Chapter 124
Jupiter connected with her kick, but Andrew only fell back a few inches as he beat his wings quickly to pull him back to where he was. This surprised Jupiter, who was just landing as Andrew lunged at her. She was hit and pushed back into a light pole. Andrew stepped back and aimed his laser cannon. Jupiter waited to the last second to roll out of the way of the attack and pivot swinging her left foot around to try and trip Andrew up, only Andrew hopped upward and tried to come down on her foot. Jupiter retracted it.
"Jupiter Thunder Crash!" she shouted. Andrew fired his laser cannon. The two attacks exploded in midair and knocked both of them backwards. Andrew caught himself with his wings. Jupiter didn't have that kind of luck and skidded along the cracked street.
"Hmm...the laser cannon bores me," Andrew said. "Let's make thing interesting."
Jupiter began to get up, still a bit weak.
I'll see what he tries, besides I can rest while he's doing it.
Andrew raised his hands above him, they began to glow.
"I the master of the video game domain call forth the powerfulest of creatures to do battle with this enemy," Andrew said. "Appear!"
On the street appeared a small yellow creature.
"Ahh..it's cute," Jupiter said. "Some powerful creature."
"PINKACHU!" it shouted and Jupiter was shocked with an electric blast. She screeched.
"What is that thing!" Jupiter said.
"Hah..you can't talk now can you?" Andrew said.
"Jupiter Thunder Crash!"
"CHU!"
The two attacks crashed toghether. Jupiter lunged forward and kicked Pinkachu. The creature went flying into the air. Andrew sighed and it disapeared in mid air.
"Okay..so that was a surprise..but wait till you see this one.." Andrew said. Jupiter sighed and caught her breath.
"How about we bring on the man!"
In the air appeared a small mustached man with a red hat and red overalls. He wore a tool belt with all sorts of plumbing implements on it.
"I see..what's his trick?" Jupiter muttered.
"Mama mia!" the plumber shouted and launched a fireball at her. She dived out of the way.
"Jeez.." Jupiter said and jumped forward bouncing off the plumber's head. He disapeared in a flash of light.
"You're no fun," Andrew said.
"Yeah..well..this isn't a game," Jupiter said.
"Oh..isn't it?" Andrew said aiming his laser cannon.
"You know that can't hit me," Jupiter said.
"It doesn't have to," Andrew said.
"You see..you can't attack me while the laser cannon is aimed at you..so.." Andrew said and flapped his wings. Jupiter tried to jump over the gust of wind but was hit with it. She flew backward and smashed into the front of a building. She fell to the ground and sighed.
"Now we make this a game!" Andrew said and raised his hands. All around him creatures appeared. A guy resembling robin hood, but with a sword. A plumber in a green and white outfit. Several small mushrooms with teeth, and a little blue armored guy.
Jupiter stood up slowly wincing from the pain.
"Oh dear.." she said.
"Well..Patterson..looks like the game's afoot again," General Nagumo said as the two raced through the city in a jeep.
"Yeah..well...you know how it is," Patterson said. "This is a bit odd though."
"Yeah..sporadic attacks all over the city. Whoever this enemy is, they're trying something new."
"Yep, say..won't the Prime Minister be mad we're getting involved."
"She can't stop us, not if the Diet says anything about it. But we're only getting there after the Sailor Scouts clean things up."
"Maybe that's for the best sir."
"Aw..come on I want to get my hands a little dirty."
"Yeah..well..after the last time we engaged enemy forces."
"So it didn't go that well..we're tough."
"Yes sir," Patterson said.
Jupiter decided that running from this fight was for the time being the best course of action. The plumber was shooting fireballs at her. The armored guy was shooting some sort of energy pellets. The mushrooms just looked angry, and the robin hood guy had a big sword. Jupiter hadn't had much strength left to jump so she had ran and seeing a building that looked like a good place to stay, she jumped up to it and planned her attack. The mushrooms rushed inside the building while the plummer and the armored guy hit the building with their attacks. The sword guy just stood there in annoyance.
"At least I split them up," Jupiter said. There was a sound of banging.
"Jupiter Thunderclap..." she said. The door opened. "Zap!"
The mushrooms were blown apart. A fireball flew over the edge of the roof and landed near her.
"Aw..gee.." Jupiter said and scrambled out of the way. She then headed for the door. To her surprise the sword guy emerged holding his sword right at her.
"Make a move and you die..." he said.
"You know..you kinda look like my old boyfriend," Jupiter said.
"Really? Who cares?" the sword guy said and swung at her.
She stepped back as he swung, but he swung again. She narrowly avoided it. And tried to jump backwards. She managed to go seven feet and landed.
"So..you think that'll help," the sword guy said.
"Doesn't it?" Jupiter asked.
"Nope," the sword guy said and from his sword came an energy discharge which flew straight at her.
Jupiter very awkwardly ducked it. The sword guy kept shooting at her and she started running away quickly and jumping as he kept firing.
He fires faster then Maverick does. She thought with annoyance.
"Heh Hah!" came a voice and seconds later she was hit on the head by the white and green plumber. She winced. A sword blast hit her and pushed her towards the edge of the roof.
"Jupiter thunder crash!" she shouted.
The attack flew out and hit the two frying them.
"Now for me!" the armored guy said jumping up and shooting energy pellets at her. Jupiter stumbled out of the way of them and then bounced off her right foot. She flew right at the armored guy, causing him to hop up to avoid her, but he didn't jump high enough and she crashed into him and the two hit the roof's edge. Jupiter grabbed the armored guy and threw him off, he disapeared in midflight.
Jupiter stopped to catch her breath.
And I still have to stop Andrew. She thought.
The task became of immediate importance as Andrew flew up to the top of the roof and hovered in the air. He aimed his laser cannon carefully.
"Jupiter thunder crash!" she shouted.
The attack flew straight at him.
"Oops," he said and stopped flying dropping towards the ground and catching himself halfway as the attack flew over him and blew apart a billboard. He floated back up.
"You can't do that forever," Andrew said.
He's right..I'm already weak enough as it is.
"As for me..okay..enough with the laser cannons.." Andrew said.
He raised his hands. Jupiter knew it would be pointless to attack now..so she tried to think through a strategy. In the air appeared several flying mushrooms with fangs.
Jupiter sighed as they dived in towards her, but then she did the unexpected and rather than run she ran forward. They flew in at her. She called on her aura of superstrength just to keep her going and leapt right at Andrew, he saw it coming,but was still surprised when she leapt off the building and tackled him. The two fell five stories to the ground. And both of them hit hard. Jupiter lay there gasping for breath. Andrew did the same. A police car rolled up followed by a few more. A cop walked up to Andrew and held a sword at his throat.
"I wouldn't move if I were you," the cop said.
Andrew looked up in surprise. Jupiter did too..and noticed the cop instantly.
Dad. She thought and stood up.
"You all right?" one of the other cops asked.
"Sort of.." Jupiter said.
"Look out!" someone shouted. The flying mushrooms dived in on the group, especially on Sergeant Nelson. Jupiter lunged forward and gave an upper cut to one of them. Andrew took the chance and grabbed the sword. Sergeant Nelson whirled and and tried extracate it.
"Won't work," Andrew said.
"Fine," Nelson said and kicked Andrew in the head.
Jupiter grabbed another flying mushroom and threw it into a wall, it exploded. The cops were doing their best to keep them occupied. Jupiter saw her father struggling with Andrew and she rushed to help. She barreld into the creature and pushed him into a wall. She then grabbed him and threw him across the street where he hit another wall.
"I hope this doesn't hurt you too much Andrew," Jupiter said with regret. Jupiter then threw him into a police car. He sagged against it.
"Jupiter Thunderclap...Zap!" she shouted and sent the attack shooting towards him. The attack hit and he fell to the ground. The car blew apart.
"Sailor Jupiter use your power stick to heal him.." Queen Serenity said.
"How?"
"The same way Sailor Moon does.."Serenity said.
"Oh.okay.." Jupiter said and pulled out her power stick.
"Jupiter Healing Power!" she shouted. Andrew slowly turned back into the man he had been and lay on the ground unconcious.
"See that he gets treated," Jupiter said to a cop and leapt off. She got to
the top of the roof of one building before collapsing from exhaustion.
Amy had no idea that anything was really going on. A cop car had raced by at one point, but they tended to do that. She was trying to figure out the answer to problem forty eight in her math book.
It was that she was hit with a strange feeling.
"What's this..it's not.." she began to say...before she began to glow. She stood up and let out a shout. Then the transformation began. Her skin turned entirely blue, her hair became jet black and various other modifications began. Seconds later the now evil Amy held her power stick aloft.
"Mercury Planet Power!" she shouted in her modified voice. The power surrounded her and she transformed into Sailor Mercury, completely human looking, but not benevolent in the least.
"It is illogical for me to destroy my own house because that would hurt only me...since my goal is to hurt other people, the best bet would be to go outside and destroy other's houses. Yes that would do fine," she said and headed towards her door.
She walked out into the street and headed for her neighbor's house, which of course was Greg's. Greg noticed her outside his window. He saw her looking at her computer and then the house.
"Now let's see..where would the weakest point in the architechture be?" she askd herself. Greg opened the window.
"Hey Mercury..what's going on?" he asked.
"Nothing Greg, I'm just going to blow up your house."
"What?"
"I said I'm going to blow up your house...now quit asking."
"Are you kidding?"
"Okay..I guess I can't work without distraction here," Mercury said.
"Mercury Ice Storm...." she began...
"Uh oh.." Greg said and dashed for the door to his room. His father hadn't come home yet.
"Blast!" Mercury shouted and blasted Greg's room blowing it apart.
"Saturn Power!" Greg shouted halfway down the stairs. She must be under some sort of evil influence..but why does she always want to blow up our houses?
"Mercury Ice Storm! Blast!" Mercury shouted and blew the front wall of the house apart. it began to collapse. Saturn dived through a back window before the roof caved in.
"Okay..next..house.." Mercury said and moved down the street.
"Stop Mercury!" Saturn said in as forceful a voice he could considering the circumstances.
"Oh..what do you want?" Mercury snapped.
"Well..there are several things involved really," Saturn said.
"Too bad..look..I'm going to blow up this next house if you don't mind."
"I..um..do mind."
"Oh..I see..so you wanna fight?"
"No, but I think that's how this is going to end up."
"You thought right. Mercury Bubbles Blast!"
Saturn jumped out of the way as the bubbles flew at him and he rolled to the side as a mist fell, of course he could see right through it.
I don't know what this will do to her, but I don't have much choice I have to fight using my powers. He drew his sword and fired. She leapt over it and landed again. He fired again. She avoided it.
"If you're strategy is purely to fire that thing at me..it won't work," Mercury said.
Saturn realized she had a point.
"Of course then again.." Saturn said. "If I just keep shooting at you..you won't be able to do any more damage."
"You'd certainly like to think that wouldn't you?" Mercury said.
"Well..you're Mercury bubbles are relatively ineffective, and any other attacks you make will take long enough that I can attack before you can," Saturn said. "It's simple arithemetic."
"Oh..I see..well normally that might be true..but you forget what a super genius I am."
"That won't make up for the fact that you have no attacks."
"Won't it. Sure..I'm standing right here in front of you. But what makes you think that can't change..see there is one thing you need to remember...you have to stop me...I don't need to stop you..so..essentially..wherever I go...you have to go!" Mercury shouted and leapt up and over a roof and bounced off towards the city.
"Guess she has a point," Saturn muttered and followed.
The two jumped from rooftop. Saturn desperately trying to hit her with a sword blast and avoid doing any other necessary damage. His aim was good, but not good enough. Mercury had more experience with her abilities, and he was having trouble keeping up with her.
She bounced off at a near perfect angle and went in a new direction. Saturn hit the same area and attempted to duplicate the move only, to go off at the wrong angle and fly at a telephone pole. He kicked out and hit the pole, and did his best to land. He lost track of Mercury.
"Now where'd she go?" he muttered to himself. It was then he realized that he intent was not to lose him, but merely to get him into this exact position. He dived out of the way instinctively as a wave of ice water flew at him.
She is clever. He thought. And headed back in the direction of the ice water. With her cover blown, Mercury leapt onto another roof and kept going. Saturn followed trying to get in a lucky shot. She avoided the attacks and kept a grin plastered on her face.
Now we try this again. Mercury said and dropped into a busy street market. Saturn followed, but once he landed he had no idea where she went again. The people moved about, hardly any noticed the Guardian Scout standing there. Those that did started to run sensing trouble or being worried at the prospect of a guy with a sword standing there.
She'll attack again. Saturn thought looking around cautiously. He was ready to move the second he felt he knew where the attack would come.
A car rumbled down the street, behind him. Saturn tried to keep his concentration, but when the car kept coming he, turned and saw it was empty, he jumped upwards as it raced by him and slammed into the front of a house. Halfway into his jump he was hit by Mercury's Ice Storm and blown twenty feet into a square watermelon stand.
"Mercury Ice Storm Blast!" came a shout. Saturn rolled away from the stand as the second attack flew at him. He rolled and fired in the direction of it still wincing from the pain. Another car sped at him empty. Saturn jumped out of the way.
How is she doing that? Saturn asked himself. Of course the computer. He landed and had only a second before he was barreled into Mercury leaping off a building. He was knocked into a produce stand. Mercury grabbed him and pushed him to the other side where he smashed into a camera developing stand. She picked him up a third time. He swung his sword quickly and cut her cheek. She let him go.
"Ahh..you...you...jerk!" She screeched.
"I'm sorry...but.." Saturn said.
She kicked him in the groin.
"What do I care about a cheek!" She muttered and leapt off.
"That your girlfriend buddy?" a bystander asked. "She sure acts like it."
Saturn sighed and followed after her.
I could lose him at any time. Mercury thought. But sooner or later he'd find me if I was destroying things so I'd best get rid of him now. He doesn't stand a chance really. I have more power then he does. He has only one major energy attack, and he'd need to hit me with it two or three times to stop me. I hit him again with my ice storm and that might put him down for the count.
Saturn chasing after her, was thinking along similar lines.
How am I going to beat her? She has all the advantages, experience, power, and I have to follow her wherever she goes. I'm not feeling so good, she hits me again with her ice storm and it may be over.
The two reached a built up area of the city Saturn hadn't visited before. Mercury leapt along the cars and he had to follow amidst the yells of confused pedestrians and drivers.
I know..I'll lead him to the harbor..that's where my powers will be the most useful. Mercury thought and kept going.
She's leading me somewhere..but where is it? Saturn thought.
Minutes later they arrived at the harbor.
Of course..her powers will be the most dangerous here. Saturn thought and landed. Mercury disapeared into a maze of stacked boxes.
I didn't want to do this, but it may be necessary. Saturn thought and fired his sword into the boxes blowing them apart. Mercury was surprised at this move. She had expected Saturn to follow her in on foot or try to see her from above, either way she would have found a way to hit him. Instead a box exploded next to her showering her with grain. Another sword blast hit her in the head and knocked her into a pile of boxes. They came tumbling down all around her.
I wonder if I should help her..she could be hurt or she could be up to something else. Saturn thought. There was no movement under the boxes. Saturn stood there waiting, hoping she made a move, his sword aimed at the area.
"Mercury! You all right in there?" he asked. Knowing the response would probably be a lie in some way.
Seconds later the boxes flew at him pushed by an icy wave. He ducked and the wave passed over him chilling him, and he winced. Mercury emerged from the boxes.
"Finally..we can get this over with," Mercury said. "Mercury....Aqua..." she began going through the motions of her attack. Saturn leapt forward with his sword hoping he was doing the right thing. He hit her before she could finish and the sword went straight through her. She cried out and fell to the ground. Saturn collapsed as well. There was no wound since the sword was pure energy, but the damage had been extensive. Slowly though Mercury stood up and staggered away from Saturn who looked up to see her. She started to go through the motions.
"Mercury Aqua...." she began. Saturn stood there..hoping he would have the ability to avoid the attack.
"Rhapsody!" she shouted and launched her attack. Saturn stumbled out of the way as it flew by him and smashed into a ship, punching a hole in it above the waterline. Mercury stood there gasping. Saturn collapsed again from exhaustion.
There's just no way I can beat her. She's too strong. He thought.
"Mercury..Ice Storm..." Mercury began ready to finish him off.
"Saturn Mist Wave!" came a shout. An attack flew across the ground and smashed into Mercury.
"Pluto Healing Power!" came a second shout. Mercury was bathed in light and within seconds she returned to normal, but was hurt badly.
"Saturn..we must get these two to where they can rest," Sailor Pluto said standing on a rooftop.
Sailor Saturn merely nodded.
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