Chapter 3

A Bellsprout to Success

Deep within the depths of the Negaverse, Queen Beryl's loyal servant, Jedite, had some news on his quest to collect energy to unleash the power of the Negaforce. "You will be very pleased, my queen," he said to her as she was focusing her powers into her crystal ball that was on the top of her scepter, which was directly in front of her. He was very confident about his discovery, even though he had failed to gather energy for her twice. "Your last few attempts had failed miserably, Jedite," she said, reminding him. She then told him to go ahead with the report. Jedite explained that young humans, specifically students, will do anything for scholastic achievement in their own lives. "And how do you propose to gather energy this way, Jedite?" she asked him. "By something the humans use called a computer," he said in response. "We will use their device against them!" "Carry on," she said, accepting his request. "I won't fail you, my queen," he said as he bowed in respect.

Meanwhile, inside her own house, Serena was laughing so hard at her comics that she fell over onto the couch from laughing so hard. "Serena, please," her mother begged as she walked over to her eldest child. "You're a girl, not a hyena." "If there's one thing I can't stand about Serena, it's that she'd rather read comics instead of study," remarked Serena's younger sister, Rini, who was very annoyed at the blond-haired teenager. "Mind your own business, runt!" snapped Serena. "Well, it's true, Meatball Brain!" her sister shouted while sitting in the kitchen with her book open. She was having a hard time studying with her sister laughing at her comic books like a hyena. "Why you little…! I oughta…!" shouted Serena. "Serena," her mother began, strictly. Serena stopped the insults at the sound of her mother's voice and paused with bulging eyes and a scared face. "Be nice to your sister, she's family too, after all." "Yes, mother," said Serena.

Later that evening at Professor Oak's laboratory, Ash was talking on the video phone to someone. The person was a girl with orange hair tied up in a ponytail. She had on a yellow crop shirt and red suspenders. The girl's name was Misty Waterflower, an old traveling companion of Ash. "I see you've finally decided to become a hero," said Misty on the other end. "Well, it's not like I had a choice," said Ash. Just then, Rini came to Ash and asked for the phone, but he refused. "Are you saying she's better looking than I am?!" she yelled. "It's not that, Rini!" he shouted back at her. "She's just an old friend and I just wanted to see how she was doing out at the gym!" Rini's expression changed into a shocked face with her eyes becoming black dots and her mouth hanging wide open with a sweat drop on her head. She then asked what gym he was talking about. "You must be Rini," said Misty. "Ash told me all about you." Rini's face changed into an annoyed face with her eyes back to normal, but her face was slanted in annoyance as she turned to Ash, who was giggling nervously with a sweat drop running down his head. "The gym he was referring to is the Cerulean City Gym," explained Misty. "Yeah, I realize that now," said Rini, who was visibly still annoyed at Ash. Just then, a beam of light emitted her waist and her Jigglypuff appeared right next to her from out of its Poké Ball. Misty was shocked to see that particular Pokémon with Rini. "You caught Jigglypuff?" asked Misty in a fearful voice. "Yup, and it's learned to only use the move Sing when I tell it to," answered Rini. Jigglypuff began to sing its song, but got interrupted by Rini, whom bonked it on the head. "Not now!" she told her Pokémon before recalling it back into its Poké Ball. She sighed heavily. "Guess it misinterpreted what I meant." "Well, I don't want to keep you up all night," said Ash to Misty. "Right, trainers will be coming in tomorrow to try to earn the Cascade Badge," said Misty. "Hope you guys can find the rest of the heroes." "I hope so, too," agreed Ash. "That reminds me," said Misty. She then reached into her red backpack and pulled out a paper with info of a girl with short blue hair. "Who's that?" asked Ash. "Amy Anderson," said Misty. "She's a new student at Serena's school. From what I heard, she might be an enemy." "We'll check into it," said Ash. He thanked Misty for the advice, then hung up the phone.

The next day at Crossroad Jr. High, Serena was in the hallway with her friends, Duplica and another girl named Marina. Marina had sky blue hair, tied up in two, short pigtails. Her outfit consisted of a red shirt with a white jacket over it and a yellow hat on her head. Duplica told Serena that she heard that a new girl had transferred to their school. "She's from Brighton Academy," said Marina. Out of nowhere, Gary popped out from behind Duplica. "Sorry to butt in," said Gary to the girls. "But that new girl's name is Amy Anderson, she's an incredibly smart girl from Brighton Academy." "You're doing a full espionage report on her?" Serena asked him. Gary nodded in reply. Just then, Serena spotted the girl known as Amy. She was looking into one of the classrooms through a glass window. Gary, being the most intelligent boy in the school, was looking forward to meeting her, whereas the girls thought otherwise. Amy, however, overheard their conversation, as she glanced over right when Serena had noticed that they might've been too loud. Serena just laughed, trying to make the whole conversation a joke, which didn't help Amy at all, as she was visibly upset.

After school, Serena was limping home, as she knew what her test grade was and how upset her mother was going to be upon hearing the answer that she had. While she was walking, she spotted Amy, who looked like she was bummed. Suddenly, Luna, Serena's cat, jumped from wall and onto Amy's shoulder in suspicion. "You gave me a start, kitty," said Amy. She started to tickle Luna's chin. Luna snapped out of it. "What am I doing?" she thought to herself, as she was distracted from her mission. "Luna," Serena called. Luna jumped down from Amy's shoulder and into her owner's arms. "You're Serena, right?" asked Amy. Serena said that she was. "From what I heard from Gary, you're a lousy older sister." Serena became visibly shocked at the comment. Later at the Crown Parlor, Serena was fiercely playing the game known as Sailor V's Video Game Challenge. As usual, her rash attitude caused her to get a GAME OVER. Amy explained that she had never played video games and always wanted to try one. She sat down and started to play the game. While she was playing, Serena noticed that her score was getting very high. Very soon, though, lots of people gathered around to watch her play. Just then, she checked the clock and her watch and noticed that she was late. Serena offered to help her with her stuff. Amy explained that she was late for her computer course, which made Serena uneasy, as one day of school was good enough for her. "A special computer school," said Amy. "It's only twice a week for three hours each. See you tomorrow!" As Amy ran off, Serena hoped that Amy wasn't what Luna had told her earlier when they were walking to the parlor, which was a minion of the Negaverse. "Hey Serena," Ash called from behind her. She turned around and saw the young trainer with her younger sister walking out of the parlor behind her. "Your friend forgot her disk." He held out a CD case that belonged to Amy.

Out at the computer school, the teacher was looking out the window from the top floor, thinking about all of the energy that the students had to offer the Negaverse. Upon her arrival, Amy realized that her disk was missing. "I'll have to type up my homework right now," she told herself, frantically. Just then, the teacher came up to her and put her in charge of the class. Relieved, Amy accepted the offer and went to her desk. Outside of the school, Serena, Luna, Ash, Rini, and Pikachu were getting ready to go inside to return the disk to Amy. Luna warned Serena to be on her guard while inside. "Come on, Luna, don't be such a scaredy cat," said Serena. "Talking to yourself again, Meatball Head?" said Darien from behind. Serena just laughed it off, then ran a safe distance from him, along with the others. Darien looked back her. "Strange girl," he said to himself as the group ran off in sprint. Catching their breath on a pole, Serena realized that she still had the disk and blamed Darien for making her forget to give it to Amy. Luna suggested that they could check out its contents at a nearby computer store. "Pika!" said Pikachu, which meant, Okay, let's do it! At the computer store, Rini placed the disk on the holder, then inserted it into the computer. Then, she began to type in the program which activated the disk onto the computer screen. "Wow, I never knew you were good with computers, Rini," said Ash, complementing his friend. "It takes a lot of studying to be a computer expert, Ash," said Rini. "Pika?" asked Pikachu, which meant, What's going on? "Cover your ears!" said Luna to the others. They did as told, then the program welcomed the user and offered a position to serve the Negaverse.

Back at the computer school, Serena explained to Luna that she couldn't just go into the building in her current clothes. Agreeing to the statement, Luna jumped and spun around, creating a pen with a red jewel on the bottom end. "Take this pen and yell DISGUISE POWER," said Luna. "Then tell it what you want the disguise to be." "Okay," said Serena. She held up the pen in determination. "DISGUISE POWER!" she yelled. "TURN ME INTO A SCHOOL SUPERINTENDANT!" The pen did just that. Soon, Serena was dressed in a white outfit and her hair was cut short. The friends quietly snuck in the building and up the stairs into Amy's classroom, where most of the students, except Amy, were already hypnotized and drained of their energy. "Alright, this has gone too far!" said Ash. He looked at Rini and they both nodded at each other. "Do your thing!" said Luna. "MOON PRISM POWER!" shouted Serena, then she transformed into Sailor Moon. "MINI PRISM POWER!" shouted Rini, whom then transformed into Sailor Mini Moon. Amy was shocked at the result until the teacher grabbed her and transformed into an ugly red monster named Garoben, who was the real minion of the Negaverse, not Amy. "Let her go, you Negafreak!" demanded Sailor Mini Moon. "We are heroes of love and justice!" "I'm Sailor Moon!" said Sailor Moon. "And I'm Sailor Mini Moon!" said Sailor Mini Moon. "And I'm Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town!" said Ash. "We won't give in to the likes of you freaks! That I swear!" "PIKA!" agreed Pikachu, which meant, That's right! "Pop quiz time," said Garoben. "What's 355 times 268?" "That's college stuff, I don't know that!" complained Sailor Mini Moon. "Too bad, you failed this class!" said Garoben. She then created papers and sent them flying at Sailor Moon, who was dodging each and every one of them. Then, Garoben proceeded to drain Amy of her energy, but she resisted and her energy vanished back into her body before it could even be drained. She resisted so hard, that the symbol of the planet, Mercury, started to glow on her forehead. "Luna, that's the mark of the planet, Mercury!" said Mewtwo to Luna telepathically. Luna spun around and created the Mercury Transformation Pen, which she caught in her mouth. She ran as fast as she could to deliver it to Amy. Garoben let go of Amy and transformed her left hand into scythe. Luna pushed the pen towards Amy and told her to shout, MERCURY POWER. Quick as lightning, Amy dodged the incoming attack from Garoben's hand scythe and backed up at a safe distance. "I've got you now," laughed Garoben. She didn't count on Amy becoming so determined to save her friends from Garoben's minions, though, as they were trapped in a corner of the classroom.

Amy held up the pen and yelled out, "MERCURY POWER!" Once she did, the symbol on her pen twirled and she wrapped herself in blue ribbons, which turned into water, creating her Sailor Scout uniform. It was similar to that of the others, except the boots, jewels, choker, bow, collar, skirt, and the color on the elbow end of the gloves were all in a shade of blue. Even though Sailor Mercury was safe, her hero companions were not. Mewtwo saw the opportunity to communicate with the newest Sailor Scout. Using Telepathy, he said, "Quickly! Use your Mercury Bubbles! It will give Mini Moon the advantage of her attack!" Sailor Mercury raised her arms, then formed a bubble in front of her. "MERCURY BUBBLES…" she began. She crossed her arms over her face, then split them to release bubbles all over the room. "BLAST!" she shouted. The whole room was covered in the mist caused by the bubbles. The sudden change in atmosphere also caused Garoben to feel a sudden change in body temperature. The people who were gaining on the other heroes suddenly fainted from Mercury's attack. Garoben saw an image of Sailor Mercury behind her, but when she attacked it with her hand scythe, it turned out to be an image on a computer screen. "Are you guys alright?" asked Sailor Mercury. "We are now!" exclaimed Ash. "Sailor Mini Moon, use your attack!" said Sailor Mercury to the smallest scout. Sailor Mini Moon nodded. She raised her hands above her head, then twirled around a little bit. Soon, icicles formed above her arms. She opened her eyes to announce the attack. "PINK HEART ICICLE!" she shouted as she spread out her arms to let the icicle shards fly at Garoben. The impact of the projectiles destroyed the monster and turned it into a pile of moon dust. "Look, they're starting to return to normal," said Ash. Pikachu ran up to Sailor Mercury and said, "Pikachu." This means, Welcome to the team.

Later, outside of the school, Serena and the others apologized to Amy about accusing her for an evil spy. "It's alright, you guys," said Amy. "Once you saw what was on that computer disk, it was natural that you'd suspect me." "No doubt," said Rini in agreement. She then turned towards Ash. "Hey Ash, how's your Primeape doing with Anthony?" "Doing great, Rini," he said. "Last I heard, they were getting ready for another Fighting Competition." "Way cool!" she said. She looked up into the sky with confidence. "Someday I know I'll be able to remember everything about my past with Serena. But for now, it's only a matter of time that we save the world from the Negaverse," she thought. Suddenly, a Pokémon known as Bellsprout came up from behind Amy. "Hey, is that your Bellsprout?" asked Ash. "Yes it is, Ash," said Amy in reply. "Bellsprout was the one who told me all about you guys." "Bellsprout," said the Pokémon. "Well, it's nice to see a new member has joined the team," said Serena. She might be a slacker, but she has a heart of gold when it comes to true friendship.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own any of the series. This was made to express love for two of the most popular anime series that ever aired on television. All of the characters belong to their respective creators.