Phase 6

Knight Takes Queen

Chibiusa's body lied in a bed covered in beautiful sheets and huge fluffy pillows. Around the bed was a giant prism that incased the bed and the queen of the earth's body. The giant prism let off a low yellow glow that seemed to be getting brighter and brighter as the minutes went on. Operion stood off to the side and watched as the giant crystal ciphen the energy from the Queen of the Earth's body. As he watched, smiling at his handiwork.

"The process will be complete in a matter of hours," he said taking three or four steps closer to the prisim, "and then I will have my new Queen." Operion mused as he watched the expressions of pain and confusion come and go from Chibiusa's face. Nothing could stop him now, he thought. There was only one obstacle left to take care of, he thought, one that hed been waiting 15 years to deal with. Operion chuckled lightly to himself as he turned on his heels and walked out of the room, heading for the camber that housed Sailor Uranus.

Uranus slowly opened her eyes, squinting to shield her unprotected eyes from the light that seemed to overwhelmed her eyes. She slowly sat upward and looked around, her vision still blurry. As her vision came back, she quickly remembered what had previously happened and jumped up to her feet. She quickly examined her surroundings, which were completely foreign to her. The room that housed her at the moment was completely decked out in the most impressive of furnishing furnishings. The room looked as if it was decorated for the likes of a princess. There was a huge bed in front of her that was covered in sheets that appeared to be see through satin. Massive down pillows lined the head of the bed and extended to about half way down the bed itself. The nightstand next to the bed had an incredibly intricately carved lamp, which gave off a bright light as well as a small clock and a hair brush that had a silver handle.

Uranus walked up to the door of the room and pulled on the giant handle. It didn't budge and inch. She furred her face, not letting her face betray her feelings.

'Shoulda known' Uranus thought to herself as she turned around to search for other exits to the room. She took two steps forward before the door behind her exploded sending her tumbling forward. She flew several feet before she regained some control of her body and rolled into a nearby table, which on impact crashed down upon her. Uranus quickly pushed the table off of herself and jumped to her feet quickly. As the dust cleared, she could make out the figure of a man wearing battle armor walking toward her. He stepped past the dust cloud as his green hair flowed as he walked toward her.

"Who are you?" Uranus demanded as she took a fighting stance.

"My name is Operion, the Destroyer. I am the Commander of the Herrion Galactic Army, sent to add Earth to the Herrion galaxy." Operion replied not taking his eyes off of Uranus for one second, not even to blink. "I have your Queen, I have your two warrior friends and now I have you." he said, his face betraying all emotion.

Uranus unsheathed the space sword and held it out in front of her, the menacing jeweled blade pointed straight at Operion.

"What do you want with us?" She demanded "Release me and my friends and you will live through this battle." Uranus declared.

"You have always been a formidable opponent Sailor Uranus. This proves to be very enjoyable." Operion said as he lunged toward Sailor Uranus. Uranus quickly followed suit and their screaming forms met in mid air.

Sailor Venus sat alone in her white room scared and not knowing what to do. She tried every attack of hers and none of them proved strong enough to penetrate the walls of her completely white cell. As she sat with her chin on her knees, she herd voices speaking to each other in a language that only be described as non-human coming closer to her. She listened intently for a moment, then she suddenly saw something else on the white wall in front of her. A door appeared and opened as two cryons entered the room. One was very large with spikes coming out of its back and fangs that came out of its closed mouth. The other was smaller and didn't have the spikes on its back though the fangs still came from its closed mouth, but it seemed that there was something wild about it's eyes.

"Your time is up bright one." the smaller of the creatures said as their eyes met with Venus'. The creature walked toward her reaching out to grab her.

"Sorry to break it to you pal," Venus said as she took a step back, "I don't kill easy." she kissed her index and middle fingers and a yellow heart appeared sitting on them. She swung the heart outward and it circled her body before it shout forward as she screamed,

"VENUS LOVE AND BEAUTY SHOCK!" the beam shot forward taking the two cryons by surprise and struck them hard enough to knock them backward off there feet. Venus jumped over the two fallen creatures and sprinted full speed out of the door. She pushed the door closed behind her and quickly summoned the love me chain to tie the door shut. As she finished securing the door, the two cryons began banging on it from the inside. The sudden banging surprised venus, but she backed away from the door and began running again.

Venus sprinted down the halls of the ship until she came across more of the alien voices. She pushed her body up against the wall as the voices came closer to her. It seemed like forever before the voices were close enough for her to attack, once the two creatures were in sight she raised her right index finger to the sky and prepared to call out her attack when something grabbed her hand and wrapped around her mouth.

"This time you will not escape me beautiful one." the cryon from her cell wispered in her ear. The hotness of its breath ran cold shivers up and down her spine. Venus struggled to get away from her captor but he was purely physically stronger then she.

"Do you have her?" asked another Cryon as it ran up to the one that held Venus in its arms.

"Yes, she is in my control." it said as it turned around to face the other one. As the creature turned around a bright golden flash came from nowhere and lanced through the cryons body. The cryon holding Venus dropped her in surprise but before it could figure out what was going on, Venus had jumped up to her feet, and placed a well directed kick into the creatures face, the heal of her shoe going deeply into the creatures eye. The cryon screamed in pain as it reeled its head backward allowing Venus to escape its grasp. Venus landed expertly on her feet and looked at the two fallen creatures. She flashed a quick victory smile, turned and ran down the hall.

Sailor Uranus flew across the room and slammed into the wall before falling to the ground in a heap. She raised her head to search for her adversary who was already in front of her. She shook her head in surprise before he sent his foot painfully into her chest. The force of the kick hurled Uranus to the side and her back hit the bed she flew towards, he feet falling on the bed sheets as her head hit the ground. Uranus rolled over and got up on her hands and knees. She was breathing extremely hard and there was blood coming from her mouth. Shed only been fighting this Operion for less then five minutes and she wasn't able to lay a hand on him. She looked up at Operion and glared coldly at him, but he looked back at her with a completely content look on his face. He was enjoying this, every moment of her pain was an eternity of ecstasy for him. The space sword was on the opposite side of the room and he was too fast for her to try and make a move for it. She quickly went over her options and tried to formulate a plan of action.

Operion mused at the pain he caused Sailor Uranus. She was completely unable to touch him. He was more powerful then she, as well as faster then she. He hoped that she would have proved to have been a formidable adversary like she was when he first faced the outer senchi, when he first came to this galaxy. But in actuality, he didn't really care. He was enjoying her pain and he would savor her death. He held out his hand and a long sword appeared in it. He closed his hand over the handle and held it out pointed at Uranus who was now just getting to her feet.

"Are you ready? Are you ready to die?"

"What did I do to you? Why do you want to kill me?" Uranus asked quietly. She held her left side and breathed heavily. She hoped she could get him talking to she could recover some of her strength.

"You don't remember?" Operion said astonished. "You don't remember the scar that you left me with on that fateful day? The millions of my troops, my friends you destroyed?" Operion spat at Uranus and sent another booted foot in her direction. This time the boot met with her chin, the blow sent her reeling to the side. Uranus slowly lifted her head and wiped the blood from the cut tha was now growing larger on her bottom lip.

"I've never meet you before you psycho bastard!" Uranus said as she moved from the floor to her knees.

Operions eyes flashed red with anger. She didn't remember at all. All his soulders, friends he had grown up with, all dead at her hand. He could still see the sight of Sailor Uranus with the space sword in hand, standing on a small cliff over the fallen bodies of his friends and comrades. As his anger intensified his want for her death increased ten fold. He would make her suffer as she made him suffer. Vengeance for those who had fallen for the Herrion Galaxy would be delivered swiftly and mercilessly. Uranus would pay the ultimate price, an eye for an eye….

"For the crimes you have committed against those respected warriors of the Herrion Galaxy, and the pain, both physically and emotionally, you have caused me, I swear on the souls of my lost comrades on this night you will die!" Operion shouted as he grabbed his sword with both hands and launched his body full speed at Sailor Uranus.

"World….." Uranus shouted as she raised her hand above her head and a gold ring rose from the ground to her raised hand.

Operion was almost upon Uranus, his speed was amazing, and his sword raised and ready to strike a final blow.

"Shaking!" Uranus cried as she slammed the giant ball of energy to the ground and launched it toward the on coming Operion.

Operion was struck head on by the attack and was tossed backward like a rag doll, but did a flip and landed on his feet as he slid backwards a little more. Operion stood up straight slowly, smiled and looked at Uranus who had quickly picked up the space sword and raised it to defend herself.

"Your more cunning then you proved to be earlier." Operion said. As he softened his stance a little.

Uranus tightened her grip on the sword and readied herself for anything. This man was toying with her and she knew it. He could easily destroy her easily at anytime yet he hadn't. What was it that was stopping him? Only seconds before he had such rage in his eyes and now completely calm and placid. Why did he want her anyway? What had she done to him? Where were the others? What exactly was going on? So many questions and no answers. Uranus gritted her teeth as she looked into Operions eyes. There wasn't a trace of humanity in him. No fear, no regret no remorse. She couldn't read him at all, his eyes were too wild. What manner of creature was she dealing with?

'This ship is like a maze!' Venus thought to herself as she ran through the massive star ship, dodging cryons left and right 'I have to find Chibiusa and the others and find a way out of this labyrinth' she thought as she ran down another dark hallway. The ship was so big, it seemed like she was just running around in circles because everything looked exactly the same.

As Venus ran, she quickly came to a dead end hallway which had two doorways at the end of it. She stood in front of the two doors and looked at each of them for a few seconds. She had no clue what could be behind either of them and she feared opening the wrong one. She sighed and then pointed her right finger at the door on the left.

"eny, meany, miny, mo…"Venus started as she went back and forth between them. She finally decided on one of the doors and reached out her hand to open the door on the right. She slowly opened the door and peeked inside. There was nothing there but stairs.

"Phew…" she sighed with relief. She started to go into the stair well but then stopped and looked at the other door. Curiosity got the better of her and she opened the door on the left hand side. As she slowly opened the door she saw Sailor Neptune hanging in the air a few feet above the ground in a crucified position with her head down and her hair blocking her face.

"Neptune!" Venus shouted, as she ran over to her friend. Venus quickly released Neptune and aided her in standing on her own two feet.

"Are you alright?" Venus asked. Neptune looked her in the eyes for a long moment. Neptune looked broken. Venus had never seen such a look of fear and sadness in Michiru's eyes before.

"I'm fine." Neptune managed to squeak out. "Were you able to locate Uranus and her Majesty?" she asked quickly, a little more strength seemed to be in her words the second time she spoke.

"Not yet," Venus started as she herd footsteps quickly coming their way. "You were the first person I was able to come across." Venus said guiding Neptune towards the door.

"We need to get out of here, lets go look for the others. There is a flight of stairs on the other side of this door."

Neptune seemed to have her footing back and she followed Venus as she lead her into the hallway. The entered the stairwell and went up about two flights before deciding to go into a new hallway. Immediately as the entered the hall they could hear the sounds of a battle not far from them.

"That has to be Uranus." Venus declared as she instinctively ran toward the sounds of the battle. Neptune ran along side Venus knowing that her partner was in trouble with out seeing it with her own eyes.

After what seemed like an eternity of running, Venus and Neptune came across a double door, which at that very second shook violently. A flash of light came from behind the door followed by Uranus' scream.

"Haruka!" Neptune shouted, her face looked like she was just punched in the stomach by someone with brass knuckles. Venus pulled on the door as hard as she could, but it didn't move an inch.

"It's no use, I cant move the doors." Venus said turning her head toward Neptune.

"DEEP SUMBERGE!" Neptune shouted as she quickly formed the ball of aqua marine energy and sent it flying into the door. It exploded it violently sending debris flying into the room. Neptune stepped the door followed by Venus and both quickly scanned the room. The sight they saw made Neptune and Venus both gasp loudly.

Operion had a hand full of Uranus' hair and was holding her limp body up at about shoulder level. Operion laughed as he saw the look of terror on Venus and Neptune's faces.

"This is your destiny if you stand against me." he shouted to them and shook Uranus' head around, her unconscious form not displaying any kind of emotion. "You either stand with me or you will lay at my feet. The Herrion Galaxy will control your universe as well as your planet." his voice boomed as if it was coming from over a loud speaker.

"I wont let that happen! CRESENT BEAM" Venus shouted firing the beam of golden energy at Operion. The beam disappeared into thin air seconds before it touched his body. Venus stepped back awestruck that her attack was so easily defended.

"Please no," cried Neptune, "Please if you have any kind of heart, don't kill her! She did nothing to you" she had fallen to her knees and tears streamed down her face.

"On the contrary," he replied "this one has caused me much pain and suffering. Her end will bring peace to hundreds of angry souls." Operion laughed loudly and raised Uranus' body even higher into the air. He lifted the sword in his hand so that the point of it was pointed straight at Uranus heart.

"There is nothing that you can do to stop me. This one will pay for disfiguring my body and killing hundreds of good people and you both will pay for opposing me." Operion bellowed.

"Why us? We never did anything to you and your people." Venus cried. "You came to earth and began killing our people. Why? What is the reason?"

"Your queen…..vengeance…..and taking your planet for my masters." Operion said calmly. He pulled the sword backward and then with unearthly strength thrust his sword through Uranus body.

There was a gulping sound that escaped Uranus' lips as the sword impaled her unprepared body, the tip emerging from the other side, as well as a cough that spit out blood onto Operion's armor. Operion let go of Uranus' hair and she fell some, not going all the way because her body was still hanging from Operion's sword. Operion pulled backward and Uranus' limp body fell to the floor with a thud. Uranus' blood soaked glove fell on his shoe and he kicked it away as if it was no more then a piece of trash. Booth Sailor Neptune and Sailor Venus looked on in horror at their fallen friend, Venus trembling uncontrollably and Neptune crying continuously. Tears streamed down Neptune's face as her heart was destroyed. Neptune opened her mouth and a scream came from her lips that seemed to resonate all through the crystal ship. Venus covered her mouth with both hands as she looked at Uranus' body lying on the floor in a pool of her own blood.

Operion looked at the two senchi and smiled at them.

"Let this be a warning to you both." he said calmly.

"Murderer!" Neptune shouted. She stood up and raised her hands to the sky.

"DEEP SUBMERGE!" she cried as the ball of energy flew toward Operion. Operion went to deflect the attack but was surrounded by a pink aura that covered his whole body and dissolved the attack. Venus noticed that Operion was as shocked as they were, but his shock was soon replaced by a maniacal laughter.

Operion turned and looked behind him at a figure that slowly made its way out of the shadows. It was surrounded by a pink aura and floated inches above the ground. It had two long pig tails that reached the ground. Venus automatically recognized the figure immediately, but it took Neptune a few seconds longer to see past her grief.

"Oh no! Chibiusa!" Venus shouted as she stared at the earths queen who stood next to Operion with her arms draped around him.

"She is no longer the girl you knew, she is now mine, body, mind and soul." Operion said laughing loudly again. "Say goodbye to your planet, your Queen and your lives"