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Moonblade Series

Chapter 3: The Pristine Hour

The sailors stood in a circle around their two feline leaders,
Artemis and Luna, whittled down to four members by the recent
events. The magnitude of having Usagi's mother kidnapped didn't
quite sink in until Mizuno Ami was captured as well, and then
the realization hit the young girls like a hydrogen bomb. They
were all dumb-struck with confusion and disbelief, and their
chiefs were having a difficult time pulling them together.

Minako herself was worried about many things. First the fact the
power was still off. They posted updates around the city stating
that they fixed the original problem and could not determine
what was keeping the electric system down. They asked that all
citizens temporarily find other places to stay while the workers
tried to put the system back to action. Maybe it was for the
best that the city had been calmly evacuated, but why had the
Negaverse invasion caused a power outage?

Plus they had been unable to locate the enemy's headquarters.
Ami was probably on the right track, but she was kidnapped for
it. These weren't common Negaverse troopers, Minako mused. They
knew how to manipulate and plot better than any she'd seen, and
they were putting together intricate plans the senshi just
couldn't cut through.

Ami was the person who usually led them through intelligence,
deciphering the plans of their enemies. Without her they usually
deferred to Usagi, who was currently grief-stricken into a
stupor. Behind her came Rei's divinatory powers, but something
had Rei out of alignment since yesterday, keeping her from
reading the flames.

In the absence of their most important leadership skills, Minako
had been placed at the helm. She had to work for a long time,
but she finally managed to work out a strategy for them, and so
had called them all together to transform here in the park. She
only hoped they could move fast enough . . .

"Alright, so what's your big plan, Mina?" Mako asked, giving her
a sideways glance.

"The power's been out since the Negagoons arrived, and the city
can't find any reason why, Right?" she began without hesitation,
"That's no coincidence. They're doing something to the power
supply, so I say we go to the nuclear reactor and search for
clues there."

Luna nodded quickly, "It's a good plan. The worst that'll happen
if it doesn't works would be we have to think up a new plan. And
at this point, I don't think we have anything to lose."

"You're damn right we don't!" Makoto cried as she slammed her
fist down on the bench, "They'll pay for what they did to Ami!
So who's going?"

"We all are, this time," Artemis answered, "it's too dangerous
to split up, so we'll go as a team."

For a moment Minako glanced to Usagi, who was still whimpering
softly. She gave her a reassuring smile and a pat on the back,
then looked to the others, "We'd better not waste any more
time!"


"Whore!"

Jade swiped his captive's face with a quick backhand for the
umpteenth time, sending her sprawling over onto her side. With
her hands chained behind her back and her feet cuffed together,
she had to squirm and wiggle degradingly to get back up on her
knees. Her face was still fresh and unbruised, as Jade had been
unable to knock the Sailor Senshi power's protection out of her.

She gave him a glare. Or was it a glare? It looked more like a
sympathetic look, full of understanding and sorrow. In all his
years of interrogating, never had he run across such a
self-righteous bitch! Here he was, beating her senseless, and
she had the nerve to feel sorry for him! He began to slap her
face back and forth roughly, growling with agitation.

"Talk, sailor bitch! Where are your friends?" he growled out as
he raised her with one hand, only to lift his leg and plant a
kick right into her sternum. She coughed and squirmed, but
otherwise didn't react.

Jade chuckled, circling her slowly, "Oh, so you don't want to be
congenial? Well, let's just see how tough you are, hmm?" with
that he thrust his palm forward against her solarplexus, sending
uncountable volts of electricity surging through her body. She
turned her chin up and bit her lip, crying out softly as the
sparks of energy illuminated her body in the dark room.

As soon as he released the grip she fell onto her face. And
then, after a moment, wiggled right back up to her knees. This
was so frustrating! The fun of torture was in causing pain,
seeing pain, feeling pain. But she didn't give him any signs of
being hurt, she just got right back up! She took all the joy out
of Jade's once-beloved job . . .

With an annoyed grumble he gripped her by the nape of her neck,
lifting her up off the ground. She gave him that look again, but
this time he held onto his anger, glaring into her icy blue
eyes. He grabbed the front of his shirt with his free hand and
tore it all the way open in front, exposing her cotton-covered
breasts to the cold air of the makeshift dungeon.

She looked disgusted, but didn't give him the contemptuous stare
he would've expected. More and more frustrations, that's all it
was! But at least he'd be able to work out his frustrations on
this little gift . . .

He slipped a finger under the strap of her bra and ripped it
roughly off her. She winced. He continued his malice, shredding
her skirt and panties off her as painfully as possible, giving
her decadent grins as he stared at her small breasts and
inviting blue-crowned womanhood. She looked away, but didn't say
a word.

With a shove he knocked her forward onto her knees again, face
smushed down against the hard steel floor, ass presented
prettily in the air. She swallowed hard at the feeling of his
bulge pressed up to her skin. She wouldn't be hard to break, he
thought to himself as he stripped away his armor, holding her in
place with one hand.

Once his eight inch erection was freed, he gave himself a moment
to set his feet apart and line himself up to her, hands placed
on her hips with thumbs on her rear, holding it up like a
Christmas package before his hungry eyes. "Are you sure you
don't want to talk?" he said with a hint of impishness.

He allowed the head of his engorged cock to press up against her
exposed slit, pushing it up and down the length of her without
penetrating, "I'll free you from this if you do," yeah, right,
he thought to himself with a grin.

She said nothing. He consoled himself by ramming forward into
her dry vagina, literally tearing into her sex with his hard
rod. She tried to restrain the scream, but he was already
banging deeper and deeper into her unprepared hole, ripping at
her virgin hymen, shredding her insides in a way that her senshi
powers had not prepared to hide the pain of. Jade eased his
solid member out of her slowly, chuckling as he saw the blood
coating it.

"Lose something? Maybe now you're in the mood to speak?" he
queried as he began thrusting into her again, easier this time,
but just as deep, giving her a moment to consider his
proposition. When she didn't answer, he crammed her full of him
again, pushing her roughly down against the floor as he buried
his tool in her.

She started to groan impercievably, gritting her teeth hard
against the pain of her defilement. Jade was obviously beginning
to enjoy himself, pumping in and out of her ravaged cunt in an
slowly increasing rhythm, each thrust leaving her feeling
nauseous and corrupted. He now had on hand on her backside and
the other one her back, finding her friction enough to hold him
in place as he jacked back and forth into her.

Her chin was banging into the steel and her breasts were
dangling just against it, leaving her chilled on one end and
burning up with pain on the other. He wasn't elegant at all in
the way her brutally sawed in and out of her with his stiff
member, pushing harder and faster, making her mind race with a
thousand irrelevant memories of pain and embarrassment.

She finally lifted her chin up enough to utter a pained groan,
loud and deep, and obviously enough to set off her brutal
captor. He gave her a few more triumphant thrusts and then
released his gooey, disgusting mess into her still-dry cunt. She
had to fight to keep from hurling at the feeling of his warm
semen stuck in her womb, but to her anguish he wasn't stopping.
He kept her held up, laughing loud and long.

"Ready to talk yet, little girl?" he asked, tauntingly.

Ami gasped, swallowing her fear, "You may have me . . . but
you'll never take my friends. You may as well give up now, the
other senshi will find you. You barely beat me, you can't beat
us all."

She said it so factual, so calmly that it lit the fire of Jade's
rage all over again, "You think I'm alone, foolish girl? My
cohorts are out subduing your weakling friends even as I prepare
to ream your cute little ass, and the army of demons we're
preparing to summon will destroy this pathetic world! Your
capture was but a stop on the way! I'll show you what I think of
your false sense of importance!"

With that he lifted her back to a perked position, holding her
hips in both hands. He lined his semen-covered penis up to her
cinnabar hole with a callous laugh, holding her squirming body
at a ready position. She gasped and struggled, knowing his
plans, but helpless before them.

He drew her back from the hips, pulling her onto his cock,
shoving it inch by inch into her tight asshole. She cried and
struggled with him, thrashing and trembling as he worked her as
fast as he could, which was thankfully only an inch at a time
thanks to the tightness of her small rear.

Jade didn't let up, pushing harder and harder until he was deep
in her bowels, the cheeks of her ass barely touching to his
hips. She was sobbing in earnest now, sweatdrops forming along
her brow as she continued her vain attempts to pull herself from
his penis. He seemed to enjoy her tightness, starting to push in
and out of her, thumping in a little deeper each time,
stretching her abused limits that much more.

Ami was eternally grateful when brighter light filtered into the
room and another man stepped through the door. "Jade, the
Sailors are at the power plant," he said without pretense, "we
have no time to waste!"

Jade growled a bit as the other man stepped out, then leaned
forward and nipped at the nape of Ami's neck before painfully
withdrawing from her bowels. He pushed her sweating form onto
its back with his heel, chuckling as she looked at him with
tear-filled eyes. With that he vanished into reddened shadows,
leaving her chained, naked, and crying in the darkness of her
prison.



Obsidian watched as the Japanese workers ran back and forth from
place to place in the plant's control room, desperately
searching for the reactor's malfunction. Jade stood beside him,
hands out, glowing a soft green which held the enchantment of
invisibility over them. Usually they would share a good laugh at
the expense of the idiotic humans, but today there was business
yet to be done.

So far the Sailors had attempted to locate them using their
supernatural abilities, and had been cut short by their combined
efforts. Their steeple could just as easily be located by
mundane means, however, but their abuse of the power supply had
left the senshi without electric power to run their complex
devices. In addition they were using the pirated electricity
themselves to jump-start the growth of their Negaverse virus,
and without it they would be forced to scrounge for energy. If
the senshi succeeded here, Onyx would not be pleased.

Jade closed his fists as the magiks which kept them out of sight
became fully powered, then looked to the eight men behind them.
They were humanoid creatures, made of pure electric energy,
shimmering white outlines of men. With a flick of his fingertips
he covered them in simple but effective illusions of plant
workers. They wouldn't fool anyone for long, but it wouldn't
take long . . .

Obsidian nodded to Jade and the two vanished into the prevailing
shade of the control room.



Mars crouched as she came down on her landing, helping to absorb
the impact of the high jump. The other Sailors did the same as
they jumped to the ledge, checking their readiness while Rei
bent down to check the vents. Sure enough, the industrial
building had to keep a ventilation system large enough for, say,
a teenage girl to fit through. With the Negavibes they had
detected on their approach, stealth had become an issue this
close to the nuclear reactor.

Rei waved the cats inside first. They were freer to move and
could give them a warning of danger. After they returned a few
seconds later she crawled in herself, moving slowly through the
metal tunnel on hands and knees. The other senshi soon followed
suit, forming a line of crawling forms.

The air ducts led a winding path full of branches and dead ends,
but with the cats scouting ahead for them, they kept to the main
track. Rei passed over vent after vent that overlooked all kinds
of computers and mechanics, even bathrooms, but nothing that
looked remotely suspicious. The girls pressed on into the
cramped passage.

Passing by one of the ducts she recognized a room- the safety
control station. She pointed the others down a perpendicular
passage and shifted down to the grating. A hard kick from her
stiletto heeled foot knocked it open, and she let herself slide
down into the empty room, panting from the long trip. Though
emergency generators provided enough power to run the plant, the
lights in unused rooms were out. The only thing illuminating her
path was the bright signals and switches of the powered control
panels, casting the room in an eerie half light.

She couldn't help but wonder where the workers were, after all,
in a brown out they should be buzzing around the security
center. Speaking of buzzing . . . she heard a faint,
high-pitched buzz coming from across the room. Hands raised in a
defensive position, she crept slowly over to the source, peeking
over a switchboard to the spot of the ground from which it was
coming . . .

There she saw a man in plant operations uniform leaned over
another worker, who didn't seem to be moving. At first she let
her guard down, then she noticed the face of the prone man- his
skin was stretched thinly across his bones, with no muscle left
in between. His eye sockets were burnt out, and his mouth open
in a silent scream. She lost her cool and took a clumsy step
back, bumping into one of the control stations.

The second worker spun to face her, features obscured by the
shadows. His eyes glew with a bright, blue-white light, even
under his hat, that she could see from halfway across the room.
He moved slowly back to a standing position, and turned- so
painfully slow- to face her completely. Her hands trembled as
she let her body slide into a fighting stance . . .

A lightning bolt streaked out from his fingertips, veering
toward her. She planted a palm onto one of the desks and used it
to throw herself up and over it, falling onto her backside
behind the mess of panels. The shock slammed into one of the
control boards in a spray of sparks, followed by smaller
explosions that subsided only after a loud crackling. She pulled
herself around the side of the desk to survey the damage- the
board was destroyed, with sparks pouring out of the ruins. Her
assailant was also moving closer to her desk, leaving her with
less time to think than she would've liked.

Rei summoned fire to both fists as she threw herself out from
the desk, skidding along the floor. She released the flame in
two parallel jets that seared right toward the creature, and
then straight through him. He stepped aside, giving her a good
view of the melting glass from the window she hit, and lining
himself up for another shot . . .

This time the monster raised both hands and opened his mouth in
a wordless scream, sending bolts of electricity shooting out
from his chest, mouth, eyes, and every fingertip. The lightning
struck out in forks, sending Rei sprawling, rolling, flipping
and dodging out of the way of a dozen different attacks before
finally they subsided. She readied for another attack as the
creature pointed to her, but nothing besides sparks fired out
from its outstretched finger. With a devious sneer it placed a
hand on the control panel, transformed into pure electricity,
and disappeared into the network of wires.

Mars brushed herself off slowly, immediately worried about her
friends. She grabbed her communicator and clicked the button to
open a channel, "Guys, we've got a problem . . ."



After separating from the group, Minako found herself in one of
the equipment rooms. It proved to be empty of anything helpful,
and so she left quickly, wandering the expansive halls of the
nuclear power plant. Before she even made it ten yards her
communicator started to beep . . .

Raising it to her face she saw the indicator light up red,
signaling a message from Rei. Just as she reached to click the
"Accept" button, a scream burst through the silence. It seemed
to come from right down the hall to her left . . .

"Help, oh God help!"

With a frown she started racing toward the source of the
screams, clicking her communicator on as she went. Before Rei's
face even appeared on the tiny screen she was at the door to
another room, and as the first words came to her she was opening
it with a swift kick. Inside she found a man in a large recliner
chair- it was some kind of office- and on either side of him
were two electricity-filled monsters, glaring down at him . . .

"I'm here, just hold on and I'll do all I can for you!" she
yelled across the room as she raised her communicator to her
ear, ready to receive the message.

"Oh, you've done quite enough already," the man in the chair
spoke in a voice that turned deep. His face became distorted and
liquidy, then solidified again as the face of Jade, one of the
three soldiers they had to fight. He laughed deeply as she
stared in shock.

The hand of one of the creatures turned into a bolt of lightning
and knocked the communicator away from her, frying its circuits
to a crisp in the process. Jade stood and waved a hand forward
as it did, and the door shut behind her. His grin became
predatory at the sight of her fear, even as she was pulling her
wits back about her.

She raised her hand to beckon Venus for power, but before she
could aim the crescent beams the smaller energy beings were on
the attack, showering her with electricity. Bolts smacked
against her chest, stomach and shoulders, crackling against her
senshi shielding, but still delivering enough impact to throw
her back against the wall.

Venus groaned inwardly, pulling herself back up to her feet,
barely scathed by the attack. The sight that greeted her was
enough to make her dizzy with confusion, as Jade nailed her in
the forehead with a mailed fist. Others followed, pummeling her
across the abdomen and occasionally in the face. Her senshi
powers kept her safe, but the disorientation coming over her was
great, leaving her with a sensation of vertigo.

She could barely make out the blurred form of Jade hovering over
her, taunting her, "I hate to hit and run, but I have three
other matters to attend to. You don't mind if I leave you here
with my Electrodes for safe keeping, do you?"

Even if she had wanted to, she was far too dizzy to speak. She
could feel tight binds wrapping around her wrists and ankles,
raising her spread-eagled in the air, lashed up to the
doorframe. She could hear her clothes ripping vaguely, and the
staticy feeling in the air that brushed over her bare skin was
obvious . . . if she could only pull her thoughts together
enough to do something about it . . .

Consciousness returned to her only after an internal struggle,
but she straightened her sight enough to get her bearings. She
was hung up, dangling from the ceiling, held by strong chains.
Her clothes had been demolished, and the two humanoid things in
front of her were gleefully picking the strips of her fuku away,
leaving her silken pink bra and panties exposed to the open air.

One of them muttered something gruffly and cupped each of her
breasts in a hand, squeezing and shaking them inquisitively,
testing their firmness. The other she couldn't see, but she
could feel it when it reared back and slapped her exposed
buttocks hard enough to make her wince . . .



Makoto and Usagi made their way carefully through the hallway,
side by side. Ahead of them, Jupiter could see the large, open
room where most of the machinery could be found. It was buzzing
with workers as she suspected, and it would be a good chance to
inquire about any strange goings-on at the plant.

She went a few steps ahead of Sailor Moon, starting down the
catwalks. The steel mesh walkways overlooked the titanic
cylindrical tubes where much of the power was created. The
torpedo-shaped tubes stretched hundreds of feet into the air,
and from the service scaffolds where the girls stood, the floor
of the room was too far down to see clearly. They started along
the main path between the energy reactors, when Makoto got the
feeling she was being watched.

Glancing around, she found that all of the workers had stopped
to look at them. There were about six, with their hats pulled
down to obscure their faces. In unison they started down the
various paths to where the girls stood. Makoto's fighting
instincts lit up like a Roman candle, urging her to slide down
into a ready stance.

Jupiter hated being right. She gave Usagi a hard shove, sending
her sprawling across the pathway, out of the line of several
bolts of white lightning. She herself leapt to the side, doing
small skipping hops, to avoid several low-aimed bolts of energy.
As she stopped up against one of the reactor tubes, another
worker cut around the side and surprised her. Reaching over her
head she grabbed the man by the scruff of his neck and then went
to one knee, throwing her shoulder against him to knock his
balance and send him flying over her, and over the railing,
hundreds of feet down to the plant floor.

A lightning strike flew out at her as she stood again, and she
winced instinctively- only to find that the shock dissipated
into her suit harmlessly, becoming absorbed by her Jupiter
enchantment. With a sigh of relief she looked to Usagi, who
wasn't fairing as well. The blonde was sprinting down path after
path, chased by lightning bolts. Their attacks had shed their
disguises, appearing now as humanoid masses of electricity.
Jupiter located the one nearest to her companion and crossed her
arms, summoning thunder . . .

Her lightning struck the creature, but had little effect. In
fact, it seemed to eat the energy, growing to almost twice the
size it was. Seeing this standing before her, Usagi quickly
skidded to a stop and changed directions.

To her credit, Sailor Moon was learning to fight. As she
sprinted she removed her tiara and summoned moon power to it,
sending it Frisbee-style into one of the electric fiends. The
shot was effective, dispelling the creature in a bright flash,
clearing a path for her to run back to where Makoto was. Jupiter
sighed in relief as Usagi skidded up beside her, then turned her
attention back to the slowly-closing electric monsters.

Another flurry of lightning bolts came down on them, and this
time Jupiter threw herself in front, absorbing the energy. She
turned her head to face Usagi and yelled over the thunder, "I
can't hurt them, use the Moon Scepter, fast! It's our only
chance!"

Shielded by her friend, Usagi easily materialized her scepter,
calling the Lunar power into the great jewel hilt. Swinging it
above her like a baton she focused on the mnemonics, chanting
softly, building the energy in the tip- and all at once she
pointed and lashed out with it, sending a wave of purifying
white magic across the cavernous room. As the moon power
combined with the electricity, the monsters began to short out
in bright flashes- all except the large one.

The biggest Electrode threw itself against the main reactor
coil, funneling out the energy with an unearthly scream. Alarms
went off everywhere as the whole room became filled with
cascading lightning bolts, and the Electrode continued to grow
larger and larger. By the time the reserve power had been
drained, the monster was over thirty feet tall and glimmering
with power . . .

"Quick, zap him again Usagi!" Makoto screamed, shielding her
eyes.

"I have to recharge, I'm not powerful enough right now!" she
returned, ducking behind a large cylinder for protection against
the raging thunderstorm. Poor Usagi must be terrified with all
the lightning, Makoto thought to herself as she squinted to see
in the bright light. She had to do something, and she could only
think of one way to take care of this . . .

Her aim had to be perfect, but how could it be when she couldn't
see? She had to do this, she just had to! She closed her eyes
and let her fighting instincts take over. In her mind she
visualized the target, raising her hands to point at it,
summoning up all her power. Her mind's eye could see the bolts
that hit her, gauge where they were coming from, compensate for
what she needed. All at once she stiffened as every nerve in her
body flushed out a charge of electricity, consolidating in her
fingertips as a massive bolt of lightning.

The attack lashed out and hit home, blasting the floor below the
monster, reducing it to a smoking hole. The super Electrode fell
through, and down hundreds of feet into the meltdown containment
systems, which eradicated it once and for all. Makoto fell to
her knees, breathing a deep sigh of relief.

She heard voices behind her . . . two voices? Yes, it was Mars,
and she was saying, "What happened to you two? And where's
Mina?"

Usagi answered, still terrified, "We haven't seen her, we . . .
they attacked us! We beat them though, we're safe for now."

Rei sounded worried, "She didn't get my message, and her
communicator is out. I hate to tell you Usagi, but we have to go
search for her."

Sailor Moon sounded firm, despite her fear, "Right . . . I'm not
going to let them take another one of my friends."



Minako whimpered softly, throwing her head back and forth in
frustration. Her ass was bright red, and yet one of the
Electrodes still pounded it, making more marks with his open
hand. The other had long since torn away her bra, molesting her
developing breasts with callous disrespect.

As if their touches weren't degrading enough, they had a
constant static charge in them that made her hair stand on end
and her nerves crackle. Occasionally one would hit her with a
lightning bolt out of sheer malice, making her whole body spark
and tingle with electricity.

Now one of them had slipped his fingertips under the waistband
of her pink silken panties, and he lowered them only a short way
before shredding them from her. He stroked her slowly and
curiously, sliding his fingertips up and down her slit, and
through her bushel of blonde pubic hair. After a moment of
inspection, he rammed a finger into her without warning and
dispersed a shock into her sex, making her squirm in torment.
The pain was immeasurable, because her Sailor powers didn't
protect her there.

She opened her eyes again to watch her tormentors. This last
thing had made them curious, and the two nodded conspiratorially
before looking back to her. The second Electrode pointed up at
her and let loose two arcs of electricity, one striking each of
her erect nipples. The jolts fired through her, setting her to
squirming all over again, alternatively moaning and screaming
from the pain.

It took her dangling body a moment to stop swinging back and
forth. The two looked to one another again, then the first
nodded. He shoved his finger into her again and fired another
powerful shock. This time her scream was unrestrained, echoing
through the halls. Her face twisted into a mask of pain and
panic, and her vaginal muscles spasmed uncontrollably over the
finger, which was now sawing in and out of her.

After what seemed like an eternity he stopped, allowing her a
moment to digest the white-hot pain. Then the second started to
blast her breasts with all his might, starting the process all
over again. This time the first took aim and unleashed on her in
a far more savage way, sending tendrils of lightning out to
blast her swelled clitoris. The combined shock send her to
wrenching and snagging at her chains, whimpering pathetically.

Minako felt herself release and blushed despite her situation,
pulling her legs together as much as the bonds holding her would
warrant. One of the Electrodes pointed to the droplet of honey
running down her thigh with a grin, then pushed up to her,
prying her legs apart with his hands. The creature started
running its tongue up her leg, sweeping off the stay drop.

With ravenous hunger the Electrode shoved its face into her
crotch and sent its tongue into her. The wet member was the
perfect conduit for thousands of volts of power, combined with
the wetness of her sex. The shock sent her into multiple orgasms
as it flicked its lightning tongue about her insides, but ended
quickly. The creature had, apparently, used up all its power.
The other, not very smart, dove in where its partner left off,
sending her into another set of spasmic climaxes.

As luck would have it, her friends came storming through the
door just as the other Electrode was shorting out. They all
stood for a moment in confusion, staring at their friend,
dangling from the ceiling in the buff, her own juices running
down her legs. All three gave her concerned yet anxious
once-overs, making her blush all over again.

"Will you stop gawking and get me down already . . ?"



After a little experimentation with the disguise pen and a whole
lot of complaining, Mina was back in good condition and the team
was sprinting back to the main mechanics room en force. As Usagi
ran into the huge open area, she found it just as they had left
it, and the others began fanning out around her, scanning the
room.

"Looking for something?" the voice of Jade taunted, echoing
throughout the wide open area.

Sailor Moon straightened, yelling into the air, "Come out and
fight like a man, Negasleeze!"

"Ask and ye shall receive," Jade replied, the source of his
voice now the top of one of the reactor coils, where he and
Obsidian flickered into existence, "I just hope you know what
you're asking for."

"We're fed up with you," Rei yelled out, "now give back the
hostages!"

"Hostages?" Obsidian asked in mock confusion, he deep voice
grating like metal-on-metal, "Jade, did you know we had
hostages? And here we are, doing things the hard way?"

Jade chuckled deeply, nodding, "This way is hard, but so much
fun!"

With that both did high jumps off the platform, flying dozens of
yards before making landings on two separate parts of the room,
surrounding the girls. Makoto stared at one, then the other,
"Four on two, the odds aren't very fair this time around,
jerks."

Jade gave a sadistic grin, "That's alright, we never play fair .
. ."

As if on cue, the connecting platform behind them was rocked
with explosions, sending pieces of shrapnel flying through the
air, as well as blowing out the connection, causing the bridging
path to fall into a vertical position. With only a few strips of
metal holding it together, the girls were thrown down, bound for
the floor hundreds of feet below. Usagi seized the railing, as
did Makoto and Rei. Mina grabbed onto Mako's foot, holding on
desperately by it.

With slow strides Jade stepped up to the top of the platform
they were dangling on, sword in hand. "This little piggy went to
the market," he began, slashing down and cutting one of the
strips.

Obsidian joined in, cackling as he bashed away another strip,
"This little piggy stayed home."

Already bored with his game, Jade raised his sword, flickering
with green energy, "And these four little piggies went
wee-wee-wee until their heads splattered on the ground, far far
below!"

Before he could make the fatal cut, a beam of white light cut
across his face, slashing in line right across his eyes. Jade
hissed and fell back, bringing his hands up to cover the searing
flesh. His sword fell over the railing and fell, clattering off
the reactor coil and then taking a long, long trip before
sinking hilt-deep in the ground below.

Obsidian spun to look around the open space, growing quickly
paranoid. "What the . . ." was all he could mutter before
something smashed into him and the two disappeared into the
shadows, heralded by the sounds of heated combat.

Usagi didn't waste a second climbing off the unsteady dangling
platform, then quickly offered a hand to Rei as she climbed up.
Makoto helped Minako to grab onto the railing, and then Jupiter
too was over the top. Jade's voice cut in almost tragically at
that moment, "Not so fast!"

The Negaverse warrior fired a blind blast of energy at Sailor
Moon, but missed and knocked off another of the chains holding
the platform up, sending it swinging back and forth. Venus
screamed for help as her grip began to give. Jupiter and Mars
threw their hands out to her, but the cable snapped too soon,
sending her plummeting into the darkness below . . .

Jade ran back toward the center of the room, regrouping with
Obsidian, "What was that?"

Obsidian shook his head, then pointed to the senshi, "It's gone
now, just worry about them!"

Jupiter and Mars leapt forward in unison, lashing out with a
double-jumpkick that took Jade right in the sternum. Obsidian
started to attack the girls, but a blast from Sailor Moon's
scepter blew away the floor under him, forcing him to stumble
back to regain his balance. Still working as one, the other two
senshi spun and delivered a double-heel sidekick into Obsidian's
gut, doubling him.

Rei then threw herself shoulder-first into the giant's knees as
Makoto leapt into the air. As Obsidian sprawled forward Jupiter
came crashing down feet-first onto his back, smashing him down
into the steel catwalk. Meanwhile, Usagi distracted Jade by
deflecting a number of his energy beams with the side of her
scepter.

The three turned simultaneously to face Jade directly, each
chanting the mystic mnemonics of their celestial body. Usagi's
energy beam seared out of her scepter, and lightning and fire
swept in a spiral around it to join, smashing against the
Negaverse soldier in one giant attack that sent him flying
dozens of yards backward.

Seeing the odds turning on him Obsidian cut reality with his
scythe, drawing Jade with him as he vanished into a slipstream
in time and space, teleporting back to their headquarters.



Rei, Usagi and Makoto watched as the paramedics carefully
carried Minako over to the ambulance, loading her into the
emergency care table. The streets were clear due to the
evacuation, and they had been able to make it in only seven
minutes. Minako survived the fall, but her powers had been
completely shell-shocked by the impact, leaving her badly
injured. She would have to stay in the hospital for a while
until her powers could recharge enough to heal her.

Usagi sighed heavily, looking back to the catwalks high above
them, "All that, and nothing to show for it."

Makoto shrugged, obviously gloomy herself, but trying to make
her feel better, "Well, we got to see whatever that was attack
Jade and Obsidian. That's something, right?"

"That's not all we've got," Rei replied, with a hint of a smile.

"What do you mean?" Usagi asked, turning to face her.

"One of the Electrodes ran from me earlier, and I managed to run
a check-up on where the electricity went. It's right in the
middle of the city, one of the skyscrapers, just west of where
Ami was captured."

Makoto brightened noticeably, "So we know where their base is?"

Rei nodded, "But we should probably wait until Minako's better
to attack."

Usagi intervened forcefully, "They have Ami and my mother both,
and we've seen what they do to people! There's no waiting, we
have to attack immediately!"