Storm Knight clenched his fists, sapphire eyes narrowing but keeping cool. "Why attack us?" he asked softly. "Why do you believe we are the threat, when there is one larger out there, terrorizing some poor soul?" he asked.

    Guardian pressed his blade just a tiny bit harder and kept his voice even, "A classic military tactic. Disguise yourself and inflitrate your enemies. You then destroy them from the inside. Simply put you two don't seem like Senshi, or even normal humans. Your sayings about love and everything are overly dramatized and completely useless. Next time dear youmas I would recommend telling your unintelligent Generals to better prepare their plans." (OOC: "errrr........weakness, weakness...." *reads Guardian's AR profile*......... "THAT'S IT! MWA HA HA HA!!!*) Sailor Storm's eyes narrowed with the 'tears' streaming down. "Oh please, do you think we'd send out youma..." In an instant, with his free hand, he created a ice crystal dagger and shoved it back and upwards at the right side of Guardian's bodysuit. Not waiting to see if it connected or not, the slight distraction gave him enough time to duck out in a swirl of cherry blossoms and reappear into the air, creating a ball of fire as large as his head. "When we can easily break into your ranks ourselves?" he chided, shedding his 'sailor' outfit onto the ground as his own, more comfortable Dark Kingdom uniform enclosed his slender body. "And as for youma..." With that, he sent his fireball at the sailor outfit, engulfing it. A hiss of steam escaped from the mess... (Hey, PA-chan, you create the youma. My mind is spent.... ^^;;;) Guardian slid to the side with his body just enough to avoid the dagger piercing completely yet it still gazed his side drawing blood as the sakura vanished. He brought his hand down and fell into a fighting stance, ignoring his wound for the moment. "Never doubted it was one of you Generals. Your pride in yourselves made calling you youma a perfect plan to force you to reveal yourself, Zoisite." Nephrite also teleported up, leaving his costume in a heap of cloth on the street. He reappeared in a bright amber flash beside Zoisite. "Well, can't leave this wonderful fight for love and justice without sharing a bit of love." he sighed. He sent an amber ball at his costume, making it come back to life. An ugly femlae youma took the place of Nephrite in his Knight outfit, complete with sword and fire ball. Peacekeeper ran over to the Guardian. "You're hurt, we have to get you out of here. You're no good to us dead." she said offering her shoulder to help him away. Zoisite's own costume rose, an ugly male monster taking the senshi's spot, a huge ice spheroid being formed in its hands. "Now, now, PeaceKeeper," taunted the fire king, crossing his legs and smiling devilishly. "You know that the only good senshi IS a dead senshi." With that, Zoi's monster roared and began a full frontal attack. "Amazon Growing Surge!" Sailor Amazonia doubled her height and turned into a giantess. Then she leapt up into the air, and came down feet first onto Sailor Youma. With a pogo pop-up, she reached for Zoisite's ankles, ready to rip him down like a basketball hoop from a breakable backboard. Guardian shook his head and forced himself to stand under his own power. He breathed deeply, gathering his nerve and spoke, his voice still even, if weakened, "I've fought worse odds and survived. For now we have a battle to win." His fist took a firm grip on his sword's hilt as he leapt towards the other youma whispering, "Imperium Spirit Cut." He felt the energy leave his body and enter his blade as it glowed a faint blue and came sailing down towards the monster. Peacekeeper cursed under her breath. "Baka, he's going to get himself killed and then we will be one senshi short in our fight." she muttered. "PeaceKeeper Blast!" she called and sent the glowing ball towards the male youma. Nephrite watched the battle and slowly levitated himself higher from the scene. ~I wish Kunzite was here to do that neat Dome of Darkness he can create. Think maybe with our combined powers of love and justice we can create something similar? They are all together in one perfect package for us~ he sent to Zoisite. Zoisite's agility wasn't a match against any senshi save the Guardian or Preacher, but giant women launching themselves at him was enough to rattle the sakura a bit. Pulling into a ball in the nick of time, he felt the surge of wind the amazon senshi had created near the bottom of his boots, propelling him upwards a bit. Narrowing his eyes as he slided closer to Nephrite, he wondered if the star king wouldn't like to ram some of that love and justice down the girl's throat. "Why don't we begin with the raven-hair one?" said Zoisite, creating a fire ball. (OOC:*passes a Zoisite doll to Lucas/Nephrite and waves*) Grunting in bare-handed disappointment, Sailor Amazonia plummeted back down towards Sailor Youma, ready to stomp and jump up again. She saw Zoisite ready his blast. *This is going to take some very good timing.* Then she shouted, "Hit me with your best shot, fairy boy! I don't need to rock up for what you got!" Zoisite let the fireball fly towards Sailor Amazonia. "Dodge this, beef girl!" he shouted. PeaceKeeper watched as the male youma dodged her blast and lunged to get on top of her. She tried to move but was too slow as she found herself pinned on the ground. Nephrite smiled and sent his own attack down on Sailor Amazonia. A dark circle of stars appeared out of his hands and flew beside the fire ball towards the senshi. Guardian cursed silently and let a rose soar towards the Generals' attacks as he turned towards PeaceKeeper and brought his still charged blade crashing down towards the youma's back. *Wow! Two for the price of one!* Amazonia mused. And she artfully flipped away from Sailor Youma on her bounce up and let the Generals' stars and fireball fly through where she was and right at their creation. ((OOC: This isn't powergaming, I hope?)) ((OOC2: My duh... forgot flashcom went belly-up...) (OOC: *steals her dolls back*) "No!" cried Zoisite as his artful youma shrieked and exploded into smoking ashes. "Neffy-baka!" he shouted, turning to the older man with clear annoyance fluttering about him. "Why did you aim it right at MY creation!?" Nephrite looked over at the younger General annoyed. "I didn't..I aimed at that Senshi you wanted destoryed. I didn't notice she was standing right in front of your youma!" he snapped back. The youma got off Peacekeeper and turned its attention to the Guardian. There was a large gash on its arm where it had been hit. It roared in pain and charged the Guardian. Peacekeeper rolled over to watch the fight. "Guardian.." she cried. "Oh, so now it's MY fault that you can't tell the difference between a senshi and a flaming sailor-look-alike?! You can't hit the broad side of a barn!" snapped Zoisite. The injured warrior met his foe in combat and brought his body down, using the youma's momentum to fling the monster up and behind him, but not before he felt a rip. He glanced at his wound to see the bleeding slightly worse, if anything the fight was going to make his injury a whole lot more serious. Sailor Amazonia eyed Guardian's injury, the tossed youma, and the two generals. Seeing that Nephrite and Zoisite were busy playing slapfight, she dashed over to Guardian. "Peacekeeper! Think you can toast the Youma Knight? I got our boy covered!" Literally. She stooped down and kneeled over him, eyeing the wound, and ready to turn into a stone shield. ((OOC: Question: Is it permissable for Amazonia to use both her Growing Surge and Stoneback powers so she's a 12'+ tall statue? Or is that too powerful?)) (OOC: I'd guess that'd be Jeremy or Lucas-chan's call. Me? I say that a 12+ statue would scare the heck out of me!) "I can still whoop your sorry hide!" shouted Nephrite. "Or do you need a bit more time in 'the globe' to get that through your little brain!" And so the two generals began getting into a shouting match, disregarding the fight far below. (Well, not out of Sailor Amazonia's reach, but still.) "Your plan failed, as always!" "My plan?! YOU suggested we infiltrate. I merely supplied the disguises, so when Beryl calls us on this it's all YOUR brainchild!" "And who told me I looked absolutely stunning in the suit to begin with! They obviously saw through it, Neffy-baka!" "Maybe if YOU hadn't jumped the gun we could have murdered one by now!!" "Jakurin? What are you doing with a thermometer?" asked a surprised Ureshii. Whacking it twice against the oven, Jakurin shook her head. "98.6. I must be going crazy... I'm starting to hear voices..." Ureshii arched an eyebrow at her friend. "Ano... we'll check you out later. I've got a lot of hungry customers out here." Jakurin shrugged and nodded, beginning to pound out some dough. "Gotcha, Uri-chan!" she smiled, giving her a V sign. "Food's on the way." Listening to the Generals's spat, Sailor Amazonia reached behind her back, grabbed her bow-tied sash, and ripped off a portion of it into strips. Her ample-sized cloth made a large enough bandage as she reached down and tried to apply it to Guardian's side. "Don't worry," she said. "And don't move too much. This should do until a doctor can apply his touch." She wondered if her fuku's bow would be ripped again the next time she bacame a Senshi. Or if the bandage would disappear when she became Dura again. Tabling all that, she continued her first aid. Guardian shrugged off away from the towering Senshi, "Worry about your opponents before you worry about me." With that he painfully leapt into the air and let a rose fly at the arguing Generals. Now was the perfect oppurtunity to perhaps be rid of one of them. Zoisite barely saw it coming out of the corner of his eyes, and flipped himself back as the rose sailed on. Placing a hand lightly to his face, he stared down in intense hatred at the Guardian. One cut on his face was enough. And time to return the favor. With a snarl, he shot his left hand forward, shouting, "ZOI!" as the ice shrapnel and cherry blossoms zoomed in for the Guardian. PeaceKeeper called upon her powers. "PeaceKeeper Blast!" she cried and aimed for Zoisite's cherry blossoms. She hoped that the power would cancel, if not at least weaken, the General's attack. Nephrite backed up and gathered his hands together. He sent a burst of energy at the large senshi below him. *Let Zoisite handle the Guardian. I'll take out a senshi.* he thought. Sailor Amazonia twinged as she saw Guardian draw the Generals' fire their way. *You dope!* she thought. *You had to turn their attention off each other and onto us!* Shrinking to her normal height, she cartwheeled to her left, and got clocked sideways by Nephrite's assault. "OOF!" she grunted. "Should've Stonebacked!" Guardian landed on his feet hopped to the side to avoid Zoisite's attack and let another rose soar at the General. As his barrage was stopped and dropped harmlessly to the ground by PeaceKeeper's quick deflection, Zoisite launched himself downwards at the green-haired senshi with frightening quickness, right elbow out to clock her in the chest. Guardian followed his rose attack with his sword drawn towards Zoisite as he ignored the pain and blood for now. His immediate concern was the battle ahead. A searing pain tore across Zoisite's right arm as the Guardian's sword edged across his shoulder. It was almost too close to call as Zoisite quickly landed and stood with a whirl, holding a white gloved hand over the dark pink stain that began to flow onto his uniform. PeaceKeeper fell backwards as Zoisite's elbow got her good in the chest. Her breathing was short as she gasped to catch it again. Nephrite continued to send a barrage down on the giant senshi. He was going to kill one today if it took all his energy. Guardian kept his eye focused on Zoisite and parted his attention only briefly to let a rose soar at Nephrite's hand before he charged forward to bring his sword into range for a killing blow at Zoisite. Although Zoisite didn't exactly enjoy not having much physical muscle, his height and figure made him an excellent candidate for any gymnastics team. And so he crouched down and rolled forward as the Guardian's sword missed his back by a few centimeters. However, one side of his head fell a small tugging sting. Spinning back into a crouching position so he could see the Guardian's back, Zoisite slowly reached his injured arm back, feeling the back of his head... and gave a little squeak of horror. Half of his ponytail had been shorn off and laid in the dirt where he had once stood. The Guardian had given him a hair-cut. With a snarl, the sakura shot himself into the air again. Shouting "ZOI!" a barrage of needle-like ice shrapnel and cherry blossoms headed for the back of the injured Guardian. Zigzagging and narrowly dodging Nephrite's starfire, she spotted the ignored Youma Knight. Trying a new wrinkle, she dashed directly at it, leapt up overhead the creature, then in mid-air yelled "Amazon Stoneback!" Turning to much heavier rock, she let gravity take its toll. Nephrite watched as the youma got squished by the over sized senshi. ~Zoisite, lets go.~ he sent. He let loose a few more blasts at the senshi, waiting to follow Zoisite, once he left. Guardian leapt forward and felt as blossoms still tore into one of his legs and gritted his teeth as one of Nephrite's blasts collided in front of him, sending his body reeling backwards. "GUARDIAN!" PeaceKepper shouted and rushed to his side. "You've fought enough for today. Go..we'll handle it from now. You're no good to us dead." she pointed out and covered him so he could escape in the opposite direction. "PeaceKeeper BLAST!" She cried sending the blast towards Zoisite. He rolled over onto his stomach and ground his teeth together tightly as he bit back the pain coursing through his body. His chest heaved with pain for every breathe he took, *Cracked ribs, maybe a couple broken. Probally some internal bleeding too, thank goodness my body can heal almost anything given time.* He gripped his sword with one hand and pressed himself back to his feet and turned to face the two Generals and breathed deeply before speaking in his even voice, forcing it to sound as natural as it always was, "As long as I draw breath I will fight." "Which'll be how long, 60 seconds?" quipped Sailor Amazonia, as Nephrite's stars slammed into her stony body. They made her wobble, but didn't knock her down. She began to trudge over to Guardian, ready soak up the bad guys' worst. Guardian kept his voice even despite the pain, "I am a great deal tougher than you believe. Worry about protecting one another and not me, I have already given myself to the fact that I will meet my destiny in battle one day. It is a possibility I do not fear." PeaceKeeper slapped him across the face. "If you want to die in battle, that's your call. But if you die in this battle, what about the battles to come. What do you expect us to kill these damn youma with, huh? My cages? Jurei's staff that makes things pink! No, we don't have true powers to kill we can one detain for a moment while someone else takes them out!" she said. "If you want to die, then wait for after the Dark Kingdom is destroyed. Until then you work with us like a team whether you want to or not. Now get out of here!" Nephrite continued to send his bragaide down on the senshi. ~Zoisite..can you even teleport?~ he asked. Beneath the unnatural darkness that hid Guardian's face from the world his eye narrowed. Instead of speaking though he decided to act. He dived into PeaceKeeper as Nephrite's barrage beaded down on them, rolling and letting a rose fly at his opponent. Zoisite glared at Nephrite and the senshi. "Beware!" he sneered, holding onto his arm, which was beginning to go numb. "If it wasn't for your precious Guardian, you senshi would have taken us, or any one else in a heartbeat. One day, sailor soldiers, you may die regretting it!" he growled, flashing back to the Dark Kingdom in a swirl of cherry blossoms. ~Dang!~ thought Amazonia "out loud." ~Zoi Boy's gone! And I can't jump up and grab Nephy without turning to flesh, and getting fried! And I can't jump up and grab him as a Stoneback.~ She sighed. ~Why didn't Guardian give me a missle attack?~ Remembering she did, sort of, she looked around for plants to give Titan Soil, but the only one nearby was holding the Tower upright. Nephrite watched Zoisite safely teleport away and then he followed suit in a burst of amber light. He appeared beside Zoisite in the Dark Kingdom. "Let's get you to the energy pods. Then we can make our report. And I must say, you do make an incredibly cute senshi." he said with a roguish smile. Peacekeeper rolled with Guardian, instead of against. She knew that putting strain on him might make his injury worse. "You are so pig headed!" she cried once the generals were gone. "One day you will get yourself killed. You only think of yourself, when we are a team. You, me and the other senshi have to work together, or the Dark Kingdom will pick us off one by one. Then where will your precious earth be!" With that she turned on her heel to him. Guardian shealthed his blade and stared at PeaceKeeper and kept his voice even and low, "Think on what Zoisite said for his words are true." With that he took to the air and for home. "Wait, come back!" shouted Sailor Amazonia., as she turned back to flesh. "Let us help you home...!" But Guardian had disappeared by then. She kicked a rock in frustration. "Feh. If that flitting tinkerbell was right, we'd probably be on the same side. We wouldn't be the good guys." She turned to Peacekeeper. "Well, this was a heck of a get-together. Though I would've preferred a bridge party. All you other guys OK?" "Jaku-chan, wake up!" snapped Ureshii as she flicked a wet towel on the other girl's rear end. "Owie-Ow!" cried Jakurin, rubbing her backside. "I'm awake!...just...thinking..." "You're BURNING THE FISH OKO!" shouted Ureshii, wide-eyed and waving her arms. "What? (O.o) AIYAH! FIRE!" she shouted, pouring a bucket of water on the pancake and seafood munchie. A resounding hiss and steam filled the kitchen as Jakurin stuck two fingers out in a V. "Err... everything's okay! I'm fine! *cough cough* Just fine!" Zoisite snarled as best as he could as he leaned against a wall for support. "As soon as I see another fuku in your mansion, I'll sacrifice it to the gods! Damn those senshi!" (OOC: Curse those evil octopi!) Nephrite just laughed as he teleported away. PeaceKeeper turned to Amazonia and smiled. "The Benefactor gave me these crystals. They are suppose to help us communicate with each other It only takes a simple thought and all the other senshi can hear you, as long as you are wearing it." she explained. Amazonia looked at her necklace with a worried brow. "That's great, but I'm a little worried. What if another thought gets broadcast like last time... something I WANT to keep personal?" "Then I guess its no longer personal is it?" Michiru said with a wink.