2Seeking Sailor Senshi
From space, an alien comes to Earth to capture the most powerful warriors of the Milky Way, the Sailor Senshis living on Earth in their nefarious plans to use them to conquer the universe. Will Sailor Senshis after winning the battle against Sailor Galaixa may get do against this new enemy or will this alien will achieve what the villains that the heroines in the past faced were never able to do with any success that is to bring humiliating defeat for our friends and have them under your control?
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First chapter - Technological Trap. Sailor Mars is Abducted by a New Enemy.
Rei doubted if any of the others would ever understand the peace and simplicity of being a miko, a shrine maiden. There was a purity, a serenity, to be found in the duties Rei performed, a calm that she couldn't find in her life as Sailor Mars, the Senshi of Fire. Though on the whole it was a place which soothed Rei's spirit, there were also tourists to be dealt with, and right then Rei was surrounded by them.
As she performed a kagura - a kind of ceremonial dance - Rei felt gazes of various kinds. There were those who visited the temple for religious reasons, who looked at her with a kind of reverent awe. There were irreligious tourists and locals who nonetheless were captivated by her dance, and watched respectfully. There were also, of course, a number whose spirits were thoroughly irreverent. They ogled the raven-haired beauty as she danced, even though she was more or less able to ignore them.
But there was another kind of gaze that Rei felt on her as well - not lustful, but something like it, a gaze of desire. She couldn't describe it more than that, but she felt it as surely as she felt the ground beneath her feet, hitting her like a wave against a cliff. This wasn't just instinct - beyond her powers as Sailor Mars, Rei was gifted with certain extrasensory talents, and at that moment her ESP was screaming like a klaxon inside her mind. There was a thoroughly alien presence behind that look. Half-stunned, she turned to where she felt this gaze was coming from, but found only a leering old man. He, certainly, had not been what had triggered her abilities. Rei heard confused murmurs, and realised that she had stopped dancing. Embarrassed, she resumed the ritual. Just as she did, however, she saw someone moving through the crowd, just a hint of movement away from the rest. Again she felt uneasy, but the feeling soon passed…
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A short time later Rei, dressed in her red and white hakama, was clearing fallen leaves from the shrine's entranceway, as the dappled sunlight was just beginning to fade. As self-imposed punishment for her slip-up earlier, she'd volunteered to stay behind and clean up. The gentle autumn wind scattered the leaves about playfully, making Rei's task a touch more difficult, and blew through Rei's long, black hair, causing it to billow out, and making the girl look utterly picturesque.
The shrine was deserted as Rei swept away the leaves, leaving the miko more or less alone in the dwindling daylight.
"I am alone," Rei assured herself. "No qualifications. There's no-one here but me." This she said in spite of the protests of her instincts, which still insisted that something was wrong. Normally she'd have trusted her sixth sense, but it was giving her only the vaguest hints - not even an image of some as-yet-unseen peril which might have made Rei feel like she wasn't just being paranoid. As it was, without something more from her ESP, Rei had to act as though it wasn't there. She knew the dangers of trying to act on knowledge gained from prescience - it was often acting on that knowledge that would lead to the predestined calamity. Without specific knowledge of what the danger was, she had no idea of whether or not action of any kind would invite it.
So, she swept. The wind had died down now, as if bored of its game, and Rei was free to work more quickly now. The dwindling sun emerged from behind a cloud, warming Rei, who had been feeling a touch of autumn's bite. With this warmth came a slight alleviation of that nasty feeling Rei had been having.
"Maybe I was just imagining things," Rei muttered to herself, sweeping the last of the leaves into a small pile. It was fortunate that the wind had died down, for if it hadn't, the shrine's courtyard would not have been so eerily silent. If the courtyard had not been so silent, Rei would not have heard her attacker coming.
She only heard the last footfall her attacker made. All the rest had been far too quiet, even in the silent courtyard. Hardly beginning to turn, Rei saw a pair of gloved hands reaching for her out of the corner of her eye - one about to grab Rei's arms, the other her mouth. She would have been caught - had she not at the last instant swung her broom behind her, striking her assailant in the ribs.
"Auuughhh!" came the pained cry, as Rei's attacker stumbled back. The miko span round, brandishing her broom, to find a thin figure clad all in black, their face covered by a hood, doubled over and clutching their ribs. Without a doubt, this had been the hooded figure that Rei had caught only a scant glimpse of earlier.
"Who are you?" Rei demanded. The figure didn't answer. "Answer me, or I'll pound you into unconsciousness, then call the police!" She could hardly believe that this had been the source of her foreboding pseudo-premonition, an enemy so weak that they'd been vanquished by a cleaning utensil. "Well?" Rei pressed.
The suspicious character didn't answer, merely standing at full height - a good six feet. From their figure, Rei could tell that the attacker was female, but couldn't tell much more than that. The hood still covered her face.
"Hmmm..." she hummed, looking around the area. "Nobody's home..." The woman's voice sounded strange, having an almost metallic quality to it. "Except you, Sailor Mars."
Rei froze. How did this person know that name? Rei kept silent, but her shock was visible. If the strange woman hadn't been sure that Rei was Sailor Mars before, she certainly was now.
"You haven't answered my question," Rei said. "Who are you?"
"Aren't we authoritative?" she snorted. "It suits you, y'know. Alright - my name is Enyx." Rei said nothing. "See, that's why I didn't bother telling you to begin with!" Enyx said. "That name doesn't mean anything to you - why would it? You'll be in a better position if I just do this," the woman said, and lowered her hood.
It took a while for Rei to realise that she was not looking at a human face. The skin was just a little too grey, the brow a little too far from the eyes, and the eyes themselves just a little too black. Also, as she looked closer, Rei noticed that each of the woman's eyes had only a lower eyelid when she blinked.
"A demon?" Rei gasped. Her eyebrow twitched with annoyance when this 'demon' began laughing. "What's so funny?"
"You think I'm a demon? Oh, man, you people are backward!" She guffawed loudly, a grating, tinny sound. Certainly she didn't seem very threatening for a demon. Rei seemed to have her number even in her civilian form - but if the grey-skinned woman wasn't a demon, then what was she?
"Just tell me what you want, get out of my sight, or both," Rei growled. She had almost been ambushed once, and afraid that this person was just a distraction, Rei was making herself very aware of her surroundings.
"I want you," the non-demon said. "Or rather, to put it more precisely, I want to recruit you."
"Re...recruit me?" Rei was momentarily stunned into silence. "What for?" she said at last.
"I'll ask if you like. Yes or no?" Enyx had begun to unbutton her long, black overcoat.
"No, of course! I don't even know what I'm signing up for!" Rei was getting that unpleasant feeling again. Enyx suddenly seemed a lot more dangerous.
"See, I knew you'd refuse. That's why I wasn't going to bother asking," Enyx said, throwing her hooded coat to the floor, revealing a faintly glowing, panelled bodysuit a darker shade of grey than her skin. "You are coming with me. Why all the preamble?"
"Oh, I am, am I?" Rei surmised that this was Enyx's battle dress. Well, two could play by that game. The shrine maiden threw her broomstick to the floor. "You seem to know a little about Sailor Mars. But maybe you need a more in-depth lesson. Mars Crystal Power...Make Up!"
With that last sentence, Rei triggered an astonishing spectacle. Surrounded by ribbons of fire, Rei was covered with a shimmering, multicoloured aura. Spinning around and around, Rei's ethereal transformation finally reached its peak, the flames dissipating, and the aura vanishing. Where once Rei Hino had stood, there was now Sailor Mars, the Senshi of Fire. Her hakama was gone, replaced with the skintight white bodice and short red mini-skirt that made up her sailor fuku, the uniform of a Sailor Senshi. On her head, a tiara, and on her feet, a pair of high heels matching the colour of her skirt, her footwear only serving to accentuate her legs, which her outfit displayed so prominently.
"Now," Rei said, feeling her powers welling up inside her, "tell me again how I'm going to be coming with you."
Enyx made no retort. Touching a panel on her chest, she caused her bodysuit to emit a pale blue light, and a gentle humming sound.
"Let's see if you live up to the hype," Enyx said. She crouched low like a sprinter, black hunter's eyes fixed on her target. Rei glared back with equal ferocity. She would end this...creature, whatever Enyx was, quickly and without fuss. She extended both her index fingers, pointing them at her opponent. She, however, would not make the first move. She had no idea what powers or weapons Enyx might have had at her disposal, even though the broomstick incident had made her confident that she had superior skill.
But Enyx seemed just as confident as Rei. Her lip curled, her body seemed not to move at all, even from breathing, so focused was she on her task. Suddenly, without the slightest warning, she sprang forward, sprinting towards Rei with astonishing, if not quite superhuman, speed. Within three seconds she was in striking distance of her target.
But Rei was ready. Already flames had begun collecting between her palms, curling around each of her hands like obedient snakes, awaiting their master's orders.
"Fire Soul!" Rei commanded, and the flames leapt forth from her hands towards her foe. Enyx was moving too quickly to stop herself, and the flames crashed into her, halting her movement, and enveloping her completely. "Too easy," Rei said. She assumed Enyx had been fried, but kept an eye on the swirling flames just in case something emerged from them.
However, just as Rei was becoming totally confident of victory, she saw the flames suddenly fade, before dying down completely. This revealed Enyx - who appeared totally unscathed. The only difference was that her bodysuit was now glowing a burning shade of orange. It didn't take a genius to work out that it had been Enyx's bodysuit - clearly some kind of advanced technology - had been what had defended her from Sailor Mars' attack.
"Nice trick," Rei said, as Enyx's armour returned to its cerulean hue. "I suppose you're the type to hide behind armour?" Enyx grinned.
"You're the one with supernatural powers. You can hardly blame me for trying to tip things in my favour." With that, Enyx leapt into the air, before diving down at her opponent.
"Fire Soul!" Rei commanded again, sending another salvo of flames at her foe. But Enyx twisted herself mid-air into a streamlined shape, and that - combined with her armour - meant that the flames didn't even halt her movement this time. Rei jumped out of the way just in time to avoid being landed on, Enyx slamming into the ground so hard that the earth cracked. Rei had no time to steady herself, though, as Enyx was quickly on her. The strange being jumped forward, swinging one of her legs in a head-high kick which would have knocked Rei unconscious if it had landed. The Senshi ducked down, just barely managing to avoid it. Before Enyx could strike again, Sailor Mars gathered a powerful fireball in her hand, and pressed it directly into Enyx, before detonating the ball of flame. Unprepared for this, Enyx was caught off guard, and knocked on her back. Rei backed off, trying to get as much distance as possible. Again, she had only been able to knock Enyx off balance, not actually harming her significantly.
"Not bad at all!" Enyx said, struggling to her feet. "You've obviously got the moves."
"Well, I'm so glad you think so!" Rei snapped. "Perhaps I should just excuse you for attacking me, since you're so polite!"
"Don't get sore," Enyx laughed. "I just thought you should know that you've got skill. That way you won't feel too bad when I beat you."
"When you beat me?" Rei exclaimed, taken aback by Enyx's presumptuousness.
"That's right. Your pals - the other Sailor Senshi - use weird magic that we still don't quite understand, but you - you just use heat and fire. Nothing exotic about that. Nothing that some anti-kinetic armour can't put a stop to." Rei was bewildered. Whowas Enyx? A youma? A monster? And what did she mean by "we"?
"I'll put her down, then I'll get her to talk," Rei decided. "I don't care what kind of armour she's wearing. I'll win this battle."
"Ready to call it a day?" Enyx said, crouching down once again.
"In a manner of speaking," Rei said. Again, she would wait for Enyx to make the first move. She didn't have to wait long for Enyx to leap at her again, but at the instant that the strange being began to spring forward, Sailor Mars began calling on the deepest well of her power. It boiled and crackled within her, almost desperate to spring out and destroy any foe in its path. Rei closed her eyes, focussing as intently as she could. She heard Enyx's footsteps in her direction, the grey-skinned being absolutely set upon Rei's defeat. At the very last moment, the Senshi of Fire opened her eyes.
"Mars Flame Sniper!" Sailor Mars called out, sending an immense spear of flame right into her opponent's chest.
"Uaaaggghhhh!" Enyx screamed, a harsh sound like scraping metal, as she was thrown back, the arrow of flame still pressing into her, carrying her further and further through the air. Her armour glowed blindingly orange, as it tried to absorb the vast amounts of energy being directed at it. Enyx twisted in the air, putting her feet on the ground, and trying to halt her movement. She juddered at last to a halt, as the arrow's energy was spent. Enyx's armour had held. Grinning, she looked up - only to see a second arrow hurtling towards her.
"Oh n -" was all she managed to say before the arrow struck her in the chest, knocking her to her feet. This was too much for her armour to take and, with a wheezing groan, gave out, shattered where the arrow had struck. Enyx lay sprawled on the ground, her armour broken. Rei had won.
The next thing she knew, Enyx was looking into Rei's face. The victorious Senshi was holding her up by the collar with one hand, and had another hand pulled back, wreathed in flame.
"Start talking," Rei said, leaving the consequences of refusal implicit.
"What do you want to know?" Enyx said, slightly dazed from Rei's last attack.
"Tell me what you are, and what you want with me." Enyx didn't respond immediately, so Rei increased the intensity of her flames.
"Okay, okay!" Enyx stammered. "I'm a Calderian...we come from a world many light years from here."
"You're an alien?" Rei said, cocking an eyebrow.
"You're the alien, human!" Enyx exclaimed, settling down when she caught sight of Rei's fiery fist again, and continuing to give Rei information. "We've been fighting for centuries with a race called the Hirviss, who claim ownership of a part of our Empire. We're at a deadlock - but when my side heard about the Sailor Senshi's conflict with Galaxia, we thought of a way to break it." So that had been what Enyx had meant by "recruiting" Rei.
"Well you can forget about that now. Your war is none of our concern - we're not mercenaries for hire!" Sailor Mars pulled Enyx in closer. "Leave this world now, and never trouble us again, or I'll fry you. Understand?"
"Perfectly," Enyx replied reluctantly.
"Good," Rei said, and threw Enyx to the floor. "This is a sacred place. Don't defile it with your presence any further."
"Oh don't worry, Sailor Mars. I won't." Suddenly, Enyx leapt to her feet, and grabbed one of Rei's arms.
"Hey, what are you - " Before Rei could finish speaking, Enyx touched a panel on her collar, where Rei had been holding her a few moments before. The black-haired Senshi raised her arm to attack, but before even the most minute sparks had flickered into life, she and Enyx had vanished into thin air.
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" - doing?!" Rei had not finished her sentence in the same place she'd started it. Gone were the shrine, the autumn leaves, and the evening sun. Rei now found herself surrounded on all sides by cold, white metal - if she'd had to guess, Rei would have surmised that Enyx had teleported the two of them back to whatever craft she'd used to reach Earth.
"Welcome to the Invincible, Sailor Mars," Enyx said, confirming Rei's suspicions. She'd materialised a few feet away from Rei, out of her foe's grip.
"You duplicitous freak!" Rei shouted. "Return me to the shrine at once!" She gathered flames in her hands, ready to incinerate Enyx if she had to.
"Oh, don't worry. I'll send you back, alright. But not until I'm finished with you." Enyx grinned broadly, much more than any human could have. Her words and her facial expression thoroughly unnerved Rei. The Senshi was aware that this was no longer her turf, so to speak.
"I'm going to explain to you how this is going to work," Rei said, her voice tinged with anger. "First, you're going to return me to the shrine. Second, you're going to apologise for wasting my time. Third, you're going to leave, and never bother me again. Otherwise, I'm going to defeat you. Again." Enyx laughed again, her metallic voice echoing against the metal confines of theInvincible, the sound ringing painfully in Rei's ears.
"Oh, Sailor Mars. It's not me you have to worry about. This ship is called the Invincible for a reason."
Before Rei could ask what Enyx meant, she heard the whirring sound of machinery behind her. Turning, Rei saw two turrets descending from the ceiling, aiming right at her. Before she could destroy them, they both fired, launching twin volleys of large, heavy looking metal orbs. Rei managed to get out of the way of the turrets' firing paths, and gathered fire in her hands. She was about to destroy both weapons, but by the time she'd taken aim, both turrets had retracted, leaving only the silvery orbs they had fired, lying scattered on the ground.
Rei was about to turn her attentions to Enyx again, when she noticed the orbs begin to twitch. There were about twenty of them, and one by one they all began to wobble around on the floor. The sight was almost comical - until one of the orbs suddenly sprouted legs. Eight limbs emerged from its metal body, on which it began to scuttle around the ship. It was only the first orb to do this - one after another they all followed suit, becoming like robotic insects about six inches in diameter. They seemed aimless at first, until Rei took a single step towards Enyx. The scuttling robots suddenly froze, before leaping towards Rei.
"What the - ?" Rei exclaimed, as the robots hurled themselves at her. They had seemed almost amusing at first, but now they moved with a deadly accuracy, and as Rei dodged them she saw that they had not only produced legs, but sharp-looking fangs as well. Rei accessed her powers, and launched a fireball, detonating it in their midst. To her dismay, however, she found that these machines were heat proofed as well as animate, and they were undamaged by her attack.
"Your powers aren't going to do much to help you here," Enyx said, standing well clear of the fray. "Those drones are made out of the same material as my armour. Fire can't hurt them."
"We'll see about that!" Rei cried out, letting loose another salvo of flames, more intense than the last. They did not, however, meet with any more success. As Rei ducked and weaved between and around the drones, she didn't notice that two of them had broken off from the main group. Quietly, they moved behind Rei, allowing their fellows to distract her. They waited patiently, watching as Rei vainly threw flame after flame at the other drones, until at last she was in a position the drones considered favourable for them - and they struck.
Rei had pulled her arms back, preparing for a more sincere effort to destroy the drones, but when she was about to swing her arms forward, she felt something snag each of her wrists. She tried to move them forward, but found that she couldn't. Something had a hold of them, and was pulling Rei back. She turned her head to see with frustration that the two drones were each at one end of a long strand of fibre. At the other end of these strands were Rei's wrists, to which the fibres had stuck fast.
"Ugh!" Rei groaned, straining against the two machines, but they were too strong for her, and kept her arms in place. "Fire Soul!" she cried, sending waves of flame along the strands. But these too were powerfully insulated against heat, and Sailor Mars' flames would not burn them.
"Initiate capture protocol delta. Maximum severity," Enyx commanded her machines, watching as Rei struggled. The two drones that had a hold of her suddenly swapped positions, pulling Rei's arms as they went, pressing them tightly against each other.
"Get off me!" Rei protested, but the drones didn't listen. A third one, following the signal of the first two, and jumped up onto Rei's outstretched arms. Rei couldn't see, but she could feel, as with horror she realised that the third drone had begun applying more of the sticky, white fibre to Rei's arms. Deftly using its limbs, the drone spun the fibre around Rei's wrists, her forearms, over her elbows, binding Rei's slender limbs in the thread, ignoring the flames that ran down her arms, merely tying them more and more tightly together, until finally Rei's arms were completely bound together, all the way from her wrists to her shoulders.
"No!" Rei gasped, as she thrashed and struggled, trying but failing to free her bound arms. Sensing weakness, the other drones now began their assault. Two of them produced a certain quantity of fibre, spooling it out, before fashioning them into sticky lassoes. As Rei stumbled forward, shocked at her inability to free herself, she saw the two lassoes thrown over her head. It was too late to dodge. Rei could only watch as the loops of fibre ensnared her, before being pulled tight, squeezing Rei's chest just above and just below her breasts, pulling her arms tightly against her back.
Now they had her. Pulled in both directions by the drones that had lassoed her, Rei was rooted to the spot she stood in. The two drone keeping her in place began rapidly scuttling around her. Rei realised that they were actually tying her up more as they did this, winding the lassoes around her body, covering her chest in the white, sticky fibres, until they had covered her upper body completely.
"Stop! Let me go!" Rei yelled, but was again ignored. She was so tightly bound that she could barely even move her arms, let alone get loose. The drones that had bound her now began pulling down, attempting to force Rei to the ground. She dug her feet in, though, and managed to remain standing, bound though she was.
With dismay, however, she saw another drone began scuttling towards her feet. Knowing that Rei could do little to stop it now, the drone slowly walked to one of Rei's feet, and reeled out a length of thread. It stuck one end of this length to Rei's ankle, before calmly walking over to her other foot. It then pressed the adhesive fibre against Rei's other ankle, before beginning to scuttle back around, drawing out more and more fibre as it went. It completed three circuits of Rei's feet, creating a circle of thread as the Senshi watched powerlessly. Then, clinging onto to its end of the thread, the drone gave a thorough yank, pulling the thread tight, and snapping Rei's ankles together.
"No!" Rei cried. With her ankles tied together like this, she was finding it extremely difficult to remain standing in her heels. She wobbled, and this was all it took for her to lose her balance completely, and fall crashing to the ground.
"How the mighty are fallen," Enyx laughed, as the rest of the drones leapt onto their fallen prey. As Rei thrashed impotently, her mechanical captors began covering her in thread. She was spun over and over on the ground, like a fly caught in a web, as her bare legs began to disappear beneath the thread. Her calves were encircled first, pressed together by two drones, and tied up by a third. At the same time, two of the drones that were spinning her around were binding Rei's soft thighs, moving down towards her knees.
"No! Stop! Let me GO!" Rei protested, as the two sets of drones binding her legs met, covering her knees, and leaving Rei's long, smooth legs so tightly tied together that she couldn't move one without moving the other as well.
The other drones were busy binding Rei's chest even more tightly, the thread that was wound around her squeezing her breasts and her slender arms. But they didn't stop with her chest. The drones continued working their way over Rei's body as the captured Senshi struggled ever less effectively, covering her shoulders, then her neck.
"No! No!" Rei repeated over and over again, as the threads began to cover her chin. She could also feel one drone begin to bundle up her long, black hair, packaging it neatly so that it didn't get in the way of its allies. Rei was being wrapped up like a package, and there didn't seem to be a thing she could do about it.
"Get off! Get - MMMMMPPPPPPHHHHHH!" Rei's muffled scream came just as her lips were sealed by the sticky, white threads. Now even the power had speech had been taken from her. Gagged, Rei thought that they might stop there, but to her dismay, she felt her nose being covered over as well. For a moment, she feared she would be smothered, but the threads appeared to be air permeable, and she could still breathe. As the drones continued, Rei feared she was to be blindfolded as well, but the drones' one small mercy to Rei was to let her keep her sight. The drones left a small gap in Rei's bonds for her eyes, but as they finished winding thread around her head, packaging in her hair as well, Rei was now completely mummified in the sticky fibres.
"MMMMMPPPPHHHH! HHMMM-MMMMMPHHH!" Rei cried, as she wriggled in her bonds. The drones scuttled out of the way, as their master approached her helpless opponent.
"I told you that you couldn't win, girl," Enyx said. "We've been preparing for you for a very long time. You didn't stand a chance."
"MMMMPPHHH-MMMMMMMPPPPHHHHH!" Rei moaned, her eyes wide with shock and anger at her humiliating defeat. Enyx stood right over her, leering down at the wrapped-up Senshi.
"Oh, if only you could see how cute you look right now!" she laughed, before leaning down, and taking Rei by the shoulders.
"Mmmmpphh!" Rei yelped, as Enyx lifted her to her feet, the tall alien easily manhandling Rei's body. She then grabbed Rei by the waist, before lifting the bound Senshi over her shoulder.
"This way, Sailor Mars. We've still got a lot of work to do on you before you're ready."
"Grrmmmpphhh! Hhmmm-mmmmmpppphh!" Rei protested, helpless in Enyx's grip. She felt so embarassed, having been overpowered and trussed up like that. She should have fried Enyx when she'd had the chance - now she was the one at her opponent's mercy. The threads were so tight, pressed against Rei's body, that the damsel could scarcely even twitch. But as her anger and humiliation boiled inside her, they began to kindle the flames of her power. Rei could hardly even stop herself - her body began generating an intense heat, and hissed with flames, held in by the heat proof bonds.
"That's not going to help you," Enyx assured her. But then again, Rei thought, the alien had seemed fairly confident in the strength of her armour as well, and that hadn't held up to Rei's full might. Now she added her will to her involuntary outpouring, focussing with titantic effort to summon every last drop of power she had.
"Aaaaghh!" Enyx suddenly cried out in pain, dropping Rei onto the ground, and clutching the hand with which she'd been gripping her captive. Rei had heated the threads to such a degree that they were painfully hot to the touch. "Oh that does it, you little - " But this time it was Enyx who was interrupted mid-sentence. With a defeaning boum, Rei's sticky prison burst open, shattered apart by Sailor Mars' power.
"Oh, hell!" Enyx exclaimed, as Rei leapt to her feet, her entire body wreathed in flames. "Drones! Attack!" Obediently, the scuttling machines leapt to their master's aid, ready to put Rei down for a second time.
"Mars Flame Sniper!" Rei practically screamed, sending an arrow of fire thrice three times more powerful than the one she'd first fired at Enyx. It struck one of the drones dead on, melting it completely. The force of its impact broke another five drones into pieces, and crippled three more. The remaining drones, feeling no fear, kept at it, but soon found themselves on the end of another, even more powerful arrow.
"Now for you!" Rei yelled, turning herself towards Enyx, her body now exhausted from the outpouring of her power. Still, she had enough to take down Enyx. "Fire Soul!" she called out, sending a volley of fire towards her opponent. But Enyx actually dived forward, into Rei's attack. Just as it was about to hit her, she dropped to her knees, and activated a defensive shield on her arm. At that angle, the shield which could not have stood up to a direct confronation with Rei's attack was just about able to deflect it. Before Rei could attack again, Enyx sprang forward, and thrust her palm in front of Rei's face. Before Sailor Mars could work out what the alien was doing, Enyx touched a panel on her wrist, releasing a cloud of blue gas into Rei's face.
"Ugh!" Rei coughed, breathing in the heady vapour. "What are you...doing...ooohhh..." To her horror, Rei suddenly found herself feeling extremely weak. Her arms fell to her sides, her knees began to buckle, and worst of all, she felt unable to use her powers. She caught sight of Enyx's unnaturally broad grin just as her legs gave way, and she collapsed into Enyx's arms. She batted feebly at her opponent, but was not able to do so for long. Enyx laid her weakened foe flat onto her back just as the gas completely took hold. Rei's head fell limply to one side, as she realised that she was totally paralysed. Her last effort had failed.
"Phew!" Enyx laughed. "You had me worried for a second there! But there's a reason that I was assigned to this mission, after all." Enyx left her drugged opponent where she lay, moving over to an indentation in one of the walls. "Computer, fifth level bindings," she said, apparently giving commands to her ship. With a click, and a buzz, what she'd asked for was dispensed, and she went back over to Rei, carrying a number of grey coloured ropes.
"What...what's happened to me?" Rei asked, her head feeling light.
"Just a little paralysis drug. It has the side effect of keeping you from being able to concentrate enough to use your powers as well." She knelt down by the bare-legged maiden, and turned her onto her front. She then grabbed her arms, and crossed Rei's wrists behind her back, before quickly lashing them together with rope, before tying them tightly. She then moved up Rei's arms, and wound rope around her elbows, tying them together too, and leaving Rei's arms bound.
"No...stop...don't tie me up..." Rei begged, as Enyx moved down to her long, naked legs. The alien started just above Rei's knees, winding two circuits of rope around them, tying Rei's thighs together. Against Rei's skin, the cord felt like ordinary rope, though it was in fact made from an advanced, manufactured substance. Enyx then grabbed Rei by the ankles, and lashed those together too. Rei's smooth, sylphlike legs were now tied as securely as her arms, leaving the maiden totally bound.
"Much better," Enyx said, before turning Rei back onto her front. The alien slipped one hand underneath Rei's neck, the other beneath her thighs, before lifting her up, carrying her captive like a bride. Rei flopped limp and helpless in her arms, her calves dangling in the air as she was carried off.
"Why...why are you doing this?" Rei asked. "Why did...why did you...kidnap me?"
"I told you. I want to recruit you, Sailor Mars," Enyx said, taking Rei through an automatic door. "I'm under no illusions about our war. We're a couple of greedy empires fighting over territory. You Sailor Senshi style yourselves as warriors of truth and justice, so I didn't imagine you'd want to fight for us willingly. So you're just going to have to fight for us unwillingly."
"I'll never...fight for you..." Rei protested, elliciting another hollow laugh from Enyx.
"Still with the attitude, huh? I can see what you're going for with the whole nobility and honour thing, but that really only works when you've got fire at your fingertips. Right now, you're just a hot girl in high heels and a mini-skirt, and you're all tied up to boot. You're helpless, Rei." That had been the first time Enyx had used her real name, and the effect on Rei was significant. Enyx was right - in her current state, she didn't feel like Sailor Mars anymore. Enyx began to grip Rei's thighs a little more tightly, and the captive damsel blushed with embarassment.
Rei was taken down a long hallway, her body so limp that her tight bonds were virtually redundant. Enyx walked through another automatic door, and entered what looked like a medical lab. There were what appeared to be vital sign monitors, medical instruments, and what looked like a surgeon's table in the centre. Onto this table Rei was now laid on her back.
"Computer, restraints," Enyx said, and two thick, plastic bands suddenly sprang out from one side of the table, and inserted themselves into buckles on the other side, strapping Rei tightly to the table by her breasts and her ankles. "Computer, gas delivery system, compound 32-b." From the ceiling descended a long, thin tube, on the bottom end of which was a small face mask. It descended towards Rei, but stopped one or two inches from her.
"Wh...what are you going to do with me?" Rei asked.
"I'm going to give you a bit of...persuasion," Enyx answered. "Computer, deliver compound 32-beta for ten seconds." With that, the mask descended onto Rei's face, over her mouth and nose, sending out small straps around the back of her head to hold itself in place.
"Mmmmmphhh?" Rei whimpered fearfully, as she heard the quiet hiss of a gas being fed through the mask. To her surprise, though, this gas seemed to make her feel stronger. After a few seconds, Rei found herself able to move, writhing weakly on the table. After a few seconds more, however, Rei felt her strength almost totally returned to her, and she began thrashing in her bonds, held down by the restraints.
"MMMMMPHHH! MMMMPPPHHH!" she groaned as she tried to break herself free. She couldn't access her powers yet, but only a few more seconds and -
"Computer, switch to compound 177-alpha." The clear gas that had roused Rei's strength was stopped. In its place, Rei found herself breathing in a sickly sweet, pink coloured vapour. This had the opposite effect to the last, beginning to make her feel weak again. Rei struggled, but with less intensity by every passing second. After a few moments, Rei began to feel sluggish, her eyes flickering open and shut as she now struggled to stay conscious. She was not paralysed this time, but she was again much too weak to fight.
"Didn't mean to get your hopes up, Rei," Enyx said. "The gas I used before won't have quite the effect I want, so I needed to cure you of it before I gave you the one you're tasting now. This one will keep you nice and drowzy for what I've got in store." Saying this, she walked around to where Rei's head lay, and removed her tiara.
"Mmmmpphhh...mmmppphh..." the abducted maiden protested weakly, as Enyx replaced the tiara with an identical replica, before standing back, and waiting.
Rei wasn't sure what was happening at first. Enyx stood grinning at her, the sweet smelling gas making Rei feel so weak. Enyx seemed so strong now, so much in control of her captive. Rei looked down at her body, her tight bodice, her short skirt, her long, naked, bound legs - she looked so vulnerable, she thought, so defenceless.
"She defeated me...I'm totally helpless," she thought, "maybe I should just give up now..." At this thought, however, Rei started. It had not come from her own mind. Rei realised with horror that the replacement tiara was somehow in the process of hypnotising her, or brainwashing her. "I can't give up...I have to fight...but I'm too weak to do anything about it. Look at me - all tied up like this...no! No! I won't give in!" Rei wriggled sleepily in her bonds, trying to muster what mental strength she could.
"Don't fight, Rei. You won't win. Just give in." Enyx said. "Serve me."
"Mmmphhh..." Rei whimpered. She was aware of what was happening to her, could feel the cloud settling over her mind. But she was too sleepy and helpless to fight it effectively. Still, she wouldn't give in completely, still exhibiting signs of struggle. Enyx saw this, and walked around to the other side of the table. To Rei's shock, Enyx placed her hand on her captive's thigh, and began stroking her smooth, bare legs.
"Hmmmpphhh...mmmppphh!" Rei protested.
"Don't complain, Rei," Enyx said. "Doesn't it feel good?" As Enyx caressed her legs, Rei found herself agreeing with Enyx. Suddenly the whole experience took on a different tenor. She began to enjoy the sensation of the tight, restrictive ropes keeping her feminine body all trussed up. Rei began to enjoy the feeling of her captor having her way with Rei's body, the feeling of her hands on Rei's long, silky legs. She felt so helpless - but now this was a pleasant feeling, one which seemed to seep through the entirety of her mind. She looked up at Enyx, who now seemed invincibly powerful, the one who had abducted Rei, trussed her up and was now fondling her. Rei felt so weak next to her, so utterly subdued. As she whimpered, Rei felt her last bastions of mental resistance begin to crumble.
"I can't! I won't...I...I...I surrender..." With that, Rei's fight for control of her mind was over. She had lost.
"Computer, release restraints, and withdraw delivery system." Enyx saw the blank look in Rei's eyes, and knew that the raven haired beauty was now hers to control. The straps withdrew into the table, and the gas mask retreated back into the ceiling. "Rei? Can you hear me?"
"Yes," Rei replied, still somewhat sleepy from the gas.
"From now on, you will refer to me as "Mistress". Understood?"
"Yes, Mistress," Rei replied without hesitation. Enyx had a complete hold of her.
"On your feet." Still tied up, it was difficult for Rei to maneuver herself off the table, much less for her to stand in her high heels, with her legs so tightly bound, but she obeyed without complaint. "Now kneel."
"Yes, Mistress," Rei said, dropping instantly to her knees. Enyx looked down at her bound slave. Her fiery resilience was gone. Rei was now a meek, obedient captive. Her mind, her powers, and her lovely body now belonged to Enyx. "Now then Rei...bring me the other Senshi."
To be continued…