Episode 4 Act 2 Hospital

Later that night inside the hospital room. Darien, Amy and Rei visit Mina in the hospital, Darien with flowers. Mina begins to open her eyes. "Thanks for the flowers Darien..." Mina smiles. She turns to Serena and Lita. "Damona..." She whispers and closes her eyes again falling into sleep.

"Say I'm gonna go visit Hotaru. Okay guys." Amy says after Mina falls back to sleep.

"No problem I'm gonna wait here awhile more" Darien replies.

"Hold up Amy I'll go with you" Rei says following Amy.

"Alright kids visiting hours are over..." The nurse announced.

After what was left of Mina's friends crowded out of the room, Mina began to dream. Her long blonde hair knotted on the hospital pillows. Hours later her eyelids opened in horror. "SERENA!" Darien sits in the lobby sleep on a chair, Amy and Rei are on a couch leaned against each other sleep. What happened to Michelle dancing on the roof with Krahazik being near by watching? We are still at that night. Hotaru yawned and curled up under the blankets.

After waking up Amy goes to Hotaru's room. There's a knock at the door, "Hotaru are you awake?" Serena lay sleeping in a couch near Darien's chair. Seeing that Mina was alright and well protected, Lita headed for Hotaru's room with her flowers in hand.

"Amy, is she awake?" Lita asked.

Hotaru nodded slightly. "Yeah, I'm awake. I can't sleep."

"Hotaru, it's good to see you awake. Here, these are for you." Lita greets after coming in behind Amy. She sets the flowers she brought on the table next her bed.

Hotaru smiles. "Thank you so much Lita! Are you all here?"

"Your welcome kiddo. And yes everybody is here except Michelle. Amy, Rei, and I came to see you, while everyone else stayed with Mina." Lita said.

"Mina is here?" Hotaru asked, surprised. "Why is she here?"

"We had stopped to eat breakfast and the next thing we knew, she started talking about that witch that hurt you and then collapsed." Lita said.

"Well, I should be out tomorrow if I have anything to say about it," Hotaru said, stubbornly.

Lita laughed, "Just don't over work your self Hotaru."

"It's just six stitches. Nothing bad." Hotaru said.

"Six stitches...Hotaru you should rest more if you got that many. I'm gonna talk to your doctor, and don't be stubborn about this either; you are supposed to be my nurse someday." Amy says sternly. "You know Lita, I'm kinda surprised that Mina sensed something and Rei didn't. You think something is wrong?" Amy says turning to Lita. Serena wakes up a while later. She stretches and then looks around, she had forgotten for a moment that they were in a hospital.

"I don't know Amy. Why don't we ask Rei about that?" Lita replies.

"Morning sleepyhead." Darien says touching Serena's head.

"Guess your right, we might have to do that" Amy says. She walks out of the room to find a nurse.

A Nurse comes out to greet the girls in the waiting room. "Your friend will be let out soon, we just need to keep her a few more hours for observation. "She said leaving the room and walking towards Mina's room.

Rei sleepily looked at the nurse and nodded then went back to sleep.

"Rei, are you okay you seem awfully tired?" Amy says to Rei.

"Uh huh... zzzzzzzzz" Rei responds, but is obviously more sleep than awake already. Lita laughs, as she watches Rei sleep talk to Amy.

Hotaru rolled her eyes slightly. "I hate being here! There is nothing to do. I can't even go to the park like I always do." She sighed.

Amy walks back into Hotaru's room, "Well I guess you would be bored. I can give you some books to study if you want." -Amy says with a little cheer in her voice.

Darien walks into Mina's room "Hey kiddo how you feeling?"

As Amy and Hotaru are talking, suddenly all noise or sound from outside the room disappears. Birds just out the window can't be herd and sounds of the hospital beyond to door are silent, as if the outside world did not exist. Only a glance out the window shows the room is still where it belongs.

Serena goes into Mina's room. "Hey Mina" She says with a smile.

"Hey Serena" Darien says and sits in a chair.

"Hi." Serena says as she gets closer to him.

He grabs her hand- "I have to go back to practice tomorrow Serena" She knows what this means, he'll be away and busy for awhile.

"Uh...Why can't I hear anything? Hotaru doesn't this seem strange to you?" Amy looks around and sees everything seems normal, except the sound.

Starstrike steps out of a shadow cast by a lamp in Hotaru's room in a dignified manner. She smiles looking over at Hotaru. She glances out the window. "Lovely night isn't it."

"What in the world? Who are you?" Amy says looking at the lady. Starstrike doesn't know Amy is Mercury, so she has to keep her identity concealed.

"Hotaru here knows me." Starstrike says with a smile in a sweet voice. "Jumped in front of my blade." She speaks to Hotaru "Feeling better young lady?"

Hotaru's color in her face drained. "What do you want? How do you know my name?"

"I agree how do you know her?" Amy says in question, Hotaru knows that Amy has to act this way to not give away herself.

"Information my dear." Starstrike says in a sweet calm voice ignoring Amy. "Let's get 1 thing clear. I am not interested in harming this planet and its people, or helping it for that matter." She pulls up a chair and sits down to regard Hotaru as if she were just a friend for a visit. "I have come to talk."

Hotaru scowled. "And what exactly would you like to talk to me about?"

Starstrike smiled. "How about the girl wearing the locket of chaos. See I have come here to recover it. And you are going to tell me all about this girl. You seam to care a great deal about her. Otherwise you wouldn't be laying here." She glances at Amy? "But first, who are you? Have a seat."

Hotaru glared. "I will not tell you a single thing about her! She is my friend!"

"Hi guys..." Mina answers with a smile. As Serena, Darien gets comfortable and Lita walks into her room. "The nurse says Ill be out pretty soon." She adds still a bits tired.

Rei walks in from the lobby "That's great news Mina" Rei looks around, "Uh...you feel anything weird?"

"That is great news Mina! But I agree with Rei...something is wrong." Lita replies.

"Want to check things out with me Lita?" Rei asks as she takes out a spirit charm.

"Just a bit dizzy... It's probably the medications they put me on." Mina laughed.

"Well ok..." She whispered as she looked around to see if anyone was watching.

"You sure about that Mina?" Rei says looking at the door.

Starstrike's smile widens as she looks at Hotaru. "You do realize I can bring down with entire building with a single note."

She nodded. "Yes, I am quite aware of that." Her tone was icy.

"Me, I'm a student here at the hospital. And Hotaru is my patient. She also needs rest, now if you will excuse me visiting hours are over." Amy hopes that Hotaru follows along saying this and tries to direct the woman to the exit.

Starstrike looks at Amy. "I don't much care about your visiting hours."
She glances back to Hotaru "and depending on her tone, she may be needing your services...again." She pokes Hotaru in the ribs right were the scar is still soar near a stitch.

Hotaru screamed out in pain. "Why you little..." Hotaru's eyes turned deep purple from the swift pain that ran through her body. "Let's just hope I don't destroy your world!" she hissed.

Starstrike smiled. The scream can't be herd outside the room as the sound barrier works both ways. No sound from within the room get out, and no sound outside can get in. The barrier also acts as a physical barrier. "Scream all you like. No one can hear you." Starstrike leaned back in her chair and waited for Hotaru to regain her composure. She glances briefly to Amy.

"And no one can here this then!" Hotaru quickly transformed into her scout uniform and pointed her glaive at Lady Starstrike. Saturn pushed the glaive against Starstrike's stomach. "You leave her alone you demon!"

Lady Starstrike glares at the glaive as the whole hospital vibrates noticeably. She crosses her arms in front of her and a sonic shockwave plants Hotaru against the wall pinning her there. Rei is hit like a sledgehammer by the sudden spike of energy next door. In an instant Starstrike has her sword out blade at Amy's neck. "Who is first Hotaru!"

Hotaru pushed forward with all her might and continued to walk toward her. "You will be the first, Lady Starstrike. You will not harm my friends!" She put a silence wall around Amy.

"Did you guys here something?...Go check on Amy and Hotaru. I'll be alright here." Mina smiled.

All sound is wiped from the room as Starstrike's eyes go white and all sound based energy begins to be sucked into the room along with every sound within 5 miles. As the glaive gets closer it vibrates violently threatening to shatter bones of the hands holding it. The pressure in the room builds. Hotaru continues to press forward. The glaive vibrating, but she ignored it. She was going to make sure that Lady Starstrike would be in as much pain as herself. Stitches were coming undone under the pressure, but she didn't stop.

Hotaru's own energy feeds into Starstrike adding to her power. The area around the hospital becomes dead silent. Starstrike surges with energy. "Now you find out why I am the master of Song and Sound."

Hotaru shook her head. "I will not find out!" Blood stained her uniform. She took her glaive and started to cut Lady Starstrike in the exact area that she had been.

Starstrike vanishes in a puff of smoke as the glaive shatters from tip to tip along with the bones in both Hotaru's hands. A moment later all the energy that had gathered erupted in a sonic boom tearing threw the entire floor along with the floor above and below completely annihilating the floors leaving the base support of the building behind, damaged. Most of the people on the 3 floors were shredded by the shock wave and debris or blown clear of the building to fall to the ground 3 floors below. The scouts were all flattened to the ground. Hotaru de-transformed and collapsed. With her last action she sent out a shield surrounding the scouts, healing them. Then she lost consciousness.

Starstrike appeared in her mansion bed room collapsing against the bed post. She held her side where that Hotaru girl started to cut her. She was completely drained.
"Maybe that was a bit much." She said to herself barely able to stay conscious.
"Healer I pray to you, your sister is in need of you." she whispers to the darkness before passing out.

Rei changes into Sailor Mars, "Mars Crystal Power Make-up".

The remaining floors above the damaged area creak under its own weight. The remaining support braces begin to flex. The upper floors threatening to come down any moment. Panic ensues in the lower floors as people rush to evacuate. The whole building could come down at any moment.

Darien transforms into Tuxedo Mask and grabs Serena leaping out the side of the building. Amy transforms into Mercury and starts getting people out.

"What in the world?" Mars jumps in grabs Saturn and leaves what's left of the hospital.

Mercury comes back and gets Mina. "I'm not gonna let you go Mina. You have to stay with us."

Serena transforms into Sailor Moon. "Scouts we need a plan and we need one now."

At hearing Starstrike's prayer Silverstar materializes in Starstrike's room, staff in hand. "Now how did this happen?" she says kneeling down and rolling Starstrike onto her back.
Silverstar places her staff over Starstrike and begins to concentrates, focusing her spiritual energies into healing her fellow knight. Some of the healing energy seeps over to Mina. Silverstar becomes slightly confused sensing another there, but does not know where it's coming from. She refocuses on the healing.

"It doesn't matter anymore..." Mina whispers. "All of this is my fault...and now I'm getting what I deserve... "Unaware of the blue healing light surrounding her, Mina begins to close her eyes.

Silverstar finishes with Starstrike and levitates her onto the bed to sleep and recover her strength. "Your temper got the better of you again did it?" she whispers to Starstrike. She had completely drained herself, otherwise a light wound like that wouldn't have been much. Silverstar wondered though, that looked like the start of a slash, not a complete one. Who could Starstrike have been fighting she usually doesn't let any one get that close with a blade. She closed her eyes and focused on the other spirit she sensed. There is a link she is curious about.

"Love me moon chain." Mina whispered with her eyes still closed. "It's hopeless..." She whispered.

Mercury's visor picks up unusual readings as she takes Mina to safety. "Mina, your gonna be ok. And I'm not sure what is happening, but we need to find out"

"...how can you be so certain?" Mina cried in pain.

"My visor reads that you are regenerating" Mercury says. She puts Mina down near the park, on a bench. "I have to go check for more people."

"Right behind you Mercury" Mars states.

Mina discovers the pain is gone and she is completely healed. A bit weak but healed. A voice calls out to her in her head. She doesn't know its Silverstar. "You will be fine child." Silverstar seeks out Mina spiritually threw the link to Starstrike.

"I'm gonna get the rest of the people from the hospital, you help out here scouts" Tuxedo Mask says as he leaves.

"You've caused enough trouble already!" Mina shuts the voice out of her head.

"Come on Scouts lets help." they work together making sure everyone is alright and out of the building.

The presence felt different to mina, softer. It backed off without a fight when she shut it out. Silverstar returned to her body. "Hmm, interesting." She shrugged not wanting to fight. "My task is done, to home I call." she says out loud and disappears. Starstrike sleeps peacefully in her bed in her room of her large house in the hills.

End Act 2