Chapter 14 - First Contact
"Heero!" Tre shouted.
"What?" Heero replied, straining.
"There's a reentry checklist that Trowa can read off to you," Tre said.
"OK."
"Pyrone," Tre said, "we'll have to reenter on our own."
"Right," Pyrone said, rolling his eyes. "Just go headlong into it."
"Exactly," Tre said.
The two Gundams jumped off the shuttle and fired their rockets to stay with it. The red glow surrounded the shuttle and the two Gundams as the heat of reentry burned furiously. A bright white light jumped at the three craft during their reentry into the atmosphere. After about two minutes, the sonic booms of three entering crafts resounded in the atmosphere. The two Gundams sped after the gliding shuttle. DreadScythe latched onto the craft, opening the doors of its hold, Backlash doing the same beside it. Both machines climbed into their holds and closed the doors. Then Tre and Pyrone got out of their Gundams and ran to the flight deck. Tre assumed the pilot's seat, opening his visor. Pyrone sat next to Wufei, the only seat left. He opened his visor as well.
Up in the control seat, Tre was having trouble regaining control of the shuttle. He extended the speed brakes. The shuttle slowed to 400 knots from 1300, and was still slowing.
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"Sir," a radar control personnel called his superior over.
"What is it?" the captain said.
"Whatever is on this radar scope is big and entering Tokyo fast."
"Alert the American Air Force," the captain said. "Put them on stand-by."
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Six sonic booms were heard ringing throughout the city. Five girls were walking home from the arcade when they heard the frighteningly loud booms. One girl with long blonde ponytails streaming from the two buns on her head screamed out loud and started to cry.
"Jeez, Serena!" a raven haired girl growled at her bawling friend.
"Take it easy, Raye," another blonde said. "That scared me, too."
"I must agree with you, Mina," a blue haired girl said. "I was immensely frightened as well."
"You can say that again, Amy," a tall girl with a brown ponytail said. "It scared me stiff."
"Yeah, Lita," Mina agreed. "It's not everyday that Tokyo hears six big booms."
These five girls were the Inner Sailor Scouts. Serena was Sailor Moon, Mina was Sailor Venus, Amy was Sailor Mercury, Raye was Sailor Mars, and Lita was Sailor Jupiter. There were four other Sailor Scouts: Sailor Saturn was Hotaru Tomoe, Sailor Uranus was Amara Ten'ou, Sailor Neptune was Michelle Kaiou, and Sailor Pluto was Trista Meiou. These four were the Outer Sailor Scouts. There was also Tuxedo Mask, Darien Chiba, but he wasn't around to help the Scouts lately. A dark power had drained him of his energy, making him a withered old man, about to die any second. In light of his present condition, Serena and Darien had decided that their future was not possible and broke their relationship up. Unfortunately, little Rini wouldn't be born.
Serena finally calmed down and the five girls started on their way to Raye's temple. That's when they heard the roar of rocket engines being fired.
"What in the world is that?" Raye shouted, pointing to a large flying object.
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"It says we're coming in too fast!" Heero shouted as an alarm went off.
"Bullshit!" Tre shouted. "We're going nowhere too fast!"
"Velocity has fallen below safe flight levels!" a computer voice said.
"Put all the power in the main engines!"
"It's full throttle as is!"
"Oh Hell!"
Tre was weaving in and out of towering buildings, trying to find a wide enough place to land. He armed the gear just for the safe side. He found a spot and was going to take it. Nothing looked familiar to him, so he did with what he could. He dropped the gear as Wufei said,
"We're going to hit some people!"
Tre grunted as he pulled hard aft on the stick, the nose of the craft rising very slowly.
"We're still descending!" Heero announced.
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"Get down!" Lita screamed.
She literally tackled all her friends to the ground as a huge craft's wheel would have taken their heads off, had they been standing up. It touched down with a screech from it's tires and was still going pretty fast.
"It's going to crash into that building!" Mina shouted. "VENUS CRYSTAL POWER!"
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"TOUCHDOWN!" Tre yelled.
"DON"T CELEBRATE YET, LOOK!" Pyrone shouted, pointing to an office building in front of them.
All the pilots began to scream, a chorus of horrified men resounded in the cockpit. Then, the shuttle lurched forward very sharply, the nose gear slamming onto the ground and every pilot being thrown against their straps. They had just stopped short of the building, the nose only inches from the building. Tre was the first one to laugh, then Trowa laughed, then everyone did. Hugs were exchanged and some people were dumb enough to kiss another. Pyrone kissed Wufei on the cheek out of sheer joy to be alive only to get busted in the jaw.
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"Oh, boy."
Sailor Venus had used Love Chain Encircle to catch the large craft and slow it down before it crashed into the building.
Right now, her hair was a little frizzed as she had skidded ten yards from her original position. Her chain was wrapped around the large craft that flew over the group of girls she appeared from.
"Mina, are you all right?" Lita asked the sailor-suited girl. "Sailor Venus?"
"Yeah," Venus/Mina squeaked.
She dropped her chain, which disappeared after she let it go. She fell to her knees, then her knees gave out and she fell even further, sitting on the asphalt. She couldn't believe that she had just stopped such a large craft from ramming into a building. She was kinda scared, though. It seemed that she would be pulled all across Tokyo by that thing. She immediately fainted, being caught by her friends.
"SAILOR VENUS!" they chorused.
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"What the Hell just happened?" Tre asked.
All the pilots shook their heads, the looks on their faces dumbfounded. They had no explanation as to what had just taken place. Pyrone stood up and took his helmet off, setting it in his chair.
"I'ma get Backlash out and move this toolshed around so we can take off, or something," Pyrone said.
"Wait," Tre said. "Maybe all the Gundams should move this thing to a safe place."
"No, that's too dangerous!" Quatre shouted. "We'd attract to much attention if all the Gundams got out and did that."
"But what alternative do you suggest we try, Quatre?" Trowa asked.
"Two Gundams at the most, but not all seven," Quatre said.
"One of these Gundams can lift ten times its own weight," Pyrone looked to Tre.
"OK," Tre said. "You and I will get our Gundams and move this to a safe place."
"Good," Pyrone said.
The two helmetless pilots walked to the aft cabin and walked into their respective Gundams's pods. Before Tre got in DreadScythe's pod, he looked to the rest of the pilots and said,
"Buckle up."
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"Maybe we should see if anyone is in there and if they are all right," Raye suggested.
"Perhaps we should let the authorities take care of that," Amy said.
"Oh, come on, Amy," Lita said. "We're the Sailor Scouts, we have the authority over the authorities. Besides, the police don't even carry guns."
"Oh my," Amy said, sweatdropping. "All right then."
"Moon Eternal Power!"
"Mercury Crystal Power!"
"Mars Crystal Power!"
"Jupiter Crystal Power!"
All the girls transformed into the Sailor Scouts. Then, Sailor Venus woke up.
"Venus!" Jupiter exclaimed. "You're OK!"
"Yeah, I'll be all right," Venus said, getting up.
Just then, the girls saw two of the large pods on the shuttle opening. Two huge robots that had weird hairstyles sat up in the pods then got out carefully. The craft shifted from side-to-side as the two robots threw the craft off balance. The one robot with the wings on its back and black dreads looked to the one with longer braids and trench coat.
The two robots pointed at the craft, shook their heads, nodded, and even crossed their arms. Then, the one with braids started walking to the front of the craft.
All five Scouts were literally shaking in their boots. What were these things? Why did they come to Earth? What was going on?
"Uh, Mercury?" Jupiter asked shakily.
"Y-yeah, Jupiter?" Mercury answered back.
"C-c-could you scan those things with your computer?"
"OK," Mercury said.
A blue tinted visor came across Mercury's eyes and she produced a small computer. She flipped it open and typed a sequence of commands. All the while, the two robots were stomping around the craft, shaking the ground beneath the Scouts. "Braids" got in front of the craft and "Dreads" got behind the huge bells on the back of the craft and pushed down. The nose of the craft pointed up, "Braids" pushed the nose and the large craft started to swing around rapidly. Finally, Mercury shouted,
"I got it!"
"You got what?" a silver-haired Eternal Sailor Moon asked.
"Those robots have humans inside," Mercury said, "and the humans are controlling the robots."
"So what's that craft that they're pushing?" Venus asked.
"It's a spacecraft of some kind, but it's too big to be an American shuttle," Mercury said.
"Why an American shuttle?" Mars asked.
"Because that's what it resembles more than anything I know," Mercury said.
"So its American," Jupiter said excited.
"Not exactly," Mercury countered.
The ground underneath them shook as one of the robots, "Braids" to be exact, landed near them, looking down menacingly.
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"Hey, Tre," Pyrone said over the comm. "Take a look at these Halloweeners."
"Hey!" Tre said. "They don't look half bad, especially that blonde one."
"You and your blondes," Pyrone said. "Should I kill them?"
"No," Tre said. "I wouldn't."
Pyrone laughed, "This is gonna be great!"
Tre suddenly perked up. He was receiving psychic vibrations from someone who was obviously a woman.
'I haven't been expecting you, Sailor Universe,' the voice in his head said.
'Who the Hell are you?' Tre thought back.
'That is irrelevant at the moment. Meet me in the alley I am showing you.'
Tre received an image of an alley between a brick building and a small store.
'I'll be there soon,' Tre thought.
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'Braids' was pulling the gun on its left leg out of its holster. It grabbed a shell on its belt and shoved it in the gun. Then, loud sliding sounds and clicks were heard as 'Braids' pumped the gun, then took aim.....right at the Scouts.
The Scouts were all shaking, then they all started bawling at the top of their lungs, turning up the decibals. They just screamed and let the tears stream out.
"Braids" just sweat dropped. Then a human voice was heard.
"Jesus Christ," a deep, smooth voice said. "You are nothing more than a bunch of weak little twats."
"Give them a break," 'Dreads' spoke up. It, too, had a deep, but different voice.
"What for?" 'Braids' looked at 'Dreads'. "You are nothing but a softie, DreadScythe."
"Maybe," DreadScythe said. "But, I'm not a merciless killer either, Backlash."
"Suck eggs!"
"Kiss ass!"
"Fuck you!"
"Well you, too!"
"You want me to fire on your metallic ass?"
"Go ahead," DreadScythe challenged, whipping a gun of its own out and taking aim.
The two robots just stared each other down, their weapons pointed at each other.
"This is fucked," Backlash said, lowering its gun.
"Yeah," DreadScythe said, lowering his.
"Let's get back to the shuttle and leave."
"Fine."
The two robots stomped away, holstering their guns. They each took a wing and a spot underneath the shuttle. Then, they fired their engines and blasted off with the shuttle into the sky. That's when the authorities and the Air Force arrived. The Air Force aircraft were combing the sky while the authorities began to question the Scouts, but never got the chance. The Scouts made themselves scarce and not a moment too soon.
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"So," Pyrone asked. "Any reason why you stopped me?"
"Yeah," Tre said. "That sailor-suited girl with the orange skirt looked awfully familiar to me."
"How?" Pyrone asked. "We've never come to the past before."
"So we've somehow traveled into the past, huh?"
"Yeah."
"Wonder how you know?"
"Don't get off the subject."
"OK, OK. I guess the cat's out of the bag. I am a Scout, like them."
"What?" Pyrone was confused.
"I'll tell you once we get back to the shuttle."
The two Gundams took the shuttle into space at a nice, comfortable orbit of 100 miles above the Earth.
'Venus,' Tre thought. 'Wait for me.'
"Heero!" Tre shouted.
"What?" Heero replied, straining.
"There's a reentry checklist that Trowa can read off to you," Tre said.
"OK."
"Pyrone," Tre said, "we'll have to reenter on our own."
"Right," Pyrone said, rolling his eyes. "Just go headlong into it."
"Exactly," Tre said.
The two Gundams jumped off the shuttle and fired their rockets to stay with it. The red glow surrounded the shuttle and the two Gundams as the heat of reentry burned furiously. A bright white light jumped at the three craft during their reentry into the atmosphere. After about two minutes, the sonic booms of three entering crafts resounded in the atmosphere. The two Gundams sped after the gliding shuttle. DreadScythe latched onto the craft, opening the doors of its hold, Backlash doing the same beside it. Both machines climbed into their holds and closed the doors. Then Tre and Pyrone got out of their Gundams and ran to the flight deck. Tre assumed the pilot's seat, opening his visor. Pyrone sat next to Wufei, the only seat left. He opened his visor as well.
Up in the control seat, Tre was having trouble regaining control of the shuttle. He extended the speed brakes. The shuttle slowed to 400 knots from 1300, and was still slowing.
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"Sir," a radar control personnel called his superior over.
"What is it?" the captain said.
"Whatever is on this radar scope is big and entering Tokyo fast."
"Alert the American Air Force," the captain said. "Put them on stand-by."
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Six sonic booms were heard ringing throughout the city. Five girls were walking home from the arcade when they heard the frighteningly loud booms. One girl with long blonde ponytails streaming from the two buns on her head screamed out loud and started to cry.
"Jeez, Serena!" a raven haired girl growled at her bawling friend.
"Take it easy, Raye," another blonde said. "That scared me, too."
"I must agree with you, Mina," a blue haired girl said. "I was immensely frightened as well."
"You can say that again, Amy," a tall girl with a brown ponytail said. "It scared me stiff."
"Yeah, Lita," Mina agreed. "It's not everyday that Tokyo hears six big booms."
These five girls were the Inner Sailor Scouts. Serena was Sailor Moon, Mina was Sailor Venus, Amy was Sailor Mercury, Raye was Sailor Mars, and Lita was Sailor Jupiter. There were four other Sailor Scouts: Sailor Saturn was Hotaru Tomoe, Sailor Uranus was Amara Ten'ou, Sailor Neptune was Michelle Kaiou, and Sailor Pluto was Trista Meiou. These four were the Outer Sailor Scouts. There was also Tuxedo Mask, Darien Chiba, but he wasn't around to help the Scouts lately. A dark power had drained him of his energy, making him a withered old man, about to die any second. In light of his present condition, Serena and Darien had decided that their future was not possible and broke their relationship up. Unfortunately, little Rini wouldn't be born.
Serena finally calmed down and the five girls started on their way to Raye's temple. That's when they heard the roar of rocket engines being fired.
"What in the world is that?" Raye shouted, pointing to a large flying object.
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"It says we're coming in too fast!" Heero shouted as an alarm went off.
"Bullshit!" Tre shouted. "We're going nowhere too fast!"
"Velocity has fallen below safe flight levels!" a computer voice said.
"Put all the power in the main engines!"
"It's full throttle as is!"
"Oh Hell!"
Tre was weaving in and out of towering buildings, trying to find a wide enough place to land. He armed the gear just for the safe side. He found a spot and was going to take it. Nothing looked familiar to him, so he did with what he could. He dropped the gear as Wufei said,
"We're going to hit some people!"
Tre grunted as he pulled hard aft on the stick, the nose of the craft rising very slowly.
"We're still descending!" Heero announced.
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"Get down!" Lita screamed.
She literally tackled all her friends to the ground as a huge craft's wheel would have taken their heads off, had they been standing up. It touched down with a screech from it's tires and was still going pretty fast.
"It's going to crash into that building!" Mina shouted. "VENUS CRYSTAL POWER!"
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"TOUCHDOWN!" Tre yelled.
"DON"T CELEBRATE YET, LOOK!" Pyrone shouted, pointing to an office building in front of them.
All the pilots began to scream, a chorus of horrified men resounded in the cockpit. Then, the shuttle lurched forward very sharply, the nose gear slamming onto the ground and every pilot being thrown against their straps. They had just stopped short of the building, the nose only inches from the building. Tre was the first one to laugh, then Trowa laughed, then everyone did. Hugs were exchanged and some people were dumb enough to kiss another. Pyrone kissed Wufei on the cheek out of sheer joy to be alive only to get busted in the jaw.
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"Oh, boy."
Sailor Venus had used Love Chain Encircle to catch the large craft and slow it down before it crashed into the building.
Right now, her hair was a little frizzed as she had skidded ten yards from her original position. Her chain was wrapped around the large craft that flew over the group of girls she appeared from.
"Mina, are you all right?" Lita asked the sailor-suited girl. "Sailor Venus?"
"Yeah," Venus/Mina squeaked.
She dropped her chain, which disappeared after she let it go. She fell to her knees, then her knees gave out and she fell even further, sitting on the asphalt. She couldn't believe that she had just stopped such a large craft from ramming into a building. She was kinda scared, though. It seemed that she would be pulled all across Tokyo by that thing. She immediately fainted, being caught by her friends.
"SAILOR VENUS!" they chorused.
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"What the Hell just happened?" Tre asked.
All the pilots shook their heads, the looks on their faces dumbfounded. They had no explanation as to what had just taken place. Pyrone stood up and took his helmet off, setting it in his chair.
"I'ma get Backlash out and move this toolshed around so we can take off, or something," Pyrone said.
"Wait," Tre said. "Maybe all the Gundams should move this thing to a safe place."
"No, that's too dangerous!" Quatre shouted. "We'd attract to much attention if all the Gundams got out and did that."
"But what alternative do you suggest we try, Quatre?" Trowa asked.
"Two Gundams at the most, but not all seven," Quatre said.
"One of these Gundams can lift ten times its own weight," Pyrone looked to Tre.
"OK," Tre said. "You and I will get our Gundams and move this to a safe place."
"Good," Pyrone said.
The two helmetless pilots walked to the aft cabin and walked into their respective Gundams's pods. Before Tre got in DreadScythe's pod, he looked to the rest of the pilots and said,
"Buckle up."
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"Maybe we should see if anyone is in there and if they are all right," Raye suggested.
"Perhaps we should let the authorities take care of that," Amy said.
"Oh, come on, Amy," Lita said. "We're the Sailor Scouts, we have the authority over the authorities. Besides, the police don't even carry guns."
"Oh my," Amy said, sweatdropping. "All right then."
"Moon Eternal Power!"
"Mercury Crystal Power!"
"Mars Crystal Power!"
"Jupiter Crystal Power!"
All the girls transformed into the Sailor Scouts. Then, Sailor Venus woke up.
"Venus!" Jupiter exclaimed. "You're OK!"
"Yeah, I'll be all right," Venus said, getting up.
Just then, the girls saw two of the large pods on the shuttle opening. Two huge robots that had weird hairstyles sat up in the pods then got out carefully. The craft shifted from side-to-side as the two robots threw the craft off balance. The one robot with the wings on its back and black dreads looked to the one with longer braids and trench coat.
The two robots pointed at the craft, shook their heads, nodded, and even crossed their arms. Then, the one with braids started walking to the front of the craft.
All five Scouts were literally shaking in their boots. What were these things? Why did they come to Earth? What was going on?
"Uh, Mercury?" Jupiter asked shakily.
"Y-yeah, Jupiter?" Mercury answered back.
"C-c-could you scan those things with your computer?"
"OK," Mercury said.
A blue tinted visor came across Mercury's eyes and she produced a small computer. She flipped it open and typed a sequence of commands. All the while, the two robots were stomping around the craft, shaking the ground beneath the Scouts. "Braids" got in front of the craft and "Dreads" got behind the huge bells on the back of the craft and pushed down. The nose of the craft pointed up, "Braids" pushed the nose and the large craft started to swing around rapidly. Finally, Mercury shouted,
"I got it!"
"You got what?" a silver-haired Eternal Sailor Moon asked.
"Those robots have humans inside," Mercury said, "and the humans are controlling the robots."
"So what's that craft that they're pushing?" Venus asked.
"It's a spacecraft of some kind, but it's too big to be an American shuttle," Mercury said.
"Why an American shuttle?" Mars asked.
"Because that's what it resembles more than anything I know," Mercury said.
"So its American," Jupiter said excited.
"Not exactly," Mercury countered.
The ground underneath them shook as one of the robots, "Braids" to be exact, landed near them, looking down menacingly.
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"Hey, Tre," Pyrone said over the comm. "Take a look at these Halloweeners."
"Hey!" Tre said. "They don't look half bad, especially that blonde one."
"You and your blondes," Pyrone said. "Should I kill them?"
"No," Tre said. "I wouldn't."
Pyrone laughed, "This is gonna be great!"
Tre suddenly perked up. He was receiving psychic vibrations from someone who was obviously a woman.
'I haven't been expecting you, Sailor Universe,' the voice in his head said.
'Who the Hell are you?' Tre thought back.
'That is irrelevant at the moment. Meet me in the alley I am showing you.'
Tre received an image of an alley between a brick building and a small store.
'I'll be there soon,' Tre thought.
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'Braids' was pulling the gun on its left leg out of its holster. It grabbed a shell on its belt and shoved it in the gun. Then, loud sliding sounds and clicks were heard as 'Braids' pumped the gun, then took aim.....right at the Scouts.
The Scouts were all shaking, then they all started bawling at the top of their lungs, turning up the decibals. They just screamed and let the tears stream out.
"Braids" just sweat dropped. Then a human voice was heard.
"Jesus Christ," a deep, smooth voice said. "You are nothing more than a bunch of weak little twats."
"Give them a break," 'Dreads' spoke up. It, too, had a deep, but different voice.
"What for?" 'Braids' looked at 'Dreads'. "You are nothing but a softie, DreadScythe."
"Maybe," DreadScythe said. "But, I'm not a merciless killer either, Backlash."
"Suck eggs!"
"Kiss ass!"
"Fuck you!"
"Well you, too!"
"You want me to fire on your metallic ass?"
"Go ahead," DreadScythe challenged, whipping a gun of its own out and taking aim.
The two robots just stared each other down, their weapons pointed at each other.
"This is fucked," Backlash said, lowering its gun.
"Yeah," DreadScythe said, lowering his.
"Let's get back to the shuttle and leave."
"Fine."
The two robots stomped away, holstering their guns. They each took a wing and a spot underneath the shuttle. Then, they fired their engines and blasted off with the shuttle into the sky. That's when the authorities and the Air Force arrived. The Air Force aircraft were combing the sky while the authorities began to question the Scouts, but never got the chance. The Scouts made themselves scarce and not a moment too soon.
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"So," Pyrone asked. "Any reason why you stopped me?"
"Yeah," Tre said. "That sailor-suited girl with the orange skirt looked awfully familiar to me."
"How?" Pyrone asked. "We've never come to the past before."
"So we've somehow traveled into the past, huh?"
"Yeah."
"Wonder how you know?"
"Don't get off the subject."
"OK, OK. I guess the cat's out of the bag. I am a Scout, like them."
"What?" Pyrone was confused.
"I'll tell you once we get back to the shuttle."
The two Gundams took the shuttle into space at a nice, comfortable orbit of 100 miles above the Earth.
'Venus,' Tre thought. 'Wait for me.'