Prelude
The Moon, 510 B.C.
Tress and Galus slashed at the hideous youma in front of them. Kimos and Likea were already dead as were Hu, Janis, Zeus, Hades and Zan.
Galus fell to his knees as a bone-like appendage pierced his chest, ripping his right lung and tearing his back open. If he wasn't dead, he would be soon.
"FLAME OF ANNIHILATION!!!" Galus roared, leaping at the bulk of the youma.
"NO!" Tress yelled.
In one of the most spectacular explosions in the battle so far, the Holy Knight of Mars died, killing thousands of youma, leaving a gaping hole in the lines, though that was quickly filled by more youma. Tress growled through the pain on his left side. As the greatest Holy Knight of Jupiter ever produced, he had a reputation as the finest warrior in all of the Silver Millenium. To die at the hands of mere youma, even Elite Youma, which these obviously weren't, was humilating to say the least.
Youma General Nahato appeared and gloated. With this man's death would come the fall of the final defense before Beryl's strike force could destroy the Moon Palace and rule the Silver Millenium and beyond.
"Jupiter STORM!!!" Tress roared.
The wind howled and ripped through the youma, racing towards the general. A magical barrier kept the general from feeling what the youma had. The general, however, was not powerful enough to keep from being thrown sixty feet backwards.
The remaining youma watched in satisfaction as the Knight of Jupiter fell to his knees. They advanced.
"STOP!!" A roar came.
The youma stopped as General Nahato stood up, wiping blood from his lip. He looked much worse than he had before.
"I will have the pleasure." General Nahato growled.
Nahato raced forward. Tress looked at him and stood back up. Nahato drew his blade. Tress raised his sword, closed his eyes, and began whispering. Nahato leaped into the sky with the intention of cleaving the last of the Jupiter Knights in half, but no sooner had Nahato begun to swing his blade and it descended towards the Holy Knight than Tress opened his eyes.
"GRAND THUNDER TRAIN!!!!" Tress called, summoning a thunder clap so loud and deadly that Tress, Nahato and all Youma within half a mile died instantly, the rest fell to the ground, clutching their ears or hearing sensors.
Beryl looked on the scene through her crystal ball. She began laughing. The youma she had sent were the most desperate, vile or generally useless creatures in all of the Dark Kingdom and the great Knights of the Silver Millenium had just killed themselves to stop the force of useless creatures. Nahato was a minor loss.
Suddenly Beryl paused, tears flowing down her cheeks. She began trembling.
"GALUS! What have I done?" Beryl asked herself.
Then, she growled and wiped away the tears that would never flow again and in doing so, lost her right to call herself a human being.
And the next day, light covered the moon as Queen Serenity banished Queen Beryl back to the Dark Kingdom. Sadly, the great Knights of the Silver Millenium would not have a planned resurrection as the Sailor Senshi would...
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Sailor Moon: Holy Knights of Valor
Chapter 1 - Reawakening and Jadeite
by A-kun
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2500 years later
April 16, 1990
Ben Hune awoke with a start. That stupid dream again. Why did it bother him so? What purpose was there behind a flame burning in the night? He growled and shook his head fiercely. A stupid dream. Nothing more.
He stood up, his 5'4" frame becoming upright. He check his messy brown hair with the mirror. His brown eyes rolled in their sockets as he made stupid faces in the mirror. Chuckling, he thought back to that showing of 'Attack of Zombie High Schoolers' (Author's Note: If this movie really exists, I'll have to hurt someone). He went into the bathroom and rinsed his mouth in a vain attempt to get the bad taste out of his mouth.
After using some mouthwash and watching in amusement as his dog tasted some, he got dressed for school as his dog began drinking out of the toilet. He paused to wonder if his dog ever knew what went into that water, then shrugged it off. He had school.
Ben was staring off into space. The only amusement he had the chance of witnessing was Usagi charging into the room in a vain attempt to NOT get a tardy. He was stuck on that odd dream that always occurred at odd intervals. He was so focused on it that he didn't notice Shigero Aoba, the tallest kid in class (at 6'3") and his friend, walking up to him.
"Earth to Ben? Hello?" Shigero asked.
Ben finally took note of Shigero's presence. The green eyed giant was one of the most notable kids in class. Especially since Shigero was still growing. The giant was now grinning the grin that had gotten them both thrown out of a public pool. Actually, it was a brown haired lech and his fiancee with green hair that were responsible, so Shigero and Ben were allowed back in.
"What?" Ben asked.
Shigero paused to scratch his short, red hair before leaning on a nearby desk.
"I was wondering if you'd like to go scope out that babe at the Hikawa Shrine on Cherry Hill?" Shigero asked.
Ben sighed. After food and babes, Shigero's next greatest drive was telling other people how to do their jobs. (Author's note: If you replace "babes" with "sex" and "Shigero's" with "man's", you get a very wise saying...)
"Sure, what the heck. I have nothing better to do-" Ben began.
Shigero grabbed Ben and drew him up so they were face-to-face.
"Ogling girls should be a TOP priority, not something you do because you have nothing better to do!!" Shigero told Ben with passion in his voice.
"I'm just saying that I have nothing else to do, so I can do it longer!" Ben replied quickly.
Shigero relaxed.
"Okay then..." Shigero replied.
Ben began to breathe again.
Ben wasn't exactly excited by ogling girls. The reason was because he had better things to do, no offense to the female gender, he had just become bored with women in general after finding those dirty magazines underneath his dad's bed. He also found the pictures boring. Now, he read the articles. They were so interesting. It was as if someone had taken a relatively good newspaper, put it into a magazine and put pictures of naked women in between the articles.
As they approached the temple, Shigero began drooling. Ben sighed. Why couldn't he have an ordinary life? Or at least some ordinary friends.
"Oh thank you, Kami-sama! It's the mother load!!" Shigero said.
Ben looked around at the girls, rather bored, until he saw one particular girl. She had long black hair, brown eyes, was roughly his height and was wearing a priestess's outfit. She was currently scolding an older man in a priest outfit. He wouldn't care if she was kicking that cat with the gold crescent moon on it's forehead that was perched on the shoulder of that girl with the stupidly long ponytails (she wasn't kicking the cat, but he wouldn't care if she was), he was....IN LOVE!!!
Then, Ben frowned deeply. Shigero was oozing over to them, the look in his eyes declared his intentions were less than honorable. Ben dashed forward and caught Shigero by the shoulder. This surprised Shigero. Ben was normally happy just to watch the babes bend over, jump for joy, do workouts, etc.
"Not the raven-haired one. She's mine." Ben told Shigero, shocking the hell out of Shigero as Ben had never even attempted to make a move on a girl.
Ben took a deep breath and walked over to her. His mind clicked on an idea as he walked over. This was experimental to Ben, so he had to do his best from what he had learned. He had learned a lot from Shigero's rejections, even if Shigero didn't.
****
At a dance club...
"Greetings, I'm Dr. Feelgood! How about a full body physical, baby?" Shigero's voice echoed in Ben's mind.
That had been a painful sight as the six girls had decked the living crap out of Shigero.
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At a horse ranch...
"Hey baby, I wouldn't mind you saddling me!" Shigero's voice echoed.
Who knew that the female horse that the girl was riding could understand what he had said? Or knew where to kick a guy?
****
At a visit to the reformed criminals center for women...
"Hey, what were you in for? I hear female prisoners like to spank each other-" Shigero's voice began.
Man, who knew that she could legally beat up lecherous young men?
****
So, from all of this, Ben figured out the right way to talk to a woman. Don't think like Shigero. However, just before he was about to speak, another priest appeared. This was a somewhat taller man with blond hair combed over his eyes.
"Miss Rei? I need your assistance for a moment." the man said.
"One moment, Jed." Rei replied.
Ben was MORE than just angry at this guy. Jed glanced back at Ben and for a moment, Ben got the feeling that he knew Jed from a long time ago. Jed turned away and Ben got the feeling that he definitely knew Jed from somewhere before.
[Jed, eh? Well, mister JED, you better watch your back. The wrath of my justice is assured...] Ben thought.
"Uh, Ben?" Shigero asked.
"What?" Ben asked, turning to his friend.
"You're kinda glowing." Shigero said, pointing to Ben's bright red aura.
"Oops! Damn." Ben replied.
However, Ben didn't get the chance to calm down and lose the aura. He quickly found a ward against evil on his forehead and a foot in his stomach. He fell back and onto his butt.
"HEY! WHAT'DJA DO THAT FOR?!!" Ben growled, standing up.
He stopped cold turkey when he noticed Rei and her grandfather standing in front of him.
"Uh, it's not what you think! I-" Ben began.
Ben never got the chance as two prayer wands began waving in his direction and the duo chanting. When that didn't work, Rei merely whacked him over the head with a BIG STICK (TM). Ben fell, swirls in his eyes.
Ben woke up in a bed next to Usagi. Shigero, Naru and a few other friends and classmates of Usagi's were sitting nearby.
"Sorry about that, I guess my aim was off." Rei apologized.
"Don't worry about it. Ben's supposed to be in training away." Shigero replied.
"Being conked on the head ain't training, Shigero." Ben replied, sitting up.
"Look, I said I was sorry already!" Rei snapped.
Shigero chuckled.
"Such a GREAT martial artist, eh?" Shigero asked.
"I never said I was a martial artist. I'm just in training." Ben replied.
"Sure, pal." Shigero replied.
"See you tomorrow, dork." Ben said.
He watched Shigero walked off. Then he heard a cat meow. He looked around and saw that black cat from earlier dashing off. Then he noticed something on the ground. He picked it up.
"A watch? Looks new. No name on it. Ah well, it's mine now!" Ben said, grinning as he walked off.
At the Hikawa Shrine, Rei knelt before the Great Fire. She put in a new log and the fire burst forth anew. Rei concentrated on the fire. Grandpa's odor was leaving, so he must be going to bed. However, she smelt Jed's odor growing. He must be near.
[Oh Great Fire, tell me who is....(oh KAMI-SAMA, THE SMELL!!)...is making that smell!] Rei prayed.
Jed's picture was shown in the fire. Rei sighed and wished Grandpa wouldn't keep ordering those 'Triple Bean Burritos' from Taco Bell (tm).
Jed watched as the back of his pants became rigid for the sixth time in the last hour. He took his prayer wand and swatted it down. That was the last time he would eat those 'Triple Bean Burritos' that Grandpa kept buying from Taco Bell (tm). Jed knelt so the brown stain on the back of outfit wouldn't be visible. He concentrated on his bladder, and felt the 'Brown Devil' retreating.
He opened the door to the Great Fire. The Great Fire turned blue, then white as the door was opened. Soon, it vanished altogether, however, it's heat was still detectable.
"Miss Rei, would you like some tea? I just made some." Jed asked.
"No thanks, Jed. Now close the door, you're making the Great Fire get too hot...again." Rei replied.
Jed began closing the door.
"Baby got back." Jed muttered just before closing the door completely.
Rei looked around. Who kept saying that? The Great Fire went down to normal. Meanwhile, the Great Fire began whispering "Baby got back..." to Rei again rather than tell her what she wanted to know.
Ben lay in bed, wondering why Jed looked so darn familiar. He sighed and decided to just go to sleep. Opening the front cover of Al Gore's book, he fell into a very deep sleep. In fact, he hit REM sleep immediately.
****Dream Sequence****
Ben awoke on Mars. He looked around and saw cities in the distance. Before him was a small collection of people that he didn't recognize. Someone was speaking, but he couldn't make out the words...well, he couldn't make them out exactly. It was something about 'Holy Order', 'Knights', 'Silver' and 'Millenium'. It made no sense to Ben.
Next to him was Shigero who was looking just as confused as Ben. Ben and Shigero turned again to see someone handing something to each of them. Ben recognized his as the watch he had picked up. He put it on. He no longer took notice of what Shigero was doing. He looked at the watch with complete focus. Then, something else caught his attention. It was the man who had handed him the watch. He was holding a sword in both hands and was apparently offering it to Ben. Ben reached forward and hesistantly took the sword in hand. Suddenly, the rest of the world didn't matter.
****End Dream Sequence****
****Flashback****
Galus and Tress looked at each other. They turned and raised their swords. The sacred swords of their planets. Energy crackled around them. Behind them, the Queen and the Princess of the Moon smiled.
"As the newest members of the Holy Order of Silver Millenium Knights, you have a great deal of responsibility, not just to your planets and this universe, but to all life in the kingdoms." The Great Knight of Pluto proclaimed.
The two knights nodded.
****End Flashback****
Ben started awake. He shook his head and looked at his alarm clock.
"OH GEEZ!! I'M LATE!!!" Ben yelped, getting dressed and putting on his watch. He raced out of the door with his bookbag and lunch.
Then, he knew he was late. Usagi was in front of him. He growled and dashed forward. No way was USAGI going to beat him to school! Not even for a day!
Ben sighed as he collapsed into his seat. He, Shigero and Usagi had all tied for the first into homeroom. Luckily, none of them were late, although for Usagi this was VERY unusual.
"Stupid alarm clock." Ben growled angrily.
"Man, I haven't had to run like that in weeks!" Shigero commented.
Ben fell silent. Shigero glanced at his friend and was about to say something to him when the teacher entered and the class grew silent.
"Did you hear about those disappearing temple buses?" a girl nearby gossiped.
Ben listened into the conversation. It was better than Umino's mini-speech to Naru about how interesting earthworms were.
"Yeah, it's so scary!" another girl added.
Ben rolled his eyes. Girls gossiping about something that was interesting was a longer shot than even Usagi coming to school on time for an entire month. Still, there was something about the topic that disturbed him.
"Hey, Shigero. Wanna go back to the temple?" Ben asked.
"Can't. Basketball practice." Shigero replied.
Ben frowned and turned back to his desk.
Ami, Usagi and Luna looked at the girls about to get on the 'temple' bus. They were all zoned out. Nearby, Ben stood noticing this as well.
[None of them are talking anymore. This is almost a stranger sight than the class brain and the class clown over there actually hanging out together.] Ben thought.
The bus arrived and the girls got on. Ben was about to get on when he saw Usagi burst into tears and hug a nearby stone pillar. Ami went over to her.
"Come on, Usagi! We have to get on or it'll leave without us!" Ami scolded.
"Come ON, Usagi! Stop being such a crybaby!" Luna scolded out of the line of sight of everyone else.
"I DON'T WANNA!!!" Usagi wailed.
"Yeesh! You'd think she'd get over that problem in kindergarten." Ben commented about to get on the bus.
In a burst of courage, Usagi lunged and tackled Ben so that he fell away from the bus. The bus doors closed and it began driving off.
"Usagi! Now I have to walk home!" Ben growled.
"LOOK!" Luna cried, forgetting to hide so no one saw her talk.
The four looked at the bus which lifted off it's wheels and began flying upwards into the sky.
"WHAT THE-" Ben began.
A black portal formed in front of the bus and sucked the bus in. Ben, Usagi, Ami and Luna stayed where they were as they watched the unusual sight.
"It has to be the Dark Kingdom!" Luna declared.
Unfortunately, this time, Ben noticed her talking. Having decided that he had definitely had too many awkward situations for one day, Ben fainted.
When Ben awoke, he was sitting against the wall near the bus stop. Ami, Usagi and Luna were all looking at him nervously. There was no denying that he had heard Luna talk.
"Are you all right?" Usagi asked.
"Maybe. Okay, what the heck is going on, Usagi? What are you, the wonder kid and Marlene, the talking cat all doing together?" Ben demanded, standing up.
"It's a long story." Ami said.
"I've got time to burn." Ben replied.
"First of all, her name isn't Marlene. It's Luna." Usagi replied.
"Right. Next, you'll be saying you're Sailor Moon, right?" Ben asked.
Usagi looked at the ground. Ben was flabbergasted.
"I'M RIGHT?!?!" Ben exclaimed, surprised beyond belief.
Usagi nodded. Ben turned to Ami.
"Sailor Mercury?" Ben asked.
Ami nodded.
"Why the heck are you telling me this?" Ben asked.
"Because you're the Holy Knight of Mars." Luna said.
Ben blinked.
"I don't wear a fuku, do I?" Ben asked.
"No!" Luna replied, trying to shake the idea of Ben in a fuku out of her head.
"Thank kami-sama!" Ami, Usagi and Ben replied in unison.
"So, what the heck do we do from this point on?" Ben asked.
"We find out more about these disappearing buses." Luna replied.
"Wait, how do I transform?" Ben asked.
"Just clap your hand onto your watch and say the words that come to mind." Luna responded in a voice that said "you should know this".
Ben rolled his eyes.
"So what are we going to do? Open a portal and blow up this Dark Kingdom you keep talking about?" Ben asked.
"No. We're not ready. We have to find out more about these disappearing buses." Luna replied.
"Okay, how do we do that?" Ben asked.
"We'll investigate this place tomorrow. When the bus comes again, we'll see what's going on..." Luna began, turning to glare at Usagi, "by getting ON the bus."
Usagi whimpered.
"Hmmm, I think animals AND Usagi can detect evil, don't you agree, Ami-san?" Ben asked.
Ami giggled.
"Yes, indeed." Ami replied.
"All right, we'll all meet back here tomorrow for the bus." Luna said.
The group split up.
The next day, Usagi, Luna and Ben all stood near the Temple Bus Stop. The standard group of glassy-eyed girls stood waiting for the bus.
"All right, here it comes." Luna said.
Usagi was in full-wail mode.
"For crying out loud, Usagi, have a backbone for once in your life." Ben snapped.
"One moment, I'll be done in a minute." Usagi cried.
A few seconds later, Usagi stood up, fresh as a daisy and acting as though nothing had happen. Luna and Ben both collapsed, then sprang back up.
"Let's go!" Usagi declared.
"Right!" Ben said.
The trio got on the bus and found all the girls were asleep.
"Now we have proof! Driver, stop this bus!" Usagi said, turning to the driver.
The Youma-Driver smiled wickedly.
"Stop? Not on your lives!" The Youma-Driver laughed, pressing down on the gas pedal.
The bus lurched forward, tossing the two would-be heroes and the talking cat on their heinies.
[Ow, I fell on my bottom.] Usagi thought.
Before the heroes could recover, the bus had already entered the portal.
Rei's eyes opened as she saw Jadeite's face in the flames once more. He was the source of their problems. She stood up and left the room of the Great Fire to confront 'Jed' about the bus disappearances, her missing panties and his gas problems.
'Jed' turned to see Rei and the two temple crows, Phobos and Deimos, entering.
"Jed! I know YOU'RE the cause for all the bus disappearances! AND MY MISSING UNDERWEAR!!" Rei yelled.
"Hey, I don't know what you see in those 'Simpsons' underoos for boys anyway. I mean they chafed, they bunched up and I'm pretty sure my voice has gone up two octaves. But look, if this has really upset you I've got some 'Kuba-san the Happy Hippo' panties that I traded for. They're from a guy named Kusanagi Mamoru, how about trying those on?" Jed offered.
"Well.....I have been looking for a new fa-HEY! Anyway, I'm still going to get rid of you!" Rei said, picking up her favorite BIG STICK (TM).
"HA! You can never stop the Dark Kingdom! HA-CHAA!! Oh how -sweet- it is!" Jed ranted as he morphed into a tiny, balding, white haired old lech. "Hey baby where's the fire, cause you're ssssssmokin'!!! Now how about letting me have a good cry into your bosom?"
Rei had heard about this evil old man. She pulled her riot gun and began firing sprays of hot lead at him. (Is this a little weak for a counter-attack against Happosai? - A-kun's question of the week.)
"Does this mean we aren't going on a date?" Happosai asked.
Jadeite laughed from the shadows. Happosai had changed to the dark side of the Force and was proving to be a powerful ally, even if he did smell worse than Jadeite and tried to grab all the girls and was ruining Jadeite's
reputation. Thank the Great Darkness that 'Jed' had been Happosai and not Jadeite himself. Jadeite would never be so vulgar. Jadeite decided enough was enough.
"Time for you to join the Dark Kingdom!" Jadeite laughed, opening a portal.
Happosai and Rei were both pulled into the vortex to head to two separate places. Happosai, back to the cave he had been trapped in for the last ten years. Rei was diverted to the place where her friends were.
Usagi, Luna and Ben awoke and stood up. Luna leapt to the windows.
"What IS this place?" Ben asked.
"It's a sub-dimension created by the Dark Kingdom." Luna explained.
"A sub-dimension?" Usagi whimpered.
"It's not the Dark Kingdom, Usagi. A sub-dimension is a place that isn't strong enough to have an entire planet in it, but it DOES have enough to have land, oxygen and a lot of other stuff. Or so I've heard." Luna explained.
"In my RPGs, a sub-dimension is usually created to act as a kind of pocket in space. There is usually only one way out. And that's through the path you take to get in." Ben replied.
"Very clever....ssssso sssssmart...." a very reptilian and very female voice said.
"Usagi, let's transform." Ben said.
Usagi nodded.
"MOON PRISM POWER, MAKE-UP!" Usagi cried.
"MARS KNIGHT-IN-TRAINING!" Ben called.
Light ribbons coursed around Usagi as she transformed. Flames surrounded Ben as he transformed. When they finished transforming, Usagi was wearing her sailor fuku and Ben was wearing a red silk outfit (a sleeve-less shirt and pants complete with silk bracers for his forearms).
"What? No cool weapon?" Ben asked.
"You have to call it." Luna told him.
Ben concentrated for a moment.
"Sword of Fire!" Ben called.
A burst of yellow flames formed near him and out of that, a sword formed.
"All right!" Ben said, smiling as he took the still flaming sword.
"Be careful with that." Luna warned, briefly recalling her fur catching on fire more than a few times.
"Right." Ben said, slowly walking towards the bus doors.
"Hey, how come I don't get a cool sword?" Usagi asked.
Luna sighed.
"Usagi, I don't know. Just go stop the Youma-driver of this bus." Luna said.
Usagi frowned but followed as Ben left the bus. Outside of the bus, blue sand covered the ground.
"Man, I've heard of red, yellow, white, black and normal sand, but BLUE? They must've been gathering this stuff from the Moon or something." Ben said.
Usagi didn't bother listening. She was too busy looking for the hideous Youma that had brought them here.
"I'M RIGHT HERE!" A snake-woman yelled, bursting from the ground near the two heroes. A scorpion-woman and a sand-rat-woman followed in suit, surrounding the duo. (KUSHINADA!! - A-kun and TharzZzDunN)
Then, a black portal opened in the sky and Rei fell out of it. The heroes turned to her, but the Snake-Youma was already there and picking Rei up.
"Crap." Ben growled.
The scorpion-youma noticed an opening and launched an attack at Ben. Ben yelped and hopped back as the scorpion-tail slammed into the ground in front of them.
"MOON TIARA ACTION!" Usagi cried, launching her Frisbee-O-Death at the scorpion-youma.
The scorpion-youma had no chance as the frisbee sliced her in half. The slow and stupid scorpion-youma screamed and vanished. The rat-youma leapt at the heroes, but Ben threw his sword and impaled the creature. It screamed as the flaming blade hungrily devoured it's fur. Finally it screamed and vanished.
The heroes turned to the serpent-youma. Noticing how quickly it's partners had fallen, it bared it's fangs as Ben's sword reformed in his hand and Sailor Moon's tiara returned to her.
"No clossssser or the girl getsssss it!" The serpent-youma declared.
Rei opened her eyes.
"REI! Do you still have your pen?" Luna asked.
Rei reached into her robes and pulled out the pen. She momentarily considered trying to shove the pen where the sun didn't shine for the snake-youma, but decided not to. Then, words began to form in her mind as did the impulse to yell them. Deciding that she was dead if she didn't, she clutched the pen tightly.
"MARS POWER, MAKE UP!" Rei cried.
The serpent-youma screamed and dropped her as the flames engulfed her. It leapt back as the flames grew too hot for it. Sailor Mars looked at herself and blushed.
"Wha-what is this?!" Rei asked.
"Not now, Sailor Mars!" Ben growled.
The serpent-youma leapt at Rei. Rei instintively grabbed the youma and easily hurled the creature a good twenty-five feet away. Instead of landing on it's back, however, the creature dove into the sands.
"Damn! Come on, let's get moving!" Ben said.
"No, it wants us to run." Rei said.
No sooner had Rei finished the sentence than the serpent-youma leapt out at Usagi. A rose flew and broke both of it's fangs. It screamed and clutched at it's teeth. Usagi looked up and saw Tuxedo Kamen standing on the nearby buses, which were all now convienently out of their embedded state, lined up and chained together.
"FIRE SOUL!" Rei called.
The serpent-youma screamed as it was bathed in flames. Finally, it vanished like the other two youma.
"Come on, Sailors.....and knight, let's get moving." Tuxedo Kamen said.
"Tuxedo Kamen..." Usagi said.
"Hey, how come you had to pause before saying 'and knight' and how come you said it in a less than respectful tone?" Ben asked.
"Tuxedo Kamen?" Rei asked.
"Come ON!" Luna cried.
The sailors, Tuxedo Kamen and the Holy Knight of Mars all climbed into the lead bus.
"No, seriously, why did you-" Ben began.
"Ben, let it go. It's the first time he's seen a Holy Knight, much less had to acknowledge one's presence." Luna replied.
"Oh, so I'm not GOOD enough to be mentioned, huh?" Ben asked.
"This isn't good. Even if we manage to get up there, the portal is closing too fast." Rei said.
Outside, Ami looked at the shrinking portal. She began focusing her power through her transformation pen and created and forced the portal to remain open.
"All right! Ami must be holding the portal open from the other side." Ben said, smiling.
He glared at Tuxedo Kamen, "SHE knows I exist."
"Ben, let it go." Luna said, putting a paw over her eyes.
Once the buses stopped, the heroes got off the lead bus.
"We'd best inform the police about these missing girls. In the meantime, I've got to get going." Tuxedo Kamen said, leaping off into the morning sky.
"HEY CAPE BOY! THIS AIN'T OVER YET!" Ben yelled.
"Usagi! You're okay!" Ami exclaimed, hugging Usagi as she got off the bus.
"Hey! What about me? I was almost killed too." Ben said, frowning.
"Tuxedo Kamen, eh?" Rei asked.
Usagi turned to Rei.
"Hey, wait a minute! You better not be thinking of MY Tuxedo Kamen! He's MINE!" Usagi declared.
Ami glanced at Usagi and Rei, who were currently discussing/arguing, and hugged Ben, who was more than startled that it actually worked.
"Do you know him?" Rei asked, raising an eyebrow.
"No.....but..." Usagi began.
"Then how do you know he even likes you?" Rei asked, smuggly.
Usagi began tearing up.
"He has to....you're so mean..." Usagi whimpered, close to bursting into tears.
Ben hurried next to Rei and whispered, "Look at her eyes and see if you REALLY want her to cry."
Rei noticed the river that was about to flow around her as Ben retreated to higher ground with Ami.
"Uh, hey, maybe he does like you!" Rei quickly amended.
"Really?" Usagi asked.
"Hey, I've been wrong about things before, so maybe I'm wrong about him not liking you." Rei said.
Usagi wiped the moisture from her eyes and smiled.
The three heroines and the single hero sat on the steps at Rei's temple.
"We REALLY gotta find someplace more reclusive. I mean, a temple for a meeting place?" Ben asked.
Rei glared at him.
"Not that there's anything wrong with this temple, it's great, but anyone can be around here, you know." Ben said.
"Ben is right. We have to find a place where we won't be spied upon. But where?" Luna asked.
"My mom is on active duty Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. We could meet at my house on those days." Ami suggested.
"My parents are gone on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays." Ben said.
"And my parents and Shingo are always gone until eight P.M. on Sundays, Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays." Usagi commented.
"What do they do on those nights?" Ben asked, curiously.
"Shingo always plays late with his friends all week long. Mom and Dad both go shopping Tuesday. Then they both have 'secret' clubs to go to Friday, Saturday and Sunday." Usagi explained.
"Okay..." Ben began.
"So we all have a lot of openings." Ami observed.
"Yeah. We should work up a schedule." Rei said.
"Perhaps buy a Time-Share at a condo..." Usagi mused.
The trio looked at her.
"What?!" Usagi asked.
"JADEITE!!" Queen Beryl roared.
Jadeite appeared, trembling a bit at Queen Beryl's rage.
"Time and again you have failed to get ANY energy for the Dark Kingdom. And the precious little that you DO gather is often taken away or less than what we predicted we would get!" Queen Beryl declared.
"My Queen, I-" Jadeite began.
"SILENCE!" Queen Beryl bellowed.
Jadeite shut up as did all the other generals.
"You have failed too many times. Time and again you let those pesky Sailor Brats stop you! Next time, you had best defeat them or DON'T BOTHER COMING BACK! Failure will NOT be tolerated next time." Queen Beryl declared.
Jadeite fumed. Here Queen Beryl was blaming him for the things that his YOUMA had failed to accomplish. As the saying went, "If you want something done right..."
Rei, Ben, Usagi and Ami were meeting at Usagi's house as it was a Friday.
"...Hire a professional!" Ben finished.
The girls burst into laughter. Laughter that was cut short as a booming voice echoed over the city.
"SAILOR SENSHI, I CHALLENGE YOU TO A DUEL AT THE AIRPORT AT MIDNIGHT TOMORROW! SHOW UP OR ELSE!" Jadeite's floating face declared.
"Or else what?" Ben demanded.
The floating head seemed to think about it for a while.
"OR WE'LL RELEASE NOXIOUS AMENSIA GAS ON THE CITY!" Jadeite declared.
The floating head turned for a bit as something was whispering in his ear.
"WE SENT IT WHERE? OH FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, OKAY, WE'LL DESTROY THE CITY!" Jadeite declared.
"GET ORIGINAL!" Ben yelled.
"GET SHOWTIME!" Usagi yelled.
"GET CINEMAX!" Rei yelled.
"GET THE PLAYBOY CHANNEL!" Ami yelled.
"Ami?!" the others asked.
"What? It's very informative." Ami replied.
"OKAY, LET'S SEE.....WE'LL STEAL ALL THE TOILET PAPER IN THE WORLD!! WE'LL EVEN PUT THE SQUEEZE ON THAT NICE SOFT CHARMIN!!" Jadeite declared.
"DON'T SQUEEZE THE CHARMIN!!" everyone in the city yelled.
"TAKE THAT! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA-AAAAAAAAAAAAH!!! I'M MELLLLLLTTTIIIIIIIINNNNNGG! MEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLTTTIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNGGGGGGGGG! WHAT A WORLD! WHAT A WORLD!" Jadeite cried as he faded out.
"What a yutz." Ben commented.
Just as everyone turned their attention from the sky, Jadeite's head reappeared.
"PRETTY GOOD, HUH?" Jadeite asked.
"GET A LIFE!" Everyone yelled.
Jadeite's face faded out once again. Then reappeared to give a disgusting grin and vanished again. Everyone turned away, then turned back to make sure Jadeite didn't reappear.
"As stupid as Jadeite is, I just KNOW he'd do that." Usagi grumbled.
"Well, since it is a challenge, we HAVE to take it seriously. Even if he DID make a putz out of himself." Ben commented.
"So, we're all going, huh?" Ami asked.
"We have to. Who knows what that lame-o is ready to do." Usagi declared.
The next day at school, Shigeru walked up to Ben's desk.
"So, what'cha think of the message by the putz in the sky?" Shigeru asked.
"Nuthin' to worry about. I wouldn't even consider it a threat. It's probably just a hokey scheme by the people at the airport to get more business." Ben replied.
"Well, I know _I_'m goin to check it out." Shigeru said.
"Look, we can spend time at the Temple at Cherry Hill." Ben replied.
"Not when all the chicks are planning to go to the airport." Shigeru replied.
Ben's eyebrows shot up.
"What?! They're all going to listen to that hokey crap?" Ben asked.
"Apparently." Shigeru said.
"And of course, all the perverts will follow, expecting girls to show up...hmmm, Shigeru, old buddy, I have a favor to ask of you." Ben began.
At 11:00 PM, the four warriors of Justice and their faithful talking cat were at the train station.
"I thought that all the girls in the school would be here. After all, everyone was gossiping as to how much they wanted to go." Usagi said.
"Ami and I had Shigeru, Naru and Umino redirect them to the 1 Day Clear-Out at the local Macy's." Ben explained.
"And the guys must've followed." Ami replied.
A train suddenly pulled up.
"I don't like this, Senshi." Luna said.
"A-HEM!" Ben said, coughing a bit.
"AND Holy Knight." Luna corrected, rolling her eyes.
"Still, we have no other way there. Buses aren't running and we can't ask for a ride without drawing attention." Rei said.
"Then let's get going." Usagi said, timidly.
The group climbed into the train car. The train began moving.
"Let's transform. That way we can't get caught off-guard as easily." Ami said.
"MARS POWER, MAKE UP!"
"MERCURY POWER, MAKE UP!"
"MARS KNIGHT-IN-TRAINING!"
"MOON PRISM POWER, MAKE UP!"
The four quickly transformed. The four warriors each waited patiently. They were about to face off with a general from the Dark Kingdom. Thus, each was feeling something different.
Ben was feeling anticipation of the battle, his blood was pumping rapidly. Ami was feeling nervous, her heart seemed to be jumpy. Rei was tense, she was prepared for an ambush at any time. Usagi felt strangely calm.
The train rode on into the night.
Jadeite looked at the security guards at the airport and frowned. It just wouldn't do to have witnesses. He waved his hand, releasing a noxious amensia/knock-out gas. It was commonly found emitting from random places or people in the Dark Kingdom.
Then he set about creating a Time Bubble. Once the Senshi and the Knight entered, the Time Bubble would move time faster within the Bubble, allowing him to be able to finish everything and return to the real world having used only a few seconds.
But, should the Warriors of Light win, the Bubble would explode harmlessly and vanish, so either way, it would be gone. And so would one of the teams inside. Now, the last time he had fought the senshi, he had them in a dimension that was Dark Kingdom friendly, so he could call three youma. He would need four youma this time, but the dimensional portals weren't strong enough. Then, he noted a few arcade games nearby. He smiled.
The train stopped and the four heroes raced into the Airport. Numerous guards were unconscious. In fact, ALL the guards were. Jadeite appeared before them.
"Meet me outside." Jadeite told them as he vanished.
The heroes raced outside. Jadeite conjured four youma. Ben formed his sword and the heroes leapt into action.
Ben found himself against what looked like an evil version of Sonic the Hedgehog. It was just as fast. He leapt up and slashed at it with his sword. His sword missed, but so did the evil Sonic's attack.
Rei was fighting an evil version of Ryu from Street Fighter 2. Of course, he was just using his standard attacks for the time being, so all she had to do was walk backwards or jump over him.
Usagi was wondering why Rockman was firing lemons at her. The lemons weren't even very hard. In fact, they felt like Nerf (tm) stuff (tm).
Ami was doing battle with an evil Mario and Luigi. The most the evil duo was able to do was jump at her. All she had to do was keeping walking under their ridiculously high jumps.
"Hey, Rei, trade ya!" Ben said.
"Right!" Rei replied.
The two warriors of fire traded places.
"Aku-Ryo-Tai-San!" Rei said, pulling out a ward and slapping it on Sonic's forehead as the evil speedster ran at her. She kept her hand on Sonic's forehead, keeping the short animated evil hero from effectively attacking her as the speedster began slowing down. Soon, he was moving as fast as a normal human.
"FIRE SOUL!" Rei cried, charring the little hedgehog to death with her fireball.
The hedgehog vanished into dust. Meanwhile, Ami was yawning as she walked underneath Mario and Luigi for the eighty-fifth time.
"Usagi, I'll trade you opponents." Ami said.
"Sure!" Usagi said, getting tired of the Nerf-shooting Rockman.
The two girls traded places. Ami walked over to Rockman, ignoring the Nerf blasts from the frantic robot. She opened a panel on his back and began rewiring him.
Meanwhile, Usagi plucked her tiara off her head and grinned evilly at the two evil plumbers.
"Uh crapa, Luigi, I thinka we're ina it deepa!" Mario said.
"No crapa, this is worse thana Koopa!" Luigi replied.
"MOON TIARA ACTION!" Usagi cried, hurling the frisbee-o-death at the two plumbers.
They jumped. The frisbee followed, cutting them in two and reducing them into moon dust.
"DUSTED!" Usagi cheered.
Ryu was getting serious with Ben as the animated fighter bent down. Ben wondered what Ryu was up to.
"SHORYUKEN!" Ryu yelled, launching the Dragon Punch.
Ben managed to dodge out of the way in time.
"Heh. Sucker." Ben laughed.
Ben cleaved the animated fighting character in two. Ryu disolved into dust. Meanwhile, Jadeite was so angry, that he was sure that the whistling noise he heard was his blood boiling and sending steam out his ears.
Rei, Usagi and Ben leapt at Jadeite, who raised a shield. The three heroes bounced off of it. Then, a burst of plasma vaporized his right hand. Jadeite howled in pain.
"Hmm, perhaps I need to adjust my aim." Rockman commented.
"Yeah, next time, make him bite the big one!" Ami cheered.
Rockman began powering up his plasma blaster. Jadeite "Eeped". Rockman had dark energy in him and thus could fire through Jadeite's dark energy shield. The Megablaster fired just as Jadeite decided to teleport. Unfortunately, in his desperation, he didn't decide on a location, so he was teleported right in front of Ben.
Jadeite staggered back as Ben's fist connected with Jadeite's jaw. A rose landed just behind Jadeite's heel, tripping him. However, Jadeite never had the chance to recover from his fallen state. Rockman's charged Megablaster finished him with a spectacular blast of pure plasma.
"OOOooooh, that's _gotta_ hurt." Ben commented.
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