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Lunar
Ranko and the gang were finishing up 4th period. The classroom was located right beside the gym and it was taught by the health teacher named Ms. Sakura. Today they were going over the human anatomy and it intrigued Ranko and the other martial artists in the class because it gave them the chance to learn more about the human body. The bell rang and Ranko saw that everyone in the class was leaving. Ranko took a look at her schedule and saw that her next class was gym.
'This is not good' Ranko thought. 'I just hope I don't have to do anything to exhausting that I need to take a shower.'
Ranko followed Usagi since she didn't know where the locker room was located at. Ranko soon made it down to the locker room forgetting that she had no extra clothing to change into.
"What's wrong?" Usagi asked, looking at Ranko's face.
"I didn't bring any clothes for this class." Ranko replied.
"I'm sure the teacher will excuse you for today." Usagi said, trying to cheer Ranko up.
"Let's hope so." Ranko said with a sigh.
"Alright ladies, time for roll." The gym teacher said.
'It couldn't be.' Ranma thought with dread. 'Anyone but him.'
Ranko looked at who the gym teacher was and was very shocked to see that their teacher was none other than Lunar. Ranko looked at Lunar's face and saw that he was wearing a blindfold to ensure that the ladies get their privacy.
Lunar started doing roll and soon found that all the girls were present.
"Hey Mr. Tenshi." Usagi yelled to him.
"Yes." Mr. Tenshi replied.
"Ranko here doesn't have any clothing suitable for this class. What is she going to do?" Usagi asked.
"That's easy. Today she's going to be my partner for today's lesson." Mr. Tenshi said. "Alright girl, let's head out and we can begin today's lesson." Mr. Tenshi said, leaving the locker room.
"It still amazes me how he does that." Usagi said to Ranko.
"Does what?" Ranko asked.
"How he's able to walk carefree when he wears that blindfold." Makoto said from behind Usagi.
"Why don't we follow and see what's going to happen today in class?" Ranko said.
A minute later, all the boys and girls were assembled inside to gym. The class was currently sitting on the bleachers while Mr. Tenshi was speaking on the gym floor.
"Okay class, today were going to practice self defense. I figure the best way for us to learn self defense is through martial arts." Mr. Tenshi announced.
"YES!" Ranko yelled.
The entire class looked at her.
Ranko laughed sheepishly and said, "What, I just happen to love martial arts, that's all."
"Since you happen to love martial arts, why don't you come up here and give me a little spar?" Mr. Tenshi asked.
"Why not." Ranko said.
Ranko got up from her seat at the bleachers and went down to where Mr. Tenshi was at. Ranko moved into an offensive position at waited for the signal for the spar to begin.
"Alright begin." Mr. Tenshi called out.
Ranko and Lunar began sparring with each other making sure that they would fight at the level that is usually seen in kung fu movies as not to arouse suspicion. After the two were done sparring, Mr. Tenshi showed the class a basic kata and asked the class to try to do what he did. He also asked Ranko to help people when they mess up. He didn't ask Kuno, Ryoga, or Mousse to help because it might cause suspicion later on and their mission required them to be as inconspicuous as possible.
Gym was soon over and Mr. Tenshi had called Ranko over for a quick talk.
"You do know that you have to take a shower right?" Mr. Tenshi asked.
"Yeah." Ranko replied.
Mr. Tenshi took something out of his pocket and gave it to Ranko.
"Here's a brand of waterproof soap that will last for about ten minutes. This will be enough for when you take a shower." Mr. Tenshi explained.
"I see." Ranko said. "And where did you get all these waterproof soaps at anyway?" she asked.
"I know people." Mr. Tenshi cryptically said.
"Whatever, I'm gonna go and take a shower." Ranko said.
"After you're done taking a shower, you are to report to Hikawa Shrine." Mr. Tenshi instructed.
"Why's that?" Ranko asked.
"One, you'll meet an old acquaintance there, and two, there's going to be a meeting with all the Sailor Soldiers today." Mr. Tenshi answered.
"Roger that." Ranko replied and headed off for the girls locker room.
Inside the girl's locker room, Ranko and a very hard time trying to prevent a nosebleed. Even back at Furikan High, there weren't as many girls as there were here and the girls here are a lot hotter than the ones back in Nerima.
Ranko started taking off her clothes until she was naked and went into a shower stall. She turned on the water making sure that it was only cold water that was touching her skin. After about a minute being in freezing cold water, Ranko used the soap that Lunar had given her minutes ago. After Ranko washed with the soap, Makoto went into a shower stall beside Ranko and felt the cold water and shivered.
"Hey Ranko, why are you washing with cold water?" Makoto asked.
'Gotta think of something.' Ranko thought. 'I know!"
"I must be using my ki unconsciously to keep my body warm. You see, I had to go on this ten year training trip to become the best martial artist and I had to learn how to control ki enough to keep my body warm during cold times." Ranko responded.
What was surprising was that it was the truth too. She had to learn of a way to keep her body warm when Ranko traveled with Genma through the Himalayas when they traveled through China.
"You can use ki?" Makoto asked with curiosity mixed in her voice.
"Yeah, quite easily." Ranko said. "It takes a lot of hard work, but I can show you if you really want to learn." Ranko offered.
"That'd be neat." Makoto said.
Ranko finished taking a shower after changing the water from cold to really warm. She remembered that Lunar said that the soap lasted for ten minutes and got out of the stall. She grabbed the clothes that she wore earlier only to find a box above the clothing she had.
'To Ranko, I figured that you're clothes would be sweaty so I had one of the girls place this box over your clothes when you took your shower. Lunar'
Ranko looked inside the box and he recognized the clothing that was in it.
'A Nemeian camouflage armor set' Ranko thought. 'These things are incredibly rare even during the days of the Lunar Empire.'
A Nemeian camouflage armor set is a set of clothing which offers the best protection. The set consists of what looks like to be a black long sleeved shirt with black pants. It also has a set of fingerless gloves which extends to Ranma's lower arms. When the set is worn, it completely hides a person's ki and it makes them invisible if the user sets it that way, very similar to the effects of the Umisenken technique. The shirt and pants can also alter themselves and change into any piece of clothing that the user wants. The reason why the armor is really rare is because only five have been made in the entire solar system. The armor also got it's name because the creator of the armor named it after the planet that was thought to be uninhabitable because of its ferocious nature.
Ranko made sure that no one was looking and put the armor on. She then looked at her gloves and the gloves had a few settings inscribed on it. Ranko thought of the way she wanted her clothing and she realized that this armor was activated by one's mind. In an instant, the armor changed into what Ranko was wearing before she took a shower. She also saw that the gloves remained, but she didn't mind that at all.
'This is pretty neat. I guess I can drop all the revenge plans I had cooked up in retribution against Lunar.' Ranko thought.
The final bell soon rang and Ranko started heading out for the Hikawa shrine. She remembered where it was because she had visited the place once with Genma at the age of ten.
Ranko made it to the Hikawa Shrine and from out of nowhere, a splash of warm water was poured of her changing her back to her male form. Ranma checked to see where the source of the water came from and saw that it was an old lady pouring water out onto the side walk.
'Great, another lady who pours water onto the sidewalk, but what I don't get is why the water was warm enough to change me back into my male form.' Ranma thought.
Ranma walked up the steps and soon found a familiar sight. He saw an old man that was sweeping up leaves that were accumulating around the shrine and near the old man's house.
"Hey Grandfather Hino, remember me." Ranma said waving his hand to the old man.
Grandfather Hino took a few seconds to remember who Ranma was.
"Ranma my boy, my you've grown." Grandfather Hino replied.
"It's been seven years." Ranma said with a smile.
"Why don't you follow me into the shrine? We can talk in there." Grandfather Hino replied.
Ranma followed Grandfather Hino into the shrine and the two found a comfortable spot to sit.
"So Ranma, what have you been up to ever since you left?" Grandfather Hino asked.
"Ever since your wife helped, me with the neko-ken, I went traveling with Genma to learn more about martial arts."
Ranma then continued on with his story leaving out some things like Jusenkyo. He ended his story with how he fought Saffron and was forced to kill him only for Saffron to be reborn.
"My that's an amazing life you had." Grandfather Hino replied.
"It was also quite harsh." Ranma muttered.
"Ranma, I really hate to do this to you but-" Grandfather Hino began.
"Let me guess," Ranma interrupted, "you somehow made a deal with Genma and your daughter is now another one of my fiancés?"
"Yep." Grandfather Hino said.
"I'm sorry to do this to you but I'm no longer with the Saotome's." Ranma replied.
"Don't tell me you're a ronin?" Granfather Hino said quickly.
"I'm not." Ranma said.
Ranma then explained the events that happened on Ranma's last day at the Tendo dojo.
"Ranma, I must say that your life completely sucks." Grandfather Hino replied.
"Why do you say that?" Ranma asked.
"It just so happens that your father made that very same deal with me when he was still alive." Grandfather Hino said.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT!" Ranma yelled.
"The two of us used to be drinking buddies and we made an agreement that if we had children, or grandchildren in my case, they are to be married to each other if they were of the opposite sex." Grandfather Hino answered.
"This sucks." Ranma said gloomily. "Is there any way I can get out of it?" Ranma asked.
Grandfather Hino pondered for a couple minutes and finally gave Ranma his answer.
"I guess there is a way." Grandfather Hino said hesitantly.
"How?" Ranma asked.
"We did mention that if one of our children managed to have the ability to change their sex, the marriage can be annulled." Grandfather Hino replied.
"What do you mean by that?" Ranma asked.
"You see, when we made that deal, your father talked about some cursed springs that changes people with the application of hot and cold water. He knew that my daughter would not be exposed to curses like that but your father told me that if he were to have a son or daughter, that son or daughter would have a chaotic life and that they might find themselves in those springs he told me about. I didn't believe him of course but I agreed that if his son or daughter managed to find those springs and received the curse, I would annul the marriage. I don't remember why I said that but I just agreed on that stipulation." Grandfather Hino explained.
"Thank god." Ranma said.
"Why do you say that?" Grandfather Hino asked.
"You see, I just happened to find those springs and got cursed." Ranma answered.
"I see." Grandfather Hino said solemnly, "And what curse did you get?" he asked.
"I turn into a girl when I get touched with cold water." Ranma replied.
"It's a shame we can't go on with the marriage." Grandfather Hino said.
Ranma looked at the clock and saw that the time was 4:30 PM.
"Why don't we go on with other business?" Ranma asked.
"Like what?" Grandfather Hino answered with another question.
"Do you know what your daughter does for a living?" Ranma asked.
"Yeah, she's one of the Sailor Soldiers that hang around in Juuban." Grandfather Hino answered.
"So you do know, that's good. That means I can tell you why I'm really here then." Ranma said. "I'm here because I'm a warrior from a time long ago sworn to protect the future queen. Believe it or not, Usagi is the one who will someday rule the Lunar Empire."
"Usagi, yes I can see her being a kind ruler that everyone will love." Grandfather Hino said quietly.
"Yes but for now, there seems to be something that threatens the future and I can't allow the future queen to be injured. Ranma said.
"That's understandable. Tell me, how are you planning to keep an eye on them?" Grandfather Hino asked.
"It's simple really, what I'm currently doing to keep an eye on them is using my female form to become their friend and when an enemy attacks, I'll assist them using my male form." Ranma answered.
"Interesting, that would actually work as long as they're in the dark about your curse." Grandfather Hino replied.
Ranma felt something was wrong and started to get up from his seat.
"Sorry to leave in haste, but I sense an enemy outside the shrine. Why don't you stay here in the shrine while I'll deal with the threat?" Ranma asked.
Grandfather Hino nodded his head and watched as Ranma left the shrine.
In the meeting place of the Sailors, inside the main household, Usagi and the other Sailors, other than Pluto who told them that she was busy dealing with other stuff, we talking about things like how there hasn't been an enemy attack in a long while. When the meeting was finished, everyone went outside only to encounter a man wearing a black military uniform. The man had spiky gray hair, and was wielding a dangerous looking halberd.
"Who are you?" Haruka asked being one of the first to leave the house.
"My name is Lt. Maxwell Storm. I came from the future to ensure that Crystal Tokyo will not be formed." Lt. Maxwell replied. "I already know who all of you are. You better transform so that you might be able to produce a decent challenge."
The eight Sailor Soldiers that were there did just that. Soon Sailor's Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Moon, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus were in a fighting position ready for battle.
Uranus and Neptune started things off.
"World Shaking"
"Deep Submerge"
The two attacks flew towards Lt. Maxwell but he cut the two attacks in half with a single swipe of his halberd.
"Is that all you got?" Lt. Maxwell taunted.
"Everyone attack." Sailor Uranus ordered.
"Aqua Rhapsody"
"Love and Beauty Shock"
"Flame Sniper"
"Oak Revolution"
"World Shaking"
"Deep Submerge"
"Silvermoon Crystal Power Kiss"
The seven attacks combined together and headed towards the Lt. He was somewhat impressed of the power of the blast.
"That's not bad, but that's definitely not good enough." Lt. Maxwell yelled.
Lt. Maxwell moved his halberd at a 45 degree angle and used an attack.
"Dance of the Tornado" the Lt. yelled out.
A giant tornado wrapped itself around the Lt. and the attack that the Sailors launched were unable to penetrate the wall of wind.
"No way." Sailor Jupiter said.
"What's with this guy?" Sailor Venus complained.
Before any of the other Sailors could voice their opinions, Lt. Maxwell proceeded with another attack.
"Sniping Snake Fang"
The Lt. swung his halberd and blades of wind went streaming towards the Sailors.
"Silence Wall"
Sailor Saturn erected a shield in front of the Sailors hoping that it would stop their opponent's attack. The shield was shattered almost instantly and most of the Sailors were hit with the blades of wind. Saturn, being the small size that she was, ducked in time, but she was the only one who was able to dodge the attack. Sailor Saturn looked at the other Sailor Soldiers and saw that the attack that the guy did didn't cause any bleeding, however, the Sailors looked like they were unconscious.
"I missed one, oh well." Lt. Maxwell said. "I can't believe that the Sailor Soldiers were this weak, of course I have been training my whole life to annihilate them."
Ranma, came out of the shrine in time to see that the male figure that the Sailors were fighting took down seven of the eight Sailors in one attack.
'This guy, I sense an immense sadness coming from him.' Ranma thought.
Ranma changed his clothing into a black gi with the design of a white crescent moon etched on its back. Ranma also revealed the gloves that he was wearing earlier.
Lt. Maxwell started to use another attack, planning on finishing the Sailor Soldiers once and for all.
"Raging Fiery Inferno"
Eight balls of fire came out of the halberd and were streaking towards Sailor Saturn and the others.
"Silence Wall"
Saturn created another shield this time using most of her power. The fire attack hit the shield and the shield collapsed a few seconds later.
'I can't believe this is the end.' Sailor Saturn thought sadly. She closed her eyes waiting for the end to happen.
"Lunar Shield"
Ranma's newly made shield managed to block the balls of fire and dissipate the attack. Ranma then made himself known by being in front of Saturn.
"Who are you and state your purpose?" Ranma announced.
Hotaru heard a familiar voice and opened an eye only to see that Ranma was in front of her.
'Ranma's here, thank god.' Sailor Saturn thought.
"My name is Lt. Maxwell of the 3rd division of the Anti-Crystal Tokyo Resistance Army. My mission is to destroy the queen and to ensure that Crystal Tokyo never exists." Lt. Maxwell introduced. "Who are you stranger, you look to be a powerful fighter?" the Lt. asked.
Ranma looked behind to Sailor Saturn.
"Saturn, use your healing abilities to revive the Sailors. You have more than enough energy to do so."
Sailor Saturn started healing the others starting with Sailor Moon. Ranma turned around and announce himself to his enemy.
"My name is Ranma of the Lunar Knights. You say that you are part of the Anti-Crystal Tokyo Resistance Army, am I correct?" Ranma asked.
Maxwell nodded his head.
At this point, Sailor's Moon, Uranus, and Neptune were conscious again.
"I'll have you know that Crystal Tokyo no longer exists." Ranma said in a serious voice.
"You're lying." Lt. Maxwell yelled.
"It's true, Crystal Tokyo is no more. The only reason why you're even here now is because your body is stuck in this time. If you attempt to head into the future right now, you'll see that it is just not possible." Ranma continued after Lt. Maxwell yelled out to him.
Sailor's Moon, Uranus, and Neptune looked at Ranma with shock.
"It can't be." Lt. Maxwell said with fear.
At this point, all the Sailors have been revived and was wondering what was going on.
"In the future, the Lunar Empire will rule and it will be an era where people are treated equal and things like greed and jealousy and down to a minimal." Ranma replied.
"You're full of it." Sailor Uranus replied from behind Ranma.
Ranma ignored her comment and waited for Lt. Maxwell's reaction.
"You mean to tell me that the Lunar Empire will be revitalized?" Lt. Maxwell asked in a hopeful tone.
"Yeah, I made sure that things are aligned so that the Lunar Empire would exist in the place of Crystal Tokyo." Ranma answered.
"You mean to tell me that you destroyed millions of lives for some stupid empire?" Sailor Uranus asked.
Ranma still ignored her.
"Tell me Lt., why is it that you hate Crystal Tokyo?" Ranma asked.
"It's because the future queen will use the cursed silver crystal of hers to destroy billions of lives to bring forth a so called utopia. The ones who survived were sent to the planet Nemesis, the 10th planet, while others were banished from the solar system." Lt. Maxwell replied to Ranma's question.
"You don't have to worry about that any more. I as a knight of the Lunar Empire will make sure that the Lunar Empire shall rise again and that the next queen, Queen Serenity XXVI will rule with fair judgement." Ranma vowed.
"That's good." Lt. Maxwell replied.
A few seconds later, a new figure appeared. A woman wearing a uniform of which the old dark generals of Beryl wore.
"The Dark Kingdom, I thought you were all destroyed." Ranma said will malice in his voice.
"Oh, the Dark Kingdom itself is destroyed. I'm here to make sure that the chaos sentries do their job correctly and destroy you, Ranma the ki master, one of two personal guardians who protected the former Queen Serenity." The woman replied.
All the Sailors except for Saturn were shocked at the revelation that he was the former protector of the old queen.
"You were the ones who sent the chaos sentries?" Ranma asked.
"Ranma, be careful. You're talking to Rune, one of the five generals of the Shadow Organization." Lt. Maxwell warned.
"Barrier Reveal" Rune yelled.
The black barrier that was present at the previous battle was revealed and covered the battlefield.
"Your pretty smart old man." Rune replied. "Because of that, you must die."
"Runic Blast"
A blast of dark energy swarmed its way to Lt. Maxwell.
"Lunar Shield"
The shield appeared around Lt. Maxwell and negated the Runic Blast.
"Don't think I haven't forgotten about you Ranma the ki master." Rune replied. "Chaos Sentries arise from your slumber and devour the souls of your foe." Rune chanted.
"Sniping Snake Fang" Lt. Maxwell cried out.
The blades of wind managed made a direct hit on Rune just after the fifth chaos sentry was formed.
"You'll pay for the old man. It's time for you to die." Rune yelled.
Rune summoned a scimitar and started fighting with the Lt.
"Hey you," Sailor Jupiter yelled to Ranma, "what the heck is going on?"
"Sailor Mercury, see if you can get anything on your computer." Sailor Mars asked to Sailor Mercury.
"That won't work; anything dealing with electronics won't work here." Ranma replied.
"How do you know?" Sailor Uranus asked.
"I forgot that she doesn't remember the last battle I had." Ranma muttered to himself. "You seven stay there on the ground. We'll talk after we're done with this battle." Ranma instructed.
"Don't order us around." Sailor Uranus yelled.
"Sailor Uranus, I would do what he said." Sailor Saturn replied.
Everyone looked shocked at Saturn.
"Saturn, I'll need your help. I need you do use you Rings of Binding. Do you think you can do that?" Ranma asked.
"I'll try. I was still mastering that and another move before I was killed in battle." Sailor Saturn replied.
"Good, try to bind one sentry at a time." Ranma said.
Ranma saw that one of the chaos sentries wasn't wasting any time and jumped up to attack. Hotaru saw the chaos sentry jumped and started to use her attack.
"Rings of Binding: Single Ring"
A single purple ring sprung out with a swing of Saturn's Glaive. The purple ring connected with the chaos sentry the jumped and it was frozen in the air.
"Good job." Ranma said quickly.
"Lunar Blast"
The blast hit the chaos sentry's midsection directly and it vanished in smoke. After the first chaos sentry vanished, two other chaos sentries attacked from behind the smoke that the vanished one created. The two sentries used one hand and punched Ranma and Ranma was sent back a few feet landing in a crouched position. Ranma got up and decided to fight each chaos sentry one at a time. Ranma started to attack the chaos sentry that was nearest to him and fired of a simple low powered ki blast the chaos sentry jumped to avoid the blast.
"Rings of Binding: Single Ring"
Sailor Saturn took the opportunity to launch another Rings of Binding attack after a chaos sentry jumped up to avoid one of Ranma's attacks. Ranma was about to fire another Lunar Blast until he saw that two chaos sentries where on the offensive. This time, two of the chaos sentries arms changed into simple swords and Ranma was doing the best he could to avoid them.
Sailor Saturn saw that Ranma couldn't do anything to the chaos sentry that was binded when an idea came into her head.
"Single Ring: Constrict"
The ring that was holding the chaos sentry started to squeeze the chaos sentry and the chaos sentry was soon destroyed and vanished into black smoke.
'Good move' Ranma thought while on the defensive. He saw what Sailor Saturn did through is peripheral vision.
All the Sailors that were watching Saturn fight were impressed and shocked. They just saw Saturn use a new move and they also noticed that she knew the fighter that was known as Ranma.
'I need to find a way to take down the other three. Saturn is running low on energy and I need to conserve mine in order to fight Rune.' Ranma thought.
Ranma saw that two of the three chaos sentries melded themselves into the shadows. This is pretty convenient to Ranma because it gave him the opportunity to fight the third one all by itself.
Ranma ran straight forward and fired off another attack.
"Lunar Elemental Blast: Element Light"
The light based ki blast zoomed its way towards the chaos sentry that was currently not hiding. The blast made a direct hit and the chaos sentry turned into smoke.
The two chaos sentries that were left revealed themselves and started doing a weird dance. The dance lasted for a couple seconds and the two creatures fused into a different version of a chaos sentry.
The new version of the chaos sentry was similar to its counter part but it has donned armor over its black body and its yellow eyes were still seen through the helmet that it wore.
'This is not good. A fusion between two beings combines the two together making it twice as strong.'
Ranma fought the new chaos sentry using melee fighting and saw that the armor was indeed physical and the creature can feel pain when Ranma connects a direct hit.
'I have an idea.' Ranma thought.
Ranma started fighting the chaos sentry and started moving it in a certain direction. When Ranma made sure that the chaos sentry was in position, Ranma waved over to Sailor Saturn.
"Rings of Binding: Single Ring"
Sailor Saturn was using most of what was left of her energy to hold the armored chaos sentry.
"Lunar Blast"
The blast made a direct hit and when the smoke cleared, the chaos sentry was still there without a scratch or smudge.
'Looks like this new form is immune to ki attacks. It can be held using ki, but that's all ki can really do against this new fusion.' Ranma thought.
"Sailor Saturn, let me see your Silence Glaive." Ranma yelled.
Saturn was a little hesitant because when she lets go of the glaive, the chaos sentry will be freed from the binding spell.
"Don't worry about the spell; I'll defeat it using your glaive." Ranma yelled.
Sailor Saturn tossed the glaive to Ranma and the instant the glaive left Saturn's hand, the chaos sentry was free. It ran up to Ranma hoping that Ranma wouldn't have enough time to properly use the glaive.
Ranma received the glaive and used an attack the moment he received it.
"Silence Retribution"
A purple light glowed at the blades of the glaive and Ranma swung the glaive horizontally. A wave of purple energy erupted from the swing and it splits the chaos sentry into two, destroying it.
Ranma walked up to Sailor Saturn and gave her back the glaive.
"Thanks." Ranma said with a smile.
Sailor Saturn blushed and the other Sailors took notice of that, especially Uranus and Neptune.
"Why don't you rest while I'll deal with Rune?" Ranma suggested.
Sailor Saturn nodded her head and sat down on the ground.
Ranma started looking for Rune and Lt. Maxwell. He found them on the opposite side of the battlefield and they were in a deadlock. Ranma started running towards the two fighters to help Lt. Maxwell.
Lt. Maxwell wasn't fairing very well at the moment. He used up most of his energy earlier in the fight and was running dangerously low. He had enough energy for a last attack, but the attack he wanted to use too a full minute to charge.
"Hey Rune, why don't you fight with me?" Ranma yelled.
Ranma used his maximum speed and punched Rune in the face sending her back against the barrier. Rune yelled out loud in pain and fell to her knees. Ranma saw that Lt. Maxwell was doing something and noticed that it was an attack that took a lot of time. Ranma took a look at were Rune landed only to see that she was gone. Ranma looked all around and then looked up. Rune was doing a diving slash attack with her scimitar and Ranma barely dodged the attack in time. Ranma moved away from Lt. Maxwell waiting for him to finish his attack.
Ranma tried looking for Rune again only to find that she vanished. He looked up first this time and saw that she wasn't there. He then looked around and saw that Rune was making a dash for the exhausted Sailors.
'NO' Ranma thought frantically. 'There's no way I'll make it in time."
"Gales of the four elements"
The attack cuts up the dash that Rune was making towards the Sailors.
Rune then saw that a new figure appeared in front of the Sailors wielding two kodachis.
"Lunar of the twin blades, the second guardian of the former Queen Serenity." Rune said calmly.
The Sailors were looking at Lunar and they were all shocked. They just saw the second personal bodyguard of the former queen. They heard Rune mention earlier that there were two, but they didn't expect the second one to be here.
'This isn't good, I am capable of handling one knight, but I know that I'm not capable of taking down the two together.' Rune thought.
"Don't forget about us now." A new voice replied.
Three new figures appeared.
'There's more!' Rune thought. 'I wasn't informed of this. Looks like I'll have to make a tactical retreat for now.'
"Well, while I like to stay here and play, I truly must be going. But one thing before I go," Rune announced.
"Runic Annihilation"
The attack moved at a blindingly fast speed and was aimed at Sailor Moon.
"Forbidden Technique: Limiter Unseal"
Lt. Maxwell finished powering up his attack and used his ultimate technique. The limiter unseal unseals the body's limits. This technique is very dangerous considering that it really strains the muscles of the human body past their bare limits.
Lt. Maxwell moved in front of the blast and took the full assault of the blast. Rune growled out in anger and teleported away, dispelling the barrier when she left.
"Maxwell!" Ranma yelled.
Ranma moved to where Maxwell landed and saw that he was in pretty critical condition.
"This is not good; he'll be dead in less than a minute." Lunar replied.
Sailor Moon got up from her position and looked at Lt. Maxwell.
"Why did you take that attack for us when you wanted to destroy us earlier?" Sailor Moon asked.
"I did it because I believe in Ranma's words. He said that the Lunar Empire will be revived and I wish I could've seen how that would have turned out." Lt. Maxwell said in a quite shaky voice.
"Glory to the Lunar Empire." Lt. Maxwell yelled with the last of his strength, moving the hand which had the halberd in it up in the air.
Lt. Maxwell died and his body became motionless.
"He was a true warrior in the end, dying to protect a person who is precious to the entire world. Maxwell, you will be remembered." Lunar said quietly.
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NEXT CHAPTER: RANMA MEETS WITH THE SOLDIERS, TALKS ABOUT THE SHADOW ORGANIZATION, AND ANOTHER BATTLE
AND NOW FOR THE WINNER OF THE PAIRINGS
AND THE WINNER IS
RANMA/HOTARU/SETSUNA