*Theme song: Dare, by Stan Bush*

Chris: Anna, stay awake!

Anna Ichimei slowly lifted her eyes open. She was obviously tired, and her not-so warm clothes did not help the situation. Michelle, Lucy, Chris, Christine, and Anna were all trapped atop Mt. Arreat, location of the World Stone, and spiritual location for the citizens of the Barbarian town of Harrogath. The cold ate at the five, all dressed in summer clothing.

Each of the Titans was feeling the weight of the world on them on this day. Tara Silvers had in fact been their enemy, Sailor Argent. And it turns out that Argent had made a contract with Charsi to kill the Titans. And now, each of the Titans wore a collar that would make an explosion if they took it off, but also disabled their transformational abilities. Not that they even had their transformation items, anyway.

It also didn't help that demon imps seemed to be watching the Titans, preparing for the right moment to strike at them. Anna desperately wanted to sleep, to rest, but the Titans kept her awake. However, she was fading slowly back into unconsciousness.

Michelle: For God's sakes, Anna, stay awake!

Anna: Can't... Too tired...

Chris grit his teeth and slapped Anna. She immediately bolted back to consciousness, grabbing her sore cheek and crying.

Chris: I'm sorry, but you have to stay awake! We have to get down to the town and get out of here!

The growling of the imps became louder.

Michelle: It seems we may not have that choice, Chris. As Reuisu's second-in-command, I'm issuing the following order: Prepare to fight the demons. Lucy, I need you to keep Anna awake. We'll take care of the demons.

The Titans took their positions as the demons stood on the cliffs above them. There were only two imps that the Titans could see, but they knew more would probably be coming. Lucy and Anna stood in the center of the triangle made by the other three Titans. Michelle cracked her knuckles, and Chris and Christine stretched a little.

With a roar, the demon imps leapt into the air...

...And were hit by a single beam of white and gold light. The beam continued on, hitting the cliffs above the Titans and causing an explosion. The rocks above them separated from the cliffs and came down at the Titans. They yelped and shielded themselves as they were partially buried. They all faded into unconsciousness.

Sailor Angel flapped his wings once as he landed on the cliff. Tyrael landed beside him. Angel gasped and jumped down the cliff and pushed the rocks off of the cliffs. Tyrael soon followed suit and helped him. Within a minute, the Titans were free of the rock fall.

Angel: There's something on their necks, I'll try to get it off.

Angel went over to Chris and put his hands on his neck, preparing to try to remove the collar. All of a sudden, Chris woke up. Chris stared at Angel, who stood over him.

Chris: Reuisu?

Angel: Yes?

Chris: Did you make the rocks fall?

Angel: Yes.

Chris: Were you going to take this off?

Chris pointed to the collar.

Angel: Yes.

Chris blinked for several seconds, and then smiled. He began to giggle, and then to laugh. Angel didn't know what was so funny, but decided to laugh with him. Chris started laughing maniacally, which started bringing the Titans from their sleep.

And then, when Chris spoke, the echo of his voice could've carried his voice across the entire world when he suddenly stopped laughing and shouted out to the world.

Chris: REUISU LOVHAUG IS AN IMBECILE!!!!!!!!!!!

Miya Aino slept in a coma on the hospital bed in room 4-G at Crystal Tokyo General Hospital. Life support systems were plugged into her, keeping her alive as she remained in the coma caused by one of Sailor Argent's youmas.

Speaking of which, Sailor Argent and Charsi had snuck into the hospital room.

Charsi: One Titans just waiting for us to kill.

Argent: It almost seems unfair to kill her like this. ALMOST.

Charsi: Her death shall seriously pain Sailor Asteroid.

Argent: So what?

Charsi: I thought you were engaged in a relationship with him.

Argent laughed out loud at her.

Argent: Oh please! That 'relationship' was merely a means to an end. It was a way to find out where I could find the Titans, where their weaknesses were.

Charsi: So you don't love him?

Argent: Love? PAH! I gave up in the notion of 'love' when Galaxia ravaged and obliterated my world and my Kingdom. There's no such thing as 'love.' What he felt for me was just a manipulation of the chemicals in his brain, causing his emotions to flutter, an ability I picked up from Sailor Haqurin.

And with that, Sailor Argent formed a silver energy dagger in her hand, and stabbed it down into the main life support control panel. All the lights flickered off, and the air pump stopped giving oxygen to Miya.

Voice: NOOOOOOOO!!!

Charsi and Argent turned around to see Chris standing in the doorway, his breathing erratic and his pupils dilated at the sight before him.

Argent: Well, well, well. There's our-

Chris: MURDERERS!!!

Chris leapt at Sailor Argent, grabbing at her neck. Argent, taken by surprise, was knocked to the ground. Charsi went for Chris, but she suddenly felt a fiery heat in front of her neck. She looked down to see Azurewrath in front of it.

Tyrael: Don't even try anything, wench.

Argent punched Chris in the face, sending him flying to the other side of the room. The other Titans ran into the doorway of the hospital room, but were met by a silver wave of energy coming from Argent. She fired a constant blast of it at the Titans in one hand, and at Chris with the other. They all yelled in pain as the energy tore at them, causing them more pain than they'd ever wanted to feel. They'd felt something like this before, but that was when they were transformed, and they had better protection against it. The only thing helping them now was the fact that they were Sailors, which gave them slightly enhanced strength and resistance to such a barrage. It caused pain nonetheless, though.

Argent: Burn, Titans! Die! Feel the pain that I felt when my world was decimated by your precious ally Galaxia! Die for her sins! DIE FOR HER SINS!!!

And all of a sudden, a wave of pain surged through Argent's back, and she screamed in pain briefly before collapsing onto the ground. Standing behind her, her hands and eyes glowing a burning pink, was Sailor Love.

Love: Surprise, bitch!

*The Power of Love plays*

Sailor Love picked up Argent and punched her in the face. Argent tried to send her own energy at Love, but Love grabbed Argent's hand and aimed it at her own stomach, sending the energy blasting into herself.

Tyrael looked down at Charsi's belt and saw a rectangular control box. He took it with his free hand and dropped it to the ground. He then raised his foot up and slammed it down onto it, smashing it. The lights on the collars of the Titans disappeared, and they pulled them off, throwing them to the side. Tyrael then saw the bag Charsi had at her side, and threw it over to the Titans. They opened it and found their transformational items inside of it.

The wall that protected the hospital room from the outside world exploded outwards along with Sailor Argent. Sailor Love jumped down from it, pulling the beaten up body of Sailor Argent up and facing her.

Love: You know, Argent, I heard everything that happened while I was in that coma. At first, I wanted to hurt you. I wanted to kill you, or at least imprison you. But then I realized that, hell; he's Chris, for crying out loud. How could anyone not want him?

Argent did a weak smile, thinking that Love was going to let her go. However, Love then glared at her.

Love: But then I realized that you had seduced my boyfriend, manipulated my friends, and tried to kill my family and me! So I'm going to open up a can of whoopass on you the size of China!

Argent gulped as the other Titans leapt down, transformed as well. They also kicked over some of the explosive collars. Charsi growled and suddenly elbowed Tyrael in the gut, breaking free of his grasp. She grabbed onto the broken control panel.

Charsi: DIE, TITANS!!!

She then pressed the last functioning button, and the collars suddenly exploded.

To Be Continued...