DISCLAIMER: Neither DBZ or Sailor Moon are owned by me. Any characters in this story are the property of their original creators. (Example... Akira Toriyama owns Trunks, Naoko Takeuchi owns Ami, and I own Rosemary, Angelica, or Chamomile, though I'd be willing to trade. XD)
AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is a sequel to Love In A Ruined World, my Mirai Trunks/Ami romance fic from last year. (The Trunks in this fanfic is Mirai Trunks, and the Bulma in this fic is from Mirai Trunks' future timeline.) If you haven't read Love In A Ruined World, you can still read this, but you might be confused, so if you want to read the first fic in the series, it's in my profile. ^_^ In the continuity of both series, this fic takes place after Mirai Trunks goes back to the future after the Cell Saga, and after the SuperS season in the Sailor Moon continuum.
Reviewer Thanks-
Jay: All those ideas are fine, but... right now I'm doing this, okay? Thank you!
Kaiya: ^_^ I could have Trunks loop the video... but that camera is ALWAYS on, and Pandemonium will know if Trunks messes with it... right now I'm trying to get all the Senshi fights out of the way before I start the kickass DBZ-esque ones with Trunks.
Quisty05: Thank you! I'm glad you liked this chapter... hopefully, you'll enjoy this next one just the same... okay? ^_^
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While Trunks was languishing in his own world, his girlfriend Ami and her friends were walking to school, completely unaware of the turmoil about to befall them. Along with Ami, Serena, Rei, Lita, and Mina were Rose, Angela, and Cammy, the three sisters whom were still shaken up from the previous night's terrible nightmares.
"So, what kind of monster attacked you guys again?" Serena asked, noticing that Cammy was becoming increasingly scared, despite the bright light of the sun that illuminated the sky and provided a stark contrast to the terrible darkness of her nightmares.
"It was this big winged lizard with a huge tail," Rose began, "and-"
"I don't want to talk about it!" Cammy shrieked, covering her ears. Her scream was loud enough for nearly everyone on the sidewalk to hear, and some of the people in the adjacent houses even walked to their windows. Angela quickly walked over and embraced Cammy, her arms wrapping around the front of her sister's midsection.
"Cammy, shh... it's alright now, nothing's going to hurt you," Angela cooed softly. "It was just a dream..."
"But it... it seemed so real..." Cammy said, her trembles slowly stopping. "Thank you, Angela..."
"A big winged lizard?" Ami thought, a slight shiver going down her spine as she suddenly recalled the horrors of her encounters with Frieza. "Now I know they're dreaming about Frieza... I can understand why... even I still have nightmares about him sometimes..."
"Angela's right, Cammy... this is the real world, and there's nothing here that can hurt you at all!" Lita said, a smile on her face as she slightly exaggerated the truth. "So you've got nothing to fear..."
"But fear itself!" Mina said, flashing a peace sign in Cammy's face. "What... I couldn't resist!"
Suddenly, the air in front of the eight girls began to warp and twist, forming a long, wide, portal-like distortion right before their eyes. Serena, Ami, Rei, Lita, and Mina gasped, knowing exactly what it was, but Rose, Angela, and Cammy screamed, thinking that their terrible nightmares had become a reality. Many people on the street followed their lead, turning and running from the portal, screaming loudly as they ran. Rose, Angela, and Cammy decided to hide in a nearby bush as a beautiful woman emerged from the wide portal, smiling viciously.
"Hello, girls... or should I say, hello Sailor Senshi?" asked the woman. "My name is Nikashi..."
The woman turned to Ami and smiled.
"And I believe your boyfriend and I have already met," said Nikashi. "He's a real looker, you know."
"What do you want?" Serena shouted, clenching her fists.
"Well, you see... I'm here to play a fun little game, if you'll let me! Five on five, the Sailor Senshi versus me and Pandemonium's four elemental soldiers. And I've acquired a neat little prize for our game..."
"And what would that be?" Ami asked, stepping forward to confront Nikashi. "Oh no... what if she's got Trunks?"
"You'll just have to find out by coming inside and joining me!" Nikashi said. "Although I'll give you a little hint. She's a LOT older than me... a lot less pretty, too. And of course, she's really, really whiny..."
The Senshi gasped.
"Bulma!" Ami thought. "Hey, Bulma's not whiny..."
"So, if you want to play, that's fine... if not, well, I'll just donate the prize to charity... the charity of my associate Pandemonium's deadly wrath! I'll be waiting, girls..."
Nikashi casually stepped back into the gate, leaving Ami and the other Senshi alone in front of it. By now, all the other bystanders had left, save Rose, Angela, and Cammy, who were still concealed in the nearby shrubbery, listening in.
"What's going on?" Cammy blurted out. "Why are Serena and the others-"
Rose and Angela quickly covered Cammy's mouth, both of them shushing her at the same time.
"Cammy, be quiet!" Angela whispered.
"We'll miss something important... I think that lady might have something to do with those dreams we've been having!" Rose whispered.
"Really?" Cammy mumbled through both of her sisters' hands. Rose and Angela nodded.
"Let's just say I have a hunch..." Rose whispered.
"What are we gonna do?" Serena shouted. "If we go in there, we might miss school or something!"
"Serena, I thought you'd be the last person concerned about missing school," Rei grumbled. "We've gotta get in there! Trunks' mom is in serious trouble!"
"Well, yeah, but I've been tardy the last few days, and the teacher said that if I get one more tardy..."
"Come ON, Serena," Ami said, taking Serena's hand and pulling her toward the open vortex. "We have to save Bulma, she's like a second mother to me, you know that!"
"You're right, Ami... let's go!" Serena shouted. "Besides, Trunks has probably been told about this even before we have... he'll be there to help us! We'll be done beating those jerks in no time!"
The five girls disappeared into the vortex, but instead of closing behind them, it remained open, swirling in the middle of the road. Rose, Angela, and Cammy stared at it for several seconds, contemplating what to do next.
"Well... what now?" Rose asked.
"We've gotta go in there!" Angela replied. "It looks really scary, but... we need to help our friends! And if we don't go in, we'll never find out what's causing us to have those terrible dreams..."
"There's no way I'm going in there!" Cammy shouted, her voice trembling as she began to step away from her two sisters. "No way, nuh-uh!"
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Meanwhile, Trunks remained in his own world, in the kitchen of his house, sitting in a chair with his eyes fixated on the camera that was keeping him glued to his spot. He hadn't wiped the angry glare from his face as he continued to stare into the camera's ever-watching lens, his gaze piercing its cold stare.
"I can't move from this spot..." Trunks thought desperately. "If I could, I could easily find some way to loop the film... but I don't even know what that stupid thing is made of! Its power must be magical if it's capable of transferring my image across the dimensions... and even if it's not, I can't take the chance of my mom being killed..."
As the cold realization began to sink in, Trunks transferred all of his hope and trust to Ami, the girl he loved more than anything else in the world. If anyone could rescue his mother, Ami was the person who could do it.
"I trust you, Ami... you and the Sailor Senshi... please be safe... and please bring mother back home..."
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The five girls, now transformed into the Sailor Senshi, appeared in a giant, domed room that seemed to be entirely made of metal, with bright light reflecting off its cold, gray surface. The floor of the room consisted of solid, white tile, similar to that inside Trunks' training chamber. It was clear that wherever or whatever this room was, deep within the bowels of Lord Exeter's gigantic space station, it was made for a fight. As soon as the Senshi arrived, they could see Pandemonium's four elemental warriors, and in front of them stood the strongest warrior of all, the deadly Nikashi. The room's intense light reflected especially well from the smooth, red leather of her revealing outfit, its sleek and svelte design nearly causing the Senshi to have a double-take upon seeing it.
"It looks like someone's in the mood for some weird fun," quipped Sailor Moon, commenting on Nikashi's revealing outfit. "Note to you... you're fighting women, not men here. Try to dress a BIT more formally for the occasion, m'kay?"
"It doesn't look like she's fighting any men here at all," said Sailor Venus, looking in every direction for any sign of Trunks. "Where is Trunks at?"
"Where IS Trunks?" thought Sailor Mercury, her mind flooded with worry. "Trunks, where-"
"Oh yes, I forgot one minor detail... Trunks won't be appearing here tonight," said Nikashi, a smile on her face. "Because you see, he's not allowed anywhere near the premises. Don't worry about him, though... he's safely at home, and that's where he's going to stay if he ever wants to see dear Bulma alive ever again!"
"Where is she?" Sailor Moon shouted angrily, stepping forward to confront her five adversaries. "And what have you done with her?"
"Oh, she's okay, we didn't hurt her when we grabbed her," said Flarinsa, smiling and looking down at her fingernails in a gesture of pride.
"Except for freezing her whiny, screeching mouth shut," Patrick said, chuckling. "Why did Pandemonium have to go and thaw it out, anyway? She hasn't done anything but scream since we brought her here!"
"Pandemonium said he wanted to ask her a few questions," said Elbarzad, turning to Patrick and Flarinsa. "And he's our boss, so..."
"I know, I know, don't cross the boss," Patrick replied, sighing.
"Enough talk about Bulma. Just like Trunks, she's safe and sound... until you fools lose, that is!" Nikashi shouted.
"Oh, we won't lose!" Sailor Jupiter said, clenching her fists and stepping forward. "Even if Trunks isn't here, we can still take on you five, no sweat!"
"Trunksie-poo needed to go all the way to Super Saiyan to beat me, and I wasn't even trying," said Nikashi, her eyes beginning to sparkle. "What makes you think you can stop me, when Trunks has already proven to be way stronger than the five of you?"
"Strength comes in all different forms!" Sailor Mercury shouted to Nikashi, a growing determination in her voice. "Trunks said that we'll be far more effective against opponents using magical strength than he is, and I think that means we've got a pretty even chance to beat-"
Suddenly, a long block of ice, similar to the one Patrick used to silence Bulma, came flying at Sailor Mercury's face with incredible speed. Sailor Mercury raised her hand and fired a tiny blast of ice magic, destroying the block and nullifying both attacks.
"Dammit," Patrick cursed under his breath.
"I'll consider that the first attack by your side... it's our turn now!" Sailor Moon shouted, quickly withdrawing her henshin stick and pointing it straight at Nikashi and the four warriors flanked behind her. "Moon Purification..."
Remembering Trunks' lessons, Sailor Moon didn't finish the attack naturally, instead concentrating as much energy as she could at the tip of the henshin stick and firing it off in the form of a gargantuan energy beam. The giant white beam flew at Nikashi and quickly slammed into her, creating a huge energy explosion that quickly engulfed all five of the Senshi's adversaries.
"Direct hit!" Sailor Venus shouted victoriously. "Sailor Moon, that was awesome!"
But the frown that remained on Sailor Moon's face clearly indicated that the fight was far from over. Indeed, when the smoke from the attack cleared, its only accomplishment was prompting Nikashi into creating a giant, glowing red magical energy shield that spread out in front of her and the four elemental warriors behind her, protecting them with a large circle of red light. Nikashi emitted a tiny giggle, and the shield disappeared as quickly as it had been formed.
"Now it's on," Nikashi said quietly. Pointing at the five temporarily stunned Senshi, she commanded, "Get them!"
Without hesitation, Flarinsa, Patrick, Elbarzad, and Grenate complied, rushing the distance of the room to reach the Senshi. The five Senshi rushed equally quickly, and the nine furious warriors met in the middle, as Nikashi looked on.
"Split up and try to take them one on one!" Sailor Moon shouted. "Since Nikashi hasn't attacked yet, we outnumber them, so two of us can take on one of them at the same time!"
"Wanna take the girl in red with me, Sailor Moon?" Sailor Mars asked, pleasantly surprised by Sailor Moon's sudden strategical inspiration. Sailor Moon nodded, and the two Senshi both attacked Flarinsa at once, taking her by surprise. She formed a fireball in each hand and tossed them at the two attacking Senshi, hitting them both in the chest and briefly stunning them. Even as Flarinsa prepared to take on Sailor Moon and Sailor Mars, Patrick immediately attacked Sailor Mercury, determined not to let her embarrass him again.
"You can't always be equal to me, Mercury..." Patrick shouted, an icy wind swirling up around him. As Sailor Mercury looked into the spinning vortex, she could see tiny shards of ice forming deep within, rapidly picking up speed.
"If those hit me, I could be sliced to ribbons!" Sailor Mercury thought, nervously looking up at the swirling shards. "I have to do something, and quick!"
Before Patrick could make any further sort of strike, Sailor Mercury raised her arms and channeled a large amount of magical energy. Now, Patrick decided to launch his attack. The vortex began to accelerate, and icy shards were flung toward Sailor Mercury, standing just a few yards away. Sailor Mercury stuck out her hands and blasted a large, icy beam in the direction of the shards and their creator, freezing the shards solid and creating a large, icy explosion that knocked Patrick to the ground, his body coated in ice. He slowly made it to his feet, just in time to see Sailor Mercury inspecting the damage from his attack. A few of the shards had made it through, and Mercury's gloved hands were covered in tiny slashes from the sharp ice, slightly staining the snow-white gloves with blood. Patrick smiled in approval, though his body was beginning to feel slight twinges of pain from the aftereffects of Sailor Mercury's attack.
While this was going on, Sailor Jupiter was furiously defending herself against a rain of blows by Elbarzad, each deadly punch accompanied by a small blast of wind, the wind acting like a hammer against Sailor Jupiter's body. Only by concentrating her magical energy could she avoid damage from the blows, but she knew as she blocked each one with her forearm that she was losing energy fast with each blow that rained down.
"Having fun, Sailor Jupiter?" Elbarzad shouted, continuing to strike at Sailor Jupiter with his deadly, wind-infused fists.
"I'll be having a lot... more fun..." Sailor Jupiter said, straining to speak as Elbarzad's fists continued to come down, "when I'm kicking... your butt!"
Suddenly, a huge field of electrical energy shot out from Sailor Jupiter, slamming into Elbarzad and sending thousands of volts surging through his body. He leapt back, still sparking brightly with leftover electrical charge. Sailor Jupiter ran over and punched Elbarzad in the face, sending him even further backward, bumping right into his comrade Grenate.
"Hey!" Grenate shouted, his attention diverted from the fight. "Watch it, will ya?"
Grenate turned back to Sailor Venus, the Senshi whom he was currently facing. She had just began to charge up energy for an attack when Grenate sent several large, heavy boulders flying toward her. As they approached, several golden energy chains extended out from Venus' hands, slamming into the boulders and shattering them on contact.
"Maybe you should pay attention to your own fight instead of yelling at everyone who bumps into you," Sailor Venus said, a bright smile on her face. "If it hadn't been for your dumb rocks, my chains would have ripped you to pieces!"
"Guess I'll just have to try harder," Granate said. Before Sailor Venus could react, the very floor she was standing on began to rise up off of the ground, quickly flying several feet into the air. Undaunted, Sailor Venus leapt off of the rising rock and pointed her arms at Granate, charging up yet another attack.
"I can control my energy almost perfectly now!" Sailor Venus thought. "This is great!"
But Venus' joy was short-lived. The lifted section of ground quickly changed course and smashed into the back of Sailor Venus' head, shattering into several pieces and knocking the surprised Senshi to the ground, with a large bump on the back of her head as a result.
"Foolish girl," said Granate, standing victoriously over the dazed Sailor Venus. "You Sailor Senshi are all the same..."
"Not all of us!" Sailor Moon shouted, taking a split-second to watch Sailor Venus' battle as she herself and Sailor Mars were still fighting against Flarinsa. "We've gotta help her, Mars!"
"You still have me to deal with, remember?" Flarinsa shouted. A huge fireball exploded from Flarinsa's hands, and Sailor Mars was barely able to counter the attack with a large fireball of her own. The two huge balls of fire met right in the middle of Sailor Mars and Flarinsa, and immediately began jockeying for position as the two warriors desperately tried pushing their own blasts forward.
"I think I've seen this before," thought Sailor Mercury, catching a quick glimpse at her friend's battle with Flarinsa. "Trunks and Frieza used to fight exactly like this...."
"Shouldn't you be paying attention to me?" Patrick shouted, running toward Sailor Mercury at a rapid speed. "And THIS!"
Patrick leapt up and dealt a smashing kick to the side of Sailor Mercury's face, knocking her into the air and sending her flying toward the back of the room. She slammed into the ground hard, and took several seconds to regain her bearings.
"Unnh..." Sailor Mercury groaned, looking up at the other Senshi while rubbing her right cheek, where a deep, purple bruise had just formed. "Darn it... I should try to pay more attention next time..."
"Sailor Mercury!" shouted Sailor Moon, suddenly turning toward her friend. "Mars, we gotta help-"
Sailor Mars was about to respond when two small beams of flame formed just above Flarinsa's shoulders and rushed at her. Sailor Mars, still busy holding back Flarinsa's large fire beam with one of her own, had no chance to block or dodge the beams as they slammed into Sailor Mars' face, causing her to lose her concentration. The beam of fire coming from her hands disappeared, allowing Flarinsa's large beam to come barreling toward her. The beam slammed into Sailor Mars and exploded in a huge pillar of fire, causing all of the other Senshi to stop dead in their tracks.
"NO!" Sailor Moon screamed, running at Flarinsa in a rage and pointing her arm at the now-cackling warrior. "I'll show you to attack my friend!"
"Sailor Mars, no!" Sailor Mercury shouted. As she began to stand up, a thin, red strand of energy suddenly encircled her wrists, binding them together and constricting tightly, cutting into her flesh. As Sailor Mercury began to scream, a strong force pulled her toward the back of the room, and a loud voice began to ring in her ears.
"Tell me, Trunks' girlfriend..." said Nikashi, using her whip to drag Sailor Mercury across the room, "what exactly does he see in you, anyway?"
Sailor Mercury looked up to see Nikashi looking down at her, straight into her eyes. She tried to struggle against the energy whip binding her wrists, but only succeeded in having the thin, deadly strand constricted even tighter, cutting even further into her skin. She began to tremble with fright, and cried out in a loud, agonized cry.
"Let... me... GO!" Sailor Mercury shouted.
"Not a chance!" Nikashi yelled, her smile disappearing as she began to fill with burning, jealous rage. "Now... TELL ME WHAT HE SEES IN YOU!"
Nikashi began to repeatedly kick the helpless Sailor Mercury in the side, each kick becoming more and more intense and eliciting an even louder scream from her agonized victim. Desperately, Sailor Mercury pointed her tied hands upward at Nikashi, trying to counter with a magical attack, but gasped in horror when she realized she couldn't form even a single spark of magical energy.
"What in the world is happening to me?" Sailor Mercury thought, her eyes beginning to glisten with tears. "I can't even form a single attack... I'm completely helpless! What am I going to do?"
"Tell me!" Nikashi shouted, kicking Sailor Mercury in the side yet again. "Why does Trunks love a nerd like you when he could be with a beautiful woman like me?"
"Because for one thing, Sailor Mercury is more beautiful than you could ever be, and for another thing... she's not a trashy bitch like you are!"
Nikashi stopped kicking Sailor Mercury and turned to see who had confronted her. It was Sailor Jupiter, standing just inches away. Her hands were sparking with magical energy.
"And you're about to get fried!"
Sailor Jupiter pointed her arms at Nikashi and fired all the energy she could muster, blasting Nikashi back into the wall and snapping the magical energy whip holding Sailor Mercury's wrists. The snapped piece of energy disappeared, freeing Sailor Mercury and allowing her to slowly climb to her feet, staggering back into Sailor Jupiter's arms.
"Are you alright?" Sailor Jupiter asked.
"Yeah," a relieved Sailor Mercury said, nodding and rubbing her wrists. "How did you-"
"I knocked out that punk Elbarzad with a kick to the stomach, but I'm pretty sure he'll be getting up soon," said Sailor Jupiter. "But right now, we've gotta teach this witch a lesson!"
"Teach me a lesson?" Nikashi said, walking away from the wall with only a few minor burns left by Sailor Jupiter's electrical attack. "I'm easily stronger than the both of you put together! You just caught me off-guard, that's all... now take this!"
In an instant, Nikashi flared up with a large amount of energy, knocking back the two Senshi and almost felling them to their knees.
"She's about to attack!" Sailor Mercury screamed.
"Look out!" screamed Sailor Jupiter.
Just then, a large portal opened up in the front of the room. Out of the portal emerged Rose and Angela, half-dragging Cammy through the threshold of the portal.
"No, I don't wanna go!" Cammy shrieked.
"C'mon, don't you want to find out why we're having all those scary dreams?" Angela said, trying to drag her struggling sister into the room. "And why... oh my gosh, what is this place?"
Rose and Angela dropped Cammy, who immediately fell to the floor as her sisters released her. As the three girls looked around the room, their mouths opened wide in stunned silence, and all the fighting stopped as everyone, the Senshi included, turned to look at the three intruders.
"What are they doing here?" Nikashi shouted. "No interference allowed! Whoever you three are, you shouldn't be here!"
"Cammy..." Patrick said lustfully as his dark eyes met with Cammy's large green ones. "She gets more and more beautiful every day..."
"Who are you, and why are you staring at me?" Cammy suddenly shrieked. "And where is this place? And where are Serena and-"
"Oh geez, how did they get here?" Sailor Moon whispered to the nearby Sailor Mars, who looked back and shrugged.
"I don't know, Sailor Moon... but somehow, we have to get them out of here!"
"Flarinsa, Patrick, Elbarzad, Grenate... get out of the way!" Nikashi shouted, gesturing her four counterparts to the sides of the room. As soon as they were out of the way, Nikashi pointed her arms toward Rose, Angela, and Cammy, now trembling as they slowly began to realize the grimness of their situation. "You three have interfered in your last battle!"
Cammy turned around, desperately searching for the portal from which she and her sisters had entered the room. The large portal was now gone.
"No!" Cammy shrieked. "There was... there was a warp thingy, right here!"
"It's gone?" Angela shouted, looking back as well. "OH NO!"
"Oh yes!" Nikashi screamed, a smile returning to her face. "And the penalty for seeing something you were never supposed to see... is death!"
Three large, spark-shaped blasts emerged from Nikashi's hands and flew at the three trembling girls. Without hesitation, the five Senshi quickly stepped in the path of the blasts, Sailor Jupiter and Sailor Mercury running back to join the other Senshi.
"We can't let you guys get hurt!" Sailor Moon shouted just as the blasts hit, engulfing the Senshi in three large, powerful explosion that blasted Rose, Angela, and Cammy completely off of their feet.
"Ow!" Cammy shrieked as her buttocks impacted the cold, tile floor. "That hurt!"
"The Sailor Senshi just sacrificed themselves, and all you can think about is your butt hurting?" Rose shouted. "That's cold, Cammy..."
"I'm scared..." Cammy moaned, shivering as the smoke from the blast wafted over her head. When the smoke cleared, the five Senshi were still standing, though all of them were a bit worse for well, sporting new burns and bruises to go along with the ones already sustained during their battles with Nikashi's henchmen.
"You guys okay?" Sailor Moon asked, looking back to check on the condition of her friends, who were still sitting firmly on the ground. As the three of them nodded, Angela recognized something in Sailor Moon's eyes that she hadn't noticed before. They were exactly identical to the eyes of one of her closest friends.
"Serena?" Angela said meekly, causing Sailor Moon to gasp, her mouth opening wide.
"Um... um... um..." stammered Sailor Moon, struggling to form words that would lower the suspicions of her friend. "Well, you see-"
"We'll explain later," said Sailor Mercury, looking back at her three friends and smiling, relieved to find out that they were alright. "We've got some bad guy butt to kick right now, so you three just stay back there, safe, okay?"
Flarinsa, Patrick, Elbarzad, and Grenate had already reassembled themselves, lining up in front of the Senshi to prepare for another strike. All they were waiting for was the word from Nikashi, who remained in the back of the room, damaged only slightly by Sailor Jupiter's attack, pondering her next move. After some deliberation, she shouted the order.
"KILL THEM ALL!"
And with those words, the battle began anew. But as the Senshi ran toward Nikashi's warriors, something about them seemed different than the last time. They didn't split off to attack individual Senshi. Instead, they remained together, ready to attack in a group. It wasn't a unique strategy, and the Senshi themselves attacked in a group many times. What surprised the Senshi was that they'd never seen this particular group of warriors attack in such a way before... leaving them ill-prepared for the kind of power such an attack would contain. As the Senshi began to charge up their energies, Flarinsa suddenly let loose with a screaming line of flames that engulfed every one of the five Senshi, causing them to cry out as their bodies were scorched by the deadly fire. As soon as that attack died down, Patrick leapt up and fired a huge, blue beam at the Senshi. It hit the ground right in front of them, but soon, it formed a large, freezing glacier that engulfed all five Senshi, encasing them in a giant block of ice. Next to attack was Elbarzad. He pointed his arms at the Senshi, instantly shattering the block of ice to pieces with a giant tornado that picked up the five Senshi and sent them flying up into the tornado's vortex, as it dipped down from the very top of the room and quickly ascended the five Senshi to the highest point of its screaming winds.
"The wind is so intense, I can't even form an attack!" Sailor Moon shrieked.
"And it feels like... we're being torn apart!" Sailor Mercury shouted. She looked down at Rose, Angela, and Cammy, who had backed all the way up against the large wall of the room, still trembling. Cammy was sobbing, her hands all the way up to her eyes. "We've got to get free and help them, right now!"
But before any sort of counterattack could be mounted by the Senshi, large chunks of incredibly hard rock were lifted up into the vortex by Grenate. The huge rocks hit the Senshi, smashing and bruising them with their force amplified by the inconceivably fast winds. Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, the incredible wind died down, and the rocks disintegrated. The five Senshi fell dozens of feet, finally smacking hard against the ground below, their bodies heavily beaten and injured by the potent quadraelemental group attack that had just been unleashed upon them. Slowly and courageously, they stood up, Sailor Moon first, and then quickly followed by the other five Senshi. Though their bodies were battered, they were all completely focused on the battle, ignoring their pain and concentrating on defeating Flarinsa and the other deadly warriors, including Nikashi, who continued to watch the fight from the back of the room. They weren't just fighting for themselves, they were fighting for Bulma, and now Rose, Angela, and Cammy as well.
"Well, it looks like Pandemonium's lackeys are actually good for something," Nikashi said, arrogantly brushing back her hair with her hand. "Well, what are you waiting for? Finish them!"
"I was just getting to that," Flarinsa said, stepping forward with a small fireball cupped in each hand. "That attack took a lot out of us too, you know... you could be a little more considerate of the people who are actually doing your dirty work..."
"Two can... play at that game..." said Sailor Moon, looking around to all of the other Senshi. "It's time for a Sailor Planet Power attack!"
The other Senshi, including Sailor Mercury, had that exact same idea on their minds. They linked hands and joined together, forming a circle with their bodies as they quickly gathered whatever energy they had left. Flarinsa turned to look at the Senshi as a large cloud of magical energy gathered over their bodies.
"Hey, what's going on?" Flarinsa shouted. "Are they trying to attack us?"
"We can't let that happen," said Patrick, running toward the five Senshi. "You fools are-"
"Sailor Planet..."
But remembering what Trunks had told them, the Senshi didn't just release their attack like they normally would. Instead, they concentrated all of their power into a large ball and fired it out in the shape of a beam. It slammed into Patrick head-on as he charged the Senshi, and he and his cohorts were helpless to stop the explosion that followed, engulfing him, Flarinsa, Elbarzad, and Grenate, showering them in brilliant light. When the attack finally ended, the five Senshi fell to their knees, confident that they had finally won the fight. Rose, Angela, and Cammy, who had to shield their eyes from the attack, slowly slid their arms away from their faces.
"I could... I could feel that attack, there was so much power..." Rose said quietly.
"Do you think... the Sailor Senshi won?" Angela asked.
"I know they did!" Cammy said, wiping the tears away from her face. "That attack was way too powerful to have not done anything! The fight's over, and the Senshi are the winners!"
"Not exactly," came Nikashi's voice, a lot closer than the Senshi had grown accustomed to hearing. Sailor Mercury gasped, the first to realize the cold truth. When the light from the attack finally disappeared, Nikashi was again standing before the Senshi, just inches in front of Patrick and the others. Nikashi's red energy shield had once again completely blocked the effects of the attack. When the shield disappeared, the Senshi could see the flesh on Nikashi's hand had been seared and ripped, having taken the brunt of the powerful magical blast.
"No... no, not again!" Sailor Mars shouted. "She can't block our attack again!"
"Yes... I did block it again, girls..." said Nikashi through gritted teeth. A look of rage was clearly evident on her face. "And THIS is what it did to my beautiful hand! It might take days to heal!"
"What are we going to do now, Sailor Moon?" Sailor Venus asked frantically, putting her hand on her trembling leader's shoulder. "Sailor Moon, are you-"
"I'll tell you what you're going to do... you'll going to die!" Nikashi shrieked, backhanding Sailor Venus across the face and sending her flying into Sailor Moon, both of the Senshi crumpling to the ground. "Flarinsa, Patrick, Elbarzad, Grenate... finish them off! And then kill those three meddling little bitches over by that wall while you're at it!"
Nikashi leapt back, allowing the four warriors whose lives she'd just saved to pounce on the Senshi like jackals. Flarinsa blasted Sailor Mercury and Sailor Jupiter with fireballs, while Patrick rained ice slabs on Sailor Venus and Sailor Moon, still struggling to stand after Nikashi sent them tumbling onto one another. Grenate kicked Sailor Mars to the ground, and Elbarzad began slashing her with blasts of wind, each one cutting across her body like the slash of a blade. All Rose, Angela, and Cammy could do was watch in horror as the girls whom they clearly recognized as their friends were being beaten to death, right before their eyes.
"Those aren't the Sailor Senshi... they're Serena, Ami, Rei, Lita, and Mina... I don't know how, but they're both at the same time..." thought Rose.
"This can't be happening!" Angela thought, tears forming in her eyes. "Leave them alone! Leave our friends alone right now!"
"And after the Senshi, we're next..." thought Cammy, sobbing into her hands. "Please... please, don't die... you have to fight... you have to fight... you have to..."
As fear and terror overwhelmed the three girls, memories of their past lives, once thought to be locked away forever, came flooding back. The dreams, the horrible nightmares, suddenly inundated the girls' minds as if they were real, actual memories of their pasts. Along with the terrible memories came the good ones, the memories of fighting alongside Trunks and Ami, even at the costs of the young girls' lives. Trauma, it seemed, was reawakening the girls that once inhabited those frail bodies... and trauma, it seemed, would soon unleash the saviors of the Sailor Senshi.
"I said leave our friends alone!"
Angela could suddenly feel intense energy, rapidly circulating throughout her entire body. Her hands began to light up with a bright blue glow, and her long, beautiful sky blue hair began flowing back, despite the complete absence of wind in the room. Next to Angela, her two sisters felt the effects of similar transformations, as energy rapidly surfaced within their own bodies. In seconds, the girls were transformed, their old lives and memories merging with the new, their old identities returning, and their powers re-awakening once more. Flarinsa stopped her assault on Sailor Mercury and Sailor Jupiter and turned, the first to sense the new power.
"What are those girls doing back there, and what... oh my gosh, their clothes... they've completely changed!"
Sure enough, the girls' normal school fuku uniforms had disappeared, replaced instead with their old outfits. Rose was now in a bright pink outfit consisting of a short top that went from her shoulders to just below her chest, and a pair of loose, baggy pink pants. Angela wore a beautiful, light blue dress decorated with many bows, while Cammy wore a skintight green jumpsuit, with flashy white stripes down the sides, and long white gloves on her hands. The four villains had by now stopped their attack on the Senshi, and were completely focused on the three girls who had apparently made some sort of incredible magical transformation without them even noticing. This enraged all of them deeply, especially Flarinsa.
"What did you just DO?" Flarinsa shrieked. Sailor Mercury looked up from the ground, rising onto one knee and glancing at her three re-awakened friends.
"They... they got their powers back..." Sailor Mercury whispered. "I can sense it... but how..."
"This is an interesting development," said Nikashi, looking over toward the three girls. "Well, what are you waiting for, you fools! Attack them!"
"But what about the Senshi?" asked Elbarzad.
"Nevermind the Senshi," said Patrick, his gaze fixated on Cammy, his obsession. "These three will be a cinch to subdue... and once we do, Cammy will be all mine..."
"Let me tell you something," said Cammy, stepping forward with a conviction and confidence that her sisters had never seen before, even in their past lives. "The last waking minutes before I re-awakened here, do you know where I was? On a field, in this barren world, being slowly and brutally killed by a vicious monster, unable to beg for my life, barely able to scream... my last thought was 'don't let me die like this... I don't want to die!'... if you think I'll allow you, even for one second, to even think about killing me... you're completely and utterly wrong!"
"Such incredible determination... such strength... it certainly will be fun to take her," thought Patrick, just before Cammy pointed her hands at the four warriors and fired a huge blast of pink magical energy. The blast came in so fast that none of them had time to react, and were all caught in the huge explosion, quickly sent crashing to their knees. The nearby Senshi, though severely weakened, scrambled out of the way as best as they could, barely making it out of the blast radius of the attack.
"Oops!" Cammy said with a giggle. "Sorry, guys... almost hit you there..."
The dust from the attack quickly cleared, and Flarinsa, Patrick, Elbarzad, and Grenate slowly got up from the attack, though it took them a few seconds to recover. Angela, wasting no time at all, pointed her arms at the four recovering warriors and began an attack of her own.
"I don't have any inspirational things to say like Cammy did, but I will say this... you four should take some time to stop and smell the flowers!"
"The WHAT?" Flarinsa groaned angrily, rising to her feet. "I don't care about any of this flower crap, I-"
Suddenly, a huge wave of razor-sharp, magically infused flower petals came buzzing toward Flarinsa and her companions. Before they could get out of the way, the petals slashed them, all of them, hundreds of times, creating a large spray of blood as the petals flew past. As the petals reached Nikashi, she casually reached out and pointed her arm at them, disintegrating them all with a single blast of magic. But Flarinsa, Patrick, Elbarzad, and Grenate weren't as lucky. Their bodies were covered with tiny cuts, caused by the hundreds of flower petals ripping their flesh. Angela gasped and raised her hands to her mouth, surprised by the brutality of her attack. Cammy gasped as well.
"I'm, um... sorry..." Angela said. "I really didn't mean to hurt you guys that much..."
"Don't be sorry, Angie-chan..." Rose said, stepping forward. "They deserved it! All of it!"
Suddenly, four large vines, two from each of Rose's hands, rushed out toward the four bleeding warriors. They quickly wrapped around their chests, binding their arms to their sides. Then, the vines wrapped and intertwined around one another, leaving the four elemental warriors bound and tied to one another, held out high in the air by the deadly, squeezing vines. As the vines began to constrict, all four of them began to scream, causing Nikashi to growl in disgust.
"I can't believe it!" Nikashi shrieked. "You idiots are getting beaten by a bunch of flowers! Pandemonium IS an idiot... you four are completely useless!"
"I can't believe it..." said Sailor Moon quietly, her eyes wide open as she watched Rose slowly squeeze their four powerful adversaries into submission. "They're all so powerful..."
"Not really," said Cammy, with a smile. "You'd have killed them too, if that dominatrix lady hadn't cheated so much..."
"CHEATED?" Nikashi shrieked. "This battle was five-on-five! And I am not a... not a... whatever you called me!"
Rose suddenly swung the vine toward the ground, slamming all four elemental warriors into the hard, tiled floor. Then, she swung the vine the other way, slamming them to the ground again. She repeated the process several more times, leaving a large crack on the ground every time the four made contact. Finally, Rose stopped, and the vines released their captives. Flarinsa and the others fell to the floor. Their bodies were even more bruised and battered than the Senshi's, and on top of that, all four were unconscious. Rose, Angela, and Cammy looked at Nikashi for a brief second, and then walked over to the five Senshi.
"You guys are hurt..." said Angela, putting her hand on Sailor Moon's shoulder. "We can heal you...."
"It'll take a lot of our energy, though," said Rose. "But that's okay... we're just glad to see you all again!"
"Rosemary, Angelica, Chamomile... all of you... I missed you so much!" Sailor Mercury said, gently wrapping her arms around Cammy. "Especially you... after you died so terribly, I thought-"
"It's alright... I've had a long time to deal with that now... really, I'm okay," said Cammy. "Our old lives fused with our new ones... so we've got all the memories from both lives."
"Hey!" shrieked Nikashi from the other end of the room. "You've completely forgotten about me... your happy little reunion will be short-lived, Sailor Senshi!"
"You're really willing to take us all on?" Rose asked, stepping toward Nikashi. "After we so easily handled your pathetic little soldiers?"
"That's right!" Nikashi shouted. "I'm much more powerful than them, and..."
"And after we're healed, it's eight on one," said Sailor Moon, rising to her feet. All her wounds and bruises had been completely healed, and soon, after Cammy and Angela had healed the others, all five Senshi were completely back to full strength. Now, Nikashi seemed much more uneasy about taking them on. Though she was extremely powerful, it was still eight on one... and they had dispatched Flarinsa's squad so easily.
"Admit it, we've won," said Sailor Moon.
"So give Bulma back, right now!" Sailor Mercury shouted.
Nikashi stumbled over to her four fallen companions, who were still unconscious after Rose's attack. She looked at the Senshi, Rose, Angela, and Cammy, and then back down at the four unconscious warriors.
"Rest assured, Senshi... and you stupid, foolish meddling girls... you haven't seen the last of me!" Nikashi shrieked. A brilliant flash of light appeared, and then, all five warriors were gone. The Senshi, Rose, Angela, and Cammy walked into the center of the room and began to look around.
"Okay, we beat those dweebs," said Cammy, stretching her limbs up into the air.
"So... where's Bulma?" Sailor Mercury shouted frantically. "We won, didn't we?"
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"Dammit!" Pandemonium shouted, pounding his fist against the monitor where he had been watching the fight. The other monitor showed Trunks, still sitting obediently in his chair in the kitchen of his house. There was a cage behind him, from where Bulma had also been watching the fight.
"Take that, you jerk!" Bulma shouted. "And now that the Senshi have won, you have to let me go, right now!"
"You want me to let you go?" Pandemonium asked, reaching over and grabbing Bulma by the jaw. "Then send Trunks this message."
Pandemonium released Bulma's jaw, then struck her hard in the face, instantly knocking her out. She fell to the floor of the cage, and then disappeared.
"I sent her back," said Pandemonium. "Be thankful I didn't kill her."
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"They said we'd get Bulma back when we won!" Sailor Mercury sobbed, tears streaking down her face.
"I knew those jerks would go back on their word," said Sailor Mars angrily. "We're just going to have to save Bulma ourselves..."
"But how do we-" Sailor Moon began, before suddenly, Bulma fell from the top of the room. Sailor Mercury reached up and caught her, quickly setting her down on the ground and trying to wake her up.
"Bulma, are you alright?" Sailor Mercury asked, her tears falling on Bulma's face. "No... no, please, you have to wake up! Bulma, Trunks needs you! I can't let him down!"
"She's just unconscious, Ami," Sailor Jupiter said, brushing Bulma's hair back away from her face. "Whoever was holding her captive hit her in the face pretty hard... but she'll be okay... we need to get her back to Trunks as soon as possible!"
"Like, right now," Sailor Moon said, quickly turning to the other Senshi. "Let's do a Sailor Teleport and get back to the outside... are you girls sure this place is in Trunks' dimension?"
"Yeah... I recognize the waves this dimension gives off," said Angela, looking around. "This is Trunks' world all right.... but we'd better hurry, before they try to leave this dimension..."
"Yeah," said Sailor Mars, joining hands with Sailor Moon. "We need to hurry and get Bulma back to her house..."
The Senshi, Rose, Cammy, and Angela linked hands. Bulma was inbetween Sailor Moon and Sailor Mercury, who were holding up her unconscious form as gently as they could.
"Sailor... Teleport!" shouted the five Sailor Senshi. Within seconds, the nine women had successfully teleported out of Exeter's space station. As they left, one thought echoed through Sailor Mercury's mind, causing her to tremble as she teleported away. In order to exterminate the terrible evil that had befallen both Trunks' and her world, she and the Senshi would have to return... and Trunks would have to come along as well.
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Back in the Briefs' kitchen, Trunks had been sitting down in the chair for more than an hour, staring down the camera. He still didn't know that Pandemonium had stopped watching quite some time ago after his warriors had been defeated. All he knew was that he had to sit there, completely still, in that chair, hoping that Ami and her friends would be safe... and that they would bring his beloved mother back safely. Finally, a familiar voice rang through his ears.
"Trunks? Trunks, are you-"
Trunks turned around and stood up so quickly that he knocked the chair out from under him. There, standing in the entrance of the kitchen, was his mother Bulma, smiling from ear-to-ear. He ran to her and wrapped her up in a tight embrace, as he finally let the tears come to his eyes.
"Oh, mom.... I'm so sorry I left and didn't come back... I'm sorry I let you get captured... I'm sorry that-"
"Trunks, you're not sorry to see me, are you?" asked Bulma, gently pulling away from Trunks enough to look into his sparking eyes. She gently wiped the tears from his face before embracing him again. "I love you, Trunks... I'm just so happy to see you..."
"I love you too, mom... I promise never to let anything happen to you again..."
As Trunks hugged his mother, he could see another familiar face in the doorway. Standing there in her red, white, and blue schoolgirl uniform was Ami, a happy and loving smile on her face, even bigger than the one that had been on his mother's. As she stood there, smiling the biggest smile that she had been able to smile in a long time, all Trunks could do was mouth just six words to her.
"Ami... I love you... thank you."
"Love you too, Trunks," Ami said to Trunks, her thoughts transmitting the message. For Trunks and Ami, right now at this moment, that was all they needed to hear.
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So romantic... so sweet... it makes me think about how much I love MY mommy! ^_^ Okay, wait a minute... I'm a 16-year-old boy, maybe I shouldn't be saying these things. Welp, it's too late now... please review everyone!