A/N: Back with another Chapter, and it only took me just over a month! -_-
Anyway, I had to break this into parts cause it would have been too long a chapter, so I hope you like it! now on to the story...
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"I already to you, I don't KNOW!" Uranus growled back to the Spartan, her teal colored eyes glaring back at him with anger.
Logan, though annoyed by the lack of answers he was getting from the lanky blond, could see that the woman truly didn't know just who had attacked attacked them. Though her attitude made him like her even less.
"Palla Palla has A bad feeling about this!" The blue haired asteroid senshi said fearfully. "Palla Palla thinks Space Man and Tall Senshi should work together!"
"She's right!" Sailor Ceres replied. "We don't know what's going on, we should be working together!"
"They have a point, you know." Hannah chimed in, as the A.I. had been listening in on the banter. "Besides, it looks like it isn't just the palace being attacked."
"What?"
"Who or what ever they are, they are attacking the entire city." Hannah explained. "But it looks like Palace is the main target."
"Have they detected the cruiser?" Logan asked her, as he went over to the dead spider creature and looked it over. Before reaching down and ripping off one if its blade like arms, much to the surprise of both Uranus and the Quartet.
"Not yet- Wait, hold on. It seems that I have been found out." Hannah stated, sounding more amused than worried. "Looks like I am a target now!"
"Hannah, you are cleared to engage any and all hostile targets!"
"Understood, Gunny." Hannah replied, as she could see a large number of targets heading towards the Heavy Cruiser.
Closing her eyes for a moment, the Artificial Intelligence flashed a bit brighter shade of blue. As she began to access the Cruiser's systems and activate the vessel's weapons systems. Suddenly, the Siege Merciless rumbled to life as its massive sub light engines came on line and began to move the warship away from its current position. If the Valiant Class vessel was gonna fight, she was gonna need all the room she could get.
Meanwhile back on Earth, Uranus tried to use her communicatorto contact her lover and the other Senshi. But for some reason, she was unable to get into contact with anyone. It was the same story for the Sailor Quartet, as they soon found themselves unable to contact not only the Royal Family, but Chibiusa as well.
"We need to get to Chibiusa!" Ceres declared, as she and the rest of her team soon realized the severity of the situation.
"I need to find the others and locate her Majesty ." Uranus replied, a sense of dread soon falling upon her. "You guys locate and secure Small Lady, I will find the Queen. You, you stay here!" She suddenly declared, pointing to the Super Soldier.
'Seriously, what is this chick's problem?' Logan though to himself, but ultimately allowed himself to be ordered around by the aggressive blond. At least for now anyway. But before they left, Logan went up to the dead creature and ripped off one of its blade like appendages. Much to the shock of the Asteroids and Uranus.
He may have had a Plasma Sword, but there was nothing wrong with having multiple weapons at your disposal. A logic which many Spartans were well acquainted with, Logan included. Looking back at the senshi with his new black sword, he said "So what is the plan?"
"There is no plan." The senshi of the wind growled back, "I will regroup with the rest of the team and together, WE well secure Serenity and her husband. Like I said before, you just stay here and try not to cause any more trouble!
"Seriously, what is her problem?" The super soldier thought to himself. Someone was attacking the city, he has practically destroyed that spider what ever the Hell that thing was, but this skinny twig still thinks he is still a threat.
What ever, Logan just decided to humor the woman and just allowed her to think she some kind of power over him. He just shrugged before Uranus ran off to find the rest of the Senshi, but the Spartan wasn't just gonna stand here like some school child who had just been scolded by their teacher.
With his new "sword" in hand Super Soldier just began too run in the same direction the Asteroid Senshi had went. All the while using his Armor's built in sensors to scan the area for any potential hostiles. But he had not made it far when another explosion nearly threw him off his feet and another Spider Creature appeared. Only this time, it had a dead body impaled on one of its blade like legs.
It did not take long for the creature to notice the Spartan and it began to charge him at full speed, completely unaware that for Logan... time began to slow down once again...
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Both Serenity and her husband just stood there in a stunned silence. Their eyes fully locked on to the woman they had long thought had been dead, but had now revealed herself to be the one currently attacking them.
Esmeraude was unquestionably one of the Black Moon's most loyal of lieutenants and the most dangerous. But just like Rebeus and Prince Diamond, she too became a victim of her own dark ambitions. The last time Moon had seen her, she had fallen into a black void after being defeated outside the Crystal Palace.
Despite their best efforts after the battle, Esmeraude's body was never found and she just presumed lost to the void. But here she was...The former Black Moon Lieutenant smiled wickedly at the royals, who themselves had a mixture shock and confusion plastered on their faces.
"H... How... Esmeraude?" Serenity finally spoke up, her voice carrying a hint of fear as she spoke. "How are you still..."
"Alive?" the former beauty snapped back. "You thought i was dead, didn't you? You thought you had gotten rid of me all those years ago, when you and your friends defeated me?"
"What are you doing her, Esmeraude?" Endymion demanded, his confusion and shock now giving way to anger.
"Isn't is obvious by now?" the woman scoffed. "I'm here for revenge! The Black Moon Clan may be gone, but its goal of destroying the Royal family lives on through me!"
"Esmeraude, you have to stop this at once!" Serenity pleaded. "The war is over, you dont have to do this!"
"Oh but i want to, your Majesty." The woman replied, a wicked smile forming on her wrinkled snd scared face. "You took away everything from me... but now, i can take away everything from you..."
Suddenly the image before them began to change and what Serenity saw next, almost destroyed her. Several large, black crystals had appeared behind the former Lieutenant and within each of them, was the motionless forms of each of her senshi.
Minako, Ami, Rei, Makoto and Michru had been captured and were now being held by this mad woman. Serenity could feel her heart breaking within her, as tears began to well up.
"Let them go..." the blue eyed royal demanded. "Its me you want, leave them alone!" But Esmeraude just continued to smile wickedly as she replied...
"If i wanted you, i would have. You... YOU are the reason for my downfall! You took away everything from me! But now... i get to take away everything from you..."
Suddenly, the room began to rumble and before the Royal couple could react, the walls exploded to reveal a army of Spider droids swiftly working their way towards Serenity and her husband.
On board he flag ship, Esmeraude smiled wickedly before cutting her transmission. She did not need to see the Royal's ultimate fate, as she already knew victory was within her grasp. After so many years, the Black Moon clan would finally have it's revenge. But as she looked on at the captured Senshi, she was completely unaware that there was about to be a major complication.
Esmeraude had not forgotten about the the mysterious ship that now orbited the planet and the former lieutenant had plans to capture it for herself. Despite it's "ugly" appearance, the vessel could still have some value to it. Possibly technology that was far beyond anything Crystal Tokyo had and if that were the case, it needed to be hers. Hence the reason she sent some of her ships to capture the Siege Merciless and bring it back to Nemesis.
But there was one thing the Black Moon clan member failed to realize about the Siege Merciless...
Siege Merciless was a Warship.
As the Black Moon vessels approached the massive Heavy Cruiser, they were completely unaware of the nasty surprise the Valiant-class had in store for them.
It was not too difficult for Hannah to successfully track (and target) the approaching vessels. The ships maybe different, but it was all the same to the Targeting computer . It was not different from during the Covenant war, when the ship had to fight off would be boarding parties and attack craft . But she was not the same ship which had been launched almost a century ago. Both her weapons and sensor systems had been upgraded and enhanced substantially with Covenantinspired tech. And now the Black Moon were about find out just what a century of upgrades can do.
Suddenly, the entire surface of the Heavy Cruiser came to life with hellfire and damnation. As the ship's extensive network of point defence turrets and CWIS roared to life, sending waves of super heated rounds towards their targets. Targets which they found with deadly accuracy, as dozens of "fighter craft" were ripped apart with ease.
It was almost beautiful in a way, as streams of golden light continued to erupt from the Siege Merciless in waves. The combination of super heat and accelerating tungsten rounds ripping the Nemesis ships apart with ease.
If there was one thing you needed to know about the Super Heavy Cruiser, it was that. it was not the same ship which had been launched over Mars in 2499. After almost one hundreds years of service with the UNSC, Siege Merciless had been retro fitted and upgraded to deal with the numerous threats that came from both in Insurrection and Covenant Wars.
This meant she was now more than capable of dealing with small craft such as Fighters and Breaching pods. But this was not all...
Despite the hellish defence the warship had put up, a number of small craft were able to make it through the barrage and attempted to make attack runs on the Cruiser. But the Covenant inspired energy Shielding which had been installed post war, made these attacks futile. As dozens of small craft ended up slamming head on into the artificial barrier.
With those small "pests" finally delt with, Hannah soon pointed the Siege Merciless towards one of the larger attacking ships. The "Star" shaped vessel was about the size of a Covenant Frigate and was now approaching the Valiant-class vessel. Normally, Siege Merciless could have easily destroyer such a vessel with a direct MAC round. But being so close to the planet, using it was not an option.
As the new attacker approached, Dozens of missiles suddenly erupted from "sides" the Siege Merciless and lanced out at the new enemy. The Nemesis warship never stood a chance, as the Archer Missiles swarmed the now doomed vessel and slammed into its hull.
The Star like vessel was destroyed within seconds, as numerous fireballs erupted from each missile impact. Ripping the would be warship apart. It may have been designed to attack Crystal Tokyo, but it was absolutely no match for 1.6 kilometers of Warship
But this was only one vessel and Hannah could see that several more were now closing in on their position. Maybe now they would last a little while longer against her...?
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Meanwhile, Back in the Crystal Palace ...
Several thorny vines lashed out and impaled the would be Droid, before ripping the dark construct apart. The sound of tearing metal joining the chorus of conflict and violence that filled the air, as the Asteroid Senshi battled their way towards Chibiusa's room.
The Crystal Palace and by extension, Crystal Tokyo was now under siege by the forces of Nemesis and the 4 young women now found themselves battling through the seemingly endless hoards of attackers. Every so often, they would come across the the mangled bodies of Palace staff. Some of whom the Quartet knew and seeing now seeing dead did have a strong psychological affect on the Asteroid Senshi. But they could not focus on that right now, they knew they needed to get Small Lady and fast. They were her assigned guardians after all and they needed to make sure the Princess was safe
They tried to contact her via their communicators, but it was not successful. In fact, they had not been able to contact any of the other Senshi, not even Uranus. This fact alone had the four women feeling uneasy, but one crisis at a time. They needed to get to Chibiusa first, then they could focus on contacting the others.
Rounding another corner, the Quartet finally arrived at Chibiusa's personal quarters and were released to see that there was no signs of the enemy. But before the group could enter her room, the wall suddenly exploded and the hulking mass of another Spider droid staggered out.
The stomaches of the four women suddenly began to sank, as they soon realized the creature had now come out of Chibiusa's room. Worse still they could not tell if the Pink haired princess was alright or not. But just as quickly as the creature appeared, a voice called out "Moon ...Tiara... Boomerang!!"
Moments later, a golden disk struck the Spider Droid in its chest. The creature let out a painful scream as it was soon reduced to dust, leaving a stunned group of Senshi before it. Moments later, a young woman with Pink hair, red eyes and dressed in a Sailor Fuku that was not too different to what her mother wore back when she was her age, suddenly came out of the now destroyed chambers.
"Sailor Moon!" Sailor Pallas cried out, as she and sisters ran up to her. "Palla Palla is so glad to see you are okie dokie!"
Sailor Moon (Chibiusa) was still in shock by what had just happened, but she was able to regain the composure enough to ask... "What is going on? what was that thing?"
"W... we don't know, your majesty." Vesta replied. "One tried to attack us earlier but..."
"The Giant Space Man killed it!" Pallas squealed out. " We were watching the Space Man's Room when--"
"Wait? You were watching his room?" the Pink Haired Senshi asked the group. Sounding a bit disappointed by their actions. "And you didn't invite me?"
"In any case..." Ceres interjected, "We haven been able to contact anyone, not even the queen!"
"Mom?" the new Sailor Moon gasped out, a blank expression forming on her face. It was in that moment did she realize that she had not heard anything from mother, nor her father. In a panic, Chibiusa got out her communicator and tried to contact her mother. But all she got in return, was a screen filled with static. "We need to get to my mother, Now!"
"But..." Vesta tried to say.
"NOW!!" Moon barked, before she took off running to find Serenity.
"But... but... we're supposed to get you to safety!" Pallas called out, but huffed in defeat. "Palla Palla wonders why Moon is so stubborn!"
Without a word, the Asteroid Senshi soon ran after Moon in hopes of catching up to the young woman. But as they ran, another explosion followed by Sailor Moon's startled yell filled their ears. An overwhelming sense of dread soon filled the four Amazon Sailors, as they believed one of those monstrosities had gotten to the Princess before they could
It almost seem to be the case, as the quartet soon came upon what they thought was another Spider droid looming over Moon. But they soon realized that there was a third... large figure standing in between the creature and Chibiusa. A figure in olive green power armor and had buried it's plasma sword into the Spider Droid's upper torso.
Moments later, the Armored being ripped the Droid in two and fir good measure, it took it's Plasma Sword and sliced off it's head in one swift move. Ensuring that the monster would not get up again.
Once he was certain the Droid was dead, Logan soon turned to face the now stunned Princess and the Asteroid Senshi.
"So, can someone finally tell me what is going on?"