Chapter 11: Confusion A
Usagi stopped in the hall, she looked towards the closed door, still hearing the cries of her friends trying to get her to rethink about her plan. She shook her head and continued walking. She felt guilty about doing that to them, but she had no choice in the matter but to do it. She wanted to protect them this time, she wanted to pay for her sins and stay strong for them instead of the the other way around.
'I'm sorry, minna.' She thought to herself, 'I'm doing this for your sake. Escape and live in this beautiful world without me.'
After a minute of silence, her communicator began going off. She jumped a little in surprise.
"MAMO-CHAN!" She screamed, "That's right, I locked them up."
She looked at who was contacting her.
"I thought we didn't get reception down here." She asked herself, "I might as well see who it is."
She answered the call.
"Hello?" She asked.
"Finally you answer my call!" A familiar child's voice came through the other side, "Where in the world have you guys been? Saturn and I had to take care of several monsters by ourselves because you guys are MIA."
"Thank goodness." Usagi sighed in relief, "Chibi Moon."
"Yes, that's me." She paused, "Where have you been?"
"That mansion that has been on the news." Usagi answered without any emotion in her voice.
"Are you insane?!" Hotaru's voice came through, "We're coming to get you out of there."
"NO! Stay where you are, if you step one foot inside . . .!" Began Usagi, not sure what else to say, "Just stay out there!"
"We're coming in no matter what!" ChibiUsa's voice yelled, "You can't stop us."
"No! Stay away!" Usagi yelled, hanging up and running off upstairs.
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ChibiUsa sighed and hung up on her end, she turned to look at Hotaru. Her pink hair brushing against her shoulders.
"Let's go." She said as they took the burned ladder down to the hidden room in the basement.
On their way down the ladder snapped and they came crashing down, Hotaru breaking their fall with her glaive.
"You okay, ChibiUsa?" She asked.
"I'm fine." She answered, hearing cries for help, "That sounds like the others. It sounds like they're in trouble."
"Let's go." Hotaru said as they ran towards the room with the cell.
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"Usako!" Screamed Mamoru.
"She can't hear us, Mamoru." Rei began, "She's not in the basement anymore."
"What is she thinking?" Setsuna paused, "Even though she's powerful, it still won't be enough to stop that monster."
"God knows how many more of those monsters lurk in this house." Haruka added, "I can't believe that she would do this to us . . ."
"Maybe Usagi knows more about these memories than what she's telling us." Makoto said.
"I'm sure she does, but . . ." Minako began before the door handle began twisting, "It's the thing!"
"Wait!" Michiru started, "Let's not jump to conclusions just yet."
ChibiUsa and Hotaru came in when the door opened. They began looking around before closing the door behind them.
"Saturn!" The outers called.
"ChibiMoon!" The inners cried.
The two of them looked over. ChibiUsa smiled a little before she began laughing.
"Will you look at this? The planets all in a cage!" She joked, "Don't feed the animals?!"
"Who put you guys in there?" Hotaru asked.
"Sailor Moon, she's now somewhere in the house battling." Rei answered.
"We understand that she didn't mean to put us in here." Ami added, "She wanted to protect us this time. She understands that she needs to fight and make sure that her sins are purified."
"That idiot." ChibiUsa began, "How can we get you out?"
"The door's locked from the inside." Minako said as ChibiUsa went to open the door again.
Mamoru noticed the box as it opened. Haruka noticed the same thing and went closer to it, seeing a key inside. She took ahold of it.
"We got the key." Mamoru began, "Let's go!"