Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon Sailor Stars: The Movie Hey! I'm Efrain Benavides, aka EfrainMan. Yeah, I know the Starlights don't do anything in my story but fly away, and it's not in script format, but I couldn't think of anything else for a title. Please excuse any incorrect information, but my Sailor Moon knowledge consists of the NA version and clips I downloaded From "Ms. Haruna's Homeroom" (http://siggy.iceonline.com/~ftp/ ). I used Japanese names only when there is no English equivalent from the DiC dub, so there. ;p Hey, some of us actually LIKE the DiC dub. And I'm using American terms for certain cultural thingies I don't understand (e.g., not "Haruna-sensei" but "Ms. Haruna"). Special thanks to Virginia Potter. E-mail comments, questions, and/or flames to "RVillalobo@aol.com". Oh! You know the drill. Don't copy, change, or anything to this story without my permission, or I'll send my cat, Tsuki, after you. Hey, don't look at me that way, that was her name long before I knew Sailor Moon existed. It's just a coincidence. I hope. Now, let's get this show on the road: Alien terminology: 1 kecam=around 4 liters 1 gobj=2 months 1 pahced=1 kilogram 1 click=2 hours 1 shrem=2 degrees Celcius ***************************************************************************** Part 3: It was a half hour since Amy deduced that the creatures were heading for the Sahara. Everyone was at home, but they were meeting at a "ristorante" later for dinner and a Sailor Scout Meeting. Hotaru had said she'll be there to wait for them and keep their reservation. Haruka, Michiru, and Setsuna were going to pick up Serena. Amy, Raye, Lita, Mina, and Darien were going to get there on their own. BEEP! BEEP! "Mom, dad, my ride's here!" "Okay, but be careful." "I will." As Serena was leaving the house and was at the gate, in earshot of her friends, Ikuko yelled: "Serena, your coach told us before he left for you to do some jogging tonight before you go to bed." "But, moooom," she whined, "I don't want to do anything tonight but have dinner. Anyways, by the time I come back, it'll be too late to do some jogging." She was still recovering from her brief skirmish with Khidf. "Don't worry Mrs. Tsukino," Haruka said, "we'll make sure that she doesn't miss her jog." "Thank you, Haruka. See you later tonight," Ikuko said as she closed the door. "HEY! What do you think you're doing!" Serena shouted right into her ear. "Jeez, keep the decibels down. I'm just making sure you do the right thing." "Sure," Setsuna said, "We wouldn't want our future Queen to be a fat slob. Right?" The other two nodded in agreement and all three produced huge grins. "In fact," Haruka said, "you're jogging all the way to the restaurant right now, just to get it over with. Don't worry, I won't use the accelerator, and you can follow right behind," and with that, she let go of the brake and let the car go on it's own. "WHOA! Hey, c'mon!" Serena said as she followed behind, "Aw, man! Wait up!" She was barely able to keep up because Haruka gave the accelerator an occasional pump. All the way, Serena shouted things the others were wondering where she learned. "Hey! It's a communication from Khidf." "I wonder why it can't wait," Corji said as she looked at the written transmission. She gasped, turned around, and started to work on some displays. "What is it?" Shecou asked. "There's a Sailor Scout on this planet. We need to prepare." "For what?" he asked with a voice of apathy. "What do you mean 'for what?' A Sailor Scout won't let her planet go down without a fight." "We don't need to fight, we'll just send this to do the job for us." "Send what?" "Another one of my little inventions that GCM has put to good use." He then went to a little compartment and pulled out a silvery cylinder with a tripod and a single button and light on the top. "What is it?" "It's a device which creates Duldroons from sand, instead of complex robotic components. The button activates it. The light deactivates it with my fingerprint. And-" "Wait, wait. What's a Duldroon?" "Man, you're really out of it. They're zombie-like warriors with only one purpose, the first order they are given. They're also my invention. But they're so advanced, they are costly to make. So I created this to create them from sand, their number limited only by the amount of sand. It still has a few bugs, but so far they've worked great for other Conquest teams. I'm going to transport it, along with as much sand as possible, to that city." "Heh, heh, heh. I like it, I like it. All the fun of killing people without all the hard work. Do we have to be there ourselves to activate it?" "Yeah, sure," he said sarcastically, "Risk our own necks just to utter one command. Right. In fact, as long as we're at it, why don't we use the transporter ourselves and get our brains fried!" Corji then punched Shecou hard in the stomach and he staggered back. "Don't talk to me that way, you insignificant little creep. Remember, I can have you executed whenever I want to. It wouldn't matter to me. The only reason you aren't is because GCM needs your inventions. But even the finest trinkets won't protect you if you cross the line. Don't ever forget that. Now, how are we going to activate the device?" "I'll push the button," Shecou replied in a quiet, melancholy voice, "speak the order, and then you transport it and the sand to the city where the Duldroons will activate and carry out their order." "Then let's do it. And put an explosive on it, too, in case something happens. Set it to detonate if it is destroyed only." In a matter of minutes, they were done, and Shecou was outside in front of the device. He pressed the button, and the little light went from green to gray (Red is a color of warning in many cultures because we have red blood. These aliens have gray blood, therefore gray is a color of warning for them). He then whispered the command: "Destroy all Sailor Scouts on this planet. Go." The unit beeped and started to turn the sand around it a darker yellow. Shecou stepped back and vanished, only to reappear back inside the ship. "Okay, do it." Corji pressed some small square lights and then placed her hand on a large square light. She sent some energy from her arm into the light, and the ship said, *Transporting.* On the desert, a giant ball of energy formed with the device in the center, and then vanished, leaving a giant crater in the desert. "Now, let's watch," Corji said, and turned on the vidscreen. The little man gave the change to the customer and thanked him for shopping at his antique store. He then prepared to close his store and eat dinner at the "ristorante" a few blocks away. But his plans were about to come to ruin. Serena had finally stopped yelling, partly because she knew it would not do any good, and partly because she didn't want to waste her breath. A few blocks from the restaurant, though, she got a second wind and began screaming again. Unfortunately for Haruka, Michiru, and Setsuna, they were too involved in keeping their hearing intact to see a car speeding towards their right as they crossed an intersection. The car hit them so hard they were thrown from Haruka's convertible. Serena screamed in terror and ran to her friends. She saw they were unconscious. Then the activity behind her made her turn around, and what she saw paralyzed her. Thousands of female shaped sand daemons were creating a war zone in the middle of the street. Serena was totally frozen as one of the Duldroons bounded in front of her and punched her backhanded. She rolled on the pavement and hit a nearby wall. The Duldroon knocked Serena out of the stupor and she started to make sense out of the situation. She took out her Article, looked to see if anyone was looking, and said: "Forget this. MOON ETERNAL, MAKE UP!" After she transformed, she saw that a few of the Duldroons had a woman and her son surrounded in the middle of the melee. In a spurt of bravery, she bounded towards them, grabbed them, and jumped over the daemons. She let them go and told them to get away as fast as they could. 'It's a good thing I wasn't in the car, or these people might have bought it,' Sailor Moon thought. But soon, she wished she had gone with them as one of the Duldroons grabbed her by the neck and threw her into the midst of the other daemons. She was barely able to dodge their blows, and a few did connect. Bruised, she managed to escape from them for a second, but looking behind, she saw they were going to overtake her soon. Then a figure slid in front of her and shouted: "WORLD SHAKING!" Uranus' attack soon turned into giant size and disintegrated a whole group of the Duldroons. "Outer Scouts!" Sailor Moon said as she saw her saviors each standing on the roof of a car, "Thank you." The remaining daemons turned towards them and, if they had faces, they would have a perplexed look on them. "We might as well introduce their opponents," Neptune said. "Born of the earth below, I am the impregnable Super Sailor Uranus!" "Born of the thrashing seas, I am the graceful Super Sailor Neptune!" "Born of the mists of time, I am the enigmatic Super Sailor Pluto!" The Duldroons started to move towards them and the scouts took a fighting stance. But they were distracted by the fact that right in front of them, the sand was slowly beginning to reform back into daemons. One of the already formed Duldroons attacked and Pluto cut off it's head. The head and body fell down in heap of sand, and didn't get up. The Outers charged the army and took down a few before the overwhelming number of soldiers forced them to fall back. "There are too many. We need a better plan. Where are the rest of the Scouts?" Uranus asked. "I don't know. AIEEEE!" Sailor Moon shouted as a daemon charged her. But in a flash of light, a red rose blew the daemon into another pile of sand. She looked up to see Tuxedo Mask standing on a rooftop with his arm high up from the rose he just threw. "Tuxedo Mask! Thanks, that was wicked!" "Anytime Sailor Moon. But you must watch yourself, my love," he said as he jumped down in front of Sailor Moon in a protective stance, "you must never become too dependent on me. Outers, can these things be defeated?" The group started to slowly retreat, taking out any Duldroons that charged them. "What are you reading in that paper?" Lita asked Raye. "What would be the only thing in the news that would interest me?" "Oh, right. The Mars Pathfinder photos." Raye was a little misty-eyed as she continued to stare at the photos of her home. "You know, I finally recognized that place. It's Firerain Valley. Some weird coincidences in the planet's make up created clouds that rained fire in- stead of water every year for a few days. Although they were deadly, my presence somehow made them harmless, and they actually felt refreshing. But without my presence, the Firerains have stopped." Raye would've loved to keep on reminiscing, but the special report on the TV's in the electronics store they were passing caught their attention. Hotaru finally sneaked past the police blockade around the battlefield and shouted: "SATURN PLANET POWER, MAKE UP!" The symbol of Saturn twirled onto the golden six-pointed star of her transformation stick, which was like the other Outers Scout's sticks, except that the part right below the star was a small, purplish sphere with a white, three-pointed crown running through the center. She grabbed it with her index finger pointing out. The sphere then flashed brightly and you can see Hotaru's glowing body bent down slightly bringing the stick, now surrounded by a small, white, glowing ball, at knee level. She started to twirl around in a circle, straightening her body until the end of one rotation when she stopped and held her arms straight up into the air. All the while, the stick left a white trail in mid-air which stopped at the end of the rotation because the stick had disappeared. The trail then fell on the floor, and Hotaru was now surrounded by a column of white energy, which then spread out and vanished. Then, from a semi-opaque image of the planet Saturn, a certain Glaive appeared and fell into the waiting hands of Super Sailor Saturn, who then brought it down to right under her chin, and waited as clear, glossy lipstick was applied to her lips by magic sparkles. Finally, she opened her eyes, turned full-circle, and stood straight, her left arm straight out horizontally, her right holding the Glaive behind her diagonally with the blade close to the ground. Transformed, she then jumped from lamppost to lamppost to join her friends and the battle. Right in front of his store. Right in front of his eyes. Serena had transformed right in front of a very frightened little man with an antique shop. Dumbfounded, he was finally able to get up from his hands and knees and take in what just happened. Then a name escaped his lips, "Princess Serena." He then fell on his knees as the headache hit him. On his forehead, a glowing crescent moon appeared, with the symbol of Earth inside the open area. Right there and then, the red eyes of the Moon Captain's helmet lit up and the rest of the armor took on a life of it's own. It got down from it's display, and walked to the little man, who was still moaning in pain. Then in a monotonous, genderless, almost computerized voice it said: *Please face me.* Seeing the armor walk and talk made the little man follow it's instruction. *Initiating Lunar Mind-meld,* it said, and the crescent moon on the helmet threw a beam on the little man's forehead. He finally calmed down and closed his eyes as his memories returned. Because of the utter control he used to have over his mind, everyone of his memories returned to him. The first memories came too fast to discern exactly what the images were, but they were definitely not of the Moon Kingdom. Then they slowed as they became images of the Moon, until they ended on an image of Princess Serena and Prince Darien as their lifeless bodies floated motionless on that fateful day. Then he thought to himself, in a different voice, 'I won't let you down again.' With that, he snapped out of the Mind-meld. "Whew! What a rush," he said in that other voice, "I'd better get to work and-AHHH!" He was horrified by the image he saw on the mirror. "What happened to my perfectly conditioned body!? Oh. It must've been reactive. Wow. I haven't had a reactive response in centuries. I'd better fix this." He then clenched his fists and started to concentrate. Soon, his body developed an aura of energy and he started to change into a taller, muscular, and more well-developed body. His face also changed, becoming like that of a model or something. "There. Hmm?" The scene outside caught his attention as he saw our heroes being attacked by the Duldroons. "She needs me. Never again." He then faced the armor and shouted: "ARMOR UP!" The armor disappeared in a flash of light and surrounded the Captain in a ball of light. His glowing body was standing straight, but turning around in a circle. Then, from toe to neck, he became covered in the armor's blue chain mail. And then, in flashes of light and loud clangs, the turquoise solid armor instantly appeared, first on the arms and legs, then on the body. Then the combined symbol on his forehead grew bigger, the crescent moon folded around his head and became the helmet, the symbol of Earth became a sword not unlike that of Prince Darien, only with a gray hilt and a brown handle. Finally, a black cape was added to his armor, and he was ready. "Yes. Well, sort of. They can be killed like any normal person, but they'll reform themselves, slowly but surely." Then a large group of the Duldroons charged them, and our heroes were waiting to be overwhelmed, when: "SILENT WALL!" Saturn's power managed to slow the daemons, but it did not stop them. "MERCURY AQUA RHAPSODY!" "JUPITER OAK EVOLUTION!" Their powers, though, did. The multiple energy blasts destroyed the advancing line of Duldroons and gave them time to properly reorganize. "What took you so long?" Sailor Moon asked. "There was a police blockade," Jupiter said, "and with so many people, we almost didn't get a chance to transform. How do we-" "Just kill them," Uranus said, "and worry about the pieces later." "Don't you mean 'pick up the pieces later'?" Mars asked. "No, WORRY ABOUT THEM!" And with that, the first fallen Duldroons were reformed and charged the Scouts from above. "MARS FLAME SNIPER!" "VENUS LOVE AND BEAUTY SHOCK!" "DEEP SUBMERGE!" "Dead Scream." Their attacks only disintegrated half of the Duldroons, and the Scouts were preparing themselves for the overwhelming attack that was coming. But it never came, because a turquoise streak zipped through the daemons, and instead of deadly warriors, heaps of sand landed on the Scouts. They poked their heads through the sand to see an armored man standing on a lamppost holding a sword like he just swung it. "Hey, buddy," Venus said, "thanks a lot! Now I'm gonna be picking sand out of my hair for a week!" "How ungrateful," he said, and he leaped off the post to land near the piles of sand. "CAPTAIN!" Sailor Moon shouted. "Princess?" That was all he could manage before he leaped forward and gave Sailor Moon the biggest bear hug he could manage. "Ack! Umm, I'd like to breathe now." "Huh? Oh, man. I'm so sorry," he said, and let her go. "That was awesome!" "I don't know, I caught them by surprise." He then got on one knee, bowed, took her hand, and placed his helmet's forehead on the top of it. Sailor Moon blushed slightly at the Captain's formalness. He then stood back up, and said: "I have returned to serve you again, Princess." "My, how formal," she replied. "Why not? You're like a daughter to me, but you're still royalty, deserving my respect. I love you, and I won't let you down again." "Hmm? What do you mean aga-?" "WHOA! Here they come!" Mars announced. And the Duldroons were indeed charging again. "We can't keep this up forever," Tuxedo Mask said, "we have to find a way to stop them once and for all." "I'm analyzing-" Mercury and the Captain said in unison. They looked at each other, then quietly began their scans, Mercury with her mini-computer, the Captain touching some buttons on the temple of his helmet. "You have a computer in that thing?" Mercury asked. "Of course. I can't be a good warrior if I don't know my enemies." "The daemons are held together," Mercury began, "by an energy field emanating from something about five blocks away, but I can't tell what it is." "It's some kind of device," the Captain said, "a small cylinder. If we destroy it, they'll be gone." "How can you tell it's a cylinder through all that interference?" "Mercurians use passive scanners, while I prefer active," he said in a proud voice. 'Show off,' Mercury thought to herself. "So how do we get to it?" Jupiter asked. "Take a wild guess," Uranus said. She then took out her Space Sword and charged the Duldroons, which were upon them now. "Alright! Party time," Jupiter said, and, along with the others, charged as well. Except for Sailor Moon, of course. "I have to WHAT? Oh man, I can't fight those things," and she started to whimper. "You won't have to," Saturn said, "we'll clear a path so you can destroy the cylinder." "Oh." And she saw that there was indeed a hole in the army and she started to run through it. "One question, though," Sailor Moon said, "what's a cylinder?" Her question surprised everyone so much, the Duldroons nearly overpowered them. "It'll look kinda like a soda can, meatball-head! Jeez!" Mars replied. "Alright already." But their plan would have to change as a Duldroon landed right in front of Sailor Moon and punched her hard in the stomach. Tuxedo Mask killed the daemon with his cane, and the Captain grabbed Sailor Moon and carried her to a rooftop. "Damn!" the Captain said to himself, "She's out like a light, and her breathing's shallow. I'm so sorry." Then he screamed to the rest of the scouts: "Forget our plan, just get to the cylinder!" And for the next grueling ten minutes, they tried to do just that. Eventually, the Inners managed to get only a block away from the cylinder, and were surprised to see no opposition. "There it is! JUPITER THUNDER CRASH!" But Jupiter's power only singed the device, "Damn!" "That thing's strong. We have to weaken it's structure first. MERCURY ICE BUBBLES FREEZE!" Her power froze the cylinder and it started to crack. "Now, your most centralized attacks!" "MARS FLAME SNIPER!" "JUPITER THUNDER CRASH ZAP!" "VENUS LOVE AND BEAUTY SHOCK!" Their combined attacks hit the device square in the center and it fell in frozen pieces. Moments later the Duldroons fell in heaps of sand which covered the entire area. Tokyo looked like it was a city built on a desert. "Yay!" "We did it!" "Way to go!" "Alright!" The Inners were now looking at the device from close up. The Outers and Tuxedo Mask were two blocks away and coming towards them. The Captain landed in front of them with an awakening Sailor Moon. "Ohhhh . . . whahappened?" were her first words. "Not to worry, Princess," the Captain replied, "your Court destroyed the device that controlled them." "My Court?" she asked, still a little dazed, "Oh, right. The Inner Scouts. Would you mind just calling them that?" "Of course," he said, and set her down, "and as long as we have a little time, do you mind if I change my uniform? I hate turquoise." "Uh, sure. Go ahead." The Captain started a low growl as his body started to glow. All the Scouts stared at him in amazement as his armor slowly changed. The armor on his legs became black and more compact. The armor over his hips became blue jeans, and the body armor became a black leather jacket. Under the open jacket the blue chain mail was still visible, and his forearm armor became black and more compact like the leg armor. The elbows, knees, and front of the jacket, though, still had golden crescent moons on them. The helmet was unchanged, as was the sword. The cape disappeared. "How fifties." Uranus said. "They're the colors my enemies turn when they face me. Either black and blue, or yellow," he said. Pluto was the only one who giggled at this. "Very fu-" But Neptune was interrupted by the screams of the Inners as they were encompassed by a white dome of energy. It then collapsed on itself and exploded, destroying an entire block. The others were knocked down by the force of the explosion which narrowly missed them. "NOOOOOOO!" Sailor Moon fell to her knees, slammed her fists on the ground, and shouted, "Not again! It's only been two days!" She then started to sob. "But," Saturn said, "we won." "Damn," the Captain said as he scanned the crater, "where'd that thing send them to?" " Send?" Sailor Moon said, "What do you mean 'send'?" "I mean, that energy sent them somewhere, and it'll take me a while to find them. Whatchu thinkin'? That they're dead? I thought you had some kind of connection with your Cour-uh, the Inner Scouts. You should be able to know if they are dead or not." Smiles spread across all of their faces as they came to the realization that their friends are still alive. "What was that, exactly?" Tuxedo Mask asked. "It was a . . ." ". . . TELEPORT BEAM! Shecou, you idiot! That was not an explosion, that was a teleport beam!" She approached him with her glowing fist ready to punch him. But right in front of him, she stopped, and with a big smile spreading across her face she said, "Wait. That was a teleport beam. Oh, hee, hee, hee. Of course. Wherever you sent them, their entire nervous systems must be fried. Khidf ought to love that. Four down, seven to go." "Uh, not exactly," Shecou nervously said, "I don't know what it was doing in the explosives shelf, but that was an experimental escape teleporter with an energy source that could safely teleport living organisms. Wherever they are, they're still alive. Well, at least it got them out of our hair." Actually, he did know what it was doing there. Corji has, on more than one occasion, misplaced materials, but this was most certainly not the time to tell her so. "What?" she said with gritted teeth, "Where did it send them?" "To use a small power source, the computer simply sends them to their genetic homes, where their species originated. They're . . ." ". . . home. They're on their home planets," the Captain said as he pushed the buttons on his scanner, "man, this sucks." "H-how do we get them back?" Sailor Moon asked with a sniffle. "Hmmm. The only way I see is to use these aliens' technology to find them and bring them back." "But we don't even know where they are," Pluto said, "Mercury guessed they might be in the Sahara, but were not sure. And anyways, the Sahara is huge, they could be anywhere." But he wasn't listening. "There! I found them. Or at least, similar energy sources. In Algeria. A few hundred miles north of Tamanrasset." "Great," Sailor Moon said, "we know where they are, but we can't get to them." "Actually, we can," he replied and lifted his arm up and a black hole of energy appeared in midair. "What is it?" Uranus asked, "It feels so cold." "It's a, uh . . . , it's a Negaportal," he said in a weak voice. "WHAT!?!?" The rest screamed. "Wait, wait. Let me explain. I learned how to do this as part of some mandatory training I needed to have for a past life. I was there when the Negaverse was young, when there were still good poeple there. I learned what I could there without bringing evil into my heart. Nothing will happen, I've used this countless times. Not to mention, knowing Negaverse secrets helped me when they attacked long ago. We don't have to use it right away. We could do some planning first." "We don't really have much of a choice," Neptune said as she looked at the portal. The Captain put his arm down and it disappeared. Mercury was working on her computer inside a crater to escape the hot Sun which was hundreds of times larger now. She used her bubbles to keep her- self cool, but was at a loss at what to do now. Then she received the signal. Mars was standing on a cliff on Olympus Mons, surveying the landscape before her. 'Those Pathfinder photos don't do this place justice. Now what?' she asked herself. A psychic flash answered that question. Jupiter stopped wondering how the islands floated because it didn't matter. What mattered was getting home, and staring at the tall castles on the floating isles wasn't helping. The one she was on was totally demolished and no help at all. She had to get to one of the other ones, but didn't know how. Her people had wings and that's how they did it, but she was at a complete loss. Until she heard the roar. Venus was lucky to find the cave, and was surprised to feel incredibly cooler here. But panic started to fill her mind and she knew she'd probably go crazy eventually. The flickering light that appeared from behind helped calm her, because it gave her something to do.