Chapter 13: Powerfully Pink & a Dually Colored Doppelganger
"Alexandrite, darling I really can't wait to make those scouts pay for destroying my favorite fan."
"Does the one I gave you not suit you?"
"It does. If not better." Morganite analyzed it in her hand. It seemed it had more potential for power. She smiled slyly to herself.
"That is good. However I cannot wait to make them pay as well. Ganging up on Peri was not a wise choice for them." He said menacingly.
"True, although she's lucky she only got her ends fried, unlike me and my fan." Morganite directed attention back to her.
"You are right again." Alexandrite walked closer to the vengeance stricken vixen before the two disappeared out of the dark castle like ship to the outer world.
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"We're almost there guys!" Venus said as they ran closer, seemingly within grasp of their goal. They had recovered well from their previous encounter with the green little Peri who blasted them with quite a shock for being so young. They saw the black crystal pointing to the sky. The black portal platform was just beyond it, and above it was the floating dark crystal ship containing their kidnapped moon princess.
"Hold it right there you brats."
They all stopped dead in their tracks to look up to see the pink nega-moon mistress Morgan floating above.
"What do you want?" Jupiter said preparing for another battle, hands ready for a fight.
"You girls wrecked my fan you're going to pay for that."
"What are you going to use now?" Mars teased.
"This." She let the new fan fall open in her hand.
"We'll just fry that one too." Pluto threatened.
"No you won't." Another voice said.
They looked to see the man from earlier with the green hair that resembled the tough appearance that Malachite once did.
"I Alexandrite won't let you get away with that. If you measly scouts think that getting to the dark crystal portal will be easy, or getting your princesses back for that matter, ha your in for a surprise!"
"There's only two of you, we out number you six to one." Mercury warned.
Alexandrite smiled to Morganite. "Then let's even the odds." Alexandrite said menacingly. He called upon his power before darting to the sides of the scouts. Correction: they darted to the sides of the scouts. It seemed Alexandrite had made a doppelganger of himself with the opposite colour of hair ironically, so now they had both sides of them blocked and the front was blocked off by Morgan.
"What happened?" Tuxedo Mask asked.
Mercury was scanning the entities. "It seems the gem Alexandrite can turn different colors in different light; therefore it is actually like two gems instead of one. This is probably how his power works."
"Well it's still six to three so we should have this, right guys?" Mars asked confidently.
"Mars is right, we still have numbers." Pluto agreed.
"Hah, you think you can get rid of us?" Alexandrite said twice.
"You're surrounded." Morganite threatened. "Hah!" And with that, she sent a bolt of electric energy flying towards them with her fan. At the same time Alex shot both green and red electricity at them from the sides so no matter which way they darted they were smashed by it. The only space open was behind them, and the scouts knew that they couldn't retreat.
"We have to do something." Venus said.
"But we're getting fried!" Jupiter said rebounding from another hit of dark energy.
"Maybe, maybe we can work our numbers." Mercury said.
"What do you mean?" Mars asked.
"Tuxedo Mask and I can distract the fake Alexandrite, while you guys pair up too to weaken them."
"I see what your saying Ami, there's two of us for each of them." Tuxedo Mask said approvingly.
"She's right. Mars you come with me to weaken Alexandrite. Maybe if we hit him enough he won't be able to keep his doppelganger up." Pluto agreed.
"Yea, Venus and I will send Morganite for a shocker." Jupiter said in her eager to fight tone. Venus nodded in agreeing.
"Then let's do this before we get shocked ourselves." Pluto said as they all still were trying to dodge attacks.
"Mercury bubble blast!" Suddenly the street was filled with clouds of haze and bubbles, and neither Morgan nor Alex could see each other.
"How do you like to play with fire?" Mars asked the man, who was blind to her whereabouts. "Mars Celestial Fire Surround!"
"Ahh!" He used his cape to block the fire.
"Or a little fight?" Pluto struck him with her staff causing him to growl in both anger and pain. "You'll pay for that!"
On the other side of the haze, Venus and Jupiter were scouting out the pink dark diva who was trying to fan out the haze.
"Looking for us?" Venus said jumping out.
"We won't miss you this time, hope you didn't miss us!" Jupiter said jumping out from the haze. "Jupiter Thunder Dragon!" "Venus Love Chain Encircle!" Suddenly the unsuspecting Morganite was being shocked and electrocuted by the combination of attacks. "Ah, you'll pay."
"Try to find us then!" Venus said teasingly jumping back into Mercury's haze.
Meanwhile Tuxedo Mask had been fighting the twin off, distracting him from aiding the real Alexandrite. "Shine Aqua Illusion!" Mercury yelled, cooling down the evil twin so it had less ability to protect against Tuxedo's hits.
"Dead Scream!" Pluto said finally causing Alexandrite to kneel slightly over from the shock. Mercury and Tuxedo Mask watched as the evil double weakened before disappearing completely. The haze cleared and the scouts remained in the middle of now two, somewhat ragged enemies.
"You will pay dearly for that!" Morganite threatened, both angered by her own injury but Alexandrite's as well, as he was holding his shoulder feeling both blows from Tuxedo Mask and Pluto. "You scouts are in for a surprise. If you think this is over yet you're mistaken." He threatened before the two sent two huge electric forces of green, red, and pink/black negative energy hurling at the scouts, to then disappear.
"AHH!" They said being pushed from the blasts.
"They got away." Jupiter said getting up, as they tried to once again recover from a blow.
"It's fine. We will deal with them after, but first we have to go to the platform. I have a feeling that is the last we will be seeing any more distractions until then." Pluto said.
"You're right. We're almost there. Common sailor scouts let's go." Tuxedo Mask took the lead this time as they started to enter one of their most difficult battles yet.