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://haruna.simplenet.com/). 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 stuff I don't know how to use (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. Anything in double quotation marks (""Patent pending."") is translated from the Arabic. Now, let's get this show on the road: "An artist doesn't finish his work, he only abandons it." -Chuck Jones Alien terminology: 1 click=2 hours 1 gobj=2 months 1 kecam=around 4 liters 1 pahced=1 kilogram 1 shrem=2 degrees Celcius ***************************************************************************** Part 5: Luna couldn't believe how stupid she was. Going after a Scout with absolutely nothing that would transform her. She kicked herself, then looked up at the quartet, three of which had the symbol of Earth on their foreheads. Then, the three icons emanated a beam of energy which intersected in front of them. They stopped crying as they stared at the energy coming from them. The beams stopped after a few seconds, leaving a bright, yet grayish, ball of energy in front of them. With a slight gust of wind, the energy became a small stick that, no doubt, was Earth's transformation stick. It dropped to the ground, where Luna's quick reflexes (and mouth) caught it. 'One problem down,' Luna thought to herself. Khidf's pounding became harder now, and he would be through in less than a minute. 'Two to go.' She looked at the stick. It was just like the Outer Scouts' sticks, only the symbol of Earth was inside the star. And right under the star, there was a bronze ball with four gray spikes on its corners. "Awright," Luna said with the stick in her mouth. "Hey, that cat's talking!" all but Amiri said. Luna was surprised that they heard her. "Um, yeah. My name's Luna. With a little luck 'thinking: and a lot of praying' I'll be able to get you out of here." ""What's going on?"" Amiri asked. ""The cat says she's going to help us,"" Paul unbelievingly said. ""Good. We could use some help."" She replied like it was nothing out of the ordinary. Once again, Luna was stumped. 'Which one?' she asked herself. Then Darien's words came to mind: ". . . was not chosen by bloodline, but by worth." 'But which one?' Luna asked herself again. "Oh, shit, he's almost through!" Becky shouted. "WE KNOW!" 'It ain't her,' Luna thought with an annoyed look on her face, 'two blonde bimbos is enough. And she curses. That leaves two.' Then Luna noticed the bandana on Amiri's head. The pattern was divided into squares that went all around the bandana. Half of the squares had all kinds of intricately colored patterns, swirls, circles, and cloud-like shapes. The other half of the squares were exactly the same. They had horizontal stripes, each with a different color. From top to bottom they were gray, pink, blue, red, green, orange, yellow, aquamarine, purple, white, and gray again. The realization hit her like a ton of bricks. She threw the stick at her, and Amiri caught it. "You!" Luna yelled to Paul, "Tell her to hold the stick up in the air and shout the following incantation," and Paul complied. Amiri wasn't sure what was going on, but agreed. Just then, Khidf's fist broke through the door and he started too pry open the metal. He wouldn't stop until he could fit. "Earth . . ." "EARTH . . ." ". . . planet power, . . ." ". . . PLANET POWER, . . ." ". . . . . . . . . . make up." ". . . . . . . . . . MAKE UP!" Amiri tried to speak the incantation as best as she could. Khidf broke through the door just in time to see the transformation. The symbol of Earth twirled down onto the star on the stick, which Amiri grabbed with her index finger pointing out and her thumb straight up. Bright gray energy illuminated from the spiked sphere and now you can see Amiri's glowing body. With the top view of a hurricane in the background, and the stick in hand, she stood on her tiptoes and started to twirl around with the arm holding the stick almost straight up. As she twirled faster, she started to resemble a tornado, and soon the tornado expanded outward, changing the background to various clouds on a gray sky. We can see Amiri's head and face as a gray lipstick is applied by magic sparkles. The bandana was still around her head, but a gold tiara with a gray jewel was over it. She opens her eyes as she twirled around and posed: she stood with her legs close together, and her hands were holding her pigtail over her left shoulder. We can now see a transformed Super Sailor Earth (she's Super because this IS her planet). The major color of her Suit was a deep bronze. She was wearing sneakers of the same color (Air Nikes [rim shot]. These are the jokes people.) The bow above her skirt was black, like an Outer scout, and attached inside the center of the bow was a gray Aikuchi style of sword. Finally, the bow on her chest was gray with a hurricane shaped brooch holding it together. "Oh, wow! That's cool!" Becky said. "Thank you," Earth said, "Hey! I can understand you!" "DAMN!" Khidf shouted, "Another Sailor Scout!" With that, he ripped the rest of the door off and began his Heat Wave power. "Quick, do something!" Becky shouted to Earth. "WHAT!?" she shouted back, "What is going on?" "Amiri, you are a Sailor Scout," Luna told her, "sworn to defend the innocent and all that is right. You have magical powers that you use to do this. The incantation for your power is, uh, Tornado, uh, Rage. No! Rages. Yeah, that's it." Earth stood on tiptoes again and held her right arm straight up and her palm facing up. Her other hand was just under it like it was ready to catch something that was ready to fall off the other hand. "TORNADO . . ." A wide column of wind surrounded her, half obscuring her. Then the column shrank onto her right hand and became a glowing gray sphere of energy with a ring of energy of the same color around it. She was then surrounded by a semi-transparent tornado in close proximity. ". . . . RAGES!" With her left hand she grabbed the ring around her power, spun around once, and threw the ball like a frisbee right at Khidf. "HEAT WAVE!" Khidf launched his power at the same time, but to no avail. The sphere dispersed the beam and headed right at Khidf. He was soon consumed in the gray energy, and was thrown back right through the wall behind him. It revealed a room with a huge, strange machine in the center. A slight trikle of gray blood appeared on his lips. "Okay, let's get outta here," Gloria said. "Wait," Luna said. "For WHAT!?" Becky shouted (dang, that girl's louder'n Serena). "My friends still need help. We need to disable the ship and find something we could use to teleport someone." "How?" Paul asked. "Look around and grab anything that looks like weird equipment. Except for you, Earth. That big machine over there looks like a power source. When they finish, you'll destroy it." "Very well." The three normal people started to look around all of the ship, picking anything and everything up. When they came back they had a lot of stuff, mostly Shecou's. Including his music box. "Good. Now, let's destroy the power source." *That combination of words is not approved. Do not move and prepare for termination* The computer's voice completely startled them, and they were looking around to see where it came from. Then, from a panel in the roof, one of the internal cannons appeared and pointed to them. "Awww, MAN!" (guess who) shouted. But Earth was ready, and like reflex pulled out her sword. She leapt up and sliced right through the cannon. It fell down in an electric heap. "Yes!" "Cool!" "Good job!" "C'mon," Luna told Earth, "you still need to destroy the source. Be careful." And with that, Earth left for the room. "The rest of us should leave through the front and get this stuff to my friends." They followed Luna out the front, towards Eternal Sailor Moon's group. Earth, however, was still having trouble with the cannons, and barely had time to use her power. "TORNADO RAGES!" The sphere flew across the room and hit the generator on center, but it did nothing. And now the cannons were becoming more numerous and powerful. The beams occasionally scratched her, but she was always able to take them down before they did anything worse to her. As she was waiting for the next attack, she decided to directly slash the generator. But all she did was scratch it. It would take her forever, but eventually she would rip right through the armor. But she didn't have forever as she heard Khidf moaning. "Allah, what do I do know?" she asked herself. Then she felt some grooves on her sword. She looked down to see notches on the tsuka. Although she didn't know it then, it was in Cheyenne. But because this WAS her planet, she could understand it. It said "Flowering Lace." She decided to try it. "EARTH . . ." She held her sword in front of her face, just below her closed eyes. The blade started to glow, and Earth was surrounded by a tornado. ". . . FLOWERING . . ." She started to spin around as gray flower petals surrounded her and began spinning around her. ". . . . . . . . LACE!" She stopped instantly and held her right arm straight up. The petals were absorbed into the blade. Then, in a bright flash, of light, bright gray strands of lace sprang from the blade and headed towards the generator. The strands tried to break through the armor, but it deflected them. But they just turned around and tried again. Earth knew they would keep doing that until they destroyed something or she sheathed her sword again. The strands would be through the armor in a minute, so she decided to leave. 'Whatever happens when they get through,' she thought, 'I should not be here.' She turned around to leave, when she saw Khidf standing in the way. He was in pain, though, and had to use the doorway as support. "You're not going . . . anywhere." Khidf managed to create a ball of energy and threw it at Earth. But it (and Khidf) was so weak, she easily dodged it. It hit the far wall and blew a hole in it. Earth saw the opportunity, and took it. "Thank you," she said, "and goodbye." With that, she left. Khidf no- ticed that the generator was almost pierced, and that lights all over the ship were slowly dying off. *NO! I will not-* were the computer's last words as one of the laces finally broke through the armor. "Good riddance," Khidf said, and teleported through the hole in the wall. In a few minutes, he would heal and reunite with his siblings. Super Sailor Uranus fell onto her hands and knees as she took yet another punch. A Duldroon stepped in front of her and kicked her in the face, and she fell onto her back. Super Sailor Neptune and Super Sailor Pluto were not having better luck. The former was being held up by a Duldroon as another punched her repeatedly in the face and stomach. The latter was on her back as two other Duldroons were kicking her all over. A Duldroon jumped up, morphed her arm into a sharp blade, and prepared to stab Uranus. She managed to roll backwards, and the daemon missed, but another one appeared right where Uranus stopped and hit her with its hand, which was reformed into a mace. Then it picked her up by her collar, reformed the mace into a blade, and prepared to finish her off. Uranus waited, but the Duldroon just froze. Then it dropped her as it reeled in mysterious pain. Neptune and Pluto were also released by their captors, and all the Duldroons were frozen in pain. Then, just like the first time they fought them, they fell apart into heaps, no longer a threat. The Outers looked at each other with relieved, but puzzled, faces. Uranus ran to Neptune and held her. Neptune hugged her back, and Pluto only looked at them with a big smile on her face. She stood up with some help from her staff and looked at the ship. It exploded in mushroom cloud that would put Hiroshima to shame. But most of the explosion went up, and all the Scouts got was a gust of strong wind. Pluto turned to look at her friends again. "Alright," Neptune said in a tired voice, "Luna and Artemis did it." "Yeah," Uranus said in an equally tired voice. Pluto turned again to see where the others were. She saw energies being thrown about, and knew that the rest of the Scouts were in trouble. "C'mon," she said, "the others need us. I think all the cats did was get rid of the Duldroons. Who knows how many other daemons escaped." "Okay," Uranus said, "Sailor Moon would probably just fall flat on her face without us." And with that, they started off as fast as their weakened bodies would let them. Super Sailor Mercury was running towards one of the two tunnels inside the gallery she entered through the porthole. The gallery was filled with all kinds of artworks, including paintings, statues, and, amazingly enough, ice sculptures. She was amazed to find they were all holograms, all marvels of computer imaging. Too bad she no longer had time to gaze at them. The ceiling where she entered through was destroyed as a cigar shaped ship came through it. She knew that she shouldn't be there when whoever was inside got out. She ran towards a tunnel, the only exit, when her computer beeped at her. Whatever was controlling the fortress uploaded a map to her. She immediately put it on her visor and saw there were actually two tunnels, one hidden by another hologram. And that was where she was running in now. There was nothing in the tunnel, no drawings, no traps, just wall. Then she reached the end where there was a door of some kind. There was a tiny screen which could only hold two lines. The first line said "?????????" It was Mercurian. The second line only had a blinking cursor. "Password?" she asked herself, "Oh, boy. Um, how about Sailor Scout?" She typed the words onto her computer and they were copied onto the second line. The effect was not what she expected as a panel slid out of the ground behind her and blocked the way out. "Nope. Hmmm, let me see. Maybe Mystic Ice." Again she typed the words on her computer, and they were copied again. Only this time, four panels on the walls around her opened and pointed some big guns at her. "Whoa! Damn, uh. C'mon, what would such a computerized race use as a password?" Then it hit her like a Mack truck, "Mercury upgrade." Again she typed the words on her computer, and again they were copied. But now, the tunnel went back to normal and the door opened. "Whew." She went inside and looked around. On a platform in the center of the featureless room was a floating harp (just like the one on her symbol as Super Sailor Mercury, only white with the occasional blue). She went up to grab it, but pulled back when she felt how cold the it was. Rubbing her hands together from the freezer burn, she wondered how to get it. She went around it to see the back and saw a wire coming from one of the corners. She decided to attach it to her computer and see what it did. The moment she did, the harp and computer disappeared into water-like energy that soon encompassed her. She felt the power increasing within her as the energies modified her Suit. When it stopped, she felt a surging feeling inside her so powerful, she couldn't wait to release it unto some creep. Behind her, an ice mirror appeared, no doubt so she could see what happened. Her left glove's colors were switched, the blue was white, and the white was blue. Her visor was activated, but felt so subtle she probably wouldn't need to deactivate it. The harp was attached to her back, and felt that she could use its power through the blue glove. But then she couldn't find her computer. 'Where is that thing?' she thought to herself, 'Great. I get a new power, but I lose my computer.' The moment she thought the word "computer," though, a small keyboard just like the one on her old computer appeared on the blue glove. She was quite surprised at the level of technology she left her people at. Then, on the visor appeared the words: "Upgrade complete. Initiating Super Sailor Mercury Version 3.5" "Hmmm. Maybe they took computerization a little too far." With that, she was ready to face the intruders. Super Sailor Mars was horrified at the monster that stood before her. It almost got her from that first lunge, but she dodged it. Barely. But it was a lot faster than it looked. It turned quickly and threw a punch at Mars. She dodged that one, too. But the monster's momentum allowed him to kick her with the leg on the same side. Mars was thrown against the rock and clutched her stomach. The kick burned a huge hole in her Suit, and the flesh below it was seared. She looked at and smelled her burned tissue, and vomited. She looked up to see the monster was walking towards her. She knew she had to attack. She got up and tried to stand on her own feet. "MARS FLAME SNIPER!" she shouted as she painfully released the attack. But the energy was only absorbed into the monster. "NO!" she shouted, "Rrr. MARS FIRE IGNITE!" Again, the attack was only absorbed. The monster was running towards her now, and she wouldn't be able to get away fast enough. 'Maybe if my Martian powers won't work . . .' "Rin, pyou, tou, sha, kai, jin, retsu, sai, zen. AKURYOU TAISAN!" She sent the charmed paper right onto the monster's forehead. It reeled back in pain, turned back to stone, and blew apart. In the rubble, Mars noticed a red tablet which was inside the monster. In Martian, it said: "If the prophecy is to prevail, a Scout's trust in her world must not fail. When planet and fire combine, the Sailor's weapon shall be thine." Mars was at a loss as to what it meant, but took the tablet anyways. She proceeded inside the arch into a large cave. There were tunnels leading everywhere, but these didn't concern her. In the middle of the cave, on an island surrounded by a river of lava, there was chest made to resemble a fire. 'Hmm. It's probably locked,' she thought to herself. Ordinarily, she would've just bounded over the lava. But now, she had to find another way. Then she noticed there were some natural columns in the cave, some close to the river. She chose one, and shouted: "MARS CELESTIAL FIRE SURROUND!" Half of the rings went to the top of the column, the others to the base. Now separated, all she had to do was give it a nudge in the right direction, and it fell connecting the island and the rest of the cave. She walked across and tried to open the chest, but it was locked, just like she guessed. She was ready to pound it open, when she saw that the lid had a design that looked like Martian, but backwards. Then she realized that it looked just like a mirror image of the tablet. She placed it on the design and waited. The lock clicked, and the lid opened a smidge. She lifted it the rest of the way, and was horrified. The only things inside were a curved piece of rotting wood and what resembled a quiver, but was decayed as well. She picked them up, and they almost fell apart in her hands. "These can't be my weapons," she said to herself, "can they? But they feel right, somehow. They weren't protected. Maybe they weren't completed." Then she remembered the words on the tablet. 'What did it mean by planet and fire?' she thought. Then she heard a crash as the column fell into the river. She realized that when she opened the chest, there was no more reason for the island to be protected. The lava was quickly wearing it down. She looked at the melting rock, and realized that that was the answer to the riddle. Lava. "Okay, so the weapon's in the lava. But where?" Then she remembered the beginning of the riddle, "Of course I trust my planet, but what prophecy is talking about? Maybe I was prophesied to finish the weapon myself." She felt like what she was holding was only a small part of the real weapon. The tighter she gripped it, the more complete it felt. Like it was supposed to be melded with her. "Oh, man!" she exclaimed as she solved the riddle, "I hafta put my hands in THERE!?" At this moment, she didn't have much of an affinity towards lava. She kneeled down, closed her eyes, and took a deep breath. She bent over and slowly moved her hands towards the river. She felt the incredible heat the lava generated and stopped just above it. "This is my planet. I should trust it." With that she thrust her hands in. She screamed in pain as the lava went right through her gloves. She pulled out her arms as some of the lava still clung to it. Somehow, she felt the pain subsiding, and she stared at her lava covered forearms. Then, in a bright flash of light, the lava turned back into her gloves. But they were different. The left glove was colored red at the hand, and the color of the glove slowly changed to white at the wrist. The right glove was still white, but it had a red stripe running from the right side of her elbow, down the arm, between her thumb and index finger, across the palm, and then down to the left side of her elbow. As she was looking down, she also noticed her stomach was healed. Then she noticed that the island was still shrinking. But now, all she did was jump off onto the rest of the cave. She saw the weird designs on her arms, and wondered just what they were for. Then she heard a noise coming from outside the cave. She looked out to see three figures standing in the archway. She clenched her fist, because she felt they were not benevolent. Then, the stripe on the arm glowed slightly, and a bow popped out from the stripe and into her hand. The bow was red around the handle, and the top and bottom looked like fire. The string appeared as a small flame shot from the top of the bow to the bottom. Realizing the quiver was probably in the other hand, she looked at it, and, as easy it is to flex a muscle, an arrow appeared, and the nock fell into her hand. She placed it on the string and pointed it down, ready to pull it up and draw the arrow, ready to draw it towards the approaching footsteps.