Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Sailor Moon Super T ❯ Time and Again ( Chapter 17 )

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*Theme song: The Touch, by Stan Bush*





Reuisu: I can't contain the degredation!

The walls of the void began to contract. They could all tell this by the fact that the objects in the void were slowly coming towards them.

Reuisu: I'm going to try a recursive algarythm to stop the degredation!

Reuisu typed liked mad, trying to stop the walls from closing in on them.

Michelle: It's no good! We have to get out of here!

The walls suddenly came over the escape hole of the void. The walls continued to close, bringing the group all the more closer to death.

Amara: Reuisu, do something!

Reuisu: You don't seem to be doing anything useful, traitor!

And then the walls crushed in on them, killing them all.






4 hours ago...
Reuisu: Someone's got to go talk to her.

The Titans and the inner soldiers were assembled outside of Serena's room. Inside, Serena's eyes were bloodshot from tears as she just stared at her hands.

Luna: She hasn't eaten since she was brought back from the dead.

Mina: Something is definetely wrong with her.

Astra: So which of us is going to talk to her.

Lita: Lucy, why not you? You always seem to be able to lift spirits.

Lucy: I just have that way with people.

Lucy winked and walked inside the room. Serena didn't pay her any mind, she just continued to stare at her hands. Lucy walked over and sat down on her bed next to her.

Lucy: Okay, what's wrong?

Serena said nothing at first. She then licked her lips and replied.

Serena: There was nothing.

Lucy: What do you mean?

Serena: When I died. There was nothing. I just woke up to meet the others and being told I've been dead for two or three days.

Lucy: You mean there wasn't an afterlife.

Serena: Exactly. No Heaven. No Eden. Not even a Nirvana. Just... Nothing.

Lucy smiled.

Lucy: Maybe they already knew you weren't ready to come into it, and they knew you would be brought back.

Serena shook her head.

Serena: No. People who have come close to dying keep saying that they thought they saw a light and were walking towards it. There was no light and I actually died!

Lucy thought for a moment.

Lucy: During your funeral, people you had helped gave individual uligies for you. Do you know who showed up?

Serena: Who?

Lucy: I believe his name was Nephlite.

Serena rose her head up.

Serena: Excuse me?

Lucy: He just came in the doors, glowing like an angel. He walked up to the podium, and said that he looked forward to the day when he would actually see you in the journey ahead. Serena, they knew you weren't going to stay dead forever.

Serena slowly began to smile. She wrapped her arms around Lucy and hugged her.

Serena: Thank you. Now, let's get some food! Reuisu's buying!

Reuisu: I am?






Reuisu: All of you people keep using my money. First Lucy with using all that money I saved up to buy the coffee shop, and now I pay for three families of a meal for Serena!

Serena: What can I say, I haven't eaten in awhile!

Everyone was inside Reuisu's void. They all sat at a large card table, and everyone but Serena was playing poker.

Serena: Tell me again why you won't let me play?

Reuisu: Because one, you don't have any money, and two, you have a horrible poker face.

Serena: I do not!

Reuisu: Yes you do.

Serena: I do not!

Reuisu: Yes you do.

Serena: What's a poker face, anyway?

Everyone sweat-dropped.

Amara: Okay, I'm in this one. Anyone else?

Lita, Trista, and Michelle folded. Reuisu stood with his own hand, and everyone else asked for more cards. Reuisu rose the bet up 25, but Amara gave in 50. Thinking the stakes were getting too high, everyone but Reuisu and Amara folded. They gazed at one another, not moving.

Reuisu: So, it's down to me. Do I call your hand, and lose what's left of my money to either a winning hand, or get all my money back to a winning hand, or do I fold, believing you have a better hand? Decisions, decisions.

Amara could tell Reuisu was just stalling, trying to decide if Amara was bluffing or not. She made no movement. Her heart did not fluctuate, she stood exactly still, waiting.

Reuisu: You're bluffing.

Amara made no change to the remark, still keeping still. She did not laugh as if to point out Reuisu was foolish, she did not wince as if she were, she just sat there, doing nothing but breathing at a normal rate.

Reuisu: I change my mind. I'm out.

Reuisu put his cards down. He had three tens. Amara finally smiled and showed her hand: A pair of sevens. Reuisu's mouth gaped at the realization of his foolish mistake. Amara grinned even more and took the pot over to her side.

Amara: How'd you know I was bluffing?

Reuisu: I don't know. I just know you're a better liar than most people, traitor.

Amara: Thanks. HEY!

All of a sudden, warning flashes suddenly blared on! Reuisu ran from the table over to his computer desk. He checked the warning systems.

Reuisu: The environmental systems are failing!

Michelle: How is that possible, we fixed that a week ago!

Reuisu: There must've been more than we thought! If we don't do something in the next two minutes, the void'll collapse in on itself and kill us all!

Trista: I could use my time staff, freeze time so we can make repairs!

Michelle: Wait, what about plugging in my time staff into the system? We could reverse time in the degredation and not even need to repair it!

Reuisu: Good idea, plug it in!

Michelle ran over to the console and found an entry port. She plugged in the time staff into it, and whispered something to the staff. At first, thing looked like they were working as the degredation sensors seemed to decrease, but they suddenly jumped forwards! Reuisu typed in some commands into the console.

Reuisu: I can't contain the degredation!

The walls of the void began to contract. They could all tell this by the fact that the objects in the void were slowly coming towards them.

Reuisu: I'm going to try a recursive algarythm to stop the degredation!

Reuisu typed liked mad, trying to stop the walls from closing in on them.

Michelle: It's no good! We have to get out of here!

The walls suddenly came over the escape hole of the void. The walls continued to close, bringing the group all the more closer to death.

Amara: Reuisu, do something!

Reuisu: You don't seem to be doing anything useful, traitor!

And then the walls crushed in on them, killing them all.






4 hours ago...
Reuisu: Someone's got to go talk to her.

The Titans and the inner soldiers were assembled outside of Serena's room. Inside, Serena's eyes were bloodshot from tears as she just stared at her hands.

Luna: She hasn't eaten since she was brought back from the dead.

Mina: Something is definetely wrong with her.

Astra: So which of us is going to talk to her.

Lita: Lucy, why not you? You always seem to be able to lift spirits.

Lucy: I just have that way with people.

Lucy winked and walked inside the room. Serena didn't pay her any mind, she just continued to stare at her hands. Lucy walked over and sat down on her bed next to her.

Lucy: Okay, what's wrong?

Serena said nothing at first. She then licked her lips and replied.

Serena: There was nothing.

Lucy: What do you mean? Like there was no afterlife?

Serena: How'd you know?

Lucy: I don't know. I just suddenly thought that was it.

Serena: Well, that is my problem. No Heaven. No Eden. Not even a Nirvana. Just... Nothing.

Lucy smiled.

Lucy: Maybe they already knew you weren't ready to come into it, and they knew you would be brought back.

Serena shook her head.

Serena: No. People who have come close to dying keep saying that they thought they saw a light and were walking towards it. There was no light and I actually died!

Lucy thought for a moment.

Lucy: During your funeral, people you had helped gave individual uligies for you. Do you know who showed up?

Serena: Who?

Lucy: I believe his name was Nephlite.

Serena rose her head up.

Serena: Excuse me?

Lucy: He just came in the doors, glowing like an angel. He walked up to the podium, and said that he looked forward to the day when he would actually see you in the journey ahead. Serena, they knew you weren't going to stay dead forever.

Serena slowly began to smile. She wrapped her arms around Lucy and hugged her.

Serena: Thank you. Now, let's get some food! Reuisu's buying!

Reuisu: I am?






Reuisu: All of you people keep using my money. First Lucy with using all that money I saved up to buy the coffee shop, and now I pay for three families of a meal for Serena!

Serena: What can I say, I haven't eaten in awhile!

Everyone was inside Reuisu's void. They all sat at a large card table, and everyone but Serena was playing poker.

Serena: Tell me again why you won't let me play?

Reuisu: Because one, you don't have any money, and two, you have a horrible poker face.

Serena: I do not!

Reuisu: Yes you do.

Serena: I do not!

Reuisu: Yes you do.

Serena: What's a poker face, anyway?

Everyone sweat-dropped.

Amara: Okay, I'm in this one. Anyone else?

Lita, Trista, and Michelle folded. Reuisu stood with his own hand, and everyone else asked for more cards. Reuisu rose the bet up 25, but Amara gave in 50. Thinking the stakes were getting too high, everyone but Reuisu and Amara folded. They gazed at one anotherm not moving.

Reuisu: So, it's down to me. Do I call your hand, and lose what's left of my money to either a winning hand, or get all my money back to a winning hand, or do I fold, believing you have a better hand? Decisions, decisions.

Amara could tell Reuisu was just stalling, trying to decide if Amara was bluffing or not. She made no movement. Her heart did not fluctuate, she stood exactly still, waiting.

Reuisu: You're bluffing.

Amara made no change to the remark, still keeping still. She did not laugh as if to point out Reuisu was foolish, she did not wince as if she were, she just sat there, doing nothing but breathing at a normal rate.

Reuisu: I change my mind. I'm out.

Reuisu put his cards down. He had three tens. Amara finally smiled and showed her hand: A pair of sevens. Reuisu's mouth gaped at the realization of his foolish mistake. Amara grinned even more and took the pot over to her side.

Amara: How'd you know I was bluffing?

Reuisu: I don't know. I just suddenly had this feeling that you were bluffing, like it had already happened before.

Amara: But we've never done this before. This is the first time you've ever-

All of a sudden, warning flashes suddenly blared on! Reuisu ran from the table over to his computer desk. He checked the warning systems.

Reuisu: The environmental systems are failing!

Michelle: How is that possible, we fixed that a week ago!

Reuisu: There must've been more than we thought! If we don't do something in the next two minutes, the void'll collapse in on itself and kill us all!

Trista: I could use my time staff, freeze time so we can make repairs!

Michelle: Wait, what about plugging in my time staff into the system? We could reverse time in the degredation and not even need to repair it!

Reuisu: Good idea, plug it in!

Michelle ran over to the console and found an entry port. She plugged in the time staff into it, and whispered something to the staff. At first, thing looked like they were working as the degredation sensors seemed to decrease, but they suddenly jumped forwards! Reuisu typed in some commands into the console.

Reuisu: I can't contain the degredation!

The walls of the void began to contract. They could all tell this by the fact that the objects in the void were slowly coming towards them.

Reuisu: I'm going to try a recursive algarythm to stop the degredation!

Reuisu typed liked mad, trying to stop the walls from closing in on them.

Michelle: Oh my God, a time loop! I just realized it!

No one was listening to Michelle as she suddenly realized what was going on. Michelle didn't have time to think, she just ran over to the console and tried to pull her staff out, but to no avail. The walls suddenly came over the escape hole of the void. The walls continued to close, bringing the group all the more closer to death. In one last desperate attempt, she began to carve something into the console.

Amara: Reuisu, do something!

Reuisu: You don't seem to be doing anything useful, traitor!

And then the walls crushed in on them, killing them all.






4 hours ago...
Reuisu: Someone's got to go talk to her.

The Titans and the inner soldiers were assembled outside of Serena's room. Inside, Serena's eyes were bloodshot from tears as she just stared at her hands.

Luna: She hasn't eaten since she was brought back from the dead.

Mina: Something is definetely wrong with her.

Astra: So which of us is going to talk to her.

Lucy: Fine, I'll go talk to her.

Lita: I was just going to recommend you.

Lucy: You were? Oh well.

Lucy winked and walked inside the room. Serena didn't pay her any mind, she just continued to stare at her hands. Lucy walked over and sat down on her bed next to her.

Lucy: Are you upset that you never saw an afterlife?

Serena: How did you know?

Lucy: I'm not sure... I just had this really weird Déja Vu feeling... Anyway, about the fact that you didn't see the afterlife...

Lucy smiled.

Lucy: Maybe they already knew you weren't ready to come into it, and they knew you would be brought back.

Serena shook her head.

Serena: No. People who have come close to dying keep saying that they thought they saw a light and were walking towards it. There was no light and I actually died!

Lucy thought for a moment.

Lucy: During your funeral, people you had helped gave individual uligies for you. Do you know who showed up?

Serena: Who?

Lucy: I believe his name was Nephlite.

Serena rose her head up.

Serena: Excuse me?

Lucy: He just came in the doors, glowing like an angel. He walked up to the podium, and said that he looked forward to the day when he would actually see you in the journey ahead. Serena, they knew you weren't going to stay dead forever.

Serena slowly began to smile. She wrapped her arms around Lucy and hugged her.

Serena: Thank you. Now, let's get some food! Reuisu's buying!

Reuisu: I am?





Reuisu: All of you people keep using my money. First Lucy with using all that money I saved up to buy the coffee shop, and now I pay for three families of a meal for Serena!

Serena: What can I say, I haven't eaten in awhile!

Everyone was inside Reuisu's void. They all sat at a large card table, and everyone but Serena was playing poker.

Serena: Tell me again why you won't let me play?

Reuisu: Because one, you don't have any money, and two, you have a horrible poker face.

Serena: I do not!

Reuisu: Yes you do.

Serena: I do not!

Reuisu: Yes you do.

Serena: What's a poker face, anyway?

Everyone sweat-dropped.

Amara: Okay, I'm in this one. Anyone else?

Lita, Trista, and Michelle folded. Reuisu stood with his own hand, and everyone else asked for more cards. Reuisu rose the bet up 25, but Amara gave in 50. Thinking the stakes were getting too high, everyone but Reuisu and Amara folded. They gazed at one anotherm not moving.

Reuisu: So, it's down to me. Do I call your hand, and lose what's left of my money to either a winning hand, or get all my money back to a winning hand, or do I fold, believing you have a better hand? Decisions, decisions.

Amara could tell Reuisu was just stalling, trying to decide if Amara was bluffing or not. She made no movement. Her heart did not fluctuate, she stood exactly still, waiting.

Reuisu: You're bluffing.

Amara made no change to the remark, still keeping still. She did not laugh as if to point out Reuisu was foolish, she did not wince as if she were, she just sat there, doing nothing but breathing at a normal rate.

Reuisu: I call.

Reuisu put his cards down. He had three tens. Amara frowned and showed her hand: A pair of sevens. Reuisu smiled and brought the pot to him.

Amara: How'd you know I was bluffing?

Reuisu: I don't know. I just got this weird feeling like we've done this before. Or, maybe you're not as good a liar as you think, traitor.

Amara: HEY!

All of a sudden, warning flashes suddenly blared on! Reuisu ran from the table over to his computer desk. He checked the warning systems.

Reuisu: The environmental systems are failing!

Michelle: How is that possible, we fixed that a week ago!

Reuisu: There must've been more than we thought! If we don't do something in the next two minutes, the void'll collapse in itself and kill us all!

Trista: I could use my time staff, freeze time so we can make repairs!

Michelle: Wait, what about plugging in my time staff into the system? We could reverse time in the degredation and not even need to repair it!

Reuisu: Good idea, plug it in!

Michelle ran over to the console and found an entry port. She plugged in the time staff into it, and whispered something to the staff. At first, thing looked like they were working as the degredation sensors seemed to decrease, but they suddenly jumped forwards! Reuisu typed in some commands into the console.

Reuisu: I can't contain the degredation!

The walls of the void began to contract. They could all tell this by the fact that the objects in the void were slowly coming towards them.

Reuisu: I'm going to try a recursive algarythm to stop the degredation!

Reuisu typed liked mad, trying to stop the walls from closing in on them.

Michelle: Oh my God, a time loop! I just realized it!

No one was listening to Michelle as she suddenly realized what was going on. Michelle didn't have time to think, she just ran over to the console and tried to pull her staff out, but to no avail. The walls suddenly came over the escape hole of the void. The walls continued to close, bringing the group all the more closer to death. She looked at the area of the desk next to her staff. Carved in it was the zodiac symbol for Pluto.

Amara: Reuisu, do something!

Reuisu: You don't seem to be doing anything useful, traitor!

Michelle ran over to Sailor Pluto and grabbed her time staff out of her hands. She immediately summoned for the degredation to freeze. Everything in the area stopped.

Reuisu: Nice work, Michelle. How'd you know what to do?

Michelle: I suddenly realized why everyone's been having these Déja Vu feelings lately: We've already done this all. We've just been through a temporal disturbance known as a time loop. It's an instability that brings a person or persons back in time a certain amount of time. I saw a carving in your desk, Reuisu. It was probably from a previous version of myself. She probably realized it like I did, and carved in the only thing that would save us all: Pluto. Her plan was the one we should've used. Somehow, the degredation spred into my time staff and created the time loop.

Reuisu: And according to my readings, this was caused by a Beryl plague!

Chris: But how would she know where to attack?

Reuisu: She didn't. She wasn't going for the environmental systems, she was trying to attack the communications grid.

Miya: How can you be sure?

Reuisu: Because there's a message from the Sailor Starlights asking for us to go to their homeworld.




To Be Continued...