© 2003-2005 By Stacey Padjune (Serena CrystalMoon)
Disclaimer: Sadly enough, I do not own Sailor Moon or any of the other characters; I just manipulate them...
Authors Note: I thought you people might wanna know why I haven't update in so long. Well the thing is, I had this entire thing completely finished and ready to be uploaded when my computer contracted a virus and dies, my harddrive was completely wrecked so I lost everything, then after awhile we hooked up another computer and somehow that one died too, so I'm hoping this one will have better luck.
Chapter 9: Part One - A Hard Days Night
"Yeah, that's what I'm telling you!" a man of twenty-some years yelled into his phone over the loud blare of the radio, speeding down a highway in his luxurious leather interior 1971 Pontiac GTO. His leather jacket, cool demeanor and slicked back shiny hair making him seem like the Fonze. "You heard right. A hole. No, a big hole. Try humongous. Yep, blown right out of the wall." He chuckled at what he heard over the phone, "And those girls showed up just like you said. Uh huh. You shoulda seen the entrance this group of three made! Aino Minako, some teenage movie star, eh? What a cute chick, kinda ditzy, I just wanna grab that blonde hair of hers and…Yeah, yeah I get it. No, I'm on my way." He sighed before closing his flip phone. Look but don't touch. Watch but don't be seen. He always got cheated out of the fun stuff!
"I couldn't believe it. Those two girls, so powerful. They held these sort of stick things and yelled out some command." She said slowly, looking into a pair of stony gray eyes. "Bright lights. Blue and green. Surrounded them instantly, blue around Mizuno-san and green around Kino-san. Then the lights faded and they were Sailor Senshi. Mercury and Jupiter. Ami-san and Makoto-san, Sailor Mercury and Sailor Jupiter. Ami-san and Makoto-san. Mizuno-san and Kino-san. Mercury and Jupiter." She babbled, slightly on the side of uncontrollable amazement. She lay propped up in a hospital bed, a bandage around the top of her head, over the gash she'd acquired on her forehead. Her dark smoke colored hair a large tangled mess and her skin kind of pale. Her eyes were sort of sunken in and her face seemed thinner. A light blue hospital robe covered her pale emaciated body and a white ID bracelet baring the name of Yekouzi and her health stats was secured around her left wrist. She looked into the stony gray eyes across from her once more, they belonged to an Italian looking man with a thick dark mustache and a mop of tidy combed dark hair. His build was strong and quite large, muscle large. His demeanor was unnerving and so self assured. Agent Anthony Mascucci, his badge read, Tokyo Internal Affairs. His presence was so demanding, making it seem almost a crime that her eyes were on the brink of closing from exhaustion. She fought with herself but could no longer stick it out, her eyes closed and Agent Mascucci's presence was lost to her.
Makoto sat in Minako's private bathroom cleaning the wounds she'd received in battle. The room glowed a golden softness; the tiled walls were a supple yellow, the carpeted floor was a light orange that the uppity folks in England called Goldenrod, the shower door was translucent amber heavenly perfected with a yellow sheen, the metal work throughout the room was of a shiny brass and quite pleasing to the eye and the wire frame of the stand alone mirror placed in one of the corners was a brilliant gold as was the light that shone through the crème colored lamp shades. Makoto's hair, though still up in it's high ponytail, was hanging rather loosely atop her head, wisps of feathery soft chestnut colored hair had fallen from it's place in the ponytail and now framed her face. The senshi had stripped of her uncomfortable clothing and sat sprawled out on the carpet attending to her wounds with a short fluffy crème colored towel wrapped around her.
A grunt escaped her lips as her fingers fumbled over a rather deep cut in her inner thigh as she tried to dislodge a small piece of metal still embedded there. Another grunt, just one more pull…and it was out. Fresh blood sprang to the surface and covered the tips of her fingers. "Shit." She cursed as her other hand dove into the basket behind her to grab a towel. Holding the white dishtowel over the wound, she sighed knowing the blood stain wouldn't ever come fully out of the pristine white cloth.
"Hey Makoto-chan, " she heard one of her friends voices through the door followed by three sound knocks. The voice had been muffled by the thickness of the door and was again the second time her name was called. The door opened quickly but only enough for Haruka to stick her head through the opened space. The sandy haired senshi cracked a smile at the sight of Makoto in nothing but a towel, stretched out on the carpeted washroom floor, the towel barely covering her lower half as she held it up with a warm white towel folded and held down on the wound on her inner upper thigh, a red tint could already be seen from the blood seeping through the towel. The senshi of nature turned her head to the direction of her where Haruka's head had appeared, only to see the other senshi's eyebrows raise up and down a few times suggestively. Makoto opened her mouth to say something but was cut off by Haruka's amused laughter, "Neko-chan sent me to come give you any help you may need."
"How sweet of her." The wounded senshi replied dryly, watching the outer senshi step into the room and close the door behind her.
"Yes indeed," Haruka drawled as she looked down at the towel-clad girl laid out on the floor, "How sweet."
A slight blush covered Makoto's cheeks as she looked up into the other girl's soft dark blue eyes. Silence stretched for what seemed like hours, as the two girls looked at each other, yet only seconds had passed. "Ow!" Makoto suddenly said flinching at a sharp stab of pain. She looked down to where her hand lay on top of the towel on her inner thigh. The blood had seeped all the way through and could be seen in it's dark color on top of the towel. "I think I accidentally pushed down on it. It's still bleeding too."
Haruka knelt down next to the girl, moved her had and then picked up the blood stained towel. Standing, she quickly turned the bathroom sink on and let it fill with hot water. Rinsing the dishtowel under the water, she applied some soap to it and worked it to lather before setting it down in the hot water. Kneeling back down next to Makoto, Haruka grabbed a brown bottle of peroxide. Twisting the white lid off the top, she took a wet towel to Makoto's bleeding wound, wiping the blood off and cleaning it. "This'll burn a bit." She told the girl before pouring the see through liquid over the wound. Makoto inhaled sharply at the immediate burning sensation, her hand gripped the towel wrapped around her near her other upper thigh. Haruka's other hand found Makoto's and covered it gently, comforting her. As always occurs with peroxide use, the initial shock faded away and the pain dulled almost instantly. A bubbling whitish puss came from the wound as the peroxide cleaned it out. Wiping it with a warm wet towel Haruka administered the peroxide a couple more times until the wound was completely cleaned.
"Th-there." Haruka said smiling after she cleared her throat. "All better." Makoto smiled as the sandy haired girl handed her the clothes she'd been wearing before the battle at the school. Turning around Haruka's eyes watched Makoto's blurred shape in the foggy mirror, as she got dressed behind her, a blush tinting her cheeks.
"All done." Makoto told the older girl, alerting her that she could turn back around then. The two girls quickly cleaned up supplies they had used and washed the bloody dishtowel in hot water before letting it soak in the sink with the other towel. Haruka stepped forward and put her hand to the doorknob, "Ready to go out there?" she turned back and questioned the other girl. "They'll attack you with questions as soon as the door is opened.
"You betcha," Makoto told her with a smile. Opening the door the two girls walked out into the hall where the rest of the senshi stood fussing over Ami's wounds and how more serious Makoto's seemed in comparison.
Agent Mascucci of Tokyo Internal Affairs sat with Johnny Mascucci, his younger cousin from America, in Ms. Yekouzi's room at Minato-ku Hospital. When Agent Mascucci needed a spy, he knew Johnny was the right guy for the job. Annoying but friendly, the Fonze-wannabe from New York City was a slick talking, Italian with a love for girls, anonymity and money. Working undercover with IA in Tokyo offered him all of these; girls swooned at his fun-loving cool guy persona, an unlimited budget for cars, food and whatever else he needed kept a smile of arrogance on his face and an unlimited number of identities lay at his fingertips for whenever he felt it necessary to be someone else, whether for personal reasons or business it didn't matter. So the two men sat in chairs on either side of the hospitalized but awake Ms. Yekouzi. Spread out on the table over Ms. Yekouzi were pictures of nine girls and one man, oh and two cats. Some were in various locations but most were of recent events at Aino Apartments, the apartment building owned by young movie star Aino Minako. Pictures of Sailor Venus standing inside the hole in the wall of the top floor; Minako on a treadmill seen through the hole into the same room; various girls and cats on their way into the building and in the room with the hole; Sailor Jupiter, Sailor Mercury and Tuxedo Kamen landing on the roof of Aino Apartments, Sailor Jupiter, Sailor Mercury and Tuxedo Kamen in the air between Aino Apartments and the building next to it. The colored pictures seemed to tell quite a story. Ms. Yekouzi's delicate finger pointed to pictures of her students Mizuno Ami and Kino Makoto then to Sailor Mercury and Jupiter before matching up the rest of the senshi, along with Tuxedo Kamen, and their civilian forms. "Th-these young girls are the S-Sailor Senshi?" Johnny Mascucci asked in disbelief. Agent Mascucci fixed his cousin with a cold stare, 'They won't be for much longer.' He though before pulling his cell phone out.
The senshi all sat in silence in Minako's living room, letting Ami and Makoto rest with interruptions. The silence went on, and hour, maybe two…
Makoto couldn't take it anymore, she could feel all of their eyes on her… wondering what the battle had been like and why she hadn't called for back-up. Knowing she'd missed a meeting and not wanting to talk about the battle, Makoto opened her eyes.
"So what've I missed?" Makoto said with a smile before anything other could be said.
"You're okay!" Ami squealed at once, launching herself at the brunette and enveloping her in a bone-breaking hug. "I kept thinking you were seriously hurt sitting here the way you were! Don't you ever go all macho and get yourself hurt like that again!" Ami's worried voice came out as an order, thinking of how badly things could have gone had Tuxedo Kamen not showed up.
Chuckles were hidden as best as possible as the group listened to Ami chastise on. "What if he hadn't have shown up? I couldn't even support myself here, I couldn't battle. They could've torn you to shreds! What if you'd have been too cocky and slipped up somewhere, you could've been seriously injured or worse!"
"You both could've been seriously injured or worse," Setsuna's time hardened voice used Ami's own sentence against her. "What you two did was foolish, you're both very lucky Mamoru showed up. You should've called for back up immediately, or sent Usagi to get some." Her eyes glued themselves to Usagi and then Mamoru, "and, " she added, "the others should have been informed of the situation once you got here, we're a team and as such are strongest when united." She looked pointedly at the four involved.
Usagi and Makoto, words at the tips of their tongue's, their mouths open ready to speak, were cut off. Eyes widened in alarm as loud bangs rang through the silence and the building shook and vibrated.
Leading the way, Minako lead the way to her exercise room, closely followed by the others. Gasps issued as many pairs of eyes set on the destruction of the room and the gaping hole in it's wall, the sunshine gone from outside and the moonlight flooding into the room. "We've definitely missed something," Makoto said lightly, looking to Ami.
Looking down through the hole to the street below, Michiru shivered and beckoned for the others to take a look.
"Sailor Senshi," a voice rose up to the girls, all now staring down at what appeared to be three youma in different positions, each in a form of reptile. "Hand over the makers of ice and electric. They've foiled an important mission and will be punished. If refused, we will take them ourselves, destroying this building and all of you in the process."
"I think not," Hotaru's mysterious voice muttered darkly, "SATURN STAR POWER, MAKE UP!" she commanded before a flourish of darkly colored lights and cloth surrounded her, the whistling of a swiftly moving blade could be heard as the youngest senshi leapt from the hole toward the youma.
"The fight is on," Haruka told the others. "URANUS CRYSTAL POWER, MAKE UP!"
"NEPTUNE CRYSTAL POWER, MAKE UP!"
"PLUTO CRYSTAL POWER, MAKE UP!"
"MERCURY CRYSTAL POWER, MAKE UP!"
"MARS CRYSTAL POWER, MAKE UP!"
"JUPITER CRYSTAL POWER, MAKE UP!"
"VENUS CRYSTAL POWER, MAKE UP!"
"MOON ETERNAL, MAKE UP!"
Pulling out a rose, Mamoru began his transformation. "Wait," Minako faced Mamoru, her golden hair flying backward due to the force of which she jerked her head toward him. "Don't transform yet," she told him, "I want you to stay up here and watch over Jupiter, she's not fit to battle."
Jupiter's face contorted slightly to one of shock and anger, "But-"
"No 'but's Jupiter, you've been hurt, more so then Mercury and you shouldn't battle in such a condition. As leader of the Senshi I order you to stay here." She told her friend lightly before turning back toward the hole in the wall and leaping downward.
Jumping down in a mix of multi-colored cloth the remaining senshi landed behind Saturn on the pavement below, each in a fighting stance. Their opponents, they learned, we three hideous beast like youma, in a triangle formation. Their bodies as large, over weight and grotesque, their skin was greasy and leathery and their eyes glowed yellow with evil. The middle one, with sickening pea green skin, stood across from Sailor Saturn, ten feet in between them. One stood on either side of Mr. Green with five feet in between them. To the left stood one with brick red skin and to the right stood one of yellow skin.
Seconds after her fellow senshi landed Sailor Saturn gripped her Silence Glaive tight before racing forward, leaping into the air and somersaulting over the middle youma, landing behind it. Slashing her Silence Glaive sideways before the youma could react, the blade tore through it's back, dark green blood oozing from it's wound. Fury swept over the green beast-like youma and soon the other two as well. With a mad screech the green creature led it's partners into battle.
"CRESCENT BEAM!" Sailor Venus shouted, sending a laser jet of golden energy slicing through the air toward the middle green youma.
"FIRE SOUL!"
"DEEP SUBMERGE!"
The green youma yowled loudly after being hit by Venus's attack, soon followed by the yowl of it's orange partner after being struck by the attacks of both Mars and Neptune.
Opening it's large mouth, tiny spheres of crackling black energy zoomed outward away from their red master and after each of the senshi. Running from one of the spheres Sailor Moon grabbed her tiara from her forehead. "MOON TIARA ACTION!" she commanded charging the tiara turned golden disc still in her hand. Jumping and turning in the air, the ball tailing her flew under her body and hit a nearby tree. Releasing the disc from her position above the ground, Sailor Moon landed on her feet and watched her attack sail toward the red beast, slashing through it's shoulder and turning behind it before returning to her.
Sailor Neptune and Uranus fell to the ground, earning brush burns along their legs as well as bloody scorch marks where the energy balls had hit them, the small of Uranus's back and the right hip for Neptune.
"DEAD SCREAM!" a planet-shaped ball of dark red energy flew at the orange youma, knocking it unsteady.
"SHINE AQUA ILLUSION!" Mercury sent a geyser of ice toward the youma knocking it backward a bit before freezing it's legs to the ground.
Seeing the opportunity, action was taken at once.
"MOON TIARA ACTION!"
"CRESCENT BEAM"
"FIRE SOUL!"
"WORLD SHAKING!"
"DEEP SUBMERGE!"
Sailor Moon's golden disc led the way, slicing through it's lower leg, followed by Venus's laser beam landing on it's chest and Mar's fire ball scorching it's abdomen followed by the combined attack of Uranus and Neptune crashing it's heart.
Opening their mouths both the green and red youma sent out more balls of black energy zooming toward the senshi. Scattering and running the senshi tried to avoid them as best as possible. Two hit Mercury, one in the right shoulder and the other in her lower left leg. One slammed into Sailor Moon, burning her right side and knocking her off her feet and onto her butt. One burned Venus in her left shoulder blade and another burned Neptune just above the back of her knee.
Rushing toward the still frozen to the spot orange youma, Saturn twisted and turned her Silence Glaive, it's blade whistling in an arc before coming down straight through the youma's middle, causing it's halves to fall sideways before turning to dust.
'One down, two to go' she thought as she turned her sights to the green one towering over Mercury.
"Yeah, Sabouro-san I need a special task force at Aino Apartments in three minutes, got it? Tell them not move in 'til I get there. The Sailor Senshi are dangerous, we cannot afford reckless casualties. Three minutes." Agent Mascucci flipped his cell phone closed as he got to his feet, grabbing the pictures he let the hospital room without a backward glance.
"What've I done?" a barely audible whisper issued itself from Ms. Yekouzi's lips, worry laced through the words, etched on her face and strongest in her eyes. She gripped the pristine white hospital sheets of her bed, her knuckles turning white. "I've just sent my rescuers an attack squad." Thoughts swam through her head; she'd only been in shock that she'd known the Sailor Senshi, they had saved her, killed that thing in her classroom and brought her here…what a lovely way to repay them. Trying to sit up, her eyes landed on the face of Johnny Mascucci. "I've got to do something." She told him resolutely, getting to her feet shakily she walked toward the table near the door to grab her folded clothes, pushing her IV stand slowly beside her.
"Ms. Yekouzi, what are you doing up and out of bed?" a nurse with long auburn hair chided, fixing her eyes on the standing patient.
"I've got to help them, they saved me-"
"Uh uh uh," the nurse reprimanded, taking Ms. Yekouzi by the arm and leading her back to the bed, "Rest is what you've gotta do." Taking a needle from her pocket, the nurse quickly injected the sleep-inducing drug into her patient before leaving.
"DEAD SCREAM!"
"SPACE SWORD BLASTER!"
Pluto and Uranus each sent their attacks at the green youma, Pluto's planet-shaped attack hitting it's side and Uranus's wind blades slicing four gashes to it's upper torso, sending it about three feet sideways from where it had been, eliciting an angry howl. Turning it's head, it's mouth opened sending two medium sized energy sphere's sailing toward it's attackers. Pluto leapt into the air, avoiding the attack easily. Uranus wasn't as lucky, the attack grazing the lower back of her leg as she jumped.
Saturn flew toward the green youma, engaging it in physical combat kicking it's stomach and blocking a punch before ramming the blunt end of her Silence Glaive against it's chest.
"MARS FLAME SNIPER!" the senshi of fire bellowed sending a flaming arrow at the red youma, who had set it's sights on Sailor Moon and had already opened it's mouth to attack. The arrow flew through the air, and collided with the youma's chest, exploding and engulfing it in a huge sphere of flames.
"Move out!" a males stern voice rang out of the battle ground, two dozen black clad people emerging as if from nowhere and shooting rounds of bullets at the to youma.
"What the-!" Sailor Uranus began but was forced to stop when she suddenly had to avoid a whistling object that hurtled past her and out of sight.
Another bang followed by a whizzing object coming in her direction caught Sailor Mars's attention. Jumping sideways, the object missed her and imbedded itself into the earthy ground next to her. Looking down Mars's eyes narrowed angrily at the object next to her. "It's the police and their firing tranquilizer darts at us!" she seethed aloud, alerting the other senshi. The sailor suited fighters ran and leapt avoiding the flying tranq. darts.
Saturn sliced at the green youma with her Silence Glaive, covering it in oozing green gashes while the policemen shot bullet after bullet into it's rotund mass.
"MARS FLAME SNIPER!" Mars bellowed, sending a flaming arrow toward the green creature, Sailor Saturn running and diving away before the arrow hit and exploded. The ball of flame around it dissipated then the creature fell to the ground, a pile of ash.
A policeman not far of from Saturn shot a tranquilizer dart in her direction, sidestepping, the Senshi of Death locked her gaze on the man in fury and leapt toward him.
"Saturn no!" Sailor Moon yelled hysterically, staring at the youngest senshi holding her Glaive ready to strike. Another dart flew toward Saturn, this time from a man farther off. "SILENCE WALL!" she bellowed, erecting an immediate purple shield in front of her with the Silence Glaive, the dart hitting it and falling to the ground.
"We've gotta finish the last one quick, we can't keep doing this!" Sailor Moon yelled out, diving out of the way of another dart.
"LOVE AND BEAUTY SHOCK!"
"SPACE SWORD BLASTER!"
"DEAD SCREAM!"
Being shot at by thousands of bullets didn't seem to be affecting the red youma very much, but the huge golden heart hitting him with the strength of a boulder and the feel of Venus's Crescent Beam sure did. The creature yowled in agony before being pushed back and slashed open by Uranus's attack and finally engulfed in large and very powerful planet shaped sphere sent by Pluto . The youma stood barely alive after the three attacks, glowering at the senshi in his view.
"SHINE AQUA ILLUSION!" Sailor Mercury shouted, sending a powerful geyser of ice into the youma, diminishing it to dust.
"Mars use you flame to round them up," Venus shouted, jumping away from another dart, "Mercury, use your ice to build a box or cage!"
"Right!" they replied together.
"SHINE AQUA ILLUSION!"
"FIRE SOUL!"
Mercury created a cage of three thick ice walls and a matching roof, though the roof had small holes in it. Gathering the policemen together by chasing them with her concentrated continuous fountain of fire, Mars led them into the cage. Once they were all in Mercury created the last wall.
"The ice cannot melt and is unbreakable, though they can't stay in there for long…" Mercury the genius told her friends, "two-three days maybe. They won't be able to talk with anyone outside the cage either."
Leaping back up to the hole in Minako's exercise room, Saturn was quickly followed by the others. A word never left her mouth as she de-transformed, the other following her actions once more.
"Minako you can't stay here, the building's a real mess." Michiru's soft voice told the young blonde, "why don't you come stay with us 'til this place is fixed?"
Nodding her agreement everyone said their goodbye's and parted ways, all in need of rest and some soap and water.
Author's Note: Okay I had the other part of this finished and was originally got upload them as one installment but I don't have much of the second part re-written yet so I decided to post them separately. Also, I did have lengthy answers and such to reviews at the top of the chapter but they were lost when my computer crashed so I'll try to re-write and include them in the next one. (July-20-2005)
- -Serena
