Psycho Bum

Zoisite turned away from Jeremy, rather sure that the other man hadn't seen him or wasn't who he had thought. The shadowy form had been exactly Guardian's height and size, lending to the illusion that it might have been the defender of the senshi ready to attack. Unable to see the man's face, and not really caring at this point since it didn't appear to be his enemy, the sakura headed on down the sidewalk. What didn't occur to Zoisite in his surprise was that he was still clad in his Dark Kingdom uniform. Spotting the senshi across the street, he leaped onto the roof of a car, staring thoughtfully at them. a group... together. Kill them all, and Beryl-hime would be more than pleased... not to mention Kunzite. It took a few seconds to decide what he was going to ask of Kunzite for *this* one, and who knew, Nephrite might actually be pleased for once. Holding his hands a few inches apart, flame began to leap from fingertip to fingertip, building in intensity with each pass. With a shout of "ZOI!" he snapped his hands forward, a spiralling ribbon of intense fire heading straight for the little group.

Jurei-Jurei put a gloved hand behind her head as a huge sweatdrop went down the back. "Ano... I hope you didn't get the wrong impression, you guys. We, um, weren't _doing_ anything. Um, if he's with you senshi, that's fine, or a boyfriend or something... er, gomen, I think this one's kinda hard to explain, ha ha ha!" she laughed, turning back to face what Rikko... or Keikko... or whomever deemed the Venus Twins. Although she could pick out V-chan no problem, the man must be her counter-part of some sort. Her smile instantly dropped, though, as one of those nifty camera shots showed a close-up of her eyes widening in blue. "*LOOK OUT!!*" she shouted in English, pushing down Sailor Venus. But it was too late for Jurei-Jurei. With a horrible scream, she was launched backwards, her uniform singed and her body giving off an acrid smell as she was propelled over the heads of Peace Keeper and Rikko before rolling twice and landing still in the grass.

Rikko watched in horror as Jurei Jurei flew over his head. He ran toward her, forgetting about Peace Keeper, and dropped to his knees at her side, and dropped his sword on the ground. He rolled her over, so that he could see her face. "Jurei Jurei!" he exclaimed as he took her right hand in his, "Don't worry, You'll be OK."

Rikko clenched his left fist as he let Jurei's hand go. He took up his Claymore and spotted Zoisite on the car. He bowed his head for a second and cleared his miind untill all that he could see was Jurei Jurei laying on the ground singed. He raised his sword with one hand untill it was perfectly horizontal and pointing at Zoisite. "Boom Biddy Bye Bye. Rock-a-bye Bitch, now it's your turn to DIE!" he shouted as he raised his head at the last part.

Zoisite's cupidbow lips parted in a yawn, more than unimpressed by the man's display. Leaping back with the agility of a cat onto a different car, he turned in midair, a hail of sharped ice crystal's flying from his hands towards the group. One down, four more to go. At least Kunzite and Beryl-hime might be happy with the one. Landing, he didn't bother correcting the man on his gender, all too pretty features forming a cruel smile. At least the senshi and their friends were still dumb enough to stand about making speeches or posing instead of attacking. He might actually be able to wipe out two or more before they could get themselves together to launch an offensive.

Rikko barely dodged the ice crystals, and avoided physical damage, his jacket however was not so lucky. *Crud! This witch is gonna be trouble! I won't even be able to use a smoke ball. Range is no good, need to get close. I only got one shot.* thought Rikko as he pictured Jurei with poetic licesence that she was hurt more than she actually was, *You won't be forgiven.*

Rikko took a deep breath, adjusted his grip on his sword untill it was pointing behind his left side, and took off at his *Maximum* speed, which allowed him to make his way toward Zoicte at a speed that allowed Rikko to get close enough to the witch without being blasted by another spell at the cost of almost all of his stamina, adrenaline and rage. He jumped the car that Zoicite was standing on and upto close range. Unfortunately, Rikko had misjudged the distance that he had covered and as he used almost the last of his strength, to swing his sword, which he swung in a spinning motion from his bottom left side up to the right, but only to at best tear Zoicite's uniform and maybe knick his skin, and also put Rikko at a position too close to the witch and as he landed, he felt his leg muscles *Burning* and give out as he landed. *CRUD! WAY TOO CLOSE!* thought Rikko as he fell toward the ground, and as he noticed how little damage his attack made, he thought to himself, *AND NOT CLOSE ENOUGH! I AM SOOOO DEAD!"

A snarl of rage slipped past his lips as he felt the metal encounter flesh, a warm spurt of pinkish red blood staining the grey of his uniform. *That* just earned this boy a death sentence. A wicked smile of delight crossed his lips as the male crashed down in front of him. His signature ice katana formed in his hands as he leaped off of the car and down towards Rikko. The blade sang through the air in anticipation of bloodshed as it decended towards the warrior's throat.

A Yellow background can be seen as Rikko's (SD) personality sits on his legs, open jawed, eyes almost shut, and tears rolling down his face. Another (SD) personality that looks very similar to Rikko, but with red eyes, walks toward SD Rikko with his hands clasped behind his back, and to Rikko's left side. SD Keikko stops behind the crying SD Rikko, places his hand on SD Rikko's shoulder, nods his head and says, "Nice move dumbass."

Rikko lays on the ground, staring wide eyed like a deer in the headlights at the frosty sword headed to make this his last day. *Not good! Not good! NOT GOOD!!!* thought Rikko. He barely managed to move his head as the sword made it's mark only in the skin of Rikko's throat, but still bringing about the crimson man juice begins to flow from his body. Rikko had moved his arm across his stomach, which put it less than an inch from the handle of the dagger that Keikko used. *Can't lift my sword, time for something smaller.* thought Rikko as he grabbed hold of the dagger and swung it toward Zoicite.

Zoisite blinked in suprise, a mixture of his vitae rolling from the cornres of his lips. Shocked jaden eyes turned downwards to the dagger planted in his midsection with a spreading stain around the point where the blade was buried. Pain flashed through his eyes and across his angelic features, making him look like a lost and hurt child that didn't understand just how they ended up this way. *Bright move, Zoisite, leap right down on the dagger. Impale yourself.* The katana stabbed downwards, not exactly the most graceful of movements from the sakura, but he was pretty sure that he wasn't going to get much of a chance after this. If this didn't kill him, not much else was going to. Panicking, his telepathy called out in fading tones of a badly sent and received radio station. Pain laced each of his words, conveying to the two recipients just how deadly this all had turned. ~~

Kunzite looked up from his collection of pressed flowers, eyes widening at the message. Closing the book with care, he morphed into his uniform, smoothing the fall of his cape absently as he teleported to the scene, floating several feet in the air, arms crossed and a frown on his lips. He took one look at the scene and threw an energy blast at Rikko.

The Venus Knight was already on his fight when Zoisite was stabbed. He knew something was going to happen to Rikko if Zoisite was still able to attack. As he run he looked over and noticed Kunzite had arrived. *Not good,* he thought as he witnessed the attack going towards Rikko. Jumping at the last second he tackled Rikko out of the way. When they came to a stop on the ground the Venus Knight used the momentive to roll to his feet. But he didn't stay on them for long as he felt pain run through his left leg. Kunzite's attack connected with his left leg. Clenching his teeth he looked over to Rikko. "Are you ok?" he asked. Trying to get back to his feet reguardless of the pain.

Nephrite was instantly at the scene. "What the hell?" he asked surveying the area. "Zoisite, what the hell were you thinking taking on the Senshi by yourself." he grumbled. He took a defensive stance in front of the wounded General, a scowl look on his face. "Alright, who's first." he asked.

Sailor Peace Keeper smiled to herself. "Well, well, all the Generals in one neat area for me to blast." she muttered. She brought her hands up. "Peace Keeper Blast!" she shouted and sent the small form of energy blazing towards the three Generals.

Zoisite wasn't much for fighting at this point. Having a blade in him was a new and painful experience. Having energy attacks, fire, lightening... anything of that nature thrown at him by the senshi were things he could handle. Blades and thrown roses always seemed to be his downfall. Dropping to one knee, he couldn't bring himself to grasp the hilt coming out of his midsection. The mere sight of his own blood slicking the grip and the surrounding material was enough to turn his stomache. Nephrite and Kunzite's familiar voices floated to him, the sakura hoping they ripped them to shreds for this.

"Haven't you learnt your lesson last time?" Kunzite demanded, making a slashing motion with his hand. Peacekeeper's energy ball crashed into a curved wall of black energy, fizzing out harmlessly before reaching the generals. He floated down to Zoisite, gripping him by the arm and pulling him to his feet. He yanked out the knife with one hand and pressed the other against the wound, using the stolen energy to force it closed. Letting the sakura go, he turned the knife over in his hand and smiled thinly at the assembled senshi. "Obiviously not," he said, flipping the knife over and throwing it at Peacekeeper.

*What is going on here?* Thought Rikko as he desprately tried to catch his breath and regain his energy, *What is wrong with these people? They don't act like everyone else. Jurei Jurei saved that blonde girl without any regard for her own safety. This one here, * he thought looking at Venus Knight, *just took that shot in the leg and probably saved my life. And this one,* he thought looking at Peace-Keeper, *She was ready to fight me a minute ago, but now she's fighting for me. What up with that?*

Rikko's gaze finally found Sailor Venus. *Hey, what's this? That one looks like Sailor V from that arcade game Devitti loves to play! Wait a second, what if it IS Sailro V? And these people are her assistants? What if i'm being saved by THE SAILOR V?!?!?! KICK ASS!!!* he thought as he inadvertantly smiled while looking at Sailor Venus.

Away from the battle, Jurei-Jurei slowly raised herself to a sitting position, coughing and smacking her her chest lightly. There was more than way to smoke a jester... of course, she wasn't going to stay around and find out how. A small tear rolled down her soot-covered cheek as she pulled herself around onto her knees. "*What the hoopajoo have I gotten myself into,*" she coughed, struggling to her feet. A sudden pain shot into her shoulders, causing Jurei-Jurei to flinch violently forward, a small grunt of pain escaping her lips. Her breath coming up as shivers as her torso shook, she tried to dust off her fuku with some dignity, and hobbled off towards the tree. She leaned against the mighty oak and winced again in pain. "*It's okay, I'm okay,*" she said in a squeak, licking a glove and snuffing out a smoking tendril on her bow. Her eyes watched in silent admiration as the real sailors began wrecking havoc on the evil ones. She had met two of them before. The brunette, the blonde-- she blinked. Whitey was a new one. "Never any rest for the weary," she coughed out in a whisper, saluting the quartet, and spinning her staff half-heartedly. "Go get 'em," she said.

Sailor Venus quickly jumped up to her feet, being taken by surprise by the sudden congregation of generals. " Been out of it too long... Venus Cresent Beam!" she said, firing the attacke at Nephrite.

Sailor Peace Keeper watched her attack fizzle away and then a knife heading for her. "Not good," she muttered as she dove out of the way. "We need to regroup and attack them all at once." she shouted to the other Senshi. Things weren't looking good. On her side the jester looking girl was down, and Venus Knight wasn't doing much more with a gash in his leg. Venus was still fighting and herself, well, what good can she do with a cage that can't seem to get close enough to the Generals. On the other side of the field, the blonde was down, and down for a long time with a knife in his stomach. Score one for the senshi. It was taking the white haired General to get the wounded off the field with the really cute bruntee holding off the senshi as they escape.

Nephrite moved to the side a second too late as Venus's attack senged his clean uniform. At least it didn't hit his hair. "Why are you two still here? Go before I blast you myself!" he grumbled firing two more attacks. One at Venus for scorching his uniform and one at the innocent bystander. That would get the Senshi off of him and to protect the innocent.

Zoisite clung to Kunzite, a reddish haze of pain falling over his vision. Once again, the youngest had proved to be the screw up, but at least he had dropped some of the senshi with him. Glancing up to his lover, he relt a rush of relief at the familiar trace of Kunzite's energy winding through his system. In its own manner, it was like a shot of a powerful narcotic to a mortal. His midsection hurt terribly, a painful reminder that was going to linger with him for quite some time. Locking gazes with Kunzite, he hissed through clenched teeth, "Destroy them, Kunzite-sama. Leave me alone, and kill them."

The Benefactor watched from his place. He could feel a power from this new stranger. "I feel a power from him," whispered the Benefactor as he looked at Rikko. Closing his eyes he then opened. "I can feel two powers in the same body," he whispered to himself. Lifting a glowing hand the Benefactor pointed it at Rikko. Teleporting him to his relm.

Rikko felt uneasy, at the least, at his sudden change of environment. He was still kneeling on the floor, loking at his new surroundings. He saw the mirror almost instantly. He regained himself, and made it to his feet. He walked over to the mirror and gazed into it. He saw the battle that he came from. *I must be dead if I can see this!* thought Rikko, as he looked on at the scene. *Wait a second, there is the guy that knocked me out of the way of that blast, and my body isn't there. I can't be dead if I have no body there.* he decided. He pulled the sleeve of his jacket up and pinched his arm. "Ouch! That hurt, so that means that I'm not dead, but if I'm not, where am I?" muttered Rikko. He turned to the right and started walking to the other wall, but felt a strange feeling, like something was being ripped from him. He turned to see a ghostly image of Keikko, whose face had haunted his mind for years now. "KEIKKO?!? WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?" shouted Rikko in suprise. Keikko turned to face Rikko. "RIKKO?!? When did you die?" asked Keikko. "Me dead? You're the one that looks like a ghost." said Rikko. "Look at yourself, Rikko." instructed Keikko. Rikko looked at his hands and could see through them. "N-n-nanio?" he questioned, "We both look the same." "Huh? What do you mean we? I've been dead for years now." said Keikko. A face of shock came over Rikko as Keikko watched him and laughed. They both heard a noise coming from the far side of the room and both stood ready to fight. "WHO ARE YOU? WHERE AM I? WHAT DO YOU WANT WITH ME?" demanded both of them seperately.

The Benefactor smiled slowly. "I should have known," he said as he got up from his chair. "I see you guys are always ready for anything," he said and looked at the pair. "My name is the Benefactor. I brought," he paused and looked at the two. "Both of you here because the Earth needs you. Just like the others that are fighting against the forces of evil," he explained.

Kunzite nodded his head thoughtfully. "Get yourself to a medic then, Zoisite," he told the younger man. Then standing up he walked over to Nephrite's side. "Time to make the odds more even, wouldn't you say?"

"You mean like Sailor V?" asked Rikko, as his face changed from defensive to excited. "Hold up Cap. No offence, but I just wanna know two things. What's in this for me and what's in it for you?" asked Keikko as he stood there with his arms crossed. Rikko went to backhand Keikko and said, "Don't be so damn rude, you uncoth bastard!" but his hit merely passed through Keikko's head. Both looked at each other as this defiance of physics took place.

"Well since you are living inside his body you can either live or die," said the Benefactor to the point. Then he looked over to Rikko. "Something like Sailor V," he said and sat back down. "I can sense the power within you. The power of a Knight."

"LIVE OR DIE???" questioned Keikko, "Well, i guess living is better than dying, even if it's with you Rikko." "Thanks loads..." muttered Rikko as his eyes shifted to Keikko. Rikko, turned to the Benefactor dropped to one knee and said, "Please tell me what i must do to recieve this power."

"There is not much," said the Benefactor. "Believe in yourself, believe in your team mates and believe in goodness," he said and then lifted his hand. A crystal appeared in his hand and slowly flowed over to Keikko. "Ues this crystal to use the power," he said.

Rikko went to take the crystal, but his hands merely passed through it. "What the..?" exclaimed Rikko. "What's wrong, Rikko? maybe it's not for you to use, eh?" said Keikko as he walked over to the crystal and reached for it to no avail. His ghostly hand was not able to grasp the magical item that floated toward them. They both looked toward the Benefactor.

The Benefactor looked at the two. "Since you two appeared here as ghosts. Witch is a first I have seen someone do," said the Benefactor. He looked at the crystal then looked at the pair. "Why don't you two come together?" he suggested.

Rikko and Keikko looked at each other and then at the Benefactor again. "He does have a good point." said Rikko. "Fine." said a rather indignent Keikko. Rikko stood in front of the crystal and Keikko walked into Rikko's form, causing the two spirits to become one meat body. The two reached out and grasped the crystal and pulled it toward the single entity. they raised the crystal in front of the body. They felt the crystal saying what to say to use its power, and he understood. *We understand.* both thought both of them at the same time. "Gentle Earth Power!" they both shouted. The body took the form of Rikko, complete with his milk white eyes. The floor around Rikko began to crumble and lift up in chunks of rock and surround him. They began to spin and after a few seconds, the rocks stop spinning and flew toward Rikko and then flew away, to reveal the Earthian Knight. "Whoa! What a rush." said the Earthian Knight as he looked at his new clothes. "Hey, what about my trenchcoat and everything in it. If you got it, just don't drop it and keep it away from heat, or you'll be sorry." said Earthian Knight.

"Don't worry about your clothes. When you used the crystal your clothes are stored in there until you return to your true self," said the Benefactor as he lifted his hand again. "Now I will return you two too the battle," said the Benefactor as he lifted his hand and returned the Earthian Knight to a rooftop right near the battle.

The Earthian Knight pondered what the Benefactor said, poked the crystal slightly, and said to himself, *Well ain't that somethin! I'll have to use this thing next time I have to travel. Then i won't have to take my bag. On the other hand, that could be a bad thing.* He heard a fight taking place below him. He looked over the edge of the roof and realized that he was looking at the fight that he had just came from. The Benefactor's words came back to him as he watched the Senshi fight, "Believe in yourself, believe in your team mates and believe in goodness." He saw the blast heading toward Sailor Venus. The crystal began to 'talk' to him again. He jumped off of the single story building and landed on his feet and a hand. As he touched the ground, he shouted, "Earth Shield!" A ball of energy traveled under the street and in front of Sailor Venus and a slab of pavement broke away from the street, rose in the air and turned so that it looked like a stone shield in front of Sailor Venus and absorbed the blast of Nephrite's attack. Earthian Knight then rose and looked at Nephrite and Kunzite. "Forgive my manners for not introducing myself, but here's my card! Earth's Vengence!" shouted Earthian Knight. The ground in front of the Knight instantly crumbled into gravel and rose to chest level in front of Earth Knight. He shouted, "A FLURRY OF BUCKSHOT!" as the stones were propelled at high speed toward the two generals.

The Venus Knight made his way over to Sailor Venus. "Are you ok Sailor Venus?" he asked and looked her over for any injuries. After not finding any he looked towards the Earth Knight. "Another Knight joins the battle," he said softly.

Sailor Peace keeper smiled. "Another knight..how nice." she said approaching the two men. "I am Sailor Peace Keeper, and whom do you belong to?" she asked. she hadn't met many of the knights, but she had figured out that they each protected one senshi. She had yet to meet her protector and hoped that he came along soon.

Earth Knight turned toward the approaching Sailor. "Belong to? Why do you people make me feel like a side of beef? I'm a person, not some kind of toy for you all to play with." asked Earth Knight as he looked her up and down. As he returned his gaze to her face, he noticed the five rings in her ear an d the one in her nose. Earth Knight raised an eyeborow at the 'decorations' on this girl's face and thought, *Oh GOD! It's deja vu all over again. I w onder what other places she has em?*

Peacekeeper sighed. "No need to get defensive sweeite. What I meant was, which one of us are you suppose to protect? What's your element? Each Senshi has a knight protector, I think, well they have so far. Anyway I was just wondering which of us lucky girls you get to protect?" She then shrugged.

Nephirte put up a small shield. "You're orders, General?" he growled at Kunzite. he knew better then to try and order the other General around, especially during a fight.

Kunzite chuckled as the rocks smashed into the shield he'd made earlier, causing the surface to ripple but not crack. "They don't learn very well, do they? Let's take care of them. Since thay are so silly to stand behind a wall of concrete, then let's knock it down." He conjured his boomerangs into exsistance and threw them at the earthen shield, slicing deep parallel cuts into it.

Earth Knight was about to tell Peace Keeper his name, but heard the boomeran gs comming. On instinct, he took off running toward Peace Keeper, and grabb ed her by the waist, and thought to himself, *Found another one.* "My element is Earth, but it looks like it's you i'm protecting, cutie." said Earth K night as he ran into the alley as his wall collapsed in to gravel after the first boomerang hit it, leaving the wall crumbling to gravel as the second o ne came slicing through, only slicing about 12 inches of Earth Knights mane of red hair, unbeknownst to him. "It never told me it was only good for one shot! This sucks!" said Earth Knight.

Peace Keeper smiled up at him. "Thanks...at least you got a simi-decent power..I got a cage that won't hold them." she said and sighed.

Nephrite nodded and gathered small balls of energy in his hands and let them fly at the Senshi.

"My turn." Peace Keeper cried as she pulled earthian Knight closer to her and rolled over, letting the balls hit near them, but not themselves. "You ok? We got to get out of here, or get some back up." she said.

Earthian Knight looked at the two generals and heard police sirens coming toward the scene. *SHIT! PUERCOS!* he thought. He looked at Sailor Peace Keeper and said, "Discresion IS the better part of Valor.... So is saving your ass. Run!" Earth Knight started running down the alley and away from teh cops.

Sailor Jurie Jurie looked towards the sirens.."Cops..I really hate cops. See ya guys..I am out of here!" she said, and took off towards the roof of a building.

Sailor Peace Keeper looked around her at the fleeing Senshi. "We can't leave, not with them here!" she shouted, looking up at the Generals. "There will be another day." she muttered and started to high tail it in another direction.

Nephrite looked to Kunzite. "They're getting away. If we follow we can catch them." he said impationatly.

While Kunzite and Nephrite were off fighting the senshi, the youngest of them was curled up in his bed back at Sanjouin Estates. Even with Kunzite's energy flowing through him, his stomache still hurt, a phantom pain of sorts from where the dagger had been imbedded in his flesh. He wanted Kunzite badly, someone to snuggle and leech energy from. Someone that loved him, even if the Dark Kingdom did frown on such things. Hugging his pillow, his eyes slid shut, blocking out some of the pain.

Kunzite laughed and extended a hand towards the cops. "Let them run," he said, stripping the officers of their energy. "Running away from us while we calmly harm some of the city's finest will not be very good PR for them when the press finds out. Besides," his tongue flicked across his lips, his elongating teeth showing. "I'm hungry."

Nephrite gritted his teeth. "As you say." he said. he pulled out a small crystal. Energy from the surrounding people raced to the crystal. He continued this for over five minutes until the crystal was full. "I hope that Beryl-hime isn't upset that we let the Senshi go. I also hope this is enough energy to please her." he said.

Earth Knight found a storm drain and dove into it. After pulling himself out of the water and got to dry land, reversed the transformation. *Whoa, what a rush.* he thought. "Well, I'm not sure who they were, but I sure pissed 'em off. Oh well, I'm used to it." he said to himself as he walked through the storm sewer, "Well, anyways, I gotta have a talk with that Benefactor guy. This powwer sucks. A shield that's only good for one shot, and a cannon that can't touch 'em. Real good. Well, I'd best start reading my book and ..." he said as he reached behind him for his bag that wasn't there. "OH SHIT! IT'S GONE! Damn, I must have lost it after I ate with Jakurin! Shit! I gotta find it!"

Kunzite chuckled, looking sideways at Nephrite. "More energy to awaken Metallia is always welcome, Nephrite. More energy starved people for slaves is as well. Just because we didn't capture senshi is no big thing. The more ground they loose the easier it will be to capture them all." He snapped his hand closed, sending drained bodies to scatter across the field of battle like broken dolls. Wiht a smirk, he teleported to the Dark Kingdom with the energy he had gathered

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