Sailor Moon Aeons.
Book 2: Rebirth.
Act 3: War games.
Episode 56: Final Fight.

By Razor Knight
Last update: June 4, 2013
Last edited June 2, 2017

Nova could sense the Senshi, they were apparently engaging a lot of foes right now. She was facing one of them, but with her abilities, this was proving to be a very boring battle.

"Die already!"

The man tried to head-slam her once again, and once again crashed into a psi wall she created. "Aren't you tired of trying the same thing again and again?"

Honda laughed at that. "You're right, I'll try something different. Old man!"

Nova sensed movement behind her, but couldn't dodge fast enough. She slumped to the ground, feeling a stinging pain in her legs. The man who had just run past her turned, and she saw his eyes were those of one who didn't feel any remorse. "Damn, you guys can't play fair."

"Fairness is the excuse of the dead," the man said. "Now stand still, and this will be over in a second."

Nova smiled. She couldn't move her legs, but that didn't mean she couldn't move at all. As the man rushed in, she simply teleported out of the way. "I think I'll have to start being unfair, too."

"Firestorm."

Gen was hit by a rising column of flames, and Nova looked to the side. "I may not need the reinforcements, but thanks anyway."

Mira nodded. "They're not down yet."

Gen glared up at the two. "So, you can levitate. That could be a problem for us."

"Old man, how about giving me a lift?"

Gen stared at him. "If you've got a plan-"

Honda leapt at the man, feet first. "Make a guess!"

Gen snorted, then hit the man's feet with his fists, propelling him up and above the two girls. "There you go."

Honda let out a battle cry, then spun in mid-air, somehow managing to propel himself forwards and straight at his two opponents. Nova tried to block him with a psi shield, but he punched right through it, and knocked both of them down, falling on top of Nova, who screamed in pain.

"Hey, knocked out already?" Honda mused as he noticed Nova was seemingly out cold.

Mira growled. "Damn it, now you've made me angry."

"Hmph, and what will you do about it?"

Mira smiled and vanished, appearing right behind Honda, and stabbing through him with an icy blade. "This."

Gen saw the girl was giving him her back, staring at Honda as he slumped to the ground, dead. Such foolishness, it would cause her death, but such a thing didn't faze him, the unskilled deserved no mercy. He rushed forwards, preparing to stab through her heart with his bare hand, but something stopped him dead on his track. "What is..."

Nova staggered up, smiling. "I must admit you're good at close range combat, but you don't know much about my powers. I don't need to see you to know where you are, so I decided to play dead until I had a chance to strike." She knew the man couldn't speak back, she was making sure of it. "I could just stop every muscle of your body, your lungs, your heart, until you die, but... I'm not heartless, and killing you like this would prove you right." She turned to look at Mira. "Stand back."

"But..."

"Trust me."

Gen noticed movement returning to his arms and legs, and laughed coldly. "Compassion, fairness, they're all weaknesses. Die!"

Mira saw the man shooting forwards, straight at Nova, but Nova moved out of the way, turning around quickly and hitting him with a point blank psi shot, which pierced right through his chest. "Holy crap. How did you do that? Some kind of buff spell?"

"No, I just realized I had to stop fooling around and fight for real. Got to admit this guy was the third rival I ever faced who forced me to use my real speed."

Mira could easily guess who the other two were. She looked around and smiled. "Only one area is still under attack."

Nova nodded. "Yeah, and Moon is there. But if what I'm sensing of her foes is true, she'll need all the help she can get."

"Let's go," Mira said, and the two vanished.

"Sonic Boom!"

Dragon Mercury dodged to the side, and the energy blast missed him. However, that let his other foe take a shot at him. Or more like a thousand shots, the Dragon thought as he was sent flying back by a quick flurry of kicks. "Damn, you two are actually good. I'll have to stop messing around."

"Bluffing won't save you," Chun-Li snapped. "Kikko-ken!"

The Dragon rushed straight at the attack, dodging it at the very last second, but Chun-Li was ready for this, and kicked forwards. However, the Dragon countered this by rolling under her, slashing her back with one sword. "Who's bluffing?"

"Sonic Boom! Sonic Boom!"

The Dragon backflipped to dodge the first blast, and leapt over the second one, but as he landed, Guile was already besides him. Again, he was kicked back, and he rolled to the side to avoid Chun-Li's flying kick. He then leapt back and away, quite aware that facing these two on his own wouldn't be easy.

"Shabon Spray Freezing!"

Fortunately, he wouldn't have to face them alone. "I think I trained you a little too well, if you're already done with your foes..."

"There was only one large russian man. Wasn't easy to defeat, but I improvised."

Guile looked around. "Hey, what kind of cheap trick is this?"

Mercury smiled. "Should we do this the easy way?"

"You know I like the fun way better," Dragon Mercury noted.

Mercury called out the mist. "I may still have energy left for that."

"Should have stayed hidden in the mist, boy," Guile snapped. "Sonic Boom!"

The Dragon cut the blast in half with his sword. "How about we show them our move?"

"I have a better idea," Mercury said, and looked at Guile. "Are you man enough to fight me?"

"Hey, that's my line!" Guile snapped. "But if you want to have that pretty face of yours punched, then be my guest!"

The only drawback of her newest attack was that it only worked in a very short range, but fortunately she had seen Terry taunt foes into melee range before, so she knew how to do it. She smiled as Guile rushed in, and slammed both tonfa into the ground as energy gathered in them quickly. "Ice Angel!"

"Shit, that's awesome," Dragon Mercury said.

"And it was apparently more effective this time around," Mercury noted, as Guile didn't get out of the ice.

Chun-Li knew things had gone very wrong, but wasn't about to give up yet. "You have your fancy tricks, I'll give you that, but you haven't seen mine!"

Mercury took a step back as she saw the readings in her visor. "I don't know what she'll do, but it will be powerful."

"Shit, I know what she's doing. Get back!"

"Kikou-Sou!" The warning was almost too late, and the two Mercuries watched in shock as a large, cyan sphere of energy formed around Chun-Li, vaporizing everything around her. The fightress was, however, kneeling on the ground as the attack ended. "I don't think we would have survived that," Mercury noted.

Dragon Mercury saw the girl trying to stand up. "Can't you just retreat? You're almost too hot to kill."

Chun-Li stood in a battle-ready pose. "If I give up, Game Master's going to destroy me anyhow. Do your worst."

"Frozen Rage."

Dragon Mercury looked at Mercury as their foe vanished, noticing she was down on her knees. "Are you okay?"

"Yes, but I used too much mana."

"Think the others will need help?"

After looking around, Mercury sighed. "I'm only picking one area still under attack, and from my readings, Moon is there... But there's someone with a lot of powere there, other than her enemies."

"Game Master again?"

"It's not him, or I would be able to identify him," Mercury said. "Let's go."

"But you're out of-"

"I recall spending many hours training to be able to fight without relying on my magic."

The Dragon smirked. "You're right."

Dragon Venus sighed. Of all the fighters he could have faced, he had to get the dumb boxer. "Oh, well, it could have been worse. At least it's not Sean."

"Lemme recover my breath and... I'll punch your face in!"

The Dragon looked at Balrog. "I think it's been proven time and again in the last few minutes that you can't bite as loud as you bark."

"I gotta admit your fancy magic tricks make you hard to catch, but you're forgetting one thing, mage boy."

"Oh, do tell."

"I'm from Shadaloo, I don't play fair."

"What-"

"And stay down!"

Dragon Venus growled as he stood up, noticing the newcomer who had kicked him down was wearing a pink karate gi. "Okay, now I have to fight a brainless boxer and Ryu's clone."

"Hey, you take that back!" Dan snapped.

"I would, but I don't like lying."

"Fine, then-"

"Firebrand."

"Firebrand."

Dragon Venus blinked a few times as his two foes were wrapped in identical columns of fire, and then noticed the two girls standing on top of a truck. "Hey, I had them under control."

"You're welcome," Circe said, noticing there was nothing left of their foes, then paused for a second. "From what I sense, all enemies are down except for the ones Sailor Moon is fighting."

The Dragon sighed. "So it's going to be one of those fights, huh?"

Calisto frowned. "What do you mean?"

"We go there, get beaten up by those guys, and then Moon beats them."

"Sounds about right."

"Hadoken!"

"Hadoken!"

Moon dove to the side to avoid the attacks. Sure, she wasn't all that confident in her melee skills, but these two were making that a moot point, since they just kept on using their boring energy balls to keep them at bay. And both Ryu and Ken had punched her tiara and her discs away whenever she tried to counter. Their third enemy worried her, however, as he wasn't making a move to attack.

Dragon Earth knew they were both running out of energy, so he decided to try something. "Stone Stab!" He rushed forwards as soon as his attack started, leaping over it, and preparing to shoot a second blast from above.

However, one of their foes was ready for this. Moon saw the man in red jumping up and delivering a strong kick to the Dragon's midsection, sending him crashing down to the ground near her. "You hurt him, now I'm going to have to hurt you."

"Just try, little girl," the man snapped.

"We'll deal with her, Bison, you keep an eye for any reinforcements."

"Who made you the boss, Masters?"

"Moonlight... Pulse!"

Ryu and Ken both leapt out of the way, but Moon was expecting that. She used her board to knock Bison into Ryu, knocking them both down, and got ready to attack Ken. However, someone else beat her to the punch.

"Hado- Urk."

Moon saw Venus standing right behind Ken's body, holding a bloodied sword (which swiftly turned back into her whip,) and smiled. "Thanks for the help."

"Guess the saying was right, the shortest way to a man's heart is through his ribcage."

Moon blinked a few times in confusion, but then remembered there were more foes to take care of. "Can you fight?"

Venus looked at her leg. The wound had already closed, but she was out of energy to shoot anything. Still... "I can kick their asses without using any blast, so yeah."

Bison stood up. "They took care of the garbage, that's nice."

Ryu frowned. "Hey!"

"Focus, kid, we can punch each other out after we're done killing those two weak girls."

Right then, the rest of the Senshi appeared, along with the sidekicks. Nova gave a thumbs up then fell to her knees. "Shit, all that phasing around sucked me dry."

Ryu knew things weren't going as planned. "I suppose the rest of the gang's gone."

"They were all weaklings," a voice said from the shadows, "but I will take care of them."

"Akuma? Weren't you supposed to deal with someone else?"

"Taking care of small fry is pointless, so I decided to come and defeat the leader of these Senshi."

"Saturn Death Mark."

Akuma stared at the attack as it sped to him, then punched it, disrupting it without even flinching. "Hmph. Is any of you kids strong enough to amuse me?"

"Moonlight Pulse!"

Akuma deflected each and every energy ball, and smiled as Moon staggered back. "Hah! tired already? So useless."

"Okay, anyone's got energy left to shut these morons up?"

Mercury looked at Dragon Mercury, who nodded. "Mercury..."

"Blizzard..."

"Fangs!"

Bison phased out of the way as Mercury tossed her swords, but as he appeared, he sensed something, and turned in time to parry Warwitch's staff. "It will take much more than that to sneak up on me."

"I knew I wouldn't hit you," Warwitch said, then backflipped away from him.

"What-"

"Ice Angel!"

Dragon Mercury saw the ice around Bison had started cracking as soon as it formed, and frowned as a pair of small blue spheres appeared in his hands. "Oh no, you won't. Mercury Blizzard..." The two spheres shone with a cyan hue, and he tossed them straight at his foe before finishing his attack phrase. "...Shroud."

Nova noticed something as Bison's ice became a solid white block. "Hey, the swords didn't do anything!"

"I knew he would dodge that," Mercury explained, "and I was almost out of energy, so I planned ahead."

Ryu was meanwhile being attacked by the rest of the Dragons, including Dragon Earth who had recovered from Bison's hit. Their foe wasn't getting any noticeable damage, but he also hadn't been able to hit any of them.

"Damn it, I'm not going to give up. Shinkuu..."

"Oh hell no," Dragon Sun muttered, looking at Dragon Venus, who nodded. "Orion's Wall."

"... Hadoken!"

Dragon Venus smiled. "Sigma's Tower."

Ryu's attack crashed into a solid wall of mana, and he frowned before deciding to try again. "Shinkuu..."

"Flamelash."

"Flametongue."

"Fire Storm."

"Hey, not again!" Dragon Venus shouted as Ryu was carbonized by the three fire attacks.

"We're just helping," Calisto said with a shrug.

Akuma looked at his foes. They were all visibly tired, but still stood defiant. He could at least admire their perseverance, even if it was pointless. "You kids are almost amusing, it's such a pity I will have to-"

"Chrono Typhoon."

The Senshi saw Game Master fly out of an alley close to the battlefield, rolling on the ground before he stood up, glaring in the direction he had come from. "The time lady comes to play."

Pluto walked calmly out of the alley, matching Game Master's glare with an emotionless stare. "I haven't interfered before, simply because the Senshi could win. But you're quite a guy, you can't play fair even if you already set the rules."

Mercury understood what she meant. "He was waiting for this to end, anyone who survived this fight would have to fight him."

Akuma turned to the man and let out a snarl. "I wouldn't have let any of them live. But I can sense your power is beyond theirs. Die!"

Pluto sidestepped Akuma's charge, knocking him down with a blow from her staff, then sighed. "As if I would be beaten by a mere puppet. Chrono Break."

"Hey, I saw no attack," Venus noticed as Akuuma vanished.

"Time can't be seen," Pluto said.

Game Master laughed at that. "I knew I would have to deal with you sooner or later, so here goes nothing!"

Pluto looked at the energy beam coming her way dismissively, and simply reached out one hand, the beam stopping milimeters away from it. "As I said, I won't be beaten by a mere puppet. Time Disruptor."

"Shit, did she just kill the final boss?" Earth asked as Game Master vanished.

Pluto smiled at that. "No. I simply moved him forwards in time so he won't bother you for a while."

"How much is 'a while'?"

"One week from now," Pluto said. "I would advise you to rest, heal and train. Game Master is too strong for you as you are now."

"She's right," Mercury said as Pluto vanished. "Pluto made him look like a wuss, but that's because her power is far above Star level."

"Hey, I know! We go to the base and kick Moon around until she levels up!" Dragon Venus suggested.

"I like that plan," Mars said.

"I don't," Moon muttered.

"In any case, we know he will be back in one week," Dragon Mercury noted, "so I say we take the Time Lady's advice."

Lilith was staring at the spot where Game Master had last been. "Hmm..."

"What's wrong?"

She looked at Earth. "Nothing, but for some reason I feel like I've seen that man before, outside our fights."

"Me too," Nemesis noted, "could he be someone in our school?"

"Knowing how many enemies and allies showed up in our school first, it wouldn't surprise me at all," Mercury admitted.

A/N: This took some time to finish, unlike the last few chapters. Blame Recettear and Drox Operative.