Hi,

Been a while since I posted this and I forget which chapter it was I 
sent last.  I'm pretty sure that it was seven though.

If I'm wrong, I'll post seven or whatever before that I missed.

Enjoy,
The Flashman

ENDWORLD: MOON RUN
CHAPTER 8: HERE'S PRIMATOR!!!
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	Jupiter moved her eyes slowly from left to right.  Once again 
looking over the cell that she had been locked in for the last two 
days.  In fact, thanks to the humming, large, black orbs that were 
attached to the walls of the cell, moving her eyes was the only 
physical movement she was capable of.

	After their battle in the woods, the Supiriors had taken them to the 
"Prisoner Containment Center" and put all of them is separate cells.  
Jupiter guessed that all the cells had these black orbs that created 
some kind of stasis field.  The only time it was ever turned off was 
twice a day when a pair of Supirior guards would come in with a plate 
of food.

	Another thing about the stasis field, was that it had given her time 
to reflect on her actions in the battle.  Not that she had minded 
destroying the android Supiriors or the mutants.... but she had also 
KILLED people.  Something she had sworn to avoid at all costs and her 
consence bothered her to no end.  Eventually, she had been able to 
convince herself that the ones she and the others had killed had left 
them no choice.  This world was not like the one she and the other 
Senshi had come from.  In this world, it was kill or be killed.  She 
didn't like that answer but she could live with it.

	Now she had to focus her powers to escape.  She had to do something 
so that the next time the guards came, she could take both of them 
and the orbs out in one quick stroke.  It was impossible for her to 
move but her mind was still at full capacity so she concentrated her 
mind on gathering the largest electrical charge she had ever 
collected.  It was time to try something new, a move she had always 
wanted to test but could never find the right place.  "Well," Jupiter 
thought, "As Rei would say, 'Nothing like a trial by fire.'"

	She felt the electrical force getting stronger and stronger, 
reaching an almost painful level.  Peroidicaly, a small spark of 
electricity would shoot off of her body.  She took a mental deep 
breath and counted backwards from ten.  As soon as Jupiter reached 
zero, the guards opened the door and stepped in right on time.  The 
first guard hit a button near the door and the hum of the orbs faded 
and died away.  Then the guard with the plate slowly came forward.

	As his companion came closer to the prisoner, FZ-2 noticed that 
something was wrong.  The air felt charged with electricity and then 
he saw it.  A small arc of lightning coming from the girl.  "RX-10!" 
he yelled, "Get back!"

	Too late.

	Jupiter spread her arms and released her power.  "SUPREME...." large 
bolts of electricity formed around her body and fused into a large 
ball that encircled her, "THUNDER...." the ball pulsed and grew 
larger, "WALL!!!"

	The ball spread from her body and moved to hit every part of the 
cell that contained her, even the ceiling and floor.  The two 
Androids were instantly fried and the wall of lightning hit the orbs, 
causing them to explode.  An unexpected (but not unwelcome) side-
effect of her attack was that the circuits in the orbs were connected 
to that floors main control computer and the computer, unable to 
handle the sudden and all consuming destruction of the cell and the 
overload of electricity that it was force-fed caused it to overload 
and cut all power to that level.

	Jupiter collapsed to her knees as the lights winked out, and she did 
not move until the red emergency lights came on and stopped 
flickering.  "I do NOT," she thought to herself, "want to do THAT 
again."

	With a groan, she stood and raced out the, now blown away, door.  
She looked left and right and went to the nearest door.  She knocked 
on it and said, "Anybody in there?"

	"M-M-Mako?" came Rei's voice unsteadily.

	"Yeah, it's me."

	"That sounded like your work."

	"How ya feeling?"

	"Better, now that the stasis field or whatever those black orbs did, 
is gone."

	"Stand back from the door.  I'll get you out.  SUPREME THUNDER!!!"

	Once more lightning bolts flew.  This time they weren't as big or as 
powerful, but they still did their job and the door to the cell of 
Sailor Mars exploded inward.  Mars looked at Jupiter and after 
thanking her asked, "How did you get free?"

	"I'll tell you all about it later.  Right now we have to free the 
others."

	"Right.  I'll go left, you go right."

	The two Senshi spread out and in a matter of minutes the whole team 
was free once more.  Hickok ran over to where Jupiter had destroyed 
the guards and checked the still smoking bodies for weapons that he 
and Rikki-Tikki-Tavi could use.  "Oh, cow chips." he grumbled.

	"What is it?" Rikki asked concerned, "did the weapons get destroyed 
too?"

	"No that ain't it pard.  It's just that I was hoping for a Gaskell 
but all we get are these electrical whips o' theirs."

	"Electrical?  You sure they aren't fried?"

	"Yep," Hickok said as he threw Rikki a silver whip with a handle 
with two red buttons on it, "I checked.  One thing I'll give these 
buckets of bolts.  They make their stuff real durable."

	Jupiter laughed and pointed at her cell.  "Not durable enough," she 
replied.

	Hickok hit the red button that activated the whips "kill" setting 
and said, "Let's mosey on out of here!"

	"Where should we go?" Pluto asked, "If I want to survive our mission,
 I'm going to need my Time Rod."

	"That could be anywhere." Venus groaned.

	"Nope." Hickok said with a smirk, "Actually it's right here in this 
here building.  Along with my Pythons and your Katana Riki."

	"WHAT?!?" Pluto exclaimed excitedly.

	"Yep.  We just have to go underground a few more floors."

	"UNDERGROUND?!?" the rest of the group exclaimed.

	"Are we going or are we gonna keep flapin' our gums until security 
shows up?"

	"Show us the way," Venus said.

	The group moved through the corridors and to a door marked 
"Stairway".  Mars opened the door and went through first.  She 
imeadiatly back peddled as bolts of crimson lasers came at her.  
"Missed me," she yelled at the Supiriors on the balcony of the next 
level, "FIRE SOUL!"

	The fireball launched from her fingertips and incinerated the two 
Supiriors in an instant.  The group continued on their way until they 
reached their floor.  Venus kicked open the door and was surprised to 
find a whole contingiant of men, mutants, and Supiriors.  Fortunately,
 they were just milling around and not exactly waiting for them.  The 
appearance of the Sailors and Warriors caught the group off guard and 
they took full advantage of that surprise.

	Venus fired an incredible amount of creasent beams as Jupiter and 
Mars combined their powers for a rather large blast.  Hickok and Riki 
swung their whips back and forth as swiftly as possible.  Rikki was 
moving so fast that he became a blur as he slashed at his enemies 
left and right.  Some of the mutants lost their arms, a human lost 
his head, a Supirior lost both.  He never stayed with one opponent 
too long, for as the Elder who had taught him his martial arts had 
always said, "When fighting the battle of a hundred foes, you do so 
one at a time.... but you also do it QUICKLY."

	In a matter of minutes all the enemies were dead.  The group began 
to move off but Jupiter stopped by Venus who was staring down at a 
man she had killed at point blank range with a Creasent Beam.  "I-I 
killed him," she said in a quavering voice.

	"I know," Jupiter replied, "just remember that he left you no choice.
  You don't have to like it but it will help you sleep at night."

	Venus nodded and they went to join the rest of the group who was in 
the weapons storage room.  Their eyes went wide.  "Whoa!" Jupiter 
exclaimed, "is this a storage room or a museum?"

	Thousands of weapons of all kinds hung about on racks all over the 
room.  They heard a cackle that sounded like Hickoks and figured that 
he must have found his pistols.  Mars was with Pluto and heard her as 
she let out a happy gasp and rushed to retrieve her Time Rod.  She 
hefted the device and looked it over.  "It's undamaged," Pluto said 
happily.

	"Look what I found," Rikki said as he held up a green military 
backpack.  His sword and it's scabbard were back around his waist.

	He opened the backpack and Hickok sarcastically said as he tossed 
Riki one of the two Gaskell Lazers he found, "My, my, and it isn't 
even my birthday."

	The backpack was filled with sticks of dynamite.  Rikki heafted the 
bag over his shoulder and said, "Let's go."

	As they left the room, Mars suddenly stopped and said, "Hey.  Did 
you hear that?"

	"I didn't hear nothing," Hickok replied.

	"It was very faint.  Someone calling for help.  From in there."  She 
pointed to a door across the hall.

	"It could be a trap," Venus warned.

	"We have to find out."

	Mars moved carefully to the door and opened it.  They all gasped at 
what they saw inside.  Attached to a diabolical torture machine with 
all sorts of needles, blades and other sharp objects, all of which 
were covered with green blood, was a very brutalized and very 
pregnant green skinned woman with long flowing pink hair.  "It's 
Anne!" Mars gasped in alarm.

	The Senshi released her from her bonds and she came to with a groan. 
 She looked at her saviors and gasped, "P-P-Please don't let t-t-this 
be a d-d-dream."

	"If it is," Jupiter said, "it a dream come true.  We've come to get 
you out of here."

	"S-S-so w-w-weak.  N-n-need e-e-energy."

	Venus sighed and said, "Take some of mine."

	Anne nodded once and replied, "J-j-just enough to get me back on my 
feet.  T-T-That's all."

	Anne's eyes glowed and Venus staggered slightly as some of her bio-
energy left her and was transferred to Anne.  Anne stood up and 
supported Venus.  "Thank you," she said feeling much better, "I 
needed that.  You should recover in a few minutes."

	"N-no problem." Venus smiled and then she added, "I felt someone 
else draining my energy too.  You haven't just gained weight have you?
"

	"No," Anne said with a smile and that special sparkle in her eye, 
"I'm pregnant."

	The Senshi eyes bulged and Jupiter muttered under her breath, "Way 
to go Ail."

	Anne answered the Senshis looks with a chuckle and she said, "Well, 
it HAS been over several decades since we saw you last."

	"Not for us." Mars replied.

	"I don't mean to interrupt your reunion," Hickok interrupted, "but 
now what?"

	"Now," Pluto said, "we go back to the original plan.  I need you two 
Warriors to run some kind of big distraction while the other Senshi 
and I take out Primator and the Time Adjuster."

	"I can help," Anne said, "I want payback.  I'll teleport you Senshi 
to the Prime Complex.  That's where Primitor and his new toy are.  
First though, I'll telport you Warriors somewhere you can do some 
real damage."

	"Will you have enough energy for that?" Jupiter asked.

	Anne shrugged.  "If not, the humans and mutants that the Supiriors 
use will be able to sustain me and my child."

	"Good," Pluto said, "do it."

	Anne walked over to Hickok and Rikki and asked, "Ready?"

	"I recon so," Hickok said.

	"I'm as prepared as I'm going to be," was Riki's reply.

	"Don't worry," Anne said, "this won't hurt a bit."

	The three of them disappeared and a few minutes later, Anne returned.
  "Now," she said a little stronger than before, (she probably had 
some mutant bio-energy shakes while she had stepped out.) "we have to 
wait a little bit and...."

	A large explosion from somewhere in the city cut her off and the 
room they were in shook.  "That was fast," Mars remarked, "these guys 
are good."

	"Hang on," Anne said, "Here we go!"

	The Senshi and alien disappeared from the Prisoner Containment 
Center and reappeared on the 299th floor of a building built from 
pure gold.  The Prime Complex.  "Now what?" Jupiter asked, "Do we 
just go on in that door?"

	"You three do," Pluto replied, "Anne and I have to go destroy the 
Time Adjuster.  You'll have to take on Primator.  That's his office.
"

	Anne nodded and she and Pluto disappeared.  The three remaining 
Senshi looked at each other and nodded.  Mars concentrated her power 
and released a Fire Soul at the large oak double doors.  The doors 
imploded inward and reveled nothing but darkness within.  A voice 
from inside the room said, "I suppose the politeness of knocking is 
something you wouldn't understand.  Since you are here anyway though, 
please do come in."

	The Senshi entered the room and looked around.  The office was bare 
except for a large monitor almost as tall as the room by one wall.  
On the monitor was a video image of the Senshi in the room.  
"Greetings.  Welcome to my sanctuary.  I am Primator."

	"Where are you?" Mars shouted.

	"Yeah!" Jupiter thundered (sorry), "why are you hiding?"

	"Why am I...." the voice gained in intensity, "I AM NOT HIDING, I'M 
RIGHT HERE!"

	"What are you talking about?" Mars fired (sorry) back, "There's 
nobody in here except us."

	"FOOLISH ORGANISM!  PERHAPS THIS WILL GIVE YOU A BETTER 
UNDERSTANDING OF THE TRUTH."

	The monitors image changed from one of the Senshi to one of red 
glowing eyes.  "I still don't get it," Venus said, "why aren't you 
here in person?"

	The voice sighed and said, as if talking to a small child, "THINK 
ABOUT IT.  WHO IS THE ONE YOU ARE LOOKING FOR?"

	"Primitor."

	"AND WHO'S SANCTUARY IS THIS?"

	"Primat..... Oh My GOD!" Venus exclaimed as the truth came to her.

	The voice sounded amused,  "AHA!  ONE OF YOU UNDERSTANDS.  THERE MAY 
BE HOPE FOR YOU HUMANS YET."

	"What's he talking about Venus?" Jupiter asked.

	"I TAKE BACK MY PREVIOUS COMPLIMENT ON YOUR INTELLIGENCE."

	"Primator... he's... she's... it's....." Venus stutterer as she 
pointed an unsteady hand at the computer.

	"THAT IS CORRECT."

	"No way!" Mars and Jupiter said similtaniously.

	The computer that was more than a computer laughed a laugh that 
shook the room.  It stressed every word of its next statement,

	"I - AM - PRIMATOR!!!"

END CHAPTER 8

NEXT: CHAPTER 9: MIND GAMES

	surprise!  Got you didn't I?  Well, now that one groups on it's way, 
we'll just go see what the other ones doing.  Hopefully, they've 
recovered.  They haven't?  Maybe the mysterious Timeiand can help.  
Will he be able to save Sailor Mercury?  What happened to New York 
City after WW III?  Plus, what the heck is the Mind Scape? To find 
out......... read on!

May The Spirit Preserve You!