TWO:Tuesday No time to catch your breath.
Serena's dream was much too real. She was running down the sidewalk, late for school, like she always was, but she had an intuition that this wasn't real. The fact that a twelve foot donut had just rolled down the street was a big hint too. She continued to run. She heard beside her and then a familiar voice.
"Hey, Serena, need a ride," it said. Serena turned to see Darrien's red sports car sitting there beside her and her boyfriend at the wheel.
"Wait a minute. You're in America," Serena said bridging the gap between reality and the dream.
"Fine then, pass up a free ride" Darrien said and both he and his car disappeared.
"What? Hey that's not fair!" Serena yelled. "Darrien! Come back!" she yelled.
"I'll give you a ride Serena," came another familiar voice. She turned to see Melvin riding atop a mule.
"Melvin, you've got to be kidding," She said.
"Hey I was just asking, besides I'm all you have," he said and both he and the mule disappeared. She picked up her running again. As she neared Crossroads, a strange thing happened. The school began to change and by the time she had reached it, it had turned into a large mold of jelly rising fifty feet high. Several students were standing around looking at it in awe. Melvin was back still atop his mule had a calculator out and was doing some calculations.
"What the heck is going on?" Serena yelled.
"Interesting dream isn't it?" Came Darrien's voice from behind her. She whirled around to see him standing there holding a massive lolly pop in his right hand.
"Darrien! You're back!" She cried and moved to hug him. He retreated.
"Hey, you might hurt the lolly pop!" he said.
"Uh...sorry, I'm just happy to see you."
"You weren't before."
"I was surprised all right? This is a pretty strange dream I've got going here."
"You're telling me meatball head. I always thought you've had a few screws loose," Darrien said.
"Hey! I don't have to stand here and be insulted. Don't call me meatball head!" Serena yelled.
"All right, all right," Darrien said.
"So how are things in America?"
"How should I know? I'm a figment of your imagination. I only know what you know."
"Oh that's right. Well...why don't you take a guess?"
"UH...okay....I'm doing fine."
"That's great..I'm so glad to hear it!" Serena yelled and jumped up and down. Darrien sighed.
"Say Darrien, since the school's a big pile of jelly maybe we could go out somewhere or something," Serena said.
"Uh...sure," Darrien said.
"Woo hoo, this is almost as good as being awake," Serena said.
As Serena was oversleeping, the rest of Tokyo was awakening.
Amy and Lita were walking to school at a moderate pace.
"I've been thinking about what happened last night Amy," Lita said.
"I couldn't stop thinking about it," Amy replied. "I hate to say it, but it looks like we've got another negaverse invasion to fight off."
"I guess. I can't wait to see what they have up their sleeves," Lita muttered sarcastically.
"Someone has to fight them, and it looks like it's going to have to be us."
"What about Maverick? I didn't get much of a glimpse of him. What's he all about?"
"it's hard to say, but he did seem to be on our side."
"I want to know more about him though. This could be even more trouble if we don't watch out."
"I know. Let's not think about it right now, we've got to concentrate on school."
"Yeah, I know. Maybe I'll see Steve again today."
"Steve?" Amy said.
"Yeah. He looks like my old boyfriend. He's so cute."
"Lita is there any reason nearly every boy in the city of Tokyo looks like your old boyfriend?" Amy asked skeptically.
Lita frowned.
"You wouldn't understand all this Amy. Love's a complex thing," Lita said.
"Hey, I've got a boyfriend too!" Amy blurted and then covered her mouth futilely.
"Hah hah, so you admit it!" Lita said.
Oksua opened the door to his office and flipped on the lights. To his complete shock, Miss Haruna was sitting in his seat.
"Patricia? What are you doing?" Oksua asked.
"My my, Principal Oksua, you seem awfully crabby this morning," Haruna said.
"I'm fine. What the devil are you doing in my office?"
"Oh, that..well I wanted to keep your seat warm," Haruna said dreamily.
"Are you all right Patricia?" Oksua asked worriedly.
"I'm absolutely fine," Haruna said and walked towards him. "Of course in a minute you won't be!" she added and pointed her hand towards him. A green blast of energy emerged from it and knocked him to the ground unconscious. She hurried to the outer office.
"Come quick! Principal Oksua's been hurt!" she yelled. The various teachers and secretary's didn't even question her honesty and rushed to the door. Haruna blasted all of them and swung the door closed.
"Ah..that was easy," she said and walked down the hall amongst the students.
They'll be next. She thought. But first...
"Lita, he's just a friend!" Amy was saying as the two walked in the front door a minute later.
"Sure, Amy. Sure he is," Lita said with a huge smile on her face.
"Keep it down okay?" Amy said.
"I don't know what you're worried about. Having a boyfriend's nothing to be ashamed about. Unless it's Melvin," Lita said and laughed.
"Lita, I'm just not comfortable talking about it."
"All right, all right. I'll see you later," Lita said and headed for her
classroom on the first floor. Amy headed towards the stairs distraughtly.
Haruna walked into the partially full teacher's lounge, where about half the school's faculty had congregated.
"Hello Patricia," someone said.
"Hi," Haruna said and smiled before draining the life energy out of all of
them.
The alarm clock was ringing when Serena finally rose from her bed.
"Get up Serena! You're late again!" Luna yelled.
"Nonsense Luna. I set the alarm to give me plenty of time," Serena muttered.
"it's been ringing for half an hour!" Luna said.
"Eep!" Serena yelled and leaped out of bed only to trip and fall flat on her face.
"Why me?" she muttered.
"You must have a gift," Luna muttered.
"Don't bug me Luna, I was in the middle of a great dream I needed my rest," Serena said as she rapidly dressed herself.
"Don't give me that Serena, you've had to fight the negaverse before and while I realize yesterday wasn't one of your better days, you have to learn to deal with it. Being a Sailor Scout is a tough job," Luna said.
"I know that," Serena muttered as grabbed her book bag and ran out the door.
"I wonder if she really does or not," Luna muttered.
The bell rung as Serena ran in the school and up the stairs. I'm going to be
late again. She thought. This is so pitiful. it makes no sense why this should
happen to me all the time. What did I do to deserve this. How can I be expected
to be a hero and be on time to class? Besides, me and Darrien were on a date in
my dream. Why'd I have to wake up? Jeez...it wasn't like this back in the moon
kingdom. What could have possibly happened to make me ditzy Serena? Maybe it's
my parents fault. I'll have to investigate that further.
As the bell was ringing, Haruna was emerging from the teacher's lounge.
Time to pay the students a visit. She thought and moved towards the nearest
classroom.
The boy glanced at his watch as he sat in room 7. The psychologist, the only other occupant of the room glanced at the clock and frowned.
"I don't know what's keeping Principal Oksua," he said.
"He can take his time I guess, I am only a student," the boy said sarcastically.
"You keep that kind of attitude up and you'll never get out of here," he warned.
"I may not be psychotic anymore, but that doesn't mean I can't be cynical."
"I guess you have that right."
"May I go to the bathroom?"
"Sure, I guess that can't hurt. Just don't go killing anyone out there."
"I'll try not to," the boy replied and walked out.
He headed down the corridor and into the bathroom. As soon as he was inside,
Haruna emerged from one of the classrooms.
"Hey, you new here?" Steve asked as he saw an unfamilar boy entered the stall beside him.
"Me? No. I've been here a while," the boy replied.
"Oh, haven't seen you. That's all," Steve said.
"That's natural. I haven't been very visible."
"Hmmm...the name's Steve Carlin. You gotta name?," Steve asked.
"D.V. Patterson," the boy replied.
"What do the initials stand for?"
"If I wanted to tell anyone there wouldn't be any point to using the initials would there?" Patterson replied.
"You've got a point, I guess I'd better get back to class."
"Of course," D.V. said.
A few minutes earlier.
Lita sat in her chair and scanned the classroom. All the students were talking to one another loudly. Their teacher had yet to show and she was a bit worried.
I don't like the look of this. Usually someone shows up by now. Maybe we should send someone to the office to see what's going on. Hmm..it's probably nothing. She thought. No. Something's wrong. I can sense it. She reconsidered.
She stood up as the door swung open and to the class's surprise Miss Haruna stood there.
"Hello class," she said. "There's been a change in plans. I'm going to teach you some things today," she finished and moved to the front of the room. The students moved to take their seats, "First..." she trailed off. To the students horror her eyes turned green and a demonic grin formed on her face.
"Take this!" she yelled and unleashed an energy attack at the group. Lita jumped out of the way and moved to the back of the room.
"Hah! Missed one!" Haruna yelled and moved to attack again. Lita picked up the nearest thing she could find, a beaker of sulfur, and chucked it across the room. it smashed onto the front desk raising a cloud of yellow dust into the air. Haruna was stunned. Lita didn't hesitate and raced for the door reaching the hall in a few seconds.
No choice, I don't stand a chance unless I transform. She pulled out her power stick.
"Jupiter Star Power!" she yelled and changed in less than five seconds into her counterpart, Sailor Jupiter. Haruna appeared in the doorway, only now she had mutated into a green skinned creature with larger muscles and several marks all over her body. Her face had become narrower and taller, but her evil smile still remained.
"Sailor Jupiter. What a surprise! Well this makes things interesting!" she yelled. Jupiter held her ground.
I have to warn the others she thought. But I can't do that with this thing on my back. Haruna let out a scream and a wave of energy flew out from her mouth. Jupiter jumped to the right of it barely missing the attack.
I have no maneuvering room in here. She thought. Then again. Neither does she.
"Jupiter Thunderclap Crash!" Jupiter yelled quickly. A circle of green lightening flew crackling from her hands and hit the Haruna in the arm. The teacher creature took two steps backwards.
"You'll pay for that!" She yelled and leapt forward. Jupiter waited and then ducked jabbing her knee into Haruna's gut. The creature winced, but swung out with it's hand and knocked Jupiter into the wall. The heroine moaned as she picked herself up off of the ground.
"Hah!" Haruna yelled and attacked again. Jupiter rolled out of the way and the teacher went flying into a bulletin board. The shock loosened it from the wall and it slammed into the creature's head. Jupiter bolted for a stairway in the middle of the hall. When I get there I can let off an attack to stun her. She thought.
"Oh..no you don't!" Haruna yelled and let loose another scream from her prone position. it hit the fleeing Jupiter in the right leg. Jupiter fell to the ground as the wound burned. Haruna extricated herself from the remains of the bulletin board and advanced. The Sailor Scout turned around to face the creature despite the pain.
"Jupiter Thunder Clap Crash!" she yelled unleashing a green disk of lightning at Haruna. The creature couldn't react quickly enough and it was knocked backwards again slamming into the pile of board debris again.
"You're spunky," Haruna muttered.
Steve and D.V, emerged from the bathroom at that moment only to see the battle. Jupiter dragged herself towards the stairwell. Haruna stood back up and moved towards her.
"That monster is going to hurt that girl!" Steve said not noticing that the girl was Sailor Jupiter. "We gotta do something."
"Duck into the bathroom again, I'll distract it," D.V. said.
"You?" Steve asked in surprise.
"Me, don't ask questions, when you hear me cry out, get to Sailor Jupiter and help her anyway you can," D.V. said.
"You mean the girl right?"
"Yes Einstein," D.V. said pushing Steve into the bathroom.
"Hey ugly!" Patterson bellowed as he walked into the open.
"Who are you?" it screeched.
"Wouldn't you like to know?" Patterson said.
"Hmm....I'll take care of this nothing and then deal with you Jupiter!" Haruna yelled and half ran, half flew at D.V. The boy dashed down the hallway and around the corner. Haruna followed. Patterson let out a yell. Steve emerged from the bathroom and hurried towards Jupiter who continued to crawl towards the stairwell.
"Let me help you," Steve said.
"Uh....I've got to get to the second floor warn everyone," Jupiter said containing her feelings for Steve and her disbelief that he would be in this position.
"Here," Steve said pulling her up and putting her arm over his neck for support. "I'll get you upstairs, or die trying."
"Thank you," Jupiter said dreamily.
"I never thought the sailor scouts existed."
"Well we're real Steve," Jupiter said.
"How did you know my name?"
"Oh...well...we Sailor Scouts know these things."
"Whatever..let me get you up to the second floor."
"Wait..Steve....you're quicker. Warn everyone. Leave me under the stairs so Haruna doesn't find me. The other students are more important then I am."
"Are you sure?" Steve asked.
"Get up there quickly!" Jupiter yelled.
Steve hurried up the middle stairwell.
Serena slouched in her chair. She was bored.
"Where's Miss H?" She asked no one in particular. "The only time she was ever late was that one time," she said.
When the negaverse had zapped her. Serena thought.
"Who knows what happened to her," Molly replied.
"This is awfully strange though. Someone better show up soon or I'm leaving," Serena said.
"Like you would even try it," Molly said.
"I would. There's no use me hanging around here if nothing's going to happen," Serena said.
Why do I sense something is going to happen? Amy thought as she watched from nearby. Something bad.
"I wonder if a teacher can get into trouble for being late," Serena said.
"Sure they can, I'm sure Principal Oksua wouldn't be happy if that happened," Molly said.
"Wouldn't it be funny if Miss Haruna had to serve a detention though?" Serena asked.
"That would be funny," Molly said and began to giggle. Serena joined in.
"You look like something's troubling you," came the squeaky voice of Melvin as he stood next to Amy's desk. She turned and looked at him.
"I'm fine. This is just strange, that's all," She said.
"We should be used to strange stuff shouldn't we?" Melvin asked. Amy giggled.
"Yes, I guess we should."
"Speaking of strange. You know that guy we ran into yesterday..." Melvin began.
"Not more gossip Melvin," Amy muttered.
"No, listen. Just think about this. There were some things that bugged me about what he said. First of all, he knew it was a gossip, yet no one has never seen him in the halls before. That's probably because they wanted to keep him out of contact with other students, but that's not the point. Even if he wasn't crazy or anything,, how'd he know about me? Furthermore, how'd he know my name and what I looked like?"
"I don't know. Maybe someone's been spreading gossip about you," Amy said with a slight grin.
"You think so?" Melvin squeaked.
"You never..." Amy began to say when she was interrupted by Steve's yelling.
"Everyone! Come on! There's trouble downstairs. You gotta get out of here!" he yelled and stopped in their doorway.
"You gotta get out of here!" He yelled.
"What do you mean?" Serena asked.
"There's a creature," Steve said.
"Are you kidding?" Melvin asked.
"This is some prank Steve," Someone said.
"I'm not kidding," Steve said.
"Yeah right," Melvin said.
"Don't scare me like that!" Serena yelled.
"Serena," Amy hissed.
"What?" Serena whispered back.
"There probably is a creature down there."
"Oh yeah."
"Come on."
"I'm not taking any chances," Serena said and hurried outside. Amy following.
"At least two of you believe me," Steve said.
"Yeah..well.." Serena said.
"We'd better get out of here," Amy said. "Head for the door call for help."
"I'll get help all right," Steve said and hurried for the far stairwell.
"Come on Serena. The girl's bathroom, now," Amy whispered. The two hurried
down the hall.
"What are you going to do with that thing?" Haruna hissed as she had cornered Patterson at the end of the hallway. The student was holding a broom in front of him defensively.
"Well...let me put it this way Miss Haruna....I can do one of several things with it...." D.V. said.
"Like what?" Haruna said overconfidently.
"This," Patterson said and smashed the window behind him and jumped out onto the ground.
"Ehh....I've got bigger fish to fry then him," Haruna said and headed back to get Sailor Jupiter. She found the floor empty.
"Oh...well she's here somewhere, but it can come back for her," Haruna said
and she walked into the middle stairwell. As her footsteps receded Jupiter
worried. I hope Steve got the word out.
Several blocks away at Central High, Raye slumped in her chair.
it's so early in the morning and already I want to go home. Jeez..I'm bored. She thought. Nothing ever happens here. I wonder if the others are as bored as I am. Knowing them they're probably half asleep too. She sighed.
"For this experiment I'll need a couple volunteers..never mind that...Fujimori! Hino! Get up here!" the teacher said.
"Wha?" Raye said snapping out of her stupor.
"it's time for you two to learn a little science for once. Now get up here!" the teacher said. Reluctantly Rick and Raye moved to the front of the room.
"Hold out your left hands," the teacher said. The two glanced at each other sharing the apprehension.
"Do it," the teacher said. The students did so. The teacher put a glob of goo in each of their palms and spread it around.
"I don't like this," Rick said.
"Tough," the teacher said and grabbed his hand sticking it in Raye's left hand in a second. The two tried to let go, but found their hands were stuck together.
"Hey!" they both shouted. The class began to laugh.
"This compound makes an excellent adhesive," the teacher said as the two desperately tried to separate themselves.
"Bet this satisfies some of your fantasies eh Raye," Rick said. Raye smacked him on the head with her free right hand propelling him backward and thus her forward. She landed on top of him as the two hit the ground. Both let out a shout as the class continued to die of laughter.
"Yikes, get off, get off," Rick said. Raye hurriedly lifted herself up with her right hand.
"You idiot, I can't lift both of us," she said.
"Oh...yeah.." Rick muttered and pushed himself off the ground.
"I've had my fun for the day," the teacher said and dumped a glass of solvent on their hands disintegrating the goo.
"You can go back to your seats now."
Both of them returned to their desks with scowls on their faces.
Haruna walked onto the second floor from another set of stairs and made her way down the hallway, attacking every classroom she could as quietly as possible. She approached her own classroom gleefully. I've always wanted to do this. She thought.
"Hello class," Haruna said as she appeared in the doorway sent a blast of energy towards them. The class collapsed unconsciousness.
"That was too easy," Haruna said.
At Highpark Junior High, Mina was listening to her eccentric English teacher. it was today for the first time she had noticed Mike was also in her class. She glanced at him and saw that he was unamused as the teacher rambled on.
"Now listen people, picture yourself as a snowflake drifting aimlessly towards the Earth. Yes you're beautiful, yes you're light and you're going to be part of a Christmas morning. it's great, but it's not to be. Some jerk kid has to catch you on his tongue. How annoying is that?" the teacher asked.
"Dang annoying," Mike said.
"Hah...Leslie, if I didn't know better I'd say you were mocking me," the teacher said. "Let me ask you...do you believe in reincarnation?"
"Sure," Mike said.
"Well..then....I look forward to seeing you in your next life. The world will always need more Shrews," the English teacher said and the glass began to laugh, Mina included.
"Hah, but if I'm a Shrew then that means that I have attained a higher spiritual level," Mike said.
"How so?" the teacher asked.
"Well...Shrews are a noble beast," Mike said. "I wish I was a shrew right now."
"Leslie, you're missing the point."
"Ehh...and what if I am?"
"I'll tell you what, say Mina here was a pomegranate."
Mina's eyes widened.
"Why would I be a pomegranate?" she asked in surprise.
"Just play along."
"Yes, humor him," Mike muttered.
"Okay, I'm a pomegranate," Mina said.
"Now say pomegranates can fly airplanes."
"Ah..which were built by shrews to airlift supplies into East Berlin! I've got it!" Mike said.
"There you go! See? You've figured it out," the teacher said.
"It's the end of the world," Mike muttered.
"Mike. What was all this about?"
"Couldn't tell you Mina, but let's just say that if you could comprehend , you would be lost forever."
They're both completely insane. Mina thought. Still, Mike's cute so I'll
ignore it.
"Steve was right," Amy said peering through the door. "Miss Haruna's a mutant creature and she's draining everyone's energy.
"Just great, two days, two negaverse attacks," Serena muttered.
"We'd better transform, but we'll wait for her to finish attacking everyone before we strike," Amy said.
"Why?" Serena asked.
"She won't expect it," Amy said.
"Oh."
"Mercury Star Power!"
"Moon Crystal Power!"
"Jupiter? Are you all right?" Steve asked appearing behind the middle stairwell.
"My leg hurts bad, did you warn them?" Jupiter asked.
"I did, but only two people listened. They're all doomed," Steve said.
"Listen Steve, can you get me to the second floor?"
"Yes, I will."
"Good, do that, then once you do get out of here and call for help."
"All right, let's go," Steve said. He helped Jupiter stand up, and supporting
her with his body he lead her up the stairs one step at a time.
"That was easy," Haruna said polishing off the last class. She turned away and headed towards the door.
"Mercury Ice Storm Blast!" came a cry from behind her. A blue wave of energy hit Haruna in the back and knocked her forward through the stair doors. They happened to be closed and she hit hard and howled in pain as a mist filled the corridor. She felt chilled as Ice had formed around parts of her body. She quickly blasted the ice off and turned around. The mist cleared and she found Sailor Mercury and Sailor Moon facing her.
"You!" Haruna yelled.
"Yes us!" The two girls replied.
"You won't get me!" Haruna yelled and ducked into the stairwell.
"We've got to stop her!" Mercury yelled.
Mercury replied and she and Sailor Moon went racing down the stairs. When they arrived on the first floor the corridor was empty. They moved forward slowly, waiting for any movement. The seconds passed by as they moved down the hallway.
"Maybe she's gone," Sailor Moon said.
"Doubtful," Mercury said. A battle cry pierced the air and Haruna leapt through a doorway and landed right on Mercury knocking the blue haired heroine into the wall.
"Oh no!" Sailor Moon yelled as the creature turned towards her. She broke and ran down the hallway. The Haruna creature
pursued shooting blasts of green energy all around her.
Drain her energy and then finish her off with my scream. Haruna thought.
Sailor Moon tripped as she turned a corner and skidded into a classroom landing behind an overturned desk. The Haruna creature followed quickly. Gotta do something. Sailor Moon thought.
"Hah!" Haruna yelled and screamed shooting a blast at the desk. Sailor Moon rolled away as the desk blew apart. She dived forward at the Haruna creature's left leg and smashed into it knocking the creature off balance and into several desks with a crash. Haruna slowly picked herself up. Sailor Moon made her scepter appear in her hands and she began to yell.
"Moon Scepter Elimination!"
Haruna was quick though and she blasted the scepter out of her arms.
"it's not going to be that easy!" Haruna yelled and leapt at Sailor Moon.
"Where are they?" Jupiter asked in frustration as she and Steve stood on the second floor.
"They must be back down on the first floor," Steve said.
"Dang it, come on," Jupiter said and hobbled back to the stair well.
"Steve, thanks for the help, but this where we separate. Get to one of the phones in the classrooms. I'm going down to the first floor," She said.
"How, with your leg," Steve asked.
"Watch me," Jupiter said with a grin. She sat on the stair rail and slid down slowly. At the landing she carefully stepped onto her left leg. After another trip on the railing she got to the first floor.
"Good luck Jupiter!" Steve yelled and searched for a phone.
Sailor Moon dived into the hall and raced down the corridor. The Haruna creature followed.
"Mercury Ice Storm Blast!" Mercury cried and sent the attack at her teacher from her knees as she was still weak. Haruna dodged it and continued her pursuit of Sailor Moon. Mercury staggered up and moved to follow.
"Woah...did I get you too?" Jupiter asked hobbling up.
"In a way yes..that's a bad burn on your leg," Mercury said.
"I'll heal...Sailor Moon's in deep isn't she?"
"Yes, come on," Mercury said supporting Jupiter with her arm.
"Come on Sailor Moon, it's over for you," Haruna said as she backed Sailor Moon into a corner.
"Moon Tiara Magic," The heroine yelled pulling her tiara off her head and flinging it quickly unleashing her newly regained power. Haruna was so surprised that she didn't duck and the attack hit her right in the chest. She yelled in pain. Sailor Moon took her opportunity and kicked her teacher right in the head with a jumping karate kick she had practiced several times.
Gotta get my scepter. She thought and ran back down the hall.
Haruna winced and followed.
"I'll get you!" she yelled.
"Not likely!" Mercury and Jupiter yelled appearing from behind a corner between Sailor Moon and the creature.
"Jupiter Thunderclap crash!" Jupiter yelled. The attack hit Haruna straight on and knocked the teacher back ten feet. She skidded along the floor and slowly got up.
"Mercury Ice Storm Blast!" Mercury cried. This attack worked well and the Haruna creature was frozen solid by an icy wave. Sailor Moon hurried up with her scepter.
"This is interesting isn't it?" She said.
"Downright Ironic if you ask me," Mercury said.
"Just ice her," Jupiter said.
"Moon Scepter Elimination!" Sailor moon yelled. as she aimed at the creature. White light surrounded it and it cried out as the negaverse part of it was purged. Soon only the unconscious form of the human Miss Haruna was left lying on the floor.
"I did it, whew that was close," Sailor Moon said.
"Are you all right?" Mercury said staggering up.
"I'm okay. How about you guys?"
"Ehh..I've been better," Jupiter said.
"We'd better get back to our normal forms before everyone starts waking up and get you to a hospital Jupiter," Mercury said.
Sirens filled the air as the numerous emergency vehicles, alerted by Steve,
raced to the school.
At lunchtime, Mina walked slowly towards Crossroads, unaware of what had happened. She was startled by Mike appearing next to her out of a side street.
"Walking alone? I would have thought you'd have lots of friends," Mike said. Mina blushed at the comment.
"Well I do. They're just all at Crossroads right now," she said.
"Oh, well that's good. I've got a couple that should be there too."
The two continued to walk along, unable to think of anything else to say.
"Uh...read any good books lately?" Mina asked, embarrassed the minute she said it.
"Actually, I prefer movies," Mike said.
"Oh, that's fine. I like a good movie myself," Mina said.
"Really?" Mike asked.
"Yep," Mina said.
"Uh huh," Mike said.
"That's right," Mina said.
"You know what?..I just have nothing to say right now."
"Me too," Mina said.
"Well you know what I do in these situations?"
"What?"
"I shut up."
"Hmm....whatever works I guess."
The two came in view of the school and were surprised to see the flashing lights of all the police cars and various other vehicles that had since pulled up. A huge crowd of students and other curious onlookers had gathered around.
"Hmm...I see my friends I've gotta check on them!" Mina yelled and ran towards the group. Mike shrugged and searched for anyone he knew. Mina immediately headed to where Amy and Serena were standing. Lita was sitting down nearby, a doctor was looking at her leg.
"What happened?" Mina asked. The two girls were careful of their answers because of the doctor standing there.
"Some creature thing attacked everybody," Serena said.
"Fortunately the Sailor Scouts showed up, but Lita here got burned." Amy said.
"Mina, it was terrible," Serena said.
"Hey, did you say the Sailor Scouts were here? the doctor asked.
"Sure," Serena said. "Ain't they great?" she added looking for praise. The other girls just sighed at Serena's arrogance.
"Great? From what I hear they're greater than great," Mike said and the girls all blushed.
"Well, Lita, this is only a minor injury, and I still don't know what exactly caused it, but I can give you something to take away the pain and you should be back on your feet in a few days," the doctor said. "We'll have to take you into the hospital though."
"Sure," Lita said. The doctor and Lita departed in an ambulance, leaving the others to talk amongst themselves. In the meantime Raye had arrived.
"Woah? Looks like someone trashed the place," she said.
"We don't know who I was, but they were mean. Luckily those brave and beautiful Sailor Scouts showed up and stopped it," Serena said.
"Can it Serena," Raye snapped realizing exactly what Serena was up to.
"You're kidding," Rick said as he, Mike, and Steve sat together.
"No, no. it was true," Steve replied. "I helped Sailor Jupiter out. She had been hit in her leg. Everyone else had been knocked out, so I had to help out."
"You're not the man come on," Mike said.
"I'm telling the truth," Steve said.
"Sure you are..we believe you," Mike and Rick said condescending.
"Hmm...this is bad," Luna said as the four remaining Sailor Scouts, and their other cat companion Artemas, had gathered at Raye's temple.
"We've faced worse," Raye said.
"Of course you have. That doesn't mean this isn't a threat," Artemas said.
"That's right. We have to be on our guard. The negaverse could strike anywhere at any time, and in fact I could be possessing anyone," Amy said.
"Why does it always have to be this way?" Serena whined.
"I'm sorry Serena. it's just the way it is," Luna said.
"Looks like we're going to have to deal with more of the same," Mina said.
"it's obvious the negaverse is here to collect energy again. We have to make sure they don't get it," Artemas said.
"Looks like we have some help though," Amy said.
"Help?" the cats asked.
"Maverick right?" Amy said.
"Yeah, the other's agreed.
"Who is this Maverick?" Luna asked.
"We wish we knew," Mina said.
"Failure!" Coardite yelled in anger. "That idiotic minion I sent to possess
the school teacher failed such an easy assignment. All it had to do was knock
out all those students and the we would have not only gained the energy, but
capture the Sailor Scouts as well. How hard could that have been! Well, I'll
just come up with a better plan. That's all."
Lita lay in the hospital bed and starred out the window at the setting sun.
it's beautiful. She thought. Then her mind wandered onto another subject of interest. Steve helped me today. Without him we might not have won. What a great guy. I really have to get to know him better. As soon as I get out of here maybe I'll get the chance.