Chapter 32: Truth Revealed
When she and Kurumi had been put in the energy cages, Jessica's mind was already at work in trying to think of a way to escape. From what she saw happen to Kurumi, their Senshi attacks would not be enough to break free, and would only backfire on them.
"How can you be so calm at a time like this?! We're going to be sold to the circus by an evil Sailor Senshi!" wailed Kurumi, detransforming in despair.
"Because we're going to find a way to escape, mon," Jessica said, softly but very firmly. Luckily, Sailor Nemesis was watching the TV screens she had set up, so she was distracted, at least for the moment.
"I added a warp to the last two. This will be fun to watch," she was snickering to her herself. Fuu was sobbing in her cage.
"It's hopeless! We're never going to get out!" she moaned.
"The other Senshi will come back, mon. They're not going to stay in the video game dimension forever, and neither will Umi and Hikaru. They will come back."
"How do you know that?" sniffled Fuu.
"Because if they're killed in those dimensions, then..." Jessica was interrupted by an angry roar from Sailor Nemesis, who spun around, glaring at her.
"What's this? You're supposed to be crying like the other two!" she snarled. Jessica did not speak; instead, she looked Sailor Nemesis in the eyes sternly. "I'm going to have to teach you a lesson, you stupid midget." Though it did not show on her face, inside, Jessica's heart was soaring. That was exactly what she wanted to happen! Sailor Nemesis stomped over and yanked Jessica out of the energy cage by her dreadlocks.
"Jellybean Prism Power, Make Up!" Sailor Nemesis nearly dropped the tiny transforming Senshi in fright. What kind of warrior was she?!
"Shut up!" Sailor Nemesis screamed, flinging Sailor Jellybean across the room. She crashed into the metal folding chairs with a loud clanging sound. Sailor Jellybean stuck her arm out weakly.
"Death Reborn Revolution!" she cried. Sharp purple ribbons came flying out of her fingers, cutting through the energy cages and releasing Fuu and Kurumi.
"No! Get back in those cages!" Sailor Nemesis's hand glowed; she was ready to reform the cages, but Kurumi lunged at her with a kick, knocking her to the floor.
"Caramel Power, Make Up!"
"I said, get back in the cage!" Sailor Nemesis roared. The beam of energy shot out of her hand, but this time, Fuu shoved Sailor Caramel out of the way, and the beam hit the podium, trapping it but missing the real targets.
"Emerald Typhoon!" Fuu shouted, and Sailor Nemesis fell down again. She jumped back up and grabbed Sailor Jellybean, who was barely conscious.
"If you hit me, you'll hurt her. You don't want to do that, now do you?" she cooed in a sickeningly sweet voice.
"WAAAAH!!! It's a challenge right out of a magical girl anime!" cried Sailor Caramel. Fuu rolled her eyes.
"That tiny dark Senshi doesn't make a very good shield for you. And that tall Senshi in the aqua outfit could easily hit some part of you that's not blocked by her," she pointed out.
"GAH!! Then take her!" Sailor Nemesis shouted, flinging Sailor Jellybean at Fuu, who caught her.
"Winds of Healing!" Fuu called, and Sailor Jellybean began to glow with a green aura.
"Crescent Beam!" Sailor Caramel added, hitting Sailor Nemesis with a turquoise energy beam from her finger. Sailor Nemesis glared back and shot her own energy beam, encasing Sailor Caramel in a cage again.
"What's that weird light?!" Fuu suddenly exclaimed. Sailor Nemesis spun around and screamed in horror. All the TV screens were glowing with the colors of the Magic Knights! There was an explosion and Sailor Nemesis, Fuu, and Sailor Jellybean were blown to the side of the room.
"YAY!! I'm home again!" cheered a voice.
"Not more fog! I'm sick of fog!" added another.
"Really, Seiya? Was Kinmoku foggy like that?" asked the first.
"Um, no, Chibi-Usa, it's just that Sailor Vanilla kept using that stupid fog attack and it was annoying."
"Ahmed, I told you that was stupid," scolded another voice, this one sounding French.
"Quit insulting fog powers, you ugly crossdresser!" shouted someone who could only be Galaxy Chang.
"That's just his Senshi outfit!" retorted another with an Australian accent.
"No!! How could they come back?! How could they find out the secret?!" gasped Sailor Nemesis in horror as the smoke cleared and all the rest of the Sailor Senshi, both former and current, could be seen.
"Because I predicted it," answered Rei. Parallax stood beside her, nodding in agreement.
"I saw Umi there! She was really scared of me!" giggled Mozzarella.
"That's very odd. I saw her as well, only she was more confident," responded Mortimer in confusion.
"Hikaru did a frightening, horrible thing to Mokona," whimpered Serena.
"She was overly cheerful to me and kept wanting to 'play' but it was more like stupid fighting," said Akane.
"What's with that? Why did people see different forms of the Magic Knights at the same time?" asked Sailor Caramel.
"Because I split each of the Magic Knights into 5 different people, you idiot! Only now they're gone! Gone back to their world! You Sailor Senshi will pay for wrecking my plan!" Sailor Nemesis shouted before she disappeared.
"What do we do now?" asked Kurumi, detransforming.
"Kill me," Fuu whispered, "Send me back to where Hikaru and Umi went. I can hear them calling."
"I think you should do it, Serena. Since you're such a fan," said Rei.
"I can't do it! Let someone else do it!" she cried, turning away.
"Fuu, why don't you just do it yourself?" snapped Sakura, "You're such a wimp, relying on others like that."
"Okay. Hikaru. Umi. I'm coming to you..." Fuu lifted her sword to her neck and used it to cut her own head off. Serena screamed and began to cry, Rei holding her gently.
"It'll be okay. They're just going back to their world," she said softly.
"Yes. I can hear them cheering," added Parallax.
Hikaru opened her eyes. It was blurry at first, but then she could make out that she was lying on the floor of Tokyo Tower. Right where she and her friends had been taken away by that Sailor Nemesis girl. She remembered that the capture had occured just barely after they arrived back after killing Emeraude and saving Cephiro.
"We're home..." Fuu whispered, fumbling for her glasses.
"I guess the Sailor Senshi were right. When they killed us, it saved us. It freed us from that other world," added Umi.
"I think people are staring at us. We should really be finding our classmates; they'll wonder what we're doing," said Fuu.
"Sure! It's great to be home again!" Hikaru chirped as the three friends hugged, reunited again.