Chapter 259

"I guess this is the time when we should transform huh?" Mike asked.

The group all nodded and pulled out their transformation items.

"Pluto Star Power!"

"Neptune Star Power!"

"Uranus Star Power!"

"Saturn Star Power!"

"Maverick Star Power!"

"Pluto Crystal Power!"

"Saturn Crystal Power!"

"Neptune Crystal Power!"

"Uranus Crystal Power!"

"Jupiter Crystal Power!"

"Venus Crystal Power!"

"Mars Crystal Power!"

"Mercury Crystal Power!"

"Galactic Moon Power!"

The group all transformed and were soon standing at the ready.

"Hey..how come you get the fancy outfit?" Guardian Neptune muttered looking at Maverick's new uniform.

"Because I'm special," Maverick muttered.

"This power is strong," Sailor Saturn said blankly. "I have not felt this level before."

"This is going to be big," Sailor Mars said.

"What was with that voice?" Sailor Moon said.

There was a flash. A dark figure appeared on the ground in front of the city.

"That's one of the wizards!" Latric shouted.

"The wizards? You mean the wizards?" Sailor Venus asked.

The figure stared at them.

"We have gained control of the magical horde in the mountains. We now possess the power," The magician said.

"Well there's a plot twist for ya," Guardian Neptune said.

"Quiet," Sailor Uranus snapped.

"We control all the magic, you cannot resist us," the wizard said.

"He doesn't control our magic," Jupiter said.

"Ah yes and here are the outworlders. It is nothing personal, but your destruction is now necessary," The wizard said.

"You hear that, our destruction is necessary?" Mars said with a grin.

The others grinned.

"Guess we should just surrender then?" Guardian Uranus said.

"What's left to do but accept fate I guess," Sailor Neptune said.

"You are kidding right?" Sailor Saturn asked.

"Yes!" the rest said and charged over the wall.

"Mars Fire Ignite!"

"Jupiter Thunder Crash!"

"Venus Crescent Beam Smash!"

"Uranus World Shaking!"

"Neptune Deep Submerge!"

The guardians fired their swords.

The wizard stood there and waited as the blasts flew against an energy shield.

"Please..spare me your worthless efforts," he said.

"Ehh the first attack usually doesn't work anyway," Guardian Pluto said.

The wizard flashed. The scouts all tensed for an attack, but instead about thirty figures appeared around the wizard.

"And they are?" Sailor Moon asked.

"The wizards from the sanctuary," Latric shouted from the wall.

"Are they supposed to be evil?" Venus asked worriedly.

"Oh great, you mean we get to fight all of them," Sailor Moon said.

"Sailor Moon..just on a hunch I tried my computer. Because all the magical energy is flowing through them there is no more interference," Sailor Mercury said. "However, what it shows it that most of the energy is building in the first wizard. The others are maintaining a constant power level somewhat close to our own."

The wizards unleashed attacks. The scouts dived out of the way.

"We need a plan!" Sailor Uranus shouted.

"It looks like we're going to take out those other wizards before we can get to the main one!" Sailor Mercury said.

"Then we'll do that," Sailor Uranus said. "Tuxedo Mask, you protect Sailor Moon, something tells me we'll need her."

"I have the same hunch," Tuxedo Mask said.

The battle then began. Outnumbered by the wizards, the scouts rushed into battle.

"Remember, you may not have that much skill, but they're probably as agile as you are," Maverick said to the Guardians.

"Hah..we'll show em," Guardian Neptune said.

The five guardians drew their swords and bore down on a group of wizards. Energy blasts flew at them, they dodged it and fired back and the swung in for their own attacks.

"Run you cowards!" Guardian Pluto shouted diving out of the way of an energy attacks.

"Doesn't look like they're running," Guardian Uranus said.

"I meant figuratively," Pluto said.

"You two cut it out and build up your attacks," Maverick muttered. "I'm going in."

Maverick charged in towards a group of wizards and launched a barrage. Several of them blocked it, while several more launched energy at him. He dodged out of the way.

"Uranus Flame of Desire!"

"Pluto Hurricane Punch!"

"Neptune Tide of Destruction!"

"Saturn Blade of Galaxies!"

The four attacks flew at the wizards. They blasted it away, but Maverick jumped in and swung at one of them, who fell. The other wizards fired away with energy.

"It's working, I think," Saturn said.

Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune were leaping back and forth across the field firing their sword and mirror respectively. The wizards were having trouble mounting an offense as they had to keep defending against the attacks, but another flash brougth a floating energy creature emerging from the group.

"What's that?" Neptune asked.

"Probably nothing good," Uranus said. The energy creature dived at them. They both jumped out of the way. It followed. Uranus turned and swung her sword. The energy hit and the creature hesistated momentarily before continuing on and hitting her. Neptune turned and fired her mirror, the creature whirled. Uranus winced as the pain surged through her.

"Neptune! Go for the wizards!" she shouted.

Neptune nodded and rushed forward.

"Neptune Deep Submerge!"

One of the wizards charged forward and was hit and knocked to the ground. The others launched a barrage and threw Neptune to the ground. Uranus leapt into the air and swung her energy sword through the energy creature, it crackled and exploded knocking her down.

"They're playing rough," she muttered and tried to stand.

"Jupiter Thunderclap Zap!"

A wizard just swatted the attack away.

"All right then!" Jupiter said and lunged forward connecting with a right hook.

The wizard staggered back, but an energy attack flew at her from the right. Jupiter ducked it and swung kicking another wizard in the stomach. She was hit from behind with a third attack. She swung forward only to be hit again and knocked back.

Sailor Mars leapt forward and kicked one of the wizards away.

"Mars Fire Ignite!" She shouted at point blank range. Another wizard fell to the ground. A third blasted Mars about sixty feet back to the ground. Jupiter hit him with an uppercut.

"Jupiter Thunder Crash!" She shouted blasting him back.

A barrage of energy hit her and knocked her down.

Sailor Pluto swung her staff shooting energy from it as she did so. The wizards were trying to her with their energy, but her own energy was blocking it. She turned and blasted a wizard down, he stood back up, but she hit another, and soon a close up battle was going on. She would have prefered to take them out from a distance, but they weren't giving her a chance, even though she could have tried to leap away, she had little doubt that she would probably get blasted in the proceess. She hit another one of the wizards.

"Pluto Dead Scream!" She shouted. The attack smashed into the wizards, hit them, surged throguh them and then hit her. The whole group she was fighting collapsed.

A wave of energy knocked each of the Guardians down. Maverick stood there with his two swords drawn, his face covered with scars and his cape torn to shreds. Three wizards faced him. He let loose a barrage and raced forward. The wizards blocked the original attack, but couldn't stop him from swinging his swords into two of them. The third wizard powered up his attack, while the others blasted him. Maverick and the two soon fell. The third prepared to finish the job.

"Saturn Mist Wave!" came a shout. The third wizard was knocked back, Saturn hit him with her scythe several times, until the job was done.

A wall of fire flew across the ground at her.

"Venus Love Chain encircle!" came a shout. Venus's energy attack swung out and grabbed her pulling her out of the way.

"You're assistance is appreciated," Saturn said.

Venus nodded.

The group looked. There were only a few wizards left, Sailor Venus, Sailor Saturn, and Sailor Mercury were the only scouts left.

The wizards unleashed several attacks. The three hurried forward.

"Mercury Ice Storm Blast!" Mercury shouted hitting a wizard dead on. Mist descened only to be blasted away in seconds. Saturn swung her scythe and connected, only to have the wizard send energy shooting up it and into her. She collasped.

"Venus Crescent Beam Smash!" Venus shouted hitting the wizard in the head.

"MERCURY AQUA RHAPSODY!" Mercury shouted.

Her attack flew out and hit all of the wizards before she was hit with a barrage from above. One wizard remained aside from the original. Tuxedo Mask charged forward and hit it with a variety of roses. It collapsed.

"Sailor Moon..you ready?" Tuxedo Mask said. Sailor Moon nodded as energy swirled around her, energy which she had been calling for concentrating on using. It was white energy as well as mulitcolors. The main enemy wizard stood across from her.

"So this will be a test of sheer power," The wizard said.

"I've never lost one of these," Sailor Moon said. "Actually when we get to this point I'm cruising."

"Don't get overconfident Sailor Moon," Tuxedo Mask said.

"Yeah, yeah..I got it," Sailor Moon said. "Moon Galactic Power!"

The energy swirled through her sceptre and shot out. The wizard met it with his own energy and the two threw their energies against each other.

"I am more powerful then anyone you've met befrore," the wizard said pushing the energy back.

Tuxedo Mask threw a barrage of roses.

The wizard blinked. The roses dropped.

"Uh oh.." he said.

Energy flashed from the wizard's eyes and dropped Tuxedo Mask to the ground.

"Where's he getting that energy?" Sailor Moon asked.

More energy shot towards her she was hit and knocked to the ground she held her sceptre up again, the energy was blocked as she strained.

"I have immense power!" the wizard shouted.

Sailor Moon strained. Why me? Why is this happening. I always win. We always win!

She stood, the two energies crackled together.

Sailor Moon hoped her friends were with her. She knew they were.

"Come on.." She said and sent the energy shooting towards the wizard. The wizard let out a laugh, suddenly the energy flew back and hit her knocking her to the ground.

"What!" she shouted.

"You are too weak.." he said and blasted her through of energy.

Suddenly there was a flash of light. Seconds later the whole group found themselves looking at a small group of animals standing between the combatants.

"The animals..from the forest.." Sailor Moon said weakly.

The evil wizard stared at them. The animals stared back.

"Go away..or I shall destroy you," the evil wizard said. The animals stared some more.

"FINE!" The evil wizard said and built up his energy. Then a strange thing happened. A wave of power erupted from the animals and threw the evil wizard to the ground.

"Fool..thinking you can just steal all that energy like that," the great wizard said floating down to the ground. "I was prepared for this and so were my animal friends.

"You can't defeat me alone," the evil wizard said.

"Nope..but I'll have help," The great wizard said and the sky flashed white. The scouts all began to stand up.

"You...you can't have had the strength," The evil wizard said.

"You never understood that true power is more powerful in the hands of good then evil," the great wizard said.

The evil wizard launched an attack. The great wizard strained against it.

"Hurry scouts, I can't hold him for very long," she said.

"Round two," Sailor Moon said. "Come on everyone, let's give him the full treatment."

The group all grinned. Their energies came to them and they coalesced into one wave of energy. The scouts powers flew out at the wizards. Dozens of roses and two blasts of mulitcolored energy followed. The wizard sank to the ground, as the energy smashed through him. But he kept trying to block it. The scouts strained and the attacks kept hitting, finally he let out a shout and collapsed.

Most of the scouts let out a cheer of victory.

"What an idiot," The great wizard said. "Thinking he could just seize the energy..hah!"

"Uh..thanks for the help," Sailor Moon said.

"You kidding, I needed your help," The great wizard.

"Well..we helped each other then," Sailor Moon said.

The group all smiled.

"You know it annoys me though," Sailor Moon said. "Usually once it's down to me and the bad guy I just beat him. This time."

"Sailor Moon, most of the time you have your friends with you in a great way," the great wizard said. "This time they tried, but they were so drained it was just you alone. Your power comes from all of you."

"You're right I guess," Sailor Moon said. "I did feel stronger when we were all together."

"As you should have," The great wizard said. "Say have they come up with a peace treaty yet?"

"No," the scouts muttered.

"Idiots," the great wizard muttered. "At least you all get to leave in a month, I'm stuck with these fools and they're stuck with each other."

"Well I'm stuck with them until they make a stupid agreement," Darrien said.

"Hah..good luck," the great wizard said.

Several days later.

"They actually came up with an agreement?" Serena asked.

"Yes," Darrien said. "And don't ask about it. I'm going off to bed."

"Oh.." Serena said. "Tired?"

"Very," Darrien said.

More time passed.

"Three more days," Setsuna said. "Then back we go."

"You sound like you're not looking forward to it?" Michiru said.

"I guess it just doesn't matter either way," Setsuna said. "This place is as good as any."

"Looks like we've got some things to talk about," Michiru said.

"No..don't bother, I'll handle it."

"Setsuna.." Michiru said. "I mean it."

Setsuna sighed.

"So do I," Setsuna said.

"Uh..Tierra, I hate to say this, but I guess we'll have to break up," Steve said. "With me leaving and all."

"You wouldn't stay here with me?" Tierra asked.

"I guess I can't," Steve said.

"Then why did you agree to date me if you knew you'd be leaving?" Tierra said.

"I guess I just wanted to be with you so much I didn't think about it," Steve said.

"I thought there was a chance you'd stay with me, but I guess not,"Tierra said. "You used me."

"No..never..I..I guess I blew it," Steve said.

"You're right you did," Tierra said. "What were you thinking?"

"Well you kept with going with me?"

"I thought you'd stay here. I thought you loved me enough to do that."

"I guess I was hoping I might feel the same way. But I guess I don't," Steve said.

"Fine then..good bye," Tierra said and walked off.

"What a stupid thing to do," Mike said walking up.

"You were trying to do the same thing," Steve said.

"I caught myself," Mike said. "Why do you think I stopped caring a good three months ago?"

"Yeah..well...that was pretty stupid of me wasn't it?"

"Sure it was, but you should be used to it," Mike said.

"Mike..you're in no position to talk."

"I know," Mike said. "But hey..it was fun while it lasted wasn't it?"

"I guess," Steve muttered. "I guess I honestly thought if it really worked out I would stay."

"Ah..delusions, aren't they trouble?" Mike muttered.

"Yeah...what was I thinking?" Steve said.

"Well come on..let's cheer you up."

"I don't think that's possible."

"That's the spirit," Mike said.

"I will miss this place," Hotaru said.

"And why is that?" Greg said. "If I can ask."

"You have and I accept the question," Hotaru said. "It revealed much to me."

"Oh?"

"I have a better understanding of myself now," Hotaru said.

"Well that's good," Greg said.

"I do not know if I would have had these realizations at home."

"Then there's an upside to this after all," Greg said.

"There are many upsides," Hotaru said. "I'm sure we have learned many things as a result of this. What have you learned?"

"Me...oh I don't know.." Greg said. "I..didn't really think about it."

"You should. It is these kinds of experiences that shape the self," Hotaru said.

"Uh huh," Greg said.

"Anyway...what do you think of this wall?"

"What about it?" Greg asked.

"That's what I'm asking you," Hotaru said.

"Uh..well.."

Hotaru grinned which shocked Greg.

"You're fear of me is amazing," she said. "I'm sorry..I just had to see your reaction. I will never do that again. I was just curious."

Her expression turned deadpan again.

"Uh..okay.." Greg said.

"Remember, I am dangerous only to my enemies," Hotaru said. "You are not one of them."

"Uh thanks," Greg said.

"No thanks is necessary," Hotaru said.

Darrien had since found Patterson standing on the wall of the city looking out.

"Well there you are," Darrien said.

"Yes.."

"You know. I can't help remembering the fact that while I've been over here, I've missed six months of college, and all my other things," Darrien said.

"No you didn't," Patterson said.

"I didn't?"

"Your counterpart from the other dimension along with some of the scouts used their sailor pluto's power to hop into our dimension, you know to watch out for any trouble. And your counterpart kept up your work while you were gone."

"Does he know what's he doing?"

"Sure does," Patterson said. "I hope..I've never been into science."

Darrien sighed.

"So you looking forward to going back?" Darrien asked.

"I guess," Patterson said. "I don't really care."

"No I guess you wouldn't," Darrien said.

Two days later at former resistance headquarters.

"So..Visara..you've now got a new country to run," Serena said.

"Yep, the republic of the zone was incorporated today. And it feels great. Though the seat of power is still going to be a cave up in the mountains. Have to be careful you know," Visara said.

Sy walked up.

"So you'll be going back tommorow?" Sy asked.

"Yes, sure will," Serena said. "You look nice in that outfit Sy?"

"Well the new Zone's head of the air force has to dress well," Sy said.

"Air force of one bird," Serena said and grinned.

"Well Visara I have to be going myself," Azura said.

"Good luck Azura," Visara said.

"Where's Azura going?" Serena asked.

"Azura's going to back to Zaiesk to set up the new government, the resistance there got so much support there's going to be a peaceful transformation to both gender goverment. Azura's going to oversee it," Visara said.

"That's great, I think she'll do well," Serena said.

"We can only hope," Sy said. "Come on Serena, I'll take you back now."

"Sure thing Sy, and thank you all for helping, even if we did get off to a rocky start," Serena said.

"Sure Serena," Visara said. "Hope you and your friends live well."

Serena nodded.

A day later.

"All right.." Latric said standing in front of the school. "Now, the energy from the four countries and the zone is going to open a portal. You ready?"

The group all nodded inside the school.

Latric backed off.

"Good luck!"

The school was surrounded with energy from the various countries. Then if flashed and vanished.

Meanwhile in Tokyo, the area was still cordoned off by police barracades. There was a flash of light a swirling vortex opened up and the school set itself back up on it's foundation.

"We're back!" most of the school's students shouted in unison.

The sound of sirens soon filled the air as police cars and SDF vehicles pulled up.

"Now wait a second!" Doctor Tomoe said hurrying from a truck. "We must test for radiation!"

"Hurry it up then man!" General Nagumo said. Tomoe approached slowly as more and more cars now filled with anxious parents skidded up.

"Seems fine," he said.

"I'll add one final check," Maxfield Stanton said and walked up. "Yes it's clear," he said.

"About time!" the group said and the students soon headed out of the school. Their families searched them out and immediately things were getting back to normal. Serena hurried into her mom's arms.

Setsuna, Haruka, Michiru, Amy, and Patterson all stood up on the roof top watching.

"Guess that must be nice, to have a family waiting for you," Michiru said.

"Well at least I know no one was worried about me," Haruka said.

"Aren't you going to go see your uncle?" Amy asked Patterson.

"No..no..he knows where I've been," Patterson said.

"Not going to show weakness are you?" Setsuna asked.

"Setsuna, I don't have a weakness," Patterson said and headed for the door.

"Uh..D.V..about our house?" Amy said.

"What about it?" Patterson asked.

"Well..it's probably a little damaged."

"What?" Patterson asked.

"Well..the storybook adventure continues," Haruka said.