Fight for freedom
Chapter 3: The return of a familiar face
Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon.
The senshi wake up to find themselves alone, Raye goes to find where their children went and wonders around before finding them on the south wall and walks over to them. "What's going on?" Raye asked making the others turn to look at her.
"Smoke, about half a mile out of town." Reiko replied before going back to watching the smoke.
"A battle?" Amelia added.
"Could be." Mirai Hotaru said as Raye looked at her "I thought you said the war was over?" Raye replied "our war is, but there are still others being fought." Mara added before she leaves the south wall.
"Which war is Adam fighting in?"
"The mercenaries war, the second highest casualties next to the Serenity war." Mia said before the rest of the senshi arrive as they hear the sound of gunfire and other people start to come out of their accommodations to see what's going on. "Do you think?" Mia asked as everyone except the senshi and their children goes to do some work and they continue to listen to the sounds of the battle.
"This puts them a lot closer than we first thought."
"It certainly does Amelia." Trista said before the senshi and the others left leaving Mirai Hotaru to listen to the sounds of the battle, the senshi wonder around the streets of Juuban until they stop outside the arcade. "I can't believe this is what's left of the arcade." Serena said before they go inside and see empty bullet cases littered around the place and names carved into the walls before they start to remember the good times they've had.
"What happened to Andrew?" Ami asked.
"No one knows."
They leave and head to the shrine, when they get there they see six wooden crosses with the names of the departed senshi carved into the crosses. "Adam made those himself seeing as he spent a lot of time here." Trista said before they go inside and find it the way it almost used to be.
"Home away from home."
"When he found this place, it was in bad shape he decided to redo it by himself." Trista said as Raye noticed several changes as Serena walks over to a cupboard and opens it pulling out a long box and blows the dust off of it before opening it to reveal a large rifle.
"Hey guys, look what I found."
"So, he never took it with him." Trista replied as she took the rifle from Serena and looks at it.
"What?" Michelle asked.
"This is a custom made thirty calibre anti armour rifle, saw a lot of action probably doesn't work anymore."
Amara notices a piece of paper and picks it up and looks at it "one hundred and thirty seven kills." Amara said.
"That's only with that rifle, I think we should head back."
They leave and head back to the school where the sounds of the battle still rage on they go inside and go their separate ways, outside Mirai Hotaru and the others sit behind the palisade. "Maybe we should send them back." Reiko said.
"Same here."
"Why?" Amelia asked.
"Think about it, we could all die here." Reiko replied.
"We've seen enough death to last us a lifetime." Mirai Hotaru replied.
"If we do that, all we've done will be worth shit."
"Mia's right." Mara replied before Mirai Hotaru leans against one of the field guns as the rest of the gang leave and it goes quiet, "it's stopped."
Much later
Everyone sits in the hall drinking and talking about old friends amongst other things when Trista walks over to Mirai Hotaru and whispers something to her. "Come on guys' there's movement in town." She said making everyone including the senshi grab rifles and take up position on the walls and see vehicles and people come into view.
"Take one more step and we'll fire."
"That you Hotaru?" Adam asked.
"That you Adam?" Mirai Hotaru replied.
"Yeah, we got wounded here." Came the reply before Hotaru goes down to the gate and opens them and everyone goes inside, Adam helps one of the wounded inside when Mirai Hotaru spots him and walks over to him and looks at his now short white hair and scars, a vertical scar over his left eye and one going from the bridge of his none and ends at his jaw on the right side of his face.
"What happened to you?"
"Long story." Adam replied before he walks away with his wounded comrade, as the vehicles are unloaded and soon all their weapons, ammunition and gear was unloaded and stacked as Mirai Hotaru started to search for Adam.
"Have you seen Adam?" she asked around and the mercenaries and they shook their heads.
"Try with the wounded."
"Thanks…" Mirai Hotaru replied.
"My names Smitty." He replied before walking away and Mirai Hotaru goes to find the wounded and finds them over by the palisade and Adam helping tend to the wounded, "Adam…" Hotaru tried to say.
"There's over two thousand enemy troops on the outskirts of Juuban, this old school won't stand up to them." Adam replied as he tends to the wounded.
"How many…"
"We left with one thousand, lost one hundred." He replied.
"Down to nine hundred, will they stay?" She asked.
"I don't know, we were gonna cut north and hook up with the guys in the north and try and stop them." Adam replied as he walked away and goes to find Trista, he finds here in the hall. "I see the mercenary war has treated you well." Trista said as Adam sat down.
"Can it, you can't hope to defend this old school against a two thousand strong enemy." He replied.
"Maybe we can, maybe we can't."
"We can't fight them out in the open, too many." Adam replied "what about the battle of Tokyo?"
"That was four years ago, we've all changed."
Adam leaves as the senshi walk in and goes back outside and stands in front the gathered mercenaries "we're leaving the wounded here, gather your gear we'll be sleeping in town. We'll be back tomorrow." He tells them before they gather their gear and leave as the senshi walk out, in town Adam heads off to the shrine and stares at the crosses he made before he goes inside and settles down for the night.
Authors note: I decided to speed up the plot and there will be two endings… R&R