"So when did you come over to our side?" Lita asked Erin, "Or is this a trap and you're not on your side?"
"You were locked in a cage with me guarding it, how could I want you more trapped?" Erin answered as he turned to Amy, "My computer is yours; it has a wireless connection to your scout computer and a sensor that should get you out of here. Follow that and take care of Rei if she needs it. Oh, and push this red button when all of you get out." He took a thin screwdriver out of his pocket and handed it to Amy, shaft down so she could see a large red button on the pommel. "The heat from your hand activates it," Erin called as he turned and exited the room.
"Amy, what did Erin give you?" Mina looked darkly at the screwdriver.
"It's a detonator," Amy answered as put the laptop in its case. Mercury Power Sailor Mercury took out her scoutpilot and shook her head, "Its loading a map, lets get out of here." Her 'pilot beeped and she took them down a corridor. "He gives me the creeps, he and the New York Scouts. Hadn't Luna always said that we were the only ones?"
"The earth has a bipolar system," Rei asserted, "and fighters have come to help you when you needed it. Leave Erin alone."
"Listen to yourself, Rei," Lita answered, "You're talking like you weren't even there."
"I don't think she was," Darien commented. The other scouts looked at him and he shook his head slowly, "Erin builds robots that look like people, I think he built this Rei. Is that right?"
"Confirmed," Rei answered shyly, "Erin built me to get you out while he destroys the Crimson Celest's heart crystal."
Serena sputtered for a moment before Mina formed the words, "You're a robot? Where's the real Rei, the original?"
"I'm as original as the flesh version," Rei answered indignantly but answered, "She's at the temple asleep. Erin told me I'm one of a kind; a machine asks the sleeping Rei questions, measures her brain activity, and the information is directly linked with my superconcious."
"When I read about Blue Tooth and machine-mind interfaces," Sailor Mercury moaned, "I didn't think it could go this far." She looked at her 'pilot and started down another corridor.
"This place is huge," Lita mentioned, "We could really get lost in here. Are you sure that map Erin gave you is accurate."
"I suppose not," Sailor Mercury lamented, "But we really don't have anything else. The grounds level and I can't sense a wind." They walked a moment in silence and they came to a huge vaulted cavern. There was a second ledge above them and a hole above that that showed blue.
"His map was right," Lita confirmed, "was he really trying to help us afterall?"
"Erin can't help it," Rei confirmed, "but I think they can." She pointed to two figures on the far side of the cavern. Acuma and Avula.