Chapter 161
Queen Nehelenia sat in her mirror prison like she always did. Consumed by anger she paced back and forth.
"My forces have been defeated, and now I've spent centuries in here."
"So you have..." came a voice.
She whirled.
A Negaverse officer stood there.
"Who are you?" Nehelenia snapped.
"Me? I really don't think that matters."
"You wear the uniform of the Negaverse, but your commands have been scattered haven't they?"
"My..my..Nehelenia you have been in here a while haven't you?"
Nehelenia grimaced.
"I have been out of contact with the outer world since my forces were defeated," she said.
"The negaverse has managed to unify itself," the officer said.
"Just what year is this?"
"It's about two thousand years after the silver millennium."
"Two thousand...."
"Yes, I'm afraid so. However...I am here to help you."
"Why?" Nehelenia said suspiciously.
"Why not?" the negaverse officer said and disappeared.
Seconds later the mirror prison blew apart and there was a flash. When the blur cleared from Nehelenia eyes she found herself standing in a field.
"Where am I?" she asked herself.
"You're on Earth of course," the officer's voice responded.
"Earth..." Nehelenia said, and her eyes narrowed. "It may be their 30th century, but I'm sure I can still find my revenge."
She then began to laugh.
Several miles away in Crystal Tokyo.
Neo-Queen Serenity stood on the balcony of the crystal palace looking over the rebuilding that was still going around the city following the negaverse attack years ago. She looked on solemnly. The door opened. She turned.
The four Neo-Sailor Scouts stood there.
"Have you brought news of King Endymion?" Serenity asked.
"We're sorry no," Neo-Sailor Mars.
"But you must know something...." Serenity said.
"We haven't heard from him in days," Neo-Sailor Jupiter said.
"There is another problem your highness," Neo-Sailor Mercury said.
"Which is?" Neo-Queen Serenity said solemnly.
"Queen Nehelenia was seen earlier today," Neo-Sailor Mercury said.
"Nehelenia! Oh no...not..now...we didn't need it now!"
"We will take care of her your highness," Neo-Sailor Venus said.
"You may not be able to do it alone, you'll need me...but I don't know if I can..."
"You're majesty, of course you can," Neo-Venus said.
"No..you don't understand...you don't understand! Please..stop her...for
me.." Serenity said. The four nodded and headed out the door exchanging
concerned looks.
And in the 20th Century. It was Sunday.
Serena slowly woke up.
"Ehh...is it noon yet?" she asked.
"Serena, it's two o clock in the afternoon," Luna said.
"Oh...I overslept then.." Serena said.
"Yes.."
"Oh well," Serena said and climbed out of bed.
"I'm surprised you don't just go into hibernation," Luna said.
"Luna..humans can't do that. Or can they?"
"Not since I last checked."
"Oh..well..so I can't."
"Don't get your hopes up," Luna said.
"I wasn't," Serena said.
There was a flash of light.
"Huh?" Serena said.
"What was that?" Luna said.
Serena's closet door slid open.
"Ah..it stinks in there," a pink haired girl said. emerging from it.
"Wha..hey.you look like..." Serena said looking at a slightly older girl.
"Of course I'm Rini you imbecile!" the girl snapped.
"You!" Serena said. "What do you want?"
"Don't yell at me Meatball Head!"
"I'll meatball head you!" Serena said.
"Rini..what are you doing here?" Luna asked.
"I've got a message from the future. It's about my mother."
"You mean me?" Serena asked.
"No..my mother."
"Serena...don't bother," Luna said.
Rini pressed a button on her Luna P robot cat head. A projection came out of it.
"Sailor Moon...you're presence along with the Sailor Scouts, Tuxedo Mask and your Guardian Scouts is required in Crystal Tokyo," a semi familiar voice said."We are under attack by Queen Nehelenia, and I fear that her forces are extremely great. Neo-Queen Serenity is in no condition to fight and King Endymion is missing. Please...hurry."
"Who was that?" Serena asked.
"That was Sailor Saturn," Rini said. "But there's no time for introductions."
"We need to call Setsuna," Luna said.
"She's already waiting at the gate of time," Rini said. "Just get your friends together and let's go."
"Are the outer scouts coming?" Luna asked.
"No they're staying here," Rini said. "Just find the others hurry up....."
"Okay, okay," Serena said and pulled out her communicator.
Soon Artemas, Luna, the five Sailor Scouts, four Guardian Scouts and Tuxedo Mask were standing up at Raye's temple.
"Say..how are we going to explain all of our experiences," Venus asked.
"Sailor Pluto will take care of all that," Rini said bluntly "Now let's go.." she said and pulled out her key.
"Magic Key! Take us all to the future!"
The group was enveloped in energy. They then appeared in the swirling mists of the pathway to time. The mist began to clear and the group stood in front of the gate to time.
"Well this is interesting," Neptune said.
"Greetings scouts," Sailor Pluto said.
"Is this your new part time job Pluto?" Neptune said.
"Will you shut up!" Rini said.
"Ehh.." Neptune said.
The doors to the future opened up.
"Hurry..I'll take care of everything back home," Sailor Pluto said. The
scouts jumped into the portal.
They soon appeared in Crystal Tokyo.
"Well it looks better then it did last time," Sailor Moon said.
"Yeah, the buildings are still intact," Tuxedo Mask said.
"We've gotta get to the palace," Rini said and the group took off at a jog.
"Patterson didn't tell us anything about this," Uranus said.
"Yeah..this is a weird place," Guardian Pluto said.
"Look at that colored light," Guardian Saturn said pointing at a multicolored wall of energy around the perimeter of the city.
"That must be the other Sailor Scouts, they must have had to put up another energy shield," Mercury said.
There was an explosion.
"Jeez..they're under attack right now.." Sailor Moon said.
The group hurried into the palace.
To their surprise they found Sailor Pluto standing in the middle of it.
"Huh?" Venus said.
"How can she be here and there?" Sailor Moon said.
"Sorry to confuse you..Princess..I'm this century's Sailor Pluto...I don't have much time before I have to replace your century's Sailor Pluto at the gate, but I have to lead you to the underground base."
The group soon were descending down a set of crystal stairs they reached the control room.
Two figures stood there. One had Sailor Saturn's short cut black hair, but was wearing a long cloak over her shoulders. The other wore the familiar grey and blue uniform of Maverick.
"So that's where he was..." Guardian Saturn said.
"No, that's the 30th century version of Maverick," Sailor Pluto said.
"And is the other, 30th century Saturn?" Tuxedo Mask added.
Pluto nodded.
"I must go to my troops!" Maverick said and began to turn.
Neo-Saturn grabbed his arm.
"You are needed here.." she said.
"I am needed there!"
"Maverick.." Neo-Saturn said.
Maverick finished his turn. The scouts all noticed the scar running down the left side of his face.
"Don't you two have better things to do then argue?" Sailor Pluto asked.
"Yes," the two answered in unison and shot glances at each other.
"Listen, I have to go, you two explain the situation to them," Pluto said and rushed out.
"It is fortunate that you have arrived we are in need of your services," Neo-Saturn said. Maverick just scowled and turned back to the control panel.
"We're under attack from Queen Nehelenia, she's created an army as well as a force field around our own to block out help from outside. Fortunately she didn't count on us using the time portal," Neo-Saturn said. "It's doubtful she even knows of it's existence. The Sailor Scouts have put up a defensive shield, put it can only hold out Nehelenia's attacks for so long and with her army of minions punching against it, it's only a matter of time unless we act. Maverick you are better with the tactical standpoint why don't you tell them?"
Maverick paused and then turned.
"The way things are stacked against us right now...Nehelenia can gather strength from the rest of the planet indefinitely. Eventually she'll get strong enough to blast this city to pieces, she could also do massive damage to the rest of the earth if she chose too..you're here..because we need a force that can go out into the Earth and stop her efforts there. While we protect the city," Maverick said and turned away again.
"Why not use the silver crystal?" Sailor Moon asked.
"Neo-Queen Serenity is in bad shape. Six years have passed since you were here last and things have occurred during that time which have affected her. Until she recovers, we can't use the crystal," Neo-Sailor Saturn said.
"But I could," Sailor Moon said.
"It wouldn't do much good now..." Saturn said. "But it may be useful later."
"My forces are in trouble in the north east. I'm going, you four with me!" Maverick said pointing at the Guardians.
"Wha...why.." Neptune said.
"Are you to help or not!" Maverick barked. The four shrugged.
"Maverick get back here!" Neo-Saturn said.
"No," Maverick said and he headed out with the Guardians.
"He's going to get himself injured again," Neo-Saturn said.
"But that's what he does right?" Sailor Moon asked.
The other scouts nodded.
"So true," Saturn said.
"So..uh what's all this about the King missing?" Tuxedo Mask asked.
"He left two weeks ago in a hurry for some reason, we haven't heard from him since," Sailor Saturn said. "That is partially why the Queen is so upset."
"So you guys better go win this war so my mother can get back to normal," Rini said. "I'm going to the surface."
"Rini...you know that is unwise," Saturn said.
"Well duh..Saturn," Rini said and walked out.
"She's even more of a brat then before," Sailor Moon said.
"Unfortunately she has not taken things well," Saturn said. "I will explain
things in more detail later. Right now we could use your help out there."
"So what's the tactical situation?" Saturn asked as the group raced through the streets in a crystal car.
"Nehelenia has hundreds of thousands of troops attacking us, she converted them from the human population I think...What we have to stop them is a few thousand crack troops, the four Guardians as well as Sailors Uranus and Neptune, our version of course."
"Maverick..why so few troops?" Saturn asked.
"Queen Serenity wouldn't allow anymore, figures that the crystal and the scouts can protect the city well enough. She had her reasons. But, most of the other cities on the planet have massive armed forces. I told her we needed more troops, right now I'm stuck with volunteers. The scouts are powerful, but we're really outnumbered."
"We can help I think..I mean..we're not that good at what we do..but...hey..if they're just humans with guns or something," Neptune said.
"That's exactly what they are, laser guns at least. They're using a stun setting on their weapons, Nehelenia would prefer to stun our troops and gather energy from them later. As you can see there are a lot of them," Maverick said pointing over the crest a large mass of men was rushing forward.
"NEPTUNE DEEP SUBMERGE!"
"URANUS WORLD SHAKING!"
Two attacks swept through them and leveled entire columns.
The few troops that were their shot laser blasts at the enemy as it swept forward.
Maverick's car swept through the scout's barrier and set down. The five jumped out.
"Well..do what you do," Maverick said.
"Okay...." Saturn said. "Let's go it guys."
The armed forces swept towards them.
"SATURN ICE RINGS BLAST!"
"NEPTUNE TRITON IMPALE!"
"PLUTO STORM FIST PUNCH!"
"URANUS FIRE SPIKES ATTACK!"
The attacks flew across the air and smashed into the wave blowing a massive hole in it. The troops kept coming.
Maverick drew his sword. It lit up revealing a massive blade.
"Wow..." Neptune said.
"Our Maverick's got nothing like that," Pluto said.
Maverick swung his blade. A wave rippled across the air and slammed through the troops. The entire front line collapsed.
"URANUS WORLD SHAKING!"
"NEPTUNE DEEP SUBMERGE!"
More attacks broke through the column. Suddenly it swelled and raced away.
Maverick swept his sword again and it blasted through the troops knocking another wave of them down.
"We were in control here Maverick," Sailor Uranus said.
"Uranus, don't give me that," Maverick said. "You were breaking..now...heal these soldiers and keep up your defense."
"You see..now we have a little bonus..the troops that Nehelenia created..." Maverick said to the Guardians.
"Neptune Healing Power!"
"Uranus healing power!"
"Will join us," Maverick said as the unconscious enemy troops were covered in energy.
"Oh..wow.." Guardian Neptune said.
Maverick pulled out his communicator.
"Neo-Guardian's come in."
"This is Guardian Saturn, we've driven back an attack in the northwest. With what you could call help from Sailor Mercury."
"Understood."
"This is Guardian Neptune, I was in control Maverick, why'd you have to send Sailor Venus and, I already have an upset stomach."
"What's your status?" Maverick barked.
"We won...." Neo-Neptune snapped.
"This is Guardian Pluto. We were going to win even before Sailor Jupiter showed up."
"Whatever."
"Guardian Uranus here. Sailor Mars showed up. We must have wiped out an entire division of Nehelenia's forces."
"Good..stay on it," Maverick said and turned to the Guardians. "Would you all mind staying here for a bit? We need backup.
"Sure.." Saturn said.
"Except you Saturn...I want to talk to you."
"Hey..we'll be okay," Guardian Uranus said.
Maverick nodded and they headed off in the car.
"What you will find. Guardian Saturn is that the neo-Scouts are not going to like you to varying degrees. There are reasons for this, but you must understand that it's nothing personal," Maverick said. "While I would have preferred not calling you all in, tactically it was necessary. The others don't agree. And they'll take it out on you and the Guardians, and probably the Sailors too."
"Uh..with Queen Serenity the way she is, just who is in charge..you?"
"I'd rather not be..but..I'm at least the one in charge of the fighting. Saturn seems less than interested in leading, just holding me back."
"But.she has a point..if you are in command, you shouldn't run off into the fight," Saturn said.
"I'll do whatever I need to!"
"Well..you certainly are my confident."
"I have to be....now listen..it's important that you and I coordinate our forces."
"Sure.."
"I can only guess the Guardians are still in their unenlightened mode?"
"Well..we're not that good at fighting."
"I thought so..still...we may just have to push the envelope."
"How?"
"I don't know yet. There's something else. You must tell the others from your centuries. Do not ask any of us about the past."
"Oh..."
"You will all be curious....but don't ask...the scouts of this century have been through a lot....it's important they keep as clear a mind set as possible."
"Oh..okay..I got it."
"Sailor Saturn will probably fill you all in eventually, so just be patient."
"Uh sure.."
At the palace.
"Did you see the Guardians, they were so..different," Venus said.
"The scars on their faces," Mars said.
"They had different hairstyles too.." Jupiter said.
"And hair colors," Mercury said.
"And their personalities, I mean...he looked like he hated me," Venus said.
"I saw a bit of resentment," Jupiter said.
"I wonder what made them like this," Mars said.
"Well we don't know what they were doing during the dark moon attack...maybe
it has something to do with that," Mercury theorized.
In the underground control center.
"Why can't we just go confront Nehelenia?" Sailor Moon said.
"You'd never get to her..." Sailor Saturn said. "We have to get rid of her underlings first."
"Is that even possible?" Tuxedo Mask said. "I mean she can just create more."
"There are ways of getting around that problem," Saturn said. "Not without risk of course, but there are ways."
"Oh..like what.." Sailor Moon said.
"We should wait for the others," Saturn said.
"Haven't you stopped her yet?" Rini muttered walking in the door.
"We just got here," Sailor Moon said.
"You must be patient Rini," Saturn said.
"Patient? Hah..when you showed up last time, you at least did something," Rini said.
"But Rini the scouts just finished fighting off Nehelenia," Tuxedo Mask said.
"So what have you two been doing?" Rini said.
"I've been filling them in on what has happened," Saturn said.
"Took you long enough," Rini said.
"Besides Rini, it is best not to let Nehelenia know that Sailor Moon is here..for now.." Saturn said.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah..talk talk talk..." Rini said. "I'm getting tired of waiting you know."
She turned and walked out passed the Sailors as they were coming in.
"Hello Rini," They all said.
"Ehh..quit talking!" Rini said and headed off.
"Jeez...what's her problem?" Sailor Moon asked.
"It's a long story," Saturn said. "There isn't much you can do about it right now."
"Saturn..just what is going on with the Neo-Guardians?" Mars asked.
"That is a question that doesn't need to be answered yet," Saturn said.
Maverick and Guardian Saturn walked in.
"She could attack again at any moment," Maverick said.
"So we must keep this short.." Sailor Saturn said. "What is it you plan to do?"
"It's always up to me isn't it? You're the prophet."
"Maverick do not be so nieve about my powers."
"Fine, fine, I've got a plan," Maverick said. "I put the finishing touches on what we talked about earlier. Nehelenia will be held in check by the energy wall for the time being. Sailor Moon, and Tuxedo Mask will stay here. Sailor Uranus and Neptune will be held in reserve at the city. The rest of you...will head off to stop Nehelenia's advances into other areas. We already have some information about where she's trying to hit. If you can hold her off it'll give us time and it'll distract her, hopefully leading to an opening. There..done..." he said and hit a button on the control panel. "The information's all on the computer."
Maverick then turned and headed off.
"Uh..he's got his own problems," Guardian Saturn said. "But he has some more information for you. We're supposed to form groups of three. Mars and Uranus will meet up with Neo-Uranus. Venus and Neptune will go with Neo-Neptune. Jupiter and Pluto will join up with Neo-Pluto, and Mercury and I will be with Neo-Saturn. Maverick believes the base can hold against another attack while we're gone. He hopes that with Nehelenia distracted she won't invest the massive amounts of forces against the city. Uh that's it...we're supposed to use the info on the computer and leave as soon as possible."
"Jeez..this is going quickly." Sailor Moon said.
"Time is off the essence," Sailor Saturn said. "He knows what he is doing."
"We have to hope so.." Tuxedo Mask said.
"Queen Serenity...." Sailor Moon said cautiously walking into the room.
"Oh..hello Sailor Moon..." Serenity said sniffling. "I am glad you could come..."
"Uh...yeah..I know you haven't been feeling good."
"No..no..I haven't...you know what's it like to lose...the one you love..to not know if you'll ever be with him again..you know that feeling."
"Yes, I do.." Sailor Moon said.
"And here I am...he just left, didn't tell me why....I know it must be important..but...why doesn't he contact me..he knows how I hate to be left in the dark."
"Yeah..I know...I know..exactly what you mean..."
"So I can only guess he's gotten into trouble."
"You don't know that..he may have his reasons...I mean...he always comes back in whatever century he's in."
"But you know that we can only say that when he's come back..I don't know where he is."
"Well...you have to hope.." Sailor Moon said.
"I have...and still nothing.."
"But...you're me..you know that it isn't easy...you know that loving him can be trying at times, but you have to believe he'll come back..because.well..because..."
"Sailor Moon I appreciate your concern..but you know..better than anyone could..just how I feel..I need to be left alone.."
"But your people are counting on you...I know it's hard to face it...but they need you."
"They have you...for now...do what I would..."
"Uh...well..okay...." Sailor Moon said and walked out. She sighed. I guess I
can't blame her..but then again...I am her..
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