War Has Horrible Consequences

By Trey Hayes

Phase 3

Sailor Venus was paralyzed in a state of shock. She looked at the girl who stood before her. She felt that her eyes betrayed her, taunting her with this image of her dear friend that she knew was long dead. Part of her wanted to throw her arms around the girl and cry in their joyous reunion, but another part of her didn't know what to think. Tears soon weld up in her eyes as she held back a few soft whelps.

"Usagi-chan?" Venus asked in a quite voice taking a step back.

Sailor Moon looked at her with a puzzled look on her face?

"Minako-chan…its me, Chibiusa." she said taking a step forward toward Venus who immediately took another step backward.

Venus shook her head. " You look just.. Like her…" her voice trailed off as she shook her head.

Chibiusa stepped back and looked at Venus confused. She knew she was upset but didn't know why, so she decided to quickly change the subject.

"The creatures have already landed Venus. Their point of origin seems to be the center of Neo-Crystal Tokyo." Chibiusa was looking off to her left side scanning for more of the monsters.

Venus sniffled and choked back her feelings as much as she could and replied, "Your attacks seem more effective on these creatures then mine are."

"Yeah," Chibiusa said turning back to Venus, "but we need all the fire power we can get to fight."

As the two soldiers conversed week tremors began to occur. They got stronger and stronger until buildings began to topple from their towering heights and explosions began to occur. The two senchi were thrown to the ground violently. They could hear people beginning to screaming in the distance.

"They must have arrived!" Venus shouted over the sound of shifting earth as she tried to return herself to an upright position.

"Alright, lets move then." Neo Sailor Moon shouted as jumped from her position on the ground onto the roof of a near by building. Venus followed still shaken, but decided that if she would lay down her life for the original Sailor Moon, Neo Sailor Moon deserved no less.

Three fearsome creatures began emerging from large ships that jutted out of the like jagged rocks. The crash landings of so many ships at one time had left the Crystal Tokyo business district in a completely shattered state. What once was the bustling center of commerce and agreements was now nothing more then a crater that had about a few dozen rock like ships scattered around it. There were many bodies scattered around the area as well from the devastating impact. Bodies charred, and destroyed beyond recognition. Millions of others lay in the streets and buildings injured in various ways.

The creatures slowly made their way into the streets of the city, prying on the injured and defenseless citizens, killing without mercy. One creature picked up a man who's leg was shattered from having a piece of a building fall on him, and threw him into a through a window. The impact of his collision with the window, and the large shards that went into his skin killed him instantly.

Another of the creatures walked up to a woman that was cradling her young child in her arms, trying to protect him. The creature grabbed the woman and tossed her aside. The woman flew head first into a phone booth, splitting her skull open. The child cried as the creature bore down on him. As the creature reached for the child a shout was herd in the distance……

"CRESENT BEAM!!"

The yellow laser lanced through the air at lighting speed and smacked the creatures hand from the child's direction. The creature turned to see Neo Sailor Moon and Sailor Venus standing on the roof of one of the nearby shops.

"How dare you come to this planet, destroy the city and prey on innocent children! These crimes will not go unnoticed!" Neo Sailor Moon shouted as she took a step closer to the edge of the roof top. "I am Neo Sailor Moon, and on behalf of the moon of the future I shall punish you." she ended the speech taking up her mothers original pose.

The monster that stood in front of the child reared back its head and roared loudly showing the thousands of teeth in its mouth. The creature launched it's self toward the two senchi, quickly followed by its three companions. The speed of the creatures was impressive and caught them bout off guard. Venus quickly pushed Neo Sailor Moon out of the way of the creature that flew toward her. The creatures clawed swipe that was intended for Sailor Moon caught Venus across the upper part of her back ripping through the foku she wore and cutting deeply into her flesh.

Venus hit the rooftop hard and rolled in the opposite direction of her queen. The creatures were incredibly fast, and as the last two landed on the rooftop the first already stood over top of Sailor Moon ready for a second attempt at killing her. Gritting her teeth through the severe pain that racked her body, Venus launched her love chain which promptly followed her mental command and wrapped itself around the creature standing over her queen.

While Venus held the creature in the chain, the other two bore down on her quickly. Venus stood holding the chain and glared at the monsters. If she called on another attack she would have to let go of the chain and leave Sailor Moon open to attack. As the creatures came closer Venus closed her eyes and prepared for the inevitable pain when suddenly there was a bright flash on light. She opened her eyes to find all three of the creatures gone and only white feathers that fell gently to the ground.

"What are these things?" asked Sailor Moon as she looked over the edge of the building at the ships that were embedded in to the business district of the planets capital city.

"I cant even begin to tell you." Venus said joining the sovereign of the planet. "We better get you back to the palace your majesty." she soon suggested looking up into the sky to see thousands of the same looking ships beginning their decent into the planets atmosphere. The queen looked at her an nooded in agreement. The two lepted onto a nearby rooftop in the direction of the palace. Soon all that was at the sight of the battle were a few feathers dotted with blood.

"This isn't going to be pretty." Venus thought to herself.

Minako Ano paced around the thrown room of the imperial palace wondering what could be their next move. It was estimated that the majority of the alien ships would begin landing in Crystal Tokyo within the next twenty four hours and they still had no other way to destroy the creatures other then the Eternal Moon Scepter. She contemplated having Chibiusa go back into battle because she was the only one that could use the scepter, but after careful thought she refused to have the queen put in unnecessary danger.

Minako had only one choice left. She walked out of the throne room and headed down the long hallway making her way to a large thick golden door. When she reached the golden door, she pulled out the Venus transformation rod and held it up to the door. The rod glowed brightly for a few moments and then the door slowly creaked open until it was wide enough to have Minako slip through to the dark chamber inside. Once Minako was inside, the door slammed shut behind her leaving her in a completely black void. The darkness soon began to swirl with magenta light as it was dimly illuminated. As the light got brighter, a large door appeared with the six phases of the moon carved into it. The door had no doorknobs and no hinges. The doors frame was intricately designed into a horseshoe shape and had the symbols of all the planets of the solar system around the frame.

"Guardian Cronos, father of time, hear my call. Open the gates of time, allow me to have council with the keeper of the gates." she calls aloud as the winds of time kicked up tussling her loose clothing and hair all around her body.

"I call upon you, daughter of time and keeper of the future, past and present. Pluto! I must speak to you!" The power of the winds increased as the doors to the passage way of time slowly opened. A magenta light that shown through the cracks of the opening door was so bright Minako had to raise her hands to shield her eyes. Soon Minako was able to make out a shape that was coming toward her. She watched as the figure came closer and closer until the familiar face of an old friend was visible.

"It is good to see you again my friend." the sweet familiar voice of the keeper of time said.

"As it is you Sailor Pluto." Minako said " I need your help with something."

"The Cryons." Pluto said looking into Minako's eyes.

"The what?" Minako asked puzzled

"The Cryons. The creatures invading Crystal Tokyo, they are known as the Cryons. They are not of this universe. They are hard to destroy but there is a way." Pluto said cryptically

"Yeah, there vulnerable to the power of the Eternal Scepter." Minako replied.

Pluto turned her head to the left and looked in to the dim void.

"There is another way…." Pluto's voice trailed off. Minako waited looking at Pluto until she couldn't stand it anymore.

"What??" she exclaimed

Pluto turned her head back toward Minako and narrowed her eyes as they met each others gaze.

"Well, its out of my range of power…but I will have travel to the past, to the outer rim of the solar system and awaken Uranus and Neptune to aid you in your fight."

Minako's eyes went wide with shock.

"Why not bring back Usagi and the others to aid in the battle?" Minako inquired quickly.

"The others are unable to be brought to the future."

"Why is that?"

"After your life is lost in the past, if you are brought to the future you run the risk of changing possible outcomes of the future. There is virtually no end to the amount of damage one can do coming to the future if you died in the past and still made it to the future."

"Well, cant you aid us as well?"

"I might be able to, so long as the consequences of my actions are not immediate." Pluto said turning to walk away from Minako.

"What could happen to you?" Minako called after her

The magenta light diminished and the door closed as Pluto disappeared leaving Minako's question unanswered.

"Not exactly what I was looking for…." Minako said, but shrugged her shoulders and turned to leave the chamber.

Minako exited the chamber and used the soft golden glow of Venus to close the chamber door behind her. She had desperately hoped that Pluto could have brought back her friends to aid in the battle. She really missed their support and love, but she really couldn't turn down any help she was given. The faces of Haruka and Michiru flashed across her minds eye, a thought crossed her mind that made her forehead frow. Where had they been all this time. Now that she thought about it she remembered that when Usagi and Mamaru succeeded to power, Haruka, Michiru and Hotaru traveled to the outer part of the solar system to prevent more threats from reaching the earth so that its people could live in peace and prosperity- essentially returning to the jobs they had during the silver millennium. The kept in frequent contact with the palace but one day communications ceased as if they simply disappeared.

When asked, Pluto could offer no explanation. She was called back to her post at the gates of time to defend all possible realities. As Minako walked down the grand hallway a dozen or so of the queens royal guard rushed past her. She reached out and grabed the last one that ran past her.

"Whats going on?" she demanded with an authority she was even surprised with. The guard stopped and faced her. He was young, no more then 18 or 19 years old. Minako hated seeing the young evolved with fighting since she herself was a young warrior.

"3 more ships have landed in the Crystal Tokyo bay area and 6 more have entered the earths atmosphere." the young boy reported to Minako before running off to rejoin the rest of the guards. Minako reached into his pocket and uncovered the Venus Crystal Rod. She held it with one hand and looked through the crystal on top of it watching to boy disappear from the hallway.

"Looks like Venus is needed again." she said to herself as she raised the wand abover her head. She took a deep breath and shouted….

"VENUS CRYSTAL POWER…. MAKE UP!"

Venus threw open the doors of the throne room rushing inside. Chibiusa stood quickly holding the Eternal Moon Locket in her hand. The queen raised the locket above her head and shouted…

"MOON ETERNAL….."

"WAIT!" Venus shouted cutting off the queen in mid phrase.

"What's the matter Venus?" asked Chibiusa as she brought the locket down from over her head.

"I can't risk you going into battle again. The queen must be protected, I wont allow you to be unnecessarily harmed. I want you to stay here under the protection of the royal guard." Venus said flatly, trying to suppress all emotion from her voice.

Chibiusa raised her free hand and pointed her finger at with a cold stair.

"I refuse to sit by and let my people be killed by monsters. You cant do this alone Venus, and I refuse to let a friend die on my behalf. Besides we already know that starlight honeymoon attack is the most effective against them. Let me help you."

"I've talked to Sailor Pluto and she is sending Uranus and Neptune from the past to help, so I will not be alone." Venus said turning around and walking out of the room.

Chibusa slammed down the locket and glared at the door until her stair broke down and turned into sobbing.

Tokyo Bay

Venus ran down the streets of Tokyo Bay and she raced toward a combination of screams and explosions. As she reached the disturbances, there were about a dozen Cryon creatures destroying buildings and attacking people.

Venus called forth her love chain as she ran down the middle of the street striking as many of the creatures as she could as she bolted past. The creatures roared in anger and turned their attention to her. She stood in the middle of the street, building burning behind her and the bodies of the innocent scattered around her feet. The creatures began to advance on her and she began to collect energy for another attack when a golden globe of energy leaped into her line of sight engulfing the entire lot of creatures. Venus turned her head to see rose petals fluttering down from the sky.

"Into the future from the past to protect the innocent, I am Sailor Uranus." Uranus said as she stepped out of the shadows on a rooftop to the right of Venus.

"Into the future from the past to drown evil, I am Sailor Neptune." Neptune said as she stepped out of the shadows of a building top to the left of Venus.

The creatures shook off the attack and righted themselves again. Uranus and Neptune jumped down to join Venus.

"So do we have a plan?" Uranus asked not taking her eyes off their now quickly approaching adversaries.

"Take them out, as many as you can." shouted Venus as she leapt in to the air.

Uranus and Neptune looked at each other and shrugged as they followed Venus.

Venus kissed her middle and index fingers as a golden hear appeared on them. She flung it toward her enemy shouting "VENUS LOVE AND BEAUTY SHOCK!"

The heart turned into a laser and crashed into the mob of on coming creatures, knocking a few of them down.

Venus ran toward a building and stood by its wall long enough for 3 creatures to come after her. Once they were close enough, she jumped over them, and while jumping released her crescent beam into the wall causing it to topple down on them.

Neptune found herself dodging deadly blows from 2 creatures at the same time. Both creatures punched at her at the same time and she suddenly stopped moving and blocked both blows with one hand. She quickly dropped to the ground and swept the cryons legs from underneath them. As Neptune came back to her feet, another cryon grabbed her by her hair and threw her into a plate glass window.

Uranus ran as fast as she could but the creatures seemed to match her pace. Without breaking stride, Uranus turned and kicked the closest creature in the throat. She reached behind her and the space sword appeared in her hand and she began slashing at the 3 creatures that were behind the one she kicked.

2 cryons approached the hole Neptune created when she went through the window. Suddenly blueish green lights appeared and the sound of rushing water was herd. The the window exploded outward as the 2 cryons were overcome by a massive ocean wave that took them across the street into a nearby wall. Venus saw the rushing water coming her way and leapt to the side as the wave took along 2 more cryons she was fighting. Venus saw Uranus struggling against 3 and surrounded one of her teammates enemies in her love chain. This gave Uranus the break she needed to throw one over her shoulder into the ground and place a well placed kick to the seconds mouth.

Suddenly the entire area is covered in pink light and the cryons began exploding into piles of feathers. Venus' eyes went wide as she realized what was going on. She turned to see Neo Sailor Moon standing in the street. A cryon was coming up behind her quickly.

"Sailor Moon MOVE!!!!" Shouted Venus.

Sailor Moon turned in time to catch 4 claws go through the fabric of her costume and go deeply into her skin. She fell to the ground in a bloody heap, the cryon still standing over her. As it went to strike again a heart shaped golden laser surrounded by a orange globe bad a blueish green globe smashed into the creature sending it through 2 buildings before it landed in a third which promptly collapsed in on its self.

Venus, Neptune and Uranus ran up to Neo Sailor Moon who lay unconscious in a pool of her own blood.

"We have to get her to the palace- NOW!"