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Pluto looked at the timegate and swallowed heavily. She knew that she
was not going to like what she would find out about Gai and his
opponents, but she wanted to know.
"Here I go," Setsuna whispered and focused the timegate on the last
battleand started back-tracking.
As images of Gai's life started to be displayed, Pluto's eyes widened
as she saw one of the most brutal and powerful fights she ever
witnessed. On a whim she checked to see what would have happened if a
certain event hadn't occured.
"No," Pluto whispered, as the Garnet Orb Staff slipped from her
fingers. "It was their fight that would cause the ice age. Their fight
happened too early."
Pluto went back to looking into the past of Gai Ichishino. She felt
sick as she watched the fight between father and son and the final
brutal outcome. As the past was displayed, she felt she failed in her
duties as a protector. Cronos had ruined so many innocent lives in such
a short time.
"So his name is really Sho Fukamachi," Pluto said to herself, as she
tried her best not to throw up at the insane death count that she has
just witnessed.
"So, that's how he gained that power. Random chance. But, where did
it come from? And Archanfel, where did he come from?"
Pluto started tracking the pasts of those two back. She frowned as the
histories extened into the Silver Millenium period. As the pasts of the
two she was researching started going further and further back, Pluto
was getting a little concerned. When she found out about the origins of
the Guyver armor and Archanfel, she grabbed up her staff and fled the
timegate. Her face was as green as her hair.
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Gai shook his head resolutely as he approached Rei. He decided he had
procrastinated long enough on a certain matter.
"Rei, I need to ask you a question," Gai said. "Do either you or your
granfather know techniques to get through mental blocks? Especially
ones that seal off parts of a person's memory."
Rei was taken aback by the question. It bordered close to asking if
she could reawaken memories of a past life.
"Why do you want to know?"
Gai sighed and looked towards the wall which he had recently patched.
"I have a piece of memory that is blocked off from me. It must have
been very traumatic for me to seal it off like that."
"It might be best if you don't remember," Rei said with sympathy.
Gai shook his head. "It's running away. I have to accept what happened
and I can't do that if I can't remember."
Rei bit her lower lip and nodded.
"I understand. But, I'm afraid I don't know how to reawaken memories
and as for Grandfather...."
"I never learned how either," Hino said as he walked up to the two. "I
can teach you some meditation techniques that might help, but they might
not work."
Gai snapped his fingers. "Would theese mediation techniques allow me
to remember nightmares and dreams clearly?"
Hino nodded. "Are you having nightmares?"
"Just one. But there are certain things that don't make sense in it.
If I could retain more of it, I might be able to figure out what
happened during that memory block."
Hino nodded and explained the basics of a simpe meditation technique to
recall dreams. Gai lsitend with rapt attention as he might soon have a
clue to his recent past and how he defeated the ZoaLords.
"Thank you Hino-san. Now I'd better get ready for martial arts lesson
with Minako."
Rei frowned as she thought of something. "Why did you accept Minako's
offer, instead of going to a dojo?"
Gai smiled. "No money, and we'll be learning from each other."
"There are school clubs you can join."
"True, but I have other reasons," Gai replied, as he thought, 'The main
one is that informal training like this doesn't leave a trail and my
abilities remain shrouded a bit.'
Rei strained to keep her temper as Gai walked off, ending any further
attempts of getting information from him. She watched as Minako and
Makoto arrived and started the martial arts lesson. It was a very
bizzare spectacle. When Minako and Makoo teamed up, they both went down
to Gai. But, when they fought him one one one, his skills dropped a
bit.
"Now I see what he meant by learning from each other," Rei muttered to
herself.
After the lesson was over, Gai bowed to Minako and Makoto and left the
Hikawa shrine to go for a walk.
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Mimette was still shaking from her last encounter with the Guyver.
"One shot. That's all it took. And, those things that showed up, what
are they?"
Mimette calmed herself went back to battleground. She grabbed a
running video camera she had left behind to record the battle.
"At least it wasn't a total loss. I now have some information on
Guyver."
Mimette took the recording back to the Professor and handed it to him.
The Death Busters watched in shock as the battle between the Zoanoids,
Senshi and Guyver progressed. The final blast produced by the Guyver
that ended the fight was on a scale they had never seen before.
"Leave," the Professor said. "I have much to think about. Savior or
not, the Guyver is way to dangerous to have around."
The Witches nodded and left the room, as the Professor stared at the
still image of the Mega-smasher beam.
"We won't be able to overpower this thing. But, what happens if I
force it to relive all of its most painful memories? It should be
incapicated by depression and guilt."
Professor Tomoe started gigling hysterically as he thought of the most
powerful force of good reduced to a quivering lump of depression, and
started working on the perfect Daimon.
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In another galaxy, Pharoh 90 looked towards something that was
approaching Earth.
"It's coming. I will not let that thing win. I will destroy the
universe before I sumbit to that thing."
Pharoh 90 sighed. "Either I win and destroy the universe, or I will be
killed. Either way I'l be beyond it's reach."
He looked at a table with small human figurines standing on it. He
picked up one of the figures.
"Sailor Galaxia. Our finest creation, since Archanfel. We should have
put more restraints on her power. Now there are so few of the Senshi
left to fight. Who am I kidding? When she lost it, my fellow Advents
knew the war was lost and comitted suicide to prevent being dominated.
I just want to take that thing with me."
Pharoh 90 put Galaxia's figure down and picked up another one.
"Princess Serenity or Sailor Moon. Who would have expected such a
minor project to become so powerful? All she was supposed to be was a
co-ordinator, not a fighter."
Pharoh 90 put the figurine down and shook his head. "It's all for
nothing though. The ZoaLords and Zoanoids are nothing but a vauge
memory to humanity and the last of the bio-armors were destroyed when we
created the first Sailor Senshi and the Negaverse. They should have
strengthed each other through their fighting, not eradicate each other."
As he watched his aincent enemy, Pharoh 90 knew that the final battle
was drawing close. A batlte that he believed would end in one of two
ways.
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Makoto and Minako waited for Usagi and Ami to show up for their Senshi
meeting. As they waited, they discussed how they would train Gai and
how they would learn from him. Something did bother Minako though.
"Makoto, why haven't you compared Gai to your old boyfriend?"
"Gai? He's just sort of there. Sort of like Yuuichiro or Umino or any
of the other boys in my class."
Minako accepted the answer with some relief.
Makot was about to say more when Ami and Usagi were led towards the
meeting area by Rei. Artemis and Luna had also come. The expessions on
all the Senshi's faces were serious, even Usagi's
Rei began, "I think we all know whay we're holding this meeting. That
little fight yesterday."
Another voice said, "Little fight? I'd call that a minor war."
The Inner Senshi spun around and saw Sailor Uranus and Neptune in their
civillian guises.
"Room for two more?" Haruka asked.
Usagi nodded.
Haruka and Michiru sat down and glanced at Usagi.
"Guyver is way beyond anything we have encountered," Michiru said. "We
think he might be the Savior."
Ami looked at them. "What makes you say that?"
"His power. The Savior is supposed to have immense amounts of power.
That little stunt he pulled yesterday, proves he has power."
"I'm willing to hand the grail over to him, if he is," Usagi said.
"But he doesn't stick around long enough for us to talk to him that
much."
Rei said, "We have another concern. Guyver's enemies. Unlike our
foes, his use tactics and do gang up on a target. If they join up with
the Death Busters...."
"The only thing we can do is train," Minako replied. "We have to be
ready this time. We have two enemy forces to deal with and an
unpredictable ally. We need information."
Rei, Usagi, Ami, and Luna stared at Minako, while Artemis gave a long
sigh.
Artemis said, "Minako's right. But, Minako don't make the same mistake
and let your duty overwhelm you again."
Usagi asked, "What do you mean by that?"
Artemis snorted. "Sailor V? Remember? She fought on her own for a
long time. She gave up any idea of happiness and then there's that
curse on her."
"Artemis!" Minako snapped.
Artemis took a look into his charge's eyes and relented a bit.
"I'm sorry, Minako. But, I don't want to see you go through that
again."
Minako took deep breaths to get her anger under control.
Rei turned away, muttering to herself. "This just gets better and
better. I never knew that Minako was cursed."
Usagi put a hand on Minako's shoulder and said, "It might help if you
talk about it. If I knew what the curse was I might be able to break it
with the Silver Crystal."
"Usagi, I don't want to...," Minako began, and shook her head. "The
curse is that I can never love anyone. My love is destined to be
hopeless. The boy I fall in love with will either die or be taken or
reveal that he is an enemy."
Everyone there, save Artemis, winced in sympathy for Minako.
"Usagi, don't try and break the curse," Minako said. "Something might
go wrong and infect you with the same curse."
"But...," Usagi began.
Minako raised her hand. "I don't want to see you get hurt becuase of
something that happened before you met me. Besides there's nothing you
could do."
The rest of the meeting was subdued as they talked about the Guyver and
the forces now arrayed against them.
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In a future time, Neo-Queen Serenity was standing as still as a
statue. She saw part of her kingdom fade in and out as whatever was
happening in the past affected her present
"Master, what is it that we should do?" Serenity asked.
"I am programming you with certain instructions and powers. If worse
comes to worse, you must take your earlier incarantion's place and guide
the timeline back to this one."
"And Pluto?"
"If the mind control wears off, kill her."
Serenity nodded and shifted to the costume of Super Sailor Moon. Her
master watched as she faded back into the timestream.
"Even if this timeline won't make it, she will be a great assest to my
previous incarnation. Too bad I couldn't change Pluto like I did her,
but the mind control should be good enough.
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Pluto appered in a small apartment and ran towards the bathroom. After
vomiting for a few minutes, she composed herself from the huge shocks
she had recieved. Shocks so great they broke blocks on her own mind.
"What have I done?"
She used her time sense to see Crystal Tokyo as it really was. A land
conquered by an enemy that made Pharoh 90 look like a Youma by
comparison. An enemy that had placed her under mind control. She felt
a ripple in the timestream as someone from the future had entered the
present.
"Neo-Queen Serenity is here and the fight is about to begin. Sho, Gai,
or what ever you call yourself be ready."