Sailor Moon: FOTM: The Two Worlds

Chapter 5: The Long Trip Home; Heartless Hijackers pt.1

The World that Never Was

Hollow Bastion

Throne Room

The now present Five Generals of the Deadly Seven were present, as was their leader, the Mysterious Ansem. He was sitting at his throne, completely covered in darkness, and drumming his fingers on the hand rest of the throne. It was obvious that they had heard about the failure of the Leechgrave… and as always, he wasn't too pleasant about it.

"So… you failed again," Ansem interrogated. The air blew over as his voice once again started, "It has nearly been three months. Three months since we were able to open only a small crack out of this dimension. And with it, I have sent all of you as well as several of my forces out to the world of this modern day nightmare that is called the Earth. But instead of a conquered husk of a planet, all we seem to have is a massive list of defeats. All done in not just by the former princesses of the Silver Millennium, but also… THOSE MISERABLE FELLOWSHIP KNIGHTS, WHOM SHOULD HAVE BEEN DEAD A LONG TIME BY NOW!" his voice then rose a bit in anger as he addressed the others, "I've given you everything you needed to succeed in your mission: power, immortality, Heartless, Nobodies. And yet it's the same in the end: your complete defeat! WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY FOR YOURSELVES!"

The others bowed their heads in shame at this, but all Gluttony did was whine softly as he nibbled in his index finger, "I'm hungry."

"You're always hungry, aren't you, Gluttony?" a mysterious new voice spoke out, "Then again… you've always been a porker. Though who am I to say… seeing as how this is the first time we'll be seeing each other."

The new voice caused all the others, including Lord Ansem, to turn to the darkened doorway now opened. There, a young teenaged figure was leaning on the door's railing. Then finally, the figure walked into the light, revealing himself to the others; Envy, Pride, and Gluttony had shocked expressions on their faces, while Lust and Greed were just a tad confused as to whom this fellow was.

The strange figure walked out of the shadows and appeared as a nineteen year old boy. He was slim but slender built muscular, pale skin, wearing a tight black leather battle uniform, composed of belted black pants with knee guards and a black shawl around his waist, a black tank top with a black left sleeve, having a shoulder armor guard, a deadly sharp black gauntlet on his left hand, but his right sleeve was not seen as it exposed a tanned arm with a black gauntlet and armband. He had white hair that was swept over to his right side, and had a yellow animal eye resembling a cat, filled with a darkness the likes of which would make a man's blood run cold. They then took notice of his right appendage; a tanned hand, with black leather belts strapped around it, and a few iron pieces bolted into the hand to make some kind of makeshift glove.

"Wrath," Ansem calmly announced as he sat back down in his chair in calm demeanor, "I was beginning to think you weren't coming back."

"Well, after being insane for about 500 years, you tend to get bored," Wrath shrugged, and then turned serious, "Still… I heard you've been having trouble with the Fellowship returning. I might be able to lend in some assistance in hunting them down. After all… I spent a lot of time in the Negaverse's Inferno… digging up some help."

A moment of silence was among the other Homunculi Seven, as Pride cocked an eyebrow in deep thought. He whispered over to Greed and asked, "He got bored of being insane?"

"Sounds to me like he's still bonkers," Greed retorted.

The Final Day of Spring Break

At the Bullet Train Station

The final day of Spring Break had started, and had to be utilized to get home for both parties. Both parties were there, Serena and her girls, minus Amara, Trista, and Michelle, and Aaron and the boys were there as well. But for some odd reason to everyone else, Ami seemed to keep her distance from Aaron, as he tried to do the same. The others just looked at the two, trying to figure out what was going on. Aaron was looking down the other way, waiting for the train, while Ami wore glasses, hiding her eyes with help of the glaring sun on her lenses, and reading a book, keeping focus on it than other things around her. To put it bluntly… this was the most awkward moment anyone had ever seen before.

Lita, who was the most concern for Ami, walked over to her and asked, "Um, Ami? Is everything alright with you?"

Breaking away from her book, Ami simply looked ahead, not even looking at anyone, simply answered, "I'm doing just fine, Lita." And then went back to her book, shutting off everything in the world.

"Well, you sure look like you're in a pretty bad mood," Mina chimed in, hoping to try and help. However, when she spoke up, Ami seemed to turn away, almost huffing at her response. Mina seemed a bit hurt by that, as she asked in concern, "It was something I did, wasn't it?"

"I'd probably say it was," Ami shot out, obviously upset and directing it to Mina. The others were a bit taken back by that; Ami wasn't one to hold a grudge, but now… something was up. "You're the last person I should be talking to. Why did I even think it was such a good idea to even try and be a bit hopeful?"

Deeply concerned for their friend, Serena, being the emotionally understandable one, walked up and asked her, "C'mon, Ami. don't be like this." she then placed a calm hand on her friend's shoulder, turning her around, "Just tell us what's…" Just then, when she saw her face, Ami had a few tears going down her cheeks, and a look of sadness hidden by her glasses, as Serena whispered in concern, "Ami…"

Seeing that they saw her tears, Ami pulled off her glasses as she sniffed a bit. "I guess… last night wasn't a good time to kiss him." The other girls were a bit surprised by this, but let Ami continued as she wiped away her tears, sniffling, "But now, afterwards… instead of resuming our friendship, it's almost as if there's nothing." She then brushed the tear away as she gave them a sad smile, "It's like… we're now complete strangers. I keep wondering what in the world I've done wrong."

Sensing that this was her fault, Mina gave her friend a reassured hug, and promised, "Don't worry. I'll see if I can fix things between you two."

"I think you might do more harm than good, Mina," Rini muttered.

Meanwhile, the boys were looking at Aaron, just as the girls were concerned for Ami. Frey, being the closest to him, walked up and asked, but before he did, he cocked an eyebrow as he instead, observed him. He looked at the boy hard, steady; he was pretty much out of character at this moment. It was only until the train was spotted a few yards away, did Frey finally come back to his senses… and slapped Aaron viciously behind his head.

The slap was nearly powerful to send him onto the tracks, as Aaron, startled and waving his arms as he tried to balance himself back. Unfortunately, his lost it and nearly fell downward, if it weren't for Ian who grabbed him by his pant waist. "Is there a reason why you slapped him," Ian asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Are you insane?" Aaron questioned him, not in the mood for silly shenanigans at this point in his life, "Seriously, you could have killed me!"

"I should be asking you if you're insane," Frey shot out, earning confused looks on everyone's faces, asking silently what he was talking about. He huffed as he crossed his arms and explained, "I think I figured out why you're moping around. Last night, Ami deeply confessed her feelings for you, didn't she?"

Suddenly, Aaron twitched by this, going pale and made a silent panicked face, as Frey continued, "And knowing your past life in fear of love commitment, as I call it, your fear of one day losing the girl who's perhaps madly in love with you, got the better with you."

Aaron jerked back, almost as if some invisible force punched him, meaning Frey was dead on with his answer, as he continued. "In other words, he dug himself a hole," another punch came to Aaron as it went on.

"He fell into that hole himself…"

PUNCH!

"And he's probably writhing in that hole even as I explain it."

PUNCH! SLAP! KER-CRUNCH!

Frey finally shrugged as he shook his head, "There's no helping it not to know it, really."

Finally, Aaron shot back up, feeling better than before as the train finally pulled in, as he shouted at Frey's face, "FREY! STOP READING MY FREAKIN' MIND!"

"But is it true?" Domon asked, earning a place to ask him.

Aaron felt a bit embarrassed about this, not sure of how to answer that, and then Jin asked, while adjusting his glasses, simply interrogated, "But Aaron… didn't you, at some point, discover feelings for her as well?"

"Seriously," Ian butted in, looking rather disappointed at Aaron, "You just broke her heart, practically lying to her face about it?"

"Well, no…" Aaron tried to defend, but didn't get far. "I just… well, I mean…"

"You really are a jerk," Phumika huffed as she crossed her arms. "Though, I really don't care about it much."

"Then why are you talking about it?" Sarah snickered.

This time, it was Phumika's turn to get stuttered on the subject, though she covered it up as she turned to Aaron, "A-Anyway… you better come up with an answer fast, Buster!"

Aaron's stuttering was getting worse, unable to cope with an answer for them. He shook his head, not wanting to answer any question. The others were quiet, especially Sarah, as they entered the opened doors to the train. Aaron just had a lot on his mind, rather than think about what had happened last night…

Suddenly, the image of him kissing Ami reappeared into his memories. He shook his head profusely as he tried to

He was about to turn his attention elsewhere, when Ami had walked up to him, and smiled as she attempted to mend their friendship, "Aaron!"

She tried to smile at him, hiding the fact that he had rejected her feelings for him. But Aaron merely just looked a tad bit surprised. However, he simply turned and then walked away from her.

Ami looked at him confused until she asked in silence, "But why?"

At the End of the Train

At the back of the train, sneaking aboard the back with no one noticing, was the Hishimanji Gang. In fact, it was the same one that attempted to rob the train and hold it for a pretty penny, or rather, just to show off for kicks. But now, they were back for revenge. They had learned that 'Thunder Mountain Fists', or Ian, was boarding this train, and they had not forgotten of their last and humiliating defeat to him. This time, they were gonna make him pay for messing them up.

Their leader, with his fingers still on splints from Ian's finger breaking, sneered evilly with a grin. "Heheheheh, this is it, boys," the Leader smirked at this coming triumph to his men, "We'll pay back Thunder Mountain Fists for this humiliation. I don't care if he's like a mountain; eventually he's gonna crumble. The plan's simple: we just throw him in front of any pretty girl in the train, and he'll freeze up like a popsicle and then we'll…!"

"YAAARGH!"

One of the others shouted in fear, gaining the others their undivided attention to him. The man was gagging and gurgling, as a familiar four fingered clawed hand had rammed itself into his chest from behind. the thug screamed in pain while the others backed away frightened at this scene. The creature pulled out something glowing and shimmering, and it was in a heart-like shape. The man collapsed as the body began to grow dark, making bone-breaking sounds as it began to change.

The others stood back terrified as their former comrade stood up on his legs, to reveal the creature in his place. It had sharp blade hind legs, colored black, its right hand had been replaced by a combination of a samurai sword and a Tommy Gun. Its torso had on the same colored jacket of the Hishimanji, and had on its head the same type of hat you'd find a high school gang member would wear with his black overcoat, over its yellow eyes. On its back, four samurai swords were embedded there, on top of the Heartless insignia.

The Hishimanji leader quivered, nearly wetting his pants as he spewed out, "I… It's… It's a monster!"

Then suddenly, he and the rest of his gang were swarmed over by other Shadows, being turned into similar likenesses of the Heartless before them. As this was done, the new Homunculus Nobody, Wrath, was sitting atop the train roof, and grinned, "Not monsters… just those without Hearts."

Later On

Halfway to Tokyo

The others had found their seats, though they preferred to be bunched together. Sarah had fallen fast asleep just as soon as they reached a one mile marker, although now they were pretty much halfway to Tokyo at this point. After they had found their seats, the five boys and two girls relaxed in their seats as the others packed in and prepared for the train to take off.

In the other cart over, Serena and the gang were all conversing over usual topics: school, fun, and most importantly, boys. Ami, however, was looking out her window, completely focused on the outside as it passed along them. In truth, she was feeling deeply depressed about what had happened on that night. Just remembering the kiss was perhaps the only thing that made it bearable…

She shook her head, knowing that Aaron had made up his mind. 'It's okay! I'm fine with us being friends! I… ' she then shut her eyes, desperately trying to keep the tears from coming out as she confessed to herself, '… I just don't want to lose him… not this time…' And then, a more painful thought entered her head as she became a little depressed by it, '… after all, he only sees me as a friend.'

But by this time, Mina had taken a gander of Ami's depressed face, and knew that she had been responsible for this. 'Poor Ami..' she thought to herself at this moment, and then clenched her fists in determination as she looked out the window, 'I've gotta fix this.'

She immediately got up from her seat, gaining the attention of the girls, including Ami. "What's the matter, Mina?"

She looked to the others as she answered, "I've gotta take care of something. I'll be right back."

And with that, the Sailor Soldier of Venus took off towards wherever her target was at.

Where the Boys Were

At the moment, they were just sitting together, just waiting to get back home. That is, until Aaron decided to get their minds off of his recent and brief break-up, and on a more mission related topic. "You know, I've been thinking," Aaron pointed out, "As soon as we get back, we might have to think about making a sort of HQ for us when we need to battle plan in the future."

"You mean like a clubhouse?" Domon asked, while sipping at some tea.

Jin adjusted his glasses as he cleared up the question, "More like a secret lair; a fortress of solitude for us." He looked to Aaron as he asked to confirm, "Am I right?"

Aaron nodded, "Yeah, um… something like that."

"Sounds pretty nice," Frey thougth to himself as he grinned and scratched his chin like he had a beard, "A place where a couple of swingin' bachelors… and bachelorette… can hang around. Forte loose and fancy free."

Of course, that last part went unheard of when Frey had mentioned of their only female member. Phumika was fast asleep, along with Sarah; apparently the two had fallen asleep after an exhausted game of their card game, War. However, that conversation for a hideout was short-lived, as they were in the presence of someone that had popped up. It was Mina, and she looked pretty desperate in something as she looked to Aaron. He was immediately confused as she bowed her head, and immediately apologized.

"Aaron, I'm sorry," she started, blustering out, causing the boys to jump back in surprise, "I'm really sorry about the whole haunted house thing."

"Uh, what are you talking about? It was a pretty big…" Aaron started out, but got interrupted.

"It was all just a way for you and Ami to get together," Mina confessed, as she looked up and saw the surprised looks on the boys' faces, as she went on. "Even on the beach, Frey and I gave you that ticket for the raft ride. And that movie date was also an attempt." she then stood up right as she thought to herself aloud, "Of course, it was also supposed to have a park walk with romantic lighting involved in it, a romantic dinner, and then there was supposed to be a backup plan involving…"

THUD!

The conversation went to a stop, as they all heard an enormous thudding sound come from inside the cart. They all looked around, and saw that everyone had fallen unconscious, aside from themselves. Immediately, the boys bolted from their seats as they looked around, along with Mina and a startled awakened Phumika, to try to find out what had caused the whole commotion. However, before they could do anything, the new brand of Heartless, the Heartimanjis, popped up from the shadows, startling them all.

And what made things even worse… the most insane cackling you ever heard. It continued as a small chuckle, until it erupted into a maniac's laugh, "Hehehehehehe…. Hahahahahaha… AAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!"

It was, unnoticed by Mina, but Ceros popped up from Aaron's jacket pocket. The look of seriousness and fear were clearly evident on the little bear/winged lion stuffed toy's face, as he gulped, "I know that laugh… "

"Okay, that's really disturbing," Mina pointed out.

"Tsk, Tsk," the voice came from the other side of the cart, revealing to the others, Wrath. He grinned demonically as he finished, "I'm pretty sure you have a laugh that's pretty disturbing too, you know. So don't start poking fun on other people's chuckling."

Aaron and the others, including Mina secretly, knew only one thing about this new fellah. Heartless popping up, and the leader of their little group would pop up to control them. Although this guy wasn't the others; he was somebody obviously knew.

So Aaron stepped up, but somehow, felt a strange tingle pain in his right arm, but shouted out, "Who are you?"

"Who am I?" the newest member of their Rogue Gallery questioned, earning a bewildered smirk on his face as he relished it in, "Who am I? why I am the Guardian of the 6th Level of the World That Never Was! I am the most violent and insane member of Ansem's little Generals. I am the powerful! The pleasureable! The insanely insane Wrath!" he finished with his arms out, as if he was addressing a large audience, and smirked at the others, "Pretty hot, eh? Heheh… HAHAHAHAHA!"

The others just looked at him completely confused by all this, as Mina asked aloud, sweat dropping at this, "Are you some kind of whacko?"

"No, nothing of the sort," Wrath shrugged, but then grinned evilly and naughty-like, as he spoke in a dark husked voice, "Well… maybe just a little." but he shook his head as he snapped his fingers, and suddenly, one of the Shadows grabbed Mina, sucking her into the darkness along with it. The others were about to stop it, but were too late, but Wrath swayed their fears, "Oh, don't worry, she's fine. My boys are just sending her down with her friends back in their cart. Probably shaking like a bunch of scared rabbits."

Jin stepped up, with his bokan at his side as he demanded, "What do you want with us?"

Wrath merely shrugged, "Oh, nothing much. Just a favorite little game of racign to the girls… me… " and smirked at the boys and girl as he announced, "… and the Fellowship."

The gang looked shocked and confused by this, and quickly denied it as Ian pointed to himself, "Us? The Fellowship? Yeah, right!"

"Seriously?" Aaron denied.

"You really think I'm that stupid, don't you?" Wrath pointed at Aaron's pocket, "It doesn't take a genius to know you guys have Ceros with you, in his travel form." and pointed to their hands. "As well as the rings that the Fellowship members have in order to transform." the other paled at this horrible realization: this Nobody knew their secret identities. Wrath saw the fear in their eyes and cackled out, "AHAHAHAHA! Oh, don't worry yourselves; I'm keeping this secret to the grave with me." He then became gravely serious as he pulled out a pocket watch and mocked out, "Though you've got to hurry; we reach Tokyo in less than one hour. If you're not there at the cart to where the blonde and her friends are at… they'll be… well, I'd rather not go through the gory details." and then disappeared in a shadow gate, waving them goodbye.

The gang nearly went as white as sheets at this realization, but also took notice of the Heartimanjis charging for their attack on them. They immediately pounced on them, dog piling on the group and all, making sure they couldn't get them off. But before the creatures could guarantee a straight on victory, several beams of light appeared in the cracks that were still open. Finally, they were tossed off, as they were thrown a strew of the whole monorail car. The beasts were about to give up, until half of them were sliced in bits by a flash of sand, and half were shot by arrows of light, destroying all of them in the process.

There, in the center, the Fellowship of the Moon had transformed in their armor, as well as Keroberos in his true form. "Aaron! That fellow, Wrath, he knows who we are," Keros stated, slightly freaking out at this time.

"We'll worry about it later," Phoenix Blade stated, "We need to split up into two teams to search the cars for the girls." he looked to Ian, Phumika, and Frey, "You three check the back cars. Archer, Pisces and I'll check the front."

"And if we don't find anything in the back?" Tauros asked.

"Then we head right for the front," Persian stated, but sighed as he put his hand to his cheek. "Though it kind of sucks, seeing as how you guys play the heroes to the girls this time."

Jin just sighed in his armor as he stated, "If Hotaru was here, I'm sure we would all allow her to slap you right now."

"Cut the crap, already!" Phumika, the Goddess, shouted as she whipped out her Blades of Chaos, "We're wasting valuable slaughter and smash down time here!"

They all nodded in agreement, and took off to their respective locations in search of the girls.

Next Chapter: The Long Trip Home; Heartless Hijackers pt.2

Author's Note: the Laugh that Wrath now has, it's more or less based off of Mark Hamill's laugh from when he did the Joker. Hope that clears things up.