This whole pandemic is getting outta hand. But so is the attitude of the whole population. Hearing isn't enough, sometimes you just gotta listen to truly believe and recognize what you did wrong.
It's harsh but someone has to tell you the truth. Especially if it concerns your future!
New Babylon, Iraq
Seven Days Later...
New Babylon was the location of Nicolae Carpathia's palace and was known as the world's capital city, and the headquarters of the Global Community. It was a glittering, modern metropolis built over the ancient city of Babylon in Iraq. The city had been in development for many years preceding the disappearances, and it's rise was mostly-If not entirely-funded by the now late financier, Jonathan Stonagal, who by the manipulation of Carpathia left his entire estate to the one-world leader to finance his government. It had become the center of the media, commerce, and government as well as the New World Religion known as Enigma Babylon One World Faith. Aside from the GC Headquarters, an 18-story skyscraper, being destroyed in the earthquake/meteor shower, everything was perfect, as it had been replaced by an even more grandiose GC palace.
Standing in the futuristic control-room of his palace, filled with female GC employees sitting at control-panel desks, Nicolae was re-watching recorded footage of Sailor Moon and Mercury fighting off an unseen threat that was attacking five kids, four teens, one being an Asian girl, and one pre-teen boy, on a large theater-sized screen. The mystery threat had managed to record the events before being taken down by the Moon Senshi. The footage had been sent by an unknown sender a week ago.
"Sailor Moon. She's becoming even more of a nuisance. It seems we will be required to take things up a notch." Nicolae said. "What is the current status of finding who sent this footage?" He asked one of the female employees.
"We are currently searching for the identity and location of the sender right now." said the female employee in an Iraq accent. "We are almost ready to pinpoint the exact location."
"All in just seven days, impressive." Nicolae said. "Whoever sent this footage is on track. Things are going even better than I expected."
The elevator doors then opened and out stepped Mio. "Mr. Carpathia?"
"Yes, Miss Kuroki?" Nicolae asked.
"I've found the best team to unmask the Sailor Gardians." Mio answered.
"Excellent. Let them know to start investigating right away. I trust they are prepared?" Nicolae said.
"Certainly." Mio said, with a smirk on her face. "They're ready to go anytime...Master."
Wearing her white Moon Princess dress, Usagi stood in the white ball-room of the Moon Kingdom palace with Queen Serenity, facing each other, with the late Queen in regular adult size and her body glowing a beautiful ghostly white.
"It is coming." Queen Serenity warned telepathically while baring a sad expression.
"What is it?" Usagi asked.
"It." Queen Serenity answered.
"I don't understand." Usagi said, confused.
"You and the others must be ready." Queen Serenity said.
"Ready for what?" Usagi asked.
"It." Queen Serenity repeated.
"But what is it?" Usagi asked.
There was silence as Usagi and Queen Serenity stared at one another.
"I am sorry, my dear daughter." Queen Serenity said. "So very sorry."
Usagi gasped as her eyes shot open, then she shot up and looked at her surroundings. She was in bed in her dark hotel room in Israel at night.
"It was only a dream." Usagi said. She then looked at the foot of her bed and saw the spirit form of Princess Sailor Moon standing there, baring her usual blank expression and holding a small white and pink harp with both hands. "Huh?" The 18-year old Japanese girl rubbed her eyes with her fists, then saw that the Moon Princess Senshi of herself was now gone. She let out a sigh before plopping back down on the bed and going back to sleep.
Later, everyone was in the command-room of the command-center, tuned in to the New World News on a screen between two of the pillars behind the control-panel concerning the ASTRO-V epidemic and the evacuation of the infected communities, with Luna sitting on the stool and Artemis standing on the control-panel, all of the adults, kids and teenagers were wrapped in their quilts and wearing their mittens due to the ice-cold winter and the only source of light were the lit lanterns on the floor. The lights had been out for over a week and with each passing day of that time, it became more and more evident that they would not be back on anytime soon.
The screen between the two pillars displayed an anchor-woman explaining the events of ASTRO-V and the evacuation of the now toxic towns and cities.
"The control towers at airports have been in chaos in the infected communities over the last ten days since the ASTRO-V epidemic began three weeks ago." Said the anchor-woman in an Australian accent. "In fact, more-so all over Indiana, as the entire had been hit by the asteroids and polluted with the virus. Over the last three weeks during the fallout of the epidemic, we have received information about flights going missing and not arriving at their destinations. Most of them have either run out of fuel while trying to find safe place land or had been hit by the asteroids and fell out of the sky. There is no telling what has become of the many flights, which would not have had enough fuel to remain in the air for three weeks until they could find some place to land. Some of them had been forced to put down somewhere in America, with or without airport runways. Reports confirm there have been dozens of plane crashes in the infected communities. When reporters arrived at the airports of five of the contaminated communities, they started to get a clear picture of the enormity of the problem. Amidst the pandemonium of flight cancelations and unscheduled arrivals, the airports were a buzz, with some people talking about ASTRO-V being a military strike against the United States by another nation."
"Wars and rumors of wars." Alex said, quoting half of Matthew 24:6-13.
In New York, at the adult Trib-Force's place, they, Hattie, Mamoru and the Outer Senshi sat in the living-room watching the New World News on TV.
"It had taken a day to evaluate the other infected communities, but it had taken ten whole days to remove citizens from all of Indiana. Evacuating societies was one thing, evacuating an entire state was entirely different story." The Australian anchor-woman explained. "The sun had not even come up in the toxic towns and cities, as it hasn't for the rest of the world due to the dark skies. And it will be a few hours before video coverage will be available. But every News station in America is interrupting it's normal program to give sketchy first reports of the disaster. Early reports put the deaths at hundreds, which we know for a fact is true with the ASTRO-V possessive adults. But later reports verified that adult life was already several times that figure when they included those who died in the asteroid impacts and those who perished from the ice-cold winter. And it will almost double over the next few weeks because of the freezing weather."
At the school hideout, the kids Trib-Force, Melinda and Janie were watching the New World News on the TV. Rei, Hotaru and the Lenore and her baby Tolan are also with the kids Trib-Force, watching the New World News.
"Damage the towns, cities, highways, airports and police stations from the asteroids meant that continuing abidance was out of the question for the societies. Even if there had been no pestilence to worry over. With the citizens gone, the infected communities are without government, without power, without communication, and without vital transportation links. The central business district of the tainted communities have been entirely wiped out. If the disaster had not come in the middle of the night in some towns and cities, the loss of adult human lives would have been several times higher." The Australian anchor-woman said.
Inside his hotel room, Buck sat at the foot of his bed, watching the New World News, with the Australian anchor-woman speaking in Hebrew and an English female Australian translator speaking over her foreign words.
"Meanwhile, during the evacuations, emergency services throughout the English-speaking world were quick to start marterling focus to airlift food, water, other drinks, new clothing, shoes and medical personal to Alaska, Israel and Canada, which are where the evacuated citizens have been flown out to. The wounded are currently being treated as quickly as possible. Although for many others, particularly those who may be infected, even treatment will not save them. Those who are already dead-the healthy ones-will most likely be left where they are." Said the Australian anchor-woman's English translator.
At the mall in Israel, Usagi, Makoto, Minako and the others had stopped their shopping, along with many other people, and were now watching the New World News on a big flat screen TV on the wall, with the Australian anchor-woman speaking in Hebrew and a female English translating voice speaking over her's, as well as Hebrew subtitles at the bottom of the screen. Judd and Mr. Stein had yet to return from their travels to Africa.
"Hospitals and police stations in some of the toxic societies have been destroyed, and along with them was gone the entire on-duty medical staff an officers. What medical rescue services and police units were still available have to function almost without administration. And that assuming that the rescue personal and officers themselves are still alive and not among the infected. If they stayed behind to find and help survivors, that is, which is highly unlikely. The poisoned communities in America are suddenly back in the medieval ages. Everyone who's been left behind, assuming any have, will be forced to fend for themselves to survive." Said the Australian anchor-woman's female English translator.
"Some advice." Lionel said. "Yeah. You'd think they'd send help back to see if there were any people left behind."
Usagi just stared at the TV with sad eyes. She hoped to high Heaven that all of the friends she and the Senshi had met in the infected communities had had good enough sense to leave in the evacuations.
Elsewhere in Israel, inside a coffee-shop, Ami sat at a table, with a gray laptop resting on it, as she and everyone else in the shop were watching the New World News on a big flat screen TV on the wall.
"Moving on to our next story regarding the ASTRO-V epidemic, it appears the vaccine has caused countless adults and children who have taken it to fall ill, suffering from serious side-effects. It's seems Dr. Rosenzweig's vaccination has done more harm than good." Said the female English-speaking voice-over that was translating the Australian anchor-woman's Hebrew words.
"That's because a vaccine isn't a cure." Ami said. Although she had addressed to the people of America not to get the vaccine, she knew there would many that still would.
"Dr. Rosenzweig had this to say." Said the English voice-over before the scene changed from the anchor-woman to Dr. Rosenzweig sitting at a desk.
"Well, like all medicines, the ASTRO-V vaccine can cause side-effects. Dr. Rosenzweig began in Hebrew, with a male English-speaking voice translating his words. "It is normal to experience side-effects after a vaccine. It shows the vaccine is teaching your body's immune system how to protect itself from the disease. Not everyone gets side-effects. Most side-effects are mild and normally last only a day or two. Very common side-effects include
(1)-Having a painful, heavy feeling and tenderness in the arm where you had your injection.
(2)-Feeling tired.
And
(3)-Headaches, aches and chills."
"Oh, sure, now you tell us." Ami said.
"You may also have flu-like symptoms with episodes of shivering for a day or two. However, a high temperature could also indicate that you or your child have ASTRO-V or another infection, as we have already learned that the virus causes other illnesses. If you feel uncomfortable, you can rest and take paracetamol. Make sure you and your children take paracetamol as directed on the label or leaflet. Remember, do not take medicines that contain aspirin if you are under 16 years of age. If your side-effects seem to get worse or if you're concerned, phone the World Health Organization right away. Tell them about your vaccination so that they can assess you properly. Thank you." Said the English voice-over of Dr. Rosenzweig.
The green NEW WORLD NEWS title appeared on-screen, replacing Dr. Rosenzweig.
"New World News will be right back after these messages." Said a male English-speaker, voice-over the sentence being spoken in Hebrew. Then the TV went to commercial.
Ami stared at the TV suspiciously. During Dr. Rosenzweig's speech, the blue-haired Japanese girl had been watching him very closely, studying his countenance and mannerisms. They were exactly like they were when he announced the vaccine on the News. He didn't appear to be speaking of his own accord either time. Which meant that everything he had said in both announcements must have been scripted and was most likely displayed on a teleprompter for him to read. She wondered what his real thoughts of this vaccine were...and began to wonder if weather or not it was his idea.
Inside the second temple in Israel-the temple of Enigma Babylon-the The Three Lights walked up to Pope Peter Matthews on a stage in a dimly lit room. They were here because the pope had invited them to see something. A thermostat had been installed in the temple to keep it warm due to the global ice-cold weather, and a generator had also been placed in it to keep the lights on.
"Pope Matthews." Seiya greeted.
The Pope stepped aside, revealing Mio behind him.
"Mio." Seiya said.
"Hello, Three Lights. Fancy meeting you here." Mio said happily.
"Why are you here?" Seiya asked.
"Making yourself at home in this temple, Kuroki?" Yaten asked.
"Relax, YATEN, I'm only here because I requested this meeting with Pope Matthews." Mio assured.
"What?!" Yaten gasped.
"The Three Lights. Welcome to the temple of One World Faith." Pope Matthews said.
"What are you doing here?" Mio asked, with a friendly smile on her face, which was obviously fake, no doubt.
"We could ask you that same question. We're here because Pope Matthews invited us. Said he had something important to show us." Taiki said.
"Indeed I do. As you know...I am the Pope of the Enigma Babylon One World Faith." Pope Matthews said.
"And I am the face and owner of the New World Religion, better known as One World Faith. Which means this concerns me as well." Mio added, reminding the Three Lights of her job.
"That's right. We're running all of the religions in the world now. And we're planning to turn this temple into the most popular gathering place on the planet. But...to do that...we need young attraction." Pope Matthews.
The lights lit up fully, revealing three young American girls in their late teens wearing 80s clothes and their hair styled like the 80s.
The first girl was 19, she had green hair that went down to her upper-back, green eyes, pink/purple edgy make-up on her face and pink lipstick. This was Pizzara.
The second girl was 18, she had white hair that stopped at her upper-back, maroon eyes, purple and yellow/gold make-up on her face and pink lipstick. She was Rocky.
The third girl was 17, she had long blue hair with an orange flower in it, blue eyes, her make-up consisted of three orange streaks on her left cheek, a small lightning bolt on her right, red lipstick, and green eye-shadow up to her eyebrows.
The Three Lights, Pope Matthews and Mio looked to see the three girls standing in the center of the stage.
"Like the Mischiefs. Pizzara...Rocky...and Storm." Pope Matthews said, introducing the 80s dressed girls.
80s Music then started to play over the intercom as the girls known as the Mischiefs started snapping their fingers before the green-haired girl known as Pizzara started singing.
Outta my way
Keep outta my way
Outta my way
I ain't playin' around
Outta my way
Keep outta my way
Outta my way
I've got to cover ground
I've got what it takes
and I'm on the attack
Goin' after the prize
and nothin's gonna
hold me back
Hoo!
Outta my way
Keep Outta my way
Outta my way
(Or you're gonna pay)
Outta my way
Keep Outta my way
Outta my way
Don't you get in my way
(I'll get you, get you)
Outta my way
Keep Outta my way
Outta my way
Don't you get in my way
Outta my way
Keep out of my way.
The music then stopped playing.
"Everyone...meet my band. The Mischiefs. They're going to be performing here with me and traveling around the world with me on tour, promoting the New World Religion." Mio said.
"That is correct. Now...his excellency, Carpathia, has arranged a battle of the bands in the park tomorrow." Pope Matthews said.
"And we're gonna win it." Pizzara said.
"That's right. 'Cause according to Mio, Carpathia made sure the other bands are so lousy we'll sound terrific." Rocky said.
"Well, we sound terrific anyway." Pizzara said. "Don't we, Storm?" She asked the blue-haired girl, elbowing her in the left shoulder.
"Hey...we're the best." Storm agreed uncertainly.
"I know. That's why I chose you as my band." Mio said.
"How dare you use a place like this to promote this...this trash!" Seiya yelled at Pope Matthews.
"Who are you callin' trash, ya little twinkle?" Pizzara asked she stormed up to Seiya, holding up her right fist.
"Be still." Pope Matthews interrupted. "Lights...Miss Kuroki and I are in charge of this place. We decide what goes on here and there's nothing you can do about it."
"Come on, girls. Let's get out of here." Seiya said before she and the other two lights turned and walked off the stage. Just when they thought Mio couldn't get any more brazen, she goes and does this. Promoting worldly songs in a sacred temple. What in the world? Although, they couldn't really be too upset about it. For it was only a mere sign of what was to happen in the first temple in the near future.
The abomination of desolation.
Back at the coffee-shop, Ami was on the laptop she had purchased here in Israel the other day, doing research on enemy countries of the United States regarding the ASTRO-V epidemic. This list of the enemy nations consisted of
Iran
Syria
Iraq
Libya
Somalia
Pakistan
Russia
North Korea
and even
Mexico.
"Hmm." Ami said suspiciously, gazing at the list of suspected nations on her laptop. "Which one of you did this? How did you do it?" She thought, pondering how anyone could create an asteroid disaster and a visible airborne diseases that infected adults and turned them against all children. "Were you behind the vanishings of Jacksonville's adults as well? If so...how?" She thought to herself. As she continued staring at the screen, her mind searched it's memory banks for anything she had ever read, seen or heard of any technology that could remove an entire city's adult population and make them disappear over-night. Whoever did this...were they here in the middle east? Would they make ransom demands in exchange for the adults' safe return? Would another wave of adult disappearances be next? Which town or city would it be?
Figuring she had done enough research for today, Ami logged out of the internet, turned off her laptop, closed it, stood up, picked up her laptop and began to leave the coffee-shop, heading for the door. She learned as much as she could. Now it was time to meet up with Usagi and the others before her call from Buck regarding her meeting with Dr. Rosenzweig came in. Whenever that would be.
On her way over to the door, Ami was approved by an old man with long white receding shoulder-length hair, brown eyes, and a long white beard that stopped at his chest. He wore a long black Biblical robe that went down to the floor, with the sleeves long and wide, black shoes with the toes curled back, and he carried a brown Bible in his right hand, a blue booklet in his left hand, and he had a brown messenger-bag on his right shoulder.
The old man stuck the booklet in Ami's face. "Do you wish to read it?" He asked in a Hebrew accent.
Ami stared at the blue booklet with curiosity. 'AMERICA FALLS' was the title. The front cover was that of the title above a picture of a tattered American flag. The Japanese girl pushed the man aside in disgust and resumed heading towards the door. "Always somebody ready to cash in on the sufferings of others." She thought to herself. But just as she walked out the door of the cafe, it hit her. The asteroid virus epidemic had only taken place a few weeks ago. How could someone here in Israel have already produced a booklet telling about it? She raced back into the cafe, her eyes searching in every direction for the man. She then spotted the old ancient hermit-looking man talking to three men, appeared to be dismissing whatever he was saying before walking away from him. The girl rushed up to the old man from behind. "Where did you get that? Who wrote it?" Ami whispered almost at the level of a shout, catching the man's attention by grabbing his arm. She was trying hard not to create a scene, and yet she was desperate to know what was going on.
"Some friends. Together. We wrote it." The man replied. "You are interested?"
"Yes, I'm interested." Ami said emphatically. "Very interested. But first tell me how you knew it was going to happen."
Ami studied the man's facial expressions. His brow was wrinkled and it almost exaggerated show of seriousness. But then how could anyone possibly exaggerate the seriousness of what had happened in America?
"Other things are coming too. Very serious things." The old man went on sternly.
Ami wanted to read the booklet, but she also wanted some instant answers. And this old man seemed to have them.
"Oh! I don't believe we've been properly introduced. My name is Elijah Gold. I'm one of the Rabbis here in Israel." said the old man now known as Elijah.
"I'm Ami Mizuno. Nice to meet you. Mind if I buy you something to eat? We can sit down and talk about what's happening in America."
"Thank you. But it is most important that I get these booklets to the people." Replied Elijah. "We can talk later." He said before proceeding to walk off.
"Please." Ami begged, blocking Elijah's path. "I'm supposed to meet up with Dr. Rosenzweig to discuss the ASTRO-V epidemic in America. Several of my friends live there, I must know what is going on before my appointment with the doctor."
Elijah sensed an urgency in Ami's voice that he had not found in others, because he quickly backed down. "Where do you want to talk?"
Later, inside Ami's hotel-room, she and Elijah sat at the table, eating fast food. Ami had taken the Rabbi to McDonalds, ordered a meal for them both-which was burgers, fries and two sprite sodas-and then they came back here where she opened the floor for Elijah to explain what was going on in America. The man's Bible was resting on the table with the booklet he had given Ami, and his messenger-bag hung on the left side of the chair he was sitting in.
"Okay, time to talk, Mr. Gold. Why is it that you think this epidemic is the start of the fall of America?" Ami said.
"What is happening now...it is allowance from God on America." Elijah explained. "But it is also an opening for the country to be controlled by the world leader. Carpathia owns the United Nations, you understand."
Ami knew of growing unrest throughout the world at what many countries considered was America's abuse of power within the U.N. That much of Elijah's explained made sense...but it was not what she was looking for. "Are you telling me that you knew this was going to happen just from reading the apocalypse prophecy?" She asked incredulously.
Elijah picked up his burger. "I cannot show all that you wish to know in such a short time. You go read it in the booklet and find out." He said before taking a sip of his drink. In his clip Hebrew accented voice, Elijah's suggestion sounded more like a command. "You will see for yourself. For now, we have little time. I must move quickly. I will not share with you everything, because I do not wish to spoil what is written inside the booklet." He said before taking a bite of his burger.
Ami was losing patience. "I'm not a big fan of book spoilers. Do you have any answers about what's going on in America with this ASTRO-V epidemic? As I mentioned earlier, many of my friends are over there. If you really know what's going, on what can I do for them? What should I do?"
"It is God's allowance." Elijah said soberly. "If any of your friends are alive and were in the infected communities, they were forced to leave with the rest of the citizens. No one will live there ever again until the polluted towns and cities are sterilized. God is angry...with the church people in America."
"The church people?" Ami said, with genuine surprise. "Why the church people?" She was thinking of Rayford, Chloe, Vicki and her other faith-believing friends in America.
"They fight the teaching of the Messiah. They do not prepare for what is coming. And they do not tell the truth of others." Elijah said.
"My friends in the U.S. are believers of the Messiah, just like I am!" Ami responded indignantly. "They're always talking about the apocalypse. The great Tribulation, to be exact."
"No, no, this is not the great Tribulation yet." Said Elijah. "This is only the start of what is coming. But you're right, they need faith that is strong enough to go through the great Tribulation. I do not think they will find it in the churches."
"They may not need to go through it. Least not all of them anyway." Ami replied. "According to them, only one of a few of them will be alive when the Messiah returns. So it's likely they won't be here during the great Tribulation, they'll be in Heaven."
"And did they tell you about the possibility of America being attacked during the Tribulation?" Elijah asked quietly as he stared at his lap. When Ami did not answer immediately, the old Rabbi raised his head and then his eyebrows in further anticipation.
Ami finally spoke. "Well...I don't know. I don't recalling them saying anything about that." Even as she spoke, she was thinking about her American friends back home in the U.S. "Maybe they forgot to mention that part."
"The church will need help. Spiritual help." Elijah said sympathetically. He went on slowly, as if talking to himself. "It is so very hard for the church people. They cannot say when they are wrong." Then he looked Ami directly in the eyes. "You must not let the church people run away. They will want to run off and find their Jesus."
Ami did not like hearing the church people talked about in such a way at a time when they were being hunted down, imprisoned and killed for their faith. She would take the time to study Elijah's booklet closely later. But was not getting any information from this strange Rabbi that would help her in this present situation America was facing.
"And with that being said...I'm off to hand out more booklets." Elijah said before getting up, putting on his messenger-bag and getting his food and drink off the table. "Thanks for the food." He said before heading for the door.
Ami then noticed that Elijah's brown Bible was still lying on the table. "Wait." She said before picking up the Bible. "You forgot this." She said as she turned around in her chair, holding up the Bible, making the Rabbi stop and face her.
"Oh, keep it. I have many more just like it back at my place. You can use it for research on what's happening in America." Elijah said.
"And where is that? If you don't mind my asking." Ami said.
"I live up in a cabin in the woods. Feel free to stop by any time. I'd love to discuss more about what's happening in the U.S." Elijah said.
"Would it be alright if I bring some friends too?" Ami asked.
"Sure, the more the merrier. I don't usually get visitors, so it'll be nice to have some company for once." Elijah said. "When can I expect you?"
"How does tomorrow evening sound?" Ami asked.
"Sounds wonderful. You bring your friends...I'll bring the information." Elijah said before he walked to the door and opened it, followed by exiting the room and closed the door back.
"Who on Earth was that guy?" Ami asked herself. She knew his name and that he was a Rabbi, but she didn't know him personally. And what was all that talk about God being angry with the church people of America? And why would he be angry with them? Society she could understand, but...the church people? He had no reason to be mad at them. They were his people...weren't they? Weren't they?
Later that night, Ami sat at the kitchen table in her hotel-room, on her laptop, researching epidemics and pandemics that had occurred throughout history, with Elijah's brown Bible and the booklet resting on the table. On-screen was a list of diseases that had polluted the world over the years, which consisted of
(1)-Black Death-(1346-1353)
(2)-Spanish Flu-(1918-1920)
(3)-Plague Of Justinian-(541-549)
(4)-HV/AIDS epidemic-(1981-present)
(5)-Third Plague pandemic-(1855-1960)
(6)-Cocoliztli epidemic-(1545-1548)
(7)-Antoine Plague-(165-180; possibly up to 190)
(8)-Mexico Smallpox-(1519-1520)
(9)-Russia Typhus epidemic-(1918-1922)
(10)-Influenza pandemic-(1957-1958)
(11)-Hong Kong Flu-(1968-1969)
(12)-Cocoliztli epidemic-(1576-1580)
(13)-Japanese Smallpox epidemic-(735-737)
(14)-Persian Plague-(1772-1773)
(15)-Naples Plague-(1656-1658)
(16)-Cholera pandemic-(1846-1860)
(17)-Italian plague-(1629-1631)
and
(18)-Flu pandemic-(1889-1890).
"Hmm." Ami said as she stared at the screen suspiciously. While the number of listed diseases were baffling to her, she couldn't figure out why none of them were listed in the Bible like the plagues of Egypt and the other sicknesses and pestilences were. Like ASTRO-V, all of these diseases were exempt from the Bible. But according to research, the apocalypse was supposed to be a time of wars, famine, disasters...and plagues. Could that be what this epidemic in America was? Getting a new idea, she typed in 'Bible verses on plagues', hit enter, clicked on one of the titles, and up came a sight on verses about plagues, and she began to examine them.
"And the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife-(Genesis 12:17)" Ami thought, reading silently.
"For I will at this time send all my plagues upon your heart, and upon your servents, and upon your people;that you may know that there is none like me in all the Earth-(Exodus 9:14)"
"And if you walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins-(Leviticus 26:21)"
"Then the Lord will make your plagues wonderful, and the plagues of your seed, even the great plagues, and on long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance-(Deuteronomy 28:59)"
"So that the generation to come of your children that will rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, will say when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the Lord has laid upon it-(Deuteronomy 29:22)"
"And I will make this city desolate, and a hissing; everyone that passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof-(Jeremiah 19:8)"
"Also, Edom shall be a desolation: everyone that goes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof-(Jeremiah 49:17)"
"Because of the wrath of the Lord is shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: everyone that goes by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues-(Jeremiah 50:13)"
"For now are the plagues come upon the whole Earth and you shall remain in them: for God shall not deliver you, because you have sinned against him-(Ezra 15:27)"
Ami gasped as her eyes went wide with shock.
"Also, every sickness and every plague, which is not written in this Book of the Law, will the Lord bring upon you until you are destroyed-(Deuteronomy 28:61)"
Ami stared at the screen, stunned. This last verse mentioned all the plagues she had just researched without calling them by name...including ASTRO-V. But the part in the verse that really confirmed the diseases and the epidemic were the words "every sickness and every plague, which is not written in the Book of the Law". Then she thought about the last words of the verse..."them will the Lord bring upon you until you are destroyed".
The Japanese teenage-girl picked up the booklet...opened it...and began to examine it.
Usagi stepped out of the shower of her hotel-room, with a pink towel wrapped around her and her hair wrapped in another pink towel, stepped into her pink slippers, walked up to the bathroom mirror, placed her hands on the sink and then looked down for a moment, lost in her thoughts about the dream she had.
"Hello, Princess." came a female voice.
Usagi looked up and instead of seeing her reflection in the mirror, she saw Princess Sailor Moon, who was holding her harp with both hands.
"Miss me?" Princess Sailor Moon asked grimly.
"You." Usagi said, stunned. "Go away. Leave me alone, you're not real, you can't be here."
"There are plenty of places I can't be...but when has that ever stopped me?" Princess Sailor Moon said coldly. "So, Princess, how was your day?"
Usagi remained silent, staring at the image of the dark-eyed ruthless alter-ego of her Senshi self. This reminded her of the time when she was talking to what she thought was her reflection in the mirror, but it actually turned out to be Zirconia. Only colder.
"So much has happened since the governor of Indiana met his end, hasn't it? First the ASTRO-V epidemic, then you and your Senshi friends rescue those children from New Island, and now you have this new mystery on your hands with the grown-ups of Jacksonville, Florida missing. I turn my back for one second." Princess Sailor Moon said.
"I'm not listening to you." Usagi said as she turned away from the mirror. "I got rid of you before and I can do it again. I can make you go away." After a few minutes passed , the blond-haired Japanese girl turned back to the mirror, only to see that it was her reflection staring back at her. She let out a sigh of relief as she placed her hands on the sink and looked down at it.
Princess Sailor Moon was gone.
Ami laid sound asleep in the bed of her hotel-room. After finishing her research, she decided to shower and turn in for the night.
Just then, her cellphone rang, which was resting on the night-stand on the right, and she awoke and answered it.
"Hello?" Ami said groggily. "Hello, Buck." She then fully awoke, sitting up. "What? Really? When? Where? At what time? I see. Okay, bye." She said before hanging up her phone and placing it back on the night-stand. She then laid back down in bed and went back to sleep.
Dr. Rosenzweig had finally agreed to see her about the ASTRO-V epidemic.
Justin sat at the table in the orange chair in the dark kids room of the command-center in his white pajamas, red robe and red slippers, wearing a quilt wrapped around him and wearing mittens, with the only source of light being his lit lantern that was resting on the table. The boy hadn't been able to sleep, as his mind was too busy thinking about the epidemic in America, all the kids who had lost parents because of it, and his parents and wondering how they were and if they were alright.
The door to the kids bedroom opened and out stepped Ruby with her lit lantern, dressed in a pink robe, pink pajamas, and a pair of pink bunny slippers. There was an electric heater running in the bedroom to keep the kids warm, so none of them needed quilts or mittens while they slept. There was also an electric heater here in the kids room too, but it had been turned off to save on electricity. Ruby closed the door back and then walked up to the table where she sat down in the pink chair and placed her lantern on the table. "Hey."
"Hi." Justin greeted.
"What are you thinking about?" Ruby asked, concerned.
"Everything. The ASTRO-V epidemic...all the kids who lost their parents to the virus...my parents." Justin answered.
"You know...Cole and I have a step-mother." Ruby began. "I used to think that having a step-Mom was the worst thing ever. When my Dad married her...I felt it was the end of the world. Guess I felt that way because I thought she was trying to take the place of my real Mom, who sadly passed away from sickness. But then the GC came and took me and Cole away...and put us in Camp New World."
"I'm sorry." Justin said, apologizing.
"It's okay." Ruby assured. "What happened to your parents?"
Justin was silent for a moment. "They got arrested by the army and put in prison."
"Were they criminals? Did they do that to your face?" Ruby asked curiously, referring to Justin's black-eye and busted lip.
"No, they just didn't wanna follow this child abuse mandated rule made by mayor Thomas. And as for these bruises, well...they're from my foster Dad. He had issues, the kid that had to do with his temper." Justin said.
"You should get some sleep." Ruby said.
Justin got up from the table, got his lantern, and headed back for the kids bedroom, followed by Ruby picking up her lantern, getting up and following after him.
Indianapolis, Indiana
At the white architecture church of snow-covered evacuated Indianapolis, inside the dark building, Reverend Tanner, Jay, Oliver, Jake, Amber and Tony, wrapped in quilts and holding lit lanterns were all standing at the end of the aisle in front of the stage. The power had gone out all over the city either due to the ice-cold weather or the evacuation, so there were no lights or electricity running.
The double-doors then opened and in walked Sailor Mars, Venus and Pluto, followed by the Inner Senshi duo closing the door back, and then all three of them began walking down the aisle.
"Any sign of Mikey out there?" Reverend Tanner asked as the Senshi came towards him and the kids.
"No." Mars said.
"Not a sign." Venus added.
"We couldn't find him anywhere in the city, and we've searched all over by helicopter." Pluto said as she and the Inner Guardians walked up to the Reverend and the children.
"Well, we've gotta get goin', we can't stay here any longer." Oliver said.
"I thought he'd be back by now." Amber said.
"Maybe he's not comin' at all. Maybe he made his decision. You know, about Heaven." Jay guessed.
"Come on, Jay, you of all people know him better than that. You know he'd have a problem with being out there by himself, especially after dark." Jake said.
"Yeah, and with good reason. Those zombies are still out there." Oliver added.
"What?!" Mars gasped.
"You mean those things are still around?!" Venus asked.
"Yep." Oliver said.
"They're not zombies, they're merely infected adults." Pluto corrected.
"Zombies, infected, whatever! Either way, they're not normal anymore!" Oliver said.
"Maybe he found another place to stay." Jay said.
"Yeah, right." Tony said.
"Maybe he went to his house." Jay said.
"He'd go crazy there by himself. According to you, his Mom wasn't even home when you guys went by there the day after the evacuation." Jake said.
"Yeah, that's true." Jay said.
"Alright. We're gonna wait six more minutes. If he's not here by then, we're leaving." Rev Tanner said.
11 Minutes Later...
The gang was now sitting on the stage in a circle, with the lanterns resting in the middle, waiting for Mikey's arrival...but he never showed.
"You guys, I have a bad feeling about this." Mars said.
"What are we supposed to do?" Oliver asked.
"Well, how do you know he didn't-"
"He knew we were leavin' today. Alright?" Oliver said, cutting Mars off. "Rev Tanner said we'd wait six more minutes, we waited 11. You guys flew all over the city, searching for him in your helicopter, he was nowhere in sight. I don't know what else we could do."
"I don't want nothin' to happen to him, but...I don't know how to help him either." Jay said.
"Alright. So we want Mikey to believe like us, but we kick him out of the church? What is that all about?" Amber said.
"What do you mean?" Rev Tanner asked.
"I may have told Mikey that if he didn't change his attitude, he would have to find himself another place to stay." Oliver admitted nervously.
"What?!" Mars gasped.
"Why would you say that?!" Venus asked frantically.
"Because he was getting on my nerves with his whining. I guess I may have wanted him gone to get a little peace of mind." Oliver said.
"The church is supposed to look out for those who are vulnerable and confused, not send them away." Sailor Pluto said. "Even if we do not always agree."
"You make it sound like I don't care what happens to him." Oliver said.
"The matter is more of you not abandoning him like this." Pluto said.
"He knew when he was supposed to be back." Jay said.
"But it doesn't make any sense. If he told us to our faces that he was leaving, that's one thing. But he didn't. He didn't even leave a note." Amber said.
"So what do you think he's doin'?" Tony asked.
"I don't know. Maybe he's in some kind of trouble." Amber said.
"Mikey may be mischievous, but I think he's chicken to do anything dangerous. I mean, he wouldn't go into his house with me." Jay said.
"Maybe he knows what you think of him. Maybe he did something crazy to prove to you how brave he is." Venus said.
"I doubt that." Jay said.
"I don't. The way you've been picking on him-"
"Okay, Amber, what do you think we should do?" Jake asked, cutting Amber off.
"No clue." Amber answered. "Maybe we should just wait for him a bit longer."
Rev Tanner was silent for a moment. "Alright."
"It's not like Mikey's puttin' it off." Jay said.
"What do you mean?" Mars asked.
"It's more like he doesn't understand or don't want to. Sometimes I think he understands fine. He just don't wanna believe that Heaven is behind what's happening to the world." Jay said.
"Well...he's going to believe soon enough, whether he wants to or not. I believe everyone's gonna know that Heaven is in this before it's all over. People are dropping right and left. So he better get ready." Mars said. It took digging up her mother's grave and finding it empty to get her to believe. She wondered what it was gonna take for Mikey to make a decision.
"Straight up, M." Jay said.
"Uh, ye-yeah. St-straight up." Mars said.
Just then, the double-doors opened and everyone turned to see Mikey, dressed for the winter, panting heavily while standing in the doorway.
"You guys are not gonna believe what just happened to me." Mikey said.
A Few Minutes Later...
Everyone was now sitting on the steps of the stage, gathered around Mikey, who was in the middle.
"And that's what happened." Mikey said, having walked the gang through the events of what had happened to him while he was out.
"O-kaaaay, let's recap. After you left the church, you walked around the city for a while." Mars said.
"Yeah. I mean, I felt kind of bad 'cause I thought I was being a pain." Mikey said.
"You were being a pain." Jay said.
"Jay!" Jake and Rev Tanner scolded.
"No, it's alright. I felt the same way." Mikey said.
"So you thought you'd do something to change everyone's minds about you." Venus said.
"Yeah." Mikey said.
Venus sighed. "That's what I was afraid of."
"So you went to Jay's house." Mars said.
"Well, yeah, just to check out what was goin' on, and I found out some stuff about Jay's Dad." Mikey said.
"What'd you find out?" Jay asked, now interested more than ever.
"I know he's alive and not one of the zombie grown-ups." Mikey answered.
"How do you know that?" Jay asked.
"Let him talk, Jay." Oliver said.
"I found a letter he had written for you, saying that he had left in the evacuation. Where he is now though is anyone's guess." Mikey said.
"And then you left Jay's house, you later ran into some infected adults." Pluto said.
"Yeah. And not only did I run into them, but they were rotting right before my eyes. Those things are now lookin' like The Walking Dead." Mikey said.
"What?!" Venus gasped in shock. The ASTRO infected were now rotting? While they were still alive? How was that possible?
"Then you ran off before they started chasing you." Mars said.
"Yeah. They were chasing me all over the city." Mikey said.
"And then you got away by hiding in a few buildings, but more and more infected people just kept popping up in and out of them." Venus said.
"Yeah. I mean, I still don't know what the big deal is, but these dudes kept chasin' me." Mikey said.
"And you kept hiding in buildings until you were able to get away from them." Pluto said.
"Yeah." Mikey said.
"Not bad." Jake said.
"You were running this whole time?" Amber asked.
"No, I went back to the suburbs and hid in my house until I was certain it was safe. That's when I left on my bike and came straight here." Mikey corrected.
"You were inside your house?" Jay asked in disbelief.
"I was." Mikey said.
"Incredible." Tony said.
"Michael...you said you made a decision to receive the Messiah while you were being chased by the infected. Tell us about that." Pluto said.
"Well, I just started thinkin'...what if these zombies catch me and what happens when they catch me? For the first time, I realized that...I could be facing death. And if I died...I wanted to go to Heaven." Mikey explained. "That counts, right?"
"Oh, yeah, that counts. God heard you and...that's what matters, really." Rev Tanner said.
"Cool." Mikey said, with a smile on his face.
"Welcome to the club, Mikey." Rev Tanner said.
"Thanks. It's about time, huh?" Mikey said.
"Yeah, you kept us waitin' for a while." Amber said.
"Wow. This is great news. And I am just so happy for you, Mikey." Rev Tanner said.
"Thanks. I'm happy for me too." Mikey said, still smiling.
Mars smiled as she looked at Mikey. Seeing the boy smile for the first time since the start of the ASTRO-V epidemic was truly joyous. She was happy he had finally received the Messiah's salvation. Yet there was still something she had to know. "So, uh, Mikey, how does it feel to be part of the kingdom of Heaven?"
"Great. I mean, I still miss my Mom and all, but...I'm hoping she went into the evacuation or if she was killed earthquake/meteor shower or ASTRO-V impact, she became a believer before she died." Mikey said.
"Well, there's no way to know that for sure." Amber said.
"Yeah. I'm just glad I'm goin' to Heaven." Mikey said.
"Yeah." Mars said. "So...must be nice to be forgiven, huh?"
"Oh, yeah. Especially with my mischievous record." Mikey said.
"Really? You were that bad?" Mars asked.
"Totally. I mean, I was devious, but I never did anything dark and shady." Mikey said.
"Aren't you glad we don't into Heaven just by being good people or the good things we do?" Mars asked.
"I don't know. You super-girls might've made it." Mikey said.
"But we didn't make it. We got left behind same as you." Venus said.
"All I'm trying to say, Mikey...is no matter how good we are-"
"Or think we are." Venus added, cutting Mars off.
"We still don't make it. And we need to be forgiven. That's what salvation is all about." Mars finished.
"Mars and Venus are right. It doesn't matter how good we are or think we are. We just don't make it. At the end of the day, we've all fallen short of the glory of God and we need his forgiveness." Pluto said.
"But I didn't see myself that way before." Mikey said.
"Well...what about now? How do you see yourself now?" Mars asked.
"Saved?" Mikey guessed.
"From what?" Mars asked.
"Hell." Mikey answered.
"But not from your mischievous nature?" Mars asked.
"I guess." Mikey said.
"No guessing about it. We're all still sinners, but...believes aren't going to be the ones to pay the penalty for their wrongful actions. And unless you're perfect-"
"I wasn't perfect. Far from it." Mikey said, cutting Mars off.
"Yeah, neither was I. My Grandma always said it's the people that dont see themselves as bad who are the last ones to realize they need God." Jay said.
"I knew I needed God 'cause I didn't wanna die and go to Hell." Mikey said.
"You mean YOU still would've gone to Hell?" Mars asked.
"Well...yeah, I guess." Mikey said.
"You really think you would've gone to Hell?" Mars asked.
"Well...of course, I mean...I was a bad kid and...I hadn't received the Messiah." Mikey said.
"Now we're getting somewhere." Jay said.
"Yes, you are, finally." came a female voice.
"Huh?" The gang said as they looked forward.
A gold light shined through the round glass-stained window above the front closed double-doors, followed by it projecting the small hologram of Queen Serenity at the end of the aisle in front of the group.
"You." Rev Tanner said, stunned to see the woman from his dream in person.
"You're majesty." Pluto said as she stood up.
"Greetings, Reverend Tanner. It's lovely finally meet you in person." Queen Serenity said.
"Wh-what..." Mikey stammered. "what's happening? Who are you?"
"Do not be afraid." Queen Serenity said softly. "I am Queen Serenity, the former ruler of the late Moon Kingdom."
"Yo...you...you are?" Was all Jay could say.
"Yes..." Queen Serenity responded. "I am. I was sent by Heaven to give you a message. To tell you the truth."
Rev Tanner couldn't believe it. This was happening. Queen Serenity was really here.
"What is the truth?" Mikey asked. The kid had no idea how he managed to keep his voice sounding so neutral. Inside his heart was pounding and his mind was swimming.
"That God loves you, Michael Newman. He loves all of you young ones." Queen Serenity said. "And when 2.2 billion people around the world disappeared two years ago, it wasn't my daughter, Sailor Moon, and the Senshi's doing. It was the Messiah taking the believers home to spare them from what's happening now. He evacuated every person who had come to him prior to then, both dead and alive, and he also took every baby and nearly every child under the age of 12. When they arrived, they all instantly received new spirit forms so they can live in Heaven forever. Congratulations to all of you for receiving the Messiah. And we'll done to you, Michael, for finally receiving him as well."
"Thanks...I think." Oliver said.
"But how do I know that I am a believer?" Mikey asked.
"In the prophecy, it is stated that all believers will have a seal on their foreheads, confirming their conversion. No one can see it but you and others like you." Queen Serenity said.
Mikey looked at the group's foreheads and saw the seal on them. "I was wondering what those were."
"You got it too, I can see it." Jake said.
"We all can see it." Amber said.
"Cool." Mikey said.
"I'm confused. I mean, I was taught that when the Rapture happened it was too late for those left behind. Least that's what the pastor taught anyway." Jay said.
"The rest of humanity may have missed the Messiah when he came...but that doesn't mean all hope is lost. God loves everyone too much not to give them another chance." Queen Serenity said.
"You mean Heaven is still optional?" Jay asked.
"Yes." Queen Serenity answered. "In fact, that was another reason God conducted this mass evacuation. Not only to spare the believers and the vast majority of children under teen-hood, but also to get the attention of the rest of the people. And that includes all of you."
"Well, he got it." Tony said.
"Excellent." Queen Serenity said, smiling. "Now..." Her face turned serious. "I must issue this warning."
"Warning?" Mikey questioned.
"Yes." Queen Serenity began, nodding. "The man who rules the whole world is who the prophecy calls the Antichrist. As you all know, he is the ruler of the New World Order, and both he and another man the prophecy calls the False Prophet will lead people away from the truth. Leon Fortunato is the False Prophet."
The eyes of Mikey, Jake, Amber, Oliver and Tony went wide with shock, horror now surging in their hearts. This made them look at Carpathia completely different now. In agreeing to let him be the ruler of the New World Order, the government had walked the world right into the trap of a lying, manipulative tyrant.
"If that's true, we've gotta go into hiding! Now!" Oliver said.
"No." Queen Serenity began. "Right now you are all safe. He can use you and Rev Tanner's ministry, if you'll let him. With your knowledge about the New World Religion/GC summer camps, you'll be able to help parents keep their children away from them."
"Alright." Mikey began, standing up. "What does God want us to do?"
"First of all, God wanted you all to know who the world leader really is so you won't be deceived by him." Queen Serenity said. "With the help of the False Prophet, the world leader has and continues to successfully deceive the whole world. Then there's the world-wide religion, occultic in nature and purpose. The pope, Peter Matthews, is it's leader and Mio Kuroki is it's owner. It claims to be accepting of all religions and beliefs."
"Except for the belief of the Messiah." Jay said. "The New Religion 100% rejects it, just like the GC."
"Yes. It has much influence and it persecutes the apocalypse believers and will continue to do so until the world leader has it destroyed shortly before the midpoint of the apocalypse." Queen Serenity explained.
"Then what?" Tony asked.
"I can say no more, as the most high instructed me to only speak of the time you're in right now. But I can warn you about what's coming next." Queen Serenity said.
"What is coming next?" Mikey asked.
"The 5th Trumpet Judgement. The first woe. In this judgement, the abbeys of the underworld will be opened by a star that will fall on the Earth, unleashing a swarm of demonic locusts upon the entire world to torment humanity for five months by stinging them. And the pain will be so unbearable that people will want to die...but will not be able to. Ever hear the phrase "Hell on Earth"? Well, that's exactly what this judgement will be. Hell on Earth. And things will only continue to get worse with the remaining judgements until the Messiah returns with the forces of Heaven. Even more worse than what has happened and what's currently happening now." Queen Serenity explained.
"If you're telling us this now, it sounds like the 5th Trumpet Judgement isn't too far off." Mars said.
"That is correct...yes." Queen Serenity said.
"What can you tell us about the epidemic that's plaguing America?" Mars asked.
"The time for that mystery to be revealed has not yet come. Just know that it is not from Heaven." Queen Serenity said before she slowly started to fade.
"Wait!" Mikey said, making Queen Serenity stop fading.
"Yes?" Queen Serenity asked.
"Can you tell my brother, Jayden that...I'm sorry for not being the brother he needed me to be...and that I feel really bad for not being an example to him?" Mikey asked.
"Same with me and my brother, Isaac." Jay said, standing up. "And could you tell my Mom how sorry I am for not being a good son?"
"They already know that...and Heaven knows it too." Queen Serenity said with a warm smile, before fading away with the beam of light.
"A star falling to Earth?" Amber asked.
"Opening the doorway to Hell?" Oliver added.
"Demon locusts?" Tony said.
"And Hell on Earth? I'm getting bad vibe." Jake concluded.
Israel World Health Organization...
The next day in Israel, at the World Health Organization, Sailor Mercury walked down the hallway with Buck, heading for the board-room to meet with Dr. Rosenzweig about the epidemic and the vaccine.
"It's really unheard of. Five leaders of the infected communities in America gathering here for this meeting." Buck said.
"I'm glad they're taking it seriously." Mercury said.
"Very seriously. They've been meeting with Dr. Rosenzweig for the last seven days." Buck said. He and Mercury soon arrived at the double-doors of the board-room. "Wait right here." He said before the doors and entering inside, followed by closing them back.
"We encourage each of you to update your emergency response protocols immediately. Make sure your comprehensive epidemic planning effort integrates strategies and various levels of government." Dr. Rosenzweig said, standing before the female mayor of Birmingham-Alabama, the mayor of Bandera-Texas, the mayor of Las Cruces-New Mexico, Daniel Thomas, the mayor of Arkon-Ohio, and the president of Tokyo-Japan, who were all sitting at a long table that was covered with a green cloth.
"Dr. Rosenzweig?" Buck said, getting the attention of the doctor and everyone else in the room.
"Cameron, hi. Nice of you to join us." Dr. Rosenzweig said.
"Thanks, doc." Buck said.
"So, where's our little mystery guest you wanted me to meet? Did you bring them with you?" Dr. Rosenzweig asked.
"Yeah, I did, they're outside, waiting for me to introduce them." Buck said.
"Perfect. I'll welcome them in right away." Dr. Rosenzweig said. "Alright. In order to answer some of your questions, I have invited a mystery guest my friend, Cameron Williams, recommended to breif us. They just returned from the U.S. a week ago. Cameron...if you please."
"Thank you, sir." Buck said before he opened one of the doors, allowing Mercury to enter, making everyone in the room gasp in shock and horror.
"Sailor Mercury?!" Dr. Rosenzweig gasped.
"It's one of the moon aliens!" The mayor of Bandera said.
"What's she doing here?!" The mayor of Las Cruces demanded.
"Spying on us, no doubt!" Mayor Daniel Thomas said.
"Hit the sky, space-cook!" Said the female mayor of Birmingham-Alabama as she stood up.
"Cameron, what is this? A prank? 'Cause if it is, it's not funny." Dr. Rosenzweig said.
"I assure you, doc, this is not a joke. Sailor Mercury is here to help us resolve the ASTRO-V epidemic in America." Buck explained, holding up his hands.
"You mean this is the mystery guest you recommended?" Dr. Rosenzweig asked.
"If I had told you who the mystery guest was, you wouldn't have agreed to meet with her today." Buck said.
"I wouldn't have agreed to meet with her at all." Dr. Rosenzweig said.
"My point exactly." Buck said.
"Please...Dr. Rosenzweig...just let me voice my thoughts on what I know about the epidemic and what we can do to resolve it. Afterwards, you and the others can decide for yourselves if you want my help or not." Sailor Mercury pleaded.
"She has information that could be very helpful, doctor. Please." Cameron said.
Everyone was quiet for a moment.
"Very well. Let us hear what this being has to say." Rosenzweig said.
"Thank you." Mercury said before going over to Rosenzweig, standing at his right side. "Uh, the rest of the Senshi and I have been keeping up with the ASTRO-V epidemic since the day it first hit Tokyo-Japan and four states In America two weeks ago. Now, over that time, less than hundreds of infected adults have died from the exposure to the ice-cold winter. Ten days ago, the asteroids hit Arkon-Ohio, polluting the entire community and infecting 600 adults who are now all dead due to the global winter."
The people chatted amongst themselves for a while before ceasing.
"So you're saying this is the start of a pandemic?" Mayor Thomas asked.
"Come on, we can't start throwing around the word "pandemic". The public will panic." The female mayor of Birmingham-Alabama.
"Well, that's what it is, isn't it? Like the Spanish Flu." Mayor Thomas said.
"The Spanish Flu killed 50-million people." The mayor of Birmingham said. "That's not what you're suggesting right?"
"No. Actually, I believe it could be much worse." Mercury said. "The ASTRO-V epidemic has a much higher contagious risk than the 1918 Spanish Flu virus, as it infects adults. I expect several more waves of the purple toxic asteroids during the next few months or so. I mean...I believe that the ultimate nation-wide infection of adult lives could reach as high as hundreds more or thousands or millions."
"And what if we close all the borders to the U.S.? Now. Today. Shut down the airport, seal the rest of the world off from America." Said the male Japanese mayor of Tokyo-Japan.
"I'm afraid it's too late for that." Mercury said.
"Well, since the war in Israel and the vanishings, we've upgraded our emergency response plans." The mayor of Tokyo said.
"This is much worse than the war in Israel, this is like a war hitting every town, city and state one at a time. There's gonna be a long and brutal ordeal that will rip apart the fabric of U.S. society. The American public is gonna be demanding a cure now, since Dr. Rosenzweig's vaccine was defective, and you don't have one and you may not have one for a while." Mercury explained.
"Well, why don't we have one if the epidemic has been hitting the U.S. for three weeks?" The man asked.
"Because every single strain of influenza is unique and so you can't develop a cure until that particular strain comes into existence." Mercury said.
"Rest assured though...every pharmaceutical company in Israel will be working around the clock to develop a cure. It's just a very slow process." Rosenzweig said.
"And that is where I come in. I will be working with Dr. Rosenzweig and with every pharmaceutical company in Israel to develop a serum for the citizens of America. It won't stop them from getting the virus, but it will keep it from taking effect. At least until we can develop some kind of antidote." Mercury said.
"You know what, that's not gonna be exactly comforting to the people in America sitting at home, scared out of their minds. They're gonna be looking to us, Carpathia and the Global Community for answers." Said mayor Thomas.
"Sir, what I can tell you is time is our friend. The longer the ASTRO virus is around, the less contagious it will likely become. So the more time we can buy, the more lives we can saves." Mercury said.
"And how long before it hits another nation?" Mayor Thomas asked.
Mercury folded her arms as she looked at Rosenzweig, giving him the floor to speak.
"We're sure that it may already be here in Israel...and in America and Alaska." Rosenzweig answered.
All of the leaders gasped.
"How did that happen?" Mayor Thomas asked.
"This is going to be difficult to hear. What I am about to tell you is accurate." Mercury said before pausing. "The virus was able to make it's way over here to Israel, to Canada and Alaska through the children of the infected communities. They are not immune to the virus, they just carry it around inside of them until they reach adulthood. Then the virus takes effect."
"So what are you saying?" Mayor Thomas asked. "Are all of those children infected? Are they going to become those purple-eyed things? When?"
"To answer your first question..." Mercury replied. "yes. They are all infected. As to your second...it depends entirely on their age."
"Their age?" Mayor Thomas asked.
"Yes, sir." Mercury confirmed. "Their age. Whatever this virus is, it only takes effect in children when they reach the age of 20 on their birthday. Something in the 20th year causes the virus to take over the carrier's mind, turning them into mindless child-hating creatures my comrades and I have encountered in the adults. The News has been able to determine that with children there is roughly a number of years dormant period before the virus takes hold of them at 20, depending on their current age. Their eyes will turn purple."
"Like the adults?" Mayor Thomas asked.
"Yes. Just like the adults." Mercury answered.
"But none of the children look sick." The mayor of Birmingham said.
"They will be." Mercury said. "Once they reach the age of 20, the virus will kick in and take over."
"So lay it out for us." Mayor Thomas said. "How bad is it? How do we contain it?"
"The only way this could've been contained is if you nuked the infected communities after the asteroids hit." Mercury replied.
"Don't give us that!" Mayor Thomas said.
"You don't understand." Mercury began before narrowing her eyes. "This virus is airborne. And it infects every single person it comes into contact with. Including children, who house the virus inside them until the age of 20. As soon as the infected children left the polluted communities with their families in the evacuations, this became impossible to contain."
Everyone was stunned and speechless, not sure how to react that this news. Mercury was right though. Hundreds of children left the infected communities, those children came here to Israel, went to Canada and Alaska, hoping to escape the virus, realizing they were still infected and would turn into those purple-eyed creatures on their 20th birthday and infect more towns cities and states. It all began to sink in, and the peoples' eyes seemed to glaze over with the severity of the situation. If they were right, one day every major city in Israel, Canada and Alaska would have active cases of these infected adults. If the virus was able to spread through the children by lying dormant until they reach 20, then it was likely upwards to 60-percent of the adult populations of Israel, Canada and Alaska would be those things. And until they could come up with some cure...there was nothing they could do to stop it.
Ikuko, Kenji, Mayumi, Nehelenia and Idina were in the command-room with Luna and Artemis, watching an American talk-show on a screen between two of the pillars behind the control-panel, with Luna on the stool and Artemis on the control-panel. On the screen were two American women-one white and one black-Mio, and two men sitting at a long table, with a screen in the background that took up that whole part of the wall, bearing images of the Sailor Senshi.
"Oh, come on, there are a lot of bad things going on in the world now a-days and these alien vigilantes always seem to be there to stop it. It's only natural that some people are gonna try heroize them. You can't just tell citizens not to make contact with them." said the white woman.
"But it's been described as a safety precaution.. Yes, yes, Mr. Carpathia did order citizens not to make any form of contact with these vigilantes, but look what's happened since then because of them. Grass and trees burned up...waters turned to blood...poisoned waters...poisoned waters...purple asteroids falling to Earth and infecting countless adults with purple smoke, turning them against all children...and now this ice-cold global winter." Mio explained.
At the Trib-Force's place, Ray, the Outer Senshi and the others were watching the talk-show on TV.
"But how did this happen? How did they become like they are? Young girls don't just...develop super-powers at random." said the white woman.
"And why haven't there been any arrests? I mean, all the News said was that two of the Senshi conspired with Mrs. Carl to kill her abusive husband, the former governor of Indiana. Not to mention the fact that they and the rest of their comrades abducting all of those missing children from the state of Indiana and all those other children from New Island in New Zealand. Now, don't we have the right to know more?" The black woman said.
At the kids Trib-Force's school hideout, Vicki, Rei and Hotaru were also watching the talk-show on TV.
"And I'm sure that we will know more, but for now, we have to give them time." said one of the two men.
"Well, enough about these girls for one day. Let's talk about you, Mio, and your plans for the moon. I've heard you've had a place built on it. Is that true." The white woman said.
"Absolutely. An amusement park was built on the moon sometime after the earthquake/meteor shower. I call it...the Moon Kingdom." Mio said.
"WHAT?!" Vicki, Rei and Hotaru gasped.
"You've GOT to be kidding me." Shelley grumbled.
Back at the command-center...
"Ooh, sounds wonderful." said the white woman.
"Thanks, it is wonderful. In fact, here's a picture of it just to prove what you've heard is true." Mio said. She, the two women and the two women and the two men were then replaced with a futuristic image of the Moon Kingdom on the moon, with a dome over it. "There it is."
"Wow. That looks promising." The black woman said.
"I know, I'm super excited. I can't wait to open up the place." Mio said before she and the others appeared back on-screen.
"And when can we expect it to be open?" The white woman asked.
Luna pressed a button, making the screen between the two pillars disappeared. "Mio has...rebuilt the Moon Kingdom." She said, baring a grim frightened expression on her face.
"Why would she do that?" Ikuko asked.
"Beryl." Artemis said.
"What?" Mayumi asked, confused.
"That's what Beryl wanted, she wanted to take over the Moon Kingdom. Looks like Mio had it built in remembrance of her." Artemis said.
"And possibly to spite Usagi. This is going to break her heart when she finds out." Luna said.
At a restaurant in Israel, Ami sat at a table on a circle-booth-seat in the middle, researching more scriptures on her laptop, on the table, about diseases while waiting for Usagi and the others to arrive so she could share the news with them about the meeting with the mysterious Rabbi, Elijah Gold, and what he had shared with her about the ASTRO-V epidemic and why God permitted it to happen.
On the screen of her laptop, Ami viewed the verses on diseases and began reading them silently.
"And I will bring a sword against you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant; when you are gathered together within your cities I will send pestilence among you; and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy-(Leviticus 26:25)"
"They shall be wasted with hunger, devoured by pestilence and bitter destruction; I will also send against them the teeth of beasts, with the poison of serpents of the dust-(Deuteronomy 32:24)"
"I also will do this to you: I will even appoint terror over you, wasting disease and fever which shall consume the eyes and cause sorrow of heart. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it-(Leviticus 26:16)"
"The Lord will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with severe burning fever, with the sword, with scorching, and with mildew, they shall pursue you until you perish-(Deuteronomy 28:22)"
"When there is famine in the land, pestilence or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers; when their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever sickness there is-(1st Kings 8:37)"
Ami was still stunned by the number of verses that were in the Bible concerning sickness and diseases. But the last one she saw baffled her more.
"When I shut up Heaven and there is no rain or command the locust to devour the land or send pestilence among my people-(2nd Chronicles 7:13)" She read silently.
This last verse only confirmed what Elijah had told her about the epidemic in America.
"Hey, Ami!" Came a female voice.
"Huh?" Ami said as she looked up from the screen of her laptop and saw Usagi, Makoto, Minako, Lionel and Sam standing at the entrance while waving at her. "Hi, you guys!"
Usagi and the others ran over to where Ami was sitting.
"Hey, we got your message. What's up?" Lionel said.
"I'm glad you all made it, have a seat. I have something important to share with you." Ami said.
Usagi and the others all sat down on the circle-booth-seat to hear what Ami had to say as she closed her laptop. Ami told the group about her encounter with Elijah Gold and the information he had shared with her concerning the ASTRO-V epidemic in the U.S.
Later, everyone was blown away by Ami's story, as well as speechless.
"Wowee. That's a lot to take in." Makoto said.
"I've seen this man around town a few times. He acts very strange." Sam added.
"I don't know. Sounds like this guy had a lot to say about America, the epidemic and the people of the church." Lionel said.
"Yes, he did. And I don't think he's done yet. That's why I've agreed to meet with him at his cabin up In the woods this evening." Ami said.
"Say what?" Lionel asked, baffled.
"Why would you do something like that, Ami?" Usagi asked.
"Because he knows what's going in America with the epidemic and why it's happening. And if he knows why it's happening, then maybe he knows how to stop it." Ami said.
"You don't even this man, much less anything about him." Minako warned.
"I know his name and where he lives, and Sam said he knows him." Ami said.
"I said I have seen him around, not that I knew him personally." Sam clarified. ". There is a difference. And whenever I did see him, I went out of my way to avoid him at all costs." Sam added.
"He told me he was a Rabbi." Ami said.
"Anybody can say that." Makoto said. "You don't even know this guy. For all you know, he could be a serial killer that targets kids and teenagers. Or an undercover spy for the GC."
"I doubt serial killers or GC spies would be walking around with these." Ami said as she reached into her right pocket and got out the booklet and handed it to the rest.
"What's this?" Lionel asked.
"America Falls." She said, reading the booklet's title. "Mr. Gold gave it to me. It's a booklet that talks about the destruction of America." Ami said.
"So? That don't mean he's right in the head." Lionel said.
"Which is why I've arranged for us to meet with him at his place this evening." Ami said.
"You did what?" Minako asked.
"What? You didn't think I'd actually go up there by myself, did you?" Ami asked. "This way, if he is a serial killer or a GC spy, we can overpower him as a group." Ami answered and explained.
"You mean you don't know for certain if he is who he says he is?"
"No, I don't." Ami admitted.
"But you said he told you he was a Rabbi." Sam said.
"There's no way to know that for sure." Ami said.
"Yes, there is. Did he have the seal on his forehead?" Lionel said.
"I don't know." Ami said.
"What do you mean you don't know? Every believer has the seal on their forehead. He either had it or he didn't. How did you miss something like that?" Lionel said.
"I was too tuned into what he was saying about America to notice. I guess we'll find out this evening." Ami said.
"Great. We made it through two years of the apocalypse just to be killed or turned into the GC by some old guy in the woods." Lionel said sarcastically.
"Way to go, Ami." Usagi said sarcastically.
In the Israel park, a crowd of people were gathered at a stage that three girls in their 20s stood on while finishing their song, BROKEN GLASS. A banner hung at the top of the stage that read BATTLE OF THE BANDS. These girls were known as the 70s Girls, a 1970s retro band. They were dressed in 70s clothes and shoes and their hair was styled like the 70s. They were the last band to perform today in the Battle Of The Bands contest, and their singing was awful.
Broken glass
Broken glass.
"Let's hear it for the 70s Girls!" Nicolae said, holding a cordless microphone in his right hand.
"BOO! BOOO!" the crowd said.
"Then let's hear it for...Mio Kuroki and The Mischiefs!" Nicolae said.
The crowd cheered, whistled and applauded, with Mio and the Mischiefs standing on another stage, having already performed one of their songs.
"And the winners of the first annual Battle Of The Bands are-" Nicolae was then cut off by the sound of music.
There's music in the air
News is in the makin'
Music in the air
Somethin' big is breakin'..
The crowd ran over to another stage where the Three Lights were singing, who turned out to be the source of the song and music.
Wow, look around at the
sight and the sound
Did we take you by surprise?
Bet you can't believe your eyes.
(Oh)
Whoa, well,
this is only the beginnin'
Only the beginning
Now, now's the time when
our star's on the climb
Watch us try for the prize
We're already on the rise
(The rise, surprise)
Oh, well,
this is only the beginnin'
Only the beginnin'
Only the beginnin'
Only the beginnin'
Only the beginning
Only the beginning.
The whole crowd cheered and applauded, except for Nicolae, Leon, Pope Matthews, Mio and The Mischiefs, of course.
"Thank you. I'm Seiya. And this is Yaten and Taiki. We're the Three Lights."
"You can't play here! This is by invitation only! I won't tolerate this kind of interference!" Pope Matthews shouted.
"And we won't tolerate rigged contests." Seiya said over the microphone.
"Do you honestly think you can do better than Mio and the Mischiefs?!" Pope Matthews asked.
"Then I challenge you. In four months, I'll make the Mischiefs with Miss Kuroki more popular than any other band on the planet. Then we'll have another Battle Of The Bands in the Unted States in Seattle, Washington." Nicolae announced over his microphone.
"We're gonna win that contest." Mio said.
"You know it." Pizzara added.
Jerusalem Forest
Later that evening, up in the Jerusalem Forest of Israel, Ami, Usagi, Makoto, Minako, Lionel, Sam, Sailor Uranus, Neptune and Saturn walked through the wilderness to meet up with the mysterious Rabbi, Elijah Gold, at his cabin. All they had to do was find it. The Outer Senshi had come along because Ami had called and asked them to just in case the Rabbi was an enemy is disguise.
"So that's the Rabbi's story about the epidemic, huh?" Uranus said, with Ami having just filled her and the other two Outers in on Elijah Gold's take on the ASTRO virus plaguing America.
"The ASTRO virus seemed so random. I wouldn't have imagined it was a man-made judgement on the U.S." Neptune said.
"But why though? I can't believe God would allow something like this to happen. And to America of all nations. I mean...isn't America a nation founded on faith?" Lionel said.
"Yes, it was. But the thing is...well...I'll let Mr. Gold explain everything." Ami said.
"Stay focused, guys." Judd said.
"So this old Rabbi...he's up here in the woods, right, Ami?" Makoto asked.
"He could be." Ami answered. The fact was she didn't know for certain if this was the right forest the mysterious Rabbi was living in, she just went by a feeling she had.
"He could be? What does that mean?" Minako asked.
"The only place he lives in Israel is up here in the wilderness." Ami said.
"What makes you say that?"
"When someone sees or thinks the world is falling apart, isn't it natural for them to get out of society." Saturn asked.
"Well, don't look at me." Sam said.
"So we won't know if he's there unless we go and see." Uranus said.
"That's precisely correct, yes." Ami said.
"Teriffic." Neptune said sarcastically.
One Hour Later...
"Did he have to...move this far out away from civilization?" Usagi asked tiredly.
"No kidding." Lionel added.
Uranus stopped in her tracks, as she sensed the feeling that she and the others were being watched. This, of course, made the others stop too.
"What's the matter? Uranus?" Neptune asked.
Uranus looked back at Neptune.
"What's wrong?" Neptune asked.
Uranus looked forward. "It's nothing. Just my imagination."
Just then, a loud sound was heard.
"What is that sound?" Usagi asked.
"I don't know. Sounds like some kind of horn or trumpet or somethin'." Lionel said.
"It's a shofar. And it sounds like it's coming from just up ahead over that hill." Sam said.
"Who could be blowing a shofar this far out in the wilderness?" Minako asked.
"I don't know. Let's find out." Uranus said.
The group then ran on ahead, following the sound of the shofar, and rushed up the hill where they stopped in their tracks.
"Look there!" Makoto said.
In front of the gang up was a wooden cabin, with Elijah standing outside, blowing a brown shofar, wearing the same outfit he had worn yesterday when Ami had first met him.
"Who is that old-timer?" Minako asked.
"I don't know, but he looks like he's not right in the head. Let's be on guard." Neptune added.
"Agreed." Saturn added. "He looks like he could be a hundred years old."
"At least a hundred. He looks like he stepped off the pages of the Bible." Lionel added.
"That's him. That's the man I was telling you about." Ami said. "Mr. Gold!" She said, waving her right hand.
Elijah stopped blowing the shofar and focused on Ami and the others. "Miss Mizuno, hi! How nice of you to come! And I see you brought some friends and members of the Sailor Guardians as well! Come on inside! We have a lot to talk about!"
"That would've been nice to know back at the cafe earlier." Ami said.
"You never asked." Elijah said. "Now then...let's get down to the bottom of what's going on in America, shall we? Did you bring that booklet I gave you yesterday, Miss Mizuno, or did you leave it back at your hotel room? If so, it's perfectly alright, I have plenty left over."
"That won't be necessary." Ami said. "I got it right..." She said as she reached into her right coat pocket. "here." She finished as she pulled out her booklet.
"Good. We'll start with you reading it to everyone." Elijah said.
"Wait one second." Usagi said before she got a purple bowl of potato-chips and off the coffee-table and got one of the chips and ate it. "Okay, now go."
"Certainly, Miss Mizuno...would you please?" Elijah said.
"Yes, sir." Ami said before she opened the booklet and began reading it. "We all find it easier to see faults in others than it is to see them in ourselves. The people of America are no exception. When you observe all the religious activity in the United States today, it is easy to see how people, both in and out of the churches, have been fooled into confusing religion with real faith. But religious activities, rituals, even emotional experiences have little to do with good old fashion obedience to the things that the Messiah taught while living on Earth. And America's disobedience will be punished before anyone else's. Because those who know the most have the most to answer for. If it is any consolation, the promises there will be an even bigger day of reckoning for the rest of the world than that which will fall on the United States of America. But the Bible also says that judgement must begin with those who claim to be God's people. "For the time is come that judgement must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God"?"
"1 Peter 4:17." Lionel said.
"Thank you, Lionel, for pointing out the obvious." Ami said sarcastically.
"You're welcome." Lionel said, clearly not detecting Ami's sarcasm.
"And as we will elaborate on this booklet, the judgement of America is going to make the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah sound like a Sunday school event"." Ami read.
"Well, that much is true." Makoto said.
"It just happens that God often used a convenient enemy nation to judge his people, Israel"." Ami continued reading. "Because America is a new testament equivalent of Israel, God will use atheistic communism to carry out his judgement on America. No big deal. It's not a spiritual competition between America and any other political power. It's just a matter of personal accountability on the part of those who should know better. A TV pastor is reported to have once said "If God doesn't destroy America, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology". The assumption, of course, is that God should allegedly destroy America because of it's homosexuality or it's atheism or it's prostitution or gambling or drugs or abortions. But presumably not because of the acts of the churches: materialism, pride, hypocrisy, self-righteousness, or ant of the other things that the Messiah actually got cranked up about. Abraham had hopedthat there were at least 100 righteous people in Sodom in his day. He probably did so because many of them of them attended his synagogue or supported his evangelistic crusades. But God knew otherwise. Abraham had been deceived by religion's double-take. When the Messiah compared the sins of Sodom to the sins of our day, he made NO such mention of homosexuality, witchcraft, or ANY of the sensational stuff. He just said the problem was materialism and family commitments. Even amongst those who attended the synagogues. Or whatever the churches were called in those days."
"I don't understand. I mean...what does all of that...have to do with what's happening in America?" Usagi said.
"It means, Miss Tsukino, that the church people in the United States are phony. If you excuse the expression,they act like perfect holy-rollers on Sunday, but they act like society on Monday through Saturday. Not to mention Sunday after church. They go to church on Sunday, but they do immoral things on Monday through Saturday. They go to church, but they can't remember what was said by the pastor when someone asks. They are simply just church-attendees." Elijah explained.
"Back then, I used to think the Rapture was about the church people being taken away to Heaven." Judd said.
"Yeah, that's what I thought too...before the disappearances." Lionel added.
"No, the Messiah didn't come back for the church people, he came back for those who truly BELIEVED in him. John 3:16 says whoever BELIEVES in him will have everlasting life, not whoever attends church will have everlasting life. If you could obtain salvation by simply going to church, then the Messiah wouldn't have had to go to the cross. Kind of defeats whole purpose of God's plan, doesn't it?" Elijah said.
"Yeah, it does." Judd said.
"I hear what you're sayin'." Lionel said.
"I'm confused. I thought the church people were supposed to be believers." Nada said.
"There are three different kinds of believers in the world. There are the church-goers who attend service on Sunday and live society on Monday through Saturday...there are the ones who go just to say they went...and then there are the ones who genuinely believe in the Messiah and live and act like it all the time. Not just on Sunday." Elijah said.
"I guess that make sense. After all, I've seen all kinds of church people who are still here that I thought would be gone." Judd said.
"Me too. But at least they're real believers now." Lionel added.
"I don't get it. If the Messiah was supposed to come back for the church, why are it's people still here?" Sam asked.
"Because the church people weren't real followers of the Messiah, they were religious. And this is why he didn't see eye-to-eye with the Scribes and Pharisees. For they acted like believers in public, but it was all for show. Their hearts were evil, and the Messiah could see it. He even called them open graves. You will never be a true believer as long as you are relying on the church and religion, that's not what saves you. I know that better than anyone." Elijah said.
"I don't understand. I mean...what does all of that...have to do with what's happening in America?" Usagi said.
Day Of The Rapture
2 Years Earlier...
Elijah Gold was sitting in the passenger-seat of his friend's car, with his friend, Rabbi Ezra Feelex, in the driver's seat. It was a sunny day outside, with the sky being it's usual bright blue self. The traffic was moving slow, as it sometimes did on people's way to work. Some mornings there was a bit of a jam on the usual rout.
Elijah and Ezra were stuck in traffic on the freeway. Normally, the old Druid wouldn't have been caught dead inside a vehicle, but Ezra invited him to come to church with him like he had been doing for the last seven weeks, to no avail. But this time, just to get his friend to stop annoying him with it, Elijah accepted the invite.
Elijah was dressed in a light brown Biblical outfit with long wide sleeves, a light brown hooded cloak, and light brown curled back shoes.
Ezra was old, he had brown eyes, white receding hair, a white beard, he wore glasses, a black and white suit, black shoes, and a white yarmulke on his head.
Elijah wasn't excited about going to church, he just wanted to get it over and done with and get back to his place in time for his Druid gathering. Little did he know that after today, gathering events would no longer matter. Nothing would. The sun shined brightly, lighting up all of Jerusalem. The bright sun played a morbid background to the tired and agitated drivers on the road. Elijah was one of them, of course, more tired than agitated.
As Elijah sat quietly in the front passenger-seat, he became more and more impatient as time ticked by. The time was inching closer and closer to only allowing him one minute in church, which was fine with him, since he didn't want to go to start with. He hadn't been late for anything in his adult life. He had hopes that today wouldn't be that day, but something seemed off about the traffic.
Ezra finally decided to break the silence. "So, uh...did I tell you we're having a tent revival next Sunday?" He asked in his Hebrew accent.
"Really?" Elijah asked.
"Yep. It's gonna be on the Mount Of Olives." Ezra said.
"That's nice." Elijah said.
"You should come. I mean, I know you don't have a car, but I'll gladly give you a lift." Ezra said.
"Thanks, but...I think I'll pass." Elijah said.
"Oh, come on, Elijah. Please? It'll be a wonderful experience." Ezra said.
"Ezra...I'm going to church with you. Let's just be thankful for that." Elijah said.
"Okay." Ezra said before allowing silence to take over again.
This time Elijah was the one to break the silence. "You know what Sundays remind me of? They make me think about the talks we use to have when you were a Druid. You know, especially the universe's creation of itself. I loved it. We just don't talk like we use to."
"Okay, what do you want to talk about?" Ezra asked.
"Well...anything, really. You, I mean...as long as it's...logical." Elijah said.
"Meaning I don't talk about the Messiah." Ezra said.
"Right. Or UFOs or Mermaids or fairies of ghosts or demons or the paranormal." Elijah said.
"I know where this is headed." Ezra said.
"You wish to talk myths and fairytales, I wish to talk of reality." Elijah said.
"This IS reality." Ezra said.
"This has nothing to do with reality. Believing in a man who claimed to be a Messiah, it's...it's for the weak-minded. Don't you see that? I mean, it's okay for some people, I mean, it works for them. But not for people like us." Elijah said.
"Elijah, people like us are called sinners. We need to be changed. The Messiah is the only one that can do that, and I needed to change." Ezra said.
"What was wrong with you before? I mean, why did you need to change?" Elijah asked.
"Because all I felt was emptiness, a huge void that no matter what I did, I couldn't fill it. That what I needed was God." Ezra explained.
"What you need...is relief from an over-active conscience." Elijah said.
"I didn't have a conscience. I knew something was wrong, so I read the Bible. And you know what? I came face to face with the truth. The Messiah is the bridge between Heaven and humanity. Can't you see the change?" Ezra said.
Elijah sighed. "The only change I see is the dimming of a brilliant mind."
"I know you can't understand this...but I have been fervently praying for you and our other Druid friends so that you'll see the truth as I have. You have to make a choice, Eli, on whether or not to stand for the Son Of Man." Ezra said.
"Well, you know what, my friend, you can pray all you want to. But it doesn't change the fact that there is no God. And the sooner you come to that realization, the better off we'll all be." Elijah said.
Ezra then decided to drop the subject and let silence take over once more. Clearly there was no getting through to Elijah. His mind was made up. To him, the Messiah was just a mere fairytale, and that was all there was to it. And no one was going to tell or convince him otherwise.
People began to honk their vehicle horns in agitation. Vehicle homes blared through the jam as Elijah glanced around. A red car in front of Elijah and Ezra, containing a man and two pre-teen children, a boy and a girl, an old couple to the right in an old blue 2-doors 60s car, a young woman to their left in a pink car. But when the two men looked at the car with the two children and their father, they saw the man was going crazy. He looked like he was screaming, having a horrible fit in the front driver's seat. He thrashed so terribly the entire car shook. Elijah's heart jumped at the sight, but it nearly stopped as he and Ezra took a close look and realized the children were missing from the back-seats.
"Wha...wha...what in the world?" Elijah asked with disbelief. This creeped him out. He and Ezra the glanced around the traffic jam, trying to see if maybe they were looking at the wrong car. The old woman in the car on the right had disappeared, with the clothes she had been previously wearing now being held in the old man's hands as he wailed.
Vehicle horns drowned out the wailing from the old man and the screaming from the thrashing father. Something was going on, and he and Ezra weren't the only ones who'd noticed. People were emerging from their vehicles, some bewildered, some screaming. A woman bolted from her car, ran a few strides through traffic and then fell to her knees in the middle of the street.
"What is going on?" Elijah asked.
Ezra remained silent.
Suddenly, Elijah and Ezra felt a bump, and the car rocked forward. Their gaze caught the rear-view mirror, and Eli took a shaky breath. The driver in the brown truck behind them was now gone.
"Why are people disappearing?" Elijah asked curiously. When he and Ezra looked over at the woman in the car to their left, she was still on her phone, talking on it. She had no idea that people were missing all around.
"Help! Help me!" the female voice of someone banging on the driver car window screamed, making Elijah and Ezra jump in their seats, their eyes bucking as they stared at the lady before them. She pounded her fists on the glass so violently I thought it would break. But then, just as quickly as she'd appeared, she was gone, dashing through the traffic, searching for someone to help her.
"Where is she off to?" Elijah asked.
"To find someone to help her." Ezra said.
"With what?" Elijah asked, with his eyes flicking through the vehicles. "What's happening?"
The old man still wept as he held the old lady's clothes. The father of the two missing children had gotten out, staggering into the street as he screamed and clutched the clothes of his missing children. Elijah blinked. The father was holding their clothes...plain clothes...as if he'd stripped them from their bodies right before they'd disappeared.
"He's holding the children's clothes. It's like he undressed them before they vanished. But...how?" Elijah said. He then looked at the pink car on the left and saw that the pretty woman was still there, gazing through the passenger window...right at him and Ezra. As odd as that was, it was stranger still that she was smiling. In the window, she mouthed something Elijah didn't understand. He had no idea what was happening, but maybe if he stayed in the car with Ezra, he would be safe. Then a gold/yellow beam of light shined down on her through the roof of her car, her body turned into a gold/yellow light, and sucked her up out of the vehicle, her body phasing through it like a ghost, leaving her clothes behind in the car, then the beam disappeared.
Elijah got out of the car, now nervous and scared of everything, followed by closing the passenger-door and taking off down the street. He was shaking all over, right down to the tip of his fingers. There were people running, vehicle horns still blaring, that woman who had banged on Ezra's driver window had collapsed in the street Absently, somewhere in the back of his mind, he realized it was now dark as if it was night-time. The once bright blue sky was gone, replaced by an utter darkness over the city. "What is going on here? Lights don't suck people up into the-" The old Druid stopped in his tracks as realization had hit him. "sky." He finished. "The answer." He thought wildly.
This was happening because of something up there. Alien Invasion. Hostile planetary take-over. Planet Of The Apes. He didn't know. But it was up there and all he had to do was look to find out. However, a sudden fear crept over him and he realized, with a sense of cowardice, that he didn't want to know. He didn't want to look. Because then he'd know it wasn't a dream. That his mind wasn't playing tricks on him. This was happening and the reason why was just up there in the sky.
Elijah slowly tilted his head up. The sky was covered with black clouds and there was a gold/yellow glowing man in the sky. He was so gold and yellow it was impossible to make out his features. No matter where Elijah stood in that moment, he could see him. And he was bright. So bright, there was no need for the sun the dark clouds had blocked out.
Elijah then turned and looked back at the traffic. More gold/yellow beams of lights shined down from the cloud-covered sky onto people, including some who were still in their vehicles. He saw a woman still sitting inside her car, and a beam shined down through the roof of her car and onto her. Within seconds, she turned into a gold/yellow light and was sucked out of her car, leaving her clothes behind inside the vehicle, and she was sucked up into the cloudy sky, then the beam blinked out.
Elijah turned and ran a few steps, staring up at the sky with his mouth wide open. "How?" He asked. The question came and went. The old man tore his eyes from the sight in the sky. This whole situation sent chills up his spine and he did the only thing he could think of. He looked up. The answers were in the sky. All of this had to do with the man in the sky.
The gold/yellow light, which was obviously the woman from the car, met the man in the sky, flew forward and went into him. She literally went right into his body.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" Elijah screamed as he fell to the ground on his knees, his mind now broken from what he had just seen. "What is going on?!" He shouted. The old and then saw countless gold/yellow lights -that he knew were people-all gather to the man in the sky and enter into him. Elijah's hands flew to his ears, clamping over them to keep out the chaos that'd fallen over the city. All at once, Elijah heard the wailing and the screaming and panicking and the vehicle horns blaring. He couldn't think. He couldn't process what he was seeing. He didn't want to see anymore.
He squeezed his eyes shut, hoping that when he opened them, he would realize he was just dreaming. He had fallen asleep in the car. This traffic jam had gone on for too long. He would be late for something for the first time in his adult life, but that would be fine. He didn't mind being late all of a sudden. But he knew he wasn't dreaming. This was really happening.
Elijah slowly opened his eyes, and he turned and stared at the road. Chaos went on all around him. He stood to his feet and headed back to Ezra's car. He was getting out of here. He didn't know what was going on, but he knew nothing good would come after it. Elijah walked down the street, seeing that all the people the beams had shined down on were now gone, with their clothes and shoes left behind. The beams were gone as well. As he made his way down the road, he saw people holding clothes. Everything got worse the further he walked. Vehicles screeched to a halt as they entered the thruway. The wailing of sirens were seamless now. It all sounded like one big cry for help, mourning the people who had been beamed up into the sky.
He desperately wanted to find help, but he knew there was no way help would be available for anyone for a while. A long while. So he bowed his head and started walking quickly. He wasn't exactly sure what he was going to do when he arrived back home in the wilderness, but he wasn't thinking about that right now. He just wanted to get out of the city. He wanted things to go back to normal. He wanted to get away from all this craziness.
As he walked, he noticed something up ahead. Up the street, there was a woman sitting on the ground, holding the clothes of a small child. Elijah rushed up to the women and placed his right hand on her right shoulder. "Ma'am...are you alright?"
"I won't leave my son!" The woman screamed, not even bothering to look at Elijah.
Elijah panted for air, staring at the woman, unsure of what he should say next. "Ma'am, he's gone."
She hiccuped,, tears pooling in her red eyes. His heart broke for her, really, it did. But things were getting worser by the minute and there was no time to comfort her or anyone else.
Elijah took his hand off the woman's shoulder and resumed walking, leaving her. "What next?" He thought to himself. "What's going to happen now?"
"And that's my story on the Rapture from my perspective." Elijah said, finishing his story.
"Wow." Said everyone, baffled.
"You mean actually saw the Messiah in the sky?" Usagi asked.
"Yes." Elijah answered.
"And you saw these beams of light shine down on the believers?" Makoto asked.
"Yes." Elijah repeated.
"And the believers turned into lights?" Ami asked.
"I have." Elijah said.
"And they got sucked up into the sky by these beams?" Minako asked.
"Yes." Elijah said.
"And you say they all flowed towards the Messiah?" Ami asked.
"No one saw what I did. To the rest of the world, the missing people just disappeared. I was probably the only one in the world who saw what actually happened that day. What I can't figure out is...why? Why me? Why would God allow me to see something like that?" Elijah said.
"Maybe to show you that he's the real deal." Lionel deduced.
"Well, I would say congratulations on that, it worked." Elijah said.
"Did you know what that was and what was happenin' at the time?" Lionel asked.
"Not in that moment." Elijah said.
"So what happened after you left that lady behind?" Minako asked.
"When I made it back to Ezra's car, I saw that it was still boxed in traffic, so there went my plans to drive myself home. I ended up running back to my cabin the woods. It took a while, but I did it. Don't ask me how...'cause I don't know." Elijah explained.
"Wow-wee. You get around really well for someone who's old." Uranus said.
"For someone who was 85 at the time, yeah I do." Elijah said.
"You're 120 years old?" Saturn asked, baffled.
"I was, now I'm 87. I'll be 88 next year, Lord willing." Elijah said. The fact that he had even lived to be this old meant that he was simply living on borrowed time.
"What did you do when you arrived home?" Usagi asked.
"I rushed inside and ran here into the living-room where I got the shock of my life for the 4th time in one day. All of my Druid friends' clothes and shoes were here. Some of their clothes were on the sofa and one was here in the recliner, with a Bible open to 1st Thessalonians. I guess they must've let themselves in with the key I gave them, and they decided to wait up for me." Elijah said.
"What happened next?" Ami asked.
"I picked up the Bible and saw that it was open to 1st Thessalonians 4:13-18." Elijah said.
"The verse about the Rapture?" Judd asked.
"Yeah. I guess one of my friends must've been reading it to the others and they all received the Messiah. They probably were waiting for me to get back so they could share the news with me." Elijah said.
"I'm so sorry." Usagi said, with a sorrowful expression on her face.
"Don't be. They're in a better place." Elijah assured.
"Yeah, you're right." Usagi said.
"Anyway, I read Thessalonians 4:13-18 and I realized what I had witnessed happen." Elijah began. "The Messiah had returned for those who believed in him...and the rest of mankind...had been left behind."
"What happened after you came to that conclusion?" Ami asked.
"After that, I repented and received the Messiah as so many others have done since the Rapture. And I've been sharing the news with people ever since, like the rest of the 144000." Elijah answered. "Now then, back to our topic. Why did the Messiah leave the church people behind to go through the apocalypse? And why did he allow this ASTRO-V epidemic-this pestilence-to come and infect America in the first place? The time has come to address this in detail. What you are about to hear regarding the church people will not be easy to accept...but the rest of the 144000 and I have a job to share the truth with others."
"We're listening." Ami said.
"So...why did the Messiah leave the church people behind and why did he allow ASTRO-V to infect America? Well...take a look at the American churches and America before the Rapture." Elijah said. "For the most part...the church people, like American society, go about their lives...enjoying worlds of flighty fancies...idolizing celebrities...living to do whatever will make them happy. And most of them...could care less about God. You ask a church person what do they think about the Rapture and the second coming, and they will either change the subject, dismiss it as folklore or fantasy or look at you like you are insane. Those people in the church just don't care about the Rapture or the Messiah's return. Many, if not all of them, live In a way that is the direct opposite of righteousness and in a way that does not please God.
We all know full well that God has put up with it for years and years and years. And you know what? He probably could put up with it forever...if...the church people were still completely ignorant regarding truth. But guess what? Now a-days...and even before the Rapture...most of the churches in America...know the truth. Most of America knows about the Messiah, just like the rest of the world, about him sacrificing his life so that we can have a relationship with God. Most of the American churches and American society know about the ten commandments and what God considers right and wrong. Most of America has heard the gospel like most of the world. And so this is why we are living in a very interesting time. Because unlike any other time in history, we are living in a world of...intelligent rebellion." Elijah said.
"Explain that." Sam said.
"You see...the church people have always been messed up and in rebellion against God's will." Elijah began. "But in times past, most church-goers, like the rest of the world, were ignorant to God's law and how he loves us enough to allow the Messiah to die for us. And so his patience had not quite run out. The church people, like the rest of mankind, were in a state of ignorant rebellion. But the years before the Rapture...and especially today...you ask any church-goer what is the gospel, and they can tell you. You ask a church-goer what are the ten commandments, and they can tell you. In this century, we have, for the first time, intelligent rebellion against God in the American churches, just like in the world. And when that takes place...the only thing left...is the impending judgement of God.
When the ASTRO-V epidemic started infecting America, I wasn't at all surprised. Since the U.S. is a nation founded on faith, it is suppose to know better. The church people are especially suppose to know better. But that does not shock me none. After reading the prophecy from beginning to end, I know all I need to know about God's anger towards the church people. In the second and third chapter of the prophecy, there are seven churches, but only one of them finds favor with the Messiah. The other six are corrupt. The names of these churches are
(1)-Ephesus: The Loveless Church.
(2)-Smyrna: The Persecuted Church.
(3)-Pergamos: The Compromising Church.
(4)-Thyatira: The Corrupt Church.
(5)-Sardis: The Dead Church.
(6)-Philadelphia: The Faithful Church.
And
(7)-Laodicea: The Lukewarm Church.
After that, the church is never mentioned again throughout prophecy. Because the believers have been taken to Heaven by the Messiah. The believers are the true church, not the church people." Elijah concluded.
"But the church people were in church just like the believers were. How did they miss it?" Usagi asked.
"Because they were corrupt. And six of the seven churches prove that. The church has always been corrupt, even back then when the prophecy was written by John. Haven't you noticed? The churches of America are divided into different beliefs. Such as the gay churches, churches that allow Drag Queen pastors to preach in them, both of which supports the LGBTQ, people dancing in the churches like they're at the club, churches that preach prosperity, churches that host events that are like club parties, and concerts with these Christian rap songs. However regardless of either race or sexual orientation, there's no sign of Judaism nor Christianity in the New World Religion." Elijah said. "For I can guarantee I've met a few queer young people that had the seal of God on their foreheads, they were as you say, genuine articles."
"I think I understand. But how did the churches get that way in the first place?" Usagi said.
"Because the church people have invited the world into the church, rather than society. When the Messiah told his followers to go out into the world and share the gospel, he meant with people, not to invite the world into the church." Elijah said.
"Then why didn't the church people do that? Share the truth with society, I mean." Makoto asked.
"Because the church people have sat comfortably in church while letting and watching society fall apart. They've cut themselves off from society, as well cut society off from the church by not sharing the news with them. When is the last time you heard anything about the church helping society?" Elijah said
No one raised their hand or said anything.
"My point exactly." Elijah said.
"Well I've heard about TV ministries helping the poor and less fortunate." Lionel said.
"Exactly. The ministries share the truth with society and help the poor and the less fortunate. Now, how come none of the church people thought of that? Not one person. Well, none of the church people thought of that because that's not the way they THINK. They go to church every Sunday, but it never occurs to them to do anything for anybody else." Elijah said.
"It never dawned on them to do anything for anyone else because they were always too busy thinking about themselves." Minako realized.
"Correct. Now a-days, most pastors in churches only talk about money, riches, wealth and prosperity. They talk about Heaven, but they don't mention Hell. In fact, most of the church people don't even believe that Hell exist. The prosperity churches never even mentioned the Rapture or the apocalypse. Because they don't believe in them. Some of them do, but they believe that they will usher in the Messiah's return when they've converted all of society." Elijah said.
"But how can some of the church people not believe in Hell, the Rapture or the apocalypse?" Usagi asked.
"Because the church people have never really liked or loved the Messiah." Elijah said.
"What do you mean?" Sam asked.
"Let me ask you this: Who do you think killed the Messiah?" Elijah said.
"Society." Sam said.
"No. The church people killed the Messiah. Well the Pharisee hypocrites and the more corrupt priests of that era anyway. Haven't you paid attention to his story? It was the Scribes and Pharisees-the people in the church-who had him captured and killed...not society. The church killed the Messiah." Elijah said.
Everyone gasped in shock after hearing those words. How had they missed that?
"But I thought Jesus died for the church people." Minako said.
"No, he didn't just die for the church people, he died for the entire world. And even after that, the church still didn't accept him as the son of God or as God in person. Some of the churches don't even believe what happened two years ago was the Rapture. They believe it was the Sailor Senshi's doing and that it was the strong delusion mentioned in the prophecy. They believe the Rapture is supposed to happen during the apocalypse while other churches think it happens after the apocalypse. And you have some churches that don't even believe in the Rapture." Elijah said.
"Well, I can understand why that is, I mean...what church person wants to admit they were left behind to endure the apocalypse?" Uranus said.
"Yeah. But here's what Paul said to the people of Athens over in Acts 17:30-31. "In the past, God over-looked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. And he has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead". Now...Paul, in this chapter, was hinting at how God's patience was running out even then. And that was over 2000 years ago. So when does God's patience basically completely run out? What is the final thing that will happen?
Well...here's what the Messiah said to his followers. He was talking to them about the judgement of God that would come upon the world and how the Earth as we know it will no longer be. So they asked him..."When does the end come"? The Messiah gave them a list of things that would happen before the end. He said there would be wars, famines, pestilence, and then he finishes by saying that the final thing to happen before the end of the age and his return. He said the gospel must be shared with the whole world and then the end would come." Elijah said.
"Why does he say that?" Neptune asked.
"Yeah. I mean, why is it that only after the truth is shared world-wide that the end will come? And what does this have to do with what's happening in America?" Saturn added.
"Why does he say that, you ask? Well...as we've been talking about, one reason is because when the whole world finally knows the truth...and they still don't change for the better...that's it. That's it, that's the end. God will have had enough. The Messiah and the forces of Heaven will be at the door, and the patience of God will have run out...just like it's run out for America. It is a nation founded on faith and is expected by God to by moral law. As I said before, most of America knows about the gospel and the ten commandments and what God considers right and wrong and has heard the gospel. Yet still they continue to do wrong. Since most of America knows the truth and are still doing bad and immoral things...that's a wrap. God has had enough, his patience with the U.S. has run out, and his judgment is at the door." Elijah said.
"So what does that mean for America?" Ami asked.
Elijah was silent for a moment. "Obliteration."
Everyone gasped at that. Obliteration? As in destruction?
Meanwhile, outside the cabin several feet away, four people dressed in black leather-hooded coats with silver zippers, silver beaded strings for the hoods that formed a semi-circle in the middle, black gloves, black pants, black boots that went up to the calf of their legs, and the hoods they were wearing darkened their faces, making them un-seeable. These mysterious people had followed three of the Senshi and some of their supporters out here in the wilderness. They were almost seen by the short blond-haired Senshi, Uranus, but hit themselves just as she looked back.
These four people were members of the group Mio had hired to find out who the Sailor Senshi were. And that was exactly what they intended to do...no matter what.
"This is absolutely certain?" Dr. Rosenzweig asked, standing in the living-room of his place with Buck and Sailor Mercury.
"Yes." Mercury answered sadly, having just shared with him the outcome of ASTRO-V.
"How long?" Dr. Rosenzweig asked.
"Some time next year." Mercury said.
Silence.
"What happens to America?" Dr. Rosenzweig asked, not certain he was going to like the answer to that question.
Mercury was quiet for a moment. "Dr. Rosenzweig, an epidemic like this has caused several communities to be evacuated, leaving many power plants un-attended. And chances are more towns and cities will be hit and infected over the coming months, causing more evacuations, as well as leaving more power plants un-attended. If left to themselves for too long, they could explode and unleash nuclear radiation. One power plant expansion would vaporize an entire community. Several would wipe out all walks of life and poison the U.S. Radiation is ten times more toxic than ASTRO-V is. There won't be an America."
All was quiet in the room. No more America? It was that serious?
Sailor Moon says
Hello America, Sailor Moon here!
My friends and I have been learning a lot today about the ASTRO-V epidemic that's been plaguing the U.S. from one of the 144000 we met earlier. But I can't tell you, it's too dangerous. The New World Order is everywhere. And I mean EVERY-WHERE. Chances are the GC or members of GC or the world leader might even be listening to this. And if they knew who this person was, they could find them and then...
It's better they don't find this person. What the Global Community does to people who resist them and stand for the truth, it's too horrible to think about. I won't even tell where this person lives.
Usually, I address the whole world...but today I'm talking to those I never thought I'd be addressing. But after everything me and my friends have been through learning from our new ally, this can't go un-checked. I'm addressing the church people of America. I know some of you think you're true Christians that are bound for Heaven. But sadly, however, this is not the truth. Your lines are crossed due to different beliefs.
I know some of you don't believe that what happened two years ago was the Rapture...some of your pastors taught that the Rapture happens during the apocalypse...some pastors said it happens after...and other pastors taught that the Rapture, the apocalypse, the second coming and Hell are just a folklore legend. No. What happened two years ago WAS the Rapture...and that the time the world is in now IS the apocalypse...and that the Messiah IS coming back at the end of all of this...and Hell DOES exist. I'm aware that some of you are probably saying or thinking "Well, Sailor Moon, I just don't believe in Hell". Well, guess what? It's still a real place and people are still going there.
Your ways of teaching and living are wrong. Some of you may be wondering why God allowed this epidemic to fall on America. This isn't going to be easy to hear, but right now the truth is better than lying to spare one's feelings. God allowed this to happen because you haven't been doing what the Messiah instructed his followers to do. Which is to share the truth with all nations. It's hard to accept, but it's the truth. But it's not too late for any of you to change and get involved with society and share the news with everyone. That the Messiah is coming.
Okay, Sailor Mercury you're up!
Hello, everyone, I am Sailor Mercury. I speak to address Israel, Canada and Alaska. I'm certain you all know by now that what's been happening in America, and Tokyo-Japan, concerning the epidemic has caused an evacuation of all the infected communities and all of the citizens have been relocated in your home regions. Unfortunately, however, this has done more harm and zero-percent good. When those people left the polluted towns and cities, they brought their children with them, who are all infected and are currently carrying the virus inside them until they reach adulthood. Then they'll turn into infected grown-ups.
To those who got the vaccine, do not to worry I will be working on a serum with Dr. Rosenzweig for you and the children infected with ASTRO-V. It won't cure, but it will sedate the virus and cure the effects of the vaccine. This serum will not be made over night or in one week. Creating this serum will take time, as people's lives depend on it. Until we can come up with a serum you are to keep taking medicine to keep healthy. Wear face-masks or practice social distancing if you must. Just make sure to stay well, healthy and safe. Now back to Sailor Moon.
Thank you Sailor Mercury. Please accept what I, my comrades, the two witnesses, the believers and 144000 say is true. Messiah is the only way to Heaven, and if none of the previous judgements have convinced you yet...this next one will. That's right.
Another judgement is coming upon the Earth. The 5th Trumpet Judgement. And this one won't be coming from Heaven...but from Hell. In this judgement, the abyss will be opened and a swarm of demon locusts will be torment humanity for five months, with people not being able to die, no matter how badly they want to. Please, please receive the Messiah before it's too late. Sailor Mercury and I are doing this Entry to send a message to the church people of America. Maybe then, somehow, the nation's people will repent and survive until the Messiah returns with the forces of Heaven and make the world right once again.
To be continued…
To be continued…