Chapter Seven - Myoujou

A short moment later Carter hung up the phone again. She turned back to Jack quickly:

"Sir, we've got a big problem", she reported, "there has a fire broken out in the guest quarters. General Hammond has agreed on bringing them down immediately. If nothing's done right away, it might be too late."

"God", Jack spun around hurrying for the elevator, showing the others to follow him.

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They were coming directly for her. She was still trying to evade them. The force inside of her body was getting even stronger, again. It had already slipped her control minutes ago, but now it was no longer important; her only chance was to leave her faith to her self-defense.

The energy was building up faster and faster inside her. She felt unbearably hot, not only from the inside. From the outside she could already sense the flames leaking onto her skin, soon a fight would come, that was for sure, if she did not put an end to this before the senshi came here.

She tried hard to cling to this thought, but suddenly one of the familiar auras appeared close to her and everything went dark.

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On the way to guest quarters Jack and Sam witnessed how the four senshi transformed and could not help but wonder what they had to deal with.

"Who the heck are you?" Jack muttered.

"We are senshi. Sailor Uranus, Sailor Neptune, Sailor Saturn and Sailor Pluto", Setsuna, or whoever she really was, explained quickly.

"What are senshi?" he frowned.

"We have to speed up", she reminded him.

"Right", he went ahead, "this way."

"There's no way for your people to extinct this fire", Sailor Neptune told him on the way.

"Has she done something like that before?" Sam asked.

"Oh yes, more than once", Haruka/Uranus stated.

Only seconds later they could see the bright fire raging, about to infringe into the corridor.

"Neptune", Pluto called, "Go."

Neptune nodded and started an attack.

"Neptune, deep submerge."

A wave of glistering ice water shot up high, extinguishing the flames at once.

"Pluto?" Neptune turned her head.

"On it", the other senshi rushed into the devastated room; a short moment later she returned carrying the injured alien woman in her arms.

She put her down in front of Sailor Saturn.

"Shouldn't we contact infirmary?" Sam proposed worried by the alien's condition.

"Not necessary", Saturn contested, "I can handle it." She put her hands down and started to heal her.

While she was doing this Jack shot Pluto a searching glance questioning, "So, who is she? She wouldn't tell us."

"Well, this is the last of the Myoujou-no hime, a daughter of Empress Sagamyoujou."

(AN: Myoujou means 'morning star'...)

The colonel frowned, "So what's her name, then?"

"Oh, I forgot. We senshi used to call her by her first name, which is Akahoshi. But if you should really call her this..." she pondered.

(AN: ...as does Akahoshi.)

"Okay, that's something at least, what bad could happen if we did?"

"A lot", the re-transformed Haruka stated, "for she's especially dangerous when she's angered."

"Of course", Jack returned, "I think you should see General Hammond to talk about all this."

"Agreed", she said, "but the knowledge of our identity must not leave this facility."

"I think we can manage that", he stated showing the women to follow him.

"If it's possible Hotaru and I want to stay here with the princess", Setsuna said.

"All right", Sam said, "I'll show you to other quarters."

"Thank you", Setsuna looked exchanged looks with Hotaru, "Ready?"

Her friend nodded and she lifted the princess carefully.

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Aw-key, so far for now. Oh, and Li, thanks for the r'ing. (Actually Akahoshi tried to get away from the senshi who once were her guardians. Good idea, though. And the Goa'uld will get a big asskick, promised...)