Folks, this is likely to be the longest one yet.
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"'I'm sorry if I'm not gentle'"
"I can say if it's in my dreams."
"My thoughts are about to short circuit,"
"Right now, it's you I want to meet!"
"Moonlight makes me want to cry."
"Midnight is too late to call."
"I'm so na ve, what can I do?"
"My heart is a kaleidoscope."
"Led by the moonlight,"
"we meet by chance many times over."
"The number of stars in the constellations"
"foretell love's whereabouts."
"Born on the same earth, a miracle romance."
"Once more, a weekend with you."
"God, grant me a happy end."
"In the past, present, and future,"
"I'll be completely devoted to you."
"I won't forget your dear look when we met."
"Out of millions of stars, I can find you."
"Changing even serendipity to opportunity,"
"I love this way of life!"
"A wondrous miracle growing close,"
"we meet by chance many times over."
"The number of stars in the constellations"
"foretell love's whereabouts."
"Born on the same earth, a miracle romance."
"I believe in, the miracle romance."
"Moonlight Legend"
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Knight Productions present......
Sailor Moon/Crystal Knights
Neon Genesis Evangelion
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Destiny's Path
...the world will never be the same...
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Prologue 3: The Wedding: Part 4: "I do"
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"After the unknown object was released from Ami's father by Sailor
Moon's new attack, we quickly restrained the man. Then Sailor Pluto
disappeared, saying something about how she needed to take care of
something. I cannot help but speculate on where she could have gone.
Part of me doesn't want to know the answer.
Major Martins, Captain Natsume, and myself were treated for minor
bruises and shock damage and released back to active duty. Forgive me
for a little more speculation, but I cannot help but wonder what will
happen now that the Senshi have new powers.
Historical records show that each time the Senshi were powered up, a
new enemy appeared. I can't help but wonder what kind of enemy will
require powers like the Eternal Senshi have to defeat.
The wedding will go on as scheduled, and we are beginning the
countdown with three days to go.
This wedding *will* happen. It *must*, for the future depends on
it."
--from the after action report submitted by Major Erica Carter-
--Nobeyama region, AD 2015--
The thirteenth Angel was estastic.
It had found a way to return to Adam. Unlike that time fifteen
years ago, there were no Sailors present, and the forces facing it were
woefully inadequate. Not that they would dare try to destroy this
machine. Not with the Fourth Child still tra pped inside. It had
already dispatched Eva units 02 and 00 was moving against Unit 01.
<Hmmmm....>, the Angel thought, <my hostage is a friend to the
pilot. Now I know Unit 01 won't move against me...might as well have
some fun while I can.> With that the Angel possessed Eva Unit 03
started choking Unit 01, all the while Toji scre aming for the Angel to
stop. <HAHAHAHHHAAAHHHAH!!! Not likely, human!!> Then the Angel
felt...a familiar presence. <No...it can't be!!>
"Dead Scream."
A energy bolt washed against the trapped Entry Plug of Eva-03...to
absolutely no effect. Eternal Sailor Pluto floated there, dumbfounded
at the failure of her boosted attack. Then the Angel spoke.
"Well, well, we meet again, Sailor Pluto. This time, I won't be as
easy to defeat, and right now, you can't kill me without harming my
hostage, so I guess this time....I win."
"No, Bardiel," Sailor Pluto spoke, "you will not win this day.
Whether I interfere or not, you will be defeated."
"HA!! That's where you're wrong, Pluto. These sentimental fools
won't lift a finger to destroy me. See how easily I'm defeating the
mightiest of these pathetic Evangelions?"
Sailor Pluto could see, and that troubled her. She knew she was
running out of time. If she couldn't free the pilot soon, NERV would
activate the Dummy Plug, which would destroy Bardiel, but also injure
the Fourth Child seriously. Then she got some unexpected help....
"DISRUPTOR BOLT!!"
"SHABON SPRAY!!"
Eternal Sailors Saturn and Mercury, appearing somewhat older, flew
in to float by Sailor Pluto. Pluto was, to not mince words,
dumbfounded. Before she could ask, Saturn answered.
"Neo Queen Serenity sent us back to help you, Pu." she said.
"Yes, and I wanted to go back as well, if only to help bring around
that thing's destruction." Mercury added, clenching one hand into a
fist as she remembered the events years ago.
Pluto seemed to consider that for a second. "Very well," she said,
"in a few moments, NERV will activate Unit 01's Dummy Plug. Try and
keep it away for a few seconds while I attempt to free the pilot."
Pluto then teleported into the Entry Plug while Saturn and Mercury
turned to face Eva-01.
Saturn pointed the Silence Glaive forward. "SILENCE WALL!!"
Mercury concentrated, drawing the water present in the air into a
solid wall of ice.
Their quick efforts were needed, because a few moments later,
Eva-01's eyes lit up, and it began to roar and push against the double
barriers in order to get at the Angel-possessed Eva. The barriers
seemed to hold for now, though it would onl y be a matter of time.
***Inside the Entry Plug of Unit 03***
Toji Suzuhara was trying to gain some semblance of control back over
the possessed Unit 03. This proved to be useless, for the Angel had
complete control over the Eva. Worse, he couldn't even eject. Worse
than that, the Angel was making hi m watch as it systematically
demolished Evas 02 and 00. Then it went up against Unit 01. Toji
screamed as Unit 03 started choking Unit 01.
"Goddammit!!" he shouted, banging on the controls, "stop it!!
That's my friend in there!!!" He could barely register the impact of
something against the Plug's walls. Then he heard another impact, and
suddenly, the area around the two unit s was filled with fog. "What
the...?" he said.
"Toji Suzuhara." a voice said.
Toji turned around in shock. A woman with green hair was crouched
behind him in the Entry Plug. She was wearing what looked like a
shortened sailor fuku with *wings*. In one hand, she held a staff that
looked somewhat like a overgrown key. "Who....who are you? An Angel?"
he said.
"No, Toji," she replied, "I am Sailor Pluto, the Guardian of Time,
and I've come to get you out of here."
"Why?" he asked.
"Because in a few minutes, Eva 01 will go berserk and attack Unit
03. The resulting damage will injure you so severely that you will lose
an arm and a leg." she said.
"Oh, okay." He said, and started to loosen the restraints.
Another voice boomed from within the Entry Plug. "NO!!! You will
not free him!!" The LCL pressure started to rise....
Pluto got on her communicator. "Saturn! Distract him!" she gasped.
Outside, Saturn let go of the shield long enough to fire another
Disruptor Bolt at Unit 03. The Angel roared in pain and the pressure
let up just enough for Pluto to free Toji, who had lost consciousness
due to the pressure.
She got on the communicator again. "Saturn, Mercury! Release the
shield...NOW!!" With that, she teleported just as Unit 01 tore through
the shield. Sailors Saturn and Mercury flew away in time, but Eva 03
was, in a couple of words, bloody scrap.
Afterwards, the NERV recovery teams had gotten Auska and Rei out of
their Evas. Rei was unconscious from her fight. Auska was laying on
another stretcher when a bright flash of light got everyone's
attention.
Floating above everyone, were three winged women, two of them
carrying staffs of some kind. The center woman, the one with green
hair, was holding an unconscious Toji. Floating down, she put Toji on
the ground beside Auska. Standing up, she said, "For the sake of the
future, this child has been saved. Protect him, Auska Soryu, and
protect yourself and the other Children, for there will be other
hardships in the future."
"Who are you??" was all Auska could ask, mystified by the sudden
appearance of apparent legends...
The green haired woman smiled. "I am Sailor Pluto. Do not despair,
for you will see us again...in the future."
The blue haired woman....Mercury, Auska remembered, then spoke.
"Pluto, we must go." she said.
Pluto nodded, and the three women rose into the air....and
disappeared. Leaving behind a puzzled recovery crew and a mystified
Auska Langley Soryu. <I thought....I thought they all were
dead.......> she thought.
*******
A few miles away, something that appeared to be a man staggered
away from the battlefield, dropping clumps of some black substance as
it walked. The thirteenth Angel was heavily injured, and its only hope
was to find someplace to rest and try again. Unfortunately, this was
not to be. A freezing wind surrounded the Angel.
"MERCURY ICE STORMWIND!!"
The Angel was frozen in place, as Sailors Mercury, Saturn, and Pluto
floated down in front of it. Saturn looked at Mercury, and Mercury
just nodded before turning to the frozen Angel.
"This is for using my father all those years ago, you bastard."
Saturn turned to the Angel. "DEATH RIBBON REVOLUTION!!"
Bardiel only had time to send one message to its brethren:
<Zuruel...it's up to you now.>
Then the thirteenth Angel was annihilated by the gray-black ribbons
which exploded from the Silence Glaive.
Pluto turned to the two Senshi from the future. "Thank you for the
help, and please thank Neo-Queen Serenity as well." she said.
"No problem, Pu." Saturn said, smiling.
A scream tore through the air, drawing the three Senshi's attention
towards the inert Eva 01. "I think," Pluto said, "now would be a good
idea to make ourselves scarce."
The three Senshi disappeared in bursts of temporal energy, back to
their respective times.
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--Present day (September 10, 2000)--
<Target at 200 feet...approaching rapidly>
Major Julia Martins tightened her grip on the controls of her
Excalibur combat mecha as she dove to avoid the pulse fire from her
target. Turning around, she sent a barrage of shots from her tachyon
cannons into the target-a practice dr one-demolishing it completely.
"Nice job, but you might want to ease up on the controls a little."
Major Erica Carter told her from the cockpit of her Excalibur, which
was on the ground, looking up at Julia's mecha.
"Thanks for the complement, I'm just having a hard time getting used
to the controls." Martins replied as she turned and shot off a couple
of Stinger missiles at another pair of drones approaching from the
side.
"Yeah, the controls are a little different from the Devastator and
Skywasp class mecha," Carter agreed, "but you have to admit, the
Excalibur allows a more free range of maneuvering than the other two
classes, and offer more tactical firepower and staying time than the
old Devastators."
"Didn't you use to pilot a Devastator?" Martins asked over the
comlink.
Erica Carter got a wistful look on her face. "Yeah, until D-Point."
she said while looking down at her right arm, which had a silver
armband with an embedded blue gem on it. The armband had the insignia
of the Crystal Knights on it.
"Hey, Major? You still there?" Martins voice broke in on the
comlink, shaking Carter out of her trance.
"Yeah, I'm still here, just got caught up in a daydream, that's
all." she replied.
"Okay, then. It's your turn now. Go get them, Erica." Martins said
while landing her Excalibur next to Erica's.
Looking at Martin's face over the comlink, Erica couldn't help but
feel a sense of deja vu again, and she felt a memory returning.....
---Flashback, D-Point---
<Dammit, it's over.> Captain Erica Carter thought while looking out
of her Devastator's cockpit at the blasted tundra around her. In front
of her, Queen Metallia was battling Princess Serenity. Before the
Princess had appeared, Metallia had took pleasure in destroying the EDF
mecha unit sent to help the Senshi.
<Sent too late,> Carter thought in disgust. The unit had arrived
late because of high winds that had delayed the transport's launch.
After arriving, the unit had discovered an ice formation in the
distance. On closer inspection, and much to Carter's horror, the body
of Sailor Jupiter had been discovered.
The Devastator unit had followed a trail marked with the
graves of the Inner Senshi, except for Sailor Moon. The trail had led
to a semi active volcano. Without any warning from the mecha's
sensors, Metallia had burst out of the ground and had begun attacking
the EDF unit. Carter could only watch and try to fight back, as one by
one, the unit was destroyed, until only she remained. Then Sailor
Moon...Princess Serenity...had appeared.
Now, it was only a few hours later, and the Princess was losing.
<Well,> Carter thought to herself, <only one thing left to do.>
"Computer," she said, "stand by to initiate self destruct." <Robert,
I'll see you soon.>
"Wait!!" a voice shouted. Carter turned around to see a shadowy
figure behind her. The figure-definitely female-reached out a hand to
shut down the self destruct.
"What are you doing?!?" Carter tried to shout, but it only came out
as a gasp. "Metallia must be destroyed!"
"And she will. Just watch." The figure reached out to caress
Carter's cheek, then leaned in and kissed her.
Carter's heart was pounding. <My God, I haven't felt like this
since.....Robert.> "Who...?" she whispered, still hurting from her
wounds and still in shock from the kiss.....
The figure stepped back, and in the darkness, Carter thought she
could see her smile. "You'll know in the future. Just know now, that
I love you. Now, watch the fireworks." She disappeared in a flash of
pink light.
"Mercury Power!"
"Mars Power!"
"Jupiter Power!"
"Venus Power!"
"Cosmic Moon Power!"
Carter turned around in time the see...the Senshi!! <I...I thought
they were dead...> was her last thought as a blast of energy engulfed
the area and destroyed Metallia. Losing consciousness, she didn't even
hear the alarms....
<Warning...Warning...Hull Breach...Radiation Levels exceeding danger
levels...Warning...Warning....Initiating Emergency Ejection....>
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"Even though I have new powers, I can't help but feel a little
scared. I mean...I lost my parents in a plane crash, and since then
I've been afraid of flying (rooftop hopping doesn't count and you know
it), and now....I have wings... And according to Usagi, we can fly now.
I'm not so sure I want that...I don't think I've been more scared in
my life...."
-From the diary of Makoto Kino-
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Brian Yaple
Knight Productions
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