Sailor Moon Fan Fiction / Digimon Fan Fiction / Crossover Fan Fiction ❯ Sailor Moon Online: Gaiden ❯ Spira Stories 5: Into the Thieves’ Den ( Chapter 36 )

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All that’s happening with coronavirus and all is really putting a damper into my writing. It isn’t too hard to imagine, everyone. Believe me, I’m worried more and more especially for my family since I feel that they are those ‘vulnerable’ to the virus in which my fear isn’t I get inflected, but I get infected and infect my family! And that’s made worse when I heard that a person can be infected with coronavirus, but they suffer no symptoms from it at all! And from what I hear, that’s not too hard to happen since, from one expert ‘examination’, 1 in 4 infected don’t suffer any symptoms from coronavirus! It is A LOT to take in. Hopefully, this nightmare will come to an end, soon, but while I hope for the best, I also prepare for the worst. Hopefully, the worst WILL NOT happen or at least, at this point, the worst has passed. Anyway, I think that we can start this one-shot, so, let’s not think about anymore ‘sad stuff’, okay. Now, I know that this is getting old, but I must give thanks and credit to Belletiger and Kanius as well as Kanius’ YuYuGiDigiMoon fanfiction series, especially his The Invasion of the Rajita story, for giving me permission to use the idea of Valkyrie Sailor Soldiers and everything that’s a part of them in my fanfiction. I would like to give thanks and credit to Kanius and his YuYuGiDigiMoon series, including this author’s Dawn of Chaos story, and LazerWulf for giving me permission to use the idea for their version of Sailor Charon, namely the fact that she is Sailor Pluto’s sister among other things. I would also like to give thanks and credit to Matty G91 and this author’s story of Kamen Rider Lunar for giving me permission to use Kamen Rider Lunar, his looks, and everything about him as well as the UNI-SHOCKER organization as well as the idea of Darth Revan Sammy Tsukino and the other alternate versions of said character.

Now, with that out of the way, as they say on SAO: Link Start!

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Warning: These stories may and will contain mature level intense violence, blood, gore, death, mild to explicit suggestive themes, including mind-control and brainwashing, mild to explicit bad language, and mature adult themes/situations!

Second Warning: Some to a lot of OOC (Out of Character) actions and mannerisms in these series of stories!

Prelude: A castle of stone and metal floating in the sky that consist of one hundred floors. Within this massive structure, there are countless cities, villages, towns, forests, plains, lakes, and whatever you can imagine. There is only one staircase that connects one floor with another, and these staircases are located within dangerous mazes filled with monsters. The players with navigate through these floors to the top with nothing than the weapons in their hands. And yes, I said players.

This is the world of Aincrad, a floating castle in a virtual sky, and yes, I said VIRTUAL sky. This world and this floating castle world are in a realm made of digital information…the world of Sword Art Online. A world that was supposed to be game, but because a nightmare prison when its creator, Akihiko Kayaba, trapped the ten thousand players within this virtual world and if they die here, they will die in real life. The ten thousand players struggle in this ‘game death’ to reach the top of the floating castle where the final boss and the key to their freedom waits.

You may know this story and the stories that come after it, but do you know all the stories? All the tales that happened within the floating castle? What about the tales that happened after the floating castle was conquered? There are stories connected to the ‘tale’ of this floating castle, its ‘history’, and its ‘aftermath’, but they weren’t told…until now. These are those stories…

Sailor Moon Online: Gaiden

Story 36: Spira Stories 5: Into the Thieves’ Den

Note: This story takes place in the Hollow Fragment timeline and takes place around during time of Chapter 17 of World’s Song.

July 2025 (Earth time), Spira

Today, in Spira, we find our heroes and heroines on what’s known as the Djose Highroad, a road/path leading from Mushroom Rock Road to the crossroads between Djose Temple and road to the Moonflow, where we find Naruto, Sakura, and Hinata standing as a group of Leblanc Syndicate members run away from them in which Yuna, Rikku, Paine, and the rest of our heroes and heroines walk up to the three ninjas.

Rikku says, excitedly, “Way to go!”

Paine says, plainly, “We could have used the uniforms.”

Hinata says, a bit nervously, “Sorry about that.”

Naruto says, “Couldn’t be helped.”

Amara says, “Maybe that it is best that members of our group that are less ‘destructive’ try fighting these guys.” Naruto rubs his head in embarrassment at Amara’s words.

Kotone asks, “So, what do we do now?”

Rika says, “Best we can do is look around.”

Asuna says, with a nod, “If they are here, there might be more members around.”

Kazuto says, plainly, “And they will be on the lookout for us since we just attacked members of their group.”

Rika says, solemnly, “Not too surprising on that part.”

Darien says, “However, we’re going to need to get those uniforms if we wish for this plan to succeed.”

Asuna asks, curiously, “Couldn’t they figure out what we are doing because of these ‘attacks’?”

Paine says, “While you have a point, Asuna, they are either too dumb or too proud to do anything about it.”

Rikku says, with a smirk, “No joke! They aren’t the brightest tools on the airship!”

Rika says, with a grin, “Yeah, you’re right! Look at what happened when we faced them earlier!”

Keiko says, curiously, “You have a point, Rika.”

Kotone says, with a nod, “I’ve got to admit that they don’t seem that tough.”

Kazuto says, plainly, “And maybe they aren’t, but if we corner them, it is when they are at their most dangerous.”

Sakura says, with a nod, “Yep. Plus, we are going to be heading to their headquarters. Basically, it is into the lion’s den.”

Kazuto says, nodding his head in agreement, “Agreed. We need to be careful, but first, we need to get ‘over there’.”

Paine says, plainly, “And we can’t without those uniforms.”

Shino says, “Basically, it is a catch-twenty-two. We won’t be able to get in without those uniforms and it is most likely that they could catch on what we are doing while we get those uniforms.”

Tai says, with a grin, “True, but with people like that, being the way that they are, they might think that this is some kind of ‘payback plot’ since they may think that we are lower than them.”

Matt says, nodding his head in agreement, “That’s for sure.”

Paine says, “And I say that we should let them think that. If it throws them off our real plans, then why should we care? It is better for us.”

Rikku says, with a sly grin, “Yeah! No skin off our nose if they are too stupid or arrogant to think that we are just as low as they are!” Plenty of the others get nervous from that statement for obvious reasons.

Keiko asks, curiously, “So, what should we do now?”

Davis says, “I say that we follow them and see where they are going.”
Mimi says, pointing ahead of her, “I don’t think that’s necessary.” Everyone looks towards where Mimi is pointing, and they look to see a familiar pair of female ‘goons’ in the distance.

Sora says, surprised, “More of them?”

Kotone asks, “Do you think that they know what happened to their comrades?”

Naruto asks Sakura, slyly, “Why don’t we find out?”
Sakura says, with a smirk, “Good idea, but let Hinata and I handle this one. Your transformation jutsu has gotten great, but these are girls and…”

Naruto says, a bit nervously, “Actually, I was going to suggest that.” Sakura glares suspiciously at Naruto, but she just shrugs it.

Suguha tells Sakura and Hinata, “Be careful you two.”

Hinata says, with a smile, “We will.” Hinata and Sakura then use their Transformation Jutsu to look exactly like the female members of Leblanc’s organization.

Yuna says, “I’m still amazed at this ability.”

Rikku says, excitedly, “It’s awesome!”

Raye says, “Personally, I don’t see why we can’t have Naruto, Sakura, and Hinata go into Leblanc’s headquarters like that.”

Rikku says, irritated tone in her voice, “Hey, this is sphere hunter pride here!”
Yolei asks Rikku, plainly, “What are we? Chopped liver?”

Rikku gives a nervous look at Yolei’s question causing Paine to say, “While Naruto, Sakura, and Hinata are great at what they do, we will better if more of us is in there though not too many of us. However, only the three of them have that ‘disguise ability’, so, the rest of us need disguises to get in.”

Davis retorts, “Well, what are we waiting for?”

Sakura, still in her disguise, says, “We’ll be right back.” Sakura and Hinata then sneak off to go female member of Leblanc’s organization to see if they can get any information from them.

One of the two ‘female goons’ says, “There they go.”

The other of the two ‘female goons’ says, “Those idiots let the Gullwings get the better of them.”

Sakura and Hinata come over to them with Sakura saying, “Hey, what do you two think you are doing? You saw those goofballs that just got beat by the Dullwings!”

The first female goon says, with a nod, “No kidding.”

Sakura asks, seriously, “Then what are you doing?”

The second female goon says, “We need to find a sphere.”

Hinata asks, curiously, “A sphere?”

The first female goon says, nervously, “Yeah, we…kind of dropped it.”

Sakura yells out, in a mock shocked tone, “Dropped it?! You DROPPED a sphere?! If those ‘sphere hunters’ find that sphere, the boss is going to go ballistic!”

The first female goon says, nervously, “We know! We know!”

The second female goon says, “Just help us find that sphere!”

Sakura says, sternly, “Okay, but if this goes south and those ‘sphere hunters’ get the sphere, I’m not taking the boss’ heel for you! You got that? That will be on you!”

The second female goon says, “Fine! Whatever! Just help us!”

Sakura says, pointing in one direction, “You look that way and we’ll look over here!”

The first female goon says, with a nod, “Right! Thanks!” The two female goons take off in which Sakura and Hinata return to the others where, after dispelling their Henges, discuss on what they found out.

Rikku says, excitedly, “Ooh, this is our big chance! Time for a little payback!”

Keiko asks, a bit nervously, “Aren’t we just doing what they did to us?”

Shino says, plainly, “Actually, no. They came on our ship and stole something from us while it was in our possession. This sphere is one that they lost. If we find it before they do, we are just retrieving what they lost.”

Mina says, excitedly, “Yep! Finders keepers and losers weepers!”

Lita tells Mina, with a nervous smile and tone, “Yeah, you would say that Mina-chan.”

Davis asks, slyly, “So, what are we waiting for?!”

Rikku says, excitedly, “That’s the spirits! Let’s get that sphere!”

Yuna says, with a nod, “Yeah!” Soon enough, our heroes and heroines start to search around for any signs of the Dressphere while engaging in several ‘encounters’ with groups of fiends along the way. But then, thanks to her ‘treasure hunting abilities’, Kotone manages to find the sphere.
Kotone says, taking the sphere into her hands, “I found it!”

Rikku says, with a grin, “Way to go! You have got talent, girl!”

Kotone says, with a blush, “Thank you!” Just then everyone hears footsteps coming towards them and they turn to see Ormi walking over to them.

Ormi says, “So, that’s where it was! Sorry for the trouble! I appreciate you finding it for us though.” Our heroes and heroines give a look that states: ‘Are you kidding?’

Amara tells Ormi, sarcastically, “Seriously, you intrude on our ship and steal from us in which you expect us to give this back?”

Lita says, annoyed, “You have got some nerve!”

Yolei says, plainly, “What do you expect? He’s big and he’s dumb. Classic male henchmen type.”

Ormi says, with a sneer, “You just asked for it, sister!”

Soon after, Logos walks up causing him to say, “The Gullwings.”

Ormi says, whimpering, “These meanies won’t give back the sphere!”

Tai says, shaking his head, “Dude, seriously? You are a joke!”

Logos tells Ormi, ignoring Tai, “Then we take it back. And on that note: We take it back!”

Rika says, with a sly smirk, “Give it your best shot, dork!”

Logos says, with a sly tone, “Our pleasure little girl!” Soon after, a group of female goons and machina known as Battle Snakes assemble around Logos and Ormi.

Raye asks, annoyed, “You had to say that, didn’t you?”

Rika gives a nervous smile causing Amara to tell Raye, “Not the time!” Soon enough, Darien turns into Tuxedo Mask while the females of the group shift into different Dresspheres where they start a fight with Yuna, Rikku, and Paine focusing on Logos and Ormi while the rest took down the female goons and Battle Snakes with Yolei, wearing a Gunner Dressphere, starting off with Trigger Happy, where she fired multiple shots that slams one of the Battle Snakes causing enough damage to take it out. Asuna and others that are using the Warrior Dressphere are using Sword Skills to take down one female goon after another while Kotone and others using the Thief Dressphere are stealing items and money from the female goons and Battle Snakes.

Mimi asks, curiously, “Does it feel weird to be taking money like this?”

Yolei says, “These guys are thieves, Mimi! I say that one good turn deserves another!”

Kari says, nervously, “I’m not sure that makes it right, Yolei.”

Mina says, strongly, “Well, I agree with Yolei!”

Rikku says, with a strong excited tone, “That’s right! They stole from us first! This is sphere hunter pride!” Rikku ducks under Ormi’s sphere when he throws it at her.

Logos says, with a nasty snort, “Your pathetic pride won’t save you from us.”

Paine says, with a plain tone, “No…our strength will.” Logos prepares to fire his guns, but his attack is knocked off target when his hand is cut by one of Tuxedo Mask’s roses causing Logos to snarl at Tuxedo Mask.

Lita says, excitedly, “Nice shot!” Lita, wearing a dark green version of Paine’s Warrior Dressphere, uses something akin to Strea’s two-handed sword and cleaves off the head of a Battle Snake.
Sakura says, “Let me show you how it’s done!” Sakura roars out as she uses her chakra-enhanced strength and slams her fist into the ground causing the whole area to shake in which the ground causing a group of female goons and Battle Snakes to fall down into a crater that forms under their feet due to the ground collapsing around their feet.

Yuna says, amazed upon seeing Sakura’s power, “Wow.”

Hinata asks Sakura, nervously, “Isn’t that a bit ‘over the top’, Sakura-chan?”

TK says, nervously, “Not for her, I don’t think.”

Mina says, with a nervous nod, “Yep.” Sakura gives an annoyed look upon hearing TK and Mina, however, she continues to remain focused on her opponents with Naruto using his Shadow Clone Jutsu to create a legion of Naruto Shadow Clones that defeats the rest of the female goons and takes down the rest of the Battle Snakes.

Ormi says, nervously, “Uh oh.”

Paine says, with a smirk, “You got that right.” With them outnumbered and overpowered, Ormi and Logos were beaten and they, along with the female goons, run off in retreat with one of the female goons leaving without her uniform.

After all of them are gone, Mimi asks Yuna, Rikku, and Paine, “Why did you take only one?”

Paine says, “Tactics.”

Cody says, “You didn’t want them to get an idea on what you are doing, so, you are going to take them one at a time.”

Rikku says, with a grin, “Bingo!”

Paine says, “Most likely, they will believe that we are embarrassing their members by doing something like this. And that’s what we would want them to think.”

Rikku says, with a grin, “Makes it easier for us!”

Asuna says, nervously, “Something tells me that while you are telling the truth, the ‘deception’ is also true.”

Rikku retorts, with a sly grin, “What do you think?” Plenty of the others can’t help to give nervous expressions at Rikku due to her statement for whole sorts of reasons.

Kazuto says, trying to change the subject, “Anyway, we have gotten one of the uniforms and not to mention that we have a sphere.”

Mina asks, curiously with a sly smile, “Speaking of the sphere, what kind of sphere is it?”

Kotone shows the sphere causing her to say, “I wish that I knew.” Everyone else looks at the sphere in which some of their group, including Yuna, Asuna, and Suguha, can’t help to feel a ‘pull’ from the sphere in Kotone’s hands.

July 2025 (Earth time), Spira, Celsius

Back on board the Celsius, we find our heroes and heroines assembled on the bridge as Brother is wildly cheering excitedly.

Brother yells out, excitedly, “Party! Party!”

Amara says, with a sigh, “It is too early to start celebrating, pal. We just got ONE uniform.”

Brother says, “True, but we managed to regain some of our honor by taking one of their uniforms AND getting one of their spheres out of it too! Serves them right!”

Rikku says, excitedly, “Yeah!”

Mina says, with a sly grin, “And we got the better deal! They got one half of a sphere from us, but we took a WHOLE sphere from them!”

Keiko asks, a bit nervously, “Isn’t that enough to make things even?”

Brother says, sternly, “No, it is not! It isn’t just about the sphere! It is the principal! We can’t allow this transgression to go unpunished and we must take back what was stolen from us! It is the law of the sphere hunter!”

Yolei asks, curiously and sarcastically, “Law or just pissed that someone broke into the ship as well gloat about it like they owned it?”

Brother gives an annoyed growl and Buddy says, changing the subject, “Anyway, we have one of the uniforms that we need. Plus, I have got to say that your plan is a good idea. If we take the uniforms one at a time, they may not suspect anything and making sure that we take only a small number of uniforms while having Naruto, Sakura, and Hinata use their ‘unusual abilities’ to disguise themselves as Leblanc’s goons is a good idea. We will have more members of our group infiltrate than uniforms that we stole, so, even if they suspect something, they won’t know the full numbers of our forces that gotten inside of their headquarters.”

Paine says, with a plain tone, “It is good plan.”

Kazuto says, nodding his head in agreement, “I agree. It is a plan that we can modify just in case.”

Buddy says, with a nod, “That’s a good point, Kazuto. Plus, with the abilities of Naruto, Sakura, and Hinata, in which I think that you have yet to completely use, I think that we have a very good chance of infiltrating Leblanc’s headquarters.”

Naruto says, “Getting in? No problem.”

Sakura says, with a nod of her head, “Finding that sphere, which is most likely complete, is the real problem.”

Lita says, with a smile while looking at Ami, “I’m sure that Ami-chan has a solution.”

Ami says, a bit nervously, “Well, I may have something ready when it is time.”

Mina says, with a sly grin, “We know that you will, Ami-chan.”

Paine asks Buddy, “Any ideas on where to go next?”

Buddy responds, “Not a clue.”

Yuna asks Shinra, “Shinra, how is the examination of that sphere?”

Shinra responds, “By the looks of it, it is a Dressphere, but no ordinary Dressphere.”

Rikku asks, curiously, “What do you mean by that?”

Shinra responds, “This Dressphere is very powerful. And it taps into the full power of the Garment Grid in which the more Dresspheres that you can harness with a Garment Grid, the more powerful that this Dressphere is. This Dressphere has several ‘components’ with each ‘component’ having its own set of abilities. Namely, you are more like three people in one.”

There are looks of shock causing Keiko to say, amazed, “That sounds powerful.”

Kotone says, with a nod, “Yeah.”

Shinra retorts, “It is. To activate it, you need to activate all the Dresspheres that have linked to the Garment Grid that you are currently using.”

Yolei asks, “Basically, you are saying that we need to ‘transform’ into all of the Dresspheres that we have on the Garment Grid that we have equipped on, right?”

Shinra says, “During the same fight.”

Rika says, with a whistle, “Wow. I know that we can change Dresspheres during battle, but it isn’t instant.”

Kazuto says, with a nod, “It takes a few seconds for you to ‘change your equipment’.”

Sora says, a bit nervously, “That’s one way of putting it.”

Suguha says, nervously while changing the subject, “Anyway, where should we go next? We need to find two more uniforms.”

Yuna says, with a nod, “That’s a good question, Suguha.” Our heroes and heroines look at each other and start to discuss about what to do next, they don’t notice that sphere that contains the special Dressphere gives off a slight glow in which the broaches of not only Suguha and Asuna give off a slight glow, but also Serena’s and Kari’s broach as well, however, since all of their broaches are inside of their sub-space pockets, they don’t notice that glow.

July 2025 (Earth time), Spira, Guadosalam

Inside of the underground city of Guadosalam, our heroes and heroines are walking down the pathways that seem to be made of huge tree roots.

Rikku says, excitedly, “We really racked in the dough!”

Yuna says, with a nod, “I hope that Tobli’s show is successful.”

Mina says, with a grin, “With how we helped? There is no way that it can fail!”

Amara tells Mina, “Don’t count your chickens…or in this case, your chocobos before they hatch, Mina-chan.”

Serena says, with a smile, “I’m sure that he will be just fine.”

Kazuto tells Serena, “We can only hope, Serena.”

Suguha tells Kazuto, “Don’t be so negative, big brother.” Soon enough, the group stops in front of the largest structure within the underground city where two male members of Leblanc’s organization are standing guard at the front and only door into the structure.

One of the male ‘goons’ says, in a taunting tone, “Oh, look, it’s the Dullwings!”

Lita says, annoyed, “That’s getting old!”

The male goon retorts, “Get used it witch! You aren’t getting in here see?”

Yuna says, sternly, “But Leblanc broke into our airship!”

Yolei says, annoyed, “And stole from us to boot! That’s not fair!”

The male goon responds, “Anything goes for the great Leblanc!”

Yolei wants to respond to those words, but Ken tells Yolei, “It isn’t worth the time.”

Amara says, with a nod, “Don’t waste your breath on the mindless minions, Yolei.”

The male goon says, annoyed, “Hey!”

Rika says, with a smirk, “If the shoe fits…”

The male goon says, with an annoyed tone, “Ha! You are just sore that our leader made fools out of you and if you think that you can get revenge by ‘stripping’ our female members, you have gone petty!”

Rika says, with a smirk, “Believe what you want to think! If we can beat you so easily out on the field, you and your boss will look like a joke…if you aren’t already!”

The male goon asks, irritated, “What was that?”

Mina says, with a sly smirk, “You heard her, goon boy! By the looks of things, all of Spira will know that Leblanc and her sphere hunters are joke since the Gullwings keep beating them over and over again! The only reason that you managed to take something from us is when we weren’t aboard our ship in the first place! If we were there, your boss and her goons would have been booted all over Spira!”

The male goon says, with a sneer, “Why you…!!”

The other male goon says, plainly, “Don’t bother with them. They are just sore losers.”

Paine says, “We will see about who will be sore and who will be losers soon enough.” Before the two male goons could retort, our heroes and heroines take off into the distance.

Rika tells Paine, with a grin, “Nice.”

Yuna asks, a bit nervously, “Are you sure that it is a good idea?”

Davis says, with a shrug, “Who knows? But usually, when you piss off an ‘evil organization’, they tend to make stupid mistakes.”

Tai says, with a nod, “No joke.”

Matt says, with a plain tone, “Well, usually.”

Cody says, “While they typically do, the tactic could also backfire, so, we should watch how we ‘taunt’ our opponents.”

Ken says, nodding his head, “Good point, Cody.”

Mimi says, with a sigh, “I wish that we could bring Palmon along.”

Sora tells Mimi, “We know, Mimi, but you know how it is. The Digimon could be mistaken as fiends and attacked.”

Rikku says, “Yeah, that’s right! I can see how different that your little ‘monster friends’ are from fiends! I mean, EXTREMELY different, but the instant that a regular person from Spira sees them, they will think just one thought: Fiend!”

Paine says, “And with fiends, it is either run away or attack and if it is person with significant skill, it will be ‘attack first and ask questions later’ type situation.”

Yolei says, “We know, Paine. However, I don’t blame our partners if they get a bit of ‘cabin fever’.”

TK says, with a smile, “Same here, Yolei. Hopefully, Patamon and the others will be okay.”

Asuna asks, curiously, “Where to next?”

Paine says in reply, plainly, “Where else? The Thunder Plains.”

Tai says, with a nod, “Right.” Soon enough, our heroes and heroines head down the path that would take them to the Thunder Plains.

July 2025 (Earth time), Spira, Bikanel Island

Within the wind and sand-filled desert plains of Sanubia Sands, part of Bikanel Island, location of the former home of the Al Bhed, Rikku’s people, which was ironically and simply known as ‘Home’, we find ourselves at a camp for Al Bhed excavating machina for various purposes. Our heroes and heroines are assembled together in the center of the camp with plenty of them winching from sandstorms bracketing the camp.

Davis yells out, “Man! How much sand can one place have?!”

Tai responds, “A lot by the looks of it!”

Yolei asks, annoyed, “Why are we here again?!”

Rikku says, “Come on, Yolei! We got some good stuff during our first digs here!”

Amara says, annoyed, “And plenty of sand up our you-know-where to boot!”

Kazuto says, “Well, Kotone had a bit of a good time.”

Kotone says, with a smile, “It was nice to get some treasure…but I wish that we didn’t have so much sand to deal with.”

Kazuto says, nodding his head in agreement, “I’m sure that everyone else agrees with that.”

Rika says, bluntly, “No kidding.”

Yuna says, “While we did earn quite plenty of money from helping Tobli, it wouldn’t hurt to earn a bit more.”

Kari says, with a sigh, “Speaking of Tobli and his show…”

TK tells Kari, with a nod, “I know, Kari. It is sad.”

Cody says, with a plain tone, “With those ‘Fayth’ gone, it is right to assume that without them that the forest would go since they were the ones ‘supporting’ it.”

Yuna says, with a solemn sigh, “Yes…”
Davis says, with a plain tone, “Yeah, there is also another problem.”

Tai says, with a nod, “I get you, Davis. Without that forest, there won’t be a place for those Guado people to hide and right now, the whole of this world are pissed off at time.”

Paine says, plainly, “That isn’t too surprising considering what happened.”

Serena says, “But I don’t think that it is right from them to get ‘punished’ if what we are thinking what ‘punishment’ is in everyone else’s eyes especially the Ronso!”

Darien says, nodding his head, “I agree, Serena. Even though they aren’t blameless, since they followed their leader, knowing of his madness, they didn’t the stuff that he did. He didn’t massacre members of the Ronso.”

Paine says, looking at Rikku, “However, it wasn’t Seymour that attacked Al Bhed and forced them to destroy their Home.”

Rikku says, annoyed, “Don’t remind me!”

Yuna says, concerned, “Rikku…”

Rikku tells Yuna, with a smile, “Easy, Yunie! I’m fine! It is like pops said before: ‘We can always build a new Home’.” Rikku says, annoyed, “But I wish that we would find better ways to do it than turn historical places, especially those important to you, into tourist attractions! And he has the nerve to sulk about it when you told him off!”

Asuna asks Rikku, “Speaking of your father, Rikku, will he be okay at the Thunder Plains?”

Rikku tells Asuna, with a scoff, “He’ll be just fine! Thanks to the towers being fixed and all, he’s okay! And he is a tough old bird! A few fiends won’t be a problem for him! Just leave him to sulk!”
Asuna says, nervously, “Okay…” The group then goes over to hovercraft where a young Al Bhed woman known as Nhadala, quickly notices them as they prepare to head off.

Nhadala tells them, “Hold up!”

Suguha asks, curiously, “What’s up?”

Nhadala responds, “Before you go, could you do me the favor and check the oasis for me?”

Asuna asks, curiously, “Did something happen?”

Nhadala responds, “Not really, but I have been getting reports of strange stuff washing up over there. I hope that you wouldn’t mind looking into it.”

Ken asks, curiously, “Strange stuff?”

Rikku says, with a smile, “Maybe some treasure!”

Kotone says, nervously, “I don’t think that it will be that easy, Rikku.”

Mina tells Nhadala, excitedly, “We’re on it!”

Raye says, annoyed, “Hey!”

Nhadala says, with a smile, “Thanks! Appreciate it!”

After Nhadala takes off, Raye tells Mina, “What’s the big idea?”

Mina says, with a grin, “Oh, come on, Raye! If I didn’t say it, Yuna would have!”

Yuna says, nervously, “Well, I…”

Paine says, plainly, “What’s done is done.”

Darien says, with a nod, “Agreed.”

Serena says, with a kind smile, “Plus, we might get lucky and something good would come from it.” A few members of the group aren’t so sure of Serena’s words, but they head over to the hover where they talk to the pilot.

The pilot of the hover says, “So, she has got you on another errand, huh? I heard that there was some weird folks hanging around the oasis.”

Keiko asks, curiously, “Weird folks?”

The pilot tells Keiko in reply, “Some weird looking guys and gals.”

Izzy asks, curiously, “Can you describe them?”

The pilot retorts, with a shrug, “Can’t really say. Didn’t want to hear anything more about it.”

Yolei says, getting a sly smirk, “I guess that Serena was right.”

Serena says, nervously, “I don’t think that’s what I meant…”

Rikku says, with a grin, “Well, it sounds like this venture will be good for us.”

Paine says, with a sly smirk, “Indeed.”

Suguha says, with a sigh, “Get ready for round two.”

Kazuto says, nodding his head, “Agreed, Sugu.” Our heroes and heroines can’t help to nod their heads in agreement as they prepare to board the hovers that will take them to the oasis area of the Sanubia Sands in which, based on what they heard, they may be up for encounter.

(A short time later; Elsewhere)

At the oasis area of Sanubia Sands, which is a small pool of fresh water, surrounded by rock formation and trees, we find our heroes and heroines heading to the pool of water where Kotone seems a familiar glow in which she goes over to pick up another sphere.

Rikku says, excitedly, “Way to go, girl! It’s another sphere!”

The group assembles around Kotone in which Keiko says, “You are really good at this treasure hunting.”

Kotone says, nervously, “It usually isn’t that easy.”

But then a familiar male voice says, “Fancy meeting you here.” Everyone looks to the source of the voice to find Logos with a small troop of male and female goons as well as Battle Snakes on top of the rock formation above them.

Sakura says, “You hit the point right on the nose, Kotone.”

Kazuto says, with a nod, “No joke.”

Logos says, “You can lead a Gullwing to water, but you can’t make it drink.”

Our heroes and heroines look at each other causing Davis to ask, confused, “Say what?”

Matt asks, confused, “Was that supposed to be an insult?”

Lita says, “If it was, it wasn’t a good one.”

Logos glares at Lita with an annoyed look causing Logos to say, annoyed, “Enough of this nonsense!”

Suguha says, with a glare, “Took the words right out of my mouth!”

Naruto says, with a nod, “Believe it! Time to put up or shut up, jerk!” Soon enough, Logos, the goons, and the machina attack our heroes and heroines in which Darien turns into Tuxedo Mask with the female members of the group activating their Dresspheres in which they change into different ones, expect for Suguha, who transforms into Valkyrie Sailor Celestial.

Logos asks, annoyed, “Do you think that a little ‘costume change’ will save you?”

Sailor Celestial retorts, “You really didn’t learn your lesson last time, did you?”

Rika says, “That or we really gave him a rap on the head the last time that we beat him.”

Mina says, with a nod and smirk, “Yeah, maybe even both.”

Logos says, annoyed, “You are starting to really annoy me. I think that it is time all of you be given a lesson that you will never forget!” Logos fires his guns at our heroes and heroines, but Sailor Celestial easily defects them with her armor.

Sailor Celestial says, seriously, “Actually, I say that it is time that you learn your lesson, big time!”

Yolei says, excitedly, “You tell him, girl!”

Amara says, seriously, “Head in the ‘game’, Yolei!”

Tai says, seriously, “Here we go!” Soon enough, the battle begins, and it is intense with Hinata, using a dark violet version of Yuna’s Black Mage Dressphere, uses lightning elemental black mage along with members of their group using Black Mage Dresspheres to take out the machina due to their vulnerability to lightning elemental magic.

Naruto tells Hinata, “Great job, Hinata-chan!”

Hinata says, with a smile, “Thanks, Naruto-kun!” Kazuto blocks the physical attacks from the male goons with Serena, wearing a silver version of Yuna’s White Magic Dressphere, along with other female members of the group using the White Mage Dresspheres protect the others with White Mage spells including Protect, to shield from physical attacks, Shell, to weaken magical attacks, and healing magics to heal injuries and restore health. Thanks to this and their excellent teamwork, the machina were disabled/destroyed, the goons, both male and female, were taken down, and finally, Sailor Celestial, with lightning fast reflexes, disarms Logons by cutting the ends of barrels of Logos’ two guns.

Logos’ eyes grow wide causing Sailor Celestial to smirk, “You want your own ‘crew cut’, pal?!” Immediately, Logos takes off into the distance with the rest of Leblanc’s organization running after him with one female member of Leblanc’s sphere hunter group going back without her uniform.

When Logos and the ‘goons’ are gone, Rikku says, excitedly, “Gullwings all the way!” Rikku and Mina share a high-five while Amara has the ‘liberated’ uniform in her hands.

Amara says, “Two down and one more to go.”

Rika says, with a sly grin, “With a new sphere to boot!”

Lita says, with a wide grin, “And we won it fair and square!”

Keiko asks, curiously, “So, the last one that we had gotten wasn’t ‘fair and square’?”

Rikku tells Keiko, shocked, “Yes, that was ‘fair and square’ too, Keiko! They lost it and we found it! It is called: ‘Finders keepers and losers weepers’!” Plenty of the others give Rikku nervous looks and giggles for obvious reasons as they prepare to head back to main camp to report what happened to Nhadala before they return to the Celsius with their ‘prizes’ in their hands.

July 2025 (Earth time), Spira, Celsius

Back on board of the Celsius, our heroes and heroines are back on the bridge and just reported on what happened to Brother, Buddy, and Shinra, in which they have given the sphere that they acquired from Bikanel Island to find out anything about it.

Brother shouts out, excitedly, “Yes! Yes! Two for two! You have done excellently! Soon, the name of the Gullwings shall be infamous in all of Spira as that witch and her ‘gang’ will become the laughingstock of Spira!”

Asuna says, nervously, “Infamy isn’t a good thing…”

Buddy says, with a nod, “Yeah, you have a point, Asuna.”

Suguha says, changing the subject, “Well, we have two of the three uniforms that we need. Just one more to go.”

Kazuto says, “But we need to be more careful than before. After these two victories, they may be on guard more than before.”

Darien says, nodding his head in agreement, “I agree, Kazuto. They are going to be ‘strengthening their guard’ after these battles.”

Davis says, with a smirk, “Yeah, but we’ll make sure that we kick their butts.”

Ken tells Davis, “It doesn’t mean that we should get overconfident. Remember that a ‘cornered animal’ is at its most dangerous.”

Kari tells Davis, nodding her head, “I agree with Ken, Dai-kun. If they feel that we are pushing them into a corner, they may strike back, hard, and surprise us.”

Paine says, with a plain tone, “While that’s hard to believe, I agree with you, Kari. We need to be cautious. They did manage to follow us to Mount Gagazet without us knowing until they screwed up.”

Kazuto responds, with a nod, “Good point, Paine.”

Asuna says, nodding her head in agreement as well, “Same here.”

Darien says, “We need to make sure to stay one step ahead of them to make sure that they don’t surprise us.”

Paine says, with a nod, “Right.”

Izzy asks Shinra, “So, what’s the story with the sphere Shinra?”

Shinra says, “Well, it is another of these really powerful ‘special Dresspheres’.”

Yuna asks, curiously, “Really?”

Shinra says, with a nod, “Yep. By the looks of it, it is a powerful machina mech that you can ride on.”

Rikku asks, excitedly, “Oh, really?”

Shinra says, with a nod, “Yes. I call it the Machina Maw Dressphere.”

Rika says, with a sarcastic tone, “That’s original, Shinra.”

Shinra responds, with a shrug, “Hey, I’m just a kid.”

Rikku says, “Ooh, let me have it! I want to ride a cool machina!” Shinra hands Rikku the sphere and it gives off a slight glow that causes her Garment Grid to respond, but unknown to everyone, the Garment Grids of a few others, like Kotone and Rika, for example, and the transformation items of a few of the Sailor Scouts of the group including Lita and Mina, as examples, also react to the special Dressphere, but since their Senshi transformation items were in their sub-space pockets none of them notice this. Rikku says, excitedly, “I can’t wait to try this bad boy out!”

Paine tells Rikku, “Well, remember the requirements to activate it. Plus, there is also the fact that the few Dresspheres in the Garment Grid you are using, the weaker the Dressphere will be.”

Rikku says, with a pout, “Ruin my fun why don’t you? Well, you’ll be eating your words once I use this baby.”

Hinata asks, curiously, “So, what should we do now?”

Paine says, “We find one more uniform to take.”

Rikku says, excitedly, “That’s right!”

Suguha asks, curiously, “By the way, what about that guy that was from the Youth League?”

Yuna says, with a nod, “Oh, right! Clasko!”

Kari says, nodding her head, “We did promise him that we would take him to the Calm Lands to fulfill his dream of becoming a chocobo breeder.”

Mimi says, with a smile, “I have to say that those chocobos are so adorable.”

Yolei says, with a grin, “I agree with that, Mimi. They are just so kawaii even fully grown up!”

Rikku tells Yolei, with a smirk, “You just want to ride one, don’t you?” Yolei gives a nervous smile while Ken smiles warmly at his girlfriend.

Mina then states, excitedly, “This is going to be a blast!”

Hotaru says, “I’m not so sure about that Mina-chan.”

Mina tells Hotaru, “Oh, Hotaru-chan, don’t be such a worrywart! I mean: What’s the worst that can happen?” Plenty of the others then flinch from Mina’s statement for very obvious reasons.

July 2025 (Earth time), Spira, Calm Lands

In the center of the Calm Lands, the massive tent that’s part of Rin’s Travel Agency, the main shop in the Calm Lands, where we find our heroes and heroines walking towards the shop where a number of them have haggard looks on their faces.

Raye tells Mina, annoyed, “You just had to say it, didn’t you?!”

Mina says, nervously, “I didn’t expect THAT to happen.”

Suguha says, with a groan of irritation and exhaustion, “Too bad that it is our typical type of ‘normal’.”

Serena say, with a nod and tone of exhaustion in her voice, “Tell us about it, Suguha.”

Yuna says, nervously, “Well, hopefully Clasko did say that you’ll be allowed to ride the first chocobos that he completely raises at his new ranch for nothing.”

Rika says, with a sigh, “I guess that’s something.”

Keiko says, with a smile, “I would really love to ride one of them.”

Kotone says, with a warm smile of her own, “Same here, Keiko.”

Asuna says, nodding her head in agreement, “Indeed.” As they look into the tent shop, they are amazed to find two young Ronso clubs walking around.

Shino asks, curiously, “Aren’t those Ronso?”

Kazuto says in reply, nodding his head, “You’re right, Shino. However, based on their size, they must be kids.”

Darien looks at them, curiously, causing Serena to ask, noticing this, “What is it, Darien-kun?”

Darien responds, “Didn’t Yuna’s Ronso friend, the current leader of the Ronso people, mention two young Ronso kids, sneaking away from home?”

Plenty of others become wide-eyed at Darien’s ‘question’ causing TK to say, curiously, “Now that you mention it…” One of the Ronso kids notices the group and this Ronso goes over to Yuna.

This Ronso child says, in a male voice, “High Summoner Yuna, I am Lian Ronso. We have not met.”

Yuna asks, motioning to the other Ronso child, “Nice to meet you, Lian. And this is?”

Lian responds, “Ayde Ronso.”

Yuna tells the other Ronso kid, Ayde, “Hello, Ayde.” Ayde just grunts and bows their head in response.

Matt says, “Something tells me that one is the silent type.”

Lian says, “Lian and Ayde happy to meet you. Lian and Ayde hear many stories of Lady Yuna. Elder Kimahri tells of your journey together. But please, do not speak to elder of meeting Lian and Ayde today.”

Yuna asks, curiously, “Why not?”

Kazuto says, “Because they are the two Ronso kids that snuck off their home of Gagazet.”

Lian responds, “Correct, friend of Lady Yuna.”

Rikku tells Lian, “Kimahri is really worried.”

The group looks at each other causing Paine to ask, “Should we take them back?”

Sora says, “I think that it is a good idea. It is a dangerous world, here, in Spira.”

Mimi says, curiously, “I don’t think that the Digi-World at the time was any safer for us when we first became Digidestined and first went there.”

Joe says, nervously, “Don’t remind us, Mimi.”

Rika says, “And SAO wasn’t a game.”

Kazuto says, with a nod, “That’s right.”

Naruto says, pointing outside of the tent area, “Hey, guys! I don’t think we have a choice, believe it!” Everyone then looks where Naruto is pointing in which everyone can see Lian and Ayde are far away from them, in which they are only ‘speaks’ in the distance before vanishing completely.

Hinata says, amazed, “They are fast.”
Keiko asks, curiously, “Should we go after them?”

Naruto says, with a smile, “I’m sure that they will be just fine!”

Hinata asks Naruto, “What makes you say that Naruto-kun?”

Naruto says, with a smile, “Let’s just say that something tells me that they will be just fine.”

Sakura tells Naruto, with a smirk, “Personal experience?”

Naruto says, with a grin, “You can say that.”

Keiko asks, curiously, “What are we going to say to Kimahri-san?”

Kazuto says, with a plain tone, “Good question.”

Rika says, nervously, “Um, Yuna is Kimahri-san’s friend, so…”

Yuna says, with a smile, “I’m sure that it will be fine.”
Paine says, with a plain tone, “Plus, all of us need to go Mount Gagazet anyway.”

Mina asks, curiously, “Why is that?”

Ami says, with a plain tone, “Just got a report from Shinra that members of Leblanc’s organization was spotted there.”

Tai says, seriously, “Come on, it’s time to get going!”

Davis says, with a nod, “You know it, Tai!” Immediately, our heroes and heroines head off to walk up to Mount Gagazet for a chance to get their hands on the final uniform needed for their mission to infiltrate the headquarters of Leblanc and her organization with Guadosalam.

July 2025 (Earth time), Spira, Mount Gagazet

Returning to Mount Gagazet, our heroes and heroines are assembled together as Yuna, Rikku, and Paine are facing the current leader of the Ronso and Yuna’s lifelong friend, Kimahri.

Kimahri tells Yuna, “Kimahri sorry.”

Yuna asks, confused and curiously, “Sorry about what, Kimahri?”

Kimahri says in reply, “Kimahri look for sphere for Yuna. But Kimahri find nothing. Kimahri disappoint Yuna.”

Davis asks, curiously, “Dude, what kind of attitude is that?”

Yolei says, nervously, “Hey, Davis!”

Yuna says, “It’s all right, Kimahri. Of course, I’m happy that you tried to help, but Yuna has to handle Yuna problems.”

Kimahri says, “Kimahri search mountain for long time. But still one place that Kimahri not look. Fayth Scar rises high on mountain. Scar is sacred ground which Ronso not tread.”

Paine says, “Might be some spheres up there.”

Mimi asks, curiously, “But is it okay?”

Lita says, nervously, “Yeah, I don’t feel right treading in place that are sacred to a people even if they aren’t human.”

Kimahri says, “Summoners no longer climb mountain. Now, only sphere hunters come. Kimahri worry that hunters will defile sacred ground.”

Tai says, “It looks like that we don’t need to worry about that.”

Rikku asks, “Do you think that it is Leblanc and her goons?”

Rika says, with a scoff, “Who else? Those kind of people don’t give a darn about people’s culture!”

Asuna says, with a nod, “I have to agree with Liz here.”

Kazuto says, nodding his head, “Same here.”

Yuna says, “Maybe we should check.” Yuna asks Kimahri, “Is that okay?”

Kimahri responds, “Kimahri trust Yuna. Kimahri not worry.”

Amara says, plainly, “We have our answer. Let’s just make sure that his trust in Yuna isn’t for nothing.” Our heroes and heroines nod their heads in agreement and prepare to head up the mountain to the location described by Kimahri to investigate if members of Leblanc’s organization are there.

(Sometime later)

Our group arrives at a patch of craggy ledges that led to another part of the mountain causing plenty of the others to become wide-eyed.

Rikku asks, flabbergasted, “You mean that we need to climb all the way up there?”

Yolei says, shocked, “Geez! It is no wonder that the Ronso don’t come around here!”

TK says, “You may have a point, Yolei, but I’m sure that it is for another reason.” Soon after, the group then spots a female member of Leblanc’s organization leaping up to the higher parts of the mountain.

Keiko says, surprised, “That’s…!!”

Mina says, with a nod, “Yep!”

Matt says, “I guess that means that we’re climbing.”

Amara says, with a plain tone, “Or not.” Amara then displays her Senshi transformation wand causing the other Sailor Senshi of the group to smile where they take out their transformation items as well. A short time soon afterwards, all of the Sailor Scouts of the group are in their Senshi forms and the whole group is walking along rocky surface that they could walk on.

Rikku says, with a smile, “It is good to have friends that can fly.”

Naruto says, “I don’t see why it was so hard to just climb up here.”

Sakura tells Naruto, with a plain tone, “Not all of us come from a world where we can leap across trees that are high as skyscrapers, Naruto.”

Naruto says, with a nod, “Good point, Sakura.”

Hinata says, “And only you, I, and Naruto-kun have powers other than the Sailor Scouts of our group.”

Davis asks, annoyed, “What am I? Chopped liver?”

Sailor Sun asks Sailor Star, “So, how are you adapting to your new powers, Asuna?”

Sailor Star says, “They feel…nature.”

Sailor Jupiter says, with a grin, “Yeah, after a while, you really get used to them.”

Sailor Mercury has her visor active causing Tuxedo Mask to ask, “Do you detect anything Mercury?”

Sailor Mercury says, pointing ahead of her, “Actually, I do.” When everyone looks at where Sailor Mercury is point, they see a path leading to large vertical opening in which Sailor Mercury says, “I’m detecting several human life-forms in that area.”

Sailor Uranus says, “That’s where they are.”

Paine asks, “So, what’s the plan?”

Rikku says, slyly, “Simple! We find out who they are and if they are Leblanc’s goons, we jump them, beat them, and take that uniform!”

Sailor Star says, nervously, “That sounds really underhanded…”

Sailor Orion says, “Plus, we don’t know if it is them.”

Rika says, “Well, we won’t know unless we have a look.”

Sailor Mercury says, pointing in another direction, “Actually, there is another way into the room, so, there might be a way to overlook the room from above.”

Sailor Venus asks, excitedly, “Awesome, Mercury-chan! What are we waiting for?!”

Sailor Mars tells Sailor Venus, irritated, “You should speak a bit louder, Venus-chan. They didn’t hear you back at Ronso’s homes.”

Sailor Venus rubs her head, nervously, causing Sailor Neptune to say, “That’s enough, you two. Let’s go.” Soon enough, the group head over in the direction that Sailor Mercury pointed at, a group of ledges attached to the side of a wall, in which they climb up several of them where they see a path leading into an opening with another ledge.

Sailor Mercury says, pointing up, “We can’t go up any higher. The winds are too strong for anyone without something like those of us who are Valkyrie Sailor Scouts are wearing.”

Sailor Celestial asks, “Should those of us who are Valkyrie Sailor Scouts take a look?”

Sailor Moon says, “I don’t think so. That’s not important right now, Celestial.”

Sailor Celestial says, with a nod, “Yeah, you have a point, sis.”

Sailor Mercury says, pointing to the opening that leads to a ledge, “That is the alternate ‘entrance’ into the cavern. There is a ledge that overlooks it.”

Rikku says, excitedly, “Awesome!” Rikku, Yuna, and Paine run inside with the other filing in behind them, waiting just outside, while Yuna, Rikku, and Paine look down from the ledge to see that the cavern room contains a massive hot spring with two female members of Leblanc’s sphere hunters, two ‘female goons’, standing at the end of it.
One of the female goons asks, relief in her voice, “That water felt great! Can you believe that there is a hot spring in a place like this?”

The second female goon responds, nervously, “But isn’t this sacred Ronso land? Maybe this wasn’t a good idea…”

The first female goon retorts, “What? You think some kind of Ronso boogieman is going to come and get you? Better that than the boss, you know what I mean?”

Ormi enters and he asks, harshly, “Hey! Have you two been slacking off?”

The two female goons face Ormi causing the second female goon to respond, nervously, “No, we were…getting ready for duty! We were…just trying to…rejuvenate, sir!” At that moment, the ledge that Yuna, Paine, and Rikku were on collapses causing the three of them to fall into the hot spring with a massive splash causing Ormi and the two female goons to run away with screams of fear and confusion in their voices.

Yolei yells out, shocked, “Yuna! Rikku! Paine!”

Sailor Celestial says, “Downside! On the triple!” Immediately, the Sailor Scouts of the group, who can fly, fly down until they are floating above the hot spring while the others head off to get into the ‘front entrance’. Down at the hot spring, Yuna, Rikku, and Paine get back on their feet.

Sailor Moon asks, concerned, “Are you okay?”

Yuna says, with a nod, “We’re fine, Serena.”

Rikku says, with a smile, “Yeah, we had this to soften the fall!”

Sailor Venus says, amazed, “No joke! You had a hot spring to save you!”

Sailor Celestial says, “That was lucky.”

Sailor Star says, with a nod, “It sure was.”

Sailor Orion says, pointing somewhere, “And it looks like our luck is really good.” Everyone looks where Sailor Orion is pointing in which they find another female goon’s uniform lying on the rocks near the spring.

Sailor Venus says, excitedly, “That’s number three!”

Rikku says, “That was easy.”

Sailor Celestial says, nervously, “Please don’t say that, Rikku.”

Sailor Moon says, with a nod, “Let’s just say that we have ‘bad previous experiences’ with those words.”

Rikku gets a bit of a nervous look, but Sailor Venus says, slyly, “Since we got all three uniforms and this one was so easy…”

Sailor Venus looks at Yuna causing her to say, with a nod, “That sounds nice.”

Plenty of the others understand what Yuna and Sailor Venus are implying causing Sailor Saturn to ask, “Wait! Isn’t this place sacred Ronso grounds?”

Sailor Venus tells Sailor Saturn, with a sly smirk, “I won’t tell if you don’t, Hotaru-chan.”

Sailor Uranus says, “I wouldn’t mind a good soak.”

Sailor Saturn and Sailor Mercury look at Sailor Uranus in surprise in which Sailor Neptune says, slyly, “Same here.”

Rikku says, excitedly, “Let’s invite the other girls when they get down here!”

Paine says, with a nod, “Good idea. We can have the boys posted outside to keep eye out for them just in case.”

Sailor Venus says, excitedly, “Great idea!” Sailor Venus says, with a seductive sly tone, “Though I wouldn’t mind Takeru-kun…” Sailor Mars slaps Sailor Venus in the back of the head for that ‘comment’.

Sailor Celestial and Sailor Moon look at each other causing Sailor Celestial to say, a bit nervously, “If you can’t beat them…”

Sailor Moon says, nodding her head in agreement, “When in Rome…”

(A good time afterwards)

Right now, we find all of the female members of our heroes’ and heroines’ group inside of the hot spring and all of them are wearing what kind to bikini style swimsuits.

Asuna says, with a sigh of relaxation, “This feels nice.”

Serena says, with a nod, “You said it, Asuna.”

Rika says, nodding her head, “You know it!”

Kotone says, with a smile and nod, “Yes!”

Suguha says, “I still feel a bit bad enjoying this on land that your friend’s people consider sacred.”

Yuna says, with a smile, “As long as we don’t damage the land or do anything that will insult the Ronso, I’m sure that Kimahri won’t mind.”

Shino says, with a plain tone, “I don’t have a problem with that.”

Lita says, nodding her head, “You got that right!”

Rikku says, with a grin, “Glad that you are enjoy yourselves ladies!”

Michelle says, with a smile, “I think that we all needed this.”

Yolei says, “You said it, Michelle. We haven’t had something like this ever since we got to Spira.”

Mimi says, with a nod, “Yes, they have decent baths, but this is something special.” Mimi asks, curiously, “Shouldn’t we feel bad for the boys?”

Raye says, with a smile, “I don’t think that they mind one bit.”

Keiko asks, curiously, “Are you sure?”

Mina asks Keiko, slyly, “Thinking more about you-know-who, Keiko-chan?” Keiko gains a wide blush on her cheeks, knowing what or should I say, WHO, Mina is implying.

Rikku then looks at Suguha, Asuna, and Lita, gaining a sly predatory smile, and causing her to state, in a sly mischief tone, “Well, what do we have here?”

When the three girls that Rikku is looking at see this, Asuna and Suguha become nervous causing Asuna to ask, in a nervous tone, “Rikku, what are you looking at?”

Rikku circles Asuna and Suguha on all fours causing her to ask, in a sly tone, “Trying to look good for your boys?”
Asuna and Suguha gain a pink hue on their cheeks causing Suguha to ask, shocked and nervous tone in her voice, “Excuse you?!”

Asuna asks, nervously, “W-What are you talking about?”

Rikku responds, slyly, “It’s okay. I know who has got it going on. I’m not surprised that you don’t want the boys, here. They would be having nosebleeds in an instant.”

Suguha and Asuna gain major blushes on their cheeks causing Suguha to yell out, embarrassed, “Cut it out!”

Rikku says, looking at Serena and Mina, “However, us, blonds, aren’t lacking in the looks department either!”

Serena gains a major blush while Mina says, with a sly grin, “You know it, girlfriend!”

Trista says, with a smile, “Well, back in our world…our universe, actually, those of the Lunarian royal line were the most beautiful maidens in the galaxy rivaled only by those Venusian royal family in which their patron, Lady Aphrodite, also known as Lady Venus, was known in certain cultures on Earth as a goddess of love and beauty.”

Yuna asks, curiously, “Really?”

Mina says, with a grin, “Yep! And I am the ‘avatar’ of our patron!”

Raye says, with an annoyed tone, “Get real, Mina-chan!” Mina gives Raye an annoyed pout and sticks out her tongue causing Raye to say, “Real mature, ‘Miss Avatar of Love and Beauty’.”

Hotaru says, nervously, “Come on, everyone. We are trying to relax.”

Sora says, with a nod and nervous tone, “Hotaru is right.”

Rika says, with a sly grin, “Well, I’ve got to say that Rikku and Mina have a point.” Just then Rika, after sneaking up behind Suguha, leaps over, grabs Suguha from behind, and putting her hands on her…*clears throat*…assets causing Suguha to yelp out, Rika says, excitedly, “Take a look at these blooming babies!”

Asuna yells out, shocked, “Liz!”

Suguha leaps away from Rika, holding her hands to cover her chest area, and she shouts out, “Hey!”

Rikku says, slyly, “Yeah, you’re right! Though Asuna, over there, isn’t too far behind. Maybe she has some of that ‘goddess blood’ in her. Though plenty of you, girls, are just oozing in the ‘sexiness department’. Makes me wonder what your world feeds girls like you.” Plenty of the young ladies from Earth blush in embarrassment though ones, like Keiko, are blushing for OTHER reasons. Rikku says, slyly, “Though I have to say that the only one that rivals Suguha and Asuna is Serena and Mina. If any guys saw them now, they would be knocked unconscious!”

Serena says, nervously, “Cut it out, Rikku!”

Suguha says, with a nervous nod, “Yeah, cut it out! It is nothing like that!” Suguha says, “Just because I’m more…endowed than girls my age doesn’t mean that I’m sexy…you might be considered pudgy if you don’t dress right…”

Rika tells Suguha, “Pudgy? Girl, you are WAY NOT even close to pudgy! Look at those curves! I have to say that you are close to Asuna in curves, girl!”

Suguha says, nervously, “But I’ve been working a lot more lately and I’m gaining muscle…”

Rika tells Suguha, slyly, “So, what?”

Mina says, with a nod, “No joke! Remember amazons? They were known for be drop-dead gorgeous and being EXTREMELY powerful warriors!” Mina says, pointing to Lita, “Look at Lita-chan! She has got a bust to rival yours, she’s strong, and she looks damn awesome! Not to mention a great cook like Asuna! Guys must be dropping dead for her!”

Lita says, majorly blushing, “Mina-chan!”

Rika says, slyly, “That’s right! You can be strong AND sexy! And that’s what you are! That’s what you and Asuna are! She wasn’t known as the ‘Lightning Flash’ for her looks alone!”
Asuna gives a major blush causing Amara to say, annoyed, “Okay, I’ve heard enough.” Amara tells Paine, “Paine?”

Paine says, cracking her knuckles, “Yep.” Rika and Mina yelp as they go over to Rikku as she gets into a defensive stance.

Rikku asks, with a confident sly smile, “You want some?!”

Yuna says, “I’ll help!” Yuna then gets behind Rikku and restrain her causing plenty of the other females, especially Suguha and Asuna, to look Rika and Mina with mischievous sly looks.

Rika says, nervously, “Uh oh.”

Mina asks, nervously, “Can we talk about this?”

Suguha and Asuna reply in unison, “No!” Rika and Mina yelp out as they are ‘attacked’ by plenty of the other females in the hot spring including Suguha and Asuna though the ‘attack’ is more like playful splashing and dunking Rika and Mina into the hot springs.

Just then their communicators go off with Brother’s voice shouts out, “Yuna, what’s all that noise?”

Yuna responds, “Just taking a little dip.”

Brother says something in Al Bhed and he then shouts out, “Code…Pink! I’ll be there immediately!”

This sends ‘alarm bells’ through the other females in the hot spring causing Yolei to scream out, angrily, “He had better not!”

But then they hear a loud ‘wham’ from their communicators causing Yuna to ask, “Brother?”

Buddy’s voice then comes over the communicators where he says, “Don’t worry, I knocked him out.”

Lita says, excitedly, “Awesome!”

Shino says, with a sly smirk, “Nice.”

Davis’ voice then booms out over the communicators, “Great job, bro! We are going to have a ‘little word’ with him when we get back and he wakes up.”

Buddy responds, “Roger that. But try not to be too hard on him. We need him still breathing and he is my best bud after all.”

Tai’s voice booms out over the communicators, “No promises, Buddy.”

Kari says, with a slight nervous smile, “Uh oh.”

Rikku asks, with a sly smirk, “Is anyone feeling sorry for my brother?” All of the females look at each other…and then shake their heads.

Asuna says, with a smile, “Anyway, we should get out before things get really ‘heated’.”

Keiko says, with a nod, “Good idea, Asuna.”

As the females start to get out of the hot spring, Serena says, with a sigh of relief, “I needed that.”

Suguha says, “I think that we all did.”

Asuna says, with a warm smile, “I agree, Suguha-chan.” Soon after, all the females in our heroes’ and heroines’ group put on their clothing and their Garment Grids with Dresspheres.

But then they hear sounds of battle coming from outside causing Kotone to ask, “What is that?”

Just then Kazuto’s voice shouts out over the communicators, in a serious tone, “We’re under attack! Ormi is back with reinforcements!”

Asuna responds, seriously, “We’re on our way, Kirito-kun!”

As the young ladies prepare for battle, Rikku says, “They just never learn, do you? Time to teach them a lesson!”
Lita says, with a grin, “You got that right!” Asuna then looks over to the entrance that contained the ledge overlooking the hot spring before the ledge collapsed.

Serena asks Asuna, curiously, “What’s up?”

Asuna says, pointing up to that location, “I was thinking.”

Plenty of the others realize what Asuna is thinking causing Mina to say, excitedly, “Good idea, Asuna!”

Rika says, with a grin, “Well, she was the second-in-command and then the new commander of KOB! It shouldn’t be surprising!”

Asuna says, nervously, “Come on, Liz!”

Paine says, plainly, “I think that you should save the praise for later.”

Serena says, with a nod, “The guys are waiting for us.”

Rikku says, with a sly smile, “Though I doubt that they need our help with Kari’s, Asuna’s, and your boyfriend among others.” Rikku says, looking at Sakura and Hinata, “Especially that fox of a boyfriend.”

Hinata gives a light hue causing Hinata to say, “Yes, Naruto-kun isn’t easily beaten.”

Sakura says, with a nod, “No kidding, Hinata!”

Lita says, with a grin, “But I don’t think that he will mind a ‘helping hand’. Let’s move!” The others nod their head in agreement and soon enough, the Sailor Scouts of the group fly up to the ‘upper entrance’ while the rest of the females take the main entrance. A short time afterwards, we see the result as Ormi and his small ‘legion’ of Leblanc’s ‘followers’ are running away with our reunited group, males and females, assembled together.

Davis says, clapping his head, “And that’s that!”

Naruto tells Sakura and Hinata, “Thanks for the help, ladies!”

Hinata says, with a warm smile, “Anytime, Naruto-kun.”

Brother’s voice comes over the communicators where he asks, “This is Brother! How is everything?”

Rika says, sarcastically, “He recovered quick.”

Yuna replies over the communicators, “Mission accomplished! We have the final uniform!”

Brother responds, excitedly, “Roger! We are on our way!”

Tai says, with a plain tone and dangerous glint, “Yeah, we have a few ‘choice words’ for him when we get back.” Plenty of the other males nod their heads in agreement with Tai for obvious reasons causing plenty of the females to grin and/or giggle knowing of Brother’s ‘punishment’ coming up.

July 2025 (Earth time), Spira, Celsius

Back aboard the Celsius, after Brother’s ‘dressing down’, Yuna, Rikku, and Paine, wearing the uniforms of the female members of Leblanc’s sphere hunter ground, are standing in front of our heroes and heroines.

Mina says, excitedly, “Perfect-o, girlfriend!”

Rika says, with a grin, “You are wearing it better than they are!”

Yuna says, with a giggle, “Thanks.”

Naruto says, “We should get ‘into character’ ourselves.”

Sakura says, “In your words, Naruto: ‘Believe it’!” Naruto gives Sakura a mischievous smirk while Hinata giggles at this in which Naruto, Hinata, and Sakura use their Henge AKA Transformation Jutsu to look like members of Leblanc’s organization with Naruto looking like a male member with Sakura and Hinata looking female members.

Yolei says, excitedly, “Great! Perfect!”

Buddy says, with a nod of approval, “Plus, it is a good idea to send Naruto disguised as a male member to lower suspicion.”

Darien says, nodding his head, “Since they know that we took female uniforms, despite them thinking it was for different reasons, they aren’t completely stupid.”

Amara says, nodding her head in agreement, “Yeah. By taking only a certain amount of uniforms and having our ninjas joined those disguised with making our infiltration group a ‘mixed bag’, it will throw off their suspicions.” Ami then hands the group of Yuna, Rikku, Paine, Naruto, Sakura, and Hinata six watch-like devices.

Ami says, “These devices are tuned to the half sphere that they took and if our theory is correct, it will also help you find the other half that they already have.”

Trista says, “Which is most likely together with that half already taken from us.”

Naruto says, excitedly, “Awesome!”

As the infiltration group takes the devices, Rikku says, excitedly, “Off to Chateau Leblanc!”

Lita says, with a nod, “Time for that woman to learn never to mess with us!”

Rika says, nodding her head in agreement, “Oh, yeah!”

July 2025 (Earth time), Spira, Guadosalam

Returning to Guadosalam, the Gullwings’ ‘infiltration group’, Yuna, Rikku, Paine, Naruto, Sakura, and Hinata, in their disguises, advances to the front door with Naruto at the lead.

One of the two guards asks, curiously, “Huh?”

Yuna and Rikku say in unison, “Reporting for duty!”

Naruto says, “We were called in by the boss! She wants to see us immediately!”

The guard responds, with a nod, “Gotcha! Head on in!” Naruto nods his head in which the infiltration group went inside while, in the shadows, we find Kazuto observing the whole thing.

Kazuto whispers into his communicator, “Phase one is a success. They are in and they don’t suspect a thing.”

Buddy’s voice responds, in a voice level that only Kazuto can hear, “Great. Keep a close eye on the door.”

Kazuto responds, “Understood. Darien and I will keep a close eye and will report back if anything comes up.”

Buddy retorts, “Hopefully that won’t be the case. Buddy out.” Kazuto nods his head as the communication line is cut and he continues to silently observe the front entrance to Leblanc’s headquarters from his hidden location while at an ‘upper area’ by an item shop, Darien, hidden by the shadows from the guards at the front door while remaining as ‘one of the crowd’, also keeps an eye at the entrance as well.

Darien thinks in his mind, “Good luck and stay safe.” From his location, Darien continues observe the entrance to Leblanc’s headquarters in Guadosalam knowing that their team inside will need to keep their wits while treading Leblanc’s home turf…

To be continued…

That’s it! Even with the coronavirus pandemic, I’m still writing, but it is getting harder and harder. Personally, I’m starting to feel that I’m suffering from what’s known as ‘Cabin Fever’ and I know plenty of people all over the world are feeling the same though I feel that it is least of our troubles. Anyway, you may be talking about parts that I missed including what happened in the Moonflow, the meeting with Cid at Thunder Plains, and whatnot, but this story focuses on the ‘preparation’ to infiltrate Leblanc’s ‘headquarters’ and putting too many ‘side notes’ into this story would make this story WAY too long as well as possibly go ‘off-base’ or at least, that’s how I feel. Anyway, I hope that you liked it and please continue to read and review, everyone, but no flames, okay? Anyway, safe stay, Crossover Fans, with later and best wishes to you, all!