The Rescue: Chapter 2 

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One by one, each of the Senshi fell through the black hole that 
Sailor Iron Mouse had made with a flicker of a hand. They landed 
on top of or near each other on a cold, hard black floor with a 
painful grunt. After a moment, the Senshi tried to get up and 
dust themselves off, but found that their arms were stil tied, 
and that it was difficult to even stand. They struggled for a 
few minutes, then gave up. Then, looking around them, the group 
noticed the dense fog and dreary atmosphere. 

"SHIMATTA!! Where the hell are we?" yelled Sailor Uranus, looking 
wildly around her. She looked for Neptune and Saturn, then sighed 
in relief when she saw that they were all right. 

"Don't you get it?" replied Sailor Mercury, "We're in the domain of 
Sailor Galaxia! It has to be!" Looking around more thoroughly, the 
Senshi of Water and Knowledge saw that the room actually had no walls. 
it was instead divided by see through flat planes. It was large, 
black with stars shining everywhere, and had a large black throne 
with gold trimmings that stood not to far in front of them. Mist flowed 
from an unknown source and fogged up everywhere they looked. Mercury 
then deduced that they were in the throne room of Sailor Galaxia. 

"That is very observant of you, girl. Did you figure that out all by 
yourself?" said a tauting voice, followed by a high pitched laugh. 
Suddenly, Sailor Iron Mouse materialized besides the throne, looking 
at them with a smug expression. 

"What have you done with my brother, you witch!" yelled out Eternal 
Sailor Moon, struggling against the ropes. Seeing Sailor Iron Mouse 
looking at her that way only made her think the worst has happened to 
Shingo, and she didn't like it, not one bit. 

"HUMPH! Don't worry about him. Your puny human brother will be fine, 
just as long as you all cooperate and give up you Star Seeds to ME!!" 
said Sailor Iron Mouse evilly. 

"Not in this lifetime!" sneered back Sailor Moon, "We will never 
surrender to the likes of you! I swear, when we get out of this, I will 
make you sorry you took advantage of a young boy! YURUSENAI!" 

"Fine then." Sailor Iron Mouse shrugged non-chalantly, "If I can't 
convince you to do the right then and give up, maybe someone else can. 
Meet your conqueror and new mistress, Her Highness, Sailor Galaxia!!" 
The Mouse Woman guestured beside her. 

Out of the thick fog over the throne, Sailor Galaxia materialized with a 
bright and blinding flash. Tall and regal in all her golden splendor, her 
red eyes glowed with indignation at the Sailor Senshi as she sat on the 
throne with her long legs crossed. The Senshi all gasped with shock and 
surprise. They had never had the luxury of looking upon Sailor Galaxia up 
close and personal like this, until now. 

"Well, if it isn't the all mighty Sailor Senshi, or should I say, Sailor 
Failures?" the Golden Senshi said with a deep throaty voice. She then let 
out a booming laugh. "You are all so pathetic! What do you have to say 
for yourselves now?" She cocked a golden eyebrow, and waited for them to 
speak. 

Sailor Venus looked out the corner of her eyes, and saw Sailor Sirius 
trying to cut through the ropes she was tied up with the sharp tip on top 
of her black scepter with a sawing motion. When she looked up, she saw 
Sailor Venus looking at her curiously, then mouthed the words "Keep her 
busy!", and continued to saw. 

Sailor Venus nodded with understanding, smiled slightly, and turned to 
glare at Galaxia. "What's the matter Galaxia? So now you're going around 
harassing little kids? That doesn't sound like a mistress or a conqueror 
of anything to me! It looks to me like you're nothing but a big, UGLY bully!!" 

A hushed silence fell over the black surroundings. Then, Sailor Iron Mouse 
brought a hand to her mouth and snickered. But when Sailor Galaxia glared 
at her, she cleared her throat and straightened up quickly. 

Galaxia turned back to the Senshi and glared hatefully at Venus. "An ugly 
bully, hmmm?" she said irritably. "We'll see how spunky you are once I have 
your star seed, and you become my servant!" She nodded to Sailor Iron Mouse, 
and the smaller evil Senshi bent her elbows towards her to show her golden 
bracelets, and prepared to fire the blow to bring out the Star Seed from 
the Senshi of Love and Beauty. 

"Not today, Goldie!!" shouted Sailor Sirius in anger as she suddenly stood 
up, shoved off the rope that was around her and fixed Iron Mouse determined 
look. She raised her scepter, and pointed it at the Anima-Mate 
"SIRIUS SCEPTER, ILLUMINATE!!" A massive beam of white light energy poured 
out of the scepter and into Sailor Iron Mouse's eyes, causing her to go 
blind, and unable to use her powers. 

Sailor Iron Mouse let out a horrible scream and dropped her whip to cover 
her pain-filled eyes. When she did so, the ropes around the other Sailor 
Senshi disappeared. "All right!!" yelled out Sailor Jupiter, "Let's go kick 
some Anima-Mate butt!!" The Senshi of Lightning gave a war cry, and started 
to rush forward. 

"Not so fast!" said Sailor Galaxia with a smirk as she raised a hand to 
stop Sailor Jupiter. "Aren't you forgetting someone?" Galaxia stretched 
out her hand to her left side, and a glass coffin appeared. Inside, 
Shingo Tsukino lay as if dead, his skin pale and barely breathing. 

"Shingo!!" screamed Eternal Sailor Moon. 

"You want him? You have to fight for him!" sneered Sailor Galaxia. She 
raised her right hand, and for a moment there was a feeling of distorientation 
as reality was bent. Suddenly, everyone found themselves right in the middle 
of the arena of a colliseum. it was large, white, and looked out of place 
in the dimension that resembled Outer Space. 

"Now how did we get here?" asked Sailor Mars in wonder. Sailor Galaxia raised 
a hand and pointed to the Senshi. "Anima-Mates!! Servants! Attack!" With another 
flash of bright light, the Golden Senshi disappeared with the glass coffin and 
Sailor Iron Mouse who was still wimpering from the temporary pain. 

Suddenly, all around them, the sailor scouts was surrounded by dozens of 
hideous demons that seem to appear out of nowhere, all different shapes and 
forms and slime dripping from their mouths. 

One of the demons, seeming to be made of wood, stepped up in front, and 
shooting forth both his arms, shotout poisonous thorns out at the Senshi. 
The thorns fell and pierced the ground around the girls, barely missing them. 

"Saturn! A little protection please!" said Sailor Neptune as she stepped 
over one of the poisonous thorn. "Something tells me that he will not miss 
next time." She fixed the demons around them with a disgusted look. 

"Right!! But I don't know how long I will last. Silence Wall!!" replied 
Sailor Saturn, finally picking up her Silence Glaive and lifting it high 
above her head. The blue electric light power shot out of the pointed end 
of the weapon, and quickly surrounded the Senshi as they huddled close 
together. Each avoided touching the walls, knowing that it would be suicide 
to do so. 

"Just how are we supposed to BEAT these freaks?" shouted Sailor Sirius 
worriedly as the demons pounded on the force field. Each time they hit 
it, they were electrified, but that didn't stop them from trying to get 
to the Senshi and destroying them. They continued to scream and shout 
and attack the shield with thier powers and bodies. 

After only about five minutes, Sailor Saturn started to weaken as she 
grunted with pain, sweat pouring down her face. Neptune held her up as 
she nearly fainted. Then, the shield weakened so much, that one of the 
demons actually put a a three fingered clawed hand through it, and nearly 
grabbed Sailor Uranus by the shirt. The Sky Senshi jumped back in disgust, 
wishing she could put her hand through and punchi it hard. "Unless someone 
has a bright idea, we are in BIG trouble!" she growled, feeling for the 
first time helpless. 

To be continued... 

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