A/N:
Sorry it took me so long to update this chapter. But here is the newest chapter of One Wrong Step. Also i will give a special no-prize to any reviewer who can point out the movie reference in the last chapter and the video game reference in this chapter.
Enjoy!
Chapter 7/? - Overlooked
Jadeite looked over at the airport control tower, following the trajectory of the rose that had landed in front of him, his telekinetic concentration on the massive airliner broken. There was standing a man in a tuxedo, top hat and a domino mask.
"Endymion-sama!" He heard Sailor Moon cry out. Jadeite was slightly startled by the name, but he took a closer look at the man.
It's him. The traitor who sold the Earth out to the Silver Millennium. Jadeite mused. Taking his attention off the Sailor Senshi, he snarled instinctively and leaped towards the masked man, throwing lightning at him.
Tuxedo Kamen quickly jumped out of the way of the lightning and intercepted Jadeite in mid-air.
The two men fell to the ground and started fighting each other, not bothering use any weapons or instruments, but trading blows that would shatter concrete with their fists.
Sailor Moon looked over at the two men fist-fighting, knowing that they were now so focused on each other that they could act almost unopposed. Turning her head towards Mercury, she gave the blue-haired soldier a small nod.
"Bubble Spray!" Mercury called out, filling the area with a dense fog that had blinded Jadeite and any onlookers from seeing what was about to happen.
Jadeite, suddenly blinded by a mysterious fog, looked around for the senshi he had overlooked. Not being able to see them or Tuxedo Kamen, he quickly began to panic.
A large stream of fire quickly raced towards him, Jadeite quickly raised a shield spell, and the fireball impacted against the shield. Feeling the radiant heat of the fireball through his shield Jadeite began to feel drained from how much that shield spell was taking out of him, his energy reserves already used moving that 747 that had been bound for New York to try and crush the senshi.
Despite putting as much energy as he could muster into the shield, the radiant heat from the fire had caused Jadeite to flinch away and drop the shield.
Looking up, he saw the fog beginning to lift, and as he dropped to his knees on the sole patch of unscorched earth, spent from the use of energy, he saw the Sailor Senshi walking towards him.
"Surrender. Jadeite." Said Sailor Moon as she walked towards him.
Jadeite looked up, and spit in Sailor Moon's eye.
"Luna. My mother's wand, please." Moon commanded. A black cat that Jadeite hadn't noticed before jumped off of Mercury's shoulder, did a mid-air flip and dropped a pink wand with a golden crescent moon on top of it. Sailor Moon grabbed the wand out of the air before it could touch the ground, and leveled it with Jadeite.
"I can help you, Jadeite." Sailor Moon spoke gently. "I can free you of her influence. I can give you a normal life, and you can be with Endymion again."
Jadeite spit blood at Sailor Moon's feet. "I would rather die than serve that traitor again. Witch." He snarled.
"I'm sorry, Jadeite." She whispered. Sailor Moon began to carve an intricate circular rune into the air with the wand. "Lend me your powers." She whispered to the senshi.
"Moon Prism Power!" Sailor Moon shouted.
"Mercury Power!" The blue one shouted.
"Mars Power!" Shouted the dark-haired girl.
—
In a small apartment in Shibuya Ward, a tall girl with reddish chestnut-colored hair was watching the fight on her small television, while packing up her apartment to move, yet again. Watching Sailor Moon and the other two girls glow with some kind of ethereal power, she suddenly found herself dropping what she was doing.
"Jupiter Power!" She shouted.
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Sailor V had allowed Phantom Ace to jump into the fight, having almost exhausted herself fighting against Zoicite and Kunzite at the same time.
She felt a mental pulse calling her at the back of her mind, and she felt the princess asking her to lend her power.
Unfortunately, Sailor V had all but exhausted herself in the fight, and felt like she didn't have any energy left to give.
Nevertheless, she stood up straight, lifted her head to the sky and shouted with all her might, fully intending to exhaust herself of energy tonight.
"Venus Power!" She shouted and channeled the last of her energy towards her princess.
—
Sailor Moon felt everybody's power pouring into her. Slowly, she began the recite the words of the incantation that her mother had taught her so long ago.
"Moon…" Sailor Moon felt everybody's power building up.
"Healing…" Usagi could almost touch the strands of energy pouring in, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Venus.
"Escalation!" She shouted as she unleashed a blinding beam towards Jadeite.
—
In Tokyo, everybody stopped what they were doing when they saw the searingly bright light emerge from Haneda Airport.
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In NTT Medical Center Tokyo, Saeko Mizuno was in the middle of attending to a terminally ill patient. The poor girl, a Korean teenager named Hyun-ae Kim had been diagnosed with an immune disorder that often left her with violent coughing fits.
Saeko was in the middle of giving the girl her regular checkup, when she had gone into another coughing fit. Looking out the window as she waiting for the fit to pass, a bright light emerged from the direction of the Tokyo Bay, shielding her eyes, Saeko immediately started following the emergency procedures for the hospital and prepared to evacuate her patient.
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Inside an apartment block in Shibuya, everybody was panicking as they saw the bright light come from Haneda Airport.
Everybody except for one chestnut-haired girl who had remained unaware as she stood, locked in a trance, channeling energy to her princess.
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In London's Soho district, the melee between Sailor Pluto, Phantom Ace, Kunzite and Zoicite stopped briefly as Sailor V began to glow with a golden energy.
Sailor V's fuku began to dissolve and reform, the blue skirt and the loose white top being replaced with a tight white top with an attached orange skirt.
Memories began to flood Minako's mind and she could feel her princess calling out to her. The scattered flashes that she had before became coherent scenes and all of the knowledge and training that Commander Venus had learned and drilled into herself returned to Minako's mind.
The Supreme Commander of the Silver Millennium Armies, Goddess of Love and War, and Leader of the Sailor Senshi, Commander Venus, was back.
—
Jadeite felt the energy forcing its way into him. The holy light feeling like it was going to burn him from the inside out. Summoning all of the dark energy he had left, Jadeite pushed back with everything he had. He no longer cared if he lived or died, his mind was left with only one thought.
Resist her.
Jadeite tried to push back against the holy energy, but it was so strong and coming from so many places at once that he decided to make one last push with his remaining dark energy. At least that way he wouldn't give that witch the satisfaction of taking him alive.
Gathering all his energy, all his thoughts into one final push, Jadeite forced himself to push back against the flow of energy as hard as he could. But he quickly found himself buckling under the pressure.
With nothing to sustain himself anymore, Jadeite's body dissolved from the pressure, until all that was left was a single cut stone of jadeite.
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As the glowing light died down, Saeko Mizuno allowed herself a quick glance out the window. No building closer to the epicenter of that flash had seemed to have been damaged. And there didn't seem to be the tell-tale mushroom cloud that would have shown up if the Americans had bombed Japan again.
Relaxing slightly, she turned towards Hyun-ae to make sure she was all right. But to her astonishment, the girl somehow looked healthier than ever. Her skin had gone from pale and clammy to having its color return.
Placing her stethoscope on the girl's back, Saeko asked Hyun-ae to take a couple of deep breaths.
But instead of the labored breaths she had taken only a few minutes ago, her breathing was deep and healthy, as it should have been for a girl her age.
Saeko didn't know what kind of miracle had just happened, but she was thankful for it.
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In a Shibuya apartment block, the brunette slowly came out of her trance. She was tired and hungry from whatever had happened, and so she walked into her very well-organized and well-stocked kitchen, too tired to notice the electrical burns on the carpet that hadn't been there before.
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Sailor Moon walked over to where Jadeite had made his last stand, tears welling up in her eyes.
"Why?!" She asked herself. "Why did you let yourself die like that?! He would have forgiven you! He would have accepted you into his service again!"
Sailor Moon reached down and grabbed the small cut stone of jadeite. Turning towards Tuxedo Kamen, she handed it to him.
"His spirit was freed, Endymion." She said to him. "He's resting peacefully now. It's not what I wanted for him or for you, but he fought until the very end. He deserved a second chance."
Accepting the stone, Tuxedo Kamen pocketed it and jumped away into the night, leaving the three girls and one cat.
"Sailor Moon." Said Mercury, having not wanted to interrupt. "We should really check on that fire in Shiba Park."
Sailor Moon nodded at her, and the three of them leaped off into the night.
—
Arriving at the park, the three Sailor Senshi looked around and saw that while the fire had been contained and was slowly being extinguished, scores of people, including several firefighters, were lying on the ground passed out and drained of energy.
"Sailor Senshi." They heard a male voice say from above them. Looking up, the three soldiers saw a man in a dark kingdom uniform floating there, his wavy brown hair reaching down to his shoulders.
"You may have defeated that fool Jadeite, but I won't give up so easily." Opening his hand he revealed the large amount of energy that he had drained from all the people watching the fire that Jadeite had started.
Opening a portal, the man seemed to melt through it and vanish into thin air.
"Nephrite." Sailor Moon snarled.