Here's the chapter. I'm hoping to finish this story soon. Hopefully I won't disappoint.

Last time:

"That's fine. Each one of you will take on one of my warriors. The Queen and I will sit back. If we win, you die, obviously."

"And if we win," Sailor Moon cut in, "You let us all walk out of here, and let Quatre have the pill."

'And then we destroy this base, killing you,' Pluto thought, glancing at the King. He nodded.

"That's fine. I agree." The senshi glanced at each other. He had agreed, yes, but it sounded risky.

"Alright, now let Quatre stand aside for now and wait for the results," Mercury said. The King laughed.

"You forget. Until this fight is over, he's one of my warriors. You have to fight him."

Chapter 15

Sarah looked at Sanyu, who wore a huge grin on her face as she was glancing from Quatre to Duo. Why was she so happy? Had something gone wrong? It couldn't have...

"Alright, I'm assigning partners. It has to be interesting after all," the King said, looking over the group, before nodding.

"Mirvette, you'll be fighting Sailor Moon." The two glared at each other, their differences not forgotten.

Duo clamped a hand on his stomach, suddenly feeling odd.

"Mercury, you will fight Sanyu." Mercury nodded, lost in the thought of her own revenge for the moment. "Pluto, you will take on Quatre. Tuxedo Mask, Venus, Jupiter, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, Pilots and Sarah, you will take on my elite." 11 more warriors, dressed in similar lab coats stepped out. Simultaneously, they all threw off their lab coats, revealing outfits much like Sanyu and Mirvette.

"Now get ready, I want all of you to face your opponent."

In two lines all of them obeyed, facing each other.

"Go."

Everyone leapt into action, Sanyu coming towards Mercury aggressively, but not yet attacking.

"What are you waiting for, a bigger audience," Mercury asked, as Sanyu stared her down, arms crossed. Around them, shouts and cries of pain were heard.

Quatre advanced on Pluto very quickly, leaving her no room to keep him away without hurting him and still defend herself. Before she knew it she was on the ground, unable to comprehend when she had gone down. Quatre crouched next to her, staring down at her face.

"Pathetic."

Duo's warrior didn't attack him, surprising him; however the pain in his stomach and the odd feeling in his head was enough for him not to question it.

While Sanyu watched Mercury, she took a moment to see how her friends were. Moon and Mirvette were really into their battle, seemingly equally matched. Sarah was fairing well. The other scouts were either tied with or had the upper hand in their fights. The pilots were fairing well considering they had no magic. Duo had yet to attack his warrior, although he didn't really look so good. Effects of the pill?

Duo kneeled on the ground, holding his head. One hand was on the ground in front of him, palm up and currently useless.

Mercury turned back to Sanyu.

"Ready yet? Or do you have to touch up your makeup first." Sanyu didn't even scowl at Mercury's comment.

The person Duo was supposed to be fighting approached him now, not looking at all surprised at his condition. She pulled from her forgotten lab coat a dagger, and placed it in his hand currently on the ground. Duo looked down at his hand and at the blade, before looking back to the warrior. She nodded at him, and once he met her eyes he knew. He knew what she had been waiting for.

Sarah had been tricked. The foolish girl, the pill was only temporary. And if Duo recalled, he still had a mission.

"We'll see who's laughing in a minute," Sanyu told Mercury.

However, after this threatening comment, Sanyu did not make a move.

'Is she waiting for me to attack,' wondered Mercury as she stared at her. 'Am I wasting my opportunity at revenge? Have I been too slow to put Rob's killers back in their place? I have. Why did we wait so long to end this?'

In one swift motion, Duo finished his mission.

Mercury cried out and fell to her knees, an enormous pain taking over. Her back- had someone…with her eyes now glazed over, she turned her head to see who stood before her.

Duo reached over and pulled the knife from her back. His eyes were now clouded over as the realization of what he had done hit him like a ton of bricks. And he fell to the floor, backing away slowly in shock.

Sanyu's laughter was heard from in front of her, and Mercury, who was growing more disoriented by the second, looked towards her.

"See who's laughing now Mercury?"

The battle came to a halt, as everyone stared in shock.

"Oh my gosh, Mercury!" The voice was Sarah's.

"You see Sarah, what you over heard us saying about the pills was right. It does change people back- temporarily. However, when we first brainwash our soldiers, we give them one mission that they have to complete. Even is they go back to normal a few minutes, until they complete their mission, they belong to us. As you can see, Mr. Maxwe1l's was to eliminate Mercury. I'd say he's back to normal now."

Mercury, unable to keep up now, collapsed. Duo, denial now gone, rushed to her side.

The others moved to come over, but were stopped by the King.

"Hey," he said, "We had a deal. Your battles are still going on. So fight before I destroy her and the pilot." Before any objections were made, the King's warriors attacked, throwing them back into battle.

Sanyu paced around Mercury and Duo. Duo was crying now, as Mercury didn't respond to him. And the blood- it was everywhere.

"Come on now Maxwell, suck it up. You've completed your mission. You failed at the cabin- but don't worry, you've more than made up for it now."

Duo turned to look at Sanyu, pure hate filling his eyes.

"Shut up! I knew you were evil from the moment I met you!"

"Hmm, somehow I'm not insulted." Sanyu continued to pace around them, before stepping at Mercury's side and looking down. Mercury was currently lying face down due to where she had been stabbed, but still Sanyu's sharp eyes caught sight of something.

Mercury's chest was slightly rising and falling.

"She's breathing," Sanyu stated, more out of anger than just the stating of a fact. "She shouldn't be breathing." Duo tensed as he realized what Sanyu was getting at. He stood, meeting Sanyu's gaze as the two were only inches apart.

"She's not breathing," he responded. "I was shaking her. Why don't you go help your other warriors in battle?"

Sanyu shook her head. "She's breathing Maxwell. Move aside. I don't expect you to make this easy; however I can tell you that no matter what she'll still die. All the wasted effort, and all the pain she'll be put through. Let her die quickly."

"No."

"Maxwell, we could still use you here. Don't make me kill you."

"If that would mean that she'd be left alone, go ahead."

Sanyu stared at him, deciding whether he was serious a moment, before speaking. "Fine, I'll just have to kill you and then finish her off once you're gone."

Duo glanced behind him. He knew right now that Sanyu was a great match for him. She was stronger than the elite the others were fighting, and guns didn't do her much harm, unlike some of the other warriors. He knew that he wasn't supposed to move a person when they were injured that badly but- leaping into action, Duo grabbed Mercury and ran for it.

If he could leave the base, maybe there was a way to put her somewhere safe and return to his friends to make sure they were alright.

"What?" Sanyu frowned once Duo grabbed Mercury and headed for the exit. She glanced at the King, who motioned for her to follow the two.

Duo ran out into the bright hallway, having forgotten what it was like there. Left or right? He chose left and ran for it. Sanyu entered the hallway. Had they gone left or right? Maybe right? If not, she knew her way around well enough to search the other directions. Sanyu ran right.

Duo tried to move quietly as not to alert the other workers in the base of their presence. Besides, from where he was hiding, Duo saw Sanyu go right. He moved down the hallway, looking in open doorways to see if it was okay before he crossed.

Where to out her? Where was it safe? He passed by a room that had the words 'Weaponry' written on top of the metal door. You needed a password to enter. Duo chuckled to himself. He and Quatre had been given the passwords so that they could fight the scouts. Quickly typing it in, he entered and the door closed behind him. There were all sorts of weapons in the room, ranging from extensive karate equipment to guns. Guns! He frowned. He already had a gun, and he knew it did nothing against Sanyu. He walked over to a cool looking black gun. He'd never seen anything like it before. Did it just shoot bullets? Balancing Mercury against one arm for a moment, he raised his other arm and fired at a target placed in the room.

A bolt of blue energy came out and burnt the target to a crisp.

Duo nearly dropped the gun. It was like the magic the enemies used in a gun! Now, he decided, now he would seek out Sanyu.

The gun was perfect, because he could carry Mercury and also fight at the same time.

Exiting the room, he moved towards where the battle was taking place. When Sanyu returned, he would kill her, and he also needed to make sure the others were alright.

Inside, they groups were still fiercely fighting. He couldn't help but look over at Mirvette and Sailor Moon.

"You know, I remember everything about when I attacked your family last year. Your parents were so pathetic. And you're brother- how old was he? Fourteen, fifteen? He cried like a baby."

Sailor Moon lunged at Mirvette at this comment.

Finally, the ties ended, as Uranus destroyed her warrior. Everyone looked up, the other elite slightly shaken by this turn of events. Next to beat her elite was Jupiter. Jupiter and Mars, battles now ended, ran over to where Duo stood with Mercury still in his arms.

"How is she," Jupiter asked, as Uranus defensively pulled Mercury from his arms.

"It's too much blood loss, she'll be gone within the hour at this rate," Uranus said bitterly. Duo remained silent, unsure of what to say or how to defend his previous actions. Yes, he had been brainwashed, but he should have controlled himself.

Mars came running over, having destroyed her warrior, followed by Venus a couple of minutes later. Sarah approached with Neptune as well.

"Wow, you all beat your warriors," Duo commented.

"We had extra encouragement," Jupiter explained.

Heero's warrior fell to the floor dead, followed by Wufei's.

A loud scream was heard, and the group looked up. Mirvette lay on the ground now, Sailor Moon holding her scepter.

"That was for my family," she shouted, "But this one is for everyone else you hurt, including me!"

Mirvette was turned into a pile of dust.

The remaining warriors, s till barely alive that were fighting Mamoru, and Trowa, fearing that they would go next, ran for it, their King cussing after them.

"We've won," Pluto told the King, and before anyone could object she had shoved a pill down Quatre's throat and made him swallow.

"He still has one last mission," the King taunted from he sat with his shaking Queen. "He thinks he's alright now, but he's not!"

Quatre shook his head.

"I'm back," he said happily, and turning to Pluto, "Sorry if I hurt you."

"Just- just wait. The mission-" Everyone looked at the King and back at Quatre, Sanyu entering the room at that moment.

"There you are," she said angrily, pointing at Mercury and Duo, before she realized how there was no longer much battle going on.

"Where's Mirvette," she asked after a moment.

"She's dead," Sailor Mars said, "And so are you."

"Tell them Sanyu," the King said, approaching her. "Quatre's been programmed for a mission as Duo was. He's not back to normal yet."

Sanyu stared at him a moment, a blush tinting her cheeks.

"I took that precaution with Duo, yes," Sanyu said. "But I didn't feel the need to do that to my Quatre."

The King's face fell. He turned to the scouts.

"Senshi! Please, forgive me! Please, I didn't know what I was doing, it was- it was the Queen, she tricked me!"

"What!" The Queen stood from her chair at the throne. "Me! You're the one who had these radical ideas about science and magic! It was your idea to darken the world! It was all you! And for being a good, supporting wife, you try to sell me out to these people!"

"I don't think you really understand the gravity of what you've started," Sailor Moon said, walking in front of the group.

"You killed many people," Jupiter joined in.

"You destroyed people's lives so you could build up an army, tearing apart their families and ruining their childhoods," Venus said.

"You've left chaos in Tokyo for two years now, and if your warriors had won, you'd have destroyed all of us and continued with your plan of domination," Mars said.

"It's not too late to kill them, my lord, and continue with the plan," Sanyu said.

"We had a deal," Uranus said. "We won, so we're walking out of here."

"Oh really," Sanyu said, approaching the group. "Well I say you're all dieing here, especially that Mercury brat. If you think that-" Sanyu gasped, grabbing her stomach. Everyone turned to look at Duo, who clutched a black gun in his hand.

"An- energy attack. You…found the weapons room. Very clever," she said, falling to her knees grabbing her stomach.

"Any objections to us walking out of here now?" The king turned to Sailor Moon and shook his head.

"No, I have nothing left to fight you with. For now. So go. But you just wait. A couple of months from now, I will skin you all alive. You've won the battle senshi, but not the war."

"We'll see about that," Mars said, as the group exited. Outside on the platform, Wufei, Heero, and Trowa ran to their Gundams, while the rest stood in a circle around the remaining pilots, Mamoru, and Mercury.

"What are they doing," asked Quatre.

"Once we teleport," Pluto said, "They're blowing the place."

"This wasn't a battle. It was the full war. And I am not dealing with this enemy a third time," Venus said.

"Ready?"

"Sailor Teleport!"

A minute after they teleported, three Gundams attacked the base full force, blowing it to bits, before flying down to Tokyo.

The black towers in Tokyo began to crackle with energy before shattering. The darkness began to lift, as the citizens of Tokyo saw the sun once again.

Review! Sorry it took so long to get this out, I was so busy! Next chapter should conclude this!