Power Transcendent
Sailormoon fanfiction by Jessica
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Chapter 10
Haruka leaned forward slightly on her steering wheel, her posture the
only outward hint of her worry as she raced through the late night
streets of Tokyo. The top was up, partially due to the cold, partially
so Michiru could hear her communicator. Though it certainly seemed like
very bad news all around.
"This is Mars!" The young miko's voice contained a mixture of anger and
distress...mostly anger. "They have me pinned down for now, but I'm
keeping them away from the wedge." There was a crashing boom from the
communicator. "I don't know how much longer I can keep this up!"
"Pluto here." Even with the top up, her voice was difficult to hear, as
she almost seemed to be whispering. "The daeva here still aren't
moving...they don't look very bright, I think they're waiting for
direction."
"These ones don't seem to want to do anything but tear the building
down!" Luna said in a panicked voice. "Someone needs to get over here
right...ROOAAAWWWWR!" There was a crashing boom. Haruka and Michiru
looked at each other worriedly, only to sigh in relief when the cat
spoke again. "Right away, hurry!"
"Luna?" Usagi's voice came on, sounding both very sleepy and very
worried. "Hold tight, I'll come with Chibi-Usa right away."
Michiru spoke. "Good...we're moving the fastest, so we'll support Mars.
Where's Jupiter and Mercury?"
"Right here!" Jupiter said tersely. "I'll go help Pluto then."
"I will as well." Mercury said. "Where's Venus and Saturn?"
"Saturn's still not well enough to fight, so we left her behind with
Venus to look after her." Michiru replied. "Don't worry, they'll be
fine."
"I hope we'll be." Haruka muttered, shifting gears and forcing the car
ahead of her to the side of the road as she sped past.
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"Will they be all right?" Hotaru asked Minako timidly as the blonde
girl's communicator fell silent for a moment. Minako smiled brightly at
the thin, dark-haired waif perched rather uncomfortably on the very edge
of Minako's mattress.
"Of course Hotaru-chan...thanks to Ami, we're ready. They're trying to
ambush us...attacking in three places at once and so late at night. It's
not really a bad idea, but they don't know that we already knew where
they'd attack. There's no way they're ready for well-prepared
resistance." Minako nodded firmly.
The blonde senshi's confidence assuaged the more child-like aspect of
Hotaru's personality, and her well reasoned response spoke to the
ancient warrior within her. Hotaru relaxed a little bit, scooting back
to a more comfortable position on the bed. "I worry a lot about Chibi-
Usa." She said softly. "I never talk to her about it...but she's not as
strong as the rest of us, and she likes to act like she is. I'm always
afraid when she fights without me, because I'm not there to protect
her."
Minako smiled softly. "I know how you feel." She said gently. "You care
for Chibi-Usa very much, don't you?" Hotaru's cheeks reddened deeply,
and Minako chuckled kindly. "I'm not trying to embarrass you. I think
that's terrific." She sat up a bit straighter, crossing her legs beneath
her covers. "If you ever need any help or advice, just come to me,
okay?"
"Is there anyone you love?" Hotaru asked timidly.
"Yes...but she doesn't know." Minako said softly. She was worried for a
moment when she realized she had used the word 'she,' but then she
remembered who she was talking to. Hotaru probably took it for granted
that she'd love another girl.
"Why not?" Minako considered how honestly she should really answer that
question, given her own uncertainty about it. After a moment, she
decided nothing could be hurt by being truthful.
"Well...this is just between you and me, okay?" Minako smiled. "Secrets
between the leaders of the Senshi, Inner and Outer, right?" Hotaru
smiled and nodded. "I'm afraid...I'm afraid she won't return my
feelings, and that our friendship will get hurt because of that."
Minako sighed a bit. "But that's not all. I'm afraid that I'll get
hurt."
Hotaru tilted her head curiously. "What do you mean?"
With a small hum, Minako chose her words. This was an idea she was only
just now starting to formulate for herself, so it was difficult to
express. But she wanted to talk to someone, and she felt comfortable
talking to the young girl sitting with her.
"I've been hurt a lot." She finally admitted. "People who have been
supposed to love me always seem to end up hurting me. It still hurts,
and I'm really scared to open myself up to that again...I know she never
would, at least not on purpose, but I can't help it."
"Wounds like that don't heal on their own." There was a different pitch
to Hotaru's voice, and Minako glanced up. The young girl's eyes had
changed, becoming wiser, sadder somehow. Minako suddenly had the sense
of being with someone far, far older than herself.
"We can learn to live with that kind of pain." Hotaru continued. "But it
can never go away as long as we remain on our own. If you ever want to
be free, you have to be brave enough to risk getting hurt again...only
being loved can heal you."
Minako considered that, and the person telling it to her. Hotaru's
father...though it was in, for all intents, a different life, a betrayal
that extreme by a parent put Minako's predicament in perspective. After
being used and abused as she had been, Minako couldn't even begin to
imagine how hard learning to trust must have been for Hotaru.
"Maybe you're right, Hotaru-chan." Minako said softly. "But it's going
to take some time to convince myself."
Hotaru smiled softly, and seemed to somehow ease into her younger
persona again. "The person you love...is she in danger right now?" She
asked softly, looking at the communicator Minako still held in her hand.
Minako blushed softly and nodded.
"I hope she'll be okay too." Hotaru stated.
"Don't worry." Minako said confidently. "She'll be fine, and so will
everyone else." She meant that...she had absolute faith in the Sailor
Senshi's abilities to carry this fight easily.
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Sailor Mars peaked out from behind a concrete pillar. The daeva had come
to this place, the ground level of a tall parking complex. It was about
half full of cars, but fortunately there was nobody actually in the
place at such a late hour.
There were four daeva here. Two seemed to be for defense, two to move
the wedge, another eerie black pyramid. On defense, there was a short
creature that looked like an emaciated shark with arms and legs and a
female daeva with dark red skin and long white hair. Mars now knew from
experience that Shark-Face could fire bolts of lightning from it's
mouth, and Red could morph her limbs into all sorts of bladed weapons
harder than steel. Red currently sported a huge scorched burn across
half her body, courtesy of her first clash with Mars. After that, she
seemed content to play a more defensive game with the Senshi of Fire.
The two daeva that seemed to be charged with pushing the wedge looked
like ogres of yore, blue-skinned creatures that were all muscle, horns
and fangs. The two other daeva were currently driving them back towards
the wedge and forcing them to push again.
Mars ran out from her pillar towards the next, turning as she did. "FIRE
SOUL!" The flames engulfed the pyramid, causing the two daeva to stagger
back in alarm, running back into the shadows. Shark-Face sent another
bolt of electricity at Mars, and Red ran off after the others.
Mars looked grim. This scene had played out three times now, and it
couldn't last. She was worried the ogre daeva were pushing the wedge
close enough to the point that she wouldn't be able to destroy it
anymore. And even if she could now, Red was getting angry enough to come
after her again, and that would make it all but impossible to stop the
wedge before it moved into position.
Red came back into view, the ogres running ahead of her as she chased
them down with her arms converted into sword blades. "If you leave your
post again, I'll skewer you!" She screamed harshly.
"Soon, we'll be finished." Shark-face said, its voice burbling wetly.
"No more." Red grated, her hands morphing into wickedly barbed hooks.
"I'm pulling her out from behind that pillar myself." Mars narrowed her
eyes and stepped out from behind the pillar. "Don't bother, I'm ready
for you!" She shouted. She danced aside nimbly as a bolt of lightning
sped past her.
"Nice try, but you're fried." She said grimly, running forward. Red
charged as well, but as she leaped, Mars ducked and rolled beneath her.
She bounded to her feet just a short distance away from the shark, an
ofuda in hand.
"AKU RYO TAI SEN!" The scroll flew through the air and hit Shark-face in
the forehead, freezing it in place with lightning still cracking in it's
fanged maw. Mars spun around, looking around for the other daeva. She
had to finish this fast, the ogre daeva were pushing the wedge again,
and it seemed to be getting much heavier.
Red catapaulted out from behind a van, speeding down towards Mars and
converting her legs into a single huge spike as she did so. Mars managed
to duck out of the way, and then began scrambling as quickly as she
could, blades and spikes hammering into the concrete behind her as the
daeva pursued her. To the side, she could see her ofuda vanishing in a
puff of smoke and the disorientating Shark-face looking around for it's
victim.
There was a huge crash then, as Haruka's yellow convertible smashed
through the barrier of the parking garage. Neptune and Uranus jumped
out. Shark-face, who had been readying to fire on Mars, spun around, a
massive ball of electricity filling the air with the scent of ozone as
it crashed towards Uranus.
"SPACE SWORD BLASTER!" The crescent blade of energy split the ball
lightning down the middle, and then did the same for Shark-face, who
screamed wetly and collapsed in on itself in death.
Red had glanced up as the car had crashed, but then redoubled her
efforts to bisect Mars. "I'll gut you, little firefly!" It howled. Mars
finally felt her back hit a car, and she closed her eyes tightly.
"DEEP SUBMERGE!" The energy washed over Red like a tidal wave, sending
her flying over the car and into another. There was a huge crash, a
scream, and then nothing. Mars looked up to find Sailor Neptune standing
over her, holding out a hand. "Are you okay?"
Mars blushed softly and took the offered hand, pulling herself up. "I'm
fine, these guys were a joke." She said loftily. Almost regretfully, she
let Michiru's hand go and turned to face the wedge.
"Hey, eyes this way, daeva!" Wearily, the ogres looked up from where
they had their backs set against the pyramid and were pushing with all
their might. They looked almost comically afraid as they groaned at Mars
scowling at them. "MARS FLAME SNIPER!" The arrow of flame embedded
itself in the wedge and detonated in a huge yellow flash, completely
disintegrating it and the two daeva pushing it.
Haruka grinned. "Nice work Mars...sorry we couldn't get here earlier."
Mars grinned in return. "Well, we missed you." She spoke into her
communicator. "This is Mars...we're done here." She looked over at the
car. "Let's go...I hope the others are alright."
Michiru smiled and nodded. "If this is any indication, I'd say they're
fine."
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Sailor Moon and Sailor Chibi-Moon screamed and ran. Behind them, a daeva
with a blue human torso and the dark red body and claws of a crab
skittered at them, snapping its massive claws at the two senshi
alarmingly. When the two of them had arrived at this bathhouse, the
daeva had been using those claws to tear apart the baths and a fair
chunk of a wall, pulling free huge chunks of architecture and throwing
them behind it. Apparently, someone had rudely built over the point to
which the wedge had to be dragged.
Luna groaned and covered her face with her paws from her perch on an
attendant's counter. Next to her, Artemis and Diana just looked down at
their feet, embarrassed. "Would you please stop running away?" Luna
shouted down.
"Shut up Luna!" Sailor Moon shouted back. "Why don't *you* come down
here and fight this thing?"
"But the other one is still moving the wedge!" Luna cried. The other
one, a beautiful woman wearing virtually nothing but long, golden chains
around her neck, had a ten-foot long snake's tail instead of legs, clas
in emerald green scales. She had this wrapped around the wedge and was
pulling it into position.
Sailor Moon glanced back. "You're right!" She looked over at Chibi-Moon,
who nodded. They suddenly split off in different directions, and the
crab continued on in a straight line between them for several lengths
before pulling itself to a stop. As it turned around, it yanked up a
nearby stone bench and threw it at Sailor Moon, who wailed and dodged
nimbly out of the way.
"Hey, cut it out!" Sailor Chibi-Moon rushed forward. "PINK SUGAR HEART
ATTACK!" The tiny pink hearts flew out and collided against the daeva's
hard red shell. The daeva looked around, trying to determine the source
of the noise. Finally, it looked down in surprise and almost casually
hooked Chibi-Moon around the ankles and pulled her into the air, her
face level with it's own and peering at her curiously.
"Creatures like you destroyed the Ryoujin?" It said incredulously, in a
hissing whisper. Sailor Chibi-Moon blushed furiously, trying to hold her
skirt up as she dangled. Finally she went rigid, glaring at the daeva.
With her free hand still holding her skirt, she pointed her wand at the
creature.
"PINK SUGAR HEART ATTACK!" The daeva's head snapped back repeatedly as
the attack hit its chin with stinging force. With a roar of frustration,
it grabbed the wrist holding the wand, which clattered to the floor.
"Enough!" With an evil expression, it began pulling Chibi-Moon in both
directions by ankles and wrist. The pink-haired senshi cried out and
hammered on the claw holding her wrist with her free hand, but to no
avail. "Make a wish." The daeva said cruelly.
"You let her go!" Sailor Moon shouted, rushing forward. The air was
forced out of her as her arms were pinned tightly to her side by the
other daeva's incredibly strong tail. She yanked her captive backwards
and twined around until she was facing the pigtailed leader of the
Sailor Senshi.
"Now now...don't you want to play with me?" She said in a sibilant,
seductive whisper. Her hands came up to stroke Sailor Moon's cheek, and
she brought her face in so close they were almost touching. Sailor Moon
blushed furiously and shook her head violently from side to side.
Sailor Chibi-Moon let out a pained scream and Sailor Moon suddenly
stopped writhing around, her expression changing from frightened
embarrassment to grim determination in a second. "Chibi-Moon!" She
shouted. With a cry, she wrenched her arms free, to her captor's
surprise. Before the snake-daeva could react, Sailor Moon attacked.
"MOON TIARA ACTION!" The daeva holding Sailor Moon had just enough time
to dodge out of the path of the glowing disc. Her crab-like companion,
however, was not so lucky. The disc caught him full in the chest and
burst out through the other side before beginning to curve back around.
The daeva screamed in pain and dropped Chibi-Moon, who rubbed her
shoulder and legs painfully.
"That's more like it!" Luna cheered from the sidelines. As the crab
daeva began to collapse in on itself, Sailor Moon held out her hand to
catch her returning tiara.
But the snake holding her had other ideas. She used the tip of her tail
to deflect the projectile and sent it clattering over the tile. She came
close to Sailor Moon's face again, angry. "You'll pay for that." She
hissed, her face becoming more and more snakelike as she spoke. Her
widened mouth gaped open, revealing two dripping fangs. Sailor Moon
turned her head to the side and cringed.
With a flash, five red roses embedded them into the daeva's scales where
the tail held Sailor Moon. The daeva screeched and writhed, her twisting
coils throwing Sailor Moon free. Tuxedo Kamen dashed forward, catching
the flying senshi easily.
"Tuxedo Kamen!" Sailor Moon exclaimed, smiling happily.
"Sorry I'm late." He replied, smiling back. He gently set her on her
feet and looked back at the daeva. It had changed, her body now entirely
covered in green scales and her head completely that of a snake. She was
coiled around the black pyramid, reared up to her full height. Greenish
venom dripped from it's long fangs, sizzling as it hit the floor below.
"I think this is yours." Tuxedo Kamen said with a small smile. He threw
his hand into his cape and pulled out another rose. It hit the daeva
full in the face before she could move away, making her rear back and
scream again. "Now!"
"Right!" Sailor Moon stepped forward. "MOON SPIRAL HEART ATTACK!" The
daeva recovered just in time to see her death coming towards her. The
resulting detonation made all observers hide their eyes, and when it was
over, there wasn't even a trace left of daeva or object.
Sailor Moon rushed over to Chibi-Moon and helped her stand. "Are you
alright?"
Chibi-Moon smiled and nodded, blushing softly in admiration.
"Yeah...thanks for saving me."
Sailor Moon knelt down and hugged her daughter close. "No problem." She
smiled. She turned to look back at Tuxedo Kamen. "I hope the others are
doing this well."
Tuxedo Kamen smiled and nodded. "I'm sure they are."
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Sailor Pluto was hiding herself in the shadows under a tree in the park,
looking out into a plaza with a fountain in the center, watching the
three daeva standing around the wedge they had brought. The Guardian of
Time was experiencing an emotion largely new to her. Confusion.
The three of them seemed to be identical, vaguely humanoid shapes
obviously made by large chunks of rock and crystal of varying texture.
Each one had a large, square chunk of what looked like pink quartz for a
head. Pluto had been watching them for several minutes now, and they had
done absolutely nothing. They just stood there, completely immobile.
Finally, Pluto had had enough. She stepped out into the plaza, holding
the butt of her Garnet Rod against the ground firmly. "I am Sailor
Pluto." She said softly, forbiddingly. "I am the Guardian of the Door of
Time and Space. What you seek to do is a violation that cannot be
allowed. Return from whence you came, or be destroyed."
Not one of the creatures even twitched. Sailor Pluto stepped forward
cautiously, her Rod held in a defensive position. She finally got close
enough to prod the closest rock creature. As she pushed, it moved very
slightly in that direction. Sailor Pluto sighed deeply. "What in the
world...?"
She pushed the creatures away from the wedge, to the edges of the plaza.
With a shrug, she turned back to the wedge. "Dead...Scream." The garnet
ball of energy flew from the tip of the staff, hitting the black pyramid
and scattering into a cloud of black dust. She turned to look at one of
the creatures. "I almost feel bad about destroying them..." She said to
herself.
A high-pitched shriek of pure rage made her look up. What she assumed
was a daeva was bobbing in the air. It was nothing more than a ball of
flame, with a vaguely defined face shifting and twisting on the surface.
"How dare you! How dare you do this!"
Pluto just lifted an eyebrow. "It was actually very easy."
The daeva darted this way and that through the air in a panic. "Master
Gluon will annihilate me for being late! No, no no no!" It suddenly
stopped dead and looked down at Sailor Pluto. "But he might spare me for
bringing the head of a Sailor Senshi...ATTACK!"
With a rolling crash, the three rock creatures ran forward, galvanized
into sudden movement. Sailor Pluto abruptly found herself on the
defensive, her Rod moving in a blur to block attacks that were
surprisingly swift coming from opponents who had been so inert.
"Pluto, move!" The shout came from the trees. Pluto didn't hesitate,
leaping free of the battle and landing on the other side of the fountain.
"SHABON SPRAY FREEZING!" The icy fog enveloped the three rock daeva, but
they began to shake free almost immediately, the light shell of ice
breaking as they moved.
Sailor Jupiter was already moving though. "SPARKLING WIDE PRESSURE!" The
orb of lightning collided with the nearest daeva and detonated. The
lightning climbed through the connections made by the frozen moisture of
Mercury's attack and shot through the stone forms of each daeva. After a
moment their crystalline components shattered with loud retorts, and
they fell apart into piles of rocks.
"AHHHHH!" The daeva floating above them shrieked. "No, this can't be!"
It flamed up, swelling and glowing brighter. It fell to earth like a
meteor, aimed directly at Jupiter. The Senshi of Thunder looked up
smirked.
"SHINE AQUA ILLUSION!" From her concealed location in the shadows,
Sailor Mercury attacked again, the freezing water engulfing the daeva in
a cloud of steam. When the steam cleared, the daeva hung in the air,
turned entirely into a sphere of ice. An instant later, it fell to the
ground and shattered.
Sailor Jupiter grinned widely. "Wow, they're not so tough when we know
they're coming."
Sailor Pluto walked over to the other two, a small smile on her face.
"These were not the brightest of opponents." She allowed. As she spoke,
their communicators flared to life, reports of victory coming from both
Sailor Moon and Sailor Mars. Mercury smiled in relief and returned the
sentiment.
"Well." She said. "I guess it's over."
"Perhaps." There was a soft detonation of air by the fountain. "But you
will not have time to celebrate victory." The three of them turned.
Gluon stepped out of a portal, his face filled with rage. "I don't know
how you managed to do this, but you three at least will never live to
see tomorrow!" He said, his voice growing louder and louder by the
instant. "Now DIE!" He bellowed, throwing his hands forward. The ground
beneath the senshi rippled and began to open. Each found themselves
being drawn down into the rock, pulled by an irresistible force.
"SUPREME THUNDER!" Jupiter's attack crackled forth, but Gluon gestured
and the lightning abruptly turned and slammed harmlessly into the ground.
Jupiter stared in disbelief. She turned to look at the other two senshi,
both of which, like her, were now set in stone up to their waists. "Now
what?"
Mercury frantically pushed down with her arms, trying to pull herself
free. But it was useless. Her visor appeared, and her worst fears were
realized. "We're not just getting pulled in." She said in a frightened
tone. "We're somehow merging with the rock!" She twisted around more
violently. -Minako!- Her mind shouted.
Gluon laughed cruelly. "Yes...soon you will be one with the stone,
perfectly imprisoned for all eternity." He smirked arrogantly. "Such is
the fate of those who would try to defeat Gluon."
"I think not." Sailor Pluto said softly. She was calm, her head turned
down slightly and her eyes closed. Her hand was still firmly against the
shaft of the Garnet Rod, just a bit lower down than normal. A dark green
aura began to shine around her, and she turned her weapon, touching the
Orb to the stone that was hungrily drawing them in.
There was a flash of green mixed with red, and the spell was broken. The
three senshi simply appeared on the ground, which was firm and whole
beneath them. Gluon took an involuntary step back, his eyes showing fear.
"No...how?"
"The natural forces you manipulate are nothing compared to the temporal
power at my disposal." Pluto said almost gently. "Such a trick could
never work on me."
Jupiter had opted for a more direct response, and reached Gluon just as
Pluto stopped talking, laying down a massive right hook that caught the
green-haired villain squarely in the face and sent him falling to the
ground. Jupiter caught him by the shirt with both hands and yanked him
up, his feet barely touching the ground.
"Why did you come here?" She shouted, shaking him roughly. "What are you
trying to do?"
Gluon laughed weakly, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth.
"Silly little girl...we come to devour your world." With an arrogant
grin, he simply vanished from her grasp, leaving her standing there,
holding nothing. Jupiter growled in frustration and slammed her right
fist into her left hand.
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Gluon appeared on a rooftop, just a short distance away from the park.
He wiped the blood from his mouth and looked down at his hand. "That
bitch! I swear, I will make her pay..." He suddenly grabbed the sides of
his head, grinding his teeth. "No...I cannot. I have to go, now. Lady
Meson will kill me for this transgression." He fell to his knees and
slammed both fists against the surface of the roof, his eyes closed
tightly.
"How? How could this have happened? They should all be dead! How could
they have done this? What *are* they?"
"Good questions, Gluon." The voice made Gluon look up, all the blood
draining from his face. Meson's image appeared before him, wavering
slightly. Her dusky face was absolutely expressionless, and Gluon felt
all hope leave him as he saw her. "Report to me immediately. Don't even
think about trying to flee. If you do, trust me, things will be worse
for you."
The image of Meson vanished, and Gluon sat back on his knees, trying to
control his shaking. "No..." He whispered. "This cannot be..."
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A short time later, Gluon was on his knees again, his face pressed to
the glowing floor of Meson's control center. Though he could not see her,
he could hear her pacing in a circle around him. Tachyon and Muon were
there as well, and beneath his fear Gluon seethed with rage at this
humiliation.
"You failed, Gluon." Meson said quietly. "What should be done about such
a waste of resources? How can I make you pay for this incredible blunder?
And what's worse...you ran. It would've been far, far better had you
fought and died against the Senshi."
"I am sorry, Lady Meson." Gluon said in a trembling voice. "Please, have
mercy. It was not my fault. Somehow, Tachyon's defenses have failed. The
Sailor Senshi knew precisely where the attacks would come." The
footsteps stopped, and Gluon inwardly cringed.
"Tachyon." Meson said shortly.
"No, no, no!" Tachyon said happily. "My shields are working just fine. I
can feel a couple of them pushing from time to time, but they don't see
anything I don't want them to!"
"The answer is obvious." Muon said flatly.
"Explain." Meson replied.
"Gluon's first abortive attack must have provided the Sailor Senshi with
enough data to determine our course of action and find the dimension
faults we would target. With so many warriors at their disposal, it
would be very simple to keep a watch over the sites."
Gluon's head jerked up and he glared at Muon murderously, who looked
back with blank indifference. "That's impossible! This planet does not
have anything close to the technology that would require."
"Did you not think that the Sailor Senshi might have access to tools
that go beyond this planet's capabilities?" Muon said patiently, as if
speaking to a child. "These warriors are not to be underestimated, not
at all. This much I have determined."
"So." Meson said. "You see, it's your fault, Gluon. The blame lies with
you. And there is but one penalty for failure, as set by Lord Hadron."
There was a high-pitched whining sound as Meson gathered her energies.
"Wait! Please!" Gluon shouted desperately. "Lady Meson, please! I will
do anything! Give me one final chance, and I swear the Sailor Senshi
will die, all of them."
The whining faded slightly. "All of them." Meson said. "You idiot!"
Gluon suddenly found himself thrown against one of the stalagmites
jutting from the ground. The breath was crushed out of him and he looked
up to see Meson glaring at him like Death itself. "You do not deserve a
stay of execution. You will not die fruitlessly against the Sailor
Senshi. I will simply kill you now." Tachyon giggled softly, and Gluon
closed his eyes.
"My Lady Meson." Muon interjected. "A moment." Meson turned to look at
the blue-haired man. "I think I may be able to make use of Gluon's
request. My studies have yielded some interesting results, and I believe
I have weapons that will prove most effective against the Sailor Senshi.
They must be tested, however, and they can only be directed in the
field."
"So you would use this fool as your test pilot?" Muon nodded, and Meson
became thoughtful. She smiled cruelly and looked down at the cringing
Gluon. "So be it. You belong to Muon, now. Do as he says, or your
sentence will fall due immediately. I will kill you slowly." She glanced
at Tachyon, who was humming to herself as she turned a glowing pink ball
of energy in her small hands. "What do you see, Tachyon?"
"He'll die, he'll die..." The child said in a soft, teasing singsong.
"Gluon will die, but it's too good, so I won't spoil the en-ding."
Meson actually grinned. "There we are, then." She turned to Muon. "I
hope your tests go well. It would be nice to see...this...prove useful
at last." She gestured contemptuously at Gluon.
Muon nodded. "Of course." He looked down at his new possession. "Come."
Muon teleported out of the chamber in a flash of blue. As Meson and
Tachyon watched, Gluon pulled himself slowly to his feet. His face was
turned to the ground so neither could see the tears of humiliation on
his cheek, or the look of blind rage in his eyes. After a moment, he
vanished as well.
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AUTHOR'S NOTE: Well, high action in this chapter and little else. Still,
not to worry, we're still on track. ^_^ There's not much else I can say
for this chapter, so stay tuned!
Sailormoon and all the characters in this story belong to their
respective creators/owners. Figure it out.
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