Author's Note: If anyone's wondering why I used some the English names for some of the Senshi's attacks, and the Japanese names for others, I do have a reason for that. Any time that I use the English name for a particular attack, instead of the Japanese, is simply because I don't really know the Japanese name for that attack. I confess that I've only seen the Japanese episodes starting from the second half of Sailor Moon R, which is after this fanfic takes place.

ALL PATHS CROSSING

A Sailor Moon/Street Fighter Crossover Fanfiction

By Kasumi Todoh

Chapter 3

Ami's Discovery

Ami was sitting in her bedroom. Having finished all her homework hours ago, she was now typing away at her hand-held Sailor Mercury mini-computer, trying to find anything on this approaching evil or the people in Rei's vision.

"Hmm. My computer says that there is a high concentration of evil energy in this area. Maybe I can get a reading on it from here."

Ami typed some more on her computer. A few minutes passed, and then something appeared on the screen. Ami gasped and reached for her communicator. The others had to be told about this.

Fifteen minutes later, everyone was gathered in Rei's bedroom.

"So what's so important that you had to interrupt my pre-dinner snack?" Usagi

demanded.

Rei blew up. "Ami wouldn't have called us all here if she didn't have a perfectly good reason, so try to act a little more mature about it!" she shouted. "Geez Usagi, you can be so insensitive sometimes."

"Takes one to know one, Rei," Usagi yelled back.

Soon both girls were involved in a heated argument.

Ignoring them both, Ami said, loud enough for everyone to hear, "I have discovered some more information about the new threat."

That shut even Rei and Usagi up.

"Well, don't keep us in suspense, Ami," Artemis said. "Let's hear it."

"My computer picked up a new source of evil energy, and it has already landed on Earth.

Sometime within the past twenty-four hours."

Rei gasped. "I think . . . I felt something like that, last night," she said. "It felt like an intensely evil force, passing right overhead. I was sound asleep, and it woke me right up, even though I didn't hear a thing. It was the middle of the night, so I thought it might have been just a dream, or a premonition. I didn't say anything, because I wasn't sure what to make of it. But that must've been what it was. I mean, it makes sense, if that's the case."

Ami nodded, and continued. "Unfortunately, I haven't been able to home in on the exact location. I was only able to determine that's it's somewhere here in the city. I tried to get my computer to be more specific, and one word started flashing across the screen: 'Kakkazan'."

"What does that mean?" Makoto asked.

Ami shrugged. "That's all my computer would say. But it must be important. Perhaps it's a clue to the identity of this creature."

"But if this thing's been in Tokyo for a whole day, how come we haven't seen any sign of it?" Minako asked.

"I guess it must be hiding somewhere," Ami suggested, "biding its time and waiting for the right moment to attack."

"You're probably right, Ami," Luna replied. "However, Minako has a point. There aren't many hiding places in Tokyo for an evil interstellar being that wouldn't attract some kind of attention."

"Unless . . . " Artemis pondered out loud.

"Unless what?" everyone else asked together.

"Well, this is just a theory," Artemis went on, "but it might be possible that this creature has the ability to take on human form, the way Ail and Ann could, or else possess the body of a human already on Earth."

"I think I see what you're getting at, Artemis," Minako said. "That way, it could easily blend into any crowd. Like hiding in plain sight."

"That's just great," Makoto said, bitterly. "There are thousands of people in Tokyo alone. Talk about looking for a needle in a haystack."

Ami pulled out her computer again. "Well, if that is the case, then I can use my computer to scan people's energy patterns. If I find anyone with a pattern that doesn't match all the rest, then we'll know that person is really this 'Kakkazan' in disguise. However, given the number of people in Tokyo, that could take a while."

"I guess in the meantime, we'll just have to keep our eyes open for anyone that's acting suspiciously," Luna said.

"What about these other new people?" Minako wanted to know. "Have you found anything on them?"

Ami shook her head. "No, I haven't."

But just then, something strange happened. There came a sudden noise from Ami's computer, and then the pictures of four people, two men, a woman, and teenage girl, appeared on the screen. Even Ami was surprised.

"Who are those people?" Rei asked.

"I'm not sure." Ami typed something on her computer keyboard. Then she looked at the others. "Well guys, it says here that these are the four people that are supposed to help us. Unfortunately, my computer still can't find anything else that can help us locate them. It doesn't even know their names. I guess they must be pretty hard to find. Sorry, guys. I'm trying my best, but I honestly don't have a lot to work with."

"That's okay, Ami-chan," Usagi replied. "Even if it's not much to go on, the info you've already found sounds really useful, and it's better than nothing."

"Wow, who's that guy?" Minako asked, pointing to one of the two guys on the computer screen. "He's a major hunkmeister!"

"Let me see! Let me see!" Makoto scrambled over and looked at the screen, too. "Woo! Two hot guys! And they both look like my ex-boyfriend . . ."

Everyone sighed.

"Don't start with that again, Makoto," Rei said.

Usagi peered over Ami's shoulder, and suddenly yanked the computer right out of Ami's hands.

"I know her!" Usagi cried, pointing to the picture of the teenage girl. "I know this girl! I met her on the way to school the other day. Her name's Sakura something."

"Why didn't you say so?" Makoto asked. "Let's go find her and talk to her."

"Well, I don't exactly know where she lives," Usagi admitted, "or what school she goes to. But I think she's a high school student."

"That's helpful," muttered Rei.

"Hey!" Usagi snapped back. "I do remember what her school fuku looked like. I'll simply go around to all the high schools until I find one with students who wear the same outfit she does. Once I find the right school, I should be able to find Sakura."

"Why Usagi, I don't believe it," Luna said. "You're actually using your brain."

"Yeah. Surprise, surprise," added Rei.

"Rei, why do you always have to be so meeeeeeaaaaaannnnn? Wwwaaaaaaaahhhhhh!" Usagi started to howl.

Ami, Luna and Artemis all looked at each other and sighed. This was a nice little scene. Rei yelling at Usagi, Usagi bawling, and Makoto and Minako drooling over the two guys on the mini-computer. Just your typical Sailor Senshi meeting.

Three days later, Kakkazan had carefully scouted the city, and its people, while in the body of Kaori. Now she was ready to begin her plan.

She called summoned forth a bunch of her helpers, creatures that looked like smaller versions of her own image, except that they wore skirts instead of long dresses, and they also had wings and antennae growing out of their heads. Kakkazan called them Fire Bugs.

She quickly ordered them to start taking the energy from all the humans in Tokyo. The Fire Bugs obeyed, and flew off in several directions.

The Fire Bugs began attacking people in many areas, including the shopping mall where the five Senshi happened to be, as they took a break from looking for the people in mini-computer. Imagine the girls' surprise, when they turned a corner and saw a Fire Bug drawing energy from a bunch of shoppers! A few people lay scattered on the ground, none of them moving, while other people were screaming and fleeing the mall in terror.

The monster had its back to the girls, so it didn't notice them sneaking into a nearby washroom.

"What are we going to do?" Usagi quavered.

"What do you think we're going to do?" Rei snapped. "We're the Sailor Senshi,

remember? We gotta fight that thing."

Usagi started to whimper again.

"Usagi, get a grip," Ami said. "Rei's right. We've got to transform. Mercury Power Make-Up!"

"Mars Power Make-Up!" shouted Rei.

"Jupiter Power Make-Up!" shouted Makoto.

"Venus Power Make-Up!" shouted Minako.

"Moon Crystal Power Make-Up!" shouted Usagi.

The Fire Bug finished draining the energy of everyone in sight, and began looking around for more. Instead, it found Sailor Moon, Sailor Mercury, Sailor Mars, Sailor Jupiter, and Sailor Venus.

"I'm Sailor Moon!"

"Sailor Mercury!"

"Sailor Mars!"

"Sailor Jupiter!"

"Sailor Venus!"

"You have no right to come in here and terrorize these people," Sailor Moon said. "A mall is a place to shop and have fun. We won't allow this to continue. In the name of the

moon . . . "

"In the name of Mercury . . . "

"In the name of Mars . . . "

"In the name of Jupiter . . . "

"In the name of Venus . . . "

"We'll punish you!" they all finished together.

The Fire Bug just laughed. The fingers on its hands suddenly extended, turning into long orange energy-draining cables, which it sent shooting out at the Senshi. Everyone jumped out of the way.

Sailor Jupiter shouted, "Supreme Thunder!" and shot several lightning bolts at the monster. The lightning hit it and knocked it to the floor. Then Sailor Venus used her Crescent Beam attack to hit the Fire Bug again as it was getting up. However, the monster recovered with surprising quickness, and then flew up into the air and disappeared. The Senshi looked around, but the Fire Bug seemed to have vanished. Then it came down directly behind Venus and Jupiter.

"Look out!" shouted Sailor Moon, Mercury and Mars.

Their warning came too late. One of the Fire Bug's cables came flying through the air and hit both Jupiter and Venus in the back, knocking them to the floor. Then it turned, saw the other Senshi, and whipped another cable at them. Sailor Moon ducked, and Mars managed to jump over it, but Mercury wasn't fast enough, and took a strong hit to her shoulder. She, too, fell to the ground. Mars tried to do her Fire Soul attack, but the Fire Bug caught her off-guard, slamming her into a wall.

The Fire Bug proceeded to wrap its cables around the four fallen Senshi. Sailor Moon ran to help her friends, only to be grabbed by the monster as well. Then, once it was satisfied that it had all the Senshi, the Fire Bug used its cables and started draining their energy.

Fortunately, the girls weren't the only ones taking a break that day. It turned out that Ryu and Ken were also in the area, stocking up on food and supplies before returning to the mountains to resume their training.

Suddenly, several loud screams drew their attention to a nearby shopping mall, where they saw crowds of people running from the building in obvious terror.

"Looks like trouble," Ken said, and Ryu nodded. Then they both headed toward the mall.

When they got inside, they found a lot of people lying on the floor, and a large monster drawing energy from five girls in brightly-coloured sailor costumes.

"Who, or what, is that?" Ryu asked.

"I don't know, but those girls need help." Ken quickly did a Hadoken, which burned through the cables holding the Senshi. Angrily, the Fire Bug turned and went after them instead. But as soon as it got close to them, Ryu knocked it down with a Shoryuken.

The Senshi managed to recover quickly from the Fire Bug's attack. They still had no idea who was helping them, but they were grateful for the creature's sudden distraction.

"Sailor Moon! You'd better do it now!" Mars said, as the monster started to get up again.

"Right!" Sailor Moon pulled out her Moon Sceptre. "Moon Sceptre Elimination!"

The light from the Sceptre hit the Fire Bug in the back and blasted it to smithereens.

The Senshi now turned their full attention to their rescuers.

"You're . . . " Sailor Moon started.

Suddenly, Venus and Jupiter grabbed each other and screamed excitedly. "Aieeeeee! It's the hot guys!"

There was no way it could be a coincidence. The Senshi were definitely looking at the same two guys from Mercury's mini-computer.