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-
Zyppora: Glad you enjoyed all the action! I can't guarantee that much this chapter, but I'm sure you'll still like it!
GracedAngel1854: Glad you were able to read it! And yep, Patrick has Cammy... I'm sure she'll get out soon! I hope, anyway!
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After checking on Rei's grandpa (who had been asleep the whole time, even during all of the fighting), Trunks and the Sailor Senshi left the shrine and set out to find their friends Rose, Angela, and Cammy.
"Aren't we going to do anything about the shrine?" asked Sailor Mars, even as she and her fellow Senshi were running down the street. "It's fine on the inside, but the outside's been completely trashed, and-"
"No time for that now, Sailor Mars," Trunks said. "I'm sorry, but as soon as we find the others, we can start fixing it, alright?""Trunks is right... besides, what if the bad guys come back? The shrine would just get trashed again," Sailor Moon said. Sailor Mars gave a solemn nod, and the six heroes continued to search for their friends.
"We'd better go to their house first," Trunks said. "If anyone attacked, it would be there."
"Trunks," said Sailor Mercury, still holding Trunks' black shirt over her nose to stem its bleeding, "can't you search the city from the air? A lot of these people have seen us fighting... someone flying can't be all that new to them..."
"I'm not so sure about that," Trunks replied. "Let's just hurry to the girls' house right now... we're just about there!"
After a couple more minutes of running, Trunks and the Senshi finally arrived at the front of the house belonging to their friends. When they got there, they spotted Rose and Angela standing just outside the front door, talking with one another, both of them looking extremely worried. As they spotted Trunks and the others, they turned their heads for a second to acknowledge them before resuming their conversation.
"Something's not right here..." Trunks said quietly. "Where's Cammy? Did she-"
Fearing the worst, Trunks ran over to the two girls and tapped them both on the shoulder. The Sailor Senshi continued to follow Trunks, but all of them stayed back a few feet, except for Sailor Mercury, who stood right next to Trunks, leaning her head on his shoulder."Trunks, something's the matter, isn't it?" Sailor Mercury thought. "Cammy's not here... and I'm sensing that you think something happened to her..."
"That's what I'm about to find out," Trunks thought back to her. "Rose, Angela... I'm glad to see you're both doing okay..."
Trunks noticing the slight wounds that the two girls had sustained from their battle. Both of them had changed clothes since the fight, and they hadn't yet told their parents about anything that happened, especially Cammy's disappearance.
"We're fine, but Cammy's not," Rose said, her eyes wide with worry. "She disappeared after the... the battle."
"We were attacked by those four freaks that the Senshi had to fight up in space!" Angela said. "We chased them off, but... we lost Cammy. I'm pretty sure they've got her held prisoner..."
"That's what I was afraid of," Trunks breathed."Cammy's been kidnapped?" Sailor Moon suddenly said, her loud, screeching words temporarily startling Rose and Angela.
"Yes, that's what I said," Angela replied in a much more quiet manner.
"That's horrible..." Sailor Jupiter said, her face becoming as worried as Rose and Angela's were. "Did you look for her at all?""We made those goons fight us at the docks, just outside town," said Rose. "After the fight, we searched that whole place for her... nothing."
"They probably teleported her back to their mean old spaceship when they left," said Angela.
"First mom, and now Cammy..." Trunks muttered. His rage building, he pointed his head toward the sky and yelled, "DAMMIT!"
As the birds that had been perched on the roof of the house flew away, startled by Trunks' angry outburst, the door of the house opened, and a middle-aged woman peeked her head outside.
"Did I hear one of you swearing?" asked the woman, Rose, Angela, and Cammy's mother. "And what happened to you girls? And.... why are the Sailor Senshi here?""First of all, yes, I swore," admitted Trunks. "But I had a good reason."
"Trunks, don't tell her..." said Ami telepathically. "She probably doesn't even know her daughters' secret yet..."
"She's about to find out. Don't you see Rose and Angela? They're covered in cuts and bruises..."
"Little ones, Trunks. They can be explained away easily... but still, maybe you're right, Trunks... she'll find out eventually."
"Mom, um.... we've um, got something to tell you," said Rose, pointing to the Sailor Senshi. "We were walking out to the park, when a big monster attacked us!"
Rose's mother gasped. Angela, seeing what her sister was trying to do, continued the story.
"We got hurt, and we were almost killed, when... the Sailor Senshi came and saved us! Trunks came along too," Angela said. "And then they offered to take us home."
"Are you two okay?" asked their mother, looking up to the Sailor Senshi. "And I can't thank you enough for saving my girls..."
"All in a day's work for the Sailor Senshi!" said Sailor Venus, flashing a peace sign.
"But if you girls are here, then... where's Cammy?" asked the woman, looking down at her two daughters again as she began to turn pale. "Did something happen to her? Please, please don't tell me she's hurt!"
Rose and Angela didn't know what to say. They looked back and forth, when Trunks suddenly chimed in with...."Have you checked her room?" Trunks asked. "She's probably still asleep."
"Oh... oh yeah, she is, she is!" Rose said suddenly, looking over at Angela, who nodded her head."I didn't check on you girls this morning... it's getting pretty late, I should probably go up and wake her," said the woman, sighing with relief. "My goodness, it's almost time for breakfast, too... Rose, Angela, you should probably come in so I can clean up those cuts. Would any of you like to stay for breakfast?"
"Actually, mom, we've got a couple more things we need to take care of with the Sailor Senshi," said Rose, starting to walk back away from the porch. She knew that telling her mother that Cammy was still asleep would only buy her about a minute or so, and if she wanted to find out where Cammy really was, she and the others would have to leave as soon as possible, preferably back to Trunks' world. Only when Cammy was safe could the three girls reveal to their mother their true identities and powers. Until then, it would have to remain a secret to both of their parents.
"We'll be in in a few minutes, okay?" Angela said.
"What are they doing?" Sailor Moon whispered to the other Senshi. "Cammy's gone, isn't she?"
"I think I know what they're doing," Trunks said softly.
"Well, just be in as soon as possible," said the girls' mother, hugging Rose and then Angela as tightly as she could. "I was so worried about you... please try to be more careful next time. And thank you, Sailor Senshi!"
The woman ran back into the house, leaving the door open as she walked upstairs to check on Cammy, obviously in a hurry. As soon as she was out of sight, Rose and Angela turned back to Trunks and the Senshi, in as big a hurry as their mother was.
"We need to get out of here, and quick," Rose said. "Trunks, you've got your wand with you, right?"
"Yeah," Trunks said, taking it out of his pocket. "Better make sure there's no one around before we use it..."
Luckily enough, there was no one, as the street in front of the girls' house was usually empty on Saturday mornings, as people went out for breakfast and work. Trunks pressed the button on the wand, forming a large, swirling gate. The Senshi, Rose, and Angela walked into it, with Trunks entering soon after. As soon as he entered the gate, it snapped shut behind him, followed a few seconds later by a loud scream from Rose, Angela, and Cammy's bedroom.
"Honey, come quick!" shouted their mother. "Cammy's not here!"
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She didn't know how right she was, for at that moment, Cammy was in more trouble than anyone, even her beloved sisters, could ever imagine. Patrick had taken her to a small, dark, cold room hidden deep within the space station, a room that provided running water to a small portion of the station's hundreds of rooms. Within the room were several pipes, and Cammy was tied to one of them, her arms held above her head with thin wires tightly wrapped around her wrists, binding them together as well as to the pipe, completely unable to move. She was sitting down, her legs secured to the floor by wires wrapped around her ankles, holding them to pipes attached to the floor, a few inches apart. As she came to, the first thing she noticed were the wires around her wrists, cutting into her skin with even the slightest movement. The next thing she noticed was the coldness of the room, a stark contrast to the burning sensation she'd experienced just before passing out, caused by one of Flarinsa's most powerful attacks, making a direct hit.
"Where... where am I?" Cammy groaned, looking around in all directions. Though the room was dark, a faint light in the room provided just enough light for Cammy to see everything around her. A faint stinging quickly reminded her of the battle she'd been fighting before she had faded into unconsciousness. "Flarinsa must've gotten the jump on me... no!"
As Cammy quickly regained her strength, she tried even harder to struggle against her bonds, but was stopped immediately by a searing pain in her wrists, and the feeling of a tiny stream of blood trickling down the side of her arm.
"That's not good!" Cammy shouted, her voice becoming more and more frantic by the second. "They've taken me back to their spaceship... I'm locked up here... I'm in serious trouble!"
The door of the room, a large, metallic, sliding door operated by a computer lock, opened up, and as soon as Cammy saw who was standing in the doorway, her worst fears became realized in an instant. It was Patrick, the one who had been stalking her, watching her, spying on her in her sleep... was now standing just a few feet away, and Cammy was completely helpless to stop him. As she looked up at him, her entire body trembled, and as he walked toward her, she began to scream."You psycho, get away from me!" Cammy shouted. "Don't come any closer, I'm warning you!"Patrick slowly bent down and sat next to her, his hand quickly brushing across the side of her face. Sweat slowly began to make its way down her face, and as a single drop touched Patrick's hand, he smiled, lifting it to his face and licking it off with the tip of his tongue.
"You're sick..." Cammy whispered, her voice beginning to get choked up as her entire body filled with terror. "I swear, when I get out of this, I'm going to-"
"Ah, but that's the beauty of this whole thing, Cammy my dear... you can't get out of this," Patrick said, a smile on his face. "Not only are you tied quite tightly to those pipes right over there, but if you try to use your powers on them, the wires are especially designed to fry you. It would be horrible for both of us if you did that, so don't even try."
"Coward..." Cammy whispered, anger starting to come into her voice as she tried to get her courage up. "If I can intimidate him enough, maybe I can stop him and get out of here!"
"What did you say?" Patrick asked, leaning his face just inches away from hers.
"You heard me," Cammy whispered back. "If you had the guts, you'd release me and we could settle this with a one on one fight, just you and me..."
"Though I like to play rough," Patrick replied, another smile forming on his face, "I must decline your pathetic little offer. You had your chance to fight me, and you lost, and now you must face the consequences for losing."
Patrick's hand across stroked across Cammy's face, slowly tracing its way along her skin, down to her neck and toward the zipper in the front of her jumpsuit. As Cammy saw where Patrick's hand was going, she knew exactly what he was going to try to do, and her fear began to grow once again. Just as Patrick's fingers gripped the end of the zipper, she started to scream.
"ROSEMARY, ANGELICA, ANYONE.... HELP ME!!!" Cammy screamed desperately, tears starting to come to her eyes. "Please, anyone... HELP! HEL-"
That was all Patrick could take. His hand reached up to her mouth and swept across it once, forming an icy seal that muffled Cammy's cries in an instant. He reached down to her zipper again, but as his hand approached her body, it was suddenly surrounded in a powerful green glow, zapping Patrick's hand and causing him to instinctively yank it back. The green glow quickly melted the ice around Cammy's lips, allowing her to speak once more. Her lips curved into a smile as she saw Patrick furiously shaking his hand back and forth, his fingers coursing with pain.
"You were asking for it, buddy," Cammy said happily. "You got what you deserved. Now, to break out of this..."
As Cammy's energy glow intensified, she looked up toward the wires wrapped around her wrists. As she did, she quickly focused her energy and directed it toward the wires, hoping to fry them with an energy laser. She fired the laser at the wires, but as soon as the laser made contact, her body received an incredible shock. With a loud scream, Cammy slumped back down, her head drooping toward the ground. Her magical energy aura was now completely gone. Patrick smiled and walked over to Cammy, lifting up her chin with the palm of his hand. Her eyes were now tired and weary, with a thin stream of tears slowly trickling out of each of them. Without warning, Patrick pulled back his hand and slapped her hard across the side of the face, causing Cammy to cry out a slightly weaker yelp of pain. Her head drooped again, and she gritted her teeth, trying to shake the tears away from her face.
"No, Cammy... you can't cry... you can't show any weakness!" Cammy thought, trying to will her tears away. "What would your sisters think... c'mon, Cammy, be strong! You're tougher than this pervert!"
"Now, we'll never try that little trick ever again, will we?" Patrick said, stroking his hand across Cammy's cheek, now bruised from his hard slap. "C'mon now, it's not going to get any better, so you might as well stop crying now."
Cammy didn't even speak to Patrick. Instead, she turned her head and bit into his finger as hard as she could. With a loud cry, Patrick pulled back his hand yet again, shaking it furiously as his finger began to bleed. Cammy smiled again, if only for a few seconds, having won another small victory over her cruel captor. Again, Patrick walked toward her, and again, he lifted up her head with his palm.
"You think that's REAL funny, don't you?" Patrick shouted."It's hilarious," Cammy replied, as coldly as she could, still trying as best she could not to show any signs of weakness to Patrick.
"It won't happen again, either," Patrick said, reaching up and ripping off a sticky bandage from his forehead, which had been covering up a nasty wound that was now beginning to drip blood. He reached over and pressed the bandage over Cammy's lips, which stuck surprisingly well despite still having flecks of Patrick's blood caked to it.
"That's disgusting..." Cammy thought, still glaring up at Patrick. "I've got to get out of here, before he... before he..."
"Now, where were we?" Patrick asked. "Ah, yes."
For the third time, Patrick reached down toward Cammy's neck and the zipper at the top of her jumpsuit. This time, Cammy could offer no resistance, and Patrick slowly began to pull the tip of the zipper downward, unzipping the first few inches of Cammy's jumpsuit as the green-haired girl squinted her eyes closed, her mind desperately racing to try and find a way, any way to escape from this horrible situation. Just as the zipper reached the top of her chest, the door to the room opened once more, and Cammy snapped her eyes open and looked up, desperately hoping it would be one of her sisters coming to the rescue, though she knew it was probably another one of her evil captors. Sure enough, it was Pandemonium.
"What are you doing?" asked Pandemonium in a puzzled voice. He had seen both Patrick and Cammy as soon as he had entered the room, and was quite annoyed that his subordinate was taking an unwelcome break from his duties. Patrick gasped, quickly zipping up the top of Cammy's jumpsuit and turning around to face Pandemonium.
"Sir, I was just... we were just... you know what I'm doing!" Patrick said, standing at attention. Pandemonium took another look behind Patrick, his skeptical eyes meeting Cammy's terrified ones.
"I told you that this would have to wait until the mission was completed," Pandemonium said. "Do you even know what that mission is anymore? I don't think you do."
"Sir, we're supposed to get Trunks, I know that, but-""The Senshi and those girls will come looking for their friend... Trunks will come as well," Pandemonium said. "Your reckless and perverted actions have jeopardized the entire mission!"
"Sir, they'll never find us, you know that-"
"Maybe they won't find you or the girl, but they WILL find this gigantic space station," Pandemonium replied. "You need to go and prepare with the others for their arrival."
"But sir, I-"
"NOW," said Pandemonium sternly. "I won't touch your little Barbie doll... she'll be nice and safe here until you get back. I might even feed her."
Pandemonium gazed over at Cammy again, who simply responded with a low growl.
"I'll be back, my sweet," said Patrick, leaning down and kissing Cammy on the forehead as she tried to turn away. Then, he left the room, with Pandemonium following close behind him. Pandemonium took one last look at Cammy, shook his head, and then closed the door, leaving the still-trembling Cammy alone in the darkness.
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As soon as Trunks, the Senshi, Rose, and Angela entered the Briefs' house, Bulma was ready to see all of them, especially Trunks, who she hadn't seen since he had disappeared into the gate with Pandemonium. She hugged him tightly and then began to inspect the scrapes and bruises on his face, caused by his recent battle.
"Trunks, I was so worried...." Bulma said, her hands rapidly tracing across his face.
"Mom, it's not me you should be worried about.... Ami's got a broken nose, Lita's been cut up really badly, and-"
"And Cammy's been kidnapped!" Angela said, a scared look on her face."Oh dear..." Bulma replied, looking down toward the ground.
"Mom, we've got Senzu Beans, right? You grew some a week ago, and we should still have them... I really hope we do..."
"I'll go check downstairs, I think we've got plenty," Bulma said, looking around at the battle-weary Senshi. "You all just sit down in the kitchen until I find them... I promise I'll have you all feeling better soon."
As Bulma ran down to the basement, the Senshi entered the kitchen and sat down at the kitchen table. Trunks came soon afterward, but Rose and Angela remained in the living room. They were sitting on one of the couches and quietly talking amongst themselves. Angela looked as if she was about to cry."They're both really worried about their sister," Sailor Mercury said, looking over at the two girls. "We've got to get Cammy back..."
"I know, Ami..." Trunks said. "We'll get her back... I know we'll get her back."
"But how?" Sailor Venus asked. "They're up in space, we're down here... Cammy's thousands of miles in the air!"
"Trunks, your mom's a brilliant inventor, right?" Sailor Jupiter asked. "She can build a spaceship, can't she? Anything that'll get us out into space would work...""But do we have that kind of time?" Sailor Mars said, running her hand through her hair. "I know Cammy doesn't..."
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After a few minutes, Bulma came into the kitchen, carrying a small burlap pouch in her hand. She removed the string from the top of the pouch, dumping its contents in the center of the table. Several Senzu Beans poured out of the pouch, and each of the Senshi, as well as Trunks, took one from the center of the table and ate it. As they did, their wounds and bruises disappeared, healing each and every one of them as good as new.
"Wow, that was incredible..." Sailor Jupiter said, looking down at the spot on her chest where the large gash had been. Though her Senshi fuku was still ripped, her wound was entirely healed, like it had never appeared in the first place.
"Senzu Beans can heal someone pretty much completely," Trunks said. "Thank goodness we were able to grow them even after Korin's Tower was destroyed... mom managed to collect some of the soil, and we've been growing them ever since."
"My nose is healed completely," Sailor Mercury said, poking it lightly with her finger to confirm its condition. "Rose, Angela, don't you want to come in and get Senzu Beans? We've still got a few of them left..."
"Not now," Rose said, cradling her arm around her sister Angela, who was now crying on her shoulder. "Besides, neither of us were hurt badly in the fight..."
"Are you girls okay?" Bulma asked, walking into the room and gently placing her hand on Angela's back. "Your sister will be fine... I know she will. She's strong, you have to remember that, and-"
Angela looked up at Bulma, blinking tears out of her eyes as she did. She sniffled, and then began to speak.
"But... but you don't know... what one of those guys did to Cammy," Angela said. "That guy had a perverted obsession with her, and now... now she's been captured, and I think she's with that guy right now as we speak..."
"I see," Bulma replied, her tone suddenly becoming more worried.
"That's why we've gotta find Cammy as soon as possible," Sailor Moon said. "In fact, Trunks thinks you can build some kind of spaceship..."
"Actually, Rei suggested that," Trunks said, looking over at Sailor Mars. "Mom, I know you're good with mechanical stuff, but can you really build a spaceship in a short amount of time?"
"Well... maybe I won't have to," Bulma said. "You see, I still have a few old capsules left from Capsule Corp., and-"
"Wait, you might still have a spaceship left?" Sailor Mercury asked. "Why didn't you use it to escape Earth when the androids were-""I have a spaceship capsule, but it's badly damaged," Bulma said, walking toward the basement door. "I could pull it out of mothballs, but... I'd need to repair it, and that could take some time."
"Not if I help," said Trunks, walking over to Bulma and putting his hand on the basement's doorknob. Sailor Mercury followed Trunks out of the kitchen, striding over to the basement door and putting her hand over his on the doorknob.
"I should probably try to help too," Ami replied. "Bulma and I work really well together..."
"Alright, Ami," said Trunks, gently clutching Ami's hand and smiling at her. "It'll be nice having your help."
"What about us?" Sailor Moon asked.
"Hey, let's go train in that training thingy Trunks showed us!" Sailor Venus said, pointing toward the front door. "We'll go outside and-"
"Does any of you know how to run it?" Bulma asked. The Senshi all looked at one another and shook their heads, knowing that the only ones who could run the machine were Bulma, Trunks, and Ami. Suddenly, Angela stood up. She wiped the last of the tears from her face.
"I could... I could try," Angela said, as confidently as she could. "If we're going to rescue Cammy, we've got to be as strong as we can be... and using the training chamber is the only way we'll be able to do that."
"Are you sure you don't need any help?" Bulma asked. "I could teach you what a few of the buttons do..."
"You should be repairing the spaceship," Angela replied. "With every second, Cammy's life is in even more danger..."
"Angela's right," Sailor Moon said. "Let her run the training chamber. What's the worse that could happen?"
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A little while later, Sailor Moon, Sailor Mars, Sailor Jupiter, and Sailor Venus, along with Rose, stood inside the training chamber as Angela stood outside, looking at the large control panel that could be used to program all sorts of different conditions into the machine.
"I wonder which one turns on the gravity?" Angela said, looking down at the various buttons, knobs, and levers. Finally, she found one that was clearly marked 'Gravity Control'. She turned the knob to two, creating a force of gravity twice that of Earth's inside the chamber. "There we go!"
"That's good!" said Sailor Jupiter, flexing her muscles. "But maybe we should kick it up a notch. How about going a little bit higher?"
"I know," Sailor Mars said. "After all that training we've already done, I can hardly feel this!"
"Kick it up a notch..." Angela said, pressing a few buttons on the console. "How's this?"
As Angela pressed the buttons, she intended to turn up the gravity to five. Instead, she adjusted it to fifteen. As the five girls inside the chamber fell face down onto the floor, Angela stood up and glared at them.
"It's only up to five, I can't believe you guys!" Angela shouted. "Trunks told me that Sailor Mercury trained at ten, and you guys aren't even moving at five?"
"It's not five!" Sailor Moon shouted as loud as she could, her voice greatly strained by the intense gravity. "Check the console! Check it now!"
Angela looked down at the console, and finally realized her mistake.
"Oh my gosh, I'm sorry!" Angela shouted, pressing a few more buttons to reduce the gravity back down to five. "Is that better?"
"A little bit," Sailor Mars said, slowly getting up off of the ground. "Five's still a lot, though..."
"Not really, if you focus your energy," Sailor Jupiter said. "I bet we could even get to fifteen if we train hard enough!"
"For now, five's tough enough for me," said Sailor Venus, stretching out her arms. "Even at five, I can barely stand... I don't know HOW Ami could have possibly taken a force of ten..."
"Well, we'd better start training so we can all become that strong," Sailor Moon said. She looked outside to Angela, who remained busy at the controls. "We'll take turns training and working the console, alright? You'll still have to tell me how most of those buttons work..."
"Alright then, I'll come in in about thirty minutes, okay?" Angela said, giving Sailor Moon a thumbs-up. "Now let's see if we can't generate some training dummies with this thing..."
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Meanwhile, down in the Briefs' basement, Bulma, Trunks, and Ami were inspecting the large, spherical spaceship that had emerged from the capsule Bulma had just tossed to the ground. Sure enough, Bulma was right about the ship's condition. Its sides were marked with large cracks, and one of its windows was nearly shattered. The inside of the ship didn't look much better. The console was damaged, and the floor had been smashed by a large chunk of the top of the ship that had collapsed in on top of it."We've got a lot of work to do..." Ami said as she inspected the inside of the ship.
"Remember, we're not going across the galaxy, we're only going into space a few hundred miles," said Trunks. "We don't have to get it absolutely perfect..."
"But we've still got to be able to get it out into space," Bulma replied. "You don't want to go into space inside a ship with shattered windows and a huge hole on the top, do you? I didn't think so."
"Well then, let's get to work..." Ami said. "The ship takes up nearly the entire room, so it'll be really tough to move around... I suggest we put all of our tools into one place. Trunks, you're the only one that can fly, so you'll have to do all of the repairs on the top of the ship. Your mother and I will start working on these cracks, and see what we can do to repair the busted window. Is that okay, Mrs. Briefs?"
"It's fine, dear," Bulma said, beginning to gather up the various tools from around the room. "I just hope we get this job done before something terrible happens to Cammy..."
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As Trunks, Ami, and Bulma labored to repair Bulma's capsule ship, the other girls trained in the training chamber, taking turns as promised. The girls trained diligently, not even stopping for lunch, or even a snack. After a few hours of training, all six girls were tired, but none of them were ready to stop. They knew the task at hand, and knew that they would all have to be at their best if they wanted to have any hope of rescuing Cammy.
"Alright, let's begin the next part of the training!" Sailor Jupiter shouted, using the radio on the outside of the training chamber to broadcast her voice on the inside. The gravity had been turned up to a factor of ten, something that all six girls had slowly but surely become adjusted to. Their energy auras were flaring with more intensity than they had even been before, even though all of the girls were greatly fatigued by their day of training. "This is a combat drill... all of you know what to do, right? It's a free-for-all, with the damage limiter on, so don't worry about hurting one another with your attacks. It's time to go all out!"
The girls nodded and formed a circle in the center of the room. On Sailor Jupiter's signal, they began to fight.
"Venus Love Chain Barrage!" Sailor Venus shouted, extending her arms and firing several long, glowing energy chains out of her hands. The chains rushed toward Angela, who simply raised her hand toward the attack and blasted all of the chains out of the sky with several blue energy blasts. Sailor Venus was undaunted, running at Angela and leaping over her, then spinning around and launching a powerful kick at her head. The kick connected, knocking Angela backward and right into the path of a large fireball fired straight at her by Sailor Mars.
"Damn!" Angela said, swatting the attack away with her hand as quickly as she could. Sailor Mars extended her hands and caught her own fireball, dissipating it as quickly as she had formed it. As the three Senshi continued their melee, Sailor Moon and Rose were locked in a fierce battle, as Sailor Moon used her henshin stick to deflect the deadly thorn-covered vines that Rose was trying to ensnare her with. She tried to block one with her wrist, but it simply wrapped around her arm and flung her toward the back of the training chamber, screaming loudly. As Sailor Moon approached the wall, she flipped her body so that her head was facing Rose and her legs were facing the wall. As soon as her legs hit, she leapt forth from the wall, firing a powerful beam of energy straight at her pink-haired opponent. Rose didn't have time to dodge, and the beam hit her directly in the face, knocking her flat on her back. As Sailor Moon regained her balance and ran straight at Rose, who was straining to get up, she was hit squarely in the face by Sailor Mars' fist and sent crashing to the ground herself.
"That's for all those times you stole Darien from me, meat-ball head!" Sailor Mars shouted, with a smile on her face. Sailor Moon slammed into the ground with intense force and skidded back several inches.
"He would... never have gone for you anyway," Sailor Moon said as she struggled to her feet, a smile on her face indicating that she knew her friend wasn't serious. "And you know why?"
"Why's that, Sailor Moon?" Sailor Mars asked.
"Because you can't dodge THIS!" Sailor Moon shouted, pointing both of her arms at Sailor Mars' chest and firing several spheres of golden energy. The energy slammed into Sailor Mars and exploded, sending the Senshi of Fire flying straight back, towards the door. Just before she would have impacted, the door suddenly opened, and a stunned Bulma appeared in the doorway. She caught Sailor Mars around the waist, and both of them took a tumble to the ground, much to the surprise of a stunned Trunks and Ami, who stumbled back to give both Bulma and Sailor Mars room to stand up. The gravity in the room returned to normal immediately when the door opened, and the exhausted girls felt light as a feather as they walked out of the room to join Bulma and the others.
"Sorry about that, Mrs. Briefs..." Sailor Mars said in embarrassment, wiping her hand across her brow. "Are you okay?"
"I'm just glad you don't eat as much as your friend does," said Bulma, gesturing toward Sailor Moon, who replied by sticking out her tongue. "And I'm also glad I was there to catch you."
"Looks like you guys were training pretty intensely in there," said Trunks, pointing toward the training chamber. "I just hope you won't be exhausted when we go to kick some bad guy ass in a few minutes."
"We'll just have to catch some quick catnaps on the way to the space station," said Rose. "Speaking of space... do you guys have the spaceship done?
"Please say you have it done... it's been almost nine hours now, and Cammy's really, really probably hurt right now, and-" Angela said before Trunks held up a transportation wand.
"It's in the other dimension, on the rooftop of the warehouse," Trunks said. "We completed it about a half hour ago, and went out into space to check and see if they were in this dimension."
"We couldn't find them, so we sent the spaceship into the other dimension a few minutes ago and came back here," said Ami, who had detransformed while working on the spaceship so her Senshi outfit wouldn't get dirty. Instead, she was wearing a white t-shirt and a pair of Bulma's overalls, both of them stained with grease from the spaceship. "We'll be able to leave as soon as you're ready.""We are ready," Sailor Moon said. "Let's go get Cammy back!"
Trunks pressed a button on the transformation wand, forming a large dimensional gate just in front of his body.
"While you're off rescuing Cammy, I'm going to try and build another transformation wand, to replace the one Pandemonium destroyed," Bulma said. "You need to go kill him so I won't have to make anymore. Good luck, you guys... and be careful... especially you, Trunks."
"I love you, mom," Trunks said, leaning in and kissing Bulma on the cheek. The girls and Trunks said their final goodbyes, and then leapt into the gate. Soon, they would be out in space, rescuing Cammy from the clutches of the demented villains holding her captive... and hopefully, destroying those villains once and for all.---
Cammy had been sitting in the room for the past nine hours now. Her arms had grown sore, not only from the thin wire binding them, but from the fact that she had been holding them in the air for quite some time now, to the point where they'd become nearly numb. Thankfully, no one, including Patrick, had come in to harm Cammy during that time. She had had plenty of time to try and figure out some way to escape, but though she'd formulated many devious plans during her days working for Crysthea, she hadn't yet been able to come up with a way to escape her current captivity, and her mind had begun to sink into despair.
"My sisters... they'll come for me... I know it..." was the thought that Cammy had kept playing through her head, over and over again, trying to maintain some semblance of hope, anything that would keep her mind from slipping away. "I have to remain strong until they do... I have to-"
Suddenly, Cammy's thoughts were interrupted by the door sliding open and closing again. There, walking toward her once more with that same, sick look on his face, was Patrick. A smile was on his face from ear-to-ear, and as he leaned down to stroke Cammy's face once more, every thought in her mind disappeared, replaced with unimaginable terror. She shuddered as his course skin traced across hers, and began breathing heavily, her every whimper softened by the piece of tape across her lips. As Patrick's hand reached her mouth, he slowly ripped off the bandage, quickly followed by a sharp intake of breath as Cammy once again was able to breathe through her mouth.
"I miss hearing the lovely sound of your voice, Cammy... tell me, are you ready to submit to me yet?" Patrick asked.
"Do I even have a choice?" Cammy said, quietly, with as much conviction as she could muster, though her voice was still trembling. "If Pandemonium catches you here shirking your duties, he'll kill you."
"And why does that even matter to you?" Patrick asked. Cammy took in another breath, and then replied with the first thing that came to her mind, a thought that even she didn't think she was capable of."Because somehow, I believe you're better than this," came the reply from Cammy's lips. Was that really her talking, or just delirium from the horrible ordeal she'd had to endure? Whatever it was, it seemed to make Patrick stop in his tracks, as he began to ponder what she had said.
"You really think that?" Patrick said, his smile returning. "Oh, you're quite mistaken, my dear... I'm much, much worse. We haven't even started yet."
Patrick reached down to Cammy's chest and slowly moved his hand toward her body, the sleek outline of her jumpsuit providing the only protection she had from his groping hand. The rising and falling of her torso with every one of her breaths seemed to beckon Patrick's hand closer, and she knew that she had to say something else to stop what was inevitably to come next.
"You... you never had the chance... to live for yourself... have you?" Cammy said. Patrick looked up into her eyes.
"Of course I have," replied Patrick. "I've living for myself right now."
"No," Cammy breathed, "you're not. All your life, you've been forced into this evil, forced by people stronger than you, by things out of your control... I know that feeling, Patrick, I can understand-"
"You're starting to get really annoying," said Patrick, reaching up and pressing the sticky bandage over Cammy's lips once again. "Now I know why I put that on you. You know what? Maybe I just need to make you shut up for good."
Patrick raised his hand, and a blade made of solid ice quickly emerged from it. As Cammy's eyes darted toward the blade, her breaths became more and more heavy, and as he raised the blade toward her neck, she started to cry again, tears streaming heavily down her face. He smiled, and then raised the blade up to her cheek, cutting a large streak across it. Cammy let out a muffled squeal, and Patrick, now satisfied, lowered his hand, causing the blade to disappear."Now do you know what can happen to people who don't do what I say?" Patrick said, his voice becoming louder and louder. "They get hurt, that's what! You're under my control now, do you hear me? You're-"
The door opened again. Patrick gasped and turned around, while Cammy let her head slump toward the floor again, unable to stop the blood pouring from her cheek, dripping down from her chin and staining her green jumpsuit. The person entering the room wasn't Pandemonium, however, as Patrick had feared. It was Flarinsa, coming to warn Patrick of Pandemonium's presence."He's been looking all over for you, Patrick. If he catches you in here, you know what's gonna happen to you, and I'd hate to lose my best sparring partner because he couldn't keep his pants on," said Flarinsa, looking over at Cammy. "Have you... you haven't... have you?"
"Not yet," said Patrick. "I'm planning to string her along a little while longer... the more she endures, the more fun it is."
"You're sick, you know that?" Flarinsa said. "We'd better hurry.... if Pandemonium finds you before we find him..."
"I'm coming, I'm coming," Patrick said, sighing and turning toward Cammy. "It seems we've been interrupted again... but I'm not too worried. You're not going anywhere."Flarinsa and Patrick left the room, once again leaving Cammy alone. Before Patrick closed the door, he looked back at Cammy one last time, who was now sobbing violently, not even bothering to look at her captor. One thing she had said stuck in his mind, and, for just a split-second, he felt a slight twinge of remorse for the horrible things he'd done to Cammy, he knew for a split-second that what he was doing was horrible... it was when Cammy told him that she had experienced the same thing that he was going through. He wasn't really living for himself, and he knew it... and maybe, just maybe... he should have listened to Cammy a little bit more.
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Trunks ran to the control console in the center of the small capsule ship and began programming the launch sequence. The Senshi, Rose, and Angela were sitting in a circle around the walls of the room, waiting for liftoff.
"I hope Cammy's okay..." said Rose, looking back and forth between Trunks and her sister Angela. "When I get my hands on that Patrick bastard, I'm going to-"
"We're going to get them all, sis... and we're going to save Cammy," Angela replied, reaching out and taking Rose's hand. "If anything's happened to her... I... I'll never forgive myself..."
"Don't say that, Angie-chan... Cammy's strong, and if anyone can get through whatever she's going through, it's her... don't blame yourself, Angela..."
As Rose and Angela reassured one another, Trunks completed his keyboard work and sat down next to Sailor Mercury as the ship's boosters fired up, blasting off the roof of the warehouse and propelling the light capsule into space, quickly giving it a huge burst of speed.
"I hope those metal patches we used to cover the cracks will hold up..." Sailor Mercury said, looking up at the ceiling. "I know yours will hold up, Trunks. You used your ki energy to weld it to the ship... your mom and I just used a drill and some screws.""You should've used your own energy, Ami," Trunks told her. "Magical energy's structure isn't that different from ki energy, and-"
"You're forgetting, Trunks... I'm the Senshi of water and ice. I could've frozen the metal to the ship, but it would have just melted upon re-entry," Sailor Mercury said. Trunks smiled at her, then leaned over and kissed her on the lips."That's why I love you, Ami," Trunks replied. "I'd never have thought of that sort of thing..."
"It's a gift," Sailor Mercury replied, smiling.
As the small capsule rushed toward the space station, hovering out in space at a distance of nearly five hundred miles from Earth, it was evident that the heroes wouldn't have long to wait before they'd be knocking on Exeter's door. Soon after, they'd be able to rush in, save Cammy, and destroy all of the fiends who were threatening Earth. At least... that was the plan. Whether or not it would work... not even Sailor Mercury would possibly be able to know.
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And that's it for chapter 9! Poor Cammy...I hope the heroes are able to get to her in time, and teach that mean Patrick a lesson! Plus, Pandemonium's itching for a rematch with Trunks... or is he? It's all in the next chapter, so be sure to read and review!