Sailor Moon Aeons.
Book 2: Rebirth.
Act 2: Dark Moon Rising.
Episode 31: Not another sidekick!

By Razor Knight
Last update: March 11, 2013
Last edited: May 29, 2017

Usagi was watching in shock as ChibiUsa beat the living stuff out of the Sailor V arcade. "Eh, is everyone in this city better than me at videogames?"

"Everyone's good at something."

The blonde turned to see Hotaru walking to them. "Huh? What are you doing here?"

"I'm with Kage," Hotaru said. "But he's right now busy with something else."

Usagi looked in the direction the pale girl was looking, and noticed Kage was playing a fighting game with someone else. "Oh, that's Chie. Don't worry, she's harmless, she just likes games a bit too much."

"I was informed she once gathered a large crowd and chased Terry around the city."

"Well, it wasn't that bad, but she did chase after Terry. She's not a bad girl, though."

Hotaru looked at Usagi, then back at Kage. "... I suppose I know what jealousy feels like now."

Usagi smiled at that. "You're human, after all."

Kage walked to them. "That girl's too good at games." He noticed the way Hotaru was staring at Chie, and sighed. "Oh boy... Hotaru, don't worry, I told her I was dating someone."

"Will that stop her from-"

"Yes, it will."

Hotaru didn't show it, but she was quite surprised Chie could hear them while being so focused in the game. "Good."

"Is she a robot?"

Kage chuckled at Chie's question. "She's quite human when she wants to be... Bad thing she seldom wants to."

"Master Terry, someone's here to see you."

Terry looked up from the small black cube he and Ami were working on, and nodded at Samuel. "Okay, we'll take a rest from our mad science."

"If it's you, boy, it's just insane science."

Terry smiled as he saw the tall man walk in. "Hakko?"

"Know any other master swordsman?" Hakko said.

"None who would come here without me paying them for it."

Hakko stared at Ami. "And this is...?"

"Ami Mizuno, a friend."

Hakko laughed. "Boy, you should know I can get certain things from someone's body language. Yours tells me you're not telling me the whole truth, and hers tells me she's not quite happy when you just say 'friend.'"

Ami stared at the man. "I'm..."

"But it's good to see you could move on, boy."

Terry nodded. "Anyhow, what are you here for, Kyo?"

"My sources tell me you've joined a certain group of so-called heroes, and that you've even built them a base."

"Your sources being one Ryoko Hakko, Demon Huntress Sagitta."

Hakko nodded at that. "I've also been informed you've been trying to train your friends."

"They have lives outside our 'job.'"

"So did you, and you still learnt a lot, boy."

"True. How about you train them, then?"

"I'll be in the city for a few days," Hakko said, "I haven't decided what I'll do next. So, next time we meet, I'll give you my answer."

"Fair enough," Terry said, and saw Hakko turn to leave. "Wait, what about a mock battle?"

Hakko stopped and nodded. "As long as you don't mind me punching you around in front of your girlfriend."

"I've improved since we last met."

"That's not what I heard." He thought about it for a few seconds, then shrugged. "Let's make it interesting. You last five minutes against me, and I'll agree to train your friends."

"Deal."

"Okay, guess we should go home."

"Aww, but I was having fun!"

Usagi smiled at ChibiUsa. "Don't worry, we can come back one of these days."

"Monster!"

Usagi looked outside and saw a crowd running away. A second later, a large, fish-like humanoid creature run by. "ChibiUsa, stay here."

"But..."

"I'll be back in a minute," Usagi said, noticing Hotaru and Kage had already left the building.

ChibiUsa nodded. "Okay."

By the time Moon got to the battle, she saw Saturn and Dragon Sun were having a hard time fighting the creature. They were both inside bubbles of water, which floated up above the fish. Moon saw Saturn try stabbing through the bubble, but her glaive couldn't cut through. "Damn..."

The creature noticed Moon and shot a bubble at her, but Moon leapt to the side, dodging it. She then summoned her new weapons, tossing one at the fish, but the creature simply leapt to the side. Moon rushed at the fish, who tried to trap her again, but she dodged, sending one of the chakrams flying forth again. It missed the fish's head barely, and the creature made a sound which was close to a chuckle.

"Watch out, behind you!" Moon said.

The fish stared at her, knowing it was surely a trap, and charged up for another bubble, but suddenly it felt a sharp pain in its back, and looked down to see the disc's blade sticking out of its chest.

"Don't say I didn't warn you," Moon noted as the fish vanished, leaving behind a card which turned to ashes seconds later. She saw Saturn and Dragon Sun were kneeling on the ground. "Are you okay?"

"Was running out of air," the Dragon said, panting.

"Same here," Saturn said.

"Leave me alone!"

Moon turned to look at Crown, and realized the fight was still not over. ChibiUsa was outside, pointing a rather large missile launcher at Cooan, and Moon could see everyone else inside the building was out cold. "Damn, not her again."

"Supreme Thunder!"

The blast zapped Cooan back, and ChibiUsa shot her missile at her... Which covered Cooan in nasty-looking purple goo. "Ack! You brat, now I'm going to kill you!"

"You were already going to," ChibiUsa noted.

Cooan glared at her. "Dark Fire!"

Moon tossed one chakram, and it blocked the attack. "I won't let you hurt her."

"Hmph, so brave. Four against one."

"You can talk," Saturn snapped, "attacking a little girl? You're pathetic."

Moon wasn't in the mood for talking, so she simply tossed her other chakram as she run, but Cooan dodged it. Moon smiled and kept running, but Cooan saw through her ruse and turned around.

"Dark Fire! Dark Fire!" The two discs were sent reeling back, and Cooan smiled as she knew Moon was about to reach her. "Go to sleep, moongirl!"

Jupiter flinched. cooan had delivered a rather strong elbow to Moon's chest, knocking her to the ground. "Don't forget about me. Supreme Thunder!"

Cooan dodged the attack. "Dumb girl, you can't beat me."

"Supreme Thunder Dragon!"

"Dark Fire! Dark Fire! Dark Fire!"

"Oh shit..." Jupiter knew things were not going well. Saturn and her guy were still kneeling on the ground, Moon was out cold, and she didn't know if any of her friends would be around soon. Her attacks were obviously not effective against this woman, so- She looked at Saturn again, and suddenly knew what to do. "You know, Cooan, I hate bullies, and someone who bullies little kids is asking for a beating."

"And what will you do about it?"

"Jupiter Twilight Power!"

"... Damn it, not again."

Moon woke up and saw Jupiter transforming. She recalled her chakrams and waited, if Jupiter's attack wasn't enough, she would take care of Cooan.

Jupiter didn't waste a second, she was running at Cooan as soon as her transformation finished, her body charging up with electricity "Jupiter... Electric..." Cooan leapt back to dodge the charge, but Jupiter jumped against a wall, completing her new technique as she bounced back. "...Tackle!"

Cooan was sent flying away a good block, and was barely able to stand as she tried. That damn kid... It had been quite impressive, a large wave of electricity shot out of Jupiter's body as she hit Cooan, and the damage had been rather massive. "Screw this."

Jupiter fell to one knee. "Damn, she escaped."

Moon walked to her. "We'll get her, eventually."

Suddenly, they heard an explosion, and turned back to see Saturn and Dragon Sun out cold, and two new figures floating above the ground, glaring at them. "What is this, VillainCon?" Jupiter muttered.

The new enemies were rather strange. They would have looked human, if not for their light green skin and pointy ears. "Who are you?"

The male alien looked at Moon. "Your interference will not be tolerated, humans."

Moon made the connection and glared at them. "You're the ones sending those monsters!"

"I must admit I didn't think our cardians would be killed so easily," the female alien said, "but that means we'll have to deal with you ourselves."

Moon tossed her chakrams up, but the two aliens shot blasts to knock them back. She made her weapons turn and tried again and again, but it was useless. "I won't lose. Moon Tiara Flight!"

The two aliens tried to blast the tiara away, but it punched through their attacks, and knocked them both down to the ground. "Damn it, she's strong, Ail," the female said.

"But we're stronger, Ann," the male alien noted.

Moon grimaced. They were still up, but she was running out of power. She could only charge up her weapons for one more shot, but if that didn't work..."

"Fire Flash."

Moon smiled as the two aliens were hit by a blast of flames. The Huntresses were there, so maybe... As she looked at the newcomer, she saw her suit didn't look like a Demon Hunter's one. Standing on top of a parked truck was a girl with violet hair, a mask covered her face down to her nose, and her suit was quite close to a Senshi's outfit. But everything about her was violet, something Moon for some reason found strange. A long staff with a star-shaped tip completed the disguise. "Who are you?"

"Warwitch," the girl said, and noticed the two aliens were staggering up. "Guess I should use something stronger. Fire Wall."

This time, the two aliens were wrapped in flames for several seconds, and fell down to the ground. The female one glared at Warwitch for a few seconds before they both teleported away.

"You're not a Demon Hunter," Jupiter noted looking up at the girl.

"That's true. I'm just someone who can use magic and uses it to protect those who can't."

"Who are you behind that mask?" Saturn asked.

"Can you tell me who you are?" Warwitch asked back. After a few seconds of silence, she smiled. "Maybe someday I will tell you, Senshi. Phase."

Moon sighed as Warwitch vanished. "I don't know who she is, but she gave those two a beating, so she can keep her secret."

Jupiter noticed Moon's mood wasn't quite good. "Hey, what's wrong?"

"Everyone's upgrading but me."

"And yet you fried a fish, fought Cooan and had enough energy to knock those two aliens around," Dragon Sun noted. "I think you'll upgrade when you need it."

"Wonder where everyone else was," Jupiter said.

"Maybe they're using the base's monitor to play Tetris," Dragon Sun joked.

"Let me pick up Chibi and we'll go ask them," Moon said. She then blinked in surprise and picked her comm. "Hey, guys, we had a fight out here."

"We know, sorry. Can you all come to the base?"

Moon noticed Terry looked a bit bruised. "Uh, sure, we'll be there in a few minutes."

Several minutes earlier, a few of the Senshi were at the base, doing what they did best. In short, they were slacking, as usual.

"Wonder if this thing plays Tetris?" Minako pondered out loud as she stood in front of the base's computer.

"Mina, don't touch that. Don't stare at it, even."

"Oh come on, I'm not that bad with computers."

"She is," Brad said looking at the other girls in the base. "Anyhow, we should be training in here."

The elevator's doors opened, and Terry, Ami and Hakko walked in. Naru noticed Terry had a few bruises in his face. "Hey, what happened to you?"

"I happened," Hakko said with a straight face.

"This is Kyo Hakko," Terry said, "the one who taught me most things I know about fighting."

"He doesn't look that good," Minako noted. She then gasped as Hakko had, somehow, covered the distance between them in a split second, and his fist was milimeters away from her nose. "Uhh..."

"Looks can deceive, and your group should know it," Hakko said, "after all, if I hadn't heard it from a very good source, I would not believe a bunch of teenage cheerleaders saved the world."

Rei, or rather Mars, had been training on her own, and silently listening to the others, but she frowned as she heard that last bit. "Cheerleaders, huh? Fire Soul!"

Hakkko looked at the fire beam dismissively, and then reached his arm forwards. The fire wrapped around his arm, and he swiftly swung said arm to the side, the fire shooting forth and hitting a wall quite close to Mars. "I suppose I deserved that attack," he said with a shrug.

"What the heck?" Minako shouted, noticing the fire hadn't even burnt his clothing. "How did you do that?"

"I can't tell you, but I could teach you a part of what I know."

Mars walked to him. "So that's why you're here."

"Yes, I told this guy I would train you if he lasted for five minutes against me, going all out."

"And he lasted five minutes and eight seconds," Ami said with a small smile.

"Oh, so that's why you look like a dozen youma beat you up," Brad joked.

"I feel like that, too," Terry muttered.

"Alert. Threat detected."

Terry looked at the monitor. "Ami, your upgrades work."

Mars saw the monitor showed the usual red dot, but the words "Moon" "Saturn" and "Sun" were around it. "That's a new one."

"Should we go help them?" Minako asked.

Terry saw the word "Jupiter" appear in the screen and smiled. "I don't think they need help."

Hakko looked at Mars. "You're Hino's granddaughter, right?"

"... Yes."

"There's something I heard, but I want to test it myself. Hit me."

Mars looked at Terry. "Is that safe?"

"If it's not, it's his own fault."

Mars shook her head, then kicked Hakko in the chest. The man staggered back, but didn't seem to be too affected. "So, what is it you wanted to test?"

Hakko smiled, then fell to one knee. "That your physical strength is much higher than that of a normal human. Good thing I'm not quite a normal human. Not a magician, but not normal, either." He saw Terry talking through a small artifact and rose an eyebrow. "So, who's the leader?"

"Sailor Moon," Mars said. "A word of warning, however, you said looks deceive, so don't be surprised when you see her."

"Terry told me that, too," Hakkko admitted. "But hey, he doesn't look like a warrior, either, so I know what you mean."

Terry was done talking to Moon, and gave Hakko a short glare as he heard that last part. He then noticed Hakko was giving him his back, so he summoned his sword and tried to slash down at him.

Everyone in the base gasped as Hakko stopped the blade with two fingers. The man smiled. "I told you that won't work, no matter how many times you try it."

"I know," Terry said. "Say cough."

Hakko looked down in time to see a small metal ball between his feet. He leapt aside, barely escaping the gas cloud, and then looked at Terry. "You make up for your lack of skills with gadgets. I may not agree with that path, but I can at least admit you've improved, boy."

"So, when do we start our training?"

"Right now," Hakko said. "I heard you're better as a team, and I want to know what you're able to do, so how about you all attack me at the same time?"

"He's insane," Naru commented.

"But this is better than school," Minako said, "we get to beat down our teacher from the very first day!"

Terry shook his head. "Oh well, time to get a few more bruises." He looked at Ami. "Are you sure you want to-"

"I'm a Senshi too," Ami said, "I can't improve if I don't take risks."

"Can't make a salad without breaking some tomatos," Minako said. The others stared at her. "What? I'm pretty sure that's how it goes."

Hakko saw the Senshi stand around him, and smiled. "I'm waiting."

A/N: Hey, maybe Hakko can get a spandex suit and a mask, and go fight evil aliens too! I think I'll call him Tuxedo Hakko.

... Yes, that was a joke. Not going to happen. Which doesn't mean he won't have a chance or five to beat up some aliens.