Chapter 172
In the fields of China, the two sides stood facing each other. The nine Guardian Scouts facing down the nine minions left in Nehelenia's army.
"I hope you don't plan on winning this battle," Alrie said with a grin. "We're just too much for you."
"That remains to be seen," Maverick said coldly.
"I guess..it does," Alrie said. "Well..shall we begin."
Both sides readied themselves and for each of them their battle became the only thing they focused on their opponent standing several feet away.
At the end of the line stood Golkum, the rock giant. Neo-Pluto stood across from him.
"It will be interesting on just how you decide to try and fight me.."Golkum said. "After all..that energy sword will have little effect on my exterior."
"I'm in no mood for small talk.." Neo-Pluto said and leapt forward.
"Pluto Storm Fist Punch!" he shouted at point blank range and aimed for the creature's left leg. The creature wobbled, but gained back it's balance and swung down with it's huge rocky hand hitting Pluto and knocking him to the ground. Golkum stepped back.
"Stand up and we will continue," The giant said.
"Interesting..." Neo-Pluto said and stood up.
"What?"
"No one has ever extended that courtesy before."
"I chose to...now.." Golkum said and readied himself.
Neo-Pluto nodded and thought about what to do.
He's rock all right, and he can just guess what my first strategy is. But I have another.
He built up his energy and shouted out the words of his major attack. Golkum rushed forward as he said it and threw a punch before he could finish. Neo-Pluto ducked out of the way and leapt to the opposite side of the battlefield. Golkum turned.
"A wise strategy, but I am fast enough to neutralize it," he said.
"So you are," Neo-Pluto said.
Meanwhile Uranus stood facing Retago.
"Bet you've never fought anyone with ten hands before," Retago said, both of his heads mouthed the words but he heard only one voice.
"Of course not..I don't have ten hands," Uranus said.
Retago started laughing.
"But enough of that," Retago said. In each of his hands appeared a sword.
"I suppose me saying "no fair" won't help," Uranus said.
"Nope," Retago said.
Uranus readied his sword.
"Can I just ask you something?" Uranus asked.
"I guess," Retago said.
"Well do your heads ever argue with each other?"
"No..they are merely an extension of the same consciousness," Retago said.
"Oh.." Uranus said. "Just wondering."
"Well? Are you going to attack or not?"
"Oh..sure..." Uranus said and leapt forward. Retago swung his ten swords. Uranus bounced to the right of the attack and flipped around swinging his sword towards Retago's back. Retago's heads spun around to see it and the creature jumped forward spinning in mid flight.
Uranus ducked and backed off.
"Well..so much for that ey?" Retago asked.
"Apparently," Uranus muttered.
Several feet away Neptune stood opposite the creature Opium.
"You seem to know a lot about my powers.." Opium said.
"Yeah..I guess..but it's not every day I get to fight opium," Neptune said.
"So let me understand this..I actually have a reputation on your world?"
"Oh..yeah.." Neptune said. "But it's not what you think."
"Oh..so just what do they say about me?"
"Oh..uh..well..uh..hmm.." Neptune said. "Well we fought the opium war once.."
"Opium war? They named a war after me?"
"Well..kind of," Neptune said. "Actually no."
"Oh..then what are you talking about?"
"Would you like me to explain it to you?"
"Yes."
"Well okay.." Neptune said and began.
Further beyond. Avictus stood facing Neo-Saturn.
"So you believe you are capable of defeating me.." Avictus said. "Many have made that assessment, and have been proven wrong."
"Unless you are immortal there is always the possibility of your defeat," Neo-Saturn said. "Whether or not my skills prove to be enough is secondary to my key point. Then again..your destruction is of paramount importance even over my survival..I have no fear of dying.."
"No fear of dying? So you are willing to sacrifice everything to defeat me?"
"No..not everything..only myself.." Neo-Saturn said. "For the preservation of everything."
He drew his sword.
"Are you prepared?" Neo-Saturn said. Avictus drew his own sword.
"I always am.." Avictus said. The two squared off. Neo-Saturn's eyes narrowed. Avictus narrowed his eyes as well. The two stared at each other looking for their openings. Neither of them knew a thing about the others attacks so it was basically open season. They waited both with their swords drawn staring at each other.
A bird chirped. The two leapt at each other and their swords met.
Beyond floated Xcoi, the head. Pluto stood across from him not knowing what to think. He knew that Xcoi could grow feet out of the forehead, but he had no idea what else he could do, and the honest truth was he didn't want to know either..but he had to.
"So...you're just a big head essentially," Pluto said.
"No of course not, you are quite mistaken..I can accomplish more then you could comprehend..but...for you to learn just what special abilities I possess..you're going to have to perform an offensive operation.." the head said.
"Oh.." Pluto muttered. "Great..a learned floating head."
"Nothing to be ashamed of...." Xcoi said.
"Ehh.." Pluto said. "Pluto Storm Fist Punch!"
The attack shot out at the head. The head was hit and knocked backward spinning end over end.
"Well there we go," Pluto said drawing his sword and preparing to head after them. The head stopped abruptly and spit a fire ball at him as he charged. Pluto dived out of the way, as the fireball hit the ground and caused a fiery explosion before disappearing leaving only scorch marks.
Seconds later the head went floating towards Pluto with a grimace on it's face. Pluto fired his sword. It hit the head in the eye but it smashed into him anyway and knocked him into the dirt.
"My Eyes are merely a facade!" Xcoi shouted. "I have visual receptors on my skin!"
Another fireball flew from his mouth.
"Pluto Storm First Punch!"
The two attacks exploded knocking both combatants back. Both covered in soot
they stood up and prepared for another round.
Saturn had his own problems as he stared down the cyborg Uris.
"I have enhanced systems.. I cannot miss.." Uris said.
Saturn grimaced. That was the last thing he need.
Guess I'll just have to keep it from firing then. Saturn thought.
Saturn looked the cyborg over. One arm had all sorts of ugly looking blades on it. The other was just a normal looking hand. Somehow though Saturn thought that both hands were equally dangerous. And if the cyborg was talking about hitting and missing he must be referring to some sort of missile attack.
Have to take the offensive. Saturn thought. He fired his sword. The cyborg
jumped out of the way. Saturn fired again hoping to keep the cyborg too busy to
attack him. It didn't work, the cyborg leapt aside and charged at him. Saturn
swung his sword forward. The cyborg grabbed it with his hand. The sword there
was a discharge of energy which shot through Saturn, he flew back and hit the
ground managing to roll to a stop and stand. The cyborg still held his sword and
tossed it behind him, before charging at Saturn again. Saturn tried to avoid the
pain and dodged, but the cyborg followed.
Neo-Neptune meanwhile had a sinister grin on his face as he faced the mysterious Seven.
"So..you're the big surprise aren't ya?" Neo-Neptune asked. "Well..let's get on with this," he said.
"You won't like it," Seven said.
"Of course I won't," Neo-Neptune said. "But I'm still going to kill you."
Seven flashed for a second, then it stopped.
"And just what was that.." Neo-Neptune said.
"Nothing!" Seven and flashed again.
Neo-Neptune scowled.
"Now you've got me annoyed!" He shouted and charged forward.
Seven exploded in a flash and Neo-Neptune was hit with a huge blast. He flew 300 feet and smashed into the ground after traveling the length of a football field.
Seven appeared again right where he had been standing.
"Surprise!" he shouted.
Neo-Neptune slowly moved to get up sensing he had broken bones everywhere. He winced and slowly walked back towards where Seven stood.
"Now..what are you going to do?" Seven asked.
Neo-Neptune stared at him.
A little ways away The Aiver stood facing Neo-Uranus. The Neo-Guardian knew that this creature was dangerous..but had no idea about how dangerous he was.
Neo-Uranus fired a shot at the Aiver who merely let it pass through him and then stood where had stood. His eyes widened for a second.
"I knew it would be something like that," he muttered.
"I do not make arrogant presumptions of my superiority...I merely prove it in combat," the Aiver said and twirled his staff. Neo-Uranus fired again and knocked the staff out of his hand. But Neo-Uranus was hit by an energy blast, he was knocked to the ground. He winced.
Where did that come from he wondered. The Aiver stood there making no effort to retrieve the staff. Neo-Uranus figured it out.
"The staff was just a distraction..I see." Neo-Uranus said.
"Too bad it will not help you." The Aiver said. "If you were foolish enough to fall for that basic maneuver..you will not last long."
"I thought you didn't make presumptions of superiority?"
"It is not a presumption, that is a fact," The Aiver said.
"Oh....right," Neo-Uranus muttered and planned his next move.
Meanwhile Maverick and Alrie stood across from each other. Alrie stood in a relaxed pose watching the other battles.
Maverick stood completely ready to attack, but willing to let Alrie make the first move..he knew that Alrie would not be so arrogant to assume he wouldn't attack, so he expected Alrie to have some sort of response cooked up.
"You might as well watch your comrades in battle," Alrie said. "I am."
Maverick said nothing and held his position.
"Well..if you insist on being that way..fine..but I'm going to watch the rest of the combat," Alrie said. "If you are honorable you will not attack."
"I just might.." Maverick said.
"I know.." Alrie said with a grin and continued watching.
Maverick continued to use the time to study Alrie in detail for any stray energy readings and to size up his opponent.
The other battles continued.
And on board the alien ship.
"Why is Tokyo Tower up here?" Venus asked.
"Well maybe it's not the real thing..maybe it's a replica," Jupiter said.
"So maybe it is..but why would aliens have it up here?"
"No idea.." Jupiter said. "Maybe someone in this century knows."
"If we find Rini she might be able to tell us."
"Or she might not..but.we could try," Jupiter said.
"This is a tall room isn't it?" Venus said looking up.
"Yep.." Jupiter said.
"Well..maybe we should look for the others," Venus said.
Jupiter pulled out her communicator, but received no responses.
"Typical.." Jupiter said.
"Maybe there are some other doors around here." Venus said and felt along one of the walls. "Here we go.."she said as her hand flew through it.
"Woah..I'm feeling something very weird over here...it's like..hair..ah..monster!" Venus muttered and jumped back. Jupiter stepped up ready to fight. Sailor Mars walked through the door.
"Jeez..Venus..did you have to pull some of my hair out!" Mars shouted. Venus looked to see she had a clump of black hair in her hand.
"Well..you've got more.." Venus said with a smile.
Mars noticed Tokyo Tower.
"What is that doing here?" she asked.
The two shrugged.
"What was in the room you were in?" Venus asked.
"As far as I can tell..a toilet.." Mars said.
"A toilet?" the two asked.
"It flushed," Mars said and shrugged.
"You didn't use it did you?" Jupiter asked.
"NO!" Mars shouted. "But I was trying to figure out what it did."
"Oh..just wondering," Jupiter said.
There was thud. The three all whirled towards the original door. Mercury was picking herself off of the ground.
"Oh..hi guys.." she said.
"You all right?" Mars asked.
"Uh..yes..another one of those things came by.I had to get through here as fast as possible.." Mercury said glancing at her arm.
"Hurts a little.." she muttered. "I don't like this ship....and why is Tokyo Tower sitting here?"
The three shrugged.
"I see." Mercury said.
"Say Mercury..can you scan it and see if this is the real thing?" Jupiter asked.
"Well..yes..I guess." Mercury said and did and used her computer.
"The building materials are consistent with those used to make the tower originally," she said.
"But what would these aliens want with it?" Mars asked.
"Or with a toilet?" Venus asked.
"A toilet?" Mercury asked.
As this was happening, an asteroid was passing through space on course for
Earth. It soon flew into the atmosphere and continued to descend. It continued
to drop until smashing into the ground seventy miles from Crystal Tokyo.
Back at the battle.
Neo-Pluto still faced down Golkum. He was covered in dirt, but relatively unhurt..Golkum stood there stead fast.
"Shall we go again?" Golkum muttered.
"Let's," Neo-Pluto said and walked forward, his sword still sitting on his belt.
"What exactly are you trying to do?" Golkum muttered.
"Come on..let's go...hand to hand.." Neo-Pluto said.
"I will crush you.." Golkum said.
"Then what have you got to lose," Neo-Pluto said moving closer.
"Nothing at all," Golkum said and stepped forward throwing a punch. Neo-Pluto jumped forward and with all his strength hit the arm pushing it backward. Golkum stepped backward to try and brace himself. Neo-Pluto jumped and Golkum knocking him to the ground with a crash.
He jumped back to his place.
"Now it's your turn to get up," Neo-Pluto said.
Meanwhile Retago charged at Uranus swinging his many swords. Uranus rolled out of the way and leapt forward as Retago chased after him. Uranus knew that he could stop one of the swords, but the others would cut him up. But he also knew that attacking anywhere else on the creature left him open to attack. He had to think of something quickly. Retago leapt into the air and landed in front of him. Uranus quickly backtracked and jumped the other way. Retago let out a battle cry and followed.
"Hah..I'm too much for ya!" Retago shouted. Uranus spun around and kicked Retago in the groin. Retago doubled over and Uranus jumped away.
"Dang it!" Retago shouted and fell to one knee..Uranus turned and started firing. One of the shots blew one of Retago's heads off.
"Hey..where'd it go/ Retago muttered. The head had disappeared. Five of Retago's arms went limp.
"Well that isn't very nice.." he said. "And that wasn't my groin you hit anyway.."
"Well what was it?" Uranus snapped.
"None of your business!" Retago said. "Yeah..so you blew up one of my heads..so what..I've got one more, five arms, and two legs."
He said hopping up and down.
"And this time..I'm ready for ya!"
"Okay.." Uranus said and got ready.
"Oh I see.." Opium said. "So the plant is then turned into a substance which causes hallucinations and bad judgement. How's that for a coincidence?"
"Pretty strange huh." Neptune and fired his sword.
"Oh..how do you like that.." Opium said as he was hit on the shoulder. "Well I'll show you!"
His eyes flashed and Neptune was hit with an energy blast before he even saw it. Suddenly Neptune's mind got cloudy.
"Woah.." he said.
"There..now you'll have to fight your own demons for a while.." Opium said.
Neptune looked around. Opium was no where in sight.
"Who cares about Opium anyway..." he said. The sky got cloudy and it began to rain.
"Rain? I hate rain! Curse you hallucination!" Neptune shouted.
"Strange.." Opium said observing. "The best he can come up with is rain."
Neptune continued to look around his hallucination. He saw Mina walking through the rain.
"Oh..hey..Mina.."
"Mike," she said pleasantly and kept walking.
"Well..that was odd..not much of a hallucination was it?" he muttered. "How pathetic."
"AHH! DIRT!" Neptune shouted looking at the ground and began to run around in circles.
"I don't get it.."Opium said. "He isn't conjuring up evil demons..he's
getting scared at dirt..this strange..very..very..strange..."
As that mess was going on. Neo-Saturn and Avictus were swinging at each other with great speed each blocking each other's sword attacks and trying to counter at the same time, they went at it one on one. Straining they both backed off quickly and faced each other.
"You are quite skilled," Avictus said. "But we shall see how your endurance lasts."
"I should say the same thing of you," Neo-Saturn said.
The two took up fighting stances again and readied themselves.
Xcoi and Pluto meanwhile were still at a stand off.
"You aren't going to make a move I gather.." Xcoi said.
"Why don't you make one?" Pluto asked.
"I'd rather not."
"We've been her for minutes."
"Listen..buddy..if you're so eager to get rid of me..you try it."
"What happened to all that scholarly talk from....."
Xcoi flew at him.
Pluto leapt out of the way. And spun around firing quickly. Xcoi sent out a fireball. It flew through the sword attacks and Pluto dived out of the way getting singed on the leg. He grunted.
"Hah!" Xcoi said.
He changes his personality just to be a distraction. Pluto thought with
annoyance.
Saturn once again dodged the cyborg's attacks as he had been for five minutes. He had no sword and thus no opportunity for any real attacks. The cyborg kept on it. Saturn had tried to reach his sword but Uris was fully prepared for that and he had little luck. He also knew that he couldn't keep dodging attacks for much longer...and there was that mysterious "I don't miss" comment he still had to worry about.
He leapt away as quickly as he could. The cyborg raced to catch up and be there when he landed. Saturn skidded out of the way and let out nervous gasps as the cyborg seemed to be unfazed.
What the heck do I do? He asked himself.
Neo-Neptune stood once again in front of Seven.
"Well..you've got a problem don't you?" Seven said. "You attack and I explode taking you with me."
"That's true.." Neo-Neptune said. "But then again...if I explode I'll take you with me."
"What exactly do you mean by that?" Seven asked.
Neo-Neptune reached in his pocket and pulled out a grenade shaped object.
"What..is..that?" Seven asked.
"Oh..it's a mini-tactical nuclear warhead..I set it off..I'll be killed..you'll be killed...it all ends here."
"Won't everyone else be killed too?"
"No..it's the 30th century..we have pinpoint accuracy now."
"I see.." Seven said nervously.
"Boo.." Neo-Neptune said.
Neo-Uranus spun around and fired his sword. It blasted against an energy shield the Aiver had erected and flew back at him. He barely avoided it and it nicked his arm.
"More surprises," he said.
"Oh yes.." the Aiver said.
"Oh well.." Neo-Uranus said and raced forward.
"Uranus Fire Spikes Attack!"
The attack hit the shield and bounced back hitting him, but at such close range that the attack blasted into the shield..and exploded. The Aiver was thrown back several feet. Neo-Uranus stood there smarting from his own attack.
"Impressive," The Aiver said.
Meanwhile on the alien ship, Sailor Moon awoke slowly. She was lying on a bed of some kind. She rolled off of it instinctively and looked around. Rini was asleep on one of the other beds.
"Rini?" she asked touching her future daughter. Rini stirred.
"Wha.." Rini said and woke up. "Where are we?"
"I don't know?"
The two looked around. They were in a grey room with no visible door.
"The alien ship..that's where we are," Sailor Moon said.
"Great..just great.." Rini snapped.
"Hey..calm down..we'll be okay."
"No we won't.." Rini said.
The two started arguing.
"Excuse me?" came a voice. They whirled. Standing there in a strange looking outfit was a human girl.
"Welcome to our ship," She said. The two's eyes widened.
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