said. "If this new enemy is as strong as Uranus and Neptune, we've got quite a problem."

"It can't be." Amarah said.

"Why not?" Amy asked.

"Proteus and Umbriel died in our past lives during attacks on our kingdoms. The great evil, Queen Metallia, set her forces against us before attacking you. We barely survived, but still came to this future. Proteus and Umbriel couldn't be here as bad people unless they didn't die in space, which is possible."

"So someone must have found them, turned them evil, and come here to the 20th century."

"Right."

"They never had powers like that as children." Michelle said. "The only attacks they were capable of at the time were the Destiny attacks, Umbriel's Ritcher Quakes, and Proteus's Ice Flute attacks."

"Ice Flute attacks?" Everyone asked.

"I have my Violin Tide, right? Proteus has an attack called Icicle Madness where she plays a tune that basically turns you into a puppet with her as the puppeteer. It's a good thing she doesn't know about it."

"She doesn't know she has this attack?" Luna asked.

Michelle shook her head.

"Well that's a good thing. Let's work this out piece by piece. If either you or Amarah remember anything about these two, tell as soon as possible."

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