Chapter 262
The next morning was a beautiful sunny day as it often was. At Juuban High School, almost the entire female population of the school was waiting outside for the arrival of their beloved Three Lights. The males were all inside grumbling and making idle threats.
"All this over a band," Haruka said muttered staring out the classroom window.
"At least they seem to be enjoying themselves," Michiru said.
There were screams from the crowd as a bus marked with Three Lights lettering pulled up in front of the building. Slowly the bus doors opened and the Three Lights emerged from the bus. The crowd screamed.
"Well..this wasn't unexpected," Taiki said.
"Hello girls," Seiya said.
"How ya doing?" Yaten asked.
The girls, including, Serena, Mina, Raye, Lita, and even Amy clustered around the three as they moved inside hoping to attract their attention. The Three Lights smiled the entire time but gradually made their way inside.
"Wonder what class they're in," Rick said.
"Oh..this one," Setsuna said.
"Why didn't you tell us they were in here before?" Mike said.
"I just had a bad feeling about letting you know," Setsuna muttered.
The Three Lights, followed by their entourage entered the classroom.
"Uh..girls.." Setsuna said. The girls kept screeching.
"We can't fit five hundred people in here! Please get back to your own classes!" Setsuna shouted.
The girls stopped and headed off in embarrassment except for the girls in the class.
"All right, please take a seat," Setsuna said. Since there was no assigned seating, for the first time everyone realized what had happened. The males in the class had all moved to the window side of the class, leaving the three lights and the girls the other side. Haruka, Michiru and Hotaru still held their seats in the front row and could care less, but the rest of the seats were arranged that way.
"Hmm..this is odd," Setsuna said. The three lights moved to the chairs in the middle of the girls. Serena sat behind Seiya, Lita sat to his right. Amy sat behind Taiki. Mina sat in front of Yaten. Raye sat to his left. And the other girls filled in the spaces.
"I suppose I should take a minute to welcome our new students.." Setsuna said. "But I won't..because it's very clear that all of you have already met."
"You three...look like you could use a tour of the school...allow me the honor of showing you," Mina began.
"With the assistance of her very knowledgeable friends of course," Lita said.
"You won't regret it," Raye said.
The Three Lights glanced at each other.
"Okay..." they said. The five girls screamed.
"I will give one warning," Setsuna said. "One and only one..."
The girls spent the entire lecture staring at the three lights and the time passed. The bell rung and Three Lights headed out once again joined by their entourage. Setsuna sighed.
"Patterson..can I see you for a second.." she said walking up beside him as he waited for the class to thin out.
"Of course..." Patterson said.
"Come up here during lunch..I need to talk to you..about you know what.."
"Understood," Patterson said.
Later.
"I'm so happy, Taiki's in our math class," Serena said.
"I'm sure he can add some insight,"Amy said.
"Insight? To math?" Serena asked.
"So...Mr. Taiki...just how good are you at math?" the teacher asked.
"I think I'm as at a high level as anyone else," Taiki said.
"Really? Well..then let's just see..come up and do this problem," the teacher said.
"Sure," Taiki said and stood up. He walked to the board and started to figure though the problem.
"That problem's not even solvable," Greg whispered to Patterson.
"Wha...I guess I'll take your word for it," Patterson said drowsily. "I've never paid attention in this class.."
"You think the teacher's trying to set Taiki up?"
"Who cares?"
Taiki looked over the problem again.
"This isn't solvable," he said.
"Very good," the teacher said. "You may sit down. Now we'll try another one," the teacher said and wrote out a quick problem. "Mr. Patterson?"
"I don't know.." Patterson muttered.
"You never do do you?"
"I still get eighty fives on all my tests," Patterson said.
"That's aiming high..." Taiki said. The girls all laughed. Patterson scowled.
"See..Taiki's smart and funny," Serena said.
"Possibly," Amy said holding onto her neutrality.
Later in English class.
"So you like poetry Yaten?" Mina asked.
"Sure, it's fun," Yaten said from the seat beside her.
"I like poetry too."
"Really? Who's your favorite poet?"
"Uh..well I don't read the stuff everyone else does."
"Oh..a radical," Yaten said.
"Yes..yes...I'm a radical," Mina said. She turned to Mike who sat to the other side of her. "What's a radical?"
"A tire," Mike said.
"Oh..." Mina said. "Liar!"
"Okay, okay, it's a math term."
"Oh..wait..Liar!"
"Is there a problem?" the teacher asked.
"Mike's lying to me.." Mina said. "He's trying to embarrass me in front of Yaten."
"I think he succeeded," the teacher said.
"Heh heh," Mike said and gave thumbs up to the males.
Mina hit him on the head with a book.
Meanwhile in history class, Lita and Raye were staring at Seiya.
I like ponytails and he's got a big one. Raye thought.
Those look like muscles under that uniform. I wonder what sports he plays. Lita thought.
In fact his ponytail's more attractive then Rick's. Raye thought.
Maybe football..what if he was a hockey player...now that would be interesting. Lita thought.
"Lita," came the teacher's voice. Lita snapped up.
"Uh..yeah.." Lita said.
"Perhaps you'd like to tell me the answer to the question."
"And the question is?" Lita asked.
"Of course you don't know what it is, because you weren't paying attention," the teacher said.
"What question were you asking sir?" Seiya asked.
"What?"
"Well..I wasn't sure either..I mean..when do you want to know the leader of the mongol hordes. There were several," Seiya said. "Lita knows that I'd guess.."
"Hmm..very well, let me rephrase it. The greatest leader of the mongol hordes?"
"Oh you mean Ghengis Khan of course," Lita said. "I'm glad you clarified it.."
"Ehh.." the teacher said.
At lunch..the girls were all huddled around the table Taiki, Yaten, and Seiya were sitting at, and they had formed one large giant table. The guys had formed their own cluster on the other side of the lunchroom.
"Please girls...we'll answer all your questions if they're presented in an orderly fashion," Taiki said. The girls all quieted down.
"Jeez..they're having a press conference over there.." Steve said.
"Ehh..wait till they get what's coming to them," Rick said.
"Yeah.strutting in here thinking they own the place," Mike said.
"It's more than that, they have taken every opportunity to belittle us," another guy said.
"Yeah we noticed that," Rick said. "Which is good..because you know what.."
"We actually have justification for destroying their lives, and not just mere jealousy" Mike said. The guys all let out a cheer.
"Hey! Quiet down over there!" the girls shouted.
"Yes please, we're trying to have a discussion with the girls, please don't disturb it," Taiki said.
"Yeah!" the girls shouted.
"They're so dead," the guys all muttered.
"Do we have a plan?" Rick asked.
"Uh kinda.." Mike said. "Greg...do you have the floor plan for the school?"
"Yes, but I don't know how it'll help," Greg said.
"Well we just need to know where those three go during the day and where there are opportunities to strike," one guy said.
"Hmm..I'm not too good at this , but they all have class in Setsuna's room, which means they have to enter the floor through one of three stairwells," Greg said.
"He's right, by god, he's right," someone said. Everyone looked at him.
"Sorry.." the guy replied.
"So now that we know that, what do we do?" Mike asked.
The guys all looked at each other and shrugged.
Back up in Setsuna's classroom.
"So what do you think we're dealing with here?" Setsuna asked bluntly.
"They're cunning," Michiru said.
"Yes, they knew well enough to use their attacks in a way that would look invisible," Haruka said.
"Attack," Hotaru said. "They didn't appear to possess any other offensive power."
"That doesn't mean they don't have it," Haruka said.
"I'm more worried about that attack of theirs it does seem quite powerful," Setsuna said.
"Hardly a defense against any one of us coming at them from behind though," Haruka said.
"Patterson what do you think about all this?" Setsuna asked. Patterson turned from the window.
"I think what you're saying is right," He said relatively normally.
"Did you get a scan of the attack they made?" Haruka asked.
Patterson nodded.
"It uses an energy type that hasn't been seen before, I don't know if it has anything to do with the other force though," he said.
"That's right, that Sailor Iron Mouse," Michiru said.
"Interesting how all our apparent enemies are named after us," Hotaru said.
"But what does it all mean?" Setsuna said. "There are a lot of unanswered questions here. And with the scouts distracted with this three lights nonsense, we may have to rely on ourselves for this one."
"I suspect that the two phenomena are more related then we suspect," Hotaru said.
"Phenomena?" Setsuna asked. "What do you mean by that?"
"Hmm..no..it's not worth saying at this time," Hotaru said.
"What do you mean not worth saying?" Setsuna asked.
"I know nothing more about it," Hotaru said. "Except I know that we can rely on nothing and no one right now. This is a time of chaos."
The others all cast curious glances at her.
"That is all that I know," she said casting a glance at Patterson before blinking.
"Regardless of that, we need to find out more about what's going on," Haruka said.
"Agreed, it seems that we have to groups of people out there searching for these Star Seeds," Michiru said.
"You seemed to know something about it Hotaru," Setsuna said.
"I know what I have said, nothing more," Hotaru said. "Galaxia wants the star seeds, the sailor starlights also want them. I know neither of them should have them."
"Setsuna, does Queen Serenity know about this?" Michiru asked.
"I haven't talked to Queen Serenity, she used up so much power giving us more energy that I don't know if we'll speak again. Nothing I've encountered though gives me any clue as to what these star seeds are," Setsuna said.
"The negaverse might know," Patterson said.
The four turned to look at him. He started slightly.
"Good point," Haruka said.
"Yes, that would be a place to check," Michiru said.
"War," Hotaru said.
The four all looked at her.
"That is what this about. The end of a war. It will end here. It is only a matter of finding out who wins it," Hotaru said.
"How do you know this Hotaru, I thought the power you had gives you pain," Haruka said.
"Unfortunately I have found myself unable to control it as much as I would have liked to," Hotaru said.
"If these Star Seeds are that important, we should really keep on this," Setsuna said. "This is going to take an effort I guess."
She sighed.
"They always do," she added.
Haruka and Michiru looked at each other.
"Producer Nezu, please report to the Station Manager's office," came the announcement. Nezu dropped down from her chair and moved down the hallway towards the elevator marked that said "out of order" on it. The doors slid open and she stepped in. Seconds later the doors reopened and she stepped into the vortex.
"Queen Galaxia," Nezu said and bowed.
"Well..Sailor Iron Mouse. You didn't get a star seed."
"The reporter didn't have one..." Nezu said.
"I see..then you must try again," Galaxia bellowed. "I control this entire galaxy with the exception of this solar system. I cannot control this solar system without those star seeds, now..do you have a target?"
"Yes..I will leave at once."
"See that you do," Galaxia said.
That afternoon the three lights sat on their bus heading back to the studio.
"What a long day," Seiya said.
"I knew it would be bad," Yaten said. "But...on top of having to deal with all those girls, we have all this homework."
"I wouldn't mind it so much except that we'll be working on the movie set until sunset," Taiki said.
"What do you think though?" Seiya asked.
"About what?" Yaten asked.
"All those girls," Seiya said. "I know we have our mission. We're out there to sing to that one person, the one princess..but we can't ignore our fans, because just one of them might be the princess we seek."
"I don't mind them," Yaten said. "But it's just so many of them constantly..maybe we should set up a system..small groups for limited periods of time."
"Like those girls would follow it," Taiki said.
"They'll do anything we say, you saw them," Seiya said. "We'll need to reach a compromise though, we can't keep wading through a crowd of hundreds from class to class, as much as I enjoy it."
"We'll figure something out, for now..I guess we should enjoy it," Yaten said.
"Have you two noticed something though?" Taiki said.
"What?" the other two asked.
"The other guys at this school are all a bunch of idiots," Taiki said.
"I wouldn't say that," Seiya said. "I mean...we really don't know them."
"You do have a point though Taiki, maybe they aren't idiots, but they sure act like them..and I suspect, they don't like us too much," Yaten said.
"That's true enough," Taiki said.
"They're just jealous," Seiya said. "We can't help that."
Elsewhere.
"Where are we going anyway?" Raye asked.
"The Three Lights are filming a movie in the park, we have to be there," Mina said.
"How'd you come by this information?" Lita asked.
"I heard Seiya saying something about it," Mina said.
"It's strange how they didn't mention it at lunch today," Amy said. "Maybe the didn't want to attract too much attention."
The five noticed a crowd of hundreds of girls clustered behind police barriers and all stopped in shock.
"Guess it didn't work," Serena said.
"Well..only one thing to do now," Mina said and looked at the others. "Dive in!"
The five girls then rushed to find an opening they could get into. Serena found herself being pushed back out.
"Hey.." she muttered. "Oh well..there has to be another way.."
"Serena.." came a voice. Serena turned to see Luna.
"Oh..hey..Luna..what brings you here?"
"I've been looking for you..I heard about the attack yesterday and I.."
"Can't talk now Luna, I've got a plan," Serena said and dashed into nearby brush.
"Where is she going?" Luna muttered.
Serena crept along a path towards the a point marked authorized personnel only.
"I wouldn't go any farther," came a voice. Serena froze.
"I'm so sorry..I just.."
Someone stepped up beside her. She turned expecting to see a security officer. Instead she saw Seiya.
"Seiya," she said in surprise.
"You're from my school aren't you?" Seiya asked.
"Yes..Serena Tsukino..."
"Wait a minute..you were on the news last night weren't you, saying how great it was for us to be coming to your school."
"Yes..that was me..I'm a big fan," Serena said starring at the ground.
"Isn't everybody?" Seiya said. "Well nice talking to you dumpling hair, but my break's over soon. I need a drink."
"Uh..bye.." Serena said. Now he's calling me dumpling hair. Then again he's
an attractive idol singer, not Haruka.
Meanwhile in the crowd.
"What happened to Serena?" Lita said.
"She must have gotten lost," Raye said.
"I see the Three Lights are playing opposite Ayala Katsuragi," Amy said pointing at an actress nearby.
"Oh..yeah..she's great.." Mina said. "It makes me want to drop my idol career and become an actress seeing them with her."
"You don't have an idol career," Raye muttered.
"Yeah, well you're no closer then I am," Mina snapped.
"Why you!" Raye said and lunged at Mina. The crowd erupted into chaos as the two started rumbling through it.
"At least I'm respected!" Raye shouted.
"I don't see your name in lights!" Mina said.
And the two started a catfight amidst the crowd.
Wonder what's going on over there. Ayala Katsuragi thought before moving away towards her trailer. I need a drink. She thought. It's so hot.
"Excuse me," came a voice.
"Yes?" Ayala asked.
"I am Producer Nezu, Galaxy TV...could I have an interview?" Nezu asked.
"I'm a little busy..but if you came back later..."
"Sorry..no deal," Nezu said and transformed immediately, from the bracelets on her hands she blasted the star seed out of Ayala. The crystal turned black almost instantly.
"Another dud.." Sailor Iron Mouse muttered. "I wonder what the deal is with that..hmm..gotta go anyway."
The telephone booth formed around her and she disappeared. Then Ayala turned into a monster.
"Sailor Actor!" she shouted.
"Hold it right there!" Came a voice. Sailor Actor looked up. Standing on top of the trailer were three male figures, all dressed in black uniforms.
"Where is the Star Seed?" they all asked.
"Just what are you?" Sailor Actor screeched.
"We are the Sailor Star Lights."
"Sailor Star Fighter."
"Sailor Star Maker."
"Sailor Star Healer."
"Now give us the star seed before we have to destroy you!" the three shouted in unison.
"What would I know about that!" Sailor Actor said.
"Stop right there!" came a voice. The four all looked. Sailor Moon stood several feet away.
"I am Sailor Moon, and on behalf of love and justice and on behalf of the moon I will right wrongs, and triumph over evil which means you, and that might mean you guys too," she said motioning to the Sailor Starlights with her moon sword. "Though I'm not sure!" she added.
"You! Where's the Star Seed?" Star Fighter shouted.
"What's a star seed?" Sailor Moon said.
The three lights stood motionless. Seconds later the air ripple around them and a wave of energy slammed into Sailor Moon knocking her back to the ground. Sailor Actor went charging at the fallen Sailor Scout.
"Do we attack?" Star Healer asked.
"Let's let them weaken each other," Sailor Star Maker said.
"Mars Fire Ignite!"
"Venus Crescent Beam Smash!"
"Jupiter Thunder Crash!"
The three attacks crashed into Sailor Actor and pushed the creature to the ground. The four Sailor Scouts leapt to Sailor Moon as she began to stand up.
"One of you! Tell us where the star seed is!" Star Healer shouted. "Or we shall hurt all of you."
"I don't know what you're talking about!" Sailor Moon said. "Maybe we can help you, but we need to know what it is."
"You lie," Star Fighter said.
"Um....so..uh..who's side are you on anyway?" Sailor Actor said.
"We're neutral," Star Healer said.
"Okay..just so we've got that straight," Sailor Actor said standing up weakly.
"Mercury, try healing her why we cover you," Sailor Jupiter said. Mercury nodded and pulled out her power stick.
"Mercury Healing...."
Another wave flew from the three Star Lights knocking the Sailor Scouts down before the healing could begin.
"We must question all of you..there will be no healing," Star Fighter said. The three were hit seconds later by multicolored energy blasts. Maverick leapt forward and knocked the three Star Lights off the trailer. Sailor Actor raced towards the Sailor Scouts. Jupiter lunged forward and speared Sailor Actor in the knee. She fell to the ground.
"Moon Crystal Healing Activation!" Sailor Moon shouted and Sailor Actor began to heal.
The three Sailor Starlights looked at each other with annoyance and then leapt off. Maverick went another way and disappeared into the forest of the park.
"This is getting confusing," Sailor Moon muttered.
The other four nodded. Out of the forest leapt the four Guardian scouts.
"We're here..where's the enemy?" Guardian Neptune said.
"Too late bozos," Sailor Mars said.
"You missed all the action," Sailor Venus said.
Well..things worked out..good night everybody," Neptune said and the four jumped away.
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