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Hello again! Yes, just posting this next section so that those
that were waiting could get a feel for where I'm going with this.

Older parts available at:

http://members.tripod.com/DNyx/NETTG.html

We're still working on updating it. Sorry for the delay!

Originally, the release date for the whole, polished-up chapter
was December 31. However, since the need for good, polishing-up
C&C is required, it will be released in this preview 'draft'
format. (A lot of my better material comes in revision.)

I have enough done for three or perhaps four of these sections
ready for review over the course of the next few days.

I am very thankful for the aid that I've received so far, from:

 Jason Hanks
 Jason Liao
 Jussi Nikander
 D.B. Sommer
 And everyone else! ^_^


What has gone on before:

	Terra's having a flashback. In the Silver Millennium, life
was great and everything was juuuuuuuust PEACHY! Except for the
undeniable fact that every single morning, Queen Serenity liked to
feed her children a big bowl of gaaagh. Fortunately, since the
Moon Kingdom had company, they had eggs, bacon, milk, and hash
browns.

	Then Terra got bored and challenged the Princess of Venus
and the Younger Inner Senshi to a duel. Go figure.

(Continued from NETTG!! Ch.10 P.2 10/??)

...

	After completely cleaning their plates, the guest princesses
made their way to their rooms, where they retrieved their Official
Symbols of Senshi Authority (or chibi-henshin sticks, as most adults
referred to them). Not wanting to miss any time in getting ready
for their upcoming duel, the quartet found a nice spot by the
fountain and set about their business.

	"Alright, everyone, we're all going to warm up!" Althea
announced enthusiastically. She held up a five-inch-long yellow rod
with the Venus sigil engraved on the tip. "Just like we practiced at
home, girls!"

	"Ladies is the proper term," Hermione reminded her leader.

	"Or 'guys' if you want to be nasty," commented Pyra.

	"I once know a soldier that called everyone stuff like slime,
wart-ridden toads, and shoe leather," recalled Iolanthe.

	Althea's expression fell. "We're _supposed_ to be showing that
brat Terra who are the better princesses, you know!" she deadpanned
while staring at her companions.

	"Uhh, right!" everyone else quickly agreed, straightening their
posture.

	Althea raised her wand aloft, as did the other three.

	"Venus Prism Power!"
	"Mars Prism Power!"
	"Jupiter Prism Power!"
	"Mercury Prism Power!"

	All four took in a deep breath. "Make up!"

	A yellow light engulfed Althea while she held up her wand.
A twirling of bright, flashing stars wrapped around her, and in
a flash, her outfit formed. The girl struck a pose, clothed in a
white, orange-skirted leotard with a blue bow tied at the chest
underneath a hemisphere-shaped jewel. A large orange bow adorned
the small of her back, and an orange-jeweled golden tiara graced
her forehead. She also wore orange lace-up sandals.

	Circles of reddish-orange fire burned around Pyra, then
contracted to form her outfit, which was exactly like Althea's,
except for the high-heels and red-highlights.

	Green mists swirled around Iolanthe while a large electrical
spark flashed into a pattern, forming into her sailor-suit. Green
and pink highlighted her garb, and the brunette wore boots that
were slightly above ankle-length.

	Blue water washed over Hermione, generating her apparrel.
Blue was the theme, through and through. Blue boots went up to her
knees. She ended up with a blue skirt, a blue-jeweled tiara, blue-
rimmed gloves, and her short hair stayed ever-so-blue.

	Each finished by standing and holding their hands up in varied
dramatic positions.

	"Check in!" ordered Sailor Chibivenus.

	"Do what?" asked Sailor Chibimercury.

	"Y-you know," Chibivenus stammered, trying to find some better
descriptive terms. "Team spirit! Let's show that we know what we're
all fighting for."

	"Ah," Chibimercury replied. "So, in this case, I would say,"
she placed her hands on her hips and called out to the world, "I am
Sailor Chibimercury! Our honor has been blighted by the carelessness
of a false princess. On behalf of the planet Mercury's future, I
will chastise you!"

	"Something like that," Chibivenus agreed. "Everyone else now."

	Sailor Chibimars nodded slowly and wobbled around on her high-
heels for a second before overcoming her balance problem and managing
her best menacing pose. "I am Sailor Chibimars! I fight on behalf of
the Fiery Red World. Our good name has been blighted, and," she
wobbled around a little more, "even in my high-heels, I'll punish
you!"

	Sailor Chibijupiter clenched her fists. "I'm Sailor
Chibijupiter, and you made me MAD! I'm gonna beat you up, in the
name of Jupiter!!!" she half-shouted, really getting into it. She
crossed her fingers and a little lightning rod shot up from behind
her tiara's gem. The rod started sparking a little.

	"And I am Sailor Chibivenus," Chibivenus mock-preached to the
nonexistent foe. She shook her little fists around. "I fight for
love, justice," her tone grew more excited, "dance parties, all-night
wine keggers," her breathing became more labored, "fairies, drunken
stardragons," a tear came to her eye, "dwarves with unshaven beards,
elves that love to play the lute," she sniffled, "magic pixies that
you can suck on, carnival attractions, ponies that you can ride on,"
her voice started to crack, "toga parties, butterflies, unicorns that
use bad language," she covered her heart with her right hand, "Venus,
I love you! I fight for you! I fight for Truth, and Justice, and,
and. . ."

	The other three Sailor Chibiscouts grew nervous as Sailor
Chibivenus went on and on about details from her homeworld, and
started to sweat when she broke out into a full-blown chorus of
"Venus the Beautiful," the Venusian Planetary Anthem. Her vowels
became longer, dropping back into her native drawl.

	o/Oh, Veee-ee-nus, oh, Veee-ee-nus, Mah love gawt shed on yooou!
	  And crown thy good, with mother-hood,
	  From Vee to shining Veeeeeeeeeee!\o

	Sailor Chibivenus went to her knees, weeping huge tears of joy.
She took a few breaths in an effort to contain herself. "I'm sorry,"
she whispered to her friends, her voice returned to normal, "it's just
that," she explained, "home is such a wonderful place."

	"Hmmmmm," all three hummed in semi-agreement.

	"All right," Chibivenus stood back up and wiped away her
tears. "But this is no time for nostalgia." She puffed out her little
chest as best as she could. "Training exercises, everyone!"

...

	A young redhead observed the Younger Inner Senshi from the
top floor of the central palace tower.

	"_They_ expect to beat _me_?" Princess Terrifying muttered to
herself, incredulous. "What a joke."

	"They are the future," a voice the girl recognized as Queen
Serenity said from behind her. "While they may not be very
experienced or powerful right now, someday they will be."

	Almost startled, Terra whirled around to face her adoptive
mother. "Ah, Mother! What a surprise!"

	Serenity looked down at the girl, concern filling her eyes.
"I had hoped all of you would have gotten along better. I did not
expect such an outburst. Why did you provoke them?"

	Terra looked away, thinking about that. It was a good question.
Why had she decided to pick a fight with a group of girls that had
enough potential political status to affect her standing in the
future?

	<Because they bothered me,> she thought to herself.

	<But they weren't that bad.>

	<They're a bunch of arrogant twits. They won't even admit that
they're really semi-evolved monkeys!>

	<Why, those STUCK UP, little-->

	<That's one theory. Another states that they were genetically
engineered by a conglomerate of extraterrestrial scientists->

	<Or that they're part of the Greatest Computer in the
Universe.>

	As her thoughts became more organized, it became readily
apparent to her that it really had been a mistake to mince words with
the Sailor Chibiscouts. Someday in the far future, they were probably
going to be rulers of their worlds, barring civil unrest and coup
attempts. It would have been a much more intelligent decision to
be polite and make friends with the group, and over the next few
years develop lasting friendships with each of them. They would have
been most useful should her required recovery time be prolonged.

	<But noooo, no, no. You just _had_ to get into a fight, didn't
you?>

	<Instant gratification is not always intelligent...>

	<But it sure felt good!>

	<Darn right!!!>

	<Yeah, besides, Starlight's been going on the fritz. I haven't
been getting in NEARLY enough destruction. _Something_ has to snap!>

	<Hey, mister Knight in Shining Armor! Did you get those
pirates, or what?!>

	There was a pause as a long-distance communication came
through. <We blew up one of their ships, but the rest ran off, and
the ship's too weighed-down to pursue. Sorry.>

	Princess Terrifying slapped her head in frustration. <And
what can we do to correct this?>

	<I'll try to hit some asteroids on the way back. My career is
shot if they catch me brutally slaughtering anyone else.>

	Terra shook her head sadly.

	"However, I suppose I cannot blame you," Serenity decided.
"After all, when I was young, I got into a lot of fights, too."

	That caught the adopted princess' attention. "_You_ got into
fights?"

	The Queen nodded. "It is true."

	"_You_?"

	"Yes."

	"You're just making that--" Terra paused, trying to decode a
portion of Queen Serenity's memories that she had absorbed a year and
a half ago. What she found was actually rather shocking.

	<Yikes, she and Hermione's mom were at each others' throats!>

	<Rightly so! She kept calling Serenity a hentai!>

	<Why that little->

	<She didn't get along with any of the six Asteroid Senshi,
either.>

	<Ooooh, those rocks were out of bounds for commoners, and those
Senshi ALWAYS wanted to show off and gloat over their castles. Oooh,
look, PallaPalla's got a horse. Big whoop.>

	<...She gave the Saturnian Queen a black eye!>

	<Beat the tar out of Kull with her bare hands?! The boy was
already six feet tall and was wielding an axe at the time!>

	<Grr! Stupid twit always insisted on fighting her, claiming
he'd get married that way. Then he'd always mumbled that he'd take
her flower->

	<That jerk!>

	<And Serenity wouldn't stand for that sort of thing. At least
he quit when she knocked that puce rose off of his shirt.>

	Princess Terrifying blinked a few times. <She wasn't kidding
about getting into a lot of fights.> Such feats were not, to her
knowledge, common among crown princesses, especially not in her day.

	"So," continued the white-blonde woman, "perhaps I can
understand your dilemma. Some of us just go through these stages,
sometimes. I grew out of it, though. Maybe you, well, will not be
that different."

	Terra looked up at her adoptive mother in half-awed shock.
Obviously she hadn't given the monarch enough credit. She would have
to decode a bit more of the woman's memory so she wouldn't go through
any more surprises in the future.

	"Do you still intend to go through with the duel?"

	The redhead nodded slowly in reply.

	"Then I suppose I cannot stop you," Queen Serenity nodded. "All
I can do is try to give you a little edge."

	A second later, Princess Serenity trodded up the stairs in a
hurry. She held in her hands a pink-handled wand with a large, heart-
shaped crystal imbedded in a disc on top, and she also brought along
a brooch. "Mother! I found them!"

	"I'm glad to hear that," Queen Serenity smiled, turning to face
the blonde. "You found the prism and the wand I gave you three years
ago?"

	Princess Serenity nodded brightly.

	Queen Serenity grasped the two magical items and experimentally
weighed them in her hands. "You never used them, did you?"

	The ten-year-old shook her head. "No."

	"She never did want to become a Sailor Senshi," the Queen
whispered to Terra. "Neither did I, nor my mother, nor hers. We have
not had a Senshi of the Moon in over seven generations."

	Terra pointed questioningly at the prism and the wand. "Then
those are--?"

	The white-blonde demonstrated the prism. It was pink,
multifaceted, and mounted in a gold-rimmed pink disc. Three tiny
gemstones adorned the device above the prism. "The Lunar Senshi
transformation brooch and," she showed-off the wand. Its handle was
a very, very faint shade of pink, which connected with a red
junction with a pair of wings carved into them. It ended with a pink
prism mounted in a golden frame and topped with a red star. "This
is her wand."

	Queen Serenity offered the two items to Terra. "I believe you
will find these useful in your coming fued. They have been passed
on for ten generations, and I wish for you to have them."

	Terra quickly accepted the gifts, her memory still a bit
fuzzy on what they were for, or how they were to be used. "Uh,
thanks, Mother."

	"But they're mine!" Princess Serenity complained.

	"You never used them in all the years you had them," the Queen
explained. "It is a lesson you must learn. If you do not use it, you
lose it."

	"But, but--" Princess Serenity's eyes half-watered.

	"No 'buts.' You must learn this."

	Terra looked over the objects. They did have a small amount
of power inside them. Perhaps they _would_ come in handy...

	"But for right now," Queen Serenity said, "I must attend to
some official business. Serenity, show Terra how to use the prism
and the wand."

	"Where are you going?" Princess Serenity asked.

	"To negotiate the mutual defense alliance with Earth."

	"The what?"

	"I'll tell you later. For now," she leaned down to give her
daughter a quick kiss on the cheek, "goodbye." She turned and gave
another kiss to Terra on the forehead. "Give 'em hell, sweetie."

	With that, Queen Serenity turned around to walked off. She
passed the guards and went down the stairs.

	Terra gazed blankly at the withdrawing queen and reached up
with one hand to touch the spot where she had been kissed. "Somehow,
I didn't expect her to say that."

	"What's that all about?" Princess Serenity asked her sister.

	"She must be going through some pretty heavy nostalgia," Terra
replied, still staring after her adoptive mother. "That's all I can
think of." After a moment, she shook her head to clear it and faced
Serenity. "All right, show me how I'm supposed to use these."

	The Moon Princess blinked a couple of times and said, "Okay."
She put her hand on the prism and held it up. "Well, first, you clip
this to your dress, in the front--no, not there, _there_, and..."

	The preparations continued.

...

	The Younger Inner Senshi had been training for little under two
hours. Their dedication was astounding for girls their age, as was
their stamina. Though they had only received their powers as Sailor
Senshi a scant few months ago, all four knew what a great honor and
privilege it was. Not just any girl got to be a Senshi. One had to be
of royal birth, sound mind, and pure heart.

	Also, a Senshi had to desire to be one. None could ever have
the responsibility forced upon them. In fact, Princess Serenity and
generations of the Royal Lunal Line had declined such a great
opportunity. There had been others on other worlds that had been
unworthy of these powers, and had therefore never received them.

	Pride swelled within their hearts, cherishing every moment.
This joy made it easy for them to focus their energies, drawing the
necessary power from their homeworlds so that they could attack
and defend.

	Sailor Chibivenus raised a finger high into the air, a tiny
glint of light forming at the tip. "Mmmmm," she breathed. Gathering
so much power was difficult. After a moment of this, she relaxed,
letting the enegy depart. It was not necessary to discharge the
attack; she knew she could do it just fine when time for the battle
came.

	The other Chibisenshi were practicing in a similar manner.

	"Great! That's enough for now," Althea said, announcing the
end of the training session.

	The other three Younger Senshi took a breather. Two of them,
Hermione and Pyra, collapsed to the ground.

	"Two. Full. Hours," Pyra panted, "I can't believe we were
training for," she took another deep breath, "two _full_ hours!"

	"Well, except for when you kept stopping for ice cream every
ten minutes," Iolanthe said.

	Pyra blushed. "But still, it was _tough_!" she protested.

	"Are you certain this was a good idea just before a major
battle?" Hermione asked, questioning the soundness of their actions.
She sat up, red-flushed from the exercise. "We shouldn't wear
ourselves out, should we?"

	"Well it's kind of too late to complain about it right now,"
Iolanthe shrugged, barely even winded.

	"So," Sailor Chibivenus turned to face her comarades in
arms, "are we all ready to go kick some righteous donkey?"

	"What?" Pyra stared at her Sailor leader, not recognizing the
metaphor. "Whose donkey?"

	"Maybe she's talking about old Eighth Advisor Yates," Iolanthe
suggested. "He was a pretty righteous donkey."

	"But why would we want to kick him? He's been retired for
years," Pyra added.

	"We are prepared to humble 'Princess' Terra, if that's what
you mean," Hermione supplied the correct answer.

	"Oh, right," Sailor Chibijupiter finally caught the expression.
"Should be a piece of cake. Terra isn't even a Senshi." She cracked
her knuckles, and winced, suddenly wishing she hadn't. "Ouch, owwwww.
And Mom makes this look so easy..." She shook her hands to help ease
the pain.

	"You have a point there," Sailor Chibimars said. "Terra isn't
a Senshi. She doesn't have any powers."

	"Is this going to be a fair fight?" Hermione looked worried.

	"Sure," Iolanthe said.

	"No," Althea replied quickly. The other girls looked at her.
"What? We're already going four on one against her." Her friends
continued to stare at her. "Well, the point is that we want to get
her back for calling us 'fungus' and 'monkeys.'"

	"But you did call her a 'commoner,'" Hermione reminded them.

	"But she called us 'Sailor Chibiscouts,'" Sailor Chibijupiter
protested. She folded her arms. "I'm sorry, but that's just plain
low."

	Sailor Chibimercury nodded, looking down. She admitted to
herself that she really did want some payback, just like the others.
"You're all right. We will put her in her place."

	"Yeah, we'll let her know who's boss," Iolanthe added.

	"Heh. She's not even a Senshi," Althea nodded to herself.

	"And to be a Senshi," Pyra recited from their first lessons
together before being given Sailor powers, "one must be part of
a Royal Planetary Bloodline."

	"Everyone else is a commoner," Iolanthe remembered her tutor's
snide remark.

	"Oh yeah???" all four heard a voice above them. The four
Younger Inner Senshi looked up.

	"That voice," Althea trailed off, trying to remember whose it
was.

	Standing on the stone railing of a second-level balcony was
a ten-year-old girl with red hair done up in a pair of 'rabbit-eared'
cone-shaped buns with two short, puffy ponytails. She was wearing a
Sailor Senshi outfit with a pink-jeweled tiara, white-rimmed pink
boots, a pink skirt, a pink collar, a pink choker necklace with a
pink heart on it, pink-rimmed white arm-length gloves, and a red bow
on her chest with another on the small of her back. A gold-rimmed
disc with a pink, heart-shaped jewel adorned the front red bow.

	*Ching* The gem glowed with a power not entirely its own.

	"Agent of Pain, Kicks, and Hard Knocks," the girl began to
make a speech, "the New Pretty Sailor-Suited Soldier on the Block-"

	"TERRA?!" the four visiting Senshi shouted, gaping in shock.

	"Sailor Chibimoon!!!" Terra corrected them, pointedly thrusting
a finger into the air. She struck a pose. "In the name of the Future
Moon, I'll kick yer righteous donkey right here and now!!!"

	"That's Terra," Sailor Chibimercury noted.

	"And she's become a Senshi!" Iolanthe couldn't quite get her
mind around the idea.

	"How is that possible?" Hermione asked rhetorically.

	"That must mean--" Pyra began to say.

	"She really _is_ a princess?" Althea scratched her head.

	"How was that?" Sailor Chibimoon cupped her hands and called
down.

	"I think that will do, Terra!" Princess Serenity called back.
The Younger Inner Senshi turned to see that the blonde was coming in
from across the courtyard, dragging a man in by the arm. They
approached the group. "Althea, Pyra, look!" She pointed at the man.
"I found an official-man for the duel!"

	"A Terran guardian?" Hermione looked puzzled.

	Nephrite shrugged. "Don't look at me. I'm only here to help
with the negotiations."

	Princess Serenity looked up at him with her big, lovable eyes
and her best hopeful smile. "You wouldn't mind helping us, would
you?"

	"I really need to get back..."

	The Moon Princess rubbed her cheek against his arm. "Pleeease?"

	The guardian gritted his teeth and tried to shake his head,
but his resistance crumbled in a matter of seconds. "Oh, fine. I'll
do it."

	"Yaaay!" cheered Serenity.

	"Hi, Nephrite!" Terra waved. "Did your jaw mend yet from that
space pirate attack?"

	"Terra!" Nephrite looked up at the redhead. "Wonderful to see
you again. It's been-"

	"Six months!" Terra replied. "Haven't seen you since that party
on Earth when everyone started changing gender all over the place."

	Nephrite winced at the memory.

	"How's Zoicite doing?"

	"He is," Nephrite began, but stopped. "He's all right. He,"
he cringed, somehow not being able to say the word. Finally, he
straightened. "I'll tell you when you're older."

	"There was a party on Earth six months ago and I wasn't
invited?!" Sailor Chibivenus looked jealous.

	"Neither was I," Iolanthe said.

	"Nor I," Hermione added.

	"I was, but I didn't want to go," Pyra muttered. The other
three looked at her curiously. "I had a fire-reading class!" the
black-haired girl protested.

	Terra turned her attention back to the girls below her.
"Hey! Chibiscouts! Are we going to have a fight, or what?!"

	"Watch it, commoner!" Althea snapped.

	"Commoner?" Terra asked. "Commoners wear _this_?" She pointed
at her outfit, tugging at the sailor-collar to emphasize her point.

	"Uhhhhh," Sailor Chibivenus didn't have a proper retort.

	"In your face, alien from Venus," Terra taunted, putting her
hands on her hips, "whose body was shaped like a-"

	"Terra?" Nephrite looked at the girl with a raised eyebrow.
"How did you become a Sailor Senshi? Or did you just put on a
costume?"

	"Hey!" Iolanthe thought about that explanation as she looked
at Terra. "Are you just faking us out?"

	"Hmmm," Sailor Chibimercury put a hand on her chin, then
touched her right earring. A blue visor appeared over her eyes.
She flipped out a small, blue palm-top computer and started typing
things into it, occasionally glancing at Terra.

	"Yes, are you lying about being a Sailor Senshi?" Pyra asked
with narrowed eyes.

	Terra said nothing, but it was obvious that she was annoyed.
She held out a finger toward Sailor Chibimars, then stopped,
apparently deciding something inside herself.

	*Bling-drr-drr!*Bling-drr-drr!* Instead, the pink-suited
Senshi whipped out a wand with a pink heart motif. She pointed it at
Pyra and glared daggers at her.

	After a moment, nothing happened.

	Terra looked at her wand and frowned.

	"You forgot the Magical Attack Phrase," Princess Serenity
called out.

	"I think this thing's broken," Terra replied, holding up the
wand.

	Serenity shook her head. "That can't be right. It's ancient.
Stuff gets better the older it is!"

	Sailor Chibimoon shrugged, and without so much as a 'thank
you,' turned and threw her wand at Sailor Chibimars. It beaned her
right between the eyes.

	"OW!" Pyra staggered backward, clutching at her face.

	*Whrrrr-rrr!* The wand rebounded and, like a boomerang,
returned to Terra's grasp. She looked down at it, then over at her
sister. "Thanks! It works great."

	Serenity blinked. "That's not how you're supposed to use it!"

	"No fair!" Pyra protested, rubbing the big red mark on her
forehead.

	"Terra, are you really a Sailor Senshi, or aren't you?"
Nephrite still wanted to know.

	"Yes, she is," Sailor Chibimercury finished her analysis. She
held up her computer so everyone could see. "Terra has the power of
the Moon sustaining her at the present time. Though, her power is
currently at a reduced level, but that is consistent with Younger
Senshi norms."

	"Huh?" the other three Chibiscouts wanted a translation.

	Terra puffed out her chest proudly, pointing at the little
heart-shaped gem. "Read it and weep!"

	"That _is_ the Moon Heart Prism," Nephrite said, recognizing
the crystal. "I've never seen it used, but that's it."

	"Don't worry," Sailor Chibimoon continued, "I'm legit."

	Hermione nodded. "Yes, you are."

	"She IS?!" Althea, Pyra, and Iolanthe didn't want to believe
it.

	Nephrite shrugged. "Well, if you are all Sailor Senshi, then
let the dispute between you be settled in the rite of," he made a
dramatic pause, "Sailor Kombat."

	*Dan-dan-dan-din!*Dah-deen*Daan-dan-dan-din*Dud-din* The Royal
Lunar Orchestra began their morning practice session. From their
ceremonial balcony, the violin, cello, and bass players stuck sudden,
sharp cords, then they went into one of their most popular rythms.

	Terra pointed at the others below. "You're toast. DEATH FROM
ABOVE!!!"

	*BLAM!* A beam of pink light shot down from her finger, and
exploded in the middle of the four sailor-suited girls, forcing them
to scatter.

	*Dan-een-dahen-dan-deen-daan!*Dan-een-dahen-dan-deen-daan!*

	"HIP ATTACK!" Terra dove down from above, propelled by an
unseen force much greater than acceleration due to gravity. Her
bottom slammed into Iolanthe's face.

	The brunette was staggered from the blow. She stumbled
backwards toward the fountain, falling down into it with a splash.
"Ow! HEY!" Sailor Chibijupiter held up her hands, trying to keep
the downpour of water out of her face.

	Sailor Chibimoon grabbed one of the decorations in her hair,
pulled it out, pushed the gem, and threw it at Sailor Chibimars.
"Barette Surprise!!!"

	The gem fell down at Pyra's feet, blinked twice, and emitted a
bright flash of light, temporarily blinding the girl. "WAAAH!" she
covered her eyes.

	Terra flew forward and kneed Pyra in the stomach. Sailor
Chibimars went down to her knees, groaning in pain.

	"Excellent," Nephrite complimented the move.

	"Terra?" Princess Serenity asked quietly.

	"Can't talk: Fighting." Sailor Chibimoon grabbed her tiara and
slipped it off. It became a disc of light in her hand. "Tiara
Action!" She threw it at Hermione. "Trapping!"

	The disc rose up above Sailor Chibimercury's head, then slammed
down, dazing her and trapping her arms at her waist.

	Finally catching on, Sailor Chibivenus grabbed Terra from
behind in an arm and headlock. "Hah! Got you!"

	"On the contrary," Sailor Chibimoon retorted, "I've got you!"
She took a breath. "Ribbon Magic!"

	The bow tied at Terra's back glowed, then unraveled and wrapped
backwards around Althea. The transparent ribbons forced the blonde's
hands off her captive, and began to bind the Venusian Chibiscout.

	Terra took a step away and turned to watch the process. When it
was done, Sailor Chibivenus fell down, covered neck to toe in what
looked like a red cloth cocoon.

	"Good surprise attack," Nephrite complimented. The smile on his
face showed that he found this rather amusing. "Now, finish them."

	"FINISH US?!" Pyra, Althea, Iolanthe, and Hermione asked from
their disabled positions with wide eyes and gaping mouths.

	Sailor Chibimoon held up her wand. She spun around twice with a
flourish to rub in her superiority to her peers. When the victory
dance was nearing its end, she twirled her wand and called out
menacingly, "DEATH REBORN REVOLUTION!!!"

	"Death Reborn Revolution?!" the Younger Inner Senshi echoed in
disbelief.

	"Mwaha-ha-ha-haaaaa," Terra giggled maniacally.

	The crystal on the wand blinked a couple of times, sputtered,
and lost power. The whine of a slowly decharging capacitor came from
the wand's handle.

	The orchestra took a break.

	Sailor Chibimoon frowned and looked at her wand. "Hey!" She
shook it around. Something inside jingled.

	"Umm, Terra?" Princess Serenity spoke up.

	"What is it this time?" Terra asked impatiently.

	"You're supposed to say, 'Pink Sugar Heart Attack.'"

	Sailor Chibimoon paused to gawk at her adopted sister. "What
kind of attack phrase is THAT?!"

	Serenity shrugged. "It's just what you're supposed to say.
Everybody knows that Sailor Chibimoon always used that same move,
for three generations."

	Sudden realization hit Terra square on the noggin. She
staggered from the blow and examined her wand. "So THAT's why they
never used this thing for so long..."

	"It you wanna win, you have to do it," Princess Serenity
insisted.

	The confusion allowed all the Chibisenshi to get up, dust
themselves off, and escape from their traps.

	"All right, you asked for it," Sailor Chibijupiter grumbled,
slipping off her gloves and tossing them aside. She crossed her
fingers in front of her and a small golden lightning rod shot up
from her tiara. "Lightspark Shock!" A tiny sphere of lightning
spun in the air at the redhead.

	The orchestra started up again. *Dahn-deen-dah-dah-dah-daaa!*
*Dahn-deen-dah-dah-dah-dah-daaahn!*

	Terra swung around just in time to cross her arms in front
of herself, taking the attack head-on. "Ow!" It stung a little bit.

	Sailor Chibimercury slid out of the tiara's hold. She held
her hands in front, a small blue glow building up in a ball.
"Soap Bubbles," she spun around, "Spray!"

	A glob of mist engulfed Terra. Her balance nearly failed in
the new slippery environment.

	It was Pyra's turn. She raised her hands, which glowed red.
"Firestorm," she whispered, twirling her hands at her intended
target.

	Little specks of fiery dust shot out at Sailor Chibimoon.
She winced, but continued to block.

	Chibivenus held a finger into the air. A little yellow
glow gathered at her fingertip. "Beamwhip Snap!"

	*Breow!* A bright beam shot out and exploded at Terra.
She stood firm.

	"Again!" Althea ordered.

	"Beamwhip Snap!"
	"Soap Bubbles Spray!"
	"Firestorm!"
	"Lightspark Shock!"

	One by one, Sailor Chibimoon absorbed every blow. Each attack
pushed her backward a little more.

	"Again! Beamwhip Snap!"
	"Soap Bubbles Spray!"
	"Firestorm!"
	"Lightspark Shock!"

	*Blam-wssh!*Crinkle*Crack!*

	"Again!"

	The Younger Inner Senshi repeated their moves.

	*BLAM*Rssh*Crackle-crackle-crackle!*

	Terra clenched her teeth and bore it all.

	"Again!"

	*Bzzr!*Rsssh!*Creeeakle*Crack!*

	A small crack appeared in Sailor Chibimoon's brooch.

	Princess Serenity gasped. "Terra! You're taking too many hits!"

	"Again!"

	*BZZR*RSSSH*CREEEAKLE*CRACK!*

	Nephrite winced. "Maybe I should call a technical win on this
one..."

	"AGAIN! BEAMWHIP SNAP!!!"
	"SOAP BUBBLES, SPRAAAY!!!"
	"FIIIIIIRE-STOOOOORM!!!"
	"LIGHTSPARK SHOCK!!!"

	All of the energy attacks combined to form one large ball of
liquified pain, coalescing and pulsing with planetary magic.

	Sailor Chibimoon looked up to see the blast coming, but did not
dodge. The hint of a smile crossed her expression momentarily, then
she hunkered back down, bracing for impact.

	*CRAAASH!* The attack broke through all Terra's defenses,
driving her back two meters and knocking her over. In the instant
following the impact, Sailor Chibimoon's Moon Heart Prism shattered.

	In a billowing of ribbons and sparkling dust, Chibimoon's
sailor-suit winked out, replaced in the next instant by Terra's
green dress. Her hair returned to its normal style, and she rolled
along in the dirt until she scooted to a halt.

	The music stopped once again.

	Nephrite made a cutting motion with his hand, signifying that
the duel was over.

	Sailor Chibivenus and the other Younger Inner Senshi had won.

	Everyone was silent for a few moments.

	"Oh," Althea whispered, actually feeling a little surprised,
"we won."

	Terra shifted, trying to arise, but lacking the strength to do
so.

	Iolanthe let her arms droop as she looked on. "Yeah, we did."

	"Did we not expect to win?" Hermione asked.

	Pyra scratched her head. "Well, we did, but it was a lot
less," she thought over how to put it, "satisfying than I thought it
would be."

	Sailor Chibivenus frowned, not being able to think of anything
else to say.

	Serenity rushed over to see how Terra was doing. She knelt down
by the redhead and helped her sit up. "Terra, are you all right?"

	Princess Terra looked at her adopted sister, sniffled a little,
then looked over at the Younger Inner Senshi, and after a moment's
thought, she burst into tears. "Waaaaaaah!"

	Sailor Chibivenus frowned. "Waaah?" She did not expect such a
reaction from their opponent. She thought Terra might say another
snide remark, maybe swear revenge or make death threats, but break
down and cry?

	"WAAAAAAH!" Her face nearly as red as her hair, Terra continued
to bawl her eyes out. The weeping waterworks was easily a match for
the fountain behind her.

	Itty bitty beads of sweat glistened off the back of the
Chibiscouts' heads. All four were speechless for a minute.

	Nothing seemed to be stopping Terra's tears.

	"It's okay, it's okay," Princess Serenity whispered, "don't
cry. You will be all right."

	Terra paused to gulp in a few breaths and she managed to look
at the blonde.

	"Did it hurt, Terra?" Serenity asked. "It looked like it might
have."

	The defeated girl nodded slowly. She looked down at her broken
prism, took it off her dress, and examined it a little closer. She
took another couple of breaths before she began her wailing again.
"Waaaaaaah!"

	"Oh dear," Hermione covered her mouth in shock.

	Althea's posture drooped slightly. "I wanted us to win, but-"

	"-we didn't mean to make her cry," Iolanthe finished her
friend's statement.

	Pyra nodded grimly in agreement.

	"Maybe you should apologize to her?" Serenity suggested, trying
to comfort her sister by letting her lean over her shoulder.

	"We simply cannot do that," Althea argued, "she started the
fight."

	The other three Younger Inner Senshi glared at her.

	"We're going to apologize," Pyra insisted.

	"That would be the best idea," Hermione agreed.

	"Yeah," Iolanthe admitted.

	"Oh, eh heh," Althea rubbed her neck nervously, "then I guess
we could try that..."

	All four Younger Inner Senshi reverted to their normal outfits
and spent the next ten minutes trying to make up with Princess Terra.
They tried everything from saying that they were sorry to making
jokes to acting silly, but nothing had as much effect as one special
gesture: One by one, each girl drew Terra close, gave her a hug,
and asked if they could be friends.

	"Mmmm." Terra quietly dried her tears with a hankerchief. The
smallest of hesitant smiles began to cross her lips. "Okay."

...

To be continued...

Hmm... Whaddaya think?

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