An unlikely Friendship. Uranus Worries.
Two Sailor Soldiers marched through golden passages. The tallest one had her short hair in a high bun and was clad solely in white. The smaller had straight black hair to her waist and was clad in black. They approached an ornate door. The black clad soldier knocked.
"Come in!" A voice sounded from inside.
They entered and kneeled before another Sailor Soldier who had royal purple hair in a low, thin ponytail and wore all colors of the rainbow and beyond. "What do news do you bring me? Black Sun? White Sun?" she asked regally.
"Your Highness, Sailor Spectrum, we bring good news," the taller senshi, Sailor White Sun, began.
"The lost ones have finally been released and have landed on earth," the smaller, Sailor Black Sun, finished.
"What news!" the regal girl, Sailor Spectrum, exclaimed. "Tell me, is it all nine of the lost ones?"
"Yes, Highness," Sailor Black Sun replied, barely containing her excitement, "It is all nine; your younger sister, her soldiers, and your one lost soldier that accompanied them on that fateful battle."
"However," Sailor White sun began remorsefully, "They seems to have been tainted by the evil darkness of the Negaverse. A purification will be needed."
"Then we will have to seek the aid of Sailor Moon and her Soldiers," the princess said, "For only she has an item filled with enough purity power to drive out the evil in anyone: the ginuzshu. I must go now and bear this good news to my mother, the queen. My thanks go to you both."
"We are always at your service Sailor Spectrum," both of the senshi said together then bowed to their leader. They waited for her to leave the room, then went off in another direction to break the news to their fellows.
Haruka whizzed along the busy streets of Tokyo on her sleek motorcycle. Youmas, she thought, everywhere! She sensed their evil late the past night and knew that there were more than she could count even before her partner, Michiru, verified it with her mirror. The tall blond was itching for a fight and felt that she needed to track some down to keep people from getting hurt.
She followed her instincts, navigating the streets. She knew there was one very close.
"Damn!" she cursed softly as the light turned red ahead of her. She waited and watched the people crossing the street on the other end of the intersection. Everyone hurried across except for one girl who looked only a little older than Hotaru, who struggled across the street. She wore metal braces on each leg and had a metal crutch strapped to each arm. The tiny girl had yellow hair that was done in a single bun on top of her head and a pig-tail coming down from it. It was styled just like Usagi's, only with only one. She was about half way across the last lane when the light turned green again.
At the moment, the girl was passing in front of a large truck. The truck started moving, apparently not seeing the poor girl.
"Watch out!" Haruka screamed at her.
The girl simply glanced over her shoulder and let out a panicked scream. She tried to run but tripped in stead. By this time Haruka had already put the motorcycle into the highest gear she could and whizzed over to the girl. Not pausing at all, she grabbed the girl around the waist and lifted her onto the cycle in front of her. The truck narrowly missed her and crushed both of the crutches, which the girl had dropped.
Haruka skidded onto the sidewalk and stopped, avoiding crashing into anyone or anything. She put the kickstand down and got off her bike. She picked the girl up and set her straight up on the motorcycle seat. The tiny girl was still shaking in terror.
"Hey kiddo," Haruka said in a deep calm voice, "are you okay? You're safe now."
The girl looked up and nodded, trying to keep her tears of fright at bay. Suddenly she launched herself from the seat and hugged her rescuer fiercely around the waist. "Thank you!" the girl squeaked.
Haruka laughed gently and patted the girl on the head. "I'm Tenou Haruka. What's your name?" she asked.
Still hugging Haruka the girl looked up and grinned, "I'm Suenari Kigai." She hugged Haruka even harder. "Thank you for saving me!"
"Hey," she answered, "No problem."
"Thank you!" she squeezed Haruka again.
"You can stop that," Haruka chuckled, "There's an ice cream shop just around the corner. Why don't we get to know each other over something to eat."
Kigai released her hold on Haruka's waist, "Really? Yay!"
Haruka wheeled her bike to the curb and parked it there. Then she put Kigai on her shoulders and walked to the ice cream shop.
Soon the two were sitting on a bench near Haruka's motorcycle happily licking their ice cream and talking.
"I got lost. I'm new to the city," Kigai said between licks. She swung her legs back and forth, being that she was to short for them to touch the ground. "I was going to meet them at the park, but I couldn't figure out where to go."
"I can take you there after you're done with that," Haruka said, finishing the last of her cone. "I was just going out for a ride," she said remembering what she had originally been out for. She took one wary look around then smiled back at the girl.
"I'm ready now," Kigai said.
"Alright then," Haruka stood up and picked up the girl. Kigai couldn't really walk because the truck had destroyed her crutches. "Let's go!" She set Kigai on the seat of the motorcycle and gave her Michiru's helmet to wear then put her own on. She got on the motorcycle, and they sped off to the park.
Haruka stepped off of her bike. "Well, kiddo, we're here," she said and set the girl on the grass.
The asked cheerfully, "Do you think I could ride on your shoulders until we find..." Kigai stopped short and her round, green eyes widened in fear and then hardened into determination.
Haruka heard a scream from behind her. She turned around to see seven youma closing in on several picnickers. Her eyes mirrored what Kigai's had been moments before. She picked up the small girl and hurried over to a bush. "Kigai, stay in here, and you'll be safe, I'll be back," Haruka ordered and hurried over to a clump of trees to transform.
Kigai removed her helmet, sat thoughtfully for a moment, then fished a heart-shaped crystal from the hair bow on her bun. They yellow heart bore a dark silver Nega-moon sign.
Sailor Uranus rushed out of the trees. "Stop right there, you Negaverse filth!" she yelled, "Uranus World Shaking!" Two of the youma were struck by the attack and disappeared into nothing. The other five gazed hungrily at their attacker. They advanced slowly.
"Leave her alone!" a high-pitched voice ordered from not far away. A yellow clad Sailor Soldier leapt out of the bushes. She her hair style was like that of Usagi only it had only one bun on the top middle of her head. Her hair was yellow, and so was most everything else about her, except for her black bodice and gloves. "Yellow Sun Blinding Sunbeams Flash!" The yellow light struck three of the youma and they disappeared as well. "I'm Sailor Yellow Sun!" she announced triumphantly.
Two more tall, tomboyish senshi graced the scene; one in red and the other in red.
"Red Sun Solar Heat Wave!"
"Blue Sun Solar Flames Incinerate!"
The final two youma were defeated.
Uranus hurried over to the bushes where she had left Kigai. The helmet was still there, but the girl wasn't. "Kiddo?" she called. When no answer came she called again, worried, "Kiddo!"
"Over here!" a voice from behind her said. She turned around to see Sailor Yellow Sun waving at her.
She breathed a sigh of relief. So Kigai was a senshi too...
"Thanks again!" Yellow Sun called and started walking over to Uranus.
The blue senshi, Sailor Blue Sun, was on her in seconds. She grabbed her smaller colleague's arm firmly. "C'mon, we're going," she ordered fiercely, "You know we can't trust any of those senshi!"
"But she..." Yellow Sun protested.
Blue Sun pulled hard on the girl's arm and started to drag her off.
"But!"
Uranus was filled with rage, seeing someone treat Kigai like that. She yelled and raced over to the tiny girl's aid.
"Red Sun Solar Heat Wave!"
Uranus was blown to the ground, pain searing through her body. She groaned.
The red clad senshi, Sailor Red Sun, grabbed Yellow Sun's other arm and she and Sailor Blue Sun bounded off, carrying their small companion with them.
Uranus un-transformed and gravely took up the motorcycle helmet from the bushed, wincing in pain. She strapped on her own helmet and mounted her motorcycle then drove home.
"Well, friends, we have found them," Sailor Black Sun announced.
"Even Pink Sun, the lost soldier among our order," Sailor White Sun continued.
"When are we leaving?" a silver clad senshi asked, "I mean, to recover them?"
"That would most likely be up to the queen," another senshi wearing the color of bronze, commented lazily, "Right Silver Sun?"
The silver senshi scowled.
"Stop it, you two," the gold clad senshi ordered.
Sailor Bronze Sun Shrugged and Sailor Silver Sun scowled at her again.
"Where are they?" the gray clad soldier asked.
"On Earth," Black Sun answered.
"Where exactly on Earth?" the final senshi, in brown, asked.
"Tokyo, Japan," was White Sun's answer.