"What are you doing here, Tracey?" Ash exclaimed, his old friend standing before him. "I thought that you were just a researcher. Why are you the third warrior?"
"What's the big deal!" the teen shouted. He was wearing a lime green shirt, along with his trademark orange sweatband. "Is it that big a surprise?"
"Well, you're not exactly one for fighting."
"And you've fought when, exactly?"
"Uh, right now."
"Mercury Bubbles Freeze!" the attack came quickly, but Tracey reacted faster than Mercury had expected. He was in front of the attack and had his own sword out. It had a less pronounced hilt, his actually made of diamond in contrast of Ash's energy blade. He slashed it in front of him, a gust of wind bursting the bubbles.
He quickly turned on his heels, spinning a foot into the air. As he did this, he shouted, "Eddie Wall!" Gale force winds shot from his foot, sending the two senshi hard into the wall around the castle, knocking them out.
"Nice moves." Ash commented as he slapped Tracey on the back, causing him to fall over. "Sorry."
Ash noticed the crowd around them. "What?" they began to scatter.
Sammy noticed a letter in Tracey's pocket, written on the same parchment as the one from the bar. He grabbed it, opened it, and began to read. "'Ash, Sammy, Tracey, now that you are teamed up, you need to infiltrate the palace. Once there, the last two members of your group will appear. When you are together, you must find a way to get to the moon. Upon arrival, my identity, along with your past, will be revealed.'"
Palace
The trio walked along the corridors, hiding their faces under the stolen caps. They had easily entered the palace, but they had soon realized that they stuck out like sore thumbs, so they decided to take some uniforms from the servants. They had been wandering around the castle for hours, but they still hadn't found the two warriors. They were starting to get tired.
"Is it really so important that we find this-"
Suddenly, they were surrounded by bullets, cutting Ash off and causing them to stop dead. Somebody had recognized Sammy and alerted the castle guards. They were in trouble now.
Palace-Garden
Rini looked around the garden and sighed. She had been like this since she had first seen him. She was referring to the servant, Lan. Rini sat back and remembered her home time. She had returned a little while after the final battle, deciding to stick around for a year to help her mother set up the kingdom. She had returned on her fourteenth birthday in the future. That's when she had first met Lan Hikari.
He had dark brown hair and eyes, along with an ever present smile. She had fallen in love at first sight. He had on a pair of black shorts with yellow stripes down each side. His white shirt was covered by an orange vest and he had a blue bandana wrapped around his head.
The only thing that was creepy was his partner, Eugene Chaud. His snow white hair was shadowed by his black sideburns and blue eyes. She was really scared of him. He wore a red vest over a black shirt and a pair of cargo pants.
The duo were pulled from their garden work by the sound of bullets down the hall. They took a quick look at each other and ran down the hall, with Rini deciding to run after them.
The three heroes were now cut off from the rest of the castle. Guards had surrounded them, prepared to shoot. Suddenly, a small, aqua colored ball, resembling a koosh, appeared and stretched out, one to each gun, and yanked them from the guard's hands. They all turned to see the two servants standing there.
"Hikari, Chaud, what do you think you're doing!"
Sorry," Lan started, "but we aren't who you think we are. I'm Lan Hikari, and he's Eugene Chaud, that much is true.. We're actually warriors from an alternate dimension and we're the final members of your so called captive's team."
"What are you sayin-"
Lan cut him off, shouting, "Jutting Earth!" A rock wall shot up from under the concrete, throwing the guard's back. He then looked to Ash and the other intruders. "We should move. We need to get to the Moon."
As the group began to move, Rini looked on with wide eyes, liking the boy now more than before.
Palace-Hangar
"No. Dear god, no." Lan stood stoic, his arms crossed.
"Lan, we talked about this. You're the only one that has her hair color." Chaud said.
"Yeah, Lan, don't be such a punk." Ash snickered. "If you're secure in your masculinity, you can do it."
The boy's eyes became slits. "I don't like you right now."
"Dude, it's understandable that you'd feel uncomfortable doing this, but think of it as taking one for the team." Tracey stated happily.
Sammy spoke next. "Look, Lan. I know it's embarrassing, but if you don't do this, it may only be a matter of seconds before all of the Sailor Scouts are down here."
"You just want to see me in the skirt."
"Oh, it'll be one hell of a funny memory."
"You guys suck." with that, Lan grabbed the Sailor Jupiter uniform Chaud had been able to forge and stepped into the closet. And when he stepped out, the other four teens broke out into variant stages of laughter, Ash falling onto his back. "Oh, just shut up."
Lan pushed past his teammates and turned the corner, his hair now pulled back into a very small ponytail. He then pressed a button held in his glove, a voice changer activating. Keeping his head down, he spoke into a voice box. "Sailor Jupiter reporting. Please open the hangar door."
After a moment of waiting, the massive doors began to slid open, at this point, the other four teens shot out from behind the wall, as Lan charged through the small opening. He jumped, spin kicking the first guard in the face, spinning as he landed low, sweeping the other guard's legs from under him. "Would have been nicer about taking you two out, but no one else is knowing I'm in a mini skirt."
"Aw, but Lan, it shows off your legs so well." Ash giggled, ducking under a swing from the brown haired teen.
"Guys, knock it off. We have to find the Transmitters." Sammy stated, getting to business.
"What?" Tracey asked.
"Well, since the Moon is sacred to the new Crystal Tokyo, the Sailor Scouts set up a system to transport directly to the destroyed Moon Kingdom. Goes on the same process as how their Fuku show up when they transform."
"So well be put in a closet, eh, Lan."
"Ash!" Lan went for a swing again, but Ash jumped back. As he landed, though, his body was engulfed in a rainbow light, and in a moment he was gone.
"See, I love it when things are found so easily." Sammy smirked.
Next: Hard Truths