Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Looking Up To You ❯ Sammy, the Superhero? ( Chapter 10 )

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Sailor Moon or any of the characters, blah, blah, blah.

NOTE: This story takes place after Sailor Stars, however, I haven't seen Sailor Stars, so forgive me if I miss a plot point or two. Also, I'm gonna go for American attack names here… *begs forgiveness from the purists*

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The next day, Rick and Sammy were sitting on the floor in Sammy's room, trading baseball cards.

"So, what happened after I ran off?" Rick asked. "Did you guys stay and watch the Senshi fight?"

"Yeah," Sammy said. "It was really cool! Sailor Jupiter threw these lightning bolts, and Mars shot the big blob with fire, and Sailor Venus cut it in half! And Sailor Mercury froze him solid!"

"That sounds nice," Rick said. "By the way, are you still gonna go after Ami, since she's dating that Greg guy now?"

"No, I'm gonna leave Ami and Greg alone," Sammy said. "Ami's my friend, and I don't want to ruin her dates by bothering her…"

"So you're giving up?" Rick asked.

"Yeah," Sammy said. He took two of his cards and showed them to Rick. "I'll give you a Murayama and a Hideki for your Shizumaku."

"No way!" Rick said, clutching his card close to him. "Shizumaku Muro got 36 home runs last year, and he batted almost .400! That would be a complete rip-off. I want your US MLB import Ichiro card."

"Throw in your Bushima rookie card, and I'll think about it," Sammy said. "My Ichiro is holographed!"

Suddenly, the door to Sammy's room opened. Serena poked her head into the room.

"Rick," Serena said. "Have you done your chores yet?"

"No, but I'm gonna do them later," Rick said.

"Your mom called and said you have to come home and do them right now," Serena said.

"That's a bunch of crap!" Sammy yelled. "Tell Rick's mom that he'll do the chores later."

"She sounded angry on the phone," Serena said. "I wouldn't want to make her mad…"

"Ugh," Rick groaned, picking up his baseball cards. "Sorry, Sammy, I gotta go…"

Rick walked out of the room, taking his cards with him.

"Sorry about that," Serena said, turning to leave. "I didn't want Rick's mom yelling at me if Rick didn't come home."

"Hey Serena," Sammy said. "Wait."

Serena stepped into Sammy's room.

"Yeah?" Serena said.

"Close the door," Sammy said. "I want to talk about something concerning you and the Sailor Senshi."

"Like Ami?" Serena asked, closing the door.

"Yeah," Sammy said. Sammy took the large sword out from under his bed.

"Whoa!" Serena shrieked. "Where'd you get that?"

"I got it from the place that I was taken when Alexis and Letine kidnapped me," Sammy said.

"Oh yeah," Serena said. "You stabbed Alexis with it."

"Yeah," Sammy said. "Anyway, I watched you and the Senshi fight that blob thing yesterday… and I got really scared."

"Well, I don't blame you!" Serena said. "You could have been killed!"

"I was scared for Ami," Sammy said. "That monster froze her… then he grabbed her… if Tuxedo Mask hadn't came, she could have been killed!"

"Oh, I wouldn't worry about Ami too much!" Serena said. "She's really tough and strong! She's a Sailor Senshi, you know?"

"Isn't she like the weakest one, though?" Sammy asked.

"Well, in terms of strength and magical power… I mean… you know…" Serena stammered, trying to avoid telling Sammy something he didn't want to hear. "Yes, her powers are the weakest. But they're very useful."

"How's that?" Sammy asked.

"You saw her freeze powers, right?" Serena said. "Ami can freeze monsters in place and cloud their vision, making it easier for the stronger Senshi to destroy them. And she's very smart, too! Her knowledge has helped us hundreds of times! Why, she might actually be the strongest one out of all of us!"

Sammy smiled at Serena.

"She's the most useful one out of all of you, but she's very vulnerable," Sammy said. "I know that. So anyway, I was thinking about maybe helping you guys fight monsters and stuff!"

Serena frowned at Sammy.

"Sammy, you are NOT going near any of the monsters we fight! They're extremely dangerous and powerful, and you could be killed!" Serena scolded.

"Ami could be killed!" Sammy protested. "I know she's already been killed twice!"

Serena's face turned from angry to sad. She looked down at the ground and sighed.

"Sammy, I… I understand how much you want to protect Ami," Serena said. "But if something happened to you…"

Tears began to pool up in Serena's eyes. Sammy stared intently at her.

"I could never forgive myself," Serena sobbed. "You're my baby brother…"

"I'm 14!" Sammy yelled. "I'm not a baby anymore! You guys became Senshi when you were 14! It's not fair! You're the freaking princess of the Moon, and I'm just your little baby peasant brother! Is that what you think of me?"

"Sammy, you know I don't think that!" Serena cried. "I don't want you to get hurt! Think of how Ami would feel!"

Sammy gasped.

"Ami would feel terrible if you died trying to protect her!" Serena yelled. "She'd never forgive herself, and I'd never forgive myself either!"

"Why do you think I would die in battle?" Sammy asked. "I told you I can take care of myself!"

Sammy opened the door and stomped out of the room furiously, tossing the sword back under his bed as he left.

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"Here it is," Sammy said, standing in front of a large, white building. "The Juuban Costume Shop!"

Sammy took out his wallet and looked inside.

"11,500 yen from my birthday, plus 4,800 yen that I had before," Sammy said. "I'll be able to buy a really cool superhero suit with this!"

Sammy went inside the shop and looked through the various costumes.

"I have to find something that'll really scare the crap out of those bad guys!" Sammy said, looking around. He found a Batman costume. "Cool, but I could get sued by someone if I wore this. Let's see here…"

A pretty female store worker walked up to Sammy. She was wearing a pink catgirl outfit with a cute pink wig.

"Hello!" the store worker said cheerfully. "Can I help you?"

"Yes, please," Sammy said politely. "Would you happen to have any cool superhero costumes? Something that makes me look really tough!"

"I think I could find something for you," the store worker said. "Follow me."

The worker led Sammy over to a large rack that had several brightly colored costumes hung on it. She picked one off the rack and showed it to Sammy.

"Like this?" the worker asked. Sammy looked at it.

"Whoa…" Sammy said. The costume consisted of a shiny red jumpsuit with golden lightning bolts sewn into it. It also had black stripes that were lining the sleeves and the collar.

"It also comes with these boots," the worker said, holding up a pair of bright red boots.

"It looks awesome!" Sammy said. "I'll take it! Do you have a cape, too?"

The worker walked over to another rack and held up a shining silver-colored cape for Sammy to see.

"That's great!" Sammy said, taking the cape. He took the jumpsuit and the cape and walked up to the counter. The worker walked behind the counter and began to scan Sammy's costume.

"Don't you need a mask, too?" the worker asked.

"Oh yeah!" Sammy said, slapping himself on the forehead. "How stupid of me! I forgot!"

The worker took a large tiger mask off of the shelf behind the counter and showed it to Sammy.

"Nah," Sammy said. "That one looks funny, like I was some crazy cartoon character or something."

The worker put the mask back and grabbed another one consisting of a black hood with eyeholes.

"An executioner's mask?" Sammy asked. "Maybe that's a little too scary…"

The worker put the mask back and took another one off of the shelf. It was a sparkling green and gold mask with an intricate design on it. She set it in front of Sammy.

"This mask is a pretty popular style," the worker said. "It's a mask similar to the ones worn by Mexican luchadore wrestlers."

"Luchadore?" Sammy said.

"Yeah, like Rey Mysterio!" the worker said. She sighed longingly. "Rey Mysterio…"

"Um, yoo-hoo?" Sammy said, waving his hand in front of the worker's face. "The mask looks cool. I'll take it."

"Great!" the worker said. "You'll look just like Rey Mysterio! Maybe I'll have to go on a date with you!"

Sammy blushed.

"That'll be 14,800 yen," the worker said.

"I've got just enough!" Sammy said, handing the worker a 10,000-yen and a 5,000-yen bill. She took the two bills and gave Sammy two 100-yen bills back.

"Have a nice day!" the worker said. Sammy took his new costume and left the shop.

"Time to put this stuff on!" Sammy said, running to his house with the costume.

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Meanwhile, in Scion's throne room…

"Scion, please let me go out again and face the Sailor Senshi!" Letine pleaded. "This time, I know I can beat them!"

"Ninjetti arrives in a few days," Scion said. "Just wait. Very soon, Ninjetti will destroy all of the Sailor Senshi, and Alexis will be avenged."

"I can't wait until then!" Letine shrieked. She immediately blushed and bowed to Scion. "Um, I mean… sir, I respectfully request another chance to face the Senshi."

"Actually, I've already sent a warrior to face them," Scion said. "He's going to get battle information to give to Ninjetti when he finally arrives. If you want to go and watch, that's fine. But I can't let you fight the Senshi in your condition."

"Never mind," Letine said, walking back toward her chambers. "I'm going to wait until Alexis wakes up, and then we'll both come up with a plan to destroy the Senshi!"

"What makes you so sure he's going to wake up?" Scion asked.

"I know he will!" Letine yelled, running off.

"What an airhead," Scion said, shaking his head.

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Meanwhile, in Sammy's room, Sammy was busy putting on his new costume.

"Just about… done!" Sammy said, slipping on his boots. "Alright!"

Sammy, now completely disguised in his costume, walked up to his mirror and began striking superhero poses.

"I look so cool," Sammy said, waving his sword in front of himself.

Just then, Sammy accidentally smashed his sword into the mirror, causing it to shatter.

"Sammy!" yelled Sammy's mother's voice from downstairs. "What was that?"

"We heard a crash," Sammy's father yelled.

"Nothing!" Sammy yelled. "I can't go downstairs dressed like this. I know!"

Sammy opened up his window and slowly began to climb out. The 'superhero' lost his footing and fell hard to the ground below.

"I'm… okay…" Sammy said weakly. He slowly crawled to his feet and ran off toward Rei's temple, where he knew the girls would be.

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Meanwhile, Serena, Rei, Ami, Lita, and Mina were meeting at Rei's temple to have snacks and tea.

"I can't wait for my big date with Greg!" Ami said. "It's only three days away!"

"You know," Rei said, "You'd better Sammy-proof wherever you're going to date Greg at. I mean, he seemed really disappointed when you and Greg made that date."

"Now Rei, Sammy's not like that!" Ami said, picking up a small sandwich from the silver tray next to her. "He wouldn't try to ruin my date with Greg…"

"I'm kind of worried that he knows who we all are," Mina said. "I mean, he could blab it to that Rick kid. And then he'd blab to five other kids. Pretty soon, everyone would know who we were!"

"I'm worried about Sammy too," Serena said. "Today, he seemed really obsessed about protecting us from youmas and stuff. He said he wanted to help us fight…"

"Did you tell him not to?" Lita asked.

"I tried, but then he ran off to go somewhere!" Serena said. "I'm really worried…"

Suddenly, the flame in Rei's temple lit up. Rei gasped.

"Guys, I'm sensing something!" Rei yelled. "Something evil is close by…"

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Meanwhile, in a small garden near Rei's temple, a very suspicious-looking man in a black cloak was walking around, carrying a scythe in his hand.

"Scion told me to find the Senshi," the man said. "But I don't know where to start…"

"Hey!" yelled a female voice from behind the black-cloaked man. "Hey you!"

The man turned around to see five girls in sailor outfits standing in front of him. One of them was pointing at him.

"You must be the Sailor Senshi that I'm looking for," the man said. He pulled back the hood on his head to reveal a human-like profile with short black hair and several scars across his face. His eyes glowed with a very bright color of red.

"Who are you?" Sailor Moon asked, pointing at the man.

"My master sent me to gather battle information on the five of you. The only way I can do that is by fighting you," the man said. "My name is Dreadima."

Dreadima raised his scythe and ran at the Sailor Senshi.

"Hey!" Sailor Moon yelled. "You didn't even let me begin my speech!"

The five Senshi leapt out of the way of the charging Dreadima. Dreadima turned around and fired several blasts of red energy at the Senshi. Sailor Mars pointed her hand at the energy blasts.

"I've seen this before," Mars said. "And it's never worked! Mars Flame Sniper!"

Sailor Mars fired a large concentrated beam of flames at the dark energy blast. The flaming beam dissipated them all and rushed at Dreadima. Dreadima spun his scythe in front of his body, causing the flames to begin whirling around it.

"I bet you haven't seen this before!" Dreadima yelled. The flames rushed outward from his spinning scythe in the form of a huge tornado of fire. The tornado rushed at Sailor Mars and slammed into the ground next to her, causing a huge explosion that sent the girl flying.

"Sailor Mars!" the other Senshi yelled. Sailor Mars continued to fly several more feet before she finally slammed into the ground, far behind the other Senshi.

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Meanwhile, Sammy, who had seen the explosion from further down the path, was running toward the site of the battle, carrying his sword.

"Looks like something's already started!" Sammy said. "I hope Ami isn't hurt…"

Sammy ran to the site of the battle and hid behind a bush, out of the view of Dreadima and the Senshi.

"Good, only the dark-haired big-mouthed meanie's been hurt," Sammy said. "That's still bad, though…"

Dreadima pointed his scythe at Sailor Mercury.

"You're next!" Dreadima said.

Sammy gasped.

"Mercury Aqua Rhapsody!" Mercury yelled, firing several waves of freezing water at Dreadima. Dreadima's scythe lit up with dark energy.

"What a pathetic attack!" Dreadima yelled. He charged through the attack with his scythe. The dark energy resonating from the scythe caused the water to curve around him and splash behind him, missing him entirely. Dreadima continued to charge Sailor Mercury.

"Oh no!" Sailor Mercury yelled. Dreadima closed in on her. He lifted his scythe.

"I gotta save Ami!" Sammy yelled. He began to leap over the bush, but suddenly stopped when a red rose appeared on the ground in front of Dreadima, halting his attack.

"What?" Dreadima yelled, stopping in his tracks and turning around to see a man dressed in a tuxedo standing behind him.

"How dare you attack my friends like that!" Tuxedo Mask yelled. "Perhaps I should teach you a lesson!"

"Aw, Tuxedo Mask, why'd you have to show up and ruin my big moment?" Sammy thought angrily.

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Yeah, Tuxedo Mask! What's wrong with you! ^_^ Well, I guess Sammy'll have to wait until next chapter to do anything! Or the chapter after that! Will Sammy EVER get a chance to help out Ami? I guess you'll have to find out next time…