Chapter 16

"Yes! My bag!" Izumi exclaimed. Usagi stared in amazement.

"How is that gonna help us get out again?" She asked.

"It has all the gadgets you thought of. Which means..." Izumi trailed off.

"It has the concealable laser pin!" Usagi finished off.

"Correct." Izumi opened the bag and searched through it until she wrapped her fingers around a small, metal object. She pulled it out. It took the shape of a crescent moon. Each of theirs had a different shape, this shape happened to be Izumi's. "Got it." She pressed the two sides together and a red laser sliced through the ropes in seconds. "Yes!"

"Go me!" Usagi declared.

"Now let me get you out of your ropes and we'll be out of here soon."

"Okay, I checked the place out, its not guarded that well if guarded at all." Yume reported.

"Hm... That seems too easy... What could these people be planning?" Chichi paused. "Its as if..."

"They want us to find them..." Aoi finished. She looked at the building with a look of sadness and worry. Emi placed her hand on Aoi's left shoulder.

"Don't worry about it! Izumi can handle herself and you know how she watches out for us. They'll be fine! Plus she has her gadget bag now. Nothing is going to stop her." Emi smiled at Aoi with reassurance. Aoi smiled back, still a little worried.

"So what do we do?" Tasuki asked.

"We have to come up with a plan of course." Taka answered.

"A plan?! What are you talking about?! I say we should bust in there and save them before they're toast!" Tamahome objected excitedly slamming his fist into his other palm.

"Those are two great ideas but I think that Taka's is more needed in this situation..." Chichiri explained rationally.

"Well I'm all up for breaking and entering!" Tasuki chimed in.

"The four guys started to having a heated argument as the girls lowered and shook their heads in shame. Aoi was the first to talk.

"Well girls, I guess we can't leave it up to the guys."

"What can we do? We don't have our stones back yet!" Emi exclaimed.

"Then we'll have to rely on physical strength until we have them." Yume answered.

"I think I've got a plan too... You guys got your weapons?" Aoi asked.

Emi and Yume nodded, pointing to their weapons.

"Good, then lets kick some serious butt!"

Usagi and Izumi roamed the halls in maid uniforms. Trying to blend in was easy for Izumi who was wearing a dark blue maid outfit but hard for Usagi who was wearing a bright pink one. (A/N my friend loves pink so I just had to make her wearing that outfit! It looks soooo adorable when I draw it.... ahem.. anyways... back to the story now... gomenasai!-sorry) They had not been caught yet because the maids did not actually pay attention to them, they did nothing but do their work. They were looking for the main hall or the kidnapper's bedrooms.

"Okay, can you tell me again why we are searching for them?" Usagi asked shutting another door she looked in.

"We're looking for them so that we can make them tell us what is going on. I mean last time we were here, they didn't exactly give us a warm welcome and now we're all being stolen away 'cause they claim they love us?! I, for one, don't buy into this at all." Izumi looked around the corner to make sure no one was there. Usagi sighed. Izumi turned to her and held up her index finger next to her cheek. She smiled with her eyes closed. "Plus! I always thought they looked pretty good and hunky!" Usagi fell over and Izumi just stared down at her. "Are you alright?"

Usagi rubbed her head. "I'm fine. You know, your weakness for guys is going to get to you one day."

"Look who's talking! I've seen the way you look at Tasuki and I'm sure he'll be sad he missed the lovely sight of you falling down and exposing your underwear."

Usagi looked down at her maid outfit to find that the skirt part was flapped up to her stomach. She stood up as fast as lightning and laughed hysterically to cover up the embarrassment. Izumi shook her head and looked around the corner again. She motioned for Usagi to follow her. Usagi was silent for a while walking down the long hallway when Izumi interrupted her thoughts.

"Okay, what's up?" She asked. Usagi looked over at her, surprised.

"What are you talking about? I'm fine!"

"I've known you since the third grade and I can tell when you're lying. Out with it!"

"Well you know how Meg likes Tasuki..."

Yeah, she's told us over and over to stay away from him, how could I forget?"

"Yeah, well I'm not sure but...uh..." Usagi trailed off. She was looking at the ground trying to hide the fact that she was bright red. Izumi's head popped out of nowhere and in her face. Usagi jumped backwards, stumbling to the ground.

"Oh, my, gosh. You like him, don't you?" Izumi helped Usagi up.

"No! Of course not! I don't!" Usagi was nervous and becoming a darker shade of red. It was obvious, she liked him.

"Calm down, geez. I already know this situation, I've been in it so many times! Don't worry, I won't tell Meg." Usagi was loosing her blush.

"So, what did you do?"

"Me? I followed my heart, and if it happened to be that I actually liked the same guy, I told my friend first and then we became partners in trying to find true love!" Izumi went all starry-eyed and in dream state. Usagi had a glimmer of hope appear. "Or, we became love rivals and didn't speak to each other again until one of us gave up or we both felt really foolish for fighting over a guy!" Izumi said matter of factly. Just like that, Usage's dream of not being pulverized by Yume was shot down. The girls finally made it to the end of the hallway and turned a corner without looking.

"Thanks for the advice..." Usagi gloomily said.

"No problem! Either way it would make a wonderful romance story! I'll have to write about it when we get back home!" Izumi walked into a person. "Oh, I'm so sorry!" She apologized.

"I'm not." The person said. Izumi looked up to find one of her kidnappers gleaming down at her. He grabbed her as she tried to get away.

"Let go!!!" Izumi kicked and screamed and Usagi just stood there horrified. "Usagi! Run!! Get out of here and get help!!!" Usagi turned on her heel and ran around the corner, only to be captured by the partner.

"Let me go! Let me go!!" Usagi pleaded struggling. The two kidnappers laughed, spraying the girls with some kind of tranquilizer. The girls fell limp in their arms.

"Nice going, now all we have to do is switch their memories around..."

"Then they will love us and be nothing but loyal, wonderful plan brother!"

"Yes, this plan will do quite nicely." Amiboshi snickered, his twin brother joining in on the laugh. They carried the girls into a secretly hidden room behind a wall close to them, laughing evilly like mad scientists.

TO BE CONTINUED