Now I never said I didn't have time for an America Online break.  What you
see here is the current episode 8, which has a plot that is very unstable and
is likely to be changed or just rewritten altogether.  And if one of you guys
are interested in being my temporary assisstant for this episode (someone's
got to finish the episode while I don't have the time), email me back, but
chances are I won't be on.  But if I do get on, I'll tell you what is
supposed to be in episode 8.

I'm wasting time, gotta go....

RS
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Operation: Reality Check
A Sailor Moon/Reality Jumpers FanFic
By Roehl Sybing

Last time, on O:RC....
Simply put, the Reality Jumpers do a small recon sweep across the enemy
territory, the NegaVerse.  The mission is cut short when Jake does battle
with a mystery man (that's the good part of fanfic writing, you don't know
WHO it is).

Episode 8: Prisoner Exchange

Hacker One sat patiently in Dimensional Travel Room 8, waiting for the
Jumpers to come back.  At that moment, someone opened the door, saying,
"Boss, there's a small leak in our fusion power line."
Hacker replied, "Umm, fix it quickly; the Jumpers should be coming back in an
hour or two, we don't want anything wrong with the gateway machine's power
supply."
"Yes, sir."
As the door to the room closed, the machine at the far left of the room
automatically turned on, signaling someone was coming through.  The portal
opened, and out of it came the eight entities that formed the Reality
Jumpers.  One by one, they were all thrown to the floor.  Jake, who was the
last one to come out, looked up at Hacker and said, "Ouch....see what I
mean?"
"Sorry, Jake.  Remind me to work on that Wednesday, OK?"
"Make that tomorrow, Hacker.  TOMORROW."
"OK, OK...so why are you guys here so early?"
Chris, while out of breath from running around inside the NegaVerse, stood up
and replied, "Monsters....big....dangerous...." And at that he lay back down
on the floor of the room.
"Well, I told you it was dangerous.  What did you find out, anyway?"
Sailor Moon, who changed back into Serena, looked up and said, "What do you
think we'd find in only a half hour, huh?"
Just then, everyone felt a gush of wind circulating from the room.  Luna
looked around the room and noticed another portal opening, but it didn't come
from the machine.  She put her paw up and pointed at the opening, saying,
"Look!"
They all noticed the gateway in an open corner of the room.  Everyone dropped
back to the ground and tried to hold onto something.  After half a minute,
the portal closed and disappeared.  Hacker looked around the room and asked,
"Everyone all right?"
Shortly after that, Luna shouted, "Wait!  Where's Serena?"
"I don't know...." Hacker counted the number of people in the room, including
himself and the cat.  The total was seven.  "Where's Jake?"
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"Where am I?" Jake said as he looked up and observed that he was in total
darkness.
"JAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!!!!!" a voice cried out.
Though Jake was startled by the extra presence, Jake recognized the cry.
 "Serena, it's all right."  He felt along a wall and noticed the rocky
surface.  "Great, I bet we're back in the NegaVerse...."
At that moment, Serena shouted, "HEY, I DON'T WANNA BE BACK HERE!!"
"C'mon, Serena," Jake replied calmly, compared to Serena's whining. "I
thought you were used to this kind of stuff..."
"Yeah, I know, but..."
She was stopped in mid-sentence when a burst of light cut through the
darkness.  Unfortunately, it was the eerie glow that was emitted from the
picture of a face that appeared in front of the two.  In an instant, both
knew who it was.
"Ha ha ha!  Did you REALLY think I'd let you get away THAT easily?" Queen
Beryl said.
Jake shouted, "Hey, why did you bring us back here?"
"Well, you know the obvious reason:  I want to get rid of you very quickly.
 But I don't have it in me to do it myself."
Serena looked up, "You're too afraid we'll defeat you again?"
"Yes....you could say that."
Thinking there was still not enough light, Jake turned on his flashlight and
continued, "So what're ya gonna do?  Leave us here forever?"
"Not actually.  Instead, I want to play a little game with you before you die
a quick death.  You see, I sent one of my minions to set a bomb somewhere
within the area that you are currently in.  Now I'm not saying you won't find
it, you just won't be able to defuse it."
"YOU'RE LYING!"
"Now now, boy, I may be evil, but I'm not a liar.  In about ten minutes the
bomb will go off, destroying everything within two miles, and that includes
the entire cavern!"
"Why are you doing this?  Why don't you just finish us off right now?"
"Because I have someone else over in that part of the NegaVerse I want to get
rid of, and I thought it would be appropriate that all three of you were
destroyed all at once.  Well, it's been really nice knowing you, gotta go!"
 And at that the face of Queen Beryl disappeared.
Serena started to panic, saying, "What're we gonna do?  WHAT'RE WE GONNA
DO?!?"
"Don't worry," Jake said calmly.  "That Queen Beryl thinks she can kill us
that easily.  Well..."  He reached into his pockets, but nothing was in
there.  "The track-and-return device!  I lost it!"
"Well, where did it go?"
"I don't know, I must've dropped it when we hit the floor back at the
building!"
"Ohhhh, great!  Now what?"