Mythic Sailor Moon
EPISODE EIGHT
Last time, on Mythic Sailor Moon
Image: Lord Feldspar confronts Sailor Mercury and Lady Clarissa, ready
to throw his crystal blast; Sailor Mercury tries to protect Lady
Clarissa, but she steps forward and destroys him with a flame jet spell
Image: Xena's chakram hovers in midair between her outstretched hands,
blazing with power and bathing Professor Tomoe with its rebirth
energies.
Image: Nemesis troops chase Mythic Sailor Venus through London, Jacinth
and Hyacinth blast at her with their powers while her teammates race to
the rescue
Image: Mythic Sailor Jupiter and Naru drive through the barriers at
customs in a sportscar
Image: Jacinth and Hyacinth combine their power into a huge black sphere
which disintegrates an entire skyscraper.
And now our story continues...
Hikawa Shrine, Crystal Era
Rei's Bedroom
Hino Rei sat bolt upright in bed. The room was washed in the warm golden
light of mid-morning and everything was just as it should be. "Hino-
san," said Merle, her assistant, as she stuck her head in the door. "You
need to hurry up and get dressed! You have an audience at Crystal Palace
in just over an hour!"
"Oh no, I can't be late," yelped Rei as she flung off the covers and
darted for the bathroom. " Usagi never lets me hear the end of it if I'm
late!"
She showered quickly and tossed on a stylish designer outfit in a bold
shade of red and dashed into the kitchen to sit down for a quick bowl of
miso soup that Merle had prepared. Topaz was there, slowly and
methodically eating his soup. "Good morning, Rei," he said warmly as she
entered.
She leaned over and kissed him on the cheek. "Good morning Darling," she
said, and beamed. Topaz stopped his mechanical soup-eating and beamed
back. Merle walked by the table and beamed as well. They both grinned,
and beamed back at Merle. Songbirds chirped melodically outside.
One improvement to the neighborhood which she greatly appreciated was a
new subway station, just a few blocks away. A quick run down the steps
of the shrine and down two blocks (the short way) and they were off to
the palace.
When they got to the palace, Topaz was still grinning like a crazy
American. So was Rei, for that matter.
The guards let them right in, without Rei even showing her government
agency pass. "Go right in Sailor Mars, uh, I uh mean, Hino-san," said
Toshi, one of the regular guards, with a wink. Rei smiled. Of course
everyone *knew* she was Sailor Mars. They just tried to not bring it up
when it wasn't necessary. Everyone grinned.
In the throne room, the Queen had a lot of celebrities and other guests
present. At least, more than the number usually present in an audience
of this nature. There were also reps from Fuji-TV, W-Vision, CNN, and
Tokyo TV.
"Good morning," Neo-Queen Serenity greeted them. "Hino-san, you have
done a remarkable job as Our special governmental attach‚ to the Nemesis
government."
"Thank you Neo-Queen Serenity," Rei replied. "It gives me great pleasure
to present to you his Royal Highness, Prince Topaz of Nemesis,
Ambassador to Earth!"
Topaz smiled warmly if somewhat theatrically; light gleamed off his
shiny white teeth. "Wow Rei, he's hot," whispered Neo-Queen Serenity in
Usagi's voice. "Reminds me of that US comedian who was so tall, the one
who decked Yuuichirou for you when he got out of line at that benefit
concert."
"Yeah, Kilbourne-san, he was tall!" Rei whispered back. The two girls
giggled. Rei noticed then that Neo-Queen Serenity was actually Tsukino
Usagi, dressed in her high school uniform, and looked way too small for
the throne. But then she was the queen again and she winked at Rei.
Everything was going to be Just Fine, Rei knew.
Then Topaz's smile twisted into a malevolent smirk, a Black Moon
crescent appeared on his forehead, and his face rotted away to reveal an
ashen skull. "Neo-Queen Serenity, DIE!" he roared in Wiseman's voice. He
unleashed a powerful plasma beam and vaporized NeoQueen Serenity's
torso.
"Usagi," she whispered in denial. "NO!" she screamed in horror.
"NO!" She was yelling as she sat bolt upright in bed. Footsteps came
running down the hall and the door to her room slid open. Merle, closely
followed by Ami's mother Dr. Masami Mizuno, came rushing into the room.
Topaz, who was now wearing a simple temple attendant hakimah, poked his
head around the doorway, and also looked in.
"Rei-san! Are you ok?" asked Merle as Dr. Mizuno calmly reached over and
took her wrist in one hand, starting to time her pulse by her
wristwatch.
Rei reflexively nodded. "Sure, I'm O.K.," she started saying when she
noticed that Topaz did, in fact, now sport a Dark Moon sigil on his
forehead, which was when she remembered...
Her dreams sometimes came true.
[ROLL CREDITS: "YOU'RE STILL THE ONE," LUCY LAWLESS VERSION]
TITLE SCREEN:
Episode Eight
Revealed at Last: The Power that Shakes Time!
At that moment in Hyde Park, Citrine and Peridot exchanged a toast as
the BBC kindly provided a bird's eye view of downtown London through a
high-flying helicopter. "I DO love it when a plan comes together," she
cooed. Citrine grinned evilly and toasted the TV set.
Meanwhile the actors in the scene they were viewing were scrambling to
come to terms with the threat facing them. "Absolute destruction . . . "
said Mythic Sailor Moon with grim resignation in her voice. "Such power
as is wielded by Sailor Saturn. . . ."
"If only we had HER with us," commented Mythic Sailor Mercury. Her
teammates nodded in agreement.
Above them, Jacinth and Hyacinth were unsuccessfully playing Scissors-
Paper-Rock in an attempt to determine if they would destroy the Tower of
London or Big Ben next. Both agreed that the third blow should
obliterate the senshi, but their likeness of mind was producing a tie
each and every time.
"We need Neo-Queen Serenity," said Minako turning to Makoto.
"I don't think she's up to it. Remember Nemesis and the fight against
Chaos!" her teammate replied.
"What choice do we have? They could probably level a city! Only the
Ginzuishou could fight that power! Or the Holy Grail, but--"
"What?" said Mythic Sailor Moon interrupting Minako. "Art thou referring
to the Sacred Chalice of the Moon?"
"Yeah but--"
"We brought it with us, but to tap its power is normally proscribed. My
mother used her crystal to tap its power and unite it with that of
Saturn and Pluto to send us here. Yet, if its power can stop those two,
it's worth a try; at the least it should enhance my shield," Mythic
Sailor Moon concluded. She held out her hands and golden light blazed
above her palms. Quite obligingly the "holy grail" materialized.
"Please, Sacred Chalice, help me fight their dark destruction with your
holy light," she intoned as she reached out and took a firm grasp on the
chalice with every intent of opening it by hand. Previously, Queen
Selene had prepared the grail to be tapped by the use of the Ginzuishou;
this time, no such preparation had been made.
Princess Serenity was not "The Chosen."
Mythic Sailor Moon was immediately blasted with blinding light. Her body
went rigid as if she were being electrified and her mouth froze half-way
into a scream as the grail defenses automatically reacted. Light
blasted out from her body, blazing so bright it wiped all color away,
and even Jacinth and Hyacinth averted their gaze.
The power sealed within the chalice was the light of pure creation,
timeless and timefree. It was a thing of eternity, and while not
sentient in the sense a human being is, it was a form of life and it did
have a certain awareness on the cosmic scale.
It reacted initially in reflex, but in the split-second before Mythic
Sailor Moon was reduced to ashes by its power, it became aware of a
second life linked to her own. And that life WAS "The Chosen." The
Light existed in nearly all times at once, and when this was sensed, it
prepared to incarnate its power in "The Chosen," sending surges of power
throughout the corridors of time, fusing causality and overwriting
certain paths of the time stream. The moment the Light found "The
Chosen" as yet unborn in Crystal Tokyo, it also found her previous
incarnation in the 1990s and realized that was the true incarnation.
However, in order to preserve the past, the future would need to be
guarded as well and so. . .
It split.
These two moments become synchronized as relative points in the
space/time continuum by the flow of cosmic forces. And the power of the
grail flowed into the life force that *guarded* the "One" to be. The
harsh blazing light changed in intensity, softened and became warm and
comforting. The glare began to recede, allowing those surrounding the
princess able to see a little bit again.
Once before Princess Serenity had been at the threshold of death and was
saved by being transformed into a being of pure light and reformed as
Sailor Moon. Now that process repeated itself. She found her awareness
reforming in a pool of light contained in golden walls. Those walls
opened before her and she emerged into the material world again, now
clad in a sailor toga and skirt of pure white with ribbons of red and
blue at her hem and at her wrists.
"Super Sailor Moon?" gasped Minako and Makoto.
"She powered up!" exclaimed Amica.
Just then Hyacinth and Jacinth descended to the plaza. "Pretty
lightshow," "Sailor Moon," they said. "We have decided to simply kill
you all," "and THEN ravage the city," the duo threatened, taking turns
speaking.
They put their hands together, palms facing and chorused, "Dark
ETERNAL!" Once again a sphere of absolute obliteration began to form
between them but this time everyone could tell it would be launched
straight at the senshi.
Mythic Sailor Moon brought up her scepter and began to channel the new
power loaned to her by the grail. As the power began to flow through
her, the scepter in her hands twisted and transformed into a new shape,
assuming a form capable of handling the strain of channeling even more
energy than before.
With a thought of the trust given her by the grail, and still wondering
why she hadn't been destroyed, Mythic Sailor Moon called all the colors
of life to swirl around her to fight the dark destruction building
against her. She pirouetted in place as she caught all the colors of the
rainbow on her new magical rod as if it were the spindle used by the
fate Clotho to create the threads of life.
"Rainbow . . . Moon . . . Star . . . QUAKE!" She yelled as she dropped
to one knee and slammed the tip of the rod into the ground. A cascade of
stars, trailed by a rainbow of energy blasted out and through the two
children of the Dark Moon, disrupting their attack and blasting them
back; finally, a huge golden star of solidified energy slammed into
them, pounding them into the ground.
As one, they cried out and teleported away in retreat. Sailor Moon
didn't have time for a single cry of triumph before her power-up faded
and she fell to her knees, nearly passing out.
Red Cross Army Tent
Macedonian Border
Michiru was washing her hands in one of the camp's few sinks, a public
affair just outside the triage tent. The camp had been donated to the UN
Forces by the former US Army and it was one of their old 'mobile army
surgical hospitals' that had been used a long time ago and been kept for
nostalgia reasons.
Handy that.
She suddenly stiffened as the bar of soap fell out of her grasp. She
felt chilled to the very bone. "What is this feeling?" she mumbled to
herself as she mentally examined the strange feeling from every angle.
"Impossible! This thing I'm feeling is a New Wave, and it's very
strong!"
She closed her eyes, hands half-plunged into the sink. Reaching.
Opening. Searching. Somewhere, a power like a shining golden rose was
opening up. It felt familiar but it couldn't be... but what was that
other thing she sensed? Nearer to her? Michiru stiffened as she shifted
the focus of her senses to the nearer presence. It was a broad ribbon of
power so dark violet it was almost darker than black, and it was burning
hotly like a summer night sky with no moon in sight. Someone very
powerful, and very near. A Dark Wave.
Her hands plunged deeper into the sink of hot water, she shivered,
chilled to her core. Had Saturn re-awakened just then? Was that it?
Frighteningly, the power did feel like Sailor Saturn's but far more...
evil.
She gasped and pulled her hands out of the sink, finally aware she had
almost burned herself. In the background, she heard Haruka yelling for
her. She took a deep breath and calmed herself, and then walked around
the corner of the tent to meet her partner.
Nearby, Xena and Professor Tomoe were examining the camp from a ridge of
hills. The same hills Mythic Sailor Mercury had wandered out of just a
day or so before. "Are you well, Xena?" Souichi inquired. Xena, whose
eyes had gone out of focus a moment before, snapped back to full
attention. "I'm fine. I felt the Princess for a moment. I think she's
increased her power, but I'm not sure." She looked over at the camp.
"It's a large encampment for so few forces," she commented.
"It's a medical camp, for civilian refugees as well as the UN Forces,"
Tomoe explained. "I think we should check it out. If Hotaru wandered
off, or if someone dug her out and carried her off, this might be where
she went. And you did say that you felt senshi energies in this
direction."
"Yes but weak...I suppose we'll have to take the chance. My armor isn't
going to blend in here is it?"
Tomoe shrugged. And paused to smile when the reflex brought him no pain.
"Well, at least my hair color still matches my drivers license picture,"
he said. "Though I don't understand how you could turn back time when
the Queen couldn't keep me from aging."
Xena shrugged and smirked. "I have many skills. And you have a great
need to rescue your daughter. " Tomoe nodded in agreement.
"Well, anyway, I think I should drive." Xena assented with slight lift
of her shoulders but curled her lip slightly. She really seemed to enjoy
driving the jeep, but her driving still scared Tomoe. They got back in
the jeep, switching places this time, and slowly headed over the hill
and towards the camp. They didn't get much nearer until armed sentries
stood up from behind barricades and motioned for them to come to a halt.
An armed guard walked up to the jeep and looked over Tomoe and Xena.
"This area is *not* appropriate for civilians, since you're coming from
the south I can tell you're not refugees. You'll have to turn around and
go back the way you came," he ordered.
"I'm ... Professor Souichi Tomoe," the professor said, hesitating a
moment at using the western form of address. "We're here from a small
archaeological survey team. Unfortunately, there's been a cave in. There
was an un-coordinated rescue effort and now one of my team members is
missing. We thought perhaps she might have been brought here for medical
attention. She looks a lot like this woman, but younger."
Xena blinked. "Younger" indeed...
The guard looked at Xena, in her strange, black leather armor and asked
her "Why are you dressed like that for an expedition?"
"My name is Xena, and this is my usual combat armor," she replied
coolly.
The guard blinked in surprise and took a step back. "Xena? I thought she
was only a legend local to the villages of my home area. Supposedly the
ancient city of Amphipo--" he broke off suddenly and stared at Tomoe.
"You're meddling at the site of the old Covington expedition aren't
you??" he demanded. "You mustn't do that! You might disturb, aahh, er
well, the, the site's not safe," he finished lamely.
"Ares is already free," Xena said. "And you're from Amphipolis eh? Small
world."
The man's eyes nearly popped out of his head. "How do you -- that legend
is NEVER spoken of to anyone outside --"
"I told you, I'm Xena," said Xena. "THE Xena. Now can we come in and
look around? This man's daughter is missing."
"I guess so," the guard said. "You can park your jeep over there by the
motor pool," he gestured. Xena nodded and Tomoe started the jeep up
again and drove it to the parking area the guard had indicated.
They had just parked and started to get out of the jeep when a somewhat
familiar voice called out, "Professor Tomoe??"
The professor turned to see the surprised faces of Ten'ou Haruka and
Kai'oh Michiru. "Ladies!" he said happily. "Am I glad to see you two!"
"Professor, you look well," Michiru said stepping forward and extending
her hand. The professor made a show of bowing and kissing her hand while
she giggled. She took a look at the woman next to him. With her long
lustrous black hair she had expected it to be Hotaru. But while there
was similarity in her coloring and features, clearly she was someone
else. "How is Hotaru?" she asked as Haruka stepped forward to give the
professor a firm handshake, and the smiles wiped right off his face.
"She's missing," the Professor said. "And ... we unleashed something.
Something bad. "
"What happened Professor?" said Haruka.
"Hotaru felt a resonance of the Saturn Power. We investigated, and
accidentally freed the war-god Ares from his ancient tomb. Apparently,
Ares was an ancient enemy of Queen Serenity." He turned to Xena. "These
must be the people you felt," he looked around and dropped his voice.
"These are the former Uranus and Neptune. Their identities are a secret
-- the world at large does not even know the Outer Senshi ever existed."
"Who is she?" Haruka demanded.
"She's the one who sealed Ares up," Tomoe said. "She's the Saturn of
that bygone, Mythic Age -- but her powers have been sealed up as part of
traveling here to the present. Or more precisely, Hotaru's problems with
her powers have been somewhat...contagious."
Michiru looked at Xena appraisingly. When she'd first seen the pretty
woman, Xena had assumed she was not a warrior. She was obviously
beautiful and graceful, and she gave off a cultured air. Xena's first
thought was that she was like Gabrielle, a companion to a warrior, which
the Haruka woman obviously was. But looking in her eyes, Xena
immediately realized she was as much a warrior as her companion. Yes,
both of them were skilled. Though there was something... lacking about
them. Self-confidence, perhaps. But then, she supposed, for a senshi to
lose her powers would do that.
"Well this new problem couldn't have come at a worse time," commented
Haruka. The Nemesite ground forces have been going full force around
Europe. "It's been a real mess."
Michiru nodded in agreement with Haruka and turned to Xena. "And in
other news, we've met another of your teammates. The Sailor Mercury of
your time. We put her in touch with the UN and I believe that she should
be in Crystal Tokyo by now." Xena pursed her lips consideringly. Amica
would have been a useful ally, but perhaps she was doing more good where
she was...which reminded her...
"Ga... Minako. Would she be in Crystal Tokyo?" Xena asked.
Michiru nodded. "She should be." Xena nodded at the confirmation.
"Professor, your stomach is growing. We can show you folks the mess
tent," Haruka offered.
Souichi grinned. "Good, I have an appetite like I haven't had in years!"
"Then it's a real tragedy what you're about to eat, " smirked Haruka as
she turned to lead them off. That was when the first shell flew and the
ground just inside the eastern perimeter of the MASH encampment
exploded.
"Oh cupcakes!" said Tomoe. The three women looked at him askance. "When
you have young daughters," he said defensively, "You will train
yourselves to not swear around them very quickly or you will regret it."
Xena looked slightly guilty for a moment, but before she could do more
than open her mouth to reply, the second shell sent them scrambling for
cover.
Crystal Tokyo, Downtown
The Ginza
"I can't believe they had no shirts in your size," Rei practically
snarled. "If I had thought for a moment we'd have this problem, I'd have
given you time to pack your bags before teleporting in."
Topaz shrugged nonchalantly. "It's just fortunate your temple had some
spare clothing for a man of my height and build," he replied. "Of
course, I did have some really fine clothing suitable for ambassadorial
duty on the ship, in the Nemesis style, but we didn't have a choice
about getting out of there. You felt the moment, and you seized it."
Rei simply frowned as they continued down the busy street. Suddenly her
eyes lit up. "Of course!" she exclaimed. "Donna Karen will have
something for you, surely!" she grabbed him by the material of the
hakimah and pulled him along as quickly as he could follow (which using
a crutch, wasn't that fast). Across the street, Beruche Ayakashi got a
good look at them and dropped several shopping bags so she could put her
hands to her mouth and stifle a horrified scream. Dimando's bastard
half-brother apparently on a date with Sailor Mars? Surely it was some
scheme the Nemesite forces had put together...she had to warn her
sisters...she had to warn the Queen!! She grabbed her bags up and
dashed back to their apartment.
Two hours later, Rei and Topaz emerged from Donna Karen's Tokyo shop.
Even at a western designer's shop, there just hadn't been much to choose
from; fortunately, there had been a few things in a workable size and
the staff tailors were willing to make the alterations immediately.
Topaz was now wearing a striking black silk suit with just the faintest
shimmer of a bluish-gray pinstripe; a black shirt and a deep blue tie
almost matching his eyes completed the outfit. They were halfway to the
nearest subway station when something in a store window seemed to catch
Rei's eye. "Stay here a moment," she said and darted inside. Topaz
glanced over the window; it was a jewelry store and he smiled wryly.
"Who are you?" a man demanded in angry tones. He turned to face the
stranger, the mild smile melting off his face. Topaz glared at a well-
dressed man with long brown hair artfully arranged to just barely cover
one eye.
"Who are you? Why should I answer?" Topaz replied disdainfully.
"What are you doing with Rei?? She's my girlfriend," the man snarled.
"Business," said Topaz and turned away. Something about the man was
wrong but he wasn't quite sure what... he didn't feel like he was lying,
but he didn't feel like he was being completely truthful either. That's
when the man kicked the crutch out from under him and Topaz fell against
the glass window, applying his telekinesis just in time to keep from
falling against it hard enough to break it.
Three schoolgirls walking down the street suddenly saw the spectacle and
screamed, "Kameda-san! SUGOI!!" and ran toward them.
"Who the hell are you?" Kameda demanded of Topaz. "You've got that mark
on your head? Are you a Nemesite? What the hell??"
"YUUICHIRO!" bellowed Rei as she kicked the shop door open and took up a
position on the street, hands on her hips and red heels nearly smoking
with the speed she'd dashed outdoors with. "What are you DOING? You
kicked an injured man? Am I going to have to go through with that
restraining order??" The fangirls running up the street braked to a
halt and yelped at the sight of Rei.
"Who is he Rei? This is your new boyfriend right? And he's from Nemesis?
Can't you see the Black Moon Sign on his forehead? Of course not, he's
enspelled you. Don't worry Rei, I'll save you from him--" Yuuichiro
broke off when Rei slapped him as hard as she could across the face and
mouth.
"Yuuichiro, hear me for the last time," she grated. "It is completely,
finally, over between us. I am on palace business. Now go back to your
fan girls and leave me alone or I swear--"
Rei broke off under Yuuichiro's obsessive gaze. Even in the middle of
the tirade he was looking at her in a frighteningly hungry sort of way.
Making an ultimatum suddenly didn't seem like such a good idea. Just
then, Topaz tapped him on his right shoulder. Startled, Yuuichiro turned
around and Topaz punched him right in the face. Yuuichiro went down.
Glaring Rei said, "I don't need you to defend me Topaz." Topaz rubbed
his fist nonchalantly and smiled.
"I wasn't defending you Rei. That punch was for me. Kicking my crutch
and breaking it. The nerve. He's lucky I didn't pick him up and slam him
into the ground a few times."
Rei's expression softened. "Oh well, if the punch was for you, that's
all right." She kicked Yuuichiro in the ribs once. "That's for attacking
my guest you jackass. Remember what I said and stay away!" Rei glanced
at Topaz' crutch, which was broken in half. "Uhoh, can you get by
without that?" she asked pointing.
Topaz sighed. "I can support my leg telekinetically, it's no strain, I
just thought it would be rude to use any power at all in the presence of
your queen." Rei nodded. "I'll explain the situation and see about the
protocols before you meet her," she said, feeling the icy cold finger of
fear stroke her spine. Topaz gestured and the broken parts of the
crutch obligingly levitated into the nearest garbage can.
"I'm ready." Rei forced herself to smile.
Red Cross MASH Unit, Under Attack
Macedonian Border
"I'm out of rounds," announced Xena as she hefted the rocket launcher
off her shoulder and set it beside her in the slight trench forming what
vaguely passed for a defensive perimeter.
"You learn fast for a living myth," said the guardsman from Amphipolis
(as Xena thought of him). Xena opened her mouth but he continued, "But
you have 'Many Skills, it is said." Xena pursed her lips and nodded
once.
"Are all the wounded who can be moved evacuated yet?" she asked without
removing her sight from the spread-out Nemesite forces working their way
forward.
"Mostly. The bad risks are being e-vacced now," he said. "We need ten
more minutes."
"You've got four. Tell them." He loped off back toward the camp, running
low. Xena wasn't sure she could deliver two. She didn't have her senshi
powers and the attackers had long-range weapons more deadly than arrows.
Inspired, she grabbed her chakram and with an ululating warcry, threw it
across the field. She managed to shear off the barrels of four of those
energy weapons before the chakram hit a rock in the field and bounced
back in her general direction. With another sudden cry she leaped up
into the air, turned a backflip and grabbed the chakram, and landed
several feet to the left of where she had been. She ran; the Nemesite
fire began to focus on her.
Meanwhile, Professor Tomoe, Haruka, and Michiru were loading people onto
transport vehicles: old busses, jeeps, hummers, pickup trucks, whatever
was available. The encampment was woefully unprepared for the attack.
The Nemesite forces must have smashed through UN lines or somehow
slipped through them. The advance continued for six minutes before it
crossed the north-eastern perimeter, at which point the Nemesites began
to overrun the camp, simply shooting everything in sight.
Haruka and Michiru gave a nurse a good push to get her up onto one of
the overloaded trucks and Michiru glanced back to see their jeep right
in the line of fire. Without a second thought she dashed toward it.
"Michiru!" bellowed Haruka in surprise. But it wasn't the blond who came
dashing to her, it was Xena, angling in from the side.
"Forget it, let's go!" yelled Xena as she ran toward Michiru. "There are
other cars!"
"No, I need my purse," Michiru yelled as she passed Xena still heading
to the jeep.
Xena pivoted and chased her. "Are you crazed??" she snarled as she
grabbed Michiru by the shoulder and whirled her around. Michiru blinked
in total surprise. No one had EVER done the like to her before. Her
thoughts focused.
"Medicine!" she spat out. It was now Xena's turn to blink. She nodded
once and yanked Michiru's arm to start her moving toward the escape
convoy. Xena darted toward the jeep, seeing this Michiru somewhat
hesitantly ran back toward the vehicles. Haruka was at the wheel of a
hum-vee, with an emphatic Dr. Tomoe yelling something at her and
gesturing wildly. Another dark-haired man in the back spotted her, then
turned back to yell something into Haruka's ear. Xena meanwhile reached
the jeep, grabbed the handbag and did a series of backflips away from
the jeep just as it was shot by an energy weapon and blew up. As the
last of the vehicles roared up a slight mountain grade and out of the
camp, Haruka drove the short distance to near Xena, executing a
bootlegger's turn which nearly smashed the hummer into the warrior
princess, but instead she leapt into the back with the grace of a jungle
cat. Xena grabbed on tightly as Haruka slammed the accelerator down and
the vehicle nearly leapt forward in response.
"I like the way you drive!" Xena exclaimed as she handed the bag to
Michiru. Dr. Tomoe groaned in despair. Michiru smiled indulgently and
hugged the bag tight, feeling the hard oval shape within. She had been
willing to risk her life to retrieve the Deep Aqua Mirror - the last
unbroken Outer Senshi Talisman.
End of Episode Eight
[End Credits Roll - See Episode 3]
Next time, on Mythic Sailor Moon:
Falling Water~Battle On! Sailor Neptune!
Image: Michiru draws the Deep Aqua mirror from her purse and holds it as if to ward off something... Haruka gapes in shock.