Tsukino Usagi
Usagi is abruptly woken from her dream by something roughly shaking at her good shoulder. She grumbles for several moments until Luna's frantic voice penetrates her sleepy mind and she's immediately alert, looking around her room in alarm. When she spots nothing but her cat she frowns in displeasure. It's barely been two hours since they were rescued from the defunct cruise ship and Usagi is exhausted. "Jeez, Luna, I was enjoying that dream," she complains.
"Not right now, Usagi-chan. There is something far more important you should see." She jumps over to the ledge of Usagi's opened window and Usagi follows, and her eyes widen at what she sees: a large projection of Jadeite over the Tokyo skyline.
"What the hell?" she mutters, awestruck. "What is he thinking?"
Then the apparition starts speaking. "Sailor Moon, Sailor Mercury, Sailor Mars! Come to Hanade Airport at 1 AM tomorrow night, at Runway F. If you aren't there…" He trails off and opens his mouth wide, exhaling onto the city below. Flames erupt between the buildings and Usagi jolts in panic before realizing that the flames aren't real, as they're extinguished a moment later. "If you're late I will turn Tokyo into a city of flames." Then the image disappears.
Luna and Usagi share a look. "I think this warrants an emergency meeting," Luna says.
Usagi nods and pulls out her communicator, typing out a message to Mizuno and Rei.
Sailor Moon 21:12
Girls, meet at the Hikawa shrine ASAP!
As soon as the message is sent she heads out herself, Luna hot on her heels.
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Both girls are already there by the time Usagi and Luna arrive. "Did you see Jadeite in the sky earlier?" she asks as soon as she's joined them. They both nod solemnly.
"I don't think we should go," Rei says. "It's clearly a trap, and I've got a bad feeling about it."
"I don't think we have a choice," Usagi retorts. "You saw what he said he would do to Tokyo. We can't let the city burn." She turns to Mizuno. "What do you think?"
Mizuno is silent for a moment as she no doubt considers every option available to them. Usagi is willing to trust her opinion; she is the genius of the group, after all. "I think…" she begins, "we should go. Jadeite is challenging us directly, and this might be our best opportunity to defeat him once and for all."
"Do you think we can beat him?" Usagi asks, frowning in concern. "When I fought him, he easily beat me. Can the three of us really do much better?"
"We don't have a choice," Mizuno says. "But I think we can. After all, that was you on your own. With the three of us we should be able to come up with something that can defeat him."
"You mean you can come up with something that can defeat him," Usagi jokes.
Mizuno rolls her eyes but doesn't argue the fact. "I have some ideas, but we won't be able to make anything concrete because we don't know what he has in store for us." But for the next hour Mizuno draws up half-baked plans and strategies they can use when they head to the airport tomorrow morning. It calms Usagi's nerves, if only a little bit, to have some idea of what to do instead of going in blind like she usually does.
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The next morning Usagi almost contemplates skipping school since she's so worried about that evening, but she manages to make it in time. She rather wishes she hadn't, though. All her classmates can talk about is Jadeite's apparition last night, and to her horror many of them want to get together and go to the airport themselves. 'Don't they realize that this isn't some game?' she thinks incredulously. She's glad when Sakurada-sensei comes in and scolds them for being reckless, but it does nothing to ease Usagi's nerves. They were already concerned about fighting Jadeite, but if the airport is crawling with security and curious passersby it'll make their job a whole lot harder than necessary.
Usagi can't focus on class at all that day and walks home in a daze. They'd agreed the night before to meet at Rei's at midnight and then head to the airport together, so she's got the afternoon to kill. Under normal circumstances Usagi might've gone to the arcade, but she's still too stressed and she doesn't want Motoki-oniisan noticing something up with her and asking questions. Who knows, with all this mental strain on her brain she might just blab her secret to him, and wouldn't that be horrible? She takes a nap instead, setting an alarm just to be safe in case Luna doesn't come back to get her.
It ends up a wasted effort since she gets up an hour before it's set to go off. She'd been dreaming, and though now that she's awake Usagi can't remember what it was about, but she remembers feeling startled right before she woke up. Whatever it was, she awoke sweating and breathing heavily. With nothing better to do Usagi went to bathe, if only to relax somewhat before leaving. This could be the last nice bath she ever enjoyed, might as well make the most of it, she supposes.
Twenty minutes to midnight she slips out of the house, dropping easily from her second story window even though she hasn't transformed. It's a little rougher than usual, but she doesn't break an ankle. None of the buses are running this late, so Usagi has a decent walk to contemplate what they're about to do. Idly she wonders if Mizuno and Rei-chan have been stressing about their confrontation with Jadeite all day. Mizuno probably hasn't. She came up with their plans last night, after all, and she doesn't strike Usagi as the kind of girl to second-guess herself. But Rei…she wonders if the shrine maiden tried divining how the confrontation would go in that ceremonial flame of hers. If she did, Usagi isn't sure she wants to know what results the girl got. If it's anything close to bad she might just bail on this.
"Tsukino," a voice remarks, startling her out of her internal reverie. Usagi looks up to find Mizuno standing across from her at the base of the shrine's steps. Somehow she managed to walk the entire way without really paying attention.
"Mizuno," she replies.
The other teen regards her carefully for a moment, her head tilting to the side with her thoughts. Then she cracks a wry grin. "You know, we could potentially be going to die together. Don't you think we should at least be on a first name basis by now?" she remarks.
Usagi snorts. "Fine by me, Ami."
"Usagi," the genius replies. By unspoken command they start walking up the steps together, and just like that the distant genius becomes Ami. Usagi had thought it would be a lot harder convincing the other girl to let her call her by name, but she'd thought wrong, apparently.
Rei is waiting for them at the top of the steps, still in her shrine uniform. Usagi at least had changed into some comfortable capri pants and t-shirt, and even Ami has gone casual – well, Usagi assumes a button-down, vest, pants, and neat shoes are casual for her; she doesn't know. She had contemplated wearing something nice just on the off-chance she actually did die, that way people would find her and she'd be pretty, but then figured it wouldn't matter. There might not even be anyone around to care if Jadeite won.
"Girls, are you ready?" Luna solemnly asks them.
Usagi pulls her transformation brooch from her pocket, Ami and Rei drawing their transformation pens as well. "As ready as we'll ever be," she replies. Then their voices ring out in unison.
"Moon Prism Power Make Up!" "Mercury Power Make Up!" "Mars Power Make Up!"
When Usagi opens her eyes again they all stand in their uniforms, with Luna beside them wearing a proud expression. She meets the eyes of her companions, steely determination shining through. Usagi closes her eyes and swallows down the fear she instinctively feels when Jadeite is even mentioned. They can't have any doubts tonight. They have to succeed. When she feels confident enough she opens her eyes and nods. "Let's go!" she orders. They take off running out of the shrine, leaping over buildings almost as if they're flying.
'Sometimes being a Sailor Guardian does have its perks,' Usagi thinks as the wind blows through her hair.
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Jadeite
His eyes widen as he almost can't believe what he sees through the scrying portal he's got open before him. Blinking furiously to regain his composure, he vanishes the thing, finding it no longer necessary now that he knows the Sailor Guardians are on their way. He's already waiting in the airport for them, having taken care of the human security guards that were hanging around to deter trespassers. Foolish mortals. As if they could stop a Commander of the Dark Kingdom.
He had opened the portal on a whim, his previous thoughts about the Hino girl returning to him. He'd opened it where he sensed her presence, intending to confirm that his suspicions were anything but valid, but what he'd seen had only confirmed them. Hino Rei was indeed a Sailor Guardian – Sailor Mars in fact – as were her little friends. Queen Beryl would be most pleased with this information, though it might not be necessary once he eliminated them tonight.
A faint emotion brushes at the edge of his consciousness as he thinks about the Guardians. It feels…familiar, almost, but that would be absurd. Never mind what he saw before, it was all a trick. He will not let these frivolous thoughts distract him. Tonight, he has a mission.
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Tsukino Usagi
When they land at the entrance to Hanade Airport just minutes before 1 AM, they're not surprised to find it eerily empty. Mizuno – Ami, Usagi reminds herself – activates her goggles and starts scanning the area for any potential traps. Usagi and Rei wait patiently, but when she comes up with nothing they agree to head inside. They have no idea where Jadeite might be, though they don't doubt that he's watching them. It prickles the hairs at the back of Usagi's neck knowing they're being observed, but they have no choice. This is Jadeite's game.
Ami leads them deeper into the building, heading for the waiting areas closer to the actual planes. She's constantly scanning for movement, so Usagi does her best to stay alert. She strains all of her senses, and for a second she thinks she's imagining the quick footsteps down the hall from them. It makes her pause, catching the attention of her two companions in the meantime. They share a look before Ami confirms what Usagi hears. "People," she says, just before they turn a corner and come into their view, far too close for comfort.
"Run!" Usagi snaps, turning and sprinting away. They need to put some distance between themselves and the guards to regroup, since Usagi is pretty sure they can't just face them outright. She doesn't want to chance using an attack on innocent humans roped into Jadeite's game, but she also doesn't want to confront them unless she has to. Some of them are carrying asps and tasers and Usagi is barely confident in her own skills - when uninjured - to subdue a man, much less Rei's and Ami's.
Usagi doesn't bother questioning Ami where she's leading them, though she does notice when they leave the building and end up on the tarmac with the massive grounded planes. "Advice, Ami?" she asks, though one of her hands twitches towards her tiara in preparation for her answer. They're standing facing the door, and Usagi can already hear them clambering down the metal stairs. It'll be just moments before they will face each other.
She hears frantic clicking on the supercomputer behind them before Ami reports, "They're just clay."
Rei steps forward. "Then a little fire will be fine. Mars Fire Soul!" The flame sweeps through their incoming attack and the guards quickly start to crack, breaking down into piles of dust much like Jadeite's monsters would. Usagi breathes a sigh of relief and is about to congratulate her friend when another voice rings out powerfully over the airport.
"At last you're here, Sailor Guardians," Jadeite sneers. "And now…I know your true identities. The joys of life are short-lived and its ordeals many. It's time for you to die."
Before Usagi even has time to panic about the fact he apparently knows who she is, they hear a massive groaning of metal equipment and Usagi's heart drops to her feet. "No," she groans as she watches the plane closest to them start turning, its tires making a horrible screeching sound as they scrape over the tarmac. Then it starts moving forward.
"We need to get away from the building or the plane will hit it!" Ami hisses to them as she turns around and starts sprinting. The wind and noise is picking up as the plane's engines start spinning faster and faster.
'They can't possibly be that dangerous,' Usagi thinks. 'People stand on the ground as the planes move all the time.' But she isn't about to test Jadeite's powers and whatever other manipulations he may have put on the plane. Those engines could be life-sucking vortexes for all she knows, capable of dragging her in if she gets within a meter of them.
So they run.
"Ami, what do we do now!?" she shouts as they run. This definitely wasn't anywhere in the plans they had drafted up last night.
"I'm thinking!" the other girl retorts. She might be staring at something on her goggles, but Usagi isn't sure. She's just kinda glad she put away her computer. It would have been amazing if she could have run and still used it, though, as hilarious to watch as that might've been.
It's a good thing airports are massive, since it gives them plenty of space to run, and somehow Usagi isn't feeling as tired as she normally would after having run this far. Whatever it is she's grateful, since her shoulder is giving her enough trouble. But of course, it's never this easy. The noise suddenly gets louder and Usagi spares a glance to the side to watch a second massive plane start taxiing up the runway parallel to theirs.
"There's two of them!" she alerts Ami, though the other girl has likely already noticed. It's kind of hard not to.
"I may have an idea," Rei speaks up. "But it will be pretty expensive." A vague image flashes across Usagi's mind and she smirks, hearing Ami snort on the other side of Rei.
"Compared to our lives?" Usagi asks. "I'll take it."
Ami nods in agreement. "On three we split. Sailor Moon, you go left while we go right." Usagi tries not to panic at the idea of facing down a jet all on her own. "We'll try and circle around, then you direct it our way and we'll meet somewhere in the middle. It should be far enough away from the actual airport that the only thing damaged will be the planes."
"And possibly ourselves," Usagi mutters, though the downward quirk in Ami's lips tells her she likely heard it. "Ready when you are," she says.
"Three…two…one!" Ami counts down.
Usagi starts sprinting over on the other airstrip, much closer to the second plane than she'd been before. It's unnerving, but her speed doesn't falter and she isn't sucked away by the engines so she counts it as a win. Out of the corner of her eye she tries to keep track of the other two to watch their progress and gauge her timing. It doesn't look easy, trying to get a massive jumbo jet to try and turn on any kind of small radius, but that must be Jadeite's magic at play moving the plane like that.
When she can see Ami and Rei's plane start turning towards her direction she begins heading to the right, leading the plane over grass and tarmac alike as she races towards her companions. They'll meet in moments, but then what, Usagi wonders.
'We can't duck to the side until the last possible moments,' she hears Ami's voice in her head answer her unspoken question. Or maybe not unspoken. 'The planes can't have any opportunity to turn and chase us. It'll be a close call.'
'You timing?' Usagi mentally questions as her breath starts to get tight. So there is still a limit to her endurance, even in this form.
'Yeah,' Ami replies, but then their mental link goes silent.
Sailor Mars and Sailor Mercury are close enough that Usagi can make out their distinctive figures, differentiate their skirts from their bows and collars. She has pretty good eyesight, but the distance between them is rapidly closing and she starts hoping that Ami will speak up soon. She doesn't want to make up the stuffing of an airplane sandwich.
'NOW!' Ami suddenly shouts as she and Rei dart to their right. Usagi nearly trips but manages to follow them without stumbling. Their planes are still barreling towards each other, and though they try to turn they're just too large to do that with the space the girls left them. The nose collides with the other's side while the right wing of Usagi's plane scrapes into the other with a horrible screech.
For a second she thinks that'll be that, but then the explosions start and they aren't nearly far away enough to avoid them. Usagi feels an intense heat at her back seconds before she and the girls are lifted off their feet and thrown forward. She lands roughly against the ground – and wow is this a sensation Usagi is starting to get used to – and knows her hands and knees are scraped up, possibly along with the rest of her arms. Her shoulder is wrenched horribly and she barely resists crying out. Usagi is proud she just managed to avoid straight up cracking her head on the ground, tumbling into a roll from her momentum. She can only hope her companions are similarly uninjured.
Dark, thick smoke starts to fill the sky from the wreckage burning not 200 meters behind them. Even from their distance the flames are hot on Usagi's face, and she doesn't want to think about what her back must look like from the burns. She's momentarily mesmerized by the inferno before a hacking cough draws her attention back to Ami and Rei. The girls are just starting to pick themselves up, and quick glances show they're not seriously harmed.
Usagi lets out a breath of relief. "That was one hell of an idea, Sailor Mars," she remarks dryly.
The other girl lets out a rough chuckle. "I have them sometimes." But then her demeanor grows serious as she stands, only slightly wobbly on her heels. "We still need to find Jadeite."
"Or rather, I will find you," a voice snarls and they quickly turn their backs to the wreckage – the heat painful on her raw back – to find Jadeite stalking up to them. "I suppose it was too much to wish for the planes to have taken you out as well. I'll just have to do it myself then."
Usagi quickly stands and rushes towards him, a half-baked plan forming in her mind to give her comrades some time to recover. Since the last time Usagi had fought him she's had minimal martial arts training, but she hopes it's enough to tip the scales a little in her favor. She aims a punch at his face, unsurprised when it's blocked by that invisible force field of his. It doesn't stop her from trying again. She rains blows down on Jadeite, but it's all pointless. He either blocks her hits with a hand or the force field barrier he conjures. Usagi starts to grow frustrated when she can barely land a scratch on him.
"Mercury Bubble Spray!" Usagi hears moments before the area is covered by a dense fog. It would almost be beneficial, giving her an opportunity to attack Jadeite, if only she could see him. 'Forward one foot and two to your right,' she then hears Ami's voice in her head.
Deciding not to question how the other girl knows Jadeite's or her own position, Usagi moves to where she directed, spotting a dark figure in the mist. She lashes out, landing a solid kick to his stomach that has Jadeite bending over with a wheeze. He tries to reach out for her but Usagi quickly jumps back to hide herself in the fog. She starts moving to the side, hoping to circle around him and surprise him again.
'Two feet directly in front of you,' Ami directs her again.
She lunges forward, throwing out another kick to his legs that knock him down to kneeling, and then punching him in the head while he's disoriented. That's all she can manage before Jadeite starts to figure where she's coming from, swiping an arm out and forcing her to retreat. Usagi has only taken a couple of steps back to the left when she hears Jadeite grunt in pain again and wonders if Rei has joined in on the attack under Ami's direction.
They manage a couple more attacks each before Jadeite finally becomes fed up with them, standing up with an angry shout. "I've had enough of this!" Usagi tenses, waiting to see what he'll do, when all of a sudden the fog starts to condense into hard crystals that quickly fall to the ground. Usagi and Rei are quickly revealed surrounding Jadeite, with Ami still back near the wreckage. Jadeite grins wickedly as he eyes the two of them, waiting for them to make their move.
Usagi meets Rei's eyes for all of a second before the two girls are moving towards him in tandem. But then Rei pauses while Usagi continues her assault, drawing Jadeite's attention. She aims a punch at his head, though she's surprised when, instead of his invisible barrier, he catches her hand. His reason is clear a moment later when he twists sharply, easily breaking her wrist. Usagi falters with a pained gasp, just as they hear Rei shout, "Mars Fire Soul!" Usagi kicks out and manages to – painfully – yank her hand out of his grip and dive to the right to avoid the flames sweeping towards her, rolling and coming up in a crouch. She clutches her wounded wrist protectively.
Jadeite only barely manages to dodge it himself, taking the brunt of the attack on his right side. He shoots a dark glare at Rei. "You're going to regret that, Sailor Mars," he says. "Or should I say, Hino Rei?" Her eyes widen in surprise across from Usagi, as her heart drops down to her stomach. "I know all of your identities now, but you will die as pathetic Sailor Guardians!" He vanishes, reappearing a moment later right in front of Rei before slamming his fist in her gut. She doubles over, coughing up air and spit, but Jadeite isn't done. He yanks her up by her hair and tosses her roughly to the side. Rei lets out a pained shout as her wounds are further scraped by the rough tarmac.
"Mercury Bu –!" Ami begins, but she cuts off with a horrid choking sound as Jadeite turns on her. His arm is outstretched again, his hand closed almost as if he's holding something.
Furiously blinking away her disorientation, Usagi is horrified to realize he's choking her. She makes a jerky movement to grab her tiara, though Jadeite doesn't hesitate. A sharp snap of his arm towards her and Usagi starts to feel a squeezing pressure at her throat, blocking her access to air. She gapes as her lungs struggle to draw breath, to no avail.
'Is this how we die?' she wonders as she spasms in Jadeite's invisible grip.
Moments later Jadeite is shouting in pain and the pressure abruptly leaves her neck. Usagi falls forward heaving for breath, though she quickly recovers to watch Jadeite clutch at his face. There's blood dripping down the side of his cheek from a long gash spanning from his ear to his chin below the corner of his lips. Usagi wonders where it came from, but then she notices the single rose stuck in the ground at his feet.
"Tuxedo Mask!" she cries, a sudden happiness filling her as she realizes that all might not be lost for them.
Jadeite quickly turns to scope out the area, but there's no one aside from the four of them. He turns a snarl on Usagi, only to fall forward as some weight crashes into his back. It doesn't disorient him nearly as much as Usagi would've hoped, Jadeite falling forward into a roll and using his momentum to stand back up again. But where he stood before is Tuxedo Mask, who has his black cane outstretched in front of him as he prepares for a fight.
"Another one?" Jadeite snarls. "I'll kill you along with them!" He lunges for Tuxedo Mask, and Usagi uses the temporary distraction to head for her teammates.
Ami is the closest, but she seems fine when Usagi approaches and so she quickly moves to the other girl. Rei isn't too far away, but she has yet to get up and Usagi is concerned. She crouches beside her friend and reaches out to shake her with her good arm. "Sailor Mars? Sailor Mars!" When she receives no response her movements start to get desperate. "Sailor Mars! Rei-chan!" She glances back at Jadeite and Tuxedo Mask to gauge their fight, but they're fully engaged with one another. It doesn't stop her tone from getting more urgent, though. "Rei-chan! Rei-chan!"
Finally she starts to hear a groan, followed by some hoarse coughing. Rei's eyes slowly blink as she tries to sit up, though she has trouble when she recognizes the pain from her ribs. Usagi helps her sit the rest of the way. "Can you still move?" she asks. She needs to know if she can still fight. They're the only two of the three of them with any offensive attacks, and Usagi isn't sure how much longer Tuxedo Mask can hold out.
"Yeah," Rei replies shakily, though the hand she has tossed over Usagi's shoulder to help her balance trembles ever so slightly.
"We need a plan," Ami says, coming up behind the two girls, eyeing Tuxedo Mask and Jadeite herself. "If only we could communicate with him as well."
"We'll have to plan around him," Usagi says.
"If he can give me…just an opening," Rei says, though it sounds painful for her to do so, "I can stop Jadeite with my talisman. But Sailor Moon, you'll have to finish him off."
Usagi nods in determination. "Just get him to stop for two seconds and I'll do it." She turns her attention back to the two men still battling it out. Jadeite seems to have forgone his telepathic powers in favor of actually beating the hell out of Tuxedo Mask, though the masked man is holding his own well enough. They seem to be rather evenly matched, which Usagi can tell frustrates Jadeite to no end. Their battle has started to drift from the trio, and Usagi knows they'll have to start approaching before they can enact their plan.
Rei still leans a bit on her as they move forward, Ami studying them intently for the chance for Rei to act. Usagi's arm twitches, desperately wanting to reach for her tiara and ever wary of missing the moment she'll need to. When they stand at the edge of the boys' fight, Usagi catches Tuxedo Mask glancing their way and wonders if he realizes they have a plan, vague though it may be. He must, because he soon starts trying to herd Jadeite towards them, though he takes a couple more hits for it.
As if sensing the opportunity approaching, Rei starts to stand more on her own. She closes her eyes in concentration, her hand coming up in a position before her chest, the talisman materializing once she's concentrating. Usagi tenses, her eyes never leaving the two men. Tuxedo Mask strikes at Jadeite though he manages to catch it, leaving Tuxedo Mask wide open to a strike at his chest. He goes down after a heavy hit, collapsing to his knees, but it doesn't stop him for long. He jabs at Jadeite's chest right at his eye level and the blond staggers back.
Rei doesn't hesitate. Her eyes snap open as she lunges forward with a cry, "Evil spirit, be exorcised!" She slaps the talisman solidly on his back and Jadeite is frozen, his face shocked by the sudden turn of events.
Now it's her turn. "Moon Tiara Action!" She flings it at Jadeite, confident that he won't be stopping this one.
"Mars Fire Soul!" Rei shouts beside her, to Usagi's surprise, adding her own flames to her tiara's power. It coats it with a bright red light.
'With their combined attack there's no way Jadeite will survive,' Usagi thinks.
The tiara hits him solidly in the back, engulfing Jadeite in a swathe of flames. He screams, though they soon die out and the flames dissipate moments afterwards, leaving nothing behind. Usagi's tiara drops to the ground with a clatter right before Tuxedo Mask, who's looking a little shocked from the spontaneous combustion right before his eyes.
"Is it over?" Rei asks, taking a halting step forward. Ami starts taking a look around with her goggles, her eyes narrowed at the data flashing across the screen. Usagi raises an arm and calls her tiara back to her, the object hurtling towards her hand a moment later and she replaces it on her head. Tuxedo Mask stands before them.
"I think so," Ami finally says moments later. The girls share a glance before almost simultaneously heaving a sigh of relief.
Out of the corner of her eye Usagi catches Tuxedo Mask smirking at them, and she turns to him with a smile of her own. "Thank you for coming to our aid," she says. She's never had the proper opportunity to thank him for helping her out so much, and she isn't going to waste it now.
"It's no problem, Sailor Moon," he replies. "But I must take my leave now." He starts to turn away, but Ami's interjection stops him momentarily.
"Wait! Who are you, really? Are you truly our ally, or just the enemy of our enemy? How can we trust you?" she blurts one after the other.
Tuxedo Mask grimaces, and Usagi is disappointed to realize he isn't going to answer the questions. His next words only confirm her suspicion. "I'm afraid I can't tell you any of that," he says, turning back away from them. "But you should cherish the bond between each other. It'll help you go far, and things are only going to get tougher from here, I expect."
"And how do you know that?" Ami tries to press, but her question goes unheard as Tuxedo Mask just about vanishes, his form quickly disappearing down towards the airport. Ami lets out a groan of frustration, her lips thinned with her displeasure. "Asshole," she mutters.
Usagi snorts in amusement, but the action jolts at her back that she just now is starting to realize still burns. Now that the adrenaline is starting to wear off all of her injuries will soon be broadcasting their presence, and she knows it'll be the same for her comrades. "Come on, we should head out too," she tells them. "I don't know about you, but I'm fucking beat." It draws chuckles from them both.
"We're all a sorry bunch, aren't we?" Rei remarks dryly, but then grimaces. "I think my ribs are cracked," she groans, one of her hands coming to wrap protectively around her side.
Usagi winces in sympathy, well aware of the pain she must be in. "If it's any consolation, my wrist is probably broken," she tells her.
Ami huffs, the only one without any serious injuries. "You two are far too reckless," she mutters, sighing heavily. "Sailor Moon is right, we should go. If you have supplies, Rei-chan, I can patch you both up at the Hikawa Shrine." She starts to head off, Usagi and Rei falling in at both of her sides.
Usagi shoots a curious look at the genius. "You can?" she asks.
"Of course I can," she says, glancing at Usagi out of the corner of her eye. "I am studying to become a doctor, after all. This kind of thing is simple."
"Right, I forgot. Genius," Usagi mutters, rolling her eyes though there's a smirk forming on her lips.
Ami snorts. "You're damn right."
"Oh!" Usagi interjects, pausing. Both Ami and Rei stop as well to look at her. "I just remembered, it's June 30th. I'm 15 now." Usagi blinks. "What a hell of a way to start my birthday," she remarks with a grin, drawing chuckles from her companions.