Hi,

Don't have a lot of time today.  So I'll just drop this off.

WARNING: This chapter is an exception but this fic contains scenes of 
EXTREME violence.  You have been warned!

ENDWORLD: MOON RUN
CHAPTER 4: A DESPERATE MISSION
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	Meanwhile in the city formally called Houston, now called Androxia...


	The green skinned man collapsed onto the cold, hard, unforgiving 
floor.  His breath came out in short, jagged rasps and he looked up 
at the two silver clothed beings in front of him.  "Damn you 
Supiriors," he snapped with all the defiance he could muster, "and 
damn your leader Primator too!"

	"Mr. Ail," one of the silver clothed beings replied in a calm, even 
voice, "I would strongly recommend against insulting the one who has 
made you a guest in his home."

	"Guest?!?" Ail yelled as he rose to his feet, "You mean prisoner!"

	"No," the other being said, "If you were a prisoner, you would be in 
the containment sector and you would be held in a stasis field."

	"Please," the first being continued, "This pointless yelling will 
get you no where.  If you truly wish to see your companion again..."

	"Get out," Ail snarled, "NOW!!!"

	The two silver dressed beings sighed in perfect unison and left the 
room, the door sliding closed behind them.  Ail took a deep breath, 
smoothed his shoulder length blue hair and tried to keep his 
composure.  It didn't work.  So, he did the only thing he could think 
of that would calm him down.  He took his ivory white flute from his 
pocket and started to play the ageless melody that he had learned so 
long ago.

	Outside his room, the two silver clothed beings stood by the door.  
In the light, their appearance would seem strange by normal standards 
because they were almost identical.  Over 7' tall, short blond hair, 
the same stance, almost everything the same.  This was to be expected 
of two Supiriors.  "Well RZ-1," the first Supirior said to his 
companion, "That could have gone much more smoothly than it did."

	"Yes XS-10," RZ-1 replied, "but you keep forgetting that although 
our guest is not human, he still has the same 'Emotions Flaw' that 
all carbon based life forms suffer from."

	"I suppose that is why Primator has keeped the other ones alive as 
well.  To exploit the 'Emotions Flaw'."

	"Yes, but the time is soon coming when none of them will be of 
further use to Primator and I suppose he will order their execution.  
The best they can hope for is to die together."

	Back at the Home........

	"The Supiriors?!!?"

	Blade and Hickok were unable to hide their dismay at the news the 
new arrivals had brought.  They and the three mutant Warriors knew, 
better than anyone else in the Family, the Supiriors were perhaps the 
most dangerous enemies that were out there.  Now, that danger had 
seemed to take on a whole new dimension.

	"Who," Usagi asked in bafflement," are the Supiriors, and why should 
we believe you two?"

	Timeiand looked at the Senshi and Warriors in contemplation, unsure 
of how to continue.  "It has been a LONG time," he thought to himself,
 "that I've had to use tact and pleading to help preserve the 
Timeline."

	Aloud he said, "I can prove that I'm on your side, or to be more 
accurate, that you are on mine.  Mamoru has not awakened yet has he?
"

	The Senshi all took on dejected looks and Usagi neared the point of 
tears as she replied in a small whisper, "No.  He hasn't."

	"That," Timeiand said, "is my fault.  I intend to fix it right now.
"

	With that, Timeiand walked off in the direction of the infirmary.  
Both Senshi and Warriors followed close behind.  He entered the 
infirmary and ignored the looks he received from the Healers as he 
walked over to the prone form of Mamoru and Timeiand raised his arms 
so that his hands were above Mamorus head and chest.  He lowered his 
own head and concentrated a soft, gentle stream of cronical energy 
into Mamorus body.  The rainbow colored glow pulsed rythmicly, almost 
as if in synch with a beating heart.  After two minutes, Timeiand 
stopped the beam and swayed on his feet slightly.  Sailor Pluto saw 
what was happening and rushed to his side with a cry of, "Papa!"

	Y-you," Timeiand muttered as he let Pluto lead him to a nearby seat, 
"haven't called me that for a long time Setsuna."

	Rei looked at Ami and mouthed, "Papa?"

	Ami simply shrugged in reply and turned back to look at the now 
stirring Mamoru.  He let out a soft moan and the Sailors and Warriors 
moved out of the way as Usagi frantically ran to his side.

	He opened his eyes and the first thing he saw was his beautiful 
Usagi.  Mamoru raised his hand and rested it on her cheek.  Tears 
started to slowly flow from her eyes and she smiled a radiant smile 
at him.  She bent over and their lips met in a kiss.

	Makoto turned around and saw that some of the Family members had 
gathered around and were looking at the couples display of affection 
with different expressions.  Most of the younger women had looks of 
"how sweet", the young boys had the predictable "EEEEEWWWWWW!!!!  
Gross" look, and most of the adults had disapproving frowns.  "Well," 
Makoto snapped as she glared at the Family, "Don't you people have 
stuff to do?"

	Most of the Family that were watching managed to look embaresed and 
they all left with various mumbled excuses.  However, Plato, Blade, 
Hickok, and Geronimo stayed behind.

	The two lovers parted and looked up.  The next two people Mamoru saw 
were Timeiand and Sailor Pluto.  His eyes went wide and he tried to 
rise but a restraining hand by Usagi stopped him.  "It's okay," Usagi 
said and she added to herself, "At least I hope so."

	"It's quite all right," Setsuna said, "If you'll listen to us for 
just a little bit I'll explain what's going on."

	The Sailors turned to Blade and Usagi said, "Well, this is your home 
turf, you make the call."

	The Warriors and Leader looked at each other and they gathered in a 
small circle and after a moment they separated and Blade said, "All 
right you two, go ahead."

	Setsuna smiled at Blade and started her tale.

	"Where to start?  This gets kind of complicated.  Well, how about I 
tell you that we can't return you Sailor Senshi to your home time 
even if we wanted to.  The reason being that.... well... your time 
period has been compleatly destroyed.  Wiped clean from existence.  
Replaced with something you wouldn't even recognize."

	At the Senshi's shell shocked looks Timeiand took over, "That was 
the work of the Supiriors.  Ironically, that was only a test.  The 
real reason they are doing it is because their leader Primator want 
to step up his time table on World Domination."

	Ami looked at the two time travelers and asked the obvious question, 
"How is it possible for this Primator to do something like that?  
There is no scientific or even mystic way to destroy a whole time 
period."

	Setsuna nodded and answered, "You are right.  However, when you 
combine science with magic, even restructuring time becomes possible.
"

	"Combining science with magic???" Blade asked compleatly confused.  
He had always believed that science was real and magic was quackery.  
With the events of the last few days however, his eyes were being 
opened to all new possibilities.

	"Yes," Timeiand said, "Anne and Ail have proven to be invaluable 
prisoners to them."

	"ANNE AND AIL?!!?" all the Sailors exclaimed.

	"But," Usagi said, "I thought that they left Earth."

	"They did," Setsuna replied, "however for some reason we don't know 
yet they returned to Earth and were captured by the Supiriors......"

	"....and now," Rei concluded, "you need us to free them."

	"That," Timeiand said, "is only half of the mission.  We will also 
need to stop the Supiriors from getting the final component for the 
machine that will destroy your Tokyo."

	"Wait a dang minute," Hickok said with a baffled look, "I thought 
you said that the Supiriors already blew their Tokyo to smitherines.
"

	As the Senshi gave Hickok dirty looks, Geronimo muttered, "That was 
tactful."

	"Time," Timeiand said quickly to draw the Senshi attention, so as to 
spare Hickok from any physical abuse, "is relative.  It has happened 
in the past, but it hasen't happened in the future yet.  So, your 
going to have one chance to stop Primator and the Supiriors or else 
the events will become permanate and then we will no longer be able 
to intercede."

	"That," Setsuna concluded, "is why we have come to ask both you the 
Sailor Senshi and you the Warriors to help us.  You Warriors know the 
land better than anyone else from this era and you Senshi have the 
power and the knowledge of how Anne and Ail operate to stop them.  So 
please help us, I beg you."

	The Senshi and Warriors exchanged looks.  Blade, Plato, Geronimo, 
and Hickok stepped outside to decide their course of action.  The 
Senshi meanwhile stayed inside and huddled around the still sitting 
up in bed Mamoru to decide.  "Well, what do you think?" Minako asked.


	"Oh by the way," Timeiand said, "Luna, Artemis, you two don't have 
to pretend that you can't talk anymore.  The Warriors can't hear you 
and the two of us already know your secret."

	"Well," Luna said, "Aren't you full of surprises."

	"You don't know the half of it."

	The Senshi went back into the huddle with Luna and Artemis joining 
them this time.  "I think we can trust what their saying," Luna said, 
"I wasn't getting any bad feelings from him during his whole story."

	"Same here." Rei said.

	"Well," Makoto said, "If you trust them, I'll trust them."

	Minako, Mamoru and Ami nodded and Usagi said, "Then I guess we'll do 
it."

	Usagi turned towards the time travelers and said, "Looks like you 
got yourself a deal."

	Meanwhile outside..........

	"Well," Plato asked, "What do you think?"

	"This is a little too weird for me." Geronimo said.

	"Their little yarn was a mite fantastic," Hickok replied, "but I got 
a feelin' that their tellin' the truth."

	Blade thought about it for a minute before answering, "After the 
strange apperence of those kids, then these two guys showing up out 
of thin air, and those powers they showed us, I don't think that 
those two might be lying either."

	"I'll talk to the other Elders about it," Plato said, "but I think 
we won't have too much trouble getting approval.  Remember, they saw 
the 'Sailor Senshi' demonstration too."

	Blade went back inside and said to Timeiand and Setsuna, "You'll 
have the full support of the Warriors in this job.  By the way though,
 you said that we would need to split up into two groups.  Do you 
mind telling me where the second group will go?"

	"Not at all," Timeiand replied, "The second group is going, to New 
York City."

	Back in Androxia........

	Ail continued to play his song as he watched the night sky.  A ring 
told him that some more of those damn Supirior androids were going to 
"escort" him somewhere.  "What is it?," he asked as he continued to 
play.

	The same cold, emotionless voice said, "Primator wished to speak 
with you again."

	"Tell him to wait a minute," Ail said as he went back to finishing 
his song.

	"Also," the Supirior said, "Primator has stated that if you arrive 
in ten minutes he will permit you to see your mate."

	Ail stopped playing and quickly put away his flute as he ran to the 
door and with one look back at the night sky thought, "Anne, soon 
I'll find a way to free us from this madman.  You, me and our unborn 
child."

END CHAPTER 4
NEXT: CHAPTER 5: ON THE ROAD AGAIN.....

UNBORN CHILD?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?  What's so ominous about New York City 
anyway?  Can things possibly get any stranger?  To find out....... 
read on!

May The Spirit Preserve You!