Fight for freedom
Chapter 2: Meeting Serenity
Disclaimer: Do I look like I own the well-known characters?
Authors note: Adam will appear for a briefly in this chapter.
Serena walks through the corridors and looks out of one of the windows to see Mirai Hotaru, Mara, Mia, Amelia and Reiko piling up artillery shells next to the field guns and stacking rifles and boxes of ammunition when Raye walks over to Serena.
"Serena, what are you looking at?"
"They're piling up rifles and ammunition like no tomorrow." Serena replied as Raye looked out of the window and sees them piling ammunition and rifles behind the palisade.
"Well, this is a different universe to ours." Raye replied as they both watched their children piling up rifles and ammunition hen Trista walks over to them.
"I suppose you want to see the Serenity from this time Serena?" Trista asked.
"You mean she's still here?"
"Where else could we put her?"
"I'd like to see her." Serena replied.
"Okay." Trista said before she left and Raye and Serena go back to watching the people outside working on the palisade, staking weapons, ammunition and putting other items at the palisade such blankets and other stuff.
Outside
Reiko finishes stacking some rifles as Mara comes over with some boxes of ammunition and piles them next to the rifles. "Well I'm done." Reiko said as Amelia walked over to them.
"That's everything done."
"Now all we have to do is wait." Mia replied as she stood up on the firing step and looked at the north wall "We're going to need a lot more people."
"I wonder where Adam is?" Mirai Hotaru asked.
"Hopefully on his way."
Elsewhere Trista and Serena walk towards a heavily guarded building and walk inside to get searched by two of the guards and are escorted by one of them to a cell, one of the guards opens the door and they walk in and see Serenity sat on the bed.
"Ah Trista, how long has it been?"
"Can it Serenity." Trista replied as Serenity stood up.
"I AM YOUR QUEEN!"
"My queen is dead." Trista replied calmly as Serenity noticed Serena before she sat back down.
"So, how is Adam these days, I miss our little chats."
"He's been gone for four years." Trista replied.
"I know what's going on, the guards have been keeping me up to date with what's going on."
"They you know who's behind this?" Serena asked her alternate self.
"Yes, it's the person that you've always trusted."
"That could've been anyone from the past, Darien's dead. Adam killed him at the battle of Nerima." Trista replied thinking who it could be.
"How was he killed?" Serena asked.
"Two shots, one through each lung."
"Eew." Serena replied going pale faced.
"It was war back then."
"It's war again, do you really think that old school will withstand this upcoming battle?" Serenity said, "not really, but we'll die trying." Trista said before they leave and walk through Juuban back to the old school.
"How many people live in Juuban now?"
"Just two hundred." Trista replied.
"What happened to everyone else?"
"After the war ended everyone went their own ways to start new lives." Trista replied as they walked into the school and Michelle walks over to Serena and Trista "Serena, where have you been? We've all been worried about you." Michelle said.
"Relax Michelle, she's been with me."
Mirai Hotaru stands on the wall next to the main gate looking out when Amara and Hotaru walk over to her "hey." Amara said to Mirai Hotaru who never looked at them.
"What do you want?"
"Look, I know you're not the same Hotaru…"
"Just get to the goddamn point Amara." Mirai Hotaru replied before looking at Amara and her younger self.
"Me and Michelle were wondering if there was anyone special in your life?"
"There was once."
"What happened?" Hotaru asked, "Left four years ago, I don't want to talk about it." Mirai Hotaru said before Amara and Hotaru left and she goes back to what she was doing "You better be on your way here Adam."
Elsewhere
Adam loads his gear onto the back of a truck along with the fifteen others that left Juuban four years ago before climbing into the back when someone walks over to the truck.
"Hey Adam, where're you going?"
"Back home." Adam replied.
"Sounds like fun."
"It's just us fifteen going back."
"Look, we'll go with you. As you know most of us don't have families or homes anymore."
After a few hours of arguing Adam finally gives up and tells everyone that they're going with them to Juuban and the rest of the people he had been fighting beside go to pack their stuff into to transports before they begin their journey.
Juuban
Trista stands on the south wall, the wind blowing her hair back as she stares out and sees people building defences around the outer wall "why now?" she asked herself before Mirai Hotaru, Reiko, Mara, Mia, Amelia and the senshi stand either side of her.
"He'll come back… he has to." Reiko said.
"Of course he'll come back." Mina said.
"There are only two hundred of us…" Mara said but never finished her sentence as Serena cut her off "two hundred and eight actually."
"You wont be fighting beside us." Mirai Hotaru said making the senshi look at her.
"Why not?" Serena whined.
"There is the possibility that we could all die." Reiko said before Mirai Hotaru walked away, "She's been like that for four years." Trista replied making the senshi look at her.
"Isn't that around the time Adam left?" Michelle said.
"She thinks of Adam more as a friend than anything else."
Later
The senshi and their children sit around a fire talking to each other except Mirai Hotaru who stands by herself on the north wall staring into the night "I'm worried about Hotaru." Michelle said.
"Don't be, she's a strong willed woman." Trista replied.
"I remember one time when we tried to get Adam to talk about his past." Amara added, "Adam told us to get lost, to put it politely." Michelle replied as they all laugh and talked about the past and the battles they've been in long into the night.
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