The Science of Love and Evil
Chapter One - Intro

Setting: 20th century Tokyo
Word Count: 576

Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon.

At the Start of Battle...
(Introduction)

"You wont get away this time, Kazuhide!" the petite blond soldier shouted. Her words were directed towards a withered old man, surrounded by several scantly clad beings that would have resembled women - were it not for their blue skin, three-fingered hands, and lack of noses. They also only had one eye each with which to see, but that didn't stop them from being destructive.

"Oh? And you think you and your pathetic little friends will stop me?" the old man replied.

"Yes, we WILL, because we are the Sailor Soldiers of love and justice, and we always triumph over evil!" the soldier retorted, words that she'd said so many times that she had memorized them. She too, was surrounded by her own allies – the Senshi, the warriors of the planets; Sailors Mercury, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Pluto, and Chibi-Moon. There was also a man in a Tuxedo and a top hat who stood by their side.

"But, alas, there are so many obstacles in your way! Cytosi -(1), disperse!" Kazuhide shouted, sending the many women-like beings upon the Senshi.

"Sailor Moon!" Venus shouted, as she and the rest of the Senshi kept the cytosi from reaching their leader. "Now's your chance!"

At this, Sailor Moon lifted up her weapon – a kaleidoscope-like wand with wings and a heart-shaped handle at the bottom. She pointed it towards the Emperor. "Hah!" he shouted in response. "You'll never get past my reflection barrier!" and with that, he snapped, and a giant mirror appeared in front of him, right as Sailor Moon shouted "MOON

GORGEOUS

ME-DI-TATION!"

There was a great, bright, blinding light for a moment…

...And suddenly, the world went dark around the Senshi. No longer were they surrounded by the city landscape of concrete sidewalks and office buildings; now their surroundings similar to the backdrop of space. But here the stars were covered by clouds, and even nebulas were dim. The Senshi felt that they were falling for a few seconds before hitting what seemed to be solid ground. Though they were startled by the impact, they regained fighting stance as the cytosi came to attack them once more.

But something wasn't right… when they had 'fallen,' so had the cytosi – and in confusion that came about from Sailor Moon's attack, only Sailor Mars -(2) had sensed that something else, something foreign, had fallen with them.

"What happened!" Chibi Moon shouted. "Where are we?"

"The space between time… the space… between worlds…" Pluto fought to get out as she battled the cytosi that surrounded her. She had seen this place before… when she had stopped time… -(3)

But her words were lost as the Senshi concentrated on defeating the group of blue Cyclops that seemed to never dwindle in number. Attack-calls from all the Senshi could be heard as the battle continued. "The rebound from your attack, Sailor Moon!" Mercury shouted to their leader. "That must-" she was cut short for a moment as she pushed a cytos off of her. "-Have sent us here!" she concluded.

"But something else is here too!" Mars shouted after sending a flaming arrow deep into a cytos. "I can sense it!"

'Something else…' Venus wondered as she fought her own cytosi. But as the group of blue cytosi dispersed throughout the space, so did the Senshi, and she lost the ability to ask aloud what Mars had meant.

'I wonder what that something else could be…' she wondered as the brawl continued.

End of Chapter One

A/N
-(1) This is just the word I made up for the blue women-things. I didn't want to call them 'cyclopses' so I came up with something that kind of sounded like the word 'cylcops' (at least I think I made it up… it isn't a real word is it?). "Cytos" is "Cytosi" is a singular sense.
-(2) Mars is a psychic, remember? I thought it would make sense that she would be the only one to notice Ed, Al, and Winry's appearance.
-(3) At the end of Sailor Moon S (during the fight against Mistress Nine/Hotaru), when Uranus and Neptune's helicopter is about to explode, Pluto stops time. She says that she then cannot be the gatekeeper any longer and must go… but where to? This made-up place of mine, apparently. (I'm going by the anime version of S).

Yes, this chapter is mighty short. The next one is longer, and the one after that is longer than the one after this... anyway they wont be this short again! And hopefully not as strange sounding in dialogue

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