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: True, Patrick is evil... Cammy's really nice, though... maybe she'll see it in the goodness of her heart to forgive him! Once he's dead, of course. And there might be more to Trunks vs. Nikashi than you think....
Erica: Ehm... ;;; glad you like the story! It's not really a Trunks torture fic, though. It's just a fic where Trunks happens to get tortured. You, uh... like Trunks, right? Just checking...
Nickeywhite2: You waited, and now the next chapter is here! Hope you enjoy it!
GracedAngel1854: Cammy will get even more revenge in this chapter... glad you enjoy it!
MWD: Well, less than a week... that's soon enough, right?
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"Aaaaaaaaaaaah!"
The blast seared every inch of Nikashi's body, from head to toe. Her magical aura flared up just as the wave of ki hit, and now it was the only layer of protection she had against the immense surge of energy. As blast continued to surge past Nikashi, she raised her arms in front of her face, allowing them to take the brunt of Trunks' Kamehameha as it engulfed her slender frame. Finally, the blast charged past Nikashi and dissipated harmlessly behind her. When Trunks focused on Nikashi again, his mouth opened wide with shock. Though Nikashi had been severely burned by the blast, she was still alive, her leather outfit was completely intact, and incredibly, she was still standing. She looked up at Trunks, her knees shaking, her eyes fixated on his, her mind filling with rage.
"How... how dare you... use an attack like that... on me!" Nikashi shrieked, pointing her arms at Trunks and firing off four narrow red energy disks that sliced past Trunks, gashing his arms and side as they flew past. He winced from the pain of the attack, giving Nikashi time to leap at Trunks and kick him hard in the face, knocking him back. Trunks shook off the kick and flew at Nikashi, responding to her kick with a deadly punch that impacted Nikashi's nose and sent her flying back into her own red barrier, still intact in the center of the room. He then pointed his arm at Nikashi and fired a flurry of ki blasts, all of which slammed in to her, creating a large explosion. He continued his rain of blasts for several seconds before Nikashi suddenly flew out of the cloud of smoke, fire, and ki, her whip clutched in her hand. She lashed it out at Trunks and hit him in the upper leg, scourging the flesh from his calf and knocking him down to one knee. She then smacked him with the whip again, this time just below his right eye, creating another large, bleeding wound. She ran at Trunks and swung the whip at him a third time. This time, however, Trunks was ready. Still on one knee, he grabbed the tip of the whip in his hand, stopping Nikashi cold in her tracks.
"I don't know what you freaks are planning to do to me," Trunks said, slowly rising to his feet. "But whatever it is, I'm not going to let it happen!"
Trunks began to yell a loud battle cry, sending a huge wave of ki surging outward from his body. When the wave hit Nikashi, it knocked the whip out of her hand and blasted her back into the barrier again. She let out a loud, pained shriek as her spine slammed into the powerful magical barrier, her body paralyzed for a brief moment from the impact. As Trunks felt the magical energy strand that had been Nikashi's whip disappear from his hand, he felt a stinging pain on its palm. Looking down to inspect the wound, he saw blood dripping from a large gash cut across the inside of his hand when he grabbed the tip of the whip. He looked back to Nikashi with contempt as she struggled to stand from Trunks' latest attack.
"If you give up now, maybe I'll let you go if you promise never to attack the Earth again," Trunks said, appealing to Nikashi as he saw the pain in her eyes and felt a small twinge of sympathy. "But then they'd just terrorize another part of the galaxy... still, maybe she's as weary of this fighting as I am..."
But Nikashi simply scowled at Trunks, the expression on her face rejecting his offer. Still, Trunks knew he'd tried.
"Better finish her off quick..." Trunks thought, wiping a bit of blood away from his face with his wounded hand. "Don't know how long I can keep this up... her energy's fading fast, so I must be getting pretty close now... Frieza didn't put up nearly as tough a fight as this..."
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Watching the battle from a surveillance room safe in the space station's core, Sunzeki was quickly tiring of what he knew to be a futile struggle.
"She's going to die, and you know it," Sunzeki said. "This is your chance, Pandemonium. Get in there and take him. He's weak, he'll be easy to-"
"I have a better idea," replied Pandemonium, walking over to a large control panel that had been placed up against a side wall. He looked down at the various buttons and controls until he found the button he wanted, a large, red one. "Perhaps it's better to destroy his friends, first... they're still inside one of the outer chambers of the station, along with the half-Saiyan. He can survive the crash... they can't."
"So you're going to waste time destroying the Senshi and those girls?" Sunzeki asked. "What about your four best soldiers? Aren't they in that area as well?"
"Three of them are dead, and one is badly injured," said Pandemonium, his finger tantalizingly close to the button. "The last one is of no use to me anymore... he's the reason this station was attacked in the first place. This is a battleship, not a sex dungeon."
"It's no skin off my nose what happens to any of you," Sunzeki said casually. "I'm just here to make sure the boss gets what he wants."
"You'll get the half-Saiyan, I assure you," said Pandemonium. "But for now, I'm going to send his friends crashing down to their precious planet."
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Cammy's blasts battered Patrick, knocking him down to the floor of the room once more. As Cammy rushed to finish him off, he blasted her with another shot of icy mist, stinging her with immense cold and blowing her back to the edge of the room. Patrick slowly got to his feet and raised his palm again, sending hundreds of tiny icicles rushing at the stunned green-haired girl. Cammy spotted the icicles just in time, leaping away and avoiding most of them, though several still managed to slice her skin as they flew past her and embedded themselves in the wall. As Cammy picked herself up off of the ground, she could see a smiling Patrick readying himself to make another attack.
"This is unreal," Cammy thought solemnly as Patrick's hands became engulfed in light blue spheres of magical energy. "He's got so much endurance... it's almost impossible to beat him!"
Suddenly, two large, wide, blue beams rushed at Cammy simultaneously, engulfing the entire lower part of her body, all the way up to her neck. She screamed as she felt the cold sting of the beams, which quickly encased her entire body in a thick block of ice, leaving only her head exposed. Her teeth began to chatter, and her body shivered inside its icy prison as Patrick slowly made his way toward her.
"Don't be afraid, my dear," said Patrick, stroking his hand across the side of Cammy's face. A tear fell from her eye, freezing immediately as it hit the icy block just below Cammy's neck. "My goodness, tears of ice... you're my little ice sculpture, you know that?"
Cammy tried to speak, but could only muster a few more sobs, her lip quivering as more tears fell down her cheek and onto the block of ice.
"No... no... no... dammit, he's got me trapped again! I already got away from him once... it's not fair!" Cammy thought, looking up at Patrick, her rage beginning to build. "That does it... I'm going to show him... he's going to pay.... he's going to PAY!"
Cammy clenched her teeth, and suddenly, her energy aura exploded, shattering the ice around her body and sending shards and blocks of it showering upon Patrick, battering and slashing his body as they flew past. As he fell to the ground, he could feel a glowing green energy chain wrapping around him, pinning his arms to his sides before finally allowing his bound body to fall to the floor. Within seconds, the tip of Cammy's foot was pressed into Patrick's neck, her boot slowly crushing his windpipe.
"How does it feel, hmm?" Cammy shouted angrily, even as streams of tears flowed freely from her eyes. "This is EXACTLY how I felt, you son of a bitch! You made me a victim, and I'm going to do the same to you!"
Patrick could say nothing with the tip of Cammy's boot pressed against his throat. All he could do was look up into Cammy's bright green eyes and see all the emotions displayed on her face; the fear, the sadness, the anger, the despair... and it was at that moment that Patrick remembered the only nice thing that Cammy had said to him, as she was still trapped in the darkness of her captivity.
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"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-"
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She'd tried to get him to sympathize with her... or sympathize with him, he didn't know... and he had just silenced her for it. Now, maybe... was there a chance... he could have been horribly wrong in hurting her? His expression softened, his anger melted away, his eyes widened. What was this feeling?
"Cammy... I-" Patrick barely managed to choke out before a huge explosion rocked the room, sending Cammy tumbling hard to the floor. A large chunk of the ceiling fell between Patrick and herself, shattering and narrowly missing them both. As Cammy rose to her feet, the room began to flash bright red, and a loud voice began emanating through the room's ceiling speakers.
"Warning, warning," came the voice, "Spoke 5 has just been detached from the station and is plummeting toward the nearby planet. All authorized personnel must evacuate immediately."
Cammy gasped, looked briefly over at Patrick, and then ran out of the room. Before she reached the exit, she looked at him again, for the last time. He lay on the ground, his torso still wrapped in her magical energy chains. His body was barely moving, and small chunks of the room's ceiling had begun falling all around him.
"He's helpless... he's finally going to die," Cammy thought, smirking for a brief second. "Wait... I can't leave him like that, can I? Cammy, what are you thinking, you have to... no, I can't stoop to his level. I really should leave him... I can't leave him helpless!"
Turning back, Cammy ran over to Patrick and dissolved the chains around him with a wave of her hand. Then, she began to run out of the room again.
"Follow me if you want to live!" Cammy shouted back to him. Patrick looked up at Cammy, not moving from the ground. His face reflected both contempt and surprise.
"Why are you... helping me?" Patrick groaned weakly. "Get out of here, damn you... I don't need your help..."
When Patrick didn't get up, Cammy groaned and walked over to him, extending her hand toward him.
"I REALLY shouldn't be doing this..." Cammy thought. "Can you stand?"
As Patrick slowly tried to get up, he groaned in pain and clutched his ankle. Angered, Cammy grabbed Patrick's wrist and pulled him quickly to his feet.
"I don't deserve your help," Patrick said, barely loud enough for Cammy to hear. "Get the hell out of here!"
"Listen, asshole, you're coming with me whether you like it or not," Cammy said. More chunks of the ceiling fell into the room, and the door was beginning to get blocked. The sirens got louder and louder, and Cammy grew more and more annoyed. "I'm going to show you just the kind of girl that you hurt today! She's sweet, and caring, and... oh, just come on!"
Seizing Patrick's wrist, Cammy pulled both him and herself out of the room. Just as they made it outside, the entire ceiling collapsed, filling the room with debris. Cammy released Patrick and began fleeing down the hallway, turning her head back to yell something at him.
"You're on your own now!" yelled Cammy, dashing down the hall. "And if you do make it out alive, I never want to see you again, you big jerk!"
Patrick stood stunned in front of the doorway for a few seconds, shooting a ponderous gaze toward the green-haired girl as she continued to run down the hall, slowed only slightly by the wounds she'd sustained in their battle.
"Why in the world did she help me?" Patrick thought, glancing at Cammy. "Is she a fool? Or have I just underestimated her..."
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Meanwhile, the Senshi had heard the sirens and the explosion as well, and were now left frantically wondering what to do next.
"We've got to find Trunks!" Sailor Mercury shouted desperately. "Trunks can't teleport out of here like we can!"
"But if this big, huge thing crashes to Earth, he'll probably survive," Sailor Moon replied. "We definitely won't!"
"What about Juuban?" Sailor Mars asked. "If we don't stop this thing, it'll be crushed!""And we have to find Rose, Angela, and Cammy!" Sailor Venus shouted. "We-""One at a time," Sailor Moon said quietly, trying to calm her fellow Senshi down. "Sailor Venus is right... we have to find the other girls first... then we can worry about Trunks."
"He'll be fine," Sailor Mercury thought, though she still worried greatly. "He's powerful enough to survive a huge crush... I have to think of our other friends first... I just hope they're okay... I know you are, Trunks..."
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Rose and Angela had felt the huge explosion as soon as they'd climbed out of the elevator. It collapsed as soon as the explosion had happened, and the girls soon realized that they'd been lucky to get out alive.
"We've got to get to Cammy," Rose said, and Angela quickly nodded in agreement.
"Then we try to find the Senshi," Angela replied. The two girls began running as fast as they could, trying to find the room where Cammy had been fighting Patrick. When they got near it, all they could see was a rubble-filled hallway blocking their path."Oh no..." Angela gasped, her hands immediately flying to her mouth. "Cammy... she's been... she's been..."
"We're not even sure if this is the room where-"
"It IS the room!" Angela shouted, tears beginning to fill her eyes. "Oh my God, she-"
"Maybe she got out, have you thought of that?" Rose said, looking back and forth between Angela and the huge mound of rubble. "Yes... she definitely got out! I can feel it!"
"But what about that guy.... Patrick, what about him?" Angela shouted. "What if he wouldn't let her out? What if he-"
"Rose, Angela!" shouted Sailor Moon's voice from behind the two girls. They turned around to see the five Senshi, quickly running toward them.
"Thank goodness we found you!" Sailor Mercury said, relieved. "We thought something had happened to you..."
"You... haven't found Cammy yet?" Sailor Jupiter asked, a concerned look on her face. "Damn, that must mean she's still-"
"We did find her, actually," Rose said. "She was tied up in one of the rooms... we freed her, but then when we found Patrick she wanted to fight him by herself..."
"And now we think she might have been crushed!" Angela shouted, tears coming down one side of her face.
"That's terrible!" Sailor Mars gasped. "Are you sure?""I think she beat Patrick and got away," replied Rose. "Cammy's a lot tougher and smarter than she looks... it probably only took her a few minutes to lay the smackdown on Patrick."
"Well, wherever she is, we should probably try to find her before we get out of here," Sailor Moon said. "And then we should go find Trunks."
Sailor Mercury wanted to object, still deathly afraid that something had happened to Trunks. But she didn't speak, because she knew that the Senshi would need her for the Sailor Teleport once they found Cammy. She wanted to find Trunks before they teleported, though... she knew he could survive if part of the station crashed into Juuban, but she knew that he might be the only one that could stop the station in the first place. She just hoped the Senshi could find Cammy fast so that she could begin to look for Trunks... she knew that her home desperately needed his help.
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The room that Trunks and Nikashi were in had begun to collapse as well, but Nikashi's barrier held fast, still trapping Trunks in the makeshift battleground.
"That's too bad that this place is going to hit the Earth," Nikashi said tauntingly, standing in front of the barrier with a newly-formed energy whip in her hand. "We'll both live, but all your stupid friends are going to die... including that bitch Sailor Mercury!"
"Don't EVER call Ami that again!" Trunks shouted, pointing his hand at Nikashi and pressing her against the barrier with a powerful wave of ki. "I'm going to destroy this barrier, and then I'm going to destroy you, and then I'm going to go and rescue Ami!"
"Fat.... chance.... cutie..." Nikashi said, still smiling even as her body began to be crushed against the barrier. "Like I said... she'll die... and you'll have no one left... but don't be too sad... you'll still have me!"
"DIE!" Trunks shouted, blasting Nikashi in the chest with a ball of ki. As the ki flew at Nikashi, her body began to glow bright red with energy, and the ball stopped inches in front of her chest. Then, with just a blink from Nikashi, the blast flew back and slammed into Trunks, exploding against his chest and knocking him back several feet, causing his ki aura to shrink and causing the ki pressing up against Nikashi to disappear, allowing her to gently step forward from the barrier. She cracked her whip at Trunks again, but instead of allowing himself to be hit, he leaped up and flew at Nikashi, his head slamming up against her chest and crushing her against the barrier yet again. She let out a quick shriek that soon faded away as Trunks' head slowly began to crush her windpipe.
"Damn... you..." Nikashi gasped as Trunks continued to press her against the barrier.
"First your spine will shatter...." Trunks said through gritted teeth. "Then your lungs will burst.... and you'll die a slow, painful death, unable to move, unable to breathe... your magic won't be able to heal you fast enough... you'll just curl up into a ball and-"
Nikashi blinked her eyes, causing the barrier to disappear. Trunks' momentum carried both of them forward, slamming Nikashi's back into the wall and making a huge dent that was intensified by the continued deterioration of the room. Trunks leapt off of Nikashi and stood a short distance away as she slid painfully to the floor, clutching both arms across her chest and gasping in pain. Her magical energy aura had completely diminished. Trunks pointed his hand at Nikashi and began charging a ki blast.
"I gave you your chance," said Trunks, electricity and ki sparking about his body as his brilliant golden aura surged brighter than ever. "This is for keeping me from my love."
Suddenly, Trunks could feel a painful slash across his face, just above both of his eyes. His hands flew to his forehead, which was rapidly dripping blood. Nikashi smiled and stood up, her whip still clutched in her right hand.
"Until we meet again, Trunks...." whispered Nikashi, running out of the room as Trunks' hands slowly slid off of his face. When he could see again, Nikashi was gone, leaving Trunks and the rapidly collapsing room in her wake.
"Dammit!" Trunks shouted, his fists clenched. "When I see her again, I'm going to-"
"Trunks, can you hear me?" Ami's voice suddenly rang in Trunks' head.
"Yes, Ami, I can... are you alright? It's been a while..." Trunks thought back to her, giving a sigh of relief as he wiped both sweat and blood from his brow.
"I'm fine," thought Ami. "How about you? We can communicate again, which is good, because now I know I'm getting closer to you... this place is about to collapse, Trunks! I'm with all of the others... well, except for Cammy, of course... we're looking for her right now, but if you want, I can go to you..."
"Stay with your friends, you'll need to be together to teleport out of here. I'm doing well, although I am hurt just a little... remind me never to buy you a whip for your birthday."
Trunks could hear Ami giggling slightly in her thoughts to him, although her tone quickly returned to a more serious one.
"I'm so glad you're alright, Trunks... I love you so much..."
"I love you too, Ami. Don't worry... you keep looking for Cammy, I'll come to you, alright?"
"That'll be fine, Trunks... are you sure you can find us? Our magical energy is weak right now, since we've all been fighting... I'm not sure you can sense us. We're just a few corridors away, but we've been moving pretty quickly trying to find Cammy... her sisters were able to free her, but she's been fighting Patrick, and-"
"Don't worry, Ami, I'll find you... I promise."
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Cammy continued running, trying to find some way, any way to escape the collapsing section of the space station that was on a collision course for Earth. She didn't know where her sisters or her friends had come in from, or even where the space pods were that people she'd seen running around had been using to evacuate. She tried following a group of them, but stopped cold in her tracks when she saw a large chunk of the ceiling come down and crush all of them. She'd tried to heal them, but they had all been killed. Now, she was running again, looking over her shoulder every few seconds just in case Patrick had been following her out. Finally, she reached a large, metal door that she immediately identified as the door leading to the escape pods. When she opened it, she realized that most of the pods were gone, though there were still a few remaining, and Cammy was able to quickly spot a pod she could use to escape. She was on an elevated platform facing a large wall filled with pods below, and there were several flights of stairs leading down to the pod access area. As she began descending the stairs, she heard a loud cry of pain from just outside the room.
"That sounds like...." Cammy began, exiting the hangar and looking out into the hall. Patrick was lying just a few feet from the door, his body crushed beneath a large chunk of metal. He was unconscious, and Cammy would have mistaken him for dead had she not sensed the small pulsation of energy coming from his body. "Serves him right..."
Cammy started to enter the hangar again, but stopped just short and turned around again.
"He's just lying there... helpless... he's going to die," Cammy thought, beginning to feel a twinge of sympathy. "Oh no, here I go again... Cammy, you can't seriously help this guy! Not after he hurt you... not after he tried to rape you... but... I can't just let him die... can I?"
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"Guys, if our ship is still where we left it, we won't have to worry about teleporting!" Sailor Mercury said as the Senshi, Rose, and Angela continued to search for Cammy. "And besides.... are you sure we really have the energy to teleport?"
"I hope we do," said Sailor Venus. "All we can do right now is hope, you guys..."
"And we still need to find Cammy," Angela said. "We can worry about the ship later..."
"We should still check to see if it hasn't been crushed or something," Sailor Moon said. "It won't take that long... we're not too far away... we can still go check!"
The seven girls turned around and ran down a series of corridors and hallways before finally reaching the large room where they had left their capsule ship. Sure enough, it was still in its place in the center of the room, which had been damaged only lightly by the explosion. The ship hadn't been hit by any debris, and was still remarkably intact, to the Senshi, Rose, and Angela's great relief.
"Well, it's still there," said Sailor Moon, walking over to the ship and closely inspecting it. "I... I think it still works..."
"We've got to find Cammy before we go anywhere!" Angela shouted. "We-"
"They know, Angela," Rose said, briefly hugging her sister. "We'd better find her quickly, though..."
"It wouldn't work," said a male voice just outside the room. "I'm going to have to get to Earth BEFORE this floating hunk of scrap if I'm going to destroy it. You girls will need to teleport... we'll just have to leave mom's ship here."
Sailor Mercury was the first to turn around, followed by the other Senshi, and then Rose and Angela. Mercury knew immediately who it was, running toward the left entrance of the room and tightly wrapping her arms around Trunks, who was standing in the doorway with a smile on his face. He had detransformed back into his regular Saiyan state, and as Sailor Mercury hugged Trunks, she could sense that he had been injured even worse than she had thought.
"Trunks, I'm so glad to see you again..." Sailor Mercury said, her words muffled as she pressed her face into Trunks' shoulder. "I love you..."
Trunks noticed the many small injuries on Sailor Mercury's body, as well as the injuries on the other girls. He began to say something, but instead decided to kiss Sailor Mercury on the cheek and tighten his embrace. He knew she already knew she was hurt, and she knew the same. They were both alive and together again, and that's all that mattered.
"Now we need to go find Cammy," Sailor Moon said. "Trunks, I'm glad you're alright."
Trunks nodded, gently releasing his embrace on Sailor Mercury.
"I'm going to get my teleportation wand out of the ship," said Trunks, floating down and retrieving it from the inside of the capsule ship, and then returning to Sailor Mercury's side. "Obviously we can't use it to escape, since it would just take us back to my dimension, where we couldn't stop this thing from hitting Juuban. So we'll need to find Cammy and teleport out of here, or-"
Suddenly, a loud warning siren went off, causing everyone in the room to look up, toward the speakers planted in the ceiling.
"Five minutes until impact," said a loud voice, causing everyone, even Trunks, to gasp loudly. "Five minutes until planetary impact."
"No..." Sailor Moon said silently, her quivering hand to her lips. "We're going to hit Juuban in five minutes..."
"We've got to go, now," said Trunks, turning to Sailor Moon. "We need to teleport to Juuban so I can-"
"NO!" Angela screamed, grabbing Trunks by the arms. "We're not going anywhere until we get Cammy back!"
"We won't find her in five minutes," Trunks replied, a sad look on his face. "Besides... Cammy might have gotten out..."
"Trunks, we can't just leave Cammy here," Sailor Mercury said. "If we teleport before she's with us, she'll be trapped here... you'll be blasting her as well as this space station!"
"But if we don't leave now, we'll hit Juuban, and our friends and family will be killed!" Sailor Mars shouted. "Maybe Trunks is right, maybe we should-"
"Four minutes until planetary impact. Four minutes until planetary impact."
"We have to go, right now," said Trunks, gently taking Sailor Mercury's hand. "Let's use the Sailor Teleport."
"Trunks, don't you even care that our sister is still trapped up here?" Rose shouted frantically. She turned to Angela, who had tears streaking down her face.
"Let's just look for her a couple more minutes! We can find her!" Angela sobbed. "Please, we can't leave Cammy..."
"And we can't let our families be killed either," Sailor Mercury thought, looking up at Trunks. "Cammy may have already escaped... but if we let this thing hit Juuban, we'll all be killed, even her... not Trunks, but... all of my friends, my family..."
"As much as I hate to do this... Trunks is right," Sailor Moon said, joining hands with Trunks and extending her other hand to the remaining Senshi. "We've got to teleport out of here so that Trunks can destroy this thing before it destroys Juuban!"
"No!" Angela screamed at the top of her lungs. "I won't let you! We have to go back in and save Cammy!"
Before Angela could leave, Sailor Venus grabbed her and pulled her into the circle. Rose was grabbed and pulled into the circle as well.
"CAMMY! NO!" Rose shouted, trying to force her way out of the circle. "WE CAN'T LEAVE HER!"
"Three minutes until planetary impact."
"Sailor Teleport!"
"CAMMY!!!"
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"Damn, you're heavy..." Cammy groaned, straining to pull a still-unconscious Patrick into one of the space pods. Once both of them were inside, she closed the pod and began looking at the control panel near the front of the small vessel. "Let's see here... which button will get us out of here... ah, here it is! 'Deploy!'
Cammy pressed a large red button in the center of the panel, launching the space pod out into space, away from the large spoke of the space station. As it began to orbit Earth, Cammy could see the huge, spike-shaped piece of metal that used to be a large section of the station plummeting toward the earth, beginning to burn away in the atmosphere as it fell.
"I hope the others got out okay..." Cammy said quietly, helplessly watching the huge spoke fall rapidly toward her home. "Who's going to stop that thing?"
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Back on Earth, the Senshi, Trunks, Rose, and Angela had teleported back to the top of the roof where their capsule had been. The sun was just setting when they had left, and it was now nearly midnight upon their return.
"We're back," said Trunks, looking up into the sky. "Up there... look!"
The Senshi all looked up to see a brilliant white fireball rapidly streaking through the sky, drawing nearer and nearer, seemingly growing in size as it rushed toward them.
"That must be it," said Sailor Moon, pointing up at the fireball.
"Trunks, hurry!" Sailor Mercury shouted. "Before it destroys Juuban!"
Trunks nodded and pointed his hand at the object, gathering a large amount of ki in his palm. Before he could release the blast, Angela ran toward him, grabbing his arm and pulling it down."You can't!" Angela screamed through intense sobs. "Cammy! You'll disintegrate Cammy! You can't do that!"
"Angela, let him... let him... we have to let him do this," Rose said, gently pulling Angela back, even as her own face became stained with tears. "Oh, Cammy.... please, please be off of that thing... please have found some way to make it back to Juuban..."
"NO!" Angela screamed, trying to break free from her sister's grasp. "NO!!!"
"If you're in there, Cammy... forgive me..." Trunks thought, firing as powerful a blast as he could muster at the huge white fireball. The ki blast soared out into space, hitting the huge chunk of metal and destroying it on impact, detonating in a huge, white fireball that filled a large portion of the sky.
"Cammy..." thought Rose as she cradled her sobbing sister in her arms, while blinking tears away from her own eyes. "No..."
The Senshi stared out into space for a few seconds, not celebrating, knowing that Cammy was still somewhere out there... or maybe vaporized by Trunks' attack. None of them knew, and all of them began to feel an intense sorrow, brought about by their dear friend's apparent demise.
"We went in there... to save her," Sailor Jupiter said, "and yet she's the only one that... that didn't-"
"Don't say that!" Sailor Mercury shouted. "Trunks... you said... that Cammy got away, right?"
For a second, Trunks didn't reply, still staring silently up into space. Then, he turned to Sailor Mercury.
"Ami, I... I just don't know that for sure," Trunks said. "I just wish that-""Wishing won't bring Cammy back!" shouted Angela, running over to Trunks and pointing her finger in his face. "And you're going to have to live for the rest of your life with that fact that you're the one who killed her! You killed Cammy, Trunks! You-"
Suddenly, a faint sparkle appeared in the sky, directly above the roof of the building. As the Senshi, Trunks, Rose, and Angela looked up, they could see a small sphere descending toward them, getting larger and larger as it approached the building. It slowed down and floated down to the roof, as Trunks and the others quickly stepped out in the way."What in the world...?" said Sailor Moon as she stared at the small, metallic metal sphere. "It looks like some kind of space.... pod...."
The end of Sailor Moon's sentence was slowed as the door of the space pod opened, but no one saw who was inside until Cammy stepped out, carrying the unconscious body of Patrick in her arms. Angela and Rose both rushed forward to embrace Cammy, but she shook her head, stopping them in her tracks. She glanced down toward Patrick for a brief moment before looking up at her sisters again.
"Is he... dead?" Rose asked curiously. When Cammy shook her head, her sisters could not have been more shocked.
"Welcome home, Cammy," said Sailor Mercury, smiling at her. "Thank goodness you're alright, but... why did you let Patrick live?"
"It seems you and Cammy have one very important quality in common," Trunks thought to her. "Beautiful kindness and unwavering mercy."
"I don't even think I would have spared Patrick," Sailor Mercury thought. "What could have happened up there?"
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Yes... why DID Patrick survive this chapter? Well, maybe now he'll see the light... or Cammy's fist, if he ever acts like a jerk again. More story next chapter!