Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Series ❯ Crawling out of Hell ( Chapter 13 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

Disclaimer: I , in no way, own any part of Sailor Moon or any of it's "in world characters". All characters are respectively owned by Naoko Takeuchi. I forget who else owns it, but them too. I'm just using the characters for this fanfiction, for personal entertainment. And I'm not making any money off it either.

However. I do own the...
Assailant/Entity
Thug/Creature
These two (well, now you know it's only two) are my creations of my mind.

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Chapter 13
Crawling out of Hell

The Assailant made use of the frost on the ground and skidded quickly down the street. He dragged his extended blades to slow down and found them. The Creature moments after he restored his arm, and the Senshi moments into frustration.
"Well, if that ain't just convinent." The blades retracted back in, then he raised the AK to his shoulder. [KakKakKakKakKakKakKakKak!!] They paniced, jumped away and ducked behind nearby cars. The sound alone was horrid and fear inspiring. [KakKakKakKakKakKakKakKakKakKakKakKakKak!!]

"What is going on here!?" Sailor Moon yelled out. [KakKakKakKakKakKakKakKakKakKak!!]
The Assailant saw one of them duck behind the car, as if could save her. It woulden't.

[KakKakKakKakKakKakKakKakKak]
"OWW!! Arrugh!!" Pluto went down to her side. Three of the nine rounds slammed stright through the car engine, hitting her.
"Nooo!!" She cried aloud.
The Creature did little, except keep his attention at the building. She would come out soon madder than before. He was ready for her.
[KakKakKakKakKakKakKakKakKakKak!!] More gunfire echoed in the street, rifle rounds sliced thorugh cars and thier engins, shattered thick windows, splintered small trees. Mars crawled to Pluto and dragged her away from the car and pulled her into and alley and behind a trash dumpster. She checked quickly and was releaved when she didn't find any serious wounds, just bruses.

"Are you okay?" Mars asked.

"It hurts, I'll be fine though." Pluto responded, as she began to stand again.
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The air was freezing-cold, it filled with dangerous, acidic fumes, gradualy becoming less breathable. The Assailant, Creature, Amy all knew this.
Amy was watching the whole thing from inside. With the two of them togeather, and all that firepower, it would only be a matter of time before things would be beyond her... abilities.
(I got to get'em out of here.) She thought to herself. [KakKakKakKakKakKak!!] The gunfire made her jump from her hiding spot, and leaped out the 2nd floor window. The Creature did little to move as she practicley landed in front of him. He grabbed her, she twisted out of its grip, she dropped down and kicked out his knee setting him off balance, she grabbed the back of his head and rammed her knee into his muzzle. [POOM!!] The Assailant shot her with the shotgun, and landed on her side. It felt like a small sledgehammer almost tore her in half, knocked the wind out of her too.

"Oh no." Venus said aloud.
"Come on, lets help her." They all rushed from their hiding places.

Sailor Moon's attention was caught by a subway tunnel.
"Mars wait, look!" Sailor Mars at what she pointed at.
"Can we get them in there?" She nodded understanding what she ment. First they had to get Amy away from them.
Amy twisted feircely under the Creature's grip. [thump] She kicked her foot into his crotch. [thump-thump] two more kicks got him on his knees. [CRUNCH] The Creature punched down to her head and into the street.

As the fist pulled away Amy saw her friends running in.
(No, don't run at them!) She bucked her hips up and, to her surprise, loosened the Creature's grip and position above her. She bucked again, and again, and reached her hand between his legs and pulled up and over. It didn't hurt him, but it at lest move him off her. She scrambled to her feet and ran to her fellow senshi. [KakKakKakKakKakKakKakKakKak!!]

"Mars Flame Sniper!"
"Dead Scream."
"Venus Love and Beauty Shock!" [KakKakKak!!-]Mars' attack hit the Assailant and incenerated his upper arm and most of his jacket... and his mask. The two second attacks quickly followed a split second later, throwing him on his back. He rolled and crawled out of the way behind a car, then pointed his AK from under the car. [KakKakKakKakKakKakKak!! - Click!] The gun finally emptyed for the first time. He pulled out the drum mag and inserted a second drum into the AK [click-shlak] [Thump!] Amy came from nowhere and tackled him from the side.

She got him on his back but made the mistake of being suprised because of his exposed face, and even more because of his missing shoulder.
(It's not-) Her thoughts cut suddenly when his fingers clutched at her throat and slam her down on the ground beside him. He stood and reached for his shotgun from behind, and pulled the trigger. Nothing happened. The two spikes on her back flexed and stood her up, she grabbed the back of his head with one hand, and whipped her elbow on his nose. His left arm swung around and wrapped both her arms togeather and tripped her down backwards, then the punches came again.

The Creature ran through the middle of his own toxic fumes, where it was at it's strongest, and where no one would could be dumb enough to try to follow or aproach him, including the Senshi. The surrounding could very easly be seen to decay all around them. Trees withered, small birds were crippled and flapped helplessly on the ground and soon would die.
Unfortunitly, the Senshi could see the other guy beating Amy, and that made them furious, but unless they could get by the Creature, they could do nothing. They could only run around the border of where the fumes were tolerable, and no closer.
The Assailant stopped punching when one of Amy's new-grown spikes from her back, ripped from out of the ground and stuck him in the neck, the spike reared back again and pierced into his chest, and knocked him down off her. He reached and grabbed her hair and yanked towards himself, Amy yanked away, leaving a clump of hair in his hand. He grabbed her closer leg with his legs and tripped her down face-first. She rolled on her back just as he climbed on top of her. She tryed to push him away with both her hands, but both hands were griped at the wrist with one hand and moved to one side. She could only see that other balled up fist coming back down at her.

The Senshi made their way around the fumes, but were now being chased by the Creature. They all ran quickly down the street, with only the last physical energy left in them. The Creature as the thug had lost alot of blood, shot, stabed, burned, blasted – then into his altered state hacked, frozen, incenerated shot... and nothing slowed him down. They ran and ran quickly into the subway tunnel they saw earlier, and naturaly he followed them in. Down the narrow passages and into the platforms to the train-tracks they ran. The Creature slammed through a support post, through a ticket booth, through another support post, his head smashed low light fixtures and shattered the floresent light tubes.
The Senshi ran passed a parked subway-car, the Creature follwed behind and slammed it one one side and halfway though the reenforced concret wall. The Creature reached back and yanked the car out of the wall, and threw it at the Senshi. It flew end over end twice, barley missed passing them, before it crashed into the other wall ahead.
It was'nt long till the dead-end of the tunnel was nearing, the Creature's steps constantly thumped aginst the ground reverberating the ground and walls, shaking dust loss from the cracks along the way.
Wordlessly, as planned before, Pluto summoned a portal to the back of the tunnel. The Creature could see it as well, he hunched down and ran faster on all fours, useing his hands as a seconds pair of legs. All the Senshi ran though as the portal closed as the Creature slammed up aginst the wall to an ubrupt stop.
He stepped back.... he looked at the wall.... he breathed heavy for valuable freash air he needed to keep his large body cool....
He turned around to leave, then stopped to see the other open end of the tunnel. He saw the Senshi lined in a row.
Then he got it. The Creature curled his lip at his own stupidity, realizing he was lured and boxed into a corner, with only one way out.
The Creature ran... it ran fast with all the strength it had at them. If he was going to get out, their was only that one opening he entered from.

"Mars Flame Sniper!!"
"Venus Love and Beauty Shock!!" They poured as much strength as they possably could in their own attacks, it hit him and got him to stop for a brief second.

"Dead Scream."
"World Shaking!!" The also summoned their strength and forced as much as they could at the Creature, their attacks slammed into his chest, and realed him backwards. The impact broke bone, and tore meat, it shattered some of the smaller bones into peices. It left an impression in his chest that was slow to heal. Burned, torn, battered, and shattered. One more to go, the wand in Sailor Moon's hand, and her focus on the Creature.. he charged at her.

"Moon Cosmic Elimination!!" The tunnel filled with the light, a pure constant stream of energy that pulsed with power...
Immagen the suprise, of Sailor Moon and the remaining senshi, her fellow friends, as the Creature stood his ground taking the full effect of her attack.
Immagen the suprise, of the Creature as the pulsating light that enveloped around him, had no effect on himself.
He was no fool to recall Sailor Moons' eruptions of power, and treaded carefully not to envoke her greater attacks. He would have expected his body to be disentigrating at her attack, but no, that didn't happen.
Instead of his assumed end, the light of her attack, passed harmlessly around him.
It took a few moments for the Creature to understand what was happening. He looked up at Sailor Moon, he looked down at the energy passing-by. He inspected his body to see if anything was being incenerated away... nothing.
Sailor Moon saw the Creature as he was just begining to look up at her again, and seeing her attack was doing nothing to effect him.
She focused her thoughts and heart into an increase in power. Dust kicked up and filled the tunnnel, it chipped at the walls, the floor, and the celine, but not at the Creature.
For all the suffering this monster caused, she had to be rid of him, not just because it was a threat to themselves, not just because he tried to kill Ami and Makoto, but because the beast was a threat to the very way peace and life. The beam of pulsing light grew stronger.
But still, the Creature stood unharmed, unscathed, and uneffected. Now the Creature stepped forward against the pulsing light, feeling no resistance.
Sailor Moon gave one more push into her attack, then the Creature charged at them. She halted her attack, but was now too weak to run on her own, her knees buckled under her, just as Uranus picked her up and they all ran for the opening to escape.
They ran for their lives, it was the only thing they had left. All their stored energy was depleated, running was all they had left.
The Creature raced faster ahead on hands and feet, his over-muscled arms propeled him further as a second pair of legs. He first caught up to Venus, he knocked her down and trampled all 1300 pounds of himself over her, then he was behind Pluto and grabbed her by her waist with one hand then threw her in the ground, that was the moment both their sailor fuku's illuminated into transparent ribbons, then left them in their normal clothing.
Uranus could hear what was happening behind her, but couldn't looks back. Mars did though, she saw it running at them, then felt afraid. She stummbled and fell, but managed to get back on her feet before she was in reach of that Creature. They were fast, and that was all that was keeping them safe and alive.
The Creature had other idea's. He could run all day if he had to, but that's not what he needs. He grabbed a piece of rail from it's foundation, as if weightless, and threw it low along the ground. Spinning wildly in flight, it hit both Mars and Uranus in the legs, and all three fell. Mars and Uranus felt something numbingly cold at their shins, then it began to hurt a little, then it hurt a lot, then the pain was beyond control.
The Creature slowed to a walking pace and stood over Sailor Mars, to weak to fight and to hurt to run. He calmly wrapped his hand around her waist, lifted her up above his head, then slammed her down on top of Uranus. As he removed his hand, both had reverted back from their trasformations.
Sailor Moon, was on her feet, leaning on the wall, and trying to run. She would take a few limping hops and breath, and try to escape.
The Creature walked up to her, and gently knocked her down with one finger as a final insult.
He stood over her like the titan he was, and just looked down at her. He was slightly confused, and little curious as he looked at her. Their was nothing she could do to him, their was nothing she could use to fight him off. The Creature sat down in front of Sailor Moon, one arm layed on the ground between themselves, and the other propped on the ground with it's elbow pointing up.
Then the Creature began to decrease in size, his shoulders narrowed, the muscles reduced, his muzzle shrinked and returned to it's more human features, his skin went from coal black to normal. Moments passed and he was back to his human form.
A few uneasy, claustrophobic seconds later as Sailor Moon moved barely half an inch away from him, he grabbed the side of her head by her right odango, and pulled her back to face him.
"We should talk." He said, his voice still slightly affected from his altered form.

Back on the streets above was bussness as usuall, the other one was still at it as he and Amy traded hits. It was a fight for Amy to try to keep any control over the Assailant as he constantly fought for control over her wrists to completly pin her down.
Amy lunged up and bit into his neck, the responce was he lunged down and bit off her ear. Amy still had a mouth full of blood, then spit as a spray in his eyes, he reared back blinded from his own blood sticking in his eyes. Amy saw, and struck back fiercly, she grabbed him by his ears and rammed her knee up into his nose, then his jaw.
He swung blindly and hit her a few times in the ribs and once in her hip. She thrust her elbow in his stomach, she slashed her fingertips at his throat and face, into the tendons of his shoulder and legs.
He swung again with a blade now extended blade from the sleve, he swung it with the grace of a serial-killer with a machete. She jumped on his back and jabbed her fingertips as far as they could go into neck.
He fell to his back to attempet to crush her. Her spikes articulated quickly ahead of her, one pierced his back and out stomach, the other pierced the back of his knee. He raised his elbow and jabbed at her, hitting her in anyway he could. His eyes stung as he opened them, then adjusted to see clearly.
He didn't even know he had been stabed untill he tried to roll away and she remaind on his back. He saw the spikes sticking out, and franticly twisted to escape, he whiped his head backwards to hit her face twice, then he was able to stand up.
Amy didn't know what it was, but she heard the sound of metal rattling beneath, then behind her, something scrapped around her waist and violently pulled her away. The world spun in two different directions untill it suddenly stopped into the side of the brick wall. The odd thing was all she could think of was-
(Where have I head that sound before?) Her thoughts were interupted as she was grabbed by the face and dragged along the ground and the top of her head slammed into the wall again then dragged up along the wall, he reared his drawn blades, then turned for someone else. [CLANG!] Endymion came from behind and pressed his sword aginst him.
Endymion paried his blade to the inside and nearly smashed the Assailant head
Amy stabbed her fingertips into his arm and dragged halfway down his arm.
The Assailant whiped Amy around and threw her into Endymion, and both went down on their back. He raced at them and stomped down as they both scrambled to their feet. Now at either side of him. Endymion dashed in and was off to his side and thrust, he blocked it
Amy ran up to his back and spun as her jammed her elbow in his back. Endymion had to keep his senses focused, as he attacked. He swung and thrust his sword with skill, but above all else had to stay defencive.
Amy had a few things going for her now, she could focus on fighting and not just surviving. Free to attack as long as she could take a hit.
The Assailant reached but was evaded, he swung and missed. He charged at Endymion and got his sword pierced his arm, but all the same shoved Endymion down.
Amy dropped kicked him face down and rushed him. He rolled on his back and kicked to her stomach, stopping her. Endymion just swung his sword up and over himself and slammed the blade on top of his chest. The Assailant swung the ridge of his hand to his septem. Amy was on top and hammered a few solid strikes at his face.
He pushed her away and was back on his feet. [THUMP!!] The Assailant was back down on his back as the back of his knee was hit by something solid and wet. All three looked down the street, there was Sailor Neptune, still with her injured leg, but willing to fight.

"Arughh!" Endymion came from above and stabbed down, he missed piercing his chest. Amy ran over and grabbed his ankle and heaved him over into a lamp post. The extended blades from his arms withdrew under his jacket sleve.

"Deep Submerge!!" Neptune's attack made a direct hit, but did little. Quickly up on his feet he saw the shotgun laying on the ground, he ran like hell for it, none of the standing three could've made him stop. He grabbed it off the ground and jumped through a window into a pastry shop, he jumpped once again over the sale counter. [Clack-Clack!] Quickly he loaded two shells in the gun. He looked up and for the first time noticed woman hiding at the oppisite end, curled up in a little ball, unable to look at him, as if not looking at him would make him go away. He heard them, closing in, he stood. [POOM!! Clack-Clack! POOM!! Clack-Clack!] Amy took the round in the hip, knocking her on her back. Endymion took a round that spun him around, and brused the flesh beneath, it wasn't life threating, but it still hurt.
The Assailant jumped over the counter and rushed to the door. [POOM!! Clack-Clack!] Amy was trying to stand up again but the round slammed into her shoulder, spinning her onto her back. [POOM!!] Endymion wasn't even able to stand before he took the round in his ribs.
All Amy wanted, was to get up, but whatever she was being shot with kept her down, like sledgehammers with rockets. It was hard to breath, and her ears rang everytime she was hit. [POOM!! Clack-Clack! POOM!! Clack-Clack! POOM!! Clack-Clack] First it was her neck, then her arm again, then her lower back. Sailor Neptune was further out of the way, she was unable to fight like they way she would've wanted to, but that's the way it was.
The Assailant ducked behind the door, and began reloading.

(It stopped.) Neptune noticed. She looked around, then ran out she first grabbed Amy from under her shoulders.

"I'm fine, help him." Amy said getting up on her feet. Neptune bent down to help Endymion with one arm over her head to stand him up. Then the bad news started all over again. [POOM!! Clack-Clack!] Amy was knocked back down. [POOM Clack-Clack!] Neptune took the round to the stomach, in turn knocked both of them down. It was bad enough her leg was injured badly days ago, but now she could feel her insides all busted up, like they're floating on hot liquid lead. All she could do was grit her teeth as bear the pain, and lay there.
Endymion began to charge at him again with the intent to take his head off, but Amy grabbed him by the collar and ran away.

"What are you doing?"

"Shut-up!" she answered. The Assailant chased after them while loading two rounds in the shotgun. Amy ducked into an alley, still holding onto Endymion. She kicked a door open but then ran past the door and turned a courner.
She saw an open dumpster and tossed Endymion in.
"Stay in there." She ordered him, then closed the lid.
The Assailant turned into the alley, saw the kicked open door, and ran in. Amy took a side alley out and ran over to Neptune, she helped her up. She looked around.
(Good still not here.) She walked Neptune in the pastrey shop and put Neptune in a broom-closet.
"Whatever you do don't leave here, don't yell, and don't answer to anyone. I'll come back to get you personaly." She nodded as she was placed down and the door closed. As she turned around to leave, she saw her reflection in a mirror. She had a vage idea what had happened to her, but not to this extent.
(What happened to me?) Ripped clothing, small-black-overlapping plates from her neck down to her toes, the two 3-jointed-rust-colored-spikes protruding from her back where a pair of wings would be. Defined muscle tone where soft curves used to be, her livley eyes were sunk back into her head, like she hadn't slept in weeks.
Old voices stired in her mind, like whispers. Her thoughts cleared, everything is the right way around. The confusion in her head laid to rest and died. There were two monsters out there, and none of her friends could do a thing to stop them once and for all.
(Maybe another monster could stop them.) She thought to herself. She said maybe, but in the back of her mind she really ment.
((Another monster can stop them.))
She ran out the door, down the alley and went after the Assailant. She could practictly smell the combination of burnt gun-powder, sweat, alcohol and blood that came from him. She raced into the building and followed the smell, she saw him.
"Hey!"
He turned, just to see her had outstreached. Air turned cold and frosted, freezing torents of ice rushed down the empty halls. He jumped away through a wall, but the frost caught some of his arm. It froze the sleave of his jacket and the flesh of his arm, from above his elbow to his wrist, but it wasn't lethal. He hissed with pain as all he could do was take it untill she stopped. His fingers stiffened up and it became hard to hold the gun.
"There's no one else, just you and me! No one left to hide behind." The floor was frozen like hell. She heard sounds of walls being broken. He was moving around her. [Crash] through a wall he jumped to her, a spike flicked up and whipped him away, he grabbed the spike in his hand and flung her over his head and back on the ground. He dived for her, she fired again and compleatly froze the right half of his chest and the rest of his arm, he punched for her head and missed. The impact shattered the frozen fleash from his body revealing a complex of metal plates where bone should have been, insulated wires, minute hydrolic-pumps and gears.
She was only suprised a little. Then the beatings went on as usual. She grabed his neck and kick his stomach, up and over he went onto his back, she was about to rush him and she heard the metallic rattling sound again. It broadsided her in the face, then it grabbed her ankle and pryed her away from him. She looked up. From the base of his back extended a protruding tail, segmented from base to tip with two short curved blades one on the top and one on the bottom, The tip of the mechanical tail was the largest, it extended six feet in length, and only moved slightly. Up on his feet again, he tore away his jacket and extra gear. Quickly the blades came out from both his forearms, paralell to each other. He rushed her, she stumbled back, his tail lashed from the bottom and pulled her leg. On her back, his foot came up and slammed down like a guliotine. Precious air was robbed out from her chest on impact, he grabbed her by the hair as his tail lifted her upside-down then dragged his blades across her throat, causing little harm. She pressed her hand to his hip and froze on contact his hip and thigh, he tossed her away through a door.
Before she could even stand, he jumped on top of her pressing both his knees to the back of her head. His legs depressed her back spikes with force, and was now unable to move. He removed his gloves and wraped his hands around her face, and cranked her head as far back as his strength allowed. She struggled and stabbed her fingertips in his legs to discourage him off her back, but it wasn't working.
[!] Her eyes went wide as the bad news added on, her muscles spasamed but she couldn't close her limbs. [!] The world spun in it's back, she knew the ground was below her but it felt like it was to her side, her vision dimmed and narrowed.
Just as much as the Assailant couldn't avoid the affects of the cold, Amy couldn't avoid the affects of all that electricity pulsing in her head. He charged again [!] She barley couldn't move anymore. She struggled for one hand to grab his leg. Another charge was prepared. [!] The shock pounded through her and she began to salivate uncontrolably. [!] Another charge knocked her beyond senseless, and she lost control of *other bodly functions. [!] Another charge took the rest of the fight out of her, but it wasn't enough for him. [!] Again and again he poured the lethal amounts of electricity through her head in large jolts. Every jolt made her body twitch and contort.
After a while, he stopped, then began trying to rip her head off. He cranked one way, then the other way at her defenceless neck, but it wouldn't budge. Then like everything else in life he remembered something. Her mouth... her unguarded, unprotected mouth.
He fliped her onto her back and moved his tail near her face, he tilted her head back then narrowed the blades of his tail, he pryed her mouth open with his hand.
Then greusomly, the tail inturded in her mouth, down her throat, and into her stomach. The tail thrashed back and forth in her belly, it pounded at the skin surface to attempt to get out, but coulden't, it tore soft tissue and at life giving organs, blood poured out from her mouth and nose as he violently tore her apart from the inside, the tail went further down and jerked back and forth in her legs, one final jerk from side to side then the tail was pulled out from her mouth along with all manner of guts and blood dripping and hanging from it. He whiped the tail to the side flinging her insides off it.

He breathed heavy as he layed back, amazed he won. For a while he staired a thousand miles away while enjoying the silence, then he looked back down to her.
[Sigh] He looked at the frost surounding his wounds, he tapped away the loose frost, then the wound began to close. In under a minute he had compleatly regenerated the lost flesh, from his chest, then his shoulder, the upper arm, down to the wrist then a new hand.
He stood up then walked away, picking up the shotgun on the way out. He was already loading the shotgun again the mechanical tail withdrew into his body at the base of his spine.
(Now what?) He knew he had to find his partner, but he really wasn't sure where he was now. The streets were quiet, he walked in the open streets without opposition, no cops, no competition no soldiers, and none of the other senshi around. He opened a car and sat in it, reclined the seat back with the gun still in his hand...
And that's where he waited.

The Thug walked out of the subway tunnel with Sailor Moon as a symbolic trophy. She struggled against his grip at her hair. He looked around.
(Where is he?) He thought absently. He walked down the street with a vague sense of where his partner was, just had to follow the smell of gunfire.
Ten minite passed with Sailor Moon being lead around by the hair. No words were said to eachother the whole time. Down one street, and into another, then down in the alleyways. The Thug saw a car with a leg hanging out the open door. A gun-barrle sticking-out over the leg helped a bit to.
"<YO, Wake the fuck up!>" He yelled in english. The Assailant turned to them, and walked over to them.
"<So.. what now?>"
He looked down at her. She was barely over five feet tall, and became fearful. Unable to even hurt the Creature, and unable to remotely stop the Assailant. She still had a little energy left, but not enough to fight both of them.
The Assailant reach over and tore away her transfomation broach from her chest.
If she was underpowered before, now she was compleatly useless to do anything. Back in her normal clothing she was left to the descretion of the two.
He looked at the broach as if a cheap piece of plastic, but there was value in it, tons of it. But it was also like having a bank-vault full of money without the combination to open it.
"<Uhh, where's Amy?>"

"<Don't worry, killed her.>" The Assailant just glanced over at her.
"Usagi, is there a way to make more of these?" He said refencing her broach.
She timidly looked away from him, he pulled her face towards his, then she closed her eyes not wanting to look at him.

"<Hey, I'm tired and I'm willing to call it a day at this point, lets' just leave her.>" Said the Thug.

"<Yeah, your right.>" He let go of her hair and let her drop to the ground.

"Oh come on, stand up. How far down the gene-pool do you think you are?" The Assailant asked her. She slowly climed to her feet useing the car as leverage. Even on her feet she coulden'l look up at them.
"Beleave it or not Tsukino, I have more respect for you than you think, now can you at the very least look me in the eye?"
She strugled to look up and pryed her eyes open full of tears. Her lower lip quivered in sadness and fear. But she was also angry at them, but unable to show it. The finality of it all crumbled around her, and it was down to just her and these two.

"I... won't forgive.... you for this...never." She said quietly and tears streaming down her face.

"Duely noted." The Assailant answered back without an ounce of remorse. [Clunk] He whiped the butt of the shotgun across her head and knocked her out.
He gave another quick look at the broach, and tossed it to her side. Then they left.
It was four city blocks of walking to the Hospital parking lot, but it went uninterrupted, no one fired at them, no one shouted orders of surrender to them, no one tried to surround them, nothing.
The Assailant tossed the shotgun in the backseat as both got in the Chevy, and drove off.
The Thug on the passenger side flipped though the CD album selected a country singer, and put it in the cd-player.
{David Allen Coe – Nothin' to lose}
"Heh, that fits."

"Yeah. Uhh, she is dead right? You know the.. Her? Amy?"

"Yeah, she's worm food, she's a piece of meat."

"....Did you take her head off?"

".....nooo. Should I have?"

"Where did you leave her?" He hit the breaks turned the car around, and raced to the building.

A minute later they were in the last room where he left Amy. The Thug just looked over to him as the Assailant looked down at the trail of blood leading out the building
"That's not good." With no other leads to go on, they had to return to the car and went back to their apartment.

Else where Mamoru had given into the agony and reverted back. He smelt horrable, head to toe with garbage, grease, rotting cabbage, and everything else he didn't want to think about. Walking was a chore, and breathing was a labor. He had to find Usagi, right now it was the only thing that mattered to him. He heard sirens in the distance. An ambulance.
(All this, why?) It would be Christmas in a few weeks, but all this happened. Later, one by one, each of the girls crawled to their feet and made their way to the street, not even knowing if they were still around. After nearly half an hour they found each other again. All of them in worse shape than they've been in years. A series of nightmares would come after this day, a series of news reports on tv talking about the worst street crimes commited in modern history.
Later that night, sure enough the nightly news had the latest series of bad news. It wasn't about dirty old men riding the trains next to preety young girls, it wasn't about dilinquent youths spraying graffiti in alley ways.
The usuall comedy tv shows that aired during primetime were interupted by the days events, and repeated the bits of footage captured on film of cops having being shot and bleeding to death on the streets. The Sailor Scouts, having been beaten to an inch of their lives. The body count came to 28 officers killed, 14 JSDF soldiers killed, and hundreds injured beyond continuable servace. Dozens of docters and nurses were also badly injured 3 were killed, 1 patient in the hospital in the begining was also killed, and over 40 people in the streets were also gone.
Nothing could've prepared Tokyo's police for this day, The JSDF was just as unprepaired, and the streets were littered with spent bullet shells, brass, frost, and bodies.

Later that night.
Both Mamoru and Usagi sat in thier apartment. Both were in bandages, brused, sore from head to toe. No reason to celebrate that night for any reason.
[knock-knock]
Both looked to the front door. Mamoru was in no condition to fight, and Usagi knew she was useless against them.
"Usagi?" Came Amy's voice.
"Mamoru? Are you home?" Usagi rushed to the door and opened it, and Amy fell at her feet.

"Amy!" Usagi cried. She looked half the young-woman she used to be, but she looked more normal than before. Her skin reverted back, but was plaster white due to lack of blood in her body. Her clothes were less than useable and slashed to ribbons. Usagi took off her blouse and covered her for modesty. Mamoru was now at her side and both helped her up then layed her gently on the couch.
"Oh my- what did they do to you?"

"I'll call a doctor." Mamoru said.

"No, no doctors!" He turned at her rushed, raspy words.
"No doctors."

"But you're-"

"I said no doctors!" They both looked down to Amy, unsure of what to do. Amy calmed down after a few minutes, as Usagi wiped her forehead with a cool damp towel. She looked up at her with a half smile.
"So, how bad do I look?" Amy's voice much more normal than before.

"You look great." Usagi answered quietly
"Do you need anything?"

"... yeah I do. You got anything to eat around here? I'm starving."

"Sandwiches?"

"Sounds good to me." Usagi went into the kitchen as Mamoru came out with a warm drink.

"Here. Apple Cider."

"Thanks." He pulled a chiar next to her, and sat beside her.

"Amy, can I ask you something?"

"Sure."

"What happened out there... and to you?"

She shrugged her shoulders.
"I got the daylights pounded out of me."

"Heh, yeah, you did. But, what about what you did... Do you remember anything... you know... something accidental?"

"Hmm, no... not that I know of."

"Well, during our fight, when it went into the streets. Do you remember much of how things happened?"

"Not much, my head was throabing alot of the time, the rest of the time it was ringing."

"Yeah, I bet. I guess what I'm trying to ask you is, do you remember when you fired your ice attack?"

"Heh, oh yeah, that was awesome. I never felt so much power before in my life. I swear I could've fired forever the way I was out there." She said with a smile.

"Amy... you may have ment well, but what you did there killed alot of people as well. You attacked one of them, but it went on and on down the street. Alot of people were caught in the blast."
Amy heard his words crystal clear, but for some reason it didn't hit her the way it should have. Overall she was quite numb to the fact.
"Amy, do you know what you've done?"

"What? Those two guys out there were trying to kill us if you didn't notice. I had the means to do them some harm, and your talking down to me, for saving your life?"

"But remember, we try to keep our battles away from people, so they are never involved."

"Well let me bring you up to date, they've been choseing the time and pace they attack us. Is that a fair battle?"

"No it isn't, but we have to show we're better than them."

"Better? Excuse me, but they proved it all day they're better than us. I din't see you making any changes in the fight. As I remember I saw you tossed away like a cheep doll, even that Creature thought as little of you. You didn't make a difference, and I had to drag you away. Even afterwards as I was getting the hell beaten out of me, neither of them found you in the dumpster."

"And that justifies your wreakless behavior?"
Usagi was behind the door and was listening to the whole thing

"No, but it kept us alive."

"You didn't know that though. They left us alive that thing left Setsuna, Rei, Haruka and Minako alive."

"But that thing defnitly tried to kill Ami, that's still lying in the hospital when she was stabbed."

"You're not listening Amy. Resorting to their kind of violence dosen't solve anything."
Amy clentched up her face in caged anger.
"All it would have done is made things worse. And it started when you accedently killed those people."

"NO! It started when they came eight months ago. Or did that escape your memory?"

"No, it hasn't but you're still missing the point-

"No, you're not being reasonable. You're practically demanding me fight blindfolded."

"The way you fought, it looked like you were."

"Why are you telling me off like this? After all that happened, after I saved your lives, held them back,
took your beatings. You know that thing would've been just as well off putting you in the dirt."

"IF the price would have to be my death, I would have prefered it compared to what you did."
Amy looked at him. It was as if he was comparing her to them.

"Then next time, and you know there'll be a next time... what do you want me to do when they attack?"

"Next time... you'll just have to control yourself."
Left with a lingering sence of uselessness, Mamoru left her to rest, for the rest the night.
Usagi slowly came in shortly afterwards with a plate of sandwiches, and sat where Mamoru was, placing down the plate on the nearby table. Amy grabbed one and immeditly stuffed it in her mouth, and just as quickly swallowed it.

"Amy, he just had a hard day, we all did, he's just tired. He didn't mean anything."
Amy looked over to her as she stuffed another one in her mouth and swallowed it whole.
"You know he's not usually like that, that he's always been a good friend to you in the past."
Amy nodded a little.
"Cause' he's never turned on us, and never would. It was just a hard day."

"Mmph [gulp] Don't care. Got anything else?"
Usagi was so busy defending Mamoru, she didn't notice the sandwiches had been finished"

"But their were five of them."

"Yeah... you know, I bet I smell horrable, Mind' if I use the shower?"

"Of coarse you can."

In the shower, she scrubbed slowly the dredges of the day.
She breathed heavy as she leaned aginst the shower wall.
She sat down in the tub as the warm water rained down on top of her.
She lowered her head into her hands, unsure of what to do.
She sat their motionless. Evientualy she held up her left hand in front of her. On a reflex of her thoughts her hand from her fingertips to past her wrist were covered in the dark, overlaping, armored plates. She showed no suprise in the action, though it was the first time she made it happen on her terms. As if she had done it a thousand time before. She felt with her right hand the fingertips of the armored covering. She glided her thumb on one of her left fingertips, and cut herself. She looked at her thumb just as the wound closed. She retracted the armor of her left hand.


{At the assailants' apartment.}
As both of them sat in the apartment digging bullets out of each other. The Thug sat in the bathtub as the other would feel around for a lodged bullet, then take it out. The blood would stream down his back, drench his boxers and pool down the water drain.
It took a while. The Thug alone had been shot 68 times.
As the in-home surgery went on he ate into a whole ham as his partner dug out bullets
"You know, you keep eating into that, I'm not gonna be able to dig these out as easy."

"Dude, I'm hungry. I've had to grow back alot of meat today. More than usuall."

"Point taken."

"So, Amy is still alive, what now? She knows most, if not all, of what we can do."

"I've been thinking about that. It takes one of us just to handle her, but all she needs is a little distance and she can fire on both of us with effect. It'll only be a matter of time before she smartens up. So... I figure we should invite some help, you know, even up the odds."

"Sounds good to me."


To be Continued....
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Criminey It took me a while to get this one out, thanks for being patient Mediaminer readers.
Well let's get the ownership rights out of the way.
The song "Nothin' to lose" was written by THE David Allen Coe. And its the accoustic version, not the rock version, which is just as awesome.
Their's also a few Punisher refences written in, from the 1-Shot Story "The Cell" and the 6-part Story "Up is Down and Black is White" So no attempt of plagiarism is made here.

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