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Doppelgangers
Chapter Five: Manipulation and Transformation
By
Angel Raye
Chibi Mars was terrified. She tried so hard to pull free from the mind control but she failed. The command entered her head again. "Jump!" Chibi Mars was unable to resist. She jumped, plunging down toward the rocks below. She closed her eyes and prepared for her death.
"VENUS LOVE ME CHAIN"
The chain wrapped around Chibi Mars' waist and jerked her falling to a sudden halt. She took a deep breath of relief and craned her neck to look up. She saw Sailor Venus leaning over the bridge. "Hang on Chibi Mars," she called and she slowly began to pull her up.
"What is this?" roared Dark Chibi Mars in rage.
"Call it a rescue mission," Sailor Mars replied as she jumped in fighting stance in front of Dark Chibi Mars. "A mother's intuition is very strong and I had a feeling that my daughter was going to be in danger. So I did a fire reading and found out your plan. I had to pull Sailor Venus away from her daughter's bedside to stop you"
"Well if it isn't my dear mother," Dark Chibi Mars snarled. "I was wondering when I could see you"
"I'm not your mother," Mars coldly told her. "I didn't give birth to a monster like you." She glanced back at Chibi Mars who was clutching Sailor Venus and trembling. "My daughter is right here"
"Don't be so sure," Dark Chibi Mars stated. "You think we are evil copies of your daughters but we're more than that"
"What do you mean?" Sailor Venus demanded.
"Oh you'll find out soon," Dark Chibi Mars assured her. "But to give you a hint I'm slowly gaining the memories of my good counterpart." She focused her stare on Sailor Mars. "Now if you don't mind you're in my way." She concentrated, trying to gain control of Sailor Mars' mind but to her rage she was blocked.
"Don't even try it," Sailor Mars coldly told her. "I've had many more years of training than you have and I can block you. If you even try to gain control of Chibi Mars or Sailor Venus over there I will fight you. I'm assuming you can only control one mind"
Dark Chibi Mars glowered at her. Sailor Mars spoke the truth. "I won't forget this," she snarled. Then she glared at Chibi Mars. "And I'll be back for you." With that she leaped over them and disappeared.
"Well since everyone is safe for now I'm going back to my daughter," Sailor Venus stated.
"Thanks for your help," Sailor Mars told her.
"Anytime," Sailor Venus replied and she took a long leap and vanished.
"Mama," Chibi Mars flung her arms around her mother.
Sailor Mars gathered her daughter into her arms and smoothed her hair from her face. "It's time for some new training"
"What kind of training?" Chibi Mars asked.
"To block mind control," Sailor Mars replied. She took her daughter's hand. "Now let's go." The two headed back to the palace but Mars had something to ponder. What did Dark Chibi Mars mean?
When she returned to Lady Ashi's lair Dark Chibi Mars was seething. How dare the Elder Sailor Senshi interfere? She had been so close in destroying Chibi Mars and then Sailor Mars and Sailor Venus had to come and rescue her.
"You failed," Dark Chibi Jupiter snarled. "I thought you were going to kill her today"
"I would have succeeded if mine and Dark Chibi Venus's interfering mothers stayed out of the way," Dark Chibi Mars snarled back.
"The mothers will get in the way my dears," Lady Ashi came up. "You will have to grow stronger. Soon you will share all the memories with your good counterparts. We will use that to our advantage"
"How?" Dark Chibi Jupiter asked curiously.
"Don't you know anything?' Dark Chibi Mercury sneered. "We'll be able to find their true desires and fears and play on those"
"And as you get stronger the good Chibi Senshi will get weaker," Lady Ashi added. "Soon they won't stand a chance"
"Look at some of my new powers," Dark Chibi Neptune told them. She held up her hand. Water from nearby flew out and hit Dark Chibi Uranus.
"Hey," she exclaimed. "Don't forget I'm developing new powers too." Then with a whip of her hand wind from the outside came blowing in.
"That's enough girls," Lady Ashi told them. "You want to save your powers of manipulating water and wind for battle"
"Oh we will," Dark Chibi Uranus assured her. "We will." She and Dark Chibi Neptune both walked off to practice some more.
"In the meantime my dear we need to work on your mind control," Lady Ashi told Dark Chibi Mars. "We need to get you to a point where you will control everyone and everything around you"
"And then I will be victorious," Dark Chibi Mars declared and she followed her leader for training.
Makoto walked into the kitchen and was pleased to see both of her daughters happily making cookies together. Like her mother Daisy loved to cook. Tama had wanted to learn so both Makoto and Daisy were teaching her with some simple recipes. "How are you girls doing?" she asked.
"We're done," Daisy replied.
"Taste one Mama," Tama pleaded holding the plate out to Makoto who immediately took one. She took a bite and then smiled at the anxious face of her adopted daughter. "It's delicious," she exclaimed and Tama's face broke out in a wide smile.
"What did Aunt Rei and Aunt Minako want?" Daisy asked as she began cleaning up the mess.
"Chibi Mars had an encounter with her evil counterpart today," Makoto replied. "Apparently Dark Chibi Mars has the power of mind control now. She almost succeeded in making our Chibi Mars jump to her death from that bridge over the river in the park"
"What made her fail?" Daisy asked fiercely, wanting to throttle Dark Chibi Mars.
"Sailor Mars and Sailor Venus rescued her," Makoto told her with the same feelings her daughter had. Like everyone else she had an intense desire to protect Annika because of her extreme sensitivity and timidity. "Rei is going to start working with Annika on blocking mind control for her protection. My main concern is that Dark Chibi Mars could try to control anyone of you. Since none of you have that psychic ability you won't be able to block her"
"Mom if you haven't noticed these Dark Chibi Senshi are only fighting their counterparts," Daisy pointed out. "If this keeps up then Dark Chibi Mars is only going to go after Annika"
"We just need to stop whatever this evil plan is before it gets too bad," Makoto sighed. "But the question is how?" Daisy couldn't answer. She didn't have an answer. This was probably the most dangerous enemy they had ever come across. Tama listened to the entire conversation silently. She prayed that her new family would be safe. She didn't want to lose them now that she had them.
After dinner Rei went to Annika's room to give her a first lesson on mind blocking. She was shocked to find Annika already sound asleep on her bed, clothes and all. Rei couldn't believe it. Annika wasn't a difficult child to get to bed but she wasn't one to just fall asleep early like that either. Rei gently woke her back up, helped her into her nightgown and then tucked her back into bed. Then she went back into the living room. Yuichiro was watching television while Koyo was studying for a math test. "That was quick," Yuichiro commented.
"She's already asleep," Rei replied.
"Already," Yuichiro asked in astonishment. "That's not like her"
"I know," Rei told him. "I just don't understand this.
"Maybe today's battle wore her out," Koyo suggested.
"Maybe that's it," Rei sighed. But she couldn't help worrying. Something just wasn't right.
The next day after school Faith gave Maggie another secret tennis lesson. Poor Maggie was just not getting it. As smart as she was in school she had absolutely no knack for tennis. Faith had to fight to keep from laughing. Maggie who was usually so graceful when she moved was a huge klutz at playing tennis. They were unaware of Hope walking onto the court. She had stayed after because it was her turn to clean the classroom and when she finished thought she would find her sister. She was astonished when she saw her playing tennis with Maggie. "Maggie playing tennis?" Hope asked herself incredulously. This she had to see. Hope leaned up against the fence to watch. It wasn't long before she was smothering giggles. Maggie was swinging hard and missing the balls served by Faith. Whenever she finally managed to hit one the ball would fly way out of bounds or over the fence. Unable to contain herself Hope burst out into loud laughter. Faith and Maggie both looked over and saw her. Maggie turned a bright shade of red. "Hope what are you doing here?" Faith asked.
"I came looking for you," Hope replied. "I didn't think I'd see anything so funny"
"Shut up," muttered Maggie bright red with embarrassment.
"I didn't know you liked tennis," Hope stated. "When did Faith start teaching you"
"Right after the Senshi families adopted the new kids," Faith replied. "I still don't know why she wants to learn but I teach her"
"No offense Maggie but you're not good at all," Hope bluntly pointed out. "Why do you want to learn"
"I have my reasons," Maggie replied. "Now please don't tell anyone about this. I haven't even told Daisy"
"Wow this is a big secret," Hope laughed. "Don't worry. I won't tell. Who'd believe me anyway"
Seeing that Maggie was very embarrassed, Faith decided to end the lesson for the day. "We need to be getting home," she told Hope and Maggie. "We've all got homework to do and it's a big dinner in the palace dining room tonight"
"I'll wait for you while you change," Hope called as the two girls headed back toward the lockers. Hope sat down under a tree and began looking at her homework. She was unaware that she was being watched.
Chibi Jupiter and Chibi Mercury were in a training simulation together. Sailor Venus had programmed it so that they could fight their latest enemies. So simulations of Dark Chibi Jupiter and Dark Chibi Mercury had been created. The practice simulation was wearing them both down. Every time one of them would throw an attack, the same attack would be thrown back at them. Chibi Mercury was desperately trying to do a scan but with little success. "I'll distract them, you do the scan!" Chibi Jupiter shouted.
"Right," Chibi Mercury called back. Chibi Jupiter started fighting both simulations while Chibi Mercury tried to scan. "If only this were a real scan," she thought as she pretended to type away on her computer. Just then she heard a loud scream. She looked up and saw that Chibi Jupiter was down. "Chibi Jupiter!" she shouted but before she could anything the simulated attack from Dark Chibi Mercury flew out and knocked her down. The simulation vanished.
"You're both dead," Sailor Venus dryly commented as she came in.
"Tell us something we don't know," Chibi Jupiter snapped angrily.
"Watch it before I put you on report for impertinence," Sailor Venus warned her. "Your mother would not be happy about that." Chibi Jupiter sealed her mouth shut.
"Sailor Venus, what did we do wrong now?" Chibi Mercury asked.
"Chibi Jupiter let her guard down for a brief moment," Venus replied. "You cannot let your guard down for a minute with any enemy, especially this one"
"I thought they wouldn't notice," Chibi Jupiter muttered.
"The last thing we need is for one of you to get cocky," Venus pointed out. "If any of us had done that we would have been killed by Queen Beryl in the beginning"
"You were killed," Chibi Mercury pointed out.
"At the end of the battle, not the beginning," Venus told her. "But that's not the point right now. You are fighting yourselves and that is the biggest enemy you have ever faced. You have to remember that"
"Maggie and I will be twelve soon," Chibi Jupiter sighed. "If only we could become Cosmic Senshi now instead of waiting until we're fourteen like Usagi did." She left the room. Venus looked after her with a thoughtful look in her eyes.
Hope was still looking at her homework when she heard a familiar voice. "I've been waiting for you." Hope looked up and saw Dark Chibi Neptune standing in front of her. "Oh not you again," Hope grumbled as she pulled out her transformation pen. She held it up. "NEPTUNE POWER MAKE UP!" Water swirled around her as her school uniform melted into her Senshi fuku. "Don't try to fight me because you won't win," Chibi Neptune called to her dark counterpart.
"Don't be so sure," Dark Chibi Neptune replied lazily.
"We'll see about that," Chibi Neptune snapped and she powered up.
"TIDAL WAVE!" Her attack flew out but Dark Chibi Neptune held up her hand and to Chibi Neptune's astonishment the water from the attack stopped and hovered over Dark Chibi Neptune. "Let me show you my bag of tricks," Dark Chibi Neptune said. She pointed her finger at Chibi Neptune and the water flew back to her and engulfed her. Chibi Neptune struggled to get out of the water so that she could breathe. But the currant was too strong and she couldn't move. "I can manipulate any water now," Dark Chibi Neptune informed her. "I'll decide how long to keep this where it is and I can watch you drown"
"Not if I can help it," shouted a new voice and Chibi Uranus appeared out of nowhere and powered up. "EARTHQUAKE TREMORS!" Her attack flew out and hit Dark Chibi Neptune releasing her hold on Chibi Neptune. Chibi Neptune fell to the ground, gasping for breath. Chibi Pluto helped her to her feet.
"How dare you interrupt," Dark Chibi Neptune snarled.
"Anyone who attacks my twin will be in trouble," Chibi Uranus growled.
"Oh I know how you feel," Dark Chibi Uranus jumped down in front of her suddenly. "I always keep an eye on my twin too. I was hiding in the bushes hoping you would come out. But we weren't counting on Chibi Pluto being here too. I guess we'll just have to fight without Dark Chibi Pluto"
"That will give us a slight advantage," Chibi Pluto told her.
"Don't speak so soon," laughed Dark Chibi Uranus. "I haven't shown you my new powers yet." She held up her hand. The wind around them suddenly got stronger and the three Chibi Senshi were caught up in a small whirlwind just large enough for the three of them.
"Nani!" shrieked Chibi Uranus.
"Where my twin can manipulate water I can manipulate wind," Dark Chibi Neptune informed her. "I can keep you here as long as I want"
"Someone attack!" Chibi Neptune shouted from the whirlwind.
"I can't move!" Chibi Pluto called back. They all realized they were helpless against the whirlwind.
"Lady Ashi will be so pleased," Dark Chibi Neptune sighed. "We'll be able to kill three of them off at once"
"JUPITER OAK EVOLUTION!" The attack flew out and hit the two dark Senshi leaving them sprawling on the ground.
"Sailor Jupiter," Chibi Pluto gasped. "What are you doing here"
"I was on my way home and saw the fight," Jupiter replied. "I thought I'd join in"
"Well we're glad you did," Chibi Neptune told her.
"Great another parent shows up," growled Dark Chibi Uranus. "I'll just have to trap her too"
"Now girls," Jupiter shouted and all four of them powered up.
"JUPITER OAK EVOLUTION"
"TIDAL WAVE"
"SCREAMS OF DESTRUCTION"
"EARTHQUAKE TREMORS"
All four attacks flew out before either dark Senshi could power up. They both screamed as the attacks hit them in full force. They lay helpless on the ground. "That's not fair," Dark Chibi Uranus gasped.
"What you're doing isn't fair either," Chibi Uranus snarled.
"We'll be back and next time you won't win," Dark Chibi Uranus growled and she weakly but quickly leapt up into the air and was gone.
"You may have won this battle but you won't win the war," Dark Chibi Neptune added. She was about to jump but suddenly Sailor Jupiter powered up.
"SUPREME THUNDER!" Her attack flew out hitting Dark Chibi Neptune, this time knocking her unconscious. Sailor Jupiter picked her up. "This may be a war but we now have a prisoner"
"What are we going to do with her?" Chibi Neptune asked.
"Sailor Mercury wants a scan so now she can do one," Jupiter replied. "Then she will be kept under tight security while we continue to fight this enemy." She looked down at the young Senshi. "Now we had better get back to the palace. We have much to discuss."
The Queen, Senshi and Chibi Senshi were all in a meeting. Dark Chibi Neptune, now Dark Hope was under tight security in the palace prison. Her transformation wand had been confiscated and was now under analysis. Sailor Uranus was keeping close watch on her.
"I'm waiting for the results of the blood work I took from Dark Hope," Ami told everyone. "Then we can see just how close of a copy she is of our Hope"
"Now that we have one of them captive that should give us an advantage," Hotaru stated.
"But it doesn't," Usagi exclaimed.
"What do you mean?" Serenity asked.
"My evil counterpart has the Sword of Darkness," Usagi replied. "Gloria's evil counterpart has the Sword of Hate. Annika's evil counterpart can control minds. Faith's evil counterpart can manipulate wind while Hope's evil counterpart can manipulate water. None of us have those powers"
"We are aware of that and are working on ways to make you stronger," Serenity told her. She turned to Luna and Artemis. "Any success"
"We can make two stronger now even though we had wanted to wait until they were older," Luna replied. She leapt into the air and two broaches appeared. One had the symbol of Jupiter while the other had the symbol of Pluto. "We feel that under the circumstances we cannot wait any longer for this." She gave the Jupiter broach to Daisy and the Pluto broach to Maggie. Both felt a surge of new power go through them. They held up their broaches.
"JUPITER COSMIC POWER MAKE UP"
"PLUTO COSMIC POWER MAKE UP"
In an instance both girls transformed and stood there in new Senshi fukus. Everyone gasped.
"Meet Sailor Cosmic Jupiter and Sailor Cosmic Pluto," Artemis announced.
To be continued...