-Equus, Airship Mauled, Celestia-

“Ah, my vacation has been so nice.” Silver Shoals had a nice beach and all, but I came here to visit some friends that weren’t in Ponyville. The ponies of Ponyville were still a little… uptight, about having me visit.

“Yeah, well my teaching job as a coach is going quite well. Everyone can opt out or only do half the work, but then they won’t get as much of a passing grade. I take sicknesses and health issues into account too when handing out a training schedule.” Sakhet, stated as she stretched out. Local bank, local coach and good friend. The sphinx had a nice set up here, she wasn’t causing any problems at all. “Don’t know what my sister Baast is doing, but she’s hunting Discord and Fluttershy doesn’t seem to be helping with keeping her away from him.”

“Yes, apparently Fluttershy and Baast have come to some form of accord with each other… I kind of feel sorry for Discord. Kind of, because of all the trouble he has caused it’s hard to feel sorry for him.” This was a nice day out, warm, not to crazy cloudy weather, no bizarre stuff happening and no random airship slamming into me… what is wrong with this picture. “Where’s Jaded La Perm?”

“… Saddle Arabia.” Finally answered Sekky after a moment. “A small vacation with her entire family where absolutely nothing is going to happen… not at all…”

The sarcasm in her voice was quite obvious.

“Ah, the chip is still in her shoulder about those thieves waking her up a few thousand years back and the whole thing with the Ballad Din and Jasmine then.” I commented dryly with a small smile on my face. “One would think Anubis would be helping her lean away from being such a problem causer.”

“Saddle Arabia’s tourism is really sky high because of it, it’s all the magic that runs wild in the streets over there where you get things like giant sand golems from sand witches who run sandwich shops, living magic carpets that don’t fly along with those that do and others that run tapestry industries, that Teatime Clockwork guy trying to prove he’s better at destroying Saddle Arabia than Jaded is and a whole other slew of weird things like a dancing kaiju rhino.” Apparently the dancing rhino was a hit with the children at the very least… mostly for trampling the local school, even if it was a tad destructive. Sekhet was fairly aware of a lot of ancient Saddle Arabia weirdness floating around… it makes one wonder why Pinkie wasn’t trying to fight the weirdness of Saddle Arabia. “At this point Jaded is actively saving Saddle Arabia from all the other stuff so she can destroy just the concept of it herself.”

“I bet that’s causing mixed feelings about the Rogue Sun Priest.” An amiable chuckle escaped my lips.

“Nope, they really don’t like Jaded being over there, even if she has solved some of their larger than life problems through ridiculous means. Last I heard, she used a barrel full of water, a cork puller, five pencils, one thick rubber hoof boot, a box of incredibly bouncy rubber balls, a pouch full of dates, a carpenter’s wooden mallet and a didgeridoo to deal with a desert bound merpony. Though what a merpony is doing in the middle of a desert still confuses me.” Out of all that Sekhet, I can actually somewhat vaguely guess as to what the didgeridoo was used for. “Also all that stuff has happened over the last few days, adding Jaded to the mix is like watching a powder keg of fireworks go off.”

“I think she’s gotten better, she’s at least actively appealing to them to change the name ‘Saddle Arabia’ to something else to get her to stop being an active threat to them.” I smiled as Jaded was truly getting better about it, even if she hasn’t entirely stopped being silly.

-Moon Cell, Inner Realm, Desert of Devastation, partially destroyed Crystal Maze, Pom-

Okay so Moon was a rabbit, Tuxedo was a wolf, Jupiter was an otter, Venus was a Mink, Mercury was a frog and Mars was a fox. I only had a few questions for Jupiter.

“So… Moon had control of Moon Cell at one point and managed to destroy an entire civilization?” My question was met with a scoff. “Also Venus said something about dying twice?”

“Moon is so much more of a disaster than that, she’s partly responsible for the end of three civilizations and we only died twice while doing so.” Tilting my head at Jupiter she sighed audibly. “Wish I could go against Moon Cell, so I’m going to do so by distracting you with facts while the rest of my team gets back up from that attack. Yes, I’m telling you that out loud to be an obvious distraction while the rest of my team get their butts in gear. Oh and Luna and Artemis will be with them, Mau are not that easy to kill permanently as long as the one they are bonded to is alive. So take out Moon and Venus first, especially Moon since she can heal the rest of us.”

“You’re going to make me ask how Moon destroyed three civilizations just to stall fighting us by yourself for a little longer, but I’m curious enough to go along with that.” It wasn’t an accusation, but more a fact and Jupiter was quite open and amiable… for our enemy. “Everyone keep going and try to hold the EPs until we can deal with these servants. Shanty, Quetal, Canard, Dazzle, Frizzle, Sami, Dodo and Dormarch we’re going to deal with the servants. Jupiter is going to focus on me as a priority target for Moon Cell so everyone else can push towards the nexus while they try to hold us here, Dolly go forward and help hold the EPs off. Take Lit with you.”

“Roger, come on little guy… hey don’t eat the power source!” Dolly took to the air on the jet wings of her Jet Magitek Armor and flew off, she’d be dealing with Moon Cell Watchers and other aerial threats on her own for a while. Since Castle Alexander went down she’d have to be careful, because she wasn’t going to get repairs for a while either.

Several Jet Magitek Armor piloted by Rider Zealots followed after her.

I seriously doubted numbers was going to do us a favor against this many servants at once, given we didn’t exactly know what they were all capable of aside from the fact that the cats will come back, that Moon can heal so she’s a priority target and Jupiter apparently can manipulate sand to defend herself from a ridiculously powerful sound wave attack.

“I’ll take command of the front beautiful!” Geoff winked at me and then moved on while waving a hoof as our army gave the knocked down servants a wide birth and ran around them while they were still picking themselves up. “I would hit on these girls, but there’s just something about them that makes me lack interest and I’m not a necro chaser… unless it’s a Ghost type Pokémon, then us Wooloo are completely into that. Also there’s just something about the white furred blond mink one that I don’t really like… hurry up to catch up with the front line quickly, we need you there!”

Geoff had no doubts about us winning this fight as he leads the ground forces forward to deal with the next few crystal walls and would he handling the rapidly growing EP numbers.

“Okay, so Moon was part of a thing called the Moon Kingdom and the alliance of planets… the first civilization that was destroyed from a massive war, because Moon made some guy fall in love with her. Big hint, he’s here right now. This made another girl named Beryl, a sorceress, stupidly jealous of him no longer paying attention to her enough to seek dark powers to destroy everything. Yes the wolf guy with the tuxedo and the mask is also a cause of said massive war since Moon got his attention, watch out for his roses when he throws him as he sometimes won’t announce that he will and his cane can act as a sword, said war was what took out our space faring civilization. We reincarnated after that mess so the first civilization or at least the first set of civilizations was done because Moon caused Tuxedo Crash, as rebranded from Tuxedo Mask, to fall in love with her and subsequently caused the rise of the dark kingdom. I can hardly blame Moon for that, for how was she to know that a jealous girl would be able to start a massive civil war and actually succeed in almost winning it. Mind you Moon somewhat knew about Beryl and her attraction to Tuxedo Mask before the whole thing kicked off. Still, it could all be traced back to her actions and that of her parents of the Moon Kingdom being stuffy jerks as there was more than one reason for everyone else to hate the Moon Kingdom.” Okay Jupiter, I might be able to see why there’s some scathing critique of the rabbit named Moon now. “Now, if that was all that Moon did, we’d be fine considering we grew up as peasants in our next life, yes we were all once princesses. Only to regain our powers from reincarnating from our past war that destroyed all life on at least eight planets and the multiple moons in our solar system. We proceeded to start saving people’s lives from the remnants of the fallen dark kingdom that had been laying mostly dormant until our powers started coming back in during the second civilization more than a thousand years later, after almost everything got destroyed because of the jealous woman Beryl getting help from a person named Queen Metaria. We saved a lot of people lives and defeated the resurgence of the dark kingdom, which is when we destroyed the second civilization… on purpose. It was by starting a ‘mostly’ benevolent dictatorship and using the technology we had to overthrow all the current governments on the one planet that still had life on it to spread out and recolonize the solar system.”

“… seriously, you had control of Moon Cell and you used it to take over the second civilization?” I asked because that sounded pretty bad considering our current situation.

“Oh yeah, the others pulled a lot of crap and recreated the same moon kingdom that fell for various reasons and only got kicked off by Beryl’s jealousy of Moon attracting the guy she loved, as there were a lot of people who had plenty of hatred to be a part of the civil war that destroyed life on multiple planets from the first civilization. So yes, Moon even actively took control of Moon Cell to create the third civilization, causing the Silver Millenium to form as said supposed ‘benevolent dictatorship’ from the survivors of the second civilization that survived the first that were knocked back into the proverbial Stone Age at the end of said war. If Moon Cell hadn’t happened then the recreated moon kingdom, the third civilization, was about to go into a nasty civil war again anyway considering Moon was repeating all the very same mistakes of the first moon kingdom had without learning from them and arguably she was making even worse mistakes. Also time travel got involved and our lives were a huge mess a lot of the time, but ‘somebody’ just had to set off Moon Cell’s protocols for not letting us actually leave our solar system in spaceships and summoned a Velber unit to start hitting us with Anti-Cells. We only managed to destroy three of them… out of fifty thousand it released after we destroyed the first three when they proved inefficient for wiping out all ‘intelligent’ life in our solar system!” Jupiter screamed that last part out and sighed rubbing her face with her hands and some tears escaped her eyes. “At least my husband, sons, daughters and grand kids went quickly when the fifty thousand Anti-cells dropped on top of all of us. I tried to keep them safe and lead mostly normal lives despite being somewhat rich, all outside of the whole benevolent dictatorship thing and a high society with holier than you bull pucky that helped destroy the moon kingdom the first time around. You guys are lucky Moon Cell is separated from a Velber and Anti-cells, as you wouldn’t survive that mess… I don’t think any civilization could unless they knew to specifically prepare for it and there is hardly a way to figure that out… only Moon actively had access to that information and ignored it entirely because she’s a lazy ‘@*#$%#@’ airheaded (euphemism for a donkey’s backside with a hint of sour lemon freshly squeezed)! Now I find myself here under the control of the very thing that destroyed us when we had at least some vague control of it… so of course I’m a little miffed when I tried living a normal life as an bakery entrepreneur and Moon still somehow managed to find some way to ruin it all, again. She’s a living disaster magnet, sure she’s tried and succeeded to do good things, but ninety percent of the time she’s a brain dead moron that barely managed to get out of high school with a D plus or barely succeeded at defeating the dark kingdom. Near the end of things she actually brought the standards of education down to her level. What part of that was conducive to leading a successful galactic civilization?! Why did Sailor Pluto push so hard for that to occur, because she saw some shiny buildings and a rebirth of a dead civilization that died off for a reason?! Did she not look far forward enough to see what would happen? Also there are four others of us and Pluto was part of that, but thankfully they weren’t summoned, they were the outers and they were technically more competent and dangerous than we were. When Moon Cell attacked us, we found out that our user access was at the same level as the first moon kingdom. That being barely enough access to save the first space faring civilization as long as we didn’t try to exit our specific solar system, for any particular reason. The king and queen of the moon at the time of the first civilization even knew about it... and didn’t bother tell anyone that important fact while trying to keep everyone trapped within the system without explaining the major reason why we couldn’t try to fly any large ships out of system without it being a problem. Gee… that bit of stupidity didn’t come back to bite us at all!”

“While I never went to school much, at least I educated myself successfully through reading and apparently ended up with a B-plus average when I took a competency test in Huoshan to see how good my education was and what I needed to work on when it came to becoming a member of the Huoshan Guard. I really miss my Canine Division friends.” I mumbled to myself more than my opponent who looked back to see her friends had gotten up and were getting back into fighting condition. “Should really thank my brother for bringing all those course work books to me if I ever see him again, despite most lambkin being afraid of being near me and my… family... my brother’s the black sheep isn’t he? No other explanation for it now, he never feared predators when coming to visit me while I was living in that valley and Grandpa never came with him out of a sense of self preservation. Me and my brother are going to have a ‘long’ and possibly violent talk about this if I ever see him again.”

I think…. I think I’m actually somewhat angry at my brother, for quite a number of things now.

“Okay yeah, Moon really is a ‘@*#$%#@’ airheaded meatball flying spaghetti monster of doom, but we’re here and we’re under Moon Cell’s control. So we really can’t change what we have to do, which is as Moon Cell orders of us!” Mars stated as she and the others were in a bubble of energy with their wounds from the sound attack healing, with Moon being the obvious reason for said healing as the center of the glowing bubble. “You’ve stalled long enough Jupiter, so how about we get this fight started and stop it with the lore dump of how we destroyed several civilizations and more than several trillions lives, most of it was Moon’s fault.”

“Why is it my fault?” Moon whined with tears in her eyes.

“You’re the leader aren’t you, doing anything that resulted in the wiping out of an entire civilization under your purview counts as your fault.” Mercury stated flatly as she looked at the square screen she formed. “You kind of did do that.”

The five sailor scouts formed up and readied themselves.

Venus was holding a chain whip of light and the links were all heart shaped.

Mercury brought up some form of square screen with odd writing on it, which was most likely a computer that might be made out of water or was so advanced that I would think that from appearances.

Mars bring her claws together and started building a fireball on her two pointer claws.

Moon brought out a gaudy toy wand thing with a heart shape on it that grew into a staff.

Jupiter just took up a fighting stance and gave me a sad look as her tiara extended a rod.

Tuxedo Crash just suddenly started holding what looked like a vibrant rose… loaded with an absurd amount of magic in one hand, especially near the tip. He had his cane on a belt at his side ready to apply blunt or cutting force if it was a cane sword.

“Do you guys have to be so mean to me, I can heal all of you and do cool magicl laser shooty stuff, plus I repair our magical armor with my powers!” Whined a crying Moon with long trails of blonde hair coming from the odango buns behind her ears flicking back and forth.

“Mercury has control of ice and water, Mars had fire and a short temper while also having a long term unrequited crush on Moon and some spiritual combat skills involving paper tags, I’m capable of controlling ground, plants and lighting while having super strength, Venus has powers of light and underutilizes it to an insane degree and Moon’s kind of useless without her gear aside from barriers, limited healing or firing bursts of magic which your clearly immune to. Since you’re immune to magic that’s a not so subtle hint to destroy her gear early in this fight where possible.” How nice of Jupiter to tell us all their abilities, she must really hate Moon Cell if she can resist this much while under its power. “Sorry about attacking you by the way, but as Mars said… we’re under Moon Cells control. Oh and watch out for Luna, she’s about to attack you.”

“We must kung fu fight!” The black cat biped came screaming in at me and I promptly smashed her down with a swing to the left side of her forehead using the Rhongomyniad.

She… didn’t seem to be really that great in a fight, given she went down in a single painful sounding clang. Her body was rapidly dissolving a second later, probably wouldn’t be the last time either.

“Nine lives bitches!” Said the white cat a second later as he reappeared near Venus, but he didn’t run forward and attack blindly. “Oh I’m Artemis by the way, my mate Luna is having issues with the fact that our child died a horrible death and being alive again. A lot of things happened, so she’s gone a little crazy and possibly berserk, to think she said she was the more level headed of the two of us Mau, hah! Still have to fight you though, sorry about all of this.”

“Oh its fine, I’m used to it at this point Artemis.” After an audible sigh, I firmed up my defensive posture and prepared to flare out the canopy of the Rhongomyniad as needed. Also I tried not to think of the name Luna in terms of Equestria’s Princess Luna or Nightmare Moon and the nearly endless night. “Okay everyone let’s go!”

-Counter Invasion Forces (Major thorns within Moon Cell’s body) Vs. Sailor Moon and ‘Friends’ (Magical biped animals in sailor fukus with short skirts and a tuxedo with two shape shifting support cats), (Music: Boss Battle- Shante and the Pirate’s Curse)-

“Mars fire, ignite!” Mars fired off a fireball towards Pom, however Pom didn’t move.

“Shabon spray!” Water came at Pom from the left as the fireball that turned into a phoenix screeched in for her from the right.

Pom didn’t move and glanced back at Shanty and Dodo, she gave a small gesture towards Mercury and Shanty immediately charged forward.

Quetal immediately leapt forward to Intercept Sailor Venus’s light whip with a twisting leaping slash to deflect it from hitting Pom who had yet to move and looked to be seriously thinking about something.

All of them were targeting Pom all at once, except for Moon who only had mostly magic based attacks and not elemental launching attacks. They were all going to fail to take out Moon Cell’s primary enemy, Pom, who hadn’t flinched at the concerted effort aimed at her. Even Jupiter was still taking her time with building up for firing an electrical attack from the small horn on her tiara.

Shanty took control of the Shabon Spray and redirected the attack into wiping out the fiery phoenix of fire with a sweep of her hooves with Dodo assisting her motions increasing her overall control of the gaseous blast of water.

Pom gestured to Sami and Canard towards Tuxedo Crash with her left hoof, the two nodded and moved into position to intercept him. Pom figured Quetal could handle Venus on his own for the moment.

“Supreme thunder!” A blast of lightning struck out at Pom and she didn’t move to defend herself and Dormarch sat perfectly still as the attack hit her. Jupiter was surprised by the end result. “Huh… oh right, your wool…”

Pom, unless her wool was pierced, could easily ground herself and also use her wool as a protective faraday cage to functionally become immune to the electrical attack. The attack had no magic in it, it was magic that gathered the energy and used to launch the attack, but the attack itself didn’t carry a magical charge or else it would have bounced back in Jupiter’s face.

Moon Cell had warned Jupiter and the others of Pom’s immunity and Moon at least tested that with her tiara magic and watched as it entirely bounced off of Pom in a flash of gold energy without cutting into her.

After Merak Pom was well aware that Casters could come at her, if they didn’t have to use magic directly on her that is. There was no magic in the attack despite using magic as a focal point to fire it, as such it didn’t reflect off of Pom. Jupiter’s lightning attacks weren’t going to be very effective against her.

“Dormarch harass Moon, don’t let her use any magic or build up for it.” Pom ordered and looked to Dazzle and Frizzle. “Dazzle, Frizzle, handle Mars. I’ll handle Jupiter myself.”

Dormarch immediately teleported past all the similarly clad girls and the one guy with Search Hunter to attack Moon directly with his claws, forcing her stumble back and fall onto her butt. Moon was swiftly up and running as Dormarch barked and gave chase. Normally he liked rabbits, but in this situation an exception was made as he chased the dumb crying bunny around.

Jupiter stomped forward each stomp sending waves of sand as she charged at Pom while preparing a fist.

Pom put the Rhongomyniad on her back and then a lot sand fountained into the air as her rear leg wool springs blasted her forth.

Jupiter thought Pom was being too obvious as she drove her right fist into Pom’s chest, only to knock Pom back an inch and her entire body started vibrating violently.

Pom, having stopped in the air immediately using the ability for momentum control from Dolly being rented out to her, she landed in a crouch and slammed the much taller Jupiter in the chin with a painful wobble counter with a right hoof upper.

Jupiter actually went sailing and flipping backwards.

“Are you okay? Buster Wolf!” Pom followed up landing from her spinning uppercut with her back to the still falling Jupiter. Pom spun and launched forward and her hoof impacted with Jupiter’s belly, folding her in half around said hoof, and Jupiter was hit with a subsequent explosion of energy that sent her tumbling across the sands.

“Akuryo Taisan!” Mars launched a slip of paper at Pom with incredible speed, only for it to get incinerated by Frizzle jumping into the path of it and blasting a Pyro Sphere into the offending bit of paper.

A second later Mars was lifted into the air by her right ankle on a whip made of flames and slammed into the sands harshly face first by Dazzle.

“Coconut Cyclone!” When Dazzle and Frizzle forced Mar’s attack away Jupiter had regained enough footing to launch a whirling attack of sand and an orb of raw energy shaped like a coconut towards Pom.

Pom charged on all fours and avoided the orb as it exploded near her, but had a time with dodged the whirling sands Jupiter had launched with her attack and the weak whirling sand was increased in power with Jupiter’s next move.

“Flower Hurricane!” Hundreds of pink petals of energy were launched from Jupiter into the swirling winds and they grew more powerful as it surged into a tornado that slammed into Pom.

Pom quickly found out that the petals could pierce through her wool as she got caught up in the whirling sands and the pink petals of energy punctured her body in multiple painful spots.

While Pom was dealing with a slight problem from Jupiter, Shanty was facing off with Mercury fairly easily.

Mercury found that water was highly ineffective against Shanty, as she fired a spray of ice water only for Shanty to create a Bounding Bubble and launch the ice particles back into the frog girl causing her to get drowsy from it.

“Mercury Aqua Rhapsody!” Mercury focused summoned a water harp with strings of water and started sending out boiling hot crescents of water at Shanty.

Dodo warbled as he charged forwards, but seemed to move closer to the crescents for Shanty to grapple onto the boiling water from the crescents. Once Shanty had enough of the boiling water, Dodo actively started dodging the attacks as Shanty condensed the hot water down into a spiraling white sphere between her hooves.

“White Squall!” Shanty used a whip of water to slam the boiling ball forth into a suddenly screaming Mercury’s burned face, as the entire area became covered in a white fog.

A charging Dodo quickly kicked Mercury in her chest under the cover of the boiling fog, sending Mercury flying out of it.

Tuxedo Mask, or Tuxedo Crash as he is known, knew that Moon had caused some problems… one that ended a lot of lives, but he still loved her to a ridiculous level.

The wolf that was Tuxedo Crash tried to attack Dormarch who had been hounding her with Retriever Barks. Tuxedo leapt high up and tossed a rose, only for a shot from Sami’s rifle to blast it out of the air with an unnerving amount of accuracy.

Still having a forward momentum, Tuxedo tried to slash down on Dormarch with an extending cane only for the magical blade of his cane to be deflected upwards and back by Canard’s hockey stick’s blade glowing with digital energy.

The wolf found himself promptly tackled onto his back with a left shoulder rammed into his chest with a painful force and then promptly after getting knocked down he received an explosive digital puck of energy to the face that sent him tumbling.

“You shouldn’t have been able to deflect my rose with an energy bullet, it can deflect energy attacks…” Tuxedo groused out and then held out a hand. “Tuxedo La Smoking Bomber.”

Tuxdeo sent out a powerful blast of energy that Sami and Canard had to dodge, when said energy exploded it created a massive amount of smoke that Tuxedo disappeared from sight within. Making both Sami and Canard wary of where he went.

“Oh great, he’s a stage magician…” Canard stated flatly, while the sharp eyed Sami kept her head on a swivel while palming an explosive device with her left claw as she held her rifle at the ready in her right. “If that was anything as powerful as making his cane as sharp as a sword with magic…”

“Then we should actually take the overly goofy guy seriously.” Sami finished for him as she turned and hurled a grenade into the face of an airborne Tuxedo about to toss a rose into Dormarch’s tails. She managed to successfully stop Tuxedo from getting the attack off.

The grenade blasted Tuxedo out of the air and he managed to flip and stick the landing much to Sami and Canard’s consternation that he recovered so fast to slide on the sand managed to stay standing. He might have looked like a joke at first, but he was more threatening than he appeared as he glared them down.

Mars was not having a good time, she flicked out a fireball and the heat of the flames barely put a dent in Dazzle’s body as she fired off a Round.

“Fire, fire, burning bright, leave us be and leave our sight~!” The Round from Dazzle blasted Mars back and she quickly pulled a paper tag from her magical sailor fuku with two fingers and managed to flick it out at the incoming Frizzle quickly.

“Akuryo Taisan!” Mars managed to successfully land the tag and Frizzle grunted as she was frozen in place with arcs of yellow energy surging over her body, the thing was also hurting since Frizzle was a virus type and the Miko energy really stung even if it wasn’t going to kill her.

While Frizzle couldn’t be purified to death, it certainly hurt a lot and she resisted as she watched her friend Dazzle lashed at with fire whips at the fox and went on the offensive. Mars was apparently good at handling the flaming whips and defending herself from them and Frizzle was frustrated to be frozen in place as a piece of paper stopped her from helping in the fight.

“Ki charge…” Concentrating her digital energy, Frizzle tried to destroy the piece of paper sapping her strength by gathering it and at best she regained some limited movement, but couldn’t exactly walk.

Mars really couldn’t hurt Dazzle with fire attacks, it was the fact that Mars was trying to tag Dazzle with one of these pieces of paper and that might give her hostages. Frizzle actually couldn’t over power the tag and a digital evolution wouldn’t help as she felt it would be easier to hit her with these paper tags to stun her like this if she became even larger.

At least Dazzle was holding her own with Rounds, a series of Fire Lashes, a Dragon Pulse that clipped Mars shoulder actually doing some heavy damage to her magical fuku to reveal her shoulder and even tried to land a Toxic on Mars, the fox was far too evasive.

The fire attacks mars fired back in the form of spiraling fireballs, swirling rings of eight orbs of flames, a powerful burning phoenix with purifying power, none of it slowed Dazzle down in the slightest.

Frizzle really like fighting, it was in her blood as a Guilmon… well as much as she loved bread really. This being stunned by a piece of paper with holy energy was quite humil… wait a moment.

Concentrating her Ki surge energy on the paper trying to purify her, Frizzle took the energy in willingly instead of fighting it.

Knowing what she did about the original Guilmon, she had an idea that was about to help with Mars fire spewing fox that was about to start targeting Pom again. Pom was currently downing a Hi-potion for a number of nasty bleeding wounds caused by Jupiter’s attack.

Frizzle finally did what Dormarch and Sami were known to do, appropriate data, use their brains and work their energy to their own needs. Fizzle wasn’t actually a slouch in the intelligence department, she just preferred the direct and aggressive approach.

“Hyper wings!” Frizzle shouted as she absorbed the paper tags miko energy and adorable looking white angel wings exploded out of her back and launched her forward at an insane speed with a single flap, Mars didn’t see the incoming claw attack and was blindsided completely by it and how squeakily high pitched Frizzle’s voice was. “Rock breaker!”

The vulpine face of Mars was badly smashed in by Frizzle, Frizzle’s raw strength with the added momentum of the hyper wings almost took out the fox in a single powerful blow that sent her bouncing across the sands.

Mars was quite stunned by the blow, mostly by the fact that it almost entirely bypassed her magical sailor fuku’s defenses. Her broken muzzles, bleeding and badly bruised face hurt a lot as she staggered back into standing and her form became encased in flames of anger. She was not going to go down so easily to such brute force!

Frizzle for her part was happy to have gained a method of creating wings, even if they were temporary. She didn’t need to rely on Dazzle’s Dragon Type energy to fly now. The wings she had would last a few minutes at the very least and her body was rapidly forming the utility program from this, sure it would take some energy, but wings whenever she wanted them at the cost of digital energy to produce them was a very mild price to pay really. Plus the holy energy data might be helpful in achieving her Mega evolution, she could feel the Gallantmon burgeoning inside of her… only it wasn’t time for Frizzle to quite become that yet and she doubted Dazzle would want to fuse to her.

Pom saw the fire attack from Mars was about to be launched, until the Fox’s face was smashed in. Pom managed to recover her injuries by finishing off the Hi-potion, in time to avoid a tidal wave of sand caused by Jupiter stomping her right foot down.

Springing high up in the air, Pom fired off a bark buster and the liquid magic arced into the top of Jupiter’s skirt to promptly explode and knock the otter over.

While her opponent was busy getting back up, Pom was taking in the battlefield noting what was happening.

Quetal was double teaming Venus with a Substitude copy of himself.

Shanty and Dodo had Mercury locked down.

Tuxedo was causing Sami and Canard some problems as he seemed to quickly disappear and reappear in clouds of smoke while trying to hit them with a powerful energy blast attack.

Frizzle now had wings for some and was helping Dazzle deal with a flame covered angry Mars.

Dormarch was successfully keeping Moon from doing anything of note, but that didn’t mean Moon couldn’t be dangerous as Pom felt a mass of magic in that one rabbit exceeded everyone in this realm including her own magical capacity.

“Ocellus send in the rest of the Pokémon Companions, we need to take these servants down quick before Moon Cell can rebuild a mass of EPs to challenge our frontal assault!” Pom called it as she saw it, they needed a little help. “Favela should help Shanty and Dodo quickly finish off their target, Mundo should help Canard and Sami with pinning down their target, while Shine can support Quetal with his. Now where are those two cats?”

Pom quickly turned, aimed her right hoof and launched a Thousand Spear jet of air with her wool to blast Artemis out of the air before he could claw at Dormarch and distract him from keeping Moon locked down. Pom also noted that Artemis had been staring at Venus the mink a lot.

A second later Pom smashed Luna into the ground with the Rhongomyniad the Mau growled in rage at being taken down so easily in a single hit again. This Luna wasn’t exactly scary given she was already dissolving, the reason being that her head had spun one hundred and eighty degrees from the immediately fatal blow. In fact Luna seemed to have done worse this time than the last time she took a blow to the skull.

Jupiter came charging in with fists charged up with lightning and ready to continue pressuring Pom, though the look in her eyes said she wanted to be defeated and for Moon Cell to be put out of commission.

Nearby Shanty wasn’t having a hard time with dealing with Mercury’s water attacks, the ice attacks were a bit harder to deal with as Shanty had no ability to control ice and at least Dodo was slashing apart most of the ice that was intended to hit Shanty.

Several jutting of spikes erupted out of the ground keeping Shanty and Dodo away from Mercury with every approach and attack they tried, even the cinnamon rolls Dodo used couldn’t melt through the ice fast enough.

“Hmm… biomechanical being… not capable of rusting… maybe I can…” Mercury was interrupted from looking up stuff on her computer and trying to figure out a way to do more than hold Shanty and Dodo at bay when a she was dragged away from her screen by a vine.

Mercury’s face was slammed into one of her own pillar of ice face first by a second vine. While entirely dazed, Mercury was swiftly pulled out into the open from her defensive position and hit with a series of exploding Seed Bombs that damaged her protective magical fuku heavily.

Mercury was super weak to Grass Types. As Favela had shown up to assist Shanty in a timely manner.

Mercury was a bit confused when the plant tentacle released her and the goat that created said tentacle wave it at her with it while giving her a mischievous grin.

“Perhaps I might have miscalculated…” Mercury managed to state as she quickly formed a sword of magical dark ice in an attempt to defend herself. She had tried to encase the water surrounding Shanty in her magic and explode her, but the explode part didn’t happen and Shanty’s magic was apparently really strong.

Shanty was launched into the air high enough by Dodo that she could do several forward flips before bring the blade of her cane scythe down to try and slash Mercury in half.

“Grand Cleave!” Shanty’s scythe blade tore straight through the frog girl’s magical defenses, the sword she just formed and the servant was taken out of the fight with the point of the blade tearing through her heart and upper torso in a devastating cutting arc. “Thanks for the help Favela, her ice attacks were getting annoying.”

“Glad to be of service captain!” Favela responded cheerfully as she turned to look at who they would go after next. “Who should we help next?”

Venus was having a heck of a time trying to deal with Quetal. The mink could feel that Quetal was a creature of darkness and maybe ice, but as far as being like an average youma… a youma Quetal was not. Venus felt like she was on the wrong end of a honey badger after so many claw strikes connected and it was hard to tell which one was the actual Quetal given they both moved in exactly the same ways.

Both Quetal and his substitute copy dodged Venus’s beams of light, crescent glinting boomerangs, her heart chain whip strikes and her golden heart blasts. She had held off an entire evil organization on her own, she shouldn’t be having nearly this much trouble with a dodging shadow weasel!

The two Quetals seemed to notice something sliding amongst the sand and they both grinned as they fired off Swift attacks in a massive blinded barrage that created numerous shadows along the ground that had Venus swirling her whip in defense.

“Okay… I might be a bit limited in my powers, but I’m not so easily.” As Venus tried to talk, Shine popped out of the ground and threw a jaw breaking haymaker to the right side of Venus’s face with her left plant hair fist. The surprising attack actually broke her jaw to the point she couldn’t retaliate as Shine dove back into the shadows of the sand from the numerous Swift shots still flying in and pelting Venus with numerous explosive bits of energy. “Aghh… what the heck was that!”

“A trickster and a ninja working together.” Stated the two Quetals as they both used aerial ace at the same time to close in and start slashing up Venus violently and then they stopped standing on both Venus’s left and right side. “Beat Up!”

Numerous shadow figures of all of Quetals nearby friends erupted and Venus tried to defend with the power of light, but the darkness was overwhelming as was the strange pink darts suddenly taking up space in both of her lungs when her magical fuku armor should have prevent them from easily puncturing into her.

Venus started feeling very cold as the pummeling attack kept coming in nonstop and it wouldn’t be long before she was taken down. She could really use Moon’s help right about now… except Moon was quite useless when she wasn’t being given time to act.

Shine had been sitting on those corsola spikes for a while now anyway and figured now was a good time to use them while charging them with ghostly energy to give them a little extra oomph.

“You’re not taking Venus down without going through me!” Artemis yelled as he leapt into action for his partner.

Frizzle didn’t know how it had happened, but she been grappled and violently thrown by Mars.

The fox was fighting back enraged even if her fire covered from really wasn’t doing much to put the fire resilient Dazzle and Frizzle on the back foot.

“Ugh… you want fire, I’ll show you fire…. Rrrrrrragghhh…” Mars stated as she started building up for a powerful fire attack, only to be struck with a Solar Beam that sent her skidding across the sands and forced her to drop her building attack. “My armor…”

Mars magic armor was now running on fumes, it wouldn’t hold up to another powerful beam attack like that.

“Pom did call for the Pokémon companions to assist right?” Cleffa the clefairy asked innocently as she hopped and skipped up to Dazzle and Frizzle. They nodded to her in acknowledgement as they turned to focus on Mars. “Well I’m a Pokémon and I’m a companion through and through, I’ll make Mr. Thunderbeak proud!”

“Why isn’t anyone helping me?!” Moon whined as Dormarch teleported and slashed at her with his goofy claws, she tried to kick him and missed entirely as he teleported as slashed her right kidney and spine as he flashed past her back.

Moon was quite upset she wasn’t even being given time to monologue about love, justice and the moon… cell. Where was the talking as a free action?! She was quite used to getting away with it a lot with all the other things she fought in her last two lives! Still she was quite fast when it came to running… now if only she had a piece of yummy toast for her mouth.

Tuxedo tried to stop Dormarch from continually harrying Moon with a rose or trying get close enough to use his cane, only his flying leap towards Moon was intercepted quite painfully.

“Flying Press!” Mundo immediately bodied Tuxedo quite harshly from out of nowhere with a dive from above.

Tuxedo got sent flying backing into a hockey stick blade stabbing right into his spine. He soon had a sticky grenade lodged underneath his chin against his throat, having been thrown by Sami. Canard pulled his hockey stick free and leapt away as the Sami remotely detonated the explosive device once Canard was clear of the breaching charge sticky grenade.

Surprisingly Tuxedo actually survived the experience of having a grenade go off on his neck point blank, especially in the form of a shaped charge specifically designed to blow off his head.

“This might take us a bit longer than thought…” A slightly battered Sami grumbled and Canard readied his hockey stick as Mundo joined them three to one and none of them were taking the guy lightly considering the explosion he just survived.

“Okay… that seriously hurt.” Tuxedo growled his wolf ears flicking forward as he readied a cane and rose.

“Okay, again, we’re taking him quite seriously after that!” Sami muttered, both Canard and Mundo nodded while staring down the top hat and tuxedo wearing wolf.

While Tuxedo and Moon were busy, Pom was finding Jupiter to be a seriously dangerous opponent.

Pom kicked up with her left hind leg, only to have it caught by Jupiter who tried to pull her forward and punch her unprotected face.

Jupiter soon yelled in pain as Pom’s wool quickly started rotating around her hind leg and it expanded outwards slicing deeply into the otter’s right hand forcing her to let go and back off. A shimmer in the air slashed into Jupiter forcing her to block with her left arm as she slammed Pom into staggering and stumbling backwards with a kick to the face from her left leg.

“Is it strange that I feel hopeful that you’ll actually beat us?” Jupiter stated as she examined her left arm and the painful cut the wire wool left in it, the magical fuku armor wasn’t holding up as well as it should.

Jupiter figured it had to do with their opponents, their armor could normally handle tank shells. They were currently fighting heroes, good ones that weren’t going to start a benevolent dictatorship, which was so much better than what Moon did in her book. Sure making a lot of people semi-immortal sounded good on paper to Jupiter, but in practice it was always going to end poorly given the whole nine hundred years as a child thing with the emotional spectrum of being said child being stuck to you without the ability to ever grow up.

“I’ll try to make it quick.” Pom stated as she swiped the blood from a battered nose and chin, then pulled the Rhongomyniad from her back. She inhaled sharply through her mouth and readied the Rhongomyniad in an offensive charge stance.

“Please do, I don’t take any joy in hurting you.” Jupiter stated as she didn’t see Mercury anymore.

Mercury unfettered should have done much better and more capable, but then again her water attack at the start of the fight had been redirected by someone with control of the element. Which would be a glaring problem for the frog girl.

“Rhongomyniad!” Pom called out and the spear started glowing brightly as she launched herself forward, Jupiter caught the spear and then realized that it was burning straight through the armored gloves she was wearing.

“Flower Hurricane!” Jupiter quickly once again sent a flurry of flowers petals at Pom, only this time she was ready for them and opened the Rhongomyniad’s canopy to block all of them and stopped charging forward as Jupiter put some distance between them and continued launching more petals.

Pom suddenly change stand and had turned her back on Jupiter confusing her.

“Are you okay?” Pom stated quietly with the canopy of the Rhongomyniad hanging over head, Jupiter saw a red spark in the corner of Pom’s left eye as she turned her head slightly, before her body turned and the lambkin exhaled the early energy she somehow managed to store for this moment. “Buster Lance…”

One second Jupiter was ready to try and deflect the attack, the next thing she knew the spear was already in her torso and she was being lifted off the ground by the much smaller ewe and saw a slight red tint in Pom’s vibrant blue eyes.

Jupiter hadn’t expected Pom’s sudden speed or how fast she had been attacked, only a few of the life draining monsters known as ‘Youma’ could have possibly kept up with that kind of true speed.

“Wolf!” The last sight seen after Pom intoned that word by Jupiter was a spiritual wolf rising towards her face maw wide open and claws glinting as if it was in the middle of a dark forest despite the daylight all around them.

Pom heaved after the attack and planted the Rhongomyniad into the sand next to her to stay standing, she tried not to look at the two clawed up halves of a slowly disappearing torso that used to be a servant. The Rhongomyniad tore straight through the protections that the obviously magical armor gave without pause. The lambkin shivered at the power she wielded and had a slight fear of the spear after that experience.

Pom was left gasping on the spot as she surveyed the battlefield again. Mercury down, Jupiter definitely down, Mars… just went down to Toxic from Dazzle as her entire body seems to have turned purple and was evaporating, Venus had Artemis held in her arms and there were multiple knives sticking out of their bodies as they evaporated and that left Moon, Luna and Tuxedo.

Moon was surprisingly still running and fending off Dormarch and Tuxedo was still holding strong, as for Luna… just got gunned down by Sami before she could even take two steps in Pom’s direction.

“I know I’m not supposed to run from a real fight, but can we retreat, please?!” Moon whined as she joined up with Tuxedo and he fended off Dormarch with a blast of energy followed by billowing white smoke as they avoided the rest of us slowly coming at them from all sides. “I don’t like losing like this!”

“It would be prudent to run, my magical armor can barely hold up much longer… these are really powerful foes. Though I think we’ve held them here long enough for Moon Cell’s plans.” Tuxedo wrapped Moon in his cape and leapt away onto one of the crystal walls of the crystal maze and started retreating towards Moon Cell’s Nexus. “We can revive them if given time Sailor Moon!”

Did they honestly need to tell everyone their eventual plans out loud? Sounded like a dumb thing to do really.

-Sailor Moon and ‘friends’ completely routed, proceeding to the new front lines in the desert of devastation, Pom-

“After them, we can’t let those servants become a problem later, drink some Hi-potions on the move!” As I said this a skvader flew down and tossed me a Hi-potion and an ether, I greedily drank down the ether and stored the Hi-potion for later.

We all started forward, our retreat point was Castle Alexander and the air around Moon Cell’s nexus looked heavily embattled with all the lasers flying around. We soon caught up with the forward contingent of Aurora forces, they were using Rounds, Uproars, Boom Bursts and any sound based attack they had to keep the EPs at bay and their numbers were becoming increasingly worse.

It was unfortunate that we wouldn’t have Castle Alexander to deal with this and the enemy was putting everything they had between us and getting inside the nexus where Moon Cell’s core was. We were going all in now and we weren’t stopping for anything.

-Moon Cell Nexus battle line, BB-

“Hm…” A lot of tough opponents and not enough resources to deal with them all, what’s a world twisting AI with a soul supposed to do… win for one. Their attempts to try and break our lines will fail, since I'll be there.

-Dragnor Kingdom of Dragons, Dragnor Castle, King Evan-

I can’t believe I did it, behind me lay a defeated Oda Nobunaga much to the surprise of many dragons as they stared in disbelief. Even Jiri was staring in disbelief.

I couldn’t see out of my right eye, I think both my back legs were broken, I was bleeding a lot and my body was a wreck.

It wasn’t me that they were staring at though.

“So tell me… what do you want?” Blinking up at the tall figure. “You who so have united the realm of Ransei at a great cost to your personal health?”

It was Arceus they were staring at.

“I want to save my friends and the worlds that are endangered!” Battered and broken my body may be, but I still had the ability to stand and look Arceus in the eyes.

“I so do love someone who knows what they want and will fight above their natural ability to see it achieved.” Arceus stated with a warm chuckle and I was promptly filled with a warmth flooding my very being. “I think you should all prepare to take the battle to the enemy as soon as the mystery dungeons are assuredly dealt with.”

-Arceus-

Note to self, continue to never tell Pokémon that I outsource all my uses of ‘heal pulse’ from other Pokémon, specifically Chansey.

Author's Note

Yes, this version of Sailor Moon messed some things up... mind you the Moon Kingdom being built around Moon Cell was already doomed to fail eventually.

Point of fact, 'Crystal Tokyo' can't happen unless Moon and Tuxedo actively usurped the local government to take over things as king and queen.

Sailor Pluto spent a lot of time manipulation on trying to actively force Crystal Tokyo to happen. How many times did Pluto have to divert the time stream to put it back... on 'her' envisioned track? You can't say she was looking for the best outcome, just the outcome she wanted most and was willing to force by any means necessary.

At least that's one interpretation of what Sailor Pluto does, despite the fact that even she shouldn't meddle with the time stream.

I might trust Sailor Moon with saving the world, but I definitely wouldn't trust her to run it for logistical reasons. Such as a 900 year old, never aging, daughter constantly traveling into the past and messing with the time stream.