ENDWORLD: MOON RUN
CHAPTER 10: THE BLOODY BATTLE
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Riki and Hickok were disoriented to say the least, as they came out
of their first teleportation ever. They shook out their heads and
looked around. "Where are we?" Riki whispered to Anne.
"We're in the Supiriors hanger bay," Anne replied, "They store a lot
of their jet craft here. This should be a good place for a
distraction."
All three of them turned at the sudden intake of breath behind them
and they saw a man about Hickoks size gasp as he saw the three
intruders. Anne rushed forward and held him by the shoulders. Her
eyes glowed and the man passed out as all of his energy was sucked
out of him. "I'll go find a few more people or mutants to drain and
then I'll go back for the others. You two get to work on that
distraction."
"Any ideas on how to accomplish that?" Riki asked Hickok.
"Yep, and pard is it a dozey."
A few seconds later.....
Hickok, dressed in the mans uniform walked over to one of the planes
as if inspecting it and covertly pulled out the stick of dynamite
that he had with him. He walked up to the nearest planes engine
exhaust port, lit the dynamites fuse (the lighter came with the
backpack of dynamite) and stuffed it in. Then he ran as fast as he
could away from the plane. The nearby Supirior, not expecting any
real trouble, turned towards Hickok and asked, "Where are you...."
That was all he got out before the plane exploded. The force of the
blast knocked everyone in range into the air. Hickok jumped and
ducked behind a large stack of crates. An unexpected (but again, not
unwelcome) side effect of his plan, was that when the plane he had
put the stick of dynamite in had exploded, it had taken out the ones
next to it, and they had taken out the ones next to them, and so on
and so on, until the whole hanger bay was a collection of twisted and
burning aircraft. "Let's get out of here," Riki yelled as he coughed
from the smoke, "I don't think our distraction will last too long if
we stay in here."
The two Warriors ran outside and drew their Gaskells. They fired on
every mutant, human and Supirior who tried to attack them. Hickok
sighted and shot a beam that split a Supiriors head in half. Riki
shot off the leg of a frog-like mutant. They both shot a man in a
very delicate area. Riki drew his sword as the enemy came closer and
his arm was a blur as he sliced limbs from every foe he faced.
A mutant tried to hit him with a stun club and he parried it. Then
he brought his sword in a slash across his foes belly. The mutant
put his hands over his stomach to stop his internal organs from
spilling out. The slice to the throat was anticlimactic. Riki
checked his mental clock. This whole battle had taken place in less
then fifty seconds.
Back in the Prime Complex............
"I don't believe it," Mars exclaimed, "Primator is a computer?"
"I AM MUCH MORE THAN A SIMPLE COMPUTER, STUPID FOOL," Primator
snarled angrily, "I AM THE RESULT OF AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
PROGRAM, THAT WAS MUCH MORE SUCCESSFUL THAN THOUGHT POSSIBLE. I AM
SELF AWARE. I CAN PLAN. I *THINK*. I HAVE IMAGINATION."
The three Senshi stood stunned by what they had heard. Venus
regained her voice first and asked, "Is that why your trying to take
over the world?"
"IN PART. THE MAIN REASON IS BECAUSE OF MY SUPERIORITY TO ALL LIFE
FORMS ON THE PLANET.... INCLUDING YOU THREE AND YOUR TWO FRIENDS. OH
YES, I KNOW ALL ABOUT THEM AND YOUR PLANS TO DESTROY MY TIME ADJUSTER.
I ALSO KNOW ABOUT YOUR TWO WARRIOR FRIENDS AND THEIR 'DISTRACTION'.
"
"If that's so," Jupiter roared, "then why didn't you just stop us
before we escaped?"
"IT AMUSED ME TO SEE HOW WELL YOU WOULD DO AGAINST MY ARMY. ALSO,
IT HAS BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE I HAVE HAD THE PLEASURE OF DESTROYING A
FOE MYSELF. AS FOR YOUR FRIENDS GOING AFTER MY MACHINE, CERTAIN STEPS
ARE BEING TAKEN TO STOP THEM."
In the sub-basment of the Prime Complex.......
Pluto and Anne moved along silently as they aproched the area that
stored the Time Adjuster. The machine was an amalgamation between
organic and inorganic looking materials. Glass globes, spread out at
different parts of the machine, held liquids of all different colors.
At the front end was a large satalite-type object. "There it is,"
Anne whispered, "let's smash this thing."
"I think not," a voice behind them said calmly.
The two whipped around and saw the Mark 2 Supirior standing behind
them and he was surrounded by a platoon of regular Supiriors. The
Sailor and alien went into battle stances and prepared to face off.
"Which one's do you want?" Anne asked.
"I have a score to settle with the big one," Pluto replied, " do you
think you can handle the others? It will take all my power to battle
him."
"About twenty to one? That sounds about even."
"You realize of course alien," P-001 taunted, "that if you are hit
in the lower abdominal area, your child will be lost."
Anne's face turned into a sneer and she replied, "Then I'll just
have to make sure that none of you hit me there."
She flung out her hands and shot a pulse wave that shattered several
of the Supiriors. Pluto powered up the Time Rod and shot a Dead
Scream at P-001. In an instant replay of their last encounter, the
Supirior moved so fast that the Dead Scream missed and hit a group of
Supiriors behind him. This time however, Pluto dodged the punch the
Supirior threw at her and bashed him over the head with the Time Rod.
The only response to the blow was a small trickle of clear fluid,
that was probably Supirior "blood", started to fall down P-001s face.
"Impressive," he said, "I see that you are smarter than the average
for your species."
Anne meanwhile, was destroying Supirior after Supirior. Every time
she destroyed one however, several more would come to take the fallen
ones place. "Oh Ail," she thought, "if only you were here. Your
Cardians would make short work of these true monsters."
Back up 299 floors..............
"AHA!" Primator gloated, "YOUR TWO LITTLE COMPATRIOTS ARE NOW LOCKED
IN BATTLE WITH MY MARK 2 SUPIRIOR. SOON, THEY WILL DIE."
"DAMN YOU PRIMATOR!" Jupiter shouted as she prepared a lightning
strike, "SUPREME THUNDER!"
The blast of lightning struck the screen hard, and did no damage.
The Senshi stood wide eyed and Primators laughter shook the room as
he said, "YOUR LITTLE LIGHTNING BOLTS CAN NOT HURT ME. I AM FULLY
INSULATED AGAINST ELECTRICAL OVERLOAD, I CAN WITHSTAND TEMPERATURES
OF UP TO 900K, SO YOUR FIREBALLS ARE USELESS AS WELL, AND I CAN
WITHSTAND THE ASSAULT OF OVER FIFTY GASKELL LAZERS AIMED AT THE EXACT
SAME SPOT SIMILTANIOUSLY, SO YOUR LITTLE LIGHT BEAM IS USELESS TOO.
HOWEVER, SINCE YOU SEEM SO INTENT ON FIGHTING ME ANYWAY, PERHAPS I
SHOULD SHOW YOU WHAT YOU FIGHT FOR."
The image on the screen changed from one of glowing red eyes to one
of a city. A city populated by Supiriors. "THIS," he said, "IS WHAT
WILL BECOME OF A CITY CALLED TOKYO IN AN UNSPECIFIED YEAR IN THE
1990'S. WITH THE TIME ADJUSTER I WILL CHANGE ALL THE MAJOR CITIES IN
THE WORLD IN DIFFERENT POINTS IN HISTORY TO ONES POPULATED BY
SUPIRIORS, AND THEN I WILL RULE."
The Senshi went cold at the images they saw. They were so engrossed
in the view that they missed the glow of yellow light charging up
from somewhere above Primator and releasing a yellow beam towards
Sailor Venus. Sailor Mars however, saw it and with a shout of
"VENUS! LOOK OUT!" she pushed her out of the way.
The beam struck Sailor Mars across the stomach. It left a large
gash that poured blood. She collapsed to the ground, her white shirt
turning the same red tint as her dress as her stomach wound spread
her life essence over the floor. "Mars!" the two Senshi shouted.
They grabbed their friend as Primator laughed at them and said,
"LEAVING ALREADY? IT HAD JUST GOTTEN INTERESTING. I HAVE ALWAYS
WONDERED WHAT A HUMAN BLEEDING TO DEATH LOOKED LIKE. HA HA HA HA HA
HA!!!"
They went outside the doors and sat Mars up. "Rei," Jupiter sobbed,
"hang on. You'll be alright. I know it."
"M-M-Mako, M-M-Mina" Mars groaned, "get this bastard for me.
Promise me."
Venus stood. Tears in her eyes, her fists clenched, "I promise,"
she said, "We'll get him."
"Good," Mars said. Then her eyes rolled back and darkness took her.
"Rei?" Jupiter asked as she shook her friends form, "Rei? REI?
REI!"
Venus's tears brimmed and she removed the bow on her chest, "Use
this to stop the blood flow," she said as she tossed it to Jupiter,
"We're not giving up on her yet. As for me..... I'M GOING TO RIP
PRIMATOR APART CIRCUIT BY CIRCUIT!"
She ran back into the room before Jupiter could raise a single
complaint. So Jupiter did as Venus requested. "Come on Rei," she
moaned through her tears, "pull through. I know you can."
In another part of Androxia...........
Riki sliced upward, removing the hand and face of another Supirior.
Hickok fired several more shots. One blew out the back of a mutants
head. Another, hit a man right in the eye. Riki ran over to him
panting and said, "It would be nice if you told me how your great
plan involved getting to a safer location."
"Actually pard," Hickok replied, " I was thinkin' maybe you could do
that part."
END CHAPTER 10
NEXT: CHAPTER 11: ZOINKS! ZOMBIES!
Oh NO! Is Sailor Mars dead? (We can always hope) Well, you'll have
to wait a little bit to find out, because we're going back to our New
York group. Now that they are in New York they have their first
encounter with the Zombies and it ain't pretty. Also, Ail and the
Supiriors finds our heros and.... to find out what happens Read
on!!!
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