Author's Note: Okay, here's another shorty chapter. I'm really trying to make them longer.

ALL PATHS CROSSING

A Sailor Moon/Street Fighter Crossover Fanfiction

By Kasumi Todoh

Chapter 6

More Discoveries

"What are you talking about?" Usagi asked, confused.

"Usagi, you airhead," Rei replied in annoyance. "Don't you remember? Ami's been looking for people with unusual energy patterns, to see if they might be this Kakkazan thing in disguise. Obviously, she's found someone. You really need to get with the program, for once."

"I think you need to get off my case, for once!" Usagi yelled. "Y'know, sometimes I wonder why I stay friends with you, anyway!"

"It's not exactly a picnic for me, either!" Rei shouted back.

As the two of them bickered in the background, Ami explained to the Street Fighters, "I've been using my computer to scan people's energy patterns, starting with those in this city. I thought that the best way to locate this evil entity, was to find anyone out there with energy patterns that were different from those of normal people's."

"You can do that?" Chun Li asked, looking at the sky-blue computer, which wasn't much bigger than a Palm Pilot. She almost sounded impressed.

"You'd be surprised what my computer can do," Ami replied. "It's very . . . unique."

"If you say so," Chun Li said, folding her arms. "To tell you the truth, I'm still having a hard time believing that there's a big, evil alien loose in Tokyo somewhere, and it's using smaller aliens to drain the energy out of all the people on the planet. I know I had an uneasy feeling from looking at that comet, but this whole thing just sounds like something out of an old sci-fi movie."

"You weren't at that mall yesterday, Chun," Ken replied. "I know we've all seen some pretty weird things before, but what Ryu and I saw there was just too realistic to not be true."

Ryu nodded in agreement, and then turned to Ami. "So tell us, Ami, who is this person that you've found?"

At this point, even Usagi and Rei shut up, for they wanted to hear this, too.

Ami looked closely at the information on her computer screen. "Well, there was one person that really stood out from the others. A girl, about our age, or maybe a couple years older."

"And her name?" Chun Li asked.

"According to my computer, her name is Takashi Kaori."

Usagi and Sakura both gasped.

"That's where you're wrong," Sakura said. "Kaori's a good friend of mine. I knew her long before this 'Kakkazan' came to earth, and I know you've got the wrong girl."

But as she said this, Sakura began having visions of earlier that afternoon. Kaori was acting totally out of character, and then her voice changed and her eyes glowed red, and she slammed Sakura into the lockers without laying a finger on her.

However, she quickly shook those images from her mind. "It can't be her. There's just no way."

"I'm sorry, Sakura," Ami replied, "but I scanned the patterns of everyone in the city with my computer, and everyone else came back normal. Kaori's energy patterns are the only ones that are very erratic and highly unusual. Kakkazan must've possessed her somehow."

"Has it ever occurred to you that your little computer might have some glitches in it?" Sakura demanded, getting angry.

Rei rose to her feet. "Hey! Ami's computer is never wrong!"

"I know Kaori's your friend," Usagi began, "but still . . . "

"'But still' nothing!" Sakura shouted. "It's not Kaori! Pure and simple!"

However, what she and the others had no way of knowing was, at that very moment, Kaori was crouching under Rei's bedroom window, listening in on their conversation.

Kakkazan realized that they knew everything about her, and worse still, they knew that she had possessed Kaori. Now there was no doubt in her mind that they all must be disposed of, immediately.

She quickly called forth her strongest Fire Bug warrior, and ordered it to destroy the temple, and everyone inside.

"Look, I don't have to stay here and listen to this," Sakura replied, angrily. "I'm leaving."

She got up and started to storm out of the room, but she only made it halfway to the door.

Suddenly, the Fire Bug burst straight through the door and into the room. It knocked Sakura over, and then started lashing at the rest of the group with its long orange cables.

"What is that thing?" Chun Li shouted as she jumped to her feet.

"That's the same creature we fought yesterday at the mall!" Ryu exclaimed

Rei dodged a whipping cable. "C'mon!" she called to the other Senshi. "We gotta transform, right now!"

"We can't transform here!" Usagi protested, glancing at Sakura and Chun Li.

"What other choice do we have?" Makoto responded. "We can't defeat this monster as ourselves! Let's go! Jupiter Power Make-Up!"

Ami held up her stick. "Mercury Power Make-Up!"

"Venus Power Make-Up!"

"Mars Power Make-Up!"

"Moon Crystal Power Make-Up!"

Sakura and Chun-Li stopped trying to hit the Fire Bug, and stared at the five Senshi as they finished their transformations.