A/N:

Sorry about the chapter getting screwed up, here it is properly!

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Chapter 6/? - Confrontations and a New Ally

Usagi ran up the steps of the Hikawa Shrine, considering Jadeite's threat to the city, she didn't want to risk any more place being burnt up. As much as she wanted to head down to Shiba Park and help the firefighters put out that blaze that Jadeite had started, the threat he had made and the inevitable showdown at Haneda Airport was the bigger priority right now. Arriving at the top of the stairs, Usagi saw that Rei was already outside waiting for her.

"Where's Ami-chan?" Usagi asked, looking around for her blue-haired friend.

"Still on her way." Rei replied.

Luna jumped off of Usagi's shoulder onto the ground. "This doesn't seem like something the enemy would normally do." Luna pondered.

"I think they're getting desparate." Usagi spoke up. Rei and Luna looked at her. "Look, every time the Dark Kingdom has tried to collect energy here in Tokyo, they've been rebuffed by us. The Dark Kingdom was never very big on rewarding failure."

The two girls turned towards the Torii gate at the entrance of the shrine, as Ami made her way up the steps.

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Minako watched in shock as Kunzite collapsed to the ground in front of her, looking up, she saw the dark green haired woman from earlier pointing a long staff at the fallen general. The other general, the blond with his hair in a ponytail snarled at the newcomer.

"Did I not say that I would would not hesitate to assist you?" The green-haired stranger asked.

The blonde general, Zoicite, the ancient part on Minako's mind filled in, immediately jumped towards Pluto to try and attack her, only to be batted down by the woman's staff.

Seeing an opening, Minako grabbed Kunzite off the floor, looped the red ribbon in her hands around his neck and whistled loudly, causing Zoicite to freeze in his tracks at the sight. All the club patrons had either run outside or dropped to the ground, the club was dead silent except for the drone of the fire alarm. Pluto, knowing every facet of her former commander, kept her staff trained on the general. Everybody stood as still as stones, the smell of stale alcohol wafted through the air, neither Zoicite or Kunzite were willing to risk being killed by an angry Venus or Pluto.

"Very slowly, we are going to walk outside, AWAY from innocent people. Understand?" Minako growled at Kunzite. "If either of you tries anything…" Minako tightened the ribbon around Kunzite's neck to make her point.

Zoicite gulped in fear. Minako was running purely on her senshi instincts at this point. Pressing her elbows into Kunzite's back, she marched him out of the nightclub and onto the street. Pluto, taking a cue from her commander, grabbed Zoicite by his uniform's collar and marched him along the street next to Kunzite.

"I must say, Commander" Kunzite spat the title out, "it was very clever of you to send your second in command and that lookalike to Tokyo."

What. Minako's heart started beating out of her chest. Minako's grip on Kunzite's neck tensed slightly.

"But for all your cleverness, Commander, I know you too well." Kunzite continued. "I know you would never, EVER, leave Serenity's side. I know you're hiding her here, Venus, and I WILL get you to tell me where she is."

Minako smirked, relieved that she still had the upper hand over the Dark Kingdom. "You think I would tell you where Serenity is?" She replied. "The princess has already gone into hiding, you'll never find her. Serenity speaks dozens of languages and has connections to every government on this planet. She'll blend in, disappear, With any luck, she's got the Argentum Crystal already."

—

Sailor Moon, Sailor Mercury and Sailor Mars were running as fast as they could towards Haneda Airport. As the trio approached the airport, they saw the long stream of people evacuating the airport after Jadeite's sudden threat.

Up ahead of them was a convoy of police trucks, as the girls darted past them at senshi speeds, "I wonder what those police trucks are for?" Usagi asked, shouting over the fast wind that came from running at Senshi speeds.

"They're probably there in case Jadeite tries to bomb the airport." Ami shouted over the howling wind.

Arriving at the airport's perimeter fence, the three senshi quickly leaped over it without breaking stride, the senshi quickly moved across the airport tarmac.

The Tokyo Metropolitan police didn't take any chances after Jadeite's threat and subsequent fireball in Shiba Park. Clearing the airspace around Haneda airport, several police helicopters circled around the runway, and an even larger number of police boats held a perimeter around the airport, their blindingly bright spotlights lighting up the runway, waiting for something to happen.

The three senshi and Luna leaped over the police perimeter and landed on a great big 16L. Immediately all the police turned to the senshi.

"Don't move!" Shouted one officer.

"Stay right there!" Yelled another.

The three senshi looked at each other and then back at the assembled police, a confrontation with the police being the last thing they wanted right now.

"So you actually showed up. I didn't think you'd be that stupid." Came a voice out of the darkness. The senshi and the police immediately began looking around for the source of the voice.

Teleporting out of thin air, Jadeite perched himself on top of the terminal building. Seconds after appearing out of the air, the some of the spotlights from the police helicopters and boats were fixated on him.

Usagi grabbed her tiara off of her head and began to charge it with her magic. Rei pulled an ofuda out of her subspace pocket and quietly began the incantations taught to her as a shinto priestess. Ami summoned her goggles and began scanning Jadeite.

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Elsewhere, a 17 year old student at Moto Azabu High School had another one of his painfully debilitating headaches.

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Minako and Sailor Pluto marched Zoicite and Kunzite out of the nightclub and into a nearby alleyway in London's Soho district. As Minako shoved Kunzite against the wall, it took every bit of willpower not to start retching from the stench of urine. Pluto shoved Zoicite against the alley wall hard, the business end of her staff only inches away from Zoicite's face. Unlike Kunzite however, Zoicite could not keep himself from retching against the smell of urine in the alleyway.

"Talk." Pluto demanded, her voice carrying a threatening edge to it.

Zoicite let out a small chuckle. "You think we didn't plan this? As we speak, Jadeite and Nephrite are attacking your second in command."

Minako grunted and shoved her elbow deeper into Kunzite's spine.

Seeing an opportunity, Kunzite shoved his elbow into Minako's stomach, causing her to lose her grip on the ribbon around her neck. Stumbling back a couple of steps, Minako quickly recovered and pulled out her transformation pen.

"Moon Power, TRANSFORM!" She shouted to the heavens, and in an instant, Minako became the sailor-suited guardian of justice, Sailor V. Grabbing her crescent moon compact, Sailor V quickly called out "Venus Sulfur Smoke!" engulfing the alleyway in a thick cloud of pungent Sulfur Dioxide and Hydrogen Sulfide that made the alleyway smell like matches and rotten eggs.

Pluto whispered "Dead Scream" and sent a violet ball of energy straight at Zoicite, who teleported away at the last second. Kunzite snarled at Sailor V, his eyes watering from the pungent odor and drops of sulfuric acid suspended in the air.

Kunzite summoned a pair or energy dagger and threw them at Sailor V, who retaliated in kind by firing a crescent beam out of her crescent moon compact.

Zoicite reappeared behind Pluto, and threw a crystal at her. Pluto, without even flinching, gracefully turned around and knocked the crystal out of the way before firing another dead scream at Zoicite.

—

Back at Haneda airport, Sailor Moon, Sailor Mars and Sailor Mercury watched as one of the 747's that had been evacuated was parked at the gate came to life, the lumbering aircraft slowly pushed itself back from the gate, and began to turn to face the senshi.

"Is that the best you've got Jadeite?" Sailor Moon taunted, throwing her tiara at the aircraft's nose wheel.

The Senshi, police, and Jadeite watched at the glowing disc sailed closer and closer towards the airplane. As the tiara flew closer and closer to the airliner, the engines of the lumbering aircraft started to spool up.

The police, not wanting to risk getting caught in one of those four massive engines started piling into their vehicles.

After what seemed like an eternity, Sailor Moon's tiara impacted against the airplane's nose wheel, only for it to bounce harmlessly off of a glowing barrier.

"WHAT?!" Sailor Moon yelped, watching as her Tiara fell harmlessly to the ground.

"What do we do now?" Asked Mars, fear evident in her voice, having only awoken to her powers the day before.

"Run!" Shouted Moon. The three of them bolted down the runway, as the 747 simply opened up it's throttles to catch up to the fleeing senshi.

The trio ran faster and faster down the runway, Mercury's visor giving them some idea of just how fast they were running.

30 kph… 40 kph… 50 kph… Mercury's mind racked as the three of them ran down the runway. How fast does an airplane like that need to go to take off? Mercury asked, mentally kicking herself that she didn't have the answer. DAMMIT! she mentally swore. I'm the strategist, I should know these things!

While the senshi's head start and ability to quickly get up to speed compared to a jet airliner had meant they had a good head start on the 747, the airplane was quickly catching up to them.

Looking down, Mercury noticed that they were running over another set of white stripes along the runway, meaning that they were almost out of runway, she was about to speak up, when Sailor Moon beat her to it.

"We're running out of runway!" Sailor Moon shouted. The three of them tried to stop, but had built up so much momentum that the three girls collapsed under their own inertia and rolled along the runway, across the runway number and threshold markings and onto the runway's blast pad before coming to a stop.

The girls watched the lumbering airline roll towards them, seemingly struggling to stay on the ground at this point.

Suddenly, a rose pierced the ground in front of where Jadeite was standing, and his mental control of the airline broke.

No longer forced to stay on the ground by Jadeite's manipulations, but still running with its engines throttled up, and still carrying its momentum, the lumbering behemoth took to the skies, and flew over the three prone senshi.

Looking up at the situation, seeing that the airplane had passed them by, Sailor Moon looked over to the control tower and saw a familiar tuxedoed figure standing on top of the tower.

"Endymion-sama!" Sailor Moon shouted at her masked savior. Hearing the name, Jadeite looked over to the control tower and saw him.

—

Sailor V and Kunzite fought bitterly in that alleyway, trading blows that could easily shatter concrete. For neither of them, there was no holding back now, no civilians to get in the way, even Pluto and Zoicite seemed to vanish from perception as these two titans fought each other to a standstill.

After what seemed like an eternity of fighting, Kunzite finally felt like he had the upper hand over Sailor V.

He was proven dead wrong when an ace of spades embedded itself in his hand. Looking up, he saw a white-haired man wearing a domino mask.

Minako looked up at her savior and smiled at him. "Phantom Ace, you saved me." She sighed.

"To interrupt a young maiden's night of fun and dancing is the lowest of the low. I, Phantom Ace, will not forgive you." The masked savior spoke into the night. "Now, Sailor V!"