Be excited you get this before my site 'cos I don't have access to my site files at the moment… This deal is a bit different to the others, so I hope you enjoy it.

I would appreciate some reviews. That zero's not a nice number 

Oh yeah, the concepts of Senshi aren't mine, but the characters, storyline, and all the other concepts are!

THE FATE SENSHI

AUTHOUR: Jetster

EMAIL: M (Sexual Themes, Coarse Language, Violence)

1st Round (Practice Round)

3rd Deal: Queen of Hearts

A siren sounded. Everyone stopped dead in their tracks. The menace had come to stop their plans, but they all knew it wasn't over yet. It was just a matter of time before they started again…

"Half-time girls!" Brogan frowned and dropped the ball. She was just about to shoot a basket too. The half-time siren sucked. Brogan thought about one day ripping out the cords that made it work. That would show those snooty refs. Of course, it might annoy her team-mates who could get tired after a while too. Oh well, dreaming was good anyway.

"Good hustle guys. Jill, I need you to play your defence up on the left so that Fi can go straight up the centre and get the ball out there. Georgia, you need to get up to the goals early so Fi can pass off to you. Tif and Mel, I need you to just keep that ball moving. The rest of you can take a break. You too, Rowgs. You wouldn't let me get you off at all in the first half. I can't let you get you tired out for the end of the game when we need you most" Brogan's coach, Oscar, was a nice guy who knew how each of them played. He was also well accustomed to Brogan wanting to be on the court the whole game.

Brogan on the other hand was not happy. It was annoying watching the others play without being able to help them. It was going to be a long third quarter.

♥

It was like an assault. The problems kept on coming, It felt like dying a slow, painful death, except without the knowledge that at the end there would be no death. In fact, in two days time it would start again. For the whole year, it would be non-stop torture.

Cara groaned and flopped down onto her maths homework. The numbers on her graphics calculator flashed menacingly. The only comfort was that there was only one more year of doing maths classes… Then it was off to a uni for a business course, where she would have to do more accounting. VCE exams looming ahead weren't a very fun thought either.

There was only one thing that brought real comfort. Cara looked over to her wardrobe. Hiding behind all her clothes was her most treasured possession- her keyboard. It wasn't a grand piano, but while she was trying to hide her musical talents from her parents, it would do.

"Perhaps now is the time you should just tell your parents what you really want to do with your life," Flip stretched out his scrawny legs, flexing his back. The Cheshire cat had decided that staying at Cara's house, even though she now knew what he was exactly, was a wise idea so as to not arouse her parent's suspicion, "rather than slaving over these… equations that you obviously have some quandary with" Cara smiled at the cat's complicated way of speaking.

"If I did that, they would murder me… Or disown me. I dunno. There's no place for a musician in our family"

♥

At exactly 11:11am that day, two electronic devices started beeping in two different locations of Australia.

One was in Bendigo, Victoria. The other, in Townsville, Queensland.

Two girls were unexpectedly happy about this.

♥

Sailor Diamonds was jumping up and down with excitement when she appeared in the briefing room. Sailor Spades stared at her for a few seconds, eyebrow arched.

"Er… Hi…" Sailor Spades looked over to the shorter girl. Little did she know that the shorter girl could drink and drive legally, unlike her.

"Oh! HI!" It was fortunate that the girls had to transform to come into the building, as had Cara not transformed into Sailor Diamonds, she would have gone almost mute in a state Cara called 'Serious Cara', "You must be The Ace! I'm The King, Sailor Diamonds" Brogan was a little put out by the over enthusiasm of the girl, but smiled back anyway.

"Yeah, I'm The Ace… Sailor Spades. Stuff all this codename crap though, seriously. It's stupid. My name's Brogan, but most people call me Rowgs" Sailor Diamonds blinked.

"Joker said that the codenames were for our safety… That we shouldn't give our names to ANYONE." Spades laughed at that.

"What Joker forgets is that we're both Senshi, which I guess means we're team-mates or something. A team can't work together properly if they don't trust each other. But if you don't wanna tell me… I guess that's OK"

Diamonds looked thoughtful for a bit, but then grinned and gave in, "OK then, my name's Cara. I guess the only nickname I've ever had is Caz"

"Caz… Cool."

The two shook hands. In the space of five minutes, they had already become friends.

♥

The girls fell into conversation about the mysterious organisation about CARD, only to be interrupted by an upside down head appearing between them. Joker was hanging from the roof again, though how he got in the room, onto one of the many pipes on the roof, and than hung upside down without them noticing, was just another mystery of CARD.

"I see you girl's are hitting it off then. I also see you've broken our rule about confidentiality" Joker interjected. The girls laughed.

"Yeah, what are you going to do about it?" Diamonds laughed.

"Well, you two are currently just being watched by CARD to see if we can trust you enough to work independently. If we can't trust you, we may have to take… Certain measures. We can't do what we do to our usual traitors to you guys, as you are vital to the aim, and once we achieve it we won't need you anymore. You certainly won't need us either. But just because we can't expel you from CARD through memory erasure or… Execution in some cases, doesn't mean we can't make your lives living hell anyway"

The two girls stared horrified at Joker. Especially at the word 'execution'. Now it was Joker's turn to laugh.

"Don't worry. A simple identity revelation to your 'team-mate' is not going to have us restrict your freedom. Besides, you two are just starting, and it is understood if you haven't quite learnt the ropes yet," Spades and Diamonds relaxed a little, but were still on the edge a bit, "I suppose you're wondering why you were called here today"

Spades nodded, "yeah. It better be quick so I can be back for the last quarter…" she looked at a digital clock flashing on one of the computers, "ah, crap. Never mind"

"Well, we haven't quite found the other two Senshi… We're told there are four… Or at least four that our sources either know of or think are important. So, we're making it you're first assignment to go look for one of them. I'm sending you two over to Adelaide we're Roll thinks one of them might be. That's all Roll will tell me about this Senshi, so maybe you can get more sense out of him than me"

"Was that comment meant to be an insult to me, by any chance?" Roll appeared lounging on top of a monitor, as if on cue. Joker arched his eyebrow.

"Of course it was"

"You humans like the term 'it' a lot. I am confused as to how one word can be used so carelessly. If people are not careful, 'it' will disappear. Like that word 'bonza'. I heard people use 'bonza' all the time down here, and I haven't hear the word for a long time."

"Can you please take them where you're going to take them?"

"Taking them where I wish to take them all depends on if where I'm going happens to be somewhere they wish to go" Spades groaned.

"Geez, just shut up with the backwards speak or I'll show you where to go"

"I doubt you can show me where I want to go. Do you and the other Lady wish to come with me or not?" Diamonds coughed.

"What's with the 'Lady' part? How formal do you get?" Not wanting to hang around anymore listening to Roll, Diamonds put out her hand before waiting for an answer. Spades quickly did the same.

"I take your hands being near me as a sign that you wish to come"

"YES!"

"Very well then" Roll put his paw on top of the girls' hands, and they vanished.

♥

She was so in love with him… Was he the one? They locked lips and began kissing passionately. He pulled away and smiled at her.

"I love you so much."

"I love you too."

"Well… If you love me that much."

"What? What are you getting at."

He began to unbutton her top. She knew what he was doing instantly and gently pushed him away.

"I told you, I'm not ready for that sort of thing."

"But you said you loved me."

"I know I did. It's because I love you that I want to save myself."

"If you love me, you'll go along."

He pulled her in close again, and began to slowly pull down at her skirt. She pushed him away a little harder this time.

"I don't want to!"

"Frigid!"

"What!"

"You're a fucking frigid bitch."

"I can't believe you just called be that."

"SHUT UP!"

He pushed her down violently. Tears sprang to her eyes.

"What are you doing?"

"SHUT UP, I said."

He hit her across her face. It stung. Then he came down to her level and began to unbutton her shirt, trying to rip it off almost.

"NO! Paul! Please! Stop!"

"This is your fault. We could have done this a lot nicer."

"STOP!"

"ARGH!"

His hands covered his groin as his face contorted in pain and he fell down in to the foetal position.

"You… Bitch."

He gasped, hardly able to talk from the pain.

"You can't get out anyway. I locked the doors from the outside. I hid the keys where you won't find them."

She was still crying, but now free. She buttoned up her shirt again. Not looking back, she ran to the front door.

He was right. It was locked. She looked around frantically for an escape. He was beginning to get up, slowly, but surely. She rushed to each room. No luck, everything was locked. He had planned this.

She felt violently ill, she was going to vomit. On her instinct, she rushed to the bathroom. Upon hearing his footsteps, she held it in and rushed to the door to lock it.

♥

After two hours running around the city of Adelaide so they couldn't be seen in their strange get-ups, Spades and Diamonds hadn't found anything. They met up in an alleyway.

"What do you say we take a break and get lunch? I saw a café around the corner that looks alright." Diamonds suggested.

"Sounds good to me. We'd have to get out of these though."

"Right."

The two changed to their normal selves.

The café was called the 'Blue Bayou Café', and the girls opted to sit outside. A young waitress brought their orders.

"Is this whole thing a little too psycho for you?" Brogan asked. Cara considered for a while.

"A little. But to be honest, I'm enjoying it."

"Serious?"

"Yeah, sure. Hell, it gets me away from home."

"Don't you like being with your family or something?" Cara sighed and leaned her cheek on her hand, playing with the straw in her drink.

"They're alright. It's just that… They expect something out of me that I don't particularly enjoy."

"Really? That's too bad-" The pair were cut off by a large grin spontaneously appearing in the centre of the table.

"My God Roll, you are so lucky we're the only ones out here." Brogan scolded the Cheshire Cat. The rest of Roll's body appeared.

"Actually, I think you two are lucky that you're not in trouble for coming out of your True Forms while on a mission."

"Whatever Roll," Cara laughed, "have you found anything?"

"Yes, I have found something" Roll vanished again, leaving Brogan and Cara extremely confused.

♥

He was banging on the door now. Threatening to break it down.

"Leave me alone Paul!"

She had stopped vomiting. Now it was just the fear that he would break in. She needed to find a way out. The door was the only way out it seemed. She looked around desperately.

The window. It was only small, and she would need to climb up onto the toilet, but it was open.

How high up was the building? She couldn't remember. It was too hard to concentrate on details like that. It was a risk she would have to take.

He slammed against the door again. The wood sounded like it was splintering. She stepped up onto the toilet. The lid wasn't slippery, thankfully.

The wood was definitely splintering. He would be in soon. The back of the toilet felt weak, like it might fall in. She accidentally stood on the button and the toilet flushed. She hoisted herself up to the window. Would she fit? It was so small. She stuck one leg out and hoisted her torso up, slowly.

There was a smashing sound.

"I've got you now, you filthy slut"

She sobbed in fright.

"I hate you"

She dragged the rest of herself out of the window, and dropped.

The ground was soft. The window wasn't high up. She landed safely on her bum, away from him.

"Ah, such a dignified landing for royalty"

The sight that assaulted her eyes next was not exactly expected.

♥

"Wha… What are you?" She blinked at the grinning thing that looked like a cat.

"I am a Cheshire Cat. My name is Roll. I would like to get this over with as quickly as possible as your future friends are going to break as many rules as they can before we're done. May I please have your hand?" This was all happening too fast for her. She stopped thinking and just put out her hand, "thank you. I, Roll, hereby initiate you into Chance's Agents Rivalling Darkness as their third junior member. As I have recognised you to be one of the searched for, I have been granted authority to do so. And so…" The cat's eyes glinted up towards her, asking for something… "your name?"

"Er… Amanda True" The words just came out without any thought. This wasn't happening.

"Thank you. I announce that Amanda True is the third of the Senshi that CARD sent me out to find, and therefore shall be known from this day to all operatives as 'The Queen' or," Roll paused, perhaps for some effect, but Amanda was just staring blankly into the cat's huge smile, "'Sailor Hearts'. Transmission over."

Amanda passed out just before she and Roll vanished.

♥

"Look, you two can go home. You're not needed today anymore. Better yet, see if you can find Roll and find the next one."

"Fine, we're going. I still don't see why we can't meet her while she's conscious"

"GO!"

Amanda blinked. She was lying on a white camp bed, in a white room. The cleanliness of the whole room hurt her eyes. A man wearing a white mask filled her line of vision.

"Hey, what do you know. The Queen's awake".

Amanda stumbled through Joker's explanation of her situation. The events just seemed to hit her. She responded, but her mind wasn't with her mouth. All she could think of was Paul.

Hadn't he loved her? She loved him still…

"So. Now your training begins!"

"OK. Training" Amanda had since transformed into Sailor Hearts. Joker had plucked her brooch out of thin air. Her transformation seemed spectacular. Normally it would have amazed her, but now… Nothing seemed to phase her.

Joker led her to a white room with a window where he could look through onto her.

"Computer, begin simulation."
"Subject identified as Senshi. Please identify further for appropriate training simulation."
"Hearts."
"Thank you. Simulation will begin in 5…4…3…2…1…."

♥

The room melted into another scene. It was familiar.

"Oh… Crap."

Sailor Hearts recognised the place instantly.

It was the bathroom of Paul's house.

♥

Joker looked at the information being sent to his computers. This had only happened once before.

The computer read off a person's mind waves what as to what would be a situation an agent would be able to work well in. It would put in a target that would need to be destroyed, and information needed to be assesed to destroy the target.

But sometimes, if the agent's mind was so occupied by one event that had happened to them, the computer would begin to reconstruct it, but still put in information and a target.

Joker smiled to himself, "Well, this could be interesting."

♥

Sailor Hearts looked up to the window, where she could escape before.

It was closed. Hearts didn't know how to open it.

The bathroom door was locked from the inside. She could open that. Very slowly, Hearts unlocked the door and opened it. She was scared, and began to breath a little quickly.

"Hello? Who's there?"

Hearts froze. Paul was in the house.

"Hello?"

Paul came into the room and froze, dropping the can of Foster's he was drinking.

"Who the hell are you?"

"You don't recognise me?"

Hearts looked down at herself.

"I guess not."

An idea hit Heart's mind.

"But I'm here for someone you would recognise. She's just behind…"

"How'd you get in here? I'm ringing the police! What kind of person dresses up like that and breaks into a person's house?"

"I… Uh… Got in through the bathroom window. Please don't ring the police! Just wait!"

Hearts went back into the bathroom and changed back to Amanda. Then she came out.

Paul stared at her.

"What the fuck… You have the fucking nerve to break in here! And with some costumed freak at that"

"Paul, please."

"I guess you changed your mind then."

"What! No!"

Paul came up to her very close. He grabbed her face and kissed her.

Amanda struggled and pulled away.

"HEARTS… DRAW… POWER!"

She brought her arm down to her face and winked. When she opened her eye again it was very dark navy blue, almost black. As she kept bringing her hand down over her torso, her fuku appeared. She jumped up and simple, scarlet red heels appeared on her feet. Heart symbols began spiralling out of the ground. Two came to her ears and turned into ornate dangling earrings. Amanda grabbed one of the hearts and put it to the bridge of her nose, where it turned into a red mask. A mass of the hearts circled around her upper body. When they dispersed, her hair had changed to a scarlet red bob with bangs. A choker had appeared around her neck and there were fingerless scarlet red gloves reaching up to her elbow, where they had a triangular white edge. As Sailor Hearts, she blew a kiss. A black pistol appeared in her flat hand and she posed.

"What the HELL!"

"You never loved me!"

Hearts was crying. Paul grinned.

"What is this? Some kind of magic show? Amanda, of course I love you"

He pulled her in again, began to put his hand down her top.

Hearts pulled up the gun to his head and pulled the trigger. A novelty boxing glove shot out and punched Paul away before disappearing again. Hearts looked at the gun strangely.

"Well, that was weird."

"You… Bitch"

Hearts looked down to Paul on the ground. He wiped away blood coming from out of his mouth.

"You're right. I don't love you. You're a frigid bitch who isn't even good for a fuck"

Paul reached into his jacket, and pulled out a pistol. Hearts got the feeling that this one had proper bullets.

"Paul! NO!"

Paul tightened his finger on the trigger.

"Goodbye, Amanda."

"CUPS… ACE… SLAM!"

On the word 'Cups', a golden chalice appeared in Hearts' hand. On the word 'Ace', the cup rose out of her hand into the air and pointed at Paul. On the word 'Slam', the chalice broke into a million pieces, all slamming into Paul. As they hit, his body disintegrated.

Hearts panted heavily.

"Situation Complete"

Situation… It was fake. Hearts sighed. She hadn't killed him. But she had finally had a great pressure taken off he shoulders.

"Welcome to CARD"

"Glad to be here" Hearts smiled flirtatiously. She had just realised how good looking Joker was.

♥

As Joker took in Heart's flirting, he couldn't help thinking that she was going to be a bit of trouble.

A/N:

'The café was called the 'Blue Bayou Café', and the girls opted to sit outside in the courtyard'

I'm so proud of myself. I've never been to Adelaide, so I thought I should do a little research to do things right. The Blue Bayou is a real café found in the suburb of Aldgate.

'Paul came into the room and froze, dropping the can of Foster's he was drinking.'

For those of you who don't know, Foster's Light is an Aussie beer.