Chapter 11: The Sonic Knight

All six Senshi fought to pull themselves to their feet.

"If that happens ONE MORE TIME…" Venus muttered.

The Senshi then heard a loud noise. They looked up to see every stray animal within 10 meters of them take off running in the opposite direction.

Little Mercury, following the animals with her eyes, announced, "Something must have happened in an alley to make all of them flee like that…"

Mars nodded. "Then that's where we're going.

The Senshi all rushed to the sight.

"TRIPLE STRIKE!" A warrior wearing samurai armor in green and black yelled, releasing three energy blasts from his sword.

A knight in futuristic armor dodged the attack. "SILVER STRIKE!" he yelled, releasing an attack from his own sword.

The samurai, hit, yelled, "DARN YOU, SONIC KNIGHT!"

"You're never gonna win, you pathetic knight! The Neo-Dreamers will fall!" Sonic Knight yelled.

"Only two of the Little Senshi are present now, Sonic Knight, and I will kill anyone who stands in my way on behalf of Jealous Dreamer!"

Sonic Knight was shocked. "You work for that fool! For kami's sake, you're more pathetic than I thought!"

As if on cue, Jealous Dreamer appeared, his amulet letting off one last burst of light. "Do I hear you ridiculing me, Sonic Knight?"

The Senshi, finally reaching the scene, stopped suddenly. Little Moon moved foreward a bit, obviously upset by what she found. "JEALOUS DREAMER!" she yelled, glaring up at the hovering foe.

He turned, smirking at the blue Little Senshi. Well, well, well…now there's TWO of you Little Senshi. Guess you've been busy searching, huh HALF-MOON." His comment sparked a long-winded rant from Little Moon.

"WHAT are you three doing?" Jupiter yelled.

Sonic Knight turned his head to look at her. "Jealous Dreamer and Samurai Knight are my enemies as well as yours. If you don't mind, I could use a little help! SILVER STRIKE—DOUBLE!" He slashed with his sword twice, hitting both Jealous Dreamer and Samurai Knight once.

"No problem there…Little Mercury?" Little Moon turned to her teammate.

Little Mercury answered her by unleashing her attack. "MERCURY ICE SHARDS SLICE!"

"MOON FLOATING BUTTERFLY SMASH!"

Samurai Knight was ready for the attacks. "SAMURAI SPIRIT!" he called out, raising his sword. Both his sword and his eyes glowed green. A transparent, spirit-like replica of himself then appeared, blocking the attacks launched against him.

Sonic Knight took this opportunity to launch an attack. He held his sword horizontally, then ran his index and middle fingers along the flat side of theblade. It glowed silver in response. Spinning his sword once, he turned itinto a disc that was the same size as his sword was long.He spun, yelling,"SILVER…SHINING…STAR!"The attackripped off Samurai's chest plate.

"JUPITER! OAK EVOLUTION!"

"MERCURY! AQUA RHAPSODY!"

One attack hit Dreamer and Samurai each, knocking them back into a wall.

"RETREAT!" Dreamer called out, pressing the jewel in his amulet. He was gone in seconds.

Before he disappeared, Samurai called out, "Know this, you fools: The NeoDreamers will succeed, and no mini-skirt wearing love-preaching buffoons like you guys will stop us." Glaring at Little Moon, he added, "Especially YOU, Little Moon!" He then disappeared.

Little Mercury, now reminded that she was currently clad in a mini-skirt, blushed crimson and furiously started trying to pull down her skirt.

Sonic Knight turned to the Senshi, walking up closer to them. "Are you alright?"

"I've been better…" Little Mercury muttered.

"Who are you? And where do you come from?" asked Venus.

"I think both sets of Senshi want to know the answer to that one," Little Moon said. Then, glancing to her teammate, she added, "And give it a rest, Little Mercury. The skirt won't get any longer no matter how hard you pull."

Sonic Knight, ignorring the purple Senshi's comment to her teammate, pulled a file out of nowhere and handed it to Mercury. "This is my mission, as defined by Neo-Queen Serenity and King Endymion. This is to be given to Eternal Sailor Moon. As for who I am, I am the Sonic Knight, Commander of the Silver Knights in Crystal Tokyo and sworn protector of Crystal Tokyo's Royal Family."

The Inner Senshi's eyes widdened in surprise. "CRYSTAL TOKYO?"

Mars seemed to grow angry after she recovered from their shock. "We've been there, and we didn't see any so-called Silver Knights."

"You guys arrived in the time BEFORE the Silver Knights were formed. We were formed soon after the Black Moon Clan was defeated by Neo-Queen Serenity and King Endymion, along with you, Sailors Mars, Jupiter, and Venus." He paused for a second, then corrected himself, "Oh, I almost forgot to mention you, Sailor Mercury. I humbly apoligize for that." He bowed in apology.

Little Mercury and Little Moon looked at each other in confusion.

"Black Moon Clan…Silver Knights…"

"Neo-Queen Serenity…King Endymion…"

"WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?" they both exclaimed in confusion.

"You claim to come from the future and you DON'T even know who Neo-Queen Serenity is?" Jupiter asked.

Sonic Knight ignored Jupiter's question. "You will know in time, Little Senshi."

"If ONE MORE person tells me that…" Little Moon uttered, crossing her arms across her chest in aggravation.

"We'll take the file to Sailor Moon…" Venus began.

"But rest assured, we do not trust you, Sonic Knight," Mars finished. The four Inner Senshi then left, bounding off across rooftops.

"Watching them leave, Sonic Knight exclaimed, "They're worse than the Outer Senshi here in the past!"

"NO, they're NOT. I thought for SURE Uranus was going to rip my head off during one of my last battles…" At Little Mercury's look of confusion, Little Moon added, "I'll explain it later to you."

"Little Senshi," Sonic Knight began, addressing them, "The NeoDreamers are gaining control in the future. They have destroyed most of our forces, and even our allies, the Repliforce, are having trouble keeping them at bay. I was sent here as your protector and advisor. However, we cannot speak out of Senshi or Knight forms if the Inners are going to be THIS distrustful of me!"

Little Moon replied, "The only ones who even TRY to be trusting of me are Sailor Moon and Sailor Chibi Moon…and even Chibi Moon was quite wary of me, due to our very similar Senshi names."

Seeming to be in shock, Little Mercury asked, "So…Pluto-sama was serious…that Little Moon and I are from a future millenium?"

"I see Sailor Pluto has informed you of the basics." Looking around, he asked, "Little Moon, don't you have a Guardian Cat that should be with you?"

"…Yes…"

The aforementioned feline ran up, out of breath. "If ONE MORE STRAY CAT tries to sniff me…" He looked up and, seeing Sonic Knight, sarcastically said, "Hey! Look what they dragged in!"

Sonic Knight smirked. "Ah…Hello, DEMETER!"

Devin's smirk disappeared in record-breaking time. If he had been human, he would have been completely pale.

'THAT'S his REAL name?' Little Moon thought.

"De…METER?" both Little Senshi broke out into a fit of hysterical laughter.

Now furious, "Demeter" yelled, "DO NOT CALL ME BY THAT VILE NAME! IT'S DEVIN TO YOU, BAKAS!"

"Devin, I owed you THAT one," Sonic Knight said.

"Or so you think…" was heard from the irrate feline.

Little Moon wiped away tears of laughter as she exclaimed, "So THAT'S your real name!"

"Yes, it is. And if you EVER call me 'Demeter,' I will make your neck my new scratching post."

Sonic Knight spoke up. "Devin, before I forget, this is for you." He knelt down, holding a collar in front of Devin. It was orange in color and had a thick, green metallic piece on it. The romanji letters "DE" were engraved into the metal piece. Devin took it into his teeth after muttering a quick "Thank you!"

Soon, Little Moon asked the feline, "What the heck is that?"

"It's my link to you two, basically," he said as he dropped his collar.

"It's his communication collar," Sonic Knight detailed. "He can contact you from anywhere. Plus, I enhanced it so he could contact me. It'll be necessary for him to be our go-between since we can't speak outside of our current forms."

Devin seemed to go pale at the idea. "Great…I get to see you REGURALLY…"

"Please, Devin-kun?" Little Mercury pleaded.

"Devin, it's under the King's orders that you do this. Otherwise, you won't get the bag of tuna I brought you," Sonic Knight added.

He perked up, whiskers lifting. "That's enough to convince me! The crap back in this millenium they try to call tuna just doesn't cut it!"

A mushroom breath escaped an irritated Little Moon. "So much for being NICE…"

The Knight just smiled. "Rule one: To get him to do ANYTHING as a favor, you gotta bribe him. Compassion was a recessive gene."

"HEY now…Who said I wasn't…"

Little Mercury smirked down at the feline guardian. "We'll have to remember that…"

"Before I forget, I need to mention something else," Sonic Knight said. "If you ever see anyone wearing blue, black, or red armor, those are our allies as well. Blue is X, red Zero, and black Bass."

"People from our time have…interesting…names…" was heard from Little Moon.

"I also have something for you guys," Devin said. He crouched down low, then backflipped high into the air. Two watch-like bracelets appeared. They were simple: a round, watch-like body on a colored band that was held together by a clasp. One of the bracelets had a red band and a purple watch body, with a beautiful butterfly on it. With the butterfly were a golden crescent moon and another symbol, which looked like a circle bearing a plus sign in it, combined so that it appeared the symbol was etched into the crescent moon's body. The other had a yellow-green band with a blue watch body. The design on this one, however, was of large pieces of ice. The largest piece had the symbol for Mercury within it. "These are for you, Little Senshi. They are basically communicators that double as watches. A small button on the side of the body will release the cover, showing a screen and a bunch of buttons. Pushing the button that raises the top when the top is already up will place a cover over the buttons, hiding them. You can use these to contact one another or me no matter where—or when—the other is. A button will 'light up,' in a sense, once it's corresponding Little Senshi is found."

"Now that you have those, take these." Sonic Knight handed each Little Senshi a small pendant. Within the pendant was a small, red button. "These are to contact me only in case of an EXTREME EMERGENCY, or if Samurai Knight wants another beating."

The Little Senshi put on the pendants and communicators, each testing their wrist communicators.

"Thank you, guys," Little Moon said.

Little Mercury, looking down once again at her uniform, blushed and asked, "Um…can you put in a complaint to whoever created these outfits?"

"LITTLE MERCURY!" Little Moon and Devin yelled, frustrated.

"What? They're DISGUSTINGLY short-skirted!"

"I don't kno who created them, and I'm afraid there's nowhere to complain to," Sonic Knight replied. "If ya have to try something, I'd suggest nylons."

Little Moon and Devin both immediately broke into hysterical laughter at his comment.

Little Mercury, completely embarrassed at this point and tomato-red in the face to prove it, shot, "I'd rather HANG you with a pair right now…"

Sonic Knight said, "Little Mercury, I'm only trying to help…which, irronically, failed. I've only gotten you mad at me, and I apologize." He bowed respectively. "I need to find my allies that came though the time stream with me. Good luck to you all." Dropping a bag of tuna, he jumped up into the sky. Little Moon and Little Mercury assumed he had landed on a rooftop and took off running.

"I WASN'T MAD!" Little Mercury called up into the sky.

"HOT DOG I'M SAVED FROM THE HORRORS OF PAST TUNA!" Devin screamed, diving onto the bag and furiously trying to open it.

Both Little Senshi detransformed, Little Mercury doing so by clutching her brooch.

Batafurai then sighed. "This mission's just messed up in general…

Her feline guardian looked up, face full of tuna. "No one said it'd be fun, Batafurai."

Taiga covered her mouth, muffling laughter.

Batafurai, however, was less tactful. Laughing, she exclaimed, "You SO need a bib, Devin!"

"What do you MEAN, I need a bib? I'm a sosphisticated COMPANION! Well-mannered and totally polite! Batafurai? Don't laugh like that; you know it's true!"

Demeter is the goddess of fertility and agriculture in Greek Mythology. Since Luna, Artemis, and Diana were all named after goddesses in Roman and/or Greek mythology, it seemed fitting that Devin be given one as well. He, obviously, hates it, so he gave himself the nickname Devin (as it began with the same first two initials embrossed in his collar). His hatred of his name is symbolic…but I won't tell you why just yet. (His name in general is also symbolic).

Before I forget to say this, Samurai Knight and Sonic Knight belong to my co-author, Duelist-17 (AKA-Mason). He generously lets me use them in SM:LS to help enrich the plot…well, more like he willingly roleplays out these characters with me at insanely-late hours so I have a more interesting plot to type about…either way, he's a God-send. And, Mason…THE NYLON LINES ROCK MY WORLD! You have NO idea how hard I laugh when I read that scene…

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