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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Final Chapter: First Part - A fierce battle between the Dragon of Thunder and the Bird of Fire. Which of the Two Will Be the Winner?
"Well, well, well," Enyx said, pacing slowly back and forth. "What a sight." The sight to which she referred was certainly something noteworthy. Six beautiful young women in revealing costumes stood in a line before the grey skinned alien, their arms by their sides, looking humbly at their feet. These six were the Sailor Senshi that Enyx had hypnotised and brainwashed into serving her. They had all been outsmarted, defeated, and captured by Enyx, or by other Senshi who had fallen before them. All six now served Enyx with unquestioning loyalty - six magically endowed maidens strong enough to overcome an army.
And it was precisely for this that Enyx needed them. Her species, a race of Empire builders was locked in a stalemate with an equally powerful force, and Enyx had been dispatched to find a way to break the deadlock. With the acquisition of the Sailor Senshi - all but one of whom she would surely have failed to capture without the other Senshi she had captured aiding her - Enyx had acquired what her Commanders had ordered her to obtain, the greatest tactical advantage they could possibly have hoped for.
Enyx now controlled Senshi who wielded the powers of fire and water, sky and ocean, even one who could control time itself. There were only two now who remained free: Sailor Jupiter, who wielded thunder and lightning, and Sailor Moon herself, the most powerful Senshi of them all. The tactician in Enyx told her that she already had the recruits she needed, that risking what she'd already accomplished by targeting the last two would be foolhardy. However, the grey-skinned alien had grown quite fond of her ever-growing collection of attractive slave-girls. She couldn't resist the thought of two more beauties whimpering in bondage, before kneeling before her, and calling her "Mistress."
"That settles it then," she said, thinking aloud. "The only question is: which one do we go after first?" Sailor Uranus raised her head. Even as a slave, she was among the most proud and confident of the Senshi.
"It doesn't matter which one we take first. The six of us will be more than enough to defeat either of them within moments."
"You said that about me, I gather," Sailor Pluto said. She was Enyx's most recent acquisition, and she had proved more than a match for four Senshi at once. It was only by the ingenuity of Sailor Mars, and Enyx's advanced technology, that she had been captured at all. "Yet you almost failed." She was not being prideful, appearing aloof only because her thoughts were occupied with her directive: to serve Enyx as best she could.
"May I make a recommendation, Mistress?" Setsuna continued. Enyx nodded. "We should devote our efforts first to capturing Sailor Jupiter. With her power at your command, we would stand a better chance of subduing Sailor Moon."
"Hmmph," Sailor Neptune snorted. "Usagi may have power, but she is weak-minded. I would be astonished if she were even capable of lifting a finger against another Senshi. Makoto is hard-headed and stubborn, but not a total fool. She is the real threat."
It was at that moment that Sailor Mercury, a delicate-looking girl, withdrew the visor that she had deployed from her tiara, that acted as a scanner and computer. Her brow was furrowed.
"What's wrong?"
"Mistress, there has been a complication," Ami said. Enyx's eye twitched. They had not even started and something had already gone wrong. She did not like her plans being interrupted.
"What is it?" she asked tersely. She appreciated Ami's mental acuity, but she was beginning to find her a bit of a know-it-all.
"I have been monitoring Earth communications, and it seems that the battle at the University library has garnered much police and media attention."
"So what?" Sailor Venus said. "The Mistress doesn't care about what ordinary humans get up to."
"Usagi and Makoto know that this is the university that Setsuna attends," Ami continued, ignoring Minako. "They will have been made suspicious, and likely made attempts to contact Setsuna. If we have been unfortunate, they may even have made attempts to contact the rest of us - and they will not have been successful. Their communications, primitive by your standards Mistress, will not be able to reach us here."
"Why didn't you say something before?" Enyx hissed. "If they can't contact you, they'll get suspicious! We can't afford for their guard to be up, not if Sailor Moon is as powerful as you say."
"You did not ask before, Mistress."
Enyx cursed herself under her breath. The stratagem she had used, of having her servants infiltrate the ranks of the other Senshi, and acquiring more servants for her by stealth, had given way to her vanity. She could easily have sent Rei, Minako and Ami back to Earth, to be there to misdirect the remaining Senshi. But she had grown too fond of being surrounded by her servants.
"Mistress," Rei said, stepping forward, ever eager to please, "Makoto is very protective of Usagi. If there's trouble, she'll want to stay by Usagi's side. If we try to fight both of them together, it might make things very difficult."
"I know what the difficulties are!" Enyx spat. She was becoming sorely tempted to abandon Earth with what she had, but she was loath to leave the task of capturing all of the Senshi undone, especially when the most powerful of them was not yet in her grasp. That might even leave it open for a political rival to finish what she had started at some other time, taking the glory from Enyx, and hampering her ambitions. No, she could not leave Sailor Moon free, but they had to strike now or not at all.
"Mistress," Rei ventured again, "Makoto has one characteristic that will overwhelm her feelings of protectiveness."
"Oh?" Enyx was surprised at how much she had come to rely on the Senshi for strategy. They would make fine weapons of war indeed.
"Her pride. If I can exploit that, I can keep her from Usagi's side." Rei, the first to be captured by Enyx, was always looking for ways of staying in her Mistress' favour. "Let me go after her alone, while the other Senshi subdue Sailor Moon."
"Just you?" Sailor Neptune raised an eyebrow. "Against Sailor Jupiter? Surely you cannot think you will succeed, when the Mistress needed no aid whatever to subdue you. Sailor Jupiter will defeat you easily. Send me instead."
"Mistress, if Sailor Neptune is right," Rei said, not even bothering to look at Michiru, "if I'm too weak to defeat Sailor Jupiter, then I won't be much help in capturing Sailor Moon. But I can distract Sailor Jupiter long enough for the others to succeed. Even if I fail, surely the acquisition of Usagi will outweigh my loss."
Enyx grinned, her vanity once again taking hold of her. There were weaknesses in Rei's plan, to be sure, and Enyx knew that while Sailor Mars of course served loyally, she was trying to curry favour. But she couldn't resist Rei's utter devotion to her.
"Sure. Why not?" she said. "Sailor Mars, keep Sailor Jupiter off our backs. The rest of you - bring me Sailor Moon."
"Yes, Mistress," they said in unison, totally subservient to her will.
"This," Enyx said, her smile spreading even wider, "will be the end of it."
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"Do you think she's okay?" Usagi's voice, shrill normally, was almost out of Makoto's hearing range at that moment. She was speaking about Setsuna. The university attended by Sailor Pluto had, apparently, been bombed. There were no casualties, but the Tokyo populace were alarmed nonetheless. Makoto had noticed pictures of the incident in one of the local newspapers, and immediately knew there had been no bombing. The devastated library had been the site of a magical battle.
Not only that, but none of the Senshi - except for Usagi - were answering Makoto's phonecalls. She was becoming increasingly concerned, and increasingly aggravated.
"Hey, you know Setsuna," she replied. "I don't think there's much she can't handle."
"But why wouldn't she tell us if something happened?" Usagi may have been naive, but her care for the other Senshi was genuine. The thought that something might have happened to even one of them was almost too much for her to bear.
"I don't know. Maybe she's been summoned back to do Guardian duty, or something. Hang on, I'm gonna try the others again." One by one, Makoto went through their phone numbers, dialling and receiving no answer. Only Usagi had replied. "What the hell?" she hissed, drawing a few looks from people as she walked through the city. She was making her way to a meeting place she'd arranged with Usagi beforehand: if there was trouble, she would not leave Sailor Moon's side.
For some reason, Makoto found her mind wandering back to the incident in the sewers a few days earlier. Ami and Rei had wandered off together, and had apparently defeated a youma without the others' help. Makoto hadn't thought anything of it at the time - she'd been too distracted thinking about her vile surroundings - but now she was suspicious. Rei had been acting very strangely that day. What was happening now, with the other Senshi being out of contact, was linked to Rei's strange behaviour only by the fact that, since the sewers, nothing of incident had occurred. But now...it was as if the others had disappeared.
"Ugh, I hate this!" Suspicions and unanswered questions didn't suit Makoto one bit. She was a woman of action, and though she was not unintelligent by any means, problems without direct solutions frustrated her. If there was an enemy in front of her, Makoto's course would be to confront it head on rather than have to tiptoe around it. Scheming was the forte of the Outer Senshi, and as far as Makoto was concerned, they could keep it.
It was at that very moment that Makoto's cellphone began to trill in her pocket. She whipped it out and answered without looking at the caller ID, assuming that it was Usagi.
"Hear anything yet?" she said. There was no answer. "Yo, Usagi?"
"Makoto," came a voice from the other end of the line. Makoto realised at once that she was speaking to Rei. A whirlwind of questions all rushed to be the first out of Makoto's throat, but none were able to emerge victorious, and Makoto remained speechless. "We need to meet immediately." Her voice had a threatening, silky calm, and Makoto was taken very much off guard.
"Wh-why? Rei, what the hell is going on?" She'd managed to find some semblance of order to her thoughts. "I haven't heard anything from you or the others all day! You did read about what happened at Setsuna's college, right?" There was an exceptionally pregnant pause.
"I didn't have to," Rei answered at last. "I've...I've had a premonition, Makoto." From time to time, Rei would be gifted with glimpses of foresight, a power apparently totally separate from her abilities as a Senshi, and they were normally portentous.
"What did you see?" Makoto asked, clutching her phone almost tightly enough to break it. "Was it about Setsuna? And what about the others, I haven't - "
"I can't talk now. But we need to meet. Now. I'll text you the address of where you need to come."
"Right, sure." Makoto was confused, but more than a little relieved. Finally, something resembling an answer to the mystery that seemed to have surrounded her. "I'll get Usagi to -"
"No!" Rei snapped. "You can't tell anyone, Makoto. You have to come alone." The brunette was more than a little suspicious of this demand. "I don't know why, exactly, but...I do know that if Usagi hears what I need to tell you, something awful will happen."
Makoto was no fool. She knew that Rei's disappearance, and sudden reappearance, were ominous, especially given her strange behaviour earlier. She knew that she should be cautious, that she should wait to make contact with one of the other Senshi first. But the urge to confront the problem head on was too strong. Lack of intelligence had never been Makoto's weakness, but tunnel vision had been. Often that single-mindedness was a source of great strength, but it could also leave her open to danger, as it did now.
"I'll be there," she said.
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If Makoto hadn't been suspicious before, she became so when she arrived at the locale to which Rei had directed her. It was a disused factory.
"Hello?" Makoto's voice rang out, echoing back at her. Without quite knowing why, she shivered, hugging her arms against her body.
"Hello, Makoto." The tall brunette turned to see Rei emerging from behind an old machine of obscure function. "I'm glad you were able to find this place. I know it's a bit out of the way."
"You're not kidding! It looks like somewhere a bad action flick would come to die." Though obscuring steam was not dramatically rising from every possible alcove, it was otherwise just as it might have been in a film: dark, damp - and with a large number of places from which to spring an ambush, of each of which Makoto made a mental note.
"Makoto, I won't delay any further. There's something you need to know. I'm sure it wasn't difficult for you to guess that it has much to do with the others' whereabouts."
"Yeah, I figured." Something clattered to the ground somewhere in the distance, startling Makoto. She was more jittery than she'd thought. "So, what the hell is going on?"
"It's been going on for a while now," Rei said, turning away from Makoto. "I suppose the easiest way to say it would be that your - our - friends aren't on the side that we thought. Not any more."
"What do you mean?" Makoto said. Suddenly, her face fell. "Uranus and Neptune! They've betrayed us again, haven't they?!"
"No," Rei said, "well...not exactly." Makoto clenched her teeth.
"Would you stop being so vague and just get to the point?"
"Alright." Rei took in a deep breath. "For the past few weeks, the Sailor Senshi have been getting kidnapped, one by one, and forced into the servitude of an alien being, before returning to Earth as sleeper agents, waiting for the right moment to strike against the rest of us."
There was a moment of silence.
"What?!" Makoto yelled, breaking that silence in spectacular fashion. Her mind was reeling. "How - who - how did we not know about this before?!"
"This being is very intelligent. She even managed to fool Ami."
"Ami? You're saying Ami was captured?" Makoto scratched her head in bewilderment. She had her answer, but now she was even more confused than before. "Or - what, brainwashed?"
"I suppose it sounds a little silly when you just say it like that," Rei said, smiling strangely.
"How many?" Rei didn't answer. "Rei, how many of us have been - has this happened to?"
"I'm not sure exactly. More than one, at least. Now you know why I couldn't let you tell Usagi."
Makoto could hardly believe what she was hearing. And Rei was being so matter-of-fact about it all! Makoto didn't even know what to do with this information. Who was this alien being? Where were the others if not on Earth? How -
"How did you know you could trust me?" Makoto said slowly.
"What?"
"How did you know you could trust me? How did you know I hadn't been brainwashed as well?"
"I -" Rei hesitated. "I...saw in my vision that you hadn't been taken yet."
"But not Usagi?" Rei looked puzzled. "Don't you think if she'd been brainwashed the rest of us would know it by now? I mean, she's as strong as all the rest of us put together, at least. It wouldn't have taken her long to round up the rest of us."
"I guess not," Rei said. The hairs on the back of Makoto's neck were standing up. Something was wrong, beside the obvious.
"No way..." she said. "No way you wouldn't have thought of that. There's something you're not telling me."
Rei's lips twisted into a sardonic smile.
"Well, what do you know. You've rumbled me. Fire Soul!" To Makoto's astonishment, a wave of flame erupted from Rei's body, striking the ground just in front of Makoto.
"Uaaaaghh!" She was thrown back, landing sprawled on the ground some ten feet from where she'd been standing. "Ugghhh..." she groaned, almost completely winded. "What...how the?" Wondering how Rei had launched her attack while not transformed, she looked up to see Rei's civilian clothes burning away, torched by her magical flames, revealing the uniform of Sailor Mars underneath. She had been transformed the entire time - she'd just covered her fuku with ordinary clothes.
"Get up, Makoto," Rei said, slipping on her tiara - the one element of her costume she hadn't been able just to cover up. "I'm not done with you."
"You...you're the one who was brainwashed!" Makoto said, struggling to her feet.
"Not the only one," Rei replied. "I wasn't lying to you completely. In fact," she said, as she gathered flame into her palm, "it's just you and Usagi left."
"Well..." Makoto said, "I suppose I should thank you." Rei lifted an eyebrow. "After all, you've made things nice and simple for me. Jupiter Crystal Power...Make Up!"
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Elsewhere in the city, Usagi was still waiting for Makoto to arrive. She looked at her phone once, twice, three times in the space of about ten seconds, hoping for some kind of message from her friend - or from one of the others if they decided to rear their heads.
"I can't believe everyone would just vanish like this! It's so weird..." Usagi felt somewhat abandoned. Since her powers as Sailor Moon had been revealed to her three years earlier, she'd had guiding hands directing her actions. The Lunar Cats, Tuxedo Mask, the other Senshi - Usagi's power and courage were her own, but the way in which she'd used them had mostly been determined by others. All she could do now, trapped in this queer mystery, was wait once again for direction.
"Hey, Usagi!" Direction had come at last. Usagi turned around to see another blond woman ambling casually toward her. It was Minako - Sailor Venus - and with her appearance a weight was lifted from Usagi's shoulders. At last, one of the other Senshi had made themselves known. At last, Usagi could breathe a sigh of relief.
"Mina! Where have you been?" Had Minako herself looked concerned, Usagi probably would have been worried, but the long-haired blond was all smiles.
"Oh, nowhere important," Minako said. "Just taking care of one or two things." Even Usagi wasn't satisfied with that.
"But you and the others completely vanished! Me and Makoto thought something must have happened to you."
"Hey, don't worry about it, Usagi." Minako put her hand on Usagi's shoulder. "Everybody's okay."
"Well, I sure am glad about that," Usagi said, a smile creeping onto her face for an instant - then disappearing. "But what about Setsuna?! Did you see the news about -"
"Come on, Usagi, put two and two together," Minako said, just a little harshly. "What did you think we were doing?"
"I don't understand," Usagi said simply.
"Let me put it this way: Setsuna got herself into a little trouble, and we were helping her out."
"You mean she's okay?" Usagi was not difficult to manipulate. All it took was the suggestion that one of her comrades, having been in danger, was now safe, to distract her entirely from other considerations. Minako had prepared an excuse in case Usagi were to ask how exactly she'd known where Makoto and Usagi were to meet (the true answer being that Enyx had been monitoring their telephones from her ship), but the question never came. Hoodwinking Sailor Moon was never to have been the most difficult part of the operation.
At Minako's beckoning, Usagi followed to what she believed to be a café where the other Senshi were awaiting her. In reality, the building to which she was led was nothing of the sort: rather, it had been a café once, but was now conveniently boarded up. Like Rei had chosen for Makoto, Minako and Enyx's other servants had selected a spot in which they would not be interrupted.
"Guys!" Usagi squealed with glee as she entered. Ami and the others were standing inside, arranged in a semicircle, already transformed into their Senshi attire. Usagi's attention was, of course, particularly drawn to Setsuna, so much so that she took no notice of the strangeness of her situation: the emptiness of the venue, the cold expressions on the faces of her Senshi.
"Setsuna, I saw what happened at your college," she said. "The news said there had been a bombing, but -"
"Do not be concerned," Setsuna replied. "See what is before you: I am unharmed."
"Makoto and I thought for sure that -" She paused. Suddenly, the oddity of the events began to impress themselves upon her, and a question that she ought to have asked long before that moment rose to her lips. "Where is Makoto?" She looked around the room again. "And where's Rei? Isn't she with you guys?" At that moment, Usagi felt a hand shove her forcefully in the back. "Augh!" she cried out, losing her balance, and breaking her fall only with her hands. Shocked, she turned her head to see that it was Minako who had pushed her.
"Minako, what are you -?"
"Shut up." Minako's voice was ice cold, and it had the desired effect on Usagi. "Venus Crystal Power... Make Up!" The incantation triggered Minako's change from her civilian form into her Senshi guise, making her powers available to her.
"Wh-what's going on?" The Senshi had closed the circle around Usagi, and they looked down menacingly at her. Hauling herself to her feet, Usagi was baffled and intimidated by the threatening stares of her comrades. This was exactly as Sailor Mercury had planned in advance: that Usagi be demoralised even before their battle began was essential to the success of Enyx's servants.
"Transform, Usagi," Sailor Uranus said. "Show your true colours so that we can show you how pathetic you are." Much shorter than Haruka, Usagi shrank back from her strength as well as her sharp words.
"Why? I don't understand what's happening?"
"You don't need to understand," Michiru said. "You just need to transform."
"I..." Usagi's head was spinning. She didn't know what was happening, why the others were surrounding her like this, why Minako had assaulted her. Was it some kind of training? It was conceivable that the others were attempting to test her mental resilience, as well as her power. "I...I have to be strong, then."
"Get on with it!" Setsuna barked, anger tingeing her normally calm voice. But Usagi needed no further prompting.
"Moon Crystal Power...Make Up!" More so than that of any other Senshi, Usagi's transformation was spectacular. Enveloped in shimmering, gossamer ribbons, her entire body seemed to radiate enough light to compete with a small star. Usagi was among the most petite, and least physically imposing of the Sailor Senshi, but the blinding light show of her transformation was a warning that size was, in this case, no indication of power.
"Finally," Haruka muttered, seeing Usagi's clothes replaced with the skintight bodice and short, indigo skirt of her Senshi uniform. "Now just keep still," she said, while also making a signal to Sailor Mercury. Ami nodded back, whipping out a syringe containing the paralytic drug that had been used to capture her, and so many of Enyx's other servants. This was the moment of truth: all that they required was that Usagi be transformed into Sailor Moon. If a battle could be avoided, that was in their best interests.
"The little bimbo has been obedient thus far," Michiru thought, "perhaps she'll continue to be so."
Usagi saw Ami approaching her, and for a moment Haruka's brusque command kept her rooted to the spot. But though she lacked Ami's intelligence, or Rei's psychic insight, she had an instinct for evil. And evil was what she sensed coming from the other Senshi. As Ami got closer and closer to her, Usagi finally dismissed the idea that they meant her anything other than harm. Just as Ami was about to inject the drug into Usagi's body, which would have rendered her powerless, Usagi released a burst of energy from her body.
"Ahh!" Sailor Mercury was not hurt by the blast, but she was pushed back, and the syringe was knocked from her hand.
"Usagi, what do you think you're doing?" Haruka barked. "We told you to-"
"I know what you told me," Usagi said. "And I know you - none of you - mean to do good here. I don't know what's happening, but this isn't right!" She looked at Sailor Venus. "And I know you, Minako. I know you'd never talk like that to anyone." Ami cursed under her breath. Battle seemed inevitable...but if she could just reach the syringe while Usagi was distracted...
"Don't!" Usagi threw out a beam of light which evaporated the syringe on contact. "Please, whatever's going on, you all need to stop right now!" The Senshi were quiet for a moment. It was Michiru who spoke first.
"Very well Usagi. We'll stop playing games. If you won't come quietly, we will have to subdue you by force."
"Michiru?!" Sailor Moon couldn't believe what she was hearing. Her Senshi were turning against her, when they had sworn to protect her from harm.
"Deep Submerge!" A sphere of aquatic energy launched itself from Sailor Neptune's palm. Sensing Usagi's confusion, the other Outer Senshi added to Michiru's ambush.
"World Shaking!"
"Dead Scream!" The attacks converged on Usagi with rapid intensity, and would have done her great harm if they'd impacted, but they never came close to doing so. Sailor Moon had merely to raise her hand, and the energy from the attacks was dissipated.
"You won't find it that easy to beat me," she said.
But the other Senshi were fanatically determined. With Sailor Moon under her control Enyx would be all but invincible. The next volley was joined by Sailor Mercury and Sailor Venus as well, as the Senshi used their strongest attacks to try to bring Usagi down. But again, Sailor Moon only had to raise her hand - a small glow appeared in her palm, indicating that it took her a little more effort this time, but the results were the same, and Usagi was unharmed.
Sensing a direct approach would have little effect, Ami made a signal to Sailor Venus. The blond nodded, and Ami put her plan in motion.
"Sabao Spray!" she cried, utilising her weakest attack, and spreading a thick mist throughout the room. Usagi was not bodily threatened by this technique, of course, but found her vision obscured by the fog. Ami had the ability to allow whomever she wished to be able to see perfectly in the mist, while blinding anyone else with it. As such, Minako had no difficult manoeuvring behind Usagi.
"Venus Love Me Chain," she said, too quietly for Usagi to hear, and once again summoning her long, orange chain to her - and Enyx's service. Usagi used a quick burst of her power to try to clear the fog, but by the time she did, Minako's chain was already in flight.
"Huh?!" Like Setsuna and Rei before her, Usagi felt the cold metal strike her in the torso, whipping round her body with incredible speed. Her arms were fixed against her sides, the palms of her gloved hands pressing against her hips, before the chain twirled around her bare thighs, then over her knees, and her calves, covered now by orange chain as well as by her red boots. She was caught.
"Gotcha!" Minako tugged hard at the end of the chain in her hand, throwing Usagi into Haruka's waiting arms, the petite blond too tightly wrapped up to avoid this.
"You could have made this a lot easier, Usagi," Haruka said, gripping Usagi tightly against her body with one arm, and covering her mouth with her free hand.
"MMMPPPHHH!" Usagi, smaller and weaker than Haruka physically, couldn't escape her grip.
The other Senshi knew these measures would not hold Usagi for long, and Michiru quickly soaked a cloth in chloroform, a supply of which they had brought along with them, along with a large assortment of other tools that could assist them in their capture attempt.
"Keep her still," Michiru said, as she brought the cloth to Usagi's face. At the last moment, Haruka moved her hand out of the way, and Usagi felt the damp rag pressed over her mouth and nose.
"MMMPPHHH! MMM-NYYYMMMPPPHHH!" She could smell the chemical as she breathed it in, knew that it had to be some kind of soporific. "Mmmmppphhh..." Her body was already beginning to feel sluggish. The chains binding her rattled as she struggled against them, but decreasingly so. She was getting weaker, and weaker.
"That's it Usagi," Haruka said, gripping Sailor Moon's lithe body against her own with relish. "Give in. It won't be much longer now until all of this makes sense. It'll make more sense than anything in your life has up until now."
"No..." Usagi thought, "I can't...I can't give up!" The chloroform was dulling her mind, making it more difficult to concentrate, but not impossible. Usagi began gathering her power. Only Ami noticed the slight change in the quality of the air as Sailor Moon prepared to counter-attack.
"Hey -" she began, about to warn the others, but it was too late.
"MMMMPPPPHHHH!" Usagi screamed, throwing her power out in a wide explosion. This burst the chains around her body into fragments, and threw Michiru and Haruka - the two Senshi nearest to Usagi - into the air. They landed hard on the ground, Michiru being knocked out completely, sprawled out on her back.
"H-how...?" Haruka groaned, before swooning, and falling into unconsciousness herself. The blast had not only defeated the two Senshi, but had cured Usagi of the effects that the chloroform had had on her. She was back to full strength.
"I don't want to have to hurt any of you," she said. "But I won't allow myself to be captured either."
"Just...just how powerful is she?" Minako thought. She had, of course, seen Sailor Moon in action before. But it never occurred to her that she had not seen Usagi truly test the limits of her abilities. Sailor Pluto was shocked as well. She knew Sailor Moon was more powerful than herself, but she had never imagined the gap to be quite so wide as it now appeared to be. Still, she had one more ace up her sleeve.
"Time Stop!" she cried. The other Senshi froze where they were and - to Setsuna's delight - she found Usagi to be no exception. Just to be sure, she strolled over to her target, and waved her hand in front of her face. There was no response.
"Powerful, Usagi. But not quite powerful enough." She turned around to pick the chloroform soaked cloth from Michiru's hand, ready to finish what her fellow Outer Senshi had started. But as she moved her hand towards Usagi's mouth, she was shocked to find that time began moving again.
"What?!" she and Usagi spluttered, both caught by surprise. Usagi reacted first, though, blasting Sailor Pluto away before she could get the cloth over her lips. "OOOF!" Setsuna grunted, as she landed against a wall. "What...what happened? Even with her great strength, there should have been no way for Sailor Moon simply to cancel my ability. The power to stop the flow of time comes from the Guardians of Time themselves..." Sailor Pluto realised what had happened. "The Guardians of Time...their power could never be used against good! My time stop ability only worked against Haruka and the others because they were serving Enyx: it will be useless on a Senshi who still serves good!"
The tide had turned. With two of Enyx's servants already unconscious, and Sailor Moon's most powerful opponent essentially robbed of her most potent ability, Usagi had a clear advantage. However, elsewhere in the city, another battle raged, the two sides much more evenly matched…
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"Mars Flame Sniper!"
"Sparkling Wide Pressure!" A great arrow of flame, and a violent cascade of lightning collided violently in the middle of the factory, destroying the nearby machinery. But there was no pause. A few twisted knots of flame had ended up behind Sailor Jupiter after the collision of the attacks, and Sailor Mars manipulated them to launch at Makoto from her blind spot.
"Not a chance!" The tall Senshi of Thunder heard the flames whistling towards her, and blocked each. She countered by summoning a bolt of lightning above Sailor Mars, but Rei was able to avoid it, darting aside with the elegance of a dancer.
"Not bad Makoto," she said. "But not good enough. You're tiring, getting sloppy. I'm just getting started." She was bluffing. She had no idea whether she or Sailor Jupiter was more tired than the other. All she could do was keep fighting, and hope that even if she lost, she had bought the others enough time to capture Sailor Moon.
Makoto, for her part, was growing increasingly frustrated. Rei might have been brainwashed - by who or what, Makoto didn't know - but she was still as powerful and skillful as ever. She tried to find some way of gaining an advantage, but every attempt was thwarted.
"Why don't you give up now?" Rei said, taking a step forward into a shallow, but large puddle, her red high heel kicking up a little water.
Water. Makoto grinned. She knew what she needed to do.
"Oh, I've still got a lot more fight left in me." To Rei's astonishment, Makoto began sprinting at full speed towards her. So far, they had been trading long range attacks - why Makoto wanted to engage Rei in close quarters combat was beyond her.
"Fire Soul!" Rei sent out a weaker attack than before, seeking only to halt Makoto's momentum.
"Supreme Thunder!" Makoto responded, firing a bolt of lightning from her right hand. It blocked Rei's attack: not only that, the explosion of the attacks threw up a cloud of dust, obscuring Rei's sight of her target. That was when Makoto struck, sending another bolt of electricity not at Rei - she would expect that - but into the ground. More specifically, at the edge of the puddle Rei had accidentally stepped into. The water was far from pure, so the electricity travelled through it easily. Rei only noticed at the last moment, too late to avoid it. The lightning travelled from the water straight into Rei's body.
"UAAHHH!" she cried out, as Makoto's lightning crackled through her. Overcome, Rei fell onto her knees, her strength exhausted. "I...can't...lose..." she said, before falling onto her front. Makoto had defeated her.
"Alright..." Makoto could barely work up the energy to celebrate her victory. She'd won, but Rei had made it a very close contest indeed. She walked over to her fallen adversary, who had collapsed next to another of the factory's machines.
"Now...tell me what's going on," Makoto said, struggling to sound as if she weren't almost totally exhausted. "Who sent you? Why did you attack me? What's happened to the others?" She turned Rei's prone body over with her foot, wary of a trick that her opponent might be playing.
"I'm not...telling you...anything..." Rei was barely conscious. She could feel a tingling in her body from the electricity, which was almost all that kept her awake. But she was awake. And she was still aware of her surroundings.
"We'll see how long that lasts after another jolt of - hey, what are you doing?" Rei had raised her hand, apparently in an attempt to attack Makoto. The Senshi of Thunder lightly kicked her hand aside, and it knocked into the machine, inadvertently flipping a switch on it. The dilapidated thing began humming and whirring to itself, somehow still having enough power to do so.
"Nice try, Rei. But it's going to take a lot more than that to bring me down. I'd have thought you might'a worked that out by now."
"Oh, I have." Rei said. Just then, a spurt of what looked like steam was expelled from the machine straight into Makoto's face.
"Uuugghhh!" she groaned, stumbling backwards. Realising that would be the perfect distraction for a sneak attack, she opened her palm towards Rei, ready to summon her powers if the Senshi of Fire deigned to make a move. But she had not been able to capitalise on the opportunity, and was still lying on the cold floor.
"And what was that supposed to be, huh?!" Makoto shouted, simple shock filling her with adrenaline. "Did you even mean to do...to...to do..." At the start of that sentence Makoto had been energised - her body tired from battle, but nothing more. By the end of it, she felt drained, as if she'd fought a hundred battles instead of one. "Man..." she said. "That fight...really...took it out of me...oohh..." She began to feel light headed, and leaned against a pipe for support. Rei, however, seemed not to be quite as beaten as she'd seemed, struggling back onto her feet.
"Hey, don't try anything!" Makoto tried to hit Rei with another bolt of electricity, just enough to knock her down again, but to her horror she found that her powers would not come to her call. "What...what the hell?"
"Feeling a bit tired, Makoto?" Rei was smiling ominously. "However might that have happened?" She began striding toward the increasingly weak Senshi of Thunder.
"Don't...don't come...any closer..." Makoto said, her knees feeling weak. She was struggling to stand.
"Or what?" Rei kept walking towards her. Suddenly Makoto realised that it was she who was at a sudden disadvantage now. Somehow her strength was slipping from her grasp, while Rei seemed to have recovered. When Sailor Mars was just a few inches away, Makoto made a desperate lunge to strike at her. But her body was too sluggish and slow. Rei caught her by the wrist, and pulled Makoto against her body, the Senshi of Thunder too weak to fight back.
"Too slow, Makoto. The gas you breathed in is working perfectly."
"Gas? What...what gas?" All too late, Makoto realised that it was not steam that machine had sprayed at her. She'd underestimated just how prepared Rei had been for their fight. It had not even occurred to her that she would booby-trap their battleground. "Hey, don't...touch me..." She was objecting to Rei putting her hand on Makoto's bare legs. But Rei ignored her and, releasing Makoto's arm which flopped down to her side, she took Makoto by the shoulder, and scooped the tall damsel into her arms.
"Hey...put me...put me down..." Makoto protested feebly, as Rei carried her off. Her body was so weak that she could barely even wriggle in Rei's grip, let alone escape it. Rei did not carry her far, simply lying her down on her front near a small bag. Makoto was too drowsy to be properly shocked, but she couldn't believe that she was so powerless. She could barely move her limbs, let alone run or fight. "No...no..." she moaned, when she saw Rei pulling ropes out of the bag. Sailor Jupiter felt her wrists pulled behind her back, not having the strength to resist in the slightest, before feeling rope being wound around them, fixing them together, and pinching Makoto through her white gloves. "Don't you...don't you dare...tie me up..." Rei laughed at this feeble threat as she slipped rope under Makoto's chest, from the right side of her waist over her left shoulder and vice versa, running the cord between Makoto's pert breasts, and forming an 'x' of rope which bound her arms to her back.
"You're not really in a position to be making threats, Makoto," Rei said, thrilled that she had managed this victory. She moved on to Makoto's legs next, coiling the grey cord over her ankles, just above her short, green boots.
"Stop it..." Makoto felt as Rei pulled the knot tight, fixing her ankles together. Just to be sure that she wouldn't give her captor any surprises, Rei wound two circuits of rope just underneath Sailor Jupiter's knees, securing her legs together so she wouldn't be able to wriggle free, or anything of the sort.
Sailor Mars stood up, looking her prisoner up and down. She writhed on the cold ground, furious, but too weakened by the drug to express that fury much with her voice, or at all with her trussed up body. Sailor Jupiter was completely overwhelmed by what was happening to her: Rei's betrayal; her own victory so quickly being turned into defeat; and now her opponent was not only satisfied with Makoto's defeat, but had bound her hand and foot. Makoto was not only the loser: she was a captive.
"I...I don't..." she moaned, "I...can't…"
"No, Makoto," Rei said, tapping the side of her tiara to signal her Mistress' ship. "You can't." She bent down, scooping Makoto into her arms once again. Sailor Jupiter's long, smooth legs dangled in the air, completely on show to anyone who might want to admire them, as even with the ropes binding them together, their length meant Makoto's soft skin was scarcely obscured at all. Makoto was proud of her appearance, and had always considered it a fringe benefit of being Sailor Jupiter that she so often had the chance to show it off, but now she was acutely aware of how skimpy her outfit was. As her skirt slipped even further up her legs, and Sailor Mars' fingers tensed around Makoto's bare thighs as she carried her vulnerable captive, the tall brunette blushed, feeling exposed, and humiliated. With a flash of orange light, she and Rei vanished, leaving the site of their battle as it had been: abandoned.
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"Well, I'll be damned," Enyx said, as Rei strode victoriously into the chamber where six - so far - of the Senshi had been brought under the alien's control. "You actually did it. I guess I underestimated you." She cast her eyes over the limp brunette in Rei's arms, saw her long, bare legs, saw how her pert breasts strained against Makoto's bodice, and against the ropes criss-crossed between them. She was, even by the standards of the Sailor Senshi, exceptionally lovely: tall, feminine, and - best of all - completely helpless.
"I live to serve, Mistress Enyx," Sailor Mars replied, grinning. If this didn't put her firmly above Ami and the others in Enyx's estimation, nothing would.
"Who...the hell...?" Makoto, clinging onto consciousness, saw the strange creature that had orchestrated these events for the first time, and was unimpressed. She had been expecting a diabolical mastermind to rival Sailor Galaxia in power and cunning. This 'Enyx' didn't seem like much. Not that this was of any comfort to Makoto: it only made her capture all the more humiliating.
"Set her down," Enyx said. "We'd better make this quick. The others -" The alien stopped herself. She'd been about to tell Rei that the others were struggling against Sailor Moon, but realised that such a revelation would give succour to Sailor Jupiter. Her confidence needed to be diminished as much as possible in order for her to be brought under Enyx's thumb.
"The others," she continued, "are gonna be itching to reunite with this buxom bombshell."
"The others?" Makoto said, as Rei laid her down on the slab in the centre of the room. "What...what did you do with the others?" Enyx chuckled and looked at Sailor Mars.
"Can't you guess?" the alien said. "Restraints." Obeying instantly, the ship's computer activated a series of straps which erupted from the sides of the table, fixing Sailor Jupiter in place, and squeezing against her body. The brunette felt a knot in her stomach. Rei was now a mindless slave - or at least a slave - of this grey-skinned alien. Was this what she was to become now?
Enyx stood at the foot of the slab, the latest addition to her collection of captive Senshi lying before her. Smiling her too-wide smile, Enyx reached down, and ran her hands up Makoto's legs, supple and moist, as she walked slowly around to the head of the table, caressing Makoto's thighs, hips and breasts as she went.
"Don't...touch me..." Makoto struggled in her bonds, but her efforts were useless. She couldn't even loosen the ropes, much less the straps pressing her against the metal slab.
"Let me explain what's going to happen to you, honey," Enyx said. "First -" she continued, plucking off Sailor Jupiter's tiara "- I'm going to give you some new headgear." True to her word, she replaced the stolen tiara with an identical duplicate.
"What is that? What...what are you doing?" Makoto was still weak from the drug Rei had used on her, and its effects showed no signs of wearing off.
"This is going to help keep you in line." Enyx said. "Delivery system." From the ceiling, a small face mask on the end of a long tube emerged. When it was close enough, Enyx pulled it over Makoto's mouth and nose, strapping it in place.
"Nnnmmpphh! Grrmmm...rmmphhh mmmnnn NMMPPHHH!" Enyx ignored Makoto's muffled protests. She then moved into a position where she could look straight into the defeated Senshi's eyes. "This mask is going to pump a drug into your system not unlike the one you've already felt the effects of. It'll keep your body nice and weak, as well as making your mind much more suggestible." She leaned in close. "Then you're going to struggle. Maybe for a few seconds, maybe for a few minutes, it doesn't matter. You'll moan, and whimper, and wriggle that hot little body of yours against those ropes. You'll struggle, Sailor Jupiter, but you'll lose. And when you do, you'll be mine."
"Nnnmmmmpphhh!" Makoto heard a hissing sound, saw a pink gas being piped through the tube. "Nnnmmmmmm-mmmmpphhh!" she moaned, wiggling her bound body, already able to smell the sweet-scented chemical. It came closer and closer, soon she would be breathing it in. "Rrrmmmpphhhh!" She twisted her head, trying to get the mask off. Enyx's speech had instilled a sense of doom into her, she felt that if she breathed that gas, it would be over. But she couldn't shake vigorously enough. "Nmmmppphhh! Nnnnmmppphhhh! NNNNMMMMPPPHHHH!" she screamed, helpless as she breathed in the first of the gas, her mind and body ready to be totally subdued…
To be continued…