Resistance
By: Tupie Harrison (EVictoria@aol.com)

"Haruka! Michirru! What happened?" Usagi ran up to the two, noticing the worried looks on their faces, and yet they didn't respond to her question. "Where is Hotaru?" She asked. "Isn't that what you called me for?" The two nodded silently, and lead her to the doorway, and the three entered.

Inside, a distant sobbing could be heard, and Usagi looked toward Setsuna's room, surprised. "Is that-?" The two nodded to her before she could finish her question, and Usagi swiftly walked toward Setsuna's room, knocked, and entered.

Setsuna was trying to wipe away her tears, and sniffed, trying to hide if from Usagi. Usagi approached slowly, closing the door behind her softly. She kneeled down behind Setsuna, but Setsuna did not look at her. "Setsuna-Chan... What is wrong? What happened to dear Hotaru?"
Setsuna slowly turned around to Usagi, but stared at the floor. "I am... I am not sure..." Usagi leaned forward and hugged Setsuna, and she started to cry again.

Haruka and Michirru opened the door and came inside. Usagi looked at them for answers.
"We know that little Hotaru went outside to get some air, because she had been inside for a long time that day, working hard on school work," Haruka said. "We heard a scream from outside, and when we went out, she was gone, and a bright- blinding flash emitted from the sky." Haruka shook her head. "She was no where to be found, Usagi-chan," Michirru said. "We searched the entire city for her, and no one had even seen her... I think it may be a matter for the Sailor Senshi..."

Usagi nodded to her. "If someone kidnapped our dear Hotaru, we will get her back."
Setsuna was the first to raise her henshi stick. "Pluto Planet Power!"
Michiru, Haruka and Usagi followed. "Neptune Planet Power!"
"Uranus Planet Power!"
"Moon Cosmic Power!"
"Make Up!!" They all echoed.
The four finished transforming, and Sailor Moon used her communicator to call the others.

"Rei, Makoto, Minako, Ami, Chibi-Usa, come in. We need all of the senshi to find Hotaru, who disappeared last night. Please, hurry!"
The other scouts showed up in a few minutes, and Chibi-Moon looked worried.

Sailor Moon kneeled down next to Chibi. "It's all right, Chibi-Moon, we'll find her."
Chibi-Moon nodded. "And I will teach them a lesson!" The other scouts laughed.
Sailor Jupiter noticed Mercury was using her computer. "Any luck finding Hotaru, Sailor Mercury?"
Sailor Mercury shook her head. "No. I'm not sure where she is, really." She tapped something into her computer, and gasped.
The other scouts looked at her. "What is it, Mercury?" Sailor Moon asked urgently. Sailor Mercury frowned. "I believe I have a lock on Hotaru, but she's moving fast. Strange... She's traveling from each of our houses to the next, and it only takes her about half a second to get to the next one! How is that possible?"
Sailor Chibi-Moon beamed. "Maybe she's looking for us! If I had been lost, I'd move faster than that! Come on, let's go to my house, perhaps she will wait for us there."
The scouts quickly de-transformed and ran to Usagi's and Chibi-Usa's house, and entered. Their parents weren't home yet, Usagi's brother was playing sports after school, and Hotaru was no where to be found. They left the house, Chibi-Usa's face showing disappointment. They slowly walked down the street, past a dark alley, when Usagi heard a familiar voice from inside of it.

Usagi blinked, and turned to stare at it. The other girls looked at her strangely. "What's wrong, Usagi? See someone?" Usagi didn't respond, but walked into the alley, and the others followed eagerly.

"We are the Borg.... You will be assimilated into our collective..." The girls stopped, gawking, and quickly decided to transform.
"Moon Cosmic Power!"
"Moon Prism Power!"
"Pluto Planet Power!"
"Uranus Planet Power!"
"Neptune Planet Power!"
"Mercury Star Power!"
"Mars, Star Power!"
"Jupiter Star Power!!!"
"Venus Star Power!"
All of them echoed, "Make up!"
The outer and inner scouts stood behind Sailor Moon and Sailor Chibi-Moon, glaring at the darkened silhouettes. The figures moved forward, and one of them shot something into Sailor Chibi-Moon, leaving a dark mark on her hand. Sailor Moon stared at it, and quickly transformed into Super Sailor Moon.
"Moon Crisis Make Up!"
"World Shaking!"
"Deep Submerge!"
"Dead Scream!"
The attacks hit the figures while Sailor Moon transformed, and they fell back, stunned. Super Sailor Moon moved forward, and Sailor Pluto picked up Sailor Chibi-Moon's unconscious body. The mark on her hand had suddenly split open, and some form of mechanism had come from it and spread through her hand to her arm.
"Venus Love Me Chain!"
"Sparkling Wide Pressure!"
"Burning Mandala!"
"Shine Aqua Illusion!"
The attacks hit the figures, and some fell back, but some of the others didn't even react, and the attacks seemed to disappear.
"Huh? Why aren't our attacks working right?" The scouts were concerned, and Sailor Mercury activated her computer again. "Sailor Moon, try to attack them." Sailor Moon nodded. "Rainbow Moon Heart Ache!" The attack hit them all, but this time none reacted. "What?! How come it didn't work!?"
Sailor Mercury tapped away with her computer as Sailor Moon fretted, and the other scouts tried to calm her down. "I figured it out. They have some sort of barrier that scans our attacks after the others are destroyed, and creates the barrier so our attacks won't work anymore. I don't know how to affect them now... Even if something did work, it would only be a matter of time before it stopped working."
The other scouts stared. "How is that possible?" "We can't even do that!"
"Who is this enemy, anyway? I've never seen anyone like it..."
Sailor Mercury shook her head, tapping away at her computer. "I'm not sure about that, either. From what I've scanned about them, they're much stronger than anyone we've fought before, and they seem to think with one group mind, rather than singular ones as our own. Whatever one thinks, the other ones all hear." The other scouts stared at her, dumbfounded.
"I don't get it! And do they have Sailor Saturn?"
Chibi-Moon opened her eyes slowly, the mechanism had begun to cover even more of her arm, and had started to spread to her neck and face. "Give back Sailor Saturn," her voice was weak, and she stood slowly, even though Sailor Pluto told her to stop. She raised her Moon Rod, and shouted, "Pink Sugar Heart Attack!" The attack didn't even faze the enemy, and she fell to the ground again.

The scouts moved back slowly, and the few enemies that were left moved forward, towards them. Suddenly they stopped, and Sailor Moon whispered to the others,
"We should run for it as soon as we get a chance."
But the others had argued with that idea. "What if she has Sailor Saturn? How can we just run away??" Sailor Moon looked back at the enemy, and they moved back, and a single figure moved forward. The scouts stared at it, trying to see what they looked like, when suddenly the clouds in the sky cleared and they saw it was Sailor Saturn glaring at them.
"Sailor Saturn!" Sailor Pluto yelled happily, and ran toward her, her arms open. Just as she was about to reach Saturn, a pinpoint of light appeared, and flung her backwards across the ground in the alley. Uranus and Neptune ran up to her to see if she was all right, and they were flung back farther along the ground, along with Pluto. The other scouts looked back at Sailor Saturn, and noticed as the sky became brighter, that she was not wearing her Senshi uniform, but a strange mechanical one, in a dark color.
She looked up at them, and her eyes glowed a brilliant red. "We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile."