Thanks, Sailor Ra. And I'll get chapter three out as soon as I can. For any Smallville fans reading this, I promise I'll write in some Smallville next chapter.
DISCLAIMER: If I owned these shows, this would be canon rather than offbeat fanfiction.
Chapter Two: Gone
Amara groaned. She couldn't believe how often the Inner Planetary Scouts still needed the help of the Outers. Grumbling under her breath, she decided it was really just a ploy to get the Outers to come see them. The Inners looked up to them, and tended to want them around a lot more than they could really afford to be around.
It had been an hour since the winds had been disturbed by the faint trace of evil that was the magic-energy signal of a youma. They had beat Chaos four months ago, but there was still the odd stray youma, heart-snatcher, or what-have-you. Thus, the goofy Inners who had never learned to just use the advantage of surprise and skip the damn speeches that never got through to the monsters anyway, were in trouble. Allegedly. Possibly.
They couldn't take that risk.
The Outers would have to charge in, full boar. They couldn't risk the princess being killed or kidnapped. Ever since the Outers had accepted the Moon Princess as their leader, they had been careful about how much danger they let her get into. They knew they had to let her continue to fight- her friends were too important to Serena to allow herself to be kept from the fights- but that didn't mean the Outers had to stay out of the fights either. And fight they did.
Amara and Michelle found an empty alley to transform in, on the way to where they sensed the monster, so when they reached the park they were ready to fight. Please. A park? That' s so predictable. They nearly always attack in a park, thought Sailor Uranus, a little sick of the usual routine.
Interestingly enough, the youma seemed to genuinely be giving the Inners a run for their money. It seemed to be able to make copies of itself. It also seemed to be able to regenerate. The Inners were pretty beat up, and the youma wasn't giving them time to launch a coordinated attack. Just enough small attacks to hold the monsters at bay.
Uranus found herself wishing, Pluto really needs to visit more often. Tomorrow was gonna be pain city. War is hell.
She skipped the speech and launched a quick World Shaking attack. It hit a few of the monsters, but they just regenerated whatever they'd lost. Uranus wasn't stupid; the youmas she was stalling were the ones surrounding Mercury. Thank Selene at least that girl has her head on straight, Uranus thought. Mercury whipped out her palm computer, already having her goggles on. Now they'd have a chance. What the Scouts needed was a strategy to take this thing out.
While Mercury worked on analyzing it, Uranus shot a quick glance at her cousin and best friend, Neptune. The Scout of the Seas was doing her best to fend off the monsters around Sailor Moon, the Moon Princess. Mercury better hurry up tell us what this thing's weakness is! I don't think Michelle can hold up much longer. Even with the help of the Inners, Neptune hadn't been able to prevent the princess from getting a few wounds.
Uranus returned her attention before it was missed by the the youmas near Mercury. She was still battling them a few minutes later when she heard a familiar voice scream. Her head whipped toward the source so fast it almost gave her whiplash, and she ran but it was too late. "MICHELLE! MICHELLE! NOOOOOO!" Too late. The enormous black ball one of the youmas had created had already engulfed Sailor Neptune, leaving no trace of the girl.
Helpless to change it, Uranus let her grief explode into hot fury, and let it control her. Her Space Sword was out of her sub pocket and in her hand in an instant. Blindly she slashed and hacked at the monsters, until a brief pain washed over her and her vision faded from red to black.
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