*Theme song: The Touch, by Stan Bush*
Reuisu was sent violently back to the ground and groaned in
pain, landing on his already bruised arm.
Reuisu: Report!
Another shake within the void sent Reuisu onto his
back. Ami ran over to the computer.
Ami: Dimensional stabilizers malfunctioning!
Reuisu got back and ran over to the console.
Reuisu: Re-route power from secondary sound emitters to the
DS conduits!
Ami inputed the commands.
The warning light for that circuit shut off, but all the others
continued to flash and roar.
Reuisu: Michelle, Lita, how are you doing?
Lita and Michelle were at another console, working within
the circuits.
Michelle: The environmental controls are fused! We need to bypass them to repair it!
Reuisu: Burn through cables if you have to! If we lose environmental controls, we lose
the void!
Michelle nodded and used her time staff to start plowing
through cables.
Serena: Reuisu, why won't you tell me what's going on?!
Reuisu: It's my systems!
The temporal fields I put up sometimes to help us against adverse
temporal effects enhance degredation and entropy on my systems! They're degrading!
All of a sudden, the alarms shut off. Reuisu snapped his head back over to Michelle
and Lita. Michelle was taking her head
out of the console.
Michelle: I think I've repaired the degredation damage. Provided we don't have to erect another
temporal barrier in another month or so, we should be fine.
All of a sudden, another warning flash comes on.
Reuisu: I can never have anything nice!
Reuisu walks over to the console and hits the alarm button,
trying to find out what's happening.
The computer screen flares on, saying, "Beryl plague
detected."
Reuisu: Identify source of Beryl plague!
The computer displays the numbers 113.97.009.002/226721.8.
Reuisu: One-one-three-point-nine-seven... Those are star chart coordinates! the others are temporal coordinates! Computer, give me temporal charts and star
charts, immediately!
The computer screen switched off, and the computer retracted
into the desk itself. The table then
flattened out, and then a circular metal object appeared on the desk. It shot out three green lines, and then a
holographic view screen appeared. It
split off into seperate monitors, one showing star charts and another showing
time stream lines. The lines however,
were going backwards. One gray line
split off from five main ones, and stayed a reasonable distance away and
stopped. At the same time, the star
charts stopped at four light years from this solar system. Reuisu ran over to see them.
Reuisu: Oh my God, it's the day the Alliance Alpha Centauri
fell! Beryl's travelled to Alpha
Centauri!
Everyone got out their transformation sticks and readied to
transform.
Ami: Wait a minute, that doesn't make any sense. When Beryl destroyed the Alliance and the
Moon Kingdom, we were all reborn.
Killing you any earlier is still going to get you reborn, what can she
do to change all that?
Reuisu: It doesn't matter. This is the chance of a lifetime, we can prevent both kingdoms
from being destroyed, and tell them to prepare for all the other coming evils!
Serena: He's right, this is the only chance we'll ever get!
Michelle: But why do you say that? Couldn't we travel back in time anytime to do this?
Reuisu: The temporal boundaries open only if there is a
crisis to be resolved. You should know
that better than anyone. Everyone
ready?
They all nodded.
Reuisu: Let's go save our kingdoms.
Sailor Centauri slammed into the ground hard. The other Sailors landed next to him.
Centauri: Michelle...
Moonshine: I think my staff needs work.
Centauri: One of these days, we are going to have a long
talk about acceptable safety standards for time travelling. One of them includes MAKING SURE WE LAND
RIGHT FOR A CHANGE.
Moonshine: Noted.
Reuisu?
Centauri: Yes?
Moonshine: I wasn't talking to you, I was talking to HIM.
Moonshine pointed at the young boy, around twelve years old,
sitting on a throne. His eyebrow was
rasied, and he was staring intently at them.
Then his eyes shifted to the girls, and his eyes got wide.
Reuisu: Man, nice legs...
Jupiter: Excuse me?!
Centauri got up and put an arm in front of her to make sure
she didn't do anything foolish, like kill Prince Reuisu for his remark.
Centauri: Your highness, this may be a little hard for you
to accept, but we are from the future.
Reuisu: Really...
Well, if those girls are from the future, I like how the future looks.
Centauri: Listen, we're not here to talk about girls...
Reuisu: You aren't?
Then please leave.
Centauri: We're here to warn you and protect you! There is a dark force on its way here and the
Moon Kingdom, we have to warn the Moon Kingdom so they can prepare for the
assault! If we don't, both our kingdoms
could be destroyed!
Reuisu listened intently to each detail, then rolled his
eyes and leaned back in his throne.
Reuisu: Listen, even if I should believe you, the missile
defense system that protects Alpha Centauri CAN'T be taken out. Any attempts in the past to override or
destroy the defense system ended in failure.
Nothing can stop it!
Centauri: Well Queen Beryl and Metallia say differently!
Reuisu: Look, unless those girls are here as-
Centauri: They are here to protect their kingdom and ours.
Reuisu: Then get out!
Centauri glared at Reuisu from within his helmet, and then
told them to move back and out of the throne room. Someone was waiting for them, however. He looked around his late 30s or 40s, and hair graying in some
areas. He wore a badge on his left
side.
Man: Excuse me, are you really from the future?
Moonshine: Yes, unfortunately we can't save our kingdoms
because jackass in there thinks we're idiots.
Man: Well, I CAN help.
I'm the Minister of War and Defense in the Alliance. You say there's going to be an attack here
and the Moon Kingdom?
Cephiros: Led by two evils queens. They'll destroy everything unless we can stop it.
Minister: Then we must move quickly! We'll go to the scanner room, get proof of
an attack.
Minister: Confirmed.
There is some type of energy cloud blocking the invasion force from
scans. We only detected it because we
knew what we were looking for.
Centauri: Good!
What's their ETA with Alpha Centauri?
Minister: Checking lateral course... They're going to the Moon Kingdom first!
Centauri rose his head up from the data sheet he was
reading.
Centauri: What do you mean?
The Alliance is supposed to be attacked first, so the Moon Kingdom
wouldn't have the necessary allies it needed to defeat them.
Minister: I know, but according to these readings, they're
nowhere near Alpha Centauri, they're on a direct course for the Moon Kingdom.
Centauri could just sit there and look at the projected
course of Beryl's force. Immediately,
he went over to Mercury.
Centauri: Mercury, what's the exact time Beryl's forces
attack the Alliance, according to my data banks?
Mercury types some things into her computer, and an answer
appears.
Mercury: Sixteen hours, thirty-one minutes, fifteen seconds.
Centauri: And the time the Moon Kingdom is destroyed?
Mercury taps some more things into her computer, and then
raises an eyebrow. She taps more into
the mini computer, and then looks up at Reuisu.
Mercury: Sixteen hours, thirty-one minutes, fifteen seconds.
Everyone rose their heads up. Even Sailor Moon understood.
The times were exact. Centauri
looked around them to see the confused, yet understanding expressions on their
faces.
Centauri: How can they attack two places at the same time?
The inner soldiers began to put their heads down.
Venus: They can't...
Mars: Reuisu, I think we should-
Centauri: There's a mistake somewhere. Mercury, check the files again!
Mercury: I checked them three times.
Centauri: Then check them four times! Then four hundred times, because it's not
possible! That missile defense system
was supposed to keep Beryl out, and she destroyed it, she-
Centauri's face went a ghastly shade of white when he
finally realized it.
Centauri: Oh God...
The missiles!
Centauri bolted out of the strategy room with the Titans and
the inner soldiers close behind.
The missile control room was empty, save for Prince
Reuisu. His crown was on a nearby
table, and a headset was upon his head instead. Everyone ran in, with Reuisu fiddling with the controls.
Centauri: GET AWAY FROM THOSE CONTROLS!!!
Prince Reuisu turned around and looked at them.
Reuisu: Relax, I got this under control.
Centauri: The missile defense system requires a very strong
mental and physical will to handle the controls, you are neither of which!
Reuisu: Mental control?
Warning indicators flashed on, showing that all the
platforms had launched. Centauri ran
over and pushed Reuisu away.
Centauri: He turned the missile platforms back at Alpha
Centauri! We have two minutes before
those missiles impact!
Mercury: Can we stop them?!
Centauri: They're designed to be fool-proof and incapable of
being overridden! This is all your
fault, Reuisu! If my earth parents were
here, this would never have happened!
Reuisu: Oh, your EARTH parents, a fifteen year-old Japanese
prositute and a gay, drunk Englishman.
Everyoned stared in horror at Reuisu. Centauri's eyes began to glow bright gold,
and Reuisu suddenly felt strain around his neck, like someone was starting to
strangle him. The tension increased as
everyone suddenly noticed a light coming from inside Reuisu's helmet. His eyes' glow was increasing by the second.
Centauri: How dare you.
How DARE YOU?!? You were born
into paradise, and now you've destroyed it!
What have you done?!?
Reuisu: Turned a boring day into something far more
exciting! Killing people is fun! Until now, I could only do it on small
animals, but now-
Reuisu's neck was becoming more stressed, it was getting
hard to breathe as Reuisu's psychic grip continued to bear down on him. And then, suddenly, he let go and threw him
into a wall.
Centauri: You can burn.
Burn with the mountains, burn with the temples, burn with your
kingdom. I'm glad I went through the
Technis and the Sailor Wars. I'm glad
the person you are is going to die. I'm
glad you're going to burn. Moonshine,
get me the hell out of here.
Moonshine complied, opening a time portal and everyone
walked through it, leaving Prince Reuisu lying there. He looked outside a nearby window as missiles lit up the sky and
came down on the city.
Reuisu: Dear God, what have I done?
To Be Continued