The Battle Takes to the Streets. Sailor War!
"This just in! The Sailor Soldiers that have always protected us are now battling among themselves all over Tokyo while monsters lurk about. Be aware and stay out of their way. The battles are fierce and you could easily become injured. We do not yet know what has caused this pandemonium..."
Setsuna switched off the radio. So they were fighting now. She silently prayed that no one would get hurt. All day she had to work at the school while the others fought. School was out now so she could assist them. She locked the door from the inside of the nurses' office and put the keys in her purse then flicked a wand into her hand. "Pluto Crystal Power, Makeup!" A few moments later, she had jumped out the window and was sprinting across the lawn in search of the nearest Sun Senshi.
"Indigo Invisible Beams Beat Down!"
Saturn shrieked when the attack hit her by surprise. She whirled around with a murderous look on her face and brandishing her glaive defiantly. "You!" she whispered angrily then raised her weapon, "Silence Glaive Surprise!"
Sailor Indigo Sun yelped and was unable to dodge the powerful attack. Her only reaction was to retaliate again, "Indigo Invisible Beams—!"
"Not so fast!" a voice rang from across the street, "Neptune Deep Submerge!"
"Mars Flame Sniper!" yet another senshi stood beside the first.
Quickly, Sailor Mars and Sailor Neptune moved into position to corner the unfortunate girl that has just been blasted to the ground by their attacks.
Sailor Indigo Sun, suddenly realizing that she was trapped, curled up in a small ball on the sidewalk. She knew that there was no hope now and just waited for the Moon senshi to finish her off.
"Stop it!" a light, high voice shrieked.
"Don't even try!" a second, slightly deeper voice chimed in.
The three silver senshi spun defensively to look down the empty street. Two sun senshi, Violet and Green Sun were heading for the group at a dead sprint, their shoes clacking eerily on the pavement. Sailor Violet Sun defiantly locked eyes with Saturn with a smirk across her face. Sailor Saturn glared back. Indigo, using the other senshi's distraction, pulled out of her helpless position and got nimbly to her feet, ignoring her pain.
The two arriving sun senshi skidded to a halt less than ten feet from the others. The violet-haired senshi glanced quickly at Green Sun then connected gazes with her cornered friend while Mars, Neptune, and Saturn continued to stand in a battle ready stance. Violet's two colleagues nodded.
The golden senshi simultaneously raised both high with palms to the sun above. "Solar Miracle Power!" they screamed in unison as the sparkling light from the sun descended from the sky and gathered in spheres of pure white light hovering above their hands. Meanwhile, each of the girls began to glow her respective color: violet, green, and indigo.
Saturn realized what was happening long before her companions did. With a quick gesture, she and the other two had scurried a short distance away from the Sun Senshi and began to prepare an attack of their own. "Sailor Planet Power!" the Silver Senshi yelled as the other three continued to gather light. Their tiaras began to glow and soon they were also surrounded by their respective colors: violet, teal, and red.
The colors lingered for a moment, then rocketed at each other, colliding in a loud and bright explosion. Power ricocheted in all directions.
"Cover!" Violet yelled and dove behind an overturned trash bin, Indigo following.
"Silence Wall!" Saturn's high voice pierced through the air not a moment later and the three silver senshi were shrouded in her protective power.
Only another moment later, the green senshi shrieked in pain.
The hum of power and bright light kept any of the senshi from seeing one another for a while. Once their eyes we able to see again, the first sight that they turned upon was the unconscious and battered body of Sailor Green Sun.
"You!" Indigo accused angrily and stood up to stalk over towards the moon senshi, Violet tried in vain to stop her.
Sailor Mars did not need to be reminded to take the chance given to her. "Mars Flame Sniper!"
Violet saw it coming and leaped to push her comrade out of the way just in time as the flaming red arrow passed over them. "We're on the down side here," the violet-haired girl muttered to her friend, "Let's retreat and regroup then hit them harder."
Both sun senshi stood up defiantly and Mars, Saturn, and Neptune watched them expectantly.
"Sailor Teleport!" with one combined shriek and a blast of purple light, the two senshi were gone, forgetting their fallen friend behind.
After a haunting silence on the Tokyo street, Sailor Neptune commented, "I would think that they would take Green Sun with them. She's their friend after all."
"Well, we should take her somewhere safe for now," the small, yet dangerous senshi advised as she idly switched her glaive from one hand to the other.
"We can put her in the temple for a while," Sailor Mars suggested, "We could always lock her up with some runes I know."
"Good," Neptune nodded, "Now how do we get her there. I mean, we can't carry her."
Sailor Mars rolled her eyes and hefted the girl into her arms then over her shoulder. "We can try," she said defiantly, "Let's go!"
"Hold it right there!" A deep, fierce voice commanded. It was enough to stop Sailor Pluto dead in her tracks and send shivers down her spine. Without ever meeting the girl before, Pluto knew it must be Sailor Blue Sun.
The Soldier of Time spun casually to meet her challenger as if she were unbothered, spinning her time staff in a showy manner. Unfortunately, she couldn't hid her surprise when she saw not one, but two senshi leering at her: Sailor Blue Sun and Sailor Red Sun.
"Oh, we won't hurt you that bad Pluto-chan," the red senshi sneered, "We just want to teach you Silver Senshi a lesson, that's all."
"Up for a fight, or too scared Pluto-chan?" Blue Sun taunted, once again sending shivers down Sailor Pluto's spine.
"Don't think I would ever back down when my princess is at stake, no," Sailor Pluto answered sternly and crossed the grass of the schoolyard, faking bravery. If Ami-chan couldn't hold off just Blue Sun on her own and Rei had a hard time with Red Sun, I don't know how I'll be able to stand up to this pair. If I didn't know better, I'd say they were a team. That makes them all the more deadly.
"Dead Scream," she whispered, but her voice echoed ominously through the air.
The sun senshi easily dodged the indigo sphere and retaliated before they landed on the ground again.
"Solar Flames Incinerate!"
"Solar Heat Wave!"
Pluto, in turn, dodged their two attacks.
"You don't think you can stand against Blue Sun and Red Sun, do you?" a third voice sneered, and a delicate senshi with luxuriously wavy orange hair stepped out of the shadows of a nearby tree, "Or even think you could come out of a battle with the three of us victorious. I think not."
"You don't understand what it means to be with Sailor Moon," Sailor Pluto said firmly, showing no fear or regret, "I would do anything to protect her. She is— I will not give up even if the odds seem helpless!"
"You're that faithful?" Sailor Blue Sun raised and eyebrow and shifted to a more casual posture. "It is my duty to protect my princess, and that is something I will hold to until the end of my life. No matter how soon it will end."
Sailor Pluto smiled slightly and nodded, also relaxing.
"I hope you don't mind dying for you princess, because that's what I'm here to make sure you do!" she yelled spitefully, "Don't try to sway us from our mission with soft words! Blue Solar Flames Incinerate!"
The powerful attack of blue fire raced towards the guardian of time and caught her completely off guard. In attempt to dodge it, she stumbled and was hit full force. Pluto lay moaning on the grass, debating whether it was worth it to face the pain and rise to her feet to try to fight.
Sailor Orange Sun strolled over to Sailor Pluto at a mock-casual pace. "You're not going to give up just yet are you? I expected more from someone preaching such loyalty just a moment ago," the thin girl said, her voice dripping with sarcasm.
The thought of abandoning Usagi hit Sailor Pluto like a hammer. She shook her head slowly and whispered to herself, "Makenai!" With all the strength that she could muster, she pushed herself off the grass and glared hard at Orange Sun, then attacked, "Chronos Cyclone!"
Given no warning, the orange senshi did not have any time to dodge. With all of Sailor Pluto's anger and determination poured into the powerful attack, it was stronger than ever. Kanami shrieked, gasped, and staggered backwards in pain. "You'll pay for that!" she wheezed, "Orange Solar Flare!"
Battered and exhausted, Sailor Pluto was unable to dodge this attack as well. She let out a quiet moan and shrunk the ground, almost disabled with pain. She heard a three pairs of footsteps approaching and some triumphant chuckling.
"Not as strong as you thought," the younger voice of Sailor Red Sun laughed, "You didn't stand a chance. Anyone could have seen that." She laughed again.
"Puruto!" a high, distraught voice shrieked, "I can't forgive you three for hurting Setsuna-san! I am Sailor Moon and I will punish you!"
Sailor Pluto squeezed her eyes shut in emotional pain. No Usagi, you'll be hurt. You can't do this alone. Pluto could hear more footsteps, meaning more senshi. Good or bad, she couldn't tell.
Sailor Blue Sun snickered, "So this is the Sailor Moon that has been evoking such loyalty. Enough loyal to die for. This one certainly wasn't afraid to die."
Pluto attempted to move, but was too stiff with pain. She could senshi Eternal Sailor Moon's anger and despair growing.
"She's not dead," Sailor Moon said angrily, "You liar! I still will not forgive you! Starlight Honeymoon—!"
"Red Solar Heat Wave!"
"Blue Solar Flames Incinerate!"
Sailor Moon's attack was cut short as she stared at her attackers in horror. She froze and dropped her scepter as her three companions, Sailor Mercury, Sailor Venus, and Sailor Jupiter raced over to try and get her away from the attacks.
"No!"
"Sailor Moon!"
"Get out of the way!"
Sailor Pluto was filled with a sudden burst of energy. She came to her feet and spread her arms wide with her time key looming impressively over her head and gleaming in the sunlight.
The attacks hit Sailor Pluto hard in the chest, completely shielding Sailor Moon. The time guardian crumpled and fell to the ground like a wilted flower.
"Pluto!" Eternal Sailor Moon shrieked, tears welling up in her eyes. Sailor Mercury froze in her tracks and gasped while Venus and Jupiter moved grimly in front of their leader to protect her from more attacks.
"You have done yourself bad as well as us," Sailor Mercury scolded, holding back tears as best as she could, "Sailor Pluto was the guardian of time, serving everyone selflessly. She would have let you through time if you had asked. That loneliness she had is something you could never have known. And now..." the ice senshi's voice trailed away into a painful fight to keep from crying.
Jupiter looked up from where she knelt next to their fallen companion. "She's dead," she said in agonizingly emotionless voice. Right on cue, ribbons of loosed around Sailor Pluto, starting at her broach, and Pluto was almost instantly back to being Meioh Setsuna, looking paler than ever. The thunder senshi corrected herself gravely, "Or at least close enough to it that it doesn't matter."
Sailor Moon broke into tears and collapsed to the ground while the three golden senshi just smirked in amusement.
"At least our princess, young as she is, can take more than this worthless flake," the red senshi muttered so quietly no one but Sailor Blue Sun heard her. The older girl's smirk broadened.
Sailor Venus clenched her fists and glared at her adversaries standing on the grass not too far away. Her glare still fixed and unwavering on the Golden Sun Senshi trio, she spoke with defiant leadership, "Sailor Jupiter, you're the strongest of us. Take Setsuna-san to the shrine and contact Saturn. She should possibly be able to help you. We'll fight these three. Send help if you can."
The tall brunette only nodded and stooped slightly from where she crouched on the grass to gather up the limp Setsuna and pushed herself up off the grass. She turned and strode away at almost a deliberate pace, but not before giving the sun senshi a blank and defiant glance. No one moved or spoke for a long time.
Sailor Orange Sun, Sailor Blue Sun, and Sailor Red Sun stood in a tight knot together less than ten feet from Sailor Venus and Sailor Moon and Sailor Mercury still sulked a ways off from her friends. The six senshi facing each other on the vibrantly green grass, in the middle of a lightly wooded park, and underneath an equally vibrant blue and cloudless sky was a rare and beautiful scene, but none of the senshi were in a mood to appreciate the splendor of it.
"Venus-chan," the glamorous orange-clad senshi broke the silence with her characterizing mock-friendly tone and glided nearer to her silver counterpart, "I didn't think you were capable of such authority, after our last battle."
"You should remember," the smaller blond answered challengingly, not moving at all from where she stood, "you were alive when I was the leader of Princess Serenity's guardians. Don't try any of your tricks on me Kanami!"
"Don't think I would!" Sailor Orange Sun spat, angry and frustrated, "Let's fight!"
Sailor Moon rose from the ground, instantly stopping her flood of tears and Mercury pulled out of her horrified trance. The two other sun senshi pulled into formation next to Orange Sun and the battle began.
Haruka didn't know what to do. The things that the Sun Senshi had done to her friends were inexcusable, but a wisp of doubt stung in the back of her mind. She paced the carped floor of the living room in the house that she shared with the other three outer senshi in deep thought.
Kigai was not evil and would never do some of things that the other Sol Senshi claimed that all of the Sun Senshi wanted to do. They could not be all evil. She even saw a shadow of goodness in Sailor Blue Sun and Sailor Red Sun. The princess, Sailor Sunlight, seemed unwilling to put forth the decree for Sailor War. Try as hard as she might, Haruka could not remember anything from the past about negative relations with the sun senshi, much less could she remember anything about the sun kingdom.
If only she knew where to find the little yellow senshi...
There was a gentle knock at the front door and Haruka stopped dead in her tracks. She apprehensively walked though the house and to the door. She unlocked it and slowly swung the large wooden door open. On the front steps stood a small blond girl with cruches.