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Okay, third try. The first were attempted while the list was apparently
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Sorry about the delay, ones who are reading.

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&&&[Begin Chapter 3.]

***

	Given Jadeite's defeat and what would happen to him if that 
happened too often, one would think that he would change his 
tactics, go for more subtle ways of accomplishing his goals. But, 
knowing Jadeite...

	"Yes, Queen Beryl," Jadeite said, bowing before her, "I have 
set in motion a plan that is sure to work."

	"Continue, Jedite." Queen Beryl said. Jadeite winced at how 
she pronounced his name.

	"Anyway, I've decided to step up my work. I had planned to 
save this for later, but-"

	"What is it, Jedite?" Beryl snapped. Jadeite winced again.

	"You've rejected all my plans so far, so I've decided to 
forget the whole thing and settle for using computers to drain 
little schoolgirls." Jadeite said dejectedly. Beryl considered it.

	"Excellent idea, Jedite." Beryl said.

	Jadeite sighed and disappeared.

---

	Terra had gotten up on time today and hadn't needed to make 
a spectacle of herself running to class. Serena, on the other 
hand, was a few minutes late. However, since this is an NA based 
continuity, she was only marked tardy, and not forced to stand 
outside holding buckets of water. Though she may wish she had, 
considering that there was a test that she hadn't studied for this 
particular day.

	"Not another one!" Serena whined.

	"Yes, another one." Ms. Haruna said, "By the way, we have a 
new student, Amy Anderson."

---

	Outside, a cat on the window sill sensed something.

	"She could be from the Negaverse," Luna said.

	"Oh, could be, could be. Either that or somethin' else," 
Arby said.

	"Oh? Such as?" Luna asked.

	"A princess from Mercury, maybe.." Arby said.

	"You're saying that we've found another Sailor Scout?" Luna 
asked, almost remembering something.

	"Or a Senshi, a Soldier, or if we're very lucky, a Sailor 
Commando." Arby said.

	"Sailor Commando?! Where do you get these things?" Luna 
asked.

	"Mail order catalog." Arby replied.

	"I should have known," Luna said, rolling her eyes.

	"By the way, 'ow did Terra get adopted into the Lunar royal 
family?" Arby asked.

	"I.. don't really remember. I seem to have lost quite a bit 
of memory from(WHAM!) OW! What was that for?" Luna was saying when 
she got clocked hard on the skull by a Heavy Blunt Object(tm.). It 
was a good thing that everyone inside was concentrating on a test, 
or they'd be amused by the sight. We can't have that, now, can we?

	"It's me patented bang-'em-on-the-head memory inducer. Did 
it work?" Arby said cheerfully. Luna began to shake her head at 
this until the memories actually began to flow back into her 
active mind.

	"Looks like it.." Luna said, becoming absorbed into the 
memory, relating the events that she remembered, happy to be 
talking about anything other than mushrooms.

###

	"It knew exactly where to hit us." Luna said, pointing out 
that the attack had dealt horrendous damage to Pluto and Saturn, 
rendering the Senshi from those worlds unable to help when it 
attacked the Moon. All of the outer Senshi were visiting Pluto at 
the time. Luna had taken temporary command of the situation.

	"We still managed to stop it." Artemis said. Luna looked at 
Artemis incredulously.

	"Barely!" Luna said, "Aside from the combined fleets of the 
solar system being totally wiped out, all the Senshi were 
incapacitated! It will be weeks before they, or Queen Serenity 
will be able to *stand*, much less defend anything! We're wide 
open for anything that chooses to attack us now."

	"First Advisor Luna, we know all this, but what are you 
suggesting we do about it?" A high ranking military officer asked. 
There were signs of agreement from around the room.

	"Well, what has been done to the girl?" Luna asked. During 
the aftermath of the attack, the former beast had become known 
simply as, "the girl."

	"Incarceration. She's under our best lockdown, anti-magic 
warded, etc. We're not taking ANY chances on this one. For all we 
know, she summoned that demon and turned herself into it. It's 
been known to happen." One person said.

	"She could have been transformed against her will." Another 
said. 

	"By who?" A debate followed concerning what happened.

	"Has anyone tried to ask *her* what exactly went on?" Luna 
asked, breaking through the discussion.

	"No. She hasn't regained consciousness yet."

	"Have we tried telepathic contact yet?" Luna asked.

	"No. All our telepaths have been far too busy treating 
shell-shock."

	"Can we call one of them up?" Luna asked.

	"No. This isn't just shock. The only reason you're not 
working on it is that you're needed to coordinate this." Artemis 
said.

	"Are things *that* bad?" Luna asked.

	"Yeah. I've taken a look around. It isn't pretty." Artemis 
said.

	"Then it's up to me, it seems. Perhaps then we can find out 
exactly what caused this, and if we can expect another attack.." 
Luna said.

---

	<Can you hear me?> Luna sent through the telepathic link she 
established. 

	There was no response. The entire mind seemed Luna decided 
to go for a deeper, more complex link.

	Luna's mental imagery opened to the scene of of a 
battlefield. This was no simple ground battle. It was filled with 
destroyed machinery, and the sky was full of broken metallic 
structures. It was dark. The battle seemed to be over. This mind 
was REALLY bad off. There seemed to be no survivors. 

	Luna applied a mental healing ability on the scene, in hopes 
of getting *anything.*

	Then, a lone, broken figure of indeterminate shape stood 
from the battlefield and shambled toward Luna's mental location. 
It stopped a short distance away.

	<This... I.. am.. sorry..> It managed to force out in a 
soft, dry voice. Luna didn't know exactly how to interpret this, 
but it seemed to be an apology, but it wasn't clear exactly for 
what.

	<What do you mean?> Luna asked. The dark figure moved to a 
side of a cliff and pointed into the distance. Scenes of the 
surprise attacks on Pluto, the battle with Sailor Saturn, the 
decimation of the fleet, and the fight on the Moon were shown in a 
first person view.

	<Not... mean.. to.. I.. did.. not.. understand.. why..> It 
tried to force out. It looked extremely downtrodden, and wasn't 
going to last long. Luna was unable to tell whether it was trying 
to apologize for something it did or didn't do, but that it WAS 
trying to make reparations of some sort.

	<Will it happen again? Will there be any more attacks?> Luna 
asked. A scene of a few smaller ships launching from deep within 
Jupiter and moving toward the Moon flashed by.

	<Yes.. pre..programmed.. cannot stop..> It said, crumbling. 
Luna felt a sense of foreboding.

	<When?> Luna asked.

	<Three.. days..> It managed to say before collapsing into a 
black ash. 

	Luna looked around to notice that the entire area was 
dissolving. 

	Luna instantly applied her mental healing ability, slowing, 
and finally stopping the fade. She tried, but was unable to do 
more. Not being able to get any more information, or help any 
farther, she took a final look around and left the link.

---

	Soon after Luna left to get whatever defense could be made 
arranged, the girl's mind instinctively copied Luna's psychic 
repair. Though under extreme anti-magic warding, she was able to 
apply it internally, although it went very slowly.

	Within a day she was able to comprehend.

	By the second day, she had repaired half the damage and had 
reestablished her how and why of existence.

	The next day, she regained consciousness.

	The girl awoke to the sight of the cell. There were two 
guards. One left to inform whoever was in charge at the time that 
'the girl' was awake now.

	Due to the shock she experienced through the past few days, 
she begins to talk aloud to herself.

	"The backup fighters will be here in less than an hour!" She 
said.

	"Wow! Your mind was totally obliterated and you can still 
remember time?" She asked herself.

	"Yeah, quiet." She replied, annoyed.

	"There is a more pressing matter at hand. You worked the 
defensive capabilities over pretty thoroughly on your grand 
entrance. Do you think they will be able to handle this on their 
own?" She asked herself seriously.

	"They might be able to take out a few of them, but they'll 
be wiped out for certain when the second wave comes in."

	"How many waves are there?!"

	"Two."

	"Perhaps I should take this conversation inside. The guard's 
starting to look at me kinda funny."

	"Excellent idea. Mister guard-person-lady-maam, or whatever 
you are, don't mind me, ask.. that one black cat," she said, 
pausing as she searches her memory, "Luna why I'm acting like 
this. Mental shockwave. Extremely painful. Want to try it? It's 
fun!"

	The guard raised an eyebrow and shook their head.

	"Okay. Don't worry. I'm not trying to break out and wreak 
havok upon the world's inhabitants." She said. The guard looked 
shocked. She continued, "Betcha didn't think I knew you were 
thinking that, didja? Well, it was a lucky guess anyway. I get 
that a lot."

	"Or do I?" She asked herself.

	"No, you don't. This would be your first day that you've 
been asked anything whatsoever." She replied.

	"The guard's still looking at me funny. I wanted this 
conversation mental, remember?"

	"Seems pretty 'mental' to me." She observed.

	"Not that kind of 'mental'!" She said to herself.

	"You know! MENTAL, pretty funny, huh?" She said to the 
guard. The guard didn't respond.

	"Anyway, could you excuse me?" She asked the guard. The 
guard shrugged in a confused way. The girl's expression became 
extremely concentrated. After about a minute of this, she began to 
look annoyed.

	She broke out of her arm restraints.

	"Shut up! Shut up! Everyone just SHUT UP!!!" She said, 
pounding on her head. After a little of this, she noted the guard 
in a defensive stance. "Oh, sorry. Internal conflict. I think I 
may need to get an overhaul sometime. But anyway, can I speak to 
whoever is in charge?"

	The guard continued to look confused, since, for some 
reason, the girl's last two lines came out as, "I need my brain 
replaced. Could you please get some jumpriey cables and start the 
car?" The guard's hard trained years of keeping a calm mind 
crumbled under the confusion that almost radiated from the girl.

	"What the?! Kid, I'm trying to guard you here, so can you 
stay quiet?!" The guard said in exhasperation.

	"Oh, quiet. I can give you quiet. See. I'm being quiet, 
aren't I?" She said.

	"Yes I am, see? I'm quiet. Are you quiet?" She said.

	"Yes, I'm quiet." She said.

	"AAAAAUUUUGGHHHH!!" The guard said, turning around, 
accidentally running into the wall, hard. The guard fell 
unconscious.

	"Told you. Guards aren't any fun. They fall right over." She 
said to herself.

	Snapping the remaining restraints and breaking off the anti-
magic wards, she set the guard into a more comfortable position, 
took the keys, and walked right out the door.

---

	"See those?" A commander said to his men, "Here they come!"

	The first wave came in. It consisted of fifteen fighters. 
They were black and had a spherical central position with a strut 
on either side that connected to vertical, hexagonal panels.

	They made a screaming sound as they came in.

	Ground forces employed cannon-like devices. It was really 
all they had left after the first attack that had a chance of 
stopping these things.

	The fighters broke into three groups of five, going in 
different directions, firing small green beams onto the landscape.

	The ground forces fired their cannons, taking half the 
fighters from each group on the first volley.

	The destroyed fighters exploded on contact with the cannon 
shots.

	The three remaining "halves" crashed to the ground, 
exploding. [Hey, half a tie fighter isn't all that helpful, is 
it?]

	The shots from the fighters impacted buildings that had been 
evacuated in preparation for the battle, knocking in a few walls.

	The cannons went for another round, destroying all but one 
fighter.

	The remaining fighter shifted its target to the ground 
forces. It targeted one cannon in particular.

	The cannon fired one shot and missed.

	Green laser fire exploded around the cannon.

	The next shot hit!

	And the crowd goes wild! There was much rejoicing in the 
land!

...

	Until, that is, they noticed the second wave. This group was 
different. There were six this time, and they were a great deal 
worse. They looked almost alive, being spiked on the front and 
moving with a sense of purpose. [closest comparison: Babylon 5: 
Shadow Vessel]

	These also made a screaming sound as they attacked, but it 
was not any ordinary scream. It struck terror into even some of 
the more hardened troops. They all dove for cover as the ships 
opened fire, focusing concentrated beams of purple energy over the 
landscape, tearing gouges into the ground. The battle seemed lost.

	The girl stepped out into the open.

	"Okay, so maybe my timing's a little off," She whispered to 
herself.

	"In any case, it's time to get to work," She told herself.

	"Make it spactacular and they may decide to forgive you," 
She noted.

	"Telepathic Shockwave, ENFLAME!" She called, her voice 
echoing across the landscape as she duplicated the energy that had 
previously destroyed her mind, amplifying it with her own energy, 
causing the effect to ripple toward the ships. The troops looked 
to her location, following the ripple.

	The ripple touched two of the ships, burning out their 
processors and causing them to fold up and crumble like dead bugs.

	The other three shifted and faded from view before the 
ripple hit them.

	They reappeared in the sky behind the girl. She spun around 
to face them.

	"Planetary Magnetic Field, DEFEND!" She called, raising a 
shield, absorbing the impact of the purple beams from the ships as 
they fired. Analyzing the energy of the weapons, she smiled as she 
created her own version, calling out something adapted from 
something she'd learned from her encounter with the Sailor Senshi.

	"Stellar Particle Beam, THRASH!" She had determined, from 
her knowledge download, that this was how the bigger fights were 
to be held. You called out something impressive, and then pounded 
the enemy to smitherines. She liked the last part especially.

	The intensified beam hit one of the ships, forcing it to 
stop until a hole was drilled neatly through, then it crumbled 
like the other two.

	The final vessels swung around for another run.

	"Okay, the last ones. No others?" She asked herself.

	"This is it." She responded.

	"Time to impress 'em."

	"Might as well."

	"STELLAR QUANTUM PHASE MOLECULAR DISINTIGRATION!!!" She 
yelled, creating a glowing sphere of white energy, the likes of 
which would have made a Saya-Jin raise an eyebrow and cough 
nervously, grew and was unleashed into the sky, tearing into the 
ships, leaving no trace of them.

	The blast dissapated just after it destroyed the ships. The 
girl seemed almost shocked that it was gone so quickly. She was 
also surprised at how weak she felt after throwing it.

	"There (pant) went (pant) the last (pant) of my reserves," 
She said with some regret, panting at the effort.

	"No more casual planet destruction, I guess. Oh well, that 
was getting boring, anyway," She said to herself.

	"That was fun.. How about I take five now? Fine? Fine." She 
said.

	The girl fell backwards with a thump.

###

	"And after that, Terra stayed with the Moon Kingdom, and she 
did a couple more amazing things in the next few months. She 
apparently had no family, and she was so very well behaved, too. 
With that in mind, and some other events that happened, Queen 
Serenity decided to adopt her," Luna said then added, "Yes, she 
was such a nice girl. Much like she is now.."

	Arby was snoring soundly.

	"Arby? Have you been listening?" Luna asked.

	"Eh? Wot?" Arby said, shaking himself awake.

	"Did you hear anything I said?"

	"Oh, yeah. Terra was a monter, then she wasn't, so she broke 
out and blew stuff up, and the Queen liked explosions, so she 
adopted her." Arby said. Luna shrugged.

	"Close enough." Luna said, "But back on the subject: Amy 
Anderson. She could be from the Negaverse."

	"I say she's a Sailor Something." Arby said. Luna sighed.

	"She could be, I suppose. We need to tell the Scouts to keep 
an eye on her, though," Luna said.

	"Alright, we can do that, then." Arby concluded in his usual 
European-Irish-English-Scottish accent.

---

	<YES! I did it! I did it!> Atomic Starlight Knight thought 
to himself.

	<Did what?> He asked himself.

	<Expanded the link!> He replied smugly.

	<Great! What does it do?> He asked. There was no response.

	<Come on, What does it do?>

	<I.. um.. don't know.>

	<How do we know if it did anything?>

	<Go watch, I guess..>

---

	After Terra and Serena were free, Luna and Arby explained 
the situation to them. As soon as they got through the 
explanation, they had a feeling that something was going on in a 
classroom.

	"You need to get in, but you need to go unnoticed." Luna 
said, then did a backflip. "This is the Luna Pen." She gave 
instructions on how to use it.

	"Okay," Serena said, "Disguise Power, change me into.. a 
school superintendant!" She changed into a taller woman, wearing 
more formal attire. "Cool!"

	"Wait.. what do I get, then?" Terra asked Arby in a nice, 
suspicious way.

	"Oh, um, let me see.." Arby said, starting to fly, doing a 
series of mid-air flips, causing a mushroom to fall to the ground. 
"'Aven't got anything." Luna rolled her eyes. Serena had already 
gone inside. Terra looked as happy as usual.

	"I'm sorry. We don't have anything to give you." Luna said.

	"Wait, I felt something happen while Serena changed," Terra 
said, thinking, <It was almost as if I could tell what was going 
on with the magic from the pen.> She decided to attempt something.

	"Disguise Power, change me into.. something inconspicuous!" 
Terra said. 

---

	Serena, still in disguise, barged into the computer room, 
followed by Luna.

	"Alright, stop right there!" She said commandingly.

	Several students looked up, while others were too busy 
having their energy drained by the computers. [Sound familiar?]

	"Excuse me, can I help you with anything?" Amy said. The 
last of the students collapsed.

	Serena, seeing that Amy was the only one left standing, she 
concluded that Amy must have drained the energy.

	"Yes, you can stop your evil ways and return that energy!" 
Serena said, "Moon Prism Power!" Standard Sailor Moon 
transformation sequence. 

	She made her speech.

	I was more or less at that point that the monster of the 
week chose to make its appearance.

	It grabbed Sailor Moon and slammed her to the side, then 
went for Amy.

	The symbol for Mercury glowed on Amy's forehead. Luna saw 
it. She went over to Amy.

	Amy, while surprised at a talking cat, did as it said.

	Soon, Sailor Mercury was fighting the youma.

	"Mercury Bubbles, BLAST!" Sailor Mercury said.

	The mist built up in the area.

	"WHAT?!" The youma said, searching for its combatants.

	This gave Sailor Moon time to recover. She stood and began
her attack.

	"Moon Tiara Magic!" Instant youma dust. 

	The fog cleared.

	Jadeite appeared.

	"It seems that you are more troublesome than I thought,"
Jadeite said, contemplating the two girls, "Perhaps it would
be best to simply eliminate you here."

	Jadeite held up his hand to toss an energy blast.

	A green blur smashed out of the ventilation duct, grabbing
Jadeite and throwing him through a wall.

	"Starlight Knight?" Sailor Moon began to hope.

	"Oh my," The person dressed in a green ninja outfit said
in a high voice, looking at what they accomplished.

	"Sailor Earth?" Sailor Moon said confusedly.

...

	Outside, Jadeite prepared to go back in, but was tapped on
the shoulder by someone.

	"Jadeite!" Atomic Starlight Knight said cheerfully, fading
in. Jadeite turned turned around. As soon as he did, a snarl
crept onto his lips.

	"You!" Jadeite said with heavy malice.

	"That's right. Me. You thought I died along with the rest
of the Moon Kingdom, didn't you? Well, I'm baaaack!" A.S.K. said,
smiling. Then an energy blast impacted directly into his
chest, knocking him back into.. or rather THROUGH a tree.

	"That was for my humiliation in front of the entire solar
system!" Jadeite said, advancing for another blow. A.S.K.

	"Hey, that wasn't {UNGH!} supposed to happen!" A.S.K. said, 
pushing the tree off of himself, "How was I supposed to know that
you were going to a conference afterward? I thought you were
going to a party!"

	"So you were going to humiliate me at a party, were you?!"
Jadeite said, blasting A.S.K. again.

	"OUCH! That really hurt, you know." A.S.K. said, patting
down the smoking patch on his armor.

	"Good. But WHY AREN'T YOU DEFENDING YOURSELF?!" Jadeite 
said, wanting more fight into his revenge.

	"That's a good idea, you know.. LIGHTNING ATTACK!" A.S.K. 
said, blasting Jadeite with a bolt of lightning. Jadeite
wasn't phased. "Stellar Circlet Disintigration!" Jadeite caught
the circlet, crushing it in his hand. "Hey!"

	"Is that the best you can do?" Jadeite said.

	"No.. But.. Oh, alright, you talked me into it.. STELLAR 
QUANTUM PHASE MOLECULAR DISINTIGRATION!"

***

	Jadeite appeared before Queen Beryl, patting down flames
and wiping off the soot from his uniform.

	"Where is the energy, Jedite?" Beryl asked testily.

	"There.. have been a few setbacks, my Queen." Jadeite said,
fingering the bruise on his cheek.

	"If these 'setbacks' last much longer, Jedite, I will have
to replace you." Beryl said.

	"NO, Queen Beryl, that will not be necessary." Jadeite said
defensively.

	"It had better not be."

***

	<Jadeite took that blast head on and escaped!>

	<In the old days, that shot could have taken out the better
portion of a small planet!>

	<Yeah, this seems to be getting to be more of a challenge
than I originally anticipated.>

	<What to do now?>

	<Training?>

	<Too weak, I think..>

	<What I really need to do is upgrade Sailor Moon.>

	<Um.. Okay, How about I bring in her Senshi form and
charge that up?>

	<Now's a good a time as any to do that..>

	<What about the others?>

	<Hey, I've only got ten advanced fusion reactors.
There's only so much I can do with that.>

	<Perhaps later, then..>

---

	The Sailor Scouts had left the scene of the attack and were
about to de-transform when the Starlight Knight appeared in front
of them.

	"Starlight Knight!" Sailor Moon said joyfully.

	"Yes, Sailor Moon," Starlight Knight said, then turned to
the other Sailor Senshi, "I need to speak to her alone, does
anyone mind?" They shrugged. "Good." Then he disappeared, along
with Sailor Moon.

	"What's that about?" Sailor Mercury asked.

	"I haven't the foggiest." Luna said.

---

	"You know, the interesting thing about the Sailor Senshi-"

	"Scouts." Sailor Moon corrected.

	"Right, anyway, the interesting thing about them is that
they recharge so quickly. Put a little energy into them, and
they're back up to full in no time. One of the other interesting 
things about them is that if you put a LOT of energy into them,
they start being able to handle a great deal more." Starlight
Knight said, preparing something electronic.

	"Um, yeah, but what does that have to do with me?" Sailor
Moon asked, wondering why Starlight Knight had brought her here.

	"I'll show you. Please hold onto these. Thank you." S.K.
said, giving Sailor Moon a wire in each hand. S.K. moved over
to a very old style switch, "Now, don't be alarmed."

	"This isn't going to hurt, is it?" Sailor Moon asked.

	"Come to think of it, the equivalent of about eight
trillion volts coursing through your body.. It just might!"
S.K. said thoughtfully, throwing the switch.

~One extremely painful electrocution later.~

	"Now, how do you feel?" Starlight Knight said.

	"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Sailor Moon began,
but stopped when she noticed that she didn't really feel that
bad, "Wait.. what just happened?"

	"Here, catch." S.K. said, tossing a ball that was labeled
'3 TONS' in deeply chiseled lettering.

	Sailor Moon 'eep'd, but easily caught the ball in one hand.

	"As you see, I've upgraded your abilities as a.. Scout,"
S.K. said. Sailor Moon was noticing how easily she could move
the ball, then something occured to her.

	"Cool.. Hey, this isn't some trick, is it?" Sailor Moon 
said.

	"No, of course not," S.K. said. 

	"How do I know that?" Sailor Moon asked.

	"If you don't believe me, then.. Punt me across the room!
Come on, do it, do it!" S.K. said playfully.

	"But-"

	"Oh, please? Okay, pretend I just said that your mother
was a hamster, or that your father smelt of elderberries, or
that I just insulted your hairstyle. MEATBALL HEAD! MEATBALL
HEAD! MEATBALL HEA-"

	Sailor Moon obliged.

	"Nice shot," S.K. said weakly, imbedded half a foot 
deep into the steel wall on the opposite side of the room. 
Sailor Moon covered her mouth in shock.

	"Oh, I'msorryI'msorryI'msorry!"

	"Yes, I caN SAfeLY SaY ThaT YouR POWers were upgraded,"
S.K. said, staggering out of the dent he was in. He walked over
to Sailor Moon. "Come on, let's get you home."

---

	Sailor Moon reappeared in front of the others.

	"So what was that all about?" Luna asked.

	"He-" Sailor Moon began in shock.

	"He what?" Amy asked.

	"-was dreamy!" Sailor Moon finished, collapsing into a
fantasy. Luna and Amy sweatdropped. Terra continued smiling.

[End Chapter 3.]

Now, that wasn't so bad.. Or was it?

Any suggestions?

Chapter four should come out soon. I'm nearly done, so it should
be within the week..

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-BEN

I did this without a spell-checker. Does it show?