Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Shadows of the Past ❯ The Psychic ( Chapter 1 )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]

Usual spiel here. I don't claim to own any of the Sailor Moon characters
(except for the ones that I make up). The person who does own them is Naoko
Takeuchi, the CEO of DiC, the CEO of Bandai, and many others. I'm sure that if
I did own any of the Sailor Moon stuff, I would be trying to get DiC to be doing
a better job with the dub. But anyway, without any further ado...
Oh, by the way, a little further ado here. I would like to apologize for
any mistakes in my stories. If there are any major ones that affect the
outcome, tell me in an e-mail to:jmh6187@uncwil.edu. I will read them and
consider them for further stories, because I won't be able to change the ones
that have been already posted. Also, there will be Raye/Serena fights, but they
won't be at the usual quality. I'm a beginner.
This story is rated somewhere between PG and PG-13. I say this because
there is no language, but there are a lot of guns shooting off.

Shadows From the Past
by: M.H. Torringjan

Part 1: The Psychic

Amy looked up from her book, A Tale of Two Cities. The phone was ringing.
Amy closed the red-bound book and picked up the receiver.
"Anderson residence," she said.
"Amy?" said a familiar voice from the other end. "It's Greg."
"Oh, hi, Greg! Why are you calling?"
"I was wondering, could you come and meet me in the park?"
"Why? When?"
"Right now. I can't tell you over the phone."
"I'll be right there."
Amy hung up and got her coat on. It was a cold night in the middle of
December. She told her mother where she was going and headed for the door.
On her way out, she grabbed her book. What she forgot, though, was a little more important.
Her transformation pen and communicator laid on the bed side table, forgotten.

"Ahhh..." Rubeus said, grinning, "The dweeb forgot her equipment. This is
the perfect time to put my new plan into effect. Droid Walker, come forth!"
A tall, steel Droid walked forward into the light. His eye shone a laser
targeting system in Rubeus's face.
"Turn that thing off!" Rubeus commanded. The light went off.
The robot's spindly legs looked like they were barely able to hold up its
big body. He had a gun on his arm, able to shoot two hundred different types of
ammo from stun gun pellets to thermal detonators. His outer shields were
reinforced with titanium alloy. He was close to invincible.
"I want you to go and take this boy prisoner," Rubeus said, showing him
Greg through the mirror. The Droid warped out to go after his prey. "And don't
screw up like the last ones did."

Amy had reached the park and was looking around for Greg. She found him
sitting on the bench that she had laid him down on when he had been changed into
his Shadow Warrior counterpart. He was feeding some ducks that were, curiously
enough, out at night. He looked up when she approached him.
"I knew that you'd come," he said.
"Mostly because I said that I would," Amy replied. She could remember the
first time that she had felt some affinity to Greg. He had just saved her from
being crushed by a steel I-beam. She had to save him soon after, with the help
of the other Scouts. She never admitted publicly to having a relationship with
him, even after she had gone with him to the amusement park and saved him a
second time. "Now, why did you want me to come out here?"
"We've got problems. The Negaverse wants the Carriers again. I'm going
to be their first target."
"Why?" Amy asked.
"Probably because they feel that I'm too much of a threat to them, and
because you don't have your communicator or transformation stick with you."
Just as he said this, the water of the lake was disturbed by a creature
splashing into it. Another Droid was coming after them. Amy impulsively
reached into her pockets.
"What do you know," Amy said nervously. "I hope that you're a good
runner, Greg."
"It won't matter," the Droid said in a purely mechanical voice. With a
whir, it lunged forward towards the pair. They saw it coming and were able to
dodge. They were gone in a moment with the Droid in hot pursuit. Well, you
might call it "hot," but it was living up to its name. It walked down the
street after the pair. As they ran, it shot a couple of tracking devices at
them. One hit Greg in the back and Amy in the back of the head, getting tangled
in her blue hair and digging into her scalp. The tracking device that hit Greg
dug deep into his back, and neither he nor Amy could pull it out while running.
When the Droid was a good block (any block being a good block) behind them, they
slowed down a bit.
"We should go and get Serena," Amy said.
"Well, we can try to get there before he gets us," Greg said.
"Good idea," Amy said. "But without my transformation stick, we're
practically helpless. What can we do?"
"Call another of the Scouts, and get them to get your stuff."
"What if he's tapped the phones?"
"Now, that's just plain paranoia." They stopped at the next pay-phone,
and they dialed up Serena's house. Mrs. Tsukino picked up the phone.
"Hello?"
"I'd like to speak with Serena, please," Amy said into the phone.
"Of course, Amy," Serena's mother said as she put the phone on the table
to get Serena. If she only knew how urgent this was. About thirty seconds
passed, and Serena's mother picked up again. "I'm sorry, Amy, but Serena's kind
of busy right now with homework."
"Please, Mrs. Tsukino. I need to speak with Serena. It's extremely
important!"
"I'll get her," Mrs. Tsukino said exhaustedly as she put the phone down
again. Gods, why didn't she hurry up? Another span of silence passed before
there was an answer to the phone. The Droid was gradually coming closer. He
took aim as Serena answered the phone.
"Hello?" Serena asked.
"Oh, crap!" Greg yelled as he pulled Amy out of the booth. She just
barely missed being fried by a small barrage of explosive bullets. The
telephone booth burst into flames as Amy and Greg fled the scene.

"Hello?" Serena repeated from the other end at her house. Her mother had
said that it was Amy on the phone. All she had heard was someone shouting, and
then silence. That might not have been good. She went upstairs to her room and
met her mother on the way.
"What did Amy want?" her mother asked.
"She needed to ask about some of our homework," Serena replied cautiously.
She went into her room and picked up her communicator.
"Who are you calling?" Luna asked.
"Amy."
"Why?"
"I'm worried about something." She dialed up the number for Amy's
communicator, but no one picked up. "Something's wrong," Serena said.
"Who was that on the phone?" Luna asked
"You're feeling downright questioning tonight, aren't you?"
"Sorry," Luna said defensively. "But I think that you should tell me
what's troubling you."
"Mom said that Amy was on the phone, but when I got there, all I heard was
someone yelling before we got cut off. Now, I can't reach Amy."
"Sounds like something's wrong," Luna said. "Let's get the others, then
we'll find Amy."
"How will we convince Mom to let me go out?" Serena asked apprehensively.
"The Luna Pen!" Luna exclaimed. Serena reached into her subspace pocket
and pulled it out.
"Who should I go as?" she asked.
"Your father seems like a good persona in this situation," Luna said.
Serena gave Luna a frown, then held the Pen up high.
"Disguise Magic! Turn me into my dad!" she exclaimed. She hoped that her
mother didn't hear the commotion and come to investigate. She looked into the
mirror and she saw her dad, hairdo and all. She walked out of her room and
downstairs. She grabbed a coat and tried putting it on. It seemed too small.
She thought for a moment and realized her blunder. She had accidentally grabbed
her own coat instead of her father's.
On her way out, her mother stopped her. "Honey, where are you going?"
"I'm going out on an errand, Mo... Ma'am."
"All righty, but what about Serena? Has she finished her homework?"
"Yes, and she's fast asleep as we speak."
"Serena asleep at this early hour?"
"She said something to me about wanting to be at school on time."
"Makes sense. If I get another call from Serena's teacher about her being
late, I'll start to get severe on her." The comment made Serena gulp tensely.
She went outside, where Luna was waiting, and let her disguise down.
"Are you ready, Luna?" Serena asked as they walked down the front walkway.
Luna indicated her approval, and they went off towards the home of the closest
Scout, Lita.
She and Luna arrived in record time, and they knocked on the door loudly.
Lita opened the door and admitted them inside with a question about the
problem, noting their breathlessness.
"We think that Amy's in trouble! She isn't answering her communicator,"
Luna said. That effected an immediate reaction from Lita, as threats to her
friends usually did.
"Amy! We've gotta help her! Jupiter Star..."
"Wait!" Luna said. "We don't even know for sure if she's in trouble. We
should go get the others, too, just in case."
"But she might be getting her face pounded in by some Droid as we speak!"
Lita complained. Serena completely agreed with her.
"All right! You call the others on your communicators, then, we'll go
together. If you want, Lita, you may go on ahead of us."
"Thank you, Luna!" Lita said, rushing out of the door.
"I just hope that she doesn't get herself killed," Serena said.

Amy and Greg were out of breath from running. The Droid was so far behind
them that it wasn't a threat and wouldn't be for some time. They stopped at a
bench on the sidewalk to sit down. Amy tried to pry the homing device off of
Greg's back, but it wasn't coming out without taking some skin, perhaps even
spinal tissue. Greg took a look at the one in Amy's hair, and tried to take it
out, but it wasn't moving either.
"What do we do next?" Amy asked.
"What do you think I am, a friggin' seer?... Oh, yeah," he said, feeling
slightly sheepish. He concentrated for a moment, then came up with the answer,
"I don't know. I can't see anything. Either we altered the timeline that I saw
originally, so I can't pick it up, or we're killed within the next five
minutes."
"I hope that it's the former of the two," Amy said, nervously looking
around. She was still out of breath, so she couldn't go anywhere. Greg was in
about as bad a shape as she was, and he was showing it. Suddenly, he pushed her
off the bench and into the street. He was with her after a second. The bench
where they had been sitting only a moment before was now a smoldering pile of
ashes. Amy couldn't figure out how it had happened until she looked at the roof
of the building behind the bench.
There stood the Droid, silhouetted in the moonlight. He jumped off the
roof and landed with a crunch, breaking the cement beneath him. He took aim at
the two and let loose with a barrage of tranquilizer darts. Amy and Greg dodged
the shots and ran further down the street. Halfway to their next destination,
Amy started to slow down. Greg looked at her back and saw a dart sticking out
of it. She put her arm around his shoulder for support, and they went on.
Soon, though, Amy couldn't walk on her own. Greg supported her with a shoulder
until he had to pick her up and carry her down the street as quickly as he
could.
He turned down an alleyway to cross over to the next street. When he saw
what was down the alleyway, though, he turned back quickly. The Droid shot a
barrage, just barely missing Greg before he dove out of the way. He was too
tired to run any more, so he turned to face his enemy.
"Where are the Scouts?" Greg said. "They were supposed to be here by now.
They'd better get here soon, or I'm toast."
"Wrong," the Droid said, "You're already toast." He took aim and shot
Greg with another tranquilizer dart. The tranquilizer acted faster because his
heart was going at a higher rate than usual. He fell to the ground with a
grunted curse. The Droid grabbed Greg and teleported out. Amy laid on the
ground, asleep, where Greg had laid her. She didn't know what had happened.

"Good job, Droid Walker," Rubeus said, beaming. "But I want to know why
you left the girl laying in the middle of the road!!! You could have taken this
opportunity to rid us of one of the Sailor Scouts, but NO!!! You've got to take
your orders so literally that you don't do anything else that makes sense! Now
get out there and kill her!"
The Droid teleported out and Rubeus shook his head. "I just don't
understand some of these idiotic Droids. We should program them with some
common sense."

Back at the street, Amy was just waking up. "Greg?" she said. "Where did
he go? Where's the Droid?" For the answer to the second question, the Droid
appeared out of midair and started to take aim. Just before he shot, though, a
red rose hit him in the arm. He looked around for the source of the attack. In
the alley that the Droid had just come from, Tuxedo Mask stood with a slightly
ticked look on his face.
"I was in the neighborhood, and I heard a disturbance. I came to
investigate," he said, anticipating Amy's question of how he got there. "Do you
want to fight a helpless girl or me?"
"I'll take the helpless girl," the Droid said, turning back to Amy. As he
took aim again, Tuxedo Mask threw his cane at the gun. The cane hit the gun and
knocked it off of its aim. The Droid looked at Tuxedo Mask and tried shooting
again. Tuxedo kicked it off aim again.
"Idiot," Rubeus thought to himself from the roof of the nearby building.
"Why doesn't he fight Tuxedo Mask?" He yelled down to the Droid. "Hey, Walker!
Stop going after the girl long enough to dispose of Tuxedo Mask and any others
who're in your way. After killing them, take care of the girl!"
Tuxedo Mask momentarily considered going after Rubeus, but ruled it out
when the Droid turned its attention toward Tuxedo Mask. "Uh, oh." The gun
leveled pointing at him. He was barely able to dodge out of the way before the
Droid shot a grenade in his direction. The grenade flew past him and into the
alley. He dodged into an alley across the street to avoid being crushed by
falling bricks and rocks.
The building had suffered major structural damage and could fall at any
moment (there were no people inside the building to worry about; the
building was scheduled for demolition). Tuxedo Mask would have to save Amy
quickly. The Droid had jumped to the top of the building that hadn't been
damaged and was waiting for it to fall so that he could make sure of Tuxedo
Mask's demise.
Tuxedo Mask rushed out into the road and scooped Amy up in his arms as he
ran past her. As he made his way to safety, the building began to fall. He
barely made it to safety when the building hit the ground. He realized the slim
margin of safety by the wind and dust from the falling building.
The Droid knew that they had survived by a scan for the homing device on
Amy. He headed towards it again. He wouldn't fail Master Rubeus like his
predecessors.

"Where are they?" Luna asked impatiently. She, Serena, and Raye were
waiting on the steps of the temple for Mina and Artemis to arrive. "I called
them fifteen minutes ago, and they said that they would be here right away."
She called Lita on Serena's communicator. "Have you found her yet?" she asked
Lita through the communicator. Lita had a slightly distressed look on her face.
"Not yet, but I've got a lead. A building just fell over on Everton
Street. I'm going to check it out."
"Good. Contact us if you find her." Luna turned the communicator off and
turned to face the other two Scouts.
"Did anyone just check her home?" Raye asked. "It might be that she just
didn't hear the communicator go off."
"I called her home," Serena said. "On our way over here. Her mother said
that she was out."
Just then, Mina and Artemis ran up, out of breath.
"What's up?" Mina asked between pants for breath.
"You didn't tell us anything over the communicator," Artemis said.
"We think that Amy is in trouble," Luna said. She went on to explain the
events that had happened at Serena's house earlier. "We've got Lita out right
now searching for her. I think that we should do the same. Lita's across town
already, and we can split up to find her quicker."
"Right," Artemis said. "Luna, Serena, and I will go to the north side of
town, Mina, you go to the south side, Raye, you go to the west side."
"Why'd you have to stick her with us?" Luna asked quietly. She didn't
want Serena to hear lest her feelings be hurt.
"The others do just fine alone, sometimes better. I think that she'll be
better working with us."
"All right. Scouts, transform!"
"Moon Crystal Power!"
"Mars Star Power!"
"Venus Star Power!"
The Sailor Scouts stood in the place that the girls had stood only moments
before, ready for action. Mars was the first to go off, with Venus not waiting
much longer. Luna and Artemis had to wait for Moon to gather her bearings
(which, with Serena, takes a while).

Jupiter was nearing the site of the fallen building by leaping from
rooftop to rooftop. She knew that it shouldn't have fallen. There weren't any
demolitions scheduled for the next couple of months. She didn't think that
it had any structural problems, so something must have been afoot.
When she arrived at the building, there weren't any signs that people were
present at the time of destruction and still there. That meant that Amy was
gone unless she had been captured by something.
She investigated the surroundings to find any trace of which way they had
gone. Well, let's see here, she thought to herself, There's a smoldering pile
of ashes where there's usually a tree. Let me think... She headed in that
direction, looking in every possible place for Amy. After a while of searching,
though, she started running. She only needed to remember to follow the trail of
destruction.

Tuxedo Mask was beginning to tire from the exertion of carrying Amy and
running at the same time. He couldn't stop, though. The Droid was evolving
intelligence. It had finally figured out how to run, and it was gaining on him.
Amy was waking up just as they got to the Junior High. Tuxedo Mask put her down
and tried to wake her up further.
"Wha...? Greg? Where's Greg?" Amy asked as she woke up.
"I think that the Droid got him, and if we don't hurry, he'll get us,
too," Tuxedo Mask answered. "Now, can you transform?"
"Not without my transformation stick," Amy answered groggily.
"We've got to get out of here quick. Can you at least walk?"
"I think so, but wherever we go, he'll follow. He shot me with a tracking
device. You've got to get out of here, or you'll be killed!"
"Hey, what's my job? I've got to protect the Sailor Scouts."
"But you have to protect Sailor Moon most of all."
"You're all as important as each other. Now stop arguing and try to walk
as fast as you can." He supported the swaying Amy as she stood up to try and
walk. She took a couple of steps cautiously and then, tried some without Tuxedo
Mask. She fell down after the second step.
"I'm turning into a regular Serena. Uh, oh." She had noticed the Droid
approaching quickly from the distance. She got up and put her arm across
Tuxedo's shoulder as they worked their way across the school-ground. The Droid
took a couple of shots at them but missed, hitting some windows. Miss Haruna
wouldn't be happy about that one. "Where are we going?" Amy asked frantically.
"Somewhere that this guy isn't," Tuxedo said as they headed toward the
inner city.

Sailor Moon was getting bored. She didn't like having to be out this late
looking for Amy. Amy was probably at home, asleep, like Sailor Moon should have
been. But then again, she was worried, too.
She looked off to her left as the cats searched the streets below them.
All of a sudden, she saw a burst of light as something exploded in the distance.
She looked in that direction, and she saw a person going from rooftop to
rooftop, followed by a larger figure that was shooting at him. She directed the
cats' attention towards the figures, and they decided to follow.
As they got closer to the figures, she saw that the male figure in the
front was carrying a smaller, female figure. The figure behind them was a
Droid. As they got even closer, They were able to place the identities of the
people in front. It was Tuxedo Mask carrying Amy. A very drowsy Amy, at that.
Moon didn't know how she could sleep through that noise.
Luna took Moon's communicator and called up the others. Lita was already
almost there. She had been following the trail of destruction that had been
left by the Droid. Raye and Mina were on their way.
"Stop!" Sailor Moon called when she had gotten close enough for the Droid
to hear her. "You have no need to mess around with helpless girls like that,
and you have tampered with communication from place to place! For that, I will
punish you in the name of the Moon!"
"Sailor Moon!" Tuxedo Mask called as he jumped to the next building. The
next shot took out the roof of the building from below him. He and Amy fell
through into the interior of the building. Sailor Moon went through the hole
after them, only to find them in a formal wear store. She was surrounded by
tuxedos and dress clothes.
"Apparently, the Droid's developing a sense of humor," Tuxedo Mask said.
"Where do you think that we should hide?"
"Well, that's easy enough for you," Amy said. "You'd blend in, even if
you weren't in here as Tuxedo Mask. The question is, where do Serena and I
hide?"
"Well, you can't hide," Tuxedo said. "Not with that homing device in your
head. How do we get that off?"
"It doesn't matter right now. Any second now, that Droid's going to come
crashing through the roof, and we're going to be in serious trouble," Amy said.
"Where are the others?" Luna asked impatiently.
The Droid appeared in the hole, looking for the girls and Tuxedo Mask. He
shone his laser eye in the hole at the floor where the girls and cats were.
They scrambled for cover as it jumped in. Sailor Moon got her Moon Scepter out
and prepared to use it. The Droid used a search beam to find the hiding girls.
It found Moon first, but ignored her because she wasn't its main target. Moon
noticed this, and came out of hiding.
"Why isn't it attacking me?" Moon asked.
"Because it doesn't consider you a threat," Tuxedo Mask answered quietly.
Sailor Moon began her attack on the robot while it was searching for Amy.
"Moon Scepter...!" Before she could finish, though, the Droid grabbed her
Scepter from her. She was barely able to dodge a shot of energy pellets from
the laser gun setting on the Droid's arm.
"Jupiter Thunderclap, ZAP!" Jupiter called from the roof. A shot of
lightning hit the Droid, short-circuiting its arm gun. It decided to leave the
others alone for a while and head for Jupiter. On its way out, it dropped
Moon's Scepter. Moon picked it up as she and Tuxedo jumped onto the roof after
the Droid to help Jupiter combat it. Luna and Artemis stayed on the ground to
guard Amy.
"Hey, Jupiter!" Moon said as she arrived on the scene where Jupiter was.
"Where's Amy? Is she all right?" Jupiter asked.
"She's fine. The only thing wrong with her is a bit of a hangover. She
got shot with a tranquilizer dart. She's inside with Luna and Artemis to guard
her."
"I hope they know what they're doing. I mean, they're not exactly the
strongest of us."
"Jupiter, concentrate! We've got to take this Droid out!" Tuxedo Mask
said, throwing a rose and taking out his cane.
"Good," Moon said, "Draw his attention. We'll attack when he's not paying
attention."
"Easier said than done," Mask said, running to the opposite side of the
roof. He dodged bullets the whole way and nearly took a shot to the head. He
resumed throwing his roses, and the Droid caught them in mid-air. When Tuxedo
stopped throwing them, the Droid sent them back at him. He didn't expect this,
and wasn't able to get out of the path of the flowers before he was cut. He
grabbed his face at the sites of the cuts. They were bleeding.
Oh, well, he thought to himself. I've had worse. He looked back to where
the two girls stood. They were urging him to get on with his attack. He turned
to his alternate weapon, his cane. He ran towards the Droid with it
outstretched. The Droid struggled with him a moment before taking it away from
him. During those couple of seconds, though, the Sailors got enough time to
utilize their own attacks.
"Jupiter Thunderclap, ZAP!!!" Jupiter called, letting loose with one of
her strongest blasts. The Droid let go of the cane and Tuxedo Mask.
"Moon Scepter, Elimination!" Moon yelled, letting all her aggression take
over. The robot was hit with the attack, and it was disintegrated. The dust
left behind quickly piled up. Rubeus was glad that he wasn't there to hear the
snotty brat's exclamation of, "Moon Dusted!"

"Amy, are you okay?" Lita asked from outside of Amy's hiding place. Amy
peeked out to make sure that it was Lita and not some monster who had taken
Lita's voice. Lita stood there with a slightly concerned look on her face.
"Yes, Lita, I'm fine. Is the Droid gone?" Amy asked. She crept out of
her hiding place to check the scene. "I've got to get this homing device off of
me." And as if what she had said was a secret pass code, the device detached
from her scalp and fell to the ground. "It must have been de-activated when the
Droid was destroyed. I could do some good analyses on this hardware, and maybe
find out something about our enemy."
"That would be cool, Ames," Lita said.
"Come on," Amy said as she picked up the device. "Let's go home. She
wondered where Serena and Darien had gotten to, so she asked.
"Serena and Luna went home. Darien went to his apartment." As the pair
walked out of the remains of the front door, two figures dropped from above
them. It was Mars and Venus.
"Where's the fight?" Mars asked in anticipation.
"Sorry, but you two missed the fun," Artemis said, walking out of the
building.
"But we've got all this pent-up energy," Venus complained. "We can't just
come from halfway across the city, only to find out that we've missed the
battle!"
"Well, sorry, Venus, but you're just going to have to use that energy to
go home," Amy said. "You are, as we said earlier, late."
"Well," Lita said, "If it's any consolation, the fight wasn't the same
without you two. We really could have used your attacks."
"All right, you three," Amy said seriously, "I need to report, and I'll do
it at a meeting tomorrow after school at the temple. Lita, I need you to call
Serena to tell her about it. And make sure not to tell her about it at six in
the morning. I don't want to have to search her out because someone screwed
up." The others knew when not to mess with Amy, and this was one of those
times. She meant business. Mars leapt to a rooftop and went off towards the
temple for some sleep. It was nearly eleven, and they had school the next day.
"See you later," Venus said as she and Artemis leapt away towards their
own home. That left Amy and Lita to walk home alone. They were closer to Amy's
home, so they stopped there first. Amy went inside, saying a good-bye to Lita
and opening the front door. Her coat was dirty, her face dirty, and her clothes
underneath dirty. She hoped that her mother wouldn't be awake to see her in
that condition. Unfortunately, she was.
"My gosh, what happened to you, dear?" Mrs. Anderson asked.
"I tripped and fell on my way back. I'm getting almost as clumsy as
Serena. I hope that it's not contagious." She hoped that that would do for her
mother, because she went to her room to change and go to sleep.

End Part one

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