Chapter 8

"I hope Sailor Moon isn't stupid enough to actually come up here," Sailor Mars muttered, from her captive prison. Sailor Mercury looked at Mars. "That wouldn't be stupid," Mercury said.
"Who the hell are these Younger Sailors that Rebeus was talking about?" Sailor Venus asked, from where she sat beside Mercury.

Both Mercury and Mars shrugged. They had no clue who the Younger Sailors were. "Lita, who do you think these Younger Sailors are?" Mercury asked.

Sailor Jupiter was sitting on the floor, cross-legged, staring at the floor. She ignored Sailor Mercury.
"Lita!" Mars almost yelled.

Sailor Jupiter jumped, startled. "Yeah?" she asked, taking her gaze from the floor to look at her friends.
"Are you okay?" Mercury asked. It wasn't like Sailor Jupiter to not pay attention.

Sailor Jupiter nodded."Yeah, I'm okay," she said in a tone that said the opposite.
"You sure?" Sailor Venus asked, softly. She knew that Jupiter got angry if anyone pushed too hard.

Sailor Jupiter nodded in response.
"So, who do you think these Younger Sailors are?" Mars asked.

Jupiter didn't respond and turned her gaze back to the floor.
"Lita, do you know who these Younger Sailors are?" Venus asked, suddenly thinking that Jupiter did know but didn't want to tell them.

Sailor Jupiter sighed and nodded.
"You do?" Mars asked.

Jupiter nodded.
"So who are they?" Mercury asked, curious now.

Sailor Jupiter lifted her head and turned to face her friends. "It's kind of hard to believe," Jupiter said.

Venus smiled at that. "Lita, we're teenagers who lived thousands of years ago on the Moon, have superpowers and fight an evil force called the Negamoon," she said. "Most people would find that hard to believe."
"True enough," Sailor Jupiter said, smiling. "Here goes. You know are sudden 'cousins'? Well, they're not our 'cousins'."

Mars smiled. "I knew it!" she exclaimed. "I knew something was up with them! They're the Younger Sailors, aren't they?"

Jupiter nodded. "They are," she said.
"Just one thing," Venus said. The three other Scouts turned their eyes to their friend.
"Yeah?" Jupiter asked.
"How did they become 'Younger' Sailors?" Venus asked. "Are they from the Moon Kingdom? If so, why don't we remember them? If not, where are they from? How did they know that we were the Sailors Scouts?"

Jupiter smiled as Venus continued. Seeing the expression on Jupiter's face, Mars shook her head in disbelief.
"You know the answers to those questions, don't you?" Mars asked, knowing very well that Jupiter did.
"First, Venus, they are not from the Moon Kingdom," Jupiter said. "They're from the future. They knew who we were from their lessons in history. And for as how they became Younger Sailors, well, that's easy. Just like our parents were Sailor Scouts..."

Jupiter let her sentence trail off, hoping that her friends were smart enough to understand what she meant.
"They're our daughters?" all three of the Scouts said in unison.

Jupiter smiled and nodded.
"That'd explain why they look so much like us," Mercury said, being the first to clam down.

Mars and Venus nodded in agreement. "But why didn't they tell us?" was the only thing Sailor Venus wanted to know. All three Scouts turned to look at Jupiter.

Jupiter smiled at them and said, "Claudia told me that they were afraid that they'd disrupt the timeline."
"Didn't she do that by rescuing us in the fight?" Sailor Mars asked.

Jupiter sighed and nodded.

"Then, if she was going to disrupt the timeline, anyways, why didn't she just tell you the truth in the first place?"
"I don't think Claudia expected to disrupt the timeline," Jupiter replied. "She told me that she saved us because I would end up in the hospital with two broken legs. You, Raye, would have ended up in the hospital almost paralyzed. Amy would've hurt the worst of all. You would've been paralyzed for life. And you, Mina, would have almost gotten killed but you would've survived." Hearing this information, the three other Scouts gasped in shock.
"Claudia told you this?" Mercury asked.

Jupiter nodded. "But if she knew that we were all going to end up okay, why did she save us?" Mars asked.

Jupiter shrugged. "I don't know," she replied, truthfully. "All she told me was that she couldn't watch her mother die. Not again."

At this, Mars, Mercury and Venus frowned.
"But she said that you would only end up with two broken legs," Mercury said. Jupiter nodded.
"I know."
"So, what the hell did she mean by saying that she couldn't watch her mother die, 'not again'?" Mars asked.
"I don't know."

Sailor Moon and the Younger Scouts appeared on the main deck with a blinding flash of light. Rebeus covered his eyes at the blinding flash of light. Once it was gone he looked at the Scouts and smiled.
"Hello, Sailor Moon," he greeted her. "Nice to see you again, Younger Scouts." He grinned at Younger Sailor Jupiter. "YSJ, I'm surprised you would come up here again. After what happened last time, that is."

The Younger Scouts glared at Rebeus.
"Rebeus, stuff it!" Sailor Moon yelled, hating him for causing her friends' future daughters pain. "We're here to fight and rescue the Scouts. Not talk!"

Rebeus nodded. "How true, Sailor Moon, but now that the Younger Scouts are in the past, I have little interest in fighting you." He smiled. "You see, I would much rather fight one-on-one with YSJ." Rebeus waved his hands at the other Younger Sailor Scouts and Sailor Moon. They gasped in surprise as a bubble of dark energy covered them. It had happened too fast for any of them to even try and escape. The only Younger Sailor Scout left outside of the dark energy bubbles was Younger Sailor Jupiter. Rebeus smiled at the Younger Sailor Scout. "So, we meet again Younger Sailor," he said, in a tone that was almost taunting.
"Shut up, Rebeus!" YSJ shouted, angrily.
"Now why would I want to do that?" he asked, taunting her. "You have no idea how long I've been waiting for this day to come."

YSJ smiled. He had no idea how long she had been waiting for this day to come! She couldn't wait to fight Rebeus one-on-one.
"Jupiter Lightening Bolts!"
Two lightening bolts appeared in YSJ's gloved hands. In the blink of an eye, she flung them at Rebeus. He cried out as he the two lightening bolts hit him. He hadn't been expecting the Younger Scout to be this quick on her feet. Cheers came from the Younger Sailor Scouts and Sailor Moon.

Rebeus glared at the Scout and streched out his arms. Blasts of dark energy shot out from his hands.

YSJ rolled to the left, easily avoiding the blasts of dark energy.

Rebeus growled in anger. YSJ was faster than she had been before. Quickly, he shot blasts of energy to where YSJ was standing again. Again, YSJ rolled away to the left, easily avoiding the blasts. Rebeus's eyes widened in horror, as he realized where YSJ was rolling closer to. On her knees now, YSJ cried out, "Lightening Strike!"

Prepared this time, Rebeus was just able to block the lightening bolts that shot down at him from nowhere. "Noooo!" Rebeus cried out as he blocked YSJ's attack.

During her attack, YSJ had moved closer to the crystal center. In seconds, YSJ stood up and grasped the middle crystal. She had had enough classes to know that for ships which used crystals as their main power sources, pulling out the middle crystal would not only disable the ship but, depending on the type of crystal, it could destroy the ship as well. Thankful to her mother for having destroyed the ship's weapon crystal, YSJ quickly calculated which crystal she'd need to pull out to destroy the ship. YSJ groaned as she pulled on the middle crystal.
"Watch out!" YSJ heard her friends and Sailor Moon cry out. Without losing or loosening her pull on the middle crystal, YSJ turned to see why her friends had cried out. Rebeus had his arms streched out and was shooting a direct blast of dark energy at her. Not having time to block it, she cried in pain as the dark energy slammed against her back.
"Agggggggghhhhhhh!"
Immediately, she turned back to concentrate on pulling out the middle crystal, all the while in agony as Rebeus shot a constant stream of dark energy at her. Ignoring the pain, she continued to concentrate. She had to ignore the pain if she wanted to be successful. She knew what she had to do. She knew why she had been brought back to the past.

"Agggggggghhhhhhh!"

The scream echoed throughout the Sailor Scouts's cell.
"Claudia!" Jupiter cried out, recognizing the girl's cry.
"What do you think's going on up there?" Mars asked.
"I don't know," Venus said. "They're probably fighting against Rebeus."
"I can't stand this!" Jupiter screamed as Claudia's cry rang throughout the deck. "I know that these bars are guarded by Rebeus's telepathy, but if he's fighting against Claudia than he can't be concentrating all that hard on us."

Mercury nodded in agreement. "You're right, Jupiter," she said, "Let's get out of here while we can!"

Together, the four Scouts pushed against the bars. Venus shook her head when they swung open freely. "When I tried that half an hour ago, I got electrocuted."
"Come on," Jupiter said. "We've to go help them."

The other Scouts nodded, and ran down the hall and up the stairs, towards the main deck where the battle between Younger Sailor Jupiter and Rebeus was being waged.