Disclaimer: Okay, fine, Sheesh, I know I forgot it the last time. I don't own Sailor Moon. I also don't own much of anything else for that matter. Happy! Good. Now if your done crushing my self esteem Ami, could you fix my durn network router! Thanks.
Moon Cats; Fearful Symmetry
Chapter 15
"Luna, you've been even more like a mother hen since you figured out you could be human!" Usagi complained, glaring at her advisor as they walked off the Juban high school campus. "How'd you even find out I had detention, anyway. You were at work!"
"Yes, and Ami came in without you. She kinda had to tell me why."
"Yeah, well it's not my fault! We had to chase that weird youma through town all night last night. Stupid thing ran at like, a hundred kilometers an hour! I was exhausted."
"Ami didn't fall asleep in class."
"Ami prefers school to sleep. I think it IS how she sleeps!"
Luna shook her head, hiding a grin. "Makoto stayed awake."
"Because there's a new guy in class, who looks just like her old boyfriend."
"Really now?" Luna asked, temporarily entertaining concerns that this new boy might be a new enemy. She shrugged it away after a moment, since not EVERY new student could be evil. "Minako even managed to stay awake."
"Um, no she didn't. She sits behind Amy. She woke up when I yelped after getting hit with an eraser! If it wasn't for her better… Strategic position, she'd have been caught too!"
"I'll have to talk to her about this as well, then." Luna nodded as though making a decision. The fact that she was only here picking Usagi up was a coincidence would only be revealed later, after she had her fun. Cats, especially Moon Cats, had to have their malicious fun from time to time.
"By the way, did you at least get a decent grade on that science exam? You of all people should know the solar system…"
"Luna, it's been to long."
Usagi, who for a change had been about to brag about a grade, looked behind her in confusion when Luna froze, stiff as a board mid stride. The man behind them, scarred and in a wheel chair. He was all together creepy, but completely unfamiliar to her.
"Ah, and you must be Usagi Tsukino, the real one. Or should I say Sailor Moon?" The man chuckled when the blonde warrior of love and justice gasped and took a step back. "Oh yes, I know all about you and your friends young Usagi. Do not worry, I'm not an enemy from the Negaverse. Is that how you pronounce it Luna-chan? Negaverse?"
"Yes Gaki, that's correct." Luna spoke stiffly, turning around slowly realizing all to well that the only people she could see on the street weren't school children or salary men. The leather jackets in the hot august weather made that obvious. "Though I have to disagree with you claiming not to be an enemy."
"Oh, but I'm not her's, Lovely Luna. I'm YOUR enemy, unless she decides to use that lovely little nick knack she thinks he palmed without me noticing. Then she'll get to find out rather sailor fuku's can stop bullets." The Gaki's tone of voice and posture didn't change from the conversational, almost pleasant tone.
Usagi, the friendly, outgoing, kind girl growled and did something that none of her past enemies or the other Scouts would ever have expected. She risked it.
"Moon Crystal Power!"
The next moment the sharp impact into her back answered for once and for all rather her fuku was bullet proof. She didn't even realize they were standing next to a resivour until she found herself falling into it.
"Usagi!" Luna yelled, moving to dive after her charge, but a different sharp pain found her neck, and the world went dark as the tranquilizer kicked in. The man who fired it quickly running up. "Bring her." Gaki ordered, as he wheeled back to the van.
Artemis just stared at the scene before him, strangely detached even though his mind told him he HAD to be central to the events taking place. He just couldn't figure out how!
Hibuki, the EMT's, and two swat men were standing with him, equally as stunned, as the fires went out around them, and the rubble collapsed around a dome of silver-gold light that was apparently protecting them.
A light matching the silver moon on the white haired man's forehead. The rubble had completely settled before anyone could speak. Of course it was one of the EMT's.
"Are you like, Sailor Moon or something?"
While horribly out of context to the events around them, the question did snap Artemis out of his trance. "What? NO!"
"Then how did you do that?"
"I don't know!"
"It's a good thing he did." Hibuki muttered, looking at the devastation, of which none had touched a twenty-foot circle surrounding them, and the unconscious engineer they had been trying to save. "No matter how he did it. We're still alive. Now let's get out of here before a secondary explosion kills us."
Quickly they moved through the burning rubble, carrying the dyeing man as carefully as possible considering the situation. The cops coming into the wreckage were shocked to find anyone alive, but were more then happy to pull them out.
An hour later the KAPPA team officers were sitting in the conference room, debating their next course of action. "Damn it, we don't know were he's going to attack, so we need to go after him, not split up for some attack that might be a bluff anyhow!" Artemis yelled, banging the table with his fist.
"Wrong Artemis. You're to close to this, and the Gaki is not the type to bluff, not on this. That prank at the restaurant not withstanding, if he says he can do something, he can. To assume anything else is negligent!"
"Well I don't care what you think Hibuki. This guy is going down, and I'm putting him there!"
"How Artemis? Where is he, huh?" Hibuki was also standing, also yelling now. "Even if you knew, I couldn't trust you to go, not now. Go home Artemis. Now."
Artemis's jaw snapped close in shock. "What… You ask me to leave when…"
"Did that really sound like a request? If I see you near ANY of the KAPPA teams till this gets settled or I say you can come back, your gone. Do you get me!"
"Yeah. I get you. Thanks, buddy." Artemis growled, a roar leaking through his human teeth shocking even the informed members of the team. He jerked open the door, just in time for the injured and wet Sailor Moon to fall into his arms.
"Luna, he got Luna!" She groaned, clutching her side, still shocked that it wasn't bleeding but she'd been in enough fights to know what a broken rib felt like. Her's felt more like it was shattered.
"Usagi!" Ami didn't even think to cover up her identity, running over to help her friend. Hibuki let her sit down before questioning her.
"Who has Luna. What happened to you?"
"Some guy, the Gaki I think he called himself. He kidnapped Luna I think. One of his guys shot me and I fell into the river, so I don't know for sure. I'm sorry."
"Not your fault. Artemis, can you get her… Artemis?"
By the time he looked up, the longhaired man was gone.
His badge driven by its pin's into the door.
Authors Notes: I bet you guys thought I wouldn't post again for like, months. Well HAHA. I did! And I even shot Usagi. (I'm sure there's a few Usagi haters out there who were cheering for a few paragraphs. A few lovers of the Bunny who plotted my death too.)