Chapter 198
"I'll give you five of your minutes to decide," the king of the negaverse said hovering above the scouts. The SDF and the Police were everywhere, ready to pounce.
'We need a plan.." Sailor Mars said.
"Uh..everybody huddle," Sailor Moon said.
The group all looked each other and then formed a makeshift huddle.
"If we surrender the world is doomed," Guardian Uranus said.
"If we don't, they attack," Sailor Neptune said bluntly.
"Innocent people could be hurt," Mars said.
"Unfortunately that is acceptable casualties," Sailor Uranus said. "If the world is saved."
"No casualties are acceptable," Sailor Moon said bluntly. The inner Scouts nodded.
"Look around you, the possiblities of us pulling this off without hurting someone.." Sailor Uranus said.
"Are higher then you imagine," Sailor Pluto said. "We have a plan."
"What's this we?" Sailor Mars asked.
"Well..you see..the army and the police had actually prepared for this eventuality," Sailor Pluto said holding an object out.
"What's that?" Sailor Mercury asked.
"Hey..stop nudging me.." Guardian Pluto said.
"I was not.." Guardian Neptune said.
"Were too.."
"Was not.."
"Okay.." Guardian Pluto said and knocked Neptune out of the huddle.
"Guys do you mind?" Jupiter snapped.
The negaverse king looked on with annoyance.
"As I was trying to say," Sailor Pluto said. "This device when joined with it's second piece will emit a pulse which will render all the tanks, planes, and guns their using absolutely useless."
"How is that possible?" Sailor Uranus asked.
"No time to explain," Sailor Pluto said. "Maverick do you have the other piece?"
Maverick nodded and held it out.
The two pieces were joined toghether and the device started beeping.
"To activate it someone has to press this button," Sailor Pluto said.
"But are you sure we can hit all of them?" Sailor Mercury asked.
"Well our chances would be improved if it was emitted from the air, that is if someone jumped up before doing it," Sailor Pluto said.
"And made themselves the perfect target," Sailor Neptune said.
"I can take the hit," Maverick said bluntly. "Someone has to do the job."
"I figured you'd volunteer," Sailor Pluto said.
"We'll ineveitably miss a few," Mars said. "How are we going to deal with them?"
"It must be taking massive amounts of energy for him to control so many people," Luna said. "Maybe once you've gotten the guns away he'll give it up."
"Besides, hurting innocents isn't practical, only getting their energy is," Sailor Pluto said.
"But if he was to take someone hostage.." Sailor Moon said.
"You might hold back, but I wouldn't," Sailor Uranus said.
"Me neither," Sailor Neptune said.
Sailor Moon just glanced at them, not quite understanding how they could be so cold blooded, but then they weren't, they had the entire world in mind.
"Just say...he decides to keep all those troops under his control and they rush us?" Guardian Neptune asked. "Just what do we do?"
"Deal with it," Artemas said.
The entire group looked at him.
"Well..you're going to have to.." he said.
The group nodded.
"Time's up!" the King shouted.
"When Maverick goes, everyone hit the king with an energy attack.." Sailor Pluto said.
The group nodded.
The scouts broke their huddle.
"What have you decided?" The king asked.
Maverick spun and got a running start.
"Running? He asked.
"Hardly," Maverick muttered to himself and leapt into the air.
"Mars Fire Ignite!"
"Mercury Bubbles Blast!"
"Jupiter Thunder Crash!"
"Venus Crescent Beam Smash!"
"Moon Tiara Magic!"
The Guardians fired their swords.
The outer scouts fired their own weapons. The king was honestly surprised by such a quick response and he hurriedly errected an energy shield. Maverick meanwhile reached the height of his jump and pressed the button. The device pulsated and every police vehicle, tank, and weapon was deactivated electronically.
The King realized what was happening even while beating off the scouts attack. He let out a shout and dived at them. They jumped out of the way, but his target was just landing. Maverick saw the King at the last second. He jammed his sword in but was hit full on and thrown over the edge pulling his sword out as he did. He hit the ground. The king generated a fireball and shot it towards the ground. Maverick rolled out the way, but was hit the impact and thrown into a wall...he sank to the pavement unmoving. The King grinned slightly. Seconds later do they heard a large amounts of shouts and whirled to see several energy attacks fly at him, he threw up another energy shield, but was thrown backwards by the impact, he slid onto another roof. The scouts stood waiting for him.
"You have other problems," he said and vanished.
"They always do that!" Sailor Moon shrieked.
"Uh..oh..it looks the police and army still have a bone to pick," Guardian Pluto said.
"You have to be careful everyone," Luna said. "A hit from one of your first level attacks may stun them, but anything else might kill them."
"Well that's just great," Sailor Venus said.
"I suggest you all split up and draw their attention in different directions," Artemas said.
"But do we have to fight off all of them?" Sailor Jupiter asked.
"Looks that way," Sailor Uranus said.
"We have no choice," Sailor Moon said. "Let's split up then."
"I need to make sure Maverick's all right," Mercury said. "I also want to see if there's anyway we can track down the king."
"I will protect her as she does this," Sailor Saturn said.
"Saturn...are you sure?" Sailor Pluto said.
"Yes, I will manage," Sailor Saturn said.
"All right..." Sailor Pluto said. Saturn and Mercury then jumped off the roof to where Maverick had been injured.
The two cats ran off to hide.
"Guardians, you three work as a team. Draw them in another direction," Pluto said.
"Right," The three guys said and leapt to another roof.
"Uranus, Neptune, I'm sure you can figure out the best way to handle this," she added.
Uranus and Neptune nodded and jumped another way.
"Venus and Jupiter, you team up and do the same," Pluto said.
The two nodded and raced off.
"Sailor Mars, you and I will protect Sailor Moon," Sailor Pluto said.
"Uh it's not that I don't want to..but why'd you chose me?" Sailor Mars asked.
"I'll tell you sometime," Sailor Pluto said. A group of troops burst through the door.
"Mars Fire Ignite!" Mars shouted and leveled them.
More came.
"Pluto Dead Scream!"
More dropped, but still others came on, and the two kept fighting them each fighting while the other recharged.
Sailor Moon starred at the mass of troops swirling around her trying to get
to her and she sighed. How are we going to beat all of them? She wondered.
"Maverick? You still here?" Mercury asked urgently. Maverick, covered with bruises slowly opened his eyes.
"Can you walk?" Mercury asked.
"Of course.." Maverick said and stood up, before completely falling to the ground again as his knees buckled.
Mercury managed a slight grin.
"I could have precdicted that," she said.
"Mercury..our position is not teneable," Saturn said looking around. "We have to move from here."
Mercury nodded.
"If we could get back to my house, we should be able to hold out there," Mercury said.
"How will we achieve this?" Saturn said.
"There's a sewer line that leads right near my house..Maverick uses it to move in and out as he pleases," Mercury said.
"How did you..." Maverick said.
"Shush.." Mercury said. "You know the way don't you Maverick?"
Maverick nodded and pressed a button, one of his cameras popped out of his watch and started flashing.
"This will..lead.."
He said before falling unconcious.
"Saturn..we'd better hurry," Mercury said.
Saturn nodded.
"Hah! Come and get us!" Guardian Neptune shouted.
A mass of army troops were racing down the street after them.
"Why are we running? We could just jump?" Pluto asked.
"Yeah, and then they'd give up.." Neptune said.
"Good point," Uranus said. "But we're going to run out of energy at some point."
"So will they," Neptune said.
"Hey..yeah," Pluto said.
And the three kept running until a large mass of troops came out of nowhere in front of them.
"They flanked us!" Uranus shouted as they skidded to a stop.
The troops stopped, having them surrounded. The three scouts looked around.
"We can jump up though," Neptune said.
"We'll wait for them to charge and then bamn.." Pluto said.
"If it works..well..it'll be weird," Uranus said.
"Won't it though," Pluto and Neptune said.
"Wait a second..guys...we're in a clearing.." Uranus said.
"So if we jump up..we'll have no where to go won't we?" Pluto asked worriedly.
"Hmm..well..that won't work," Neptune said.
"Hmm..this is going to hurt," Pluto said.
"Guys..I suggest we distract them as long as possible," Neptune said.
"How?" Uranus asked.
"I'll handle it..," Neptune said.
Pluto and Uranus looked at each other.
Neptune walked forward.
"Gentlemen!" he shouted. "I wish to speak with you."
"Yeah..what?" one of the commanding officers said.
"Well..let's look at the odds..there are thousands of you..right?" Neptune asked.
They all nodded.
"And three of us. Right?" he asked.
The group all nodded again.
"So here's what I propose," Neptune said. "The end result of which is that you end up beating the living...uh.stuff out of the three of us."
"Sounds good..." the troops all said.
"But only once I fail to keep a sea shanty to going?"
The troops all glanced at each other.
"You're on!" they shouted.
"You got it," Neptune said.
"We're doomed," Uranus and Pluto muttered.
"I set out from old portsmouth town, a windy snowfilled day!" Neptune began
to sing.
"Venus crescent beam smash!" Venus shouted while leaping over a group of soldiers. She hit them and bounced off another building ready to attack again.
"Jupiter Thunder Crash!" Jupiter shouted from a standing position nearby. The troops were giving her a wide birth as she plowed through their lines with ease.
We can't keep this up forever. She thought worriedly. The troops formed up to hit her again. She let loose another attack.
"Venus....Meteor Shower!" Venus shouted from the top of a building. Golden bolts rained down from the sky. The troops began to scatter, a few fell.
"Venus! Are you sure you should be using that!" Jupiter shouted.
"It seemed to do the trick," Venus said.
"Duck!" Jupiter shouted and leapt into the air. Venus ducked, Jupiter vaulted off of her and hit a soldier sneaking up on Venus from behind.
"Oh...thanks.." Venus said.
"There calling in the special forces now..." Jupiter said.
"That's not good," Venus said.
Several black figures leapt onto the roof.
Jupiter and Venus looked at each other.
"Let's go!" They said and launched more attacks.
Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune meanwhile were standing back to back facing a force coming down either side of a street.
"Haven't they figured this out yet?" Neptune asked.
"Guess not," Uranus aid.
"Neptune Deep Submerge!"
"Uranus World Shaking!"
The two blasts flew down the street and leveled the attackers.
"Well...that wasn't hard," Neptune said.
Another mob of troops flooded into the street.
"This isn't good," Sailor Pluto said looking at the massive amounts of troops swirling around her.
"We're holding them off though," Sailor Mars said.
"It's not that..we're weakening ourselves when we should be worried about the King," Sailor Moon said.
"Sailor Moon's right," Sailor Pluto said. "The more we fight the weaker we'll be."
"He's inside there, I know it," Sailor Moon said starring at Police Headquarters.
"You're telling me he just teleported in there..that's hardly dramatic," Mars said.
"He's not being dramatic," Sailor Pluto said. "And that wouldn't take much energy, besides, it would be an excellent place to fortify himself within.
"We have to go in..now..I have to end this," Sailor Moon said.
"We need the others," Sailor Mars said.
"The others are too busy fighting off the other forces...I'll stop him," Sailor Moon said and leapt to the ground.
"Oh no..come on!" Sailor Pluto shouted and she and Mars went over the edge and hurriedly blasted away the troops around Sailor Moon, she dashed in the door with Jupiter's power and barreled past more enemies. Mars and Pluto raced after her.
"Sailor Moon wait!" Pluto said.
"This has to be a trap!" Mars said.
"So..what..I'm Sailor Moon!" Sailor Moon shouted. "Nothing can stop me."
"I don't think she's thinking straight,"Mars said.
"Unfortunately she's the one running the show now..." Pluto said.
The two continued to blast away at the enemies as Sailor Moon raced up the
floors of the police HQ.
"And on yonder seagulls the sails do fly..." Neptune said.
"You already said that line!" one of the soldiers shouted.
"Yeah!" the mob replied.
"Oh..uh...hmm.." Neptune said.
"Get em!" the mob shouted and raced forward.
"Jump!" Neptune shouted. The three leapt into the air.
The mobs crashed into each other and collapsed.
"Hah!" Neptune shouted. The three began their descent.
"This is going to stink!" Uranus shouted as the three dropped into the midst
of the mob.
Venus and Jupiter looked all around them.
"Hundreds more," They said.
"Well...it's been nice knowing you," Venus said.
There was a large cry, and a mob of the soldiers was pushed back.
"What's going on?" Jupiter asked.
"Sylia Coral's what's going on!" Venus said. "Look!"
A large mob of people of the city were rushing into brawl with the troops.
"Onward..take back our city from this evil!" Prime Minister Sylia Coral shouted from atop a car.
"Well..that's a surprise," Jupiter said. "What a strange person she is."
"Don't knock it."
Meanwhile, Mercury and Saturn were pulling Maverick through the sewer.
"No..I can do it now.." Maverick said and stood up.
"Maverick..you're hurt," Mercury said.
"Let's go," he said and started running. The two followed.
"He is on the brink of collapse,"Saturn said.
"He usually is," Mercury said.
Maverick skidded to a stop. The other two did as well. Standing at the other end of the sewer was General Patterson himself.
"Hah! I knew you'd come this way!" he said.
"Geez..Patterson's uncle," Mercury said.
"Former uncle," Saturn added. "Saturn Mist Wave!"
"Uh uh.." Patterson shouted and sent a blast of energy down the tunnel knocking the three back. "He's a minion," Mercury said.
"The heck he is!" Maverick shouted and raced forward firing his sword. He was blasted with energy, but he staggered forward and dug his sword into his uncle.
"Saturn Mist Wave!" Saturn shouted. She blasted Patterson to the ground. There was a flash of light and Patterson fell.
Mercury scanned him with her computer.
"All traces of negaenergy are gone."
"Convenient," Saturn said. "We have to go."
"What and leave Maverick?."
"We will leave him up there...Sailor Moon will need us."
"How do you know?"
"I know," Saturn said.
"Ehh..." The King of the Negaverse said standing in Ozaki's office. "The
humans themselves have neutralized my mob, and I have given up control, I need
my full energy. The scouts are on their way..but I will beat them..they are weak
and I'm strong."
The three Sailor Scouts burst onto the top floor of the building. An energy blast flew at them.
"You are not prepared to face me," came a voice. General Nagumo stepped in front of them.
"That's all we need," Mars said.
"You two cover me. I'm going," Sailor Moon said.
"You don't know what you're getting into," Pluto said.
"The story of my life," Sailor Moon said.
Nagumo sent a ripple attack down the walls shattering them.
"Come on guys..you have to attack him!" Sailor Moon said.
"Pluto Dead Scream!"
"Mars Fire Ignite!"
Nagumo leapt over the attacks and charged at them. Pluto and Mars leapt forward and met him. Sailor Moon scurried by and smashed open the door to Ozaki's office. It was empty.
"I'm on the roof Sailor Moon," came his voice.
Sailor Moon rushed back out the door. Pluto and Mars were in hand to hand combat with
Nagumo.
Sailor Moon raced up the steps she assumed would take her to the roof. She pushed open a door and immediately ducked as a police helicopter was thrown at her. She scurried under it as it exploded and blew apart. The King of the negaverse stood several feet away.
"Sailor Moon...you may have beaten Queen Beryl alone, but I am a different matter," the King said.
"I wasn't alone, I had my friends, and even when they aren't with me in body, they're with me in spirit," Sailor Moon said.
"Very well..enough with the preliminaries, give it all you've got and I will defeat you," the King said building up his attack.
"Moon Spiral Hearts Attack!" She shouted.
The king of the negaverse sent his power flying at her. The two attacks met and clashed.
She felt him beating her.
"You can't beat me alone!" he shouted.
He's right..but I have to hold out. Sailor Moon thought straining to let her energy hold him it broke out and she was thrown back, she let out a shout as she tumbled over the roofs edge...but something caught her. She looked up in amazement as Tuxedo Mask carried her back onto the roof and stepped forward to face the king.
"King of the negaverse huh? So you're the one who ruined my planet one thousand years ago," Tuxedo Mask said.
"The Prince of Earth himself...what an annoyance," The King said and threw out another attack. Tuxedo Mask threw back a barrage of roses. They hit and the attack still hit, but was weaker, Tuxedo Mask was pushed back.
"Hah!" the King shouted.
"Uranus World Shaking!"
"Neptune Deep Submerge!"
"Venus Love Chain Encircle!"
"Jupiter Thunderclap Zap!"
"Mars Fireball Surround!"
"Pluto Dead Scream!"
The six attacks caused the King to dive out of the way of them. He stood up. Sailor Moon looked up in surprise as the other scouts dropped to the ground and faced the King.
"Well..all of you now.." he said.
"Not all," Came a voice. The group all saw Guardian Saturn appear.
"Now you're in trouble," Sailor Moon said.
The king built up his power.
The Nine Sailor Scouts, Four Guardian Scouts, and Tuxedo Mask responded with a barrage. it slammed into the energy. They strained and pushed. The energies clashed.
"I'm a match for you!" he shouted.
The scouts all continued to strain.
"Looks like we need some extra help.." Mercury said pulling out Maverick's sword. She fired while straining. The scouts kept pushing. The energy flew back and hit the King he let out a scream, and he disapeared, leaving Chief Ozaki lying on the roof. The scouts all stopped and took their breath.
"We've done it once again.." Mars said.
"So we have," Sailor Moon said and turned to Tuxedo Mask. "Now..what are you doing here?"
"I hate to interupt, but does anyone remember those robots?" Venus said.
"The robots?" Everyone said in realization.
And not unexpectedly the three robots burst through the roof below them and faced the group down.
"Hey..we were just talking about them.." Guardian Neptune said.
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