Sailor Moon-American Senshi

by Eugol Dlareg

RETURN OF THE SOVERIGN PROTECTORATE

I do not own any of the main characters in this story except for Gilded Rose. They are owned by someone in Japan. However, with the exception of Serena Campbell and Amy Anderson, I do own the Americanized names of the characters, as well as many of the supporting characters and villians. To make things easy, we'll just say that anything that has appeared in the manga or anime version of Sailor Moon is owned by someone in Japan, most likely Toei or Naoko Takeuchi.

Last time on American Senshi

Avatar and the Black Knight fought to the death.

EOISODE 6

ULTIMATE VICTORY

Saturday,22 August 1987 Mulligan's Point, 12:40 p.m.

"Before I kill you," Avatar said, "I want to see your face."

"Very well," black knight said, as he started to remove his mask. "But I promise, you're not going to like what you see."

Avatar held the sword to the black knight's throat as the black knight removed his mask. "I can't believe it," he said, as he looked into the face of his defeated opponent. "You're me!"

That's right," black knight said. "I'm you. To be more specific, I'm your dark side, the part of you that would use your powers for evil."

"Not many people can say they literally defeated their dark side," Avatar said, plunging the sword in his hand in black knight's throat, killing him. When he died, he dissolved into dust, blowing away in the wind, as did the foes the rest of his team. As their foes disappeared, the Soverign Protectorate transformed back to their civilian identities, except that Jake was still Avatar. "Everyone find their way home," Avatar said. "Meet me back at my house tomorrow at noon."

"Where are you going?" Amy asked.

"To rescue a friend," Avatar said, as he disappeared in a puff of white smoke. He appeared at the mouth of a cave at the bottom of Mulligan's Point. "Okay, I'm here," he said. "Where is she?"

"The person of which you speak is somewhere in this cave," a disembodied voice said. "Her soul is somewhere in this cave, enclosed in a crystal. To free her, you must merely touch the crystal. However, you only have one hour to find her, or the both of you will find your souls condemned to a fate worse than Hell."

"A chance I'm willing to take," Avatar said, as he entered the cave. He spent the next 45 minutes exploring the various caverns until he found what he was looking for, and he finally found it: a cylindrical crystal 6 feet in diameter, and 10 feet high, in which was suspended the ghostly form of Elizabeth Minako.

"I knew you'd come for me," Elizabeth said, as Avatar touched the crystal. The chamber they were in was bathed in a blinding white light.

Sunday, 23 August 1987, Elizabeth Minako's bedroom 8:00 a.m.

Jake Slater woke up to the sound of a shower running. The last thing Jake remembered was touching the crystal containing Elizabeth Minako's soul. He had no memory of how he wound up in her bedroom, her bed. As Jake woke up, Artemis, Elizabeth's cat entered the room and got up on the bed. "What's new, pussycat?" Jake asked his feline visitor.

"I see you're finally awake," Artemis said, as the shower shut off. "Elizabeth went to take a quick shower, and she asked me to check in on you. You have been sleeping for the last eighteen hours."

"Any idea how I got here?" Jake asked. "And how I managed to sleep for eighteen hours?"

"After you freed my soul and reuniting it with my body," Elizabeth Minako said, as she entered the room, clad in nothing but a towel, "You brought me back home, changed back from Avatar to Jake, and fell asleep. I have no idea why you slept for eighteen hours, though. It might have had something to do with the immense power involved in freeing my soul."

"That explains a lot," Jake said, getting out of bed. "But there's one thing I'm curious about."

"Let me assure you," Elizabeth said, as she sat on a chair and began applying scarlet polish to her fingernails, "we didn't. You were so far out of it, I doubt you could have."

"That's not what I was going to ask," Jake said. "I was going to ask why in Sam Hill the last thing I remembered before waking up this morning was touching the crystal holding your soul."

"That I can't answer," Elizabeth said. "But I think it might have something to do with the fact that the only people who have any memory of me ever being dead are, excluding those of us in this room are Susan, Serena, Rae, Amy, Tom, and Luna. When you freed me, it was like my death never happened."

"Why us?" Jake asked.

"I think it's related to the Moon Kingdom," Elizabeth said. "Since we were all sent back by Queen Serenity, we're somehow linked."

"So if Jerry were still alive, he'd remember," Jake said. "Speaking of him, how come I was able to save you,but not him?"

"Two reasons," Elizabeth said. "First, the black knight wasn't supposed to kill me, just him. Second, he didn't want to come back. He wanted his death to be permanent."

"So does anyone else know I'm here?" Jake said.

"Your dad knows," Elizabeth said. "When you brought me home, you fell asleep, and Amy's mom came over and checked you out, and decided it would be best to just let you sleep it off here."

"You know, sleeping for eighteen hours is extremely refreshing," Jake said. "Just one thing, though. I'm so hungry I could eat a horse. Make that two horses."

"I think we're fresh out of horses," Elizabeth joked, "but I can whip up some pretty mean scrambled eggs."

They went downstairs, and Elizabeth made some scrambled eggs and toast. "Listen," Jake said, after a half dozen eggs, "Meet me at my place at noon. I have something to say to everyone."

Jake's backyard, noon

"I have something to say," Jake said to the assembled crowd, which consisted of Serena Campbell, Rae Lincoln, Amy Anderson, Elizabeth Minako, Susan Makoto, Tom Chiba, Chris Forney, Molly Biel, Scott Kirshner, John Warner, Charlotte Slater, and Savannah Slater. "I've been doing this superhero thing for nearly a year and a half. Some of you have been fighting alongside me from the beginning, some for not as long. But I'm proud to have fought alongside of each and every one of you. However, I came to a decision this morning."

"Before you say anything," Amy said, handing Jake a gold rose, "I'd like to say something on behalf of the team. We had a meeting last night, and we decided to kind of retire from the superhero business."

"Which was what I was going to say," Jake said, placing the gold rose on a table alongside everyone else's transformation devices.

THE END