Here we go again! Another part is done for review, more or less.

If it's any good, I'd like to hear it.

Chapters 1-10 are available at:

http://members.tripod.com/DNyx/NETTG.html

And all the rest are currently only available upon request.
(We're still working on getting the website updated. ^_^;;;;)

So, what has gone before...

Once upon a time in the Silver Millennium, where peace reigned
and everyone was happy, there was a circus owned and maintained
by people from the asteroids. Most of the princesses in the solar
system came to see that circus, and as it turned out, the circus
was but a thinly veiled assassination attempt. Everyone except
for the adopted Moon Princess, Princess Terrifying, escaped the
clutches of this foul band. Despite an excellent defense, the girl
was knocked unconscious and captured.

The story now continues...

<Continued from Ch.10, P.2 (13/??)>

...

    <Unnnh... What just hit me?>

    <Unknown.>

    <Still working on that one.>

    <How much time has elapsed?>

    <...>

    <Unknown. Calculating... Less than fifteen minutes.>

    <Fifteen minutes is an eternity in combat-time.>

    <Well, DUH, genius!>

    <Starlight...?>

    <...>

    <Connection at minimal. No communication.>

    <Trying to find my way around a strong curse which is almost
EXACTLY on the our same wavelength...>

    <Mumble, grumble. Overworked, underpaid, no control over my
life...>

    <Shh!>

    <Reinitializing humanoid sensory...>

    <Sensing... multiple point impacts. The defensive barrier is
holding. Four individuals present.>

    <Yeah, Catseye is the closest->

    <Eeew, yuck!>

    <Then Sailor Akis is next->

    <...Her power level has increased tenfold from the last fight!>

    <-as has Sailor Jares's.>

    <Another, unidentified. Working...>

    <Cavernous compartment. Magical barriers are in place around 
the facility.>

    <I've narrowed down the energy pattern that disabled->

    <-multiple crystalline objects imbedded in ocular vitreous
humor.>

    <Trying to extract...>

    <More point impacts. Barrier holding. Triangulating...>

...

    The ceiling was high, and the chamber was very large. Long,
flat walls supported by red pillars encased the setting and a
red throne with black cushions stood at the far side of the room.
In front of the throne, a young redheaded girl in an advanced
Sailor Senshi uniform hung, manacled to a tall, pentagonal piece
of metal. The environment echoed with the smashing and crackling
of a powerful magic.

    *KSSH*KSSH*KSSH!* A knife in each hand, Catseye slashed
downward with as much force as he could muster. "GRRRR! DIE!"
*KSSH-KSSH*KSSSSSSH!* "Die, die, die, DIE!"

    Sailor Akis and Sailor Jares, standing several meters away,
shook their heads. "Catseye," AkiAki said, "you're not getting
anywhere that way."

    "The Queen wants her _dead_," JareJare added, folding her
arms. "Shouldn't we all be attacking at once?"

    "No!" Catseye shouted back. He lightly touched his badly
burned face. "She hurt ME the most! _I_ should be the one to
deliver the finishing blow!" He turned back toward the inert,
adopted Moon Princess and slashed downward again.

...

    <More impacts... No damage.>

    <This sure is some hard binding magic here...>

    

    <What's going on?!>

    <The binding magic is blocking everything!>

    <Tough stuff. Status?>

    <Sixty-three percent decoded.>

    <Almost there.>

...

    *KSSH!* "Why-" KSSH! "-CAN'T-" *KSSH!* "-I-" *KSSH* "-KILL-"
*KSSH* "-YOU?!" Catseye's daggers continued to glance harmlessly off
of an invisible barrier around the girl.

    Sailor Akis sighed. "You know what she is, don't you?"

    *KSSH* "A false princess that we must destroy for the glory
of our Queen!"

    "No!" JareJare snapped. "She is a great danger to us all! With
her powers, she killed Sailor Saturn, defeated every Senshi in the
solar system, dashed Earth's interstellar fleet into pieces, and,
and, and... A whole bunch of other stuff, okay?! We have to use all
our powers NOW to destroy her before she can hurt anyone else!"

    "Kah-kah-kah!" AkiAki laughed. "Why, Jares, you're making it
sound positively noble."

    "Well, it is, isn't it?"

    "Haarumph," Catseye huffed, discontinuing his strikes. He
paused. "Sailor Jares, what are you doing?"

    The acrobatic Asteroid Senshi twirled a sparking stick in one
hand. "Electro-baton!"

    "GAAH!" Catseye dove out of the way.

    *Whht-wrr-wrr!*BLAM!* The baton exploded against the restrained
girl, flashing and sparking as it went.

    The sparks danced around Terra, stopping exactly two millimeters
away from her skin. No damage was done.

    "See?" Catseye pointed at their captive. "Not even you can hurt
her!"

    "We need to do a combined strike," AkiAki insisted.

    "Right NOW?" Catseye complained.

    "The sooner, the better," JareJare offered.

    The pointy-eared man frowned at the other two. "But! But!" he
tried to protest.

    "But what?" Sailor Jares asked.

    "Can't I have a little, _tiny_ peek into her dream mirror first?"
Catseye pleaded. "She's under the Queen's spell! She's not going
anywhere."

    Sailors Jares and Akis looked at each other, shrugged, and looked
back at Catseye. "Why?" Jares asked. "What do you need to find in the
kinds of dreams she would have?"

    Catseye fidgeted as he tried to explain it.

...

    <Ninety-one, ninety-two, ninety-three percent decoded.>

    <What kind of person would be able to use such a hideously complex
binding pattern?!>

    <Actually, it's not that complex. It's just _very_ hard to see.>

    <The impacts have stopped.>

    <Ninety-five, ninety-six percent...>

    <Sensing another energy pattern. Part psychic connection, part
energy drain, it's-->

    <NO!>

    *BZZZZREOOOW!!!*

    A massive surge rocked the entire collective mind.

    <@#$%@#^#^#^^@$#@$!! THEY'RE USING A PSYCHIC PROBE!>

...

    Princess Terra shifted uncomfortably in her bonds.

    Amidst a rippling of electrical effects, a black-lined silver
mirror with a skull and crossbones decoration on the top phased its
way out of the ten-year-old's chest and floated in the air nearly
a foot away from her.

    Giggling with glee, Catseye grabbed the mirror on each side,
and poked his head into the glass. Light poured out of the mirror
as he did so. "Ooooh, this is _very_ nice! This girl has..."
Suddenly, he stopped.

    The adorable ten-year-old's eyes suddenly shot open.

...

    <Target locked: Terminating lifeform...>

...

    "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!!"

    Catseye's scream split the air and he jerked his head backward.
Covering his eyes, a trail of blood going down his hands, he pulled
his face out of the mirror and tried to back off.

    At once, Princess Terra's restraints were obliterated. Her
dream mirror vanished and she thrust out her right hand to grab
hold of the man's neck.

    *BROWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!*SLUURP!*SLUUURP* A yellow energy swirled
around the circus performer, withdrawing itself from his body and
flowing into the girl. In a fraction of a second, Catseye's body
dried out like a centuries-old prune.

    Sailors Akis and Jares gasped in shock, each pulling out her
respective weapon.

    Surprised, Catseye took a few steps away. He saw a pile of grey
ash fall to the ground where he had been standing. His attacker now
ignored him, turning toward the Asteroid Senshi, her irises glowing
yellow.

    "Terribly sorry about that," Terra said, not looking the least
bit apologetic. "Reflexes, you know."

    "Whew," Catseye breathed a sigh of relief. "That really hurt. I
was afraid that she'd have killed me or something like that. I'm sure
glad I was wearing my energy-resistant underwear!"

    YOU BOUGHT IT AT MERVYN'S, DIDN'T YOU?

    Catseye turned to face the speaker. He frowned.

    ACTUALLY, IT LOOKS LIKE YOU BOUGHT IT RIGHT HERE.

    "Oh, bugger it."

...

    <Download complete, energy removed, and target destroyed,> Terra
told herself. 

    <Personal data secured.>

    <Decoding Catseye's memory...>

    Terrifying winced noticeably as she turned to face the two
remaining visible foes.

    <I've seen some LOUSY childhoods, but HIS takes the cake...>

    The girl gagged.

    <Yuck, his energy tastes _rotten_, too.>

    <But we can still use it to attack.>

    <Look, I'm still not feeling so hot. We haven't been able to
get rid of the curse yet.>

    <Try stalling tactics, using Catseye's memory.>

    <Decoding.... fifty percent complete. Huge gaps, but...>

...

    "Sailor Jares," Super-Duper Sailor Chibimoon breathed,
struggling to maintain her footing. "It's me."

    "You," JareJare began, her voice trembling and her eyes full
of tears, "may have gotten Catseye, but you'll never defeat all of
us!"

    "I _am_ Catseye," the girl said in desperation, her voice
taking on characteristics like unto the deceased man's. "I don't
know how, but I've taken control."

    The acrobat took a step back. "No! You're lying! You're trying
to trick me!"

    "I wouldn't do that, Jarkie," the girl insisted. "You know me."

    Jares frowned. "How do you know my nickname?"

    "That's because," Terra continued, her expression mimicking
that of Catseye, "you told me. Last night. Remember?"

    "Catseye?" Jares's expression grew hopeful.

    The sailor-suited girl stumbled forward, her hands
outstretched in an apparent desire to embrace JareJare. "It's all
over," she said in Catseye's voice, "she's gone. We did it!"

    JareJare started to dry her tears. "But how can I be sure it's
you?"

    Terra continued to advance. "C'mon, Jarkie, can't you trust me
just this once?"

    Sailor Jares relaxed. "Awww, it _is_ you!" She held out her
arms at the approaching girl.

    Akis looked urgently at her companion. "Jares, get away from
her, RIGHT NOW!"

    Jares turned her head toward the gypsy-Senshi. "But why? It's-"

    "She's LYING!!!"

    The redhead snagged Jares's left wrist with both hands. "I am
not, silly!" She giggled malevolently.

    *KSSSSREEEEOW!!!* A very powerful energy surge went through the
acrobatic Asteroid Senshi's body.

    Sailor Jares said nothing, all of her muscles frozen in place by
the shocks.

    "Get ready to join your friend," Terra whispered. Grinning, she
began to count, "Three, two..."

    Sailor Akis frantically aimed her weapon at the girl's head.

    Terra pulled her prey in front of her as a sort of human shield.

    "One."

    *KERACK-KCKCKCKCKK* Suddenly, a bolt of black lightning flashed
across the chamber and smacked into Terra's side.

    "AAH!" Super-Duper Sailor Chibimoon had the wind knocked out of
her when she was hit. She lost her grip on Jares and was thrown halfway
across the room. She crashed limply into the ground and bounced a few
times before she skidded to a halt and hit her head on the edge of a
stair. "Ow. . . Ow!"

    Sailor Jares fell to the floor, twitching and smoking slightly.
"Daiyh, daiyhaaaaaaaaaa," she droned incoherently.

    Out of the shadows stepped a young woman, perhaps sixteen years
old. She had very pale skin and long, wavy black hair that spread out
and went down to her ankles. The girl wore a long dress with a black
inner skirt that was mostly surrounded by a brownish-white outer skirt
that parted in front. About her shoulders she wore a lavender cloak
with puffy black sleeves down her arms. Her neck was covered by a
segmented golden collar, adorned with gold beads on the lower side. On
her forehead was a mirrored circular gem and below that were three
crescent moons, two grey and one yellow.

    Sailor Akis took a relieved breath and knelt down, a hand held
to her heart. "Our Beautiful Queen, Neherenia-sama."

    "Unnnh," Terra groaned, struggling to pick herself up.

...

    The ex-galactic destroyer's mind went on a lightning-fast
analysis of her dilemma.

    <Barbeque and download of Sailor Jares interrupted at sixty
percent.>

    <Whoa, now! Gotta pull ourself together. Status report!>

    <Hurt. VERY hurt.>

    <Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!>

    <One hit, and that's IT?!>

    <Decoding data on new enemy...>

    <Hoooooooooo-kaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay. So there ARE human beings
that can defeat a second-level Super-Senshi.>

    <Her name is Neherenia, ruler by birthright of a small Lunar
province, sixteen and a half years old, lost her parents when she was
a toddler, no real friends whatsoever, has an evil mirror that keeps
her company and will maintain her beauty for well past ten thousand
years, extremely strong magic...>

    <Uyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. Now I remember why we decided to let
Starlight handle the battles.>

    <Yeah, let the minion take all the hits!>

    <Too bad he's not here.>

    <More data decoded: Catseye was a fanatical worshipper, as
are JareJare and AkiAki, to a lesser degree.>

    <No, they're more loyal than anything else. They like her
and all, but they accept that their queen really doesn't like them
in return, nor ever will.>

    <Awwww, that's so sad!!!>

    <Oooh, here's something interesting. Queen Neherenia has been
forging illegal alliances with other major and minor political groups
in the solar system.>

    <Let's see... All six Asteroid Senshi, who have the circuses
under their control. There's also support from some rebel Terran
faction and there are even some connections with Nemesis.>

    <What? Just them?>

    <And members of the upper class from every major planet in the
system except for Pluto.>

    <Dang...>

    <And three people from Jurai.>

    <Ah, Juraians. Pretty tough, for creampuffs.>

    <Remember that time when-->

    <Heh. Yeah, they don't exactly like me, do they?>

    <Not after what I did to that planet and that Tsunami-thing.>

    <Weakling. Couldn't even fully block a Galaxy-Buster shot.>

    <Heh heh heh, Miss Nigh-Ultimate-Force-in-the-Universe is
just an iiiiiiiitty-bitty tree now!>

    <Good grief... Catseye and JareJare knew all that?>

    <No, we had to interpolate. Also, Catseye's and Jares's data
strongly indicates that Neherenia herself has immense magical
capabilities and more than enough firepower to ensure our
destruction.>

    <Better get out of here, then.>

    <What'm I? BRAINDEAD?! We can't! There's no escape route!>

    <Besides, where's the fun in a fight unless it's a challenge?>

    <We might not win.>

    <...Oh.>

    <The chamber we're in is located deep within a comet past
Pluto's orbit. It is highly unlikely that anyone that we've 'charmed'
into believing us will know where to look to attempt a rescue.>

    <Oh dear.>

    <Just what I've always wanted...>

    <And I just HAD to step out of the safety zone by fighting,
didn't I?!>

    <It was YOUR idea!>

    <No, it wasn't!>

    <Yes it was!>

    <It wasn't the smartest of decisions, you know.>

    <Yeech. When this is all over, remind me to ditch the prism. I
really don't want to be a target right now.>

    

    The buzzing of the busy minds continued onward, off on several
tangents and back again, but the subject returned to one key point.

    <Okay, the only option is to defeat all parties, then we'll
call in Starlight so his clunky little ship can pick us up. That
sound too hard?>

    <Uhhhhh...>

    <Sorry, still weak here. The curse is still active as well.>

    <Well, fix it! Now!>

    <Working......................>

    <Work faster!>

...

    Young Queen Neherenia looked at her two followers, her face
a mask of disdain. "You are all too careless! I told you to destroy
her right away!"

    Sailor Jares blinked a couple of times, then coughed out a
little puff of smoke. "A-(cough)-pologies, Queen Neherenia-sama."

    In the far-off corner, the adopted Moon Princess lifted herself
onto her hands and knees. Grimacing, she gritted her teeth and stared
intensely at a single point on the floor. The yellow glow in her
irises pulsed with increased frequency and her breathing sharpened.

    Neherenia looked over at the girl. "Don't bother trying to
repel my curse, beast. It's useless."

    "Hah," Terra spat quietly, continuing her efforts to expel
the magic affecting her. Straining, she continued to fight. "That's
it, got it!" The flashing yellow glow turned solid.

    *Vrr*Vrr* A black shard phased its way out of the girl's left
eye, followed by another from her right.

    *Kssh*Kssh* A moment later, the fragments disintegrated.

    *Vrr-kssh*Vrr-kssh*Vrr-kssh*Vrr-kssh!* Several crystals fell
out of Terra's eyes, and her irises returned to their normal color.

    The sailor-suited princess breathed a relieved sigh, and
stood back up. She put out her right hand, and with a flash of light,
the Pink Sugar Cardiac Arrest Glaive reappeared.

    Terra resumed her attack stance. She cocked an eyebrow at the
two Asteroid Senshi. "Now, where were we?"

    *SLASH*SLASH* The girl stumbled and her eyes bulged when she
felt twenty sharp blades slice their way across her back with
tremendous force. She dove down and rolled forward to escape whatever
was doing that. "ARGH!"

    A pair of eerie, windy giggles erupted from the darkness. Out
of the shadows stepped a pair of crystalline golems whose appearance
and figure approximated that of Neherenia. Their hair was about half
the length of the queen's, and there were no distinguishing marks on
their bodies. They also had sharp six-inch-long black claws at the
ends of their fingers.

    Terra checked her wounds. The slashes had ripped through her
outfit and the cuts were deep, but bloodless.

...

    <Sealing blood vessels... Owwwwwwwwwwww!>

    <Show no weakness!>

    <Show no mercy!>

    <Show no thigh!>

    <Whaaaat?! With THIS skirt?>

    <Yeech. Boots with a miniskirt...>

    <Do you realize what I look like in this outfit?>

    <A strawberry and vanilla ice cream cone with a cherry on
top?>

    <Mmmmmm. Yeah...>

    <I'd look a lot better in it if my humanoid development
status were advanced to post-adolescence...>

    <Since when do I have a fashion sense?>

    <Since we assimilated Catseye and Jares.>

    <Actually, it was before that->

    <Ughh. After I extract all useful information, I'm deleting
whatever's left.>

    <Shh! I'm in a battle, remember?!>

    <DEEE-STROOOY!>

    <ANNIHILATE!!>

    <POWER OVERWHELMING!!!>

    <Yyyyyyyyyyyyeah. That. Who do we get first?>

    <Hoo-yeah, baby! I'll take the golems, you take the Senshi!>

    <...Starlight?!>

    <Just kidding.>

    <...?>

    <Knight in Shining Armor, quit going all lovey-dovey on your
wife and get down here NOW!>

    <Nah, you're doing fine. We're happy where we are.>

    <NO, we are NOT happy where you are.>

    

    *Click*

    <Grrrr!>

    <Ignore it. Gotta get back to work.>

    <Okay, target priorities: Get Neherenia first, then target
the Asteroid Senshi and then worry about the golems, if they're
still around.>

...

    Terra concluded her inner debate in only a few seconds, then
glanced around once, twirled her staff in the air and chucked it
blade-first at Neherenia.

    *Ching* The sixteen-year-old put out her hand and caught the
glaive at the gem, the blade a centimeter away from her face. "That
was truly pitiful, monster." She tossed the weapon aside.

    *Clang-clang* The Pink Sugar Cardiac Arrest Glaive clattered
off into the shadows.

    "I'm not through yet," Terra replied calmly, rolling out from
the way of a swipe from the crystal golems. She paused. "Wait, did
you just call me a monster?"

    "Yes," Neherenia replied, and shot an intense glare at her.

    A series of large rectangular black shadows rushed at the
sailor-suited girl.

    The golems grabbed both of Terra's arms in a lightning-fast
movement, preventing her escape.

    "Arrgh," Super-Duper Sailor Chibimoon growled as the claws
sunk deep into her arms.

    *Kssh!* The back shadows solidified around Terra. The crystal
creatures let go of her and a moment later, she vanished.

    The evil queen's golems laughed their eerie, gleeful laughs.

    A six-foot-tall dark mirror holding the adopted princess's inert
form appeared beside Neherenia.

    "Amateurs," Queen Neherenia whispered, looking disapprovingly
at the two Asteroid Senshi.

    Sailors Akis and Jares knelt before their queen, their gaze
downcast and holding up their hands in a gesture of reverence and
prayer. "Please forgive our weakness, Neherenia-sama."

...

    <Smooth move, X-lax.>

    <Well, we're caught again.>

    <DUH!>

    <Oh, gee, what was our first clue?>

    <Sudden inability to move...>

    <There's some sort of neural inhibitor trying to block all
synaptic functions->

    <Maybe it's blocking YOUR synaptic functions, but mine are just
fine!>

    <Hey, it's just TRYING to put me into stasis. I'm fine. You
fine?>

    <We're all fine here. How are you?>

    <My back still hurts.>

    <Yeah, those cuts went pretty deep, didn't they?>

    <No, it's my spine. Stress, family problems and all that.>

    <...?>

    <Hoookaaaaaaaay, isolating containment device's energy
pattern and breaking points............... Done.>

    <Mirror reverberation from outside. Sound waves determined...>

    <Visual input is down...>

    <Listening in on the conversation... It's about us.>

    <Containment device is nontoxic. We have the advantage of
surprise on our hands, let's not waste it.>

    <Be waiting for the appropriate time, then.>

    <Wake me up when we're ready.>

    <We're ready.>

    <What? Already?!>

...

    Neherenia sighed and took several slow, purposeful steps back
to sit down on her throne. "Now do you see why I told you three to
be so very careful while abducting her?"

    Sailors Akis and Jares nodded grimly, still kneeling.

    Jares sniffed sadly. "Catseye..." A tear formed at the edge of
her eye.

    "Catseye was a buffoon!" Neherenia snapped. "It would be best
to forget about him."

    JareJare tilted her head downward in halfhearted agreement.

    AkiAki pushed her gem-studded turban back into place. "Is
it true, Neherenia-sama, about what they've said about her?" She
looked toward the motionless girl suspended in the mirror. "Is she
really--"

    "She is," Neherenia replied, "an ancient creature of darkness
that has come to destroy us all."

    "But," JareJare began, looking at her queen, "if she's truly
so evil, then why would Queen Serenity adopt her as her daughter?"

    The seated young woman slapped her hand against the aim of
the throne. "Do NOT mention that name again."

    Sailor Jares jumped back a little. She demonstrated surprising
quickness, especially considering her recent injuries at Terra's
hands. "N-no, Queen Neherenia-sama, I will not mention the accursed
White Moon Queen's name again in your presence--please forgive me!"

    Neherenia relaxed slightly. "Good. In answer to your question,
the White Moon Queen is obviously unaware of this being's true
nature, else she is being controlled by it." She examined her
handiwork in sealing away the girl in question. "However, the most
important thing is that when all is revealed to the rulers of the
solar system, the White Moon Queen will be discredited for harboring
such a beast, and I will be," she paused, unable to think of the
proper words, "I will be--"

    "Supreme ruler over all of the solar system, m'lady?" AkiAki
suggested.

    The pale girl looked upward, stars in her eyes. "Yes!"

    "But you have your special mirror that keeps you company all of
the time," JareJare protested, swaying back and forth, obviously
experiencing an extreme form of vertigo. "What do you need with the
solar system?"

    Young Queen Neherenia held a hand to her chin, pondering
JareJare's insight. "That is a good question..."

    "Do you really want to rule solar system?" Jares ventured to
ask. "Aren't we more into this to get rid of the evil and _save_ the
solar system, Queen Neherenia-sama?"

    "That does sound like a better reason," Akis added. Her
expression was very serious, and for once she did not seem to be in
the mood for any laughter.

...

    <Oh my...>

    <They know my dirty little secret!>

    <Oh no, they've figured it out!>

    <Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw, really?!>

    <Geeee, THERE'S a big surprise! As if we weren't being obvious
enough or something. Maybe we should've been shouting it from the
hilltops--nobody would have noticed! It's just-->

    <Quiet, you!>

    <Well, that has been the main driving force behind the other
assassination attempts during the past year.>

    <Think there's a connection between them?>

    <There might be.>

    <Think I should thank them? I mean, they ARE about the only
source of entertainment I'd had since Starlight helped fight off
that Drazi invasion force...>

    <Oh, yes, that was quite fun... Wait a sec, THANK THEM?!>

    <Yeah!>

    <Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeell, considering that, right now, the
buggers're tryin' to kill us and have a decent chance of achieving
their goal...>

    <Uhh, right! How about a thank you card? From a safe
distance?>

    <Hmm, let me think about that one--NO!>

    <Awww!>

    <Wait a minute. Just how sure are they that I am who I
really am? Do they _know_ or are they just guessing, going off
rumors and hints?>

    <Shhh, they're just about to reveal it all!>

...

    "When we began this st-struggle a year ago," Sailor Jares
slurred, "I was under the impreshessshion that we would be secretly
defendedinging the solar system from the threatet-tie. I know that
our first attem-attem-attem... TRIES were not successesseful. The
robot wos too easily beaten by some vigilante from outside a'da soler
systum, and nothing else we've sent even got close to har."

    Sailor Akis waved for her mentally damaged companion to keep
quiet. "What Sailor Jares is trying to ask is what we plan on doing
with Princess Terra, now that we finally have her."

    The acrobatic Asteroid Senshi bounced up and down in agreement.
"Right! Something like that. What shall we do?"

    Neherenia cleared her throat in a dark, ominous way that only
few can manage to perform. "We shall do the same thing we have
planned to do from the beginning, Sailor Jares. All of you have
failed so badly in the past, so the task falls to me."

    "Oh," replied the still semi-coherent Sailor Jares, ignoring
the fact that the edges of her outfit were still slowly burning from
her experience with Terra. "Dat makes sense." She looked down and
stuck out her lower lip, pouting.

...

    <Okay, so they're planning on killing us.>

    

    <Oh no, look! Jares's condition is degrading! If she doesn't
get some help soon, she'll... she'll->

    <We did sort of slice out half of her brain, you know...>

    <Good riddance!>

    <Well, if she gets synaptic therapy within the next few hours,
she'll be back to normal in no time, but if not, hey, one less
threat.>

    <Heh. Yeah, fortunately for us, right now the only one in the
room that is powerful enough to seriously hurt me is apparently
taking a break.>

    <That's funny. Neherenia doesn't sound tired.>

    <Why else hasn't she finished me?>

    <Good question...>

    <Maybe she likes garish wall ornaments?>

    <Could be...>

    <Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, sensors indicate that Neherenia is
charging up an attack.>

    <Alright, Initiating Preemptive Strike.>

    <Atomic batteries to power! Turbines to speed!>

    <Lunar Tap at maximum...>

...

To be continued...

Yes, basically a long battle sequence, but occasionally, it is necessary,
especially with a fanfic with this sort of title. ^_-

As always, any and all commentary is greatly appreciated.

Special thanks go out to:

Jason Hanks
Tefloncat
Jason Liao

And anyone I may have missed. Many have told me what they
think of the story, and that is greatly appreciated.

-------------------------------
Benjamin A. Oliver
boredcollective@aol.com

    "We are the Bored. Lower your shields and surrender your fics.
     We will add your standup and slapstick comedy to our own.
     Your humor will adapt to entertain us.
     Resistance is and always has been: Futile."
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