Chapter 99

"Now that we're fighting. We got a plan?" Neptune asked.

"Uh.sure.." Saturn said and looked out. There were thirteen daimons, enough to deal with the full complement of the scouts and their allies. But with three still in the hospital and Serena recovering under Darrien's watch, that meant even the arrival of Sailor Pluto didn't even the odds.

"Hmm...I guess we go for the daimons on each side of her and try to take them out quickly," Saturn said.

"This is not going to be fun," Uranus muttered.

"Ehh..you can make it into a game it can be..just see who survives the longest and they'll be the winner," Neptune said.

"Enough talk, let's go," Sailor Pluto said.

And the nine scouts leapt out from behind where they were hiding and raced into battle. The daimons flew off the elevated stairway at them. Eudial waited, holding the gun in her hands.

I may have checked most of their hearts, but it's still valuable. Still it takes energy to use it and

and I have to conserve as much as possible. She thought.

Mars flew at a daimon's leg and took it out from under her. It fell straight to the ground and she charged at another bringing her hands forward. They were all the same type of daimon, humanoid, relatively moderate in heart. She didn't know what they're powers were, but she also knew they wouldn't turn into a tank or something. At least she hoped so. She hit the second daimon and bounced off of it before kicking a third in the head. Uranus swung his sword into the first daimon he met. The daimon stumbled forward and grabbed Uranus by the shirt.

"Strong guy," Uranus said and tried to bring his sword around for another attack.

Neptune stepped out of the way of an onrushing daimon, which slammed into the side of a garbage truck.

"Ole.." he said before getting tackled by a second one.

Guardian Pluto and Sailor Jupiter rushed the first daimon they saw and pushed into a second. A few uppercuts sent them flying to the ground. Sailor Pluto sidestepped an attack and swung her staff which smashed into the daimon and sent it flying back. Saturn rushed forward and dug his sword into one of the daimon's Mars had passed through.

They think they're so tough don't they? Well I'll just build up their confidence a little, until I surprise them. Eudial thought.

This is too easy. Something must be wrong. Mercury thought staring at her computer. What's this..an energy buildup!

"Guys...we've got to!"

She was immediately hit by every daimon left unattended too and pulled to the ground.

Now to settle this once and for all. Eudial thought.

"Daimon's reveal your true forms!" Eudial shouted. In front of the wary scouts the daimons turned into pure energy and became a wave that shot across the street and hit all of them at once. The energy wave flew upward and hovered as a ball over Eudial's right hand.

"Well..I guess you didn't see that one coming," Eudial said with a laugh as the scouts all lay injured on the ground. The scouts struggled to get up.

"Oh don't bother I'll just blast you again," Eudial said.

A rose smashed into the energy and it reacted.

"What? How did.." Eudial said before she was hit right in the head with a staff to the face. Tuxedo Mask then kicked her and knocked her off the walkway. She pulled the gun around as he leapt at her, but to her shock found it disappearing.

"What..."

"I'd better take this for safe keeping," Tomoe said telepathically.

"What?" Eudial shouted.

Tuxedo Mask flung several more roses at her. She rolled out of the way.

"Energy come to me!" she shouted. The energy focused around her and she began to glow. Tuxedo Mask threw a barrage of roses. She sent out a wave which smashed through it.

"Who's the greatest now?" Eudial said.

She was hit with a pink and white attack from behind. She whirled.

"I am Sailor Moon..and I'm the greatest," Sailor Moon said.

"Just try me!" Eudial said and shot a blast at her. Sailor Moon dived out of the way.

"Sailor Moon needs us," Mars said and the scouts struggled to stand up.

"Moon Spiral..."

Eudial shot a blast at her. She dived out of the way of it. Tuxedo Mask leapt off of the elevated walkway at Eudial.

"Moon Spiral Hearts....."

Eudial blasted him off of her and into a wall.

"ATTACK!" Sailor Moon shouted and let her attack go. Eudial was hit hard and was thrown backward. She stood up.

"You have to face me and this energy!" Eudial shouted and began to glow even more. "Come on! Bring it."

"MOON SPIRAL HEARTS ATTACK!" Sailor Moon shouted.

"MARS CELESTIAL FIREBALL SURROUND!"

"MERCURY ICE STORM BLAST!"

"VENUS LOVE CHAIN ENCIRCLE!"

"JUPITER THUNDERCLAP ZAP!"

"NEPTUNE TRITON IMPALE!

"URANUS FIRE SPIKES ATTACK!"

"PLUTO STORM FIST PUNCH!"

"SATURN ICE RINGS BLAST!"

"PLUTO DARK SILENCE!"

The attacks smashed into Eudial and blasted the energy all away...she was covered in burns and began to collapse.

"I've got to teleport back.." she said. She tried to do it, but nothing happened. Professor!

Sorry Eudial...but you lost. Professor said.

"PROFESSOR!" Eudial shouted as she slowly disintegrated.

"Sailor Moon. You were just..hit for your heart," Jupiter said in surprise.

"Yeah..and the fight took everything out of me," Sailor Moon said. "I need to rest."

"Tomoe can wait," Mercury said.

"But not for long," Sailor Pluto said.

Two days passed, the scouts all recovered from their injuries and were sitting in Amy's living room.

"Wow..this is a nice place," Mike said leaning back on one of the couches.

"Where did those windows come from?" Amy asked realizing that she had new windows for the first time in weeks.

"Didn't anyone tell you?" Greg asked.

"No," Amy said. "Oh never mind..we have other things to deal with."

"Okay...let's figure this out.." Serena said.

"Here's the target," Raye said throwing a picture of the unfinished cathedral onto the table.

"Why would anyone build a cathedral out there?" Rick asked.

"Well maybe..no..never mind..even one of my absurd explanations probably couldn't come close to the real one," Mike said.

"We thought about the tunnel idea, and I did some research..of course the cathedral would need to have some way to get rid of their waste," Amy said slightly embarrassed at the subject matter.

"Its turns out there's plans for a sewer line to the cathedral. Only they haven't finished it yet. And when they did it would probably be two narrow to use anyway," Greg said.

"So that's out," Lita said.

"Looks like we'll have to go by boat then," Sailor Pluto said.

"Yes, guess so," Serena said.

"But where are we going to get one?" Mina asked.

"All taken care of," Lita said.

"Yeah..Patterson called in a few favors from the S.D.F. They'll have a patrol boat ready when we need it," Steve said.

"Now as for the floor plan..." Serena said.

"We got it right here," Mike said.

"It wasn't easy....I had to charm the architect," Mina said.

"With what?" Lita said.

Mina scowled at her.

"Okay..you see...normally the cathedral would have a few entrances, but right now it has only one..the main doors," Darrien said.

"So that's the way we go in," Serena said.

"We could get in other ways, if we broke a window or two," Raye said.

"We're not supposed to cause any more damage then necessary," Sailor Pluto said.

"Starlight Towers...twice," Serena said and the group started laughing.

"That bridge..." Raye said.

"The Ninth Street Apartment complex," Mina said.

"Crossroads Junior High," Lita said.

"That wasn't our fault..the spaceship fell on it," Serena said.

"Aw..come on we can still take credit for it," Mike said and they all started laughing again. Sailor Pluto glanced at Darrien. Darrien just glanced back.

"Say..Pluto..don't you have a human form?" Serena asked.

"Well sure I do..I just haven't felt the need to revert to it," Sailor Pluto said.

"Well..you are a bit conspicuous," Serena said.

"You have a point," Sailor Pluto said and in a flash of light reverted back into her human form. That of a relatively tall woman with dark hair.

Mike, Steve, and Rick immediately started staring.

"My real name is Setsuna," she said.

"Mike."

"Steve."

"Rick."

"Nice to meet you," the three said in unison.

The girls all sighed.

"Say...I just realized something. We had school today," Serena said.

"This is more important than school," Amy said. Everyone looked at her.

"Well it is," she said.

"All right! Amy's given us an excuse to get out of school!" the other four girls, and the three guys said.

"Does Doctor Tomoe ring any bells for you?" Setsuna said.

"Oh..right.." they all replied.

Meanwhile at Juuban High.

"Tsukino?" Haruna said calling roll.

"Moon Crystal Power!"

"Anderson?"

"Mercury Star Power!"

"Hino."

"Mars Star Power!"

"Nelson."

"Jupiter Star Power!"

"Deveraux?"

"Venus Star Power!"

"Fujimori? Leslie? Carlin?"

"Uranus...Neptune...Pluto Power!"

Haruna sighed.

"Thomson?"

"Saturn Power!"

"No..Patterson? No..Tenno or Kaioh?"

"Guess not. Class.." she said quietly.

"What is it Miss Haruna?" Melvin asked.

"Why are there are twelve absences!" Haruna shouted.

And down the hall came Principal Oksua leading a group of higher level administrators.

"We run a tight ship here..and as you can see practically perfect attendance in all our classes.." Oksua said.

"Except that one," someone said pointing into Haruna's room.

"Yes, except that one. Huh.." Oksua said and looked inside.

"Don't ask me..I don't know where they are," Haruna said.

"Are we ready?" Sailor Moon said.

"We're always ready," the scouts replied.

"Okay..then let's go then," Sailor Moon said.

"I'll meet you there..I have a few things to take care of," Sailor Pluto said.

"Right," The others said and dashed off down the street.

"Hmm..we're going to have visitors any day now," Tomoe said as he worked in his lab.

"And fortunately I am prepared for such an eventuality," he said.

"TOMOE!" he heard a voice say. He whirled around.

"Where are you?" he said.

"That matters little. Are you prepared for battle?"

"Yes. When those annoying scouts get here I will destroy them."

"You had better, time is growing short. We need to find the talismans."

"We will Dark One I assure you of that," Tomoe said.

"Very well..."

An alarm went off inside his laboratory.

"So..they're coming," Tomoe said. "Computer!"

Nothing happened.

"Oh that's right..it's not voice activated," he muttered and pressed a button. A projection appeared in front of him of a boat approaching the cathedral.

"Don't they know it's stupid to attack a spider in it's lair..or a bear in it's cave or an evil mad scientist in his headquarters!" Tomoe said and started laughing.

"Okay..we all know the plan," Sailor Moon said as the scouts rode in the back of a Patrol Boat towards the cathedral.

"You mean like run inside and fight whatever's in there?" Mars muttered.

"Uh.yeah..that one," Sailor Moon said.

"I think we get the drift," Mars said.

"Missile!" Neptune shouted.

"Missile? What does that mean!" Venus said.

"It means Missile!" Neptune said and pointed. A missile was shot by them as the boat veered off to the one side.

"Don't worry, we'll get you there..." came a voice from inside the bridge.

"You ever been under fire before?" Jupiter asked.

"Sure....sort of," the captain said.

Everyone sighed. Another missile shot by.

"We're almost there," The captain said.

"We'd better be," Sailor Moon said.

"Of course..you know..we could just try shooting the missiles down.." Saturn said.

"Hey..that's right..." the four guys realized. Two more missiles flew at them. They fired their swords. A blue blast blew through one of them. The others missed.

"Moon Tiara Magic!" Sailor Moon shouted and blew the second apart.

"You guys really need to get better aim," Jupiter muttered.

"Ehh..." Pluto said.

"Here you are!" The Captain said. Sliding the ship up to the dock by the cathedral. The scouts all jumped out and rushed inside.

"The waters are not calm anymore," Michiru said.

"Yes..they're incredibly rough," Haruka said.

The two climbed out of their hospital beds.

"It's time, whether we are healed or not," Haruka said.

The two both slipped into the room's bathroom and pulled out their transformational items.

"Uranus Planet Power!"

"Neptune Planet Power!"

The two transformed. They snuck out the door and raced down the hall to the stairs before anyone saw them.

"To the roof, hurry," Uranus said.

"Right," Neptune said and they leapt up the stairs as fast as they could. The reached the top floor and pulled open the door. Soon they were racing onto the roof helipad where the medical helicopters would land.

"We can get away much more discreetly up here," Uranus said before realizing they were not alone. Standing in the center of the helipad was Maverick.

"I really enjoyed hearing about how you had gotten your butts kicked," Maverick said. "But...you see..if you go now..you could hurt more good people..and I'm not particularly inclined to let that happen."

"There are two of us and one of you," Neptune said.

"Very true, but I also have a sword which can fire off a shot a second...you don't?" Maverick said.

"Do you really think you can beat both of us?" Neptune said.

"Sure," Maverick said. And even if I can't..the more time I spend fighting them..the more time the scouts have.

"You leave us no choice but to take you out," Uranus said.

"Yes...you are interfering again," Neptune said.

Maverick fired a bolt. The two jumped to each side of it. Maverick leapt at Uranus and swung his sword. She narrowly avoided it. Maverick landed and flipped over and turned to face them. Then the unexpected happened. A helicopter rose above the pad and hovered there.

"Stop you're juvenile fighting!" came Sailor Pluto's voice and they could see her clearly in the cockpit. Maverick kept his sword at the ready.

"Neptune, Uranus..come on..we have much to talk about," Pluto said.

Neptune and Uranus headed towards the helicopter.

"Want a lift Maverick?" Pluto asked.

"Just what are you intending to do with those two?" Maverick shouted.

"Don't worry things will work out," Pluto said.

"I'll bet...I'll get my own ride," Maverick said.

"Very well.." Pluto said. The helicopter turned and headed off towards the island.

Maverick pulled out a walkie talkie.

"Red Three..you there?" he asked.

"Loud and clear Maverick."

"I'm ready."

"Be there in a sec," the voice replied.

Soon another helicopter bearing military markings set down on the helipad. Maverick jumped into the back of it.

"Where to boss?" the pilot asked.

"The island," Maverick said.

"You got it."

And the helicopter lifted off and headed for the island.

The scouts walked into the lobby of the cathedral. It was darkened and only the sunlight shining in the windows provided any illumination.

"This is spooky I'd say," Uranus muttered.

"Zoinks!" Neptune said.

"Focus guys..come on.." Jupiter said. They pushed open the main doors revealing the main mass area. The pews hadn't been set up, in fact there was nothing religious inside..just a raised altar area without an altar on it.

"It's so empty.." Mars said.

"A real mood setting place," Jupiter said.

"Welcome!" came a voice that reverberated throughout the room by echo.

"Why do you evil villains always welcome us! It's just stupid!" Sailor Moon shouted.

"Oh..sorry.." The voice said and echoed. "Anyway...you've finally arrived...but now it is time for combat."

On the altar platform a figure appeared. It was Doctor Tomoe wearing a strange looking robe.

"Like my robe?" he asked and started cackling. "Anyway..now for the surprises!"

The ten feet of floor in front of him fell away leaving a narrow passage way to the altar platform.

"That's the first surprise," he said. "You'll find that jumping over this chasm is not possible even for you...secondly...bring out the daimons!"

Several daimons rose up out of the floor and turned to face them.

"More bad news," Venus muttered.

"We'll destroy them like we did the others!" Mars shouted.

"Yes I suppose you would," Tomoe said. "But..go ahead.because after you face them..you have to face me!" he shouted.

The sound of a helicopter landing broke the tension. Soon three sailor scouts dashed into the room. Sailor Neptune and Sailor Uranus leapt over the group of them and charged forward.

"Wait! It has to be a trap!" Sailor Pluto shouted.

"It doesn't matter!" Neptune said and the two both leapt onto the narrow platform. As they went to jump again they were hit with a massive barrage of small bullet type energy objects and knocked to the ground. They lay there unmoving.

Everyone gasped.

"How do you like that..two of you actually fell for it..wow.." Tomoe said.

"Anyway...while I'm at it, and before these two die," he said pulling the heart gathering rifle from the folds of his robe.

"Better change the setting to draw out rather then push out..or those things will shatter," Tomoe said.

He fired at Neptune and then Uranus. The hearts were sucked out and hovered above them.

"Hmm...doesn't look any different," Tomoe said. Then the hearts began to glow.

Everyone starred in shock, including Tomoe.

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