Hahaha Wow that took me a while. Sorry about that everyone- hope you haen't stopped reading. I must say one reason I was slow updating was because I am working on another fanfic which the two people who have read it really like…. Bad excuse, but whatever. I'm sure you all will like reading that story when I release it… After I finish it.

"Why the Sailor Senshi?" Minako asked, delicately raising an eyebrow. "And how to you plan to contact them?"

"I'm not sure how we are going to reach them, but we'll need a miracle and we'll need it fast." Sakurada said, nervously sorting files and papers on her desk.

"Remember that case a while back when Sailor Mars showed up to your aid?"

"Yes…" Minako replied, knowing very well the incident. It had been Minako's job to follow a man suspected for murder, and protect a young girl he was after. She and Ami soon deduced that the man was a youma, and as Minako could not transform while watching her charge, she enlisted Rei's help. The youma was quickly vanquished and the young girl who had witnessed the battle proclaimed Sailor Mars her favorite Senshi.

"Well we are hoping your luck holds up again."

"Why do you need the Senshi? I am sure that this is nothing I can't handle."

"It's for... a ransom." The prefect replied, a guilty look glazing her eyes as she looked up at Minako.

"For what?" Minako asked quickly. Natsuna knew better than to risk Minako's true identity to be found.

"We have received a note requesting an audience with Sailor Venus in exchange for two hostages. The kidnapper claims that no harm will come to her, he just wants to speak with her." Sakurada said calmly and flatly. "He says he is an old friend of Sailor V."

"I can get to work on it, but if I succeed in making contact, may I tell the Senshi why? Who are the hostages, did the kidnapper reveal anything of his identity?"

"He said he is a great admirer of Sailor V. But we know nothing other than that."

"What is so important about these hostages? Who are they? Why can't we send in a fake!" Nothing was so important as to risk her identity.

"They abducted Kunzite Suranda and Toshio Wakagi."

"And how the fuck did that happen?" Minako said as flatly as she could, but despite her restraint, her voice raised not only in pitch, but in volume. "And why them? Do we know anything about that?"

"He says that they assure that Venus will show. Anyone else and she would send a decoy." Natsuna replied, pushing her hair behind her ear so she could look better at the report in front of her.

"Do you have a copy of the note?"

"It… vanished." the prefect said with an unsure pause. She wanted to tell Minako that the note had disintegrated, but with all her bosses in the room, it would be wise to sound a bit more sane than that.

"A ransom note magically disappears, you want me to find a Sailor Senshi, and your second in command is kidnapped, and you are calm?" Minako half growled, knowing none of this was Natsuna's fault. The blonde officer's face was still calm as always, yet her voice betrayed her concerns. Perhaps another reason she was known as the Stone Warrior a millennia ago, a woman of few words has fewer chances to lose her secrets.

"By the look of it, you are as well."

"Wakagi isn't my lover."

"Aino, this is no time to be a child. We can fight that matter another time. Now you have some searching to do I believe." Natsuna promptly twirled her chair to the window and waved for Minako to leave.

"Yes Ma'am." Minako spun on her heels and clicked down the hall back towards the elevator.

"Ms. Aino!" A young male voice called from behind her. Minako let out a groan and turned to see one of the officers in training running towards her with a folder.

"Prefect Sakurada sends this for you. I am at your disposal until the return of your partner. Shall I start on a research on all the recent Sailor Senshi sightings?"

"Don't bother. Find out what you can about how the hostages were abducted and if either might have been hurt or drugged in the process."

"Yes Ma'am!" The young cadet said, trotting off back towards the prefect's office.

'So she is worried beyond her wits end.' Minako thought to herself. Natsuna would trust Minako with anything and everything, and this young boy's sending not only signaled that Natsuna wanted the job done as fast as humanly able, but that she was nervous.

"Well, we shall have to find out who the craphead is who woke me up at three o'clock in the morning by kidnapping two morons." and with that cheery comment, Minako entered the elevator.

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A slim shadow was seen flitting through streets outside the old warehouses on the eastern side of town. A tap of shoes, a swish of fabric, and the silhouette against the moon was gone. The legendary Sailor V was on the move.

"You are going to have a bit trouble looks like…" Police prefect Natsuna grumbled into her phone.

"Tell me something I don't know please." responded the blonde girl dashing through the dark.

"Well your new and temporary aid," Natsuna said emphasizing the time limit on the situation. "has informed me that you wanted a full update on the investigation concerning the security breach."

"So are you going to tell me that both Kunzite and Wakagi where at the office at three a.m.?" Minako asked, adjusting the headset to her orange cellphone. "I can't believe that I am a legendary defender of justice, and here I am on a cell phone."

"They both received calls apparently. Wakagi's cell phone was found, and Kunzite's beeper. The last calls were made from your desk." Natsuna said as calmly as she could, neverously shifting papers on her desk at the same time. "Both entered the office at 2:50 this morning, so now an hour and a half ago. The guard saw each come in and enter the elevator, and the intern who sits by my office noticed them as well. Apparently they both were to go into the conference room, which they did and at the same time, a cleaning lady who was passing through says they were rather startled to see one another, but were too determined to get into the room to argue, although they did bicker a bit."

"What happened in the conference room?" Minako asked, as she grimaced and turned down a different street. She had next to no idea on where she was going to find the captor, but currently she was on route for a fountain known for making love wishes come true, it seemed a logical place as Venus was so closely connected with love.

"From there, we have no real clue other that a bejeweled microphone and the note."

"One used for karaoke?" Minako asked, standing still and overlooking the city from her perch on a high rooftop.

"Yes. The letters 'D' and 'A' were all that we could find where the manufacture's name usually goes." The prefect had started now typing on her computer, Minako couldn't decide if it was just a nervous habit of her boss' or if the woman on the other end of the line was doing something useful. "Rather old as well. Haven't seen a mic in this fashion for a good ten years or maybe even fifteen. I'm not sure if it is a clue, but it was inside a box, a rather curious one that reminded me of an old tale about-"

"Pandora's box." Minako hissed through her teeth "Aino signing out. Hostages to be returned in perfect condition in no less than one hour."

"Minako don't-" The prefect rushed to say, but her command was too late as the blonde hung up her phone, spun to the north and teleported away.

"It has been a while since I have seen this old place… and to think I wanted to sing on the stage of a dump like this. Michiru would never, that I am sure." Minako said to herself as she looked up at a stage inside a concert hall that had gone out of style years ago. No one visited that place anymore and concerts were few and far in between.

Minako shook her head and ran quietly down to the stage and jumped on to it. Making her way slowly and silently, she walked through the darkness and into the backstage, attempting to find the dressing rooms. Her old enemy, the Dark Agency would surely have no place to reroot other than were she stood. Offices above her head belonged to the once huge music producer 'Dark Agency' known for their hit artists, 'Twin Dark' 'Boys Dark' and especially popular around boys, 'Pandora' and 'Petite Pandora'. The two Pandora sisters were such self absorbed stars that the first place they would go to no matter what the danger, would be their dressing rooms.

Minako edged up to a corner, knowing her first destination was only twenty paces away. Gripping her crescent mirror, Minako made a silent dash for Pandora's dressing room, kicking the door open. No one was there, and Petite Pandora's dressing room received the same treatment. Blinking for a moment to recalculate what she was going to do, Minako spied a small streak of light coming from the other side of heavy drawn curtains on a far away stage. Running towards the light, she skidded to a stop before the curtain. A swing was gently swaying meters above the stage, a small ghostly form in white sat swishing her legs.

"Well done Sailor V, but you are too late." The figure leapt off her perch and spun on her heels to meet Minako's face as the sailor suited agent of love and justice walk though the curtains.

'Petite Pandora.' Minako though, not daring to open her mouth as she knew the first words that would come out would be the end of the relic of the past before her.

"My, my you have grown. But no one likes such a tough and rumble woman." Petite Pandora swished her hair and glanced over her shoulder. "Even those two."

"Your powers are useless when you are dead." Minako said through gritted teeth as she saw Wakagi and Kunzite in the distance, sitting calmly and watching her, as if they could care less where they were or even that they were captives.

"But you wouldn't like them dead would you?" Petite Pandora purred happily. "Now if you'll just follow me to the master, I can go back to my performing."

Minako glanced off at the two men sitting in the audience. Not a trace of recognition towards her was sparked. They were not even staring at the villain threatening to kill them… in fact they almost looked… Minako leapt off the stage and bounded towards the two figures, hoping her eyes deceived her. She was half surprised she reached them with no interference, and as she came closer, truth hit her head on.

"Wakagi! Kunzite!" Minako called as she stopped near them. Slowly now she slid forward, down the aisle. She reached one slender gloved hand out to touch Kunzite's face, and withdrew it the second contact had been made. She could feel it in the deapths of her soul… the two people in front of her were devoid of any love, any thought… not even life was sustained in their bodies.

A tear trickled down Minako's cheek as she flung herself at Kunzite's lifeless form, and pulling Wakagi to her with her right arm. Sobs racked her body as a high giggle, almost a cackle erupted from the stage where Petite Pandora still stood.

"Oh, I forgot that they already ARE dead!" the villain clad in frills said laughing. "Now you have no reason not to go to the boss. After all the only two people you have loved are dead, the other senshi now have their own loves… no room for little V."

"You dare bring them in to this..." Minako muttered as she stood away from her two comrades' bodies.

"Don't blame me, I just listened to the boss. Now if you will just-"

"Crescent Beam!" Minako called out raising her hand and aiming at Petite Pandora. In Minako's rage she had missed her target by more than a meter, but that was no matter, the villain was sliced to pieces with a hideous scream. Playing cards drifted over the dust that was left.

"We meet again… Minako."

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Hey everyone! Sorry that was so short… have been havin problems with inspiration. Hope you liked it. Please leave a review- they DO inspire me.

EDIT: OMG I AM AN IDIOT. Hello and welcome back everyone. um... ya. This chapter was written MONTHS ago, and I didn't realize that it hadn't been uploaded XDDD SORRY! Anyways! Now you get two chapters in one go! HAVE FUN!

Notes:

SheaStar: XD Sorry I took so long

Becx: Yar... deamon bit confuses me too...

firebirdflame Hope you are still reading! I love such positive reviewers!

Deadly Diva: Fuhuhuhuh, someone has read into the unpublished notes to myself! Telena is quite... Well, you'll see -

SweetMina: It's Silver and Gold -

Shinigami : Zoi is mentioned, but I didn't really drap in thier related senshi so yaaa

greenteagoddess: Continuness granted!