Chapter 7-Haruka the Undercover Agent

Music blared loudly from the speakers. The room smelt like sweat and smoke. People grinded against each other, doing their mating routines. We were in a little underground club called Club 71 in Hong Kong. Girls kept trying to pull me to the dance floor and I kept refusing. I needed to keep my eyes on my partner.

Ever since we found out about the Wiseman's plan and the rise of the Dark Moon clan, Michiru and I had been tracking these people all over the world. The original members of the clan called themselves the Recruiters and they had been going around the world, spreading lies about Queen Serenity. The clans divided and replicated like viruses. Our mission was to keep track of the recruiters and hopefully one of them would lead us to the Wiseman. He would still be a human, but a human with dark power nonetheless.

Ami brought the plan to us one night. "Queen Serenity had explicit instruction on not to kill him. She wanted to talk to him if you could bring him to the palace. Although in my opinion, well…" I guess the logical Ami agreed with us on this one. Sometimes the dirty work needed to be done. Michiru and I would always be the dark angels.

Of course, being famous as Tenou Haruka, car racer and Sailor Uranus, our undercover work was more difficult than before. So Michiru borrowed the disguise pen from Minako. She transformed herself into a beautiful blonde lady. Initially, I chose the appearance of a businessman with dark black hair. Michiru teased that with a long ponytail, I would look like Seiya. So I went back to my blonde hair. Screw Seiya.

Right on cue, a man with red hair approached Michiru. Ami had provided the intel on this guy. His name was Rubeus, and Sailor Moon had already kicked his ass in the past. Right now, he was still human but was already corrupted by Wiseman's dark power. A lot of young women had disappeared in Hong Kong lately and Michiru suspected that it was him doing the dirty work. I gagged a little as I watched him put his filthy hand on my wife's shoulder.

Michiru had turned on her charm on maximum. No man could resist that. She was laughing at something he said. Rubeus looked arrogant as hell. I cracked my knuckles, anticipating the fight later.

Michiru started playing with her earrings. That was our signal. That meant they were moving. Hopefully to their headquarters and not to a hotel room.

Just then, two really young girls jumped out of nowhere and blocked me. One of them was saying something in Cantonese to the other. The translator then put her hands on my shoulder and started pushing me towards the bar while slurring "girl want you. We buy you drink?" Shit. I caught a glimpse of Michiru leaving the bar already.

These girls were hammered. They looked like they were only a few years older than Hotaru. "Follow me. Follow pretty boy." I head toward the door while signaling them to follow me. Once they were out of the club, I hailed them a cab and pushed them in. They will thank me tomorrow morning. I told the driver to take them home and I handed the money to him.

Okay, time to find Michiru. I took out my communicator and turned on the GPS function. Thanks to Ami the smarty pants, now we could track each other using GPS. They seemed to be in a car, moving fast toward the ferry dock.

I jumped into my car and raced down the crowded street in pursuit. My heart pounded as I started to get a sense of unease. Why were they heading that way? Something didn't feel right about this. I pushed the crappy rental car to its maximum speed limit, barely reaching 80 km/h. I groaned and wished we had rented a sports car. Michiru argued that that would make us stand out like a sore thumb. At this rate, running would be faster.

Up ahead, I could see a black van parked in the parking lot. I watched as Rubeus dragged Michiru out of the van. Michiru was blindfolded, bound and gagged. She could have easily gotten out of that. I guess she wanted to see where this would lead. I transformed and leapt onto the ferry as they started to board.

I did a quick head count. One ferry operator, five thugs. They all had a dark moon symbol on their forehead, whether they had power already was questionable.

Rubeus took off Michiru's blindfold and gag. "Do you know why we are here?"

"Oooo…kinky." Michiru winked. Urgh, don't give him any ideas, I groaned.

Rubeus laughed and then his eyes turned glowing red as he levitated. "It is time for you to ascend. If you accept my power and renounce your loyalty to Queen Serenity, then you will live. You will no longer be human but you will have great power. Watch." He pointed at the thugs.

They too started levitating and their eyes started to glow. So this was their recruitment party. How many innocent people had been dragged here and forced to choose? How many choose death instead? I shuddered at that.

I made eye contact with Michiru. She shook her head slowly, telling me to stand down.

"So, if I join you guys, then I will have power too? Like flying?"

"If you are a good girl, I can make you even more powerful." Rubeus bent down and traced his hand around Michiru's face.

"And, if I don't?"

"Then you will join the rest of the traitors in the bottom of the ocean. Fish food, or power? Your choice."

"So that's where the missing people went." Michiru stood up and dropped the rope on the floor. "Sorry, it wasn't tight enough. My wife can do better than that."

Urgh. We should have picked a different phrase. That was the cue to attack. I burst through the window and sent an attack straight at Rubeus. Michiru leapt out of the way and transformed.

Rubeus lunged at me and shot out a dark energy ball. He missed.

"World shaking." I shot it out and started running toward him at the same time. He was able to run away from my attack but not my right hook. My fist made contact with his face and he went flying.

Rubeus landed on the floor and started laughing. "You might want to see what's behind you before you attack again."

The thugs had managed to overpower Michiru. Two guys held on to the rope that was wrapped around Michiru's neck. The others pulled out their guns.

"Detransform now, and hand over your transformation pen." Rubeus threatened.

My head ran through a thousand scenarios but all of them ended up with Michiru being dead. I will not lose her again. Seeing her die twice was enough. So I did what I was told. But instead of handing over my transformation pen, I threw it out into the ocean.

"That works too. Oh, I forgot to tell you. This will be the final stop for the both of you." Rubeus took out a gun and pointed it at my head.