Chapter 143
"Once again our plans have failed," the Leader said. "But that's all right, the scouts will be surprised by my next plan."
"And what is that plan?" One of the minions asked.
"Well it's a bit of a surprise. They've seen us attempting to draw energy out of people, but now..they're going to find a threat a little more close to home."
"Do we have the energy for that?"
"I have my ways," the leader said. "But this had better work."
Minutes later.
Miss Haruna noticed out of the corner of her eye, that Patterson was whispering something to the guys sitting around him.
"Patterson, just what are you telling them that is so important?" Haruna muttered.
"I was merely informing them that there was a large army of snowmen advancing towards the school and that they didn't look too happy," Patterson said.
"Are you being..no...that's Mike's department.." Haruna said and looked out the window.
"Hmm...there is a large army of snowmen...hmm..well...someone do something!" She shouted.
"Uh...everyone..if you would proceed to the roof in an orderly fashion it would be appreciated," came Principal Oksua's voice over the intercom. "I bet you can guess why.."
"Let's go," Haruna said. "Hopefully the Sailor Scouts will be along to stop whoever they are at some point."
"Great we're off the hook," Mike said.
"No you're not," Mina snapped.
As the hallway filled with people, the scouts made it a point to still be in the classroom. Miss Haruna hurried out and closed the door.
The group all hid below the window of the door and waited for everything to clear.
"Well..now let's go fight the snowmen," Serena said. "Does that sound as crazy to all of you as it does to me."
Everyone nodded.
"Well.anyway..Celestial Moon Power!"
"Mars Planet Power!"
"Mercury Planet Power!"
"Venus Planet Power!"
"Jupiter Planet Power!"
"Neptune Planet Power!"
"Uranus Planet Power!"
"Saturn Power!"
"Uranus Power!"
"Neptune Power!"
"Pluto Power!"
"Maverick Power..."
The group transformed and rushed to the window.
"It's going to be cold out there and we're stuck wearing these skirts," Sailor Moon said.
"Don't worry, while you're a Sailor Scout, the cold won't affect you, you may feel cold, but you won't freeze.." Sailor Uranus said.
"Uranus, we've dealt with the cold before, we know we won't freeze..but believe me..there's only so much of it you can take," Venus said recalling the battle in the back of the Ice Cream shop that had the scouts exposed to cold for a long time.
"Worry about it later," Sailor Uranus said as the group looked out to see Snowmen, or more appropriately human figures made out of snow advanced with various ice weapons in there hands.
"Frosty the snowman, had a very large axe!" Guardian Neptune sang.
Seconds later they were all jumping out the window and down to ground level.
"Let's just melt them down.." Mars said. "Mars Fire Ignite!"
It flew at the snowmen and melted the snow. A group of them fell into the snow banks, but then perked right back up.
"Oh..so..this is how it's going to be," Pluto muttered.
"As long as there's snow they must be able to reform themselves," Mercury said.
"Let's test that hypothesis!" Jupiter said. "Jupiter Thunder Crash!"
"Jupiter wait!" Sailor Uranus shouted.
Maverick and the two outer scouts jumped up instinctively. Jupiter's electricity hit and blew the snowmen to pieces, but the electric current shot along the snow. Mercury and Saturn realized it seconds later and jumped up too. The other scouts received a small electrical charge.
"Jupiter....ehh.." Sailor Moon said.
"Whoops," Jupiter said.
"Uranus World Shaking!" The attack blasted a wave of snow along the ground and plowed it away. What was left of the snowmen were blasted to each side. The ground was cleared.
"Now all we have to do is hit the entire city and we're all set," Guardian Neptune muttered. The snowmen reformed. Maverick and Saturn opened fire cutting them down as they hit. The other Guardians joined in. Guardian Neptune kept missing.
"Well.uh..hmm...new plan!" Neptune shouted and raced forward sliding under the swing of an ice sword and sticking his own energy weapon into the Snowman. It blew apart showering him with snow. He felt himself being pulled down as the snowman reformed around him.
"Ah..geez!" he shouted.
"This is going to hurt him more than us," Uranus said and he and Pluto opened up blasting the snowman and Neptune. They leapt forward, grabbed Neptune and pulled him back to where they were.
The scouts now were all standing on snowless ground, but the snowmen stood ready to fight them. The Guardians, with the exclusion of Neptune, kept firing.
"We can do this all day, but maybe you girls have a suggestion," Uranus said.
"Well the root of their power comes from Negaenergy," Mercury said looking at her computer. "So..if we can get rid of that."
"Just tell me where to aim," Sailor Moon said.
"I just need some more data, I need to know what we'll work," Mercury said typing away.
Most of the scouts let out a shout.
Mercury looked up.
The snowmen had all joined together to form a massive snowman who held all the ice weapons in his hand. He threw them all. They dived out of the way. The snow around the school had all been consumed by the snowmen.
"Now what?" Sailor Moon said. The group of students let out a shout from the top of the roof as the snowmen looked at them.
"No time for hesitation," Sailor Uranus said.
"Uranus! World shaking!" she shouted and blasted away the monster's right left, it..wobbled, but then the snow reformed into the leg again. The snowman reached down and tried to crush the scouts. They all scurried out of the way.
"We have to vaporize that snow.." Mercury said.
"Good luck," Venus said.
"This isn't easy, normally when we hit the snow with energy it should just freeze as Ice, but somehow being around the snow is allowing the ice to reform with the snow.." Mercury said.
"Great, physical science proves to be of no use once again," Jupiter muttered.
Meanwhile the Guardian scouts were distracting the snow monster. It was trying to either stomp them or punch them. They were dodging it, the Sailors were hidden behind a snow bank.
"If all it needs is snow, we've got our work cut out for us," Sailor Uranus said.
"Maybe..but if we could freeze it..maybe if the entire creature was frozen over the grass like it is, and then we hit it, it would shatter," Mercury said.
"Venus...be ready to smash it," she added and stood up.
"Mercury..Ice Storm....Blast!" she shouted. The attack flew out and hit the creature covering with ice.
"Neptune Deep Submerge!"
The second attack flew over the creature freezing water around it.
It froze.
"Venus Crescent Beam Smash!"
And the six energy sword shots from the Guardians flew through it. The creature broke apart and fell to the snowless ground.
"All right!" Sailor Moon shouted.
"You'd better zap it," Mercury said.
"Uh oh.." Sailor Moon said.
Suddenly the ice pieces all flew together in less then a second and formed an ice soldier as tall as the snow one.
"This is not our day..." Venus muttered.
"Uranus World Shaking!"
The attack flew along the ground and hit the ice leg. The attack dented the ice.
"Venus Crescent Beam Smash!"
The attack flew at the ice creature's chest and cracked it.
"Why isn't it shattering!" Sailor Moon shouted.
"Because the Ice is being held together by the negaenergy inside of it," Mercury said looking at her computer. An icy leg dropped towards them. They dived out of the way.
"It's produced a crystal structure almost comparable to that of a diamond!" Mercury said.
"So now how are we supposed to stop it?" Mars asked.
"That I haven't figured out yet," Mercury said.
The Sailors had once again been left to figure things out while the Guardian's distracted the creature.
"You know..we may be good at this," Neptune muttered diving out of the way of another attack. "But this isn't the safest line of work."
"Did you just figure this out?" Pluto muttered.
"Any weak spots," Saturn asked as he and Maverick dived out of the way of another shot.
"Yes, but most of them will be hard to get to," Maverick said looking at the readout in his watch.
"But it's possible," Saturn said.
"Theoretically," Maverick said. The creature's hands swung down at them. They
both dived away.
"There are weak spots, but they're not in very accessible places," Mercury said looking at her computer. "It takes precision for a diamond cutter to do what he does, and this will take equal precision."
"Mercury, you know that we're not really precision attackers," Mars said.
"I can be," Sailor Uranus said holding her grail sword.
"I don't even know if that weak spot just won't close if hit, the negaenergy holding it together might be enough to do it,"Mercury said.
"What if we knocked it to the ground with sheer force," Jupiter said.
"Onto what?" Sailor Moon said. "We'd do damage to the city.
"It may become necessary," Sailor Uranus said.
"Can I be of assistance?" came a voice. Tuxedo Mask stood there.
"Tuxedo Mask! You're just who we need," Sailor Moon said.
"Oh?" Tuxedo Mask said.
"Hah!" Guardian Neptune said leaping off the fence at the top of the roof. He jumped downward and landed on top of the creature's nose before sliding right off and falling to the ground.
"It's ice you idiot!" Pluto shouted.
The creature moved to step on Neptune.
"No choice," Saturn said. The three other Guardians leapt forward and hit the leg as it rose. The ice creature wobbled.
"Uh oh.." Sailor Moon said.
"It's too late to stop it, hit it," Uranus shouted.
"Venus Crescent Beam Smash!"
"Mars Fire Ignite!"
"Moon Spiral Hearts Attack!"
"Neptune Deep Submerge!"
The attacks smashed into the creature and knocked it sideways so it crashed into the street smashing some cars.
"Maverick! Fire at it's weak spots!" Mercury shouted. Maverick opened fire. Tuxedo Mask raced forward and threw a rose wherever Maverick hit. The combined efforts caused roses to be embedded into five different holes on the creature. Seconds later the roses exploded and the creature let out a shout...
"Venus aim inside it..." Mercury said.
Venus lined up with one of the holes now made larger by the impacts.
"Venus Crescent Beam Smash!"
The attack flew inside the ice bounced off the inside and shocked the negaenergy. The creature let out another shout.
"Uh...how am I going to get my attack in there?" Sailor Moon said.
"Just aim for the hole, some of it should get inside," Mars said.
"Moon Spiral Hearts Attack!"
The energy flew in some of the week spots and the creature howled. Soon the ice crystal fell apart and the snow melted.
"Well...I'll never look at snow the same way again.." Jupiter muttered.
"Did you have to destroy my car!" Oksua shouted from the roof.
"Sorry..." Sailor Moon said.
"Ehh.." Oksua said.
"Well...that could have been easier," Mars said and sighed.
"And now after our toils, we get to go back to class," Neptune said. The whole group let out a sigh.
"Except for me, heh heh," Tuxedo Mask said and jumped off.
"Well..yeah..but...we uh..oh..never mind," Neptune muttered.
"It's best to let it go," Pluto said.
"Well Mercury, I guess all that science pays off sometimes," Sailor Moon said.
"It's always important to get a good education," Mercury replied. "You never know when you may have to use it."
"Well....as long as we've got you we're all set..." Sailor Moon said.
"Yeah...because remember, while it's important to be educated, in some cases it just isn't worth the effort," Venus said. Everyone looked at her. "Someone smart must have said something like that..I mean...right?"
"Well..she's got a point," Neptune said.
"Uh..you know it's kinda cold out here," Sailor Moon said.
"Ahh..the joys of wearing pants," Neptune said.
"Shut up," Sailor Moon said.
"Heh heh," Neptune said.
After school that day.
"Lita do you have a philosophy on life?" Steve asked.
"Why do you ask?"
"Just curious."
"Sure I do..but what's yours?"
"Oh...mine? Well I see life as sort of an endless circle, I mean..uh..history repeats itself."
"Well that's nothing new," Lita said.
Steve grinned slightly.
"Sure, the people involved change, but nothing ever really new happens. Only the way it happens. I mean..numbers may change, but in the end..it's all the same," Steve said.
"So..how would your life philosophy explain the scouts?" Lita asked.
"Well there were scouts one thousand years ago, and there's always groups fighting evil...in various ways.."
"So in the scheme of your life philosophy, it's just been there, done that.."
"Well someone has, but what about your life philosophy?" Steve asked.
"Mine? Well I think that...everyone is entitled to their own opinion and that's what makes things work out," Lita said.
"What? I mean....sorry..I just don't get what you mean,"Steve said.
"Well..the universe is filled with people with different ideas about the same thing... different ideas about philosophy on life for instance, and a lot of them run into each other, disagree or agree and move on, and that's how things go."
"So?"
"So...that's what I think."
"But..it doesn't mean anything?" Steve asked.
"What?" Lita asked.
"Well..I guess I don't sound right..but..how does knowing that affect how you live your life."
"It makes it easier to deal with situations like this," Lita said with a small grin.
"Hah..good turn around," Steve said.
"Would you like to know how I see life?" Mike asked.
"Not really," Mina said. "If I want reality to be twisted, bent, and then squeezed, until it's recognizable, I'll get high."
"Hah hah..you are quite brutal when you're awake Mina," Mike said.
"Really Mike...I'm just not into philosophies on life.."
"So what's yours?"
"Mine? Oh...I don't know..probably has something to do with Love and how there's always too much of it around me."
"You're not high now are you?" Mina asked.
"Mike..I would never really.."
"Oh..then...why is your sense of reality so messed up.."
"It is not!" Mina said and bonked him on the head.
"My mistake," Mike muttered. "You see...I see life a little differently, envision a colony of rats!"
"Why?" Mina said. "I hate rats."
"Oh...why?"
"Because...I do.."
"Oh..so much for feminism," Mike said.
"Hey women can still be empowered, but be afraid of rats."
""If you say so," Mike muttered. "But that's just what life is...a bunch of rats, and the feminists are afraid of them..so nothing gets done."
"I don't understand what you mean! I warned you."
"Well you know me..." Mike said.
"Yes I do....you've hit a new low."
"I seem to do that a lot lately," Steve said.
"Yeah, I know.." Mina said.
Raye bent down and laid some bird food on the ground. Her two crows flew to the ground and started nibbling at it.
"Rick, do you ever wonder what animals think of us?" she asked.
"No...should I?" Rick asked.
"I've always wondered..some of their minds must be that sophisticated..sure the thoughts must be simple, but they could be there."
"Why don't you ask Luna or Artemas?"
"They're different."
"Oh..how? Aside from the talking."
"You know they never told us just how they go to be talking cats," Raye said.
"I'm sure it's an interesting story, though I'm not sure I want to hear it," Rick said.
"That may be for the best," Raye said. "Sometimes I wonder if wherever the negaverse came from, they had animals that they fed and cared for..."
"Cared for?"
"I mean....managed...the negaverse wasn't completely evil, they had the capability to love, to feel pain..other things...like that...caring for a pet isn't that far out of reach. And...I wonder whether the animals..you know...thought about them and what they were doing."
"Why Raye?"
"What do you mean why?"
"Well...what's the point..so maybe they did, maybe they didn't..but it just seems so ..useless to wonder about it."
"Maybe it is, but I still do...you can't honestly say you don't have thoughts like that."
"Well..sure..but I don't like to think about them. To tell you the truth I have other kinds of useless thoughts," Ricks aid.
"Like what?"
"Well you know.....wondering what my philosophy on life is, that sort of thing."
"What is it?"
"No idea...don't care to think about it."
"You must have one."
"Nope...none at all."
"Liar..listen Rick...you may not pin it down..but it's there..it guides your actions."
"I prefer not to be guided."
"Then there it is. You refuse to be guided."
"Fine, fine..so what's yours."
"Mine? Well...it changes. I guess my philosophy is that...hmm....well...I guess I don't have one..that I can recognize."
"HAH!" Rick said.
"Well..I..know it's there."
Rick began to laugh.
"Okay..okay..whatever..say Rick..what else do you think about..you know useless thoughts?"
"Oh no..no more secrets," Rick said.
"Oh come one just one..."
"I don't know what's in it for me."
"We'll go out for dinner and I'll wear that dress you like to see me in."
"Oh..that one..but I don't want other guys leering at you," Raye said.
"Fine, we'll eat in and I'll wear it. Chad isn't here tonight you know."
"All right fine, you know the truth is I've always wanted to see what you're hair would look like if you wore it like Serena's," Rick said.
"You're kidding."
"Well..I'm not saying Serena's hair looks better than yours, I've just always been curious. And then you kinda wore it that way at the festival..and it was nice."
"Oh...well that's interesting," Raye said.
"Hmm.philosophies on life?" Serena muttered looking at a book lying on Darrien's coffee table. "Looks boring," she muttered.
"You'd be surprised," Darrien said.
"Well...maybe I would, but...I wouldn't care to find out. I mean who cares about so called life philosophies..just get on with it."
Darrien grinned.
"You have a point Serena, but...a lot of people don't agree," Darrien said.
"That's the problem," Serena said.
Darrien just grinned.
"This new attack was a surprise, it doesn't fit the pattern set before," Patterson muttered.
"Yeah..well..maybe..that's the idea..." Greg said.
"Perhaps," Patterson said. "It will require more study though. I want to know just why the enemy made such an abrupt change in strategy and just how they did so."
"I'm sure you'll find out..but..Patterson I'm curious, just what do you think of life..I mean how do consciously approach it?" Greg asked.
"Why do you ask?" Patterson muttered.
"Well..I'm curious."
"Why?"
"Well..it just came to me."
"I don't think about it often."
"That's understandable."
"But if you must know. if this will somehow provide more insight into my psyche, which more and more people seem to care about mapping..I'll say this..life is merely the time you spend before you die..and there you go," Patterson said.
"You're depressing you know," Greg said.
"I try not to be..but...then again..depression is part of life," Patterson said.
Greg grinned slightly.
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