DISCLAIMER: If anything in this story belonged to me, I would make it into a video game, but nothing does. The only thing here that belongs to me is the character Mickey and the plot thing. I also do not own the characters Alethia Black, Tami Delaney, Kai Rumiko, Rachel Saikei, Caylin, Rem Galaxy, Windy D. Rodriguez, Ran Hoshino, Gemini Sai, Brian Anderson, or Kitara. They own themselves.

Crystal: I think…I'm just going to do one mission per planet…

Caylin: That's because you want to write the sequel

Crystal:…and your point…is?

All: -.-

Crystal: Ok…this is the chapter where we all loose!

All: yay…

Kai: No one ever answered me

Rachel: Be quiet you

Sai: Just had to get my words in

Kitara: OH! Me too

Windy: Same here ^^

Crystal: I feel like we're forgetting someone

Alethia: *cough* ahem…me?

Crystal: O yea…gomen ^-^;

Alethia: It's ok

Crystal: Well…I'm not going to put a note at the end and you'll see why…so review, onegai! OH! And Happy Holidays to everyone! Hope your New Year is very pleasant and full of…

Kai: UPDATES!

Crystal: -.- yea…sure…whatever…

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It was cold…and everything was still as if they knew it was coming. Moisture lingered in the air…and everything was covered in a thick layer of fog. Nothing could be seen 2 yards ahead of you…and there was an eerie music played by the crickets.

Mickey sat alone on a stone by the hot springs…which was steaming when it clashed with the cold air. A coat was wrapped around her shoulders in the air, and her streaks blew by her face a bit. She twisted a stone in her palm, flipping it into the air, and catching it again.

Her eyes were downcast, as she flipped the stone across the water letting it disappear into the steam, as she picked up another one and went through the same process.

"You shouldn't be worried" a voice said, causing her to look behind her. "You picked a great team" Kai said, as he became visible.

"Yea…you say that now" she said, turning back to the water and flipping the stone. "It will change though…after the battle today…" she muttered, not bothering to pick out another stone.

"But you did…if you have hope…I'm sure it won't turn out as bad as you think it will" he said with a shrug. She turned to face him, walking towards him a bit.

"We'll see" she said, walking past him and into the fog. "We'll see" she muttered.

~*~*~

"It's too quiet around here" Rachel muttered as they all sat around camp later that morning. Mickey had yet to return, though Kai had a little after she had left him by the water side.

"Yea…really" Caylin said as her breath made a small cloud.

"I wonder where Mickey went" Alethia said as she glanced around. The trees all looked like tall figures in the fog…and it sorta freaked all of them out.

"No need to wonder." Everyone jumped as the voice came through the camp, and then Mickey appeared through the trees.

"Where have you been?" Sai asked.

"Out" she said simply, walking over to her tent. She reached in, pulling out her sword and the belt with the vials again.

"Getting ready…already?" Windy asked. Mickey nodded.

"I…need to go and make sure of something. I'll be back in an hour or so" she said, flashing them a small smile…though it was sad. She disappeared once more.

"She seemed…sad, didn't she?" Brian said, looking around at the team.

"Yea…but maybe we should get ready…train a bit but not to hard. She says we'll loose no matter what…then we better be damn good before we fall" Kai said, fastening his duel Ninjato as he also walked off.

"He's right…and he's is second in command. I guess we should do what he says" Ran said, and they all nodded in agreement, beginning to prepare.

~*~*~

She sat down at the edge of the cliff, her back to the rock as she felt along the grass. The ground was hard here…there were rocks as well. If this was going to happen, she could at least make it a bit less horrifying.

Mickey tossed a piece of hair from her face, taking a vial with smoky orange liquid in it, which she then poured on the ground. It spread out, dying the grass a neon yellow, which faded and then turned to a slightly darker green then the actual grass. She cleared out the rocks, digging them from the now silk soft soil and grass and throwing them into the forest.

There's no way she could stop this…she brushed her hand against her head again, and she fell back from her crouched position onto her bum.

"No way to stop it…" she muttered, and then her eyes widened as a hand clasped over her mouth and another closed around her left, lower arm. She was picked up forcefully…wrong move. She kicked her leg backwards, doing the smallest spin, and sending the captor into the wall. She turned around, and saw as the black man melted into the rock…burning a hole.

An acid man…they were here…

She quickly collected her things, running back through the trees before more could gather.

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"AH!" Sai yelled, ducking as another weapon was flung at his head. "Why the HELL am I always the target?" He yelled, ducking again as Tami flung one of her throwing knifes at him.

"AHHHHHH!" Everyone stopped what they were doing as they heard the scream, and then they all looked around.

"Mickey!" They called, all 11 of them running in direction of the scream. They came by the clearing, to see their leader surrounded by men with blue-green skin, all dressed in black. At the moment, two had hold of each of her arms, and two had hold of each of her legs, and they were all pulling in different directions. She let out another scream.

Caylin ran forward, kicking one of them in the side, and jumping back as he melted into the ground. Her eyes widened.

"What the…" but she was cut off as another one, which had been holding a leg, ran towards her. Mickey now had both legs free, and she did a small flip, hitting one in the head and making it melt into the ground as well.

But the other captor of her arm was a bit stronger then she had suspected, and had one arm gripping both her wrists and the other across her mouth. His legs were holding hers in place.

Her eyes began to flutter…the cloth on his hand was scented…with chloroform.

But before the whole affect could set in, the captor was thrown away by a kick from Kai, and Mickey fell to the ground, gasping for breath.

"You ok?" He asked, kneeling down beside her. She nodded, still trying to regain enough breath to get rid of the chloroform.

"We have to go…now" she said, standing and taking a deep breath. "Their waiting" she said, and everyone gripped their weapons.

"Where?" Ran hissed, casting his gaze around. Mickey pointed through a grove of trees to where a cliff could be seen, steps almost seeming to be carved in the side. Without a word, they all began the walk to their first fight…with their main enemies.

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"MMMMMMMMMMMMMFFFFFFFFFFFFHHHHHHHH!" Came the muffled scream of Kagome as she found herself chained up upon a stone hedge, right on the edge of a cliff looking in…to what seemed to be a battle field. Her eyes widened as she wiggled, but she couldn't break…what seemed to be energy chains…that held her.

"Do not worry, my flower…it shall all be over soon" said Brian as he walked up, a wicked smile covering his now bare face. Kagome shrunk back into the stone, cringing as the sides cut into her arms a bit.

Suddenly, they heard feet against the stone, and Nina came running up.

"They have arrived, sir" she smiled, and a similar one passed over Brian's face.

"Excellent" he said in a very Mr. Burns type fashion. "Gather the team at once…we fight…as soon as the delicate leader takes step onto this plateau" he smiled softly, turning with a swish of his cloak and walking off.

~*~*~

Mickey stopped right before the top, and saw Kagome on the far side. Mickey made a hand motion off the cliff, and then took a step onto the plateau.

Just as she did, smoke clouded all around them…and their enemies appeared all around them. They moved into a single file line in front of them, and all of them took fighting stances.

Brian smirked, looking at Mickey who had drawn her sword. He looked at her arms and legs, where the acid people had cut into her skin with just their touch.

"It appears you've had a run in with my acid men?" He laughed, and her eyes narrowed.

"Trying to weaken us before the battle, eh?" Kai asked, his Ninjato drawn as well.

"Shut your mouth, boy" Nina hissed at him, and Kai's eyes just narrowed.

"Well, no point in talking…I presume this is a fight" Brian said, drawing his own sword. It was clear then and there, as he stared down the team, Mickey was the one he wished to fight.

They all stood, each person waiting for the other team to strike, and Tami took a small step forward. She was becoming fidgety.

But before she knew it, she had been blasted back into the rock Kagome had been tied to. Nina stood there, finger to her mouth, smiling.

All at once, everyone began charging at one another, and the first things to clash were Mickey and Brian's swords. He was simply smiling, a creepy, evil, twisted smile while Mickey glared up into his eyes.

All around them, members from their owns sides were teamed up against one another. Caylin, and Windy were up against Ryo, but he kept sending out animals against them, using them as a shield and then letting his pole arm strike towards one of the three girls.

Sai and Kitara were going up against Kyo and his giant axe, trying to stay alive by just jumping out of the way of the fast and powerful swings.

Rem and Rachel were fighting Natsume, who was incredibly fast, not only striking with her claws but with her sound waves as well.

Alethia and Brian were fighting Nina, who would continuously throw things at them using her mind, as she spun away from their attacks. She hadn't even drawn her Daito yet.

As for Kai and Ran, they were up against Reiko, who had drawn them into an area of rocks where he would duck in and out of the shadows, sending both of them in a route of circles.

Tami had fallen to the ground, knocked out. She had gotten up, but Natsume had had a counter which had sent her clasping to the ground in pain. Her forehead had a large cut on it which was bleeding, and she grunted as both Rem and Rachel were sent flying right into her, slamming all three of them into a rock.

Mickey turned as three of her teammates were left wounded…very badly wounded. She let out a scream of pain as Brian sent a large slash across her stomach, and she was hurled at the ground. She hit on her side, only feet away from the edge. She lifted herself slowly to her knees, then to her feet, though he was ready to charge at her again.

She was ready too, and once again they were clashing sword to sword.

"Windy!" Caylin called as the pole arm lashed out, creating a deep gash across Windy's upper back and arms. She was flipped in the air, and was countered with another attack just as powerful on the lower side of her stomach and arms.

She passed out along the rock and dust from the bleeding, and Caylin stood her eyes wide with horror, before she turned, going into power, and creating an orb of white energy. She let out a cry as she released it at Ryo…who simply caught it.

"Pathetic…" he muttered, tossing the energy at the floor, creating a large explosion which knocked Caylin onto Windy, bits of rock flipping and cutting at her revealed skin.

Nina had finally drawn her Daito, and now was not only sending rocks flying at them, but jabbing here and there. Alethia and Brian dodged as much rocks as possible, but every time they did, they got cut with her Daito. Two rocks flying towards Brian, one above and below. He jumped through them, just to have a series of cuts lain across his back, and he clasped across the floor, breathing hard, rocks beating hard against him.

As all this happened, no one noticed as Sango came up sneakily. Her eyes were wide at all the people who had already been knocked unconscious, and then at all the blood shed. Kagome was just on the rock there…and the girl that had informed her was right. There was no one guarding her, and the chains holding her could easily be broken. So, she went to do just that job.

Alethia was now left alone against Nina, who seemed to be getting bored with her. She began flinging twice as many rocks, and speeding up her sword attacks.

Sai gasped in pain as the sword slashed across his legs, and he fell to the ground. Kitara kept dodging, sending him worried glances, but she knew that if she stopped…she would die. As Kyo continued swinging his axe about, he walked towards Sai, flinging his large arm at him and knocking him in the face.

Sai screamed in pain as he was sent hurtling across the cliff, landing near the edge, with his leg dangling of the edge.

Alethia's eyes grew large as the Daito pierced through her upper, right arm, and she let out a cry of pain, falling back upon Brian. He was still conscious…still breathing…his eyes open. But Nina wouldn't settle for that…she began to beat down against them with rocks.

Kai flipped into the air, dodging another one of the attacks. Ran sent a kick flying at Reiko, landing it right into his stomach, but with that pause for attack, Ran's leg was enveloped in shadow and he let out a moan of pain as it was twisted about.

He rolled backwards, and Kai spun for another attack on Reiko, ready to use lightning if necessary. Reiko spun, jumping as Ran tried to knock him over using his other leg to spin under him. He met Kai in the air, sending his shuriken towards him and letting it cut three, fresh wounds on his upper arm and shoulder. Kai fell back, skidding with his feet as Reiko came for another round.

But as Reiko came down in front of Kai, he disappeared into the shadows, and Nina appeared. She waved her hand, pouting, before a wicked smile replaced the pout. And with a swish of her hand, Kai was sent hurling into a large bed of rocks, more falling onto him as he made impact.

Ran and Kitara ran to join together, as the five warriors circled them. Mickey and Brian were still dueling it out, sword to sword, skill for skill.

They each stepped cautiously around, as the five circled them. They didn't know which of the five would strike first…but they would have to accept the pain in defeat. Neither were in much condition to carry on…defeat all five of them when they couldn't do it with the whole team before.

Ryo chose to go, and Natsume was there to back up the attack, as was Nina. As both fighters were picked up in the air and spun, Ryo crossed his pole arms blade across them, letting their blood touch the rock. Natsume sent them flying into the rock where Kagome had once lay, though Sango had succeeded in freeing her.

Mickey was the only one left now…conscious…breathing hard…and bleeding badly. Brian fell back into a line with his team, and Mickey stood ready.

"You should give up my flower…for there is no chance you can win" Brian smirked, but Mickey did not let his words taunt her. "Fine, if you don't wish to be defeated…you may come with us" he suggested, and her glare depended.

"Go to hell" she hissed, and he sighed.

"Fine, fine, then if you won't come with us…you won't go with anyone…" he smirked, and Mickey's eyes widened as he let his hand fly forward, and her last few steps were taken as she was sent flying over the side with a last scream.

"If I can't have her…nobody can…" Brian muttered…as he and his team disappeared in their trademark smoke.