Subject: [FFML] [Fanfic][Sailor Moon/Mega Man X] Soldiers of Tomorrow - Chapter 6 (Senshi Side)
From: Midnight Sun
Date: 2/27/2002, 9:03 PM
To: ffml@anifics.com


Disclaimer: I do not in anyway own Mega Man X or
SailorMoon. They are the sole property of there
respective owners and creators.

Author's Notes: I admit not much really happens in
this chapter but I thought it would be a good time to
slow things down a bit and take stock. The next Mega
Man chapter will be treated in the same way. Also for
those of you who haven't noticed this story does take
place after Stars, and I have also matured the senshi
a little bit especially Usagi. I've noticed that
during each season of Moon Usagi seems to get more
mature and more attuned to her role, I would think at
this point in the series her level of clumsiness and
ditziness would be at an all-time low what with the
creation of Crystal Tokyo mere centuries away.
 
 
 

A mass of energy appears out of nowhere. It swirls and
morphs and takes the shape, or more precisely shapes,
of the once and future royalty of an age of glory and
prosperity. But at the sight that beholds them, that
thought is the last thing on there minds.

"My god........." were the only words that could
escape Minako's lips, but they voiced the Senshi's
collective thought. Before them lay a burning, charred
wasteland. Collapsed buildings, uprooted water and
power lines, and that was only the border of the
holocaust. A massive crater lay in the center of the
devastation, not a single structure or living being in
sight.

"What in the world happened here. It looks like
Hiroshima all over again, but on a much smaller
scale.........." Makoto commented.

"According to my scanners, I'm detecting high levels
of some kind of radiation. I've never seen a signature
like it before so I can't be sure of its effects on
humans." Ami reported, the only one keeping a calm
head.

"Do you detect any life signs whatsoever?" Usagi
asked.

"None so far. But I highly doubt anyone could've
survived such a blast. But from the reports a majority
of the area was already vacated for some unknown
reason........."

"What is that............" Rei murmured to herself but
still caught the attention of the rest.

"What is what?" Minako asked trying to follow her
gaze.

"I think I see something shiny. Near ground zero." she
replied squinting to try and make sure she wasn't
hallucinating.

"Hold on. I'll see." Mercury engaged the magnification
on her visor to 10x. "I definitely see something. Its
no small object either, its glowing a shade of
purple."

"Okay then. Venus, Mercury and I will check out
whatever that is. Mars and Jupiter will stay behind
and continue to look for survivors anyway. There may
not be a big chance but we have to make sure. Everyone
keep in contact at all times, got it?" Everyone stared
at Usagi for several seconds before snapping back to
there senses and carrying out there orders. Mercury,
Venus and Moon took off toward the center of the blast
crater while Mars and Jupiter began there sift through
the rubble.

"Wow. I am impressed, I do believe you've started to
grow into my old postion." Venus commented

"I learn from the best."
 
 
 

My eyes opened and the first thing I saw was the
crystal purple sky. I immediately thought that I was
in heaven. Thats when I realized how much everything
hurt, and that I was very much alive.

"What happened........." I groaned to myself. The
headache I was developing didn't feel like it was
going to go away anytime soon. "Wait a
minute.........purple sky?" 

I surveyed my surroundings immediately, I found
Michiru and Haruka both unconscious but thankfully
alive. Then I found Hotaru, struggling to stand and
stay conscious while keeping the shield up.

"Is......everyone.........okay.........." she managed
to get out.

"Yes everyone's fine Hotaru." I rushed over to catch
her from collapsing to the ground. The shield
dissipated, and Hotaru was breathing heavily. I was
amazed she was able to keep it up for as long as she
did. "Just rest Hotaru, everything's over now."

"SETSUNA!" I heard someone call my name from a
distance. It was three of the Inners, I breathed a
sigh of relief. There would be no way I could handle
this all by myself.
 
 


"What in the world happened here........." Ami said in
complete shock as she finished looking over Haruka. 

"I wish I could tell you. For the first time I'm at a
complete loss as to how to explain all this." Setsuna
admitted.

"I see. I don't think blood loss is too much of a
problem, luckily Hotaru stopped the bleeding in time.
But I can't say how Haruka will take the shock that
she now only has one arm........" She explained
standing up. "And Hotaru just seems to be suffering
from fatigue. She'll be fine." she indicated the young
girl's sleeping form in Setsuna's arms.

"You said you think it was two men in armor?" Usagi
asked trying to better grasp the situation.

"Yes. They were unlike any enemy we've fought before."

"How so....?"

"The first indication was that they went straight for
us, they completely ignored the surrounding public.
And secondly, when they had the perfect opportunity to
finish us off, they fled."

"This is completely bizarre. We've never faced an
enemy this wanton in there power, if mass destruction
on this scale is one of there methods of operation we
could have an extremely dangerous situation on our
hands." Minako commented.

"Usagi. I think you better see this, we've found a
survivor." Usagi's attention was temporarily diverted
as Makoto's telepathic voice whispered in her mind

"We'll be right there. We found something ourselves."
Everyone had already turned to see what the news was
about. "They've found a survivor which means were
going to have to carry these two with us."
 
 

"Don't worry we've called for help. I'll have you out
in a minute." Makoto's said trying to calm the victim
down. He was around 20 and he was trapped beneath the
rubble of a collapsed building.

"Just hurry! I don't know how long I can stay in
here!!" he screamed obviously hyperventilating and
claustrophobic

"Just back away a few feet." she instructed as she
moved to get some distance. A ball of electrical power
shot from her hands and the rubble blasted away with
ease. The dust had only slightly settled when the man
came crawling out as fast as he could.

"I... I can't believe I'm still alive........." he
said still breathing heavily.

"Are you okay? Do you need to see a doctor?" Rei asked
trying to bring the man to some semblence of calm.

"N...No I'm fine I think. H...How can I ever repay
you?!" he asked frantically still.

"Were just doing our job I guess. Now get out of here,
this place is still very dangerous." she warned, that
was all she needed to say before he started running
for his life back to civilization.
 
 


The remaining Senshi arrived in time to see him scurry
away.

"Thats very strange........." Ami muttered to herself.

"What is?" Minako asked. She gave a grunt as she
repositioned the load on her back, as elegant as she
was Michiru wasn't light.

"Its just that I didn't detect any life-signs
whatsoever. I don't how I could have missed him."

"Maybe all the rock he was buried under blocked you
from finding him?"

"Maybe............"

"Alright so what do we know?" Ami snapped back to
reality as she realized they had reached there two
teammates. Usagi had since laid down Haruka and was
questioning everybody including Setsuna.

"From what readings I have picked up to and from
finding the Outers, a bomb didn't neccesarily go off.
There was a massive discharge of some kind of energy
that I can't discern, which is evident by the high
amount of radiation in this area. Why it doesn't seem
to be effecting us is unknown."

"Okay. What about you Setsuna, did you or the other
Outers notice anything before this happened?"

"Yes. Right before the destruction I felt as if time
itself was being strained, pushed to its limits. I am
still in tune with the time stream even though I am in
this reality, and I could feel something extremely
powerful trying to tears its way back into normal
space." Setsuna remembered as she cringed at the pain
she experienced.

"Okay so here's how it goes. The Outers have an
encounter with some new enemy whose tactics don't
match the normal M.O. of all the other evils we've
fought. Then Setsuna feels something trying to enter
our reality, and from the look on her face when she
described it I don't think it was a pleasant
experience." Usagi added at the end. Setsuna was
forced to agree. 

"Whatever it was succeeded in penetrating our reality
and caused the wide-spread destruction you see here.
Now what I don't understand is why those two left, is
it possible they knew what was coming?" the question
was once again aimed toward the olive haired Outer.
And once again Usagi amazed the others by her new
found grasp of her role of leader, which was apparent
by her careful observations.

"From what I observed, at least one of them was
keeping tabs on it. I believe it was the one in red. I
think the reason they retreated was a combination of
two things, one was the approaching phenomenon and
second was that just after tragedy befell Haruka,
Michiru regressed into a state of rage with which I
have never seen in her."

"I didn't think it was possible for Michiru to be
truly pissed off at anything........What happened?"
Makoto interjected with the question.

"We all share something in common as senshi whether
Outer or Inner. We all possess power, which if left
uncontrolled, has the potential to rip apart and
entire planet. We have all trained and growed in order
to control this surging energy within us, but at that
moment........obviously due to what happened to
Uranus........she slipped. Even though it was just a
fraction more she let loose it was enough to
incapacitate one of them."

"I see. Well it seems were going to watch ourselves
again. And here I thought our problems were all over
with Galaxia, so much for wishful thinking." Usagi
mumbled.

"Uhhhhhh........." a groan caught everyone's attention
as the Outer senshi of the sea began to stir, along
with the youngest senshi of destruction.

"It looks they'll be fine. Haruka is still out
though." Minako said finding it hard to look at the
still unconscious Uranus who had a stump where her arm
should be.
 
 


"Where am I........" I groaned to myself. I was
finding it hard to wake up, my entire body was sore
and the idea of moving was not registering with any of
my limbs.

"You shouldn't move. You've been unconscious for a
while." I heard a familiar voice, then I opened my
eyes and a saw a familiar face. It was that Inner girl
named Ami.

"What happened.........." I managed to get out a bit
hoarsely.

"There was an explosion. The shock of it knocked you
out. Everyone else is just fine."

"Fine......H....Haruka, Where's Haruka?!" I was
suddenly frantic, I knew she couldn't be fine by what
I saw happen.

"Haruka you have to calm down! Haruka is fine I
swear!" Setsuna was there now trying to calm me down.
She helped me stand slowly and brought me over to her.
She looked so peaceful asleep like that, but it was
obvious she was going to be having nightmares about
this particular battle.

We all detransformed and even though Haruka was in no
danger of losing her life we took her to a hospital
anyway, the most difficult part was explaining how she
lost her arm in the first place and how the wound had
sealed itself so quickly. We credited the explosion
that rocked Tokyo for the loss of her arm, as for it
being cauterized, we explained that she was probably
close to a fire of some sort and through shear luck it
burned her wound closed. We all knew the doctors
wouldn't believe it, but thankfully they decided not
to probe the issue further after seeing how
uncomfortable it was making us. They gave us the same
answer Ami did, she was going to be fine but the
mental trauma suffered was still unknown. That same
trauma was probably contributing to the fact that she
hadn't woke up yet.

Setsuna, Hotaru, and myself exited her room. I wanted
so much to break down right there, but I knew in her
absence I would have to lead the Outers and that meant
I had to stay in control if I was going to think
clearly.

"How is she?" Usagi asked.

"She still hasn't woken up yet." I said quieter than
usual.

"I can tell on all your faces that your tempted to go
find those two. But you can't do that on your own, you
said yourself you had a hard enough time when you were
all together but now your down one. What I'm trying to
say is that maybe you try and ask for our help." It
was a good offer and it made sense. But what Hotaru
said next voiced what all three of us were thinking.

"They hurt Papa. And now we'll hurt them........" I'm
not afraid to admit that sometimes Hotaru scares me,
mainly when she is truly angry like she is now. Those
two would pay. Even if it cost us our lives, I will
hunt down and destroy every single one of their kind.
I swear it.
 





To Be Continued............



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