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"SAILOR MOON ETERNAL'
The 6th Season of the Sailor Moon Saga
Chapter 43
"Damage Control"
"Reports are streaming in all over the city of a strange sort of sleeping illness that has overtaken many residents of the Tokyo area. The cause of this outbreak is still undetermined and those unaffected are advised by the local authorities to stay calm and indoors. If you or someone you know is struck by this mysterious infirmity, know that paramedics are on hand and will be on their way. But the overfilled hospitals are in short supply of medical personnel and ambulances are taking a while for the medical professionals to reach the victims with first aid, which is rumored to number well into the millions. And that amount is increasing with each—" The grave-spoken news anchorman on the radio is cut off when Artemis the cat turns down the receiver on Susan and Terry's large kitchen counter with his paw, his furry face creased and serious.
"This is terrible, guys. Half the city has been energy drained." Artemis states in frustration.
"It's more than that, Artemis. It seems everyone watching that program simply collapsed in front of their television set. Their energy has nearly been completely depleted, and even doctors with all their medicine can't awaken them." Luna shakes her dark indigo head in consternation.
"That's right. My mom says her hospital is having to refuse patients because they're so full up." Amy sadly adds.
"It's really bad, isn't it, gang? Everyone was too busy at my house to see the show, but next door, all my neighbors and a lot of friends weren't so lucky." Mina says, a gloomy expression on her usually cheery face.
"I majorly know what you mean." Serena's high voice comes into the room, filled with dejection as she and Darien just arrived back from her parents' house. Serena needed to know if everything was all right with her family, despite the impossibly heavy traffic of others concerned about their own dear ones.
"Serena? Is everything all right with your folks?" Artemis asks at her shoulder, sensing the tears behind the blonde princess' blue eyes.
Serena shakes her head. All the tears roll down again, her wobbling mouth trying to answer but she was too overcome to speak.
"Serena's Dad and Sammy were watching. Mrs. Hart is nearly hysterical taking care of them, however—" Darien takes his wife's hand, squeezing it for support as he trails off, quietly at a loss.
"Sammy? No!" Tara softly whispers, biting her bottom lip in worry for her little boyfriend as she goes to her Princess who grabs onto the young girl in a big teary hug.
"Where are the jerks that did this to everyone? Let's go kick their sorry as—" Entering the conversation, JunJun's eyes were blazing angry at the pain some baddies were causing her new friends.
VesVes, CereCere and PallaPalla all nod their colorful heads in agreement.
"It's not that simple, child." Terry's calm voice says seriously, his violet eyes beautiful even through the concern as he cradles his pregnant Susan close on his lap.
"With Metallia's energy level at what it is now, she can attack anywhere, at any place, and we haven't the power to stop her." He says after crosschecking over and over with Sailor Mercury for the past two hours that the Scouts' power level combined wasn't even close to that of the Queen of Evil after her energy acquisition of late.
Terry feels Susan's arms wrap around his chest even tighter, and though the Sailor of Time was silent, he knew exactly what she was thinking, for he too, felt it.
I wish there was more hope for you than that, my lady. For you and our child both.
"If only we knew where her Negaverse powerbase was currently located, maybe we could stop her at the source before she absorbs all that human energy. I'm pretty sure she hasn't yet, or I'd sense a spike. But its location has been shielded from my energy sensing device. If only I had some way to pinpoint her location…" Amy keeps on the trail, her brilliant fingers flying fast and furious across her computer keyboard with one hand, a drafting bow compass making geometrical scribed patterns on the map with the other.
"We do." A wispy female voice says mysteriously as she enters the crowded kitchenette.
"Michelle? Where is it?!" Rei demands the question on everyone's mind as the teal haired woman gazes blindly with pain-filled eyes out the window.
"Wherever Amara is. She may try to hide it from me but… I know…" Michelle softly trails off, leaving the group gathered astonished at her words.
"What?! Amara went to face Metallia, alone!?" Serena looks up from her tears, alarmed for her headstrong, no-nonsense friend. But Michelle didn't seem to hear them, her own face a mask of pain and sorrow.
"Metallia?" She whispers the evil name, not seeming to know what was going on anymore as she turns her face towards the setting sun.
"No." She finally speaks, turning to look at them.
"She's gone to kill Robin." In all seriousness, Michelle's eyes turn crystalline, hard and cold and so very… lost… as everyone gasps.
And the sun slowly begins its descent downward, illuminating iridescent sparkles in her aquamarine hair, though she felt utterly dull inside.
The last rays of the sun catch gold in another young woman's hair, and Amaralexis steps out from her Ferrari to make a long, hard glare over the disconcerting calm sea.
Familiar with the tailwinds of the ocean breeze, the many meaningful moments standing at the seaside embracing her beloved beside the shoreline had been marred by the pain she could still mentally trace on Michelle's face.
It was here, a mile or two out on the cool brisk waters on that day what seemed so long ago when everything began. It was when that person she entrusted her angel to had betrayed that trust and had allowed himself be taken, changed, destroyed.
And in so doing, devastate something which Amaralexis Sokova held so precious.
"URANUS STAR POWER, MAKEUP!"
"I didn't want you to come." Without turning, without even opening her eyes, the Sailor Soldier ruled by the planet Uranus knew there was another close by, someone else she had sworn to protect. Someone she had entrusted her own heart with, too.
"I'm here for you, Ally. That's all there is to it." Sayer Starr joins the transformed Super Sailor Uranus at the edge of the cliff, standing beside her with such determination in his eye, never to break that trust he had pledged to her.
"You don't know where I'm going with this, Starr—" Uranus turns her eyes to meet Sayer's, wanting to explain, wanting to tell him to leave this unenviable task she had set out for herself to do alone.
Alex wanted to scream in his fool head that he should not accompany her, nor do what he would not, should not, could not, if he knew what she was determined to do this day, this night, perhaps saving the world from the dark tyranny that was trying to take control of the peace they'd so long fought for to replace it with sheer chaos.
But more importantly, she would avenge the death of that beautiful soul she would always call the other half of hers, the precious creature of light who was her beloved Michelle.
"I do, U." His blue gaze all serious, Sayer puts a finger to her glossy lips, returning the meaning in her stare intently. "Rob's my brother. I grew up alongside him, together everyday, through good times and bad, for as long as I've lived. I love him, and always will." The faraway look in Sayer Starr's emotive eyes as he faced the crashing waves below told everything of his true bond with the missing third of the Starlights through a brotherly connection which was beyond measurable. "But I love you, too, Ally. And more than that, I trust you, with all that's in me, to do what's right for everyone else we have responsibilities to cherish, too. If we can't take back the good that was stolen away—then we have to make sure that the evil in it can't destroy anything else. I know what you intend to do—what you must do to the evil inside of him. I'm with you, all the way, U, and I believe in your strong heart." Proving to her that the over-emotional, brash kid really had matured in more ways than just becoming a man, Sayer's heartbroken eyes search deep into Uranus' undaunted green ones as he touches her cheek lovingly.
And she also sensed, through the pain and sadness, that she was looking in the mirror image of a passionate fighter, the resolute soldier that no matter what the cost, or the hurt personally that either felt inside their own fragmented soul, this was the role they were destined to play.
"Then, let's go." Satisfied with his words and realizing once again why she had accepted him as her life's partner, an extension of herself, Uranus suddenly makes the diving plunge off the steep cliffs. Her perfect slender body streaks through the orangey skyline before his admiring eyes in a perfect golden yellow line.
Silently downward the Sailor of Uranus fearlessly descends hundreds of feet downward, soaring at top speed as if she was part peregrine falcon, until plunging through the frigid early December waters without so much as a small splash.
"Right." Though never making a high dive into waters anything close to that height in all his physically fit life, Sayer Starr was not one to run away from a challenge ever. Copying his sleek lover's form, he just blindly leaps in after her. As he does, Sayer feels a sudden gust of wind comfortingly carrying his transformative Super Sailor Star Fighter shooting star body the rest of the way as he changed halfway down to catch up with Super Sailor Uranus beneath the deep abyss of the darkening waters below…
"No fair, VesVes!" Back at the Starr's rural, once very quiet house, the place was now bustling with energy. The particular kind of energy that applied to four decidedly different 'children' than poor, demure Susan Starr was ever accustomed to dealing with.
Yes, there were times when Tara was younger that she would be a trying child. But never, never had she been so…vivacious. Tara's quiet demeanor, even in her worst moments when she was teething, was a far cry from JunJun's wild rudeness or CereCere's posh snooty, self-important ways, VesVes's brash bossiness or even little PallaPalla's inquisitive, nonstop questioning.
And the four of them combined into a chaotic rainbow, even though they had spent nearly all of their lives together, was something close to a mad house.
"IT'S MY TURN NEXT!" JunJun's piercing voice rouses the very timbers of the well built home as she and VesVes battle over a friendly game of Parcheesi.
"JunJun, please be quiet. I am trying to read!" Pointing her prim nose in the air as she looks up from her pile of gossip magazines that the pink haired girl just had to catch up on for the past few months of the juiciest bits out from rumor mill that the 'backward Amazon' was 'so terribly behind in.'
"Oh, that drivel again." JunJun spreads her terrorizing aim from an irked and finger-pointing VesVes to her favorite foil. The neon green haired child rips the teen magazine from where CereCere was gawking at the sorry pictures of some supposedly well formed 'ripped' muscleman.
"Yick! You think this guy's good-looking? He sucks!" JunJun comments, as always negative on everything, as she wrinkles her nose at the calendar stud, as if smelling something nasty.
"Well, he's not that bad." CereCere murmurs under her breath, grabbing the now torn in half book, and flipping back to the page where at least the young man's impressive pecs were intact. "But if you must know, I much prefer something a bit more muscularly sleek and intellectual when it comes to men. Particularly an intelligent man in glasses." CereCere puffs up snootily, her eyes lighting as they wander over to one of the many photos of the famous rock group 'Three Lights' that she and her little troop of friends were currently staying with.
"Don't get any ideas, Cere. That guy's taken." VesVes was in a foul mood now and also was one to comment on everything and give her opinion, no matter how rational or well received. All three pairs of girlish eyes travel to the tall, tall mahogany haired rockstar featured in the background of the photo on the mantelpiece in the living room with his arms wrapped around the woman they called 'Mrs. Starr.'
"Lucky, isn't she?" CereCere sighs at Susan's good fortune to marry a millionaire and rockstar, who just happened to be really hunky and hot, too!
"Enough of that drooling garbage, CereCere!" JunJun shakes her head disapprovingly. She was a more independent type who kept her head above any such bothersome troubles such as boy chasing. "Why wouldn't that big lunk let us go with him?! It's dead boring down here. I wonder where he went." Mussing up her hair, much to vain Cere's horror, JunJun grumbles at being left behind if there was an adventure others were enjoying out there without her.
"Maybe we can find out from her." VesVes brainstorms to interrogate Susan on the subject.
"Oh yes! Let's go explore up there! Imagine! This is the private home of a real-life idol!" Moonstruck CereCere was excited to just look around the famous singer's private residence. Her wide-eyes soak in the scenery of hallways and music rooms full of instruments on their way up the steps where Terry Starr's wife and PallaPalla were resting.
"Pretty, pretty! PallaPalla wants one!" PallaPalla had kept herself busy playing with the many stuffed animals and dolls and toys adorning the nursery she was 'funning' with all at once.
And they are all still in good condition! The legs and arms and heads are still attached!
Unlike most of her toys after the sadistically rough and klutzy sky blue bun haired girl got through playing with them—that is, when the orphaned little girl ever had been given toys to play with.
"Of course you may have one, PallaPalla. I would like very much to share with you some of the toys my husband has spoiled us with already."
Kind, pretty, and generous! PallaPalla likes her! Palla smiles with the sheer joy of someone she didn't know very well at all being so very nice to her when people usually were not.
"Really!?" She asked, her big blue eyes bright and wide.
"Really." Susan responds with a sweet smile, putting down her sewing, though she wasn't really getting much done sitting in the nursery window box, anxiously awaiting her husband's return. She touches the little blue girl's plump cheeks softly.
"Ooh! Ooh!" PallaPalla becomes so excited that she chooses to bestow the toy giving Susan a hug instead around her big, fat tummy.
"You're a nice lady, Mrs. Susan. And a lot to hug!" PallaPalla declares cheerily, her face beaming as she tries to wrap her short arms around Susan's wide girth.
"Hey, lady!"
Susan then hears the muffled voices of the rest of the little gang somewhere in the hall just outside of the nursery.
"She's called 'Mrs. Starr,' JunJun." CereCere ' proper voice intones.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever. So, where are you—ahhh!" Susan is startled to hear the young girl's scream as she rushes out to the hall in worry at the cry.
The tan-skinned woman finds JunJun, in search of the nursery door, had accidentally chosen to open the hall closet.
There, Susan had secretly been storing all those goodies that Terry kindly insisted on buying for her each and every day, though Susan s delicate stomach was not able to handle such amounts of cookies and treats.
But the pregnant, bilious woman could never tell him, for fear of hurting her generous husband's feelings.
So JunJun ends up in a pile of piroulines and candy and cookies which Terry had lavished over her for the past eight months of Susan's pregnancy.
"What kind of blinkin' fun house is this anyway?! Booby-traps everywhere! Damn cra—%#*$! &%$! Oh, bloody he—#'%*&!# $%!" Foul mouthed JunJun was trying to free herself as she angrily cries every swear word never before uttered in this peaceful household. It would make even Sayer and Alex blush for the sorts of things this neon green haired little imp was foully spouting from the bottom of the pile of treats she had been buried in.
"Whee! Cookies! PallaPalla wants some!" PallaPalla excitedly comes trotting out from behind Susan as CereCere and VesVes giggle at JunJun's predicament, with total and utter pandemonium ruling the day.
Yes, Terry, you're right, as always, my love. They do take my mind off my troubles. But I wish you were here, laughing with all of us, right now…
Susan pauses in her enjoyment of the childish laughter if only for a few moments of diversion, as she begins to help clear up the mess with the rowdy Amazonesses jabbing noisily at one another.
Cooling waters swirl around the two fighters as the ace swimmers cut through the undersea currents, both shaking off the bone chilling cold of the sea tides. Fighter merely follows Uranus' lead as she swims with the sleek speed of a shark, in twice as deadly a mood, until the indomitable woman finds what she had been searching for.
"URANUS WORLD SHAKING!"
The Sailor Soldier of Wind and Speed wordlessly sends her golden beam of mighty wind energy careening across the underground corals and crevices of the ocean bottom. It razes along the sea floor until the resolute soldier—who had spent these past weeks reconnoitering with an unbeknownst Michelle along the seaside highways in silent scrutinized search for this opening below—hits the exact spot determined by her every sense at the crack in disturbed nature.
It results in an energy bubble to suddenly rise from her planetary guardian's wind, conforming around the water wave gliding Sailor Uranus. The quick thinking soldier tugs an increasingly air-deprived dizzy, disoriented in his exhausted swim-kicks Star Fighter inside with her in the wind generated spheroid orb she had created.
"URANUS SPACE SWORD BLASTER!"
As planned, the pair descends into a large cavern through the tectonic fractured crust Uranus had forced open with her space sword wedged in the ocean's floor that magically seals above them again, as if a living creature was swallowing them both up whole inside its vast yawn.
"Whew! What an entrance, U!" Comes the impressed low whistle as Fighter huffs out the panting words after having been without air for that extended amount of time. His eyes had snapped open, trying to adjust to the darkness, not long after catching his withheld breath when he and Uranus were unceremoniously dumped on the damp cold earth of an underground antechamber, both soaking wet.
"Quiet." Uranus no-nonsense cautions her noisy Fighter, already on her feet and looking this way and that into the depths of the dark, subterranean sea cave she had just infiltrated.
It's as if I've been here before. Uranus thinks as she touches the edge of the cave wall. Her bond with her sailor partner was so strong, Alex believed she could feel her beloved's innermost thoughts, her every cherished dream, never kept hidden from one another.
And right at this moment, Alex could suffer Michelle's deepest nightmares, too, with a terrified sense of this dank place pervading her very being.
Michelle has been here…through him, Alex muses to herself with a mere touch of her hand to the cavern wall, knowing her dearest friend and cousin's psychic bond with a certain someone was still that strong that Michelle could experience what Robin Starr was experiencing.
And now that bond must be severed. Uranus could also feel a great sense of evil saturating every crack and crevice of the earthy subterranean cavern, making her skin crawl.
"So which cave do we—Ahhh!" Whispering Super Sailor Star Fighter's high-pitched scream pierces through the dark cave, as Uranus glimpses his attacker one moment too late as Fighter was cruelly zapped backwards, flailing to the ground.
Sailor Uranus gets a flying kick in before she also was accosted by a familiar, undesirable pair of arms gripping hers back.
"Welcome to our humble abode…luv." The Sailor of Rebellion hears Lady Ruby's nasty hiss in her ear, venomously spiteful and full of resentment for Uranus. "I've put out the welcome mat, just for you."
Obviously quickly recovered from their last pitched battle when the red-haired woman had suffered a jaw-broken major loss, it seemed the knife wielder had the upper hand this time. But then the two sworn enemies, locked in violent struggle, are both teleported away to parts unknown…
Fizzling into appearance on a throne room floor, Uranus finds herself being forced by Lady Ruby's crimson gloved hands to her face on the cold hard ground. Even as she struggles fiercely against Ruby's strength enhanced grip, Super Sailor Uranus feels the hair on the back of her neck stiffen when a pair of tall black leather boots step directly in front of her.
Her eyes dart up to see through the murky darkness to whom she already knew would be their wearer.
"Thank you so much for coming for a visit, Sailor Uranus. Out swimming, I see? You always were a wet blanket on everything. But I'm sure you'll be staying a while to dry off, won't you?" With a small raspy chuckle at the end of his snide remarks, 'the Heir' seemed to immensely enjoy looking down his nose on this tall, irritating Sailor Soldier with a smirk painted over his face.
Alex doesn't even dignify him with an answer, her blazingly defiant eyes conveying the message of pure hatred for him was enough, to which Robin purses his lips down at her with utter annoyance in his pale, cold stare.
"You didn't really think you could sneak into our base and not be detected, did you? Are you that much a fool?" He states more than asks, giving Uranus a haughty look behind a pair of evil drenched, lime green eyes.
"Oh? Is this your base? I suppose filthy and foul-smelling suits you perfectly, you treacherous bastard." Choking out the words against Ruby's cruelly crushing down grip that rubbed her cheek to the dirty cavern floor, Uranus interjects a pejoratively invective, fitting curse name for this despicable supposed male creature into her query. Indifferently spitting out the blood oozing from her busted lip shoved on the rocky ground, Uranus raises her eyebrows artlessly to disguise her next move to both this demented version of Robin Starr and his deranged lackey named Lady Ruby.
Quick as the wind, and just as powerful, she does a springing back flip, smashing Ruby in the back of her head with her golden yellow high-heeled boots and decking Robin hard with the nasty woman's unconscious body.
Pinned and stunned on the ground for a moment, the Heir reaches for the green emerald top button of his jacket. But Uranus was just too fast for them, crunching him with a mind-clouding fist in the face as she shoves Robin up against the crackly rough-hewn cavern wall.
"I trusted you once and you destroyed the woman I love with all my heart, then you betrayed the one we swore our lives to as well as the people of this planet she stands for. For that I'm going to put an end to your sorry existence—" The Soldier of the Sky raises her hand to the heavens, damning her own impure soul as she calls upon her home planet for the forbidden power to kill.
And I won't regret a moment of my life as a soldier spent to protect the ones I love…
"URANUS GALE SWORD BL—" She begins to cry out for her deadliest close range attack to date as rampant 60 miles an hour, violent winds begin to swarm around her drawn steel blade.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you, Uranus." The Heir merely sneers up to her enraged face, not one bit fazed.
Alex couldn't believe the smugness in the voice of the hated man she was about to pummel with every last ounce of merciless energy within her, nor the snide smirk of confidence evident on his cocksure face.
"And why not?!" Fighting back the uncontrollable force of nature about to decimate her target, Uranus keeps her talisman sword swung high over the self-assured, spiteful silver head mere millimeters from being detached from his scrawny neck with pure gale force energy.
"FIGHTER!" The heart she thought cold and uncaring skips a beat, her breath catching in her throat which cried out her lover's name. Super Sailor Uranus watches in horror her other partner screaming in agony as Dracon and Swanette cruelly pull in diametrically opposite directions, the torture device, on which Sayer's Super Sailor Star Fighter body had been strapped down to a wooden board frame that was being slowly and painstakingly scorched with an evil energy lit torch by that rotten son of Ruby. Young Garnet's cackle at another's pain was as malevolent as his wicked mother's.
"Gotcha."
In her split second moment of inattention of wanting to run to Fighter and rescue him, Uranus turns her glance back to Robin, to find him no longer vulnerable under her sword's steel. Somehow it was quickly flipped to quite the opposite, Uranus' glowing with angry energy sword blade faced her own body as she was roughly grabbed and strong-armed around her neck by the shockingly strong and fast Heir.
Robin thrusts Uranus vengefully into Fighter, and she just manages to avoid striking her mate by diffusing her energy sword attack. But the impact of her hitting the engulfed in fire wooden frame had both of them screaming at the searing heat of flames bursting at their bodies.
"Rob?! Please don't do this! Rob, don't you remember us? Don't you remember me?!" Sayer fights back the pain, to at his brother, wishing desperately for Robin to recall the past, where no matter how much they bickered and annoyed each other, they still loved and cared about one another as brothers—as family.
"Remember you? Yes, I remember you." Robin walks up to the pair and motions for Garnet, Swanette and Dracon to pause at his powerfully halting hand.
The silver-haired young man looks the scorched and bruised Fighter in the eye until Sayer's smiling hope soars, certain he would see some good again in Robin's eyes this close up, if he looked and pleaded hard enough.
"You never did understand me, did you, Sayer?" And with that cool, simple declaration, the Heir turns his back and dispassionately flutters his careless hand for his three minions to rejoin their attacks upon the subjugated Sailor Soldier once again.
Cackling Dracon and pitiless Swanette beat up on Sailor Star Fighter like a pair of cruel bullies before Uranus' screaming eyes.
"STOP HURTING HIM!" Tears stream down her livid face as Robin was apparently savoring Alex's torment, even at the cost of his lifelong sibling's ruthless beating.
This is why I didn't want you here, Starr…I could have spared you this…I should have faced this on my own like I originally wanted…I need to protect you, too…
"See what your so-called love has made you, Uranus?" Grabbing her wet chin harshly to force Alex to watch Sayer's torture, the Heir sneers vindictively in the hated woman's face. It took both powered up Ruby and her son, Garnet, to hold the strong willed Uranus down by her pinned arms and legs. Their combined energized power was such that even the desperate, and distressed, normally dominant Sailor Soldier could not shake them off.
"It has made you wea—" The word 'weak' still on his smirking, evil lips, Robin was suddenly jolted away by a powerful attack from behind, the reflective waves of pure force knocking him backwards and down to the ground.
Now was his turn to kneel at the foot level of his attacker, as his angered gaze traveled up a pair of aqua high-heeled, long legs.
"—strong." Sailor Neptune stands firmly over Robin, finishing his sentence with her arms crossed in a no-nonsense position. "Love makes us strong." She reiterates succinctly in her melodious voice as her blue eyes stare down upon the man she loved.
"Super Sailor Neptune." Robin whispers dumbfounded, meeting her gaze for the first time this close up. Michelle searches those eyes and reaches out with her mind as she always did, wanting so badly what was right before her to be what he once was again.
Involuntarily, she holds out her palm towards his upturned one…
But no. Instead of taking the offered hand of compassion with gentleness, Robin roughly grabs her ankles and throws a shocked Michelle hard to the ground as he leaps up with incredible agility to stand over her.
'Robin, dearest?! Can't you hear me?!'
Hovering above her vulnerable body that projected psychic waves of thought at him for a few static seconds, the man in tight black leather pants and a low collared, open neck shirt then reaches down to touch Sailor Neptune's cheek, almost with that soft, sensitive tenderness she adored.
'How did you reach me, mortal? I AM CHAOS.'
But then, his astral plane voice merges with an unfathomable dark force, as the Heir abruptly, viciously grabs a hunk of her curly hair, making Neptune scream in pure pain, and not only from the physical assault. Once he had tasted the purity of this special extrasensory mystic child of the sea's untapped potential, that the good in Star Healer had kept hidden from his dark side up until now, the evil heir to Metallia's reign now only desired more.
No matter if he was carelessly ripping her mind apart by the forceful potency of his own mental strength coarsely ravaging through her thoughts in chaotic search of his enemies' vital secrets.
Tears spring to Michelle Moreau Starr's eyes as the person she once trusted with her everything—the other half of her soul—maliciously begins to strip away and drain all corners of her energy in an extremely personal, telepathic mind-invasive way through that direct link Michelle had unselfishly just opened to her beloved mate.
"NEPTUNE!" Sensing Neptune's brutal psychological battering that was akin to mental rape, a heart-wrenched Uranus yells in horror, kicking and punching at Ruby and Garnet to get free. But her struggles only further their ruthless cackling instead, both mother and son obviously powered up by Metallia's evil strength.
Battered and bruised herself, Sailor Uranus' mighty struggle was proving fruitless and she felt like a total failure to be so unable to save either of the two people she cared most for in the world, forced to just sit back and witness their pain.
"MARS FLAME SNIPER!" An arrow of pure flame fire suddenly interjects, hitting Robin squarely in the chest as he is sent flailing back, forced to let go of Michelle's yanked mass of curled hair, severing Robin's mental molestation of her soul.
"JUPITER OAK EVOLUTION!" The flurry of punishing electrified leaves pull no punches on their one time member as Jupiter blasts this wicked Robin back with all of nature's might.
Meanwhile, Super Sailor Star Maker and Eternal Sailor Moon run to free a badly beat-up, but still alive, Star Fighter from his fiery bondage. Super Mercury and Super Mars aid Sailor Uranus as Tuxedo Mask, Super Sailors Venus and Saturn hold back their captors in surprise attacks of staffs and glaives and whips of light flying to batter Ruby, Garnet, Dracon and Swanette away.
…Robin? You're so hurting inside…Let me help you…please…
Utterly weak, Michelle's pure heart felt…soiled…after being so mentally ravished by the rampant Chaos in the man who had, in the past, only tenderly glimpsed the fragile mirror of her soul with gentleness. Her unsullied mirror shattered in so many ways as she lies on the cold dirt ground, Sailor Neptune stirs her psychically violated body under the crossfire zinging across the room of both good and evil pulling out all the stops.
But the devoted spirit in Michelle didn't blame her beloved for his terrible behavior after witnessing his broken heart's torment so intimately firsthand. Though emotionally deflowered and mentally ravished in penetrated ways she never before endured, the Soldier of tender embrace indomitably forces herself conscious enough to crawl over to where her Robin had just been hit for the third time by a volley of Sailor attacks.
"You should be ashamed to call yourself a 'Sailor Soldier!" The final punishing "Tuxedo La Smoking Bomber" sent in judgment by the more than irritated at this traitor, proud Prince of the Earth smacks down Metallia's emissary's black leather clad male body. It left the Heir stumbling to the cavern ground, limp and weak, his eyes closed tight in earth-bombarded pain.
"Robin, dearest! Are you alri—ahhh!" Again spurred by a generous heart to keep trying to reform her traitorous true love, despite his vicious assault on her personally, exposed Super Sailor Neptune was shocked when deceitful 'playing chicken' Robin's vivid lime green eyes suddenly snap open with pure evil intent.
'I WILL HAVE YOU.'
Again, that same wicked, doubled in evil voice echoes through her wide open mind, heart and soul. The Heir quickly grasps her trusting form down with him to the subterranean cavern floor until the two of them vanish into thin air.
"MICHELLE!" Through all her own pain and danger surrounding, Uranus stands from where she had been leaning against a stabilizing Super Sailor Mars. Like the wind, she blindly takes off down the dark cavern corridor, running on sheer instinct to lead her straight to Michelle.
"STAR GENTLE UTERUS!" Super Sailor Star Maker's acid burns at Dracon's new 'Chaos shield,' but the scouts found their opponents all geared up with new energy defensive weapons the Heir had supplied them with that would not go down so easily.
"You like Dracon's new toy, girl? Then you'll love mine!" Swanette presses a jeweled button on her busty chest, and from her back springs a set of sharp edged metallic 'Chaos wings.'
"They're just what I've always wanted! And much more useful than your useless feathers, Eternal Sailor Moon!" The tall, pale woman taunts, unfurling her new wings to stand horizontal on end until they shoot a new set of deadly, tinny screeching tips towards the Sailors with the force of titanium metal launching out poison.
"Watch out!" Venus, Mercury and Sailor Moon all dance out of the way just in time until Saturn throws up of silence wall around the injured Star Fighter whom Star Maker and had carried out of the line of fire with Jupiter leading the way.
"Out of the way, Swanny! Ruby is on her way!" Lady Ruby seemed to enjoy the battle as she raises her ruby-gem pressed Chaos gauntlet into the air to launch her new venomous attack.
"VENUS METEOR SHOWER!" Venus rapidly raises her hand first, shooting blinding light at the evil woman before Lady Ruby was able to release whatever malignant power those shiny gauntlets held.
"You'll pay for that, luv!" The red headed vixen growls ferociously in anger of being thwarted as she shakes her bedazzled head to clear her clouded vision caused by Venus' intense light.
"MERCURY ICE RHAPSODY!" Mercury adds her ice streams to take the villainous female out once and for all, but Ruby manages to clench her gloved fists first, this time.
All the residual energy swirling around the room is abruptly sucked into her ruby quartz gauntlets. With the release of Ruby's hand, Mercury's powerful blast, too, was flung icily back, redirected to blind Venus with an even brighter refracted ice vicious impact before imploding upon the original ice wielder.
"AHHHHH!" Sailor Mercury was also blind frosted by her own chill power, doubled back at her.
"These guys are even stronger than last time! Metallia's power must be increasing!" Super Sailor Mars reasons, as blast for blast, the whole team was unable to stand up against her minions now equipped with chaotic canceling-out power.
"Yes, the Queen of Dark Evil, and her new Heir whom she had co-opted from a far off galaxy in order to facilitate Earth's conquest, apparently have forged a formidable team." Tuxedo Mask comments sourly with a decided frown at the duplicitous Star Healer whose insider knowledge had doubtlessly reinforced their greatest foe's rising supremacy. None of them actually were able to comprehend what actually fighting Metallia herself would be like, if this was what her minions had, by way of energy prowess.
"You'd better believe it! Can I use it now, Mum?" Garnet looks to his bad example parent who nods with a knowing simper. So the boy whips out an unassuming looking handheld videogame type object from his rear pocket and directs it directly at the Sailor Guardian closest to its powering up range—who just happened to be Eternal Sailor Moon.
"Be careful, Meatball! That kid's attack has a nasty bite!" Shouting out the warning to his dear friend, Star Fighter struggles to his battered knees, somehow always having the uncanny ability to sense when this princess, too, was in danger.
This passionate soldier, despite his own thick pain, would still give up his life to protect the tender light of the Moon who was just a few feet away from Garnet's beginning to sizzle new weapon. "Can't let a single one of those gorgeous white feathers get singed black."
Experiencing the dark red haired boy's vicious high voltage capabilities firsthand, Fighter's silky voice whispers in Eternal Moon's ear, as he lifts her off the ground in that excessively caring, overtly devoted attitude that still rubbed Serena's husband the wrong way from time to time as Darien watched the quixotically heroic scene through slit eyes.
Tuxedo Mask, who believed he was the only one who technically should possess that defensive sixth sense to rescue his own Moon Princess, gives this flirtatious interloper a haughty look as he witnessed this opportune save of Fighter's.
The black tuxedoed man leaps straight up to where the pair had landed.
"You tend to your own burnt wounds and broken ribs, Sailor Star Fighter. I can handle this from here." The little green-eyed bit of competitive male rivalry for this particular Star Soldier rears its jealous head as in a lordly tone, staff in hand, Tuxedo Mask takes his rightful husbandly stance in front of Eternal Moon to stand in Fighter's place, almost physically forcing a struggling Fighter down to the floor with a strong arm thrust back.
But in doing so, Darien left an opening in his secret jealousy's competitive wrangling with Serena's former would-be beau as he turns his back to face Super Sailor Star Fighter with the imparting order to 'back off" clear in his flashing blue eyes.
At this inattention to the real enemy, Garnet had wildly aimed his Chaos game magnet at his choice target of Tuxedo Mask now. The game pad's objective field sends invisible EM waves to continually whack the Prince of the Earth directly in the back of his head with its charged friction wave energy.
The unsuspecting masked hero, resist as he might, finally crumples to the floor as Garnet hurrahs his expert gamer's aim in the cavern distance.
"Tuxedo Mask!" Sailor Moon cries out from the depths of her heart for her true love as she scurries to pull Darien's flaccid head to her kneeling lap.
"Argh! Get back, Sailor Moon!" Automatically protective, a broken boned, badly burned Super Sailor Star Fighter nonetheless painfully jumps to his feet again to shield vulnerable, wide open Eternal Sailor Moon from the radiation beam still emanating towards her from the boy's Chaos powered weapon.
"Sorry…Meatballhead. I guess…oof…Dar was right…ungh…I wasn't…good enough…argh…to protect…ergh…any of the women I love most." Already weakened, apologizing and disheartened that he was inadequate to defend his Sailor U earlier, nevermind not being able to even contact his adored yet abandoned Princess Fireball anymore, as well, self-recriminating Sayer Starr tries to tease his dear friend with a smile. Then Star Fighter recoils to his buckling knees at Serena's horrified feet as he, too, was undermined by the Chaos energy drain unleashed upon the subterranean lair.
Jupiter and Mars, running back towards the left alone Eternal Moon, also go down hard from Ruby and Swanette's targeted attacks as they raced to help their unguarded princess.
"Fighter! Guys!" Clutching Fighter's slipping from consciousness torso to her already full lap, Eternal Sailor Moon calls out in horror as, one by one, her friends fall to these powered up enemies within this wretched catacomb they had infiltrated.
"Such manners, son. Didn't your mother teach you how to treat a lady?" From out of nowhere, yet one more voice enters the struggle, as Lord Opalson sizzles into place behind his son and wife.
"Sure, Dad. Mum says 'ya blast 'em 'til they scream.'" Garnet answers, hitting the button controls of his videogame with even more vigor to input more dark chaos upon the battleworn cavern.
"Yes, son. But take some advice from your dear old Dad, too, concerning those of the female persuasion." The dark navy haired man smirks condescendingly. "The best way to steal a female's pure heart away is to present her with a lovely ring. After all," Opalson holds up his hand in the large room where a single, huge ancient black opal ring shines distinctly on his finger in the dim cavern light. "–every girl loves to be at the receiving end of a priceless bejeweled promise. Only, in this instance, they'll be the ones kneeling!" He simpers wickedly as his opal ring unloads dark waves of energy, pulling the gravity out from beneath the last few remaining Sailor Soldiers standing.
Saturn and even Maker, using his body to shield his charge, fall to their knees, struggling against the G-Force emanating from his opalescent Chaos ring that the Heir had infused with Metallia's darkest energy designed to assail the Sailors' weak points.
"Maker! Saturn!" Eternal Sailor Moon gasps in horror as her entire team—her best friends—all succumb to the evil Dark Moon enemy's attacks.
"You must learn with experience, my boy, to blast the most powerful ones first and not just the front-line grunt soldiers." He says in all training seriousness, as Lord Opalson shifts his sight to the blonde child of the bright side of the Moon who currently had two dark haired Soldiers' heads on her fluffy skirted lap.
"Now, as for you, Eternal Sailor Moon, I'm certain all of your bountiful wasted energies will be put to good use once we've absorbed you into the Negaforce. Queen Metallia will be pleased to have this final spur of energy which she requires to rule the universe via you, Moon Princess." Lord Opalson raises his arms and begins the leeching of energy from the downed Sailor Guardians, who could do nothing to protect their beloved princess, all seeming lost…
