Radix and Maddox
When Cole woke up the next morning it was hard for him to concentrate and jump out of his bed happily as he usually did. He had a terrible nightmare and it was haunting him now.
His shirt was damp and cool as he felt his chest with his fingers, he knew it was his cold sweat from before. All he could think about now was the tragedy from 4 years ago, how one of his teammates was a traitor and that nobody really knew it. He had never felt so guilty about the whole matter until now. He really never thought of what he did as wrong, he felt as if the others didn't need to know.
Secretly Cole knew that if he had told them what had really happened at the cathedral, at heart maybe only Matt would believe him. And on top of that, he refused to ruin the memory of Mercury, the original one, because even if he was the traitor and monster that he was at heart, he was still a hero to all around him. Cole promised himself that day that the truth would be a secret between him and Uranus---A secret that they would take to the grave. Well one of the two boys already did that, but Cole was not sure he could do the same.
As it was, Cole was already not on the best of terms with his teammates, especially Matt and David. Fortunately Cole was too caught up in everything that had happened the day before that he didn't really think too much of Venus right now. He felt betrayed as it was, and he didn't need to make trouble with him. Besides…David was just doing his job, protecting the others and doing the best for the team. Deep down under Cole's modest personality however, he knew that Venus could never replace him and could be quite a tyrant at times, but he could never think this out loud, even if he wanted to, it just wasn't in his school-boyish nature. He reassured himself that David was just doing his job…he just had to believe that…
And Matt…Cole could not even think about him without letting out a tear…after Sirix released that image of his father being slain, he couldn't even look at Cole anymore, he just looked away from him as Cole tried to explain. He had just cleared himself of being responsible for Uranus' death…and now he had to do the same with Matt's father. He tried to stop Matt's father from dieing, he really did. He pleaded with Sirix, begged for his mercy, if he could have, he would have lunged at him, but he knew better than that, he knew that Sirix probably would have killed the man if he did that too. Cole let a tear roll down his cheek now, felt as if he didn't have a best friend anymore.
As Cole stared out of his long and gold trimmed window in his bedroom and watched the morning sun rise up and light up the trees, he was so happy that he had his own apartment now; his parents would nearly go insane if they saw all of the bruises, cuts, and stab wounds he had. He wanted to make sure that they didn't see them until most of his injuries healed; his parents did not know he was a Soldier. He didn't even want to go to the academy today, he didn't feel like making up all of these lies and excuses on how he got so hurt, it made him sick when he lied and it was the hardest duty of being a Soldier…he thought it was a total shame that his teammates didn't know this.
The Sirix attacks were finally over, and it cost them two lives. Before they had left that forsaken highway that horrible day, they had to make sure that Uranus was not in his Sailor Uniform, they wanted his body to be properly buried, and that his scepter was confiscated by one of them. Cole was that person and it made him want to vomit. The scepter was bloody and stained, but he had no energy to wash it off. He hardly even remembered coming home, it all seemed like a blur to him. He didn't even realize that he had changed his clothes and obviously taken a shower. His uniform and clothes were ruined so he probably burned them.
They didn't even bother to look for Matt's father. Cole didn't exactly want to point it out at the time, but he was in many pieces, but luckily everyone assumed that and Matt just walked away silently. Although he was very sad, it wouldn't be even close to the impact it would have taken on him if his grandfather had died. They divorced before Matt was even born while his mother was pregnant and when she gave birth, she ended up dieing in the process. He hardly knew her and lived with her father, but his own came to visit him fairly often. Now after looking back at Matt's and Tony's lives, Cole was very grateful his parents were happily married. He even had a little sister at home, but after Cole got his own apartment, he hardly saw any of them, he refused to endanger them.
Cole felt so disappointed with himself that he was missing school, but he reluctantly grabbed his remote control and turned the TV on to see a special news report flashing across the screen.
"…Last night after it was declared safe to return back into the city after the mysterious explosions, Police regret to inform us that at least two people have been killed due to mysterious circumstances. One of the deaths was of 49 year old, Matthew Holloman, Senior, was found dead and identified by his son, on top of the main highway next to interstate 10 where much traffic was stopped and out of control after the explosions in the sky started and included one car which flipped off the highway and crashed near homes by the interstate. The man, not hurt, reported that the Sailor Soldiers came to his rescue and grabbed him out of the car before it could explode in flames. Police say that they will not reveal how Mr. Holloman died, but their police chief, Orlando York, says without a doubt he was murdered. The other of the two killed was 21 year old George Baxter, an exchange student from Tokyo Japan, was also found dead on the highway but Police did not release any further details. So the question is, who is responsible for the horrific explosions yesterday and is it the same person responsible for the tragic deaths of these two people? And what do the Sailor Soldiers have to do with this tragedy? Police ask them to come forward by----"
Cole moodily shut his television off. He could not bear to hear any more of this, and it made him upset that Matt had to identify his own father who was probably in 30 pieces by the time he could do so. And now the whole city was probably doubting the Sailor Soldiers now, all five of them were in such a big mess and what made him even more angry is that Sirix is the one responsible and nobody will ever know it. He was assuming that Matt didn't go to school either, but he desperately hoped that the others did, or else it would be too suspicious. He put himself under his covers, put a pillow over his ears and head, and slept.
When he awoke, his eyes were greeted by 3 of his companions who stood by his bedside. He didn't even bother to check who didn't show, he already knew it would be David. He wasn't surprised at all that his friends had come in his apartment, he had given them all keys just in case something like this happened. He was happy to see their faces…Although Matt still couldn't make full eye-contact with him…
"So how was school you guys?", Cole asked awkwardly, he had more energy than he had before.
"They cancelled it. A lot of people were afraid to come in fear of another attack." Andrew replied.
"Oh."
"But that isn't why we are here." Drake said. "Its about yesterday."
'Yeah?" Cole said, thinking what else could they possibly want from him
"We wanted to say that we believe you. And don't let Venus' ignorance bring down your trust in us. I am pretty sure you understand that we ganged up on you because…you know, it sort of looked…well---"
"I know what it looked like!", Cole snapped but then refrained and began again. "I really do understand. And I am assuming that Venus is still…"
"Yes.", Andrew said. He knew what Cole was about to say. "He still thinks you are hiding something."
"But I am not.", Cole said in a rude slowness. "Did you all see the news?"
"Yeah, I cant believe that everyone thinks we are all of the sudden evil when we have always been there to save their ungrateful asses." Drake said angrily.
"I know the feeling.", Cole mumbled, grinding his teeth.
Matt had still not spoken a word yet. Cole was very worried about him.
"Cole, we said we were so sorry.", Andrew responded, obviously hearing Cole's last comment.
"Yeah, but--"
Cole had to stop his sentence, all of the sudden he heard a loud beeping noise coming from his night stand. It was his communicator watch. He quickly grabbed it out of the drawer and answered.
"Hello? This is Cole speaking. Over.", he said into the tiny speaker while everyone listened to the response on their own watches.
"Soldiers, this is David. There have been more explosions near Cole's house. I think they are coming from the Sky Tower, we must go investigate who it is. Over."
"Where are you at?", Andrew asked. "Over."
"Right on Green Meadow, Cole's street. The tower is right around the corner, meet me in front of it and be in uniform." David replied "Over and Out"
"We have to get right on this!" Cole cried, jumping out of bed and grabbing a miniature scepter off a chain around his neck. As it touched his hands it expanded into normal size. "Ready?!"
"Right!", Jupiter and Mercury said in unison. Matt then joined in and grabbed his scepter unenthusiastic.
"Jupiter!"
"Mercury!"
"Saturn!"
"Mars."
"Starlight Power!", they all said at once, appearing in fresh and new uniforms.
Putting their hands together they managed to teleport themselves on Cole's front yard and ran at full speed towards the large and world known Sky Tower.
It was a 90 story high long tower with large sphere room right on the top. It was completely Titanium and glowed against the suns rays. It was a beautiful tower and was a large tourist attraction.
Like Venus had said, many explosions were occurring outside, even more powerful than the first sets. The Soldiers could feel the shockwaves surging through the ground after each large bang. Many people already seemed to be evacuated, some running through the streets screaming in fear. Sure enough, Venus was standing directly at the entrance of the tower like he said. They all met up.
"What's going on?", Saturn asked. He felt very awkward talking to Venus, but he couldn't let that interfere with his duties.
Venus took a second to respond, trying to refrain from glaring, but quickly said. "I don't exactly know, I think someone is firing off blasts from the roof of the tower. But I cant see anything from here."
Mercury joined in the conversation "We have to go on the roof ourselves then. The explosions seem to be coming from there. If we don't hurry, many of the buildings and homes here can be easily destroyed."
This made Cole very nervous. His family lived right around the tower.
"Lets go then!", Saturn said. Rushing into the building carelessly.
'Wait!!" yelled Jupiter "We should put on our masks, so that our faces are covered from gases and stuff."
"Precisely." Mercury said.
All 5 soldiers gently pushed in the tiny diamond on their V-shaped head pieces which triggered these special oxygen and fire resistant masks to form over their heads. They all then ran in the building.
"Lets go up the stairs. The elevator is dangerous." , Venus stated. Cole was even more worried. Mars had still said nothing the whole time.
They took the stairs, but it was very grueling to go up all of the steps and before they could make it to the 60th floor, they all were greeted by flames that came thundering from the higher levels. Mercury impulsively threw a waterfall of water and winds from his palms which devoured the fire, but made the steps very slippery and wet.
"What was that all about!?", Jupiter yelled. Panicked by the unexpected flames.
Mercury seemed very solemn. "I don't know. Either somebody sent those flames, or these explosions caused fire to something."
"I don't think I can walk much further." Saturn gasped. He was totally red and out of breath.
"Well I am tired of walking too!" Venus said, taking his scepter out of his belt "VENUS LOVECHAIN WRAP!" he cried while an almost limitless and thin orange chain rattled from his staff and went straight through the titanium ceiling until it seemed to have reached the very top. "Everyone, grab onto the chain, it will automatically move us up to the top."
Everyone did so and without warning, Venus caused it to move up at lightning speed as the many different floors flashed by Saturn's eyes as the chain seemed to be pulling everyone to the top by itself through the large and over sized holes Venus made.
They finally stopped. The Soldiers carefully let go of the chain and stepped onto the 90th floor. The chain quickly faded away. They had one more flight of stairs to walk up in order to reach the door that opened into the roof. They ran up the stairs as fast as they could, but Saturn could sense something not quite right.
Immediately he felt a sharp pierce in his head and in a split second the last set of stairs melded into one slanted surface. The Soldiers yelled in fear while they all rolled down the ramp shape and back onto the room on the 90th floor. Without notice, the tower seemed to rattle and down the ramp came many heavy Titanium balls that rolled down quickly towards the soldiers as they backed against the window.
Without thinking Saturn shot a huge and blinding ray out of his headpiece which melted them back into liquid form.
"One thing is for sure." Saturn said coldly "Whatever is up there does not want us around."
Venus stepped in front of Saturn. "Too bad they don't know that I have lost my patience! VENUS CRECENT BEAM SMASH!", he roared.
A piercing blast shot from David's rod and broke a large hole in the ceiling that completely melted the titanium it hit. Venus released his chain again and they all climbed up to the roof. Cole had never realized how tall 90 stories was. He felt like he was on top of the world. He was terrified of falling.
"It took you long enough to arrive.", a deep voice from behind spoke.
The Soldiers looked on the other side of the large hole Venus made to see two human sized beings with black outfits that seemed very similar to the soldier uniforms. One seemed 6'5 with long arms, powerful muscles, and a blue skin tone. And the other seemed much smaller and younger. If he was human, he looked around the soldiers age. He still had powerful muscles but his eyes were red unlike the taller one who had violet eyes. He wielded a large sword that was about half the size of him. They seemed to have human faces and a human shape, its just that their blue skin tones and angry made them seem fierce and powerful warriors from another planet.
"Who are you! And why are you terrorizing the city!", Saturn demanded
"I will tell you who we are.", The larger one said. Unlike Sirix, his English was near perfect, with no accent at all. His voice was so deep however, it didn't seem real. "I am Maddox and this is my partner Radix. We are bounty warriors for the lords of the Dark Moon. We are your destroyers."
"But why are you doing this to our city!?" Jupiter asked aggressively.
This time Radix spoke. His voice was not quite as deep as Maddox's but just as powerful and demanding "What better way is there to lure our prey here?"
"You want to fight, then fight with us!" Saturn said forcefully. "We stand for peace and justice and triumph over evil! And that means you!", he pointed
"Yeah! We trampled you're little friend Sirix!" Jupiter said, joining in. "And you two will be two times as crushed!"
"Sirix was a weakling.", Radix said emotionless. "We are bounty warriors, and we will destroy our targets."
"Bring it!", Saturn sneered
Maddox grinned maliciously and looked at the city park thousands of feet below him.
"What are you doing?!" Saturn yelled
Maddox sent a sphere blast that must have been 8 feet wide from his palm and into the park that was consumed by one fiery explosion that sent many houses stationed around it into ashes.
"YOU MONSTER!", Saturn screeched as he jumped over the large hole on the roof and at Maddox's throat. The others quickly joined him but were sent jolting backwards from a blast Radix fired at them. Saturn and the others were furious and tearful. They had no idea what was going to happen to them.
"SATURN NUCLEAR ARMAGEDDON!" Saturn repeated which sent many Saturn shaped explosions at the two warriors.
Radix grinned and hit them towards the ground with his sword like a baseball. Saturn's attacks went down quickly at houses and caused many to explode.
"NOOO!", Saturn snarled in animalistic rage. One of the houses enveloped in one of the pre-nuclear explosions was his mothers. He had never felt such hate before in his life. Even as he saw Matt's father, defenseless in a foreign creatures arms, and being crushed into many pieces. He felt as if he no longer had security, and that it was the inevitable end of all of them. He needed to fight---he wanted to fight.
He attempted to jump across again but was grabbed by Maddox and thrown back. The warrior's strength was unreal. The impact was so hard that Saturn made a dent in the roof.
"This is a warning soldiers." Maddox said. "Hand your scepters to us tomorrow at midnight." Then he pointed at the hundreds of explosions enshrouding the city. "Or this will be a preview of the beginning."
"WAIT A SECOND YOU BASTARDS!" Saturn yelled at the top of his lungs covered in tears of disbelief as Radix and Maddox disappeared in black smoke. "GET OVER HERE!" He wanted to kill them so badly. They probably killed at least 50 people in that attack. He was so angry, in a crimson rage that was very unfamiliar to him. He hated people dieing under his reign as leader of the Sailor Soldiers. He was determined destroy them as fast as he could.
All of the sudden Cole could not hear himself anymore, above them were S.W.A.T team helicopters and they could hear someone yelling at them over a megaphone.
"SAILOR SOLDIERS! YOU ARE CHARGED WITH THE MURDER OF GEORGE BAXTER, THE MURDER AND MUTILATION MATTHEW HOLLOMAN, AND CONSPIRACY TO DESTROY THE CITY! DROP YOUR WEAPONS NOW!" The man spoke as the blades of the helicopters roared.
When Cole woke up the next morning it was hard for him to concentrate and jump out of his bed happily as he usually did. He had a terrible nightmare and it was haunting him now.
His shirt was damp and cool as he felt his chest with his fingers, he knew it was his cold sweat from before. All he could think about now was the tragedy from 4 years ago, how one of his teammates was a traitor and that nobody really knew it. He had never felt so guilty about the whole matter until now. He really never thought of what he did as wrong, he felt as if the others didn't need to know.
Secretly Cole knew that if he had told them what had really happened at the cathedral, at heart maybe only Matt would believe him. And on top of that, he refused to ruin the memory of Mercury, the original one, because even if he was the traitor and monster that he was at heart, he was still a hero to all around him. Cole promised himself that day that the truth would be a secret between him and Uranus---A secret that they would take to the grave. Well one of the two boys already did that, but Cole was not sure he could do the same.
As it was, Cole was already not on the best of terms with his teammates, especially Matt and David. Fortunately Cole was too caught up in everything that had happened the day before that he didn't really think too much of Venus right now. He felt betrayed as it was, and he didn't need to make trouble with him. Besides…David was just doing his job, protecting the others and doing the best for the team. Deep down under Cole's modest personality however, he knew that Venus could never replace him and could be quite a tyrant at times, but he could never think this out loud, even if he wanted to, it just wasn't in his school-boyish nature. He reassured himself that David was just doing his job…he just had to believe that…
And Matt…Cole could not even think about him without letting out a tear…after Sirix released that image of his father being slain, he couldn't even look at Cole anymore, he just looked away from him as Cole tried to explain. He had just cleared himself of being responsible for Uranus' death…and now he had to do the same with Matt's father. He tried to stop Matt's father from dieing, he really did. He pleaded with Sirix, begged for his mercy, if he could have, he would have lunged at him, but he knew better than that, he knew that Sirix probably would have killed the man if he did that too. Cole let a tear roll down his cheek now, felt as if he didn't have a best friend anymore.
As Cole stared out of his long and gold trimmed window in his bedroom and watched the morning sun rise up and light up the trees, he was so happy that he had his own apartment now; his parents would nearly go insane if they saw all of the bruises, cuts, and stab wounds he had. He wanted to make sure that they didn't see them until most of his injuries healed; his parents did not know he was a Soldier. He didn't even want to go to the academy today, he didn't feel like making up all of these lies and excuses on how he got so hurt, it made him sick when he lied and it was the hardest duty of being a Soldier…he thought it was a total shame that his teammates didn't know this.
The Sirix attacks were finally over, and it cost them two lives. Before they had left that forsaken highway that horrible day, they had to make sure that Uranus was not in his Sailor Uniform, they wanted his body to be properly buried, and that his scepter was confiscated by one of them. Cole was that person and it made him want to vomit. The scepter was bloody and stained, but he had no energy to wash it off. He hardly even remembered coming home, it all seemed like a blur to him. He didn't even realize that he had changed his clothes and obviously taken a shower. His uniform and clothes were ruined so he probably burned them.
They didn't even bother to look for Matt's father. Cole didn't exactly want to point it out at the time, but he was in many pieces, but luckily everyone assumed that and Matt just walked away silently. Although he was very sad, it wouldn't be even close to the impact it would have taken on him if his grandfather had died. They divorced before Matt was even born while his mother was pregnant and when she gave birth, she ended up dieing in the process. He hardly knew her and lived with her father, but his own came to visit him fairly often. Now after looking back at Matt's and Tony's lives, Cole was very grateful his parents were happily married. He even had a little sister at home, but after Cole got his own apartment, he hardly saw any of them, he refused to endanger them.
Cole felt so disappointed with himself that he was missing school, but he reluctantly grabbed his remote control and turned the TV on to see a special news report flashing across the screen.
"…Last night after it was declared safe to return back into the city after the mysterious explosions, Police regret to inform us that at least two people have been killed due to mysterious circumstances. One of the deaths was of 49 year old, Matthew Holloman, Senior, was found dead and identified by his son, on top of the main highway next to interstate 10 where much traffic was stopped and out of control after the explosions in the sky started and included one car which flipped off the highway and crashed near homes by the interstate. The man, not hurt, reported that the Sailor Soldiers came to his rescue and grabbed him out of the car before it could explode in flames. Police say that they will not reveal how Mr. Holloman died, but their police chief, Orlando York, says without a doubt he was murdered. The other of the two killed was 21 year old George Baxter, an exchange student from Tokyo Japan, was also found dead on the highway but Police did not release any further details. So the question is, who is responsible for the horrific explosions yesterday and is it the same person responsible for the tragic deaths of these two people? And what do the Sailor Soldiers have to do with this tragedy? Police ask them to come forward by----"
Cole moodily shut his television off. He could not bear to hear any more of this, and it made him upset that Matt had to identify his own father who was probably in 30 pieces by the time he could do so. And now the whole city was probably doubting the Sailor Soldiers now, all five of them were in such a big mess and what made him even more angry is that Sirix is the one responsible and nobody will ever know it. He was assuming that Matt didn't go to school either, but he desperately hoped that the others did, or else it would be too suspicious. He put himself under his covers, put a pillow over his ears and head, and slept.
When he awoke, his eyes were greeted by 3 of his companions who stood by his bedside. He didn't even bother to check who didn't show, he already knew it would be David. He wasn't surprised at all that his friends had come in his apartment, he had given them all keys just in case something like this happened. He was happy to see their faces…Although Matt still couldn't make full eye-contact with him…
"So how was school you guys?", Cole asked awkwardly, he had more energy than he had before.
"They cancelled it. A lot of people were afraid to come in fear of another attack." Andrew replied.
"Oh."
"But that isn't why we are here." Drake said. "Its about yesterday."
'Yeah?" Cole said, thinking what else could they possibly want from him
"We wanted to say that we believe you. And don't let Venus' ignorance bring down your trust in us. I am pretty sure you understand that we ganged up on you because…you know, it sort of looked…well---"
"I know what it looked like!", Cole snapped but then refrained and began again. "I really do understand. And I am assuming that Venus is still…"
"Yes.", Andrew said. He knew what Cole was about to say. "He still thinks you are hiding something."
"But I am not.", Cole said in a rude slowness. "Did you all see the news?"
"Yeah, I cant believe that everyone thinks we are all of the sudden evil when we have always been there to save their ungrateful asses." Drake said angrily.
"I know the feeling.", Cole mumbled, grinding his teeth.
Matt had still not spoken a word yet. Cole was very worried about him.
"Cole, we said we were so sorry.", Andrew responded, obviously hearing Cole's last comment.
"Yeah, but--"
Cole had to stop his sentence, all of the sudden he heard a loud beeping noise coming from his night stand. It was his communicator watch. He quickly grabbed it out of the drawer and answered.
"Hello? This is Cole speaking. Over.", he said into the tiny speaker while everyone listened to the response on their own watches.
"Soldiers, this is David. There have been more explosions near Cole's house. I think they are coming from the Sky Tower, we must go investigate who it is. Over."
"Where are you at?", Andrew asked. "Over."
"Right on Green Meadow, Cole's street. The tower is right around the corner, meet me in front of it and be in uniform." David replied "Over and Out"
"We have to get right on this!" Cole cried, jumping out of bed and grabbing a miniature scepter off a chain around his neck. As it touched his hands it expanded into normal size. "Ready?!"
"Right!", Jupiter and Mercury said in unison. Matt then joined in and grabbed his scepter unenthusiastic.
"Jupiter!"
"Mercury!"
"Saturn!"
"Mars."
"Starlight Power!", they all said at once, appearing in fresh and new uniforms.
Putting their hands together they managed to teleport themselves on Cole's front yard and ran at full speed towards the large and world known Sky Tower.
It was a 90 story high long tower with large sphere room right on the top. It was completely Titanium and glowed against the suns rays. It was a beautiful tower and was a large tourist attraction.
Like Venus had said, many explosions were occurring outside, even more powerful than the first sets. The Soldiers could feel the shockwaves surging through the ground after each large bang. Many people already seemed to be evacuated, some running through the streets screaming in fear. Sure enough, Venus was standing directly at the entrance of the tower like he said. They all met up.
"What's going on?", Saturn asked. He felt very awkward talking to Venus, but he couldn't let that interfere with his duties.
Venus took a second to respond, trying to refrain from glaring, but quickly said. "I don't exactly know, I think someone is firing off blasts from the roof of the tower. But I cant see anything from here."
Mercury joined in the conversation "We have to go on the roof ourselves then. The explosions seem to be coming from there. If we don't hurry, many of the buildings and homes here can be easily destroyed."
This made Cole very nervous. His family lived right around the tower.
"Lets go then!", Saturn said. Rushing into the building carelessly.
'Wait!!" yelled Jupiter "We should put on our masks, so that our faces are covered from gases and stuff."
"Precisely." Mercury said.
All 5 soldiers gently pushed in the tiny diamond on their V-shaped head pieces which triggered these special oxygen and fire resistant masks to form over their heads. They all then ran in the building.
"Lets go up the stairs. The elevator is dangerous." , Venus stated. Cole was even more worried. Mars had still said nothing the whole time.
They took the stairs, but it was very grueling to go up all of the steps and before they could make it to the 60th floor, they all were greeted by flames that came thundering from the higher levels. Mercury impulsively threw a waterfall of water and winds from his palms which devoured the fire, but made the steps very slippery and wet.
"What was that all about!?", Jupiter yelled. Panicked by the unexpected flames.
Mercury seemed very solemn. "I don't know. Either somebody sent those flames, or these explosions caused fire to something."
"I don't think I can walk much further." Saturn gasped. He was totally red and out of breath.
"Well I am tired of walking too!" Venus said, taking his scepter out of his belt "VENUS LOVECHAIN WRAP!" he cried while an almost limitless and thin orange chain rattled from his staff and went straight through the titanium ceiling until it seemed to have reached the very top. "Everyone, grab onto the chain, it will automatically move us up to the top."
Everyone did so and without warning, Venus caused it to move up at lightning speed as the many different floors flashed by Saturn's eyes as the chain seemed to be pulling everyone to the top by itself through the large and over sized holes Venus made.
They finally stopped. The Soldiers carefully let go of the chain and stepped onto the 90th floor. The chain quickly faded away. They had one more flight of stairs to walk up in order to reach the door that opened into the roof. They ran up the stairs as fast as they could, but Saturn could sense something not quite right.
Immediately he felt a sharp pierce in his head and in a split second the last set of stairs melded into one slanted surface. The Soldiers yelled in fear while they all rolled down the ramp shape and back onto the room on the 90th floor. Without notice, the tower seemed to rattle and down the ramp came many heavy Titanium balls that rolled down quickly towards the soldiers as they backed against the window.
Without thinking Saturn shot a huge and blinding ray out of his headpiece which melted them back into liquid form.
"One thing is for sure." Saturn said coldly "Whatever is up there does not want us around."
Venus stepped in front of Saturn. "Too bad they don't know that I have lost my patience! VENUS CRECENT BEAM SMASH!", he roared.
A piercing blast shot from David's rod and broke a large hole in the ceiling that completely melted the titanium it hit. Venus released his chain again and they all climbed up to the roof. Cole had never realized how tall 90 stories was. He felt like he was on top of the world. He was terrified of falling.
"It took you long enough to arrive.", a deep voice from behind spoke.
The Soldiers looked on the other side of the large hole Venus made to see two human sized beings with black outfits that seemed very similar to the soldier uniforms. One seemed 6'5 with long arms, powerful muscles, and a blue skin tone. And the other seemed much smaller and younger. If he was human, he looked around the soldiers age. He still had powerful muscles but his eyes were red unlike the taller one who had violet eyes. He wielded a large sword that was about half the size of him. They seemed to have human faces and a human shape, its just that their blue skin tones and angry made them seem fierce and powerful warriors from another planet.
"Who are you! And why are you terrorizing the city!", Saturn demanded
"I will tell you who we are.", The larger one said. Unlike Sirix, his English was near perfect, with no accent at all. His voice was so deep however, it didn't seem real. "I am Maddox and this is my partner Radix. We are bounty warriors for the lords of the Dark Moon. We are your destroyers."
"But why are you doing this to our city!?" Jupiter asked aggressively.
This time Radix spoke. His voice was not quite as deep as Maddox's but just as powerful and demanding "What better way is there to lure our prey here?"
"You want to fight, then fight with us!" Saturn said forcefully. "We stand for peace and justice and triumph over evil! And that means you!", he pointed
"Yeah! We trampled you're little friend Sirix!" Jupiter said, joining in. "And you two will be two times as crushed!"
"Sirix was a weakling.", Radix said emotionless. "We are bounty warriors, and we will destroy our targets."
"Bring it!", Saturn sneered
Maddox grinned maliciously and looked at the city park thousands of feet below him.
"What are you doing?!" Saturn yelled
Maddox sent a sphere blast that must have been 8 feet wide from his palm and into the park that was consumed by one fiery explosion that sent many houses stationed around it into ashes.
"YOU MONSTER!", Saturn screeched as he jumped over the large hole on the roof and at Maddox's throat. The others quickly joined him but were sent jolting backwards from a blast Radix fired at them. Saturn and the others were furious and tearful. They had no idea what was going to happen to them.
"SATURN NUCLEAR ARMAGEDDON!" Saturn repeated which sent many Saturn shaped explosions at the two warriors.
Radix grinned and hit them towards the ground with his sword like a baseball. Saturn's attacks went down quickly at houses and caused many to explode.
"NOOO!", Saturn snarled in animalistic rage. One of the houses enveloped in one of the pre-nuclear explosions was his mothers. He had never felt such hate before in his life. Even as he saw Matt's father, defenseless in a foreign creatures arms, and being crushed into many pieces. He felt as if he no longer had security, and that it was the inevitable end of all of them. He needed to fight---he wanted to fight.
He attempted to jump across again but was grabbed by Maddox and thrown back. The warrior's strength was unreal. The impact was so hard that Saturn made a dent in the roof.
"This is a warning soldiers." Maddox said. "Hand your scepters to us tomorrow at midnight." Then he pointed at the hundreds of explosions enshrouding the city. "Or this will be a preview of the beginning."
"WAIT A SECOND YOU BASTARDS!" Saturn yelled at the top of his lungs covered in tears of disbelief as Radix and Maddox disappeared in black smoke. "GET OVER HERE!" He wanted to kill them so badly. They probably killed at least 50 people in that attack. He was so angry, in a crimson rage that was very unfamiliar to him. He hated people dieing under his reign as leader of the Sailor Soldiers. He was determined destroy them as fast as he could.
All of the sudden Cole could not hear himself anymore, above them were S.W.A.T team helicopters and they could hear someone yelling at them over a megaphone.
"SAILOR SOLDIERS! YOU ARE CHARGED WITH THE MURDER OF GEORGE BAXTER, THE MURDER AND MUTILATION MATTHEW HOLLOMAN, AND CONSPIRACY TO DESTROY THE CITY! DROP YOUR WEAPONS NOW!" The man spoke as the blades of the helicopters roared.
