Fan Fiction / Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Real Heroes ❯ Chapter 9 ( Chapter 9 )

Chapter 9-

In little time at all, Duke and Scarlett had reached the armory, each taking out a different vehicle. Duke manned a tank, and Scarlett got inside a small Striker ATV. Flooring the accelerators, both of them went outside into the heat of battle.

"Yo Joe!" Firing off his tank at the enemy barrage, Duke looked forward at the enemy numbers. Six women. All wearing a derivative of the same outfit that Mars was wearing upon her capture.

"Keep firing!" screamed Duke. "Do NOT let the enemy enter the base!"

"There's too much cover fire!" screamed Minako. "We'll be wiped out in seconds!"

"Don't worry!" responded Ami. "Shabon Spray!" Raising her hands into the air, Ami used her powers to create a fog around the entire base, hoping to confuse the Joe team members. With the fog now providing the senshi with an advantage, the senshi continued attacking forward, hoping to hold off the Joe team members.

Roadblock had just finished his shift on guard duty when he first saw the light. Beams of light that looked like planets, chains, and even a gigantic heart appeared and destroyed the fence and guard posts. Wasting no time, Roadblock grabbed his M2 and started firing.

Then the fog came, blinding Roadblock from his objective. Screaming out for assistance, the only person he could find was Law and his dog, Order.

"Law! What's going on?"

"Dunno, Roadblock. Order started acting crazy, then the explosions came, then those girls started attacking, and now we're here!"

"Where are the little skanks?" Before Roadblock could receive and answer, a chain appeared from the midst of the fog and struck him in the shoulder.

"AH!"

"Roadblock! What happened?"
"Over there! Pointing to where the chain had come from, Law fired half of his Uzi clip ahead of him before he heard a female yelp. Turning back to Roadblock, Law began to examine his shoulder before Roadblock stood back up.

"Just a scratch. Let's just find those Cobra skanks and kick some butt!"

"Right!" Law sent his dog Order ahead to sniff out the senshi. That way, he and Roadblock knew where to fire at.

"Venus! Are you alright?"

"Just fine, Pluto. I think I took one to the leg." Struggling to get up, Mercury helped Venus up as she continued to fire off her Crescent Beam attack at the nearby soldiers. Even at this point, she was aiming for the legs, attempting not to kill them, but rather incapacitate them.

"If this keeps up, we're all as good as dead!" shouted Uranus.

"No!" screamed Chibi-Moon as she continued firing at Joe soldiers. "We need to give Usagi a little more time!"

"Small lady is correct," responded Pluto. "We must continue fighting. Retreat to the forests. We'll continue our barrage there."

Nodding in agreement, the other senshi ran to the forests while firing on the Joe forces. Seeing this on the thermal scope, Duke wasn't hesitant to follow.

"The enemy is retreating! Pursue them into the forest!"

Moving through the base with all the soldiers outside was easy enough for Usagi. She had managed to avoid detection while looking for Rei. But she still wasn't clear on where she was until she heard a man speak.

"Come on Snake-Eyes, we need to haul the Cobra slut off to the chopper. Lift-Ticket doesn't have all day!"

Following the voice, Usagi made her way into a hangar where he found Rei tied up in a straightjacket, a pilot, a man with the biggest muscles she had ever seen, and another man dressed in black with a sword on his back.

"Come on Slaughter; let's get this girl up to the helipad before the Cobra chicks outside call for reinforcements!"

"Sergeant Slaughter to you, Lift-Ticket.

She had to announce herself; it was the only way to get their attention. Otherwise, they'd keep going and never look back.

"Stop right there!" Sure enough, it worked. All three of the men looked at her, just like he planned. The muscle-bound man was the first to speak.

"Y'know, I always knew Cobra was a bunch of pansies, but I never thought I'd see the day where they started wearing miniskirts! What makes you think you can mess with G.I Joe? Especially my pals Snake-Eyes and Lift-Ticket?"

"I'm not a member of Cobra, I'm Sailor Moon! Guardian of justice! And you have no right to take her off to wherever you're taking her!"

Slaughter looked at Lift-Ticket, then at Snake-Eyes, and the three of them together started laughing for a short time. Then they decided to get serious.

"How about the three of us show the so-called 'Guardian of Justice' what happens when you mess with the U.S." Nodding in agreement, Snake-Eyes rushed forward to attack Sailor Moon when out of nowhere, a red rose struck his blade, knocking it out of his hands and pinning it to the ground.

"Where did that come from?" asked Lift-Ticket. Looking around, they found a man on the rafters with a cape and a tuxedo. A man Usagi instantly recognized.

"Tuxedo Kamen!"

Lift-Ticket wasn't impressed. "Who's this clown?"

The man stared at Lift-Ticket, and then jumped from the rafters down the floor, knocking Lift-Ticket out with a flying kick!

"Clown? You're the ones who have no idea who you're fighting or why? Blind allegiance to a government will only lead to this world's destruction. Release Sailor Mars now!"

"You'd like that wouldn't you?" responded Sergeant Slaughter. "Hey, Snake-Eyes, deal with the Cobra in the tux while I haul the prisoner and Lift-Ticket to the deck."

Nodding, Snake-Eyes picked up his sword and gave chase to Kamen, who ran into the adjacent hangar. Usagi quickly realized that he was attempting to draw off the ninja, leaving her alone to fight Sergeant Slaughter.

Slaughter stared at Usagi before he charged forward. "When I'm through scum bucket, they're gonna scrape your brains off the wall with a squeegee."

Moving into the adjacent hangar, Tuxedo Kamen saw Snake-Eyes in close pursuit. Eventually, he turned and drew his cane to face Snake-Eyes sword. Locked in combat, Kamen had to give Usagi more time to save Rei.

Snake-Eyes said nothing, but jumped into the air, and attacked with a flurry of shurikens. Questioning why an elite military team had a ninja on their team for a split second, Kamen countered with his own roses, each one hitting a respective shuriken. Then, jumping down, Snake-Eyes clashed his sword with Kamen's cane.

"What is the point of your fighting?" asked Kamen. "You have no idea what our cause is, and what we're fighting for. We're not part of Cobra!"

Ignoring his words, Snake-Eyes continued his assault, remaining silent the entire time. Kamen couldn't understand how even a ninja would refuse to say even a single word.

"The enemy is continuing their assault in the forests! Keep going!" shouted Duke. Unfortunately for him and G.I. Joe, the same fog that had appeared in the base now covered the forest. This made moving vehicles in the forest next to impossible. So Duke was forced to stay in his tank while the other soldiers moved into the forest.

"Law, Roadblock, see anything?"

"Can't see anything, but I'm pretty sure Order can pick up their scent."

"Go in. And be careful!"

"Minako, can you stand?"

"Don't use our real names, Mercury! They might hear us!"

"Well, Venus, can you stand?"

"I think so. The fog will give us more cover here than in the open base."

"Then let's resume the attack," continued Haruka.

"O.K." seconded Michiru.

Less than three minutes had passed before energy waves continued their barrage against the Joe and JSDF tanks and vehicles. Duke didn't want to risk shelling his own men, but after he saw a JSDF tank and a Joe Battle Wagon destroyed by the enemy's bizarre energy waves, he was left with no choice.

"Commence artillery shelling!" After a good amount of shelling, Duke drove his into the forest. He was going to stop the enemy cold, or else!

Watching the battle from a distance, Cobra Commander was starting to get impatient. With a dense fog covering parts of the forests that the Joes and senshi had moved into, he was forced to look with night vision and thermal goggles along with the other lookouts.

"Commander," asked Major Bludd, "when do we start blasting Joes?"

"In due time, Bludd, in due time. G.I. Joe is shelling the forests. There hasn't been enough of a reduction in their fighting strength to make our move."

"Yes, Commander," interrupted Destro, "but what if the battle ends without their fighting strength being depleted significantly?"

"We still move in, Destro. I'm not counting on the senshi to destroy G.I. Joe; rather I'm counting on them as a distraction." Turning to his forces, Cobra Commander began to shout orders. "In 5 minutes, prepare to attack!"

Usagi attempted to raise her wand for an attack, but before she could, she got hit with a punch from Sergeant Slaughter that felt like a sledgehammer blow. She barely managed to stay conscious as Slaughter grabbed Usagi and started hitting her with all of his might.

"This is for all those Japanese families you hurt!" shouted Slaughter as he slammed Usagi into the floor. She screamed in pain as she was unable to get back up.

"This is for Lift-Ticket, bitch!" screamed Slaughter again as he smashed his fists into her stomach. Usagi coughed up blood as Slaughter attacked again.

"And this is for the U.S. of A!" Gathering all his strength, Sergeant Slaughter smashed his fists into Usagi's stomach. He was going to take all of his frustrations with Cobra out on her right here, right now!

Usagi winced as Sergeant Slaughter grabbed her by the neck and picked her up. She was bleeding and in a world of pain. She knew she had let Rei down.

"Guardian of justice? You make me sick!" shouted Slaughter as he threw Usagi into a corner. Grabbing Rei and Lift-Ticket, Slaughter jumped on the stairs and started to walk towards the roof, where the helicopter was waiting.

Usagi was beaten badly, clutching the wand that Slaughter had knocked out of her hand. She had to get up. If they got away with Rei, she knew that they'd never find her. G.I. Joe and the entire world would know who the senshi were. The entire future would come crumbling down in a pile of smoldering ashes mixed with her blood. And everyone else would be right about her.

With all of her might, Usagi got up, grabbed her wand, and started to climb the stairs. She wasn't beaten yet.